The Deadliest Haunted Castle (19 page)

They watched a sun burn bright in the depths
of space, and they saw another asteroid soar across the atmosphere
in a ball of flames, blazing through the atmosphere, leaving a
trail of smoke, being followed by a shower of small meteorites
streaking across the sky.

A distant thud was felt and heard from where
it crashed into the world, and a large cloud of smoke revealed its
crash sight.

Chapter 13

The Paranormal
Abnormality

The edge of the
cliff at the other side of the hill went down for many thousand
feet, with only a faint trace of the fog at the bottom as mist,
covering an immense ancient meteorite cavity covering the entire
region below, going out for miles.

All the people
in the vehicle examined it calculatedly and calmly, before the
vehicle went down to the bottom, and Kruger wondered again why they
refused to fly high above the ground, as it was far safer, and
could even be done at a level that they would be able to see what
was there, and he realized their response to it again, and that
though the vehicles were safe they could crash on worlds such as
it, which they had done already.

The world
below, as they approached it, soon started to show signs of
strangeness, and that weird things existed there. Immense weird
vegetation covered great regions, and sights and sounds like things
out of ancient horror movies emerged there, and he thought he heard
a cry of an immense werewolf.

Kruger had
always been interested in proper paranormal activity, if it
existed. Even after all that they had been through and discovered
there still was not anything that proved that anything existed
there, and he was sure that both the paranormal scientists had
realized it.

Their
instruments detected what they claimed was a high level of
paranormal from a particular spot in the direction that they had
chosen to take their group of vehicles in, and none of the other
scientists had a clue what it was or what the two paranormal
scientists believed was there.

They were not
so far wrong about anything, or had put forward any claims of
supernatural things that could be thought of as being anything
other than a check for what might exist there. But there was a
suggestion that they were looking to prove something of that nature
existed.

What were they
expecting to find, and what actually existed?

Their
instruments detected high levels of something that was worth
investigating, and all the people interested in what they had found
so far had joined the expedition.

Could what was
there be from beyond normal universes, and a supernatural
being?

All the
scientists there were very accurate in their investigations and
checked everything that they did, searching for things or proof of
things many scientists like them dreamed of coming across, and
never took anything without reflection.

They wanted to
investigate what other scientists could not, and do it to a far
greater degree than before.

Kruger had
wondered on many occasions if they would eventually find something
with their detection methods and equipment that had gone undetected
by everyone.

The equipment
that they had fitted into the vehicle with them was nothing less
than the most advanced and interesting.

The vehicle
had six people in it, which was him, the two paranormal scientists,
and three of their associate scientists, who helped with the
equipment, which was packed solid into the vehicle all around them,
with them speedily monitoring it.

They all had
the same thing in common and that was to find things that
transcended the boundaries of natural science and discoveries, and
see if the supernatural existed in any form.

Chapter 14

The Formation

The
ir
worst fears
soon started to become
real all around them,
as they traveled into another fog formation, which
was formed like miniature concentrated hurricane, and none of them
thought such a small formation could create any
problems
.

The
y
hurtled
straight
into
it
ignoring all the signs of
danger, trusting their knowledge of what normally existed. Yet the
density of it was staggering and Kruger felt the vehicle was being
slowed, like it was thickening into water, and he spotted the
brightest stars in thinner areas vanish.

At one
point they all
expeditiously
rushed to their positions, recalling emergency procedures,
and
prepared themselves,
wondering what such a formation could throw at
them
.

“
Tell me if
the
speed
vastly
de
creases,
”
Mitchel
uttered
to a scientist at the front of
the vehicle, controlling the vehicle
, figuring out a way to compensate.

“
We’ve
lost all
communications
,
”
he replied
, as
he
examined a display.

“
We
could land
!
”
Bryan
stated,
making them all gasp at the
possibilities of what could be there and could occur on the
ground.

“
Why do
they not go up, over it ...?” Kruger finally queried, wishing
to
consult
the onboard
computer.

“
That is
an idea
...!
”
Bryan replied
.

“
We can
do it if we have to?” Mitchel answered.

“
I do
not think we can do that ...” the scientist steering the vehicle
answered back. “This vehicle can only stay up high for so long, and
if we run out of power and get stranded out here, it could be very
dangerous – as we’ve already seen by the deaths that have occurred
here on this world ...”

All five
scientists
avoided looking at each other, with
their
horrified glares,
recalling all the details that had emerged on the hideous
deaths of the people in the crashed vehicles, and their remains
that they had found.

The
upper layers of
above the
wild storm
seemed more deadly
,
and it
was clear that they were no longer in control of their
fate.

Again
Kruger realized that they had
not
expected such a scenario!

In its
deep
depths Kruger
saw
faint lights,
and then
distant flashes, as if some supernatural disorder burst
into its confines.

It gave him
sensations
of traveling
into a
maelstrom,
with it starting to
overwhelm
them with its
forces.

A swift flaring
exploded out
going
straight
through
it, and was followed by a
shudder
from its blast,
and impact on it
. The explosive
sounds of the thunder
that followed
held them
spellbound.

From the
window,
Kruger
saw the expanse of lashing waves
of what had to be
water
, shifting around with
tremendous velocity and energy,
from the cloud formation over it
.

As crazy flashes
of lightening flickered around
them
, with deafening
tremors, he imagined it floating over the depths of
hell.

His eyes glared,
as he barely believed the destructive forces lashing out at
them,
and could
hardly
grasp how such tremendous
forces could be generated from so little.

“
There
’s
something ahead!
”
the
scientist at the front
declared,
showing
the
m an obscure shape
emerging in front of them.

Chapter 15

Ancient
Civilization

The parts of structures, buried beneath sand
and debris, had appeared below them, and Kruger realized that there
had been an advanced civilization there after all, and what was
left of their civilization was buried away in the small desert
region, with parts of structures sticking up from under dunes.

The area was
closer to the sun, and in the brightness there they had spotted a
group of scientists from the GX1 already there, and on their
approach had seen that they had been excavating the most
interesting structures.

When Kruger jumped out the vehicle he had
instantly felt the hot temperature at the area, and had realized
how well the vehicle controlled its temperature.

There were no clouds, or the blasted fog,
and they were glad, as none of them wanted to enter any cloud
formations again.

They were lucky to be alive, and they all
now realized the dangers of being on such a world!

Kruger felt his spacesuit clothing alter its
temperature, but it was not good enough, as his head was not
covered by it, and it made him feel warmer than he wanted to be, so
he adjusted his spacesuit to a colder temperature.

He studied the bright, now warm looking
stars, and observed faraway sand being blown about by gusts of
wind. The area was like an oasis on this world, but it only seemed
that way, and they had actually traveled a great distance from the
other regions.

Even the small creatures of the world, which
darted about, examining them, looked like miniature monsters.

The structures the others were entering were
very primitive structures to them, but advanced looking to them
now.

They strolled through heaps of sand in
buildings, and Kruger wondered if their civilization would ever
fall and turn into the place, and have beings like them from
another universe exploring their remains.

Sand and bushes blew about wildly outside
from different directions, as if unable to decide where to go.

Sand was everywhere about them, and parts of
metal from machinery was sticking out, covered in the dust.

It was hotter in the shade, with the high
temperature building up there, and he rested and watched small
lizard-like animals marching passed buildings, showing them they
lived there, while others watched them from hiding places.

Many of the scientists were surprised at the
amounts of them, and the lack of larger ones. Some of the
scientists complained at their deadly reactions to them, and Kruger
realized what they had meant when he saw what looked like a large
mouse alter from what it looked like with its friendly expressions,
and fold back the skin around its neck and display large sharp
fangs, with a snarl.

They clearly had never seen weapons, or had
known the large inhabitants of the civilization, and were the
largest life forms in the area, and were the dominant species of
the place.

The species interested him a great deal as a
scientist, and he would normal have spent a great deal of time with
them, but there was far more here, and they were in another
universe and had encountered far more, and all he did was film the
best of what he found, and look for anything of interest in the
remains of technology of the race that had once dwelled there.

In the interior of a structure they entered
an underground chamber and heard underground creatures making
noises, from beyond the walls, as they burrowed into tunnels, below
the sand.

It was a world that would never know
darkness, and he studied any differences in the life forms, and
wondered if they slept the same as they did, if at all.

Their small footprints on the floors were
different and clearly indicated that they had adapted to being in
sand regions.

At one point they heard one of the
scientists make a discovery, and all the scientists around there
left what they were doing and went to investigate, not wanting to
miss anything.

Under a heap of small stones and debris, the
scientist had uncovered a form of skeleton, almost like a fossil,
which had resemblances to an upright ape creature, but on
uncovering its skull it proved to have a far more unusual shape,
which disappointed some of the scientists. It was believed to have
lived in the building that they were in! Some other scientists
claimed that they had found the remains of advanced technology, but
they never fully proved it.

Chapter 16

The Destruction of the
Civilization

It was when the leading archeologists from
the GX1 were bought in that the scientists moved further out and
started finding buildings that were far more advanced, and not
buried under sand, where the civilization was clearly centered
around, and showed that the scientists had been examining rural
regions.