MONSTER HUNTING

On a clear Monday morning, a regular office-goer was returning from his home. He took the other lane than the normal one he used because of a strange caution sign up ahead on the road. He was unlucky, because he was the only one traveling to this side of the city. And the poor man had no personal transport for himself. In this generation.Dane Summer swore to never take another high-class job like his previous one. He was a failure with his polytechnic start-up company, and was forced to be a punctual, regular seat warmer at his new company. But as a mere employee this time. Dane never saw any future ahead of him, until today.A mirage for a figure was running towards him from the valley-like lane. It was a hilly area, and his legs hurt to walk up this one slope alone. He watched the man's shaking figure through the hot evening air and looked around.Why was the street so silent? It's almost eerie!Creeped out of his skin, Dane Summer realized the man running towards him...wasn't 'norm

Panic.Panic spreads all over his body when he hears her gruff voice. It was as if a soul had taken over her body. Ruth looked exactly like a possessed demon, like a monster and her aura shifted to something superficially sinister. Who is possessing her!? Or even better- What was possessing her!?Dane couldn't believe his eyes either. Ut was as if the thin line between reality and fiction has disappeared and the memories will forever clme to haunt him in the worst ways possible. 'This can't be, right? Ruth and I...we have so many plans together. I want to spend my whole life with her, rare a family with her...''All my middle class dreams end with the sight in front of me. For I can never let myself marry a monster."A blood curdling scream leaves his mouth when Ruth pounces on him. Her claws almost get him under her vicious grip. She was close to having him as her next target!Charlize was shaken too, but it looked as though Charlize was coming up to make a hard decision. But Dane

Serving Dane a cup of hot chocolate, Charlize sat beside him on the couch. She was trying to keep things together, when all were falling apart. "Did you know Ruth was a monster before you were friends?" Dane asked, after blowing on his cup gently. Charlize nodded her head as he scoffed."That's why it was so easy for you to kill her. Didn't it mean anything to you, Charlize?""Like I said, Dane. My duty overpowers the need for friendship and love. My duty—""Fuck your duty!" Dane threw the glass on the ground, spilling hot brown liquid everywhere. He rushed to the other room and locked the door. As if even electricity wanted to give up on him, the lights are turned off by a power cut. "Just great." He mumbled to himself, his left elbow bent over his forehead. 'Ruth…you were my everything. Whoever did this to us…deserves retribution. Even if it is the creator or the destroyer of worlds. I'll seek vengeance from whoever took you away from me.'Dane cried for a few minutes, uninterrup

"Yo, Dane. Stop staring at her." The man was staring at the doctor nonetheless. He was infatuated. Despite being thrown out of an intense relationship because of his girlfriend's death, Dane still loved being around women.Or maybe it was the feeling of falling in love all over again that excited him. Shamelessly.Or that he just wants to sex her up. Dr. Chen turns to Dane, running her eyes up and down his seated figure. He looked fine. He looked more than average, actually. "Dane—!""What is your full name, boy?" The woman asked Dane who furrowed his eyebrows. "Dane Summers..." he answers, not understanding her question. Because he was sure Charlize had already introduced him before, uttering the same name. Dr. Chen stared at him nonchalantly. There's no way a normal human like Dane can be so dumb. "Full name, Dane Summers. Full. Name." Dr. Chen was sounding pissed. She gave the man one more chance to prove himself. If he doesn't, she's going to take the universal sign and leave

Many emotions surfaced in his mind. He didn't know his parents would miss him just as much as he did. All he wanted was their presence.But he couldn't say much. They'd take him as a girly gay boy if he cried in their lap and told them everything that's happened to him. Hence, he chose not to tell anything to his parents. No matter how 'lovely' they are.However, they sniffed the air around him instead of giving him a hug. They looked at each other. Quietly and talking through their eyes, wordlessly. "Mom? Dad? What's wrong?" He asked them, trying to hide the tears by faking to look at the spider web on the ceiling."Nothing, son. You didn't lift your phone. We tried calling you many times." The mother indicated. "Oh...that. I left it at my friend's house. In fact, I just returned from her house." "It's a her?" The dad questioned immediately. Dane turned around, giving his father a look, "We're just friends, dad."Sure. Charlize was one heck of a friend.Helping them carry a few