Gabe snapped back to reality yet again as the cold words echoed in his mind. He only had three chances, and he already messed up twice. Michael said: "Dang, I wish I had some milk." Gabe realized what had to be done. He could not let Chris die or everything would end.

What happened before this? Why was this happening? What caused this? These questions flooded him until he found a blurry memory buried in his mind.

It was mid June. I was sitting on a bench when someone approached me. He was wearing jeans, a jacket, and some old tennis shoes. He introduced himself. Jodun, I think his name was. He asked me how I was and we started to get along. He invited me over to his place and when I got there, it was a twisted skyscraper. I was confused as it was a weird choice for a building. I walked in with him and then we stood in the lobby. He turned to me and told me I was special. That I was different.

The memory was interrupted by an ear piercing scream. He turned to his left and saw Chris staring at his hands. "Uh, are you alright? Is there something wrong?" Michael asked. Before Chris could get up to run out of the room, Gabe jumped on top of him.

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"Snap out of it!" he drove into him. Chris calmed down. "Sorry about that" Chris said. Footsteps echoed from the hall. A creature emerged from the doorway. It was a short, lanky monster that looked almost like Anthony. It moved it's head around for a bit. Everyone silenced themselves and it walked away.

"What is that thing?!" Michael exclaimed quietly. "I don't know, but I got a bad feeling about it" said Gabe. "Hey Chris, what were you going to go get?"

"A handgun to make myself sleep."

"Where is it?"

"It's in the room to the right, where that thing just went."

Everyone grimaced as the only safe way to kill that thing was where it was. They started thinking of ways to lure it out when someone thought of throwing an object toward the center room. Chris picked up a tv remote and threw it as hard as he could. A loud clack was heard across the living area, followed by fast paced footsteps. The creature morphed into Anthony and walked over to the remote.

"Hey guys, what's going on?"