"Are you sure about this?" A twenty five year old Mark Hawkins asked.
"You worry too much Marcus" Anna Tellos snapped as she watched a group of soldiers setting changers against a large stone door.
"Chargers set Colonel," One of the soldiers announced.
"Good, Everyone stand clear" Anna ordered.
Everyone quickly moved away and Anna gave the order to detonate, the room was filled with a cloud of dust, which once cleared reviled a large hole in the door.
"Let's see what's inside shall we Marcus" Anna said as she headed though the hole.
Mark turned to the soldiers.
"Don't touch anything," He told the soldiers as they followed Anna.
Mark and the soldiers then found themselves in a large room with what looked like a sarcophagus in the centre, that had a figure with the head of a jackal caved into the lid.
"I can't believe we've finally found it" Anna Contined as looked at the sarcophagus,
But before mark could answer her a shudder of fear ran through his body.
"There's something wrong here can't you feel it" Mark told her.
"You're letting your imagination run away with you" Anna replied coldly.
Anna then walked up to the sarcophagus.
"At last the final resting place of Anubus" She said as she reached out to touch it.
"I wouldn't do that if I was you" Mark warned.
"And why not" She demanded as she turned to him.
"Because there's something wrong with this place" Mark answered.
"Don't tell me you getting superstitious, this isn't just any tomb, it the tomb of an
Ossian once one of the most advanced civilisation to ever exist, think of the secrets
We'll discoverer the advance technology that's hidden here," Anna added.
"We don't know what were dealing with, this isn't just a tomb" Mark told her.
Just then they heard a noise and both turned towards it.
"Whose there, show your self" Anna yelled as she pulled a gun.
A small boy then came out of the darkness.
"Sanjay?" Mark said.
"What are you doing here?" Anna demanded.
Sanjay's lowered his head and looked at the floor.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to see what was down here" Sanjay sounding scared.
"Well you should have stayed at the house like you were told to" Anna told him sounding annoyed.
Sanjay looked up.
"But you always tell me that, I'm sick of having to stay behind" Sanjay continued.
"Go back to the house Sanjay before I get really mad" Anna snapped as she walked towards him.
Sanjay now looked angry.
"Why do you always treat me like a kid, I'm not a kid I'm twelve" Sanjay shot back.
Anna and everyone else began to laugh apart from Mark.
"In that case why don't you come here and open this sarcophagus, show us all how brave you really are," Anna added.
"I think we should leave it alone, I can feel it too something's wrong here something evil" Sanjay told her.
"You think I'm stupid enough to believe in cursers" Anna spat as she walked towards then sarcophagus.
"No don't" Sanjay yelled.
But it was too late Anna had already grabbed the lip of the sarcophagus, and tried to
Push it open; suddenly the whole room began to shake.
"There really is a curse" One of the soldiers yelled as he ran out of the room followed by several others.
"Come back you cowards" Anna shouted after them.
"Look" Sanjay yelled.
Anna looked up and could see two stone gargoyles were coming to life above them.
"What the hell are they" Anna demanded.
"I'm guessing they're the tomb guards," Mark answered.
The gargoyles transformed into black wing creatures, and they both filled the air with
A terrifying scream.
"We need to get out of here," Mark continued.
But before they could move the creatures swooped down towards them.
"Get down" mark yelled as he grabbed Anna and pulled her to the ground.
The remaining soldiers began to fire in all directions; Sanjay was now huddled in the
Corner holding his hands over his ears screaming.
"I need to get to Sanjay" Mark told Anna.
But the creatures were too fast and as he tried to get over to his adopted son one of the creatures knocked mark to the ground.
"No" Sanjay yelled.
Sanjay then watched in horror as one by one the remaining soldiers fell, until one of the creatures flew towards him.
"Run Sanjay" Mark shouted.
But it was too late the creature grabbed the boy and slammed him into a wall, the creature then threw back his head and bit into Sanjay's shoulder
Sanjay screamed in pain, but the creature's head exploded.
"Get the hell away from my boy" mark spat as he kicked the remains of the creature away from Sanjay.
The twelve year old then slumped against the wall, as blood ran down his arm.
"Sanjay" Mark said as he went over to him.
"Behind you" Sanjay yelled.
Mark turned to see the other creature changing at him; mark was once again knocked to the ground, sending his guns skidding across the floor.
"It's coming back around" Sanjay shouted.
Mark looked up and saw the creature coming in for the kill, Suddenly a laser blast stuck the creature cutting it in half, mark turned to see Anna holding one of his guns.
"Thanks" Mark told her.
"Call it even" Anna said with a small smile.
She then helped him up and the both ran over to Sanjay.
"This looks pretty bad," Anna said.
"I'm ok, it's not as bad as it looks" Sanjay told her as he fought back the tears.
His shoulder hurt like hell but he was determined not to cry in front of Anna.
"We better get him to the hospital" Anna added.
Mark nodded and picked Sanjay up and left the room with Anna close behind.
Later that night Anna was sat outside in the hospital grounds, as the doctors had decided to keep Sanjay in overnight when a man approached her.
"Greetings Miss Anna" the man said.
"How do you know my name" Anna asked in surprise.
"I know everything there is to know about you, I've been watching you for sometime" The man answered.
"Who are you" Anna demanded.
"Someone who can help you achieve great things" The man told her.
The man then handed her a folder marked.
M, O, D,
TOP SECRET
FILES.
Anna opened to folder and gasped.
"The Behemoth project then your…" Anna began.
"Now you know who I am," The man said.
"Mr Eldritch" Anna added.
"You" Sanjay voice hissed snapping Anna out of her thoughts.
"Hello Sanjay" Anna replied.
"What are you doing in here Anna?" Sarah Jane demanded.
"Believe it or not I'm a prisoner too," Anna explained.
"Well I don't believe it" Sanjay snapped.
"It's true she's as much a prisoner as we are," the doctor said.
"How?" Clyde asked.
"Eldritch betrayed me," Anna answered.
"What about you men" Rani asked.
"There under his control now," Anna told them.
"Let me guess he's using implants like the brigadier" Luke said.
Anna simply nodded.
"But why does Eldritch need the brigadier" Maria asked.
"Because the brain core of the behemoth is now in the black archive and only the brigadier himself has clearance to open that room" She added.
Not too far away a UNIT soldier stood guarding the entrance to the black archive, when a car pulled up and the brigadier stepped from the car.
"Open the gate corporal" the brigadier told him.
"Sir?" The soldier questioned.
"There's an item I need at once," The brigadier continued.
"I'm sorry sir but I'll need to clear this with the chef of staff" The corporal explained.
"Then I'm sorry too," The brigadier said as knocked the corporal out.
A black van then appeared and the brigadier opened the gate to let them through, the van then stopped and a group of black ops soldiers came out of it.
The brigadier then joined them and headed to one of the doors where the brigadier entered a key code on the door to open it.
"Now let's get what we came for" he said to the soldiers as the entered the building.
The UNIT soldiers guarding the black archive were taken completely by surprise, and soon the brigadier and Eldritch's men were deep in the vaults of the archive, where the brigadier came to a door.
The brigadier placed his thumb against the door lock and a keypad appeared, he then entered a code and screen then appeared next to the door.
"Please identify for retainer scan," A voice asked.
"Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart" he said as he looked into the scanner.
"Retina scan approved" The voice answered as the door swung open.
The brigadier and Eldritch's men headed inside where in the centre of the room was a large box the size of a wide screen TV with a crystal inside.
"Gentlemen" The brigadier said as he nodded towards the box.
4 of the men then grabbed the box and carried it out of the room.
"Sarge" A Unit soldier yelled as he ran up to sergeant James leftbriage Stuart.
"What is it" James asked.
"We've lost contact with the black arrive" the soldier reported.
"So that's what there after" James said.
Just then a UNIT land rover arrived with Mark Harkins Sky and Leo inside.
"I was starting to get worried" James said as he went over to them.
"You have good reason too," Mark told him.
"Sarah Jane and the others?" James asked.
Mark shook his head.
"They've been taken, only Sky got away" Mark replied.
"We have to rescue them," Sky told James.
"We will but first we have to find them" James explained.
"Maybe I can help you there" Leo added.
Mark turned to him.
"You know where they are don't you" Mark said.
"They've been right under your nose the whole time" Leo told them.
"There's another base under oxford," James said.
"Yes and Mr Eldritch has built a new Behemoth after the original was destroyed, Now he just needs the original brain core" Leo Contined.
"A brain core they may already have" James added.
To Be Continued.