Alien Slave 2
Chapter 9: Speeches and Maps
"Pebbles."
"Pebbbbleesss."
"Pebbles."
"Peebblles."
I placed the pebbles on the ground. Teaching the alien English was tiring. I had to constantly repeat the words and point to the object or action, it was like teaching a child who does not even know the basic ABC's. It was frustrating, yet exciting too , especially when the alien performed beyond my expectations.
I threw a peddle across the cave, I signalled to the alien to say what I did.
"Timmmmmm throwwww peebblllee aaacroosss caveeee."
"Good." I was excited, the alien could speak simple sentences. The alien was smarter than I initially thought. If the alien could speak simple sentences, than I could teach him to speak longer sentences, and to speak by himself without aid.
"You are a smart creature, let's see if you can say a sentence on your own." I said.
"Me Tim Human. You?" I simply said. Without any hand signal.
The alien heard my voice and looked towards me with his big red blob eye. I laid against the cave wall, with my arms folded.
"Me Tim Human. You?" I said again, without any arm or hand signal. The alien looked at me, he knew I was trying to communicate with it, but he had trouble figuring out what I meant without signals.
"Come on....you know what I am saying...." I muttered. "Me Tim Human. You?
I looked at the alien, I knew the alien was trying to figure out what I meant. I could tell that the alien's brain was working.
"Come on....you can do it...." I concentrated my thoughts on the alien. The alien began, it moved his tiny lips. I could see the amount of concentration the alien was summoning by his facial expression.
"Meeeee Iniss Alien......Youuuuuu Timmmmm Humannnnn." The alien said in a very slow and slurred voice.
"Bravo.....bravo..." I clapped my hands like it was a stage performance. The alien gave me it's weird smile. I smiled back. The alien's face lit up when I smiled. He was pleased with himself.
"All right. So, we know that the alien needs shelter and water. We definitely know that the water source is the water hole where the massacre took place." The expert said.
"Yes. This would mean that the shelter must be near by. It would be probably shelter in a cave." General Romata said.
"Correct. That's where we narrow our search area down to. Do we have a map of the park which features geological location?" The expert asked.
"Yes we do. In fact, the map we acquired from the station is so detailed we do not know where to start." Romata replied.
"Good. Pass me the map." Romata grabbed the map and unrolled the map across the desk. The map was scribbled all over with markings and coordinates making it almost impossible to work out where was where.
"Get what I mean? There is so much detail it is impossible to even work it out." Romata sighed, if the expert could not work out where the alien might be, he was going to be in trouble. Serious trouble.
"Hmmmmm. The map you have here is....GREAT! Whoever owned this map must have marked out all landmarks and caves when he roamed though the park. It would lessen the job." The expert leaned downed and began to examined the map, starting with the water fall. He ran his finger along the map.
"Right than. I have another map of the park. Work out all the caves in the area and mark the area where I can start searching." Romata took another map from his backpack. He felt relieve inside, at least things were looking up.
"Well.....from what I can see here, you only need to visit one cave." The expert said, pleased.
"One?" Romata questioned.
"There is only one cave within a reasonable distance to the water source. Chances that it will be there is pretty high." The expert said, optimistically.
"Where?"
"There." The expert smiled, and pointed.
Author's Note: The chapter will be alot longer and will conclude the jungle scene, plus introduce a new plot. Sorry if this chapter is a little short, but it is for preperation for the next. Thanks