The world is filled with mystery.

An organization was created long, long ago that documented every odd occurrence that happened. Every bump in the night, every shadow on the wall and every strange sight that you just couldn’t describe.

It took many attempts to wade through all the fake reports that came through. With every true story they had, there was at least 10 which were complete and utter lies.

The well-dressed man looked at their oldest mystery. A book. It was a leather bound book. No more than 200 pages from beginning to end. Yet, it was greatest mystery in the organization.

The observation is about to come to an end.

It was propped open behind a thick glass window. A robotic hand lowered slowly. The monumental turning of pages. And they were just at the beginning. No matter how much they read, no matter how much time they spent on one page, there seemed it was no end.

The pages were dusty, but in good condition. With every page the man in a lab coat turned, they discovered something monumental. For every page it took them years to read. Some of the information was fabricated, writings of a crazed mind, some stories of untold universe, and others seemed to speak about the past and present of their own world. With every passing day they discovered the book was 100% right.

So the question was asked, “What if the ‘fiction’ was our future?”

However, some of the stories or events were cut abruptly, “Whoever was writing it possibly got bored.” The note in one of their files stated, under wall of text that just abruptly ended without explanation.

Yet, other past events were written in detail, the well-dressed man read through the newly forming mass of words and noted, “Strange, this new event is going to be a big one. It’s describing a large terrorist attack.”

The information kept coming. From the way streets looked before the attack, to what the terrorists were wearing, their thoughts, their fears, to what it was after the explosion. The chaos. The thoughts of those affected. Every excruciating and gory detail was written in the pages of the black book. They soon discovered the event was going to happen in several weeks. It came true. Everything the black book stated happened. The people that died, everything came true.

Theories about the black book were never-ending, as it was its ability to create content out of thin air.

Tests on the black book were usually kept to a minimum. Only using a robotic hand to hold or maintain the black book. They were observing it for many, many decades. But soon that was about to change.

The organization got the green light to take the testing from reading and writing, to living test subjects.

First test subject was named SUB01.

A chimp from the local zoo. The scientist had a slight fear of the chimpanzee taking the book and ripping its pages. Destroying it in process.

Regardless of their fears, the test subject was led into the room. Almost immediately it tried to gnaw on the book’s covers, yet, no matter what the chimp tried to destroy it, the book remained unharmed. Its pages’ were not affected by the great ape’s primitive behavior.

Soon, their view on the book would change. They collectively decided to leave the chimp alone with the book. Overnight the chimp’s behavior changed entirely.

It suddenly was sitting upright, scanning pages upon pages of the black book, speed reading. Hundreds of years of history being consumed in hours by the former primitive being. They could soon talk to the chimp like it was one of them. They tried to escort the great ape, now calling itself, Michael, but no matter what they tried the chimp seemed reluctant to leave. To the point of lashing out violently at the scientists.

One of them was unlucky enough to get swiped by the chimp’s true strength. The person was dead after hitting the wall. After the incident the chimp was soon sitting quietly, scanning the book, not concerned about what had happened.

After the corpse retrieval and disposal, the Organization spent several other attempts at book retrieval, with similar results.

Soon, they noticed something truly odd.

One of the lab scientist’s noticed the book was merging with the great ape. It looked like it was consuming the chimp’s hands. Now, its hands were no more than stumps disappearing into the hard black cover of the book. As if the book was eating the ape, one inch at a time.

The great ape remained unaffected. The veiny protrusions pulsating, going deeper into its arms, shoulders and one even deep inside its bony head. Its skin was slowly getting consumed. Carefully, the chimp’s skin was getting removed from its skeleton along with its muscles, veins and internal organs.

In fascination, they started recording everything that happened. The camera noticed new words were being written as more and more of the great ape disappeared before their eyes.

Sadly, nothing could prevent the inevitable. The chimp completely disappeared. Its final thoughts written upon pages and pages of newly created work.

The testing had to continue.

Next, the Organization approved of a 20-year-old gorilla to be moved in with the book.

The cell was improved to handle the new occupant and its immense strength.