BOOK 3
AXXISS AND THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Scholastic, India.
Time is running out for Axxiss and his friends. They have three parts of the mysterious key and have to find the remaining three. Danger haunts the six at every turn, as they search through time and space. Axxiss is kidnapped by the malevolent Prince Tsetse who offers him power to rule not only Gondwana but the earth too. Can the medallion or the mysterious black dog save him from this temptation? When the evil empress Cremelle finally confronts Axxiss, who will win the battle?
In this third and final part of this exciting Axxiss trilogy find out if the six children succeed in saving earth by sending Gondwana into the deep forever.
Tim Murari leaves his reader with almost a Sudoku, which until solve, the reader cannot put the book down, thus, shifting the power to the reader, Murari manages like an astute dramatist to pull his reader into his plot, involving him, engaging him, till he has found the answer. He must now join all the famous six searching the meaning of those three numbers, put single, or in a combination, or whatever. GOOD READS.
Time is running out for Axxiss and his friends, They have three parts of the mysterious key and have to find the remaining three. Danger haunts the six at every turn, as they search through space and time. Axxiss is kidnapped by the evil Prince Tsetse who offers him power to rule not only Gondwana but the earth too. Can the medallions or the mysterious black dog save him from this temptation? When the evil empress Cremelle finally confronts Axxiss, who will win the battle?
In this third and final part of the Axxiss trilogy, find out if the six children succeed in saving Earth by sending Gondwana into the deep forever.
CHAPTER ONE
A force smothered Axxiss. It held him in a tight grip with Glorus pressed against him. He could not wriggle his way out of it. A darkness they couldn’t penetrate enveloped them.
‘I’m scared,’ Glorus managed to say. ‘It’s Cremelle.’
‘Don’t be. We’re stronger than she is, and she knows that. She’ll have to free us soon from whatever is holding us, and then we’ll see how we can escape.’ He thought that while he was still alive he did have the will to act and make his own decisions as to how they will survive this confinement and be free. A line from Sartre, one of his favourite philosophers, came to mind “man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world—and defines himself afterwards.”
”The last time she took me and the others you came with Gelette and rescued us from the evil Castle of No Return. Now, you’re also her prisoner.’
‘Gelette will find us through my medallion. It’s only a matter of time.’
‘Gelette! I thought he was protecting us.’
‘He was watching Prince Tsetse. The old woman fooled us and him.’ He added with a note of admiration. ‘She’s a great shape shifter.’
‘Is that all you can think of. Get us out of this black hole.’
‘She’ll free us soon, and hide us somewhere, the way she did the others.’
Cremelle did free them suddenly. They fell, expecting a long fall, but it was only a few feet but enough to wind them. Axxiss rolled quickly, ready to jump up and fight. He raised his fists, waiting for an attack. There was no one in the large, soft carpeted room. Glorus looked around, and then down. She recognised the single 15th century Aubusson carpet, beautifully woven with scenes from French village life, covering the whole floor.
‘We’re in Cremelle’s home,’ Glorus cringed, remembering the frightening woman pressing her hand against her face and the decrepit man, Prince Tsetse, touching her with his cold, gloved hand. She didn’t want to think what that glove hid. ‘This was where she brought us the first time, before hiding us in that prison in Gondwana.’