The Lost Treasure Map Series (74 page)

He was not sure if they could survive being
there, and took everything as he came to it!

Something invisible or unseen nearby sounded
as if it were breathing over there, or something was there and the
environment was reacting to its presence and its paranormal
powers.

The two paranormal scientists loved watching
the others trying to explain things, and he was sure that they
believed supernatural things and occurrences existed there.

When they entered the jungle it was so thick
and dangerous that he thought the whole journey would be called
off, but they kept finding regions to get through, while they kept
a look out for all the dangerous things that they knew of.

The sky became almost hidden beneath the
immense tree structures. The archeologists he noticed went closer
to the front and had their guns ready, as it took a dangerous
appearance like the last jungle when they had been chased into the
canyon!

Chapter 4

The Structure

Strange illuminations and life forms shifted
through the trees and occasionally violently smashed things around
them, while the amount of them and their powers grew, and Parker
started to hesitate on whether to continue! But they were trapped
and many of the things were behind them following their scent and
trail, but they still had the guns.

Bryson realized the mistake of doing such a
venture without properly planning! Yet they could not have done
anything more!

He wished Parker had used his connections in
the military to bring in some military with their weapons! It would
be a mistake continuing to do what they were doing there, and they
surely would eventually regret it!

The thing he noticed was that the things
about them seemed to avoid doing anything, for some reason he could
not identify, and he realized that he still felt like he was being
watched over by things! And even since something took control of
the plane!

There was still no suggestion of what they
were up against other than it seemed to want them for
something!

He still sensed there was danger and that
many of them could die! And he felt it more than ever there, like
in the last jungle at the canyon.

Thick vegetation surrounded everything and
they had to hack their way some of it, and Bryson watched the
amazed scientists when they had to hack down new incredible species
of plants! Though some managed to gather seeds, for if they ever
were able to return to the Earth.

Parker was
good at locating where they should be going, and he knew that they
would get there!

Yet their legs
started sinking deeper into stinking vegetation that resembled
quicksand in places, and they insisted that it would not turn into
quicksand and continued on through as if it were not there and only
another obstacle, and the deeper they went into the jungle the
worse it got and Bryson kept hearing more and more lethal sounding
creatures behind them and knew that they could not return.

Bryson felt
something was going to happen, and so did the others, and it proved
true when a giant light emerged through the undergrowth at their
side, and pulsated like a living thing, magically illuminating and
blasting beams of light through trees.

Their pace
increased and Parker tried more accurately to take them through
clearer and less swampy regions! And Bryson kept trying to grasp
what could create such power in such a place!

“
Look
out there!” one of the scientists eventually hollered, from over at
their side, making them jump and their adrenalin wildly pump
through their veins.

Bryson was one
of the first to search and properly spot what it was, and where it
was, and saw a structure buried away in the thick landscape, and he
was astounded not only by its immense size but because he had a
sensation that it had colossal power and somehow the light was
connected to there, and it eventually left him staggered! He sensed
things existed at the structure that went out beyond there to
somewhere beyond space and time, and that paranormal energy existed
there! And he looked over and saw Merton and Mortimer standing
staggered by it!

Although
when they approached the structure it felt blissful and the dangers
surrounding them seemed to start to vanish! It
radiated through the wood like a spellbinding sacred place,
and they forced their legs to move on faster towards it.

Its appearance as they moved there, out of
the deplorable jungle, was staggering, and he was fascinated to see
and hear all the dangers around them withdrawing and going in the
opposite direction!

For some reason he started thinking that the
treasure surely existed there! Bryson was amazed at the speed that
they were now moving towards it at, without the vegetation and
swamps, and started to realize how enthusiastic they were to get to
it! And he even sensed many of the others thought the treasure was
there, and were confident it existed!

They forgot their battle with the things of
the jungle and made for the blissfully sanctuary, and Bryson
watched the others and realized how much they were taking things
there would be what they were looking for, and it was where they
wanted to be!

The place could be anything? And why did
they want to meet with what landed their airplane there? There was
no proof of anything! All it could be was a bigger
disappointment!

While they approached, in stages of glimpses
through the trees, they started to get a bigger surprise and
realized that the structure was a castle, and the scientists
started arguing over whether it was of human construction! Yet many
structures could exist on other worlds with same structures as on
Earth! There were only so many basic constructions available for
good buildings!

Its presence drew them there and was like it
were glowing with power through an area drained of power, shining
out like a lighthouse in a dark sea, and supernaturally
glowing!

Chapter 5

The Phantom
Castle

They proved that it was a castle when they
reached it, and after studying its structure most were sure that it
had been built in the style of an Earth castle.

The size of the castle could not be properly
seen or measured by the scientists as it went out into the thick
jungle and undergrowth, and it was colossal and they were sure that
it was about 10 miles long and wide, especially by using the photos
that they had taken from hill, before they had come down and
entered the jungle.

Its height was great, but lower than the
alien trees there, and staggering for a castle, reaching up at
least 60 meters high, and as high as an average sixteen-story
building.

Bryson was staggered at it and had thought
that he had seen the biggest castles in the world, and wondered how
they would even find the entrance of it!

How could they explore such a structure with
such an immense size? The builders were clearly not of ancient
times, and had given it shapes of the castle boulders with highly
advanced equipment.

The builders were unknown, and its date of
construction was far older than any of them could estimate. It was
built on rock and for some reason the ground over time had not
properly built up about it as it normally did, or in the
jungle.

The reason for its construction baffled them
and Bryson wondered why an advanced race would build a castle?
Castles were built for defense though! Yet with such technology why
would they have built a castle and not a more advanced structure?
Bryson considered it was for some sort of defense? Yet the place
must have been occupied by thousands at least?

It would have been far easier to defend a
small castle or structure than it at its size! Yet it could have
been built by a strange civilization that was a combination of
different things?

It could have been the remains of an old
race returned to their original earlier civilization and ways of
doing things, and still with the technology of an advanced
civilization? Or it was a civilization that got hold of some of the
technology of an advanced race? And they could have built it easily
with some form of technology and used it to defend their entire
small civilization?

Yet it might have shown the immense power
and wealth that they had, and an army would also have thought twice
before attacking such a construction as they could easily have
thought it held a far greater and more powerful race.

What existed before the jungle existed there
confused them as it was out in the middle of an empty region and
crater and there was no sign of anything else!

The island could have been on any world or
worlds just about anywhere and could have been inhabited by
anything!

It would have taken them a great deal of
time to build? Yet the race could have been trapped there on
another world when it had altered to another dimension?

He and the others were growing determined to
solve all the riddles, and prepared themselves to go to lengths to
find proper answers to it all!

He was determined to ignore the events of
the past few days and concentrate on what was in the castle. He had
seen little of it so far, and in the dimness there, and it was cold
and smelled of dampness, and nobody had left the location.

Many of the archeologists and scientists
thought there were possibilities of it still holding some of its
inhabitances, but they all agreed that they were best entering it
for safety as the jungle could easily grow dangerous again.

Most of the evening was subjected to
false alarms of the things in the wood reappearing, and they had
been glad when they finally started following the
structure
’
s
wall to find an entrance.

Bryson followed Parker with Merton and
Mortimer and were surprised when an area empty of trees appeared
and they saw the structure in the light of day! They were surprised
at how powerful it was and disappointed at how hard it would be to
enter it!

The roof seemed to be made of real solid
rock boulders for some reason. He wanted to check it, if they ever
found a way to climb up to it!

It was unbelievable and historical looking,
and had not fallen into being derelict in any noticeable way, and
the scientists studied the material that it was made of trying to
figure out what it was and why it had not deteriorated, and one of
the archeologists smashed a piece of the material off it and were
surprised when they returned there and found that it had somehow
repaired itself, with no sign of the damage being there.

Bryson was surprised when they damaged it
again and watched it repair itself, and they had a discussion on if
it had artificial intelligence or was just detecting a fault and
fixing it, and most of the scientists left it open until they knew
more of what was there, as they never wanted to underestimate
anything there after what they had witnessed there so far.

The fact that it repaired itself gave them a
great deal of information about it, and far more than anything else
that they had come across. It explained its presence and state
after the amount of time that they believed it could have been
there! It also showed that the interior could be in perfect
condition, as they would have a bad time staying there if it was
not.

Bryson studied regions of the exterior walls
about it, and its immense shape.

They wandered about it checking what they
could but nothing new came into view, and Bryson had a hard time
realizing how they had been able to build it and wondered if the
material built itself, and from what the owners had planned it to
build? Why had they allowed such a valuable construction to become
derelict? And he realized again how old it could be!

He also realized again its deadliness! He
thought the last castle had been bad and confusing but this one was
deadlier beyond belief at an entirely new and different angle!

He wondered if they should have just left
it! If they could not get what they wanted there they could be
playing with something of great danger that could result in an
immense amount of deaths, over the next years.

Bryson made a rough drawing/map of it as
they wandered on, exploring the jungle at different regions and
what the side of the jungle was like, and suddenly one of the
archeologists ahead of them called out and he instantly saw an
entrance at where he had looked before and had seen nothing!

Chapter 6

The Interior

The castle door silently opened as they
approached it leaving them staggered and searching inside for human
occupants, and they searched through a long corridor that led
straight into the castle, and Bryson switched on his light and
marched in first.

Yet as he moved in, with Parker and Mortimer
directly behind him, with the others in a line behind, he saw that
there were lights shining there and he turned off his light without
saying anything, and felt good again that he was inside and away
from the jungle, and actually exploring an ancient castle
again.

It felt the same and this time he was
surprised that the castle itself seemed to have intelligence, which
he had not even considered before!

He wondered if it was the only castle that
had a form of artificial intelligence or intelligence that had
visited the Earth!

He realized more than ever how much he had
enjoyed exploring the last two castles and their hidden secrets,
long corridors, ancient untouched rooms, where anything could
exist, and them uncovering secrets and secret chambers.

He wondered if they were actually the
first humans to visit the world and immense galaxy that it was in,
which he had seen starting appear outside, as the
world
’
s
rotation took it round to it, with a few magnificent stars
exploding into the horizon.