The Secret Mountain by Tom Percival

Author:Tom Percival [Percival, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509842162
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

There are two main problems when you are being fired at while trapped in a small basket, hanging beneath a giant golden hot-air balloon. Firstly, you don’t have anywhere to hide; and secondly, you’re pretty easy to spot.

Soon the air was filled with arrows whistling up towards them.

‘We’ve got to get out of here!’ yelled Rufaro. ‘It’s only a matter of time before one of those arrows—’ He was interrupted by a loud hissing sound as an arrow tore through the golden balloon. ‘Hits us,’ he finished unnecessarily.

More and more arrows ripped into the balloon. For almost a minute they struggled on, but then the balloon began to sink, slowly at first, and then faster and faster until they were tumbling down towards the mountains beneath them.

‘Somebody DO something!’ shouted Anansi’s mum. ‘We’re going to crash!’

‘I can do some magic!’ shouted Quartz.

‘Brilliant!’ replied Rufaro. ‘Can you make the wind blow up underneath us to slow us down?’

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