"Get down!!"
Bryan screamed at the top of his lungs while moving his legs as fast as possible.
He seemed to have seen something that Kai and Matilda hadn't.
A deep, guttural groan rolled through the whole Fire Swamp—and the earth heaved beneath Kai and Matilda's boots like a living thing trying to throw them off its back. They were really close to the edge of the Fire Swamp right now, near the dip back down to the surface.
Kai's hand shot out, fingers locking around a gnarled root.
Beside him, Matilda drove her shield into the ground and braced against it.
Everything was quaking; the entire swamp from edge to edge was quaking as if the land had awoken from its ancient slumber. "What's happening?" Kai held on and watched Bryan in the distance, stumbling and rolling. "Does the Fire Swamp have a magical phenomenon like Mount Dam Anlan?"
"I don't know!" Matilda shouted back. "Maybe? Professor Hera said nothing!"
Just then, Kai noticed the ground changed color.
