The Unknow - Three Friends and the (...) Starship (2) (Patreon)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Everything that appears here, in this story, only exists in my mind, anything that resembles reality is coincidence or fortuitous. . .

( hopefully there will be many of these 💓, or not, who knows 😭 )

THREE FRIENDS AND THE (IMPERIAL) SPACE-ELF STARSHIP

Part 2 - Entering The Starship.

They did not know how, but while they were examining the door and trying to decide what to do, if they were going to warn some local authorities or inform national television media, the door that had seemed rusty and almost petrified, opened. With a creaking sound it first caved in, and then the door split in two, each split part moving to one side.

A strange sterile odor quickly filled the tunnel, coming from the visible chamber as the door opened. The air of the chamber and the corridor soon mixed and so lowed the temperature even more. It was a relief for the three explorers. Something somewhere started to hum softly.

"What?" came out of Paolo's mouth as he stared in astonishment.

"What do we do now?" Susana asked. "Shall we go in?"

"I don't know..." Daniel answered without blinking.

The three ongoing explorers looked at the room before them, which looked like a typical security airlock. The access to and exit from the spaceship for both security and adaptation to the environment, for the crew that went in and out of the ship. Illuminated with a strange pink light that seemed to be waiting for them to enter.

"We are going to enter," Paolo answered, looking inside the ship with a hypnotized face. "Let's meet our masters and creators..."

"One moment!" Susana interrupted Daniel and Paolo who were already preparing to cross the threshold of the door. "Shouldn't we... I don't know... warn someone in case something happens to us?"

"And let them take all the credit... or, worse, take over and silence us and then we'll never find out what's inside?" Paolo said taking out his smartphone to record everything. "No, it's us or the government. If you are afraid you can stay here, and cry like a little girl or try to be a man about it and come with us to make history."

With that said, Paolo entered the airlock. Daniel, for his part, shrugged his shoulders and entered behind him. Meanwhile Susana stood there for a moment, silently cursing after she heard Paolo's misogynistic comment. And when she managed to calm down, she joined the other two in that booth.

"Wow!" expressed Paolo with wide eyes and a sinister smile.

"Yes..." confirmed Daniel, impressed by the design of the walls and the strange symbols, which were very familiar to them. "Look at those symbols... they seem... Cuneiform writing?"

"Do you know what that means?" Paolo said with an illuminated face of delusion.

"That's not Cuneiform!" interrupted cold and cutting Susana, passing her fingers over the symbols to examine them. "Your 'Theory of Anunnakis' is no closer to being proven..."

"Extraterrestrials that travel light years to get to Earth, just to procreate, put probes through our orifices, turn us into slaves, and other stupid Illuminati conspiracies... Can you guys please be a little bit more mature? This is not a Sci-Fi fantasy novel.... mmmh... they're more like... Runes? ..."

Before Susana could finish what she was saying, with a chilling creak, the entrance closed and the light in the room turned so bright red, that everything became shades of red. The three of them first looked at where the entrance should be, and then looked at the walls where the light was coming from, which seemed to move across their surface tracing the symbols.

Paolo and Daniel were going to reproach Susana's carelessness, but a strange voice, which seemed to be terrestrial, but speaking in a dialect they had never heard before, sounded from all sides, until a squeak identical to the one that closed the door, sounded on the opposite side of the entrance.

Then the light returned to be of a pinkish color, and next to the symbols that Susana had been examining, a door opened leading to a corridor that a few meters away ended in a crossing of some more corridors. At the same time, they heard that voice again more briefly, still not understanding anything.

"Fuck!" Daniel shouted. "We are naked!"


To be continued...