Noises were all that I had as companions in that dream, their origin I presumed to be the outside. Combine that with the uncomfortable table I had to used as an improvised headspace, then keeping asleep was a tall task one I was hell-bent on pursuing. Eventually the incessant noises overcame my muddy will, the result a slow sequence of events every one who ever had the pleasure of taking a nap was accustomed to going through; first was the slow uncomfortable penetration of the light into my fragile eyes, second was the silent observations; for me they were the only moments of calm in my usually hectic world. Third was the alleviation of any inflictions occurred beforehand. Still something unusual came into my plane of view during the silent observation.
The classroom was deficient with the thing that woke me up, that would have been easily resolved if there was another soul in that room with me at the time, alas not even their remnants hang around. As perplexing as it was my immediate concern soon revealed itself in the form of tracing the other students who were originally in that room, failure to do that meant punishment of some sort from the tyrannical teachers who crawled within every inch of the school.
"Ugg.." I moaned as I slowly lifted myself up in small segments until my modest height of 177cm was fully reached. Due to the emptiness the room suddenly became more manageable. Walking down the row made by a gap between locker placement I pondered on the source of the sound considering the non-existence of people in that room, maybe as if to answer me I heard a screeching sound from outside. Originally I had presumed it was a woman but this voice was too crude to even think of touching that criteria, excluding women curiosity once again grew in my mind. the better part of it is that i was close to the door, a ticket i would use to quench my curiosity.
Placing my sleep warmed hands on the cold ivory knob something from deep within griped my very essence it was premonition of a bad start. unluckily for me it has now become part and parcel of my days every other day carried the same warning. a warning i couldn't dissuade nor dissipate, although it ha become normality to me i still chose to heed it so i slowly opened the door initially only a slit but eventually the whole thing. now something seemed incredibly odd the halls were completly cleared of any sign of human life.
"Wait where did the screams from before come from?" the thoughts slipped out, the answer soon came into my field of view.
if you can call whizzing past my vision like a blur maybe, still i saw something unluckily I knew quite well I knew of no human who could induce a sort of stroboscopic effect just by running. as hard as it was to accept the thing was not a human in fact very far from that it was a variant of a speed god, one that was unfortunately coming straight at me, reaction was quick but still slow compared to it's movements in such a short span of time it was now mere inches away from the door before i shut it.
holding on to the handle i heaved a sigh of relief no real emotion aside from gratitude towards my fast thinking. as my heart pounded inside my chest and heartbeat accelerating to alarming levels i silently wondered what the hell i just saw
'was it a hallucination?'
the question seemed strange coming from myself why the hell would i be hallucinating i barely ate let alone drink or smoke the idea was immediately dismissed as stupid, yet the lingering elephant remained like a vengeful spirit eventually the idea of it being a dream came into mind still he was fairly certain his mind had enough memory to perfectly reconstruct even his classroom still he had to confirm.
walking away from the door, Claude eyed his locker situated at the very back of the class a place he ha assessed to be where he belonged away from everyone's prying eyes, he was still trying to figure out what the hell to even call the strange thing he saw.
'Zombie? no too fast. Vampire? too exposed.' as he pondered he finnally reached his locker his brown eyes silently twinkling with curiousity over what to experiment with.
'If this is a mental reconstruct of my class then the things i would not vividly remember would be vague.'
'What if ommits things and makes it feel natural?'
'The book.'
Claude finally had the perfect formula of dealing with the possibility of it being a dream. the form obviously in form of a book. the book itself an unsuspecting Biology book of his he had filled up according to the math with his average of 12 words per line and 32 lines per page it should be about 380 words of biological gibberish.
'If i never read it it should feel foreign to me but still due to Biology's shallow base he could to some degree filter out anything that wasn't biological. foolproof.'
The experiment began smoothly if the book's one page didn't bore him to death, he could have been done in two minutes. Nevertheless he finished it and the reality of the authentication of the dream came fast also.
Now that he had established the worlds validity next was what to do next. Looking around he felt disadvantaged considering the loneliness he had been left to deal with. His time for thinking was suddenly cut short the cause a figure breaking through the floor to ceiling windows.
Although the last encounter was short he could deduce that the intruder was the speed demon. He instinctively widened his eyes body subconsciously backing away. It was an emotion he thought he had stopped feeling long ago but this thing for some unknown reason reignited it. His body was frozen but the moment he could move he ran to the door doing his best not to scream.
Again the moment he made contact Deja vu hit and he decided against it
'what if it isn't alone wouldn't i be suppressed easily i better deal with this one then plan the next phase of my plan.'
After a while Claude realized three things: one there was a language barrier between himself and the thing, second the thing had weak defenses seeing its haggard state just after crashing into the window, three it had no heart and a blue liquid for blood.
The most disturbing of them was the language barrier it led to a condition Sun Su would diagnose as information deficiency. It came with a characteristic illness of walking blind. Serving no purpose to Claude, he considered execution but still he couldn't bring himself to it, that was the reason why even after the failed interrogation he chose to leave it tied up.
'Useless.' He said spitting onto the half dead thing's face an about to walk away before something caught his eye. Within the thing's chest aa glow appeared dim but apparent, caution warned him against it but curiosity was too skilled of a tempter.
Slowly extending just a finger nervousness overwhelmed him as the battle between his driving agents re-ignited leading him to a passive condition. A voice whispered in the air barely audible but still caught by him who had too much interest over it's origin. This time he branded it as a stress induced hallucination, still it broke the deadlock urging him to be fearless.
His extended fingers touched the glow, expecting a grand effect. Claude was disappointed when it just disappeared nothing afterwards occurring. Furthermore the thing stopped it's perennial head bopping something Claude had assumed was death. He kissed his teeth silently cursing the anti climactic ending of the light.
(Anomaly, detected. Species not suited for Apexy still habitating, checking credentials.)
A voice sounded mechanical in nature making Claude wonder if it was some sort of AI.
'Is it that thing that is being discussed?' he silently pondered
(Bloodline detected, species misjudged, status window is being procured, 0.0000001% chance of acquiring, bug detected, bug patched, actual probability being displayed.)
By now Claude was generally interested by now he knew he was the target of the voice but the previous chances scared him witless.
(Calculation complete probability one to infinity, commencing.)