Kingdom Keepers the Return Book 3 by Ridley Pearson

Author:Ridley Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

MULAN PUSHED THE green button and hurried to join Kristoff and Nick, who were waiting at the bottom of the elevator shaft.

Thick steel cables whined against pulleys. The elevator floor, as large as a two-car garage, fell toward them, growing in size. Technically, it wasn’t falling but being pulled faster than gravity itself. The three standing directly beneath suffered a moment of silent apprehension. If Nick was wrong about how the attraction operated, they were about to get squashed like bugs.

Kristoff reached overhead, like he could stop it and save the others. As if.

“You’re safe,” Kristoff told Nick.

Nick didn’t feel safe.

“Or is it you I should help?” Kristoff asked Mulan.

“Don’t trouble yourself. I’ll see you up there!” Mulan was crouched on her toes, ready to spring forward.

The elevator stopped abruptly, raced up, and was sucked down again, stopped. The pattern was random and unpredictable. To the three immediately beneath, it looked like the head of a hammer dropping on them.

“I…do…not…like…this!” Mulan hissed.

The car braked, stopping mere feet overhead. With perfect timing, Kristoff took hold of one pipe, and Mulan hooked a leg over another, coiling around it like a snake. Nick entwined his fingers around a third pipe and locked his grip.

“Hold on,” Kristoff said.

With a tremendous jolt, the car lifted, flying up at an absurd speed. Nick’s fingers, wrapped around the metal bar, went white. Then the random movement of the attraction began: the car braked, dropped, rose, braked, rose, and fell toward the bottom of the shaft.

Nick lost hold of the pipe with one hand. He swiped for the bar but missed. Mulan reached down and caught him just in time, locking their forearms.

“Hang on!” she shouted, swinging the boy. “Legs!”

With the pit rushing toward him as the car fell, Nick bent his knees and tucked into a ball. The car braked and stopped only feet above the concrete. Nick felt Kristoff wrap an arm around him and pull.

“Let go!” Mulan chided Kristoff.

“Give him to me!” Kristoff argued. “I’ve got him.”

The two played tug-of-war with Nick, Mulan not letting go of his arm. Then, as fast as it had fallen, the car shot back up the shaft at supernatural speed.

Nick’s arm strained. His shoulder felt like it was pulling out of its socket. Kristoff’s tight hold squeezed all the wind out of him; he couldn’t breathe. The elevator car plunged downward as Mulan and Kristoff continued to wrestle over Nick. Now they held him with a view down the shaft. The hurricane-force wind flapped their clothes and stood the hair up on their heads.

“Look out!” Mulan shouted.

The other drops had been child’s play. Whatever the car was doing now, it seemed to be doing it on its own. It raced for the pit, the concrete coming at them at lightning speed. Nick saw where this was going. He elbowed Kristoff in the ribs and punched Mulan on the arm. As they released him, he swung up and hooked his legs, making himself flat against the pipes.

The collision didn’t go well for Kristoff.

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