Sample - Ring Dragonz

Prologue
of red footprints approaching from the dim recesses
and aimed his revolver uncertainly.
“Mr. Yu, is that you?” the man called out
hesitantly.
“Yes. It’s me. Lower your weapons,” Horatio
answered as he knelt down and joined them.
Horatio’s fingers found a control deck and carefully
raised some soft lighting inside the boathouse. The
lights twinkled and exposed a cargo ship moored
along an indoor docking collar. Beyond the ship
were two towering bay-doors, barely visible in the
prevailing shadows.
In that instant, a mighty CLANG of metal
echoed around the complex, startling the
bodyguards and causing the largest one to faint
effeminately with fear.
“I KNOW YOU’RE THERE! I HAVE YOUR MONEY!
SHOW YOURSELF, SO WE CAN BEGIN!” Horatio
hollered at the unseen racket.
A deafening ROAR answered him, shaking the
very foundations of the boathouse. Next, the riveted
bay-doors burst apart in a raucous explosion of
twisted metal. The channel of water anchoring the
cargo ship began to disappear – sucked dry as if
through some massive invisible straw. Having lost
its watery support, the vessel toppled over and
became mangled on the cargo deck with a mighty
GRUNT! The other guards all screamed with terror.
“Silence, you overpaid idiots!” Horatio rebuffed
them sternly, then turned and bellowed again at the
hidden intruder. “DO YOU HAVE MY DAUGHTER?!
COME OUT, COWARD!”
Suddenly, gigantic red claw-prints slithered up
onto the electronic security grid, shuddering the
boathouse with glowing strides. All the remaining
bodyguards dropped their weapons and fled for
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