The Deadliest Haunted Castle (21 page)

Why were they so enthusiastic to discover
what was there anyway? They had avoided all questioning on it, and
showed more interested in it than anything else! Like it was the
ultimate treasure, and their form of treasure, which was buried
away there.

Even the insects there were unseen before,
and had characteristics that they had not seen anywhere. A yellow
piece of flying slime hung in the air, and had the characteristics
of flying, hanging in the air, and moving with notable form of
flying and moving that they had found, even after many
examinations, and must have a secret means of doing it that they
had never encountered, and it vastly interested a great deal of the
scientists, as if they could not pinpoint it and find a way of
reproducing it, it would be worth a great deal back home.

Yet it could be something that existed in
this universe that they were in that allowed it to exist, and it
may not be possible for them to bring it back to use if they
returned to their universe.

The inside of the structure was
incredible and looked like they were encountering something from
Earth
’
s
early past, and an ancient castle that resembled a haunted castle,
which was long gone from civilization and not even believed to have
existed by the majority of people.

The wind occasionally howled around through
the corridor in front of them, as air was caught by gusts of
wind.

He was not sure if it was an
alien
’
s
form of a castle or what it was for, as its location was strange,
and he could not even imagine what was behind it
anymore.

For a moment he felt a strange feeling that
something had detected them from over at the towers, and was amazed
that the two paranormal scientist reacted simultaneously with him,
and he saw the others had even detected something, including Major
Ripley, who went on the defense and seemed confused about what it
had been, and held his weapon ready for an encounter.

Chapter 19

The Interior

Kruger jerked backwards, as a loud thud came
through the floor, from the lower world, from a massive meteorite
impact, which sounded close, and again wondered why the inhabitants
of the world had never reacted when it had happened, and he
realized that they would have adapted genetically and learned to
ignore it.

They walked into its darkness almost in a
straight line, with all of them on their own with lights, observing
everything of interest.

Some had remained above to guard the
vehicles and keep watch there, and keep in touch with the GX1 and
other vehicles positioned in their hundreds across the world,
exploring everything of interest and possible interest.

The voyage would be an incredible success if
they managed to return, and many scientists aboard the GX1 were
working on the problem of getting them back, with a great deal of
breakthroughs, especially from the information the paranormal
scientists had given them, and the equipment that they had used to
enter the new universe.

Kruger watched the dust in their lights fly
about, and he followed them down a stone ramp going into it, and
further in the dampness of the stone walls gave a stale scent
through the air.

Kruger turned up his light, as the others
did, to give them enough brightness to see in front of them
correctly, and he continued walking deeper into the stone corridor,
searching the floor for any damage to it and for any holes that
they could fall through, and go crashing down below.

The tunnel was full of piles of dust and
rock crumbs all along its sides from the crumbling walls, and dry
dust covered the center of the floor, and they marched along
leaving firm footprints on it, and he started to wonder how they
could even consider the owners of such a structure as an advanced
intelligence.

Weird insects darted about and into cracks
in stones when they saw them for the first time, and they passed
them.

The top of the structure disappeared away
behind them as they went down the long corridors, and more water
and mud covered parts of the floor as they turned around a bend and
went down into lower levels.

Most of the dampness finally started
clearing, but the passages grew narrow and the air grew stale, and
they stepped through thicker layers of dirt that occasionally blew
up in clouds of dust over them, and they coughed it out when it
entered deep into their lungs and noses.

Major Ripley came to a gap in a wall, and he
shined his light over it showing them it, and he illuminated a dull
and empty room, packed with scattered with dirt, dust, and rot.

As they explored the corridor further along,
after finding nothing else in the room, they found something made
of metal embedded within layers of mud in the wall of the corridor,
and Major Ripley gripped a metal bar attached to it and gave it a
sharp pull, but it remained jammed or locked, so he yanked it hard,
and a metal sheet came loose out of the wall, where it had been
stuck on with two rotted hinges, and he lifted it up and over, and
placed it against the side of the corridor.

Starlight from a giant single star
brightly beamed through a window hole into the dark confined space,
and
when
they had finished their examination they left the empty
room.

The next obstacle that they came to was a
pile of stones that had collapsed inwards from the top of the
corridor and blocked it, which seemed to confuse them as they had
not accepted that there was not a way in. Yet once they were up
close, for a close look, they found that it had a gap through, and
they squeezed through, and went around a bend and came to a solid
metal door, in front of the corridor, which was firmly shut, and
looked as though it would end their journey.

But Major Ripley was too determined to stop
and made them back away from it and stood and fired his weapon beam
at it, temporary blinding them with its intense light in the dark
corridor, and its hinges shone brightly and molten metal glowed and
poured away, and he pushed the door away.

Once through the entrance Kruger watched its
cloud of smoke moving up to the top of a large hall, and pass a
high balcony at the middle of hall.

On their examination of it they saw a type
of staircase going around the hall, winding up from the bottom to
the top of the hall.

Kruger examined everything and listened to
the others give their opinions with interest, and realized that
they were missing out one point and the hall was virtually an
ancient human construction, but never said a thing as there had
been many discoveries of alien constructions that were similar to
human constructions, including the remains of the civilization that
they had found on the journey there. The constructions were the
best that they could produce and it was very likely if any life
form tried to create the best construction available that they
would come up with a similar or more advanced construction.

There were animal remains scattered
throughout the dirt beneath their feet all over the floor, and he
listened for any signs of them in his surroundings.

One of the military men helped one of the
scientists out by using his weapon to remove a large slab similar
to the stone slab that had been on the roof, and he blasted away
the hinges and the stone slab flew away down the immense cliff of
the pinnacle and smashed to pieces below.

Kruger remembered the way that the part of
the structure that they were on stuck out over the side of the
cliff and moved to an area over the pinnacle, where there was a
massive rolled up rope, which the occupants had used to do
down.

The brightness of all the turned up lights
showed the hall properly, and further along they saw lines of stone
structures, which resembled seats with a walkway going down the
middle, with a block of stone at the front, where some form of
spiritual ritual had been practiced, which interested the
paranormal scientists greatly, and they examined everything while
consulting with each other silently, while everyone listened.

They found nothing else so they climbed the
large stone steps to the balcony above, and crept along the narrow
balcony checking its safety as they went along, with their lights
mainly on the edge of it, and slowly made their way up the
stairs.

At the top, they entered an area that had
two passageways, and they followed the two paranormal scientists
along one of them, and Major Ripley took them up the spiral stairs
of one of the towers, as the two paranormal scientists discussed
whether they should check the other tower at the end of the other
passageway, and decided to leave it.

Kruger followed them up, and they suddenly
stopped, startled by something, and he felt a vibration through the
stone of the tower, and as he moved close to it heard something
whirling around, somewhere above.

Chapter 20

The Wizard

A colossal energy shape floated in an energy
bubble, rotating gradually, suspended over the floor of the room at
the top of the tower, as the energy bubble vibrated the tower with
its power.

Kruger stood in line with the two paranormal
scientists and Major Ripley, all standing staring, examining it, as
the others remained on the stairs examining it at a distance.

Could it be possible? Its shape looked like
a being, and human, for a few seconds!

Kruger studied its energy formation and saw
large shapes and colors form within it, and its shape and formation
altered, and glowed with white light. It was over eight feet high,
and flashes of some form of skeleton flashed visible within it.

A repeated whisper came from it, and he
studied where he believed its mouth would be, and never saw
anything and wondered what it was, and saw its eyes appear as red
glowing lights and vanish.

Kruger, Major
Ripley, and the others on the stairs stayed silent, waiting for
anything to explain what the hell they were standing in front of,
while the two paranormal scientists conferred silently in single
words that never explained anything, not saying anything of its
identity, until Major Ripley finally asked them to explain what the
hell it was.

“
We’re
not fully sure yet?” Bryan explained, slightly shrugging his
shoulders, stalling for time.

“
But
this is the energy source that we followed here?”

“
Yes! It
is that!”

“
Is it
dangerous ...?”

“
Not in
this state!”

“
Why?
What state is it in?”

Major Ripley
tried to identify the altering energy formations and shapes of it,
and shrugged his shoulders back.

“
It is
trapped in that energy bubble!”

“
Why?
How did it get trapped there?”

“
We
trapped it there!”

Kruger thought
he was confused before, but now things were worse than ever!

“
Our
scientists trapped it here with our equipment aboard the GX1. We
had the equipment to not only detect it, but to place an energy
field around it before it vanished ... It had a faint presence when
we were aboard, and made a full appearance as we made our way
here!”

“
So we
are not in any danger then?” Major Ripley asked firmly, to confirm
one point.

“
Right!”

All of the
people on the top stairs moved in, as they moved in close to see
what they had.

Kruger managed
to remove his eyes from it for the first time since he had seen it
in the room, and he moved around the room, examining the room,
seeking long awaited clues.

On the walls there were faint drawings,
which had a chart of nearby stars, in the central galaxy, and he
found piles of animal skins with ancient blood marks on them with
drawings of creatures and symbols beside them, and one with a
diagram of a type of telescope, and he looked out the window and
saw the whole world going into the horizon and realized that it was
also a watch tower, and used for different uses, including
scientific work, even though he never recognized anything of the
great deal of equipment and objects stacked away in it.

Colors of light appeared and flickered on
the damp stone from the energy bubble and thing in it.

A silent whirling, like a miniature
whirlwind mingled with a crackling, could be heard coming from
within it.

They crept around carefully and silently not
touching or going too close to things, as though they all realized
that it still had power to do something.

At angles it resembled a medieval
laboratory, but it was far more than that.

A diagram of something was marked on the
center of the floor, with symbols around it, below it, and it would
light up when a bright white light lit occasionally in the energy
bubble.

As Kruger tried to grasp everything that he
could, and filmed as mush as he could, he spotted it appear
brighter and whirl around fast, with sparks of colored light going
around its fringes, and he saw thousands of miniature transparent
ones emerge around him and the rest of the room, and they condensed
into the whole of the middle area, while they created flashes of
light over the walls.

The air from it blew against their faces,
and he heard silent, almost inaudible, chanting from the thing in
the energy bubble, as it did something.