Host Acquired

Just then, he felt a very sharp pain on the side of his head immediately some kind of a digital message appeared before his eyes.

"Host has been acquired".

Immediately, Quinn started to feel somewhat dizzy, and in the next moment, he collapsed to the cold hard floor..

.....

"Quinn! Quinn! Quinn! Oh my God Quinn, what happened to him? We need to get help fast, we need to take him to a hospital he is bleeding from his head." Quinn's mom said to her husband, panicking.

"No! We must not go to any hospital, we will not take him to any hospital!" He added. "It's just a slight cut he is going to be just fine, go get me some water from the kitchen."

Lysander quickly rushed to the kitchen and brought back a jug of cold water from the fridge just as she was told.

She handed the water to Francis her husband and he took a handful and started to slowly sprinkle it all over Quinn's face.

After a few attempts, Quinn slowly started to regain his consciousness and slowly started opening his eyes.

"What happened darling? How did you end up here on the floor? what happened?" His mom throws a series of questions at him.

"I don't know, I can't remember anything. I was just sitting down over there and the next moment...." Quinn wanted to mention something about the little message and the screen he saw but he realized just maybe his parents wouldn't understand.

"And what happened after that?" His dad asked urging him to speak up.

"That's all I could remember, every other thing is just a blanket! I can't remember anything," Quinn added. "What says the time? How long have I been out." He murmured

"The time is 12 minutes past 8," His mom responded and added. "It's almost dinner time, why don't you two go clean up while I make something nice for dinner? Huh?"

The trio slowly stood up from the floor where they were. Just as they were all about to go on with their business, they heard loud resounding knocks on their front door.

"Hmm! I wonder who could it be at this hour, you both wait I will get the door!" Mister Francis said to Quinn and his mom as he made his way to the door.

Immediately he opened the door, he stood frozen like he had seen a ghost or something of that sort.

"Good day, Mister Francis! I am James and we are with the Galactic Seeker Society (GSS), can we come in, we need to have some words with you," a man his voice quite thick and commanding said.

"Yea... Yeah! Yeah! Sure, you could come in!" Mister Francis said gesturing for the men to come in.

One after the other they all started to pour into the house. First, it was Officer James dressed in a completely black suit followed by some men who were very muscular and fully dressed like they were going to some military war with their giant guns.

They all walked to the house and two other men stood guide right outside the door and two others right inside.

"Hon! Could you and Quinn please go upstairs and wait for me? I need to discuss some private matters with these men," Francis said to his wife and added. "I would come get you when we're done."

Immediately Lysander and Quinn quickly rushed up the stairs straight into their rooms.

Downstairs Francis gestured for Officer James to have a seat while the other officers kept scanning all over the house as if looking for something.

"You have a beautiful home and an even more beautiful family to start with!" Officer James added. "I guess you already know why am here Mister Francis!"

"How could I possibly be? Am not a witch or someone that reads people's thoughts. Now! Why are you here? How can I help you." Francis responded.

Officer James smiled a little, gazed at Francis and he started.

"19 years ago! You worked for the Galactic Seeker Society (GSS) as an astrologist. You and 8 other of your team members went to Egypt to explore a specific region and bring back information."

James brought out a little square sharp remote-like object, placed it on the table, and added. "This was the last recording received by both you and your team members." He played a recording on the object.

'Mady! Mady! THIS IS TEAM 107 SENT TO THE OSCAR REGION OF EGYPT. WE REQUEST BACKUP, WE SEEM TO BE STOCKED HERE... ARRRRRRHHH... ARRRHHHH... THERE IS SOMETHING DOWN HERE. IT ISN'T HUMAN, I REPEAT IT ISN'T HUMAN. THIS IS EVIL AT IT'S VERY PEAK. I THINK WE'VE WOKEN UP THE DEVIL! THIS IS THE END OF THE HUMAN RACE..........'

After the recording was done playing the whole room completely went silent for a moment before Officer James broke the awkward silence.

"For years it was believed saw something that was very terrifying down there and to it, they all lost their life, but somehow you were the only one that Survived, and you did not return or report back to the 'GSS' instead you changed your identities, took your family and flew the country leaving behind all your wealth and life works which make everyone suspect and question what did you really see down there at area 784."

"Listen! Just exactly as the recording said, there was something down there, and it was evil. Trust me you do not want to find out whatever we found down there was," Francis added, his legs and hands starting to shake. " I advise you to leave and just forget everything about area 784! For humanity's sake."

"Well, Francis! If it was left up to me I wouldn't go back there, nothing would take me back to an area which killed 8 ooh sorry 7 people," James added. "But the CEO of 'GSS' has other thoughts."

"As we speak, there are groups of both astrologist and military-able men down to area 784 to figure out what really happened and what lies there. So, Francis, you are going to tell me what did you see!"