The Magic Escapes by Tony Abbott
Author:Tony Abbott [Abbott, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-08-24T04:00:00+00:00
Eric struggled to get to the surface, but the weight of his cloak dragged him down.
He flicked his fingers, but no sparks came.
Eric! Use your power! a voice whispered.
I can’t — blub! blub! — my magic is —
The power is … in your pocket!
Eric clawed at the water. Sparr? I’m not using your dumb evil powers!
Eric groped upward until he thought his lungs would burst. Finally — splash! — he broke through the surface and drew in a huge breath.
“Eric!” cried Keeah, pulling herself up to the island, then crawling over to help him. “I was trying to talk to you, but you didn’t answer.”
Eric panted heavily as he took her hand. “Sorry,” he mumbled. “I was on another line.”
“What?”
“Nothing,” he said. “I couldn’t hear you. In fact, my powers haven’t worked right ever since I saw Sparr.”
Eric slipped his hand into his pants pocket. The gem was still there. Instantly, his head began to hurt again, and he grew hot, as if he might faint.
He knew his powers wouldn’t work as long as Sparr’s magic was in his pocket.
“Over here!” yelled Julie as a black wave pulled her away from the craggy shore.
Keeah and Eric ran to help her. Neal and Max bobbed up nearby and swam to Julie. Together, they pulled her up onto the island.
“Thanks,” she said.
“Where’s Urik and the old guy?” asked Neal.
“Still fighting the kraken,” said Max, shaking the water from his spider fur.
The children looked back over the water. The boatman was struggling with the sea monster’s tail, while Urik was using the wand to try to hypnotize it. But the kraken wouldn’t slow down. Instead it dragged the little boat back into the canals.
“Urik told us what to do,” said Julie. “We need to find Galen’s younger self before we can stop Sparr and Salamandra —”
Thomp … thomp ….
“Goblins!” said Keeah. “Hide!”
The kids scrambled to the shelter of a low rock as a troop of mean-faced goblins passed by. Each carried a bundle of stolen objects just like Urik’s satchel.
“Thieves,” Neal whispered. “Stealing magic from our world.”
A minute later, the goblins were gone.
“They went in there,” said Max, pointing to an outline on the rocks that looked like a door.
“And exactly how do we get in?” said Julie.
“Allow me,” said Keeah. She turned to make sure there were no more goblins approaching. Then, murmuring a few words, she aimed her right hand. A single blue spark shot from the tip of her finger.
Pop! Errk! The door scraped open.
Lighting the way with a stream of blue light, Keeah led the group into a narrow cavelike passage under the fortress.
“All right, then,” chirped Max. “Let’s find my master, before he was my master!”
The passages zigzagged through the rock for a long while, then circled up in a long, coiling stairway.
“Oh, man,” said Neal as they made the long trudge up the steps. “Getting a little dizzy here.”
“Neal,” said Julie, “you sort of always were.”
“I guess that’s sort of true,” he said.
Max scampered along with Keeah. “To think that my young master is a prisoner in this awful place.
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