Three Journeys of the Scary Kind

By Philip R Benge

In the story Pirates Treasure, two young boys find a treasure map, and they decide to search for the hidden treasure. The map shows that it is under an old ruined church, unfortunately danger awaits them, and they are transported back to another time where they find that they are prisoners of a black hearted pirate captain.
In the story The Haunted Abbey, a young girl decides to go out for the day with her father, however, she soon finds herself in a nightmare world. She is transported to an abbey in medieval Britain. Here she has to battle her fears and an evil wizard to free a young boy, who also happens to be a ghost, from the wizard`s evil clutches, and before the wizard catches her.
In the story Sucked through a Wormhole, two boys have won a trip in an aircraft that is supposed to take them on a short flight above and around their home town. Instead they are sucked through a wormhole to another planet. There they have to endure many trials to survive while they search for help, help to send them both back home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Philip R Benge
• Release date: Mar 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311509314

Philip R Benge

Like most of the world, I had to work hard to pay my mortgage and all the other bills, which meant that I only had the time and the energy to write some short stories. I finally found the time and the energy to write some full length Science Fiction stories.

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Three Journeys of the Scary Kind

By

Philip R Benge

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Three Journeys of the Scary Kind

Copyright Philip R Benge 2016

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Table of Contents

The Pirates Treasure

The Haunted Abbey

Sucked Through a Wormhole

Other Books by this Author

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The Pirate’s Treasure

Now this is a story about a Pirate, a Priest, A Cave on a Greek Island

and a pair of boys. Now Caves abound on Crete, which is the particular Greek island in question, but only one cave remains unexplored. Hells mouth, which is the name that this particular cave goes by, is a sea cave with a very dangerous welcome mat. Very strong currents plus a whirlpool around the entrance to the cave make it suicidal to go anywhere near it. The cave entrance is a two-metre circular ragged hole in the rock face. You can see only the first few metres into the cave, that is as far as the sunlight can enter, then an inky blackness prevents you from seeing any further. Many have tried to gain entrance to it during the long distant past but all have died trying, all but one. That one person was the pirate Black Jack and it was rumoured that this was where his treasure was hidden. Black Jack though has taken the secret to his grave for he was said to have entered the cave one day but never to have reappeared.

The two boys mentioned before were called Joseph, who was thirteen years of age and Samuel who was fourteen years old. They lived in Hastings with their two brothers, Isaac and Reuben plus their sister Millicent and of course their Mother and Father. The family was not in Hastings now though, now they were holidaying at their Grandparents home on the Greek island of Crete. The house was in a small village near to the blue seas of the Mediterranean. For the first week, the family had spent all their time playing on the beach or swimming in the sea, and they had thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Today though the boys were not on the beach, or swimming in the blue seas that surrounded Crete, no today they were in the large town of Hania. Their parents were dragging them and their siblings around the shops in the old part of town while they searched for something or other, but Joseph had long forgotten what it was. He had tried to relieve the boredom by teasing his sister Millicent, but his Father had given him a glance that told him to pack it in. Now he was wondering if it was possible to walk around the shop with his eyes shut and feel the presence of the many things around you with just the power of his mind. He had seen Sam trying to manage it with some degree of success. If Sam could then do it then so could he. Joseph was making good progress, but his feet became entangled with Sam’s feet. Joe fell over and he only managed to stop himself from being hurt by grabbing frantically at a large mahogany desk that took up most of one wall of the shop. Joe hurriedly clambered to his feet, checking to see if his parents had seen his antics but no, only his brother had seen him and Sam was laughing at his stupidity. Before Joseph could rebuke his brother with a punch, something else caught his eye, he noticed what looked like a secret draw, and it had sprung open below the side of the desk. Somehow, when he had grabbed at the desk he must have activated the mechanism that controlled it. He also saw that there was something within the draw and reaching over he withdrew a parchment that had lay hidden within it for some five hundred years. Joe looked at his find and saw that what lay within his fingers looked like an old map, excitement showed within his eyes as a score of scenario’s immediately sprang to his young agile mind. Warning Sam to silence, for he had also seen something of the old map, he popped it into his pocket to read at a more opportune moment.

Later that day when the house was comparatively quiet and finally the children were asleep, except Joe and Sam were not. Their Parents and Grandparents were in the front room watching something on the television and the two boys decided that now was that opportune moment. Sam switched on his torch and with Joe at his shoulder; they opened up the map they had discovered. It showed the outline of part of some coastline, the islands name was written in a copperplate script ‘Kriti’ Joe had heard that name before but Sam was slightly quicker at remembering where.

Kriti, he whispered in an excited voice that’s where we are. As soon as Sam spoke it immediately came back to Joe, of course Crete was also called Kriti.

Look Joe said, It shows the way to a pirate`s treasure, shall we tell Dad? Joe said and looked across at Sam for agreement.

No! Joe, we will check it out first, Sam said, Dad may not even let us go to look for it if we tell him before finding out where the church shown on the old map is located. No we will keep it to ourselves for the moment.

Should we tell any of the others?" Joe asked of his older brother.

No they are much too young for anything like this. Sam replied for he was fourteen, and Joe was thirteen, but the others were only kids. Isaac was twelve, Reuben only seven and Millicent, Joe reasoned was of course ‘only a girl’, and she was only ten years old anyway.

The next morning the two boys were up early and as luck had it their sleeping quarters were in their Grandparents library, and in the library, there was a map of Crete.

Where are we staying asked Joe?

Here replied Sam in the small village of Ayios Georgiou.

The two boys stared intently at the map in front of them. Then Sam took out the parchment and looked first at it and then at the map and then once again at the parchment. He looked up at his brother`s face and in a hushed voice.

"Look Joe, the small village shown here on the map