Chapter 8: The Hard Drive

Kieth was in the storage room looking for a first aid kit for him and Derek to tend to their wounds. Kieth tried to disinfect his bullet wound, but couldn't really summon enough strength to do it. "Come on Kieth, it really isn't that hard." Said Derek, who also is trying to take care of his shoulder. "Well if it's so easy, why haven't you already started?" Asked Kieth. "I will, I'm just...bracing myself." Kieth rolls his eyes at Derek. Alice walks into the room and sees the two struggling to take care of themselves. She sighs and says to them, "You guys are still trying to heal yourselves? Alright then, looks like I have to do it for you." Alice grabs the disinfectant bottle and tends to Kieth's bullet wound. He groans out of pain and tries to laugh it off. "Ouch. You seem to know what your *groans* doing. You do something like this often?" Kieth asks as he continues to endure the sting of the disinfectant. "You could say that. I wanted to take classes to heal the sick and wounded when I was a little girl. My dream was to become a doctor you know? It was something that made me feel where I would find myself in the world. Maybe help me discover what the world thinks of me."

Kieth and Derek were listening to what Alice wanted to as she was helping with their pain. She wanted to be a guardian angel to those she wanted to help. As she was finished cleaning up their wounds, Kieth was sort of eyeing her with a sincere look. Derek saw Kieth looking at her and couldn't help but smile at him. As soon as Alice left, Derek says to Kieth, "She has a good heart. I saw the way you look at her. You two must've been together for awhile huh? How long have you been dating?" Kieth reacts at Derek with a flustered look and said, "We're not dating!.. we just happen to run into each other when you put me and Charlie on the job you gave us. It's not like that!" Derek continued to smirk at Keith, but then realized something that Kieth said about Alice. "Wait, you said you met her when you and Charlie were getting the package I paid for you to get? I thought you said that she was one of your business partners." Kieth's eyes widened for a bit and said to Derek, "Well...I lied. Actually she was one of the guards working there." Derek's mouth opens and he grabs onto Kieth's shirt and says, "Are you serious?! Then why did you bring her along? It's not like she needs to be here so why did you recruit her?!" "When we where caught in our attempt to escape, she brought us along and kept us in a storage room. Later on she comes in and we both end up talking to one another and we just kept talking. Then later the ship was being attacked by what seemed like pirates. When we were trying to escape, I saw Alice getting attacked and I didn't want to leave her so I brought her along and we all fought back to escape just in time before the ship exploded."

   Derek then had a curious look on his face. "You said the ship was attacked by pirates? Why?" Asked Derek. "I don't know. We were only trying to escape. Why do you ask?" Derek let's go of Kieth and puts his hand on his chin thinking about the attack on the cargo ship. "What if the attack wasn't random? Like why would the pirates just attack a fortified ship? Is it possible?" Said Derek to himself. "Hold on, wait a second, are you thinking that the pirates are somehow linked with the mercenaries we fought back then?" Asked Kieth. "It's possible. Think about it: The mercenaries are after the same treasure too, so they must've paid the pirates to capture a specific object, but what?" Both Kieth and Derek were thinking about it then Kieth thought about the arrow and the notebooks they've collected back in the cargo ship. Kieth says, "Wait...what if they were after the same objects we were? They knew something important was inside that chest. Maybe something that could help us find the treasure. And if we find the treasure-" "We find my daughter!" Said Derek as he and Kieth thought of the same thing. "But first we have to know what's on that hard drive." Said Kieth. Then Charlie enters inside the the room with a smile and says, "Hey guys, I've just finished decrypting the hard drive. You're gonna wanna see this."

Kieth and Derek followed Charlie to the office full of flat screen TVs and computers. Charlie then shows them images of the mercenaries from before escorting a female to a helicopter. Derek took a closer look at the female and his eyes widened as he knew who it was. "It's her...my daughter Petra." Said Derek. "But why is she with the mercenaries? Is she working with them? Or maybe she's being forced to?" Asked Alice. "I don't know...wait isn't that Vincent?" Said Kieth. The image shows Vincent saying something from his earpiece and Petra walking with him. "Why would she work alongside with killers?" Asked Charlie. Derek started pacing back and forth with his hand on his chin. "Wait...who are the other two people in front of her?" Asked Charlie as he increased the focus on the two individuals in front of Petra. One was a male who wore a tuxedo and the other was a female who had cuffs on her hands. "Who are they? Are they prisoners too or are they the ones in charge?" Asked Kieth. "I don't think so. See only Petra and that woman are the ones in cuffs, but why not the man in the tuxedo?" Said Alice. Derek was curious and looked at the two individuals. As he took a closer look at them, he had this very surprising look on his face as he was shaking his head. He almost tripped as he was walking backwards. "No that's not right...it's can't be them...they were supposedly dead...how?" Derek was talking to himself. "Derek what are you talking about? Who are they?" Kieth asked. Derek was still mumbling to himself. Kieth got off of his chair and walked to Derek and shook him. "Derek! Who are they?!" Asked Kieth again. "The man...is my brother, Jacob.And the woman...is your mother, Mary." Kieth eyes widened as he hears his mother's name. Thousands of questions were running through Kieth's head. Like how is his mother still alive after all these years, who is Nathan and what does this have to do with any of them? But Kieth then asked Derek, "Tell me Derek, how did you first find out about Robin Hood's treasure?"

   Derek eyes widened. "It was back then, about 30 years ago..."

(Flashback: 30 years ago...)

   It was back at Derek's mansion where he Mary, Jacob, and Kieth's father were gathered around a large table full of documents and old papers. Jacob was searching deep into the documents until he found something from one of his grandfather's journals. "Hey guys check this out!" Said Jacob as he called out to the others. "Look at this: 'I believe that there is secret behind Robin Hood history. Everyone says that he stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but what if that was only partly true? Robin must've had most of the the money for himself and gang. For a man with a skill to steal from the rich must have some reward for himself. And if so...I believe the riches of which that was Robin Hood stole must exist somewhere in England. I will begin my search there." Said Jacob as he read from his grandfather's journal. "The treasure of Robin Hood..." said Mary. "We have to look into this! Imagine what we could achieve with this! We'd be rich!" Said Jacob. "I don't think it's worth it. Sure our grandfather was an explorer, but he was chasing this fantasy where all he could do was go out Adventuring." Said Derek. "How could you say that?! This is a chance to make ourselves famous to the world! Are you seriously saying you don't this?" Asked Jacob angrily. "It's not worth chasing. It's what got our grandfather disappeared. He's been missing for 5 years!" Said Derek. "So you're just gonna let our Chance to become rich go?! What about you Mary?" Said Jacob. "It is tempting, but I cannot afford to go after something to couldn't possibly exist. After all, I have a son to look after and Derek has to look over his daughter." Said Mary. Kieth's Dad looked at Mary with a smile. Jacob slammed his fist at the table and yelled, "YOU'RE ALL WORTHLESS!! IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA HELP ME, THEN STAY OUT OF MY WAY!!" Mary then said, "Jacob you need to calm down..." she put her hand on his shoulder, but Jacob slapped her and she fell to the ground. "DON'T TOUCH ME YOU B!TCH!!" Then Kieth's Dad tackled Jacob and started punching him. Mary got up and said, "Please, stop Mark(Kieth's Dad)!" He looked at Mary and this gave Jacob the chance to flip him over. But before Jacob could throw a punch, Derek stopped him and pulled him of Mark. Mary went to check on Mark and Derek dragged Jacob out of the room and outside the house. "Go home Jacob...you caused enough trouble here." Said Derek. He threw Jacob out and walked back inside. But before he did, Jacob yelled, "YOU'RE ALL DEAD TO ME!!!" Derek closed the door and that was the last time Derek ever saw Jacob.

(End of flashback)

"That was the last time I saw him. And that's how we first found out about Robin Hood's treasure." Said Derek as he finished the story. Kieth and the others were surprised to hear how it all began. "But why is my mom with him and Petra? I thought she died." Asked Kieth. "We all thought she was dead. After what happened to your father and her disappearance, we thought she was killed." Charlie then looked back at the computer and looked for more information. He saw something that can help them find the answers they were looking for. "Well if we are going to find out why this is all happening, we can start by finding them on that island." Said Charlie as he pointed to a location of the island. "Right, the sooner we find them, the sooner we'll know everything." Said Alice. Both Kieth and Derek nodded and they all started preparing for what they would come up against.

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