Indiana Jones and the Gold of King Midas - part 7

Posted by Natali Lekka from athe530-l156.otenet.gr on April 27, 2001 at 15:47:00:

“Wow, did you see what I did with that guy?”
“This is not a game kid,” said Indy. “Things are going to get a lot more dangerous when we get to Gordium.” Twenty minutes had elapsed when we started making out a forest in the horizon. “That’s the Forest of the Poison-Plants that surrounds Gordium city and Midas tomb” I said. “I read it in the book. Thousands of years have gone by and it has remained unaltered. According to the myth, the Gods cursed this place with these plants so that no man could fall into greed again.” “We have to be extremely careful now,” added Indy. We stopped the car and entered the forest on foot.
It was suffocatingly green and warm like a rain forest. The area’s temperature had changed within seconds and the symptoms of scarlet fever were not far away. We walked slowly and carefully feeling weaker and weaker every single minute. “The plants have eyes. They see us and feel our presence,” whispered Indy. I heard birds flying over us in the clear sky. How I wished we could fly to Midas tomb. I looked at them making a clumsy movement backwards. A plant spat something like a small arrow which I take it was poisonous. It got stuck in my back bag and shed a greenish liquid that frothed. I threw it away in fear. “We are lucky it didn’t land on the sarcophagi plants,” said Indy a bit angry.
We took the path out of the forest. There were giant brown mushrooms on the left and right. Something told me that they were not there for good. All of a sudden their tops opened up and a densely white gas came out billowing. We had no other alternative but fall on our knees and elbows and crawl our way out of the path. We reached a point where the gas could no longer harm us, still crawling, when we finally set eyes on the ancient city. Midas tomb was no more that 50 meters away from us. I had never seen anything like that. The tomb, all golden and glowing, towered over the city and right outside of it and everywhere around it the Nazis, armed to the teeth, had built small camping sites that secured every entrance and exit. “We’ll never get inside,” I said in despair.
Right then a poison ivy grabbed me from the leg and started pulling me back in the forest. Indy tried to help me but it was too late. The plant pulled us together at the other end. To our fear we realised that we were closing on a cliff. We fell down hanging from the plant while the Sakarya River was flowing violently under us. I wondered how much weight a poison ivy could hold. The ivy was cut abruptly and only a few meters before we hit the waters, the plant got caught somewhere leaving us swinging in front of a cave we hadn’t noticed before. “Now, that’s what I call luck, kid. We just found the secret entrance to the tomb.”
(to be continued...)

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: “Wow, did you see what I did with that guy?”
: “This is not a game kid,” said Indy. “Things are going to get a lot more dangerous when we get to Gordium.” Twenty minutes had elapsed when we started making out a forest in the horizon. “That’s the Forest of the Poison-Plants that surrounds Gordium city and Midas tomb” I said. “I read it in the book. Thousands of years have gone by and it has remained unaltered. According to the myth, the Gods cursed this place with these plants so that no man could fall into greed again.” “We have to be extremely careful now,” added Indy. We stopped the car and entered the forest on foot. 
: 	It was suffocatingly green and warm like a rain forest. The area’s temperature had changed within seconds and the symptoms of scarlet fever were not far away. We walked slowly and carefully feeling weaker and weaker every single minute.  “The plants have eyes. They see us and feel our presence,” whispered Indy. I heard birds flying over us in the clear sky. How I wished we could fly to Midas tomb. I looked at them making a clumsy movement backwards. A plant spat something like a small arrow which I take it was poisonous. It got stuck in my back bag and shed a greenish liquid that frothed. I threw it away in fear. “We are lucky it didn’t land on the sarcophagi plants,” said Indy a bit angry.
: 	We took the path out of the forest. There were giant brown mushrooms on the left and right. Something told me that they were not there for good. All of a sudden their tops opened up and a densely white gas came out billowing. We had no other alternative but fall on our knees and elbows and crawl our way out of the path. We reached a point where the gas could no longer harm us, still crawling, when we finally set eyes on the ancient city. Midas tomb was no more that 50 meters away from us. I had never seen anything like that. The tomb, all golden and glowing, towered over the city and right outside of it and everywhere around it the Nazis, armed to the teeth, had built small camping sites that secured every entrance and exit. “We’ll never get inside,” I said in despair.
: 	Right then a poison ivy grabbed me from the leg and started pulling me back in the forest. Indy tried to help me but it was too late. The plant pulled us together at the other end. To our fear we realised that we were closing on a cliff. We fell down hanging from the plant while the Sakarya River was flowing violently under us. I wondered how much weight a poison ivy could hold. The ivy was cut abruptly and only a few meters before we hit the waters, the plant got caught somewhere leaving us swinging in front of a cave we hadn’t noticed before. “Now, that’s what I call luck, kid. We just found the secret entrance to the tomb.”
:                                          (to be continued...)

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