The Lost Treasure Map Series (68 page)

It
descended
rapidly,
and a
roar
from
the
sea
vanished
in the distance
,
while
strange sounds emerged
below, and
mystifying winds
went
around the plane, which were nowhere else.

Just as
he
caught sight of
something
in the
obscurity
in the
distance, where there was a haze
,
he heard one of the
wings lash across the top of a tree, and something was
thrown up against
one of the windows behind
him
.

He considered
getting up, and out of his seat, to take a look further down, but
he remained in his seat with his seatbelt fixed tightly around
him.

It plummeted,
administrating a
perfect
landing,
sweeping
across the
ground
, without damaging
the
plane
, in a manner that
would have been
incredible for even the best pilots to carry
out
,
and an
eerie
silence emerged
from
outside
.

He
could only
wonder why
it had landed with such
precision,
and he was
amazed that some of the scientists started clapping their hands and
congratulated the pilots, and he and the others just joined in and
laughed over it. At the cockpit he heard the pilots ignoring it and
discussing the landing and that it would be impossible to take off
again,
and that the
plane must have somehow
acquired
structural damage
as all
the fuel was leaking out of the plane everywhere
.

Chapter 16

The Lost Island

When Parker stepped onto the island for the
first time he had a strange sensation and thought that he was
stepping out onto something far more than an uncharted desolate
island! It was as though they were stepping onto Mars or something,
and making the first step for mankind onto another world!

He did not know what their next biggest
problem would be! Was it finding a food source, and not dieing of
starvation? Or was there something there, which had brought them
there, getting ready to kill them all or what?

They never had any communications with the
outside world and the plane was damaged and never had enough fuel
left, and they never knew if what had taken them there would allow
them to leave, perhaps after it had finished with them.

The next peculiarly that they saw was the
strangely colored sky, with no clouds, and nobody could recall
seeing anything like it and that it had not been there when they
had landed.

It was very warm and dry and Parker and his
scientists removed some of their equipment outside the plane and
Bryson watched them at work, and their reactions when all the
instruments began reacting furiously, and the scientists started
checking everything.

“
What are you up to?
”
Bryson asked one of the
scientists, near him, looking baffled.

“
There’s
a
form of powerful energy influence, and
it
’
s still
stopping us scanning what
’
s out there!
”

“
Just as it was on the
airplane?
”

“
Well,
we seem to have found another
encounter
–
and it’s far
more
tremendous! I believe that on the airplane we
were not able to properly check anything as there was too much
disturbance from something else! Now that we have landed we are
detecting it and it is also more powerful this close
...
”

“
Is it
near us?”

“
It’s
somewhere away out inland, and we are trying to get some more
information on it!”

He
handed him some readouts, and Bryson stared at them with amazement,
gasping, and asked, “
What could create such power? It
must be colossal!
”

“
It’s
like
someone is playing around with something out
here! Have any countries got any military or anything out
here?
”

“
Nobody has ever heard of this island,
or of anything out here! But why would it be built out here? Why
would they be using anything or experimenting on something
though?
”

“
Perhaps they are using or creating
something too dangerous to be activated in an inhabited
zone!
” the scientists
replied firmly.

“
That would explain it being so
secretive and an uncharted island!
”
Bryson answered, curious in what
the scientist would make of things.
“
How did they manage to hide an
entire island of this size though? Nothing seems to add
up!
”

“
They
surely would have to have technology beyond anything we’ve heard
of!”

“
What could create such a powerful
disturbance and create such occurrences?
”

“
It could be someone using a natural
phenomenon though? Like someone harnessing and manipulating energy
from the Earth
’
s core or something!
”

Bryson could not realize what it was and
realized that the real solution to what it was would be far more
unbelievable and crazy than what they would come out with, and he
wondered if he would not get what it was from them as it would be
far too ridicules for them even to assume.

Yet there clearly was no evidence of
anything and only someone making a ridicules mistake would add
anything to what had been said, and going by what all the
scientists about him, including Merton and Mortimer, indicated and
came out with as a crazy solution they never really had
anything.

“
Whatever it is, we will need more
reasonable and solid clues!
” Parker finally announced, especially to
Bryson.

Bryson left
them, and started to go further out from the airplane, where the
other scientists had moved out to and he started to notice their
different appearance.

The adrenalin of the scientists was visibly
rushing through their veins, overwhelming them, as they checked
their new surroundings, and most realized that they had found their
ultimate dream location. All around them they examined new strange
phenomena, and he wondered what they were discovering.

“
Look at all this!
”
one explained, picking up a
tropical plant that he could not recall ever seeing
before.

“
What do you think
it
’
s doing
here?
”
he
asked, curiously.

“
This island has been trapped in
something ... How else could it be the way it is? Nothing like it
can grow up here at this region!
”

He pointed at bright strange tropical trees,
with dense regions of vegetation, and golden sand patches, formed
far differently than anything and at anywhere he had seen. He was
sure the warm temperature there clearly increased, going by the
landscape and vegetation. Yet there was no explanation for where it
came from!

“
I can see this stuff growing in the
Pacific!
”
the scientist announced, trying to explain it.
“
It
’
s as though it has formed differently, by
some means, by something else ...
”

Bryson heard Parker and his scientists
giving reactions of finding another occurrence, and he started
giving startled calls, and Bryson and the other scientists about
him all looked over and watched their startled faces and reactions
to something.

Many of the scientists there had started
getting strange findings, and Parker stood back and watched their
reactions, with curiosity.

Suddenly all of their equipment and
the plane
’
s
electronic equipment started reacting and giving out sparks, on the
verge of breaking down, and they all started deactivating
it.

The
scanning equipment started to blank out,
as if fluctuations of energy were overpowering it!

“
Shut
down
everything
before it’s all damaged!” Parker called out to the
scientists using the equipment. “We’ll have plenty of time to check
everything later when the disturbances have gone.”

The scan
equipment was important and of great value, and still confidential,
and they tried to save it from being damaged as much as they
could.

Bryson was
sure that they had done something that had caused it, by their
reactions and replies, and while he followed Merton and Mortimer
back over to them, he heard the scientist that he had been talking
to there say that when the occurrence had happened that he had been
trying out a different way to scan a region of the island over at
the center of the island.

Chapter 17

The Other World

Deep snow
shrouded the colossal jungle everywhere, situated in the interior
of the island, and Bryson marched on with the group from the
airplane and realized that they would have to sleep there!

The white
glowing winter landscape was untouched by humans or inhabited by
any animals that they so far had seen, and at times empty of sound
with had a deep hollow silence that he had only heard in intense
winter snow landscapes.

The whole sky
had swiftly altered to a dark cold empty night sky over the island,
with an extremely fast world rotation, with the outside world
altering to somewhere else. The cold atmosphere and snow clouds had
surrounded them in hours and had altered the island to its winter
season, and an amazing star had emerged on the horizon in such a
large size that it had created forms of sunlight, which beamed and
accelerated through the trees like an immense spotlight, creating
shifting surreal shadows and ghost shapes, and had soon vanished
beneath the horizon.

He was sure
that it was an alien world without a proper sun, which had to be at
the other side, and he wondered if they could freeze to death
there! Yet most of the others thought that there was a proper sun
as there would be a far lower temperature.

When they had
entered the jungle all they had seen had been the absence of life,
and a strange faint mist surrounding regions, and their group of
fifteen members from the airplane (including him, Merton, Mortimer,
and Parker), had investigated everything, even when the dangers had
increased, and they still never found a way to renew their food
supplies properly.

The group had
mainly been put together by Mortimer and Parker and were mainly
made up of scientists and Exploration Association members, who were
either the most engrossed and experienced, and scientists,
archaeologists, ex-military like Parker, or explorers and treasure
seekers, who had experience in searching, examining, documenting,
and detecting what they might miss, or there to help or defend
them.

Bryson could
hardly believe what was happening and anything that had occurred,
and how luckily they had been! All the facts and fantasies of the
whole affair of the Exploration Association and recent occurrences
were muddled up together and he could hardly believe that they were
on the trail of another lost treasure.

When
they had been back at the airplane they had discovered that before
the equipment had stopped working and they had shut it down that it
had left a recorded image of what looked like a strange form of a
large artificial structure, buried away in the island, and they
believed that it was
the
ultimate time traveler and his lost
treasures.

They had
entered there all studying their amazing surroundings everywhere
trying to explain why the massive immense thick jungle closely
resembled an immense prehistoric jungle, and how it could grow to
the height that it did.

The whole sky
had altered right before their eyes and the outside world vanished
away, and the Earth went as if it had been never there, and they
were positive that the whole island had been transported somewhere,
and to where it could have come from.

The world it
was now on was far too cold, and with the same gravity as the
Earth, and he could not imagine the trees growing there, and he
wondered how many worlds it had appeared on.

The jungle
started to look more different and deadly as they entered further,
and he considered their search for the structure in what must be
the most desolate and deadly region. They had not seen anything
alive anywhere, and never even had insects.

The whole
event was incredible now and Bryson could hardly believe this was
the outcome of the trip that he had predicted he would ruin his
reputation over, and thought of as being wrong with his assumptions
and theories, with false ideas at what would occur. The events of
the past day were astounding and he could hardly believe that they
were on the treasure quest, and still alive, and was in perhaps an
even worse situation.