The Headmaster of Doom by Jamie Thomson

Author:Jamie Thomson [Thomson, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408341438
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2016-12-19T22:00:00+00:00

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4 See books one and two (Dark Lord: The Teenage Years, and Dark Lord: A Fiend in Need) for plenty of examples of the Sinister Hand!

Dirk had been guiding the Sinister Hand, laughing to himself as he terrified the life out of Grousammer with his fake beard. What a genius I am, he thought.

Suddenly, all the air was knocked out of him and he was heading up into the sky! A scaled arm and taloned hand held him close. It was ferociously strong; Dirk could hardly move. He looked up…

‘Gargon! What are you doing? Surely… not you… A traitor?’ said an astonished Dirk. Gargon was a seven-foot tall, winged, taloned and scaled…well, thing. But he wasn’t so bad once you got to know him. And he was supposed to be Dirk’s chief lieutenant.

‘Sorry, Master – but Headmaster has my Lady!’ said Gargon as he began to swoop down to the entrance to the tower – the Gates of Doom.

‘Grousammer has Sooz? How?’ said Dirk.

‘He tortured code to Inner Sanctum out of Hasdruban – sent winged vampire lords in bat form to steal her from White Tower!’ grunted Gargon as he landed.

‘What? How did he know she was there?’ said Dirk.

Gargon gripped Dirk as tightly as he could as he strode down the stairs of the tower to the lower levels. He also handed Dirk his disembodied arm, which Dirk proceeded to reattach. It began to seal itself back in place, leaving a nasty-looking lurid scar.

‘Hasdruban have magical shell that can hear everything in his sanctum, no matter where shell is. Headmaster of Doom confiscate it, Headmaster hear everything,’ said Gargon in a voice like gravel in a blender.

Dirk slapped his head to his forehead. ‘No, no! How could I have been so stupid?’

Gargon descended into the darkness below the tower. ‘You could not know, why blame yourself?’

‘I should have anticipated something like this. Anyway, where are you taking me?’ said Dirk.

‘Gargon going to throw you into Black Pit of a Thousand Lines.’

‘What? The pit of what? Why?’ said Dirk.

‘Orders from Headmaster who release me from pit and say Gargon must do as he says or he will give Sooz 666 of the best. Moon Queen not survive that.’

‘What about me? Will I survive being thrown into this pit?’ said Dirk nervously.

‘Oh, you survive in pit, sure. Me and Agrash, we survive. Whether Headmaster let you live after – that another matter!’

‘What – you’d give me up to be killed?’ said Dirk, aghast. ‘You, my loyal lieutenant, Keeper of the Tower, captain of my Legions of Dread!’

‘I am sorry, your Imperial Dirkness, I really am. Normally Gargon would be loyal, Master. But it simple. I love Lady Sooz, she is like little sister to me. You come second. And that that! What can I say?’

Dirk blinked up at him. Well, you can’t argue with that, can you? he thought to himself as Gargon tossed him unceremoniously down into the depths of the Black Pit of a Thousand Lines as if he were nothing more than a discarded old boot.

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