Race for Earth Book 1 of the Tales of the Gooran Preview by Gerald McNally - HTML preview

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Chapter 2:

 

The previous King had died so suddenly that the Gooran did not have the time to prepare a proper coronation but they had most of the things ready because I was going to be coroneted in 3 earth months. But for a day’s work they did really well to do it the cake that they made was white like the shark tooth and the decorations were in sea green and in blood red. So everything was very vivid so no one would ever forget my coronation because of how brightly colored and happy it was even though it also was my parents funeral. The sun was shining very brightly and there was not a cloud in the sky.it was a nice and breezy day so we had not have had to worry about it raining that day. The coronation happened after the funeral had finished so the Gooran had first paid their respects and then they went and found their seats for my coronation. Then as I walked up to the podium to be coroneted a dagger flew by my head cutting the tip of my ear off and after that it almost went into the chest of the priest who was overseeing my coronation except the dagger never made it to him because I reached up very calmly and grabbed it out of the air and then continued up the path. And very discreetly I gave the guards permission to hunt down the person who tried to assassinate me. Then just before I climbed the stairs I looked at the dagger which I could see that it was made of silver and had a ruby encrusted hilt, and if you looked very closely at it like I did you would have noticed it had the symbol of the King’s Mages etched into the blade and saw that the blood on the dagger was already dried so I knew that the dagger had been poisoned so I quietly said to myself “harama” and this spell would get rid of the poison that was in my blood. And I did all that in less than a minute. So once I finally made it to the podium it was only noon. By the time I actually said the King’s Oath. And kneeled to let the priest put the amulet around my neck it was around 1 o'clock. Then we heard a rumbling sound that sounded like it was coming from the center of Circe that would have made any human deaf just by listening for a few seconds. A crack formed in the ground of the planet and then bright red lava came pouring out of the crack. And just as quickly as it started the Mages had caused it to start raining to stop the lava flow and I had caused the ground to seal back up with a spell. Even though the problem had been averted the Gooran had started freaking out and there was a lot of screaming going on. So I climbed up to the podium and shouted “ Calm down the Prophecy had said that we would have 100 years until the end of the world”

And then turning to the Mages I also said “Mages! Come and meet with me at the palace.” And then added “No one else is to follow us, or face the consequences”