Monsters from Beyond Reality (33 page)

I eventually
relaxed on the bed in my room there, and recalled the case of the
killer, and how astonished I was that it was Captain Godfrey, and I
was astonished when Marple that morning had told me who he really
was.

Marple
had discovered that all the killer’s victims had one thing in
common and that they had all fought in the
First World
War, and he had found out that they had all been in the same army
division, and had fought together, and massive amounts of their
comrades had been killed, and Marple had traced all the surviving
members, and there were only two left.

Captain
Godfrey had been German, and a German soldier before he had moved
to Scotland, and he had entirely changed his identity, to hide his
past, and other killings in Germany, and Marple had discovered that
Godfrey had a brother, who had moved to Scotland too, who had
served in the same division, and that he had been killed, which
Godfrey had admitted to the police, and he blamed the other
soldiers for his death, and believed that they had actually killed
him, after their discovery of him being German, but what they never
knew was he was his brother.

The war with
Germany had revived what had happened, and he had used his
experience and knowledge of how the police worked, and used it to
destroy the soldiers.

The newspapers
had the story all over the front pages, with Marple being named as
a chief investigator, and the man who had solved the case, and he
was receiving numerous calls and new cases, and I realized that he
intended to expand the business, and increase the amount of
investigators.

Everything was
perfect, except this case, and what was there!

While I rested
on the bed I considered what could happen next and I listened to
Oswald and the other scientists consulting with each other and
making an agreement, which I missed and tried to work out from what
I heard!

It was
incredible as I recalled things they had been saying earlier, and
that I had not picked up properly at the time, and realized what
they were doing, and that they were even increasing the power of
the scan, and I wondered what the hell that would do, as it had
been powerful enough in the hospital, and I started seeing the
dangers of it again, and thought of going somewhere else, and
returning after they had done it, to survive.

For some
reason the scientists seemed not to want me to be involved in their
discussion and what was occurring, and I believed it was to do with
my earlier worries of what could happen, and I realized Oswald had
said something about it to them. So I decided just to use it and
stay out their way, in the background, and observe what was going
on.

I could
not grasp what would happen, and I did not know what was there, and
w
hat was incredible was I realized that they had read
my report on the occurrence in the building with the metal detector
and what had happened and they had entirely missed what had
occurred, and what I had meant, and I could not explain it any
further to them what had happened, and they never seemed to think
anything had happened, and I realized again that I could not
properly explain what was there, as I never knew what was
there.

Marple had once had a great interest in
investigating the paranormal, which he never believed in, and
consistently explained logical solutions to everything easily,
which I and the others investigators normally did, but he was far
more experienced and determined, and I realized that I had to find
something of that nature to prove something existed.

The elderly woman, and owner of the house,
was glad to see me again, and did everything to welcome us, and not
put me off the case, and at her dinner I discussed the case and she
told me what had been happening since I left and she told me that
the haunting had decreased occurring, especially since we started
work at the hospital, and neighbors had also admitted it.

What could it be? I was still at the start
of the investigation! I considered everything, and only had the
metal detector that had activated it, and that never added up to
much.

After I was asleep later on the bed I
awakened and realized I had missed something, while I had been
asleep, and I watched the paranormal scientists and technicians
rushing excitedly back and forward checking their equipment all
over the woman
’
s outer corridor, and where the source had
mainly been detected, and where I had activated the metal detector,
and collapsed, and wondered what was going on, and I realized that
they were about to activate their equipment, and braced
myself.

When nothing happened I looked up and saw
Oswald look into the room, and I wondered if anything had
happened.

“
Are you scanning below the
building?
”
I asked.

“
Yes!”
he replied.

I gasped, and
tried to detect any differences in the surrounding environment, and
I jumped off the bed, and stood at the room entrance, and watched
all the scientists standing around waiting for something, and I
wondered what, and as I approached them I realized they had all
been standing waiting for me, to continue and activate the
equipment and experiment, and I wondered why.

When they
activated it nobody reacted and barely noticed anything. My mind
wandered through all the occurrences that had led up to its
discovery.

Suddenly a
vast unstable energy blast, which seemed to come from somewhere
else, and not below, or from anywhere in the normal universe, and
like it came from another outer dimension, and emerged all about
the place, with so much force it threatened to warp space, and I
went back to wondering what it really was and what damage it could
do, and I watched parts of the equipment burst into flames, and the
scientists quickly turning it all off and going crazy trying to put
out flames.

I was happy it was over and nobody had been
killed, and that they could not use the equipment.

Yet I noticed
Orwell and Higgins and some other scientists were not concerned,
and I saw them at the equipment, and a scientist holding a sheet of
paper, and I moved over.

The
scientist explained that the
energy blast had damaged
the equipment, as they had predicted, and their swift instantaneous
scan of below the building had worked, and that they had used the
instantaneous rough scan below, with a fast enough speed capable of
checking there, before the equipment was damaged, and he showed us
the sheet of paper with the rough scan, and at first I thought it
had not worked as it looked like a blur of lines, but as I examined
it further in more detail I grasped a strange image in it of an
unusual formation.

Chapter 29

The Exploration

I stood blinded by the black abyss below me,
as I searched into the depths of the tunnel, as though it led into
some strange region of space, outside normal space, and I saw the
stone steps below, which were the same as they had been in the
tunnel going under the hospital, which had been accurately
made.

They were in a hole, below the
woman
’
s
hall, at the exact point the occurrences had originated, and it had
been uncovered by the archeologists, with help from the scientists,
who were all standing along the hall in a line, with the woman
standing at the end, with them all standing with their mouths
partially open, with a slight look of horror, waiting for me to
descend down into its depths, and I knew I was the chosen
one.

I gripped my light, and shifted down the
stone steps, looking for any obstacles ahead, and moved a little
faster, and watched their faces vanish behind me as I went down,
and saw the two paranormal scientists enter behind me, and the
others watch as the three of us descended, and left them behind,
and I wondered what the hell I had done and if I would someday
regret what I had done.

At a point deep below I heard scientists,
which seemed magnified by the tunnel, as they conferred on what was
below, after so much they had found so little so far, and they had
been arranging the exploration of it for a long time, and I had
been unchallenged in going down, and the scientists and
archeologists had insisted, and had done everything to help.

It was strange as I thought of what was
there, if I was not insane, and I realized it could be dormant, and
being partially awakened, and was far different than anything else
on this world, and it seemed to want to do something!

Our scan had activated something, and there
were reports of ghost sightings in the region, and there were
sightings of the soldiers from the battle that had taken place, and
their ghostly figures marching along a region of the battle
site.

A deep thud echoed came down from the top as
someone at the top dropped something inside, while trying to look
inside, and I and I speeded up.

It was their ultimate discovery and
expedition and I wished it to be done right, and to give the full
discovery everything that it deserved. Though I was mainly confused
as to what had been discovered and would be found, especially after
being surprised at so much in the past week, with such strange
occurrences, and being given such little facts, and I believed the
war had generated all the action, or perhaps something else had
done it and had caused the war.

Hazy echoes off our deep breathing broke the
extraordinary silence that accumulated, and we examined the walls
around us with surprise as we shifted downwards, and it still
mystified me, and I wondered what I was missing.

For some
reason I realized that the other tunnel that we had been going
through from the hospital led to what was at the bottom of this
tunnel, and in its original state it had not wanted to be
discovered and had later put the occurrences at the hospital to
make us go there, and it had checked me out in the other tunnel,
and before that in another state in the woman’s house.

I realized how
ancient it was and it had been trapped on this world, waiting to
leave this universe, which it had tried to do before on many
occasions, and it had been buried higher above at one point.

In its current
partially awakened/dormant state it was like some form of ultimate
advanced living computer, in the ways it thought and existed, and
in its partially altering state, still waiting to accomplish its
plan, and had other forms and powers that could never exist in this
universe.

Humans
had once worshipped it when they had encountered it, and they had
hidden its location, and
Mary Queen of Scots had once
been hidden away near it, before she was captured, when it had last
met humans
.

For some reason I knew things that I had not
known, and I knew I was approaching something, and I tried
straining my eyes to see further down, but there were no features
of anything, and the steps vanished away into deep blackness.

When I looked backwards I saw the top of the
tunnel had vanished into darkness, and I looked around and saw the
paranormal scientists had vanished, and I knew it would make
contact with me alone!

Chapter 30

The Lost Chamber

A loud screech
from something strange startled me and nearly made me fall down the
stone steps, and I waked on, and I stood dazzled and blinded as
bright light exploded out, and I held my hands over my eyes, and my
eyes slowly adjusted from the dark tunnel behind me, and I
staggered down the last steps, into a twenty foot circular
cavity.

I staggered
straight into the blinding light, beaming from a large sphere
formation, and felt its powerful energy pulsating through the
floor, with some form of life, floating over the central region of
the cavity, and I tried to grasp what was in front me!

Silent sounds
manifested around my surroundings, as though invisible things were
surrounding me, and I saw strange glowing and swirling ghostly
formations, forces, and some were like spirits with shrouds, and
flew about with silent wails, and I realized why people in the past
reacted as they had.

The central
thing resembled a magical living sphere, altering its forms of
energy, and I felt its energy and powers, and knew it had no
physical form, and it normally had a colossal size and powers
somewhere else, and I tried to grasp what was there, and why it was
there, and what Marple would explain it as!

In its
blinding light I grasped little, and physically felt its powers
everywhere, and saw mental images of stars exploding around me, as
though I was shooting through the cosmos, some strange form of
space, and I knew it was giving it to me.

Its formation
seemed to have constant dramatic changes, and powerful energy
surges, as though unstable, and it bordering on vanishing, and
rejuvenating itself, and I watched it shift in its central region,
as though trapped in some force field, and for a moment something
formed in it, with some unknown form of life, and it altered as
though its energy was constantly controlling itself.

In the
blinding light I saw another tunnel entrance at the opposite side
of the chamber and knew it led down to the tunnel that we had been
going through from the hospital, and it had made it in an attempt
to make contact with us, and it had made the black sphere in the
cavity, under the hospital, after it had realized it would not
work.

The black
sphere had the capacity to communicate with us for it, but it had
realized it needed to make contact differently and by itself, and
it had chosen me to do it as a representative of our species, as it
had checked me out, especially after my use of the metal
detector.