Atlantis Stolen by Christopher Cartwright

Author:Christopher Cartwright [Cartwright, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty

It was the German member of their team and ex-GS9 Officer, who had fallen into the water below. Carrying his heavy equipment, the man sunk so that his head was below the water for a moment until he was able to pull himself back to the surface using a branch.

Mark was the first one to reach him. Immediately climbing down onto the branch directly above Zelig, he stretched his arm down and grabbed his fallen soldier.

“You okay?” Mark asked.

“Yeah, but I’ll be happier to be out of this damn swamp.”

“You and me both.”

Three other members of his team quickly attached a rope to Mark in case he fell in too. Zelig began pulling himself up.

It was the eyes of the creature that got Edward’s attention. They glowed almost golden in the darkness of the forest. Zelig, the poor man in the water, saw them too! And almost climbed out of the water on his own.

But he was too late.

The crocodile reached his leg.

It didn’t need anything else. Zelig was pulled deep under the water by the massive and ancient reptile. The soldier’s large figure looked more like a child compared to the monster that had dragged him under.

“Fucking shoot it!” Mark cried out.

Instantly, every member of the team out of the water aimed their weapons at the two creatures that were now too deep in the water for their weapons to be effective.

Zelig was obviously alive.

Several feet below the water, Edward could see the man using a knife to fight the animal, which thrashed and spun him like a ragdoll in a drier. The force was so great that Zelig lost his weapon.

Both man and beast seemed to keep thrashing. There was nothing any of them could do.

And then the thrashing stopped.

Zelig lay lifeless in the water. The crocodile let him go for a second and then snapped its huge teeth on the man’s head with a gut-wrenching crunch.

The monster moved toward the surface to eat its meal, unaware or indifferent to the fact it had an audience.

Edward had seen a lot of men die over the years, but this was the first time he’d personally witnessed one being eaten by a monster. It somehow made the reality of what they were doing stick home more significantly. As though until now, he’d been playing a game.

The sound of machine gun fire interrupted his thoughts.

He looked up. Mark had raked the crocodile with the entire contents of his magazine, and then attached a second, only to be stopped by another one of his men.

“It’s dead mate!” The Australian commando said. “I’m really sorry.”

Mark said nothing. Instead, he reached down and dragged the remains of Zelig toward him. By himself, he pulled the man’s corpse up into the tree.

A second crocodile then made its attack.

Snatching Zelig’s leg, it dragged the corpse into the swamp and disappeared for good. Edward had seen enough. “All right gentlemen. No one goes in the water. Let’s keep going, and see if there is any solid

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