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Category:
Young Adult/Teen
Publisher: Indie
ISBN-10: 1517761727
Type: Fiction
Pages: 200
Copyright: April 17,2016
ISBN-13: 9781517761721
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Grab your wand and your broomstick, we're off the Mount Penglai, China.
Wizard Torbant Mahl has acted swiftly and hurried his family away to the fable island of Mount Penglai, China. His youngest daughter, Mags, Has to undergo the all important death-resurrection ritual that will seal her inner magical creature. While Mags is being tutored personally by the powerful ancient sorcerer, Anqi Sheng, her father and older sister, Antonia set off on a quest to gather the items needed for Torbant to create the crimson cauldron, the cauldron that Mags will use to construct her own funeral pyre. On their travels Torbant plays chess with a giant iron-ore miner - they encounter Samantha, a stryx, that serves Torbant with a deathly warning - Antonia is able to release her own inner magical creature and later on the journey her own secret desire is realized. Meanwhile, left alone while her family is doing all things magical, Sonia meets a new friend, Brenda, who has a terrible condition and is in desperate need of an understanding companion. Athol, who has been released by the witch, Stave and expelled from her Chelsea home is still suffering greatly from the terrible wounds inflicted upon him by Robert, Torbant's dragon. While slowly recovering he continues to scheme his revenge against Torbant and has managed to enlist the aid of the vampire snatchers, led by the powerful ancient vampire, Prince Vlad Dracula. Follow the continuing and exciting adventures in this, the second Torbant Mahl, wizard story.
Excerpt
The fire became fierce, the flames blazing higher and higher until the giant bird was totally consumed. The cauldron glowed brighter as the heat from the fire grew stronger. The fire was now a seething inferno, the flames blazing high towards the ceiling, noise like a hurricane roaring, filling the room with a deafening thunder that shook both the floor and the walls. The cobbles that the cauldron rested on vibrated, the metal of the cauldron's feet chattering in the stone floor. The fire burst through the hole in the roof and those outside saw fire surging up into the sky.
Sonia, her face contorted with agony, could take it no more and burst into heart rending sobs, burying her face into her husband's chest, her shoulders heaving violently.
Antonia looked on in disbelief at what she was witnessing and she too shed tears.
Robert and Primrose snuggled up to one another in an apparent show of mutual comfort. Anqi Sheng's face had a half smile on it, his eyes shining with pride.
The fire burned fierce for several minutes then began to die down, slowly at first then gaining speed until the fire was gone almost all together. Quickly the fire was out and nothing remained standing. Mags, the phoenix, was gone. All that remained was a cauldron full of smoldering ashes, with glowing embers until they too went out. Thin smoke rose from the ashes as the last of the embers fought to stay alight until at last they submitted to nature and went out. The death sequence was complete.
Sonia turned her head and with red, puffy eyes looked at where her daughter had stood just a few minutes earlier and saw nothing. She bawled uncontrollably.
Mags was dead.
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