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THE FINAL PROPHECY

  Book Three in the Ben Alderman Series

  A Children's Fantasy

  by

  W. D. NEWMAN

  *****

  PUBLISHED BY

  Copyright © 2014 W. D. Newman

  All rights reserved.

  Acknowledgments

  I want to thank Jody Lindke for the cover art for The Final Prophecy. Jody is a freelance illustrator based in Los Angeles, CA and is the first woman ever awarded the Charles Schulz Award by Scripps Howard.

  I want to thank Barbara Alsop for proofing my manuscript and making it presentable to the reader. Barbara corrected all of my grammatical errors and misspelled words and that was no small feet feat!

  I want to thank my beautiful wife and my two wonderful sons for their patience and support while I wrote this story.

  I want to thank YOU, the reader, for downloading this story and going on this adventure with me.

  Introduction

  Thank you for purchasing The Final Prophecy. This story is book three in the Ben Alderman series. If you have not read the first two books I encourage you to download them and read them first. The Thirteenth Unicorn is the first book in the series and it (the e-book version) is free. The second book, The Black Dragon, is only 99 cents. That’s three full-length novels (e-books) for less than three bucks!

  All of these stories are fantasy and adventure tales for children. However, they are fun and fast paced reads for adults too. Whether you are nine years old or ninety, I hope that you enjoy them.

  Happy Reading!

  The gift of youth is ours for just a little while

  Fame is capricious and money slips through our fingers

  Health is a Godsend subject to recall

  Even the benison of love can allude us or it can wither in our hearts

  But the blessings of imagination

  Ahhhh….

  They belong to us forever and ever

  ~ CBS Radio Mystery Theater, 1974

  The Final Prophecy

  When witch’s reign has ended

  And evil ones are gone

  When wizard’s staff is mended

  And Dragon’s dead at dawn

  When king’s mad rule is broken

  And gnomes are free at last

  When seer’s last word is spoken

  And sword returns from past

  When Fallen One reappears

  And sits upon his throne

  When wisest one through the years

  To Dragon’s Cradle comes

  When darkest fears seem so real

  And no hope can be found

  Lowly Chosen One revealed

  Will bring the mighty down

  Table of Contents

  Prologue: Earth, 15th Century

  The Dream, Part One

  The Dream, Part Two

  The Dream, Part Three

  1 Springtime

  2 An Overnight Trip

  3 Bad News

  4 An Old Acquaintance

  5 Divided

  6 Bellator

  7 Talisman

  8 Foiled Rescue

  9 Hard Freeze

  10 The Prophecy

  11 The Librarian

  12 Time Out

  13 Spud

  14 Gazafar Lodge

  15 Salvation or Damnation

  16 Crag

  17 Ashing or Slumber

  18 Down Below

  19 Dragon's Cradle

  20 The Wisest One

  21 An Unexpected Rescue

  22 Reunion

  23 Eights

  24 Jupiter

  25 Fool's Mate

  26 Lowly One Revealed

  27 Angry Dwarves

  28 Going Home

  29 The Secret Garden

  Epilogue: The Secret in the Garden

  Books in this Series

  Afterword

  About the Author