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Chapter 32 - The Creature in my Dorm

After that frightful experience with the doppelganger in the elevator, Fausto tried to make a quick dash to his dorm. Upon reaching there, he notices that door was unlocked or rather it appeared as someone had broken into his room. Large claw marks ran across the door knob and penetrated where the lock should be. Fausto nervously stood outside of his door and thought to himself what other freaky ass thing will he come across: A large bird with freakishly large talons, a chimera of sorts, shit, it can even be what Fausto fears most, a shark! Regardless, the voice he heard downstairs in the lobby said that it'll be waiting for him in his dorm, so the claw marks must belong to it. "So what's talking to me isn't human?!", Fausto says to himself frightened. But considering what has happen thus far, it can't get weirder than a giant that loves music trivia or an over-emotional elevator. So Fausto prepared himself, and reached for the door knob.

"Finally... I thought something happened to you along the way", calls out a voice from the otherside of the door. This stops Fausto in his tracks and before he can open the door fully, he asks, "What... What are you?! You're not some other weird-ass thing are you?"

"Weird-ass thing?", scoffs the voice, "Are you talking about your parents? Don't be a wiener, come inside already, will ya." Fausto takes a second to think, "What does he mean my parents? Are you telling me those things were my parents?"

"Listen man, the longer you stay out there, the more weird stuff is going to happen to you", warns the voice. Fausto finally gathers all that remains of his courage and barges into the room with eyes close yelling, "Alright, I'm In!" Instead of something attacking him, he just stands there with his eyes close. He stands there, shaking and full of fear. Fausto not being able to take in the suspense, lets in a weird yell/ yelp and the voice asks, "Are you ok?"

"Why aren't you eating me?! Go on attack me!", yells out Fausto. "What?! I don't want to eat you and frankly, I doubt you'd make a good meal." Confused by the purpose of this voice, Fausto opens his eyes to realize that his dorm is completely normal. "I just needed you to get back in your room before you started to break shit and the whole world falls apart."

Fausto contemplates what he means by that and scans the room to see anything off and finally he sees it. Within the pile of clothes on top of his bed he sees it, a cute, grey cat with incredibly green eyes. Fausto says to himself, " Is this really the thing that is talking to me?"

"What are your surprised, compare to most other things you've seen this far, I think I'm the most normal looking thing", the cat replies.

"Yeah you're right, I was expecting something more scary but what... what.... what the hell are you?!", fausto says as he fully panics at the idea of a cat talking to him. Let alone, that thing just responded to Fausto's thoughts.