The Wizard and the Frog by Richard Fierce

Author:Richard Fierce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragonfire Press

Chapter Five

A Leap of Faith

“No!” I screamed.

I scrambled to my feet and looked, though I was afraid of what I would see. Pemeria was flying down through the air, quickly falling to her death. Dormuris was there beside me, holding the egg, a look of fear etched onto his face. Without thinking about the consequences, I pulled the wooden pendant from my boot, grabbed the elf’s hand, and jumped off the ledge.

The womanliest scream came roaring out of Dormuris as we fell. I probably would have laughed if I didn’t think this was complete suicide. The air whipped around me, deafening. I opened my mouth to cry out to Pemeria, but the wind forced my words back into my throat and my cheeks began to hurt as they flapped roughly. I tried to close my mouth, but it was almost impossible.

It felt like the rocky ground was coming up to meet us, speeding up faster and faster. I reached out and grabbed hold of Pemeria as we overtook her, then I broke the wooden pendant. At first, nothing happened. I remembered what Master Zalore said, about thinking of where you wanted to be. The ground was only fifty feet away, if that. I closed my eyes, not wanting to see my end, and pictured the Academy.

My stomach lurched, and I snapped my eyes back open. We were traveling through a portal, similar to the one that brought us to the Triad’s mountain. The world shifted in and out of focus around us, and this time I thought I was going to be sick.

Everything slowed down, as if time itself were crawling, and then there was a ploop sound. A feeling of dizziness swept over me and I turned my head, expecting to vomit. I didn’t, and the feeling passed. The world stopped spinning and I saw we were lying in the grass of a front courtyard. I sat up too quickly, immediately regretted it, and laid back down. I covered my eyes with my hand and recognized the architecture of the Academy.

We made it.

I laid still for a long moment, then eased myself up onto my feet. Pemeria was on the ground, looking up at me. She still looked angry, but that seemed to the be the case permanently since she’d been turned into a frog. I scooped her up and placed her back into my pouch, then looked for Dormuris. He stood a few feet away, clutching the oversized egg to his chest.

No guards came to investigate, so we made our way inside the building and up to Master Zalore’s office. The door was open and he was sitting behind his desk, reading over the papers scattered upon its surface. He looked up as we entered and rose to his feet, an enormous smile spreading over his breaded face.

“You’re back!” he said triumphantly.

“We are,” I replied, trying to hide the fact that I was in pain.

“Where do you want this thing?” Dormuris huffed, struggling to keep from dropping the egg.

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