Uncharted Part 2

Throughout the flight back to Panama, I met the pilot that saved us from that gunboat; his name is Victor Sullivan, who was both a mentor and a family to Nate. I was going to sleep through the flight, but Elena screamed in happiness when she reviewed the footage on her camera. Which she showed me right away.

Elena: "oh my god!!, you're the best Joseph you recorded all the fighting on the boat."She cried out in excitement and showed me, mostly Nate and me fighting off the pirates "if this gets shown in television, my shows rating will go through the roof." to which I immediately tried to deny her.

Joseph: "You can't show something like this: they might not even be allowed to show this on television." I said with mild annoyance. I wanted to go back to sleep but stop as we already reached Panama.

I look at Elena, who was excitedly reviewing her footage and just sighed at sight.

Joseph: "just make sure not to show this on any TV platform." I said, not knowing that the same footage will bite me in the ass in the future

Elena nodded but remembered something, she looked at me and asked me a question.

Elena: "So why didn't you tell me you were good at fighting," she asked with curiosity.

Joseph: "you never asked?" I said with a face full of boredom.

Elena did not ask another question and just reviewed the footage.

After a few minutes, we were now near the docks. Elena was talking on the phone, which I could only think is from the company. Nate and Sully are talking in private inside the boat. I was on the side, calling my family back in New Zealand.

Joseph: "hi, mom, how are you and rest?" I said with a smile on my face.

Mom: "nothing dear, I just received a small package from Haruhime and a letter on top of it," she said with great confusion. "I won't touch your letter and package. You have to come back and read them yourself," she said before I could ask her why I need to open the package.

I saw Nate and Sully taking off with our company-owned boat, which I stayed silent throughout this happening in front of me. Elena was pissed and was going after them. I followed her to ask a question about where she is going.

Joseph: "Where are you going?" I said with confusion. "You can't be seriously going after them; they could be anywhere, and this is not in our paygrade to chase after some thieves who stole our boat," I said towards her.

Elena: "I'm going to borrow a boat from the locals, besides how hard can it be to follow some grave robbers." she said while dragging me with her.

Joseph: "why do I need to go with you? I mean pirates gunning us down this is way beyond what a journalist should do." I said with a slight worry on my face. But Elena did not hear my warnings and just went towards some locals to ask them to follow the boat that just left. Of course, the locals did not comply, but Elena convinces them by paying for the ride if they follow the ship that just left.

I walked up toward her with a worried face.

Joseph: "I hope you know what you are doing; dying over a story is not worth it," I said while getting on board the boat.

Elena: "As long as I get the story, we could leave right away." She said with a smile and jumping on the boat.

In a few minutes, we found the stolen boat docked on an uncharted island, which surprised me as this was not on any known map as of now.

Joseph: "if what they find on that coffin lead them here. God, why did Sir Francis Drake not publish or say anything about this island." I said, not feeling too well. My instincts are telling me nothing good coming from that island.

Elane: "maybe he died on this island, don't know, don't care; I just need to get my story and get out." She said with little to no hesitation of any danger on this island.

When we got off the boat that we got on left us here on this strange island. I look around for any clues or tracks that could lead us towards Nate and Sully. But before I could do that, I went down on the ground, dragging with me Elena, who was recording everything. We saw jeeps parked nearby with two men with AK-47. I looked at Elena and whispered something to her.

Joseph: "Stay here and stop recording; I'll deal with those two men." I said with a quiet voice.

Elena just gave me an ok sign but did not stop recording everything. I did not bother telling her to stop as I needed to get this transport immediately.

I slowly crawled towards them, hiding behind some foliage as cover. When I'm near one of the men with AK-47, I stand up and wrap my left bionic arm around his neck and use my right hand went under his armpit snaking my hands toward his back neck putting him into a chokehold for several seconds, applying pressure on the back of his neck. When he finally chokes to death, I grab the hunting knife from the dead man and throw that towards the other man with a gun. After making sure he is gone. I looked around the vicinity if there are still more people, knowing there aren't I called Elena.

Joseph: "Elena, you can come out now and stop recording everything." I said while searching the dead body for any information.

Elena: "Wow, where did you learn to do that," she said while showing me her footage of me choking someone to death then throwing a knife toward the other man.

Joseph: "did I not tell you to stop recording everything. Whatever, just get on the jeep." I said while turning on the ignition. "I found some intel from the dead body that there is a nearby temple that was found by Nate and Sully."

Elena just records everything I told her, which annoys me. When we finally reached the temple, we went to the temple. But when I saw some ancient writings on the walls inside the temple, I halted my steps. Elena was confused as to why I stopped, but before she could ask why I stop, I interrupted her first.

Joseph: "Elena, you go ahead and look for Nate, and Sully, I'll stay back and guard the entrance." I said before heading towards the wall with all the writings.

Elena: "Okay, hope you know what you're doing." she said before running off on her own.

Making sure no life is in the vicinity, I made a blood hunting knife and cut down some foliage that is covering the wall with writings on it. When I cleared everything, I asked Ava to translate the words on the wall.

Joseph: "Ava, can you translate the words on the wall?" I said to Ava, asking a question. "If you can translate this for me."

Ava: [Yes, host, I'm scanning the word right now; please hold on for just a minute.] she said while using my right eye to examine the wall.

Ava: [host, here is the translation of the wall 'the one who opens the golden coffin will eternity be cursed.' that is all I can translate, host, as some words are beyond readable at this point.]

When I heard the translation, my body cringes in terror, knowing that whatever treasure Nate and Sully are after will be cursed. Knowing full well what would happen if an artifact is not in safe hands will lead to the destruction of humanity. I just hope that the object doesn't exist anymore.

After finishing translating the wall, I was going to head towards Elena's direction. Still, I stopped midway as I heard footsteps coming from the entrance of the temple, knowing what to do. I made a blood hunting knife and hid in shadows of the tomb, waiting to ambush the men who entered the temple.

--Nate pov--

When I met up with Elena, we backtracked our way towards the vehicle that Elena and Joseph got from the armed men. But when we went there, no men were shooting at us, as if they disappeared out of thin air.

Nate: "This is strange; no men are coming after us," I said questioningly. While staying vigilant on any ambush, the other treasure hunters will set up.

Elena: "that good right, " she said with a confused look on her face. "It means I will not get shot when we are running away."I didn't agree with her reason. But before I could rebuke her words, someone ran towards her with a scared look. I was going to shoot him, but he ran right past us like he was running away from something.

Not knowing what he was running away from, we went towards the entrance of the temple. As they walked along the path, more dead bodies turned up. The more we headed toward the temple entrance, the more dead bodies who have bullet wounds in their head. Finally, when we reached out of the temple, we saw Joseph surrounded by plenty of dead bodies around him. I realized why that man ran past us now.

Nate: "you did all of this?" I said with a questioning look on my face directed at Joseph.

Joseph stayed quiet and dropped the gun in his hands, and wiped the blood off his hands.

Nate: "stop being mysterious, Mr. 'I'm a killing machine' we need to head towards UK2642," I said towards Elena, who has a good memory.

Joseph: "where Sully, why don't I see him." he said, a confused look on his face. while looking around for Sully

With a sad sigh, I told him about Gabriel Roman killing Sully.

Nate: "Sully... Sully did not make it." I said with a sad smile on my face.

Joseph: "Oh... sorry for your loss," he said while patting my shoulders. I'll dwell on it later, we headed toward the jeep and drove toward the boat and headed off toward Panama to use Sully's plane.

----end of Nate pov---