Chapter 14: The Treasure

I thought it all had been a dream. I was so wrong. When I woke, Silver had showed me the other map that had been on my back. When we all looked to see if it was there again, it wasn't.

Sea Crow was no where to be seen, and his body was never found. No one seemed to care really. We moved on anyway though.

We went at a pace that would exhaust, but the men wanted the treasure so badly though, you could tell that it didn't phase them.

After what seemed to be hours to me, we reached the area on the map. The only problem was that, well, it was a giant drop ff with a thin bridge, well there were 2 bridges. They lead to a giant rock. The rock was pressed up against the other. There was a small space though. The space was so small that it could fit a young boy in it.

The mist made the drop off look less deep. Though we all knew it would kill the person who fell into it. What worried me most was that there were 2 small bridges, and I didn't know which to use.

Silver spoke up, "Damn, now what? The map says that we are to cross the bridge, but which one, and how? They are way too small for us." Everyone turned to me. I gave second to think something over.

I turned and I took some steps away from the others. I could only think of one thing, my dad's song.

I sang the first verse lowly, "25 paces, drop to your death," I went forward 25 paces. As soon as I reached them, the edge of the drop off was right there. I felt dizzy as I looked down, "Turn to your left, till a tree comes heft." I turned and walked. Soon, a tree was in my way. I stopped "Walk On the day line, but right before night." "When the crow yells, then you have fell out of sight." I looked in front of me, there were the two bridges. One was happy with the faint glow of the sun on it. The other was darker, a shadow looming over it, making it look like night. I took a step on the light one. It creaked, but held my weight. Then I walked on a bit, till I heard a small creak. It sounded like a crows' caw. I jumped onto the dark colored one. I gave sigh as I looked at the light colored bridge. It also took me a few seconds before I found my balance as well. There was a large hole on the lighter one.

I soon reached the edge and got to the other side. I looked across, all of them watched me, some with their mouth's open. Silver only smiled.

I hugged the big stone wall behind me. "Turn to the side, and wiggle on through, only a man, so small, so true." I turned where the gap was between the 2 rocks. I could just fit. I wiggled through.

As I got inside I said the last part. My eyes closed. I thought I could hear someone saying it with me, "Jim you're my son, look forward and see, open your eyes my son, now you see me."

My eyes that had been closed now opened. There was no treasure. Not here. But, there was something else. There were papers. I looked at them all. Books, journals, newspapers. Everything, all of it was about or my father's. I gave a smile.

There was another paper too, another map I was soon to be looking at.

There was a leather bag: I put all of the papers in it. I put the other treasure map in too. I smiled as I hurried back across the bridge.

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, one more chapter to go.

-D.D.Darkwriter

We all fall down.