The Lost Treasure Map Series (81 page)

The first left them shocked as there had
been another death and one of the scientists had been found killed,
but they managed to decrease the amount of suspects. Yet many of
them thought it might be what had used the dead body of the
scientist in the spacesuit! And many of the scientists believed it
was something attempting to make contact with them, and had used
what it could, and had returned the body back to its original
condition and place that it had been.

Bryson believed that someone had killed
them, especially by what had been done to them, even if he never
had a clue why it had been done! And he noticed that the others
started to question each other on where they had been and what they
had been doing, and if anyone had argued with the men.

The second surprise was that a
communications device that one of them had completed, which was
more powerful, started receiving messages from the airplane! But
had not been able to reply, but the messages said that they had
fully repaired all the damage to the airplane, and found that they
had more petrol available than they had thought, and that they
intended to make a short flight over the island to search and
photograph it.

Parker immediately tried new ways of
communicating with them, but could not get through, and told them
all in the meeting room that he had a plan.

Parker was the owner of a major company and
leading scientist, and was responsible and great at organizing, and
they all listened to his ideas regardless of how incredible they
seemed.

Bryson straight away knew that there was
danger involved, but it did not seem to involve them, but there
would a lot of work, and he was not sure there would be no
screw-ups or it being a success!

“
What is it?
”
Merton conclusively moaned, after
waiting for him to tell them for at least an hour.

“
We’ll
have to accept that we’re here to stay!”
Parker
firmly replied. “We cannot even
imagine getting off this island! The airplane may have petrol but
it cannot make it anywhere, across the sea.”

“
Which
most of us have known for sometime!” Merton moaned cheekily,
showing them his concerns.

“
Well,
this place is the safest and best place for us on this whole
island. True?”

Bryson watched
everyone there agree one by one, and Bryson was sure he did not
want to leave the safety there, even if there was a killer about,
and he did not want to leave his room, bed, food machine, and he
agreed out loud that they should stay there, and the others
agreed.

“
Well,”
Parker continued. “We cannot leave the pilots there!”

“
So what
are we going to do?” Merton replied. “They could even think that we
are dead! I would say that they will stay where they
are!”

“
Correct! If only we could find a way to communicate with
them? Has anyone got any ideas?”

Bryson
realized that Parker had an idea but had an unsolved problem and
that he needed to communicate with them.

“
They
would still have to travel across the island without any weapons
and find this place?” Merton moaned. “It would be a very dangerous
mission!”

“
I’ve an
answer to that! And us keeping the airplane! We could build a
landing site on part of the castle roof! Nearby, where it is solid
and can support the weight! What do you think?”

“
That
sounds a great idea!” one of Parker’s scientists replied first.
“There actually is an area nearby where the roof is in its original
condition and the same as these lower floors, which still repairs
damage done to it! We discovered it the other day!”

“
What do
you think?” Parker asked.

They all
agreed, and wanted it there, but they had to find a way to
communicate with the pilots!

Bryson nodded
firmly in agreement and returned to where he had been resting and
wondered how they could communicate with airplane! He was sure that
the reason that they had not been able to reply to the airplane was
that the communications equipment needed to be far more larger and
powerful, and he wondered why they had not tried to build it
already, or somehow increased its power of something.

He had some
ideas on improving things and told them to Parker and other
scientists and they agreed.

The first idea
was to build a communications device with enough power, and the
second idea was to build the landing site where they had planned
and leave a large message written across it telling them to land
there!

Chapter 17

The New Mission

The scientists
endeavored to inspect everything, and do what could be done in such
a position, preparing for the airplane to fly over the island to
explore what was there.

Parker worked away, at the edge of the
action and the airplane landing site on the castle roof, organizing
everything, studying readouts given to him by scientists, making
conclusions, and giving his findings into a microphone of a
recorder, communicator, or to scientists near him, while
occasionally examining the island about him in glances.

The island was a bright, desolate of human
activity, and stretched out all around them, and covered mainly by
immense trees, with its many dense dangerous jungle areas, and
golden sand or hill regions, and with the curious massive cavity
around the castle and its jungle.

Bryson
and the others had finished all the heavy physical work and
procedure,
and he felt weary from it having been unexpectedly
lengthened after them having to examine the landing site in detail
for anything that could damage or destroy an airplane.

The main job
had been removing muck, debris, and thick bushes there, and Bryson
saw how lucky they were as much of the roof had trees and large
thick vegetation growing over it.

It was a
perfect landing site, and could not be more even, and Bryson
thought he even saw landing sites at other regions, where the roof
had deteriorated, where the castle’s builders had landed airplanes
and Bryson wondered where the airplanes had ended up, and wondered
why the thing that used the dead scientist’s body had got the idea
for the spacesuit.

If they were
unable to contact the airplane and it never saw them he wondered if
they could build a small airplane. Some of Parker’s scientists had
experience with airplanes!

They even
finished the large message across the landing site that he was sure
the pilots might see, asking them to use it as a landing site, and
below scientists were furiously working on the communications
equipment to try to contact them, and Bryson realized that they
were doing their best.

It surprised
him how keen they were to have the airplane there, and he wondered
if it was actually to use if the Earth appeared there, and Bryson
realized if the Earth did appear that the pilots could leave there
without them, and they could have a place to land on the Earth.

Bryson noticed
that Merton had an idea that he had kept secret, and he wondered
why, and he refused to say anything!

It was soon
late evening and they finished the work and message, and were
cleaning themselves up, when Bryson wondered again why there were
no real large flying species there, and heard a faint buzz in the
distance, which he listened to wondering if it was something, and
realized that it was the airplane when the sound altered to a
different tone.

Parker reacted
to his response first and used his communications device to the
scientists in the castle below, and shouted, “Have you finished the
communications equipment!”

“
No!” a
scientist confirmed. “It’ll take hours to complete!”

Parker and the
others gasped and started to realize that all their work could be
ineffective, as they realized the airplane was not flying high
enough to see it, and it was flying low surveying the island in
detail, and Bryson watched on in horror, especially when it clearly
took its closest position to the castle structure and it was clear
that it could not see them from there, and they all knew that the
mission had been a failure.

Yet at the
side of Bryson’s eyes he saw Merton working quickly on something,
and he wondered what the hell he was up to!

Suddenly
Merton ran over to where they were, shouting, “Get the hell down! I
used a large amount of explosives in two!”

To their
surprise they watched large homemade rockets firing into the air
from where Merton had been, from pipes that he had assembled to
launch them, and some accurately fired over to the airplane, and
Bryson gasped as they exploded, and they stood stunned by the
blasts of two of the last rockets exploding like powerful bombs,
sending up large flocks of flying creatures from jungle regions all
across their front.

Parker’s calm
concentrating glare then caught Bryson’s attention, and he followed
his glare over to the airplane and they watched it change
direction, and fly over towards them, and they stood and waved at
it, and ran over to the edges as it came down.

Chapter 18

The Monster

A deep red streak of light shot through
the castle walls like a large red laser beam, going through walls
like they were just mist, but with accuracy and intelligence,
seeking to carry out some programmed mission, with
it altering to bright red
glowing flickers, and it raged on.

Scientists
witnessed it and filmed it with cameras intending to capture the
killer, and when Bryson saw it he saw some energy force that
traveled through matter with such speed that he could not think of
an equivalent.

Further
glimpses of it appeared later and it was described as being like
red lightning, with clear descriptions of an explosive shock of
sound. Others saw materializations and swift flashes of red, and
when they slowed the filmed sequences down they stood stunned
observing a red field of energy with devil features, straight out
of the realms of hell, and they realized that they were confronting
a new deadly life form
.

One film sequence captured
Bryson
’
s
imagination, which he showed to Merton and Mortimer, and they stood
staggered to, to his amazement, and just stared at its
giant red demon shape glowing,
within hideous energy surges.

What it was
remained unknown and they observed it while it carried out what it
was doing, while it consistently stopped itself vanishing from
existence and back into its original pure energy state, and Bryson
wondered if it had the same origins as the thing in the spacesuit
that had attempted to make contact with them.

Although most
of the people there thought it was one of the things in the jungle,
which had made it into the castle, which brought up the question of
why they could not enter that region. Yet some of the scientists
and others thought there was something there preventing them
entering. There would have been signs of them being there!

After setting
up equipment to get a proper look at it they finally managed to get
a close and detailed view of it, which showed that parts of its
composition frequently altered or vanished from view and even
formed other hideous things.

How could such
a thing exist and what was its natural environment? Had it appeared
from the great immense galaxy, and from the immense energy forces
and unnatural environment that existed there? How did create or get
its vast powers, or had it a way of storing them? And what the hell
was the thing doing there?

It shifted
through different states and forms of itself like a freak of
nature, and Bryson started to believe that it had entered from
another strange universe or dimension where things were different
and it was trying to adapt to there, or was a being trapped or
living between dimensions.

He had
witnessed things like it in the last castle, and still had not
solved what was there!

In ancient
times people would have either escaped with their lives and given
accounts of confronting the most deadly and powerful demon from the
deepest depths of hell or given accounts of it attempting to
brutally kill or drain their bodies of energy, and leave their
remains in hideous forms.

Yet when
Bryson told Merton and Mortimer what he believed it was they
ignored and dismissed it, and only admitted that it could be
interdimensional or whatever else, and he realized that they had
discovered something!

After
listening to their assumptions he realized that they believed it
was to do with what had landed them there on the island, and that
it gave reactions and had defenses to certain things, like it
reacted to the airplane’s surveillance scan of it, especially when
it eventually landed them there, after it blocking their scans, and
their scan on the island giving the castle structure.

According the
people on the airplane they had attempted to scan there again just
before they landed at the castle and had picked up interference
that had blocked them seeing any proper results.

Parker and his
scientists were in another world as they had the airplane and all
the valuable equipment, and they had attempted to use it on the
thing rushing through the walls and they had received the same
reactions as their attempt to scan the castle, and they believed
that it was somehow with it!

Sometimes it
had been seen lurking through the dark shadows of the castle doing
unseen hideous things, and examining the formations of things.