Warrior's Rise Read Online Free PDF

activities he had attempted to plan had only ended in disaster. He’d tried to go on an overnight camp out the day it hadn’t been raining, but the degenerate kids had about as much skill for outdoor survival as he did for needle point. Four Eyes had actually taken the lantern inside one of the tents, set it too close, and melted one entire side. Another one of them, the big, scary one, had decided that igniting a camp fire with a whole bottle of lighter fluid was the best way to go. This was after the Japanese girl had decided to befriend a skunk that resulted in half of the group getting sprayed, including Logan. The whole incident had almost ruined Logan towards the activity for life, and that was saying a lot since camping was one of his all-time favorite things to do.
    He’d also attempted to take them rafting along the river, but three of them had fallen out, Four Eyes had smacked Pigtails in the back of the head with a paddle and the Japanese girl kept jumping out in an attempt to find fish, or frogs, or any other living creature. Logan didn’t even know how many times he’d had to haul her back in. The whole ordeal had almost given him a panic attack, and he wasn’t one to let stress rule his life, but all he could think about the entire excursion was that one or more of them was going to drown, he’d be arrested… again …and convicted for involuntary manslaughter and negligence. He didn’t even think Izzie would be able to get him out of that one.
    Lucky for him, the days it had been raining Willow had scheduled some kind of camp-wide freak bonanza in the cafeteria. That had kept the kids busy for awhile and had given him some peace. Too bad his cabin still leaked… Oh yeah, and his heater had stopped working. That was a fun little addendum to an already hellish week.
    Now he found himself attempting to lead his bedraggled posse on a hike that had Japanese girl puffing on an inhaler the nurse had given her while Four Eyes and Big, Scary Dude rattled on and on…and on about Star Wars . They were actually having a debate about it. Who did that? Who had heated discussions about science fiction? It wasn’t real, thus the term fiction . So what reason was there to have in depth debates about the strategy of Han and Chewy when they did whatever to the whoever before Luke blew up the Death Star? Or why Episodes four, five and six were so much better than one, two and three? He sighed, cursing the judge who had sentenced him to this fate.
    “Hey, Darien, I bet you don’t know what a Valkyrie is,” Pigtails said in a teasing tone.
    Darien chuckled. “Gimme a break, Luce. Of course I know what a Valkyrie is. They were Odin’s handmaidens in Norse mythology. They carried the souls of the slain warriors to Valhalla. Come on, give me a hard one.”
    Logan rolled his eyes. Great, now they were quizzing one another on mythology… For fun. Who were these kids? What planet had they migrated from?
    “Okay, fine, tell me who the chief god of the druids was.”
    “Baal,” Darien replied without hesitation. “Lucy, I think I’ve known you long enough to remember all of the mythology trivia you rattle off.”
    She giggled. “So, you do pay attention when I talk.”
    “Always have.”
    Logan almost gagged.
    “Okay, okay, here’s a really hard one. This isn’t common knowledge. What’s an Alveda d’Kai?”
    There was dead silence from everyone for one blessed moment before everyone started to talk at once.
    “An Alveda d’what?” Big Scary questioned.
    Pigtails laughed. “That got everyone’s attention, didn’t it?”
    Darien chuckled. “I have to say, you’ve got me stumped on that one.”
    “You’ve got us all stumped on that one,” Four Eyes muttered.
    Pigtails giggled again. “Alveda d’Kai is a legend from a very rarely heard fairy myth.”
    Fairy myth? Gimme a break. Logan gritted his teeth and tried to keep his mind on the trail and the trees.
    “In my Rare Myths and Legends book there’s