Zane: Ninja of Ice by Greg Farshtey

Author:Greg Farshtey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Zane stood and stared for a very long time. It had to be true. The boy did look like him, and he could see an aged version of his own features on the face of his … father?

Father.

The word sounded strange, even rolling around in his brain. He knew it would sound even stranger if he tried to say it out loud. He reached out to touch the image, but his hand passed right through it as if it were a ghost.

“My …” Zane couldn’t bring himself to say the word. “This man … where is he? Who is he?”

“Ah-ah,” said Garmadon. “As I made him appear …” The image abruptly vanished. “So can I make him disappear. Consider this a glimpse of the treasure trove of information that waits for you here. All you have to do is say yes.”

Zane stared at the empty space where his father’s image had been. “Yes … to what?”

“Well, I am not asking you stab your friends in the back,” Garmadon answered, “though that certainly would be amusing. Just slow them down a bit, here and there. You can manage that. And when the time comes, choose the winning side in the fight.”

“You’re asking me to be a traitor!”

“That’s such an ugly word,” said Garmadon. “I am asking you to be … practical. If the choice is certain victory plus a head full of knowledge about your past or sure death in battle with my skeletons, the realistic man would find the decision an easy one.”

Zane shook his head. He was actually considering Garmadon’s offer, and he hated himself for it. Would this be what his father wanted? How could he someday look the man in the face if he had bought the chance to meet him with the lives of his friends?

Yet if he said no, then what? He would never find his father, or mother, or home. He would spend the rest of his life an empty shell, without a past. Maybe he could help Garmadon only a little, not enough to really cause a problem, and learn at least some of what he needed to know.

“Three … two … one,” Garmadon counted down. “Time’s up.”

There was a flash of light. Zane blinked to clear his vision. When he could see, he found himself out of the Underworld. He was back at the edge of the pond. Had it all been a dream? No, it couldn’t have been, he decided. He never had dreams like that.

Any doubts were resolved when he saw a shadow shift beneath a tree, and heard the voice of Garmadon saying, “If we have a bargain, Zane, you will know what to do and when to do it. If you should need more convincing …”

The waters of the pond stirred. In their depths, Zane could see his father with an elderly woman. They were sitting in a farmhouse with a picture of Zane on the table before them. The woman — his mother? — was crying softly. Then the image was gone as swiftly as it had appeared.

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