Sampling excerpt from chapter 5 of the book

Sampling excerpt from chapter 5 of the book

( The youth have found a door in the mountain side leading to what look's to be an old miners cave home, they find some artifacts that give them some clues as to who used to live there.)




 “Ok let’s see who was here shall we” she unfolded the letter and saw that it was old, but was readable.
“It’s dated June 12 of 1916 so this is old. ‘To whoever is most unfortunate to find this letter and this place? I would suggest you leave as fast as you can and get off this evil mountain and never, never come back it is cursed.”
“Great a cursed cave now, sounds weird sis” Levi said.

“Just hold on and let me read this ok, it’s kind of interesting don’t you think a mystery maybe.
 ‘I am Frederick the son of Norman Adair the miner who lived here but has now long since vanished and we have not been able to locate him. My older brother Alex has gone for help but he has been gone quite a long time and I fear he may not have made it to Beaver for help. It is like this is a cursed place for bad things have happened to anyone who has been foolish enough to stay here too long.
The Ute speak of a great evil in these mountains and that they should be avoided they warned us not to mine here or hunt or travel that the evil spirits of the underworld roam these lands and will take anyone who is foolish to travel here down into their spirit realms and are never heard from or seen again.  We did not believe in their hog wash stories about spirits, ghosts or their demons and the like for they are just uneducated Indians after all full of dumb myths.  That is what we thought at first but now I am not so sure. Dad is gone and I have abandoned working the mine and barricaded myself here in this cave for safety. Strange things have come in the night; they are quiet and have carried off the mules and supplies now I remain alone. I am running out of provisions and do not know how much longer I can stay, I do know that whatever creature or demons are outside the door I can hear it scrapping and clawing at the door and pushing on it during the night trying to open it to get to me.  They leave a three toed large print, larger than that of a grizzly bear and I do not know what it could be. I do know this I seem to be a prisoner now and if I  venture out by day I am not able to get very far for the demons seem to come in the dusk and I must flee back to this cave for safety, I do not think I can travel to Beaver to escape as in the open at night they would catch me as it’s over a day’s hike back to Beaver so for now it’s safer in the cave I hope Alex will come back soon with help I think it’s the only way I will survive. 
Alex if you read this I am leaving this extra gun in case you need it.  And if you do not find me
Then I have either made my escape and will find you in Beaver or the demons have taken me.
You are Warned! Leave and never return there is some strange evil here a dark magic.. I hear something,
Alex there is an evil in the cave, not sure what but there is a light and a strange humming sound and the back wall is glowing white hot like when the black smith melts iron, I cannot leave for the demons are back at the door again, now this not sure how much time I have but I hear them, the demons they are coming..."

"It just ends, that’s weird"
"Yep, sounds like a bad movie sis, so you think someone came up here and planted the letters just to spook us?"
"Well knowing the boys anything is possible, I just don’t know when they both could have got together to set this whole thing up... they could be messing with us"
"Well sounds like a weird prank anyways lets go see how far back this cave goes maybe there some cool stuff we could find back there."
"Ok sounds like a plan lets go take a peak."

Suddenly they hear great booming sounds and the crackles of lightning reverberating off the walls of the cave room Sariah and Levi both jump at the sound.
"Well that's that then, the mountain storm in here for a while, may as well stay put and stay dry Levi, so now we have some time to really explore this place." Sariah said.
"Yep I sure don't want to get all soaked walking back to camp, let’s get to looking and see what we can find then." Levi said excitedly.
"Ok then let’s get started “Sariah said as she pointed her light towards the darkest parts of the cave room.


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Not too far into the back of the cave we find Sariah and Levi slowly walking deeper into the cave.
“Sariah, this must be the back of the cave that guy was talking about, just look at the hole in the wall here.” Levi said.
“It could be, let’s get closer, see here it does look like the rock was melted at some time, and see how smooth it is like a lava tube, interesting.” Sariah commented.
Sariah takes a really good look at the opening that seemed almost completely cylindrical like, with uniformity to the edges and it was melted very smooth not like if one used dynamite to blast open the hole. But is was about nine feet high and maybe twelve feet wide compared to the cave itself that must be sixteen feet wide or better naturally so this unusual opening must have been man made somehow.  But if it went back to the times of the note, that would not make sense.

“Levi you know that if the letter we found is true, then this hole was made way back in the early 1900’s, and I don’t think I know what could have carved it out today let alone back then. You know what Levi this is starting to get a little spooky, it just does not make any sense you know?”

“Sis, I think your right, maybe we should go get Dad and let them look at this and the other stuff we found as well, it is getting a little scary back here.” Levi said a tone of worry in his voice.
“I think your right, hey wait a minute do you see that strange greenish light inside the hole?” Sariah asked curiosity overcoming her feelings of fear for a moment.

“Kind of, turn off your light and let’s see if we can get a better look at it.” Levi suggested.

Sariah turned off her light and sure enough the glow was a lot brighter.
“Cool, this is kind of like in the movies when there was a deep ocean or cave creature that gave off light, I wonder what is creating it?” Levi said.
“Well I guess all your TV & movie watching is paying off a little bit then, your right about the possible cause of the light, let’s go see what plant or life is creating it and then we can take it back to camp, that would really one up Ben and Tarton.” Sariah said.

“Ok sounds good, but it is really spooky ya know, maybe we should go get that guys gun just in case some booger man is back there, what do you think?” Levi commented.
“Oh come on it is an old gun and may not even work, besides there are no booger anything in this cave, unless you’ve been picking your nose again, so don’t get all scared on me ok.” Sariah said.

“Ok, ok, ok, let’s go then sis, keep your light on so we don’t get lost or fall into a deep hole, or trip on a boulder ok.” Levi said nervously.

"Right but this does look pretty straight, more of a tunnel than a cave see here what ever made this must have been really hot looks more like it was melted like the lava tubes ya know, but it should make it a lot easier for walking as the floor look's pretty smooth also." Sariah said as she entered the tube.

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Almost to the opening Sargent Smith could hear noises, and see the beam of a flash light piercing the darkness near the tunnel entrance as well as the light from the open outer door to the surface, so someone was here and needed to be dealt with. From what he could  make out it was only a couple people that was good and would make his job easier.
Using hand signals he directed his team into their positions along the walls where they would stay until his order was given to move.
He brought up his stun device the Nemekans had developed it was harmless for the most part but very effective and gave one a huge head ache when you woke up. He aims it towards the unsuspecting people, he wished they had not discovered the tunnel, but that was not his problem, orders were orders and these poor saps where just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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"Sariah?" Levi asked in a more shaky voice
"What now Levi" Sariah responded.
"I am getting a bad feeling now, you know like maybe we should just go back and get out of here."
"Levi, your letting your imagination get the best of you ok, caves are just spooky is all, there is nothing to worry about in here ok." Sariah said getting a little irritated with him.
 "Are you sure? your not just saying that are you?" Levi said.
"Look, we are getting closer to the green glow, just a few more minutes and we should be able to see whats causing it, then we can go back to camp it the rain has stopped ok, I promise." Sariah said trying to calm her little brother down, this was interesting to her, an adventure of sorts and he was breaking the mood of the whole experience with his wining.
"Ok, if you promise ok, hey look at that there are some rocks in the tunnel now sis, turn your light back over this way I thought I saw a funny looking rock." Levi said as he stared at a place along the wall it was dark but he could make out what was a really weird shaped rock.

"Ok lets have a look at your rock so exactly where is it then." Sariah said glad his attention was distracted for a moment he just might start having fun again.  She shines her light around at Levi and he points along the wall she follows his gesture with her beam of light some yards down the tunnel.
"Ok see there is your rock." Sariah said as she shines the light on what did look like a rock, but suddenly as her eyes focused better in light from her flashlight and the greenish glow the rock looked more and more like it could be a man crouched along the wall. Then she saw it move.
"Levi its not a rock its... Run! Levi Ru...." she was not able to finish as her chest exploded with pain like getting kicked by a horse and she felt herself go numb as she was falling to the floor dropping her light, and as the sensations of unconsciousness began to over take her the last thing she saw was Levi also laying on the ground in the beam of her light, then a pair of boots, military kinda boots then the shadow of darkness enveloped her and all was black.