STEAM: Lost Islands

Chapter 2: The Crow

Theo woke up to sand as soft as snow, and crystal clear water, glistening in the bright sun. He looked around. He saw nature, all around him. palm trees, rocks, bushes... but no sign of his friends. Where could they be? Did they leave him behind? What happened to them? Millions of questions swam through his head like sawfish. He decided to get up and try to find them. As he was shaking sand off his uniform, he was interrupted by a crow. He turned to look at it to find that it was standing on a piece of the ship, one of the gills that helped the airship move through the sky. He went to search around in the wreckage and the crow flew away. He didn't find anything, only a couple pieces of metal. He told himself he should go somewhere else. While he was walking away, something sharp jabbed on Theo's shoe. What could this be? He thought to himself. He dug it out to find what it was. A revolver. He didn't think it would be that helpful, but he took it anyway. He found that there was some spare ammo with it. Then he set off.

Theo had been walking for about an hour now, and still no sign of his friends. Actually, he didn't really see any other living things at all. Apart from that same crow he saw at the wreck. How peculiar. Its following me. But he didn't really care about that. All he wanted was to find his friends, and most importantly, his brother. He had devoted his life to protecting Thomas, but now Theo wasn't sure if he would ever see him again.

Now, he had been traveling for pretty much two hours, until he finally saw a leg sticking out of a bush. Who could that be? He asked himself. He ran over to the bush and pulled out the body to find that it was apparently, a robot. "Cog?!" Theo exclaimed. He turned it over and discovered that it wasn't Cog... it was something else. It had a huge gash in it's chest, and you could see broken gears through it. Could there be other robots on this island? He would just have to find out.

After four hours, Theo had seen three robots - dead - just like the first one. And that crow was still following him. What was going on here?