Prince of Kragdon-ah: An Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventure by Shawn Inmon

Author:Shawn Inmon [Inmon, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Portal fiction, Time Travel
Publisher: Pertime Publishing
Published: 2021-03-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Cannonballs Fly

Four cannons boomed, the recoil pushing them back onto the deck. Four cannonballs flew through the air.

Four cannonballs crashed into The Senta-eh.

They hit with an impact that shuddered the ship. One shot had sailed high and hit the mainsail mast, splintering it fifty feet above the deck. It tilted dangerously and sails covered several decks.

Alex rushed to the side to see how badly the other shots had damaged them, but from that vantage point could not see. He didn’t have time to worry about it anyway. After firing their initial volley, the Drakana ship had pulled alongside and seemed intent on boarding them.

“To arms!” Hawthorne yelled as chaos erupted on The Senta-eh.

The Drakana ship heaved alongside The Senta-eh and men stood by with large hooks attached to thick ropes.

“They’re boarding us!” Harta-ak shouted.

“They will live to regret that, if they live at all,” Alex said. “Torana, where are you?”

An instant later, Torana was by his side as though he had only been waiting to be summoned. “Amy!”

“Here,” she said from behind him.

“When they have attached themselves to us, I want Torana to take our thickest rope and tie the two ships together. Can you tell him that?”

“Dad, you’re speaking Drakana. He can understand. You just told him yourself.”

She and Torana walked toward the pile of the thickest ship’s rope, which was as big as a normal man’s bicep. Torana lifted the pile effortlessly, slung it over his shoulder and walked to the port side.

The grappling hooks attached and the two boats were pulled together. Drakana soldiers climbed into a tall position on their masts and fired indiscriminately at whoever was on The Senta-eh.

“Amy, tell Torana now!”

She and the giant went to work.

Alex found Tinta-ak. “Before they can board us, I want to board them. Take as many men as you can and jump on their ship. Kill them or throw them overboard, I don’t care.”

Tinta-ak yelled, “To me!” and men ran to him. Tinta-ak led the charge of the men—made up of men from many different Kragdon-ah tribes, former Drakana soldiers, and a few Lakunadan warriors—right into the teeth of the guns.

Tinta-ak was the first casualty. He was hit twice by gunfire and crumpled to the deck of The Senta-eh. Undeterred, the men leaped over and around him and jumped onto the Drakana ship.

Alex rushed to Tinta-ak and attempted to pull him out of the battle that raged around him. He was too heavy. “Amy! Torana!”

The giant had just winched the two ships together with the heavy rope.

“Help me move him to safety!” Alex reached under one of Tinta-ak’s bloody shoulders, but Torana gently pushed him away. The giant knelt and scooped Tinta-ak—the second largest member of the Kragdon-ah army—in his arms like a child. Once, the two men had met as enemies. Now, Torana followed Amy below decks with the limp body of Tinta-ak.

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