Down into the Nether by Danica Davidson

Author:Danica Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2016-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

ALEX AND I BOTH DOVE TO THE SIDE, NARROWLY missing the fireballs. I felt the heat of one fireball whiz by my face and go over the cliff, landing in the lava below. In the panic Ossie jumped off my shoulder and ran.

There was no time to call her back. Another fireball blasted at me, and it would have hit my shoulder if I didn’t roll away as fast as I could. Alex was jumping and rolling, too. She kept trying to shoot with her arrows, but the fireballs came at us so fast she wasn’t getting time to aim. And whenever a fireball hit the ground, it exploded and turned to flames.

In a rush I got back to my feet and lifted my sword. I knew it was possible to use weapons to hit the flames back at ghasts. If you hit them back with their own blast, that was a good way to defeat them. Too bad I’d never had any practice doing it. A ghast blasted at me and I swung and missed.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Alex, still ducking and blocking, trying desperately to get a shot in. Another fireball shot out at me and I swung, missing again. One ghast was especially interested in getting me, and the other two circled over Alex, spraying her with flames. The ground below us chipped away as more fires leapt up from the fireballs.

I swung my diamond sword, and this time I felt the impact as my sword struck the fireball. Finally! But then I saw the fireball shoot back toward the ghast and just barely miss it. So close!

The ghast overhead zipped around, making me turn toward it with my diamond sword out. I realized it was trying to push me closer toward the edge of the cliff.

“Alex, help!” I called out.

“I could use some backup myself!” Alex cried. She aimed her arrow at one of the ghasts. The other ghast opened its mouth to blow fire at her, but she jumped away from the fire blast just in the nick of time.

I could tell that the ghasts were trying to push Alex over to the cliff as well. They weren’t just trying to take us out with their spitting flames or knock us into the fire they created—they wanted us to fall into the lava pit below, where there was zero chance of survival.

“Alex, we have to stay on the cliff!” I said.

“You think I don’t know that?” Alex snapped back.

Ossie came running back out of the red-blackness and threw herself on one of the ghasts circling over Alex. She landed on top of the white square head and dug in her sharp claws. This startled the ghast, who began swinging in circles, trying to knock Ossie off.

Now that Ossie had the second ghast busy, Alex jumped up, ripped back her bow and sent an arrow flying, taking out the other ghast over her head. As soon as her arrow hit the ghast, it disappeared into nothingness.

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