Once again, he wakes up in the same bed and room, but luckily, no chains are holding him again, so he easily stands up from the bed like it's another day.
After he stood up, Diamond began speaking to Ross through the speaker.
"Welcome, welcome, to your enteral domain!"
Ross' eyes were twitching. "You're annoying. Don't talk!"
'At least I returned here. Where could Samuel be? Maybe he is somewhere near the monster roaming around.'
He walked outside, 'Shit, I have to fight the beast to find Samuel.'
James looked around and saw that his jacket was missing again. He gave the camera a dirty look and went back to the same room where he had been before. The only difference was that the room with bodies falling was missing, which he didn't notice as he passed it quickly.
Also, what he didn't see was the banana pile on the ground. Ross went forward to the table, about to grab the jacket.
Thud!
He fell onto the floor, his butt received punishment, and his poor observation skills were exposed.
"Ouch, what in the world was that?"
He looked down and finally saw the banana.
'That would be embarrassing if someone saw that.'
Diamond saw him falling from a banana in the security camera room, and she started laughing uncontrollably.
"You're being funny, James Ross. I sometimes wish they were like that, sometimes."
Somehow, her laughter made her hungry, and tears of joy were coming down her face.
Ross stands up from the fall and pretends he never fell to the floor because of the banana. He couldn't keep his smile off his face, so he grabbed his jacket from the table without any casualties to his body.
He wears his jacket and, again, checks his pockets. Nothing was missing besides the walkie-talkie.
Before turning back, he heard something from the place where the exit was supposed to be, but it was a concrete wall that replaced the doorway.
"When did this happen?" The sound he heard was from speakers inside the door.
Diamond laughed, "I did this, so you should not be selfish and not help your friend. And it's more entertaining for me to see you fight the monster."
Ross didn't answer a single thing to Diamond and went in the direction where the roar is the loudest.
'Samuel, I hope I found you. My stomach got hurt too many times, so I don't want to deal with this place again. So, please, there needs to be an actual exit."
Roar!
The monster's roar was getting closer every step he took, sounding like two bears were fighting. Ross stopped when he saw the red quadruped monster with iron jaws slowly moving.
James slowly walked to avoid drawing its attention, but unfortunately, it had a great sense of sound when it heard the tools in his pocket jiggling.
After hearing the tiny sounds, the beast dashed toward James.
The A-ranked investigator jumped out of the way just in time, firing revolver. The monster's jaw reflected the bullet, at him, but luckily it nearly missed, hitting the wall.
Ross fell to the ground while lost in thought. He had an idea. James looked at Iron Jaw's angry eyes, and it rammed into the wall. It got stuck.
Before James Ross could finish the monster, it unstuck itself by crunching the wall into chunks. The eye's color changed from purple to red, with yellow-orange lighting flaring from its red body.
Roaring once again, it started chasing its prey. Ross evaded the monster's bite and ran further away. But the beast still got close, launching itself toward Ross.
Ross fired all six bullets, but they got blocked or ricocheted by the jaw, missing him.
James was about to jump to avoid the monster ramming into him, but unfortunately, the beast launched itself into James Ross's left arm. The iron jaw demolished the limb! His favorite arm was gone forever!
Lots of blood dropped onto the ground, making him faint. Before he closed his eyes, two mysterious people were looking at him
***
In a bedroom, a man and woman are sleeping next to each other on a king-size bed. Suddenly, the man woke up, screaming his guts out!
"No, No, No, No?!" After the loud noise, the man takes a deep breath, waking his wife.
She placed her small hand on her husband's body and calmly asked a short question, a little worried about him after waking up.
"Honey, did you see the same nightmare you always had?" The man replied to his wife in a whisper.
"This nightmare was different." He was sweating bullets, and the covers of the bed were wet from the tears and sweat.
"Honey, tell me what happened?" Her angelic voice put her husband at ease for a bit.
He told his wife everything he saw in the dream, about the fight against a monster that demolished his left arm, and two figures who were looking at him. The man told the woman next to him some parts of the nightmare.
"If my full memories come back about the nightmare tomorrow, I will tell you, my bumblebee!" The wife removes her wrist from the husband's body and closes her eyelids.
The man approached the closet to change his sweaty shirt into a different-colored and different-textured T-shirt. Then he went back to bed.
The Next Morning:
A green alarm clock was ringing to wake the person sleeping next to it. A hand was approaching the clock, pressing it to stop. A young man with blonde hair yawned when he woke up. He looked at the time and said,
"It's 8.00 am... I have time to sleep!"
He was about to go back to sleep, but remembered it was 8 in the early morning.
"Wait, it's eight. I will be late for school if I don't move fast."
He heads to the bathroom outside his room to shower, brush his teeth, style his hair with a lot of gel, and then put on his school clothes.
The kid checks the time again.
"Yes, under 25 minutes. The school bus would come any minute now."
He ran downstairs towards the kitchen.
A man in a brown coat, wearing a hat on top of his head, was reading a newspaper. His legs were on top of a long, wooden, brown table.
"Are you going to school today, kiddo?" He speaks to the kid after he comes out of the bedroom.
"You should know the answer, Dad?"
After he replies to his dad, he grabs a chocolate chip donut from the fridge.
"Honey, first thing in the morning, you should eat a healthier breakfast than that donut you're holding." The young man's mom said.
"Mom, I don't have much time left for a time-consuming breakfast when the school bus is about to leave." When the young man was about to leave the house, his father stopped him.
"Kiddo, the bus left seven minutes ago." After the son heard his dad say that, he worried about being late, but his father reassured him.
"Don't worry. I will drive you to the school."
"Thanks, Dad."
Inside the garage, only two cars could fit; one of the automobiles was red. A remote opens the garage door automatically after being pressed.
"Did you have the same nightmare again, Dad?"
He was concerned about his dad's mental health when, every night, he heard his father screaming.
"It was different," the dad replies to his son. The kid is curious about his dream, so he asks anyway.
"Can you describe the nightmare to me, Dad?"
The father told his son everything he could remember from the nightmare. He made it much shorter than he had said to his wife the night before.
They reached the school, and the kid jumped out of the car and ran towards it, thinking about being late.
He didn't even wave goodbye to his dad. He would be on time for school. It was about what his dad said before he stepped outside the car.
Two minutes earlier, "Do you have a minute, kiddo?"
The kid stopped whatever he was doing when he heard his dad say, and he replied with a simple word.
"Yeah?"
"Son, do you smoke at school?!" The son's emotions went from joyful to guilty very fast.
"What are you talking about, Dad?!"
"Son, I know you smoke cigarettes. The scent is all over you, even covering it with a strong cologne, can't hide it for me."
The son left quickly.
'Sigh, kids these days. I should comfort him later!' The man was about to leave the school when his phone buzzed.
'Hmm? What does my boss want?" He picks up the phone. When the boss finished talking, he replied.
"Understand, I need to call my wife first to tell her that. I am going to work today. Have a nice day!" The man hangs up the call and then calls his wife.
"Honey, I am working today!" The wife asked him not to go to work, but he couldn't, so he promised her he would be home before lunch.
"You know, I keep my word to you. I would be home." After the discussion ended, the man hung up and returned to his job.
He reached his building and went inside the parking lot that connected it to his work. A bald man was collecting money from the drivers to open the parking lot gate.
It was his turn. A bald gentleman told him how much money it cost to open the gate.
"Sir, you need to pay me ten peto!"
10 peto roughly equals 1 Color Coin (equals one US dollar)
Finally, the man parked his car. Later, he went inside the building and entered the elevator. That lift slowly went up to the 30th floor.
5... 10... 15... 20... 25... 30...
Ultimately, he reached his office, and someone was waiting for him.
"Glad you made it, James!"
To be continued.