I race towards the hole, then I hear a scrabbling sound and Jay’s hand appears over the edge. He sticks his head out, looking a bit shaken but still in one piece. ‘You’re okay!’ I breathe a sigh of relief. We crowd around and help pull him out of the hole. He holds out his hand and clutched in it...
As soon as we’re inside, the door slides shut behind us, locking us in. Sam tries to disable the locking mechanism, and when that doesn’t work Connor tries to knock the door down, but it seems like our only path of escape is blocked. We all jump as a voice echoes through the room. ‘What’s the mat...
The others stare at me as I carefully open the letter and read it. ‘Are you okay?’ asks Leigh. ‘You look shocked.’ ‘It’s from my old ninja clan,’ I say, re-reading the letter. ‘Grandmistress Reika, the head of the ninjas, has gone missing.’ ‘Missing?’ asks Connor. ‘Or was she kidnapped?’ ‘They do...
‘iRis!’ She’s standing just behind me in the shadows. ‘What are you doing here?’ ‘What kind of a hello is that?’ asks iRis with a grin. ‘S-sorry,’ I stammer. ‘I’m just surprised to see you. I didn’t even hear you come down the ladder.’ I peer up the ladder looking for the rest of the Star League....
Most of the guards throw down their weapons and run at the sight of the leopards turning on them, and the few who remain follow the others once they see us and our powers. As soon as the guards are gone we try the front gate, but it’s locked tight. There’s an electronic lock on it unlike anything...
‘GALACTIC has been getting a lot of missing person reports lately,’ says Ben. ‘Well, technically it’s not missing people, it’s missing animals! We’ve had reports of hundreds of pets mysteriously disappearing all over the city.’ ‘So what?’ asks Roger. ‘Pets go missing all the time! What do they wa...
The smell of chemicals here is so bad it’s making my eyes water. I crouch down further so he can’t see me. It’s not that I’m scared, I just want to figure out the best way to attack him before I go storming in. ‘Yes, you’re the perfect specimen for my experiments,’ he says to Henry. Henry whimper...