Pirates From Beyond the Sea by Ryder Windham

Author:Ryder Windham [Windham, Ryder]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure, Pirates, Science Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780439101486
Google: _EJvAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0439101484
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2000-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

After the six Gungans split up, Jar Jar headed for a nearby stream that would bring him to the sacred place. Boss Nass had ordered Jar Jar to take this particular route because it was the most direct. Jar Jar was still nervous about the possiblity of running into more droids, but he knew it would have been a bad idea to volunteer to guard the heyblibbers. He didn’t want Fassa to think he was a coward.

Jar Jar dove into the stream and began swimming long, broad strokes. A large-mouthed eel spotted Jar Jar and tried to coil around one of his legs, but he kicked it off and kept swimming. Several minutes later, he reached the edge of the forest and swam to the stream’s bank.

The sun was shining, and Jar Jar was soaking wet. Before entering the dark forest, he stood with his arms out at his sides, letting the sun and warm air dry his clothes and skin. He was momentarily distracted by the beauty of his surroundings. If it weren’t for the fact that Naboo had been invaded by pirates, Jar Jar would have been happy to lie down on the marshy bank and take a nap. But he reminded himself that Rep Been’s life was in danger, and proceeded into the forest.

The trees rose up like organic pillars that supported a great canopy of thick green leaves. Sunlight shafted down between the leaves and upper branches, and cast golden beams across the forest floor. Jar Jar imagined there was a droid invader behind every tree, and he had to bite down hard to keep his teeth from chattering.

The forest became increasingly dense, and Jar Jar did his best to maintain silence as he stepped through a cluster of young trees. He reached a clearing, and saw a lone, heavy-footed jaboon standing in the shade of a tall tree while it chewed on the broad leaves of a tentacle fern. The fern’s leaves stretched out over the forest floor, spreading out in ail directions from the plant’s roots. The keen-eared jaboon heard Jar Jar’s approach and raised its head.

Keeping his eyes on the jaboon, Jar Jar stepped over one of the tentacle fern’s leaves. Suddenly, the forest floor gave out from underneath his feet, and he plunged into a deep pit.

Before Gungans learned the art of gasser cooking, they often baked food in pits that they covered with heavy leaves and dirt. Depending on how much food was prepared, some baking pits were quite deep. After the food was cooked, most pits were filled with soil to prevent anyone from accidentally falling into the hole. Jar Jar had fallen into an old, unfilled pit that had been obscured by the overgrown tentacle fern.

He looked up and tried to determine whether he could jump out of the pit. It was a high jump, but he decided to try it. He bent his knees, then sprang up into the air. His head hit something hard, and he fell back into the pit.

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