Chapter 38: The Connection and Truth

"Now how long has it been since thing has been dead?" said Dr. Alfred. He was 38 years old and had mustache. He walked with a cane, had pale hazel eyes, and light black and grey hair.

"According to my knowledge," replied his assistant, "It's been dead for months when a security guard at the Shamouti Island Hospital shot it. How this happened anyways?"

"I was beginning to open it up yesterday," said Dr. Alfred, "All the surrounding universities and labs have seen it, and now I finally got my chance to examine it. No one dare to open it up and look at it organs to see how this thing lived."

"And?" said the assistant with interest.

"I'm getting there," said Dr. Alfred, "So I decide to check it out. I reached for the scalpel to open it and when I turn to it, it was gone. I turned towards the mini aquarium I have and it was swimming in it and eating all the fish in it."

"That's impossible," said the assistant, "but yet I see it now swimming in the pool before us. I heard it used to belong to a lad on the island there. Since he was with it more then us, maybe we should ask him about it and learn what he knows about it."

"Good idea," said Dr. Alfred, "I remember correctly that the boy is called Max Waterliles."

"Wow," said Blusix to May has he looked on his laptop, "Look at all these hits we got just on the video we released." Both of them were now on Diamond Island of the neighboring island chain near the Orange Islands, called the Jewel Islands. Both of them had set up a webpage and place the electric creature video on it. They also set up a small system so that people could write what they think of the footage and start web blogs so that they could talk about it to others.

Now it was 2 weeks since they talked on the news about the creatures. Now they were hold up in a hotel and in there room. Since they had the video footage on the web too, they had over 2 million hits.

"I knew this be popular," said May with confidence, "It's time that the public knew about what was in there oceans."

"What about the orange glowing fish and how they change people into hybrids?" said Blusix looking at her, "Shouldn't the public know about it too?"

"Misty is one of them," replied May, "I don't want her to get hurt and examine by the military or scientists. That would be hurting her to bad."

"We hurt other already," said Blusix, "We betray our friends' trusts. It hurts to be betrayed by someone you trust. We hurt Riche, Ronjad, Lovrina, Melody, and Ash."

"They have to understand that the public must know the truth sometime," said May.

"Hey!" alerted Blusix to May who was know looking at the screen, "Check out this weird message." May turned to the laptop and read the message,

"Dear Blusix and May,

I have seen your TV appearance and talked about the strange creatures. I have some information that will be important to you. Please meet me at the airfield on the other side of Diamond Island.

From,

XXStrangeXX."

"What you think?" said Blusix to May, "Should we check this out XXStrangeXX character?"

There was a knocking at Max's door of the motel. Max and Whitey, who was there playing video games on the TV, went to answer the door. When they open it, two tall figures were standing in the doorway.

"Would any of you two be Max Waterliles?" said the older man, "We need to talk to him."

"That would be me," said Max, "What do you need with me?"

"We understand that you had a strange creature with you at one time," said the younger man, "Witnesses say you called it Mio?"

"Mio?" said Max surprised, "You know what happened to Mio? What you do with him?"

"Nothing," said the older man, "He some how survived the bullet wounds and they heal. Now Mio is alive and back at our lab on the island that is two miles from here. We would like for you to come with us to see him and answer some important questions."

"HEY!" shouted Ronjad running up, "What are you doing here? This is private property, beat it."

"Hold it Ronjad," issued Max, "These guys said they have Mio back at their place and is alive. I want to see him for myself."

Ronjad stared at him hard and then said to the men, "I'm coming with him so there is no funny business going on."

"You are free to come if you want to," said the younger man.

"Me too," said Whitey, "I have to see this for myself to believe Mio is alive." Both men looked at each other, nodded, and agreed that he could come too.

"Where is this person?" said May to Blusix as they waited. They arrived on the other side of the island which was a huge canyon that led strait out towards a beach at the end. They been waiting for two hours and they were losing their patience

"Maybe that's him?" answered Blusix upward into the sky. They saw a helicopter landing in front of them. When it landed, a boy opened it up. He was not a bit older than Ronjad, but he was around his age. He had brown shaggy hair, green eyes, gray sweatshirt, blue jeans, tan, and wore brown cowboy boots.

"You two May Waterlilies and Blusix?" said the teen and then both of them nodded followed by the teen saying, "Good, please come abroad. I'll be taking you to meeting point."

"Are you XXStrangeXX?" stated May.

"Please follow me inside," said the teen, "I'll be taking you to meeting point." May then looked at Blusix who nodded. Then they walked inside the helicopter and then they took off.

"Welcome to our lab!" said the younger man to Ronjad, Max, and Whitey.

Ronjad looked at it carefully and then said, "This is aquarium you idiot. We're in wrong location."

"It doubles as a lab asshole," said the younger man, "Now if you please follow us kids and assholes all alike." They walked into the building, their 3 hallways. One them led towards the aquariums, another towards the restaurant and gift shop, but the one they went down led them was an Employee Only Area. They came up to an elevator, and went up 3 floors before they arrived at their destination.

They walked on and looked around. There were many people working on computers and writing complicated stuff Max didn't understand. They followed the two men into a section called Mammal and Fish Containment Center. It was pretty much empty of creatures, plenty of tanks, but no creatures. Then they reached a big tank that was so huge that they need a ladder to climb to the top of it. When they reached the top, there was Mio swimming in it.

"Hey buddy," said Max to Mio who swam over, "Haven't seen you in a while."

"We haven't been able to eat anything for a long time," said older man to max, "Maybe you can help us feed it."

"I love to!" said Max, "You guys got any live fish or anything? I think I know what he likes."

"Here we are," told the teen to May and Blusix once they landed, "Please unbuckle and follow me inside." They did as they were told and followed the teen inside the small building they landed in front of.

Inside was a bunch of computers and chemistry beakers and tubes. The teen led them to a table were they set themselves down.

"So when do we meet this person?" said May to the teen.

"In a bit," replied the teen, "He'll be out here soon enough."

"You're XXStrangeXX aren't you?" said Blusix to the teen, "Who the hell are you and why you bring us down here to began with?"

The teen looked at them hard and then sighed before saying, "If you want to know, I'm called Joe Soul, from Mexico City, Mexico. I graduated from college when I was 12 along with 3 other 12 year olds 7 years ago. We were called the new people who would change the world. There was me, Michelle Perry, Michael Ford, and…"

"Enough," commanded May, "Why did you bring us here to begin with?"

"I heard what you said the television about these creatures," said Joe, "Then you said you had saliva samples of the thing that you collected from a sea camera that they bit through. Did you bring it?"

"Yes right here," said May handing him the sample. He grabbed it away, took it to a microscope, put it on a slide, and looked at it. Then he grinned.

"I recognized this," said Joe, "This is the same sample I have." He show both of them the samples.

"How did you get that other one?" said Blusix.

"The U.S. government has been working with many things through the years," said Joe, "I happen to help them since I had a science degree. We did testing and did something incredible."

"Wait minute," said May thinking, "I had the craziest thought, but you didn't make that thing did you?"

So Joe stared at them for a long time before answering "Possibly."

"Why would you make it?" said Blusix.

"Why not?" said Joe. Then he put on a gas mask and then hit a button. Gas filled the room, and then both May and Blusix collapsed.

"This is amazing," said the older man to Max as he watched him feed Mio live fish, "How did you tame this thing? No one here has ever got this thing to eat anything at all."

"You been feeding it dead fish," said Max, "It prefers live fish. Watch it." They watch as the live fish swam in the water right before a shock of electricity from Mio killed it. Mio then swallowed it whole.

"We would like it if you stayed here to help us on our research to study this creature," said the younger man.

"What you think?" said Max to Ronjad.

"Fine with me," said Ronjad, "But Whitey should stay so you're not lonely."

"I don't need a baby sitter," said Max angrily who was thinking that Ronjad thought he was baby. Then the lights started to flash on and off in the room. Then the bulbs broke.

"Whoa," said May getting off the floor, "What the hell happened?" She looked around her and saw Blusix was slowly getting off the ground. They were no longer in the building but back at the canyon on Diamond Island.

"How did we get here?" said Blusix looking around them.

4 hours passed by since Ronjad went to get Blue for Max. He finally calmed down and understood what Ronjad was saying.

"Hmm," said Max pacing back and forth in his room, "I wondered when they'll get here."

Max then notice that the lights in his room were acting funny. Every time he passed one, it would dim. When he went to inspect one, he passed the TV and it came on.

"What the hell?" said Max. All of a sudden, Blue and Ronjad walked into the room.

"So you two will be fine here?" said Ronjad, "This is a one way trip for you two. Don't expect me to come back unless it's emergency." Then he nodded towards Max and walked away.

"We're all alone now," said Blue smiling. Blue walked over to Max, put her hands on his face, and kissed him. Max copied the same thing.

After they were done, Max pulled away his hands, they left behind sticky glop on Blue's face.

"What the hell?" said Blue.

"How this happen?" said Max confused and puzzled. This was one weird day for him.

Author Notice: If any of you seen Surface, the boy starts turning into one of those creatures, so I did the same thing here with Max.

Attention people, due to the high level of violence in the upcoming chapters of this story, I'll be raising the rating to rated M for Mature on violence. If this discourages you in any way, please let me know, but there is going to be lot of violence, starting with Chapter 40: Remember the War.

Joe Soul? Yes, he'll be back to appear later on. He mention 3 other people besides him who gradated from college, but never named the 4th. As this series continues on, Michael Ford and Michelle Perry will make their appearances.

The next chapter isn't related to Surface, Invasion, or Threshold. In it, Lovrina thinks she and Ronjad should stop dating, so Ronjad looks through Domino's old stuff to see if she knew anything that made Lovrina happy, so he could do the same thing. But he finds some interesting things instead.

Date: 4/23/06

Next Chapter: Chapter 39: Domino's Secrets

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