"What ugly joke is this...?" Advait mumbled, looking at the sight ahead of him, but at that moment he wasn't a mere spectator of the chaos; his life was at stake too.
Suddenly a creature with wet dark fur jumped into the glass window right in front of Advait's face; its blood-crazed mad 3 eyes were staring right at Advait's face as his large claws were scratching over the glass continuously, attempting to reach Advait's face.
"Screeeeee!!!"
The monkey-like creature suddenly screamed out loud and startled Advait as it suddenly started to bang its own head against the glass window, painting the whole glass grotesquely bluish in its own blood.
"S-shit!" Advait's survival instincts finally kicked in as he jumped away from his seat, and just the moment he jumped away, the glass window also shattered. Drenched in blue blood, the monkey-like creature, shaking in pain, fell inside the cafe with one of its eyes shredded because of a glass piece.
"S... Screeeeee!!!" The creature suddenly started to beat its own arm around the ground and table as if it had gone berserk and suddenly jumped in the direction of Advait.
"...?!"
Advait was, of course, stunned as he grabbed a plastic tray and threw it towards the incoming monkey out of his survival instincts, but the monkey just ripped the tray into pieces with his sharp claws, but at the same time this messed up his incoming dash.
"Tch!" Advait clicked his tongue watching his attack fail, but he got the opportunity to grab more things to toss in the direction of that monkey.
The monster was already in a mad state, unable to react well to the situation. Advait took advantage of that as he jumped over to the other side of the cafe's desk, grabbing the box of knives and starting to throw almost all of them at once.
The monkey, like a mad creature, tried to parry the knives too, but this time those metal knives easily pierced and slashed through its body.
"Khaaa!" the monkey yelled out in pain, that momentary distraction was enough opportunity for Advait to take on the gamble.
Advait grabbed a metal-body chair lying in front of him, and grabbing that, he jumped over the table and smashed the wooden seat's chair straight over the monkey's head.
"Khaaa!!!" The monkey screamed in pain, but Advait didn't stop and, without pausing for a moment, kept smashing the chair until the blood of that creature had flooded the entire room and its face was absolutely dismantled, in no state of recognition.
"... Fuu." Advait stepped back, wiping sweat and blue blood splattered over his face. The people in the cafe, who were still stunned, hid under the table or behind the walls; they all peeked out, staring at Advait taking deep, exhausted breaths with sunlight touching just right over the brilliance in his eyes.
As he himself was staring at the sight of absolute chaos and massacre outside of the cafe with his own eyes, in between all that, he also noticed a swarm of those serpents fused with bees suddenly turning their heads in his direction from a distance.
"... This is worse than my first interview rejection," he groaned and turned towards an employee, "Is there any back door here?!"
"N-no!" the employee replied, that simple reply at the moment was like a death sentence to all those standing inside the cafe.
'... Then how the hell are we going to even survive?' Advait gritted his teeth, and he picked up the knife lying beside his feet. 'We are doomed...'
That's what he thought of himself as his eyes looked at the swarm rushing right towards his face.
'Winning against all of them? Impossible, obviously...' He remained optimistic, 'Shall I just try my chance of escaping then?'
That too was a seemingly impossible choice, looking at a swarm of hundreds of thousands over the streets in front of him, but even so, whose instincts won't yell for survival in this situation?
Advait was also a human. He wanted to run; he wanted to hide. Chances were extremely low, but he still could maybe survive a few more minutes, but was he that type of a man?
"Of course not..." Advait mumbled as fear-filled eyes shone with a glint of sharpness, he stepped up in front of those hiding behind him. He remained courageous as he gripped the blades even tighter and stared straight at the swarm. He yelled, "Come at me, bugs!!!"
"Bzzzziiiii!!!"
"Shhhh-wwiiii!!!"
The serpent heads revealed their fangs while speeding up in his direction, unlike the situation with the spirit monkey in a state of berserk; Advait couldn't even lift his finger in front of the inhumane speed of these creatures; he was set to death.
(What the hell is going on here?)
At the moment of the crisis, suddenly a strange voice was heard by all at the centre of chaos, as next second, all strange creatures were suddenly turned into mere dark mist vanishing into the air.
(... What an eyesore) he mumbled in a strange voice which seemed to be a mix of all sorts of frequencies and weird accents, the unknown creature grabbed his fur-covered neck with clawed arms and manually adjusted his vocal cords inside the throat.
(This is better," he remarked as his voice changed into something more humane and understandable by humans.
Advait, just like many others, was drawn towards the source of the voice. Stepping out of the destroyed cafe doors, his eyes moved upwards on their own, where he noticed an absolutely grotesque being floating in the air.
He looked like a hybrid made from mixing different animals together at once. His figure was humanoid, with a head in the form of a sabretooth tiger, dozens of deer-like horns emerging from the back of the head, and three pairs of clawed arms, and aside from a pair of dark yellowish eyes, there were sets of red pupils peeking out from different parts of his body.
His white mane was long enough to reach down to his chest, and his body was further covered up by rusted golden necklaces and a ragged reddish piece of clothing wrapped around his waist.
He glanced at the sight beneath him: the entire road was filled with ripped and torn human corpses, the smell of blood making all remaining absolutely stunned and nauseous.
"Amateur's work..." was all he said while looking at that nightmare, and without a glance, he snapped his finger while turning back.
"The 'snakes' have become sloppy..." he mumbled to himself as the space itself behind him just cracked open, leading to a realm filled by purplish skies and some structures which seem to resemble a black city on the other side.
"What the hell..." Advait mumbled to himself watching this sight, but that wasn't the end of it, as in the next instant he suddenly noticed a blue smoke covering the road and skies above him, and the moment even a single breath of that smoke leaked inside his body, he felt the weight of his head increase more than a dozen times in a moment.
'Drugs?!' He recognised the symptoms instantly given his experience, but at the same time he was helpless; his knees gave out as he found himself lying cold on the tiles of the pathway beside the road.
'N-no... I can't fall down like this... The monsters can still -!' He was horrified by the situation, but at the same time, there was only so much he could do, his consciousness also gave out as he collapsed right there on the ground with the blue mist just growing denser.
...
Dark day...
Hot morning...
Swarm of unseen monsters...
And massacre unfolding right in front of someone who pledged to save them all.
"Huufff!!! Huffff!!!" Advait's eyes widened as he sat back up on his bed in a panic. In a state of hysteria, he looked all around him, and instead of being knocked cold in the street with blood drowning his skin, he found himself in a neat hospital room surrounded by other patients and hospital staff.
But even in such a state, his mind was simply flooded with the traumatic sight he had witnessed some moments ago.
"What just happened..." he mumbled to himself while removing the needles around his wrist as he jumped down from bed, seemingly healthy, moving in the direction of some staff close by.
"Hey... What happened to me?" He questioned a nurse just a few beds away; the nurse glanced at him and recognised the face.
"You are from the 4th Zone accident, right?" She said with an obvious dark frown on her face, but that frown also hammered a nail right over Advait's horror.
"It's so horrifying..." she mumbled, visibly shaken, "So many people died..."
"It really happened..." Advait, who had been praying desperately to let all that just be his bad dream, was once again thrown off by confirmation from the nurse's words.
'They all really died... There were so many children, elders, and women! So many innocent victims, all in the hands of those hideous monst---!'
"Who would expect such a loud explosion in a middle of a city like this..." the nurse suddenly remarked, but her comment was enough to take away the ground beneath Advait's feet as he glared in her direction, absolutely stunned.
"Huh? What are you talking about...?" he mumbled to himself and looked at the nurse with a maddened look in his eyes, "Explosion?! What are you talking about?!"
"You still seem in a state of confusion! Please calm down!" Advait's reaction threw off the nurse, but it was still not anywhere close to Advait as he looked around him; there were hundreds of people lying there with signs of light burns or some other injuries over their bodies.
"Huh?" he muttered in shock, and suddenly his ears caught the noise coming from a news channel in a mobile device in the hands of a slightly older man sitting beside a bandaged woman lying on a bed.
[We are reporting you with live images of the unfortunate incident which occurred over the 4th Zone of Nadia City in Delh! Their corpses were found to be in terrible condition, as reported.]
"You got to be shitting me." Advait's legs started to feel weak as his mind was catching up to the reality of the situation around him, and coincidentally his eyes caught the sight of a corpse being dragged away on a stretcher outside the hall.
Because of all the panic in the hospital, they didn't even have time to cover up the face of the corpse properly, and maybe because of that Advait recognised the face; it was the same woman who had been picking on the kid and even met up with Advait back in the cafe.
But at the moment Advait clearly recognised her alive and stable since the monsters vanished into ashes before they could kill him or others inside the cafe, he was sure of it, yet at the moment he was watching the same life, now dead, being dragged away on a stretcher in front of his own eyes.
"You have to be fucking shitting me..." His mind couldn't keep up anymore with the situation, and he fell down on the ground, all panicked.
'Why is there no mention of monsters?! They were clearly there! Monsters killed! Not some explosion! It was the monsters!!! Why isn't anyone saying the truth?! Why can't they see the obvious?!' His whole face was beaming red in frustration, and somewhere in between the chaos, his overheated head collapsed on the ground, unconscious yet again.
"Hey?! Sir! Page a resident! His heartbeat is going too fast! Get a dose of xxxxin ready!"