The Adventure Begins by Richard Ashley Hamilton

Author:Richard Ashley Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

CHAPTER 10

THE SWORD IN THE STONE

Once Jim had finally freed Daylight from the second stone, he spent the rest of the night testing out his new weapon and armor. When his arms got tired from swinging and chopping at the air, he found that he could magnetically affix the sword onto his back. It didn’t take too long for Jim to feel energized again and go back to his practice with a smile. He kept going like this beyond midnight and into the early morning, stopping only when the sun came up. Jim hadn’t slept a wink all night, but it didn’t matter. He’d never felt so awake in his whole life.

Of course, Jim couldn’t cook or attend school in this armor, so he struggled a bit with how to remove it. Piece by piece? Was there an enchanted zipper somewhere? He took out the Amulet and studied it. On an impulse he turned the dial, and he was immediately back in his own clothes. It was incredible. Jim simply had to share this with someone. And he knew just the guy. . . .

After cooking and bagging three medianoche sandwiches in record time, Jim paid a visit to the dentist’s office before heading to school.

“Don’t go in there,” warned Gloria, the dental assistant. “He’s with a patient.”

But for Jim, news like this couldn’t wait. He opened the door to the procedure room and, sure enough, found Toby about to undergo day two of his orthodontic “tune-up.”

“Tobes,” said Jim breathlessly.

“Hey, Jim,” Toby replied, but it came out a little garbled with the dentist’s finger stuck in his mouth.

“Tobes! Tobes, Tobes, Tobes, Tobes!” Jim repeated. “I have got to talk to you!”

“Uh, Imma ittle uthy ight ow,” said Toby from his reclined position in the dentist’s chair.

“What?” Jim asked.

“He says he’s a little busy right now,” said Doctor Muelas, translating for his patient, before jamming some spacers between Toby’s molars.

“Oh God, it hurts,” Toby groaned.

That, Jim understood. But he pressed on, saying, “Okay, remember that thing we found the other day? In the canal. The thing with the gem and stuff? It works! It works like crazy!”

“Is ant ate an?” Toby gurgled.

“What?” Jim asked again.

“He says, ‘This can’t wait, man?’ ” translated Doctor Muelas.

“I’ve already waited until morning,” said Jim. “Who goes to the dentist two days in a row?”

Toby said a few more words, but the whir of the dentist’s drill drowned them out.

“ ‘I want to get these braces off before I’m thirty,’ ” Doctor Muelas translated once again. “ ‘It’s like my mouth is a city engineering project.’ ”

“How much longer is this going to take?” Jim asked.

Eight hours later the two returned to Jim’s house. And for once Jim actually wanted the distraction of classes, even if it meant risking a run-in with Steve. Anything would have been better than sitting in a dentist’s waiting room all day with a secret this big.

“Okay, Tobes,” Jim began. “You are never going to believe this.”

“My mouth still feels a little sore,” Toby said, rubbing his jaw.

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