Trial by Ordeal

Chapter Six

  We are Declaring War on Tyler Burrows

  Day 153 Helionia Calendar

  Captain Titan ordered his first officer to proceed to the portal with five men, and to go through to the other side to try to find out the reason behind the missing team, and then to report back. First Officer Draco soon had his space suit on, and together, he and the five men who made up his team, stepped out of the air lock of the Dagger and walked the fifty feet across to the dark forbidding portal. Draco had been through the portal before, and he knew it was not dangerous. However, it still freaked him out, just a little. A magnetic key was not necessary here, you simply walked along the dark tunnel and suddenly you were walking into the dark domain, just like now. The first thing that Draco saw further along the tunnel were the five space suits hanging up inside their closet, untouched since he and his team had put them there. The second thing he saw was Tyler Burrows and his family, and so quickly cautioning his men to stay quiet, he edged forward to spy on them, but keeping to the dark shadows to ensure that he was not seen, although he couldn`t understand a word that was said. He was able to record it, which he did so that the aliens` conversation could be played back upon the Dagger. He did see two things from his place of vigil; he saw that Patina Pallas was still alive, she was standing at the entrance to the portal, and it seemed to Draco that she was trying to shrink into its walls. He also saw the Orionists moving what was left of some of the bodies of the men that he had been waiting for, for he recognised enough of Vistas to recognise. The officer could only guess the reason why the men had failed to keep their appointment, however, it appeared as if the beasts of this domain had been able to kill them?