Tales from Dargo Island: The Complete Trilogy by Hart Jerry

Author:Hart, Jerry [Hart, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: J.W. Star Publications
Published: 2013-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: Less Time than we Thought

We got back to the palace and immediately went to the sick ward. The room was nearly filled with sick Dargons. Champagne walked among the people, soothing them with her power. As soon as she placed her hand on their shoulders, they went from scared to relaxed within seconds.

Champagne, however, looked worse than when I last saw her. Her face was paler, and she needed help from Victor to walk. I walked up to them and asked how they were doing.

“I’m fine, Sugar Cow,” Champagne replied. “I just need to lie down for a while, regain my strength. Any luck on the second island?”

I leaned against a table. “We found Dargonius.”

“That must’ve been a grisly sight,” Victor said with a grin. “Did you find anything that will help with the plague?”

I sighed. “I mean, we found Dargonius alive.” I let that sink in for a second; Victor and Champagne looked shocked. “He said he is the only cure for the plague, but he’ll only do it if we let him out of his prison. He’s trapped in some kind of cylinder in the middle of a round room, surrounded by an acid pool.”

“You don’t trust him,” Victor guessed.

I looked at Aneela, who was on the other side of the chamber, seeing to some of her sick people. “He said he would cure everyone on this island, but he would kill everyone else in the world. That was his plan before he was captured.”

“Well, that sounds like a crappy deal,” he said, his grin vanishing.

“Our lives aren’t worth that of the rest of the world, honey,” Champagne said. She said to Victor, “Help me lie down.”

He helped her up onto a bed against the wall. My friends were dying and there was nothing I could do. A doctor, her face painted the way of the Dargons, checked on Champagne. Even through the yellow-and-blue paint I could tell she looked worried.

“What’s wrong?” I asked the doctor.

She looked at me. “If I didn’t know any better, I would say the illness is progressing much faster in her than anyone else. See the dark veins on her neck?” I saw them. “None of the others are showing this symptom. I studied the body of the first victim. He looked much worse than this, but he had these same dark veins.”

“I remember,” I said. Champagne looked like she’d been infected a week ago, even though it had only been a couple of hours. She wouldn’t last much longer.

I hadn’t known her that long, but I considered her a friend. We almost died together, fighting Nalke’s army for Rockne. Looking around the chamber, I couldn’t imagine any of the sick Dargons dying. They hadn’t done anything wrong. I believed Dargonius when he said he would cure all of them in exchange for the rest of the world, but Champagne’s words kept going through my head: Our lives aren’t worth that of the rest of the world, honey.

It seemed logical enough to keep Dargonius in his cell.

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