..The Maps..

Sarra was in a total mess, she cried a lot while hugging Anna.

- Calm down, Sarra, and tell us everything you know.

Said Aaron while bringing a seat for her.

Diana brought her a cup of water, then she took her daughter to make her sleep.

Alan held Sarra's hand:

- Are you okay now?

- Yes

- Now tell me everything you know. Since when he has been missing?

- He suddenly disappeared a month ago. I searched for him everywhere, but there was no sign of him.

- Where have you been when he disappeared?

- We were visiting some islands in the Caribbean sea.

Aaron became very worried, his brother is not the kind to disappear while leaving his family behind. He loves his wife and his daughter so much.

- Didn't you notice anything weird about him before he went missing?

- No, he was acting normal, but I noticed that we were traveling more than usual for the past three months.

- What do you mean? You always travel!

- When we arrive in a new country we usually stay at least a month or two to more know its people and their habits, but lately, we only spend a week or two in each country which made me wonder about the sudden change. When I asked him, he said that he wants finally to settle down and he is searching for a good place for that. I was happy when I heard that so I didn't care so much.

- Don't worry, Sarra, Tarou is one of the strongest monsters. Nothing bad will happen to him. There must be something else causing his disappearance. Didn't he leave anything behind?

Asked Aaron

- He left this bag behind. There is a lot of maps in here. You can check it out.

Everyone became worried after that news, it was something unexpected.

- You must be tired. Have some sleep tonight and we will think about it tomorrow morning. Said Anna while taking Sarra to the guest room.

That night, no one slept. They were all worried about Tarou. Aaron opened the bag and started looking through the maps that he had.

they were full of lines and symbols.

" This is not my thing, but I know someone will be delightful to see these maps."

After a sleepless night, all the family gathered in the living room to discuss this serious matter.

- Aaron, did you find anything on the maps?

- No, Dad. I couldn't understand them, but I invited someone who could.

- Who?

At that moment the door knocked, Aaron opened the door:

- Thank you for your coming, Dylan.

- I'm sorry for yesterday, I couldn't come to the birthday because of an urgent matter. By the way, did Tarou come?

- Come in, first.

When Dylan went to the living room, he saw all of them gathering while their faces were so gloomy.

- What's wrong?...Oh, Sarra! You finally arrived after all this time....But where is Tarou, why I don't see him anywhere?

Their faces became even paler:

- What did happen to Tarou?

- You catch on pretty quick as always. Sit down first, I will tell you everything.

Aaron brought the maps to Dylan while Alan told him about Tarou's disappearance.

- These maps are all that's left of him. Can you take a look at them?

- Of course, I will, Tarou is my best friend. I will do my best to help.

Dylan started checking the maps carefully one after one whit his loop.

- So, is there something? Asked Alan.

- There are seven maps here, each one point to one specific place. Like this one, it points at "Al Giza" in Egypt.

- We have been there!

- This one China

- We went there too

- Mexico? Jordan? Greece? Peru? India?

- We visited all of them lately, but we didn't spend much time like usual.

- So, you went to a specific place then you left?

- Yes.

- Didn't you notice that he was looking for something?

- Recently he was always busy reading those maps. I asked him several times about what's going on, but he never answered my questions. He looked nervous when I do, so I didn't want to make it worst.

Dylan sighed:

- This is more complicated than I thought. Sarra, please, rank for me the countries you've visited. One by one.

- All right, we went first to Egypt, then Greece, Jordan, india, China, Mexico, and Peru.

- But you weren't in Peru when he disappeared, you said you were in the Caribbean sea.

- Yes, after visiting Peru we went to the Caribbean sea, it was supposed to be our last destination before coming back here.

Dylan kept looking at the maps over and over again.

- This is useless.

- What do you mean?

- Staying here while looking at these papers won't solve anything.

- What should we do, then.

- The only way to solve this mystery is to go to the same places he visited. We must know what was he looking for.