Battle of the Crocodile King by Dan Hunter

Author:Dan Hunter [Hunter, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409554813
Publisher: Usborne Publishing

“Come on! Let’s get to the boat!” Akori yelled.

“But we won’t stand a chance in the water against all of them,” Manu cried. “They’ll catch up with us in no time.”

“We have no choice,” Akori said, running and slipping his way over to the rushes and pulling the little boat from its hiding place. “Isis is out there somewhere in her underwater prison. We have to find her before it’s too late.”

“I think it might already be too late,” Manu said, pointing a trembling hand back up the riverbank. The crocodiles were descending the slope like a leathery avalanche, snapping and scrabbling, wanting to tear everything in their path to pieces.

“Quick!” Akori shouted, pushing the boat into the water.

Manu and Ebe leaped into the boat after him. Back on the shore, the six angry crocodiles still lashed and writhed, trying to get the scroll rollers out of their mouths. As Akori and Manu started to row, the sound of Isis’s crying started up again. It seemed to echo, as if it were coming from the bottom of a deep well. They were getting closer, Akori knew it. He prayed they would have enough time to find her. “Follow the sound of the crying,” he told Manu as they kept rowing furiously. “If we find where it is coming from, we find Isis.”

Akori peered over the side of the boat into the murky gloom of the water. But it was no good. It was like staring into a starless night sky. If only they had some way of lighting their path. And then the thought struck him – they did have something.

“Keep rowing,” Akori urged Manu as he pulled the talisman from its hiding place around his waist. Ra’s gift had helped him before, when he had needed to release Anubis. Hopefully it would help him again now.

Mighty Ra, hear my pleas and help me, so that I might find Isis, Akori silently begged as he held the talisman aloft. Instantly a dazzling light shone out across the river like a beacon. Akori smiled. He knew the Sun God wouldn’t let him down. But they would have to move quickly, as the light would show the crocodiles exactly where they were.

Ebe grabbed Akori’s oar and joined Manu in rowing the boat away from the shore, while Akori shone the talisman down upon the deep, dark river.

“Can you see anything?” Manu called above the roar of the water and the woman’s crying.

“No, just weeds and rushes,” Akori replied, peering down into the murk.

The crying sound was so loud now it was almost deafening. They had to be close to the prison, surely. It sounded as if they were right on top of it.

Clinging onto the side of the boat with one hand and shining the talisman into the water with the other, Akori leaned right over and peered into the gloom again.

“Wait!” he cried. “Stop rowing!”

“Are you sure?” Manu asked, his voice shrill with fear. “Look at the shore.”

Akori turned and followed Manu’s panic-stricken gaze.

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