Hatchling by Toasha Jiordano

Author:Toasha Jiordano [Jiordano, Toasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Page Turner Press
Published: 2019-11-02T22:00:00+00:00

“What do you want to do?” Rowan skipped ahead, acting more bubbly than he’d ever seen her. He appreciated the effort, but he wasn’t ready to let it work.

“I want to destroy him.” The words flew out of his mouth before he could think.

Ash perked up at the mention of getting revenge on Bruno and his friends. He growled and fidgeted in the backpack. Ash still pushed hard against Jimmy’s back, instead of stretching out, as if he didn’t want to touch the other side of the bag. He’d rather stay cramped up than touch… what? The medallion? That still made no sense. Jimmy couldn’t very well leave the thing at home. It was magic! He needed to figure out what it was for.

“I’m all for that!” Rowan slid Ridire-solas out of Jimmy’s belt loop and waved the sword in the air. She looked way more at ease doing that than Jimmy ever would. “Wanna challenge him to a duel?”

“Why? I have a dragon.” Thoughts of Ash burning the whole group of boys to a crisp filled Jimmy’s head. And Ash’s. Jimmy got a clear vision of Ash swooping down over the crying pack of boys, breathing green fire down on them.

“A dragon that’s not old enough to breathe fire,” Rowan said matter-of-factly.

Jimmy stopped. “How do you know he can’t blow fire?”

Rowan lowered the sword and shrugged. “Because he’d be doing it.” She turned and marched off before he could say another word.

A moment later, they were standing in front of a wooden arch wrapped in straw. Behind it, rows and rows of corn stalks reached to the sky, as far as his eyes could see. A yellow sign shaped like an ear of corn read, “Corn Maze.”

“Let’s go in there.” Rowan tugged on Jimmy’s arm. “Bet I can beat you through.”

Jimmy looked around for an excuse not to go in there, but all he saw were people at a long picnic table holding up more ears of corn. A man with a bullhorn counted down from three, and the people chowed down all at once. Next to them, a man in a corn cob costume jumped and silently cheered them on, waving frantically in the air.

That wasn’t going to happen.

On the other side of the dirt pathway, stood a wooden fort with “Darts for Hearts” spray painted across the top. Inside the small booth, behind a very large man with a very thin moustache, red and white lights flashed. A grid of balloons, also red and white, swayed in the breeze.

Great, last thing he needed after getting beat up in front of Rowan was to show her how bad of a shot he was, too.

Then, as he turned in the other direction, he saw a tall boy sitting under a tree, nose in a book as predicted. Thank goodness.

“Oh,” Jimmy said too excited for the distraction. “Come meet my friend, Isaac.” Not waiting for an answer, Jimmy grabbed Rowan by the hand and pulled her toward the tree, also not thinking about their hands touching again.

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