The Alien Orb (24 page)

Bryson decided to go and see William, and
left the top floor, and was amazed to see the police rushing up the
stairs on the next floor and going out to the scene of another
death, and he decided to follow to discover what had happened.

At the door of a room, where the
police had gone in, Bryson studied a crumpled up body of one of the
police and gasped and realized that all the police would be
returning there, and he realized that he recognized the policeman
and had seen him a few times at the lounge and he tried to see if
he had missed anything about the death and if there was anything
different this time, and as he did he realized that the police
there thought the alien was the culprit
–
and that they thought there was
another there.

Again the body was completely drained of
water and of something else that he could not recognize and he saw
why they had blamed the alien, and he even considered if it had
been. The alien in the wood had been a genetic cross with a human!
What if the proper alien was far different? The genetic cross
version was clearly adapted to meet and talk to humans.

According to the alien they had
advanced technology
–
and had built the tunnels
–
and had made human
sacrifices to their ancient gods. Yet it could have lied to cover
up there being aliens there, or were there others that it had not
known about?

Chapter 22

The Invasion

Only a few days
had passed and six more deaths had occurred in the castle, and
Bryson realized that there must be at least a hundred policemen
there now.

The entire
castle and media to Bryson seemed to be going crazy – mentioning
and thinking of the occurrences at the castle!

The
deaths were unbelievable and all done in the same hideous fashion
leaving the victims drained of
energy
! The police could not realize anything new now! And it
seemed something was killing people all about them, right under
their noses, which was totally unbelievable, and it was like
someone had come up with something to make a fool of them all and
ruin their methods of detection and representation. All their
leading people from all over the country were trying to solve the
mystery! The most advanced surveillance methods and equipment were
everywhere monitoring the place night and day.

Yet the
problem with it was that they never put it in people’s rooms or in
the rooms that the people were working in – but in the main places
and corridors that any person would have to through to get someone,
including the outer building.

Yet most of
the people now had phones and were sharing rooms and could hear any
sounds from the rooms next to them, as well as having the corridors
monitored by the police and soldiers guarding them.

What annoyed
Bryson was nothing indicated and gave any clues to what it was!

William seemed
confused and to be in danger like the rest of them and Bryson and
everyone else watched him everywhere, and he just gave confused
remarks.

There were
stories being put on television for days and mainly because it was
the only real occurrence that was happening! Everyone seemed to be
taking an interest in it and their safety! Most, Bryson believed,
wondered what would happen if it started occurring everywhere – and
they could not even control the region of the castle!

Everyone took it that it had been a human
killer and not something else, which was only suggested, clearly
because of the castle! Surely something so hideous, evil, and
unearthly that they suggested could not exist? He tried to ignore
how hideous it was, trying to look upon it as an artist observed a
crazy exhibit, but it was no use! Something was now out to get
them! The things in the wood, if they were not the culprits, were
nothing compared to it and they now looked as if they had been
playing with them and only scaring them away from their
territory.

The thing, whatever it was, played with
their imaginations and they were not allowed to get anything about
it and if it had been something like the aliens that had built the
tunnels in the wood. There still was no connection and anything in
the castle!

He had thoughts that it could be what had
caused all the deaths through the centuries and that the thing had
been thrown out of one of the gateways, vortex in the tunnel, or
from what had put the aliens there. It could have been trapped
there, and perhaps not been such a killer, and it could either have
gone mad or something had happened to it to make that way.

The only real evidence that existed was what
had happened to the people killed by it! The complexion of the
bodies showed it had drained them of blood and showed the
deadliness of the place, and their chances of survival had vastly
decreased and danger could now exist there in the castle and during
the day.

They never knew what they were up against
and how to survive against it! They were becoming defenseless and
they could not do anything about it!

They were confused more than he could ever
recall seeing the police and they had difficulty talking about what
was occurring because they had so little!

Strange thoughts of him leaving the cold
confines of the place and whole region gave him shivers of ecstatic
pleasure once again!

Yet the pleasure they would get if they
solved the case and showed it to the world was far greater, and it
was clear in the things that they said, especially in the dinning
room when they were not working. It was a classic new scenario and
there seemed no way to solve it! Something had to happen? How could
they stay there with more and more deaths occurring without what
was behind it being caught?

Bryson kept thinking of it at two angles and
that he could leave and go on holiday to some hot place next to a
desert or when he realized what was happening that he quite
definitely would have to be forced into leave there as he did not
want to miss what happened there.

He worked out the exact time the deaths
occurred and asked the police what their times for the deaths
occurring were and they all closely matched, and he recorded all
the times, and he tried to compare the times with each other to see
what they all had in common. What had been happening there when the
deaths had occurred? Were they at the same times of the day or were
they at times something happened?

Yet after a great deal of investigation he
only proved that they were random times! He also checked the people
who had been killed and what they had in common, what they had been
doing, and at the time of their deaths, and what locations they had
been in and he established that there were no real connections
other than that they had been on their own and mainly in places
that people had not been near, which showed whatever it had been
had deliberately hidden itself, which he considered might show that
it might be destroyed.

Was the thing only being safe, preferring
solitude, or did it have weaknesses and could be destroyed? The
thing could be anything though? It surely was not of this world! It
could have been a normal powerful alien life form turned into one
of the most deadliest entities, still with reactions of its
original self, and he considered how they could use that? Could
they find a way to scare it from there? Could they persuade it to
do something else?

The police still unsuccessfully tried
to discover how the killer had drained the victims of water and
energy, and there was a suggestion a scientist was thought be
involved or the technology of one had been used. Yet Bryson never
believed anything to do with any scientists was involved, and he
knew that the thing doing it did not really need what it was taking
from them
–
unless it was some form of vampire.

He believed it was using the best way it
could to kill them, and silently and quickly!

The rooms that most of the victims had been
found in left them wondering why they had been there working
alone!

Most of them still felt safe in the
inhabited regions of the castle!

He could not get why no sounds seemed
to be heard from the attacks? Why the deaths had not been heard?
And he knew that the castle and its thick stones and strange
formation could alter sounds
–
making silent sounds travel further at some
places and stop even the loudest sounds being heard at some nearby
places!

The police seemed to have secrets
concerning the alien killer that they had killed in the wood and
many of them thought there were more
–
and that they clearly had the
technology to carry out the deaths. They had built the tunnels
there!

Why kill them though? The alien in the wood
had done it to survive and not get caught! The only logical reason,
other than it liked it, was that it was determined to destroy them
or scare them away from the castle!

Chapter 23

The Military

Bryson was amazed when he entered the
psychic researcher
’
s room, at the tunnel with the vortex, where
the scientists were still setting up equipment around the wall
where the vortex was behind, and that their equipment had gone
beyond anything that he had seen, which was immense and powerful,
and the power supply there had been increased immensely to it with
large cables being fed into there from massive
generators.

He had not even been able to get near Merton
and Mortimer, who now were just advisors on things! They had so
much work that they had not slept in a long time!

The military scientists there had full
control of the situation, and they clearly knew the equipment far
greater than any of them.

The military
’
s mission there seemed to be a death
or glory scenario. He was sure that they really wanted answers to
what was there
–
and not to free the castle from what was there
–
and get any new
technology or advancements there were a far greater achievement.
Their interest in the aliens there was tremendous and far more than
he had thought! They were checking out all the tunnels there and
the alien that the police had killed, and where he had been staying
and everything about him.

They had seen the story all over the media
and had decided in sending in more people to investigate. Yet there
was still much confusion on what was happening there and what was
there, and they could only really investigate things as far he was
concerned.

Some high-ranking officers had arrived and
were being escorted around places by Mitchell, which Bryson gave
occasional gasps at, thinking of what was killing people there.
There had been two more deaths, unseen and unsolved again, and
three sightings of other things of paranormal that resembled
ghosts. The disturbances were clearly increasing and Bryson and the
other scientists were working away to solve the situation, and find
a solution, and he had been surprised that the treasure there was
being forgotten, for the moment anyway.

Bryson was amazed when Merton and Mortimer
handed him a military report and other documents, which they
insisted he saw, perhaps to give his opinion on.

Documents told of investigations there going
back to the start of the last century, before Pendleton and his
friends had arrived there, and of police investigations that had
told of paranormal disturbances, and why they and the military had
left the place, and gave major investigations in the sixties that
had ended with all the scientists there being killed and their
bodies being found later, and that they had fenced the entire
region off, and not allowed anyone near there, and that it had been
left for people of the future to investigate someday with proper
technology and ways of investigating and handling what existed
there.

Again Bryson realized that all the
scientists there were in danger, and that he would be lucky to get
away from there alive!

Bryson knew there was far more behind
Mitchell and the military being there, and he left things there. He
wondered again what Mitchell would have put in his report about his
entering the tunnel and going through the vortex.

In the end the paranormal scientists had
decided against going near or in the direct path of the alien if
they were able to detect where it was, which was what they were
attempting to do, and to locate the vortex and everything with it
in other dimensions, and find out what was there and build up an
illustration of it and what they were dealing with.

The problem was getting their
equipment to work as their attempts had so far failed
there
, and the stuff had never been
fully and properly tested as not very many things existed in other
dimensions.

If anything attacked them they had a
procedure to escape from there, which Bryson thought was all they
could do at the moment!

He wondered if it would turn predictable,
since it could beat their weapons and had killed large amounts of
soldiers, and mainly intended to wipe everyone out and scare the
living daylights out of them.

All the paranormal scientists had recently
had consultations with all the other scientists and the military
and they now entirely left their minds open to what was there and
would happen.

Bryson was surprised that when one of the
scientists started cheerfully calling them over to a computer
screen and showed a blurred view of the vortex in the tunnel, which
Bryson was sure was of the vortex in another dimension as it was
normally invisible and he had only seen it when he had entered it
in an altered state in another dimension.