Black Onyx by Victor Methos

Author:Victor Methos [Methos, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781484851104
Amazon: 1484851102
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-05-01T17:00:00+00:00

16

James was the first to snap out of shock. He walked over to Dillon and stood silent a while before touching the suit.

“I went back to the city,” Dillon said.

“So I see.”

“This was in that tower. In a chamber underneath the city.”

“You just put on a strange…artifact?”

“It’s probably more accurate to say it put me on.”

George was walking up now. “What the hell! I told you no one gets anything without me. This trip is over!”

He went to grab Dillon and instinctively, Dillon raised his hand. Without a single touch, George was thrown off his feet, flying back and tumbling head over heels.

“George!” James said, running over to him.

“Oh crap, is he okay?”

James bent over the man, checking his head for wounds. He was fine, though in shock.

“How did you do that?” James said. “You didn’t touch him.”

Dillon shook his head. “I don’t know. I just thought about pushing him back.”

When George was on his feet, he glared at Dillon and then turned away and headed back to camp.

James stood. “He knows what it is.”

“What?”

“That wasn’t a normal reaction to what we just saw, Dillon. He knew about it.”

Dillon walked to the tent just behind James. Inside, George was packing up his gear.

“You knew about this,” James said.

“Yeah, I knew.”

“But you couldn’t find it.”

“No.”

“What is it?” Dillon asked, his voice echoing in the tent.

“It’s how they mapped the coastline. It’s a weapon. At least I think it’s a weapon.”

“How did you know about it?”

George sat down on a small cot. “My grandfather was one of the first Norwegian explorers to this part of Queen Maude Land. He found the city. He called it Atlantis, mistakenly I think, but who knows. He thought the earth had shifted and Atlantis had been buried here, under a mile of ice. He never published his findings. My father and he spent their entire lives exploring that city, and they didn’t find anything. Where did you find it?”

“In the tower. Underneath the city.”

“We searched everywhere, including the tower. There’re no entrances.”

“It…allowed me in. I don’t know why.”

George was quiet a moment. “That suit was in some of their writings. Reformed Minoan, that’s what my grandfather called their language. He disappeared here shortly after. My father abandoned it after that. He said something was inside the city and he wasn’t ever going to bring me here. But I found it without him.”

James said, “Do you know how it works?”

“Magnetic putty, that’s what my grandfather called it in his journals. The closest translation. It creates a magnetic field around the wearer. You’re not really flying so much as pushing against the magnetic field of the earth, maneuvering around inside it. But these were special suits. Reserved for their priests. Not everyone can wear them. I think that’s what happened to my grandfather. I think he discovered the suits and it killed him.”

“There’s something down there,” Dillon said. “I don’t know what it is. Something…alive.”

“The writings said the suits had a modification. Something that was added to it. It…distorted the user’s mental and physical state.

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