The Next Dark Age: book 1 beginning

chapter 12 The Enemy

About 1 and a half hours later Trisha and the other finally arrived at the warehouse, which held some weird artifacts and other antiques from an age passed long ago. Soon Trisha found the hatch to the underground base, and after informing everyone, went down the ladder. When she arrived at the bottom Trisha started to feel very queasy from a deep sense of deja vu. She told herself that this feeling was nonsense, as she had never been down here before, she had never been outside her village and the neighboring town until a few days ago. Nevertheless this dread would not go away, and with every step Trisha was taking down the hallway, she felt worse and worse.

"Trisha, are you okay?" asked Harris, "you look like you might have a panic attack."

"What, no I'm.. I'm fine, we should keep going."

"You sure?" quizzed Michael as well, "Because if not I can have you rest here, but if you are feeling fine then I was going to send a group down each path way coming up."

"Yeah, I'm fine, just feel like I've been here before."

"Okay, well how about you go with Steph to the right, if you do start feeling bad Steph can protect you. Sapphire you will be alone and go the left. Me and harris will grab the document that Tim needs, are we all clear."

Everyone was in agreement as they all moved to their own respective hallways, but Trisha somehow was feeling worse and worse, until she reached the door and felt like she was about to throw up. Then Trisha finally stumbled to the door that she should be checking behind, and knew why she felt like dying. The door in front of her was the door that Tim left Nydia in her dream.

"So it was real." Trisha whispered to herself.

This confused Steph greatly, "What do you mean it was real?"

"Nothing, just ignore me."

It was when she finally when Trisha saw this familiar door that she started to feel better, but still felt like something was off. Then Trisha opened the door and saw what was inside. The room had very few of the items it had in her dream, and was now mostly empty, but felt full not due to clutter, but due to another thing

All the bodies. there were five of them, and they all had their stomach organs ripped and clawed out. Their face was unrecognizable as human due to all the cuts and blood coming out. It was clear that some dog had attacked them. Many of them you could see the intestines coming out of their gut. Behind all the blood, the corpses had terrified and pained looked on their faces. the blood It still looked fresh, and in a few the pool of blood was still growing, as if their bodies had not already gone through enough. In the center of the room was someone who had long unnatural hair.

Trisha fell to her knees, and Steph took a step back and fell too. The manheard all of this, and turned around to meet them. His eyes had no color, causing Trisha to question whether he was even human. It is one thing to see an abomination of nature in a dream where nothing is real, but to see a monster in real life, it made Trisha freeze.

"Hun," The man muttered and then pulled out a pocket watch from, well his pocket "we agreed we had two more hours, did Tim break his promise.?

The man then started rambling incoherently, and Steph screamed with a deep fury, "What happened here?"

The man posture seemed to change, before he was hunched over and looked like an animal ready to attack. Now though, he seemed poised and eloquent, "Oh, these people were in my way, so I took care of them."

"How did this happen, do you have genetically modified dog or something?"

"Close, all you need to know is that I took care of them last night."