Lighthouse Landmines Novels & Stories

Large gray silhouettes emerged from the fog. Military ships. Coast Guard vessels. Helicopters filled the sky. Searchlights locked onto the lighthouse. Luca laughed in disbelief. "You called the navy?" Elena smiled. "No." "I called everyone." She held up her phone. Moments before entering the lighthouse... She had activated the Hart Emergency Protocol. Richard had programmed one final safeguard. Whenever the lighthouse beacon was activated... Every international agency Richard had trusted would receive its exact location. The beacon wasn't a symbol.

" August shouted. He explained everything that Jodie just told. Everyone was frantic as they packed their stuff. August ran to the back of the mansion, but he immediately stopped when he stepped on something, hard and metallic. "Holy shit!" He cursed, when he heard the metal click and knew it was activated. Landmines were activated once severe pressure was applied to it and the igniter set off a propelling charge, lifting the mine about a metre into the air. The mine then ignites a main charge causing injury to a person's head and chest. Sweat broke down his forehead. He knew any better than to even make a slight movement otherwise he'd be blasted into pieces.

“Yeah. There were two other guys and four other ladies including America.” “That’s weird.” I hear William speak as he continues to focus on his phone. “There’s absolutely no result for that island. Nothing.” “I told you. It’s a mysterious island but I am a living proof that it’s real.” I responded William. “Why do you think it doesn’t exist here?” Liv asks, he sounded serious now. “From my dream, I remember how the people on that island mentioned that there was a cursed lighthouse somewhere.” I continued, “The said lighthouse is completely invisible and it holds all of the people’s memories who have left LUAHU.”

The city lights began to thin, replaced by quieter streets and stretches of darkness broken only by warm golden glows in the distance. My heart began to beat faster — not in fear. In anticipation. Because I knew him. And when Flavian went quiet… It was never small. Finally, the car slowed. Turned once. Then again. And then we stopped. The driver stepped out and opened my door. I placed one hand under my belly and carefully stepped onto the pavement. And then I saw it. And suddenly… I understood why. Lights. Hundreds of them. Soft golden fairy lights wrapped around trees, draped across a wide open garden that overlooked the city skyline like a dream poured into glass.

Nate obeyed. Fredrick’s diamond farm was heavily guarded by chain-link electric fences manned by strong muscular men. The news around the town was the fences were always powered, ready to incinerate any unwelcomed visitors. There was a 12-hour rotation of guards who watched the workers from watch towers, making sure none of the workers tried to steal from the farm. Beneath the finely ground white sand of the beach were landmines designated to explode if a worker tried to steal diamonds and make a run for it. If the landmines weren’t effective, the shark-infested water beyond it was sure to be the end of the thief as that was the only means of escape.

As we broke through the treeline, the world suddenly opened up. We were standing on the summit of a towering cliff, the highest point on his mother’s private island. The view was staggering. Below us, the turquoise waters of the cove deepened into a dark, royal blue as the ocean stretched toward the horizon. From this height, the neighboring islands looked like emeralds scattered across a sheet of glass, their white-sand shores glowing in the fading light. But the centerpiece was the lighthouse. It sat at the very edge of the precipice, a sturdy, white-washed tower that had clearly stood against a century of storms. Its glass lantern house caught the first golden-orange rays of the descendin

She continued, "Tell your men to search among the eight islands on the border of Litania. I'll mark the islands for you." Hunter was dumbfounded. "You don't… actually believe they dug an underground base in that desolated place, do you? I was just spit-balling." A second later, he zipped his mouth upon meeting Lucille's solemn gaze.

One by one, the red sensor lights of the drones swept over their viewport, searching for the heat of a living crew. Elara held her breath. Beside her, she could hear the rapid, shallow breathing of Jun. They were "ghosts" again, hiding in a trench at the bottom of the world. Suddenly, a heavy thud vibrated through the hull. Something had landed on top of the sub. "One of the drones," Kazimir whispered, reaching for a heavy pipe-wrench. "It’s attached itself." "It’s not a drone," Mina gasped, looking at her handheld terminal. "It’s a Magnetic Limpet Mine (a bomb that attaches to a ship's hull using magnets, timed to explode or be triggered remotely)."

The old lighthouse had been dark for years. Perched on the jagged edge of Widow’s Point, the Black Hollow Lighthouse had been abandoned since the night Keeper Alden Rowe vanished without a trace. No one had taken the position after that. Some said he’d fallen. Others whispered the sea had claimed him for a debt long unpaid. Mara didn’t believe in sea-debts. But she knew what she saw. Three flashes. Evenly spaced. Deliberate. The pattern repeated. Her little brother, Toby, burst into her room. “Did you see it?”