Harbinger 30 years on part1

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Imagine your worst fear, no something worse, your worst fear's worst fear. Now imagine that it exists for one single purpose, to torment and terrorise anyone who even knows it exists. That, is what is happening to me. Let me explain my situation to you, if I may.

I was a part of a research team dedicated to study humanity's failed experiments; the sleep deprivation experiment, Russian sleep, all that jazz. We were doing some research on the harbinger experiment when one of my colleagues mentioned that he knew the location of the research bunker where it all happened. "No you don't!" I retorted back, "You've never even heard of the experiment before we were assigned to find out what went wrong with the experiment." I turned back to my desk and carried on with my research. Several long minutes passed with not a peep from either of us. "Let's make a bet. We'll hop in my van and go to the bunker and if I don't know where it is, I give you full credit on the current project, if I do, you let me recreate the experiment in full." He said with a straight face as if he were playing poker. "Alright, I accept the bet." I quickly replied.

When our shift was over we headed toward my colleagues minivan and headed north. It was a cold Friday noon so we could take our time driving to the location. "Where are we headed man?" I asked, curiously yet confident knowing that he never knew the location. "Alaska, close to the forests, nice and quiet place for an underground test site." He replied after a few seconds of silence. "Do you have any place for me to go pee?" I asked while looking around the minivan. "Yeah, in the back next to the tent gear." He said without taking his eyes off the road. I went to the back of the minivan and done my business, as I looked around the van. Tents, sleeping bags, hell even a full barbecue grill were strewn around the rear of the van. "Hey. Why do you have all this stuff laying around back here?" I called out to him. "I was planning on coming up here for a while, way before we were assigned the project." He replied with a sense of pride in his voice. I clambered back to the front of the van. We sat at a roadside for thirty minutes to eat and talk about things. "How's the kids?" he asked me. "They're doing great. My youngest is in the schools soccer team, my oldest is getting good grades in her essays and neither of them have been in trouble this year." I replied with proud in my voice.

We headed back to the van and hit the hay for the night. I was awoken by thumping sounds in the distance, rhythmic thumps, it wasn't an elk as it was too slow, not even a bear as they were too quiet. I shrugged it off and to sleep.

When I woke up I forgot about the thumps and put my day clothes back on. We started driving again and not even a few hours later, we found it. We actually found it! The bunker I thought was non-existent was in front of my eyes. The metal circular hatch, torn like paper, right in front of the shed it was fabled to reside in. Then it hit me, if the hatch was here, does that mean the test subjects were here too? A sense of fear mixed with panic was lingering in me as I approached the open hole. Me and my colleague were both silent as I looked down the hole. Blood stains were in the shed and down the hole, could it be? "Now let's go down there, we didn't come all this way to look at some hole!" He shouted from the van. I turned to see why he was that far away to see he had the camping kit on the floor next to the front of the van. I turned back to the hole to see how far it went down. Something was wrong about that hole, something very wrong. Then I saw it. A pair of crimson red eyes, staring back at me from down the hole. I stumbled back in sheer terror and felt the cold snow on my back. What I saw was not of this world.

I got back up and looked back down, no eyes. How was that possible? "Something wrong there?" My colleague asked with a shocked look on his face. "No nothing's wrong. I thought I saw something." I replied, voice shaking a little. I looked for my phone in my pocket and turned the flashlight on, went back to the hole and shined the light down there. Blood stains and dried entrails were all over the walls of the shaft to the bottom. At the bottom of the shaft there were three bodies lying there, motionless near each other. I almost passed out there and then. "Hey! What you dry heaving about?" my colleague called out worryingly. I heard hurried footsteps behind me as he came to look at the horrifying scene below. "I am not going down there! I might die." I replied trembling. When he saw what was below he collapsed, down the shaft. I shrieked in terror and ran back to the van, stumbling and crying as I ran from the hole.

I looked around the van for something to help him, anything would do. I found a plastic coverall suit and respirator mask in a bag, "Jackpot!" I whispered to myself. Five minutes had passed since my colleague fell down the shaft and I was prepared, I had the coverall suit and mask and walked towards the shaft. I was not prepared for what was about to happen next. As I approached the hole I turned the headlamp on and started to step down the ladders toward my friend, and those crimson eyes.

As I hit the bottom I heard a shrill scream from somewhere down here. I quickly looked around, panicking as I did so. I saw a room with monitors all across the walls. Were these the monitors the researchers used to watch their evil experiment take place and fail in front of their own eyes? I turned away from the monitors and went to the medical room to the north of the ladder. I looked into the doorway. A dead body awaited me on a hospital gurney, stomach wide open like it was burst open. It wasn't even the worst thing that was in there. Red eyes, glowing menacingly in the corner, they looked like two mini flames. I ran back to the ladder but it wasn't there. I started to panic and I quickly ran to the corner of the monitor room and hid there.

This is going to be part 1 and I will have part 2 written when I get to a safer location to write it since I can hear a faint growl/hum out of the window. I hope I can get part 2 out as quick as possible. Goodbye for now.