The Stranger From The Underground Part 1

[This story has no dialogue. Only notes that the main character reads through. It's based of a Minecraft story build I did before.]

I walked through the front gate of the white mansion. The villagers outside never dared to step into the garden of this place. They said something bad had happened. Something nobody talks about anymore. Now, nobody remembers why they don't enter. They just know they shouldn't

The only ones to enter the lands were the keepers who kept the land clean as a promise to the original owner. They knew I was curious and said that if I ever wanted to, I could check out the place while they were on vacation.

I didn't answer, couldn't with everybody watching.

The house looked normal, an elegant three level fountain right in the middle of the entrance. I didn't go forward to the door first. Instead, I went to the left. I wanted to explore the outside of the house before going inside.

To the left of the entrance was a garden, It looked wonderful. There was flowers I had never heard of before, in all the colors of the rainbow.

In the middle was a small pond with an artificial waterfall. Coral grew in the small pond. Mostly in the color of light pink but some were a dark blue or a vibrant red. Sea grass grew where coral was absent. Lily pads floated and illuminated the pond with it's faint light.

I had never seen some make glowing lily pads but even more curiously were the lanterns that worked underwater. It made no sense but this was why I was so curious.

As I looked to a dark blue flower near me, I noticed the bees that flew through the garden freely as if they owned this part of the garden.

I headed back to the fountain and this time went right. The path was arched by the trees around it. At the end of the path was a strange large cut tree stump. It was an unfamiliar dark wood that only grew in a certain region to the east.

Nobody planted these trees here, they wouldn't grow. Or so we thought but this tree had most definitely been grown in this area.

Looking at the odd decoration around the stump, I realized it was a shrine. So odd to make a shrine for a single tree stump. Even more odd was the sign on it.

'My first successfully grown dark wood tree.' The sign read.

I headed back to the fountain once again and looked up at the doors. Looking at the doors, I could guess from their color that they were made from the tree stump in the garden.

I opened the door to look inside and was surprised to see the inside. It was a house that had never gone under renovation but it looked like a fairly modern house. The walls of white and floors of birch. they looked as if they could be new.

I took of my shoes and walked to the empty doorway on the right. I was struck with surprise again as it was a modern living room. A couch, a television and even a light switch. A door near the couch, that I assume leads to outside.

I turned around and continued down the short hallway. A few steps more and I was in the kitchen and dining area. A covered slice of cake and a plate with bread and an apple were perfectly set up on the table. They definitely knew I would explore and left a few snacks for me to enjoy.

I didn't eat the food but instead walked to the kitchen. I knew electricity ran through the house but I still could hardly believe they had a running electric fridge. It wasn't a brand I knew about and had no logos or words to mark it. It almost seemed self made.

The counters were even weirder, perfectly made marble tops and rare jungle wood cabinets. A line of cabinets server as both a sitting area, like a kitchen island, and a separator for the dining area.

I looked over at the dark wood door near some of the cabinets and couldn't help but to think about what was outside of the these doors. They seemed to lead to the same place as the living room doors.

My curiosity grew and I opened the door. Outside was a fully functional pool right on the edge of the birch patio. I couldn't wrap my head around what I was seeing.

This house was made almost two centuries before pools had been invented. The house keepers only maintained the house, they had never done renovations. If they did, someone would surely notice.

I walked back inside bewildered by what I had seen. I took a deep breath and continued my wandering as I ate the apple from the plate.

I walked past the kitchen and ignored the stairs to my right. There was another small hallway to the left. Once again, there was dark wood doors.

I hesitated a bit unsure if I really wanted to know more. Each room just brought me more curiosity to the secrets of this house.

However, this was just a normal room. A laptop on the old oak desk and a basic oak closet with a matching dresser next to the bed. It was very simple compared to the other rooms. A bit weird as the short hallway outside the room actually separated the room into two spaces.

It was almost, disappointing in comparison to the other rooms.

I left the door and walked up to the stairs. A glass wall, like a pillar, was in-between the spiral stairs. I could hardly see through the glass as it was tinted a very dark black color.

Instead of heading to the basement, I wanted to check out upstairs. so I followed the birch steps to the second floor. The walls were practically made from glass except the four pillars in the corners.

Bookshelves made a pathway as fake leaves decorated above them and made a wall. Walking through the small pathway lead to a large open area that looked to be for studying. History books, literature and even ancient diaries were open across the table in the middle.

I looked at the ancient diary nearest me.

'Journal log, Day 157, I have no clue what the third dimension is but I do know that ever hero to ever cross the gate, has not come back. The tall monsters are dwindling in numbers. Every time we open an artificial portal, it closes. We need to find the true portal. One in these so called 'strongholds' and made of portal frames. It would be best if we could find the portal before the blazes run out and become extinct. We need the monster parts to continue opening the portal.'

I closed the book, frightened by what I had just read. In my ancient studies class of the dark ages, I read of the tall monsters. Another dimension that 'heroes' would travel to and come back with things that were out of this world. That was, until the heroes stopped appearing from nowhere.

I looked around and started for the door. Anything to get me away from the book. Outside, I saw a table with two chairs but I was more curious about the buzzing of bees that came from around the corner.

I looked around the corner at a vine covered structure. four pillars of wood, a roof and some bees sitting in the middle of everything. They buzzed around within the vines, not even cautious of my close range to the hive.

It had flowers, each a different species from the garden. Even I could tell this one had been carefully looked out for like the rest of the house.

I didn't want to disrupt their peace and headed back inside. I went to walk down the stairs this time. A chill as I walked past the study area but when I stood at the spot to walk downstairs, a sudden bad feeling washed over me.

I took the first step down, a slight cold wind passing by me. The walls turned from white to dark brick walls. Everything about this was telling me that this part of the house was holding a big part of the secrets of this mansion.

On the way down, a sign was on the wall of the stairs. Under it was a switch that I flipped on. A switch that turned on the electric lights in the walls.

'I know you want to see the secrets of this mansion. You'll learn if you go down but if you decide to go to far, you may be stuck in the secrets of this house. It's happened to a few curious keepers before.'

I took the sign in hand and continued on my way down. It was a surprisingly long stairway. When I got to the bottom, the dark stone floors were only halfway covered by carpet. Each carpet was a different color, and lead to a hallway.

I looked to my right, the glass wall had a screen on it. The screen read Containment area for Experiment number twenty two dash zero, #22-0. Status, escaped. Threat level, Severe.

I was at a loss for words, what did it mean threat level, severe? What kind of creature was Experiment number twenty two dash zero.

I moved on from the glass containment area and to the table in the middle of the room. On the table was three pieces of carpet one lime green, one Violet, and the last a pitch black. It was clear these carpets meant something.

I picked up the small piece of lime green carpet on the table, A book under was under it with a tree sapling on the cover. Under the Violet carpet was another book with a blue vine on the cover. Under the black carpet was another book with a picture of one of the tall monsters.

It's body was pitch black in the color of the night sky, its eyes a peculiar shade of purple. It was most certainly not anything you would see today. In a time when monsters had been hunted and eliminated to the point of near extinction.

I didn't pick up the books yet, Instead I walked to the shelf on the other side of the room. A sing on the book with three items I had never seen before. One looked to be an enclosed cage, another was a red looking box with a red slashes over it.

The last was a strange electronic box with a few lights blinking on the sides.

Next to the strange enclosed cage was a folder, almost like today's scientists folders.

A single piece of paper was inside.

'I've brought these up from my hometown, the underground city. These were items that I as a junior engineer was not allowed to access but had seen quiet a few times. I have no clue what they are but they will help me understand how to rebuild my city. The other three who survived the flooding lava, have said that they do not wish to return to that city any time soon.'

The letter ended and I looked up again at the odd objects.

There was nothing in history that talked about any underground civilization. No records of ruins told me that they were most certainly still around and hiding themselves and their technology as well. Maybe they were the reason we had technology today.

It would make sense with what I've seen in this house. With the Technology that they had probably gotten into. No government would be able to mess with them or force them to reveal themselves.

I looked back at the table and then at the oak wood double doors on the other side. I felt like, I shouldn't touch the books, or anything in this place... but I just had to know what was in here