Monsters from Beyond Reality (8 page)

He had to find
a way back and he constantly went over things trying to find
something that he had missed!

He wondered
where Mitchell was, and the other man if he had followed him there,
and he wondered if it transported people to random locations? Was
it the supernatural vortex that he had dreamed of in the castle?
Did it have things trapped in it? Did things get transported back
and forward through it? And if it did why could he not reenter it
and return there?

The island, if it could be called an island,
was fascinating and made of something similar to matter, and he
constantly studied.

It was virtually translucent in places, as
well as being slightly translucent in different degrees in other
places with different colors through it, which he was sure was made
of some form of new energy, with strange atoms replacing normal
ones.

It was firm in places but like being on a
waterbed in other places and he was glad to be on it as he had
spent hours wading through its sea, if it could be called a sea, as
it was nearly like thick air and he only managed to float on it due
to him also being made of a similar composition. He was sure
gravity existed, at least! Or was it just something similar?

It was incredible! Through the sea and areas
of the land he had seen the other side of the world, if it could be
called a world, and its size was close to being the same as the
moon and he saw similar islands to his in different sizes and
shapes, some massive and others small like his island and they
seemed to float around it.

The place never needed a sun and glowed
brightly with all the surrounding lights or suns in the sky,
virtually covering all the sky, and he had to search for black
areas of empty space to confirm they actually existed there, which
he was still unable to prove.

The world also generated its own light and
heat, but he could not realize how! The strange thing was it had
the many of the characteristics of the normal universe and it was
like it was mimicking it and as though it had some of the same
forces like gravity and had formed similarly with the forces
governing it.

Though his survival was an important thing
he wondered if he could actually die as he never needed any food or
oxygen and he was made of the same indestructible or nearly
indestructible substance that everything there was made of, and he
was unsure how it functioned.

The sea surrounding the shore was barely
visible but had colored matter grains in it against the shore, like
sand, mixing through it, and the rhythms of its waves skimming up
the surface of island gave sounds like real waves and blew the form
of air there in gusts like something was breathing over him, and he
wondered if something was there examining him!

There were vague things in orbit and mists
over the upper atmosphere that shifted, with the world’s vague
rotation, and he saw some signs of its faint rain having fallen.
And he put the exploration of the island as his main activity,
except he had to find a way to return home!

One time he dived deep into the sea, as fast
as he possibly could, and admired the surreal abyss below and
enjoyed the swim, going fast and furiously into it. It was a
dreamland and he treated it like a holiday, especially compared to
the conditions of the castle, and he realized how bad the
conditions at the castle had been and that the warmness there was
ecstatic compared to the cold and snow and he wandered around
enjoying the solitude and bright light, and exploring an unexplored
alien world.

Chapter 3

Back in the
Castle

Deep in dark
regions and lights surrounded Bryson in his dream as it started
ending and he started waking, and he caught sight of things
shifting about with no form and wondered what they were or were
doing there as he opened his eyes and examined the sun beaming into
his castle room, and the snow falling outside.

After all he
had been through the dreams still never made any sense and he still
insisted in trying to examine it to find some clue to what he was
missing.

The dream had
been about nothing and eventually bored him, and he rested in his
bed with his blankets wrapped tightly on him.

Yet the lights
in the dream reminded of the supernatural vortex he had been in and
he now wondered if it had anything to do with the supernatural or
something else.

The dream had
allowed him to forget all the events of the previous day and his
return to the castle. It had been incredible! He had been exploring
the shore of the island when he had found footprints, which could
have only have belonged to a human put there like him, and he had
traced them for hours, thinking it had to be Mitchell or his man
who had been behind him in the tunnel, but he had been surprised
that it had been another human.

They had
talked for hours, and he had realized that the man was almost crazy
in places from being stranded there for many years, and the man had
loved hearing his accounts of what the outside world was like, and
all the new technology that now existed, and Bryson had learned
that he had been there for decades and from the Second World War,
surprising Bryson with his young looks, and that he was far older
and had clearly not aged.

Bryson had
learned about him being in the castle and their search for the
treasure there with great interest!

Even though
Bryson had been surprised at his search for the treasure he was
sure that he had not known much about it and had been there to
help.

Both of them
had thought each other had been dangerous at first but had slowly
realized that they had finally met other humans, and though he had
been amazed at Bryson’s accounts of the castle and the tunnel he
had been surprised that there had been stairs in the tunnel and
Bryson had realized that the man and his two associates had been in
another tunnel and that they had been sure the treasure had been
buried away there.

Yet one of the
biggest surprises had been when the man finally remembered his own
name again, as he had been so delirious for so long that he could
not recall things about himself, and he had told him that his name
was Pendleton, which Bryson had heard of in the accounts of some of
the people who had vanished there.

The man’s view
of the island had been startling and he had even thought that he
had missed something as the man had not fully believed that he had
been transported there through a vortex and had religious beliefs
of what had occurred! He surely had thought he had gone into his
own place in the afterlife and was unsure whether it was heaven or
hell, and had beliefs that he was still being considered for both,
and he had watched him regularly praying to be saved.

Yet after
being there, and all that had happened, he almost felt like copying
him, but had thought better of it. It clearly had not saved him for
one thing!

One of the
problems had been there was little to do! There was no need for
food and they never got tired or slept! And if it had not been for
the fact that they never felt properly bored, agitated, or, in
fact, anything really, and he would have been worried!

One time they
had visited a strange phenomenon on the island, which Pendleton had
told him of, which was a large hole going into a hard region of the
island, which seemed to go down into an abyss far below the island,
which had actually looked volcanic, and had grasped Bryson’s
attention as if it was volcanic it could have proven that the
island had been formed in the same way as the world, and, of
course, given him some form of insight into how the world had been
formed and what it actually was.

Yet after a
great deal of examination of the substance there he had still found
nothing! There had been no sign of anything that remotely came out
of volcanoes!

About a day
later, when they had started to think about leaving there they had
suddenly started vanishing, which had grabbed Pendleton’s attention
first and the most as he had not experienced it before and he had
prepared himself for years to meet something there and enter some
other place in the afterlife.

They had both
appeared in the castle, surrounded by scientists, to their
astonishment and confusion!

How the hell
did they get there? Neither of them could explain anything! Bryson
could not explain anything and why they had not gone through the
vortex and Pendleton could not explain anything either! And
Pendleton could not even recognize the castle after such a long
time! He must have been the only person in the history of the world
to have been in such a place and have returned to the world after
such a long time!

The simplest
things confused Pendleton and his now normal human body staggered
him, and he had a hard time adapting to it and having such things
as feelings. He could not understand and remember what hunger was
and why he grew tired, and even thought that he was ill most of the
time, and occasionally gasped at what he had been missing – yet as
he was still the same age as he been when he had left he still had
the same amount of years that he would have had!

He also never
recognized people, and they were different from what he had
remembered them as, and he had not seen anything of the future! He
was like a time traveler in a future world! He also thought of
himself as having been put there to start over again and repent, in
another attempt at entering his relished afterlife.

He spent most
of his time studying everything that he met with in fascination –
like he were an alien being visiting this world in the form of a
human being.

Chapter 4

The Psychic Research
Equipment

When Bryson had
recovered and rested from everything that he had been through he
decided to go and visit Merton and Mortimer in their new psychic
research room, which was located behind the wall of the tunnel at
the exact spot he and Mitchell had vanished into the supernatural
vortex – where they were most likely to get the best response – and
where all the action must be.

When he
entered he was surprised at not only how advanced their equipment
had become but at the capabilities of other stuff they had there.
Their visit to the last castle had clearly given them far more of
an insight and knowledge than he had realized. He was positive that
they had found far more than they had indicated, and were keeping
secrets from him.

What confused
him the most was how they had managed to get him back to the
castle! He had not thought of anything himself, and continuously
tried to think of a good way to get them to tell him as they had
avoided answering his and everyone else’s queries on it and were
clearly hiding things. What sort of equipment could have taken him
back into the castle almost instantaneously with Pendleton?

He recalled
seeing Pendleton wandering around dazed exploring the inhabited
region of the castle, getting use to his new body and life on the
Earth. He mainly remained on his own the most of the time, as he
had become use to, but was still excited to meet the others in the
lounge. The police there had examined him wondering what he was
doing there as they had been given strange vague replies and
detailed explanations by the scientists, which had left them
baffled.

Mitchell’s
return had confused everyone as he had given them the strangest
replies that he had heard from any of them, and he was particularly
interested in where he had ended up as he had not arrived at the
same place or even universe that he had, and he clearly was
covering things up on what was there, which they had not been able
to get why. It was in his nature not to say much and be secretive,
and it was not apparent if there was anything they should know
there and that he was really keeping something that they had not
even imagined.

The other man,
Mitchell’s man who had been behind Bryson in the tunnel, had seen
and acknowledged everything that had happened in the tunnel and had
returned to the top, which explained why nobody else had entered
it, looking for them, and it had been him that had told the
scientists what had happened and what he had seen happen, and they
had immediately started work on getting him returned.

It surprised
them and Bryson that only the three of them had returned, and he
and them believed that the rest had all died a long time ago at
where they had been located, and Bryson realized that it proved
that there was no immortality in the places that they had gone and
that the other places were vastly different, which could also be
proven from what they had seen of the other events that they had
heard of, and what they had seen existed.

Bryson
believed from what he had overheard from some of the other
scientists in the room that they had temporally deactivated, for a
brief amount of time, what was in the tunnel with their own energy
field in the room and had allowed them to return, and he was sure
that it had been dangerous, which he believed was because it might
cause whatever was in the castle to become more activated again as
it had done at many times in the past.

Chapter 5

Reverse Sequence of the
Spectral Maelstrom

Bryson was
growing in determination to find out what they all knew that he
should know, so he was glad to see Mitchell and his man who had
been in the tunnel turn up at the room seeking answers to what was
going on there.

Bryson
examined all their equipment for clues, and recalled reading about
some of the work that Merton and Mortimer had done recently, after
they had given out documents of some of their investigations on the
paranormal investigations at the other castle.