Nightmare Quest (Book 3)

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We all huddle around each other to discuss what we're going to do next. Maximo pulls out his laptop again from his bag and begins typing on the keyboard, a few seconds later he turns the screen towards us.

"We're currently sitting on top of the main building." Maximo points with one finger "If we follow this air duct to the holding cell area then we'll be right at Madam Silverclaw."

"Alright then. Let's do this." Essix says.

We make our way over to the air duct on the roof and find that a thick metal grate is attached to the entrance.

"I got this." Blaze says while shoving us aside. She takes one claw and traces around the metal grate; at first nothing happens but suddenly the metal starts smoking and the grate melts into a pool of molten metal.

"Well...that's one way to do it." Star says.

Blaze smirks and blows some of her red fur out of her eyes.

One by one we file into the air duct with Maximo in the lead and Razor in the back. We crawl through what seems like miles of air ducts before we stop at a section that has a lot of vents in the floor.

"Directly below should be the holding cells. Are you ready?" Maximo asks me.

I take a deep breath "I'm ready."

"Alright guys this is it, prepare to breach." Maximo says.

I hear the muttering of everyone else as the message is passed down the line. Carefully I help Maximo remove the vent without too much noise and then I drop down into the holding cell room.

I look around and I'm instantly filled with all those bad memories of being here. The cages, the chains, the experiments...

I don't know what I looked like standing there, but I do know that I was paralyzed and couldn't move until a little voice came from a cage next to me.

"Who are you?"

I look closer and I see what looks like a young wolf pup. She's missing an eye and her back half doesn't have normal wolf haunches it's the back legs of what looks like a dragon. There are a couple of bruises on her muzzle like she had been hit by something.

Instantly my heart fills with compassion for this little wolf pup. She never wanted this, but Madam Silverclaw made her this way. "My name is Azula."

She shrinks back from her cage bars "Are you here to punish me?!"

Anger floods through me that this poor creature thinks that anyone coming in here is going to hit her. "No! I promise I'm not going to hit you." I squat in front of the cage so I can be eye level with her "What is your name?"

She comes back closer to the bars "Luna. Are you going to get me out of here?"

"I will get you out of here, but first I have some business to take care of with Madam Silverclaw." I say.

"You can't go in there! She'll kill you!" Luna says shakily. "She'll kill you just like she killed my brother Comet..."

I reach through the bars of her cage and hold her front paws "Don't worry. I have some great friends on my side who will help protect me, and when I come back I promise I'll get you and everyone else out of this place for good."

I walk towards the set of double doors with everyone else. The whole time I see Luna's concerned puppy dog stare following me. I swear on my life that Madam Silverclaw is going to pay for what she's done to those poor creatures...and she's going to pay for what she's done to me!

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