Monsters from Beyond Reality (7 page)

He definitely did not want to confront him
in the tunnel as he could easily shoot him as there was nothing to
give him any cover, and it was better to wait until they were
outside. Even though that could mean him escaping or dragging them
through the wood in something like a gun battle!

His eyes stayed on the most distant part of
the tunnel, searching for him, waiting for him to take a shot at
them or to attempt to ambush them.

When he recognized the steps to get out the
tunnel he sprinted there, and when he approached them he considered
what to do next and realized how easily the killer could be waiting
for them to climb out of the tunnel. He knew that they were chasing
him, and had to have heard them as they had not tried to conceal
them being there, and going by the distance the police in front of
him were he considered him not far ahead.

Bryson rushed up the stairs and waited, and
the others appeared behind him with startled faces, and he realized
that at least he might have talked them out of doing something
stupid, and was amused to hear some of them wondering who the hell
he was.

“
Well, what will we do
now?
”
one
of them asked, panting slightly, looking at him as though he was
crazy.

“
We
’d
better have the police with guns here! We
don
’t
know
what this guy could do!
”

Once the police moved to his side Bryson
climbed out into an immense blizzard, with the snow blanketing his
entire surroundings, almost in complete darkness, without any
lights, shifting into deep snow, considering everything that he was
up against, attempting to observe any place he could see, and
wondered if the killer could possibly see him.

He listened through the howl of the wind and
all that he heard was the trees being blown around, and he looked
for a place to take cover and move over to, and one of the
policemen appeared at his side and shone his torch about, and
though the wood became visible, he could barely see anything
else.

“
There is part of his
footstep!
”
a policeman announced, pointing, and they realized that they
could not follow him, as there was only part of one footstep
there.

Chapter 14

The Space/Time
Gateway

Once Bryson arrived back at the top floor
that night after resting and having a meal he instantly realized
that they had found something else, and he saw Mitchell and his men
standing around a large hole in the floor in front of the
bookshelves.

“
We just dug through,” Mitchell
announced, in excitement, as Bryson arrived, glaring, and Mitchell
shone his light around the large hole, where they had removed
floorboards and smashed in a stone entrance slab.

“
When did you find it?” he replied,
wondering what was there, realizing it probably was what was marked
on the map, and that the bookshelves were covering it
up.

“
We found it only an hour ago!”
Mitchell replied.

“
How did you find it?”

“
Some of the men, who were still
exploring the chamber with the tomb, found the area below here was
surrounded and hidden by a thick wall ... And we found a sealed
entrance over it ...”

“
What’s down there?” Bryson asked,
trying to see in it.

“
There’s stairs ... They go down below
somewhere!”

Mitchell entered first, using his light to
see the ancient steps going straight down, and Bryson followed,
surprised that the tunnel and stairs fitted into the massive walls
in the floors below.

Bryson
watched Mitchell moving down
making
sure he never slipped, and a deep thud echoed down from behind, and
he saw that only one other man followed him, and he realized that
it was a good idea only having the three of them as the ancient
derelict castle steps might not be able to support more
weight.

The ebbing radiance of the light was not
enough to allow more than three to go safely down either, and he
tried to grasp the concept of the tunnel and he imagined the
outside of the castle, as he had seen it, and tried to recall the
place where they were on it, and where they were going. He was sure
that it might have been part of its defense against invaders!

Sounds from behind altered and echoed down
giving muddled and strange tones, and he had to strain his eyes
more and more to see what he was doing, what Mitchell was doing,
and occasionally look back at Mitchell’s man behind him, who was
the man that had seen the cross map on the map, which had led them
there, and he wondered why he was so keen to find what was
there.

He saw little below and that there
were no new features of anything, and that the
tunnel
’s
small shape (less than a meter all around him) vanished into
the dark.

The steps descended sharply and hazardously
and they had to climb down slowly, rather than walk down like with
normal stairs, and he had to hold himself upright and lean
backwards, and its drop seemed perpendicular at times.

Once he thought he heard distant movements
from below, surrounded by their growing surges of strange sounds,
and he was sure Mitchell reacted, just ahead of him, with the light
oscillating irregularly. Its light swayed over the stone, and the
narrow shaft seemed to vanish at a point below.

A feeble glow from something reflecting
light caught his attention and he wondered what was there to
reflect it, and he saw what looked like a crack in a wall, between
the castle stones, and when he looked down he realized Mitchell had
vanished!

At first he thought he never saw him as his
light had gone, and that he had broken it and that they would have
to return, but as he moved down an explosion of colors exploded out
from something stunning him, and he opened his eyes and studied his
surroundings and saw that he was no longer in the shaft, and as he
confusedly studied his surroundings a colossal whirlpool of
shifting outlines magically shifted about him and he realized that
he had no body or proper presence, and was some form of energy
formation.

II

The Transcendent
Voyager

Chapter 1

The Supernatural
Vortex

Energy beams exploded at Bryson as he gained
consciousness, covering his entire vision with bright colored
light, and he studied everything that he could see wondering where
the hell he was! A colossal vortex of shifting outlines magically
shot by and he analyzed it in greater detail and proved that he
could not realize what or where it was, or even what he now
was!

His presence was some form of force
formation, and he swirled out into a vortex of reshaping energy
patterns that had replaced reality, and he wondered if he could be
trapped there for all eternity, and he ignored it and realized that
he was no longer bothered and wondered what his future would be
like.

He studied a surreal splendor of
mind-bending displacements and saw that they were altering to
something that he could not recognize. All of his knowledge of
science and universe gave him little and it left him mesmerized!
Was he even classified as being a life form? His knowledge of what
was beyond the universe was little and he felt like he was about to
explore something far greater and mind-boggling than he could have
ever imagined!

Questions started emerging and he mainly
wondered how he could observe anything? If it actually was light
there what was he using to perceive it? Yet he recalled the
mind-bending dreams that had experienced in the castle and being in
a supernatural vortex, and he started to realize that it had to be
it or something similar.

Even though he never actually had anything
he still felt glad he had some form of recognition of what it was
and tried to work out what it did, how it worked, and where it
might go to!

While he was considering what would
happen next he spotted a miniature circle of flames buried away in
the central region ahead of him, and he grew more and more
interested, and he started to recognize more detail as it grew and
was astonished as he shifted into it, and within its depths he saw
what looked like magnificent colossal stars, in a golden haze,
blending into his surrounding brilliant
colors.

Spectacular golden beams exploded out,
and gold stars shot by, and he realized the tremendous speed that
he was traveling at, and a region of golden
s
pace was expanding out all
across his front, and he floated into it.

He saw his body emerge with a new formation
and start transforming, and sensed there was something far more
different about it, and he saw a strange transparent world
formation emerge, with ghost images going through the swirling
golden brightness.

Magnificent bright white and gold lights
filled his entire vision everywhere, shifting around everywhere, as
if he were floating into some form of cartoon cosmos.

Where was he now? Was he actually in one of
his dreams he had been at the castle? It was incredible! Would he
be able to solve all those queries he had accumulated? At an early
age, when he had first visited the first castle, he had experienced
the dreams and mysteries buried away there!

Large objects, he was sure were stars,
dazzled him with their brightness. Their density together filled
space everywhere and yet they never came into contact with each
other, staggering him that they could even exist in their state,
without being pulled together.

The whole of space around him had the
objects shifting and visibly shooting around, and he observed them
with curiosity, and as a scientist. He had to answer what was there
as much as he could! He was sure that they avoided courses that
would make them crash into other objects, and he finally spotted
one actually altering its course to avoid hitting another and was
dazed and confused that such an object, if they were suns or the
size of suns, could have intelligence and the ability to alter
their course through space, and he considered what they were and
did.

He exploded with excitement when he searched
behind him and saw the vortex he had come out of stretching across
space, and he tried to grasp what it was and realized the immense
speed that he had been traveling at, and was still moving away
at.

The size of vortex looked close to the size
of a solar system and the vision staggered him and stuck in his
mind!

Over a great deal of time he dreamily
partially entered a form of sleep state, shooting through the
surrounding emptiness, through the surreal space, far from the
universe, out beyond reality.

Obscure illuminations endlessly shifted as
he wildly spun around, with no real awareness of anything, and a
tranquil shape gradually emerged across his front, of something of
brightness, and he came to sometimes to study it.

How had he managed to end up in such a
far-out place? Where the hell was he? How could he survive this? He
was barely a ghost/energy state in some far out mind-bending place,
and he considered if he was actually in the castle in a dream
state!

He felt as though he had been falling
through something and he tried to grasp the concept, and where, and
suddenly realized something was blowing at him from somewhere and
he saw, hidden away in intense brightness, he was plunging down to
some form of world under him.

He was over some form of water! He was sure
of it! And he was falling out of its sky!

He prepared himself for everything that he
could think of and a roaring and blinding surge of what looked like
invisible water or form of energy hit him and he automatically put
out his arms, swimming upwards and pulling himself out of the
endless depths, where he saw star objects through at the other side
of the world.

Chapter 2

The Mind-Bending
Universe

He continually
kept going over everything that had happened! All the supernatural
occurrences that they had encountered as they had approached the
castle, exploring the wood surrounding the castle, and the strange
mists and lights there that haunted the place for centuries, and
attacks by the things that emerged there, chasing them through the
deep snow and into the strange tunnel that they had found that led
them to the location of the castle.

Even now he
could not explain what it was all caused by! What could be there
and have created such a disturbance, which nobody could now deny
existed? Yet he had worse things to explain now, and thought if he
ever returned he would be spending the rest of his life trying to
explain it all!

They had
professional ex-soldiers, with Mitchell leading them, and every
leading scientist in paranormal or anything connected to it, and he
was a leading scientist too, with the two main psychic researchers
there, Merton and Mortimer, who had explored the last castle, and
found everything that they could have, and he was sure they could
achieve something if given long enough.

Who had the
killer of one of the ex-military men been? The police were
exploring the whole region there now and he wondered what the
outcome of that would be, and he gasped! They could not find a way
to explain things to them to prevent them from doing something
stupid there!

The most
frustrating things were the search for the treasure and them
finding more and more clues! They had only been searching the
castle for a day and they had made discoveries everywhere! A
chamber under the top floor with a tomb in it, with some strange
writing on it, which he had not been given any proper time and
proper examination of, and the strange skeleton inside, which had
to be someone significant and be buried there for a reason – and
with a ring that had a secret compartment with a map with a secret
location marked on it that they had traced to a library where they
had found a tunnel below – which the three of them had climbed
down, with him following Mitchell down and one of Mitchell’s men
following him, and then Mitchell had suddenly vanished below him
and when he had climbed down had been transported into the vortex
to where he was.