Children of the Red King Book 03 Charlie Bone and The Invisible Boy by Jenny Nimmo

Author:Jenny Nimmo [Nimmo, Jenny]
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2009-10-28T10:30:00+00:00

"Eeec-er-ooo-ow!" yelled Charlie, trying to cling to a spindly shrub. It was no use; he was tumbling deeper and deeper into a dark pit.

"You didn't see my trap, did you, you stupid boy?" cackled Eustacia.

"Charlie, where are you?" called Olivia.

"Help!" Charlie clawed at the sides of the pit, but the black earth was slimy with slugs and rotting weeds.

Of all the great-aunts, Eustacia had the worst laugh. It crackled with spite. "Ha! Ha! Ha!" She stood right above Charlie, and he had a nasty view of brown tights and black underwear.

He closed his eyes and murmured feebly "Help!"

"It's too late for help," sneered Eustacia. "You're caught like a rat in a trap, Charlie Bone. Now, what shall I do with you?"

Charlie looked up. "Old women can't do this to children," he said defiantly

"Can't? But I just have," snickered his great-aunt. "And if you . . ." All at once, in mid-sentence, Eustacia flew into the air. It was quite astonishing. As Charlie squinted up at the large figure in the sky it disappeared in a cloud of leaves. He could hear a wind roaring above him now, gathering twigs, earth, stalks, and plants in a great whirlwind.

"Tancred," breathed Charlie as four hands stretched down toward him.

"Climb up, Charlie," came Tancred's voice, though Charlie couldn't see him through the flying debris.

"Tancred's fixed the old bat," said Olivia, "so come on up."

But Charlie couldn't even touch the waving hands. "I can't! I can't!" he cried.

Two more hands appeared: strong brown hands that could stretch farther down into the pit. "Get a move on, Charlie," said Lysander's voice. "Push it, man. Come out of there!"

This time Charlie clamped the vervain between his teeth and leaped as he reached for the brown hands. They caught him and slowly he began to climb.

Tancred and Olivia grabbed one arm while Lysander pulled the other, and gradually Charlie was dragged toward the mouth of the pit. He could hear a muffled screaming in the distance, and when he crawled out into the wind, he saw what must have been his great-aunt, covered in greenery fighting the gale that roared through her garden.

"Stop!" shrieked the green mound as Charlie and the others raced for the wall.

Lysander gave Charlie a shove from behind, and they all fell into the alley overcome with helpless laughter.

"What happened?" asked Emma, who was too small to see over the wall.

"Tancred did his thing, and now Charlie's aunt looks like a compost heap!" said Olivia.

"She'll take it out on you, Charlie," said Emma, too worried to see the funny side.

Preferring not to think about this, Charlie took the vervain from his mouth, spat out mud, and dusted himself off as they all began to run down the narrow passage into Darkly Wynd. When they got there, Emma, the only one to have thought ahead, took a plastic bag from her pocket and held it out to Charlie.

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