"Here's your coffee, sir" Belle put the coffee on the table and smiled at me before leaving.
"Thank you,"
I took the brewed coffee and took a sip while it was hot. I love the aroma of it and the taste that can energize my morning. It is good for starting the day, especially if losing hope as a sales executive is a big problem. I have a house rent that I need to pay before the end of the month, or else I will end up homeless. Plus, I am paying people to find my dog because my fur baby has been gone for three weeks.
After reading my boss's text message, I am about to sip my coffee again. When a man approached me and now standing beside me.
"Agony" The man called me by a name I didn't know. I looked at him, and his clothes were peculiar. He wears a cape with gold linen and boots. His ears are pointed. He looks like he is from the costume party for me.
I stared at him and looked around to see if anyone could see him except me, but everybody was busy chatting and taking their coffee. I looked back at him, but he was no longer beside me but in front of me.
"Jeezes, you scared me," I told him, but I didn't see any reaction on his face. He is so serious.
"Agony, come back and save Clivenhood," He said, the echoed in my ears.
"I am sorry," I asked him, but he didn't answer. He was silently looking at me when I heard a dog barking. I looked at my side table and saw Marlo barking, but he ran away when he saw me looking at him.
"Marlo!"
"Marlo!"
I called while following my dog that I lost three weeks ago. I knew it was him because his color and the collar that I wore him were the same. Marlo is a husky dog with a bluish eye color. I stood where I was sitting and ran outside the coffee shop to follow Marlo. I miss my dog so much, and I want to take him home now, but he can't remember me anymore because he barks without getting near me. Maybe he is having trauma now because he was lost for three weeks.
"Sir", The woman called me, but I didn't mind her because I was busy with Marlo. I can't take my eyes off of my dog. I didn't want to lose him, so I followed him wherever he went.
"Marlo!" I called again, but my baby dog was not looking back. I don't know if he can still recognized me because he didn't even dare to look back at me.
"Marlo!"
I kept calling and following him until a group of men suddenly blocked my way to Marlo, and I lost him again.
"Fuck!" I shouted with frustration because I was about to find my dog again, but these men stopped me.
"Hold up", One of the four said, and he secretly pointed his Swiss knife at me.
"Give me your wallet and cell phone."
I looked at the man, and I remembered him. He is the one who stole my Marlo from me, and now he is using my fur baby to rob people. He uses Marlo to lure and bring people to him so that his group will rob the poor victim, and I will not allow it.
"Give me your cell phone and wallet if you don't want to get hurt," He said while pointing his Swiss knife at me, but I didn't like it because he already took my Marlo, and I would not allow him to take anything from me again.
"Are you mother fucking deaf?" He asked irritably.
"I told you to give me your wallet and cell phone!" He said, and his friends tried to touch me, searching for my cell phone and wallet, but I punched them individually.
I will never allow them to rob me after taking my Marlo away because what they did is enough. We exchanged punches and kicks, but they were four, and I was only one. They beat me until the one holding a knife stabbed me. I saw blood flowing from beside my stomach, which made me angry. My house was just three blocks away, and I could easily run and ask for help, but I knew I could handle this alone.
"Where did you bring my dog?" I asked, trying to make myself calm.
"I sold it, " the man who stabbed me answered, making me madder. He doesn't know how much Marlo, my baby dog means to me.
"Fuck you," I told them, but they just laughed at me.
I felt like my body became numb but hot, growing bigger than my size. My teeth became fangs, and my nails grew longer and sharp, which could tear human flesh. I don't know what is happening to me, but I consider it a blessing in disguise because I am feeling stronger and braver.
"No," One of the men who tried to rob me said when he saw my transformation.
They tried to run when they got scared, but I didn't let them run because they needed to pay for the stabbing that they did to me and for stealing my baby dog. I grabbed them individually, biting them, tearing their skin and mauling their flesh like a wild dog or a beast. Until I noticed that they were not moving anymore, I knew they were dead, and I killed them, but their blood and flesh energized me. I made myself satisfied because I couldn't control my aggressiveness.
"Awooo!!!"
I howl with my body covered with their blood. I didn't think twice, but I ran to my house three blocks from where they tried to rob me. I don't want anyone to see me or the crime that I committed because I don't know what is happening to me.
I immediately got inside and looked at myself in the mirror. I terrified myself because I had changed. I no longer looked like a human. I have pointed ears, fangs and a tail. My body also became hairy, and I am significantly bigger than myself. I looked at my stab wound, which was bleeding, but I didn't feel it hurt.
"What is happening to me?" I asked myself while staring at myself in the mirror because I couldn't believe I had transformed into something I couldn't describe.
I am covered with blood, and I Can't recognize myself anymore. That scared me because I felt I was no longer who I was. I touched the antique mirror, which turned into water, suddenly releasing energy and pulling me inside. I tried to hold on to something so the mirror could not pull me, but it was too strong, and I couldn't stop it from pulling me. It is like a washing machine spinning and releasing a current.
I tried to remove my finger from the mirror but couldn't. The mirror seems to have glue, and I can't pull my fingers out. Weird, but it is happening to me right now. I don't know what to do because the current keeps pulling me no matter how I fight it. My whole arm was inside the mirror now, and I saw the man again with pointed ears standing behind me, watching me being pulled by the mirror.
"Help," I told him, but he didn't help me. He is only looking at me and doing nothing.
"Come back to Clivenhood, Agony and find Cythera," He said. His greyish-bluish eyes were brightening, telling me something. He stares at me as if he has known me for a long time. I keep
on hearing his voice like it is hypnotizing me.
Until the whole mirror sucked me, I woke up in a place I didn't know.