Danger Guys by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480486317
Publisher: Open Road Media

EIGHT

I gulped hard as we started along the ledge. Lucky me, I got to go first.

My nose was pressed against the rocks. My hands were groping for something, anything, to hold on to. My feet were inching along a narrow strip of rock trying not to fall to an instant death.

And Zeek was right behind me, pushing and nudging me with every step.

“Not so close!” I huffed. “I can’t exactly skip along, you know.”

“Eight minutes,” he gasped. That was all he said. I got the point and hustled along.

A couple of minutes later we were near the top of the temple when my foot slipped on some loose rocks. Suddenly, Mr. Big shot around and looked straight up at us.

“Everybody shut up!” he screamed. The digging stopped; the cave went silent. Then he pointed and yelled, “Searchlight! Let’s see what’s up there!”

I didn’t have time to think—my body took over. “Dive!” I gasped.

We dived into the shadows, but where I expected to feel solid rock, there was nothing.

Oh, no, a bottomless pit!

But it wasn’t. We tumbled down into a small cave. At least I thought it was a cave. I couldn’t see because there was a blinding light in my eyes.

“Noodle! The searchlight!”

I squinted and looked around. “Huh-uh, Zeek, it’s not the searchlight.”

There was a hole in the ceiling, a shaft that went up a long way and ended with a bright light. “It’s … daylight! It’s the great outdoors! Hooray! We’re home. It’s just up there!”

Zeek squinted up at the shaft. “Just up there? Just a hundred feet up there! We’ll never make it, Nood. Besides, I think I hear Mr. Big coming. And we’ve still got to find the secret room, remember?”

“Wait a second, Zeek.”

My eyes had just gotten used to the bright light. What I saw made everything go quiet in my head.

All around the walls were gold masks and statues of mysterious creatures. Old leather sacks filled with necklaces and jewels and golden ornaments were piled high everywhere.

And in the center of it all, just under the shaft of light, was a huge golden ball. It must have been ten feet high. A round red circle was painted on the side.

“The Eye of the Sun!” I cried. “Zeek, this is it! We’re in the secret room!”

“All right!” cried Zeek, punching the air. Then he frowned. “But now what? I mean, how are we supposed to stop the flooding with this?”

“I’m thinking, I’m thinking.” Then something caught my eye. There was a groove cut into the floor. It led away from the stone and down a side tunnel into the darkness.

“How’s this?” I said. “Maybe if we move the ball, it rolls down the tunnel and plugs up some kind of drain hole at the other end.”

Zeek gave me one of his looks. “Come on, Noodle. How could we possibly move it? It must weigh a ton and it’s been here for a couple hundred years.”

I laughed. “It weighs ten tons at least and it’s been here for a thousand years.

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