The Alien Orb (26 page)

Bryson was sure that the thing above only
reacted to things at certain distances, but he was unsure about
them being below it!

Yet why did it not work through the walls?
He had been in the rooms behind the wall with the other scientists
and nothing occurred there!

He turned the light upwards and examined the
tunnel going upwards. What was it? What was there? He had put
together everything that they had found and he now could barely
believe most of it! Was there something else there hiding
itself?

He shone the powerful light straight up the
tunnel, where he saw the tunnel going up to the castle roof, and as
his sight adjusted to it he saw nothing and started to wonder what
it was built for?

Yet it seemed too large to be a chimney and
there was no trace of soot or anything that would surely be there,
even if they had it cleaned. Although there was the chance that
nobody had really used it and that any marks were hidden now.

His breathing echoed into it, and its
coldness made clouds of steam come out of his mouth going up into
it.

Suddenly sounds started emerging above and
he wondered if he had activated it!

They started sounding mind-bending and
started screaming through the shaft until they had a fury that
stunned him, with some sounding like screams and others like
wailing spirits, and he wondered if there were other dangers there
at the bottom that were not at the top? Could the thing come down
and escape? And get them outside the tunnel?

Clouds of powdered dirt and stone fell about
at different points around boulders above as though the tunnel were
being shaken by an earthquake. Dust swirled through his beam of
light as he wondered where the treasure would be buried away? And
he sheltered it going into his eyes.

He imagined Pendleton and the other two
treasure hunters there years before, during the Second World War,
hanging on their ropes, just over the disturbance, which he tried
to locate.

He watched what was happening carefully,
which he had not been able to do when he had been in the other
tunnel on the steps, surrounded in darkness, or when he was above
sticking his head in the tunnel, and he wondered how dangerous it
really was and if he was going to be killed by it.

He lost his balance and grabbed hold of part
of a castle boulder he was resting against behind him and it came
away in his hand, and he glimpsed its dark shape and felt it
wondering what it was, and he finally shined the light over it and
saw something that resembled a piece of wood from the building of
the castle.

He then realized some sounds were now not
emerging from lower down than they had been and he saw that
something was coming downwards, and he thought that he heard one
emerge just above him and he listened intensely with confusion.

Sounds were
manifesting everywhere as though there were invisible
unidentifiable things surrounding there, and strange glowing and
swirling forces seemed to form in the blackness.

While he tried to see what was going on at
an area he noticed that light was moving downwards and he fixed his
eyes onto a strange orb of light floating down, and it all swiftly
vanished, and he stood wondering what had happened to it all?

Bryson turned sensing something was in the
room and saw William standing blankly staring at him, beside
Pendleton, and Bryson walked into the room and shut the stone
doorway, blocking the entrance to the tunnel, and saw William and
Pendleton staring at the thing that he had in his hand, which he
had thought had been a discarded piece wood from the building of
the castle, and he realized that it was an ancient book.

Chapter 26

The Diary

The page that the alien had given Bryson,
when it had died in the wood, fitted into the diary and confirmed
it was authentic!

When he started reading it
William
’
s
appearance at the tunnel haunted his thoughts, making him wonder
why he was there? What had the entity put him there for?

It was as though he should not be there! He
could not tell them or explain how he knew they had been there at
the tunnel. Only that he had to go there, and Bryson was amazed at
the way the thing in the tunnel had vanished when he had
appeared.

What was the connection? If the thing there
had made him, what did it want him to do? It clearly took control
of him at times and used him to do things!

The ancient book was incredible and he
had known it was something by the way William had reacted and had
waited for him to read it, and Bryson had been more than fascinated
when he had read it and found it was William
Randall
’
s
diary! He had actually found William Randall
’
s diary! It had been left
upright in a gap in the wall, where it had resembled part of the
wall, with a withered cover that resembled a dirt covered
stone.

It felt like he had been waiting all his
life to find it and that everything else had been the build up to
it. What it contained he could not even guess, and he guarded it
greatly, and he did not want to show it to anyone until he had
ruthlessly checked it.

He soon realized that it was not a normal
diary and that it had strange things scribbled through it, with a
quill pen, and he conjured up images of his ancestor wearing
ancient clothes at a desk writing it.

The more he read it the more important it
became and the less he thought of his ancestor writing it, and it
even gave him details of the hidden treasure.

There was no doubt about it the book
explained occurrences at the castle, and he wondered what his
thoughts of the castle had been at that time in history.

At times it was like the whole castle
was something else
–
created for some function that he could not
even imagine
–
which went beyond his understanding.

As he read it he repeatedly wondered what
the people in the past would have given for the book that he had in
front of him, and what the aliens, who had built the tunnels in the
wood, would have given for it?

He recalled all the accounts and things that
he had heard!

What had been the truth about the stories
that had said something had happened that had killed them all? So
if it had been true what had happened and how had the entity ended
up in the tunnel and in the other tunnel? Why had it not moved away
into the other dimensions? What was keeping it there? Surely there
had to be something there that they were missing? Perhaps it was
disguised as something or was hidden away? Such advanced technology
could achieve virtually anything and it could be something that he
had not even considered possible?

He had always wanted to explore and discover
something new of value and greatness, and even be remembered in
history!

What interested and alarmed them was why it
was hidden in such a place and had created such occurrences? What
was it they were dealing with anyway? Why was it in such a far out
place?

Something of unfathomable unidentifiable
supernatural nature sounded as though it were there trapped in some
form of magnetic or energy field, trapped and trying to free itself
from something, ultimately escaping to another location of liberty,
and he imagining some form of spirit trapped there for
centuries.

Bryson again started to realize the
implications of the find and that they might check what was there
someday, and that he better start finding information about it.

The book
started by stating facts that were given in the accounts that
Bryson had read and that t
he origins of the entity had
occurred in 1620 when fishermen at a fishing village had witnessed
its materialization, and that it had appeared over the morning mist
over the sea as a bright light of immense magnitude, and that
everybody that had witnessed it had realized that it had been
something of great power and intelligence, and that they had seen
it landing and that they had followed it to where it had
crashed.

William Randall had thought he had seen
everything until he had been shown it by the fishermen and it had
fascinated him, and though he had been a scientist of that time he
believed in forms of magic and witchcraft, especially after his
encounter with the first transcendent and its artifact at the first
castle, and the entity had powers going beyond anything he had
seen.

Something had damaged it before it had
crashed and it had continually altered, and had been made of
energy, and altered from something and had been trying to adapt to
something and had been trapped in something invisible to them.

At one point they had believed it would
vanish completely from existence but it had been later perceived
that it had entered some form of damaged or dormant state, surely
exhausted of energy from either its extraordinary manifestation,
impact with the world, or it not having existed in their form of
existence.

The original transcendent at the first
castle had died before he had taken it to the castle, where it had
slowly altered into something that they could not understand, and
they had tried to use its magic.

They had found some ways of communicating
with it when it had created the second William Randall and they had
used it to build the second castle with its powers.

Through the second William Randall they had
learned that it had traced the original transcendent and artifact
there into this universe, and it had occasionally attempted to
mimic it and make contact with it and analyze it. It had been
unable to repair itself and had been trapped and could not fully
achieve its objective and fully understand.

At the second castle they had tried to use
it for magical purposes, and it had foreseen some future
occurrences, but had unsuccessfully tried to accumulate its powers
to use themselves.

They had used it to create castle defenses
when they had been threatened with annihilation by an army, which
they had not been able to do properly, and had improvised and as a
result of it had turned the castle into what it was, which had
killed all of the people there, except William Randall who had been
at the other castle when it had happened, and he had found out
about it later when he had gone there, and it had entered a dormant
state.

The second William Randall had been killed
there and they had put him in the tomb at the second castle.

They had not been able to deactivate it and
had split it into two parts to weaken its powers and they had put
them into the two ventilation shafts.

Bryson
finished the diary
realizing that it had left the
deadliest menace in the world at the castle and he tried to work
out
how they could
possibly approach it without being killed, to return it to where it
had originated!

Chapter 27

The Voyage Beyond the
Cosmos

For a moment
Bryson sensed a weird sensation as though something had happened
and something else was going to happen!

The scientists
were calibrating their equipment in the room at the second tunnel
and Bryson watched them gasp, and even Mitchell stood dazed, as
they realized what was going to happen. It was absurdly dangerous
beyond anything that Bryson could realize and he had not heard of
anything like it being done before.

William had
been found to be able to communicate properly with the entity in
the second tunnel at a close distance, and they had used it locate
the two parts of the entity in the ventilation shafts, which had
been discovered to be solid matter.

They had used
William to stop it from attacking or throwing them into gateways
going beyond the universe and they found that they were small black
slabs like shiny black stone, measuring three feet by three feet
with a thickness of half a foot, which were fitted above the
entrances into the tunnels, disguised as the castle stones
there.

It had
surprised Bryson that William Randall had persuaded the entity to
make itself into solid matter! Bryson had been able to touch them
without being killed or thrown out of space and time into some
other world, and the scientists found a way of joining them
together by using the entity and William and it had formed into a
rectangle black alien artifact identical to the rectangle
transparent black shape that he had visualized in the second
tunnel, when it had tried to make contact with him.

They had found
ways to increase the communications between William and the entity
by using specially designed equipment, connected to the alien
artifact.

William was in
a seat where he had objects covering his head connected to
equipment that monitored him and his thoughts and transmitted his
thoughts to the alien artifact.

Bryson realized that they had been
correct in informing the entity that the other transcendent and its
alien artifact at the other castle no longer existed, which it had
been stuck there trying to make contact with, and it had told them
that it had detected it was. It had been designed to meet it and
destroy it if it was a danger to it or its creators
–
and it had been
unable to do it as it had been damaged by having its energy source
damaged, which had happened so fast that it had not realized what
had happened.

They had all
watched it activating their equipment – which they had taught
William how to use and how it worked.

All the
scientists had stood back as it burst into life – using massive
amounts of energy fed to it through attached cables – with the
sheer energy making the castle about them vibrate and lurch!