The Lost Treasure Map Series (84 page)

“
No!”

“
Why did
you kill our friends?” one of the archeologists asked.

“
I was
searching for information in their rooms! I did not want to be
discovered and could have been killed myself! I am still not fully
sure of your identity!”

“
Have
you heard anything of the ultimate time traveler and the lost
treasures?” Bryson asked.

He laughed
aloud, and went into fits of hysterical laughs, and stopped himself
and held himself, and answered humorously, “What you don’t believe
in those old tales? Even though that alien encounter threw us back
in time and onto this island, which was an original prehistoric
Earth island, time travel is too dangerous and many people who
attempted to find the ultimate time traveler and its lost treasures
with it have died!”

Bryson watched the billion year old man
gradually fall over dead, and he wondered if they had made a
mistake and killed the last human born on the planet Earth!

Chapter 23

The Zombies

On their way
back through the dark jungle they barely noticed the darkness and
dangers and Bryson even walked into a few trees, while in deep
thought over what they had witnessed.

It was
incredible he had met one of the last people to set foot on the
Earth and they had thought he was a killer ape!

A thin fog
engulfed them without him noticing it and it soon thickened around
them and he thought of it as part of his hazy tired vision and
daydreams of what had taken place there.

Would the
others believe that the castle was an ultimate last starship of the
planet Earth, and that thing that had landed the airplane had been
an alien that had captured it and landed it there?

Peculiar vivid
streaks like colored lightning exploded all about them all through
the jungle and Bryson saw the sky above through the thickening mist
filling with massive blinding stars that he had never seen
before.

It was like
seeing there at another time in the future or past!

One star’s
flickering light streaked into his face showing its real immensity!
A truly unique form of space from somewhere else emerging
there.

He wondered
from his scientific perspective what larger and more advanced life
forms would be like in such an environment. He sometimes thought
the Earth existed in one of the most barn regions of space, and
avoid things.

The fog
rapidly engulfed them and thickened and they lost more of what
little sight they had, and they moved faster, but they were all too
tired to go faster without exhausting themselves, draining
themselves of energy.

If only they
could discover what was there without being killed, and he would be
annoyed if they never found anything!

Thick mud and
vegetation shrouded everything and they had to force their way
through regions, and it forced him into realizing that the
archeologists had taken a slightly different route back!

It covered
their boots and clothes with muck, and he imagined the mind-bending
landscapes beyond there and he realized how tired he felt.

It was
shocking how easily they could get trapped and lost and the worst
of it was he could not realize how they could have avoided it
now.

Everything
turned indistinguishable about him and he wondered if it would be
the end of him!

He was sure
that they were actually appearing on another world and he saw
through gaps in the thickening fog and saw distant regions of
strange places. Yet they stuck to the same route and never seemed
tire or alter their course, and he wondered if they could have
gotten out of it by going back and remaining there for it to
change.

He was sure
that it might have been a different route that they had taken. The
killer had told them that it had defenses and things to scare away
with, and he was sure that the route that he had taken and they had
followed avoided it!

Strange high
frequencies shadowed them driving the archeologists insane trying
to identify them, and Bryson wondered if he could find the route
from where he was and he recalled the route that they had taken
back and at what angle they had left it, and he measured the
distance away from them it was, and started talking the
archeologists and Merton into shifting over to it and they
eventually started moving directly over to it.

Though their
legs started entering deep bogs of stinking rotting vegetation with
chemical stenches, resembling some chemical that he kept examining
to identify, wondering how such chemicals got there, and he knew
that it was being created like the other effects to scare them away
from the castle.

Out of nowhere
a powerful light emerged through the thickest formation of the mist
with its radiance pulsating as an entity, magically illuminating
the fog around them with strange shadow formations from things he
could not see, creating mind-bending shifting shadows that weaved
and probed their way towards them.

Sounds of
heavy pounds of beasts of incredible size and weight emerged,
causing them to scurry fast without being able to see anything with
the fog thickening.

The
archeologists stopped and started to conserve their energy and
withdrew their weapons and Bryson and Merton put themselves out of
the way of the two archeologists to allow them to fire at anything
around them.

Bryson watched
how each of them reacted and noticed Merton reacted the least and
even looked as if he was not bothered by it.

For a short
time they ran almost blindly through the fog and stopped when they
saw humans, aliens, and robots of the future shifting through thin
areas of mist, and Bryson saw them and tribes of ancient warriors
with swords emerging and turning solid, covered in blood and
wounds, clearly coming out of battles.

Their heavy
violent sounds furiously exploded out as they charged at each other
and them and the archeologists shot the most dangerous, and they
watched some get back onto their feet, even with their limbs
hanging from them, and they started realizing that they were
zombies, and had come from some supernatural place.

Their
intelligence was less than they had thought and they were barely
human, and only tried to kill or scare them, and Bryson rushed over
to one and threw it on the ground and took his sword and shield,
and he used it to get another zombie’s sword and shield that he
gave to Merton.

They soon
stopped them, and moved sideways over towards the route, where
Bryson was sure they could not go.

Later Bryson
started to realize that they were wearing things of the future and
that the swords were not made by ancient craftsmen but future
technology, and he was sure that they had been created by the
starship to scare outsiders away at sometime, and Bryson was
astounded when he saw an immaculate woman with long shiny golden
hair appear, who was not like the rest, who seemed not to be a
zombie, which he remained unsure of, and he saw her giving commands
to many of them.

While they
were moving away from them the fog thinned more and more and Bryson
saw the route that they had followed the killer on, and they rushed
over to it as fast as they could, and when they arrived there they
all rested and waited for the outcome.

It was like
being in someone else’s nightmare and Bryson started to get annoyed
over his avoidance of doing anything to stop them not taking the
same route back to the castle, and when he turned he saw an immense
shadow spread through an area of the fog, where sounds exploded
out!

They were
breathless and they all stared blankly, and the dark shape shifting
through the mist.

It was like a phantom oasis out on the edge
of realism, with the things charging out of the depths of hell!

The mist and everything started vanishing
and he watched the woman warrior as she left and wondered who she
was, and knew she had been a famous queen, and he saw a colossal
ghost demon shape floating through the last of the mist, before it
vanished.

Chapter 24

The Exploration

When Bryson arrived at the center of the
castle he was amazed at the activity and equipment in the room at
the central tunnel, and they were amazed at how positive he was
that it was the ultimate time traveler buried there.

The scientists were still adjusting and
setting up equipment all about the region around the tunnel, and by
their descriptions he knew that their technology had gone beyond
anything that they had seen, which was immense and powerful, and
the power supply there had been increased immensely with large
cables being fed into there from massive generators that they had
fitted there.

He had not even been able to get near
Mortimer, who was now an advisor on things!

Most of them had so much work that many of
them had not slept in a long time!

The Parker
’
s scientists had full control of the
situation, and they clearly knew the equipment far better than any
of them.

Their mission there seemed to be like a
death or glory scenario. He was sure that they really wanted
answers to what was there! And to make contact with it! Their
interest in the alien there was tremendous and far more than he had
thought! They were also checking out the tunnel up at the castle
tower, and where the steps had collapsed and they were lowering
cameras and equipment on ropes to the bottom.

There was still much confusion and variation
on what they thought was there, and they could only really
investigate things as far as he was concerned.

One of the pilots arrived and was escorted
around places by Merton and he occasionally gave gasps at what
Merton suggested they were doing, and had the look of someone
considering finding a hidden place when the action began.

The killer and deaths there surprised them
and he told them what had happened, and what the castle was and
they all listened in amazement!

The pilot then told him what had happened
when they had left to go on the expedition to find the structure,
and while they had been sleeping their camp had been attacked by a
real prehistoric dinosaur, and the Tyrannosaurus rex had smashed up
their camp and they had escaped, and he claimed that it was larger
than the original version, and had altered in many of its features,
as were the most of the prehistoric animals and things that they
had encountered, and many had been larger than the largest skeleton
specimens that they had seen.

It surprised Bryson that they had gone to
the coast of the island to see if there had been any other islands
visible, and that they had encountered many incredible things
there, and that the coast at the sea had gone straight downwards
for at least a mile, and the horizon over the sea vanished into
mist and they had just been able to see through it before they had
left there and that there were no islands there.

All their accounts and their flight over the
island proved that different areas of the island had different
landscapes and wildlife inhabiting it.

Bryson was amazed at their recorded findings
there, and realized that they all seemed to believe it in their
ability to find a way to return to the Earth.

According to one scientist that
arrived there they had been two more sightings of other things of
paranormal that resembled ghosts, which resembled the thing in the
spacesuit that had arrived in the meeting room. The disturbances
were clearly increasing and some scientists were working away to
solve the mystery, and find a solution, and Bryson realized that
they had found evidence that it had been the
castle
’
s
defenses, which they had encountered outside in the jungle, and
that it had not been it, which Bryson believed was true, especially
after Mortimer told him that he believed that it had
not.

He believed it knew everything and that they
had to do something for it!

Yet Bryson and nobody there could fully
prove that they were not in any danger, and if they could get away
from there alive!

Bryson knew there was far more behind Parker
and his scientists, and he left things there. He wondered again
what they put in their reports about all the occurrences.

In the end the scientists decided against
going near or in the direct path of the alien if possible and to
detect as much as possible, and if possible where and what it was,
which was what they were attempting to do, and mainly to locate it
and everything with it in other dimensions, and find out what was
there and build up an illustration of it and what they were dealing
with.

If anything attacked them they had a
procedure to escape from there, which Bryson thought was
useless!

Bryson was surprised when one of the
scientists called them over to a computer screen and showed a
blurred view of some form of energy in the tunnel, which Bryson was
sure was authentic and that it was normally invisible.

“
This is entirely
new!
”
Mortimer stated, considering it from various perspectives,
and he watched it as if he had been waiting all his life to see
what was there, and gasped slightly.

“
What do you make of
it?
”
Parker
asked, walking over to them.
“
We so far have had nothing properly put
forward on what its identity is?
”

“
How about calling it the ultimate
time traveler?
”
Bryson stated, realizing that they dismissed it.