From Hell

by C. O. Amal

  From Hell

  From Heaven Book Zero

  Written By

  C.O. Amal

  Copyright © 2017 C.O. Amal

  Published by C.O. Amal on February 2017

  1st Edition

  All rights reserved

  Smashwords Edition

  ISBN 9781370721153

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names and characters are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Dedication

  For my parents

  Table of Contents

  Part 1 – All Hell Break Loose

  Prologue – 1

  Chapter 1 – 2

  Chapter 2 – 3

  Chapter 3 – 4

  Chapter 4 – 5

  Chapter 5 – 6

  Epilogue – 7

  Part 2 – Run All You Want

  Prologue – 8

  Chapter 1 – 9

  Chapter 2 – 10

  Chapter 3 – 11

  Chapter 4 – 12

  Chapter 5 – 13

  Epilogue – 14

  Part 3 – The Apocalypse

  Prologue – 15

  Chapter 1 – 16

  Chapter 2 – 17

  Chapter 3 – 18

  Chapter 4 – 19

  Chapter 5 – 20

  Epilogue – 21

  Part 4 – A New World

  Prologue – 22

  Chapter 1 – 23

  Chapter 2 – 24

  Chapter 3 – 25

  Chapter 4 – 26

  Chapter 5 – 27

  Epilogue – 28

  Part 5 – From Heaven

  Prologue – 29

  Chapter 1 – 30

  Chapter 2 – 31

  Chapter 3 – 32

  Chapter 4 – 33

  Chapter 5 – 34

  Epilogue – 35

  Part 6 – Is this the End?

  Prologue – 36

  Chapter 1 – 37

  Chapter 2 – 38

  Chapter 3 – 39

  Epilogue – 40

  About the Author

  Also by this Author

  Part1 – All Hell Break Loose

  Prologue

  A deserted place. A few trees are scattered on the land, and the sun’s rays barely came through the cloudy sky. A little far away, large mega story buildings can be seen. On the ground pebbles vibrated and the ground slowly shook, as a team of men operated the gigantic driller for creating the subway tunnel.

  The tunnel is coming from the nearby city and the driller already passed a great deal of distance. As driller progressed through the underground, an automatic machine placed concrete rings along the muddy wall for reinforcing the tunnel wall. A few men are constantly feeding the automatic machine with parts of the concrete rings.

  While the drilling and wall construction made 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 oozed down from the men’s brow. It is incredible that these men could work in this hot environment. In this tunnel, there are no one resting. There is job for everyone and everyone is doing everything they can to build the tunnel. They all are working in a fast pace, probably because they want to complete this construction as soon as possible. Suddenly it happened without any warning. The tunnel completely shook like the effect of an earthquake.

  Everyone all at once stopped working and analysed the tunnel. Then the ground stopped vibrating. Workers took a deep sigh. Suddenly the quake started again, this time a little stronger.

  With a crack sound, the newly placed upper part of the concrete rings fell 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 continued. The driller began to vibrate and suddenly the wall of soil in front of the driller broke away, revealing a natural cave system. Cold wind blew towards the workers through the tiny gaps in the front part of the driller. Then suddenly the side part of the concrete rings fell down, and the tunnel wall slowly broke apart, revealing a massive cave system across the underground. Fortunately none of the top soil fall off.

  Workers gazed at the newly discovered tunnel in horror, with curiosity. None of the men said 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 arrived at the spot from the other side of the manmade made tunnel with flashlights. They must have experienced the earthquake, but it seems that only a small part of the manmade tunnel have collapsed. The men with flashlight slowly walked 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 big wide room and there are numerous tunnels coming to this wide room from different directions.

  The men slowly approached one of the tunnel and they slowly examined the tunnel in the bright light of the flash light. Then it happened. When one worker shone the light at a nearby wall, the wall began to glitter, as if there are millions of tiny fireflies on the wall. The men slowly approached the wall with curiosity. And one worker touched the wall.

  “Diamond!” The man said.

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

  Chapter 1

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

  “Huh ...” I slowly opened my eyes and found Emily hurriedly dressing. “Honey, it’s Sunday, right?”

  “Yeah. Why?” Emily asked.

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

  “Huh, huh.”

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

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

  “Okay. Is Aidan awake?”

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

  I slowly removed the covers and stood up. And I slowly walked towards the front door.

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

  “Okay ...” I backed away from the front door and I walked towards the kitchen. In the kitchen I found the newspaper on top of the table.

  Reading newspaper have become part of my life and I couldn’t start a day without newspaper. I took the newspaper and flipped through the pages. Then the story on the second page really attracted 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?”

  “Hu
h, huh ... I will give him ... Jerome, honey? A call for you.”

  I slowly walked towards the dining room and found Emily near the phone.

  “Who is it?” I asked.

  “Government.”

  I quickly approached Emily and grabbed the receiver from her hand.

  “This is Jerome.” I said.

  “Jerome, we hope that you have red 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 ended.

  “What is it, honey” Emily asked.

  “They want me to study a tunnel system that they have discovered during the construction of a subway tunnel.” I said.

  Suddenly a car horn cut through the air.

  “Jenny is here. I am going, okay?” Emily said.

  “Okay.” I said.

  “Aidan, we are going.” Emily yelled and Aidan came from his bedroom.

  “See you, dad.” Aidan said.

  “Okay. Look after your mom, okay.”

  “Yeah.” Aidan walked outside.

  Emily smiled at me and she too exited the house. I watched both of them walking through the footpath towards Jenny’s car which is parked on the side of the road. A moment later Aidan and Emily entered inside the car and the car drove away in the church’s direction.

  I quickly brushed my teeth and drank a cup of coffee. Then I took a quick shower and I dressed for the job. Then I drank one more cup of coffee. I usually drink four cup of coffee in the morning, but today I don’t have time for that. I took my bag from the office room and I made sure I took everything. Finally I took my cell phone and car keys from the table top. After locking the house I placed the house key under the flower pot where we usually hid the key. Then I quickly ran towards my sedan.

  It’s time to go. A new tunnel system. New discoveries are waiting for me and I don’t want to waste this opportunity to study well.

  Chapter 2

  I pressed my foot on the accelerator and the small sedan rushed forward. Today traffic is less and I easily passed the city without being stopped by the signal lights. The footpaths are empty of people, mainly because it’s Sunday, but occasionally I saw people here and there.

  At the time I reached the site, it was 9:45. I parked the car and I slowly exited. Then I slowly walked towards the subway. The streets are mostly empty and I slowly entered inside the newly built subway platform. Then I saw a huge amount of people on the platform. Most are from press. In a corner an interview with a construction worker went on. Most news feeds are live.

  I slowly walked towards the construction office and in the doorway I was welcomed by Andrew who is a professor of palaeontology. I know him well. He was my collage mate.

  “Good to see you, Jerome.”

  “It’s good to see you too. It’s actually a surprise. I thought you were out of state.”

  “I was. They insisted that I should be here by morning. They told me you were coming.”

  “Did you check the tunnel?”

  “No. I came here just a while ago. They gave me a light breakfast and I was waiting for you. If you’re hungry, there is sandwich.”

  “I am really hungry ...”

  Andrew led me inside and show me coffee and sandwich. I quickly filled my belly. A few minutes later three workers with yellow helmets came and they gave us helmets they had brought with them. I wore the helmet and I made sure my bag is with me. All my tools are in this bag.

  A few minutes later a few more workers and five men in white lab coats came. Men in lab coats must be some professionals. At 10:30 we started our walk from the platform. It’s very hot inside the tunnel but occasionally a cold wind came from the other end.

  “How far is it?” I asked a nearby worker.

  “Two miles.” He said.

  Two miles. That’s a lot to walk. The whole tunnel is lighted by small incandescent bulbs placed on the tunnel wall. A few minutes later we began to see concrete pieces that had fallen off from the tunnel wall.

  “What happened here?” Andrew asked a nearby worker.

  “There was a big earthquake when the tunnel appeared.” The man said.

  Then I noticed that a few people from press are following us with cameras and mic. A few men are noting down what the construction workers are saying in a note pad, they must be from newspapers. I think the media is live. A reporter is saying things about the tunnel, looking at the camera.

  I usually hate staying around media. Who gave them permission to record this? This is supposed to be a secret study, right? I pushed back my thoughts and I focussed on the mission at hand. By 11 O’ clock, the cold wind increased. Then we saw the big wide cave or whatever it is. There are heaps of soil there and there where there used to be tunnel walls. And I saw the driller in one side.

  This is a wide room like place and the driller machine is an isolated entity in here. Around the driller machine there is only this cave. The workers have already done a great job in electrifying this place. The whole place is clearly visible. Then we saw the tunnels. There are tunnels all over the place, coming from all directions to this wide room.

  From the ceiling, narrow, pointy rocks protruded inward. The whole place is very cold and there is a constant flow of cold air in here. I actually shivered in this cold, and I almost bit the air several times.

  “We will show you the north part. That’s the only part we have lighted, at least a little.” One worker said.

  We nodded. The workers slowly led us to the north part and the people from the press followed us. We entered into one of the tunnel in the north part. The wall is very moist, and a green moss, or something like that is growing on the wall. Then we saw the series of glitter.

  “Is that what I think it is?” Andrew asked.

  “It could be.” I said. We slowly approached and we saw it clearly. Our jaw fell open at the scene. The tunnel wall is filled with sparkling diamonds. Pure diamonds having the size of my palm!

  Chapter 3

  “Ultrasonic scanning indicated that this tunnel is about one mile long. We didn’t went that far, but we do think that this whole tunnel is filled with diamonds.” One worker said.

  I slowly approached the tunnel wall and I touched a diamond. It’s really smooth. I switched on my flashlight and I showed the light on the diamond. Then I saw the glittering in the inner part of the diamond. It’s a pure diamond and all the diamonds in the wall looks similar.

  I tried to take one diamond from the wall, but it’s pretty well attached to the tunnel wall. Then I tried another one and surprisingly, this diamond broke away from the wall. I carefully analysed the diamond. Andrew came near me and he too stared at the diamond. We are speechless. The beauty of this diamond is beyond words. And the diamond is shrouded with mysteries.

  “Can I hold it for a moment?” Andrew asked.

  I looked at the diamond. Why would I want to give this to him? This my diamond, right? What the hell am I thinking? I am here to study this cave, not to take anything with me. I pushed back my resistance to give the diamond to Andrew, and I gave it to him. Andrew grabbed the diamond and he just stared at it. Certainly he lost in thoughts. I smiled at him and I looked at the tunnel wall where hundreds of diamonds are present.

  I slowly walked a little deep. When I thought I made a good distance from Andrew, I took a quick glance at my rear and found Andrew still in his initial position. He is still looking at the diamond with his mouth open. Something is pretty wrong with that diamond.

  I walked a little more. The other professionals in lab coats are in front of me, analysing the wall and the soil. They have a cell phone like device which is showing a lot of information when they placed the device on the soil. I carefully looked at the device and found a needle on its lower part. That device is analysing the soil. I have got to get one of thos
e device.

  I passed the professionals and I found the people from press moving a little deep into the tunnel. A moment later they stepped into the darker part of the tunnel. The whole tunnel is not electrified. I followed the media since they have a pretty good light emitting thing with them. The whole place around them is pretty much visible.

  Then the tunnel twisted around a boulder. I am little behind the media people and I am walking with my flashlight. Then I noticed that, from beyond the twisted part of the tunnel, a purple light is coming. I curiously followed the light. I went around the boulder and then I saw it. The end of the tunnel. The media people are looking at the end with mesmerised eyes. I too am in shock. At the end of tunnel lays a purple light emitting wall. Purple light is continuously coming out of the wall. I approached the wall and I examined it thoroughly. It looks like made up of glass. I ran my hands over the purple wall and found it very smooth.

  Then I felt it. I have an urge to break this wall. I don’t know from where that urgency arose, or for what. But, I do want to break this wall. It’s glass. One hit is all it need to break it. Something is drawing me close to this wall and whatever lies beyond this wall is the thing which is calling me.

  “Ahh ...” Pain coursed through my index finger. I looked at my finger and found it cut by the sharp glass shard which is protruding from the borders of the purple wall. Blood steadily oozed down through my finger. I quickly drew back my finger and I put it in my mouth. Copper taste of blood filled inside my mouth. It’s very painful. I winced. I slowly backed away from the wall and I stood behind the media people.

  It seems that the camera is still rolling, but, the reporter and the camera man are staring at the purple wall. What is with these people? First Andrew, now these people too. Then it happened. The reporter approached the purple wall and she started pounding on the wall with her mic.

  “No ...” Something inside me is telling me that this is all wrong. She doesn’t supposed to do that, right?