A few days later at Spencer's home Molly had awoken to find Skyler's small cruiser resting on the front lawns which could have only meant that her father had arrived back from his trip. But she couldn't have been more wrong as downstairs in the dinning room was Skyler, pale and lost as he sat staring at the Spencer's camera, the photographs it had taken and box containing the stone symbols, he'd brought back in the hope of it giving some clue to Spencer's location, which were all sitting on the table.
"This is just awful" Said an elderly man with grey hair and dressed in a smart suit, who looked after the house and Molly when Spencer was away, from where he was sat on the other side of the table. "Now poor Molly is all alone in this world" He added, causing Skyler to drop his head low and clutch his knees.
"I just keep thinking that there's something I could have done" He said quietly. "I feel so useless, not even being able find out what happened to him because I don't know what these symbols mean!" He added, sounding angry at himself. The housekeeper couldn't give any comfort to this as an uncomfortable atmosphere hung in the room as both men sat in silence, not knowing what to do next.
The sound, however, of the dinning room doors opening made them snap out of their daze and look up to see Molly burst in.
"Dad I saw the cruiser and.." She began to say but stopped short as she saw that her father was not there but rather Skyler and the housekeeper instead, both with very grim faces.
"Molly..." Skyler began to say as he and the other man stood up before the housekeeper stopped him.
"I should tell her" He said solemnly.
That night Molly was sat alone in the dining room quietly examining the photographs from her father's camera, looking at the strange symbols.
"Dad what happened to you?" She asked out loud, glancing sadly at the strange box sat next to her on the table before looking back at the photographs. After a few more moments of studying them, however, that she seemed to recognise symbols in the image as she set the photographs down and began flipping through the book she had with her, the same one Spencer had shown her before he had left.
Turning to a page Molly found what she had been looking for as she looked at a drawing of a swirl of creatures identical to the runes in the photographs. "Unknown" She said quietly as she once again looked at the strange box next to her.
Having managed to get the box off the table and onto the marble floor Molly opened the lid to find it was filled with small square stones. Tipping them out of the box she also saw that each of the stones had Unknown on them.
"They look just like letters" She said as she began to rearrange them so that they spelled out her name before also spelling out the words 'Mum' and 'Dad'. That was when she found herself crying again. But, as she sat there, the Unknown squares began to glow again as back in the chamber of the ancient city on Sahara the Unknown once again appeared. But rather than remain in the chamber they very quickly left it and the city behind as they flew up into the clear night sky, looking for a moment like a black swarm of birds before disappearing back into thin air.
In the dinning room Molly was still sat on the floor as the stone squares began to glow even brighter and lift up in a spiral shape. Noticing this and looking up with curiosity Molly saw that some of the squares had started to disappear before, a moment later, they were replaced with actual Unknown creatures, which were descending as towards her as the stones lifted up until only the creatures remained.
"Unknown!" She said again, this time in delight as they began to peacefully circle her.
On the floor, however, something very odd was happening as the marble surface below Molly had begun to glow very brightly before suddenly crystallising and rapidly spreading outwards. Not content with covering the floor, however, the crystal surface then began to take the objects in the room too, such as the dinning room table and chairs which split in half from the strain with an almighty crack, before moving over to and up the walls.
The layers of crystal also reached the doors and seeped through gaps between, above, below and to the sides of the doors and into the main entrance hall as Skyler, the house keeper and two maids came rushing in shocked and bewildered at the sight.
"What's this!" Skyler called out in surprise as he watched the crystal spread.
"Molly's in there!" The housekeeper cried out as he realised, causing Skyler to snap out of his shock as he started to try and open the doors, only to find them stuck from the crystal now laying over the hinges. Beginning to ram against the doors, however, he managed to the break them open and stumble in.
what he and the others saw though made him freeze up as if he had been taken over by the crystal too as in front of them was Molly kneeling on the floor, surrounded by the same creatures who had taken Spencer, delight on her face as the slowly circled her.
"What are they?" The house keeper managed to ask.
"Those are the Unknown!" Skyler shouted out in horror just as the crystallisation forced them to jump back out of the room as it re-shut the doors, sealing them out.
Surrounded by the Unknown, unaware of any danger, Molly picked up her book, what had been left untouched by the crystal, and began to remember what her father had said about the creatures inside it. Turning to the page that showed Entei she also remembered how she had compared it to him, making her very upset again as she closed her eyes and imagined that she could hear his rough but friendly voice as she began to cry again, begging silently for him to come back from wherever he was.
High above the Unknown were still circling her, as a light at the centre of the spiral suddenly appeared as nearby the light that came with the crystallisation began to grow from the floor like smoke in the air as it took form whilst the mansion was swiftly beginning to be taken over by the crystallisation as room after room was covered followed by some of the outside structure such as one of the towers.
In the dinning room the form was taking shape, starting with paws which then grew into legs before a few moments later, the unknown stopped circling Molly and floated above her as a very real leg, covered in brown floor crunched down on the crystal floor.
"Are you the one who summoned me here?" A deep voice questioned, causing Molly turned to turn and look up to find herself facing a large lion like creature.
"Are you my .." She tried to speak, stunned as she stood up.
"I am Entei" The creature confirmed, causing Molly's face to light up.
"Dad its you, oh you look just like the Entei in the storybook but its you!" She cried before running forward and hugging one of Entei's leg.
"Dad?" Entei questioned looking down at the little girl with curious eyes. "If that is what you wish" It said as it softened and warmed towards her.
It was only only as the sun rose the next morning did the full extent of the disaster become clear as Skyler, the housekeeper and the staff, who had all been forced to flee, could only watch in horror from the front garden as the rest of the mansion disappeared beneath crystallised layers. The truth was that the mansion no longer looked anything like it had done before as gone were the regal architecture and towers as in it's place stood a mass of crystal layers and points, with no visible way in or out.
"What do we do, Molly's still in there!" Cried the housekeeper. Skyler, however, could only shake his head.
"I don't know, but I know someone who might be able help" He replied. Knowing the sooner he sent the message the better.