Creatures From The Unknown

Six

Looking around I walked slowly. It was as if I were in some kind of odd dream, but I didn't think much about that thought and looked around. Immediately I realized the darkness was due to flying creatures of some kind. The phantoms I've been seeing perhaps? I looked over to my left and saw a familiar kid. I then realized who it was. It really was Jessie. My guess back on the Alien ship was real, they had somehow brought Jessie back with Alien technology. I started walking towards him and then I ran at him.

"Jessie!" I yelled out at him.

He quickly looked over at me and a surprise hit his face. He then put his finger to his lips and glanced up. I finally reached him and it looked like he hasn't aged much at all here. Maybe time was slower? But it was an alternate dimension; not a completely different world. We finally met up together.

"Be very quiet, they can tell who doesn't belong here. Unless you died?" Jessie looked at me with a starting sadness.

"No, I met some Aliens, they told me they brought you back to life, but to not disrupt Earth's space and time continuum you couldn't continue living in the main dimension or something like that," I whispered back at him. "That's really you, right?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't listen to you about the bridge. It wasn't quite what you thought it was, though. Creepy old man."

"No, I'm the one who's sorry," I said and pulled him in for a hug.

We hugged for quite some time before he told me something that I was glad to solve. "I was hoping you'd know it was me tapping your leg. You know I used to do that to annoy you sometimes.

"That was you that day! How?"

"There's been weird... portals or something that have been breaking into our world... your world. I was able to get through, but I wasn't even able to see myself at first. I had a hard time finally seeing myself, when I was able to I tried calling out to you guys, but you couldn't hear me. I knew your world was no longer mine, but maybe you could feel a touch. Sometimes physical can be more immediate than anything else. I was hoping you would realize it was me and know somehow I was still alive. I also realized that time has been slowing down in this dimension but is faster in your world. It has to be due to what has been going on here. Why are you here?"

"I've come to destroy the leader of this darkness. The aliens gave me a weapon."

"That's where the leader is." Jessie pointed to an evil-looking tower. "But it would take you forever to get there if you didn't know the correct way to go."

"Well, that was subtle." I smiled at him.

He smiled back and we were soon on our way to the evil-looking castle. It felt like an hour or so, yet it still was not much closer. I took out the weapon they gave me and wondered how a necklace could kill anything, but I didn't doubt the Aliens, not after all the technology they had. Who knows what it could do, I just hope it revealed its true power when we needed it. I put the necklace around my neck and I could feel it lock into place. I realized it would not come off until I wasn't needed any longer. Jessie looked doubtful at my weapon but shrugged and probably thought what I was thinking. He had always looked up to me, though I had no idea why.

Soon, some of the flying "minions", as Jessie put it, came to us and at first, I was frightened by them. They landed on feet-like things, I couldn't tell if they even had feet, it looked more like they glided. They didn't do anything to us, though. I started to build up as much courage as I possibly could and I started attacking them. With the muscles, I had been building, and with the little fighting techniques I had learned from the gym I still didn't think it would be enough, but I fought them to no avail. It was as if my punches and kicks hit nothing. They were empty. Hollow. Nothing. As if they were made up only of lies. That's when I heard a terrible screeching sound and the minions tried to fly off, but the necklace glowed and the minions surrounding had disappeared. I was surprised that all the muscles I had did nothing to help me in this situation. It was the truth of the matter that helped.

"When did you start working out?" Jessie asked me a little more loudly.

I looked at him and noticed he was smiling. I continued walking forward and looked up at the castle again. It looked closer now. "I started last year after you..."

"So, it's been a full year over there?" He seemed surprised.

"Yeah, it's November now."

He shook his head and we continued on forward. It was another hour or maybe two before we were finally at the castle, but there looked like there was no way in. I closed my eyes and held the necklace and believed there really was a way in, for it was the truth of the matter. I opened my eyes again and now there was a huge door that led into the castle.

"Whoa. Neat trick."

I smiled and we continued to the castle. It took another hour of searching before we found him. Or it. It was in the high tower and the evil that seemed to pour out from the creature was cold indeed. In an instant, it had flown towards us and went after Jessie.

"No! You can not hurt us! This I believe to be true!" It snickered at me and proceeded to go after Jessie, but it could not harm him.

"Now I believe it is time you see the truth."

I realized what the necklace did and was surprised at how simple the technology was. It wasn't really a weapon at all. But for something like this creature it could be deadly. I took the necklace off and went up to it. It feared and hated me at the same time, but for some reason, it could do nothing to me. I believe it was the necklace that helped me. Either way, I wrapped the necklace around it and it faced the truth that it really wasn't alive. This whole time it had lived a lie. It was never alive. It started to slowly fade and the darkness in this dimension started to disappear. Time went back to normal, it was a shift I was able to feel. But before it left, it sent me images of how it started. I felt sorry for it. It knew no other way. The castle started to dissolve and we rode the slowly dissolving castle till it became nothing but a field.

"Okay then," Jessie said looking surprised at the whole thing. "Why'd you say, "oh" earlier?"

"I'll tell you on the way back."

We started walking and I told him what I saw.

"So it was created by the lies of humans?"

"Yes, every lie we tell forms a certain kind of energy. The main dimension has no place for that kind of energy, but I guess this place can. It heard the lies and it was the lies at the same time. It formed into something. It grew stronger and stronger till it really felt alive. It must have known the lie at first, but it didn't ponder on that. It was now alive in its mind."

"Fascinating. Human lies created a dark creature that was finding ways to go over to your world. I think it was going to try and take over." Jessie said. "Hey, it's our house. I remember seeing that when I first got here, but it was empty. Nobody had moved into it in this dimension."

We walked to the other side of the house and saw the slumped figure of a human. It was Jessica!

"Jessica?" Jessie asked surprised.

"Jess... Jessie?" The girl got up and it really was Jessica.

"How'd you get here?"

"I... I don't know. One second I was crossing the bridge and next I fell down into a swampy area I swam up to the other side and walked back to the house, but nobody was there. Nobody was here." Jessica said looking quite sad. "I'm sorry I called you a baby, Cassy. Can we go home?"

"Yes," I said nodding my head.

The three of us stood near the lake. It was no longer a swamp and Jessica had just hugged Jessie. "So, we'll never see you again?"

"If you do, then that means trouble is happening in this world and is seeping into yours."

"I don't mind trouble."

"The end of the world kind of trouble." I clarified.

"Of course, it would be."

Soon after we said our goodbyes I held my necklace and thought about the Aliens until I started to feel that weird teleportation feeling. When I opened my eyes it was starting to get dark. It must have been the same day. We were on the dirt road behind our house and a little more to the east. We walked up to the house to the delight and surprise of our parents. We found out time had passed quite a lot since I had left also.

It was November 16.