Space Knights: The Arrival by Gregory Samuelson (buy e reader .TXT) 📕

planets were one, when a huge meteorite hit and split the planet in half. Through the years both planets were reshaped into spheres and eventually developed life. The planet they were going to was called Caldar and it was a planet that was the same size as Althora and the same distance from the sun. In fact Althora and Caldar were twin planets.

Both planets seemed to evolve at the same rate and gave birth to practically the same types of plants and animals. They were so much alike that their continents were shaped almost the same. One of the most interesting features of these two worlds was that they shared the same orbit around the sun. They were held in orbit in such a way that they were opposite to each other where they may never meet each other. Another feature of these two worlds was that their seasons were also opposite each other. When Althora was in summer, Caldar was in winter.

Everyone was excited about the end of year tournaments for the Knight class. These tournaments were not just for the schools with knight classes, but involved several worlds with knight classes. There were a total fourteen worlds in the area that were allied with the Griffins and the planet Althora. Of these fourteen worlds only ten a year were selected to send schools to compete in the tournaments and of their many schools each planet sent their top ten schools.

Among the schools sending teams this year from Althora were the Azarians, the Black Knights, the White Knights, the Amorites, the Harman Hawks, and the Gray Mountain Warriors. Four other schools were chosen because they had really improved their records from last year. These smaller schools felt really honored and knew that they might not get to go to the tournaments for some time and they really wanted to show what they could do, even just to prove to themselves that they deserved to be invited. The schools were the Sumtor Soldiers, the Roberton Rangers, the Poudre Knights, and the Casmar Clan.

The events these teams would enter and try to win were large tournaments in all of the categories that they had competed in all year. There was the Castle Assault and Defense, the Battlefield, various Jousts, and single events. All of these events would truly test the boys and girls that wanted to eventually become the defenders of their worlds. From past history those that won awards in any event usually became leaders in the knight divisions on their home worlds. For the past three years the majority of the events went to the White Knights. Rex had really made a reputation for himself as the best knight. Rex fully expected to lead his team to the same kind of glory that they were so used to. There would be so many teams that he was sure he wouldn’t have to take on Trance and his lousy team very much at all.

The Sonderson family drove to the spaceport that was just twenty miles away and met up with the rest of the Gray Mountain Warriors team. The spaceport was much like an airport and the Sonderson family saw many people there heading to numerous destinations around the populated worlds in the galaxy. They also passed several groups of people headed toward Caldar for the tournaments. Dr. Sonderson led the way toward one of the ticket booths and checked everyone’s tickets to ensure they were headed for the right flight. He then led the way toward the concourse where their ship would be awaiting them.

Trance’s horse Odin had been checked in and would be loaded on the ship also and be stored in the ship’s cargo hold with the other horses belonging to his teammates. Trance looked around the spaceport and felt a little nervous. He kept thinking about when his family along with so many other families had gone to where the global escape ships were. This was different though; the atmosphere here felt excited and anxious. He took the time to look out of the windows and gazed in awe at the great ships that waited to fly a person to any planet in the galaxy.

There were a variety of ships outside waiting to take on passengers. Some of them resembled great birds and had a head and beak and great-outstretched wings. These flight crafts had ramjet engines to match the size of the craft. Small sleek birds had slim jet engines built in, while the much larger birds had huge engines underneath the wings. There were also some flight craft that were in the shape of dragons. These huge craft were most definitely military and had flame throwers in the nose. However, the craft that the Sonderson family was heading for resembled a very large jumbo jet with huge sweptback wings and huge engines that appeared to be a cross between a ramjet and a rocket engine.

Trance stopped and looked out at the craft that was going to take him, his family, and his team to the tournaments. It was gleaming in the morning light, and looked incredibly sleek and shiny. As he carefully looked over the craft his eye fell on the name written in impressive letters, Scorpio. He then looked around the concourse and spotted a group of people congregating and recognized many of them. There were several of his teammates as well as a number of the Lady Gray Mountain Warriors including Corena. To his amazement, in the center of the group of people were King Maximus and Queen Kayna, Corena’s parents.

King Maximus and Queen Kayna looked and talked to everyone as if they were ordinary people. The main difference between them and everyone else were the royal and rather expensive looking clothes and their crowns. King Maximus wore his with an expression that at times said that he’d just as soon have his crown put in a museum and locked away. Trance had overheard him say, “I really wish they would pass