Get to know The Magic Tree - Znak Rights

“Open it!”
Kuki cautiously pressed the handle and set the door ajar. Gabby
dived into the corridor, filled to the ceiling with water. Fighting back the
pressure of the water, Kuki slammed the door shut. He started mentally
counting the passing seconds: “One... two... three...”
Filled with water, the ship looked like an incredible aquarium. Gabby
swam as fast as she could. Suddenly some black arms emerged from
the open door of a cabin. Eight arms.
“An octopus!
Evidently, along with the water various creatures had floated into
the ship. Luckily it was a small octopus. At the sight of Gabby it fled. But
then sharks could have got inside too... Gabby tried not to think about
the dangers. She was starting to run out of air. “I won’t be able to do it,”
she thought in despair.
Kuki waited with his face pressed to the glass panel in the door.
He was counting the seconds: “43... 44... 45... Fifteen seconds left! If
anything happens to her, I’ll smash this ship to bits!” he thought. He
turned around and shouted: “If Gabby doesn’t come back I’ll rip you to
pieces, you stupid monster!” He wanted IT to hear him. To be afraid, and
not to harm Gabby.
“If I don’t get some air immediately I’m done for!” thought Gabby,
desperately searching for help. She saw a large bottle floating near the
ceiling, turned upside down. The bottle was open and empty.
“Maybe there’s air inside it?” thought Gabby. When she was little she
used to love watching the air bubbles coming out of bottles under water.
With the last of her strength she swam up to the bottle. She grabbed it,
pressed it to her lips and breathed. There was air inside it!
Extract Six
“Food!” cried Blubek. “What a lot of nosh!”
There, on silver platters, lay all the most wonderful dishes. The food
smelled so good their heads began to spin. Next to it stood piles of
biscuits, creamy desserts and big cakes. They rushed to the table in
a frenzy. They hadn’t eaten anything for two days! They were terribly
hungry.
“It’s so good!”
“Lovely!”
“Yum, yum!”
“Very tasty!”
They had forgotten that the ship might be an incarnation of the
monster. They just kept eating, guzzling, devouring! And they couldn’t
stop.Pudding the mongrel, whom everyone had forgotten about, jumped
onto the table and raced towards a plate of delicious-smelling ham. He
grabbed a big slice and was just about to gobble it up. But suddenly he
stopped himself. He let go of the ham and started to sniff it carefully. He
ran up to a plate of pasta, and gave that a sniff too.
“Boss... Something doesn’t smell right to me!” called the dog. “Don’t
eat it!”
“Whazzat you’re saying?” lisped Kuki, whose mouth was full of pizza.
“I can smell something suspicious. It could be poison.”