Carney, C.M - The Realms 06 - Chaos Rising by Carney C.M

Author:Carney, C.M [Carney, C.M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Room Press
Published: 2019-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

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The monstrosity wretched and drew its tentacle tongue, and Bläärt the bläärt, back into its mouth. Its jaws crunched and swallowed. For a moment nothing moved, then panic took the other bläärts, who screamed, raised their arms and ran about like a kindergarten class confronted by a spider.

Bläärts ran into Lex and his gang, the masts and each other, brewing chaos far better than even the Princes had ever managed. The sound of chains running over gears rose from down below and the propellers at the back of the ship began to spin, slowly at first, but then with enough speed to move the ship forward.

One of the wee blue men bounced off Errat’s shins, spun away and then smashed full-on into the helm. The blow knocked the terrified creature senseless and instead of walking around the pillar, the idiot attempted to climb over the sphere, activating the ship’s navigational controls.

The ship lurched sideways. Several bläärts fell to the deck. Their survival instincts convincing them to curl into balls, like an unshelled armadillo. They rolled around the deck, smacking into masts, bouncing off and over bulkheads and cannonballing into the legs of Lex and his people.

Amidst the turmoil, the dire chaos abomination continued to wreak carnage. It sunk a pustule fired barb into the decking of a smaller boat tied to the side of the main craft, giving itself an anchor. Lex guessed it was a life raft, or perhaps a landing skiff.

The ship lurched again, and Lex slammed into the mast, bear-hugging the thick timber. He snapped his head back to the helm to find the imbecile bläärt still scrambling atop the sphere, screaming in a high-pitched tone.

“Dammit, that idiot will get us all killed.” Before Lex could move, Errat slid past him, arms held wide like a surfer riding a wave. He curled his left arm around the helm and grabbed the bläärt with his right. He heaved the blue goblinoid creature off the helm and the ship righted itself.

Lex wanted to thank the warborn, but the creaking sound of a strained rope drew his attention. He turned just as the moorings of the life raft snapped. The small boat tumbled end over end, dragged by the abomination’s anchor. Lex ducked and a rush of wind ruffled his hair as the boat sailed over his head.

It smashed into a pair of bläärts, killing the creatures instantly. The boat then pummeled into the massive abomination, shattering in a cascade of splinters. The abomination screamed in rage and another pustule boiled up from its skin and fired its barbed tentacle into the decking, just missing Seraphine.

Lex ran to the helm and stared down on the swirling ball with hopeless confusion. “I don’t suppose anyone knows how to pilot this damn thing?”

“I think I might,” Simon said, raising his hand like a kid in school. “Or, Dirge did.” The lich teen stopped and turned his head to the side as if struggling to remember a long-faded memory. “Back in Gypt, he worked on the pleasure barge of the High Priest.

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