The Lost Skywood Book

Chapter 7. Welcome back

It was Gergely, I couldn't believe it. How did he find us and came right, when we needed him?

He bought the god damn helicopter from the company after it fell into madness. I found out that, after an entire ship went missing and many families getting worried, both the ship's owner and the marine stuff company had a lot of lawsuits they just could not pay. Gergely took the advantage.

The helicopter lowered down onto our wooden ship-thing. He stepped out and walked towards me. Gave a bro-hug:

"Its been a really long time my friend, glad to finally found you, I was about to waste our remaining fuel. The radar picked up the wooden ship somehow."

"How in the world you knew we would be here?! Right at this very spot?!"

"I had a 'gut feeling' about you bein' over here."

I never seen him that happy before and I seen him happy a lot... with alcohol, of course. I was lost for a words. A gut feeling? Maybe luck? We still have no clue who or what told him to come those specific coordinates.

"Good to see you too again Gergely, how you been?"

That was a great day for me and the crew I brought from the island. We thought we never gonna leave (/CLASSIFIED/) island or just straight up fall off the edge of universe. After what I seen, I could have easily just accepted flat earth. Hah.

"Great actually.. and not so great. After you left, the boss got so pissed he walked into a research lab, hit a counter with chemicals on it. He died in seconds. I managed to win the company's stuff and shares. Not much, but does the trick for me. This puny helicopter too."

We talked for hours, drank a lil, then got "home" to London. Had a tugboat pull our ship to a London port. England never been my true home. My heart always pulled back towards Hungary. OH and when Gergely seen Creeper Pal, he almost shot him with a 9mm pistol.

The old apartment that me and Gergely lived in was not a big place to be at. Gergely, the mar man bought the whole 5 story apartment building and set it up as some kind of office building. Talking about the black piping all over the place to collect the temperature of the sun, solar panels, a thermo generator thing in the yard, an aquarium size of a pool, wine cellar... Pretty much everything you need. He spared no money. Don't ask how he got money for this but somehow he made it anyways. (Geri what did you even do?! How the hell you got that money from?!)

Took us a while to set up the house for 3 people live in, 2 beds were brought down from the attic. The 6 crew who came with us, stayed on the ship. Me, Creeper and Gergely got the top apartment area, thankfully.

That night we didn't get much sleep. We heard sirens, alarms. We rushed to the street and seen creatures from Orchid blowing up the place, first Gergely thought they are terrorists or such. He pulled out his "totally licensed" 9mm pistol.

I pulled out the weird sword. Rushed to the street of (/CLASSIFIED/). Cut many zombies and skeletons as I could, apart to bits. Gergely called many fire departments to put out the fires on the Tower bridge and warned them of the creatures, they did not believe him first.

I tasked Creeper Pal to get something called Gasoline tanks, a torch and blow a hole on the evil ship that entered through the Themes, to sink it while I was busy fighting.

He straight up ran to a gas station and pushed a barrel of gasoline onto a plank, he launched it with his own weight. Gergely just in time, shot the barrel as it landed on the enemy ship. The whole thing blew sky high.

There was only silence. The ship broke apart and slowly sank down as its top deck burnt away.

Next day was like the whole city, maybe half of Britain giving us this hero medal. Oh the face of the major guy was hilarious, when he put one of those Medals of honor on Creeper Pal, he just put it on and stepped back. Creeper scared the shit out of him when he Ssss-d at him. That was hilarious.

I seen the man with white eyes again. He was on the ship, when it went boom. He stared at me, I felt the cold wind on my spine, the my heart skipped like 3 beats. It just disappeared, I'm not kidding. It went into smoke and gone.

Eh, he didn't stop me from killing the mobs. I felt like I need to go back to the town on (/CLASSIFIED/). Check on the people there to make sure they are okay.

2 days of gathering supplies, we sailed to sea. We got extra crew. There were like 20 people on the small cargo vessel then.

This guy called Alex Parker, was with the American navy, his specialty was submarines, but he was good with boats too. He always wore a ship captain's hat on anything navy related, on land he had an army helmet.

He was the ship's wheel pretty much. Alex sailed us to the exact location, where all the  communication and systems died on the ship I first came here. Many said turn back as our communication systems shut down. I yelled from the front of the ship:

"We will return, but not until I see my town! We all will be fine. If I'm wrong, sue me!"

That was good enough to calm the people and we went forward. The massive fog came. I pulled out the compass, it lead the way. We hit the port of Orchid pretty gently. We all were fine. The town was attacked though. The town got some damages, no one died so thats good.

The crew and I repaired the stuff that got damaged. We set up a communication dish on the island. GPS or anything that shows where the places are, just doesn't work. In our supplies we also got a tank from the world wars, a Sherman one. No idea where Gergely got that from, but it works.

After giving guns and defense gear to the people, we made a research facility on the island. Days later, with the help of Parker, the trade routes were ready. We had a steady supplies of tech. We discovered so many weird things, Jk. Rowling would be amazed, if she saw this land.

We discovered 3 magic types all over the island. "Thaumaturgy", we found it in a book which was under 3 tons of obsidian. From the weird flora we discovered this magic called "Botania". Really plant based magic. Mainly found at the huge swamp tree. Remember that old ruins filled cave, where the magic pickaxe was? Oh yeah that one had this thing called "Blood magic". Pure dark magic I rather not touch.

Gergely and Alex really creeped out, when I told them the translation of the books. Some were demonic and evilish. We didn't care much though. There could be more, just we need further studies. Our greed for all knowledge and curiosity just pushed aside any doubt or fears.

I even had my dogs from my apartment to the town too. The same dogs I talked about in log 1. Gergely took care of them for me, while I was gone on my "survival trip". The town got large from the scientists and researchers, who joined the town over the next few months.

I heard Alex and Gergely talking about making a new company that was not tainted by the loss of an entire ship's crew and many workers, I agreed to this idea right away. We got the name for the company while I looked at my dogs, one of them looked like a fox and said:

"Lets name this company Danger Fox."

So we named it that. I was democratically elected it's leader. Gergely really hated being the leader of the old biology place, like he took a lot of beating from press and online. So he gave me that too.

From the town's income, I bought the company called (/CLASSIFIED/), where my parents worked at for years and used its symbol for Danger Fox Co. Changed it lime and done. Was a very lazy thing to do, that waz I could technically still work in the family business.

Me and the group really wanted to go back to our London "headquarters" to gather more remains of the sunken enemy ship.

Orchid was way too cozy though.
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