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Maria Ovi unwrapped the parcel that contained the food and crouched near Udi Daniel on the mat. She began to feed him with a locally made spoon. He gulped down whatever the girl put in his mouth. He was obviously very hungry. The healer liked it,, he believed the food would give him the strength to move his muscles. He looked into a bag and brought out a concoction inside a calabash and instructed his daughter to give it to him after he had finished eating. The old man left the two of them in the hut to check his fishing nets.

Udi Daniel fell asleep almost at once, after Maria Ovi had given him the concoction. The dreams returned again and this time there was no angel but Adiam. Adiam popped out of the Pacific Ocean and chased him in his car into the city center in Brisbane. The monster caught up with him and coiled the car with his long tail and sent it flying into a playground, where children gathered. The kids scattered and scampered to safety as the car landed on the ground. It exploded into flames after Udi Daniel had managed to limp off to take cover.

Adiam followed the car into the playground and didn't see Udi Daniel but children scurrying to different directions. The monster furiously skipped about and trapped a woman who was running with two of her children, one on her right and the other on her left hand side. She was shocked to her spirit as her kids shrieked in dread. She couldn't move a muscle. Adiam thundered the question,

"Where's Udi Daniel?"

She was too frightful to say anything but shook her head as a sign of, "I don't know". The monster used its tail to wrap the woman and pulled her up close to his face and yanked her head off. The gory experience threw Udi Daniel from the dream to wakefulness with screams. Maria Ovi got up from where she was sitting to check him as she heard the screams. Udi Daniel shifted on the mat as Maria Ovi rushed into the hut.

"Where am I?" Udi Daniel asked again.

"I have answered your question before. You were rescued from a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean, and you are in a hut on the Kairuru Island in Papua New Guinea".

She could see that Udi Daniel was speedily regaining his health. His voice was coming out strong and he had begun to move his hands and legs slowly. He made an effort to prop his head on a fold of clothing used as a pillow and Maria Ovi rose to help him. She smiled broadly at the lucky man and at the same time felt pity for him with misty eyes. Udi Daniel warmed up to her.

"What's your name?"

"Maria Ovi!"

"Beautiful name, I like the sound".

"Thank you".

"Where are the other passengers onboard the plane?"

"You're the only survivor, I've told you about it before. Their bodies are in a morgue on the island".

Damn! This will surely give Daniel a serious headache for a long time. Being an only survivor in a full plane is not what one just forget so soon. You’re doing well OP, please keep it coming

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Instantly, tears welled up in his eyes and he wept bitterly. Maria Ovi tried to empathize with him. She rubbed his forehead with another concoction as she whispered consoling words into his ears. His memories came to him in a rush and he connected everything together. He now knew the dreams and the trances were notjust mere once. A demon in Adiam was seeking him for recovering the diamond, and other higher forces had killed everybody onboard the plane to send him back to Australia, to lock the demon up in exchange for freedom to life.

"For how long have I been here?" Udi Daniel asked.

"The crash happened yesterday. Your recovery has been miraculous", Maria Ovi said. "You have to consider your health above whatever you might have lost. Stop worrying about the crash and relax your mind".

Udi Daniel shook his head and said, "You won't understand, I am set for a mission, and I'm ready to go now!"

"You're not going anywhere. Not now. What's pushing you?"

Regret and bitterness crept on his face as he said, "I am a victim of my own creation, I must go back to Australia to find Adiam and separate the demon".

Maria Ovi was lost. She didn't know what he was talking about. She presumed that he still suffered from the shock of the crash psychiatrically. Udi Daniel remembered Ellinaz Ivanovo in the US and all the expectations, but his priority had changed. Udi Daniel experienced a rush of energy into him, and he suddenly pulled up his knees to sit upright on a wooden chair. Maria Ovi dashed forward to support him as he insisted on sitting. She made him to rest his back against the wall.

"Take it easy with yourself", Maria Ovi said.

"I'm doing fine Maria".

"I can see that, but take it easy".

"I created Adiam and I can fix its mess", Udi Daniel said absent-mindedly.

"What are you talking about?"

"You wouldn't understand".

"Try to make me understand".

"Maria is better not mentioned to keep your sanity".

"What do you mean? Is it only an insane mind that can understand it?"

"Yes, you're correct".

"So are you insane?"

"Yes I am".

"Is that why you screamed from your sleep?"

"Correct, Maria".

"You're behaving strange".

"I know".

"Where was your plane flying to?"

"Australia to the United States".

"The provincial government would get a word out there for the US government to come for you".

"No, I can get out of the island with a phone call, and I'm going back to Australia".

"Fine, in that case I'll arrange that for you when you're strong enough".

"I'm strong enough already to leave".

"No you're not!"

The traditional healer got back from fishing and heard voices inside the hut. He quickly came in and found Udi Daniel sitting upright on a wooden chair with his back against the mud wall, in deep conversation with his daughter. His face glowed with joy and he knelt down again to say things that had no meaning to Udi Daniel. Maria Ovi laughed when she saw the expression on the face of Udi Daniel.

"My father is thanking God for you, for sending you from the land of the dead back to the land of the living".

Thanks for the update OP

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Ellinaz Ivanovo had waited out the arrival time of the flight of Udi Daniel to Washington DC with fervor, from Australia. She had looked at her wristwatch every passing minute as she drove out of the Baltimore/Washington International Airport. She had connected to the Airline in Australia and discovered that the plane had gone off radar and disconnected from ground radio stations and satellites.at the fifth hour, after it had taken off from Canberra. She had contacted Tom Harry who had said the government of Australia was aware of the situation and was investigating the missing plane.

Ellinaz Ivanovo didn't believe in God but she prayed for the first time in her life to no particular God. She hoped that nothing untoward had happened to the plane. She had taken NextTech to a whole new level in every front. The demand for the excavants had skyrocketed and she had plans already to incorporate the production of the humarines in Mass scale. She had watched the live coverage of the display of the humarines near the Pacific Ocean in Australia in the internet.

She had penciled down other tasks that the humarines could be needed to perform in the water. She was prepared and poised to make NextTech rule the world of technologies. The dollars were rolling into billions and great ideas wouldn't cease coming. Udi Daniel and Ellinaz Ivanovo had given the business aspect of their life a higher priority than anything else, but right now, all the achievement so far would count to nothing for her if Udi Daniel didn't return safely to the US. Her interest in business had suddenly dropped at the thought of losing him, and she realized her little a time they had spent together. She wouldn't let the scientist go again from her sight, if he made it to the United States. He was her god and science was her religion.

The Australian Civil Aviation worked tirelessly with the Airline officials to search thoroughly for the missing plane. The search was still on, when the Australian Department of Information received a mail from Port Moresby, in Papua New Guinea, about the location of a crashed plane. The search team and some government officials set out for East Sepik in Papua New Guinea immediately, to confirm the crash in the Island.

Tom Harry was among the officials that were sent by the Australian government, to Kairuru Island. He prayed and hoped that the plane wasn't the one that had lifted passengers including Udi Daniel from Canberra, heading to the United States. One of the men in the search team that worked for the Airline had flashed a ray of hope at the Minister when he said their planes didn't fly over the airspace of Papua New Guinea to the United States.

Thanks for the update OP
Abeg make the next update a lengthy one

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They flew into the island with six helicopters. Maria Ovi was on the island when the helicopters hovered above a playground and landed. She had come from the fishing port to prepare a meal for Udi Daniel. He had recovered to the extent that he could now sit upright without any help. He desired to reach Ellinaz Ivanovo through a phone call by all means, but Maria Ovi had consistently told him he would have to recover more of himself to come to the Island to make contacts. He had had another dream involving Adiam.

He stood up from the wooden chair and made some steps forward and backward in the hut. He hoped to impress on Maria Ovi, that he had recovered enough to move from the fishing port. Each time he broached up the subject of leaving the port, she would talk him down, It angered him, but he tried to maintain his cool. She had been a great nurse and he would not like to give her the impression that he was unappreciative. He felt renewed and strong from the inside.

Maria Ovi got ready and moved to the waterside to go back to the fishing port. She got into her canoe and began to paddle towards the fishing port. When she had pulled close to the port, a speed boat sped past, she saw the visitors inside, heading towards the fishing port, to where the Big Bird had come down in the Pacific Ocean.

Udi Daniel came out of the mud house to look around. He admired the setting of the coastline and the waterlines of sea vessels from view to view. He saw Maria Ovi not too far away. He waved at her and she smiled broadly. He somehow envied the simple lifestyle of the girl. She finally came on the fishing port through a jetty to see Udi Daniel feeling the fishing nets spread out in the sun around the hut. She was truly happy for him. She poked a fun at him from behind.

"Are you considering becoming a fisherman here in Kairuru?

She said it with a serious face and Udi Daniel could not help it, he nearly tripped with laughter. "I will gladly make the fishing materials available", she added.

Udi Daniel loosened up to her like never before, as the boat that carried Tom Harry pulled up at the jetty of the fishing port. She made light of the whole situation in her naivety. He had realized that Maria Ovi was a unique girl. He owed her and her father for the hospitality shown to him. She spotted a boat at the jetty and drew Udi Daniel's attention to it. She could identify only the rider of the boat; the other men were not fishermen.

"It seems like they have come for you", Maria Ovi said as she entered the hut to drop her load.

Udi Daniel fixed his eyes on the men as they climbed into the jetty. The last person that stepped from the boat looked familiar to him. As they got closer, he stood up and to recognize Tom Harry. Tom Harry didn't recognize him until he was very close. Udi Daniel looked emaciated and unkempt in his appearance. He not changed his clothes since the crash nor had he taken his bath. The two men locked themselves up in an affectionate embrace, as soon as Tom Harry recognized him.

Maria Ovi came out of the hut to see the two men shed tears on each other's shoulder. She caught the fever too and tears began streaming down her cheek. When they finally freed themselves, Tom Harry gently held him and took him to a corner of the hut, where they had a brief conversation. Maria Ovi heard all that they had talked about. Udi Daniel came into the hut to tell her that he would be leaving with Tom Harry. He touched Maria Ovi for the first time as her tears would not stop driipping from her eyes.

"Aren't you going to wait for my father to return from fishing?" She asked through her tears".

"But I've not said that I'm leaving".

"I can see it in your eyes and I've heard it with my ears".

Udi Daniel held her and tried to dub her eyes with a handkerchief.

"Please stop the tears Maria. I can't express my gratitude to you and your father enough. I must go now to keep things under control and relax the nerves of my loved ones who are in limbo over my existence. I will see you again, I promise".

Maria Ovi freed herself from his grasp and hugged him as if the world was leaving the two of them behind. The voice of Tom Harry cut the connection between them and they reluctantly pulled away. She made Udi Daniel to take the food that she had prepared before leaving the fishing port.

As Udi Daniel was leaving the hut, Maria Ovi said, "Remember your promise, I'll be waiting for you".

Tom Harry and the other men waited for Udi Daniel outside the hut. They were struck with surprise to see the shape he was in, just two days after surviving a plane crash that killed nearly everyone onboard.

Wow! Time to set things right, I guess
You’re doing well OP

Very interesting💯

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Two men helped Udi Daniel down from the jetty into the boat. He turned around and saw Maria Ovi waving at him as the boat's engine came on. It baffled him how she could connect to a total stranger like that. He did not think she was only expressing her feelings over his survival. In some ways she appeared like the angel that had invited him to the Pacific Ocean. He did not think his meeting with Maria Ovi was a mere coincidence and ordinary, something could be more to it. He shook off the thought of becoming amorously joined to her in the future. When she had hugged him tightly in the hut, strange feelings had flushed through him, and he tried to force them back, but he ended up returning her strength.

Ellinaz Ivanovo was waiting for him in the US but he had got to reclaim his life by locking up the demon in Adiam, to be free from the manipulating influence of the powerful forces. When he promised Maria Ovi that he would see her again back in the hut, he did not exactly know how he would do so. He had said it to ease his exit. The speed boat finally got to the shore of the Kairuru Island and Udi Daniel was assisted to disembark.

They walked to the hall that housed the items recovered from the wreck and waited for the search team to congregate. Tom Harry sent a mail to Ellinaz Ivanovo in the hall before the other team arrived from the Pacific Ocean with a black box. He introduced Udi Daniel as the sole survivor of the tragedy and urged to leave the island to seek medical attention for him. They could not believe that he indeed had escaped from the disaster. Tom Harry left the hall with Udi Daniel.

"I really don't know why you're so bothered about getting a medical personnel to examine me", Udi Daniel said behind the Minister.

"You have not woken up from your dreams".

"As you can see, I'm perfectly okay".

"You don't want me to listen to you".

"I have a mission to pursue in Australia".

"What mission?'

"To save Australia"

"I said it, your mental health is affected".

"You wouldn't understand now".

"Keep your lips sealed until a thorough professional medical investigation is done on you".

"I must regain my freedom now!"

"You're not a prisoner".

Tom Harry led Udi Daniel to the field where the helicopter that brought him waited. Udi Daniel climbed unaided behind him into the flying machine. The pilot got off from the ground and changed course in the air.

Maria Ovi had followed them from a distance and watched the helicopter as it disappeared into the expanse, towards East Sepik. She couldn't place where the intense feeling of care that she had shown to the stranger came from. She had not felt anything for the opposite sex until she had met this man. It was beyond her. She returned home feeling a part of her, just departed. It was crazy to her. She sincerely hoped the stranger would come to Kairuru Island again. She did not even ask for his name.

Udi Daniel made attempts to talk to Tom Harry over the noise in the helicopter, but the Minister would shut him down each time. A portion of the Pacific Ocean reawakened the thought of the monster as the helicopter flew over it. Udi Daniel got agitated in his spirit and Tom Harry could see and feel his restlessness. He tried to calm him down as the helicopter lowered to the field of a specialist hospital in Port Moresby.

The doctors examined him thoroughly and found that no part of his body was affected. No physical injury to his bones and muscles. They could not fathom it medically, for someone that had survived a plane crash in which every other passenger onboard had died. No damage was done to his brain either, it functioned well and the result of his psychoanalysis showed that he was perfectly normal. The medical personnel assured Tom Harry that nothing was wrong with him and that he needed only rest.

However, he was admitted in the hospital, to stay to overnight for the doctors to watch him for the signs that the Minister had complained about, as they were flying from the Kairuru Island. Tom Harry was going to leave his bed side for Australia, when Udi Daniel shuffled his feet on the floor to grab his attention.

"I need to be on the phone with Ellinaz", Udi Daniel said.

"Don't bother yourself now".

"I'm fine, didn't you get it from the doctors?"

"I have already sent a mail to her, so cool it down!"

"Nothing is wrong with me, just give me the phone".

"You will get it tommorow after you have been given a clean bill of health", Tom Harry said and turned around to walk away.

"Has the monster showed up again in Australia?" Udi Daniel asked him.

"No Daniel; stop worrying about it, especially now, the Australian government would deal with it if it ever reared up".

"It's coming again, and it would be more vicious in looking for the diamond. People will be killed, a lot of places will be destroyed, and the government would be powerless to handle it".

"How did you know this? Have you become a prophet too?"

"It was revealed to me in the plane before it crashed, and it's for this reason, that I was saved, to bind the demon and set Australia free".

Okayyyy! Let the bastard demon come out again and face Daniel. This won’t be a walk in the park for Daniel and Australia tho. I pray they allow him to do his thing so that the demon can be conquer once and for all.
You’re doing exceptionally good OP
Keep it coming

This is great, but with along with all your works on this platform, your conversations are to direct and shallow.

I would plead with you, to try to make your conversations more mature and exciting, make your words and sentences, more attractive too.

You can check up salahdin and Creeza work, to understand what i am saying.

I am here with you, and will always be, Thank you.

Thank you very much for pointing this out. I welcome the constructive criticism.

However, it's my intention to be different from what's popular practice. I want to be original with creativity from the go.

As long as my readers keep coming back to follow the story, I'm ok.

My goal is to keep it simple. My style is actually intentionall. Keep it simple and direct for readers, as much as the story appeals to them with a different onversation style.

So it's not shallow, it's just new to you, or not popular. It's my own creation, but if I keep getting concerns from my readers about my direct and simple conversation, who am I? I would change it for them.

CHAINED with DIAMONDS iwriting is designed to entertain.

Thank you again my friend.

Beloved readers, I like to remind you that, CHAINED with DIAMONDS, isn't a regular traditional literature that you are used to. See it as a move in a book, hence my writing style.

I take the criticism of Sylverlinen very well on my conversation style This is not the final book, it's subject to refining. Enjoy the story!





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The Minister was sure now that Udi Daniel needed a deeper medical examination, as he walked out of the hospital to board a taxi to an airport, He concluded that if his situation did not improve by the time he would return to the hospital from Australia, he would arrange for him to be flown to the United States.

It still struck him with astonishment that no bone was broken in his body and his muscles did not rupture. Could the traditional healer have performed a magic on him, he continued to roll up thoughts in his mind as the plane he boarded flew into Queensland. All the passengers that sat by the window side on the right hand side of the plane, suddenly concentrated their gaze on what was happening in some parts of Brisbane, as the plane descended into the International Airport in the night. An electric arc shot into the air, resulting in an explosion of fire cracks. A cascading smoke from a building continued to rise in the atmosphere. Street lights switched off with a fashion all of a sudden.
As the passengers disembarked from the plane, loud noise and cries welcomed them. Tom Harry came out of the airport hurriedly to see what was going on. Vehicles collided on the road as people drove recklessly across junctions to run from whatever was causing the commotion. People ran in frenzy to different directions to safety.

Tom Harry could not get any of the runners to slow down to tell him what was going on. The madness suddenly stopped, but the city became a ghost place. People gathered in clusters and discussed what had just happened in an extremely low tones. Tom Harry walked close to a group that talked in whispers not far away, from the gate of the airport. He heard them talk about the monster and the diamond. He quietly withdrew and was driven to the Landmark Hotels close by.

Tom Harry checked into his hotel room and switched the TV ON and tuned to a local channel. It was there! The reporter was breaking the news with the headline:

"Armageddon in Brisbane!!!"

."A strange creature appeared from nowhere in Queen Street and scared everyone to death. It's a giant monster with a long tail, that moved with the speed of light. It entered a power substation after some group of persons had run into the station. The creature was heard when it loudly asked to know the location that the Mystery vDiamond was taken. It coiled its tail around ten persons and flung them out to the main road. Their heads smashed to pieces on the road, in their pool of blood".

"It moved into the control rooms and destroyed everything inside. It pushed a door open and wrapped some workers in the station with its tail and dragged them on the ground to Queen Street. Drivers abandoned their vehicles with passengers, and took to their heels on catching sight of the monster dragging about twenty five persons on the road. It disappeared from the road when it heard the sound of advancing military attack helicopters. But this was after it had slung the workers into the roof of a high rising building with its tail". The reporter was pushed to a corner as the image of Adiam appeared on the TV screen. She began to report a different story.

Tom Harry turned off the TV. He had come to Brisbane to hold a meeting with the executives of some mining companies but the happenings that had welcomed him forced him to put it on hold. For the first time, the Minister was swayed to believed that nothing was wrong with Udi Daniel. His prophecy was coming to pass. He planned to return to Port Moresby in the morning, but not before getting to know what measures the government had taken to stop the creature.

Daniel is right, of course. Since he knew what he heard and what he saw before his plane crashed. I just hope these people will do what is right or else, that will spell doom for them all.
More ink to your pen OP

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The government swung into action after the incidence that happened in Queen Street. It deployed the Navy to guard the stretch of the Coral Sea along the beaches. Heavy artilleries were positioned and manned by the Army on the the sea shore. The Airforce used hovercrafts to monitor the sea. It had been established that the monster dwelled in the sea and it would come out only in the night, however the sea was watched day and night.

The dust raised by Adiam on Queen Street never got settled, people increasingly became fearful. The government declared a state of emergency and extended the curfew over the whole of Queensland from the Coral Sea. Tom Harry had wanted to let Bobby Roberts know about what Udi Daniel had said about the return of the monster, but he let it pass when he heard the Minister of Defence assuring the Prime Minister of the readiness and capability of the forces to deal with the situation, he decided to let it slide. He had seen enough of the monster in action, to know that the forces were inferior to match it.
He did not exactly know how Udi Daniel would assist the government to crush the strange creature.

He still marveled over the miraculous way the scientist had survived the crash, and the manner he had recovered. He had heard that the flight data extracted from the Big Bird black box, revealed nothing was wrong with the plane, just as it was in the case of the cargo plane that caught fire while moving the Mystery Diamond from Brisbane to England. He tried to put the pieces together, but the puzzle got harder as he thought hard on it.

Bobby Roberts was overly concerned about the effect the prowling of the monter would have on the tourism business that turned in blocks of dollars into the economy. He decided to travel down from the capital to inspect the fortifications that the forces had built for Adiam on the coastline of the Coral Sea, in the company of Tom Harry and the Minister of Defence, and began to carry out inspection with a handful of journalists and other officials.

The inspection was still ongoing when it happened again, in broad day light. The giant monster burst the water open, near the platform that the Prime Minister stood on, with the other men. It swung its massive tail, before it disappeared into the beach in a flash, splashing water all over.

The forces followed it with fire as the attack helicopters rose from the ground into the beaches. The Naval officers released their machine gunboats and tore the sea water towards the Eastern side of the beach, where it headed. Some soldiers carried heavy guns as others rolled machine guns along the aroads that connected the beaches. The shoreline of the Coral Sea suddenly appeared like a battle ground.

Men ran helter-skelter for safety, but six men could not run. They were groaning with pains on the ground. The Prime Minister was whisked away in an armored vehicle. He had clearly seen the monster. The immense size of Adiam struck horror into him. He had stood shocked to his pants as Adiam blasted the waters open.

Time to end Adiam’s impunity is here, until then, they need to put Daniel up to do his thing.
OP abeg this update is pretty small 😒
Give us how they one biko

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The eyes of the Prime Minister popped out when he had seen the Minister of Defence bleeding copiously from his neck as he fell on the platform. Tom Harry's right hand fingers were chopped off by the razor edge of the monster's tail after it had slit the throat of the Defence Minister.

Tom Harry wriggled with pains on the platform, as blood dripped out from his hand. Five other men lay sprawled on the shore as an ambulance was driven in. The Minister for Mines and Petroleum was taken with the pieces of his fingers were taken into the ambulance, including the half-conscious Minister of Defence. The ambulance blared away with maximum speed. The Prime Minister had been lucky.

The ambulance sped through the streets with its siren blaring at its peak volume. It pulled abruptly to a halt in a nearby hospital, sending dust all over the premises. Energetic male nurses rushed out with rolling stretchers and Tom Harry and the Defence Minister were transferred into the hospital.

The Defence Minister was declared dead on arrival. The medical team swiftly got to work on Tom Harry, painkillers were pumped into his blood system and the pieces of his fingers were stitched to his right hand. The painkillers worked magic on him and he breathed normally for the first time since the incidence. He watched the doctors wrap his right palm with a bandage.

It happened so fast at the shore of the Coral Sea, he could not quite relate which one had happened first. He hoped that the Prime Minister was not hurt by the monster as he recalled what Udi Daniel had told him in the hospital in Port Moresby. He called to mind what Udi Daniel had said.

Australians had come very close to losing their Prime Minister. It was the height of effrontery to Tom Harry that, Adiam had to choose to come out of the sea when Bobby Roberts stood on the platform, to see the formation of the forces along the shoreline. Was the monster trying to prove a point? Tom Harry continued to think beneath the surface of his dying pain on the hospital bed.
His mind raced to the beaches along the Coral Sea. Ten fighter jets covered the sky above the sea in addition to seven military attack helicopters. They sighted the monster and followed it, as it moved like light along the Brisbane River towards the Walter/Taylor Suspension Bridge. It lost the shooters and bombers behind, and it came into view across the Indooroopilly Road, on the other side of the bridge.

Commotion ensued again, road users abandoned their vehicles on the road and joined pedestrians in fleeing from the bridge. The jets breezed past in hurt chase across the bridge. The monster heard sounds and spotted other bombers coming to trap it in the corner of the river, and it plunged into the water like a frog. The bombers flew past as the military attack helicopters hovered over the spot as if it was going to reappear from the spot.

Adiam came out of the river when the helicopters were gone and it skipped towards the compound of a residential building, along Melbourne Street. Screams and raucous race was triggered as it moved about swiftly and trapped a woman that was trying to run away with her kid daughter. Fear gripped the woman as she held her daughter firmly to her chest. She began backstepping from the monster as it came closer. She summoned courage and expressed no fear as she looked at the monster squarely in the face. It uncoiled its tail and it slowly extended it on the ground.

The woman took no note as she concentrated on the face of the monster. She only realized what was happening when the tail shot forth from behind and curved around her and her baby, like a gentle snake. The baby opened her mouth to scream but her mother shut her up with her palm. Adiam seemed to like her courage. It wove the tail around them and lifted them from the ground, close to its face. Adiam calmly asked, "Where is the diamond?" Afraid of telling lies, the woman pointed to a gigantic building that had the structure of a dome, and said, Its over there!"

Adiam did not hear the sound of the military attack helicopters coming to surround the building. It gently lowered the woman and her baby and uncoiled its tail. The shooters restrained from firing the monster with the woman and her kid. They watched in surprise as the monster dropped them unharmed. Adiam drew back its tail from the woman and her baby, and rains of bullets hit it from every direction. It turned to escape like a wounded lion. It flipped its tail side to side between helicopters as it vanished into the air, pulling down the propellers of two helicopters with a hard impact.

This new side of Adiam is cool tho. Maybe Adiam wouldn't have wreck havoc up to that extent if only they've return the diamond to where it originally belong
OP you're doing well
Keep it coming

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Other helicopters followed Adiam but the monster had lost them.

The result of the effort the military forces made in tracking the monster, got to Tom Harry in the hospital, and he became very worried. Bobby Roberts had just ended a phone call to check on him in the hospital. His right hand had begun hurting him again, it seemed like the painkillers had done the most they could do. The Minister startled the medical personnel by applying to leave the hospital for urgent national security reasons.

He had used the opportunity to let Bobby Roberts know about the prophecy of Udi Daniel. It was now obvious to the Prime Minister that the monster meant business. He could not but see that the story of the strange creature, was no longer mere tales of tortoises by the moonlight. The reality of the occurrences kept knocking him out.

Newspaper dailies had taken it to another level, by highlighting the ineffectiveness of the government to deal with the slippery monster.The turn out of tourists, continued dwindling significantly, since the previous appearance of the monster, in Queen Street. He was ready and willing to accept any kind of assistance offered to destroy the monster. When Tom Harry had told him about the offer of Udi Daniel to finish the monster, he did not think twice about it. He had readily made a private jet available for Tom Harry to fly to Papua New Guinea to bring the scientist to Brisbane.

Udi Daniel was running away from the monster barely three days ago, and now, he would be returning to Australia to take the "life" of one of his creatures. Tom Harry had no reservations about the true mental state of the scientist now, but how he would decimate the monster he had perhaps created, remained a puzzle.








Chapter Nine






Ellinaz Ivanovo had stopped going to NextTech office in the Washington DC, when it was confirmed to her by the Airline that the missing plane that had flown Udi Daniel from the Canberra Airport in Australia, had crashed in the Pacific Ocean close to an island, in Papua New Guinea. She was informed reliably that everyone onboard had died but that one of the passengers was yet to be confirmed dead. She had completely lost interest in living and was contemplating suicide, when she had received the mail sent by Tom Harry from Kairuru Island.

She put her suicide on hold while awaiting the call of Udi Daniel as Tom Harry had promised in the mail. She sincerely hoped that he was not lying about his survival. She could not imagine life without her god. She got impatient for the call to come from Udi Daniel and she fired a mail to Tom Harry, that she was coming to see Udi Daniel wherever.

Keep it coming OP
You're doing Wonderfully well

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Tom Harry received Ellinaz Ivanovo's mail when he was about to leave the hospital in Australia to get the scientist. The Minister did not reply her. He was driven to the Brisbane International Airport where he flew out in the Presidential jet. His thoughts swung between how close he had come to death and what Udi Daniel could possibly do to stop the monster from trampling down on the whole of Australia.

The forces had claimed that the monster suffered deep wounds and that it might never show up again, or might even have died from the wounds. He scorned the military forces for thinking that injuries would stop the monster from perpetuating future exploits.

What continued to perplex him, was why the monster was going after the Mystery Diamond. Was it the Spinasaurus that had guarded the diamond in the Coral Sea? Why did it have a striking appearance of the machines of Udi Daniel? Questions that needed immediatel response swept past his mind unanswered. The questions could only help him to arrange a few pieces of the mysteries.

He switched his thought to what Udi Daniel had said about being saved, and assigned to conquer the monster. The recent happenings made him to want to believe, that the scientist knew more. He dwelled on the fact that he had been the only survival of the crash, out of the over two hundred travelers onboard the Big Bird, it moved him to believe that something extraordinary was about Udi Daniel. As the presidential jet touched down on the runway of the Jacksons International Airport in Papua New Guinea, Tom Harry cleared the thoughts off from his mind. He got into a waiting Australian embassy SUV, and driven to the specialist hospital.

Udi Daniel recognized the Minister from a distance as he walked into the hall of the male ward in the hospital. The doctors had already discharged him after they had carried out another analysis on him. The scientist got up and walked towards the Minister, as he moved closer, he noticed that one of his hands was drawn to his body and it was not moving. He suspected an accident as the hand was in a cast, with a thick bandage.

"What happened to you?" Udi Daniel asked him.

"You must be a prophet of doom".

"I don't get it".

"Your prophecy has come to pass".

Tom Harry waved him to a corner where he supplied him some details of the state of things in Brisbane. The two men turned and headed out of the hospital. Once they had come outside Tom Harry resumed the narration of the viciousness and scale of attacks by the monster. He stressed the death of the Minister of Defence, and the manner in which he had died.

They walked in silence to where the embassy SUV was parked. Tom Harry joined the driver in the front and Udi Daniel sat directly behind the driver's seat. Once they were inside Tom Harry said, "Ellinaz replied to my mail, and she wants to hear from you badly". The Ninister brought his cellphone and punched some numbers on it and gave it to Udi Daniel as the phone rang.

"Hello!" Ellinaz Ivanovo answered sharply.
"It's me Udi Daniel". Ellinaz Ivanovo dropped the mug of tea in her hand and it shattered to pieces on the floor. "Hello, it's me".

"Oh my god!"

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"I'm alive!"

"You survived the crash?"

"I'm living".

"Unbelievable!"

"It's an understatement,".

"Should I send a jet to bring you home?"

"Not yet, I'll ask for it when I am done here".

"Where?"

"I'm back in Australia",

"Why? NextTech has signed out".

'Ellie, I can't explain everything to you now, when it's over I'll ask you to send the jet".

"In that case, I'm coming over".

Udi Daniel shot a glance at Tom Harry with the phone clutched to his left ear as if the Minister knew better. Ellinaz Ivanovo was hard to convince. He searched through his head and replied, "I'm actually on my way to Brisbane from Papua New Guinea right now. A problem had come up out of the operation of the humarines, and the Australian government needs me back in Brisbane".

"What is this about?"

"I have no I idea".

"You're supposed to be undergoing medical appraisal, and not anything".

"I've done all that, I'm in a great shape".

"I'll send the jet as soon as you're done", Ellinas Ivanovo said as the SUV drew up at the Jacksons International Airport in Port Moresby.

"Very well".

"You must survive for my sake".

"I promise you, I will, but I must go now".

As the presidential jet took off, Tom Harry restrained himself from throwing a jab at Udi Daniel. He was going to ask him how one of his machines, had transformed into a monster. He was inclined to think that the scientist had intentionally designed one of the machines to metamorphose into the monster. He juxtaposed his deductions with the miraculous survival of the scientist, in the plane crash and his claims of revelations. What came out of it, got him going mad in his mind. He was not sure anymore, he jettisoned his thoughts.

Udi Daniel remained silent as the jet penetrated the moving clouds. He fell asleep and got lost in a dream. Tom Harry would not stop cracking his head as he looked at the scientist who was clearly sleeping deeply. He reasoned that if Udi Daniel would have nothing to gain for the releasing a monster, he would never have offered himself willingly to go fight it, especially after surviving a near death plane crash. He concluded that the scientist was only experimenting with his creature.

Tom Harry tapped the scientist on his shoulder as the jet touched down on the Brisbane International Airport tarmac. He noticed unusual presence of combined military forces of the Australian government, strategically located around. As they drove out of the airport, Udi Daniel asked, "Are the humarines still at the Beach Side Hotel?"

"Yes, they are", Tom Harry replied.

"Good".

"It appears another protest is going on", The Minister said looking around.

"Could it be about the monster?"

"The Prime Minister has directed that the "Mystery Diamond" be transferred from the Brisbane Museum to Canberra, but the people are against the move", the driver cut into the conversation.

"But why?"Udi Daniel asked.

"To keep it away from the monster", the driver replied.

"That would be even more dangerous!" The scientist reasoned.

"This is pure politics, they're at it again", Tom Harry said.

"I'm on the side of the people", Udi Daniel responded.

"What informed your position?" The Min8ster asked.

"You don't have any idea of what we're dealing with".

"What idea?"

"Have you forgotten how the diamond block ended in the Coral Sea?"

"Oh, it's you that's becoming spiritual now. You used to be agnostic".

"That was before I boarded the Big Bird".

"Do you believe in the existence of God now?"

"We're not discussing the subject of God".

"Do you agree with me now, that there're supernatural forces acting on the diamond?"

"I can't agree more or less".

"It's ominous!"

"I'm afraid".

"I'm going to let the Prime Minister see things from your standpoint".

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"I've been having vivid and troubling dreams. I just want to crush the monster and return to Washington".

The scientist for the first time, tried to crack his head for scientific ways he could apply, to overcome the demon in Adiam. In all his dreams, he had hoped that the angel would appear to him and point him to a clue. Rather, he was constantly mauled by strange animals and grilled by forces in a court room, for setting the demon free. His life no longer belonged to him. He had to earn his freedom. He thought hard on reprogramming the minds of the humarines to go to war against the monster.

The Minister remained silent in the car as they headed towards the Landmark Hotels. He knew Udi Daniel had just made a killer point. He kept rolling up the piece of thought in his mind. The car pulled up in the hotel and he walked to a corner to speak with the Prime Minister on the phone, to drop the move of relocating the "Mystery Diamond" to Canberra. Not surprisingly Bobby Roberts saw reasons with him to keep the diamond in the Brisbane Museum.

Bobby Roberts held the view that if the monster eventually got hold of the diamond, the Australian government would have to look elsewhere to get the funds to pay Ali Garabed. The visit of tourists to the Brisbane Museum continued to trickle as the rumor that the monster was coming after the diamond gained grounds. The tourists saw reasons to believe the rumor as security forces reinforced their presence around the Museum. The Prime Minister hoped that Udi Daniel could destroy the monster before it would have the chance to come into the Brisbane Museum.

Tom Harry went into the hotel, and to Udi Daniels room. He found him furiously redesigning computer programs on a piece of paper.

"The Prime Minister is on your side", Tom Harry said as he smiled down at the work of the scientist.

"He has no option", Udi Daniel said.

"Seems to me that you're drawing up the moves to trap the monster already", the Minister said.

Udi Daniel wore a smirk and said, "It's not anything serious. It's just a sketch. I'll need my computer systems, the machines and servers in the Beach Side Hotel".

Tom Harry had vowed not ever to go near the Coral Sea again. Udi Daniel went alone to the Beach Side Hotel to get his computers, the humarines and other systems. He got set to work all day on his computers in the Landmark Hotels. He was spirited to find out that the systems Paul Gardner had left open on the platform on the Coral Sea, still fired signals into the sea. He opened the communication link to Adiam and he got high with hope. He had full access to the mind of Adiam.

He pulled out the different programs in the mind systems and checked the hyper-sensitive sensor cells that were loaded into its brain, that could be plugged into and exploited by external causes. He found out that the mind programs had been greatly altered. He obliterated all the programs and loaded fresh "Thinking Process", but the systems would not take the changes.

He remotely tried to destroy Adiam by sending killer virus to crash the mind and burn all the sensory cells to no avail. He checked the minds of the other humarines and found out that they remained intact, Zodiaz, Godiam, Roggi and Illiax. He fantasized with the idea of reprogramming the minds of Zodiaz, Godiam, Roggi and Illiax to trap the monster inside the sea. He let go of it immediately, knowing the humarines carried a potential that the demon could use to its advantage, like it did to Adiam. Other demons could be down there, waiting to possess intelligent machines, to create more monsters. Adiam was already a handful to deal with.

The Australian government had confidence in him to deliver but things look beyond him. His head became filled up with fogs as he foresaw no immediate solution in sight. He felt very disappointed in himself. He cursed himself for coming to Australia to be caught up in the web of strange forces. He placed his head on the computer desk to rue his predicament.

A flash of thought went through his mind and he shut his eyes for two minutes. He recalled the angel had said the demon was helplessly attracted to diamonds in one of his dreams. He sprang up and walked to the hotel room of the Minister.

Tom Harry had come to his room and met him deep in thought earlier. He hoped that the scientist would be able to come out with a solution to the problem at hand. What worried him was his occasional lunatic behavior. Udi Daniel was used to talking to himself. As he entered the hotel room of the Minister, Tom Harry looked behind him if he was being followed but saw nobody. The scientist had started talking to himself again. Tom Harry momentarily doubted the sanity of Udi Daniel. He still felt that he was not normal, but who cared now about normalcy? He fixed his eyes on the scientist as he took the only seat in the room.

Nice update

They should just return the diamonds to its place
You’re doing well OP

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"I trust you have made some progresss", The Minister said looking at him with begging eyes.

"I would need the excavants for this battle", Udi Daniel said.

Tom Harry looked at his wristwatch and said, "We're ready to get everything for you to go to war".

He took the Minister's mobile phone and placed a call to NextTech, to have five artificial ants flown to Brisbane for an emergency operation. Two soldier ants and three digger ants. He did not specify the type of operation the ants would be carrying out. Ellinaz Ivanovo got to know about it from the Head of Technical and she got curious. She pulled a call to Udi Daniel at once.

"Hello", Udi Daniel answered her.

"Hey Dan, are you in Brisbane now?"

"Yeah, I'm neck deep already into why I have returned to Australia".

"Is that the reason you need the ants?"

"Definitely".

"Are you digging out another diamond?"

"Not really".

""I'm the Project Director and I insist to know what you need the ants for".

"Ellie, there's no time to explain things, when I'm back, you'd know everything".

"I say no! You must tell me now, else the excavants are going no where".

"Please release the ants if you want me back in NextTech".

"Ok".

Ellinaz Ivanovo resolved to find out in her own way as Udi Daniel turned to the Minister and asked for a pen and a piece of paper. He listed some components to assemble a mechanical system, a hop of a radio link, and an electronic latch.

The Minister hurriedly left his hotel room to set things rolling. The Australian government sent some officials in two jet planes to Washington DC to bring down the excavants. The officials arrived NextTech to find a twist. Ellinaz Ivanovo proposed a condition for letting go the artificial ants. She must would be on the plane.

Udi Daniel had just survived a plane crash miraculously and now immersed into what could not be revealed. Ellinaz Ivanovo felt uncomfortable and was beginning to think that there could be more to it than what the eyes could see and the ears could hear.

The officials related what was holding them in Washington DC, to Tom Harry, and he readily approved her condition to release the artificial ants. Udi Daniel kicked against it. The complaints of the officials reached the Prime Minister and Udi Daniel was forced to reconsider his position. Ellinaz Ivanovo was eventually allowed to travel with them and she released the artificial ants.

Tom Harry continued to run around to get every other thing that the scientist had asked for. Udi Daniel returned to his room and began developing the new task to be loaded into the minds of the excavants. As he worked on the computers, his mind formulated ways to handle Ellinaz Ivanovo when she arrived Brisbane.

She liked to be carried along in everything and he feared for her. He heard the voice of the Minister in the hotel after a truck pulled up and he got up to tell him to provide two more items that he had missed. He took the Minister to a corner and whispered into his left ear.

Tom Harry was completely at his service. The Minister entered his vehicle and drove off into the city to get a piece of the diamond in the Brisbane Museum, three pieces of mirrors and three stands, tin wires and other items.

Kudos to the OP
But can you please make your update more lengthy than this? It’s kinda short and it takes a lot of time before you drop your update, kindly help do something so as to have your readers glue to their phone, thanks

Good and active readers, I appreciate you all for following the story closely, special shout out to YoungBruzzy who has been my companion from the get go of this journey.

My updates may not come as frequently as I would like because I'm juggling between things, I am sure you understand. But I'm going to do my best to keep the fire 🔥 burning. I will find a way to increase the frequency of updates.

I like you active readers to contribute or participate in the writing of the story by way of comments or positive criticism, it would spur me on and increase the ink in my pen.

I Love You All.

Chapter Ten






The people of Brisbane continued to live in fear not knowing when and where the monster would strike next. The government hastened to stop the monster before it would strike again. Udi Daniel was condemned to prevail if he would regain control of his life. As the evening approached the usual rush to beat the curfew resumed in Brisbane. The areas around the Coral Sea looked like a dead zone already.

Adiam popped its head out of the water from a distance and it could see military forces lining the shoreline. It had suffered some injuries in its last outing but nothing had got to the demon. It withdrew into the water and steered towards the mouth of the Brisbane River, from the sea. Darkness was covering the evening in a hurry. It moved under the Walter/Taylor Bridge to the other side as vehicular traffic built up on the bridge.. It continued to float on the river towards the point where it would spring up to Melbourne Street.

Adiam could hear the sound of aircrafts and increasing flashes of light on the river. It plunged into the water when a bomber jet flew past. It cautiously reared his head out of the river after about two hours, in a another spot on the river. The flashing lights were dwindling, and the vehicular traffic on the bridge had eased out. Adiam leaped out of the river and surveyed the way to the Brisbane Museum.

Military attack helicopters hover above the Museum. The full stretch of Melbourne Street looked deserted as they obeyed the curfew. The area was heavily secured by military men. The monster disappeared and appeared on Grey Street and ducked into a corner to scan the Museum plaza. This side of the Museum was even more secured; soldiers mounted machine guns, armored tanks and other artilleries facing away from the Museum.

The demon in Adiam had no time for delay, It launched Adiam like a thunder lightening and whipped the soldiers that guarded the gate into the Museum plaza with its tail, in circles. About twelve soldiers were sent flying in the darkness as It slipped into the Museum hall. Before other soldiers knew what was happening, the monster was already a tourist.

The few persons inside the Museum froze in fear as Adiam flashed to where the "Mystery Diamond" hung. It nreezed to the hanger platform to weave its tail around the diamond. Deafening screams came out from the Museum as the monster slammed the diamond on the floor. Fireworks cracked around outside of the Museum as Adiam followed the diamond to the floor.

Three persons were running out of the hall and Adiam stretched its tail to pull them back. It coiled its tail around them and slung them through an opened window. The cries from outside the Museum increased as the three persons smashed against iron bars outside. Adiam could see bullets flying close and it pulled the diamond to a corner and got set to escape.

The soldiers pinned the monster to the corner and rained bullets through. Adiam had not thought about escaping through the rain of bullets until a bomb blasted the corner open to the outside. It swiftly wrapped the diamond and flashed out through the hall, towards the gate of the Museum plaza.

The chase continued outside. The diamond dangled behind the monster, causing it slow down its speed a bit. Even at that, the helicopters and the bombers couldn't match its speed. Bright lights of aircrafts brightened the sky around Brisbane with a deafening noise, coming from different directions. Adiam headed towards the Brisbane River. It had lost all the helicopters but the bombers were giving it a run. More bombers appeared in the sky as it pulled the diamond along, bringing down anything in its way.

Brisbane river appeared to the monster and it bounced up to dive into the river with the diamond. Three bombers released bombs at the monster before it could swing its tail to raise the diamond from the ground. The bombs cut off the tail of Adiam and the diamond fell on the river shore. Fear had gripped the whole of Brisbane as the battle raged on. The fireworks died abruptly as the bombers returned to base. The police arrived the river side and moved the diamond back to the Museum which had been reduced to a dilapidated structure.

Ellinaz Ivanovo had seen twinkling bright lights and thick smokes in the sky through the window of the jet plane that was flying her and the ants, as it lowered into Brisbane. She wondered why so many aircrafts were in the sky in the night. The Australian officials with her in the plane had no idea of what was going on.

The plane landed in the Brisbane International Airport and Ellinaz Ivanovo disembarked to the sound of fireworks rocking the atmosphere. She saw helicopters moving in circles over a space in the sky while jet bombers kept shooting into the space from all directions. She continued to be in the dark about what was happening. One of the official guided her into a waiting vehicle with all sense of urgency.

"The monster is on the prowl again", the official said in a hush tone as soon as he joined her in the car.

Ellinaz Ivanovo froze in fear. The fireworks died abruptly and other officials crawled out of their shells. She was driven to the Landmarks Hotels with the excavants, in a convoy. She could not wait to meet Udi Daniel to get the gist of what was happening, and how NextTech was involved. She could read that the way the Australian government had demanded for the artificial ants, and the urgency with which they were loaded into a van in the airport back in the United States was suggestive.

Time to finally set things right is here. If I am to understand how the demon in Adiam works, it seems to use Adiam as a shell or body for him to come alive to perpetrate its evil acts. With the way things are going, I don't think Daniel would like to be together with Ellinaz again, she is too stubborn for my liking. You're doing amazingly well OP
more ink to your pen

Don't forget that they were first of all partners in NextTech, before the flames of love burnt them together. I think she deserved to know.
Moreover, her god just survived a plane a cataclysmic plane, he shouldn't be back to work, should be at home. But I admit she's naturally stubborn.