Chapter
7
Kitt sniffed the
air and she knew that it was all wrong. The moon shone over the ship bathing it
in a blue white ghostly light. Kitt stood perfectly still hiding in the
shadows. She waited. And there is was.
A large shadow
silently crossed over the ship. Kitt pushed herself back farther into the
shadow. She looked up into the star studded sky with only a few wisps of
clouds. She took out her little telescope and held it up to her right eye. Kitt
scanned the sky and suddenly her scope was filled with the shadowy figure. She
knew it was. Gatoy riding on his griffon and around him were more. They were
going to arrack the ship she knew.
Kitt flew down
the mast and scampered down to the bottom cabins. She knew by the screech of
the griffon that they saw her.
Karina met her
in the hall half dressed. “Who is it.?”
“Gatoy, and he’s
not alone.”
“Get the rest of
them up. We have to fight.”
Karina rushed up
to the top and could see them above the ship circling them like vultures. By this
time the Silver Fox was besides her looking up at them as well. “He’s back.”
“They know what
we have and want to steal it. We’re going to have a battle. Get Kalzan to set
up the cannons.”
“He’s already
there. Just hope we have enough exploding powder.”
Karina sighed. “I
hope so.”
Silver fox took
out her bow and arrow and got on the deck. She yelled “Fire.”
Kalzon fired and
at the same time she aimed her flaming arrow right direct at Gatoy. He seen
them and came right for them.
The flaming
arrow went flying and the powder went soaring into the air, Gatoy halted as the
powder shrouded him. The flaming arrow hit the griffon. They both started to
fall and the Silver Fox knew he would crash. But before he hit another large
griffon and rider scooped them up and carried them off. The others came down to
attack.
The silver fox
fired more arrows but they were too fast for her. Now she had three of them in
a row standing beside their griffons in front of her. They all had swords that
flamed blue. Karina now joined her along with Kitt. Karina stepped forward. “Get
off my ship. Or be blown away.”
The middle one
came forward. “I don’t think so. We are not leaving without the sapphire ice.”
Karina laughed. “You
are too late, it’s been sold. And if you think I’m lying, go check. Kitt will
take you.”
He looked back
at the others and Karina could tell that they thought she was lying and maybe
trap was down there.
“Okay, I will
take two others with me and in case you think of doing something funny.” He
pointed to the sky where even more had arrived. “They will tear this ship
apart.”
All Karina did
was nod.
They went down
and they weren’t down there very long when they were all back up. They joined the
others where they all talked quiet. They got on their griffons and flew into
the air without saying a word.
Karina looked
over at Kitt. “So? What happened?”
She grinned. “Nothing,
just as it should have happened.”
Karina smiled
back. “They bought it that was good. Now maybe we can get this voyage on the
tight track. With the sapphire ice hidden in the walls of this ship, we should
be safe.”
The griffons
landed back on the cliff. Gatoy was injured but not as bad as his griffon. They
were working on him.
“Did you get the
sapphire ice Cai?”
He shook his
head. “She said they had already sold it and when we checked, there was nothing
to be found.”
“She let you
check?”
“Karina told us
to go check to verify that she was not lying. But I will admit, that something
was wrong about everything. Something was up.”
Gatoy sighed. “She
is a sly one. You were set up.”
Cai looked down
at him. “Then what are we going to do?”
“Follow her and
see what happens. If she is telling the truth, we will see but if she is still
heading to the Orox Mountains, I suspect she still has the sapphire ice on
board hidden. When she goes to unload it, we will take it off her hands then.”
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