Chapter 14

Chapter 14 A WARNING WRIT LARGE! A PROMISE OF DANGER IN DAYS AHEAD! Morgan loved having sheep at the castle. Beau and Beep were the perfect addition to their home away from home. And he would never have thought of raising sheep. There was no animal pen in the blueprint he had been so determined to follow. Every time he looked at the animals, he was grateful for his friends and his sister. He had something for them, as well. One final decoration for the castle. "Ta-da!" he said as he revealed his gift. It was a wooden pickaxe set in a frame. He'd hung it on

the wall. "Cool pickaxe, noble squire!" said Po. "I am not your squire," Morgan grumbled. "AND IT'S NOT JUST ANY PICKAXE. IT'S THE FIRST PICKAXE HARPER MADE. THE VERY FIRST TOOL ANY OF US MADE. back on our very first day."

"IT'S PERFECT." said Harper. "SO THAT'S IT?" Jodi asked. "ARE WE REALLY DONE?" Ash grinned. "All that's left is to admire the view from the top of the night tower. I'LL RACE YOU!" They all hurried as fast as they could to the top, laughing the whole way. And it really was an incredible view. Even better than the view from Ash's tree house. It made Morgan remember the initials carved into the railing: QAV. "YOUR FRIEND QUINN WOULD LOVE IT UP HERE." he said to Ash. "Yeah, she would," Ash replied. "MAYBE

ONE DAY SHE'LL SEE IT. BUT RIGHT NOW. I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH MY NEW FRIENDS." "We're happy, too," said Jodi. "The happiest," said Harper. "FORSOOTH!" said Po. Morgan nodded in agreement. But as he looked off into the distance, he saw something that seemed out of place. "WHAT IS THAT?" he asked. They all looked where he was pointing. There was a little sliver of shiny black peeking out above the farthest trees. "I can't tell from this angle," Harper said. "WE NEED TO GET HIGHER." They all pulled blocks from their inventories. Granite and cobblestone, andesite and diorite. They piled it all up, one block at a time. It wasn't pretty, but it helped them get higher and higher, until… "Oh. Wow," said Po. "WHAT DOES IT MEAN?" asked Jodi. "I DON'T KNOW." said Morgan. "But it is weirding me out."

Morgan knew he didn't have a spine in avatar form. He knew he couldn't feel the temperature. Despite knowing these things, he felt a chill run down his spine now. There in the distance, written in gigantic letters of darkest obsidian, was a warning. BEWARE THE EVOKER KING.