The Coffin

Deep within an archeological ruins in Egypt, 2 men and a woman could be seen walking through a cave which had carvings on its surface.

"How long is it going to take them to get here, we can't go any further, who knows how many more traps until we get to the end, we dont even know if the treasure is real, how many of us have to die to get there" The first man said with anger.

"No one is keeping you here, you can go if you want" The woman said with a smirk as she observed the carvings on the wall.

"How old do you think this place is?, it looks so well kept" The second man said with a look of wonder.

"Even with my years of experience, i am unable to accurately guess the age which shows how precious this place is, why would someone go so far as to keep this place so neat if not to hide something precious" The woman said with slight greed in her eyes.

"What do the carvings say?" The first man asked with unwillingness.

"Its good that you have accepted your fate, from what I have read so far, i was able to roughly decipher it, the language is very old which tells us that this cave is so much oldwr rhan it looks, the carvings tell a strange story about a powerful being that once roamed the universe, it says that the being was so powerful that it could destroy planets with a wave of its hand, it made this a game, it would find a planet and release nightmares on it them watch as the inhabitants suffered as a form of entertainment but after many years, it was imprisoned and sealed into a tomb by a God, the rest is in an unknown language" The woman said in a melancholic voice.

"Well, I guess that's the advantage of knowing 50 ancient languages" The second man said said with a grin.

"Do you think this is the tomb of that being?" The first man asked with slight fear.

"Don't tell me you believe this crap, wow Derek you are unbelievable" The second man said with mockery and by now they had come upon a large crevice which housed a pool and at the bottom of the pool, there was a casket.

"Is that the treasure, a freaking casket, our friends died because of a casket" The first man called Derek said in anger.

"This.." The second man also couldn't say anything as he stared at the casket.

"This isnt just any casket, watch carefully" The woman said with a smile as she picked up a pebble and threw it into the pool and immediately it touched the pool, it released a sizzeling sound as it melted.

"Gulp, its acid" The second man said with fear.

"That's not the point, the casket is in the acid but doesn't show any reaction, who knows how long it has been in there, the casket is definitely made up of a unique material" Derek said with amazement.

"Yeah, I knew that" The second man said.

"How do we get the coffin out of the acid pool?" Derek asked with a thoughtful expression as he moved closer to the pool to observe.

"Well, why don't you just fetch" The second man said with a evil smile as he shoved Derek into the acid pool but as he did, he also tripped and fell into the pool.

"Oh, shit I am dying, somebody save me.." The second man shouted as he splashed the water in the blue pool around.

"You, you shoved me into the pool to die, I will kill you" Derek said in rage as he swan towards the second man who stared the water in surprise.

"Wait, why aren't we dead, isn't this acid, guess we were wrong" The second man said with relief.

"I have a bad feeling about this" The woman said with fear.

"That doesn't change the fact that you just tried to murder me" Derek said with hatred.

"I think you need to get out of the water" The woman said with an ugly expression.

"I am sorry for trying to kill you, I wasn't thinking straight, please forgive me" The second man said to derek with a sorry expression.

"Guys?" The woman shouted as she stared at the pool.

"Sorry isn't going to change anything, I am someone who always pay people back for what they do to me" Derek said with an evil smile as an evil thought crossed his mind.

"I think we should focus on getting the treasure first" The second man said with fear.

"Why don't I just kill you and take the treasure for myself" Derek said wickedly.

"GUYS!" The woman shouted when she saw that she was being ignored.

"What!" The two men answered uniformly as they stared at her.

" You need to get out of the pool, it just changed colour, I feel like something bad is about to happen" The woman said hurriedly as the two men stared at the pool which had suddenly turned blood red in colour.

"Oh shit, dammit i cant move" Derek said as he felt his body go limp.

"Me neither and the pool is starting is heat up, Hannah get us out" The second man also screamed as he felt his body go limp and the pool starting to heat up.

"I don't know what to do, what if I also fall into the pool, who is going to get the treasure out" The woman said with panic.

"Are you freaking kidding me right now, we are about to get cooked alive and you are thinking of treasure, what the hell!" Derek shouted in rage as veins bulged on his face.

"Oh shit, I am starting to sink, I don't want to die, I still haven't lived my life to the fullest, this isn't fair why isn't she the one in here" The second man said with anger as he and Derek started sinking until they could no longer be seen.

"Ronny?.., Derek?." The woman called Hannah said with fear as she inched closer to the pool.

"Arrg" Hannah shouted as she saw bones pop up on the surface of the pool signifying that the two men had both died.

[The sacrifice of a million souls complete]

"Who is that, show yourself, arrg my head" Hannah said with fear after hearing the voice but immediately after, her brain was suddenly struck by a huge wave of pain which caused her to lose consciousness.

Some hours later, the sound of footsteps could be heard and in the cave and seconds later, a team of highly trained soldiers appeared in the cave with the crevice.

"Doctor Hannah, are you alright?" The leader of the soldiers said as he walked over to the body of the woman.

"Where am i?" Doctor Hannah asked weakly as she sat up.

"I don't know you tell me, what happened to your partners" The leader asked as he helped her stand up.

"I don't know, arrg wait there was a crevice and a pool with a coffin" Doctor Hannah said with a scream of pain as the memories flodded in.

"What are you talking about?, there is no crevice or a pool only a coffin" The leader said.

"What?, that's impossible there was a crevice with a pool right here and this coffin was at the bottom, Derek and Tom tried to get it then the water turned blood red and devoured their flesh" Doctor Hannah said hurriedly in a rushed tone as she stared at the coffin behind her.

"What are you talking about, I think you must have hallucinated all that but the question is where are your teammates?" The leader asked.

"Dead....all..of them are dead...just fir a stupid coffin" Doctor Hannah said before bursting into tears.

"Okay its okay let's go, you are gonna be okay, take her and the coffin away" The leader said to the soldiers who immediately took her and the coffin away.

"What did you encounter that broke someone like you down" The leader said to himself as he looked around the cave and then also left the cave.

Outside the archeological ruins, there were several planes which were waiting for them and after all the soldiers boarded the planes, they immediately took off.

Several hours later, the planes landed in a large base surrounded by sand, the base was basically in the middle of nowhere.

"Take her to see the doctor and take the coffin to the lab" The leader issued some commands as they entered the heavily guarded base.

After entering the base, the leader went through a series of locked doors which required a high clearance to enter and found himself in a large room which was filled with luxurious furniteues and specially prepared food, in the middle of this huge room sat a middle aged man at a table fiddling with some objects.

"How was the trip?" The middle aged man asked the leader who gave a military salute before responding.

"We recovered a coffin but there was only one survivor who seems disoriented, she seems to have experienced something vicious enough that scared her to that extent" The leader answered.

"A coffin you say, I would very much like to see this coffin and as for the families of those who died, you know what to do" The middle aged man said as he stood up with his walking stick.

"Okay sir right this way" The leader said with a smile as he led the middle aged man through a series of doors until they arrived at a well furnished lab.

"Sir its very nice to see you again, how are the suppressants?" The head scientist who was a woman asked with a smile.

"They are working quite well but their effects are starting to wear off and if we don't find a cure soon then I am afraid that I maybe unsavable" The middle aged man said with a cough.

"Oh don't say that Mr Kurt, we are working as hard as we can to find a lead so don't lose hope" The head scientist said with a smile.

"As long as you are here I won't so how is the analysis going?" Mr Kurt the middle aged man asked.

"Well so far no weapon or substance has been able to cause a scratch on the coffin so it should have been made out of the same unique material as the other two items that we found, we are currently thinking of a way to open it" The head scientist said with a glance at the coffin which was being kept in a containment cell where some tests were being run on it.

"Okay well if you find anything then alert me immediately" Mr Kurt said then left.

"You didn't tell him" The leader of the soldiers said.

"I don't think we should until we are sure" The head scientist said.

"This is of utmost importance, it says clearly that we shouldn't open the coffin, pure danger lies within" The leader said with a serious expression.

"Relax, what could possibly be within this coffin that could have survived all this while, and besides we havent even figured out how to open it" The head scientist said with a smile.

"Still i have a bad feeling about this" The leader said.

"Relax, what are you so worked up about, there us nothing to be scared of" The head scientist said.

"Out of the 50 archeologists that went to the ruins, only 1 returned disoriented talking about strange occurances, dont you think that's even a little bit suspicious" The leader said.

"Well after all what's happened, you can say that strange is the new normal, i mean come on, aren't you even the least bit curious about what's in the coffin?" The head scientist replied.

"I am but I am more interested in staying safe" The leader said.

"He has been sick for 30 years, he only has a few months to live, he has been searching for 25 years, do you think that he will be willing to stop now?" The head scientist said with a sign.

"Dr, we found something" A scientist said from within the room as he handed a tablet over to the head scientist.

"What am I looking at here" The head scientist asked.

"This is the structural analysis we ran on the coffin and this is the structural analysis we ran on the other two items" The scientist said with a smoke.

"They are a match" The head scientist said with a smile.

"Yes it seems that the three items were made from the same indestructible material which means that unless we find a way of opening the coffin naturally, we can't do anything to it" The scientist said.

"Hmm, wait a minute, send the images to the big screen and zoom it on that location" The head scientist suddenly exclaimed.

"What is that?" The scientist asked.

"Looks like a hole" The leader said.

"Not just any hole, a keyhole" The head scientist said with a smile.

"Yes it looks like it but we don't have the key" The leader said.

"Actually we do, judging by the shape and size of the hole, I'd say it's safe to assume that the second item is the key to opening the coffin" The head scientist said with excitement.

"Wow that was fast" the leader said with surprise.

"Well what can I say, I am good at my job" The head scientist said with a grin as she made the robotic arm in the containment cell pick up the second item and place it in the keyhole.

"Hmm, I expected more of a dramatic s.." The head scientist said but was suddenly interrupted by an earthquake which lasted fr a few minutes before stopping.

"What the hell was that?" The leader said with shock.

"I don't know..holy shit" The head scientist said with shock.

"What's the prob...oh my.." The leader said with widened eyes as he stared at the containment cell which had a huge gaping hole in the center.

"What could have caused such a huge hole" The head scientist asked as she stared the huge hole.

"The coffin.. it's open" The leader said in horror.

"Which means whatever was inside is now out" The head scientist said with a grin.

"Why the hell aren't you alarmed, do you see the hole whatever was inside created, I told you we shouldn't have opened it, now look w..." The leader said with slight fear but was suddenly interrupted by an alarm sound which rang throughout the entire facility.

BEEP

BEEP

"What's going on" The leader asked.

"This is strange, It seems like our defense has been breached but that's impossible, our defense is one of the best in the world" The head scientist said with confusion.

"Put the whole facility on lockdown" The leader said.

"What, why should I do that?" The head scientist asked.

"Something escaped from that coffin, we released it and now we have to make sure it doesn't get out" The leader said.

"Yeah I still think you are thinking too f.." The head scientist said but was suddenly interrupted by a shout from one of the scientist in the room.

"What was that?" The head scientist asked.

"It's still here" The leader said as hr drew his gun.

WHOOSH

"Arrg" Another scientist shouted as he suddenly disappeared.

"It's too fast, attention to units, report to my location at once, we are under attack, i repeat we are under attack, the number of enemies is currently unknown, report here with weapons at once, Captain Hank out" The leader took out a communicator as he sent a message across the base.

WHOOSH

"Arrg, hel.." Anither unfortunate scientist also screamed as he was suddenly attacked.

"Everyone move to my location now, the enemy want to take us out one by one but if we are together, it will be harder for it to do that" The leader shouted after seeing another scientific being captured.

"Good now form a circle and if you see the slightest movement, alert me immediately" The leader said.

"Hahaha, how sweet of you to gather at one place now I don't need to take you down one by one" A cold eerie voice sounded in the room which sent chills down spines of all of them.

"Where is the voice coming from?" A soldier asked with fear.

"Everywhere" The leader said with fear.

"Holy shit, what the **** is that" A scientist asked with a trembling voice as it pointed at a humanoid figure crouching in the darkness.

"I can't move, arrg i can't fucking move" A scientist screamed with fear after realizing that he couldn't move.

"I can't also move, we are all going to die" Another scientist also screamed.

'Shit, what the hell is this, damn it, ****' The leader thought to himself as he stared at the creature which started to move towards them but then he suddenly heard the sound of heavy footsteps approaching.

"Captain, we are here, what the.." The leading soldier said with shock as he spotted the creature only a few meters away from the captain.

"Enemy spotted, open fire" The soldier shouted as he immediately aimed his gun at the creature and started firing which caused the others to follow suit.

"Arrg damn humans, always a nuisance" The creature said in its cold eerie voice as it scurried away into the darkness.

"I can move again" The captain said with relief.

"Spread out in groups and search the entire room, immediately you spot it call for backup" The captain immediately issued the order as he turned to the head scientist.

"Are you okay?" The captain asked with concern.

"Yes I think I am" The head scientist answered with a smile.

"Good I need you to focus on getting the lights back on and the rest of you need to leave now before you get hurt" The captain said to the head scientist then turned back to the other scientists who were escorted out by a group if soldiers.

"The creature makes use of the darkness to hide so if we can bring the lights back on, we may weaken it partially" The captain said with a smile as he explained his plan.

"That's a good plan but unfortunately I can only bring it back on for a few minutes before it lights out again because for some reason, the power supply has been destroyed so we can only use the backup generator which has also been damaged but can last for a few minutes.

"Shit, well i guess we are going to have to work with that" The captain said with a grin.

BANG

BANG

BANG

"Shoot it down, **** its attacking, its too fast" The captain suddenly heard the shouts of some soldiers.

"Everyone move to that location and provide support" The captain shouted.

"I have to go provide support, take this in case of anything" The captain said as he handed the head scientist a handgun.

"Pray I don't have to use this" The head scientist said as the captain left.

"It's dead?" The captain said with surprise as he arrived at the scene.

"Took down 10 men before it died, what the **** is this?" A soldier asked with fear as he stated at the creature.

"I don't know what it is but I know that it's dangerous as shit" The captain said.

"Captain Hank, I think you would want to see this" The head scientist's voice sounded.

"Be careful, it may not be dead yet, I will be right back" The captain said as he went towards the location of the head scientist.

"What is it?" The captain asked.

"Didn't you order for all soldiers to move to this location, why are these ones just walking around?" The head scientist asked.

"I dont think those are soldiers" The captain said.

[Backup generator will be turned on in 3, 2, 1]

"Then what are they?" The head scientist asked.

BEEP

"Those are zombies" The captain answered with horror as nobody noticed the eyes of the dead soldiers open suddenly.

[Switching Power]

"Shit arrg, something just bit me" The shout of a soldier suddenly appeared which was immediately followed by others as the lights went off.

"Shoot the dead soldiers, they are zombies" The captain suddenly shouted as he rushed towards the location where several gunshots could be heard as the light came back on.

"Captain, we have a problem, the body's gone" A soldier suddenly said as he stared at the previous location of the creature.

"Shit, Nancy" The captain said with realization as he stared at the location of the head scientist.

"Arrrg" The head scientist's voice suddenly sounded.

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