Hero Rising. Shane Hegarty

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       PREVIOUSLY IN DARKMOUTH

       (How it was won. And lost.)

      They had won the battle but lost Darkmouth.

      There had been an invasion, a fight, death, victory … and when it was all over Finn was accused of being a traitor.

      When this shocking reversal began to sink in, Finn’s mother, Clara, suggested that the awful situation should force them to do something they’d not done before.

      “Let’s go on a holiday,” she said.

      Worse than that, she thought she knew exactly where they should go.

      “Let’s go to Smoofyland.”

      Smoofyland was a theme park based on a popular TV unicorn she kept telling Finn he loved. It was fifty miles up the road from Darkmouth and yet, because Legends kept getting in the way of their plans, they’d never been.

      “You would love Smoofyland,” Clara told Finn.

      “I would not,” Finn insisted.

      “You love Smoofy,” Clara told him.

      “I do not,” he said, deeply unamused by the very suggestion.

      “Well, you used to,” she said.

      “When I was a baby,” he conceded.

      “You had a Smoofy cake for your ninth birthday,” Clara reminded him.

      “You promised not to mention that again,” said Finn.

      “You used to love the Smoofy the Magic Unicorn TV show theme tune,” his mother said, before bursting into song.

      “Who’s the sparkly unicorn with magic in his mane?

      “Smoofy! That’s who.”

      “If you sing one more line—” Finn warned.

      Clara sang two more lines.

      “Who’s the flying unicorn who’s friends with a rainbow train?

      “Smoofy! That’s who.”

      Finn did not want to hear the Smoofy theme tune. He did not want to go to Smoofyland. He did not want a holiday at all.

      He wanted Darkmouth back. For his family. For his dad. For himself.

      They had saved the town from an invasion by Fomorians led by the particularly СКАЧАТЬ