The night carries many strange stories, some terrifying and horrible, for the night is the realm of the unseen. If you listen to those unseen voices of the dark, you can hear tales that will blast your mind and soul. One of the voices flying the night winds tells of the entity known as Chulauga. Come now, and read what the night wind speaks.
Kathy Brenner and Carl Holmes first learned about the treasure from the dying lips of Dr. Jason Grimms, an expert on Central American, pre-Columbian history. For many years, Dr. Grimm had devoted his life to the study of a certain Native American culture, which sprang up in Central America and suddenly vanished, almost without a trace. It was only with extreme difficulty, over a period of many years, that Dr. Grimm was able to gather enough information to allow him to piece together an incredible legend. Almost 1500 years ago, there lived a people called the Ulimina, a people of unknown origin, having customs, language, and racial features far different than any of the other people inhabiting the land. The Ulimina had only one god, a deity they named Chulauga. It was believed that the Ulimina’s high priest of could summons their god to appear, for a short while, in the mortal world. Almost overnight, the Ulimina rose to dominate the region, subjugating and enslaving all other tribes. Then, there came a fateful day, when the enslaved tribes rebelled, rising up in bloody wrath. Within a few days the Ulimina people were destroyed. So intense was destruction, carried out by the rebelling tribes, that most of the artifacts of the Ulimina were erased from the face of the earth. However, certain clues of the Ulimina’s culture survived the destruction: fragments of strange pottery, craved figures, and seldom spoken legends, handed down through the ages by the natives.
After a quest that lasted most of his adult lifetime, Dr. Grimms had found the ruins of the Ulimina’s greatest temple. The temple lay concealed under a densely overgrown mound, in the jungle, far from civilization. Jason Grimms believed that the ruined temple, was the very place from which the high priest of the Ulimina, had called forth Chulauga. Deep within in a central chamber of the ruins, Dr. Grimms found a great trove of golden artifacts, which he felt, would assure his place among the leading archeologists of modern times. It had been Dr. Grimm’s intention to go to the government, of the small Central American country and inform them of his findings, but he met Kathy Brenner and Carl Holmes first. In his excitement over his find, Jason Grimms had hinted about his discovery to the pair, and those hints were to prove fatal. The couple managed to kidnap the doctor, and through torture they learned the location of the hidden temple of Chulauga.
The team of Carl Holmes and his lover Kathy Brenner had successfully mastered smuggling, gunrunning, drug trafficking, artifact theft, and a host of other crimes. Carl Holmes was a handsome, thirty-five year old man with dark hair and black eyes. He stood a little over six feet six inches tall, and his 230-pound frame was solid muscle. To look at Kathy Brenner, one would never imagine her as a criminal. The pretty, thirty-one year old, brown hair, blue eyed woman stood five feet seven inches tall and weighed 125 pounds. Her attractive figure, full red lips, and innocent eyes gave no indication of the corrupt soul that resided within her. She was one of those women that exude sex appeal, and it was that attribute, which had allowed her to easily lure Jason Grimms to his doom. Together, the duo had put together a daring, well-trained, well-armed gang that had made them rich.
It did not take Brenner and Holmes, accompanied by six of their gang, long to venture into the jungle and retrace the steps of Dr. Grimms. They posed as archeologists when they entered a village not far from the temple. Their intention had been to use the village as a staging area, from which to plunder the ruins. However, when Carl told the village chief about their destination, the old man adamantly refused them any aid.
“That place is forbidden,” the headman of the village said. “It is a place of evil. Do not go there! Seldom do we speak of that evil. Many, many years ago, an evil people lived in that place. Those people called upon forces of darkness, which are best left forgotten. Their foul god came forth and had union with their women, the offspring of those unholy couplings, were a race of demon people. Aided by their unclean god the demon race conquered all the land, enslaving those people they did not kill. In their pride, the demon spawn allowed their god to sleep, and as the god slept, my ancestors rose up and destroyed the evil ones. The temple was sealed, and it must not be unsealed. You must not take the woman anywhere near that area. A man might enter and leave without awakening terrible god, but a woman would surely rouse him from his sleep.”
The people of the village became so agitated, when Carl insisted on going forward, that it was only by a show of force that the gang made it out of the village. They moved quickly away from the village, keeping watch for any sign of pursuit.
“That was close,” one of the gang member’s said to Carl, “I thought we were going to have to kill some of those villagers to get away.”
“Well, I guess they must have found out about the gold,” Carl replied. “They probably were counting on having it all to themselves.”