Alex Neptune, Dragon Thief by David Owen

Author:David Owen [Owen, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Childrens, Childrens.Adventure, Childrens.Fantasy
ISBN: 9781803709994
Google: qK5vEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 60626133
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-08-04T05:00:00+00:00

The real name of the pirate from the story, who had hunted the Water Dragon and died trying to capture it in the bay.

“Raze Callis and Brineblood are related,” Alex said.

“Raze must be his great-great-great-great-grandson.”

Voices approached the cabin door. Callis, barking orders to his crew.

“We’re trapped,” Alex hissed.

Zoey slammed the laptop shut and picked up the flare gun. “We have to run for it.”

“Run where? We’re on a ship in the middle of the ocean.”

“We’ll work that out when—”

“I shouldn’t have asked.” Alex positioned himself by the door, gripping the handle in his sweaty hands. Kraken climbed up on his shoulder. The voices were right outside.

“Three, two, one…” Zoey aimed the flare gun at the door. “Now!”

Alex threw the door open. The hulking form of Callis blocked the other side, already raising a harpoon gun. Before he or Zoey could open fire, Kraken sprang into action. The octopus’s skin shifted to bright red as she arched her body and fired a bullet of water. It hit Callis between the eyes, making him stumble backwards and drop the harpoon.

“Go!” shouted Zoey, shoving the flare gun into her pocket.

They bundled out of the room and sprinted past Callis. Two more crew members came running towards the noise but Kraken dispatched them with expertly placed shots.

“This way!”

A hatch led out onto the deck. They were somewhere in the middle of the ship, the prow and the stern stretching away to either side.

“Let’s go to starboard!” said Zoey.

“Which way is that?”

“Um, left, I think?”

An alarm began to ring behind them, an electronic whooping that resounded through the entire ship.

“Let’s just be anywhere but here.”

The lighthouse overhead swept light across the deck. Every time it passed they hurried towards the back of the ship. One crew member who tried to intercept them hit the deck with a blast of salty water to the eyes, while another was knocked off balance and tumbled over the railing into the sea below.

Finally, they reached the stern of the ship. Zoey reached out to pet Kraken’s head. “I take back anything bad I ever said about you.”

The beam from the lighthouse was temporarily blinding before it winked away. The stout cylinder was perched on a cluster of jagged rocks. Other boats were moored around it, almost invisible until the light passed over.

Callis was hiding an entire fleet behind the lighthouse.

“That explains why Mayor Parch fired the lighthouse keeper,” said Zoey. “Callis wanted him out of the way.”

“We have to go before they’re all after us.”

A ladder took them down to a docking platform close to the water. The ocean was a dark expanse stretching ahead of them. In the distance a smudge of light showed where Haven Bay was waiting for them to return.

“You’re not going to like the next part of my plan,” said Zoey.

“It’s really not a plan if you’re making it up as you go along.”

“I think we have no choice but to swim for it.”

Alex felt his legs turn to jelly at the thought. He had gone swimming in a pool a handful of times but never in open water.

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