Pillage: What's behind the wall...

This is how I imagined the dragon eggs, but covered in ivy

After a long climb up the conservatory with the help of Beck's mysterious plant power, he and Kate finally get to the top, but can't see a thing. They sit there and rest for a while and talk about what could be down there. They discussed it could be filled with thing's about Beck's uncle and mother. The two also thought it was just dirt and weeds at the bottom. They still go down to find out. Once they reach the bottom, they find odd shaped plants. they were in the shapes of ovals, almost egg shaped. They also find a strange shack that is filled with odd stones that weigh a ton. Beck believes they are dragon eggs, but Kate shuts the idea down quickly. Beck then talks Kate into believing they just might be dragon eggs, seeing how Beck researched them before, and now that he had this odd power now, anything just might be real. So after they go back to get out of the conservatory, Kate finds that the floor is rather unusual. After stomping out the dirt floor, they discover that the floor was actually the top of a cage! Could this cage have to do something with the plants that just might be dragons? Are these strange stones and plants related? They just might be. Could these strange objects be the reason Beck's uncle is so crazy? I think it is, but we will have to see. 

Pillage: Home

This is what the wall looked like (only all the way around in a rectangle) when Beck uses his new plant growing gift

While things at school are bad, what Beck finds out about his new home aren't to different either. Like usual the staff is very nice to him, but they really enforce the rules they have. One time Beck tried to go explore into the back yard, but he was caught by the grounds keeper, and Millie wasn't very happy with Beck for disobeying them. The first time Beck goes into the back yard, he doesn't find very much. Later, he and Milo (his friend) go search farther out and discovered a giant wall in the woods titled "Conservatory." There is no main entrance, but something very surprising happens later, but there is another issue to deal with. Beck is awake one night and sees a strange light that keeps moving backwards, so he decides to go investigate. He finds that the light is behind a locked door, so he stops there, BUT he finds  a strange hole in the wall, and relizes that it leads to a basement that he has heard rumors of. Earlier in the story, Beck is told that there was a basement in the house, but it was buried in due to the fact that his uncle Aarreon is crazy. Beck still looks for it for awhile, and then he comes across it when he finds the hole in the wall. He then goes to his friends Milo and Kate to tell them what he found. Then later that night, all three of them go into the basement to see what they can find. While searching for something, they come across a strange book in the basement and decide to take it. Right about now in the stroy, the gang is back at the conservatory and Beck finds out that the strange plant attacks that have been going around his school is all because of him. He looks over to the conservatory wall and just says "grow," and like that, the ivy around it begins to grow. They use this to their advantage to climb over the wall and find out what is inside, and that is where I leave you 'till next time. What could behind that wall? Could it be why Beck can make plants grow?

Pillageblog: School

The salad literally jumped out of the bowl and on to the bullies

The strangest thing happened to Beck only on his third day of school! He was just trying to survive the day and eat his lunch with his friends when the bullies from the first day come back for more fun. So Beck tries to defend himself by throwing back some smart words at Wyatt (the bully). That isn't the strange part. Then, all the salads just come to life and start attacking the bullies! Everyone is in mass panic and is running all over the place, and yet the killer salads are only attacking the bullies. That still isn't the strange part. The strange part is that NONE OF THE TEACHERS BOTHERED WITH THIS!!! They just acted like it was a normal day at school, and to be fair, some did notice it, but they just acted like it was a fire drill. Not leaves and carrots coming to life to beat down on a bully. One more thing I would like to bring up, everyone was afraid that the salads were going to kill them, but they only went for the bullies. That's so weird. Seriously, did no one other than Beck and his friends notice that only the bullies were being assaulted by dead plants. Beck wonders if this is normal in Kingsplot, but I think that he is the one causing all this mass chaos with plants running rampant. When Beck asks his friends if this is normal for Kingsplot, neither of them know because they have only been there for a short while themselves. I think this is some sort of power that Beck possesses, and will later use it to find out why his uncle is always in that glass dome of his.

Pillage chpts 5-8

This shows the bullies picking on Milo and Beck

I just read the next 3 chapters of Pillage, and so far it's still very good. Beck found the house unsettling but he somehow survived the night. He woke up, and searched the house, and yet all the upper floors were locked. He didn't mess too much with those because he had to get ready for school. There was an odd incident when he was brushing his teeth because there was tooth powder instead of tooth paste. When he did finally go to school, he met up with the other characters that he met. By the way, when Beck was searching the house, he meets up with a neighbor that always hangs out in Arreon (Beck's uncle) back yard. His name is Milo, and he isn't the most charming kid, but he knows how to get around Kingsplot. So Beck meets back up with Kate and Milo on the bus ride to his school. When he finally gets to school, Beck doesn't realize that there is a dress code, and Beck doesn't have the proper clothing, so he is humiliated of course. After his first class, Beck and Milo run into the bullies of the school, which will only be one group of antagonists. After a few clever words with the bullies, the ivy around the school seems to stretch out and take the bullies away, and this is no normal thing in Kingsplot. What could this mysterious bully snatching plant be? Could it be tied to why Arreon is always locked up in the top floor? I bet there is some connection to Beck and his family to this mysterious power or being.

Pillage Chapter's 1-4

This show's the reaction of the student's to the bees being dropped

I just read the first four chapter's of Pillage by Obert Skye, and I'm already impressed. The story starts off with the main character, Beck, trying to pull a prank by dropping a bag of angry bees into his school, but he gets stuck in the air vent's. So while he's stuck, he gets abandoned by the one person he knew at that school. By the way, Beck and his mother have always been on the move, so he has been at that school for only a month and no one knows him. Anyways, Beck is stuck in the air vents and is thrashing and trying to find a way out, but he doesn't realize he has let go of the bag of bees. By now, he is dead silent and still with a billion bees crawling all over him, and the heat is turned on, so he is about to have a heat stroke. Beck can no longer take all the bees on him and being stuck in the dark, hot vents, so he loses it. He finally breaks down the vent into a home-ec class with the bees all over the place. Every one goes screaming by the sight of a cut up and stung Beck, but the principal ignores everything when he tells Beck that his mother has died. The funeral is short, but it has the biggest effect on Beck. In the story, you don't hear much about Beck's mother, but she was the one person he could always go to. After the funeral, Beck's family lawyer tells him that Beck has to go live with his rich uncle that is up in the mountains. Beck is unhappy about this, but he has no choice. Once he gets to the train station, Beck finds a girl he tries to make friends with called Kate. Kate isn't all that nice to Beck, but that doesn't stop him from being his charming self. The train ride itself isn't all that much, but once Beck gets to Kingsplot, the town his uncle lives in, that's when things get a little odd. First off, the place is always foggy, so you can never see far ahead. Secondly, no one except the people taking care of him is at all nice. When Beck finally reaches his new home, he is astounded. His uncle owns the biggest house in Kingsplot. The staff of the house is all very excited to see Beck, but are confused when they hear they actually have to work to take care of him. Beck does find it all that this town is not very modern except for the cars and buses, and that the fact that his house has no furniture. Lastly, the strangest thing is that Beck's uncle lives on the seventh floor of his mansion and no one ever bothers him, and Beck seems most annoyed when Wane, his lovely care taker, keeps staining the fact to keep locked doors locked, and how people get lost in the back yard so easily. I predict that Beck will try and explore some of these locked doors and venture out into the back yard, just to see what's out there. I hope you keep following my blog.