madzwild: Hi everyone! This is my second story that I am posting! Sorry it has been a bit since I last posted, blame college, but do not worry! My sweet friend Maxilos-va, is helping write some of this story! Isn't that sweet?

Maxilos-va: This is my first fic attempt, co-authoring alongside the lovely madzwild. At some point I will begin posting my own original work, but for now I am happy to work under her.

madzwild: Well there you go! Such a darling apprentice that I have! Now, shall we continue on with the story?

Prologue

December 27th, 1912

The crew is all currently nursing their hangovers and stomachaches from the massive party that we had. Spending time away from family can be pretty harsh, especially during the holidays, although it did nothing to stop from the consumption of alcohol and food. Luckily, our group leader is allowing us to recover before we head back to the village ruins outside of Marsa Alam. These ruins are nothing special; it seems to be a city that was near the sea during the time of the Pharaohs. Though there are a couple of people that would beg to differ. This one fellow, Avery, has this feeling that there is something more to the place. He is not the only one, his friend agrees, stating how the layout is different than a normal city of Ancient Egypt. Even as I agree with them, there is no way that a small crew, like we, would discover a part of history that has been lost. My young wife, always a teaser, would joke constantly on how I would be the one to discover the eighth wonder of the world. My name will be in newspapers all over the world, citizens will recognize me on the streets, asking for stories and ideas. She would always talk about how I will help the world become more intelligent, more knowledgeable about history. Always trying to keep my chin up. My lovely Mable was ecstatic when she found out about the crumbling buildings that we found. She is always so optimistic about everything. Even though the ruins are nothing special, knowing that I was part of a team that discovered a simple fishing village that was apart of our history is good enough for me.

December 30th, 1912

The recovery of the crew took longer than anticipated. No matter, as of now, our transportation to the ruins is underway. It is quite strange, as I look back on it now, the outline of the ruins do appear different than a regular village or city would. Right now, we are going back to try to find artifacts or pieces of the society that once lived there. As far as we can understand it, there are three sections of the city; the foundation of what was once presumably a palace stands at the head of many smaller foundations, which upon further examination, we believe, will be a city or market area. Finally there appears to be a religious center on the opposite end of the city market area. We presume that the majority of our artifacts will come from the ancient religious grounds.

January 1st, 1913

An unfortunate event has occurred at the site of the ruins. One of our teammates, Avery, appears to have slipped into a coma after touching what seemed to be a harmless artifact. It is very alarming to how it happened. As we were digging and brushing the sand and dust away from anything that caught our interest, Avery exclaimed how he found what could possibly be a break through in our findings. When we joined him in the foundation of the house we removed the dust and sand carefully with our tools the glyphs and carving on the front of the monolith were unlike anything I'd seen. Almost alien in nature. When Avery touched the monolith though he slipped into unconsciousness. He's remained in this state for a few days now and we're unsure if he will ever wake up. He remains unresponsive to all tests we can bring to mind. If his condition persists I'm afraid I'll have to inform his family that he's beyond us now.

As near as we can tell he was shocked into unconsciousness, by some sort of energy surrounding the monolith, it doesn't effect our tools but organic matter is overloaded with energy and becomes semi-inert. I can only assume that it was this same energy that put Avery in his current state.