SciFi and Fantasy Stories: Journey in Nackora Bora Chp. 1

Journey through Nackora Bora

By Timothy Monti

Chapter 1

The Discovery

A long day of school had wiped me out. Thank god it was the last day at that dreadful prison at least for the summer. Though I was tired when my friends called and wanted to know if I wanted to go over to Lake Huron for a swim, I couldn’t refuse. Greg, Jarrett, Kris and I were like fishes, we would swim until the water froze, not everyday of course. Then we had the beach people of our group that would swim if it were too hot, but played volley ball or tanned. Sam, Chris, and Asia were considered part of that group; they came along to be around us. All of us were in the water because of the insane heat of that day. While joking around in the water we discovered a small cove with a chest inside it. We all began to dive underwater to examine this mysterious chest. “Lets not just stand around and look at it, help me bring it up,” Asia said. Just like Asia to take the leadership position and get us all moving. We all then dived down and lugged the chest up toward the beach; the thing weighed a ton even in the water. We tossed the chest onto the beach. “It must be full of precious gems,” Sam said.

“No it’s full of gold and silver,” Asia said.

“ No it looks too old it must be the Mormon gold tablet,” Chris said sarcastically.

“Maybe not the Mormons tablet but some of the lost scrolls of an ancient race, like elves,” Jarrett said rubbing his chin.

“I don’t think so elf,” Greg said with a chuckle.

“Greg, cut it out,” I said, “Who has a crowbar at their house?”

“I do,” Chris, said with a sigh, “You want me to go get it don’t you?”

“Yes, Please and thank you,” I said. Chris got up on his bike and began the ride home. I dialed a few numbers on my cell to gather the rest of our “group”. Just before Chris returned a van pulled up and Allison, Andrew, Danielle, Megan, Natalie and Matt jumped out jogging over to where we were. They all were awe struck by our discovery, and the sight of the massive chest that sat before them. I saw the puzzled look in their eyes knowing exactly how they felt. Finally after what seemed like an hour Chris returned with said item. We began to work on opening the chest, after close to an hour we finally threw it open, revealing many multicolored coins with a smaller chest on top of this vast treasure. I grabbed the small chest and opened it, slowly. In the chest there was 11 amulets of all different colors and shapes, each had the same inscription on the back, “This amulet shall transport you away, after a day.” I pondered at what this might mean, but I became even more intrigued by all of the multi colored coins in the chest. I picked up one of each colored coin. The green coin had “10 NBC” as the inscription. The purplish color had “100 NBC”, the blue had “1K”, and the red had “10K” on it.

“What the heck kind of money is this?” Matt asked.

“They seem to look like late roman era style coins,” Chris our local history buff said, “But they seem not to be in Latin.”

“Meaning,” I said, “That they can’t be from Rome.”

“So where are they from?” Greg asked. I then decided to show them the amulets I found.

“Look at these guys,” I said showing them.

“Wow, they’re beautiful,” Kris, said picking up a blue one.

“Sure are,” Asia said picking up a cloudy light blue one. Sam grabbed a black amulet, Megan grabbed a bright red, Danielle grabbed a forest green, Allison grabbed a very bright yellow almost a gold color, Chris grabbed a blood red color, Greg grabbed an electric yellow color, Matt grabbed a dark green, Andrew grabbed a green one with what looked like a fang carved into it, Jarrett grabbed a steel gray color, Natalie grabbed up an emerald green with a gold trim and I grabbed the last one an onyx stone with a small blood red bat on the front.

“You know maybe we should bury this chest and dig it up tomorrow when we have a way to carry it,” Greg said.

“Good idea Greg,” I said, “Did I just say that? Oh well lets put it here.” I pointed to a spot on the beach that was right by the tree line. So we began to dig, after another hour we were done. As celebration of the last day of school Greg and Jarrett were staying the night over my house. Late that evening we were laying in our sleeping bags discussing what the amulets colors meant. We first discussed how we found it and where it came from. Then we exchanged our ideas about the amulets directly. “Look,” I began, “Mine is onyx, Jarrett’s is a steel gray color and Greg yours is a bright yellow. What does that mean?”

“Well they were all assembled in that chest,” Jarrett said, “It must mean something.”

“Jarrett you loser, this isn’t one of your mythical books it’s real life,” Greg said, “Must be for different values.”

“For your information many mythical books are based off of real historical events,” Jarrett argued.

“Yea so?” Greg asked.

“So it means there is some truth to them,” Jarrett said.

“Stop fighting, the point is we have them. It really doesn’t matter what they mean if they mean anything,” I said looking at the clock blinking 11:15, “Look it’s been a long day, lets go to sleep, we can talk in the morning.”

“You’re right,” Greg said, “Lets go to sleep.” With that we all drifted off to sleep, not realizing that we were headed for a crazy dream or realty posing as a dream.