The Lost Treasure Map Series (73 page)

The world about him was a flat stretch of
barn ground full of nothing but black space with dust and rocks
below, with a weak atmosphere, resembling being in a large asteroid
shooting through the depths of space.

Finally he came to where there were others
tunnels going in different directions all about him, and he found
one with stone steps going upwards, which were identical to the
steps that he had been on when he had vanished, and he started
climbing them and increased his speed when he thought of reaching
the surface, and he soon recognized that it was the steps, and at
the top of the steps he saw a distant glow from the sun
shining.

When Bryson shifted out of the tunnel into
the canyon the bright sunlight exploded into his vision almost
blinding him, and as his eyes altered to the bright dazzling light
he was surprised that the others were there and had barely even
changed, and were seated around eating and sleeping, and he was
only observed in curious glances and occasionally asked if he had
found a way out of the canyon into the outer island.

After Bryson told Parker and the Exploration
Association scientists what had happened Parker explained that he
had seen the light and him vanish, and that they had gone back to
the canyon and waited for him and Merton and Mortimer to
return.

Bryson realized that the amount of time that
he had thought had passed had not, and that Merton and Mortimer
were still in there, and he wondered if they had vanished as well
and were below in rooms like the one that he had been in?

Later Bryson finished eating and drinking
and realized that he had actually survived what had happened there,
and he spotted a light shifting about in the tunnel and the others
followed his glare, and they heard Merton and Mortimer coming
out.

Chapter 2

The New
Dimension

Magnificent
stars exploded out light everywhere, covering the entire sky,
blinding them all as they emerged through the end of the tunnel at
the other side of the hill.

Bryson was
staggered! When Merton and Mortimer had mentioned the magnificent
discovery that they had found at the end of one of the tunnels he
had been sure that it had just been an alternative landscape from
the jungle.

The hill was
more of a mountain there, with shear slopes going high above them
to what looked like a peaked mountain, with its massive shadows
spread out everywhere into an immense cavity below, which looked
like an asteroid impact cavity surrounded by hills, like a lost
valley at the center of the island.

Bryson had
even considered that it had been an immense cavity somewhere else!
Even though he could explain the colossal stars and their
brightness, and considered it was caused by some unknown
phenomena.

The darkness
of being in the tunnel with the fading lights had altered their
eyes to seeing the slightest glows, so the brightness that blasted
into their eyes left them staggered, and trying to see what they
had found!

It was
fantastic and he felt it was probably the most magnificent sight he
had seen, and he wondered why? He
sensed mysterious
and magnificent things existed there, with there being dangers that
they had not confronted before.

All the scientists and others placed their
equipment all about him and sat on a flat rock ledge, searching the
magnificent site, with their legs dangling over a hill of small
stones, descending sharply below.

The valley
below went out for approximately twenty miles in every direction
across their front, and covered most of the island.

The island was
far bigger than Bryson had measured it from the airplane, and he
just recalled seeing the large center region and had not seen
anything except a few hills, and that most of the island had seemed
flat and covered by the trees, which they had found covering most
of it.

The others
started to realize the strange and dangerous land that existed
there, covered in strange jungle regions, and Bryson spotted a
strange fog creeping around over a region, and he started examining
the sky with the others, as their eyes started altering to seeing
what was there.

Many of them
filmed the sight, which made the whole journey worth taking part
in, and the scientists started to carry out their work with their
equipment, and others like Parker started searching for the dangers
ahead, and drawing maps.

Bryson stood
and studied it, with the two paranormal scientists, Merton and
Mortimer, in a silent conversation.

“
Where
do you think this is?” he asked them.

Merton shrugged, and followed his stare in
wonderment to an incredible region of the sky.

“
It could be another
universe!
”
Mortimer announced, staring at the region of the sky.
“
Yet we know
little of other dimensions and if they are
infinite!
”

Bryson realized that he still could not
properly remember many things, since his ordeal of vanishing and
reappearing!

It was as though someone had deliberately
wiped something in particular from his mind, for some unknown
purpose! It made him shiver thinking of it and what the
consequences of it could be!

Did someone want know something, and had
done something to his mind?

“
The island could now be in another
dimension and universe?
”
Merton announced absurdly, shrugging,
breaking the silence.
“
Is there any difference?
”

The sheer
damage to the rock about them was staggering and many of the
scientists had a hard time accepting it was only an asteroid impact
that formed the cavity. Surely this was caused by far more than
that!

In fact,
Bryson could not remember such a powerful impact!

He started to
think that it could have been made at a faster velocity than
normal. Yet they were in another universe, and it could be
virtually anything, going by what he had witnessed there! It could
have been even a miniature sun, with a powerful density?

By the earlier frantic reactions of
Mortimer
he
sensed that they believed that something was actually down in
the cavity below, and that the appearance of the new universe on
their return there had altered things, and that they were perhaps
waiting until they had their attention again to announce their
findings!

Although by the way that they had indicated
things he was sure that they had not fully proven what it was, and
it could be too unacceptable to believe! In vivid detail they had
also detailed something of extraordinary value somewhere out
there!

When Mortimer saw one of the scientists
notice something he quickly started giving him his findings and
that he believed it was a tower at the center of the structure,
which they were there to find, and he identified the immense thick
jungle region its immense shape could be seen buried under, which
they could not properly see as the hill that they were on was too
low.

Bryson examined the region and wondered how
he had identified the center of the structure there, and he tried
to recall the island from the airplane again and if he had seen
anything, but he could not recall it and had not seen it on the
photographs taken.

His mind conjured up vague visions of
ancient lost treasure buried away in the depths of the jungle, and
he wondered how old the structure was for it to be buried away
there.

Dust showered them from overhead, as
something like a small meteorite hit somewhere overhead, and Bryson
realized the dangers of
meteorites there, and small objects could do
damage
.

The scientists
were now more interested in the galaxy of the universe that they
were in to pay much notice to the structure, and they were actually
witnessing black holes in the sky above and photographing them, and
none of them seemed to have realized fully that space could have
such objects the way they were, and they saw their powers for
real.

Some of the scientists started to see the
influence of something on a large region of space that they tried
to identify, and they believed some colossal object was there and
they continued to search for its location, and they continuously
grew annoyed at not having the equipment they needed, especially as
they might not ever get the opportunity again.

Bryson gasped when examined the region in
more detail and saw the true size of its influence and that it
stretched out far further than he had noticed.

The world
’
s rotation was about the same as the
Earth
’
s and
the daytime was about the same. Even though and the suns now
virtually covered all the sky, in all their different sizes, going
deep into the immense galaxy, and lit the world far more brightly
than a mere sun. They were so packed together that there was
virtually no proper darkness of space visible, and he wondered what
it would be like there when the sun was there, and if the world
actually needed a sun, and he wondered how dangerous it was having
so many large suns covering the sky.

Debris from it or some other place the
island had been at were scattered all around them, which had not
been properly visible before, and he saw large dense gas clouds and
debris being illuminated by powerful stars, with large asteroids
shifting by.

The dangers there seemed to go beyond his
comprehension, and he watched giant suns blaze brightly in the
depths of space, and they all stood stunned as an asteroid soared
across the upper atmosphere in a ball of flames, blazing into the
atmosphere, leaving a thick trail of smoke across the sky.

Chapter 3

The Central
Cavity

A coldness edged its way into the wonderland
landscape and Bryson marched on behind Parker and Mortimer, who
were leading the exploration team through a strange marsh region
filled with incredible wonders, with unknown life forms and
vegetation everywhere, between jungle regions, where they went to
avoid the thick jungle regions to get to the structure easier and
quicker.

The world about them was like a cross
between two worlds, and going by the amount of dimensions and weird
locations they believed the island shifted through it was perhaps a
combination of far more.

The cavity was a lost world and
inconceivable and mind-bending!

Earlier they had been in immense stars
blinding them everywhere, and the vast heat of the large suns
rising over them had them staggering like they were in one of the
warmest desert regions, and some of them even suffered from being
delirious and the high temperature had them throwing themselves
into streams of water. Now the large stars were all distant and
space was almost empty of stars, and the temperature dropped
dramatically, and they were wrapped up in clothes and some of them
showed early signs of colds.

The world was floating on the edge of a
mammoth galaxy, which was perhaps why it had not been destroyed,
and it had an almost empty intergalactic region stretching out for
many light million light years at the other side.

It was a world trapped between two vast and
powerful regions! One side of the world had an immense galactic
wonderland and the other side had a vast stretch of emptiness and
intergalactic void, which allowed the island around them to return
to its original coldness, and some snow even floated down.

Yet the world
’
s sun emerged over the horizon in
front of them, but did little and was like another astral object in
the sky, giving some light and heat!

Bryson even wondered if he could survive
there! Though much of the vegetation looked edible they had not
found anything that was nourishing and up to their normal
standards.

If the world had a summer or winter he had
not seen anything that indicated it, and he gasped at what the
extremes of both could do! Could the immense galaxy get closer to
cause immense temperatures that would be deadly and kill them? Yet
there had to be polar regions that were cooler, where they might
survive.

He stood examining some vegetation that
shifted near them and seemed to be able to eat something from the
ground.

He could not get if it was the strange
environment about him or all the strange stars that had blanketed
the sky, or something strange existing there or the universe that
they were in, or a combination of everything that created different
reactions all about the region they were in.

Strange vapor clouds shifted about,
sometimes shadowing them at a distance, probing them, and analyzing
them for some purpose.

They all watched one vaguely lingering over
a deep impact meteor crater in the mind-bending landscape and it
form shapes of an animal as though either trying to form into one
or return to being one, and he wondered what it could be!

The sun was above the skyline and the
faint stars there were vanishing, and areas of fog
illuminated
like
luminary rays of bright alien moonshine, and they approached
a jungle ahead, which they would soon have to enter!

Even the thunder and lightning there was
different and appeared and vanished over and over in different
forms. Some took weird variations and lightning even shot upwards
into space! Two small deep black thunderclouds seemed to orbit each
other while their lightning blasted at each other.

Bryson always had the feeling of mysterious
things being there and hidden away. Sometimes he felt as though
they watched them, and for some reason avoided them as though they
belonged to something more powerful.