Chris and Quax stood on the flat surface of the huge horizontally lying root, that cut across the side of the long slope.
Chris was facing up towards the dark monster in the sky above them, and he saw what the creature had just done to his ninja star.
Beating the star back downwards with its huge dark wings.
The star flew fast through the air, spinning fast around itself, and headed towards where Chris stood.
Seeing what the monster had done, Chris faced down to his right side where the dwarf was working on the ropes.
"Quax, are you done?" Chris said, "We have to go, like right now!"
"No I'm not done," said the Dwarf, looking up at him, "I have only tied one rope... We can't fly down with just one.. We might have to fight the creature first," Quax added and paused, looking upwards i
