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    The Year of the Snakes
    The Year of the Snakes
    The Year of the Snakes
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    The Year of the Snakes

    By David Cathrine

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    While searching for her valuable bracelet, Rebecca and Sylvester come across a group of men fiddling around with a time machine. One of the men accidentally kicks Rebecca’s bracelet into the time machine! Sylvester, determined to get the bracelet back, grabs onto Rebecca’s hand and runs into the time machine. They’re in for more than they bargained for, however, as they gaze at their beloved home island. The place is crawling with snakes! The duo discovers that the men fiddling with the time machine are responsible for the extinction of all the people on the island, and now they want to take out the snakes, too! Do Rebecca and Sylvester have what it takes to team up with the snakes and defeat the men responsible for all this? On top of that, will they ever get back to their own time? Read on and find out!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Cathrine
    Release dateAug 29, 2011
    ISBN9781466126541
    The Year of the Snakes
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    David Cathrine

    I was born in Edinburgh in 1986. I studied Visual Communication - New Media at Edinburgh's Telford College and I use the skills and knowledge gained there to help me illustrate some of my books. My other works include "The Year of the Snakes", "A Fishy Tail", "Bob Piercem's Perplexing Quest" and the "Splot, the Floating Pink Blob Short Story Compilations".

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      The Year of the Snakes - David Cathrine

      The Year of the Snakes

      (N.B. No actual snakes were harmed in the making of this book)

      By David Cathrine

      Copyright 2011 David Cathrine

      Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - The Time Machine Trick

      Chapter 2 - Chip’s Casual Casino

      Chapter 3 - Lost in a Toxic Timberland

      Chapter 4 - The Inundated Ice Cavern

      Chapter 5 - Discovering the Key Ingredient!

      Chapter 6 - The Violent Volcano Venture

      Chapter 7 - The Momentous Museum Mission!

      Chapter 8 - The Final Fight in the Frightening Factory!

      Chapter 9 - The Time Machine Trick

      About the Author

      Chapter 1

      The Time Machine Trick

      While searching for her golden bracelet, Rebecca, a 12 year-old girl who had yellow hair, blue eyes and was wearing a pink t-shirt and red skirt and who had two red ribbons in her hair, kept running aimlessly around the big park that she had lost it in, and also looking for the bracelet was her friend, Sylvester, who was also 12 years old. He had brown hair, brown eyes and was wearing a dark blue hoody and black trousers. They had been searching for it for about an hour, but were having no luck.

      ‘I’m sure I dropped my bracelet in this park!’ Rebecca screamed while tears were flowing out of her eyes. ‘I’m sorry, Sylvester. That bracelet you gave me must have cost a fortune. Please forgive me!’

      ‘It’s not your fault, Rebecca!’ Sylvester said while hugging his friend. ‘Even if we don’t find it, I’ll give you something that’s just as cool, if not even cooler!’

      ‘Oh, thank you!’ Rebecca said while a smile was trying to form on her face.

      ****

      Suddenly, the duo heard a voice coming from quite close by…

      ‘So, you sure this time machine works, sir?’ a boy who looked like he was in his late teens, and who had yellow hair, yellow eyes, and was wearing a yellow cape, yellow jeans, yellow shades and yellow shoes asked a man who looked like he was possibly in his early twenties.

      ‘Well, there’s only one way to find out!’ the man, who had dark blue hair, dark blue eyes, and was wearing a dark blue cape, dark blue jeans, dark blue shades and dark blue shoes, responded while quickly pushing the guy into the time machine. ‘Heh, heh, heh! This time machine will be the death of this stupid island!’

      ‘Look over there, Sylvester!’ Rebecca yelled in a frightened tone of voice as she pointed over to the group of four men by the time machine. ‘What are they doing with that thing?’

      ‘Wait a minute!’ Sylvester suddenly shouted as he witnessed one of the men accidentally kicking a small object into the time machine. ‘Is that…? Rebecca, we’re going into that time machine!’

      ‘What?!’ Rebecca responded with a look of astonishment in her eyes. ‘But why?’

      ‘You’ll see. Just hold my hand and run as fast as you can!’

      Just as Sylvester and Rebecca were about to run, they noticed a weird light coming from the time machine.

      ‘What’s happening over there?’ Sylvester wondered as he gazed at the time machine. ‘That thing’s going crazy! Hmph! At any rate, we must go inside that thing! Let’s do this thing!’

      ****

      Sometime later, in the year ?????...

      ‘I thought you said that we were going back to our normal time, Donald?’ one of the men asked the boss of the squad in a confused tone of voice.

      ‘Listen up, Huntley!’ Donald responded with a slight look of disappointment in his eyes. ‘Ahem, the time machine messed up the time. So, yeah, not quite sure where we are now, but rest assured that we have at least destroyed one era! Now then, what we do have though will prove just as essential in this era as we wipe out whatever lives here! We can now make androids with ease and speed with this most devastating weapon!’

      ‘You think that bracelet is worth anything, Harry?’ another group member, who had red hair, red eyes, and was wearing a red cape, red jeans, red shades and red shoes asked Harry, who was standing with his orange cape blowing in the gentle breeze.

      ‘Doubt it, Ignatius,’ Harry replied as he tossed the golden bracelet onto the ground.

      ‘Where’d you find it, anyway?’ Ignatius asked in a curious tone of voice.

      ‘It was in the time machine,’ Harry responded with a look of puzzlement. ‘I have no clue how it got there, however. Obviously somebody must have dropped it, or something.’

      ‘We have to move out!’ Donald ordered his minions. ‘We have work to do!’

      ‘Yessir!’ everybody said in unison.

      ****

      A few minutes later, right after exiting the time machine…

      ‘Where is this place?’ Rebecca asked Sylvester, while looking around.

      ‘I have no idea,’ Sylvester responded with a look of bamboozlement in his eyes.

      ‘Wanna trade one of your red ribbons for a golden bracelet?’ a random brown snake asked Rebecca while smiling. ‘I just found this a second ago! I would consider it to be quite rare, and in used condition. (Sniff) Yes, definitely used. So, whaddya say?’

      ‘That snake just talked?’ Rebecca asked Sylvester while staring at the snake with a look of

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