Chapter 296
In collaboration with fellow reader, reviewer and friend, Vasmasdas1.
(Castaway Island.)
The five people living within the vacation house are now coming out and feeling fresh and ready for the next day of their stay on this nice island. "Okay, so what are we doing again?" asked Michelle.
"Well, last night my godfather said that there is a nearby sink hole filled with so much water, we could explore it or we could make our way to the nearby hot springs" replied Jordan.
"Whoa. This place has its own hot spring, now that does sound cool. But let's see what Lincoln thinks about this" replied Sam. They all look to Lincoln who was looking out to the waters.
They notice he wasn't paying any attention to them. Luna then waves in front of him. "Lincoln, bro?"
Lincoln snaps out of it. "Huh, what? What is it?" Patriot lands onto his shoulder.
"We were going to ask which do you wanna check out first, the sink hole with water or the hot springs. We have our swim wear underneath our clothes and either choice is water purposes" said Sam.
Lincoln thinks about it. "We should go and check out the sink hole, I know they're deep, but not that deep and it could be kinda like a pool. Even though we're surrounded by so much water."
"Cool, let's get going then" replied Jordan. They all trek through the jungle and Patriot flies back to the nest. He and Valkyrie will keep watch of the house, while Bullet flies high into the sky and keeps an eye on the others.
"So, whats was with that sudden thousand yard stare out in the distance back there bro?" asked Luna.
Lincoln chuckles. "Sorry about that guys, I guess I had this weird feeling that something was out there. Something I'm afraid of, but then the feeling was gone, no clue what it was all about."
"Well, whatever it is must've been nothing, so there's no need to worry. What could possibly be out there anyway?" asked Michelle. "The only thing out there is a friendly Lake Monster and he surely ain't no threat to anyone of us."
"She's right, last night I went out for some water and I saw the big guy swimming around the shallows and catching fish, he seems to do most of his hunting at night" said Sam.
"Don't worry Linc, nothing is out there to hurt you" Jordan then holds his hand and walks close to him and so does Luna. "We're here on this island together and we've got each other's backs."
Lincoln smiles a bit. "Thanks guys, I feel better now. I guess what I felt was some slight jitters because I still recall my shark phobia. Sorry guys."
Luna then kisses his forehead. "Don't sweat it little brother, we know fears are not easy to get over, but that's what your big sis is for. I am not letting you go down and I will do my part yo always be there to keep you safe, you and Jordan"
Lincoln smiled, he knew the calming words of his sister could help him ease from his worries.
"Alright, so let's go and see this sink hole" said Michelle.
"Found it." Jordan grabs Michelle's hand before she could take another step. "Whoa! Too close there."
"Wow. Thanks Jordan" said Michelle.
They look down and they see the clear blue waters of the sinkhole, thought they can't see the bottom. "Now that is one deep sink hole and the size of this is like the stage from Bangers n' Mosh!" said Sam. The water of the sinkhole wasn't truly deep, just a three feet from the surface and there are some vines they can use to climb out of the sinkhole.
Lincoln then has an idea. "How about we all have one big group cannonball?"
"Now you're talking bro" said Luna. They all take off their clothes, and as before they all have their bathing suits underneath and now they're prepared for this. "Afterwards, we can all take a nice soothing dip to the nearby hot springs.
Bullet lands nearby they're clothes and makes sure they're safe and not stolen.
They all hold hands and look down to the waters of the sinkhole "You guys ready for this?" asked Lincoln. They all nod with determination and excitement. "Three! Two! One!"
They all back up, run and jump into the sinkhole. "Cannonball!" They all make a big splash as they come in contact with the water below.
Soon, they all surface from the water and laugh. "Now that was awesome!" said Sam. Then she's hit by water and she sees it came from Jordan. "Oh it is on!"
"Splash fight!" said Luna. They all enjoy their fun splashing water. Lincoln then dives into the water and he looks around. He can see some small plant life clinging to the walls of the sinkhole, though he cannot see the bottom. So he takes a rock from the all and he drops it. He just watches as it keeps going, but they he sees some bubbles coming up.
Lincoln then surfaces. "Hey guys!" They all stop and look to him. "I think something's down here." They then see the bubbles coming from in between Luna and Sam.
"What the heck was that?" asked Michelle. "And I know that was not fart bubbles."
Just then the water starts to move aside and with them was Plessy. "Whoa! Plessy? How the heck did you get here?" asked Jordan.
The Lake Monster then lowers his head and they all pet him. "Hey there big guy, I guess we found one of your hiding spots when people search for you all over the lake, kinda smart."
"Yeah, but how the heck did he even get here?" asked Sam.
"My only guess is that there is an underwater tunnel that leads all the way back to the lake" replied Luna. "I saw it in a documentary once."
Then Lincoln has another idea. He then calls out. "Bullet!" The Stellar's Sea Eagle looks at them. "Bring our clothes back to the house and wait for us by the beach." The eagle is confused by this. "Trust me!" The Sea Eagle then grabs their clothing and flies back to the vacation house.
"Linc, what the heck was that all about?" asked Jordan. Plessy then understands what he has planned.
Lincoln goes to Plessy. "You know what I'm thinking don't ya big guy." The Lake Monster nods and Lincoln looks to the others. "Okay, so who's up for an underwater rollercoaster ride?"
They look to each other confused and they back to Lincoln and Plessy. "What?"
Lincoln then grabs some vines and he pulls on them, Michelle helps out and they give it one big pull and they grab some long vines. "Luna help me tie these, like when we knitted our outfits for a concert."
"Sure things bro." Luna goes over and she helps tie the vines, the others also help. They soon finish and hand him the vined ropes. "Okay, so now what?"
Lincoln ties it underneath Plessy, and he pulls to see if it is sturdy and he holds the main vine on the back of the Lake Monster. "Come on guys, hold onto the vines or wrap a part of the vines onto your arms. Trust me, this is gonna be fun."
They all go over and they do as he says and they hold on tight, though Luna, Sam and Jordan wrap their arms onto the main vine line tied to Plessy. "Okay, so now what?" asked Jordan.
Lincoln smiles. "Whatever you do, hold on tight and do not and I mean it, do not let go, also hold your breath when it's time." Lincoln then grabs his waterproof cellphone and he grabs some vines and he ties the phone with the vines to his forehead. "You guys ready for this?"
They all had no clue what was going on. "Umm, sure."
Lincoln looks to the Lake Monster who was looking eager. "Now Plessy!"
The Lake Monster roars and dives into the sinkholes deep end. The others hold their breath and they see they were now going deep into the sink hole. They open their eyes and are amazed by the bioluminescent planktons and fishes.
Then Plessy does a barrel roll and heads into an underwater cave, the current is so strong that Plessy moves at great speed. They hold on tight and are impressed at how this was, a rollercoaster underwater! They don't hit the sides because the cave is wider than Plessy.
They pass by some speeding fish and shrimp, Sam pulls out her phone and it has a selfie stick attached already and they all smile along with Plessy, now that is one pic to keep! Then they see the light up ahead.
Plessy then bursts out of the underwater cave and they were now in the open waters of Lake Eddy. The Lake Monster then heads for the surface.
Above the waters, Bullet, Harrier and Valkyrie, along with the chicks are waiting with the clothes of Lincoln, Jordan Luna, Sam and Michelle and they look around for them.
They then get startled when they see the Lake Monster Plessy leap out of the water and on his back are the very same people they have been waiting. The eagles are shocked, and Bullet looks back and forth to the jungle and to the lake, Bullet is like. "What the heck?!"
They all cheer and take in some air as they are leaping out of the water but holding on. Sam then takes a selfie with them once again.
"Everyone hold on!" said Lincoln. Plessy then dives back into the lake and the open their eyes and look around to see lots of fish swimming around. The large Lake Monster surfaces once more and they are now sitting onto his back.
"Dude! That was so awesome! Good call with that surprise little bro! Woo!" said Luna with cheer.
"This beats Dairyland by a longshot! I am so going to bring Simon and Stella here next time!" said Sam.
"Wow! I mean …. Just wow! That was a rush and also awesome as heck!" said Michelle.
"Lincoln, you are one to be careful with. With your plans and surprises it seems nothing can get past you!" Jordan kisses his cheek and she chuckles.
Lincoln then checks his phone. "Yup, I got the whole thing recorded and the others are so going to love watching them." He then ties it back to his head, but then he has an idea and he looks to the beach house and he whistles.
Patriot hears this and he flies towards Lincoln and lands onto his outstretched arm. "Patriot, in my bag are some snorkels and goggles and the cellphone snag tag belts, can you go and get them buddy?"
The Bald Eagle nods and he takes off back to the beach house, Valkyrie and Bullet sees this and are confused. A few minutes later, Patriot flies back to Lincoln with the items and he drops it to them.
They all catch the objects, though Jordan looks to the snorkels and they look kinda familiar. "Hey Linc, why do these snorkels look like the ones from Star Wars 1?"
Lincoln tosses Patriot a fish he caught while they were underwater as a thank you. "Hero Linc gave them to me just in case and so I decided to bring them here, these are modified and I kept them clear from Lisa's hearing. When we put these on, they can convert the water passing into it into oxygen for us to breathe, all we have to do is keep them on our mouths, the goggles are also modified, they can be able to pick up different visuals for any condition, let it be night time or when we can't find something from the distance"
"Wow! FutureTech sure is one cool tech company" said Sam as she puts her goggles on. "And I can only guess these cellphone snag tag belts are for our phones to go on our heads right?"
Lincoln removes the small vine ties from his head and he straps the snag tag belt on and attaches his phone as if it were magnet. "Yup, this way we can be able to record everything we see underwater. So how about it guys, an underwater tour?"
They all get they're goggles and snorkels on and they nod. Lincoln does the same thing and he looks to Plessy and gives him a thumbs up, the lake monster nods and he dives into the lake.
They look into the deep blue of the lake and they can see so many fish as they hold onto Plessy. They don't have any flipper shoes with them so they have to rely on Plessy as they're mobility underwater.
The Lake Monster then goes deep and they see the bottom of the lake, they see the vast sandy bottom with some sea plants, fallen logs, rocks and other debris.
Michelle spots a group of Crawfish making their way through the lake floor, Jordan sees some trout swimming by them and Sturgeon, Luna spots a sting ray at the bottom and some large water snails, Sam then touches the side of a Lake Soft Shell Turtle and it swims off a bit startled and Lincoln looks around and sees a wrecked ship.
The Lake Monster brings them close to the ship and they look at the wreckage, they see the name on the ship, though the name is a bit scratched out from years of being down there, they were able to make out what the name of the ship was. "The Michigan Lockheart." The ship looked like a war ship from the sight of the cannons that have fallen off and are also stuck to the ship.
Jordan then uses her phone and she shows them the image of the ship that sunk somewhere after it aided in the defense against the British during the war for Independence. They have footage and they can be able to show it to the others, especially to Peter Harris.
Just then a Coelacanth emerges from the wreckage, this seemed like the second time Lincoln and Jordan saw this ancient living fossil of a fish.
Luna then touches they're shoulders and they see something they did not see coming, on the bottom of the sea floor is the skeletal remains of some kind of creature. It didn't look like Plessy, but it was definitely a water borne reptile. They need to make sure Peter Harris gets this too so they can figure out what the heck is it.
Just then Lincoln spots something from the distance, a very familiar and very uncomfortable shape. Lincoln goes wide eyed and is stunned in place. Luna and Sam notice this and so do Michelle and Jordan.
They then look at what he was looking at and they too go wide eyed and stunned, the image from the distance is the image of a shark. Luna knew this was bad, and she was not going to let this happen again!
She nudges Plessy to make a swim for it, but for some reason the lake monster swims to the target. This made them panic, though Lincoln was still stunned in place. But then he uses the goggles spotting scope to look closely and he was no longer shocked.
They needed to do something, but then Lincoln holds onto Plessy and pets his back. They were now confused, but then they see the calm face of Lincoln and he gives them a thumbs up.
Just then they see they were now close to the apex predator of the water, they were now face to face with a Basking Shark?
Yup! That's right, a Basking Shark! The second biggest shark in the family and is beneath the size of the Whale Shark. A Shark species that feeds only on Plankton and con be found in temperatures that are cold, and Michigan does get cold sometimes, the length of this Shark is approximately 16 ft. long.
Plessy swims by the Basking Shark as it swims forward with its mouth open and taking in plankton. Lincoln then places his hand onto the gentle giant shark, this is one shark he is not afraid of.
Plessy then decides to return to the surface. As they surface the removes their snorkels and cheer at this rush once more.
The Lake Monster then lands back into the water and he makes his way back to shore.
"Did you guys see that?!" asked Jordan. "The Wreckage! The sea life and the shark!"
"That was not a dangerous fish for sure and sure enough we are so going to let the others see what we got on footage! Wow that was the coolest and awesomest thing ever! Yeah!" said Sam.
"At least we saw the ship and we can inform this to the others by that naval base, this will be part of history" said Michelle. Then she has an idea. "We're gonna be part of history guys! We just found a lost ship from the war of Independence Day!"
Luna chuckles. "You're not wrong dude, we did make history in finding something cool."
Plessy then tosses out of his mouth a crawfish and Bullet catches it and uses his claws to kill it and bring it back to the eagles and their chicks, they're gonna be having crustaceans tonight.
"This has been one awesome day! We swam into a sink hole, we had an underwater rollercoaster ride, we saw some lake things and a freaking shark!" said Sam. "And it wasn't even a meat-eater!"
:I guess we should just check out the hot springs next time, for now I think we need a nice and calm time here on the lake with the best Lake Monster ever!" said Michelle. She then pets the head of the beast and kisses his cheek, making Plessy blush. "You are such a nice creature."
"The others are so going to be shocked and at a loss for words at what we wall just did today!" said Jordan.
"Lisa will be the one shocked the most, we made a lot of wicked discoveries and all it took was the good planning an unexpected surprise from the best little bro around" said Luna.
Jordan and Luna look to Lincoln, they then see the large shark fin in the water descend back into the deep. "So, you still afraid of sharks Linc?" asked Jordan.
"Oh yeah, I still have my phobia of sharks." Lincoln then looks to his phone. "But I know that not all sharks are bad and that shark was one awesome gentle giant."
They were all happy his fear of sharks is not fully onto all sharks, this was a good start to facing his phobia. Lincoln then hugs Plessy. "Thanks for showing us an awesome underwater time big guy."
The Lake monster brings his head down and they all hug him. "Thanks Plessy!"
They then break the hug and they all continue their small watery venture above the water, just two kids, two teens a grown woman and a lake monster having an awesome watery fun time at Lake Eddy.
Not too far, they fail to see some monkey's looking at them from the jungle trees and were curious, but then they see the menacing glare from Bullet and this makes them flee back into the jungle.
They still had some wildlife on the curious note and sure as heck the eagles were not going to let them get anywhere near they're human companions or this lovely beach house they're all stayin at.
Day 5 on the 7 day stay at Castaway Island in Lake Eddy.
A/N: Ha! Basking Shark! Gotta love that gentle giant, didn't see that coming did ya! Well, some of you may have seen that coming. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 7/20/20.