Chapter 2

Brakenheights stood abandoned. Anxiously, Thor stared up to his parents room but there was no familiar light burning. Outside, icicles hung from the crooked trees. Frozen leaves glided along the ground. Weeping willows lined the driveway. Outside, ivy suffocated the house. Thor yanked the keys from his pocket but the key was not in that pocket. So he pulled the keys from the other pocket. Gingerly, he put the bronze key into the oak door. Pushing the key into the keyhole, it opened. Inside, torn rugs were strewn over the cold, broken floorboards.

Thor and Robert crept up the stairs towards his parents bedroom. Bluebird bashed into their parents bedroom door, knocking it off it’s hinges. They stomped into the room. Immediately, Thor spotted the code wheels his mother showed him. In a blink of an eye, they ran to them. Thor said “look away Robert” and he did. Thor put the code in; 1309. A secret door opened. Inside, steel walls welded together by rivets. Slowly, They went in- at the back was the family locket. Thor charged towards it and got it into his hands for the first time.

Robert got it from Thor and opened the door. Inside was the last thing they thought to find. It was a drawing of a new mechanimal powered by the sun. The new mechanimal was a Dragon. “A new mechanimal that is powered by the sun. It will put businesses out of business. That’s impossible to make!” Thor Yelled
“No wonder your dad has so many enemies” whispered Robert. Thor took it again. He saw strange markings. His mother had told him that this was the family’s secret writing, and if you could read it you could live forever. Amazed, he tried to read it, and he could: Don’t have me out of this house or I will loose my powers. ” What powers?” Thought Thor…

“You found it” came a icy voice from the bed. Spinning round Bluebird, Robert and Thor gasped . instantly, They recognized him fathers old friend, Professor Doodlebug. He combed his white hair with hand and smiled… but this was not a nice smile. The professor lacked warmth. “Your father hid this from me. I needed this to build it then your father stopped trusting me. I lived hear because I knew that you will come to get the locket. Now give it to me!” In four strides he took the locket from me and leant on my head. Slowly, Professor doodlebug took the key from Bluebird. Thor took it back and put it in the key hole. Amazed, Doodlebug stopped leaning on my head and marched a couple of steps away.

A few seconds later, Their were lifted out of the house and into the old coal shed at the side of the house. There was only a small window on the roof, to high to get to. The door was firmly locked. Slowly, getting up Thor went to the door and tried to open it. “Locked he double crossed my father as well” cursed Thor. Robert sat on a coal sack wiping oil, from professor doodlebug’s gloves, and coal dust of his fingers. “We’ll never get out of here” grumbled Robert
“O yes we will if I get a little bit of glass I could set the door on fire and get out of this annoying shed.” Determined not be out run by a scallywag.