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Date Posted: 15:57:38 01/26/04 Mon
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CHAPTER 14
"Hop skip, up down, up down, turn around..." The morning slowly wore away, as Ashe, Senetta, and a hedgehog named Pikkel, played Hop-skip. Ash and Pikkel chanted and swung a rope, while Senetta followed the movements perfectly. "Hop skip, up down, up down, turn around." They stopped at the sound of the Matthias and Methuselah bells. Senetta ran towards Cavern hole, shouting over her shoulder, "Come on, last one to lunch is a wet rag!!" Laughing, Pikkel and Ashe ran after her, not wanting to be last.
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The travelers shot down river, leaving the place they had camped at far behind. Jet lay in the bottom of the boat, his eyes covered, and one paw on his stomach, "Ohhh, I bally hope that you cads are happy, wot. I believe I might rid meself of me blinkin' breakist soon." Tarrow, who was quite enjoying the ride, shook her head, "Jus' what I've allus wanted, a seasick 'are!" Aubbress exchanged glances with Revin, it was going to be a long voyage. The boat skillfuly skipped along, Tarrow carefully steering it away from rocks sticking out of the water. Suddenly, around noontime, Aubbress held a paw to her lips, "Shhhhh. Everything's silent all of a sudden. The water doesn't even make a sound!!" Tarrow gulped visibly, and repeated the rhyme, "Where water falls, without a sound,
where brave warriors bones lie,
that shall be your battle ground,
where one of you, must die."
Jet shivered, "D..does that mean that one of US is going to die?" Revin shook his head, "No, that means either the snake dies, or I die." Aubbress looked shaken, but she put on a brave face, "Well, we are getting closer to the end of the river. Look, the current is slowing." Revin looked ahead. What he saw made him gasp in surprise.
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Chrassneyah writhed in anger, "I jussssst missssssed them. They were right here!! If I had only moved fasssster..." She glared at the charred pile of coals that had been a fire, with her hipnotic eyes. "They went down the ssssswift moving river. I shall follow along the bank." She slithered away with all the speed of a full grown adder. Even at times, faster!
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Dumbstruck, the questors stared in awe up at a tall hill with a large flat top. Jet broke the silence, murmering under his breath, "...And when you do, you shall stare in awe, oh yes you shall my friends! Well, they were bally right on that, wot wot!!" The boat nosed up to the bank, and they all jumped out. Revin shook his head, "No, this is my fight alone, stay in the boat." Tarrow spoke up first, "Which of us is gonna stay here and let you battle that monster by yerself? Well it ain't gonna be me!" Jet and Aubbress agreed full heartedly, "Aye, we're not going to stand by and watch you possably get slain!!" The squirrel sighed, but beckoned for them to get their weapons and follow him. Jet didn't have a weapon with him, so Tarrow gave him a sling, and some stones. Soon they were climbing up the hill. Each dreading the thought that one of them might be killed.
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