Jake & The Giant (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 2) by E.G. Foley

Author:E.G. Foley [Foley, E.G.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Publisher: Foley Publications
Published: 2013-03-29T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

The Rock In Question

Jake’s heart pounded as Red burst through the hole in the rocky crust of the ground. As they shot toward the blue sky, the boys looked around in amazement at the landscape of Jugenheim below.

Snorri’s farm sprawled beneath them—a pasture ringed by a gigantic post-and-rail fence. Everything they saw was about five times larger than in their world, so that Snorri’s humble cottage was almost as big as Griffon Castle, the home Jake had inherited from his parents back in England.

“Look at the garden!” Archie cried, pointing.

The boys laughed incredulously at the size of the vegetables growing in the burgeoning garden beside the giant’s cottage. The turnips were big enough that if one were hollowed out, it could have indeed served as Cinderella’s carriage with no other magic needed.

“And the orchard!” Jake chimed in.

Apples as big as watermelons hung from the trees.

Meanwhile Snorri had gathered up his courage to leap off the branch of Yggdrasil, catching himself on the broken part of the earth’s crust, where he dangled for a moment.

Jake looked over his shoulder and was relieved to see the giant puffing and straining, but successfully heaving his great bulk up through the hole.

Snorri hooked his elbows over the edge, and then carefully swung his right leg up onto solid ground. Jake grinned as the giant flopped safely onto his back in the grassy meadow from which he had originally fallen.

“Oh, it’s sooo good to be home!” Snorri groaned in relief.

The boys laughed, then Archie pointed to the huge, rounded boulder not far from the spot where Snorri lay. “I’ll bet that’s the stone he told us about!”

It was huge.

“You think he actually moved that thing?” Jake exclaimed.

“Sure looks like it,” Archie said with a shrug, and he was right. The rugged, rounded shape of the boulder was a perfect fit for the outline of the hole in the ground.

The sooner Snorri got that hole plugged up again, the better—preferably before Loki found out about it and realized he could finally get into Jugenheim to start causing havoc.

Jake guided Red to land on top of the boulder in question. Snorri was lying inert in the tall grass, a dopey grin of exhaustion on his face.

For someone who had wanted to get as far away from home as possible, he certainly looked happy to be back.

“Up, you! No rest for the wicked!” Jake hollered down to him with a smile. “You need to roll that rock back into place!”

“Don’t press it in too firmly, though!” Archie added. “We’ll still have to get out of here soon.”

“How soon?” Jake asked his cousin while Snorri let out a weary sigh before slowly lumbering to his feet.

Archie shrugged. “After we’ve had a look round, I guess. I told you, I’ve got to be back in three days.”

Snorri set all his gear down and shrugged off the shoulder-strap by which he had been carrying the Pigeon.

He took a deep breath, rubbed his hands together as he approached the big rock, and furrowed his brow with a look of concentration.

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