Emissary of the Unknown Dimension (short-story)

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Max spends the whole night watching the night sky through his home telescope. For him, as for his son Mike, this is something of a routine, almost always after a great week of field work they used to go upstream, like this until they reach the highest part of the mountain, just where the river was born , there they ends their night camping, observing and enjoying the wonders of the forest. However tonight they would witness an anomaly that would totally change the course of their lives.

The moon was at its highest point, when a very intense light blinds Max's left eye for a moment, but he quickly replenished, and tries to focus his right eye on the light that passes through his telescope. This time Max pays all the attention on his viewpoint, so much so that he manages to see that beyond that flash is the silhouette of what appears to be a giant bird flapping, the more he looks the bigger the silhouette became, until in a point it completely eclipses the entire beam of light. Then that great beast is posing just a couple of meters from his telescope. Mike before such colossal beast, drops all the lenses that carefully took hours cleaning and then he pushes himself with great speed on his father who had not yet seen the creepy creature that has in front, they fall into the river. Its wings and nails are giant, as if it were a dragon, its skin has a grayish appearance with multiple protuberances that juts all over its body, this gave it a rocky look, its eyes were red like the same blood, everything indicated that it was about a mythological beast that at ancient times they called Gargoyles.

Being dragged a couple of meters by the current of the river, Max quickly takes the hand of his son, who is unconscious, because he had hit his head hard with a falling rock.

When he reach the shore. Max tries hard to make Mike wakes up, after several attempts, he finally manages to wake up.

"Mike, are you okay? How do you feel? "

"Yes father, I'm fine, my head hurts a bit and you? What is that thing we just saw?"

"Son, I don’t really know. At first I thought it was just a little garbage in the lens of the telescope, but after you threw me into the river, I could see in detail such an animal. If it were not for your quick reaction, surely it would have attacked me."

"Father, don’t you know where the hell it went?"

"No, my son, I lost the trail. However, we have to go home, whatever it may be, what I know is that thing is not work of God"

While Max helps lift Mike, behind him a shadow falls that completely obscures the moonlight. The gargoyle rushes with great speed on Mike, Max to realize the attack manages to react to such speed giving a boost to his son, however that colossal animal manages to touch with one of his nails Mike's left arm, cutting part of his arm.

"Faaatheer, run away!" Mike said before falling off a cliff.

Max was now with his son at great risk. The situation had changed abruptly from being a routine game to becoming a survival scenario. Now they are being chased by something totally unknown to them.

Max slips through the cliff. He checks his pockets and finds that he only has his old kitchen knife. He knows there is so little he could do in the face of imminent threat. But if he wants to survive with his son, he has to face it.

Quickly when he get to where his child is, Max applies first aid, preventing Mike from losing much more blood.

The Gargoyle, that animal from another world has managed to reach this through an anomaly that give way to a portal between both worlds.

Upon spotting the threat, Max hides next to Mike's unconscious body, the Gargoyle is only a couple of meters from them, only a few bushes stood in his sight.

Max knows that nothing could be done in a face-to-face with his enemy. He only has to wait to see a minimum of carelessness to launch a surprise attack. Now everything is defined in hunting or being hunted.

Max takes advantage of an oversight and ties Mike's body to a piece of tree, then throws it into the river. He knows that the only way to save him is to take him to the town through the river. The Gargoyle, seeing that a body is being dragged by the river, throws itself with its claws on it. Max, seeing that the Gargoyle is heading towards his son, comes out in the open, takes out his knife and throws himself into the air in what seems to be his most foolish attack. The Gargoyle quickly turns and takes Max's body with his claws. Max in what seems to be his last attempt launches with his hand a knife on the beast, the knife ends breaking in half, the Gargoyle flies very high, so high that it reaches the source of that great light, through it he sees a portal that gives way to what seems to be the ruins of a very old temple.



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