The Shoggoth Who Loved Me by K X Douglas

Author:K X Douglas [Douglas, K X]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-31T20:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Peter watched as Eric and Lachlan stared at him. He transformed back into his human form, donned his clothes and sat back on the couch.

Neither Eric nor Lachlan were bleeding, so Peter surmised that he had done it quickly enough.

“This is too much,” Lachlan said. “This is just too much. So you’re, what, an alien?”

“No,” Peter said. “My kind has only ever lived on Earth. We were created as beasts of burden by creatures known as Elder Things. It was a very tedious and dreary life; we were confined to Antarctica for I don’t know how long.”

“So where’s the real Peter?” Eric asked.

“There isn’t one, so to speak,” Peter said. “Peter Nelson is an identity I created for myself so that I could live among humans.”

“So what does this have to do with your back-up plan?” Lachlan asked.

“I’ve fought the mi-go - the aliens - before,” Peter replied. “I was the one who fought off the one that showed up that night. I can do it again. If someone succeeds in summoning the Old One that I saw in my dream, that’s a different story. We have to prevent that happening at all costs.”

“So we’re going to have to go to this…festival thingy,” Eric said. “On Halloween. Do we know where it is?”

“Probably at the same location where I went with Victoria on our date. But I’ll have to keep a lookout to see if the place changes at any point.”

“What are you going to do in the meantime?” Eric asked.

“I’m not sure,” Peter said. “If both of you want to help, I could get a hold of Silas and have him get you some guns; we could head to the firing range to practice.”

“Would guns even help?” Eric asked. “You made it sound like these things are really dangerous.”

“The mi-go, the insect-like creatures like the one that showed up on campus, are very difficult to kill, but you can do it with a gun. You just need a large quantity of ammunition. The other option is having you learn magic, but that’s much more dangerous.”

“How so?” Lachlan asked.

“You have to study a book like Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten, and humans…aren’t really meant to know the things in those books. It could drive you completely mad before you learn anything that you could use.”

“Oh…okay, then,” Lachlan said.

“The other option I’ve been thinking of is explosives, but I don’t know where to get anything like that,” Peter said. “A sufficient quality of explosives can kill even a god, as Tadhg and the professor apparently learned.”

“Yeah, I don’t think we’re going to be able to get any explosives, man,” Eric said.

“So, guns and magic it is,” Peter replied. “I’m going to get in touch with Tadhg again and see if we can’t track down the rest of his old collection. Who knows? Silas might still have some of his books somewhere. Honestly, I should probably just send him a text.”

Peter pulled out his phone and started typing.

<Hey Silas, you have any more

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