When The Monsters Come: Shadows Beyond The Stars Book 1
By Kennedy King
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When the Standing Ones sent us on a journey to explore the darkness far from the sun’s light, I never expected to find monsters there.
Like something out of the scary tales my son so loved, they captured us while I slumbered.
I woke with my crew, locked away in a cold thundercloud colored cage.
The others looked to me for escape but all my plans had ended in failure and pain, so much pain.
At the same time, the monsters began to take them away one by one.
Pushing past those failures and the pain, I plotted my escape, I was born problem solver after all.
I needed to warn my people of what awaited us among the stars and to see my boy again.
To do so, I’d have to discover more about these monsters and their ways, revolting as that seemed.
Kennedy King
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When The Monsters Come - Kennedy King
When The Monsters Come
Shadows Beyond The Stars Book 1
Kennedy King
Mind of Khan Studios
Copyright © 2021 by Kennedy King and Mind of Khan Studios
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This book has been written by a Trinidadian / Canadian author using British English.
For those who follow U.S. English, you may find some words spelt differently.
Please don’t hold this against me. :)
Written by Kennedy King
Edited by HG Productions
Cover Art by HG Productions
Contents
Acknowledgement
1. The Undercage
2. The Steel Chamber
3. The Dream Hall
4. The Chamber of the Wheel
Epilogue
A Word from The Author
Preview of SkyLine - The Dragon Commander
Other Experiences by The Author (Kennedy King)
Experiences by Other Authors in The Mind of Khan Studios Universe
The Enixar : The Sorcerer’s Conquest by Mikkell K Khan
Audio Experiences from the Mind of Khan Studios Universe
Acknowledgement
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1 The Undercage
I wasn’t always so alone. When we set off, we were a group of twelve, not counting the ship itself. The… I hesitate to call them monsters, something out of the scary stories about brutish and vicious animals I used to share with my son, but the name fit. They were monsters, and they captured us, all of us.
Never in all my days would I have thought it possible to find monsters, little more than animals, of all things in space, at least not ones that could harm us. The histories spoke of creatures like that, living their short and brutish lives on Achila, killing each other and our ancestors for sport. The Standing Ones bred the Guardians to protect us from such things, to keep the lesser beasts that still roam the wilds at bay. The idea that similar monsters could travel the dark beyond the light of the sun made me question everything I knew. Given the situation we found ourselves in, I had little time to worry over such things.
When I woke up to find myself in this unnatural cage and not my chamber on the ship, the others shared what happened. The Tall Ones didn’t choose me for the mission to tend the ship while it floated through space or to protect the crew. In transit, I saved my energy, slumbering in my chamber until needed. The others didn’t have a chance to alert me before it became too late. The monsters captured us and stuck us here.
According to the crew, the monsters struck like lightning from their gleaming vessel. When one of our guardians claimed the monsters used a lance of light to cut into our ship, disabling its ability to move, I didn’t believe him. Guardians were not bred for their intelligence after all, but their size and strength. They fell into flights of fancy from time to time.
Light gave us life,
I scoffed at him. It couldn’t hurt us.
Langlo, the lead ship tender confirmed the Guardian’s story, leaving me with yet another fundamental belief in question. I’d ponder that after I found a way for us to escape. Things were different then, when they didn’t know what we were. All twelve of us were still together in the unnatural cage, life-giving light bathing us from translucent enclosures on the ceiling.
The others called it the Undercage with good reason. Gray material, hard as granite but completely smooth and cold to the touch, it covered three of the walls and the floor. It was as though the monsters carved the room from a single block of the odd material. Vertical bars made of the same thing covered the other wall.
Bars covered the ceiling as well, but right above them sat a honeycomb of the same gray material: the floor of another chamber. This earned it the name Undercage from the crew. The monsters plodded up and down that chamber, their long black hooves clanking against the floor with each thudding step. It caused dust to fall into our cage, smelling of ozone and tar. Even their dust seemed unnatural.
We stilled whenever we heard the sounds from above and watched them go by while they barked and gurgled at each other. As shocking as I found the idea, I