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Josh was very perplexed. Being a skeptic about most things his rational mind felt this was not even a good story. But as he listened to Lacy's frantic pleas he believed that she believed what she was saying. And there was the problem of that long hall underground, the statue, and all the animalistic cries from somewhere down below.

"Ok, let's say I will help you. What should we be doing?" Josh asked.

"I don't know. I just know we have to do something." Lacy answered. "So, you are telling me that Hank is going to awaken some dead but extremely powerful monster probably tonight. We have a ring that hopefully can do something but we don't know what that something is, but we still have to do it. Is that right?"

"Yes," Lack whimpered.

"Do you know how stupid that sounds? Last night I went down the hall behind the bookshelf. I walked far enough to hear the shouts and cries of those idiots doing whatever it is they are doing. There is no way we could take all those people on even if we had a couple of AK47's." Josh explained.

"Those people are not the danger," Lacy said.

"Those people sounded pretty damn dangerous to me. You only have to kill me once and whether it is an idiot cult member or a monster God I am still dead."

"You still don't understand. If Hank is successful we are all dead."

"Okay where is Hank and Tiffany now?" Josh asked.

"They are down below making preparations and will be there all day."

"Do you know any books that might mention the ring? We don't have much time but if we are going to do something we have to have an idea of what this ring does."

"I think Hank's grandfather's journal has some information. I also have my grandfather's journal but it is mostly ramblings."

"Let's go have a look at both," Josh instructed.

Josh and Lacy spent the morning pouring over various books and documents. They learned a lot about the Cthulhu cult and the various spells to awaken the monster. They found mention of the ring and it seemed the ring was some kind of focusing lens that could control great amounts of power. They were unable to discover the mechanisms of how this works.

"Ok, we now know this ring can control large amounts of some kind of power. Your grandfather was able to use the ring to stop the process Hank's grandfather began. We just don't know how he did it." Josh summarized as he and Lacy took a break.

"That is about it."

"I still can't believe all this shit. It is just too much to take in. If I had not been down that hall I would think you were hallucinating."

"I wish I was hallucinating," Lacy replied. "But I know I saw what I saw. I will probably have nightmares for the rest of my life."

"Well we have to do something. Let's see if we can sneak a peek at what is going on down there," Josh said.

"Ok."Josh and Lacy opened the book shelf and began to slowly walk down the hall. They reached the split in the passage and the statue. They then continued walking for quite sometime. With every step Josh was more amazed by the length of this hall. This cavern had to be huge to support such an extensive pathway. As Josh turn again to his left he could see the dull red glow of reflected light. There was definitely something down there.

"What the hell have I gotten myself into?" Josh said to Lacy. Josh had always wanted proof that something existed beyond the material world and he may have his proof tonight. His curiosity was most definitely aroused but he was beginning to become frightened at the price he might have to pay for this proof.

Josh and Lacy rounded a last turn and found themselves looking down into a very large open cavern. From their vantage point they could see everything going on and were relatively hidden. Everyone in the cavern appeared totally absorbed in their various duties. At the far end there was an altar.

"That is where Hank will perform the ceremony," Lacy said as she pointed to the far end of the cavern. "Some of those people down there were at the VFW the other night. This thing goes back many years and people have been waiting for years for someone to try again. My grandfather died shortly after he rescued Hank's grandfather. Even though it was ruled a heart attack, many believed he was murdered because he interfered."

Hank surveyed the hall. I was about the size of a football field with a ceiling some 100 feet above. There were numerous people milling around making preparations. Hank and Tiffany were on the altar and were very intense on whatever they were doing.

"The other night we were all standing on the altar. Hank began the ritual and everyone was chanting. It was like we all went into a trance. My ring began to glow and I held it up. Something went through the ring and some kind of portal opened in the air above the altar. That is when something began to appear. It was horrible. It felt so cold and smelled terrible. I could not stand it but I know Hank was right about its power. You could feel the power surge through you but it felt dark and nasty. I think I would have died if the portal had not closed when it did. We only got a sneak peek and I can't imagine what the full view would be like. Hank says the stars were not quite right. But I am afraid tonight it will be perfect." Lacy shuddered as she explained this to Josh.

"I saw it. It's real Josh. I am scared. I told Hank I was feeling bad so he told me to rest today, but I have to report to him at around 11:00 tonight. The ceremony begins a midnight," Lacy continued.

"When I left Hank he was acting really strange. He said tonight is the night we will open the black seas of infinity and the forbidden eons of the past. I think Hank knows what he is talking about," Lacy said and fell silent as she looked pleading at Josh.

"I know something the hell is going on. And there is something very wrong happening. And the worse thing about it is I think you and I will have to try to do something. I just don't know what. The problem is we have to act fast."

Josh made a mental note of where everything was located in the great hall. They then returned to the library.

"Let me see the ring," Josh said and Lacy handed him the ring.

The ring looked the same as he remembered. It had a silver band with a greenish black stone. It did not feel magical.

"So what did you do the other night?" Josh asked.

"Nothing I just held the ring up and felt the power flow through me," she answered.

"Did you feel as if you had any control of the power?"

"I don't know. I felt like I was in a trance with all the chanting and stuff going on. I did feel something as the power flowed out the ring but I can't describe it."

"We could just run away," Josh said. "They need the ring and if we left they could not complete the ritual and maybe the stars would change again."

"We would not get down the lane. They are numerous people watching the house and there is no way we could escape. I believe they allowed you to be here in order to keep me occupied because Hank knew I was getting scared of everything." Lacy smiled and said, "The only good thing about this whole mess is meeting you."

Josh returned Lacy's smile and felt if they survived the night there was a good chance he could fall for this young woman. He felt his body begin to respond, "We don't have time," Josh said aloud.

"I know we have to hurry," Lacy did not miss the way Josh was looking at her body.

"So what did you mean when you said the ring could bring things here but also send things back?" Josh asked.

"I don't know. That is just something Hank told me. He said my grandfather somehow messed things up when he sent Cthulhu back. He said we would not make that mistake again. But that is all he said." Lacy explained.

"Ok it looks like we have no options but to act as if nothing is wrong. Somehow we have to figure out how you can use the ring to send whatever back to hell. If I'm right and this is all some cult bullshit then nothing will happen and we are okay. If you are right and something begins to appear you will have to use all your power to focus your thoughts on the ring to send the demon back. It is not much of a plan but I don't know that we have any other options. I will be there watching but I don't know what I can do. Any ideas?" Josh asked.

"Last night it seemed as if I went into a trance and could not control what I did. Anyway you can help me to focus my thoughts would be good."

"If what you say is going to happen begins to happen then neither of us have anything to loose. I will do whatever it takes if I see you go into a trance. Is there anything here I could use as a weapon?"

"I don't think there is any guns here, maybe a hunting knife. I know there are some firecracker and roman candles in the storeroom," Lacy said.

"Ok let's gather them up and wait for tonight."

There are many turning points in one's life. For Josh his failed marriage made a major difference in his life. However, the grief of divorce, even the death of Josh's father was nothing compared to what he faced this night. He was hoping he was correct and nothing was going to happen. However, Josh's skepticism of metaphysics was totally shattered shortly after midnight on this hot summer night.

Josh said goodnight to Lacy as retired to his room. He did not want to arouse any suspicions. He gave her a kiss and left her alone in the den. She would shortly be joining Hank and Tiffany. As Josh sat on the side of his bed the tom-toms began their beating and it was beginning. Josh gathered his fireworks and one short hunting knife and walked to the library. He quickly opened the shelf and hurried down the hall toward the cathedral of the cavern.

"Oh mother earth lord of creation!" numerous voices echoed.

"Oh hell, the crowd all here," Josh said to no one.

The chanting grew louder as Josh reached the entrance. As his eyes adjusted to the bright light he looked into the vast hall. He noticed the odd angles where the wall joined the floor and ceiling. Something did not look right but Josh did not have time to study them.

"There is no way in hell this shit is happening here, here in Texas," Josh said to himself as he watched this impossible gathering.

Hank, Tiffany, and Lacy stood before the altar. Hank and Tiffany wore black robes. Lacy was dressed in a white gown cut low enough that her breasts were revealed. There were presiding over the ceremony. Josh counted 25 individuals standing before them and another 25 or so surrounding the area in a circle.

"This is definitely not a Baptist service," Josh said to himself.

From Josh's vantage point he had a good view of the activity below him. He was slightly above the crowd and now noticed a lamb tied to the altar. Tiffany moved toward the altar holding a large ceremonial looking knife.

"Oh, God of the Cthyluu, I beseech thy pleasure. Oh Og and Th, you are the ancient ones," Tiffany said as she stood over the lamb. Suddenly she thrust the knife into the lamb's throat and blood gushed forth. It splattered on Tiffany's gown and she smiled as the lamb's life blood flowed out onto the altar.

Lacy looked pale and frightened. What concerned Josh the most was she looked as if she were going into a trance. This was most definitely a bad sign but at the moment there was not much Josh could do. The crowd was working itself into frenzy and Josh did not want the crowd after him.

Josh's attention was pulled toward the individuals inside the circle. He now noticed they had all disrobed and were beginning to grope each other. It was like a herd of horny animals reaching and clutching at whoever happened to be near. Josh could not believe that he was beginning to be excited by this exhibition of pure bestial sexuality. The more he stared at the various combinations of coupling the more his own libido began to awaken. It was as if some force was pulling at him.

"What the hell is happening? This is too gross for words but I can't help it." Josh said to himself not believing his reaction to what he was viewing down below.

Josh fought this feeling of alien sexuality as men were copulating with women, with other men, several men on one woman, several women on one man, and several women on one woman. There was every possible sexual permutation among those in the circle. To make matters worse the groans and guttural nasty slopping sounds coming from the crowd was totally disgusting. But to Josh the most revolting thing about this scene was these filthy pigs were turning him on.

Even though he sickened by what he was watching he felt primal urges awakening deep within him over which he fought for control. His rational mind understood the danger of the situation and the moral decadence of the beasts below him. He could feel the evil flowing through the chamber.

Yet, while his rational mind comprehended the scene he was witnessing, the lower and more primitive core of his emotional nature were awakening and pushing him toward the frenzy below him. He was keenly aware of the conflict but he felt helpless as his body began to respond and his erection became painfully hard.

The congregation that circled the sexual chaos began to chant, "Oh, God of the Cthyluu, Oh Og and Th we beseech you to favor us. Come to this thy chapel."

Josh continued to exert his will and slowly focused on summoning the rational part of his mind. He could see Lacy now far away. She was actually floating in the air with her ringed hand outstretch. The sight of her suspended in the air helped to shocked Josh back to this reality. As he fought the enticement of the moment he also noticed a flow of milky light that was arising upward from the lascivious gross sexual show. The surreal nature of what he was seeing somehow helped Josh gather back his sanity.

Hank and Tiffany now floated slightly below Lacy. In their outstretched hands they each held a staff with silver ends. These shafts appeared to be directing the milky produce from below toward a point just over the bloody lamb. Lacy was pointing her ring at this same spot.

Suddenly something began to happen over the lamb. It was not so much a light as a movement of the fabric of the light that slowly began to take form. It seemed to soak up all the milky substance and the crowd seemed to increased their orgiastic ravings and howls. Josh noticed several had either passed out or possibly died. As one person collapsed they were thrown aside and others took their place. Only a few were now left to form the outer circle.

"Ohhhhhh!" someone in the circle screamed. The lamb's body seemed to dissolve in the glow before their eyes. The diffuse light took on a strange glow as it enveloped the lamb and began to take a more definite form, a horrible stench fill the cavern.

"No, I can't do it," a woman screamed. She had seen too much. Her trance state failed her and she ran panic stricken from the scene. Before she escaped the cavern an arrow of light gushed out from the glow and in an instance engulfed the fleeing woman. She screamed as she imploded upon herself in a bloody mass and then dissolved into the light leaving nothing.

"Damn that must have hurt," Josh said aloud. This verbalization was just enough to allow him to regain a measure of control. Josh quickly moved away from the scene around a curve. The energy of the cavern immediately diminished and his rationality quickly returned. He knew he had to do something and do something quick.

Josh resisted the urge to flee for his life. He again rounded the corner but this time remained in control of his faculties.

He could hear the screams in the crowds. But only a few of these screams were of fright. The other screams and howls were created by the animalistic orgiastic lunacy that appeared to be fueling the process by sending the milky residue of hellish passion to assist the return of their master.

Josh looked down to see Lacy enveloped in the diffuse light. She looked as if she was on a fantastic high as she swayed back and forth. She held her hand with the ring high in the air and it glowed with an intense greenish light.

The cult members were impelled with a demonic sexual energy and if anything were more disgustingly involved with each other. This was not just some innocent New Age Wiccan type ritual. This was real. Josh could feel, smell, hear, and touch the tension in the air. Something was coming and it looked like Lacy's legend might just be true.

Josh was becoming a believer but it was extremely difficult to accept what he was seeing. He had always questioned the likelihood of metaphysical dimension to life. He had always searched for something beyond but had never found anything to support such a belief. However, now he was seeing something that was beyond anything he had imagined. It seemed that Cthulhu might really exist as an entity and if something were not done soon, he might find that the legend of Cthulhu was not only a true story but a true horror tale that might consume Josh's life. If this was true and not a hallucination then if Cthulhu complete his rebirth there would be nothing anyone could do about it.

The light was now solifying and forming into a spongy bluish-green gelatinous leathery material floating in the air. The most disturbing aspect was the short tentacles protruding out of the foggy corpulence and wiggling as if struggling for life. Even as Josh watched as it grew in size.

This blasphemy of everything good in this world floated upwards and began to fill the ceiling with its mass. It was grotesque looking like an over-inflated multitentacled octopus or squid but not like either. Its skin pulsated with an inner glow bubbling making it appeared even more repulsive to Josh. Josh was now questioning his doubts about Hell. If there were such a place it would house creatures like this.

Lacy was now kneeling toward this massive apparition as she floated about 10 feet off the ground.

"Oh Master let us do you bidding!" she cried. She looked totally enraptured.

A hum arose in the hall. It sounded as if million of bees were swarming. The hum continued to increase in volume and form definite patterns. Suddenly a voice but not a voice slammed into Josh's mind and proclaimed, "I have awakened."

Josh did not like the sound of this. The world was fucked up enough. It certainly did not need something like this to make things worse.

"What the hell can I do? Lacy is as spaced as she can be. She in the air and I am up here. I have to do something." Josh pondered as he continued to watch the spectacle.

"I am that which is older than time," it resounded. "I am one of the ancient Ones. I am that which can not be but I am."

Josh covered his ears but it did not help. This voice inside his head was deafeningly sweet with a decayed flavor that stung Josh's brain. The participants were beginning to slow in their activities. Some were on their knees with head bowed. Many had simply passed out or died after expending all their energy, others continued to be crazed with pleasure.

Josh was feeling rather sick to his stomach and there was deep ache inside his head. He was also feeling all the worse possible emotions from the absolute worst times of life. These emotions were being amplified to a degree that was beginning to paralyze him. Sadness beyond belief flowed through his mind along with the disgust of a millions of rotting human carcasses. He knew if he were to do something it had to be now.

The entity was now mostly formed. Some of its edges were still fuzzy as if they were somewhere else, maybe some other dimension or maybe they only existed in imagination not really made of a material. The glob of octopus like protoplasm covered the ceiling of the room creating a surrealistic demonic cathedral very unlike the Sistine Chapel, the sort of vision one might see on a really bad night during a particularly horrendous nightmare.

Josh took what strength he had and pulled himself back. What he saw was pure hell. Lacy continued to kneel about 20 feet above the altar suspended in mid-air. Hank and Tiffany were now standing about 10 feet below her but also with no visible means of support. As Josh surveyed the room he also noticed the audience had mostly calmed down and was now floating about 10 feet above the floor. Some were unconscious and those who were awake had insane ecstasy written in their expressions.

Josh remained in the shadows apparently unnoticed by all. He was spell-bound watching these events still not believing what he was seeing. Suddenly there was a hush in the room and things slowed to a halt.

"It is now time to return. I have come. Where are the masses of my followers? Where are they?" the entity boomed in a voice that stank of decay.

"We are all that are left," Hank answered.

"That will soon change. I have now returned."

Josh made his move. He had over large pile of various fireworks including bottle rockets, Roman candle, and other exploding type of units. Josh had brought alone a small can of gasoline and quickly poured it on the rather large pile of fireworks. These were sitting on the edge of a shelf on the rock. He ignited the fireworks that were soaked in gas and they as they began to explode he pushed them off the shelf into the crowds.

Josh shouted from above, "Go back to hell you son of bitch!"

Everything became chaos in the confusion created by the small explosions. Josh managed to run to within reach of Lacy.

"Lacy, you must wake up!" Josh shouted in the chaos. Lacy remain still.

Josh picked up the first thing he reached, a small staff. He threw it hitting Lacy in the side. It was enough of a blow to bring her back to her senses.

"What happened? Where am I?" Lacy cried.

"Use the ring," Josh shouted. "Use the ring."

As the explosions of the fireworks reverberated through the cavern the cult members were jolted out of their trance states. As they awakened they began to fall the 10 feet or so they had been floating in the air. This resulted in total confusion and terrified screaming and crying.

The chaos had changed the flow of energy and power. The thing that was Cthulhu began to dissolve with a horrible angry howl that was beyond this universe. The oozy material began to loose it form and a terrible scream filled the cavern. Hank, Tiffany, and Lacy fell from their suspension in the air. Josh was able to break Lacy's fall somewhat and he and Lacy fled the cavern of screams.

Josh and Lacy made to Josh's post above the panicked crowd. With one look back Josh watched as green gelatinous goo began to fall like rain. It smelled of sulfur and pure evil. He also caught a glimpse of a long tentacle falling from the ceiling. This tentacle did not dissolve but continued to keep it materialistic consistency. Everything else that had been Cthulhu was turning into a greenish fog.

However, as Josh watched the tentacle engulfed several of the audience and they simply disappeared. Josh did not look back again. He and Lacy ran down the hall and escaped through the library. Josh's car was still parked outside and there was no one to stop them. The engine screamed and they jerked the car toward the main highway. Suddenly the ground began to quiver and as they reached the highway and raced away a huge explosion rocked the car but Josh kept driving. Looking back in the rear view mirror all he could see was a greenish haze that covered everything.

CNN as well as NBC and all the major networks covered the story. Some type of freakish natural gas explosion rocked the East Texas country side that rivaled the Texas City disaster in the 1940's. Everything was destroyed and all that was left was a huge crater almost a mile deep and mile wide that was even now filling with water from the nearby Grand Lake.

In fact Grand Lake's overall water level had now fell several feet as its water emptied into the crater. It would take several days for the crater to completely fill and then it would take months for Grand Lake to return to its normal water level. Of course now Grand Lake total area had a significant increase in acres due to the explosion. No bodies were ever found but a number of people were reported missing from the community including the owners of the house, Hank and Tiffany Wilson.

Josh and Lacy had now returned to New Orleans where Josh was seeking employment. They each continued to suffer from nightly nightmares of horror beyond imagination but were able to comfort each other. Josh had a new appreciation of complexity of reality but was not sure he liked the new paradigm. The one thing that did trouble him in those dark hours of the night was that at least one tentacle of Cthulhu appeared to have survived and what if it survived the explosion. Was it like an ameba and could multiply itself into a new creature?

Josh did not know if this was possible but what if it was? He also wondered when the next Cthulhu rebirth ceremony would begin. He knew there were others intent on bringing Cthulhu back to this world and one day they might succeed.

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