The Fortress of the Treasure Queen by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Stooping, he picked up a scroll that lay on the floor as if the black statue had dropped it. He turned to Eric. “I keep remembering more and more of the things I did. I fought you, didn’t I?”

Eric stared at the helmets and armor, the spears and wands. He nodded. “Your mother was a great wizard. They called her the Queen of Light. But Ko … he taught you to use your powers for, you know, bad things.”

Sparr touched his ear fins gently, then looked at the red sparks coming from his fingertips.

Eric looked, too.

The hands of the sorcerer, he thought.

Sparr turned his face to Eric. “Is it too late for me? To be good, I mean? I wasn’t bad to begin with, was I?”

Eric swallowed hard to hear Galen’s old words. “Well, I —”

All at once, the tunnels exploded with barking and growling.

Then came the sound of Neal shouting, “Back off! I’m not a collectible!”

“Get away from me, you thing!” cried Max.

“You should be in the Droon dog pound!” yelled Julie.

His friends charged into the treasure room, followed almost instantly by the queen’s guards. In a flash, they were surrounded. The guards grinned, showed their long teeth, and aimed their spears at the kids.

“This is crazy,” said Keeah, backing up next to Eric and eyeing the opening at the far end of the room. “We’ll never get out of here unless we split up!”

Sparr’s face beamed suddenly. “Split up? Wait a second. I can do that!”

Taking a deep breath, he began to spin on his heels. An instant later, it looked as though he had fallen apart in a flash of violet light. When he stopped spinning, there were two of him standing there.

“Not bad, eh?” one of them said.

“If you do say so myself!” said the other.

The guards stared at both boys.

“Follow me, guards!” said one Sparr, holding up the scroll he had found. “I’m taking this!” He dashed off into one of the side tunnels.

“Don’t forget me!” snapped the other, tearing out the opposite way.

“Get him!” yelled the chief guard. “And him!”

Some troops charged down one passage, some down the other. The guards split up so completely that soon the children found themselves alone in the treasure room.

Eric couldn’t believe what had just happened. “Sparr helped us again.”

“That’s, like, the fifth time,” said Julie. “Maybe we should look for the jar now.”

“And the bird?” said Neal.

“And the ship,” said Keeah.

“And save ourselves while we’re at it!” chirped Max. “Let’s go —”

“Not so fast!” cackled a hollow voice.

Floating into the treasure room, clutching her antler throne, was the ghostly Queen Bazra herself. Her pink crown was tilted on her head, and her pink cloak was still smoking from Eric’s earlier blast, but her thin white lips were curling into a cruel grin.

She raised the sparking black wand. “So, then. Anyone for — freezing?”

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