Underworlds #3: Revenge of the Scorpion King by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott [Abbott, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Published: 2012-08-01T06:00:00+00:00

And the lyre’s fourth string rang.

“Thank you!” I yelled, plucking that string over and over. Mad Dog howled as if someone had smashed his big stone paw.

“This way!” Sydney cried, and we dashed up the ramp and ran as fast as we could, leaping into the darkness of the fifth level. Mad Dog charged at us one last time, but the opening to the fifth level closed, and we were alone.

A sliver of pale light shone from ceiling to floor in the distance. “Moonlight,” Jon said. “That must be the exit. We’re near the top of the tower.”

Except that getting there wasn’t going to be easy. Between us and the shaft of light was a swamp, burning with the same green flames we had seen from Fire Serpent.

“We’ll have to pick our way across the swamp to get there,” said Dana, scanning the tiny islands of land that dotted the swamp and stretching her glove to me. “Hold hands so no one falls in.”

I took her hand. It was odd, burning and freezing at the same time. Even touching the glove for a short time made my fingers ache. I could only imagine how Dana felt.

We hopped from island to island, and the flames licked at our feet, hissing at an eerie pitch. Was that the lyre’s note? It was weird how the levels of the tower seemed to be “tuned.” That had to mean something, but I couldn’t spend too much time thinking about it — because just then Fire Serpent rose out of the swamp behind us, rearing his fat head and snorting fire from his snout.

Jon groaned. “Here we go again. Everybody down!”

We flattened to the ground, and a blast of green flame blew over us, igniting the swamp grass. At the same time, a bolt of silver light struck the water next to us.

“Loki’s back, too!” Sydney shouted.

And there he was, his face a storm of anger. Loki charged at us across the swamp. “You cannot stop me! The monsters will be mine! But I will take a moment to destroy you first —”

Loki threw a ball of flame at Dana, which she deflected at the last moment with a pretty weak stream of light from her glove. Loki’s blast fizzled near the serpent’s knobby tail. The beast spun around to the Norse god.

“You’ll be bound to me soon enough, snake. In the meantime —” Loki touched the rune on his breastplate, and silver light enveloped the beast.

“Run! Over here!” growled a distant voice. I looked up to see a familiar face, standing in the distant shaft of moonlight.

“Panu?” said Jon. “You did come back!”

“I said I would. Now come on!” he called. “This way to the next level!”

We jumped quickly from one island to the next, when I heard Loki laugh wickedly from behind us. “You won’t win this race! Serpent, stand aside! These four children are mine!”

Blam-blam-blam! Loki sprayed lightning bolts across the swamp. I hit the soggy ground, pulling Dana with me.

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