Shipwrecked! by Maggie Marks

Author:Maggie Marks
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510753297
Publisher: Sky Pony
Published: 2021-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Thump, thump. A noise overhead interrupted Mason’s thoughts. “Did you hear that?” he whispered.

Asher didn’t respond. His head felt heavy as a cocoa pod on Mason’s shoulder.

The griefers, thought Mason, his stomach lurching. Did they come to finish us off?

As the trapdoor creaked open, he thought about playing dead. Maybe if I close my eyes, like Asher, they’ll think I ate my potato, too. They’ll leave us alone—just take their treasure and go on their merry way.

He tried, squeezing his eyes shut against the torchlight that flooded the room from above. But someone sucked in her breath.

“Mason! Asher!” she whispered.

He knew that voice. If Asher hadn’t been leaning against him, Mason would have jumped for joy. “Luna!”

He opened his eyes and searched the trapdoor above, but he couldn’t see Luna at all. The torchlight seemed to bob in thin air, as if hanging from an invisible rope. “Luna? Wh-where are you?”

“Potion of invisibility,” she whispered. “I don’t want the griefers to see me. Are you okay?”

Mason fought back a wave of emotion. “Asher’s not,” he whispered. “They poisoned him!” A second thought followed the first. “Are the griefers up there? Luna, look out—they’re dangerous!”

“They’re gone now, I think,” she said. “But be quiet, just in case.” Her backpack appeared from out of nowhere. It unzipped itself, and a bottle of potion floated out.

“Give Asher this,” she said. “Splash potion of healing.” She lowered the potion in the bucket that the griefers left behind.

When the bucket was close enough to reach, Mason fumbled inside for the potion. He uncorked it and dribbled a few drops on Asher’s forehead, the way he had seen Luna do before.

He hoped Asher’s eyes would flutter right open. That he’d sit up, grin, and say, “What did I miss?”

But he didn’t.

In the minute that followed, Mason could hear his own heart thudding in his ears. “Is it too late?” he whispered to Luna.

He could see her dark ponytail now and the top of her face, her worried eyes peering down at Asher’s pale face. “No,” she said. “Just give the potion time to work.”

Slowly—much too slowly—Asher’s eyelids began to twitch. He yawned, as if coming out of a deep sleep, and he stammered as he spoke. “D-did you fire the r-rocket?” he asked.

Mason laughed out loud. “We fired the rocket. And Luna saw it. She’s here now, Asher. You’re going to be okay.”

Asher smiled, but he kept his eyes closed.

Then realization struck. “How are we going to get him out of here?” asked Mason, looking up at Luna. “It’s not like you can raise us up in that bucket!”

Luna’s face was clearly visible now. She furrowed her eyebrows. “What can we use from the room? Is there any furniture you can stack?”

Mason thought of the chest they were sitting on. If they turned it on its side, it would be taller—but not tall enough. He shook his head. “We have a chest, some armor, and a crossbow. Oh, and a lump of coal.” He sighed.

Luna chewed her lip.

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