The Sea Of Despair

Chapter eight

The group hopped onto Sparks back, and he flew into the air, however, they were unaware of a hidden beast in the cave. A sand drake, perfectly camouflaged against the cave wall dropped to the floor, and leapt up to grab Sparks tail, and rip its end off with its teeth. Spark screamed in pain, and slammed his body against the cave wall to knock the sand drake off his tail, nearly knocking Sarah, Aidan, Kalmar and Lamakar off of his back.

“It’s a sand drake!” Sarah yelled, clearly scared.

“What the hell is a sand drake!?” Aidan asked.

“Really nasty thing that lives in caves!” Kalmar answered. Suddenly, the sand drake slashed at Lamakar with its claws, cutting open his back, Lamakar screamed in pain as he fell backwards, plummeting towards the floor at top speed.

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