The Lost Treasure Map Series (98 page)

Cameron then decided to make it up and give
something else!

“
I was shipwrecked on an desert island
and ended up with my clothes in rags, and I was lying on this
incredible golden beach, with waves rhythmically skimming to me,
dreamily.

“
In wet rocks I glimpsed chunks of
wood from the ship floating like they had followed me ashore and I
observed reflections of birds skimming over the surface of the
sea.

“
I had been lucky and luckier than I
had ever been and was one of the survivors!

“
I felt the warm air caressing my
lifeless body and I viewed the whole tropical beach and palm trees
going along the sea, and saw smoke in the distance smouldering up
from a volcano.

“
I had recollections of swimming
ashore and hearing people screaming in the ship and of loud surges
and splashes as the ship sank under the sea.

“
The sun was blazing and the air about
me was turning roasting hot. Patches of sand glowed in bright
sunshine while the turquoise sea sparkled.
”

“
You actually dreamed that? My dreams
are just crazy muddled up messes of thing!
”

“
What happened next?
”
Simpson moaned.

“
What happened? Well, I met with other
survivors and we tried surviving there but there was not enough
food!
”

“
Why don
’
t you just get on with what
happened!
”
Simpson moaned.

“
After being
shipwrecked on the desert island I eventually
spotted a ship on the horizon and when it got close I frantically
waved my arms and jumped up and down and screamed furiously until I
spied a rowboat being let down into the water from the ship and
burst out crying on the beach and collapsed in the sand
...”

“
You
burst out crying in your dream!” Simpson groaned. “How the hell do
you burst out crying in a dream?”

Cameron
ignored his insane ranting, and continued, “About ten minutes later
the rowboat reached the shore carrying a man in a captain’s
uniform!”

Cameron
watched Simpson with amusement!

“
I
shrieked and ran about waving and screaming all over the golden
beach.”

Cameron
watched their strange looks and realized that Simpson was annoyed,
and he realized he was really annoyed with Hanks and his mess of
the horse scheme.

“
The
captain did not recognize my identity as I had turned like Robinson
Crusoe with a giant beard and had bits of animal skins tied around
me for clothing!

“
I’d
gone crazy, and even crazy than ever! I’d turned into a giant wild
beast of the island, running around the island jumping and
screaming through bushes, jungles, racing and screaming after
animals through the vegetation, eating raw meat I ripped out of
pigs, goats, seagulls, fish, and virtually every edible animal and
sea creature, and anything that moved in my sight, while I slept
wildly in bushes and up in high trees, and sometimes up in a
mountain volcano cave, and I was a large hairy ape
creature!

“
When
the captain asked how long I’d been there I just screamed
...”

He watched
Hanks bemused face, and he sat back.

“
I moved
to the edge of the jungle and stood as a lone survivor, and sat
down and chewed a large bone, surrounded by heaps of bones all
about my sides!

“
The
captain gasped, studying my surroundings, and told the others that
I’d turned into a wild beast!

“
One of
the sailors managed to recognize me from a newspaper about the
shipwreck, and they moved closer and fixed their eyes on the piles
of bones and human bones about me! It was clear I had eaten the few
remaining survivors, and two while they were still alive and trying
to escape!”

“
Then
what?” Hanks giggled, amused.

“
Seeing
their stunned expressions I, a wild creature in the dream, hung my
head in shame and the captain stepped forward, shaking his head in
disbelief, and told me that he’d not judge me for doing what was
necessary to survive but the ship had only sunk months before their
arrival!”

Chapter 22

Cameron’s Identical Twin

Cameron was
staring with hazed eyes as he got into a taxi to leave the bar, on
his own as he could not be bothered staying any longer and felt
tired and in the need of a good rest, especially with the drink
they had him consuming.

It had
been incredible that when he had checked the internet, with his
phone, he had found the next day’s newspaper headlines with a
little astonishment as going by Hanks he had secretly let the horse
loose to roam the woods freely forever, until it died, but one
newspaper had a story on it and the army and how he had released it
and it told of a nun finding the horse in her garden and being
attacked by it,
and it carried the headline: NUN
ATTACKED BY MALONE
’
S MONSTER WILLY!

He read the
full article and was even surprised that they had traced where
Hanks had bought the horse, and where the Ebay seller had bought
it, and had discovered why the horse was different and that the
horse had genetic alterations and that it had been crossed with a
killer lion!

For decades
scientists at a major company had been working on increasing the
potential of farm animals, and had genetically advanced and
improved their production!

Some
mutilations, instead of being destroyed, were kept as they had some
potential that they thought they should continue to work on, and
some were animals used for physical exertion that had been crossed
with powerful dangerous animals such as killer lions, as their
potential was far greater! Yet what they never knew was a black
market had formed, especially with animals that looked entirely
like normal animals, but with hidden attributes of animals such as
killer lions, and that they were being sold to the public!

Cameron
recalled the first time he had seen the horse and when the doors of
the bar seemed to explode apart and it shifted into his sight in an
altered motion!

Then he
wondered what the others in the bar would think of it!

After a few
minutes a loud giggle burst out of the taxi driver’s mouth,
watching him in his mirror, and he examined him closely and
realized he was the taxi driver that he had used to drop the
disabled pensioner off at his house and he recalled that he could
have information on his identity, and he sat thinking of what to
do.

Cameron
lightly closed his lips and turned to see an angry expression on
his face and wondered what he was annoyed about.

He realized
how deep his own emotions were at thinking of getting his true
identity from him, and he realized he had to do something, and
thought of something else to change the subject and thought of the
blasted horse and his first thoughts of the thing and that it had
looked like it had been crossed with some form of monster and he
was staggered that they could cross something with such an animal,
and he wondered what the hell they could create if they crossed
humans with killer lions!

It was
supposed to be a racehorse! But why not? He wondered how fast lions
actually were and realized that they should have crossed it with
one of the fastest animals, and he wondered what would happen if
someone found the right animal and crossed it, and got the right
combination!

“
What
did you do with the racehorse?” the taxi driver asked, slightly
turning around, glaring at him as though he was not fully there and
just a figment of his imagination.

He ignored him
and realized that he had to get what he knew about him, and asked,
“Did you say that you knew me?”

“
Yes! I
drove you about! You lost your memory didn’t you? You seem to have
had a bad time of it! That pensioner you tried questioning realized
that too ...”

“
What
did you know about me?” he asked in desperation. “I’ll even pay you
for anything you have!”

“
Alright! I’ll give you what I know, and you can give me a
tip for what you think its worth!”

“
Look,
if you give me what I want I’ll give you everything in my
wallet!”

“
Well!
Let me see! I first saw you when the army camp was put up over
there!”

“
What
else?”

Suddenly he
looked into the mirror at him, looking deep into his eyes, and
called back, “Do you want what I heard?”

“
What?”
he muttered.

“
You
were Prime Minister David Cameron’s twin brother!”

Cameron
gasped, and as he thought it over he realized that if it was true
that they were reacting to him crazily for a reason, and he gasped
at the problem and trouble that it would cause!

“
What
was the story on the killer lion?” he quickly asked, trying to
change the subject.

“
What
killer lion? I never heard anything of any lions!”

“
No
circus or zoos have been here!”

“
The
circus has not been here in years! There were no animals like that
either!”

“
Why was
the army camp put there then?”

“
I don’t
have a clue! Wait a minute! All of you were searching all over the
place! I heard they were looking for something! Right! Now I
remember! It was to do with that airplane or satellite, whatever,
that crashed! They were looking for where it crashed!”

Cameron gasped
and realized that they had not been there to look for a killer lion
after all and he wondered why they had been put there to find the
crash sight and he realized that it had been of alien origins, and
that they had to have been put there on a confidential mission to
search for it and investigate it!

“
I also
saw you when you woke up with your lost memory, in that field, and
in that pool of muck! I was passing there on the road behind
you!”

“
Did you
see anything before then?” Cameron gagged, and realized that he had
actually seen him there, and he hoped he had seen him before he
woke up.

“
I
passed there earlier! It was too distant for me to be totally sure
it was you! I think you were with someone that resembled you, and
you were at the wood at Floors Road, where I’ve seen you before
with the other three soldiers you hangout with!”

Who the hell
looked like him? He hadn’t seen anyone like him!

He was more
confused than when he got in the taxi, and stared miserably at the
floor, and the driver looked on and thought of everything he knew
for what Cameron wanted to know!

Cameron
started scrupulously going over everything, and he examined his
facial features in a mirror, and after examining the Prime Minister
on the internet he realized that he might be the Prime Minister’s
twin, as he was strangely the same, and he realized the only way of
properly proving it and finding out his identity and what had
happened was to meet him, and he removed a drink and poured it down
his throat and started to search for a way to meet the Prime
Minister!

II

The Final
Encounter

Chapter 1

The Extraterrestrial
Dream

In the dark depths of space above the world a
sphere of light shot out and exploded with extraordinary
brightness!

The dream was now like it was something else
and some form of telepathic recording being transmitted from
somewhere, which Cameron could not comprehend! Its magnitude made
him gasp and he was unsure if he felt anything and wondered why he
thought it had somehow damaged him. Strange sounds and lights sent
sensations through him!

His entire sight exploded and filled with
its vivid visions of strange energy alterations and silent roars
vibrating through his mind, and the blur of light swirled in space,
and he seemed to fall out of space and go crashing down towards the
Earth.

As he did he watched space all around him
staggered and for some reason he never knew what space was, as
though he had never seen it before and he was use to something
else, which he could not grasp, and at the fringes of deep space he
was sure there was intergalactic space and a starless expanse of
space where he thought something existed.

Cameron thought of the dream and whether to
awake and he rested on his bed wondering why he had never had such
dreams before and if he could have had and if his memory of it was
gone, and he wondered if the dream was from brain damage!

It continued and he realized he was falling
into the atmosphere at a fantastic velocity and he was unsure if it
was exaggerated.

Cameron opened his eyes and examined his
pale cold complexion in a side mirror beside his hotel bed and
quickly shut his eyes and was amazed that the dream was actually
still there, like a movie, and he had only missed some.

He studied the velocity of movement in it
with great curiosity and was baffled, but still determined to
follow the dream to its conclusion as he would not forgive himself
the next day for missing it, and he wondered again if all the drink
he had was causing damage to his mind.