The End Chronicles Book 01: Origins

By C.O. Amal

It has been a perfectly fine day until Jerom gets a call from the government about the discovery of a tunnel system. We were absent-minded and without knowing, by sending researchers into the tunnel system, we were opening Pandora’s Box. Black smoke rushes outside through the interdimensional portal, infecting whatever it sees, mutating them into horrifying creatures. The world is about to end. And surviving will be a difficult thing. Now, all we can do is pray to God. But God is hiding in his little hideout, peeking at the losing battle the humans are fighting against the demon horde. Get ready for the beginning of the ultimate battle of the century. Even if we survive, we will be in a new world where there will be no kindness or kind people. The survival of Earth depends on our survival.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.O. Amal
• Release date: Feb 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798215139196

C.O. Amal

I live in India, Kerala. I love to read science fiction and dark fantasy. I am well known as the Crazy Writer. I write Science fiction and I am a fan of the book 'Earths Forbidden Secrets by Maxwell Igan. I love to hike hills, and I am an adventurous man. I am well known for my ability to daydream. And most times you can see me daydreaming in front of my novel writing machine. I hope humanity will colonize the far reaches of the cosmos, soon. I love NASA, ISRO, and Virgin Galactica. I am looking forward to landing on Mars, where one of my novels sets it.

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Prologue

A Deserted place. A few trees are scattered on the land, and the sun’s rays barely come through the cloudy sky. A little far away, large mega-story buildings could be seen. On the ground, pebbles vibrate and the ground slowly shakes as a team of men operates the gigantic driller for creating the subway tunnel.

The tunnel is coming from the nearby city and the driller already passes a great deal of distance. As the driller progresses through the underground, an automatic machine places concrete rings along the muddy wall to reinforce the tunnel wall. A few men are constantly feeding the automatic machine with parts of the concrete rings.

While the drilling and wall construction make progress, a few groups of men are very busy placing metal rail tracks. A pulley system is continuously bringing metal tracks and concrete rings from the other side of the tunnel.

Sweat uncontrollably oozes down from the men’s brow. Incredibly, these men could work in this hot environment. In this tunnel, there is no one resting. There is a job for everyone and everyone is doing everything they can to build the tunnel. They all are working at a fast pace, probably because they want to complete this construction as soon as possible. Suddenly it happens without any warning. The tunnel completely shakes like the effect of an earthquake.

Everyone all at once stops working and they analyze the tunnel. Then the ground stops vibrating. Workers take a deep sigh. Suddenly the quake starts again, this time a little stronger.

With a crack sound, the newly placed upper part of the concrete rings falls off from the wall. Miraculously the workers under the fallen concrete piece escaped without any serious injury apart from the loss of skin on the side of a few men’s arms as the concrete pieces brushed past.

The quake continues. The driller begins to vibrate and suddenly the wall of soil in front of the driller breaks away, revealing a natural cave system. Cold wind blows towards the workers through the tiny gaps in the front part of the driller. Then suddenly the side part of the concrete rings falls, and the tunnel wall slowly breaks apart, revealing a massive cave system across the underground. Fortunately, none of the topsoil fall off.

Workers gaze at the newly discovered tunnel in horror, with curiosity. None of the men say any words. The light from the bright bulbs which are now on the tunnel floor, barely cut through the darkness beyond the part of the tunnel these men have made.

A few new men arrive at the spot from the other side of the manmade tunnel with flashlights. They must have experienced the earthquake, but it seems that only a small part of the manmade tunnel has collapsed. The men with flashlights slowly walk through the newly discovered tunnel a little. A cold wind is coming towards them from somewhere, and it seems that there is a flow of cold air all over this tunnel system.

The part of the tunnel they are now in is like a huge wide room and numerous tunnels are coming to this wide room from different directions.

The men slowly approach one of the tunnels and they slowly examine the tunnel in the bright light of the flashlight. Then it happens. When one worker shows the light at a nearby wall, the wall begins to glitter, as if there are millions of tiny fireflies on the wall. The men slowly approach the wall with curiosity. And one worker touches the wall.

Diamond! The man says.

Yes. The whole wall has diamonds the size of a man’s palm. They slowly show the light at the nearby walls and excitement and curiosity strike all of them. The whole walls in all the nearby tunnels are filled with diamonds!

Chapter 1

Jerome, wake up, honey. It’s morning. I hear Emily’s voice in my deep slumber.

Huh ... I slowly open my eyes and find Emily hurriedly dressed. Honey, it’s Sunday, right?

Yeah. Why? Emily asks.

Well, why are you dressing? Are you going outside?

Huh, huh.

Well, you don’t have to go to the office, right?

Isn’t that obvious? I am going to church for the morning mass. Jenny said she would be here to pick me up.

Okay. Is Aidan awake?

Yeah. He is dressing. He is coming with me.

I slowly remove the covers and stand up. And I slowly walk towards the front door.

Newspaper is in the kitchen, and coffee is on the dining room table, Emily shouts from the bedroom.

Okay ... I back away from the front door and walk towards the kitchen. In the kitchen, I find the newspaper on top of the table.

Reading the newspaper has become part of my life and I couldn’t start a day without the newspaper. I take the newspaper and flip through the pages. Then the story on the second page attracts my eyes. It says a group of subway workers discovered a tunnel system during the drilling. The site is near here, about 50 miles away from home.

Suddenly the phone rang.

This is Emily. Who is this?

Huh, huh ... I will give him ... Jerome, honey? A call for you.

I slowly walk towards the dining room and find Emily near the phone.

Who is it? I ask.

Government.

I quickly approach Emily and grab the receiver from her hand.

This is Jerome, I speak.

Jerome, we hope that you have read the newspaper today. We need your geological skills in this tunnel in Wyoming.

I am listening.

We are not in a situation to drive you to this place. We hope you have a car. Be here as soon as possible.

I will be there.

The call ends.

What is it, honey Emily asks.

They want me to study a tunnel system that they have discovered during the construction of a subway tunnel, I speak.

Suddenly a car horn cut through the air.

Jenny is here. I am going, okay? Emily says.

Okay, I speak.

Aidan, we are going, Emily yells and Aidan comes from his bedroom.

See you, Dad, Aidan says.

Okay. Look after your mom, okay.

Yeah.