Lost on the island

Please take your seats! I repeat, please take your seats!

Scared stiff, the passengers of the plane did.

Earlier that day, nine of the greatest minds of all time, physicians, doctors, biologists, detectives and mathematicians took off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport so that they could find the saint graal of wealth-this whole story will be about a treasure hunt . If you had imagined these people were ordinary, boring, if when i said that they were the most intelligent people alive your thoughts lead you to old people playing chess with basic conversations let me tell you that you’re wrong. Every single one of them has an adventurous life behind them, a life where they chose to use the power of their mind to steal from the richest and keep it all for themselves. This is the elite that built an empire and never got caught. They are always 10 steps ahead of you and no matter what you do you cannot reach them. Should you happen to have a Faberge egg or a rare painting I warn you, you had better hide it well and hide the safe too cause they’re coming after it.

 The plan was going smoothly, but something mysterious happened while approaching the area between Florida and Puerto Rico. One of the engines failed. The drinking of scotch and the laughter stopped suddenly, Colombia seemed so far away. In the blue sky from the outside lightning or at least some white stripes appeared. The plane kept shaking for 1 hour until the second engine failed too and the fear of death had arisen. The whole crew died, the pilots, the stewardess and the servant, only the thieves managed to reach an isolated island. And there they find a new civilisation, somewhere in the Devil’s island-known as Bermuda Triangle. The place where you can enter, but you can’t leave. 

The thieves got off the crashed plane to look around.  They were divided into 3 groups.  Some went left along the coast, others went  to the right coast, and the last group entered the forest of the island.  Everyone set out in search of the great treasure, relying on their luck and intelligence.  Those who went to the left began to explore.  The biologist studied the soil and the plants, mathematicians, calculated the forecast and saw that he was wrong, that something was wrong and he was confused, because the climate was special, it suddenly became cold.  The doctor examined the strange animals, how they reproduced.  It was the same with the intelligent person who went to the right.  They encountered ancient sea creatures.  They tried to defeat them, but alas, they ate them.  Only those in the forest remained.  There they began to search for treasures under a tree and a stone.  They saw a new civilization, strange to them, there were many foreign specimens.  A lizard-like animal the size of a dog went to them and took pity on them, but they began to chase it and it got angry and screamed to call its parents.  Minutes later, huge dinosaurs appeared and began to chase them.  The biologist, the detective and the doctor hid in a cave.  They lit a fire to see in the dark, and at that moment something made a strange noise, they listened and looked up.  The bats were the size of a man.  The doctor started to run, but alas, the bat caught him and tore him apart.  The bats were many and began to feed.  For a second there was no bone left of him.  The biologist and the detective began to run and knew that there was no escape on this island.  While they rested, exhausted and hungry, they considered where to sleep.  They found shelter like a cave, but told themselves that they would take turns while one slept and the other supervised.  The detective fell asleep. 

The biologist examined and examined, but quietly so as not to attract attention until he was pierced by an arrow.  Some strange people, resembling an ancient civilization that might shelter them, on their terms, or kill them.  They woke up.  They were in a cell, and the leader of their group appeared before them.  He began to speak to them, through facial expressions, gestures, the rules they had to follow, and if they didn‘t follow them, they would die.  So they started living with them.

Ten years later, their prayers were heard and they spotted a ship in the distance of the ocean, thinking that their salvation was coming.  They waited for two nights for the ship to arrive ashore, calling for help night and day.  When it finally approached the shore, the thieves noticed that this was not help, but an even greater threat.  They were old pirates looking for slavery victims.  When the thieves noticed this, they began to run through the wild forest with the thought that they would be saved.  The pirates knew the whole forest and it was very difficult for the thieves to escape.  In great euphoria, one of them took the pirates to the ancient civilization that held them captive for ten years.  The pirates captured all but one and boarded them on the ship.  The one who escaped was left alone, thinking that one day I would be found and saved.

This short story created by Gabriela Petrova and Iva from Bulgaria and Andra from Romania for the project ERA + Integrated learning challenges.