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Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  20. - EIGHTEEN -
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“Don’t you call me that!” Gabriel shouted, throwing a look behind him. “You’re no father of mine, not since you brought Mike to this school and then left him in the hands of those things. But Mike’s alive, and I know where he is! Fort has the power to send me back, and I can rescue Mike!”

Gabriel’s arm tightened around Fort’s throat, cutting off his air. “I’ll… do it,” Fort gasped, and his hands began to glow with magic as his mind raced. If he reopened the portal again, the Old Ones would be waiting, and that was it. But if he didn’t, Gabriel would throw him into the volcano instantly.

“I’m not letting go until it’s done,” Gabriel said quietly to him. “And you’re coming with me, to that dimension. If we find Mike again and bring him back, then you’ll come home too. If not, then we all stay.”

Fort nodded, and Gabriel released his grip slightly, just enough to let Fort breathe again.

“Gabriel, please, don’t do this!” Colonel Charles said, his voice cracking. “I can’t… I can’t lose you, too!”

“Then you shouldn’t have let Mike come in the first place,” Gabriel said, turning back to look at his father. “This is YOUR FAULT—”

That was his chance. Fort opened a tiny teleportation circle into his pocket, and the silver hammer, Earthshatterer, dropped from it directly into his hand. “I’m sorry, Gabriel,” he whispered, then slammed the hammer onto the floor next to him.

The tile instantly exploded into dust, and suddenly they were falling. As they dropped, Fort could see a glow coming from Gabriel’s hands as the other boy tried to open a teleportation circle.

But he was too slow, and the next floor down was too close.

They crashed into the concrete with a horrifying crunch, and then everything mercifully went dark.

- FORTY-FOUR -

FORT FLOATED IN A SEA of confusion for the next few days, waking to find different people standing over him, only to fall unconscious again. Any amount of time could have passed, and he’d have had no way of knowing. He was vaguely aware of Dr. Ambrose being present, and Jia at times, but other than that, everything was a blur.

And then he awoke to find himself in a blank, unformed place with only the bed beneath him as proof that he wasn’t still asleep.

“Hey, sleepyhead,” a voice said, and Sierra faded into view above him, leaning over his bed. “You had me worried! Are you feeling any better?”

Fort pushed himself to a sitting position, strangely free of all the tubes and wires that he’d felt when he’d woken up the past times. “What happened? Where am I? Is Rachel okay? Are you? What about my father? Did he wake up yet?”