Pendragon: pgs.354-370 (chp.28)

Gars are no longer allowed inside cities on Eelong. That is, unless they're dead. Yeah, the klees are allowed to eat gars. Also, Leeandra (Kasha's home city) is now the Ravinian capital city on Eelong. Anyway, Bobby has to act dead to get inside Leeandra. Kasha brings him in on a wheelbarrow. When they get to a safe place Bobby is reunited with is other klee friend, Boon. Boon tells Bobby how Ravinia took over Eelong and how the gars' rights were instantly taken away. Boon says that the klees have been assembling an army to march on Black Water. Boon takes Bobby and Kasha to see the army, but when they get there, the army isn't there. They've already started their march toward Black Water.

Pendragon: pgs.329-353 (chp.26 and 27)

(On a side note, I guess I forgot to mention that the dados look like Mark. This is because he invented them in another book which you'll have to read if you want to fully understand this concept.) Mark tells Bobby that Nevva Winter put a group of dados in charge of protecting Mark until he leaves. Elli runs off to try and find her daughter and Bobby chases after her. When he catches up to her, he sees her and Nevva calmly embraced on a park bench. Nevva tries to explain to Bobby that her saving Mark doesn't change anything, but Bobby knows better. Bobby's logic finally starts to get through to Nevva, when Saint Dane comes out of nowhere and stabs her in the back. Bobby immediately goes on the offensive and attacks Saint Dane, but he escapes. A moment later, Bobby's attention turns toward Nevva who is on the ground literally flickering away. In a desperate attempt to get information, Bobby asks Nevva where the Exiles are. Just before fading away forever, Nevva whispers, "Black Water". Therefore, Bobby decides he must go to Eelong, and back to Black Water.
And so, with that, Bobby takes a step and arrives on Eelong...right in the middle of the jungle. Oh, and to make matters worse, he's attacked by a tang (a dinosaur-raptor-like creature). After running for a long time, Bobby climbs up a tree, but the tang camps out right under him. While this is happening, a gar (gar is the word for human on Eelong) comes out from the brush and makes the tang obey him by using a dog whistle. Bobby finds this strange because last time he was on Eelong, tangs ate gars. Later, he finds Kasha, the Traveler from Eelong, who is a klee (pretty much a talking panther). She tells Bobby that there have been many changes to her home territory...

Pendragon: pgs.301-328(chp.24 and 25)

Bobby decides it would probably be a good idea to save his best friend before he (meaning Mark) is executed. Expectedly, he is expecting that Saint Dane expects him to make this move. The room that Bobby and Elli are in is locked and the widows are too high up to reach. Bobby decides it's time to use his supernatural Solara powers. He concentrates really hard and turns into a gas (hehe, it's like he turned into flatulence, because he concentrated and... oh, never mind). He seeps under the door and turns back to normal on the other side... just to be met by a dado. He has surprise on his side, so he wins easily. He tells Elli to go back to Solara and tell Uncle Press what they've seen. Bobby puts on the dado's clothes and goes. When he gets outside the Taj Mahal, he sees a crowd gathering in front of it. Saint Dane is on the front stage, of course. Mark is also there. He is going to be executed by hanging. Bobby desperately breaks through the crowd to save his friend. When he gets close to the platform, he starts mowing down dados with a wand-weapon. He reaches the stage...just as Nevva Winter throws the switch, and Mark falls to his death. Bobby goes insane with rage only to be held down by some dados. He and Elli are taken away by some dados. As they're walking down a hall, Bobby sees Mark's dead body hanging from the rope. Suddenly, their dado escorts are attacked by a group of six other dados and destroyed. Turns out, the six dados are actually six guerillas. And whadd'ya know, one of them... ... ... ...is Mark.

Pendragon: pgs.274-300 (chp.22 and 23)

...Bobby, Mark, and Elli are attacked by a group of dado security guards while snooping around in a dado factory. They hide within the army of deactivated dados and use the needle-in-the-haystack technique. Suddenly, Bobby sees a dark figure up in the dado control room. Suddenly, their technique isn't such a good one. The entire dado army springs to life and closes in on the three. Fortunately, these dados aren't armed. Unfortunately, the guy in the control room is. Elli is knocked out cold from a static-charge shot by the guy. Mark is next. Then Bobby.
Bobby wakes up to find that they are in another room. Nevva Winter is there. After talking to her, Bobby finds out that she has no idea about the dado army. Then, unexpectedly, Saint Dane comes in. Also, Elli wakes up. Nevva questions Saint Dane about the army she hadn't been informed of, which catches him off-balance. Saint Dane pretty much avoids answering this question, but does say that he knows where the Exiles are. Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that he sentences Mark to death and takes him away...

Pendragon: pgs.250-273 (chp.21)

That night, Bobby, Mark, and Elli try to get some sleep. Before this, though, Bobby briefly explains the concept of Solara to Mark and why the Exiles are so important. The next day the three go to a factory outside the Conclave, which is where the guy who died in the gunship had just come from. Bobby wants to see what the guy saw. They take dado-killing rifles with them. Inside they find a whole fleet of brand-spanking-new gunships. They also find something that they hadn't expected- thousands upon thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of deactivated dado soldiers, ready for battle. In their daze, the three are attacked by some dado security guards...


(Sorry for the shortness of this entry, most of the chapter is descriptions.)

Pendragon: pgs.223-249 (chp.19 and 20)

Sorry about the long span of empty time, I was having computer troubles. You may need to reread some entries to refresh your memory. Nevertheless, let's begin. Bobby, Spader, Loor, and Saangi have just found Elli Winter (the Traveler from Quillan) in an imprisonment camp where the Batu tribe of Zadaa are being held. She is helping sick people in an infirmary. She tells them that she went to Quillan and there were no Exiles there. She also says that there are no longer any Exiles on Zadaa. In another conversation, Bobby says that he's noticed that Nevva hesitates when given orders by Saint Dane. He thinks that she may actually have some humanity left in her and Elli may be able to help her. Bobby and Elli go to Third Earth to be greeted rudely by a crashing gunship. Mark is there and he rushes over to the downed gunship where one of the guerillas is in a very bad condition. As the guy is dying, he tells Mark that the Ravinians found the rest of the Exiles, but he doesn't know where. Later, Bobby, Mark, and Elli decide they are going to the Conclave.

Penragon: pgs.200-222 (chp.17 and 18)

Welcome back, faithful reader. Let us continue. Bobby decides that Loor, Spader, Saangi, and he need to go to Mooraj, where there may be exiles being held hostage. Loor and Saangi steal four horses from some dados and the group heads toward Mooraj. They eventually make it to Mooraj, but see that the place is heavily guarded by dados. Ravinia is definitely hiding something in there. They find an underground tunnel entrance off to the side that isn't guarded. Turns out, it's flooded. Loor and Saangi say that there are "transfer trains" down the tunnel (which happens to be directly below Mooraj). Spader, since he's an awesome swimmer from living on Cloral, swims down the tunnel to look for the trains. Not surprisingly, he comes back with a fully operational train. They eventually make their way to the other side of the tunnel. When they enter Mooraj, they don't find the exiles. Instead they find the entire Batu tribe. They are all in a terrible state. Loor and Saangi go out into the crowd of people to find out what they can while Bobby and Spader stay in a hut. They eventually find Elli Winter, the traveler from Quillan, working in the infirmary...

Pendragon: pgs.166-199 (chp.15 and 16)

Hello again... hello... hello?... hello!?!... HELLO!!??!!... ... ... oh, hi, there you are. Anyway, where we last left off Bobby, Spader, and Yenza are on a skimmer chasing down a Ravinian who has crucial information about the Exiles on the territory of Cloral (these characters are all on Cloral by the way). They are hit with spotlights from the rouge ships. To make matters worse, the Ravinian on the other skimmer pulls out a rifle and starts shooting. Yenza grabs her own rifle. The chase becomes a shoot-out. Spader passes the Ravinian's skimmer and Bobby jumps onto it. The Ravinian starts to swing his rifle at Bobby like a club. Bobby puches him hard in the back of the head. He doesn't even flinch. It's a dado. After fighting it for a while Bobby finally throws it overboard... as the ships begin to shoot cannonballs into the water. Bobby jumps into the water and is pulled under by the dado... twice. Yenza finds a window of opportunity and shoots the dado. Bobby boards their skimmer. Suddenly a small hauler submarine with three people in it rises right beside them. Bobby, Spader, and Yenza grab on to the back of the sub and it dives back into the water. They go underneath the barge-habitat (called Grallion) so to not be picked up by sonar. The three go into the sub through the air lock. Bobby meets the three people who are Exiles. From the information they tell him, Bobby finds out he needs to go to the territory of Zadaa. Yenza stays with the three Exiles as Bobby and Spader take a step...and arrive on Zadaa. They find Loor (the Traveler from Zadaa). Bobby says he has a theory that Saint Dane may be trying to create his own Solara out of negative energy. (Is his theory true? Well, you'll find out later...maybe.) Loor tells Bobby and Spader that she thinks the Rokador (a tribe) may have wiped out the Batu (her tribe) except for some slaves. She takes them to the once-Batu-now-Rokador city of Xhaxhu. Bobby sees that many things have changed since he was last there. They meet up with Loor's friend, Saangi. She says that there may be Exiles being held captive in the old training grounds of Mooraj...

Pendragon: pgs.136-165 (chp.13 and 14)

As they're lifting off, Bobby and Mark see that some dados are starting up another gunship. It catches up to them and starts to shoot rockets at them. They fly into a big dust cloud to shake the dados. They get them to crash into a bridge. As they're flying away, Mark tells Bobby how Third Earth got to be the way it is. He said that the Ravinians looted all of the major monuments all over the world and put them in their Conclaves. Then there was a huge war between Ravinians and non-Ravinians. Pretty much every weapons imaginable was used to destroy the non-Ravinians.
Mark said that he was originally transported to Cloral with some other exiles, but they went back to the flume and were transported to Third Earth. They arrive at a small hangar where Mark and some other guerrillas are keeping some stolen gunships. Bobby explains to Mark why it is so important that he stays alive, along with all the other exiles. Later Bobby takes a step and leaves Third Earth to go to Cloral.
When he gets there, he appears on a barge-habitat that is under attack. Disoriented, Bobby needs to find Spader (the Traveler form Cloral). Bobby finds out that the attacking ships are looking for the exiles on Cloral. He finds Spader and Yenza (the chief aquaneer). They need to chase down a Ravinian who has some crucial information about the exiles on Cloral. They jump onto a skimmer (a speedboat-like vehicle) and chase after him...

Pendragon: pg 109- 135 (chp.11 and 12)

Welcome back. Where we last left off, Bobby Pendragon and Patrick Mac are inside the Ravinian Conclave. They see that the Taj Mahal is at the center of the Conclave and Booby feels that's where they should go to find Saint Dane. When they get to the Taj Mahal, one of the helicopter-like gunships lands over to the side and drops off some of the people as well as some guards. They are the same people that Bobby and Patrick saw being shot at in the deserted place outside the Conclave. When the two go inside, they find a big, ornate throne room. They hide behind some pillars. Nevva Winter (Saint Dane's partner who was originally a good Traveler) is standing next to the throne. Saint Dane is sitting on the throne. He walks up to the prisoners and asks them which territory they were on before they came to Third Earth. The guy says they were on Cloral. Afterwards, Saint Dane kills the guy with on of the silver wand-weapons and orders his guards to kill the rest of them. Bobby takes a chance and steps out from behind the pillar. He tells Patrick to go back to Solara. Saint Dane and Nevva instantly have looks of shock on their faces (they thought he was gone for good in the last book). After a while Saint Dane regains his composure, but he's suprised at how much Bobby knows about Solara. Bobby looks at the group of prisoners and is caught off guard when he realizes that one of them is his best friend, Mark Dimond. They both instantly know what to do. They attack the dado guards and destroy them, but then Saint Dane attacks Bobby. Bobby catches Saint Dane off guard and vaporizes him with one of the wands (although he doesn't actually die since he's a Traveler). Bobby, Mark and the other prisoners run out to one of the gunships and start it up. They lift off just in time... ... ...

Pendragon pgs.86- 108 (chp.9 and 10)

Welcome back to another exciting blog post from... me... you know who I am. Alrighty then, from where we last left off, Bobby Pendragon and Patrick Mac are trying to find the Conclave of Ravinia on Third Earth. They start to wander around the deserted, war-torn territory in what would now be (or better said, used to be) New York somewhere around the Bronx. They have to climb over the ruins of a bridge that once connected Manhattan and the Bronx until they eventually come upon a gigantic wall that expands farther than the eye can see. It's the Ravinian Conclave. Suddenly, a golden subway/train comes out from underground and heads toward the wall. Bobby and Patrick decide they should hitch a ride on the back of it to get on the other side of the wall. Instantly they are transported into a lush, green, all-in-all perfect Utopian place with houses as big as mansions and structures from all over the world (ex. the Eiffel Tower, the statue of David, Big Ben, the Greek Parthenon). Later, they see a guy running from some Ravinian soldiers, who are dados (robots). They capture the guy and vaporize him with a silver, wand-like weapon. Bobby and Patrick are amazed at this and are reminded that they have to find Saint Dane as quickly as possible.
So far I am absolutely loving this book. There's suspense on pretty much every other page. Those are the kind of books I like. It makes me sad that this is the last book in the Pendragon series. So without further ado (or rather further the ado) I hereby end this blog entry...have a good day/morning/evening/night/afternoon.

Pendragon- pgs.55-85 (chp.6,7,and 8)

These three chapters begin where we last left off... obviously. Uncle Press is still explaining the concept of Solara to Bobby (yeah, it's pretty in-depth). He tells Bobby that Saint Dane is trying to bring complete chaos to Halla. (Halla is everyone and everything in all ten territories put together.) He wants to do this so that he can create and rule his own Halla using the negative energy of his followers, called the Ravinians. The only reason Solara is still alive is because of the positive energy from those who oppose Saint Dane.
Saying that, allow me to backtrack a little bit. In the previous book Saint Dane cunningly gathered about 70,000 people who opposed him into Yankee Stadium and sent them through a giant flume. These people are now known as exiles. It is their positive spirit that is keeping Solara alive.
Alright, back to the present. With the flumes currently destroyed, Uncle Press shows the ten young travelers that they can take a step and appear on whichever territory they choose. Knowing this, each of them take a step and go to their home territories, except for Bobby. He goes with Patrick Mac, another traveller, to Third Earth (which would be the future to us). They instantly run into noise and confusion from helicopter-like gunships shooting at people on the ground. They escape the commotion, but hear one of the guards talk about the Conclave of Ravinia (where Ravinians live). Bobby and Patrick decide that they must go to the Conclave.
Tune in next week to see what happens next!

Pendragon- pages 27-54 (chp.3,4,and5)

I was so amazed by this book when I first started reading it that I kind of forgot to say what it was about. Oops. Well then, I'll just have to tell you now, I guess. Anyway, as I said in my first post, this is the tenth and final book in the Pendragon series. In this book all the questions from the first nine will be answered about the world (and nine other worlds) as we know it. Bobby Pendragon (the main character and narrator) is a traveler who can warp to different worlds through portals called flumes (but you'd have to read the first nine books to understand better). At the beginning of this book, he is reunited with all of his fellow travellers in a place called Solara which is a world of spirits that give the travelers their power to do amazing things. The spirits of Solara are slowly dying off because of Saint Dane- the antagonist of the series. In these chapters, Bobby's Uncle Press (who is not really his uncle, just a traveler chosen to be his mentor) comes back (because he "died" in book two) and explains to Bobby everything he needs to know about Solara. That was this week's installment. Tune in next week for the next episode of... T.J.'S AMAZING BLOG POST...THING.

Pendragon- pg.1-26 (chp. 1 & 2)

Wow. That's really all I can say right now. Wow. I've read twenty-six pages of the tenth and final installment of the Pendragon series and I'm hooked. Now I want to read the whole thing through without stopping because it really is that good. I was actually afraid that I'd completely forget what happed in the last nine books, but when I got a few pages into the story, everything just instantly came back to me. It also helps that there's action in the very beginning of the story. The narrator (who is also the main character) talks for a few pages, but the action instantly starts on page 5, which I liked a lot.
I look forward to blogging every week about this book, even if I end up reading more than twenty pages a week. A lot more...