The Hawk Bandits of Tarkoom by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

The four children were led away from the giant chamber and into an arched hallway. Eric glanced around for ways to escape, but there were far too many bandits surrounding them.

“Parties are so cool!” said Neal. “Wait until Galen hears where we went! You hungry, Eric?”

“Um, not really,” he replied, trying to grin.

Party! Eric knew they weren’t going to any party. He just hoped there was a way to escape.

Icthos, the bandit with the broken wing, stopped at a door and inserted a large key. He threw aside the door and waved the children in.

“Right this way for food!” he said, with a clacking sound. Then Eric heard other words.

Food for the serpents — ha-ha!

The bandits pushed the children inside the room and shut the door quickly behind them.

“Okay, so … where’s the food?” Neal asked.

It was a small chamber. The stone was as red as the rest of the palace, but stained dark. And it smelled damp, as if from water. All of a sudden Eric remembered what Ving had said.

The floor will give way!

“Climb the walls!” Eric yelled.

“Is that where the food is?” Julie asked.

“Do it — now!” said Eric.

The four children squeezed their fingers between the stones and pulled themselves up off the floor. Just in time.

Ka-foom! The floor split in two and fell away.

Splash! Beneath the floor was a pool of black water. The surface broke, and three scaly heads jumped out and snapped at the kids. Snap!

“Snakes!” yelled Neal. He kicked one away with his sneaker. “We’re not going to eat the food. We are the food!”

“Now you get it!” said Eric, scrambling up the wall as high as he could go. “Ving tricked you!”

“But Eric, how did you know?” said Keeah, helping Julie climb up next to her.

“The tangfruit,” he replied. “Ving tricked you with his weird magic voice. He makes himself sound good. But because I ate that fruit, I heard what he was really saying. And it was all bad.”

They climbed halfway up the chamber walls. The serpents leaped up but couldn’t reach them.

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