What Lies Beyond

In the deepest parts of space with the slightest glint of a single star to be seen, with nothing but an icy celestial body and an absolute void of darkness. A space craft stood in place as the flow of weightless fuel leaked out it.

"Damn it, the fuselage has been fractured", said a voice in displeasure.

The voice was of a man spoke through an Extravehicular suit. Moving around with a companion of his, they surveyed a dent of three marks that seemed to have been made by the claw of an unfathomable beast.

The dent was a shallow bursting the fuselage of the craft leading to a leaking overflow of fuel from it.

"It seems like we won't be making it back any time soon, Larry", came a voice from the space craft.

"I guess so", replied Larry gloomily, "There won't be any reinforcement, as we are in The Void realm".

The Void realm, the realm of the unknown. It is vast and of darkness, filled with the mysteries of the untold. But it didn't get it's for that reason for it is the sacred world of the evils that lurk in the world, with savage beast owning it as their world .

"Seriously, this is not an exploration at all", said the other companion of Larry.

"This is hell, with those beast around", he added.

Not far from them a misty dark fog moved towards them like an embodiment of a being,

the mist enveloped the space craft growing nearer and faster than ever before, still in a conversation with is companion and trying their best to find a way to fix the fuselage they hadn't realized what was rushing towards them.

"That should work", said Larry after finding a suitable way to fix the problem at hand.

Turning his head back, Larry's companion saw an unwavering sight before him as he saw the mist rushing towards them but that wasn't what stunned him, but the way the mist moved warping around it self like a snapping mouth like that of a monster and with the many eyes it showed.

With the ought to save to their lives his companion called him in action.

"Larry, Larry, look", called his companion.

To see what was making his friend so agitated he turned his head as well to see the same horrifying mist, but something about it was completely different from before, it was as if there was something inside the misty fog as an object with many more were inside there. But it got denser as it got closer only to be as nothing but pitch black.

Seeing the monstrosity before them they had the urge to flee before they were caught up in a tight position, but it seemed that fate wasn't there for them as they were engulfed by the fog. To be exact they were devoured by the fog.

Larry watched as his friend got bitten crying out for help till his blood splurted out of his body in the flows of bubbles.

With a face of horror watching after his friend call out for help and staying there motionless of fear, all he could do was;

"Jaaaammmees", he shouted or screamed if it was so.

But it was to late he had already been devoured.

Though it wasn't a bit to deafening, James had surely heard the screaming to which

alerted him.

"Larry", he called back in a thunderous voice, but to no avail he got no response.

Checking to see if they were still connected though he felt something was amiss, he checked around to find that their life signals were down leading to the possibility that they were dead.

"What?..., they are dead", James was engulfed by pain and misery with emotions of all kinds patched up together.

"...., what?.... had they?.

Finding a bit of solace to his pain and the loss of his friends, realizing that they had managed to fix and patch up the dent in the space craft.

He restored the ship to it's former power, but then just as it was about to be restored a tank bursted open.

"Wha....t happened?, the ship's power is on low", said James looking dumbfounded by this unexpected scenario.

As he checked out of the window frame of the ship he saw that it has indeed bursted but it was as if something bursted it open, as he looked more closely he saw the mist starting to engulf the ship and out of it a moving black liquid followed as well.

Noticing this James stepped back slipping on to a cable falling down just so that the window frame started to fracture by bits.

Knowing something was going to happen, James hurried up to the control panel and using the last bit of segment the ship could muster up he called through a radio phone.

"Hello, He'llo....help it's me James Gresley", squeaked James in a terrified voice.

Like to save him from his distress his call for help was somewhat answered;

"Hello...., to who do we speak to?", came a voice from the radio speaker.

"Crack, Crack and Bang".

The sounds of a cracking window followed as a reply with a bang on top.

"Please, what is going on?", said the voice from the radio.

But with the window shattered, the black liquid and it's mist slippered in like glue followed with the Vacuum of space sucking up the air on the ship.

The radio called out once more hoping for a reply.

With the mist moving towards him and the lack of air on the ship being sucked into the emptiness of space, he mustered the world's he could only think of;

"Team# 235 of the investigation ttteea....m", in the loudest voice his lungs could carry and with that concluded his eyes went blank.

"Team# 235 of the investigation team", said the voice from the radio.

To receive a reply for that what was given was a chomping noise of a food being gulped down.

Blood splattered on the ground of the ship with the lifeless body of James, above all of this the fog grew stronger and larger than before but with the object inside moving out of the fog to be seen as a humongous ship of a life form with small other prism looking crafts by it's side.

The ship hovered a above James ship moving out of the misty black fog, with it's look excrescence in it's appearance showing the danger that lies on it and continued to advance across the interval expanse of the Void.

*******

Across the boundless parts of space were the countless of stars shimmer in the distance. The sight of a majestic tower with rings that encircle it and a core of radiant blue in it's middle.

Space crafts of different sizes and looks zoomed around the tower with some going in and out displaying how important this place as a foothold was.

Towards the top of the tower in one of it's highest floors was a buzzing amount of noise with people moving around everywhere some on their computers working on something and others carrying out something else, all were just so busy with different assignments to do.

"Sir, Sir please wait", said the voice of a girl passing by the corridor full of people with piles of handwork papers in her hands.

She tried to avoid those coming in her way while others just observed her from a corner watching her as she tried to get to the person she was after.

As she got closer to the person, the person voluntarily stopped to look at her. Turning his head gave the atmosphere a strange feeling as ladies who were there were totally captivated them in a trance with his gorgeous and handsome appearance. His deep green eyes and his straight blonde hair they were surely a part of his beauty.

She was now right in front of him though a little short on height she stood tall and firm.

"What do you want, Isabelle?", said the tall yet handsome face in a manner almost strict.

"Sorry Mister Dan, but I have a report to make", said Isabelle unfazed and bothered by his tone.

"Well then come in", he said showing a gesture of welcome to his office.

Entering it he sat down on his chair like a majestic king only that his leg was was on the other crosslegged.

Looking at him, Isabelle thought,

'He is indeed something',

it would naturally make sense that he can captivate the ladies with his calm yet strict voice even the men's were but only in admiration. Still thinking in her own thoughts she was instantly snapped from it.

Snapping her back to reality Sir Dan asked her for the report and so she gave him the report.

"Sir one of my colleagues in the S.C.A (The Security Communication Agency) got a report on one of our exploration teams Team# 235, who were asked to investigate some planets in The Void and get some specimens that they had found", said Isabelle detailing it down only to be cut off midway in the middle of the sentence by Sir Dan.

"So were they able to?", asked Sir Dan cutting Isabelle in midway conversation, "and sorry for cutting you there", he apologized.

Though slightly offended she took his apology and replied with a no stating that they didn't even come back but called over due to some reasons.

"My colleague was the one to be contacted firstly, and they sounded rather off than usual, instigating that something was amiss, Sir", replied Isabelle.

It Indeed was strange as they were pretty much close to the exit of The Void that lead to the outside parts of space.

"Indeed that's odd, I guess we will have to go to the seminar after all", said Sir Dan but he also seemed to have been lost in his own thoughts at which Isabelle could only fabricate of.

Being curious in her own way she could only ask to know what he meant;

"If you don't mind Sir, would you perhaps explain to me what you mean?", she asked in an obviously deceiving tone of speaking.

To make himself more clear to her he told her that there would be a seminar in the C.H.U (The Conference Hall of Units) a presentation was going to be held there by a famous scientist and researcher Dr Scott Adams.

Hearing the name she instantly felt excited as to see the famous Dr Scott Adams presentation before her very eyes.

Exiting the room with Isabelle running to catch up to his pace with some work loads still in her hands but diminished to a little, they entered the hall to see many others as well there to see the presentation though they were not as much as those outside as only the higher-ups and those with high status in the tower could attend.

With everyone in their it was as though to quite them down the lights were turned off with only the one on the podium ium to be seen by everyone.

A man who seemed to be in his 40s came up the podium with his gray white hair that also made his hair and his blue eyes that looked as if they could see into anyone's soul looking stern as his appearance was.

[Croaks, Croaks].

The sound of him clearing his throat before his speech began sounded through the microphone.

"Thank you everyone for being here today for this seminar, i Dr Scott Adams here today will be hosting this", said Dr Scott's has he spoke through the microphone,"Today's seminar is a project that I and my team have been working on and his about all the information we have gathered over the years by, so I hope it helps you in any way".

And with that the presentation began.