The amazing flying belt.
Book four
Paul and Din to the rescue of kidnapped Jane
Author–Zvi Rozenblit
Illustrator–Orit Kliminz
Copyright 2020 Zvi Rozenblit
Subjects include: Flying super teen, teen leader, tension, smart and forceful teen, fascinating, flying superboy, wonderful adventures
This is a work of fiction,
names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously,
and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events or locals is entirely coincidental.
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Introduction. 4
Chapter 1 Jane is kidnapped. 6
Chapter 2 Chased by criminals. 22
Chapter 3 Between two dangerous gangs. 36
Chapter 4 Din is hitting back John's Gang. 46
Chapter 5 A dangerous voyage in the Caribbean islands. 54
Chapter 6 The great chase- pirates chase Henry's yacht. 67
Chapter 7 Dangers in Port Au Prince. Haiti. 78
Chapter 8 The pirate Hernandez is chasing Henry's yacht. 89
Chapter 9 A surprising end to the chasing of henry's yacht. 101
Introduction
The book series of "The amazing flying belt" tells you the amazing and wonderful adventures of Henry and his teenagers sons Tim (17), Din (16), and Paul (18).
How they became rich after having endured bad experiences.
Chased by cruel enemies around the world who wanted to rob them.
How did they survive it?
Using Henry's magnificent invention of "The amazing flying belt."
Henry envisioned and designed a kind of machine that would be light and small enough so it can be worn on the waist. It would be full of tiny electronic and mechanic devices to enable one, a maximum of two people to fly unlimited distance at different velocities and heights
It would be powered by a special device that converted the sun's solar energy into electricity. The user would never need to worry about any fuel for the flying belt.
For balance, the belt generated air pockets around the user to allow him to sit, stand, or lie down while flying. Another crucial device was a special container tied on each side of the belt that pulled out and accumulated the moisture from the air, even in arid conditions (this, of course, worked more slowly than in humid countries.)
It had many more devices - complicated and difficult to understand.
Henry and his sons' adventures with "The amazing flying belts" are told in this book and the following books.
This is the fourth book–Paul and Din to the rescue of kidnapped Jane.
Chapter 1 Jane is kidnapped.
Once there was an inventor named Henry. Henry was 52 years with a full head of greying hair that defied his vibrant manner. He was taller than most people in his small town in Florida USA and had kind big brown eyes.
Like most inventors, he didn't pay much attention to his appearance. He always dressed in an old green buttoned shirt and faded blue trousers. He patched his own worn brown shoes instead of driving to the cobbler. He considered going there a waste of time that took him away from his passion for making his big idea comes to life.
When Henry was a kid, his family went on a trip to Everglades National Park to see crocodiles. The large reptilian beasts were impressive and scary, but what amazed Henry the most was the huge flocks of birds that took off from the marsh. That was the day he became fascinated with flight. Not airplane flight or hot-air balloon flight. Not even a wing glider flight. But a flight where any person can take off to the sky whenever he wanted.
So as Henry grew that fascination became a passion. And this passion became his big idea - to create a flying belt!
He envisioned and designed a kind of machine that would be light and small enough so it can be worn on the waist. It would be full of tiny electronic and mechanical devices to enable one, a maximum of two people to fly unlimited distance at different velocities and heights.
It would be powered by a special device that converted the sun's solar energy into electricity. The user would never need to worry about any fuel for the flying belt.
For balance, the belt generated air pockets around the user to allow him to sit, stand, or lie down while flying. Another crucial device was a special container tied on each side of the belt that pulled out and accumulated the moisture from the air, even in arid conditions (this worked more slowly than in humid countries.)
On his back and chest, the user carries two backpacks with extra clothes and emergency food and even a tiny and very light refrigerator powered by the same energy of the belt. For the comfort of the user, there was also a miniature air condition unit.
And more and more devices - complicated and difficult to understand.
The funny thing about Henry's invention was that several years ago when his car broke on a bridge, he discovered he suffered from a fear of heights.
So instead of flying himself, he tested the flying belt for the first time on his dog, Jet, using a remote control unit. Jet felt very uncomfortable at the beginning with the strange flying pose, its belly pushed backward and its limbs dangling. Henry threw several dog biscuits upward and after a few tries Jet grabbed them and chewed happily.
The belt was now ready for more testing. This time with a human pilot.
He tried it on himself for a short distance; perhaps his bad experience on the bridge was temporary.
He tried to fly very low and slow for some minutes and felt a relief that he didn't fear much; he tried a little higher, and it had the same result.
"Never mind," he told himself. "I will try higher and faster, but meanwhile I want that one of my sons would do a long-distance flight near the shore."
Henry had three sons: Tim, Din, and Paul. Paul, the eldest, was a bright, cheerful, and adventurous 18 years old teenager but dependent and irresolute. Tall like his father and with green eyes like his mother. He copied his father's modest taste in clothing and usually wore a very casual t-shirt and trousers.
Tim was 17 years old brown eyes and hair, a tall, quiet, sensitive, courageous, quick-thinking boy.
Din was a smart, quick thinking adventurous and courageous boy of 16, matured for his age. capable of being a natural leader.
His brown eyes took everything fast and without fear, his hair was brown and long he quitted school early, to experience real adventures.
He didn't believe in learning theoretically, but practically. His parents supported him with this.
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Henry was sitting in a comfortable room at his hiding place talking with Margaret.
A beautiful woman, the wife of Martin a known gangster serving Mr. Eduard, who was rescued with her beautiful daughter Jane by Paul and Din back in South Africa.
The telephone rang.
Henry answered it.
His face became red "You won't do it George!" he shouted.
Margaret asked what was the trouble.
Henry said one sentence. "Jane has been kidnapped by George and his gang."
Din was entering the room when he heard his father's sentence.
His young face became red "When was it?" he asked.
Jane was here in the morning. She went to meet a friend in the Centre…" He stopped.
Henry's face was pale and Margaret's beautiful face showed contradict feeling anger and concern.
Henry uttered only one sentence.
"Come, we must call the police. "
"No," said Din, "what were George's exact words?"
"He would kill Jane if we don't deliver the diamonds to him till tomorrow evening."
"Call Paul, take him with you and investigate, now that I think it was not George's voice it was someone with a strange accent… Perhaps, perhaps."
"South Africa." Suggested Din.
"Could be."
"Did he mention where to deliver the diamonds?" Asked Din.
"No," answered Henry "he would call again soon."
Margaret said, "I want to come with you. She is my daughter.
Someone came from South Africa to take Jane, George doesn't know my Jane."
"They want the diamonds here in Florida. If they wanted it delivered till tomorrow evening, it must be Florida," said Din.
Din went out of the room and came back with Paul, who looked pale.
"Margaret gives Din and Paul time to investigate, they know George and his gang and Mr. Eduard and his gang."
"What are you going to do?" asked Margaret.
"First, we are going to check George's house. Margaret, I will inform you and father if there were news about Jane."
With that Din and Paul left the house.
"What are you going to do?" asked Paul.
"Check George's house."
"It's still daylight," said Paul.
"In an hour it will be dark, then we act."
They flew towards George's house, landing in a wood nearby waiting for the darkness.
"Do you think George kidnapped Jane?" asked Paul "He doesn't know her at all."
"We have to eliminate facts that are wrong, so we begin with George's house then we would see."
An hour later darkness fell.
"Stay here and be alert to my messages." Said Din.
flying slowly using the gathering darkness to approach the house unseen, he landed not far away hiding behind a big tree he used his night spyglass to watch the house carefully.
There was a lot of noise and activity.
People entered the house, and some quitted it.
Din waited patiently.
Suddenly he saw someone getting out of the house alone and approaching his hiding place.
"Did he find me?" thought Din "No, it could not be if it was true he would come with more people."
The man stopped not far away from Din looking in his direction.
Din froze and waited.
After a while the man turned to go back to the house, but surprised to feel a cold knife attached to his neck, hearing a low voice whispering, "if you cry you will die."
Din took the frightened man behind the big tree then asked him.
"Did you see a girl of fourteen years in the house?"
The man was stunned "What girl, there is not any girl in the house."
"Who is in the house?"
"George and his son John and some of his gang."
"Why is John here tonight?"
"I don't know."
"Good," said Din and sent the man to sleep for a while by hitting him in the face by his fist.
Din waited to inform Paul of the situation.
Waiting for a while Din watched the house carefully.
No one came out, and no one went in.
He heard Paul asking impatiently what to do.
Din answered him to be patient and wait for more news from him.
Watching the house an hour later he saw a guard stationed in front of the house, another came out scouting around the house for a while then went to stay with the first one.
The two smoked and talked with each other in a low voice.
After some time they sat and stopped talking.
A wind began to whisper then the wind strengthened.
"Good," thought Din "I will wait for a while, they probably would sleep."
The guards felt the rising cold and went to sit inside the house watching through the open door.
A rain began to fall from the dark sky accompanied by the wind blowing stronger.
The guards closed the door leaving only a little gap.
looking at them through his night spyglass Din saw them falling asleep.
He wrapped himself tightly watching the house carefully.
Most of the rooms became dark only two rooms on the second floor were still lit.
Din flew up to be in the second floor's level, using his night spyglass he looked into the first room, there he saw George and his son John talking in a low voice.
They were alone.
Din shifted his spyglass to the second lit room, there were some gang's members there, but no prisoner with them.
Din used the bad weather to approach the room where George and his son sat.
The wind and rain made listening difficult.
But Din heard some snatches of conversation
John said, "I heard that Henry had some attractive guests."
"Two women both were beautiful, one was a woman and the other girl."
Then the wind blew harder Din could only hear "… the center of the town…"
The rain poured strongly.
Din decided that he heard enough, he flew into the wood meeting with Paul.
"Did you find Jane?" asked Paul.
"No," answered Din "She isn't in the hands of George or his son."
"How do you know?"
Din told him what he had heard.
Then Din informed his father and Margaret,
His father asked them to return home and so they did.
At home the four of them including Tim who joined them,
discussed the situation.
"Where could Jane be if she is not in George's hands? Asked Margaret desperately.
"She must be in Florida somewhere, perhaps one of Mr. Eduard's men came here?" said Din.
"I am sure it's Martin or Mr. Eduard's men who did it." Said Margaret.
"We will wait for their second message," said Henry.
"Can you fix their place when they talk?" asked Paul.
"I will try but it depends on the duration of the conversation," answered Henry.
"Talk to them as long as you can and try to fix their location," said Margaret.
"I will do that." Answered Henry.
They had to wait a long time, the time approached midnight but not any call was received by them.
Margaret usually calm was beside herself, impatient.
Din maintained his calm expression but his mind was very active searching for a solution.
Tim sat silent and Paul was frustrated.
Suddenly the phone rang, somebody asked to talk with Margaret.
When she took the phone a strange voice told her to bring Henry's diamonds to Pretoria South Africa, and come alone, the man on the phone mentioned a hotel's name in Pretoria where she must be. There she would get further instructions.
The conversation stopped without giving Margaret a chance to ask about her daughter.
Margaret a strong woman had tears in her beautiful green eyes.
"What shall I do?" She asked desperately.
The call was not from here" said Henry "It was a long-distance call.
I will check it immediately with the post office."
Henry got an answer that it was indeed a long-distance call from South Africa.
"I will check with the Miami airport if there was a flight to South Africa a while ago." said Din.
He got an answer that a flight to Cape Town left the airport half an hour before.
Asking about a girl named Jane on that flight Din got the answer that a girl with a green eyes was on the flight with two big men, her name was not known to the plane's crew.
"She was taken immediately to Miami," said Din. "Then they misled us to buy time."
"Margaret, "said Henry "fly to Cape Town with ten diamonds and not more with Din and Paul who will bring ten diamonds each, take enough money and bring Jane back alive, call me every day as usual."
"When is the next flight?" asked Margaret.
"At four in the morning there is a flight to Pretoria," answered Henry after checking with Miami's airport.
"I will buy now three tickets for you, now it is eleven o'clock you have five hours to board that plane, good luck to you." With that, he gave them the diamonds the money and the electronic tickets.
Half an hour later they were flying towards Miami, Margaret with Paul on his flying belt with a helmet a blanket, and a cape.
They flew through a stormy and rainy night and caught the flight an hour before it took off.
Din whispered to Margaret.
"We don't talk along with the flight. Just send a message to my father informing him you have caught a flight to Cape Town and you would reach our destination."
Margaret did as Din told her then the three of them went to sleep
waking an hour before landing in Pretoria.
Another plane from Miami landed in Cape Town four hours before.
A black car waited for three people, two big men and a girl whom they drugged.
The car hastened north without entering Cape Town; the driver drove fast north encountering bad weather with a strong wind coming from the north and a lot of rain which made the journey very difficult, he had to stop from time to time.
When night came, they didn't reach their destination and had to park near the road. Waiting for better weather which didn't come.
They felt the stormy night and had to warm the car with all the windows close while the engine was working.
The girl woke up frightened, someone gave her something to eat and drink, but nobody talked to her.
She sat frightened but said nothing only her green eyes watched the driver and one of the others who sat before her but did nothing. After a while, they all slept together, including the man beside her.
She felt the warm air in the car suffocating her.
"I can flee from here she thought, but where?" She couldn't leave the car in the middle of nowhere in a frosty night outside.
She felt the bad air in the car so she opened a window a little. And put her head near it feeling the cold air, then she fell asleep.
Throughout the night the storm ragged the strong wind shaking the parked car, the rain hit the car strongly, but no one of the four people inside the car awoke.
When morning came Jane opened her green eyes and looked around.
The driver and the two people didn't move.
She was hungry, putting her hand on the big man's bag sitting near her she found some cold meat which she ate quickly she also found a bottle of water to quench her thirst.
Finishing to eat and drink, she looked around the car.
The driver and the big man sitting near him didn't move.
The man sitting near her from whose bag she took her food stirred and looked around.
Feeling bad and disoriented, he called the other two. They didn't answer him, cursing he shook them violently, their heads fell, but they didn't answer him.
Alarmed he shouted at them but they didn't answer him.
Checking their pulses he discovered that they were dead! Suffocated during the night by the heated car without fresh air from the outside.
The man near Jane got some air from the open window where Jane was, so he survived the night with Jane.
Looking at her the big man smiled a devilish smile, a predator smile.
"We are alone," he said, "that's well."
Jane was afraid she knew what the big man intended to do with her.
What the man didn't know that Jane had taken his knife while he was asleep, and she held it behind her back.
She gathered her courage and said, "Do you know who I am?"
The man laughed and put his hand on her head. "I am Martin's daughter."
"I thought you are the Pop's daughter."
"Martin the right-hand man of Mr. Eduard," she said.
He stopped for a minute, "No, you are lying."
"Take your phone and call Mr. Eduard or my father Martin, do it immediately or I will call them!"
The man hesitated between his passion for the young girl and his fear of Martin and Mr. Eduard."
"You are lying," he said again but took his hand back.
"I can save your ugly neck or let them kill you because you had killed your friends here."
"But I didn't, they were suffocated."
"They won't believe you, how did you survive and they not?"
The man became thoughtful.
"How can you save me?" he asked.
"By telling them the truth." Jane answered, "This I will do if you take me to Pretoria booking a room in a hotel there."
"It's a long way especially in this weather."
"Never mind, Get rid of the bodies after you had taken photographs of them, and drive to Pretoria." Jane said hiding the man's knife.
He took some pictures of his dead fellows then threw the bodies on the roadside and drove north while Jane remained in the back seat.
Din, Margaret, and Paul took the hotel mentioned by the kidnappers and waited for a call.
They had to wait a long time.
When it came, it demanded Margaret come to Cheetah Park's main gate with the diamonds.
Margaret refused.
"First, I want to hear Jane's voice," she told them decisively.
"You won't see her alive if you don't bring the diamonds."
The rough voice told her.
Margaret looked at Din with despair "What shall I do?" she whispered.
"Demand to hear Jane's voice or you won't come." Answered Din.
She did it and was cursed violently with lots of threats.
"Paul," said Din fly to Cheetah Park gate, hide there and call me if you see something important."
Then he looked at Margaret. "They want diamonds. They won't touch her, wait for their call."
After twenty minutes, Paul called "There is a black car with three people waiting, all grown men."
"Good," answered Din. "Continue to watch and inform me if there is something new."
"As I thought," said Din, "they are lying, they want you to bring the diamonds without giving you, Jane."
The car was running north, slowing down when there were gusts of wind and rain.
From time to time it stopped, parking at the side of the road.
The man operated the car's heating but remembered to open a little his window as Jane did.
"I go out to piss," she said and got out of the car into the cold rain and wind, protecting her phone from the weather she sent her mother a message, telling her she was with one brute on her way to a certain hotel in Pretoria, hoping to reach it at night, she gave also the car number, but didn't know her location.
"They don't have Jane in Pretoria. " I am going to find and save her," said Din.
"Play for a time with them, until I come back."
Din called Paul and asked him to come back to the hotel to protect Margaret and be in touch with him.
He took off into the stormy weather shielding himself from the wind and rain by his helmet and cape.
The visually was poor, so he flew slowly and very low searching for a parking black car by the roadside.
The big man was restless he didn't want to stay by the roadside and didn't want to pass another awful night.
He looked at the road map and saw a settlement not far away.
He began to move when Jane called "You promised me to take me to Pretoria. Why are you going away from the main road?"
"The weather deteriorating I cannot stay. I must find some shelter. When the weather will moderate a little I will continue to Pretoria."
"I must inform my mother." she thought.
The car stopped after a mile near the little settlement.
Nobody was outside, all the people were in their warm houses no one paid attention to the black car invisible from time to time when the rain became stronger.
The man was afraid and sat motionless near the wheel.
Jane put her phone on her knees and sent a message about the change of the situation not knowing to tell her mother where was that settlement or its name. But she indicated that the car went to the right of the road.
Din got that message and thought to ask Paul to help him but rejected it quickly. "I will do it by myself slower."
He continued his search, stopping and landing near a tree to overcome the worst part of the weather.
It was two hours before the night when Margaret got another demand to come with the diamonds to Cheetah Park.
She didn't answer them, afraid that they would come to the hotel but dismissed it thinking they could have done it before.
Paul wanted to inform Henry about the situation, but Margaret forbade it.
They heard the storm outside gathering strength.
"Din is outside fighting that weather looking for my daughter without complaining he is a courageous boy." she thought.
Din had difficulties flying in that awful weather and decided to take a shelter somewhere perhaps in an inn.
It was difficult to do that, but at last, he found a small inn by the road taking shelter there for the night and informing Margaret about it.
She didn't get another message from the kidnappers and settled to pass the night in a troubled and frustrated sleep.
Paul slept in a room near hers.
In the black car, the man tried to sleep.
Jane thought about knocking the nearest house's door but was afraid to do it in such a stormy night,
She wrapped herself tightly with a blanket put her head near the window that was opened a little gazing into the stormy weather.
From time to time there was lightning accompanied by thunder and raining.
Thinking about her warm room in faraway Florida she felt how she missed it.
Suddenly she got a message.
It was from Din asking her to check the name of the settlement where she was.
She opened the car's door feeling the storm on her face but went resolutely to the first house.
The man didn't see her.
He was asleep.
She knocked on the house's door.
Nobody answered her.
After knocking stronger she heard somebody shuffling towards the door.
The door was opened a little and an old angry woman asked her what she wanted.
Hearing her question she gave her the settlement's name and closed the door angrily.
Jane went back to the car sending the name to Din.
She looked at the big man he was still asleep.
Or so she thought, suddenly he asked her why she had got out of the car.
She answered that she had to piss.
The man looked at her searchingly, then turned to sleep again.
She settled down to wait for Din.
Din got Jane's message. He consulted the map but didn't find the settlement and asked her to check it again.
He got an answer that she would try again.
Jane looked at the man, he was fast asleep snoring.
Slowly, she got out of the car and knocked at the same door.
The angry woman opened the door and asked, "What now?"
Jane asked her to write the settlement's name which the old woman did angrily.
Jane went back to the car and sent the correct name.
Din got her massage, consulting his map he found that the distance was 60 miles, an hour flight in usual conditions, but in that weather, It would take more.
He took off immediately, braving the bad weather flying low.
He encountered a lot of wind and rain "How could I see a black car beside the road in such a weather?" he thought, "I have to fly slowly and carefully,"
He searched the roadside carefully, but saw no black car, "Perhaps Jane was wrong or the old woman gave her a wrong address or it misspelled?"
Suddenly after an hour's flight, he saw a black car driving north slowly.
"Perhaps the man with Jane drove north?" he thought.
Coming around the car he saw Jane waving to him.
He came to the driver seat's side and knocked on the closed window.
The driver surprised stopped the car, opened his window, and shouted at Din, who landed near the car opening the driver's door.
The big man tried to get out of the car and hit the boy when to his amazement he felt shoes connecting with his head throwing him into darkness.
Din got into the car and drove north towards Pretoria, leaving the big man unconscious beside the road.
Din drove slowly because of the bad condition, while Jane thanked him.
She moved to the seat near the driver, talking with him excitedly.
Din asked Jane, "How did they kidnap you?"
"I went to the center with a friend when two people came to us suddenly. One asked if I am Jane the daughter of Margaret, When I said yes, they told me that my mother was waiting for me in the next street, I didn't believe them. When one of them attached a knife to my neck, he told me to come with him quietly or die.
My friend wanted to say something, but they hit her unconscious tied her, and left her near a house.
The man with the knife took me to a black car where other men waited
They tied me and immediately traveled to Miami airport."
"Going with me to a plane, threatening me all the time that they would murder me if I tried to call somebody.
In the plane, they sat one at each side of me while two others sat nearby until we reached Cape Town.
There they drugged me, I arose only afterward driven northward in a black car and three people in it."
"What happened to the other two?"
"They were suffocated during the night, the third one intended to rape me but I told him I was Martin's daughter and frightened him."
"Good girl," said Din impressed. "The troubles did not end here releasing you is good but all four of us are in grave danger from your father and Mr. Eduard gang and perhaps more bad people, we will consult after meeting with your mother and Paul.