The Marenon Chronicles Collection (Books 1, 2, & 3) by Jason D. Morrow

Author:Jason D. Morrow [Morrow, Jason D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The door leading underground was covered with dirt and scratch marks from the shovel, but it opened inward easily enough. The group of four slowly stepped through with Silas leading, Inga and Kaden right behind, and Lorcan following in the back. They found a narrow corridor leading to a black nothingness. Silas wrapped his dark cloak around him and brought the hood up to fight off the cold that devoured them in the corridor. Inga held out her hand and instantly a white light shot out from it. The orb stalled then floated above the group, giving them enough light to see where they were going. They were in a dirt tunnel, and whoever dug it out had not taken the time to reinforce it, it seemed.

Silas turned his head to Inga. “I’ve seen you cause a cave-in. Can you prevent one?”

She shrugged. “If it came to it. I guess we’ll have to see.”

“Let’s hope we don’t,” Kaden said, urging them forward.

They walked for several long minutes. Silas’ staff had not changed into any sort of weapon, so they were not in any immediate danger as far as he could tell. He wondered what could be there. What would the Gatekeeper have left here that was so important? Surely the Gatekeeper himself would not be staying in this hole.

As they kept walking, they began to see the path more clearly, as though there was another source of light ahead of them. The staff again provided the perfect warning system. It instantly turned into a war hammer, letting him know that a fight was just up ahead. The staff had never turned into this weapon before. Seeing the warning sign, Inga immediately extinguished the light, and the four of them crouched in the darkness. They could see only a little as the light from the distance provided some blue illumination on the path. They could see that the path widened up ahead into what looked to be some sort of large cavern.

“What do you see?” Lorcan whispered from the back.

Silas wished he could see something, but all he had to go on was the staff. “Nothing.”

“Let’s keep moving, just be cautious,” Kaden urged.

Silas moved his legs slowly, fearing any sort of noise would tip off the threat that loomed ahead of them. In his mind he tried to think of which enemies could be taken down by a hammer, but there were too many possibilities. It could be anything from armed men to giant rats for all he knew.

With every step they moved closer to the wide opening. The blue light, seemingly with no source, became brighter. When they came to the opening, they saw that it was actually the ledge of a much deeper cavern with a stone stairway leading down. They were able to hunker low behind a rock and peer over it. What they saw would have made most people turn back. On the ground floor below them, marching in a unified motion, were ten stone statues. They walked like men, but they were at least ten feet in height, and their weapons were massive.

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