Time Keepers: Never Ending War

WATCHERS OF SPACE AND TIME Timekeepers: Never Ending War THE SILENT MEN

PROLOGUE

The clouds cloaked the full moon making the night darker. The wind started to blow harder and harder, signs that a storm was brewing. Animals of the night raced to their burrows and nests to take cover from the upcoming storm. Two figures, however, cut across the moor. A lantern lit the path as the figures made their way through the soggy ground. Not a word left their mouths. The winds shifted and the clouds parted letting the full moon shine back down on the earth. In the light of the full moon, the figures' destination was seen outlined in the night sky.

"That is it?" The boy with the lantern looked up at the hill in front of them.

The other boy also looked up at the hill, "Yup. The house on the moor hill." The boys stopped to catch their breath. The wind swept across the grass. The few trees that scattered the land were bending with the wind making them look like monsters of the night.

The figures conversed in whispers although they were the only ones that would be out at this time of night. Their voices suggested that they were two young men about the age of fifteen and eighteen. Both were nervous but the older boy was hiding it better than the younger one.

"And you say it's abandoned? Then why have we come here?"

The older boy looked at his partner with a cruel smile, that the other boy couldn't see in the dark, "It's abandoned but I don't know about trouble? They say it's haunted."

"Haun...ted?" The younger boy stuttered.

"You afraid Jared?"

"Well I wasn't Greg until you said it was haunted." Jared's hand shook. the lantern's light and Jared's shaking caused shadows to move, adding to the spookiness of the night.

"The gang can't accept blundering babies who believe in ghosts. So you want to join or not?"

Jared didn't reply he just continued to walk.

The walk up the hill was short. The two boys stared at the dark features of the abandoned cottage. The windows were covered with broken down shutters. Not one sound was heard inside or outside except for the wind . The boys walked up to the porch. Not a light nor sound came from within. Jared was the one who opened the door and both boys entered the house without a word, finding themselves in a spacious room.

"What must we do then?" Jared whispered nervously as he looked around.

Greg was staring into a hallway and answered without turning.

"You must walk through as many rooms as you can. I will be waiting for you here."

Jared turned to Greg."You mean you're too scared."

Greg answered again without turning around. "It is not my inauguration. You do it by yourself."

Jared didn't say anything back. He wanted to get this over with. He started to walk down a hallway and simply continued on walking and walking, until he realized something was not quite as it should be.He should have come to the end already. He turned around and began to walk back, realizing there was a doorway there that hadn't been there before. He nervously turned around once more, thinking he must have simply gotten lost, and started walking. Again he realized he had gone longer than what could have possibly been the length of the corridor. Jared started to get panicky. He looked down at his watch. Only three minutes had passed! It seemed like an hour. Jared was about to start running when he walked through a doorway and entered the room where Greg was waiting.

"Back so soon? You could not of possibly finished. You really mustn't want to join the gang," Greg said around the cigarette in his mouth.

"That way was a dead end," Jared said trying to hide the panic in his voice.