Author's note First of all let me introduce myself I am Alain M Bergeron the author to whom Billy Stuart has told his many adventures Over the course of these pages you notice I feel the need to add Billy's story so as to my will two cents directly into clarify a point or some bit of information add a personal commentary amuse myself all of the above My presence in this book and the following ones will be through the use of an author's note These little interruptions look like a note glued to a And now you can get back to page your reading AMB
THE RECAP Billy Stuart has promised to take care of Froufrou the MacTerrings dog for the whole summer and is dreading the long days of July and August Then he gets a letter from his grandfather Virgil who claims to have found a cave with a passage that lets him travel in time Billy Stuart sets out on his grandfather's trail accompanied by his Scout pack the Zintrepids and Froufrou What Billy doesn't know is that once they go down the fateful path his grandfather took there will be ho turning back Billy and his friends become trapped in another world and another time ending up as prisoners in the Minotaur's lair After escaping the terrible Minotaur's clutches and miraculously finding their way out of the labyrinth Billy and his friends board a ship that sails directly into a storm oh the sea of a thousand dangers A storm that threatens their lives
1 Chapter The Storm That would be too ridiculous It would be too ridiculous if a storm ended our adventurers lives after they've surmounted all those other obstacles Leaning on the gunwale we watch the spectacle unfolding in the distance An enormous mass of clouds DARK and MENACING is throwing lightning bolts into the sea The sound of thunder bounces off the waves shaking us to the core Is there a way to go around the thunderstorm I ask the captain
