Dragon Keepers #5: The Dragon in the Sea by Chris Bunch

Author:Chris Bunch [Bunch, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307974372
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2012-05-22T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE SECOND EGG

Jesse, having broken away from the others, had swum back to the captain’s cabin. Once there, he went right over to the crystal ball. Maybe he could communicate with the Driftwoods through the crystal ball and get some answers to his questions, like, who are Fluke and Yar? What are they up to? Where is the egg?

The Driftwoods were still standing there, smiling and waving. Then Mitzi mimed a twisting motion with both hands. Jesse took hold of the crystal ball and twisted it on its coral base. One moment he was hovering before the crystal ball and the next he was lying on the sand in front of the Driftwoods, his tail flapping in the sand. He felt a heavy, choking sensation in his lungs. He couldn’t breathe!

Mitzi Driftwood bent down and said to him, in her soft, distinct voice, “See here now, Jesse Tiger. Let this be a lesson to you.” She lifted her marshmallow stick and waved it over him. Sparks and molten marshmallow rained down on him, sizzling on his skin and scales.

The next thing Jesse knew, he was back in the captain’s cabin. His heart was beating as if he had just sprinted a mile. When he looked in the crystal ball now, all he saw was his own pale and terrified face, staring back at him.

Jesse scooted out of Belleweather’s cabin. The corridor was teeming with sea creatures, both magical and natural. There were water sprites and merpeople and selkies and kelpies, as well as all manner of fish, eels, rays, jellyfish, and dolphins, all heading toward the amidships hatch.

Jesse worked his way toward Yar and Fluke, whose heads bobbed above the crowd. When he got to them, he saw Daisy, who turned and gave him a where have you been? look, which Jesse met with a wait till I tell you look of his own.

Emmy swam up to Fluke, who said to her, “We think you’ll be quite pleased with what we have to show you.”

The water around Emmy turned bright green as, before everyone’s eyes, the dragon fish transformed into a dragon. The walls and ceiling of the passageway zoomed outward and upward, magic expanding the space to accommodate Emmy’s majestic dimensions. Sea creatures all around, including Yar and Fluke, dropped to the deck in awe.

“Thank you for revealing yourself to us,” Fluke said in a humble voice.

“We were wondering when you’d see fit to do so. We are at your service, O Noble Dragon,” said Yar, on one knee.

“You may rise. And, please, call me Emerald of Leandra,” said Emmy in a regal tone that made Jesse and Daisy smile fondly.

The crowd rose from the deck.

“May I say on behalf of all hands that it is a supreme honor to have a genuine dragon aboard The Dragon,” Fluke said.

“We suspected you were a dragon from the very first moment we laid eyes on you,” Yar said.

“I guess we weren’t the only ones who were suspicious,” Jesse whispered to Daisy.

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