Danger in the Jungle Temple by Danica Davidson

Author:Danica Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510727106
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2018-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

DESTINY, NOOO!” I EXCLAIMED, HITTING THE floor with my hands, trying to get the trapdoor to open back up. It wouldn’t budge!

“What happened?” Yancy said, turning around, his eyes wild with fear. The scream and the cries must have given him a pretty good idea.

“She fell through!” I said, panicking.

“Then we’re going with her,” Yancy said, throwing himself on the trapdoor. At least if we were still with Destiny, we could make sure she was okay and we’d all find a way out together. But the trapdoor wouldn’t open for Yancy, either.

Maison couldn’t keep the skeletons away on her own, and I saw they were overpowering her. If we didn’t do something, the skeletons would snatch all three of us!

“Keep running!” I said, even though it hurt to say that. I seized the torch from where it was lying on the floor. I told myself I wasn’t leaving Destiny behind. I was just keeping us safe so we could come back for her. “We need to go upstairs!”

Yancy started to argue, but Maison didn’t.

“How could you let her fall!” Yancy was shouting at me. I’d never seen him so upset. I knew he and Destiny were close because they were cousins, but Yancy looked ready to fall apart because of this. I realized, for the first time, just how much they meant to each other.

“I didn’t mean to!” I said.

“Stop it, Yancy!” Maison defended. “We already have to rescue Alex and Steve! We’ll rescue Destiny too!”

But Yancy still looked like he’d fight me if we didn’t already have other problems. “I trusted you, Stevie!” he snarled.

I was already feeling terrible—I didn’t need Yancy rubbing it in. I snapped back, “What about you, Yancy? You’re the one going on about coconuts and bringing a noisy bird along and talking about the temple being haunted. How have you been helpful?”

“You think skeletons that can’t be defeated aren’t haunted?” Yancy shot back.

I knew it was just our emotions running high because we were so stressed, so I bit back a nasty response to Yancy. An arrow whizzed past my ear, reminding me there were more important things to pay attention to right now.

Besides, we were coming up to the sets of stairs again. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the torch by the front door had moved again. Was that the skeletons’ doing? Maison, Yancy, and I ran upstairs, the skeletons hissing at our heels, arrows flying. Someone kicked a trip wire and arrows soared straight toward our faces, making us all duck. I spilled backward down the stairs, almost losing hold of my sword and torch.

Something grabbed my leg.

I looked back wildly. The skeleton with Dad’s sword had seized my ankle in its bony hand. The hand felt cold as ice while it gripped me. Then the skeleton began to raise Dad’s sword.

There was no escape now.

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