The Lost Treasure Map Trilogy (Part I)

by V Bertolaccini

  Bryson at times spotted that the artifact looked like it turned vaguely translucent and he thought he saw the shape of something inside it, and after along time of carefully examinations he thought he saw a life form inside it, resting flat, in some form of rest.

  It looked powerful, and perhaps deadly! By the artifact he could tell that it had much power but he could recognize what it was or what it could do, and glared at it trying to get a clue.

  They learned some information from a leading Exploration Association member nearby, but he realized that they wanted everyone to get everything from the scientists that were going to appear on stage, and he was convinced it was true by the media further along from him and their reactions to them on not wanting anyone to get anything before what happened there, as the scientists particularly never wanted the media to get any information until they gave it.

  It looked like some form of freak show at angles, with the museum’s strange lighting there.

  Every major scientist and media source seemed to be there and he wondered why the Exploration Association members were so obsessed with such displays and occurrences!

  He examined a brochure that had been handed to him and realized that he should have visited the museum before and was amazed at the amount of historical and interesting artifacts there, detailed filmed accounts of the artifact finding, and stuff on ancient civilizations uncovered, with detailed accounts of findings at their locations, and on space, other worlds and environments, and he even saw some of the work that he had recently heard of, and decided to visit the place in the future.

  The artifact and energy bubble was astounding, placed in the center of the stage, in bright colored beams of light, fascinating everyone there and especially those still arriving.

  The featured expeditions at the museum were some of the best and some people left there to visit them, and some remained looking worried at what was going to happen there and perhaps wondering how dangerous things actually would become!

  Many people even thought of it as a type of horror show and examined it as a strange evil look exhibition, with anticipations of more in the upcoming lectures.

  Some of the exhibitions were clearly set up like they were based on other worlds, and he wondered what the outcome of the occurrences would be and if it was going to be part of the greatest of them all, which he liked the thought of being a major part of and was one of his dreams.

  He realized that Merton and Mortimer were not fully known as paranormal scientists from nearby conversations, and only vague descriptions of them investigating that sort of work was revealed.

  On the stage a few scientists emerged and shifted over to the artifact, and a leading scientist and member of the Exploration Association arrived and gasped when they saw the artifact, in its new state, and ignored it and rushed over to the microphone and started giving detailed descriptions of their detection of the artifact, and their detection of its new energy source.

  “More details of the artifact will soon be revealed,” Professor Thomas revealed. “It should give you more of an insight into what it is! We have scientific findings but little on where it came from, which surely is somewhere exceedingly advanced, as all the information indicates. There only seems to be one of its kind on the whole world! Its present state shows us more about it!

  “More particular facts of the being inside the artifact may become known some day if we find a way to control the artifact, which will allow us to study it.

  “A variety of clues of its highly advanced technology were found. Though we still have found little on, even with our technology!”

  Bryson watched a group of scientists bringing in equipment and arranging it around the energy bubble around the artifact, and Bryson gasped and wondered what they were doing and dealing with, and for a moment thought he saw the being inside it shift.

  A highly advanced clock was entered into the energy bubble’s field by the scientists, and the scientists reacted immediately when they noticed results and concluded that its precision digital numbers were frozen, and it altered into multidimensional forms as the clock was shifted slightly inwards, and they studied the suspended cluster of partially transparent layers, and the audience all watched the phenomenon with amazement.

  Many famous scientist sat astounded, and many filmed it and what might be an incredible historic occurrence and a discovery that might prove time travel existed and that they might finally fully prove what it was, and Bryson watched the media go crazy filming it, surprised.

  The scientists occasionally gave detailed explanations of what they were doing and believed was occurring, and they had the clock edged into the confines of the energy bubble, creating magnificent optical effects with the clock, making it distort in twisted forms, deliberately designed for their stage performance, shaping beams of light with matter.

  New leading scientists were allowed to investigate it and they crowded around it loudly discussing it, and they applauded it and announced it was the first discover of a form of time travel anyone had found, and the audience wildly applauded.

  Most of the audience watched on in wonder, and many watched on wondering what the hell it was, as it was far more different than he had thought, and Bryson realized that he had not heard anything that could properly explain how it worked and he studied the two paranormal scientists and main scientists in hope of picking something up.

  It looked as if it were rupturing the fabric of space that played with time, with properties of altering and suspending it!

  Many of the leading scientists that had been working with it were carrying out numerous basic and complex experiments on it with all the equipment available to them, and they showed detailed information had been accumulated, but most was not currently available, and it left the other scientists, media, and public wondering what else they had!

  The abnormal antics of some of the scientists and technicians at times was captivating, mystifying them with the depth of their fears of something, and Bryson had not seen them actually react about anything without there being something there!

  Some repetitively studied readings from equipment that they had set up around it!

  Were they preparing themselves for something, which he saw the two paranormal scientists occasionally become aware of?

  Why did they not do anything if they really did believe there was something? What the hell was the thing in it? Was it really of supernatural origins?

  A swift flash of light appeared from a laser and exploded into a particular region of the artifact within the energy bubble, silencing the entire audience instantly.

  Professor Thomas calmly gave other information that they had found out about it.

  “We only discovered this state of the artifact after we carried out experiments on it by firing laser beams at it!” he told them, watching it at the side of his eye. “A computer used many millions of special sequences continuously on it until the artifact altered into this state! It was done after some examinations of a region of it, and some of us believed it might be activated by special laser flashes in particular sequences. The activation sequence has since been studied, and we think we have some more activation sequence codes to get it to carry out other functions.”

  Many people talked about it taking people through time and that they had been witnessing forms of time travel, and Bryson started to realize that it was something – and why it was so dangerous!

  “What are they intending to do?” a woman from the media asked Mortimer, recognizing him. “Could it be used to do something far more incredible – with it fascinating properties?”

  Mortimer examined her in a glance and thought of the best reply, and replied, “All the scientists have been investigating it with everything they have, which is still not enough, and if they find anything I can assure they will inform you!”

  “I’ve heard the artifact exists in other dimensions?” she asked, surprising Mortimer, and Bryson realized that she might have heard stuff about their investi
gations into other dimensions at the American castle, and he saw that they had the equipment that they had used to examine other dimensions.

  “We’ve ways of detecting other things from it!” Professor Thomas calmly announced, watching Mortimer. “We’ve detected many energy sources from it, and have detected other stuff exists!”

  While Thomas was talking Bryson saw how more powerful the energy in the energy bubble seemed to become, and he examined its lethal appearance and it even looked like it could explode in an immense energy discharge.

  “We are going to carry out an experiment and try another laser sequence of interest that was recently discovered that has not been used!” Thomas announced, and the laser started blasting the sequence at the artifact.

  A man near the center of the media in the audience loudly gasped and pointed at its altered appearance, and the audience went silent.

  Bryson spotted the center of where the being was in the artifact in the denser energy bubble and that it was turning bright, and it became louder and brighter and it started shaking, and then started knocking everything furiously about, knocking all the scientists about, and they fell over, and a sudden shockwave blasted through the whole museum floor throwing everything and everyone about, and it died away.

  The hall instantly turned silent and the audience started to recover, and repair the damage, and Bryson noticed the two paranormal scientists dramatically talking and he checked where they were looking and realized that the energy bubble had gone, and that the being had appeared from inside the artifact.

  Chapter 7

  The Encounter

  The scientists decided against going near the thing and located at a place away from the stage where they could make a dramatic exit if anything went wrong, where it was close enough to make observations and proper surveillance to monitor it.

  The thing had resemblances to a human but was made of energy, which was mainly fully invisible in places and other parts became invisible or turned visible in places, and Bryson realized it could be thought of as some form of ghost if they encountered it on a dark night in some ancient place, like a graveyard.

  It was unpredictable in its movements and looked wounded or something, and staggered about, and nobody seemed to have a clue what it was! It made small leaps forward through space, surely teleportation, and on its reappearance seemed to be frozen in time.

  The scientists about Bryson believed that it was unstable and attempting to form and adapt into its surroundings and become normal matter, and he realized many were keeping secretive about some of their thoughts and discoveries.

  “It is new!” Mortimer finally declared, after observing its movements, and he watched it as if he had been waiting all his life to see it, and gasped a few times, and examined what he was looking for, and even looked staggered a few times.

  “What do you make of it?” Mortimer eventually asked, as they sat in some seats. “We still have nothing given on its identity!”

  He started consulting quietly with Merton and other scientists around them joined in, but they still seemed to avoid giving a firm answer or anything.

  Mortimer eventually tried to talk them into doing something, and announced, “It seems to me to be still in an energy form and trying to become solid, and parts of it occasionally take some solidness! We can barely see any of its proper features though! I think it has been altered into something by something! Perhaps to survive here! It must have many incredible hidden powers, which we have not encountered before!”

  “It has a very mysterious nature!” Merton replied first. “I think it may be using some form of technology to reform itself, and it may or may not be successful or it may take far longer to do. It is handling the situation! Its may be trying to adapt!”

  “We don’t know what the hell that is?” one of the security guards behind them moaned. “Do you have a way to capture it? We have not heard of anything like it!”

  Bryson wondered again if the two paranormal scientists thought it was of paranormal origins and were avoiding ruining their reputations, and a short time later he heard them mention it in a silent debate with each other.

  What surprised him and a few others the most about them was how they reacted and treated such things when there was a suggestion of there being supernatural there, and he wondered again if they had something or were actually covering up something else?

  He now wondered if they actually did find anything if they would show it, and if what they showed would it ever be enough to prove its existence and that they were dealing with something supernatural?

  Explanations by people could easily prove that it was not, which usually was the case, and the thing in front of them was highly advanced and could easily be an ancient alien form.

  They started consulting with each other openly on what it could be clearly attempting to get the others to give them their thoughts, while leaving things open to anyone to add to and the other scientist to add their thoughts to freely.

  What they mainly agreed to was that they thought it was new and had an entirely new status!

  After a great deal of discussions and surveillance, checking of new and old readings, and of observations through monitors from every form of surveillance, from all the equipment everyone brought in and set up around the phenomenon at every good conceivable angle, they all remained set on leaving everything on what could happen open, and they took in all the information, and only admitted to it was more advanced than anything that they had seen, and perhaps would see at many angles.

  For some reason it never seemed to acknowledge them! Bryson was sure that it knew of their presence. If it was advanced as they claimed, he wondered why it never left there, as it could easily shift away and surely go through walls and get away.

  They continuously considered what would happen next, as it was not clear anywhere. They would just have to wait for whatever the outcome would be!

  He was sure it was attempting to transform into something and adapt to its surroundings, and wondered how dangerous it could be? Could it make itself invisible? Or teleport itself to somewhere else? Though it currently looked as though it had limited powers or damage that was stopping it doing something.

  All the scientists conclusively had a meeting and agreed to begin the activation of a screen around it, where they would use anything that they could to confine it to where it was, to stop it escaping, and work on a way of removing it from the museum to a safe location, away from public regions.

  Chapter 8

  The Energy Bubble

  Forms of the being consistently rematerialized and altered within the energy field they activated around it, with it floating over the center of the artifact, while all the scientists stood in a circle going right around it, examining it close up for the first time, and they stood staggered when they grasped how human it actually was, and tried to grasp what it was doing and if it was in pain.

  Bryson was also staggered and even wondered if they were responsible for what was happening to it, and if they were underestimating its powers and what it would do if it freed itself?

  It resembled a magical being, or magical human! Its normal state captured their imaginations, and they repeatedly tried to grasp what it was! What was it doing there? Why had it chosen where it had been? What had happened?

  At times it expanded in size and took the appearance of a shocking giant demon shape, glowing with energy, as it altered and whirled with hideous energy surges, while something seemed to consistently stop it vanishing.

  He wondered what the Exploration Association scientists intended to do with it? They surely would have to remove it from the museum? Or would they place it there as one of their exhibitions? It was famous and an interesting science exhibition! There was a rumor of going around of them doing a deal and that they would leave it there until it formed into what it was forming, or they no longer wanted it. Yet someone might eventually remove the energy field around, and something might happen?

  It was an i
ncredible discovery and advertisement for the Exploration Association and the public would love the exhibit!

  The entire area at the back of the stage and scientists was now covered in equipment and scientists studying information about it, with many close examinations of the energy bubble examining all the new forms of energy discovered earlier.

  The energy bubble still altered time and they checked its field and power and what it did at different points about it, and the scientists reacted immediately when they received new unknown findings.

  It looked as though it were rupturing space and time and playing with it in its energy sphere. It had strange properties that were crazy to them! Perhaps due to it being damaged in some way was the main explanation! It was creating alterations in the fabric of space and time, but could it allow some form of gateway into the depths of it to exist?

  While the media captured the global media, greater amounts of principal scientific groups became interested and countless principal global scientists arrived and carried out numerous fundamental and complicated research and experiments throughout it, using more advanced and unheard of equipment, while others monitored and stored as much as they could, in greater degrees.

  Yet nobody could still determine its origins or if it came from this universe! It even seemed that they could be there the rest of their lives exploring it and not coming up with the proper explanations to its origins and use, never achieving their goal.

  Bryson occasionally shuddered as he studied its shape hovering over the artifact!

  The abnormal antics of some scientists at times also captivated him, mystifying him with the depth of their nervousness and fear! Some repetitively studied the readings and their equipment and with alarm, preparing themselves for something that he saw the two paranormal scientists gradually become aware of!