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// Mysterious Ruins. 
// Story: My Report on Another World 
// by Piggynator 
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My name is Eric Scott. I am an investigative photo journalist. Some people in the field hate how I operate. I'm the sort that tends to dabble in the stories that others dare not touch. After all, the scarier the scoop, the more thrilling it is to cover!

But anyways, whats going on right now? As of now, I'm on a military helicopter due to a tip off about a mysterious structure discovered in a desert country I cant remember the name of. I'll have to ask the lads on the way home. The helicopter lands and we disembark. 

I climb out and put my "PRESS" vest on over my thin hoodie as we make our way over. It takes us about 10 minutes to arrive before my camcorder is out and rolling. I aim my camera around and capture as much as I can. The outside looks like... a castle? Or the remains of a castle. Poor thing looks like it got blown up. PERFECT! I capture as much as I can before we head in. 

Inside is so much more strange. For example, there are statues of what seem to be horse like creatures. One seems taller than the other

"The hell?" I hear one of the marines say. I turn the camera to him and he has a rainbow coloured rock in his hand.

"May I have a gander, mate?" I ask. The marine replies with a yes and hands it to me. It gives off a warm sensation. And I swear I can feel it pulsing. It reminds me of a dice someone would use when playing a tabletop role playing game. It kind of looks like one as well. I put it in the small shoulder bag full of extra batteries and SD cards as I hear another marine shout to call us over. I keep the camera rolling as we head over to the location of the shout to find the marine looking up at one of the statue. This one is even bigger than the other one! Thats great to confirm! I eagerly point my camcorder at it and try to capture as much of it as possible.

"LADS, I FOUND SOMETHING ELSE!"

That got all our attention again as we turned to him to see he is holding a book of sorts. He slings his rifle over his shoulder and starts to read it. Or, attempts to read it. I walk over to him and point my camcorder at the book. The language is like nothing I have ever seen. Like, a bunch of scribbles or something. I know for sure its not Arabic because I took a couple lessons just in case. I take off my sun glasses to get a better look but still no dice.

"Could you put that in here, mate" I say as I point to my shoulder bag to which he does so. Damn. All we found were giant statues, a rock and a book with bugger knows what written in it. Here I thought it be more interesting and could be a better scoop to rea-

"Is this a library?" I say as I walked past a door and took a peek inside. One of the lads catches me looking in and walks in to have a look. He pulls a book from the shelves and looks through it

"I think I may have your scoop, mate" Oh? I gotta see this! He hands me the book. As I expected, the language is unreadable but what isnt unreadable are the pictures. I point my camcorder at the pictures. The hell? THERES WIERD HORSE PICTURES! AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE... Unicorns? With what look like wings are fighting? Wait, is this guy having me on?  Nah, can't be. I saw him randomly pull this book off of the shelf. I document as much of the book as I can as we put it back and rejoin the marines in the hallway.

We continue walking about and through a corridoor until we come across a wooden door partially open. I manage to get my hand in along with my camera. Good, the coast is clear. I give the all clear to the lads and we give the door a push. The marines head in and clear the room. They give me the all clear and we head in. The room is bigger than I thought. In the centre of the room, theres a wierd contraption. Theres a large sphere surrounded by 5 other spheres. I keep my camcorder on it. Capturing all of it. Every nook and cranny. After a while I finish up and head out to join up with the marines.

After another 10 minutes, we carry on down a corridor until we walk into a throne room. With my camera still rolling, I head on in. There are two thrones. Strange? Unless theres a king and queen, I dont see why there would be two of them. I go ahead of the marines as they paused to set up some equipment of sorts. As I keep walking, My hands start to shake. This might be it. THE SCOOP OF A LIFETIME!!!!! I turn my back to the thrones to go over the footage I captured so far. All looks good. But that book. I cant help but feel like its import-

"ERIC, GET OUT OF THERE!!!!!" I hear all of them shout. I frantically shake my head until I see it. THE GROUND. OH GOD!!!!! Its falling in! Or out? It circles around until a circle made of light apppears. 

"OH CHRIST IN HEAVEN. I'M BEING SUCKED IN!" I feel myself rise up and get sucked in. Out of desperation, I try to swim out to no avail. I look in and see what looks like a throne room?

"LADS, GIVE ME SOMETHING. ANYTHING. HURRY! Theres a room in there!" I see the marines looks about in a panic as they shout back

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING? ARE YOU CRAZY?"

"I'M TELLING YOU. THERES SOMETHING THERE. THIS COULD BE HUGE. JUST TELL THE WORLD I GET LOST IN A CAVE IN AND FOUND A WAY TO KEEP GOING DEEPER. So just give me SOMETHING!"

No sooner did I say that, I see a bayonet still in its sheathe fly to me. I just barely catch it as I am quickly sucked in.