The Cursed Sword by TJ Green

Author:TJ Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: King Arthur, Arthurian legend, Arthurian myth, books for teens, coming of age, epic fantasy, sword and sorcery, action and adventure, dragons, mythical creatures, fey, faeries, fairy
Publisher: Mount0live Publishing
Published: 2020-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

19 Mountains of Fire

Tom panicked. What if he was going back to his Earth? This would be the absolute worse thing. Or what if it was the Realm of Air again? They might never let him go. Or the Realm of Water, where he might drown? As these thoughts were flashing through his mind he landed with a thump, feeling rock and sand beneath his fingers. He rocked back on his heels and sprang to his feet, pulling Galatine free. In his other hand he held his now extinguished torch.

He found himself in a shadowy room strewn with rubble and suffused with a warm orange glow. It was in fact another cave, with rough walls and stone shelves, similar to Giolladhe’s workshop except that it was fiercely hot. The heat and glow were coming from a pit in the centre, and for a few seconds Tom couldn’t work out what it was. Only when he stood over it did he realise it was bubbling lava.

Lava? Where the hell was he?

He thrust his torch into the pit and it flared to life. As his eyes adjusted to the light he saw that the cave was partially collapsed, a wall of rubble blocking some of it, while the floor was crunchy and blackened in places. At some point the lava must have erupted from this pit and covered some of the room, and if it had erupted once, it could do it again.

Lava could mean only one thing – he was in the Realm of Fire. His panic turned to relief. He was still in the Other.

Herne’s Horns! Was he trapped here? He whirled round and saw that the portal entrance was behind him, the familiar rock archway filled with blackness. Interesting. Giolladhe had a hidden portal that led to the Realm of Fire. A fixed portal too, which suggested he had passed through frequently. Well, Tom wasn’t going back yet.

He examined the wall of rubble ahead of him, and saw a small hole at the top, a faint red glow illuminating its edges. He wedged his torch upright and scrambled up. Within seconds he was filthy and scratched, but was soon able to stick his head through the gap.

On the other side was a much larger portion of the cave, and beyond that was an entrance to an underground cavern. Tom glimpsed rock archways and rivers of lava. But something else caught his eye. A glimpse of white stone on a workbench, partially covered in debris.

The moonstone.

He was so shocked he cried out and hit his head on the roof. He’d found it! Giolladhe must have hidden it here all those years ago.

He eased backwards and started to pull the rocks away to make the entrance bigger, but as he did the roof started to slip and crumble, and in seconds the hole had vanished. Tom fell backwards, landing with a thump. He held his breath as he watched the roof, but after a few seconds the slip stopped and he breathed again.

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