The Lost Treasure Map Series (64 page)

Why did they not do anything if they really
did believe there was something? What the hell was the thing in it?
Was it really of supernatural origins?

A swift flash of light appeared from a laser
and exploded into a particular region of the artifact within the
energy bubble, silencing the entire audience instantly.

Professor Thomas calmly gave other
information that they had found out about it.

“
We only discovered this state of the
artifact after we carried out experiments on it by firing laser
beams at it!
”
he told them, watching it at the side of his eye.
“A computer used many millions
of special sequences continuously on it until the artifact altered
into this state! It was done after some examinations of a region of
it, and some of us believed it might be activated by special laser
flashes in particular sequences. The activation sequence has since
been studied, and we think we have some more activation sequence
codes to get it to carry out other functions.”

Many people talked about it taking
people through time and that they had been witnessing forms of time
travel, and Bryson started to realize that it was something
–
and why it was
so dangerous!

“
What are they intending to
do?
”
a
woman from the media asked Mortimer, recognizing him.
“
Could it be used
to do something far more incredible
–
with it fascinating
properties?
”

Mortimer examined her in a glance and
thought of the best reply, and replied,
“
All the scientists have been
investigating it with everything they have, which is still not
enough, and if they find anything I can assure they will inform
you!
”

“
I
’
ve heard the artifact exists in other
dimensions?
”
she asked, surprising Mortimer, and Bryson realized that she
might have heard stuff about their investigations into other
dimensions at the American castle, and he saw that they had the
equipment that they had used to examine other
dimensions.

“
We
’
ve ways of detecting other things from
it!
”
Professor Thomas calmly announced, watching Mortimer.
“
We
’
ve detected many energy sources from it, and
have detected other stuff exists!
”

While Thomas was talking Bryson saw how more
powerful the energy in the energy bubble seemed to become, and he
examined its lethal appearance and it even looked like it could
explode in an immense energy discharge.

“
We are
going to carry out an experiment and try another laser sequence of
interest that was recently discovered that has not been
used
!
”
Thomas announced, and the laser started
blasting the sequence at the artifact.

A man near the center of the media in the
audience loudly gasped and pointed at its altered appearance, and
the audience went silent.

Bryson spotted the center of where the being
was in the artifact in the denser energy bubble and that it was
turning bright, and it became louder and brighter and it started
shaking, and then started knocking everything furiously about,
knocking all the scientists about, and they fell over, and a sudden
shockwave blasted through the whole museum floor throwing
everything and everyone about, and it died away.

The hall instantly turned silent and the
audience started to recover, and repair the damage, and Bryson
noticed the two paranormal scientists dramatically talking and he
checked where they were looking and realized that the energy bubble
had gone, and that the being had appeared from inside the
artifact.

Chapter 7

The Encounter

The scientists decided against going near the
thing and located at a place away from the stage where they could
make a dramatic exit if anything went wrong, where it was close
enough to make observations and proper surveillance to monitor
it.

The thing had resemblances to a human but
was made of energy, which was mainly fully invisible in places and
other parts became invisible or turned visible in places, and
Bryson realized it could be thought of as some form of ghost if
they encountered it on a dark night in some ancient place, like a
graveyard.

It was unpredictable in its movements and
looked wounded or something, and staggered about, and nobody seemed
to have a clue what it was! It made small leaps forward through
space, surely teleportation, and on its reappearance seemed to be
frozen in time.

The scientists about Bryson believed that it
was unstable and attempting to form and adapt into its surroundings
and become normal matter, and he realized many were keeping
secretive about some of their thoughts and discoveries.

“
It is new!
”
Mortimer finally declared, after
observing its movements, and he watched it as if he had been
waiting all his life to see it, and gasped a few times, and
examined what he was looking for, and even looked staggered a few
times.

“
What do you make of
it?
”
Mortimer eventually asked, as they sat in some seats.
“
We still have
nothing given on its identity!
”

He started consulting quietly with Merton
and other scientists around them joined in, but they still seemed
to avoid giving a firm answer or anything.

Mortimer eventually tried to talk them
into doing something, and announced,
“It seems to me to be still in an energy form and
trying to become solid, and parts of it occasionally take some
solidness! We can barely see any of its proper features though! I
think it has been altered into something by something! Perhaps to
survive here! It must have many incredible hidden powers, which we
have not encountered before!”

“
It has a very mysterious
nature!
”
Merton replied first.
“
I think it may be using some form of
technology to reform itself, and it may or may not be successful or
it may take far longer to do. It is handling the situation! Its may
be trying to adapt!
”

“
We don
’
t know what the hell that
is?
”
one of
the security guards behind them moaned.
“
Do you have a way to capture it? We
have not heard of anything like it!
”

Bryson wondered again if the two paranormal
scientists thought it was of paranormal origins and were avoiding
ruining their reputations, and a short time later he heard them
mention it in a silent debate with each other.

What surprised him and a few others the most
about them was how they reacted and treated such things when there
was a suggestion of there being supernatural there, and he wondered
again if they had something or were actually covering up something
else?

He now wondered if they actually did find
anything if they would show it, and if what they showed would it
ever be enough to prove its existence and that they were dealing
with something supernatural?

Explanations by people could easily prove
that it was not, which usually was the case, and the thing in front
of them was highly advanced and could easily be an ancient alien
form.

They started consulting with each other
openly on what it could be clearly attempting to get the others to
give them their thoughts, while leaving things open to anyone to
add to and the other scientist to add their thoughts to freely.

What they mainly agreed to was that they
thought it was new and had an entirely new status!

After a great deal of discussions and
surveillance, checking of new and old readings, and of observations
through monitors from every form of surveillance, from all the
equipment everyone brought in and set up around the phenomenon at
every good conceivable angle, they all remained set on leaving
everything on what could happen open, and they took in all the
information, and only admitted to it was more advanced than
anything that they had seen, and perhaps would see at many
angles.

For some reason it never seemed to
acknowledge them! Bryson was sure that it knew of their presence.
If it was advanced as they claimed, he wondered why it never left
there, as it could easily shift away and surely go through walls
and get away.

They continuously considered what would
happen next, as it was not clear anywhere. They would just have to
wait for whatever the outcome would be!

He was sure it was attempting to transform
into something and adapt to its surroundings, and wondered how
dangerous it could be? Could it make itself invisible? Or teleport
itself to somewhere else? Though it currently looked as though it
had limited powers or damage that was stopping it doing
something.

All the scientists conclusively had a
meeting and agreed to begin the activation of a screen around it,
where they would use anything that they could to confine it to
where it was, to stop it escaping, and work on a way of removing it
from the museum to a safe location, away from public regions.

Chapter 8

The Energy
Bubble

Forms of the
being consistently rematerialized and altered within the energy
field they activated around it, with it floating over the center of
the artifact, while all the scientists stood in a circle going
right around it, examining it close up for the first time, and they
stood staggered when they grasped how human it actually was, and
tried to grasp what it was doing and if it was in pain.

Bryson was
also staggered and even wondered if they were responsible for what
was happening to it, and if they were underestimating its powers
and what it would do if it freed itself?

It resembled a
magical being, or magical human! Its normal state captured their
imaginations, and they repeatedly tried to grasp what it was! What
was it doing there? Why had it chosen where it had been? What had
happened?

At times it
expanded in size and took the appearance of a shocking giant demon
shape, glowing with energy, as it altered and whirled with hideous
energy surges, while something seemed to consistently stop it
vanishing.

He wondered
what the Exploration Association scientists intended to do with it?
They surely would have to remove it from the museum? Or would they
place it there as one of their exhibitions? It was famous and an
interesting science exhibition! There was a rumor of going around
of them doing a deal and that they would leave it there until it
formed into what it was forming, or they no longer wanted it. Yet
someone might eventually remove the energy field around, and
something might happen?

It was an
incredible discovery and advertisement for the Exploration
Association and the public would love the exhibit!

The entire area at the back of the stage and
scientists was now covered in equipment and scientists studying
information about it, with many close examinations of the energy
bubble examining all the new forms of energy discovered
earlier.

The energy bubble still altered time and
they checked its field and power and what it did at different
points about it, and the scientists reacted immediately when they
received new unknown findings.

It looked as though it were rupturing space
and time and playing with it in its energy sphere. It had strange
properties that were crazy to them! Perhaps due to it being damaged
in some way was the main explanation! It was creating alterations
in the fabric of space and time, but could it allow some form of
gateway into the depths of it to exist?

While the media captured the global media,
greater amounts of principal scientific groups became interested
and countless principal global scientists arrived and carried out
numerous fundamental and complicated research and experiments
throughout it, using more advanced and unheard of equipment, while
others monitored and stored as much as they could, in greater
degrees.

Yet nobody could still determine its origins
or if it came from this universe! It even seemed that they could be
there the rest of their lives exploring it and not coming up with
the proper explanations to its origins and use, never achieving
their goal.

Bryson occasionally shuddered as he studied
its shape hovering over the artifact!

The abnormal antics of some scientists at
times also captivated him, mystifying him with the depth of their
nervousness and fear! Some repetitively studied the readings and
their equipment and with alarm, preparing themselves for something
that he saw the two paranormal scientists gradually become aware
of!

What the hell was it? What was the thing?
Was it really a supernatural entity? Could something go wrong?

Something at one point seemed to be
happening and there were great alterations in the being and energy
bubble and the scientists began swiftly studying it everywhere.

Then one morning Bryson received a message
to go immediately there as there was something occurring, and he
knew straightaway that the conclusion to something was about to
occur, and on the way there he realized that it had been doing
something and taken all the time since its appearance to do it, and
he was sure it would have normally have done it instantly and that
it had trouble doing it!