The Dragon Defenders – Book Four : All Is Lost by James Russell

Author:James Russell [Russell, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780473563561
Publisher: Dragon Brothers Books
Published: 2021-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

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Flynn flicked open the catch to the chicken coop and shooed out the hens. He untied the goat and gave it a hard slap on the rump. It bleated loudly and tore off into the bushes.

There was nothing else he could do.

Instead of the normal sound of waves breaking on the outer reef, not a whisper could be heard from the ocean. He looked out, and what he saw made his blood run cold. A wall of water, black and forbidding, reared up out of the ocean, reaching clear across the horizon. It was less than a mile away, and moving fast. The water was deep out there, and Flynn knew that the wave would only get larger as it approached The Island and was pushed up by the ocean floor. He turned and ran.

He caught up with his family and immediately saw that at the rate they were going, they would struggle to reach high enough ground to escape the tsunami in time. His grandparents were slow, but his sister even slower. He grabbed poor Ada by the arm and dragged her along. She was screaming and crying with fear, and kept tripping and falling.

Flynn did the only thing he could think of; whistle for Clappers. The horse was ahead of them, but she wheeled around and came flying back down through the trees, skidding to a halt beside them. His father and grandfather both came to help.

“No!” he shouted at them. “Keep running!” His father nodded, and they turned and bolted.

Flynn hoisted his baby sister up onto the horse.

“Ada, listen to me,” he hissed. “You have to hold on with all your might – grab her around the neck, like this.” He pulled his sister’s arms down until she lay on Clappers’ neck. She could only just link her fingers around it. Ada had been on the horse’s back before, but only ever for a gentle walk around the orchard.

“Are you ready?” he said quietly. He winked at her, and she tried to wink back, closing both eyes instead of one, which made him smile. Then he gave Clappers a slap and she took off, speeding through the trees for higher ground. Coco followed close behind – she had been alongside Ada the whole way, her protective instinct too strong to let her run ahead.

At the same moment, Flynn heard the wave strike The Island. It was a powerful rushing roar, but he could also make out the sound of trees cracking and toppling before it. A squealing, creaking, splintering sound was probably the house collapsing, but Flynn couldn’t see it back through the trees. Just as he turned to run, he caught a glimpse of the leading edge of the wave. It was like a living thing; frothing, foaming and raging like a bull through the forest.

It was driving huge logs and rocks before it, and he thought he could see some boards from their house in the violent, tumbling mixture that snapped the smaller trees as though they were toothpicks and rolled boulders as easily as he might throw dice.

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