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4% Invisible: Hunting Hyperdimensional Beasts / Chapter 2: Chapter 2: Dream or Reality?

Capítulo 2: Chapter 2: Dream or Reality?

“Where am I…? Did I… Die?”

Kai’s view gradually changed from pitch black to blurry. Then from blurry to almost good. Where was he?

The place seemed nothing like the school. The tiles were large and made of unbreakable glass. They were one black and one white, like a huge infinite chessboard. The tiles extended to all he could see. Who had the time to build such a thing? And why would someone build a place like that? A vast. Empty glass room with chessboard tiles. Nothing inside. Not a single person. Not another room. No walls. It was like a desert.

Kai realized he was lying down. What he thought was the floor was actually the ceiling.

Suddenly he felt the presence of something else in the room. A breath. A snarling sound. Something was there with him, and it didn’t seem that friendly.

Kai noticed he could move his body. He was normal. He hadn’t died… Yet. It would be good to ensure things stood like that.

He quickly jumped his body straight and as he did it, the monster charged with all its speed to him. He didn’t know exactly how he did it, but Kai managed to dodge the charge in the last moment, with a very accurate body spin.

“What the hell…?”

Kai felt his body was far lighter. Unlike usual, it responded exactly to his brain commands. Like the body followed his reflex. The other day he couldn’t grab the strange object under Aimee’s desk falling off his hands even though he anticipated the fall. If it was today, he’d have caught it in the air.

Kai stopped to look at the monster closely. It was nothing like the spiky dog form earlier. Some traits were similar. The color of the fur was the same but they didn’t seem that pointy. The size also had changed greatly. Now it was more like a bear standing on both legs rather than a dog thing. A bear so tall it wouldn’t fit Goldenville’s corridor of the second floor without having to lean the neck.

“This guy grew a lot heh? Maybe it’s not the same…?”

The face wasn’t also nothing like the one he saw. The eyes were smaller, pushed inside, almost covered by the fur. It kept the mouth shut under the snout. To be fair even if it was bigger it didn’t look as menacing as the one before. It seemed far more contained.

Kai for some reason knew he had the energy with him. Just like it was natural for a human to think of punching and kicking to defend himself against a threat, the first thing that occurred to his mind was ‘simply using the energy wave’ against it.

‘Yeah, when it charges in, I just extend my arm and… Wait, why do I have an energy wave?’ The thoughts went by his head.

Doubting himself a little, he extended the hand forward and shot. He felt some sort of very strong wind coming out with pressure.

But since he was just testing it got not nearly close to the bear-like thing. In fact, it caused it to become wary, as it hadn’t even tried attacking yet.

The thing was trying to charge in at first, but as it saw Kai’s attack it stopped mid-way, standing with the same expression about 40 yards away.

“Are you just going to keep standing there, ugly fellow? I can keep shooting, you know?”

The animal let out a groan. It was standing with both arms partially covering the chest. Then it opened the arms. And the chest opened together with it, like a man opening a coat and revealing multiple guns. The creature increased in width about twice when it did it.

Under the sides of the chest which were being covered by the arms. There were some holes and parts coming off that Kai didn’t understand well. It was definitely nothing bear-like, though. Kai could tell that body wasn’t of an animal but more likely of a machine. The holes and pointy parts were similar to the ones one could find in a robot under construction. It resembled an unfinished industrial robot with a fur casket protecting the view of the wires and metal pieces.

Kai took an instant to appreciate the scene: a vast unending dimension covered in black and white tiles, contrasting with the bear-shaped creature revealing its true power hidden in the chest, like a badass protagonist lifting the coat, revealing a secret weapon within his body.

“Ok. I understood everything now. I am dreaming.”

Kai smiled confidently.

He just charged toward the huge thing at his full speed. And the body once again responded just like he wanted to. It was like he wasn’t bound to his physique limitation.

“If I’m dreaming, I can just do whatever I want, right?”

As soon as he got near the monster, it used one of the arms which it had just moved away the chest to flicker at his face. The movement was fast and exact. Not even with his enhanced body, Kai could dodge the hit.

A single hit and he fell to the floor at full force, with an opaque sound.

Kai felt everything tremble as the pain infested his body.

‘Pain…? It hit me but I didn’t wake up? This isn’t a dream…? What is going on? Did I die at the school and go to hell and now I need to face the thing?’ Kai thought while his body was thrown at the floor. The bear thing opened the mouth and let out a screeching sound. The jaw when opened seemed to reach all the way to the neck, revealing a huge mouth with dark yellow pointy fingers. The mouth gap was twice the size of the closed muzzle.

“Ok, now that’s creepier than the dog at school. No time to think about any of this. I need to beat this thing.”

Kai quickly rolled to the side before he was stomped by the thing and then got up right after. He didn’t know how but the pain went away and he knew in his head that he was the one who made it go away.

‘What’s going on? It’s like I have been using these powers for a long time yet I have no idea how I got them.’ Kai thought.

This time he aimed right at the core of the ‘bear’ chest and shoot. His body could feel the recoil with the strength. He could recall scenes of himself destroying rocks with it, like had an intense training somewhere alone in a rocky beach.

Unfortunately, the damage didn’t seem to be as effective on the monster. It could stand the pain just fine.

“Uh oh…”

Kai started running away. But his mind accused him of uselessness. How would he outrun an enemy in the middle of such a vast and uniform environment? He pondered in his head:

‘Wait a second… The bear was afraid of my attack earlier but got all confident after he showed off those parts on the side of his chest. If an animal is so greatly enhanced using a certain position shouldn’t it always carry that when he hunts? Why didn’t he use that stance from the beginning?’ Kai thought as he was using every ounce of his speed to run away from the thing chasing him.

‘Either it has a limitation usage of that stance… or the things he showed when he uncovered the chest not only enhance them but are also the weak point… I should aim for them instead of for the middle of the chest…’

Oscillating in looking back and looking at his front, Kai tried aligning the monster right behind him.

‘I turned around, extend the arm then shoot. One single move.’ Kai kept repeating in his head.

Thankfully that version of the body responded exactly as he wanted. He executed the plan exactly. The aim was perfect.

The monster fell to the floor, groaning a deep sound which became almost robotic to the end.

“What is this thing?” Kai stopped and went to its direction as it seemingly had faint.

Approaching the body of the monster Kai could see that the parts where he shot were made of metal. The same shiny metal he saw on that object under Aimee’s desk the other day. He got so curious that he wanted to retrieve the thing out of the monster’s fallen body.

“What is this…? I don’t feel well…”

As Kai leaned his body to try and retrieve the thing from the monster, he felt all numb and everything began turning black.

“Is this… Exhaustion? Did I use too much power?”

Kai fell on the top of the monster, anticipating he’d pass out as well.

Then he woke up. He was back at reality.


Capítulo 3: Chapter 3: Back From the Dead

Kai opened his eyes. But he still couldn’t see anything. Everything was dark.

He tried getting up but his head hit the ceiling. He was in a very cramped room. It only fit two or three of his own body stacked. He was lying down and he couldn’t get up.

“Now what is this? Is this hell for sure?”

He stopped to try and remember everything that happened. First the monster in the school, the other one in that weird dream.

Kai noticed he was panting. The air was rarefied.

‘I need fresh air.’ He thought.

Kai started knocking on the ceiling. It seemed to be made of hardwood.

“Damn it. It’s locked.”

Kai got a bit desperate and tried harder.

‘Wait, if my body is craving so much for air does this mean I’m still alive?’ He thought.

Kai tried using the awesome power his body had in the dream. He pictured his punch breaking through the wooden ceiling.

But this time his body didn’t respond very well. The punch was far weaker than he would expect and the impact made his hand hurt.

“Ouch!”

His vision began getting more accustomed to the environment. He noticed there were hinges on the corner of the ceiling.

“Maybe if I try opening from there…?”

Kai was out in no time.

It was a coffin.

He left the coffin and saw himself in a cemented room. The cement seemed to be still fresh.

“What is all this? Where am I? What’s going on?”

Kai realized he was dressed fancy. He was wearing formal clothes and a brand new pair of shoes. He spent the next five or ten minutes repeatedly kicking the cement until it all fell off.

“Thank goodness I was not barefoot” He muttered as he left the cemented room.

He realized he was in the downtown cemetery. He had been there a couple of times before. He looked back at the place he just came from. A grave on a wall. The cemetery had those instead of having people actually be buried underground. They put the casket inside a hole and cemented it.

“Kai P. Erickson. 2004-2020,” he read. “Sounds morbid.”

He stretched the body and got a full gulp of air.

“Did I really die? But then… Why am I here? What about those powers? Unbelievable! I’m not sure what’s real or not anymore!”

Kai extended his hand and tried releasing the energy again. Nothing happened. He tried again, and again.

‘Nothing, heh?’ He thought. ‘I guess that’s to be expected. It was just a dream after a…’

In the next attempt, he felt a gust of wind coming out of his body. The energy hit the wall in front of him. He heard a thump. But it didn‘t do any visual damage to the cement.

‘What is this? I still have some trace of power!?’ Kai stared at his hands in disbelief. ‘Anyway… I should go back home. It looks late…’

Kai had to walk as he seemed to not be carrying his wallet. It took him a long couple of hours to reach back. He was all worn out when he knocked on the front door.

His mother took a while but answered, with disheveled hair and horrible appearance, like he had a very bad day.

“Kai!? Kai!!”

She rushed from the window to the front door.

His mother could barely contain herself.

“Oh. You’re here! You are alive! You are really my son!”

‘Well, this is awkward…’ Kai thought as he withstood the big wave of hugs. Soon dad also came and he noticed he wouldn’t rest very early in that night.

“Kai!? How are you alive? What happened?”

“I…” He tried to come up with an answer but he was the one who understood the least.

“Please never jump like that again…” Her mother said to him.

“…Jumped?”

“You scared us real good, there. Jumping from the balcony at school. We couldn’t understand… But now you’re here, so…” His dad realized they were still at the front door. “Anyway, let’s come in.”

“Yeah…”

‘It seems I’m gonna have a lot of explaining to do…’ Kai observed.

It took him long, but Kai’s parents finally let him go to his room and lay in his comfy bed. However, he could still not sleep at all. The words of his mother still reverbed in his head.

‘Please never jump like that again… What the hell happened that day at school? I didn’t jump sh*t. It was some animal thing that did that. And I was nowhere close to the stairs even… What did that girl tell the people at school? She saw it too, right?’

Kai rolled for the thousandth time in his blanket.

‘Ah, screw this… Next time I go to school I’m going to find out what happened.’

As any regular student who died and came back from the dead, Kai took a couple of days before he started frequenting school again. He only got back to the studies in the next week. He arrived late to the first class and had to go straight to his spot.

In the way, he glanced at the front row and saw her again. Aimee.

Among all the students who were clearly staring at the ‘guy who jumped and came back’ during that silent moment of his arrival that interrupted the English class, Aimee herself seemed to be the most shocked of them.

‘You…’ He thought. ‘You are still alive, too. I need to know what happened on that day. I am going to make you spill it all to me in the interval.’

Kai was forced to just sit in his spot and act like nothing was wrong through the next hours. The eyes of his classmates followed his every action uncomfortably.

Minutes after the teacher resumed class, he asked for the short colleague who would always sit next to him.

“Hey…” he whispered. “Can you lend me… The… Textb…” He noticed the colleague he always forgot the name was facing up front, pretending he didn’t hear him.

‘Great, now I’m the weird guy.’ Kai thought. ‘Thanks a lot, Aimee.’

In the middle of the second class, he began hearing rattling coming from the ceiling. Something seemed to be running around. A person? No… It was an animal. Those were definitely the sound of paws.

It was like a very energetic pet was knocking the thing over and the noises were really loud.

‘C’mon I cannot concentrate like this… I can barely hear the teacher.’ Kai thought about asking the teacher to at least talk louder but as he was about to raise his hand, he noticed everybody was acting like they weren’t hearing anything.

‘What’s going on…?’

Aimee, in the second row, raised her hand and said she was going to the bathroom.

‘This girl… She knows something. I bet she is also hearing all of that.’ Kai thought.

Kai also raised his hand.

“Sir, can I go to the bathroom?”

“The rule is one student in the bathroom at a time, Kai.”

“Yeah. But I’m not going to the lady’s one, sir.”

Kai managed to get permission and went straight to the upper floor, where the noise seemed to be coming from. He was expecting to corner Aimee and ask her what the hell was all of that about.

‘On a normal day, I would have gotten at least a giggle from the class with that one… People are still weirded out…’ He thought. ‘Oh, well. I’m going to find Aimee now and make her clarify the things.’

The room on the upper floor was like a deposit. They kept all the things which were used by the staff personnel. Cleaning tools. Boxes of things to be used in remarkable dates. Boxes of who knows what. When he was younger that was a great spot to play with the fellow kids in the interval.

Kai opened the deposit door.

“Aimee…?”

As expected, the boxes had all been thrown around.

Kai felt like someone was in the back of the room, behind the shelf, so he walked amidst all the things, trying to reach it.

“Aimee?” He asked more firmly.

But as he reached the back of the shelf, he didn’t find the girl. Instead, he found another familiar figure: the same monster with the spiky fur of the other day.


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