Heres the short version of the Ben A Ball Idle Of Fire book with the character 'NED' enjoy!!!
Running, speeding, sprinting the cold air rushing through Ned's helmet making it colder than ever. Crunching ice under every step.
Then Ned grapples onto a tree swinging just out of reach of the tornado. 'There's not meant to be tornados in Tasmania. . .' thinks Ned.
The tornado passes ready to go down a hill before climbing back up.
Ned stoped at the entrance to the forest.
The forest was as if it were a warm sunny day, Ned turned around looking at the oval . . . which was covered in ice, why would the whole of Tasmania be covered in ice and snow but not touch the forest ?
Could this be a magnified spot of the Sun?
Without hesitating Ned stepped into the forest, the cold piercing wind . . . stopped . . . It was . . . warm.
Ned looked out of the forest snow, ice and tornados everywhere but it all kept right away from the forest.
He stepped closer into the gloomy forest step by step crunching bark, what was going on.
Crunching . . . Crunch . . . Crack . . .
Stepping closer, something in the corner of his eye . . . a tube, a large grey tube with a manhole covering the pale concrete entrance.
'That's not usually there . . .' he thinks 'and neither is that' looking up at a sphere floating in the sky which looked as if it were trying to hide.
Suddenly the manhole flung open followed by the clicking of footsteps running out of the tube.
Ned decides to go down the tube, so carefully running then sprinting jumping onto the manhole and climbing down.
Climbing down the metal ladder was difficult as it was wet and slippery and moss silently stuck to the wall of the tube.
Ned reached the bottom. The odd thing is he wasn't in the sewer . . . he was . . . in a control room . . . Empty.
He heard voices, then a rather loud voice "AND YOU!!!! THE LAST OF THE HUMAN RACE!!!" Ned looked every where in the room not seeing anyone "THE HUMAN CANNOT SEE US!!!" He then heard a zapping sound as these creatures started to appear.
Then the roof above cracked followed by a group of 5 people . . . it was the Ben~a~Ball squad.
"Ok!!! Grab Ned and we're out of here!!!" said the leader.
The leader laughed "That's dead right wood head" Then all of a sudden a laser barrier went around the 6 people "YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE!!!" The Ben~a~Ball leader looked around "Ok . . . that didn't go according to plan" Ned grabs out his 'Hand Palm' a device which only appears when you open your hand and vanishes when you close it "You turned up late enough" Ned said "Well we were chasing a shape shifter" The leader looked at the smiling Ned "Hey it's not every day you are running after a shape shifter!!! One minute we're running away from a Rhino and the next we're chasing a Panther!!!" Ned's smile vanishes off his face as he watches the sphere float closer and closer . . . To them.
"I have a bad feeling about this" said Ned "Yeah we're going to freeze to death" said the leader "YOU WILL PERISH IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN!!!" said the first creature "Hey your so called barrier will over heat, it'll burst!" said the 3rd member of Ben~a~ball squad "No, their barrier must be strong enough to stand it other wise they'd kill themselves" said the 4th member "No nothing's that strong" said the leader "it's a trick then" said the 5th member "correct" said the leader.
The orb sneaked closer and closer the squad just stood there as Ned slowly took breath by breath, the orb flashed and sparked then started to emit some ray which went through the barrier.
The area started to heat up. Ned got worried, "Maybe they mean it" he said. The squad still stood there "GIVE UP OR DIE" Said the first creature, No reply came from the squad.
The barrier turned off and the sphere fell to the ground with a clonk "Attack!" said the leader as a storm of bullets and rays were flying everywhere. "Get cover now!" said the 2nd member. Ned leaped into cover just as he was shot "Arrgh!" yells Ned "Ok! Members, get out your T.G." said the leader "Right on it" said the members.
As each T.G. hit the ground the whole area was immediately frozen in time, you could see every bullet and ray just stopped still in the air.
"Now move the Time Grenade only lasts for 4 minutes" the leader said quickly as 2 other members placed detonators through the control room. The leader slipped out a small device about the size of a pencil from his blue jacket, and with the push of a button the blue ray activated a set of little helicopter blades out of the top. The little device slowly lifted him and Ned off the ground.
"We are heading off now" said the leader to Ned "you'll be alright with the device I placed on you, it sooths pain and makes it heal" the leader nodded to member 2 "we're heading off towards a giant squad of ships in the air, we'll find out how the weathers really changing" Ned looked at the dead sphere . . . it wasn't what was changing the weather . . . then what was it?. . .