Mission to the Shadow Sea by Remi Blackwood

Author:Remi Blackwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2022-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Bool and Chip brought them closer to the forest. Jarell and Kimisi let go of the weed reins. The Manatees started to sing again as they drifted away and grazed on some seaweed.

“How are we going to get through this forest?” Jarell asked. “Or find the pearl pendant to cure the Utelif?”

He watched as an eerie mist continued to grow at the edges of the forest. I’ll definitely have to draw that when I get back home . . . If I get home.

The mist was suddenly so much closer. It wove itself into a tight circle that lassoed Bool and Chip like a cowboy would. The Manatees’ song stopped. Their mouths were open in shock as they sank like stones to the bottom of the seabed.

“No!” Jarell yelled, unsure of what had just attacked the Manatees.

The colourful mist tightened into a long tentacle and surged towards Kimisi and Jarell.

Kimisi charged with her spear, and Jarell grabbed his staff. The tentacle of mist stopped just a few metres away. By its glowing light, Jarell could see the pulse of the current that separated them from the strange mist creature.

“The current!” Kimisi called out. “It’s keeping the mist away from us. Swim into the current!”

They fell into the current’s slipstream and watched as the tentacle of mist reared back as if it had been burned, disappearing into the darkness.

Jarell and Kimisi shot towards Bool and Chip. They lay very still on the seabed.

“They’ve been turned to stone,” Kimisi said. “Poor things.”

The Manatees lay on the sea floor, too heavy for even the current to move. Their skin had turned completely dark grey and crusty, and their jet-black eyes were completely still.

Jarell hovered his hands over their bodies. He tried to feel the connection with his ancestral powers to heal them, focusing his mind just like he had to heal his friend Chinell, the Painted Wolf, in his first visit to Ulfrika. But there was something different this time. Jarell could sense nothing except the knowledge that this was beyond the healing powers even his ancestors had possessed. He was helpless.

“Jarell, we need to go before it returns,” Kimisi urged.

“We can’t just leave them like this,” Jarell cried. “They’re our friends.”

“Wait! They told us that the pearl heals, and we know it breaks curses. The pendant might be able to help them too,” she replied. “But if we’re turned to stone, no one will be saving anyone.” She fished out two discs from her belt. “Here – these are tracking beacons. Once we have the cure, we’ll be able to find them again.”

Jarell nodded reluctantly as Kimisi attached the discs to the Manatees’ rock-hard back flippers. “We’ll be back for you,” he whispered to his new friends, who lay as still as statues. “I promise.”

Jarell and Kimisi entered the forest. They could not glide in between the giant seaweed stalks like the deadly mist. Instead, they had to hack at the weeds with their spear and staff.

Jarell soon realized that the bright-green seaweed was the strongest.

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