Chapter 4 The Island, The Mystery
Everyone held their heads. The world slowly came back to view, revealing a dark cabin with sun light shining through the windows, making them all wince. The life boat was leaning a little to the side, making it difficult to move around. "Is everyone okay?" said Dave as he sat up. Everyone groaned in pain as the nodded.
Dave slowly got up and moved over to the hatch. In one quick move, he grabed the handle pushed it down, causing the hatch to spring open . As soon as it did, they were greated by a huge tropical beach with bright warm, blue tinted water.
Everyone slowly stepped out their eyes stuggling to adjust to the dark. As soon as they adjusted, they stood still looking out over the beach. The waves gentely hit the shore, creating a calm, relaxing sound. But Alvin wasn't concintrating on that, as soon as he stepped out, a erie feeling crept up his spine. One that made his skin and fur crawl, but just shruged it off.
The calm sounds were soon ingnored as everyone saw Sarah and her kids go for the waters edge. Sarah's head franticly looked about, looking out over the ocean, hoping to see any sign of her husband. "Don't worry Sarah" said Alvin as he picked up his daughter, "A little water isn't going to harm Tyler". Sarah quickly looked back at Alvin, giving him a sharp stare, "You have no idea how many times I heard that" she growled as she stared at Alvin.
"And you will keep hearing it" said a coughing voice from the water. Everyone turned and saw Tyler emerging from the water, coughing like a bad smoker. As soon as he was on the sand, Sarah, Sandra and TJ ran for Tyler, plowing into him, and wrapped their arms around him, holding him tightly.
Tyler tried to huge back, but had to keep turning his head from the coughing. "Are you alright Tyler?" said Jeanette as they all approached him. "I'm fine" he hacked, "the transition from breathing water to air can be a little rough". He then hugged his family as his coughing slowly started to subside.
After a moment, his family pulled away, but stayed right beside him. Tyler then looked up with a confused look. "Did you guys see that bolt of lightning. I never saw anything like that". "That was odd" said Simon, "lightning is never that purple".
Tyler just shrugged as his skin turned bright red, causing the water to evaporate from his clothes. "Something to figure out later" he said as he stood up. Tyler took one step forward, then suddenly stopped as he looked out over the forest.
He then slowly looked down at Alvin with a confused look. "Alvin, do you have a odd, creepy feeling about this place?" he said as he looked into the woods. "You feel it to" said Alvin as he looked in the direction Tyler was looking.
"What's wrong?" said Claire as she and Dave went up to Tyler. "I don't know" said Tyler as he slowly turned to them, his eyes still locked on the forest, "just looking at that forest, it feels like there is something looking back us, something bad, something evil".
"Not only that" said Alvin, "but it feels like a cloud of evil covers this island like a blanket". "Maybe you should use your powers and get off this island" said Brittany as she grabed Alvin's paw. "Great idea" said Alvin as he looked up at Tyler. He gave a nod in agreement as he gestured for everyone to gather.
"Everyone hudle close togeather" said Tyler as they grouped togeather. Everyone closed their eyes, bracing for what was next, but nothing happened. Slowly opening their eyes, they looked at Tyler and Alvin. "Taking our time are we" said Simon as he looked at them with a smile.
All Simon got though was a look of concern from Alvin and Tyler. "No, we should have left by now" said Alvin as he looked at Tyler confused. Tyler then placed his fingers on his right temple and closed his eyes, almost looking like he was going into a trance. "What's he doing?" whispeared Sarah as she looked at Alvin.
"He's checking to see why our powers didn't work" said Alvin as he kept his eyes locked on Tyler. After what seemed like hours, Tyler opened his eyes, with a expresion of shock on his face. "Well" said Dave as he looked at Tyler. "I can't explain it" said Tyler in disbeleif, "but a lot of our powers are useless, including healing".
He then looked down at Alvin, "We're going to be stuck here a while". "What do we do now daddy?" said TJ as he looked at his father. Tyler smiled as he rubbed the top of his son's head. "We go and find the rest of the passangers from the ship".
"And how are we going to do that?" said Jeanette as she crossed her arms, "we don't even know where to start". "I do" said Tyler as he stood up. "You boat was far from the ship, you were pushed in a diffrent direction. One of the last things I saw were the rest of the life boats get pushed away in the opposite direction. It is possible they are on the other side of the island".
Alvin went white, knowing where Tyler was going with this. "No, please no" said Alvin as he looked at Tyler in disbelief, "there has to be a better way". "It is the quickest way across Alvin" said Tyler. "There must be another way" pleaded Alvin.
"What are you talking about" said Brittany, looking at the two of them confused. Both remained silent for a moment, then Tyler finally spoke. "The quickest way to get across the island is to go through it. Straight though the forest". "But you said there was something bad about that forest" said Theodore as he hugged Eleanor and their kids.
"It is the only way" said Tyler, "lets gather up supplies, and we head out".
