The Deadliest Haunted Castle (7 page)

They were
experiencing new things and Bryson wondered again if he could
prevent something from happening.

He did not
know if Mitchell could do something stupid. His reactions were
different, and he saw that he could attack whatever was out there
if it appeared at a later stage, and he recalled that he had
originally believed that he would before they had been attacked,
and realized the same situation could happen again – only they
might not be as lucky the next time – but if he watched what he did
and planned ahead he was sure he could survive.

His thoughts
went back to the paranormal scientists and their work again, and
him not completing his mission of discovering what existed there
and how to deal with.

Why had
nothing been discovered in the world except what they had come up
with? This fact confused him incredibly as most of his life he had
unsuccessfully investigated everything there and not found
anything. It was true they were rare occurrences and he thought
they did not fully know what they were talking about. All the stuff
was a mess! False claims and facts that other things were behind
things kept appearing!

The creature
found embedded in the tunnel now never appeared like it was of
supernatural origins.

The technology
and all the research used would have at least properly proven its
existence all over the world by now! But what were they up against
now, and was it the same as at the last castle?

Again he decided to find and record anything
that he could and use it as evidence of what was there! On him he
had miniature cameras, recorders, and notebook to record his
findings, and he remembered why they were not needed anyway, and
kept by him in case the paranormal scientists and scientists never
recorded anything. The amount of equipment they would have was
enough, and the most advanced. If they never captured anything then
he was sure there would be nothing to record, and he recalled the
recordings and findings that they had made of those things that
attacked them in the wood, even though they never had a chance to
use the heavier stuff, and they got everything they wanted on the
dead creature trapped in tunnel, whatever it was.

Bryson realized again that he would properly
never experience anything like this place again and wondered what
the outcome of it would be. He would remember it forever, and he
was sure he would be remembered in history for taking part in it
all, if things turned out like he imagined it that is.

Bryson sensed something, and looked
over to where Mitchell
’
s eyes were staring furiously and saw debris
covering the ground ahead, away at the end of the tunnel, and while
their pace quickened he started to wonder what was going to happen
as Mitchell and the others started to react strangely and
viciously, and in horror of there being extreme danger, and he
waited observing their reactions and decided to react to what
happened.

What could be so dangerous about the tunnel
being collapsed? The worst that could happen was that there was no
exit and that they would have to walk back, which would only put
them about half a day behind, and they could sleep in the safety of
the tunnel.

On their approach there it became clear that
the ground had collapsed years before, through corrosion from water
and weight, and that there was a way out of it, to escape from the
tunnel there, and he started to realize what the problem was and
why they were reacting so much.

Chapter 10

The Castle

They had become trapped in the dark wood,
freezing in the deep snow, hiding behind trees, while the lights
and creatures shifted about violently smashing things around them,
while the amount of them and their powers grew, while Mitchell and
his men had their weapons ready.

Bryson now knew why having the military
there could be a mistake, and he had realized it when they had
escaped from the tunnel into the dark wood and had witnessed
Mitchell and his men launching into shooting rounds of
ammunition.

Thick snow
shrouded everything everywhere creating a mind-bending landscape,
and they were too exhausted to attempt to recognize anything. It
was shocking how they could have got lost!

They should
have stuck to being in the tunnel! They could easily have entered
the other half of the tunnel in the morning!

The blackness
and snow had turned to a nightmare!

Their legs
sank deep into stinking vegetation that resembled quicksand in
places, but Mitchell insisted that it was not and continued to take
them on through it as if it were not there and only another
obstacle – and the further away from the tunnel entrance they went
the worse it got, and the fact that they would not be able to
return.

Out of nowhere
a giant light emerged from the undergrowth, and it pulsated like a
living thing, magically illuminating the snow and trees
everywhere.

The light
allowed them to see everything, and he wondered if it was a type
warning like a lion might warn them off.

“
Look
over there!” one of the scientists suddenly hollered, from over at
their side, making them all jump and their adrenalin pump wildly
through their veins.

Bryson was one
of the first to look and spot what it was, and saw a castle buried
away in the landscape and he stood astounded not only by its
immense size but because he had a sensation that it had colossal
power, and it eventually left him staggered! He sensed many strange
things and was sure all the paranormal energy was centered
there!

The
castle was also blissful and they ignored the dangers around them
and watched it. It
radiated through the wood like a
spellbinding ghost castle, and they forced their legs to move
faster.

Its appearance as they moved there, out of
the night, amidst the jungle of vegetation, was staggering! The
treasure surely had to exist there! Bryson was amazed at the speed
that they were now moving away from the disturbances towards it at
and started to realize how enthusiastic they were to get to it now.
And he even sensed many of the others had known of the treasure for
longer than they should have, and were confident it existed.

Mitchell even forgot about his battle and
made for the castle, and as Bryson watched him he realized that the
tunnel had gone in the direction of the castle, and had led there
all along.

It was like a phantom castle glowing in snow
and shining from being in moonlight, like it were supernaturally
glowing.

Behind them shifting lights were darting
everywhere through the trees with ghost images of creatures doing
hideous things.

Chapter 11

The Phantoms

The thin fog
engulfed them before they reached the castle and peculiar vivid
streaks like colored lightening exploded all over the top level of
it, and Bryson saw the sky above it full of massive blinding stars
that he had never seen before.

One star’s
flickering light streaked into his face showing its real immense
size! It was truly unique and clearly some form of space from
somewhere else emerging.

He wondered
from his scientific perspective what the larger and more advanced
life forms would be like in such an environment. They had not seen
anything there, and he sometimes thought he existed in one of the
most barn regions of space.

The fog
rapidly engulfed them and they lost more of what little sight they
had, and they briskly moved faster, draining themselves of
energy.

If only they
could discover what was there without being killed, and he would be
annoyed if they never found anything!

Thick mud and
vegetation shrouded everything, covering their boots and clothes
with muck, and he imagined the mind-bending landscapes beyond there
and if they were the same, and he realized how tired he felt.

It was
shocking how easily they got trapped and lost and the worst of it
was he could not realize how they could avoid it. All they needed
to do was stick to the exact places in the last castle and they
avoided it. But here they could not have done it! Yet he was sure
that at the majority of the time they could actually have done it
if they had done it during the day, and that it was Mitchell and
his men’s fault that they had kept going and had not slept in the
tunnel until the morning. The vast dangers seemed to either stop
them dead or they went charging in, and everything turned
indistinguishable about him, and he wondered if it would be the end
of him.

At one point
he thought that he was actually on another world when he saw
through slight gaps in the thickening fog and saw distant regions
of strange places. Mitchell and the others stuck to the same
routine and never seemed tire or alter their course.

Strange high
frequency sounds shadowed them from unknown places, driving some of
them insane trying to identify them.

Their legs
started entering deep bogs of stinking rotting vegetation with
chemical stenches, resembling some chemical that he kept examining
to identify, wondering how such chemicals got there. Many smelt
like they had been dumped there by some industrial site and he
considered if an intelligent species there could have built
civilizations there. But his mind refused to accept anything
without further evidence and he considered it being put there
either by the builders of the castle, or the tunnel, or someone
else that had been there.

Out of nowhere
the most powerful light emerged through the thickest formation of
the mist with its radiance pulsating like an entity, magically
illuminating the thin fog around them with strange shadow
formations from things he could not see, creating mind-bending
shifting shadows that weaved and probed their way towards them.

While they
casually slowed and observed them sounds of heavy pounds of
something of incredible size and weight rushed out, causing them to
scurry away without being able to see anything behind them.

Mitchell and
his men withdrew their weapons and rushed along with them but
trying to see their target, and they furiously moved their legs in
and out of bogs as it grew nearer and deadlier, causing their legs
to become painful and tired, and they shifted away to hard ground
to be able to escape better.

It was like
they were making their last stand and being on the edge of
destruction and Bryson watched how each of them reacted, and
noticed Mitchell reacted the least and even looked as if he was
definitely going to kill the thing with his weapon.

For a short
time they ran almost blindly up and down over bogs and humps,
rushing through to where the flat had ground was.

Heavy beast
sounds furiously exploded out nearby and clearly chased them and
they considered turning and firing. It was common for large animals
to get frightened away from being fired on and he was sure that
Mitchell believed it and was sure that it was the same as the dead
creature that they had found in the tunnel, and that the last
creatures had not heard or seen their weapons as they had not fully
appeared there, and Bryson wished that he would confirm it with the
thing fully appearing, which he believed that it would have to do
to kill them.

It was like
being in someone else’s strange nightmare and Bryson started to get
annoyed over its avoidance of doing anything at all, and when he
swiftly turned he saw an immense shadow spread through an area of
the fog, where the sounds exploded out!

They were
breathless and they all stared blankly, and he wondered what he was
missing and what their explanations of what had happened would
be.

One of the
soldiers suddenly turned and started firing at the dark shape
shifting through the mist, looking too tired to be able to go on
properly at the rate they were going at and making an attempt at
survival.

With interest
the majority of them turned to watch the thing, and as far as
Bryson saw and heard it never even acknowledged his direct hit on
it, and it left them confused, and he decided to get him to try
again if it appeared visible.

Their legs
could not take them fast enough after the shot and the thing seemed
to speed up and close in on them, and Bryson cursed their stupid
idea of firing on it and running. Surely they could have made it
appear by entering a thin area of the fog and confronted it, as it
had to materialize to kill them, and at least they would not be
exhausted and could aim and fire all their weapons at it at the one
time.

The shape of
the castle appearing through the vapor was blissful, and they all
stared fascinated with it and in their luck.

The
lighted castle
radiated through a mass of trees and
foliage and Bryson was sure he would not normally have seen it, and
that it was not even visible to planes with its roof being
completely covered in vegetation and small trees.

It was like a phantom oasis out on the edge
of realism, on the bounds of what lay beyond, with the things
charging out of the depths of hell, with them running to it and to
reality.

All his looks back annoyingly never showed
him a proper view of the heavy monster thing rampaging towards them
and he wondered if the thing was playing with them, like a cat with
a mouse, waiting until it fully had it.

They moved straight up to the massive
castle doors, and Mitchell shot the lock and smashed it in and they
rushed in, exhausted and
staggered, and when Bryson got in the doorway he stayed at
the side of the door and listened and watched the fog outside until
the last of the men had entered and they shut the
door
, and he heard its powerful movements rapidly
taking it to the edge of a lane in front of the castle, where for
some reason it could not pass, and he saw its colossal ghost demon
shape floating through the mist, snapping its massive jaws, before
it vanished.