A/N: before you begin reading this story you need to know a few important bits of information otherwise, wow, your interpretation will be way off. if you've watched Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Last Crusade then you already know Hollywood discovered the Nazi's obsession with the occult. what you may be unaware of, though, is that the obsession is not a fabrication of Hollywood. the Nazis really were obsessed with the occult. Hitler and the rest of the monsters employed psychics and mediums, they turned Nostradomuses prophesies into pieces of propaganda and, as they there losing the war, they tried to weaponize certain facets of occultism. many books have been written about their advanced technology and the fate of many German scientists post-WWII (in case you don't know, look up Operation Paperclip - many NASA scientists were German scientists responsible for the V2 rockets). I am a fan of the occult, I enjoy conspiracy theories, simply because they make great fiction. This story is an attempt to marry the occult with fanfiction. It is also a horror story written for a Halloween contest.
the first chapter is setup; it establishes who the narrator is and what his interests are; later chapters talk about the Kikyo Effect itself and there will be various allusions and connections to Kikyo (obviously) and Naraku. Hojo also plays a part. the story is complete as a draft but I don't have enough free time to edit everything at once that's why it's being posted section by section. sorry y'all, just bear with me a little.
"The Kikyo Effect" by Abraxas (2009-10-04)
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Call of Cthulhu'
I trust that you, my reader, already know of my career as a historian of the occult. I have been published in various journals and anthologies devoted to, among other subjects, cryptozoology, Fortianism, alien intervention and abduction, and the occultism of the Nazis. It was, in particular, my research regarding 'the Bell' that launched me into this webwork of evil I scarcely could have imagined. It is true that the work, the methods, and the intentions of the occult sectors of Nazism plumbed the maddening depths of barbarism yet know they were not alone and others sunk further....
In July of 2010 I was invited to a symposium in Japan. Its topic dealt with the Nazi's suppressed and controversial technology. As the only visiting expert regarding 'the Bell' I was tasked to inaugurate the event with a lecture dedicated to that which many consider to be the apex of occultism.
I presented a tour-de-force of what was already known about 'the Bell', then, I veered into my own personal theory of it. I warned that my speculation would be difficult to accept and I apologized if my effort was judged a waste of time. I always fancied myself a respected authority because I refrained from wild and outlandish conjecture. However, evidence that I and many, many others uncovered in the archives of the KGB, suggest an event that if revealed without context would have spelt the end of a career.
I will not abuse the sensibilities of my reader with too thorough a background of the subject of 'the Bell'. That alone trumps by its volume of material and eclipses with its implications the object of my narrative as I type. I direct those who wish a detailed study to read the Fall 2010 edition of the Miskatonic University's Occult Quarterly which exposes my research and the findings of my colleagues about this matter.
I summarize the salient points below:
First, that with the advance of the allies, the Nazis were desperate to find a 'wunderweapon', whose impact would have turned the tide of defeat.
Second, that their desperation was total and they employed not only science but occultism to gain any kind of advantage over the allies.
Third, that as part of their program to expand their technology, they employed psychics to 'contact' beings from other worlds.
And, fourth, that such alien science, copied crudely through clairvoyance, was used to construct 'the Bell'.
Nothing short of that explained the curious way the Nazis built it. It had to be a vision that somebody with remote sensing ability witnessed and the scientists, unsure of its function, built it to its last, insignificant detail - even including a series of hieroglyphs at its base.
Yes, 'the Bell', its purpose was unknown to its builders. They hoped it was (could be transformed into) a weapon. It possessed a slew of qualities that proved its lethality - its radiation caused a group of scientists to 'disappear' similar to the way the crew of the battleship USS Eldritch disappeared. Soon their analysis of it confirmed that among its functions it was a mechanism capable of manipulating time and space itself.
Let me add that the ability of 'the Bell' to defy gravity was not lost on its builders. It is believed by a few that 'the Bell' was the propulsion of what is called the Nazi-UFO. It is a subject I will be revisiting soon.
Where I differ with my colleagues is this: I do not believe it was used as propulsion, instead, I believe it was the heart of a time-machine.
I discovered a record of testimony, evidence, extracted by the KGB out of those who worked the tunnels beneath the eastern half of Germany. Many of those tunnels were discovered, blasted shut with debris, as allies reconquered the land Nazis took by force. A similar network of caves was said to comprise the Bunker.
Among the stories told by the survivors was that of a group of about 3000 individuals, mostly soldiers with their family, who ventured into a tunnel. The group ventured into the abyss with a vast supply of weapons, ammunition, and other daily supplies - enough, perhaps, to start a colony. That particular tunnel housed a working, 'time-machine' model of 'the Bell' and when the Soviets discovered it, cleared it, not a trace could be found and there was no other way in and out of that passage.
I believe that group of men, women, and children formed the Nazi's last desperate attempt to retain their power. I believe that 'colony' was sent into a different time (or, perhaps, into a different space) where they were tasked to rebuild. And I suspect the Bunker was similarly fitted with a 'time-machine'.
The audience was polite but I felt I went too far with my speculation. The question and answer session that followed, thankfully, did not yield any vocal confrontation against the theory I espoused. Rather, the people were fascinated by the subject of Nazi-UFO's, I, relieved, explained the concept with the dogma produced by years of research.
I returned to America still regretting my folly. I should not have veered so far off the reservation. I was consoled by the fact that my colleagues did not abandon me. And that, thankfully - as always - the media did not report anything about the matter.
All was quiet and peace. My life in the Dakotas returned to normal when I received a letter by a certain A. Hojo of Japan - the organizer of the symposium. I remembered Hojo passingly and my research of the name revealed little about the man. He was curiously connected to a royal family of Japan yet much remained unclear as if somebody labored to alter the record. Hojo, though, was affable and said to be wealthy. A patron of the occult.
Although we communicated by letter, initially, we became very fast friends as I found with Hojo a fellow traveler in the realm of the mysterious. The correspondence expanded my knowledge of UFOs in general. It included information about Japan's involvement in the development of post-WWII technology. I was intrigued by that and by elements of Japan's brush with the occult.
Suddenly I could not resist - my eyes were gazing into a whole new world parallel to and in certain ways superior to what the Nazis were perpetrating. Unlike the Germans, whose forays into the spiritual is the stuff of myth, the Japanese always maintained a strict adherence to practicality. They eschewed what they described as their ally's decadence. Their object was material, not ethereal, yet in spite of that ideological difference their destination appeared to be remarkably identical.
It is due to geopolitics that the bulk of what Japan accomplished from 1920 to 1945 remains unknown. America, the only power in possession of Japan at the close of the war, was privy to all of its secrets. Its forays into advanced, if not alien-inspired, technology. Everything that could be was exported into the West and, according to Hojo, that was responsible for America's and Japan's rise in the post-war years.
Many credit the UFO at Roswell and the re-engineering of its technology as the source of advancements like transistor, however, if my contact was correct, while there was indeed a 'UFO' at Roswell, it was not alien.
The object that crashed into the desert of Roswell was entirely terrestrial. Japanese to be exact. And the so-called 'alien' bodies reportedly snatched at the site were not aliens but humans whose deformities - often described as demonic - made them candidates for experimentation on both sides of the Pacific. Others were prisoners of war, subject to surgeries designed to replicate a 'typical' alien appearance, in the event that they escaped into the world.
At the start of the spring, 2011, still troubled by a pang of guilt, I felt I exhausted myself regarding Nazi (and Western) occultism. I learned that Japan possessed a rich, occult history equal to Europe and complete with its own versions of alchemy and demonology. It seemed to be the best location to start my study anew. I thought that through Hojo, who already came to my cabin in the woods of the Dakotas, I would be able to explore another facet of the subject I did not know existed.
For the next several months we passed information back and forth. We exchanged knowledge and speculation. We debated the facts as only men of our calling would be able to. And with the emergence of a new apex of occultism - the Kikyo Effect - I was determined to revisit Japan and investigate those sites where its experiments were conducted.