Chapter 36- The Opening.
We arrived at the island minutes after it showed. Multiple boats landed on the island.
On one boat it seemed there were prisoners. I looked farther and saw my parents staring at us.
"Mom, Dad…" I murmured. "Mom! Dad!" I yelled.
"Kendra! Seth!" They yelled. The Society of the Evening Star wouldn't let them go even to stand next to us.
We walked and walked until we reached a big ditch. There was a giant metal platform preventing it from being an actual ditch.
I can only picture how deep it is… I thought to myself.
The Sphinx laughed so hard with joy it looked like he was about to faint. "Finally." He said in a desperate voice. "The Keys To The Demon Prison are finally… all five artifacts in my possession…" He scrambled his words. The Sphinx walked over to the middle of the platform. "Artifacts." He snapped his fingers.
An Asian woman walked over to the Sphinx holding the Sands of Sanctity. An Indian man walked to him holding the Chronometer. The buff guy that was sitting next to Sam walked to him holding the Oculus. A'isha walked to him holding the Translocator. And an American man walked to him holding the Immobilizer.
The Sphinx reached for the Sands of Sanctity and placed it on the platform, in the top right corner; when he set it down there, it shined, incredibly bright, light was filtering from the inside of it. He took the Chronometer and set it in the top left corner; same thing happened to it. He reached for the Oculus—which was on a pillow—and set it on the bottom left corner, but instead of just setting it on it, he rolled the Oculus off the pillow, and it rolled in place; also shining. He reached for the Translocator and set it in the bottom right, and it also shined. He reached for the Immobilizer.
"No! You can't do this! You think they'll listen to you? They aren't our friends! They'll kill us all!" I yelled. I tried to charge, but one of the Society of the Evening Star people held me back. They pushed me behind them and I landed in Sam's arms. Verl looked at us and looked down. A tear fell from his left eye.
I looked up to see the Sphinx setting the last artifact in the middle. It shone and shone. The others got too bright to look at, and the Sphinx hurried off the platform. They all backed up, and stood next to us.
The next thing I see is the artifacts floating in the air, higher and higher, until they were at least fifteen feet in the air. They started spinning around, getting closer and closer, until they attached, and spun uncontrollably, so much the human eye couldn't follow their motions.
The island shook, voices of ecstasy screamed in victory, and the platform split in half. They slid into the ground, and when they did, light of darkness—black light—came through the crack, and the sun went down. The world stopped from the sudden darkness. If we were in space, and looked down to the Earth, you'd only see red and black.
The sky wasn't just a black. It was red black. Red black as in the entire sky was a shaded red, with multiple black clouds.
In seconds, monsters spilled from the hole, one by one, and would generate destruction amongst the world us humans have created.