Spectral Investigation Page 2
“I got you bud.” Mike said to Paul, knowing he wouldn’t hear him. He was out cold.
“Get down fast and lay Paul to the ground!” Don yelled as he reached into his pocket. He procured the detonator and then let himself slide down the rope further. Bleeding from his hand by the rope burn. “Let’s hope it’s enough!”
Six pops sounded followed by an explosion. The windows on all floors shattered out from the shockwave, and a riot shield came sailing down to the ground.
Don let himself go, there was still three meters left to the ground, but the shockwave had been too much to continue holding onto the painful rope. He landed next to Paul and Mike, bending his legs as he fell and rolling.
“Think we hurt it?” Mike asked, looking up at the smoke and fire seeping out from the third floor.
“Hope not.” Don whispered. He knew the center of the room would break open into the realm of the beast. Just because one widened a rift more didn’t mean nothing else will come through. He held his breath.
Nothing happened. They remained motionless for a good five minutes. Still nothing.
“Keep looking for signs,” Don said. “Don’t let your eyes waver.”
“Not for the end of the world.” Mike said.
Don walked over to the riot shield, picked it up, and then carried it over to Mike and Paul. He rolled Paul onto the shield, then pulled him along to the car. He opened the car trunk and brought out an adrenaline syringe. It wasn’t much, probably wouldn’t do anything good, but it was all he had. He jammed it into Paul and hit the injection.
Paul immediately woke up, delirious.
“Paul! You with me?”
“Eh, …huh?” His eyelids fought to move, they had no sync.
“Can you move your legs?”
“Haa?” He mumbled, and his face morphed into anguish.
“Shit,” Don said. “I’m going to move you into the back of the car and drive you to the hospital.”
Mike had started to back towards their car yet he kept focused on the third floor. Something should have happened by now, shouldn’t it? He wondered.
“Hey Don.” He said.
“We need to get moving. I don’t know how much blood Paul has lost, but it ain’t good.”
“What about the ghost rhino? What about the rift?”
Don cursed under his breath. He couldn’t leave in case something worse happened. Nor could he leave Mike here. He wouldn’t be able to handle any of the potential catastrophes that could follow an attempt such as this. Nor would he be able to get Mike to drive away from this, even if Paul’s life dependent on it. His obsession was on the silver lining of realization.
They waited. They stared towards the third floor. Paul had even regained enough consciousness to peak a look with an eye half open.
Then it came.
Mike brought up his smartphone and pointed it towards the building. A red light burst from the mid-section of the building as the whole floor was swallowed by the widened rift. Any matter will seep both ways through a rift. Usually there’s just air there, but sometimes, there are denser matters. Such as the beast, such as the building. A large rift will have greater potential than one of the natural or smaller ones. A rift large enough to encompass the entire floor of a building would accordingly swallow said building if there was nothing on the other end to block it.
The floor disappeared along with parts of the floor above and below. The building crumbled onto itself for a time, and then there was stillness.
“Good riddance.” Don said.
“That was friggen awesome!” Mike proclaimed.
They carried Paul on his shield into the backseats of their car, took their seats, started the engine, and then drove off to the hospital.
The End.
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I wrote most of this story one sleepless night back in August 2015. Never got around to wrap up the ending ...and then completely forgot about it. Well, I found it again, read it, and wondered what's wrong with me. I have since corrected my personal flaw and as such, you get to enjoy the fruits of my sanity.
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