Ch 2
Later that afternoon.
"Jimmy, I'm going to let Logan know we came in."
"Okay. We will be right behind you."
Buck rides off fast to get the men ready. He looks for Logan but he is nowhere to be seen.
"Where is that boy?" He says as he dismounts and opens the gate to the pasture. Several of the ranch hands come riding up to help Buck.
"Where the hell is logan?" Buck asked.
"We haven't seen him. He left to go into town and never returned."
Jimmy and the herd are fast approaching. They get all the cattle through the gate and close it. Buck mounts up to find Jimmy.
"Jimmy, the men say Logan when to town and never came back."
"What the hell you mean they can't find Logan? We need to go to the house and ask Rachel and Lou. See what's going on."
They ride over and find Rachel on the porch with Ashley.
"Y'all seen Logan?" Jimmy asked.
Rachel stands up and walks to the edge of the porch.
"Lou wanted to go see the Brunson land when Logan got back but that was hours ago. They should have been back by now."
Jimmy gets a sick feeling in his stomach
"Let's get a couple guys together and go find out what the hell is going on." He tells Buck.
They get saddled up and head out the front gate just as Lou comes running down the road. She was covered in dirt. Jimmy jumps off his horse and runs to her.
"Are you okay what happened to you? Why are you bleeding? Where's your horse?Where's Logan?" Lou was crying.
"I can't find him Jimmy! I can't find him anywhere. I fell in a hole in the barn and when I came to, I climbed out. There was a rope in the hole. It was pitch black down there. I was so scared. The horses were gone. I can't find Logan, Jimmy." Lou says as she wipes blood from her forehead. "Jimmy, we went to look at the land. Something ain't right over there."
Jimmy pulls her in a tight hug reassuring her that things will be okay. Jimmy and Buck ride back to the house. They get Lou inside and get some lanterns and rope. Jimmy and Buck get five more men and ride out to the Brunson land to find what the hell is going on.
As they walk into the first barn, they find evidence of a slaughter. There was blood everywhere. There are saws hanging on the wall covered in blood and hair but there was nobody, there was nothing but blood. Jimmy and Buck walk in closer and have a look. As the men follow them, they notice the floor giving under their weight.
"Buck, there's nothing down there man. These boards are over air. Look the blood is running through the boards."
"Boss, we got to get the hell out of here. There's demons that live in the dirt in this place. This is scaring the hell out of me. I heard rumors about horrible things going on at this place. People say they can hear screams in the night. We need to leave."
"We ain't going anywhere without Logan!" Jimmy screams. "I'll fucking kill the first one of you's sumbitches that turn yellow and haul ass!. Let's go to the other barn." They walk over to the hole.
"This must be it Jimmy." Buck says looking down in the hole.
"Light up the lanterns and get the ropes out. We're going in." Jimmy orders. They slide down the ropes one by one.
"Bill, you stay here an stand guard kill. Anything that's come out this hole, boy, you hear."
" Yes sir."
Five men in enter the hole.
"Keep your eyes open boys. Who knows what the fuck is down here." Jimmy says.
Their eyes adjust best they could in the dark. The lanterns didn't provide much light. They could only see about six feet in front of them.
"Logan!" Jimmy yells as his voice echoes in the distance. "Buck, what the hell is this place?" Jimmy says holding the lantern out in front of him. "This room is bigger than the barn we walked in." They spread out and walked side by side.
"What the hell is that smell?" one of the men asked.
"It's the smell of death." Buck said. They walk forward looking for a sign that Logan was here.
"Jimmy, look at this. I got tracks over here. Look how long the print is. That's not human."
"There's a set over here too." a man says looking down at the muddy dirt.
"Someone is down here." Jimmy says.
"Logan! Can you hear me?!" Buck's voice echoes in the dark.
"Jimmy, this ain't right man. I'm telling you we going to die down here."
"Shut up damnit. Don't say that stupid shit." Jimmy yells out with anger.
Jimmy hears Two Wolves words in his head. Be brave never back down. They walk further in the blackness.
"Look. It's Logan's colt. This ain't good." Buck says. "Look. Something was dragged. There's three sets of tracks. They must of got him." Buck says as he looks at Jimmy.
"Who?" A man asked. "Who got him?" They follow the drag marks until they just stop. There was only long foot prints in the dirt. Soon they came to a split where there was two tunnels.
"The smell is getting worse." Jimmy says.
"What you want to do?" Buck asked Jimmy.
"Let's split up. Buck, you're with me. You three take the left. We are taking the right."
They slip up and continue to walk in the darkness. The corridor seems to be narrowing as they go forward.
"Jimmy, I don't know what kind of place this is but I feel some evilness around us."
They find bones on the ground as they walk deeper into the unknown. They come to another split.
"Man damnit! Where could he be?" Jimmy says.
"Who made this tunnel system?" Buck asked. "This ain't right man. Let's go to the right." They walk side by side. Time seemed to stand still in the darkness.
"Look Jimmy. It's a door way." They hold the light up to find a large room. They step forward in disbelief of what their eyes were seeing. There were graves dug into the wall of the room. Each grave was occupied with the remains of human skeletons. In each hole, long bones made up the skeletons.
"Look at the hands, Buck!" Jimmy says. "There's only three fingers, look at the feet."
"Jimmy, have you ever seen a skull shaped like that?"
"No." Jimmy barely whispers as they back out of the room and head down the dark corridor.
"The ceiling seems to be getting higher." Buck says to Jimmy.
They can barely walk shoulder-to-shoulder anymore.
"Look, there's another room." Jimmy says to Buck as they enter the room to find graves dug in the walls again.
"There must be twenty graves in here. That ain't human bones, Jimmy. I don't know what that is but it ain't human." Buck says.
Jimmy turns to Buck. "We need to find Logan and get the fuck out of this place man." They walk out the room and hear gun fire and screaming.
"What the fuck is that?"Jimmy says in a panic.
"That must be the men! Something has them! Jimmy let's move!" Buck yells as he starts walking faster down the hall.
They pass two more rooms stopping only long enough to glance inside to see the same thing. They walk quite a ways in the darkness before they find a dead end with a room to left.
"Jimmy, that's human skeletons."
"There must be dozens of them." Jimmy says.
"Look how they're all piled up on the floor. No graves in the walls. The bones are all separated. These bodies were chopped up man."
The skulls were in one pile, leg bones and arm bones separated in other piles. Ribs, backbone, and hips were all separated in another pile.
"Jimmy, we need to get out of here." Buck states. "There's a door in the back of the room."
They pass through it to a narrow path about seven foot high and barely wide enough to walk through. They find a small opening off the floor about four feet. Buck holds his light up and glares into the darkness.
"Oh my God. Jimmy, it's full of clothes."
Jimmy pushes Buck to walk past the room. They hurry further down the hall and find a silver metal door. They can't find a handle. They stop and have a look.
"What the hell is that?" Jimmy asked Buck.
"I never seen a door like this. Why is it so smooth. A blacksmith can't make nothing like this. Let's go."
They walk pass the door down the cold corridor. They find a second silver metal door. They stand in front of it. Buck puts his hand on the door. It slides open releasing a small burst of air in their face. They jump back from fear of what might be on the other side. The room was lit up. It was the same silver metal as a dog is made from.
"Fuck. Jimmy, it's a person." Buck says squinting his eyes from the bright light.
Jimmy looks and sees a man laying naked on a metal table. He's under a light but they don't see a light source.
"It's coming from the ceiling. What is that?" They step in the room uncertain of their surroundings.
"Look at his body." Buck says with this look of terror on his face.
The man's body had been cut open and cleaned out. There were no traces of his insides from his chest all the way down. There was a green film in his body where his guts should have been. Jimmy backs up from the body against the wall. A door slides open to his left. It led into a large round room that was lined with lights shining in small spaces in the walls.
"Buck, there are people in them holes."
They walk over and look close at bodies. They were all naked. Almost blue looking, their eyes were wide open just laying there staring into oblivion. They were breathing slowly. They had black tubes going in their noses. There were tubes coming from under the body's. The place smells like urine. The door they walked into sealed shut, trapping them in the tomb of undead. They ran over trying to open it, desperately trying to escape but it would not open.
"What are we going to do?" Buck asked Jimmy in a panic. They claw at the wall. They never seen a place like this.
"We're trapped Jimmy!" Buck screams.
Jimmy grabs Buck. "Calm down! We are getting out of here man! Somehow, some way."
The light flashes twice bringing both of them to silence. They hear a tink, tink sound. There's nowhere to go. They hide behind the table in the center of the room. A door slides open on the other side. They hear a humming. A low vibration feels the room. One of the body's lifts up from its resting place and floats over the table. The tubes pull lose spilling a pink slime on the wall and floor. Jimmy looked around the corner of the table in time to see a tall dark brown skinned unhuman like creature standing in the doorway. Jimmy jerks his head around and looks forward as the door slides shut.
"Jimmy, what was that?"
Jimmy did not say a word.
"Jimmy, talk to me man. Did you see anything?"
Jimmy looks at Buck. "Remember the long skeletons we found?"
"Yeah."
"That one had skin on it. The eyes were blared open. It's eyes were black, solid black. It had demon eyes. They were huge." They go to the wall looking for a door. The wall was soft like cold skin. Buck slid his hand up the wall over his head the door pops open.
"That ain't the way we came in. That's not it man." Buck says sure of himself. The door had opened to a long metal walk way.
"Shit, Buck. We can't stay here man."
They walk down the corridor. There were rooms with window like openings in them. The rooms had tables in them. The first few were empty. They came to a room with a woman laying naked on a table. She was not moving. She was looking straight at this light hanging a few feet over her face. Her arms were straight out and her legs were spread a part. Jimmy and Buck jump back away from the window. They saw two of the creatures walking to the table. They eased back up to look in at what was happening in the room. They walk over to the woman. Their faces were without emotion. The light bar flew from her head to her feet five or six times. The creatures were not making a sound. They would just look at each other and back at the woman. One of the creatures held his hand up. The end of it's finger began to glow a blue denim light. The woman's body floated from the table. It held her there in place as the other one held a black rod over her stomach. A long needle slides out of the rod. The creature injects the needle into her body. The woman did not move.
"What the fuck are they doing, Jimmy?"
"I don't know Buck."
They stand there watching as if they're waiting on something to happen. They put three more needles in the woman's abdomen before a large clear tube lowers from above. The same creature takes hold of the tube and forces it inside the woman's body from down below. Jimmy and Buck watch as the woman's body is sucked flat only her skin and bones were left on the table. The lights flash in the corridor.
"We need to move, Jimmy." Buck says.
A door slides open at the end of the hall. A creature walked in the hall and out just as fast the doors slid shut. Jimmy and Buck make their way past the rest of the rooms and to the end of the metal corridor.
"There has to be a way out of here." Buck said.
Jimmy slides his hands down the wall frantically searching for a way to open a door.
"Buck! Look! There's dirt on the floor. It must have been outside."
The door on the right slides open and they step out in a room made of dirt. There was light from crystal like rocks on the floor. They follow the path to a large metal room. The door was open to this room. They walk in to find rows of tables with bodies on them. They had hoses coming from their arms. They were naked.
"Jimmy, there's people every where man."
"Let's see if Logan is in here." Jimmy says walking past the naked bodies.
"I feel bad for them. What's going to happen to them? Look, Jimmy, there's Logan!" Buck yells out.
Jimmy runs over to see Logan laying there lifeless, naked on the table.
"Oh God! What have they done to him Buck?"
"Look, there's clothes in a pile over there. I'll get something to cover him up." Buck says running over to the pile.
"He's still breathing. Let's get him an get the hell out of here." Jimmy says trying to wake him but he was out of it.
They pick him up and hurry to the door leading out of the room. Just before they walk out the door, Jimmy falls to the floor pulling Buck down with him. A tall creature walked through the doorway. One of the men that entered the barn with them was floating in the air behind it. His eyes were open but he did not move them. His eyes were staring forward as he flew through the air. It slinked it's way over to the table. It waved it's hand over the table one time as the man's body floated over the top of a table. The creature grunted and snorted pig like sounds. It walked past Jimmy and Buck like they were not even laying there. Soon as it had made its way out, they jumped up and walked the opposite direction it went. The floor of the path started getting softer as water dripped down on them the further they went.
"Maybe this is the way out." Jimmy says.
"I don't know but it's away from them monsters. Let's keep going." They walk as fast as they can. They walk for what seemed like hours and hours.
"Jimmy, I see light man. That's day light." Buck yells out.
They walk faster. They come to the end of the tunnel.
"It's day light, Jimmy! It's day light man!"
They push the rocks back and crawl out of the hole dragging Logan with them. Their eyes hurt from the light.
"Where are we, Jimmy?"
"I don't know. Let's fill the hole back in and get the hell out of here."