Avasyu woke up drenched in sweat.His body was trembling. His breath was unsteady.
"The nightmare—was it really just a dream?",he mumbled.
Shaken, he rushed out of his room and headed straight for the guard's quarters.The guard was still there. Still asleep. Still snoring.
Avasyu checked the other rooms. Nothing had changed. Everyone was still unconscious, just as before.
He had been thrown back to the same moment when everyone had first fallen asleep.Heart pounding, he hurried to the Chief's room.
The Chief, too, was sleeping. Snoring softly.Avasyu shook him. Called out to him.
No response.
A sinking feeling settled in his chest.He needed to confirm something.He checked the date and time.February 21, 2051.
So far, that was normal.But then—his eyes landed on the clock.The clock showed a normal time.12:00 PM.
But Avasyu wasn't expecting that.According to his alarm, he always woke up at 6 AM. So how had he woken up six hours later?
His chest tightened. Something was wrong.
His thoughts raced back to the monster.
"That thing… it already put everyone to sleep. Could it have affected me too?"
But if that were true—why was he awake?
"Am I awake just because I am inside the dream? Or is there something else I'm missing?"
His mind swirled with questions.
"What am I supposed to do now? How do I wake everyone up? How do I save them?"
He needed a plan.Walking over to the calendar on the wall—right beside the board displaying the pictures of past geniuses—he marked the date. February 21, 2051.
Then, he sat on the floor, closed his eyes, and began meditating.He needed to think. To focus.
One by one, he listed his priorities:
1. Wake up his guard or the Chief.
2. Find information about the monster and understand its abilities.
3. Figure out how to fight it—and how to end it.
With a plan set, he took a deep breath.Now, it was time to act.Avasyu started with the Chief.
He poured water on his face. No reaction
He slapped his cheeks. Nothing.
He punched him. Still nothing.
Frustrated, he even kicked his butt.
Yet, the Chief remained motionless, snoring
peacefully as if nothing had happened.No matter what Avasyu did, the Chief
wouldn't wake up.
He didn't want to hurt him any further. Even
if this was a dream, he had a sinking feeling
that everything happening here would
become reality soon enough. He needed a
safe way to wake everyone up—at least
enough for them to escape.But how?
The Chief wasn't responding. Neither was his guard. Nothing was working.
As the afternoon slowly turned into evening a sudden realization struck him.
This was the time.The time when it would appear.And just as expected, the monster came.
The same terrifying figure.The same glowing dark red eyes.The same horrific mouth, brimming with countless razor-sharp teeth.
And then-the growl.
Not just a sound.A feeling.
A deep, bone-chilling vibration that shook Avasyu to his core.
More terrifying than just hearing it.
The monster entered the Chief's room.
Once again, it ignored Avasyu,as if it couldn't sense him at all.But that didn't make him any less terrified.
Even though he had seen it before, its sheer size still sent chills down his spine. The creature stood at six feet tall, its grotesque leech-like body moving with an unnatural slither.
Avasyu watched in horror as the monster approached the Chief's bed.Then, it opened its mouth.A mouth filled with countless, jagged teeth.Slowly, it lowered its gaping maw over the Chief's head, And then—it bit down.
The Chief's head disappeared into its mouth. His lifeless body remained on the bed,
No blood.No sound.Nothing but an eerie, unnatural silence.
Even though Avasyu knew this was a dream, he couldn't ignore the brutality of what he had just witnessed.
His stomach twisted.He fell to the ground, retching violently.The sound of his movement was enough.The monster turned
Its glowing red eyes locked onto him.Then-it lunged.
The mouth stretched open- wide following with a growl.Before Avasyu could react, it clamped down on his head.
He didn't feel pain.But he felt the fear.
A deep, suffocating terror that gripped every inch of his being .
In that moment-he understood something about himself.
He couldn't feel pain not because it wasn't there... but because his brain refused to process it.
His body was still experiencing it--his mind just couldn't comprehend it.But then when he pulled the rubber band on his wrist earlier..
Why had he felt nothing at all?
Everything went black.Then he saw a distant white light.
Avasyu chased it, reaching out, desperate to grasp it.
Just as his fingers nearly touched the glow—
He woke up.
His body was drenched in sweat. His breath came in sharp, uneven gasps.
Without wasting a second, he bolted from his bed and ran straight to the Chief's room.
The Chief was there—sleeping, snoring peacefully.
Avasyu's eyes darted to the calendar. February 21st.
But the mark he had made earlier—it was gone.
Which meant…
He had returned to the exact moment when everyone was still asleep.
He checked the clock.12:00 PM.
Everything had reset.But this time, he wouldn't waste time trying to wake the Chief.
There was no point.
But he couldn't just stand there again, helplessly watching the monster devour him.
He needed answers.Without hesitation, he rushed to find the book that contained information about creatures.
For an hour, he searched—flipping through shelves, scanning titles, pulling books apart in a desperate frenzy.
Finally, he found it.A book documenting all known mutated creatures.
Heart pounding, he turned the pages, scanning through entry after entry.But then—his stomach dropped.
There was nothing.No mention of the creature he had seen.No records.No information at all.
Avasyu couldn't think properly.
"What am I going to do now? There is nothing here that can help me."
He felt helpless.His mind spiraled. Overthinking. Panicking.
"What if I get trapped again? What if the cycle of death never ends?"
Every time he saw that monster, his body froze. The sheer terror it induced—the way it made his skin crawl, his breath hitch—he couldn't control it.
And worst of all…He could do nothing to stop it.
His hands trembled. His hair was a tangled mess. His dull, exhausted eyes stared at the pages of the book, unfocused.
He was so tired.His eyelids grew heavy.
Before he could fight it—his body gave in.
His eyes shut on their own.And he slipped into sleep.
Once again, the black fog surrounded him.
Thick. Endless. Consuming.And in the distance—the white light.Avasyu moved toward it, slowly. His mind was racing.
He couldn't just sit here and wait to be devoured.He had to do something.
He kept walking, step by step, his thoughts spiraling.But just as he was about to reach the light—
His eyes snapped open.
Same bed.Same environment.Same day.
He sat up, breathing heavily.
"I can't fight that thing."
The monster was too big. Even if it wasn't, there was another problem—Avasyu didn't know how to fight.
No hand-to-hand combat skills. No training. Nothing.
But then, an idea hit him—the light guns.
If he could get his hands on them, maybe he stood a chance.
He checked the time—six hours before the monster appeared.Plenty of time to find a weapon.
He started with the Chief's room.Nothing.
Then, his guard's room.Still nothing.
That didn't make sense. There had to be a storage room for weapons and armor somewhere.
Heart pounding, he rushed back to the Chief's room and checked the time.
1:00 PM.Five hours left.
Without wasting another second, he grabbed the set of keys hanging from a nail on the wall.If there was an armory, he would find it.
Avasyu searched relentlessly for four hours,
scouring every corner of the facility.
At last-he found it at the ground floor.
The armory.
Rows of weapons lined the walls, an arsenal
of firepower waiting to be used.His eyes locked onto one gun.The ALR.The same gun he had used against the terrorists.Without hesitation, he grabbed it and rushed back to the Chief's room.And then--he waited.
His fingers tightened around the grip, sweat
trickling down his temple. His throat felt
dry as he swallowed hard, bracing himself.
Exactly at 6:00 PM-The monster appeared.
That overwhelming fear returned, seeping into his bones.But this time, he didn't freeze.
He raised the gun, aimed, and
Fired.
Bang! Bang!
The bullets tore through the air, hitting the monster squarely in its massive body.
But The monster didn't even flinch.It stood there, absorbing every bullet like they were nothing.Not a scratch.
Then something happened that Avasyu never expected.
The monster opened its grotesque mouth-- and fired the bullets back.Not randomly but Strategically.
The light bullets struck only his arms and legs, completely erasing them.His limbs vanished--just gone.Avasyu collapsed to the ground.Silent. Motionless.Not because of pain-he couldn't feel pain- but because he was utterly, completely helpless.
The monster crawled toward him, looming over his head. It let out a deep, guttural growl.Then-its horrific mouth opened wide.
And in one swift motion--It devoured his head.Everything went black.And just like he was about to reach white light-
He opened his eyes.
He was back at the start.