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// Chapter 31 
// Story: I Just Walk Away 
// by madhat886 
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A crowd had gathered around the royal palace trying to see the object that fell from the sky and landing in the palace garden. The royal guard as well as other government agencies had the palace grounds on lock down with the police keeping the crowd back. Holmes was there with Watson after the later had dragged him there, having gotten onto a roof to see what's happening on the palace grounds. 

For the past few weeks Holmes been pouring his energy in figuring out the female giant, looking over all the clues left behind. The hand prints she left on the metal roof when she folded it open, the foot prints, not to mention the strand of hair she left behind when she brush up against a building while fleeing the cops. She also managed to escape somehow after entering a dense pact of woods after running out of the city. Holmes been trying to figure out how a giant was able to move around like a normal size human. And how she was able to disappear. 

Holmes did something that he rarely did, he looked up information both online and books about giants. Which lead to a dead end as there was nothing like what everyone in London had seen that night. Then he went and researched about the crystal and the pirates that found it. But that came up empty with the ship's logbook having long ago been destroyed by the ocean with nothing to tell how and where the pirates had found the crystal. 

"You really need a break," Watson said to Holmes. 

"This is a waste of time," Holmes said. 

"You need a break. You been doing nothing but sitting around for days now," Watson said. 

"That giant was real and she couldn't had been a robot. The hair samples proved that much," Holmes said. 

"What about your brother?" Watson ask.

"What about him?" Holmes ask.

"He would know something and you can just call him up," Watson said. 

"I already did and he has no idea what to make of the giant and is as stump as me with what Trixie did," Holmes said. 

"Well there is that she can do magic or something like it," Watson said. 

"The giant I can believe in but magic isn't something that I can say is real," Holmes said. 

An uproar from the crowd got their attention causing the two to look at the portal that had open up in front of the crater with the space object still there. The researchers and the guards fell back as a horde of giant insect like creatures burst out of the portal. They're all wearing a yellow suit that's made to fit their bodies, which has some parts human like but has black exoskeleton on the rest. The lower part of her head is human like but the top is a black elongated, banana-shaped head exoskeleton with no eyes. Their long arms and legs are insect claw like, and they have a long tail that ends with a stinger. 

A small flying figure, which looks like the size of a young boy with insect like wings hovered above the horde. He is wearing an orange suit and is more human then the larger ones below him. He has hands and feet like her but has a smaller head dome then the others and has a shell on his back which are open like a beetle.  

The horde quickly surrounded the space object paying no mind to the scared researchers and guards. The small flying creature barked out something in their tongue. Which the bigger creatures responded by one of them grabbing the object and as one they all race back into the portal which closed behind them, before anyone knew what just happen. 

"Did that just happen?" Watson asked.

"A portal opening up and a horde of creatures came out and grabbed the object and ran back through said portal. Yes that just happen," Holmes said wondering what else is going to happen next.