The Omega Children - The Return of the Marauders (A young adult fiction best seller): An Action Adventure Mystery by Shane Mason

searched all around.
    ‘They can’t see us,’ Ari said. ‘And look at that. That fuzzy line.’
    Like a force field, a faint visible line where the sea tilted upwards appeared to stop the other speedboat from seeing them. Without questioning, Melaleuca accepted the strange nature of the sight and felt they were headed exactly where they needed to go, not that she knew for a second where that was.
    Trust.
    Lexington looked up from her notebook and Melaleuca saw that she did not trust at all.
    Antavahni lay on the floor too helpless to tell them anything. Lexington examined him with her eyes only, dying to ask him questions but instead looked to Argus though he shrugged his shoulders at her.
    ‘Not supposed to tell you anything,’ he said.
    ‘You won’t need to. I will work it out.’
    Melaleuca heard the excited sincerity in Lexington’s voice. Yes. Yes you will. You are suited to this.
    Ari held the side of the speedboat, giving off the air of an explorer approaching a new land, and Quixote waved and yelled, making gestures at their fast shrinking-into-the-distance pursuers.
    ‘Where are we going?’ Ari asked Argus.
    ‘Don’t know. He said to just go up.’
    They settled into waiting as the boat sped up the inclined sea water.
    After pondering it, minutes later Lexington pointed to where they had started travelling upwards. ‘It’s the photaic wall he mentioned,’ indicating toward Antavahni.
    ‘You mean a magic wall,’ Quixote said.
    ‘No. Something is affecting the light and the water, and changing its behavior.’
    ‘Yeah. Magic.’
    ‘There is no such thing as magic.’
    ‘Then explain it.’
    ‘Given time, I will.’ Lexington buried her head in the parchment.
    Quixote leant in close to the side of Lexington’s face.
    ‘Seems the impossible is possible.’
    ‘Quixote,’ Ari said and whacked his leg.
    ‘What? Lex is always telling me that what I think cannot ever be true.’
    ‘Anything CAN be true,’ Lexington said over her shoulder. ‘Though it must stick to the rules.’
    ‘Once people could not fly. And now they can,’ Quixote shot back. ‘So there. Something that was impossible was made possible.’
    ‘They simply discovered the laws of flight that were always there.’
    ‘Well then.’ Quixote folded his arms. ‘There are probably a bunch of laws doing this to the water.’
    Lexington shifted her weight around and faced him squarely.
    ‘Yes and...’ She tapped her forehead. ‘...if you let me, I will work it out.’
    Melaleuca motioned to Ari and he sat between Quixote and Lexington.
    ‘Enough. Both of you,’ Melaleuca said. ‘You are both right.’
    ‘Yes we are,’ Quixote said chuffed.
    ‘We both cannot be right,’ Lexington said.
    Quixote stood and drew in a huge breath ready to argue again although Melaleuca placed a hand on him, pushing him back down. Despite this, Quixote hung his hands over the side and made zapping noises, pretending to chant magic words in an attempt to annoy Lexington.
    ‘Just ignore him Lex,’ Melaleuca said.
    ‘Actually he’s given me an idea.’
    She reached into her pack and pulled out a compass and held it over the side.
    ‘The magnetic field is being warped. Look for yourselves.’
    The needle of her compass spun around and around, lost as to where north lay.
    ‘Moon face told me,’ Argus said, ‘the whole land mass is pushed up out of the sea about a thousand feet, and the sea hugs it all around. I suspect the sea bed is pure magnetic iron ore.’
    ‘That would explain the compass,’ Lexington said. ‘But not the photaic wall or the water. Something else is bending light.’
    Argus shrugged his shoulders again.             
    ‘You don’t care do you? How could you not even be curious?’
    He rolled his head over his shoulder and Melaleuca caught his direct gaze, grasping in an instant a flame that had long since been extinguished. He pulled away as if he sensed her and said, ‘Don’t.’
    ‘Leave him Lex. You