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Leo F.

Short Stories
- Is This Reality
- Power Beyond Belief
- Venusian Extrinsic
- Cessation of Life

Power Beyond Belief (7 ratings)
         by Leo French
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Timothy Hopkins was an archaeological assistant, 27 years old Timothy was a frail looking young man with sandy colored blond hair wearing his usual gray colored checker shirt, along with his gray colored khaki trousers. Professor Franklin Anderson had brought special members of his class to Africa on an expedition to locate other Egyptian Pharaohs. Professor Franklin had three different teams exploring three different pyramids. Timothy was teamed up with Melissa Johnson, who was 25 years of age and a very attractive young woman, with long dark brunette hair resting on her shoulders along with strong shapely tan colored legs. Timothy was head over heels in love with Melissa but he dare not let her know for fear she would laugh in his face because no one ever took Timothy seriously and it is only because of his unusually high intellect that he was able to go along on this expedition.

For three days the teams have been digging around inside of these pyramids and a couple of the teams have found some very old artifacts. Timothy and Melissa travel down a passageway which they believe had never been explored before. Inside this pyramid both Timothy and Melissa were digging around in this one spot close to the pyramid wall when suddenly the sand beneath their knees gave way. Their bodies tumbled, rolled end-over-end as they continued falling down this long unknown shaft. By the time they reached the bottom of the shafts they were unconscious. The sand, which had given way, now replaced itself leaving no trace of either Timothy or Melissa. Three hours must have passed before Timothy was the first to regain consciousness. Holding his head and leaning against the wall Timothy struggles to get to his feet. Soon the double images in his vision began to disappear and as he focused his eyes he could see 4 ft. in front of him a chamber which was large and oval. A circular stoned carved table was position directly in the middle of this chamber room with some sort of pulsating white light coming from the crystal in the center of this table. With out fully understanding any of this Timothy realized he might have stumbled on to a discovery, which no man had ever seen. Timothy began walking toward the chamber and it was at this time that Melissa was beginning to wake up and regain her faculties. Timothy made one step into the chamber room when a voice echoed the words

"Welcome."

The sound echoed around that chamber room-reminding Timothy of a voice recording usually found on an answering machine. Timothy moved further into the room as the voice continued its message.

"Welcome Lucifer, as it has been prophesied you have returned to regain your power to begin your thousand-year reign. Placing both of your hands on the crystal will restore your god like power."

Timothy began moving toward the crystal, that's when he heard Melissa scream from behind him, he turned to see this frantic look on her face as she spoke.

"TIMOTHY, STOP, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DON'T DO THIS-PLEASE!"

Timothy quickly responded:

"I Have To Do This Melissa, All My Life Everyone Has Looked Down On Me, No One Ever Respected Me, and No One Ever Took Me Seriously. If I Had Asked You Out On A Date Melissa Even You Would Have Laughed In My Face, Is That True Melissa?

After hearing that, Melissa lowered her eyes down to the ground.

Timothy turned back to the crystal and continued to approach it as Melissa and tried to plead with him once again.

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