Chapter 10

Sam gets up slowly, holding onto the seats for support. She flips through the pages of your journal, "Here it is, it says that, "if you need to go to an unknown place, the object that you control will go beyond your control and lead the way." Sam says as she closes the journal.

"So, what you're saying is... the plane is leading us to somewhere? But wait, aren't we going to Yamatai?" Says Victor, looking extremely confused.

"She's right!" Says Nathan. He starts rummaging through his backpack, gets out a small dark blue book, and starts flipping the pages. "Ah. Here it is. It's the exact same words. But it's connected to..." he stops, looking very surprised. "St Francis Folly?! Isn't that in Greece?"

You freeze is shock. "Lara? What's wrong?" Sam says, in a very worried manner.

"That place was where... my father died..."

Kaz comes next to you, and puts her hand around your shoulder, to comfort you.

"Oh my god..." you say. "What?" "I think I know what we're looking for. Nathan, umm... can I borrow that book of yours." He nods and passes it to you.

You take the journal and place on a small table.

You look at the book's cover; it wasn't in its best condition. "By any chance, where did you get this?" you ask him. "Um, it got it from one of your dad's digs, he gave it to me."

You go to the first page, you can see the initials, 'R.J.C'. Those were your grandfather's initials.

You were about to close the book but you feel something under the paper securing the cover. Like a thick piece of parchment.

You pull at the corners of the paper. "Hey! What do you think you're doing!" he says as he tries to pull the book out of your grasp.

You use this to your advantage. As he pulled, you only hold on to the corner of the paper which was loose. You pull with him, and all that's left in your hand is the piece of paper.

You notice a small, folded up piece of cloth, it looked like it was much older than that journal it was in.

You pick it up and unfold it. "The Scion!" Says Nathan.

"The what?!" Sullivan says.

"It's called the Scion. This thing... this mechanism, is used to decipher words... as far as I know. But... what is it doing here? I mean, I don't suppose a piece of old cloth, which was hidden, and I don't think it was meant to be found, isn't of some type of importance."

You say, "Look, all I know is that my father, and especially my grandfather, kept a lot of secrets. But for a good cause. This must mean that the Scion is… dangerous. And I don't wish to put my friends and you in any type of danger… not like… Yamatai."

You look out of the window to see... what do you see? Ah yes, the beauty of nature being destroyed ever so slowly by humans. An abandoned oil rig. But… you can see people on it. No, corpses on it. All laying down in the most uncomfortable manner. You look away, "guys? Come see this."

They all take their own small, personal window, and you take yours too. You look out…

…they're gone.

"What the-… where did they go? I saw- "you say, everybody starts looking at you with a look, a look that makes you very uncomfortable, but you aren't able to decipher it. You look back, there's only an oil rig, no people, no corpses. Are you starting to hallucinate? Or was it just bad eye-sight? No, it can't be, it was too vivid to be a misunderstanding. It has to be true.

"NO ONE LEAVES" you hear, as more shouting can be heard as you were descending quite steeply. You can see flares being shot from the small gaps between the metal bars. You can hear shots being fired, as the bullets either ricochet or go through the vintage plane.

"We have to land!" Kaz says, you can see the extreme worry in her eyes. You can feel the plane starting to lose engine strength, as its descending in a much steeper manner. You go to the front of the plane and try to pull the plane back, you can feel a slight change of direction, but it's not enough.

The plane is almost touching the bottomless, murky ocean, and now that you're very close to the 'abandoned' oil rig, you can hear people shouting, "KILL 'EM" or "LET THEM DIE".

There's light passing through the bullet holes in the plane, and as time goes by, more holes accumulate, and the plane loses more power. Now the plane is almost skimming the surface of the water, and now everyone is panicking. Even you. You don't know what to do.

You go to the cock pit, and try to pull the plane back, but instead the control panel pulls off.

CRASH…