The Deadliest Haunted Castle (18 page)

The Beast

Strange
multicolored streaks of starlight exploded through thin fog, and
Kruger was reminded of the fast rotation of the world, and in the
sky above him massive blinding stars were appearing.

The light from
one star’s flickering streak hit his face like a desert sun being
shaded by something. It was a truly unique world that saw no
darkness, and probably would never know it.

He wondered
again, from his normal scientific perspective, what the larger and
more advanced life forms on the world would be like in such an
environment. They had seen little so far, as the spacecraft had
landed in one of the most barn regions of it, as there had been few
regions for landing the immense spacecraft.

The lights
above rapidly engulfed them, and they lost more of what little
sight they had, as they had briskly sheltered their eyes, and still
tried to examine everything.

If only the
vehicle had not crashed and they were out there exploring where
they were supposed to. He would be extremely annoyed if they found
the things that he wanted to discover without him.

Thick volcanic
soil shrouded everything, covering their boots with muck, and their
lower spacesuit with dust, and Kruger imagined the mind-bending
landscapes beyond, and he realized that he no longer felt
tired.

It was
shocking how easily they had got trapped and lost, and the worst
part was he could not realize how they could have avoided it. They
should have stuck to the exact place that they were to be, for the
vehicle to find them. But in the dense fog with all its vast
dangers they soon kept altering course, and everything turned
indistinguishable.

At one point
slight gaps leading through into distant areas showed outer empty
fogless regions. But Major Ripley stuck to the same general
direction, and he was too tired to alter his course.

A peculiar
whistle still shadowed them from an unknown place, driving Kruger
insane trying to identify it.

Their legs
almost became stuck in some deep bogs of stinking rotting
vegetation and chemicals, which resembled quicksand as it grew in
depth, and he would wonder 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 continued on going.

Then, out of
nowhere, a light emerged through some strange undergrowth, and its
radiance pulsated like a living entity, magically illuminating the
fog and strange tree forms, creating mind-bending shadows that
weaved and probed though the mist.

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

They furiously
moved their legs in and out of bogs as it grew nearer and deadlier,
causing their legs to become painful and tired, shifting away to
hard ground, to be able to escape better.

It was like
their last stand, and being on the edge of their destruction, and
Kruger watched how each of them reacted, and noticed Don reacted
the least again, and even looked as if he had no intention of
trying to kill the thing with his weapon.

They ran
almost blindly up and down over bogs and humps, rushing through to
where they believed there was flat ground.

Heavy beast
sounds furiously exploded out nearby, and clearly chased after
them, and Kruger considered turning and firing his weapon. It was
common for large animals to become frightened and withdraw from
being fired on.

Loud
explosions surely would scare it enough to avoid them!

It was like a
strange nightmare, and finally annoyed enough at Major Ripley’s
avoidance of doing anything at all to save them he swiftly turned
and blasted away at what looked like an immense shadow on the fog,
where the sounds exploded out!

They were
breathless, and they all stared blankly at him, and he wondered
what Major Ripley was thinking, and what his explanation for not
using his weapon would be.

The thing, as
far as he could see and hear, never even acknowledged his direct
hit on it, and it left him confused. Firstly, the energy beam he
blasted into there could have been weakened by the thick fog, and
he tried to recall if it had been and anything that he had heard
about it, and he decided to try again if it appeared visible to
him, and he considered if this was why Major Ripley had not
fired.

Their legs
could not take them fast enough, and the thing soon started closing
in on them, and Kruger cursed their stupid idea of running, as they
could have entered a thin area of the fog and used all their
weapons on it at the one time, and they would not have tired
themselves and allowed the thing to think they were its prey.

The shape of a
vehicle appearing through the vapor was blissful, and they all
stared fascinated with it and in their luck, and Kruger spotted
Don’s reactions and that he was surprised.

Its
lights
radiated its shape and them, and they forced
their legs to go faster to avoid the thing behind them pulling a
final surprise on them before they could be saved.

The vehicle and the appearance of two other
vehicles at its side was ecstasy, and a glimpse of reality amidst
their surrounding desolate hell.

It was like a phantom place out on the
edge of realism, on the bounds of what lay beyond
-
with the beats
charging out of the depths of hell, and they were reappearing into
reality.

The place looked static, and supernaturally
glowing, and Kruger considered if he could have the paranormal
scientists check if there was any paranormal activity there.

Forms of plants broke to pieces as they ran
through them, and large tree vegetation looked as if they were
ready to fall to dust, as though it were suspended there on the
edge of reality!

Behind him, within shifting lights of
stars, shifting through the fog with the world
’
s fast rotation, he finally
saw a ghost image of the thing chasing them, shifting out of the
fog covering its hideous deadly features.

Yet all his looks back 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, and waiting until it fully had them
–
before paralyzing them with
fear by rushing out at them at full speed.

His mind conjured up monster creatures
as they moved to where the vehicles were, and they rushed into one,
exhausted and
staggered,
and at the doorway Kruger watched and listened as the door shut and
the vehicle left
, and he heard hungry grunts from it
and its powerful movements rapidly taking it as close to them as it
could, and he saw a giant ghost monster cat creature floating out
of the mist, as it leaped through the air at them, snapping its
massive jaws.

Chapter 11

The GX1
Discovery

The time being had sensed the landing of the
incredible GX1 from its immense surges of energy blasting through
time, at least a century before it had occurred, and further out in
time than it could normally travel, especially with its limited
power.

At first it had resembled a miniature black
hole with its incomprehensible powers, which it had never seen
before, or even heard of from its recollections of its mighty
empire.

Its pure magnitude even made it avoid it for
many years, for fear of destruction, but it then realized that it
would confront it, and would have to discover what was there, which
it considered was one of the main reasons for the fall of the
empire of its race.

It soon started work on ways to conceal
itself and avoid detection, and began to send probes that concealed
its presence, and started to get information on what was there.

The colossal size of it left it staggered!
Its race had never built anything like it! It had found ways to
travel space at the speeds that it needed, and had not attempted to
create such a space vehicle. It was sure it had come from a
distance galaxy!

It soon proved that it had the ability to
become undetected, and thought of the uses it could use its
technology and knowledge for.

It was sure that it was the last of its
species, and thought it had happened because of its location,
dwelling far beyond the outer universe, and because it was more
advanced than the rest of its species. It surely now was far
superior to all its ancestors, and the greatest scientist, with one
flaw, of it being imprisoned on the world, even with it being the
ruler of the world, with its powers.

It had many times thought of reproducing its
species, in an altered form, capable of surviving and being a
master race, and creating a better and proper empire that was
capable of surviving, but it never bothered, as it would have taken
it years to create the right resources.

Its powers were immense though, and it could
alter and do incredible things, and it worked away in its castle
carrying out its experiments and explorations, and considered where
it could go with the space vehicle.

Chapter 12

The Center of
Space

Trillions of
magnificent stars shone everywhere, turning the whole sky golden,
except for the colossal black hole at its center.

The
sight was fantastic, and probably the most magnificent sight Kruger
had ever seen, and he thought he
sensed mysterious and
dangerous things existed there.

They stood on
the flat top of a high hill, overlooking the world for
approximately fifty miles in every direction, and watched the fog
blanketing the entire frontal world, going into the horizon, where
the GX1 was positioned.

Around twenty
of the main vehicles on the world were positioned behind all the
men from the vehicles, positioned around the edge of the cliff,
where the majority were examining the incredible view.

Many filmed
the sight, which made the whole voyage worth taking part in, and
the rest were scientists carry out their work with their equipment,
with some of the military, including Major Ripley, checking the
world for dangers.

Kruger stood
with the two paranormal scientists, Mitchel and Bryan, with their
equipment and scientists, examining everything around them.

They had
confirmed it was the central galaxy of the universe, and the black
hole, where they had appeared there from, was at the exact center
of it, in the middle of the sky, with them examining it, facing the
entire the center of the universe, and center of space.

The black hole interested the majority
of the scientists and military, as it was considered to be the only
way to return to the universe, and it was the only proper view of
it that had emerged so far
–
from a distance away from it
–
which allowed
all of it to be properly visible
–
with its influence on the
surrounding galaxy.

The entire galaxy seemed to be in orbit
around it, and Kruger gasped, wondering how they had managed to
escape from it. But he knew the power of the GX1, and what it was
capable of.

Kruger wondered if there was a central
galaxy at the center of his universe, and wondered how they could
have missed such a sight, and the multitude of stars.

“
So that
was
the center of space?
” Kruger asked the two paranormal scientists,
staring at the center of the black hole, recalling their appearance
there.

“
Yes! Their instruments proved it
...
” Bryan replied. “It
seems to be centered perfectly ...”

He wondered why they were so positive, and
how they had detected it.

The red rock about them glowed brightly from
the ultra-bright light from the sky, and it was like a dream
world.

The world
’
s fast rotation had put them
directly under the center of the central galaxy, and the suns now
virtually covered all the sky, in all their different sizes, going
deep into the immense galaxy. They were so packed together that
there was virtually no blackness of space left in the
sky.

Kruger examined the whirled black circle of
the center of space, with the suns whirled around it, going into
all the horizons. The stars whirled around it made it look as if it
really covered the whole sky. There were lines of suns going
towards it! Some suns were visibly moving across the sky towards
it.

They would end up going into it, and being
unable to travel through the gateway, like they had, would be
destroyed. The debris from the suns thinly covered the whole
central galaxy with particles, gas, dust, stones, boulders, and
many other things.

Debris from it was scattered all over the
world, and there were areas of dense space clouds and debris
everywhere in the sky, with massive clouds of asteroids.

It was almost beyond his comprehension how
much power it had. The center of space was clearly responsible for
the central galaxy having so many massive suns, novas, and other
strange sun formations.