GAAHH—
Kieth screamed upon seeing the spider. It tried moving toward him, but its flesh fell apart, and it died, twitching slightly before finally going still.
Kieth cautiously stepped closer to examine it.
"What the fuck is this?" he muttered.
"This isn't even a spider... too big, and it has a human eye that looks melted. Whatever attacked it must be close. I should get moving and figure out how I even ended up here."
He began crawling through the cave. The passage grew narrower as he pressed forward. An hour passed, the suffocating space draining his strength. Dehydrated and exhausted, he eventually drifted into an uneasy sleep.
In his slumber, blurred images of someone—something—appeared. It was indistinct, yet strangely familiar. He tried to move closer.
The figure turned toward him. It was a silhouette of a woman, weeping softly. Then, she spoke.
"Please... don't leave me here alone."
Kieth jolted awake, breathing hard. He looked around in confusion.
"What the...? Did I teleport? Again? Is sleeping triggering this? Wait... is that my ability?"
He stretched his stiff back, still sore from crawling for hours, and began walking.
"Well... where even am I?" he muttered.
"Close to me, I guess," a voice responded.
Kieth spun around and saw the doctor standing there.
"Doctor! So glad to see you!"
The doctor smiled faintly. "Yeah, me too."
Kieth bombarded him with questions. "How did you even end up here? And where are we?"
The doctor sat on a pile of rocks, his expression somber.
"Makar... it's no more," he said quietly. "Sofia was assassinated by the rebels. Her final order was to evacuate as many as possible. I tried, but no one listened to me."
Kieth's eyes widened in shock What? All of this happened in one night? While I was asleep? What about the others? Rita, Vasil... Gilbert?
The doctor glanced at him, as if calling kieth a moron with his facial expression
"While all that chaos was happening, you were sleeping peacefully."
Kieth scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "Ah... yeah. My bad. I'm a heavy sleeper."
The doctor smirked. "Sure you aren't a scrawny sleeper?" He tossed Kieth a water bottle and some bread.
Kieth accepted them gratefully, devouring the food like it was his last meal.
"Ashu ou id we et ere?" he mumbled through a mouthful of bread.
The doctor sighed. "Swallow your food before speaking."
Kieth swallowed and asked again, "Also... how did we get here? Teleportation, I suppose?"
The doctor nodded. "Yep, that's my ability. I can teleport people while they're asleep or unconscious. That's how I got you here. As for your two friends? Yeah, they ran off somewhere. If I find them, I'll teleport them close to you."
Kieth frowned. "Oh... thanks. So, why did you bring me here?"
The doctor stood. "Well... you'll see."
Suddenly, they heard thuds echoing through the cave, accompanied by a familiar clicking noise.
Out of the darkness emerged a swarm of spiders—around thirty of them. They looked identical to the one Kieth had seen earlier, with melting flesh and grotesque human-like features.
But the spiders didn't attack. Instead, they were retreating.
"What the... are they running?" Kieth asked, his voice sounding confused.
Then, from the same dark hole, something enormous emerged. The ground trembled as the predator appeared, its presence filling the space.
Kieth's stomach dropped. "They're running from that thing."
The doctor grinned. "Well, there it is. That's the reason I brought you."
Kieth blinked in disbelief. "What do you mean? You want me to fight that?"
The doctor laughed. "You? Nah, we. I figured I could use some help, and lucky for me, you were sleeping at just the right time."
He handed Kieth a dagger.
"You'll need this. Oh, and by the way... that thing shoots acid. It'll decay you if you're not careful."
The dust clear and it looked like a humanoid figure having a monster like armor
"What is that?"
"It's.....well it was a friend, not really.....a patient probably"
"Give a straight answer"
The monster spoke, "cleo long time no see, it seems you have been well"
The doctor looked at it and smiled
"Definitely you looked a lot more handsome back then"
"I was a girl what do you mean?"
...
Kieth looked at doctor "you don't know who she is right?"
"No..."
"Guessed it"
The monster replied, "dosent matter if you remember or not I'll kill you here and your little friend"
"I'm taller than you"
...
The doctor pushed him as kieth got up he looked at the place the ground looked as if it had melted
"I think you agiated her by talking about height"
"Well she started it"
The two got up and ran towards the monster, it responded by grabbing doctor and before it could throw him kieth stabbed it's hand
AAAAA— another stab in its neck ripping out it's vocal cord as it threw doctor and backed
"The Armor dosent really protect it completely, if it did it wouldn't be able to move"
Doctor got up and and grabbed his sword as the monster was trying to stop the bleeding, without waiting the two jumped it cutting it in the vulnerable spots
It tried screaming but couldn't. it's nerves were damaged it couldn't move, it was doomed to die, yet as a final attack it exploded it's body
"Shit."
kieth tried backing but it was too late it would hit him, but doctor came in the way taking the full acid
DOCTOR—
he lied down there as the acid was slowly melting his skin but he wasn't dissatisfied
"Calm down....it will probably take hours to kill me."
"That dosent make it sound any better!!"
The doctor smiled at kieth as he remembered something he had forgotten.