Mysterious Boss

Mysterious Boss

“The Amazon River, magnificent as it is, holds many wonders, nothing else holds more beauty than this,” shouted Wildlife Ranger Joe. Joe then quickly jumped off the rock. Joe was always fascinated from rare insects to dead birds. He applied for a T.V. show once in Australia, but sadly, he got declined because of his age. He was pretty young, in fact he is one of the youngest Wildlife Ranger, being able to drive around last year.
In Honolulu, May 12th, 2056, something happened a few months ago, where this mysterious letter came in from Dr. Gombini, his boss. Dr. Gombini was always looking for new adventures but because last year, he had a terrible stroke and he is now unable to walk.
“Here it says that there will be a feast held at this what-so-called Cave,” read Dr. Gombini. “But that’s not all, there’s a note on the bottom, *People who received this letter are automatically enrolled in this ‘Amazonian Game’, that’s nice, but I’m not sure what it’s abo…”
“REALLY! ME AND RUFFLE ARE EXCITED TO DO THIS!” screamed Joe. Ruffle slowly raised his tail and gave a happy look.
“I doubt this but I guess you can give it a try since you’ve never seen the wonders of the Amazon. The Amazon Forest isn’t some forest but a spectacular place of wonders.”
Joe then snatched the script from Dr. Gombini’s hand and read the location of the meeting place for the beginning of this adventure!
“All right, I’m ready for this new adventure!”

A few weeks later into the summer:
“All right Mr. Gombini, won’t you send me off?”
“Why should I, you’re great and ready for this hunt! There’s no need to send you off.”
“Well, I guess, but I hope you’ll be alive to see the many pictures I will take for my collection.”
“Yeah… hopefully…”
They gave each other a hug and Joe started on his way to the Honolulu airport.

Days after:
“Wow, is this how Brazil is like! It’s very nice here, kind of like Hawaii…” loudly whispered Joe to Ruffles. Ruffles wagged his tail like a madman and was very content. “Let’s see, it says here to meet at the hotel ‘La Suerte’, he then noticed something “AWWW SHUCKS! IT’S 8 right now and we are supposed to meet at 10, and he ran.

9:56
“We’re late! Taxi!” hollered Joe. He got in.
“Where eet ess thet you went to go?”
“La Suerte Hotel”
After driving around for a few minutes, the taxi suddenly came to a stop.
Joe asked, “Is this it?”
“Yes!” The taxi man got out and several random guys got into the car and started driving.
“What are you doing, what’s that thing by my head?”
“Shut up and you shall live,” This man dressed in black clicked the gun and Ruffles started barking. He kicked the dog and instantly Ruffles got knocked out…

One day later:
“Where am I… Why does my head hurt so much…?” asked Joe. “We’re in the middle of nowhere… Ruffles? RUFFLES???” Joe slowly treaded across this empty landscape and soon finds out that Ruffles isn’t with him. Suddenly, something pulled the ground and it opened up. He decided to investigate it and went in.
The tunnel consisted of many twists and turn, his favorite shirt was soon turned to rags because of twigs as he tripped and rolled down. Soon after a while, the tunnel opened up to five pathways and he came to a stop. “Oh Lord, is this what awaits me in the middle of an adventure?”
Joe decided to choose his path by juggling a stick (to point) and assumed the path it pointed was the right one to explore. It was a long time before he came to the conclusion of the 2nd path, and you do know how scientists are. Slowly, he walked and the path got dimmer, but he didn’t dare panic because of many beliefs. Such things as the El Tunchi, practice of cannibalism and etc.
After a long time, Joe decided to rest and soon stopped feeling his way. He got out his phone… “DANG, I got two more bars of energy left, I got to save it” he said while noticing that it was already 1:00 PM. “Wow, one day passed and it’s the second day already?” Joe thought, and he decided to lie down. Slowly, slowly things faded away and Joe fell asle…

A few hours later:
CRASH-BOOM-MEROW-BARK
Joe instantly sat up, blinking in horror. These screams sounded like animals in pain, and he quickly listened for it as it distanced off. Joe who can’t stand animals screaming and quickly ran after hearing the echoing sounds.
As the tunnel opened up to a whole forest, Joe finds mysterious truck prints, and he concludes that there is some kind of scent of illegal poaching. He followed the truck wheel prints and soon enough, he bumped into a cage. In the cage was a half-dead bird and it’s body so scrawny it can’t fly. Quickly, he blew open the cage and let the bird free, instantly, the bird slowly bounced away. Joe then ventured around the place and found tents that are also full of cages. He undid the ropes of the cages and let them all go, sooner than he thought, and a guy dressed in black came running in.
“You there, what are you doing? Do you realize you are letting go our bosses collection?” yelled the guy dressed in black.
Just like any man would do, he grabbed his phone and dialed the “Brazilean Emergency Number.” After that, he ran.
After running around the mass of tents, he ceased and hid behind a bush. One jiffy later, a dog was barking and yet Joe had the heart to come to it and let it go. Not to his expectation, the dog jumped on him and gave him a slurp. It gave him a very deep stare and “It’s you my boy!” Ruffles barked again, he was pretty messy after getting caught.
“You know what? Let’s find an empty van and get out of here, but I’m pretty sure there’ll be guys on the look out so try to be quiet,” he said to the dog. To his surprise there was actually a parked empty van. They quickly ran to it and without anybody noticing drove off into the wild back to the city.

The very next day, they quickly booked a ticket back to Honolulu and after getting off the plane:
“We got to get back to Dr. Gombini as soon as possible,” Joe thought to himself and drove back to his house. Dr. Gombini was sitting in a chair, like he was expecting Joe.
“Here, we have a serious problem, there’s a new organization called “Blamimals” who collect specimen of species even if it’s dead or alive.” Dr. Gombini then showed a picture of their logo. The logo was pretty intimidating, a skull with skeletons holding it up.
“I seem to have to call the police?”
“They are quite the sneaky ones, and the government can’t do anything about it because of their mysterious boss’s influence.”
“Next time, I think we should go investigate more about this.”
“Yeah, I’ll get some more data, because we are responsible for this too. Not only do we have to care, but we have to stop them as well.”
“We’ll see, there’s a way to stop those fools…” snickered Joe.
KK