chapter 2 a simple awakening

I get up from my bed breathing heavily and in a cold sweat, I felt like I died. as I look at my room, it's. simple as usual, a bed, a bath, a sink, a toilet, all the necessities as I sigh to myself,

"Hello again, moving city, you prison, or whatever this is"

I sigh to myself as I put on one of my few clothes not completely grown out of, and out to the streets of my, home, I guess

they have many people going to and fro the streets each probably with a cube house as I look up, and only see a ceiling

" I miss home"

I say to myself like it's any different wish from what anyone else wanted as I continue walking seeing the big clock on the moving city's wall as it ticks on, as I see a large building I'm the distance being made

"that place, wonder what the 7 are planning with that"

as I sigh and sit at a bench nearby seeing brownie

she was slightly shorter than normal with an entire closed-up food stand right on her back, skin color of, well, a brownie, and she carries the stand like it was a backpack with her little white uniform

"hey, brownie!"

I say waving my hand hello at brownie as she notices me

"Well hello jake, you seem out of it as usual, did you get the handed-out food yet?"

" come on brownie, you know I don't trust food from them have you ever heard the rumors!"

they look like they would smack me if we didn't know each other

" I have been checking the food every day, there isn't anything in it"

" you never know!"

as they sigh and take a seat by me, putting the closed Stand on her back down

"Look, I know we have worries about, this place, and I really don't blame you, but outside is a wasteland now"

"It wasn't 5 years ago"

they look glum when I said that

" true "

we stayed seated for a bit looking at the place around us as brownie speaks up

" let's go to the food giver station, I might even sell some treats, the food does work but certainly doesn't taste the best"

as she got up and stretches as they get their stand back on their back

" like I said I'm no-"

" oh come on, if you continue like that you might starve yourself"

"you can just give me some"

"I have treats and sugars, not food, come on "

as they just start walking off I sigh and get up, aswell as following her to the food station

"hey brownie, any idea on what that big building being made is for?"

I say looking back at the thing, noticing now, that it seemingly has a connection in the middle of it to the other floors, though, not the biggest like that weird elevator in the middle of this place

"you say that like I know what it is, all I hear is that it's one of the monsters projects"

"huh, which one"

"probably the one that runs this floor"

"so wolf eh, and you say that you don't know it all "

"gotta put it on me, ok, I'll say it next time you have one of those, visions"

as we talked we finally made it to the food giveaway with multiple people on each giving food to those in line as brownie starts to speak again

" hey at least they give out food and water"

"I guess, it's just so hard to trust this yknow "

"Maybe, anyway I'll be off, don't you dare avoid eating !"

"yeah yeah"

I say as she walks off and I start waiting in line along with the rest at least there are tons of food givers so it won't be that bad at least, as eventually made it to cook one of the food givers

" Ah hello planning another, operation?"

says cook, with their pale skin and Green hair, and their one extra long tooth that looks like a fang with a shit-eating grin wearing a white t-shirt and jeans

"hey I'm not the only one that's planning, there is also-"

"Jerry at the elevator "

"I, I mean"

"you gonna get the food or not?"

I just slump and sigh

"yeah, bet those above can afford food "

"Believe me, Jake, the floor levels are just what is controlled by each monster, there isn't much of a difference "

"I doubt it, I hear the 3rd floor is where they make the food, and the 2nd is a full-on research center!"

cook just looks at me as they drop the food in my hands

"yet it's still all the same, so shush"

"Why, is it because I was right !"

"no, you're just getting annoying, now go off, there are others that actually want the food"

I mumble as I start walking away soon looking at the big building still under construction, and back down the food in my arms

"yeah I got something planned "

as I rush to my box house and put my food away to investigate if there is anything strange this time I look at the building, the tallest in the place full of box homes, stacked on top of each other and people in the streets walking to and fro, as I get on top of my home and begin traveling by box home roofs to it, some people seeing me but paying no mind, as I get to the building

having white columns on its outside under its wide dark brown roof, as its walls are grey, as it reaches far higher than the homes stacked upon each other, as I can see a way in by a window near the roof

as I begin my scaling up the building, Mostly by the columns, as they grip onto them and slowly craw up the column, until they make it to the window, a couple of feet away

"ok, this place is certainly lacking decor, but if I jump it, jump, it "

oh no I'm getting cold feet as I begin looking down at the now distant ground almost visibly shaking, the sweat from actually getting up to this point making me fear that I might slip

"maybe a small bit lat- shut, you don't have a fear of heights, you can just do a simple jump, a jump won't kill you"

I look at the distance again as I try to get my morale up again

"ok, you can do this, yes, you, can "

as I take a deep breath and push myself off the column and onto the ledge of the window, as before I can celebrate the decor on it cracks, and I quickly go past the window breathing heavily

"ok now, the hard part "

as I look inside what I assume to be the 3rd floor of this place, with a wooden floor and a lightly decorated barrier that is guarding against the middle, and there are some tables and chairs up here as well, with some room side by side, as I go up to the barrier seeing down, as this is clearly the middle of the building, as I see the bottom with more seat and some counters, as the floors all seam to have rooms with doors like an apartment complex, each floor having thick pillars keeping them stable

and at the top I see the floor leading into the platform where I assume the 'elevator' was, walls clearly not made yet for it, though other than the bottom I can't see anything else

as I then hear footsteps down on the first floor, and wings starting to flap, then flying down as I try to get away from the barrier and go into a shadow, as I see a large black figure fly right down to the first floor as I mumble to myself

"a guard "

as It lands the sound I can clearly hear sends a shiver in my spine as I can now hear murmurs of words at the bottom of the building

"I must know"

as I slowly inched back to the barrier laying down in case they look up, as I look down finally able to hear them, though a bit faint, though I was only able to hear that with them being the only ones here other than me, as I see the ruler of this floor wolf

they have what looks to be armor that looks high tech, covering their face and snout, a helmet with strong jaws and teeth that look like they would be on a chainsaw

arms and legs covered in armor, as the arms lead into the large gauntlets, long sharp claws at the end of the arms of gauntlets, the bits of electricity I can Cleary see around them

as their 'tail' was seemingly covered by armor that makes it look like its spiked and making electric friction, with a blue glow

as the guard doesn't look any more human, seemingly made of ash as the embers light up in pieces of them, their head being a helmet as they're 2 pairs of large wings, the embers at their ends, as it has to large, ember covered swords on its back, and seemingly floating with no legs to be seen

as the wolf gets their helmet off showing that their name isn't the name of the suit, gray fur showing, and their snout they start the talk after placing the helmet down on the counter and speaking in a gruff voice

"We are very close to done shadow, quicker than I expected easily "

as the guard speaks in a voice that sounds like a whisper, yet as loud as any other

" That was because the leader, agreed to it, and it's on your floor"

"right wanna guess how the people outside will react"

"probably kill themselves by their own issues"

"you really have no-, wait"

as wolf seemingly sniffs and looks right at my location, as they immediately put their helmet back on and speak is u visible get shaken by that

"we aren't alone shadow!"

they said as they begin to climb up the pillows the guard also looking over as I finally register and begin to run back to the window I can hear the guard's wings beginning to flap and wolf getting closer to my floor

I make it to the window with its cracked decor as I hesitate a moment until I hear the sound of coming off the ground where I get on the door and jump to the column the decor falling off the window and shattering

with no time to actually climb down I knew I had to slide down, as I can feel the column scrape into my skin but I know I would die if I let go, as my arms begin to bleed onto the column as I eventually make it down far enough to jump off to a nearby building, quickly hiding as I see the guard make it to the window

the guard exits the window and out, as they go up to the top of the building looking around as it begins to fly around to look for me, as I try to keep to the walls of the house, and go down my arms dripping its blood as I silently groan in pain, just before I lose sight of the building I see the wolf at the window as I continue to get away from there

following the crowd, I soon see Cody in his little place that I can hide

Cody has skin like a pecan color with darker freckles, wearing a white t-shirt with a small hole in it, Jeans, and a straw hat a farmer would normally have as they are with a makeshift hammer and tools, I knew them before the event, as a normal meet

as I see the guard and rush to Cody and try to convince him to let me hide a moment

meanwhile

I look at the column covered in blood after I jumped down

"They were a desperate fellow huh"

I say sniffing the blood as I can tell it's making a trial

my sense of smell already leading me to where I would need to go as I sigh

"I hope the boss wasn't right "

as I begin to track the trail and hope it's not them