The Pages of Destiny (The Four Elementals Book 3) by Yajat Sharma (best authors to read TXT) 📕

building. “Hello, my friends. I see that you have brought with you the Scavenger. Good. I hope you are ready with the First Page. Now we will place the two Pages in the Book of the Universe – together – and open the dimension. We agree not to indulge in any violence. I have created a special portal which will appear at the right time. Soon after taking out Matt, you all need to take this portal and proceed to Earth. I promise a safe exit to Pyros and the Scavenger. So, is this the deal?”

“No,” James said.

“What do you mean, no?” Osay said in an irritated voice. “We had earlier decided on this scheme. Isn’t it?

“There’s a slight change in plans,” James said. “We need you to show us the Second Page first, before the Scavenger takes out the First Page. Alternatively, you go to the Library and put the Second Page inside the Book and call us. We will then put the First Page to create the power source. In fact...”

James paused as he saw warriors emerging out of the bushes.

He continued, “Call off your warriors. Or should I say, call off your warriors... Osay.”

“So you now know.” The voice seemed surprised. “I suspected as much. Anyway, by dishonouring the deal, you have chosen death.”

“But why would you be so reluctant in putting up the Second Page? I am sure you have it,” James said.

Osay laughed. “What are you implying?”

“Archer,” James said.

Archer raised his hand, revealing a black device that was beeping with a red light.

Osay’s voice came. “Is that a -”

“Yes. It’s a detonator,” James said. “You are now at our mercy.”

Osay laughed. “Oh? Really? How is that?”

“Well, if you don’t lay out the Second Page,” James said, “my friend will press the button on the detonator. There will be a big blast, and everyone present here will get blown up, except, of course, me and my friends.”

Osay scoffed. “That is impossible.”

“You know better,” James said. “My friends and I are wearing melamine coated armour. You know, it is a fire-resistant fabric. It will protect us from the fire resulting from the blast.”

James started laughing.

Seeing the confidence and lack of fear in James’s tone, the warriors surrounding them started to back away.

There was silence for a few moments.

“Do you want to take the risk?” James shouted.

“Do it then,” Osay said. “Come on. Do it. Press the button.”

A drop of sweat trickled down James’s cheek. Osay had unknowingly walked into James’s trap.

James signalled to Archer.

Archer pressed the button.

The walls of the Library trembled. The ground started shaking.

At the same time, sorcerers rushed out from the Library raising their hands. Rays of light travelled forth, straight towards Archer. The sorcerers encased a small dome around Archer. The bombs exploded in the dome. Archer was unhurt, but the bombs proved useless, as the nearby warriors were unaffected.

Osay gave a monstrous laugh.

As planned, the Scavenger crashed through the warriors. The majority of the warriors turned towards him, trying to catch him.

The sorcerers continued with their spell. Their dome had now expanded, containing the children and Pyros within it. Everything was moving as per their plans. Then came the final step.

The sorcerers spoke in unison. “We now banish you to Earth!”

As the dome retracted into itself, a portal opened. The children and Pyros were sucked into it. Taking advantage of the distractions, the Scavenger disappeared into the bushes.

They emerged onto a street. Tall buildings, towering skyscrapers, the pedestrians, moving

cars – all this signified only one thing.

A car skidded to a spot two feet away from James. A man got out and approached him.

“You okay?” he asked. James nodded, his mind working sluggishly. He looked around, moved forward and plopped himself down on the bench.

A thought flashed in his mind...

They were back in London.

5

The children and Pyros sat on a bench. Busy people kept moving, paying no attention at the group. The children realized that they had been in the Dark World for a year now and that only twelve hours had passed on Earth.

Pyros’s eyes twinkled as he saw the moving cars.

“How can you be so calm?” Archer said, looking at Pyros. “We are banished to Earth, with no way to go back to the Dark World. The only thing we can depend upon is on James’s plan.”

Pyros smiled. “I have trust in your friend. The plan is wonderful.”

“Good work, everyone,” James said. “We successfully got banished.” He got up. “All right, no time to waste. Let’s move.”

As they walked, James said, “All right, now I’ll reveal the whole plan. You see, we were facing a severe dilemma. Neither could we escape from the Dark World without Matt, nor could we give the First Page to Osay. So the only thing left was to do something Osay didn’t expect. That was getting banished from the Dark World.

“The core of the plan is that if we are banished from the Dark World, Osay will think he has got rid of us and that it will be easy to subdue the Scavenger and get the First Page.”

Pyros spoke in an excited voice, “But he doesn’t know that we have more tricks up our sleeves.”

“What tricks?” Daniel asked.

But it seemed that James wasn’t listening; he was pointing ahead.

“What?” Archer said. “Our school.”

James nodded. “Yes.”

The group vaulted up the wall into the school, which was closed at that time. They made their way to the school library, picking locks one by one.

James instinctively knew what he had to do. When they first went to the Dark World, they had taken a portal from the school. In the school’s library, there was a book with a mark. This mark, when pressed, created a portal to the Dark World.

“Our powers are not working,” Daniel commented as James started to look for the mark.

“Obviously,” James said. “The Scavenger told us, remember. Our powers will work only in the Dark World.”

James pulled out a book from the shelf and sifted