“Man…you would think that’s too many earthquake for a day, especially when they doesn’t seems to weaken over time. What do you think, Alex?” said Bill, who’s standin next to Alex’s desk. “A bad timing to join the land of the living, or did the shake disturbed your sleep?”

“I’m sorry, Bill…I don’t know how I passed out…Oww…” said Alex, his eye felt sour from waking up. He rubbed his eyes to make them feel better. When he looked back down on his smart phone. The red X has gone, back to his original home screen. How strange, the new dream, the frequent earthquake, are they just mere coincidence? Or is it something bigger behind all this? Alex felt an urge to seek the truth.

“Umm…Bill, I think I better get back home and rest. I guess I still haven’t recover yet.”

“I told you so, get well soon. But when you get back, you’ll have a lot of work to do.”

“By then I’ll have all the time I need. Thanks, Bill, I owe you another one!” said Alex, he quickly grabbed his things and leave the office. Back on the street, everything looks normal. Although it was quite a shake, but the earthquake didn’t do much damage, everybody soon finds themselves back on track with their daily lives, but not Alex. Deep in his heart, he could tell, something’s about to change, for better or for worse.

Instead of heading for the subway station, Alex ordered a taxi. The yellow car drived and disappear into the traffic. Half an hour later, the taxi dropped Alex somewhere in the suburb area. The place is like a ghost town, no pedestrian, no cars, only a few houses are in the area.

Alex paid the driver and walked towards an old house. The place looked abandoned for weeks, or even months. Dusts are everywhere, fallen leaves coverd the front porch. Each step Alex took made the crunchy sound from the dried leaves. Alex opens the front door, even inside look deserted, but somehow, most of the furnitures were covered up by white clothes. Looks like someone tried to preserve the place. The stair in the house make squeaky sounds as Alex went up to the second floor. There Alex entered a room, which looked like a study, there’s a desk near the window facing inside covered in white clothe. Bookshelves surround the room filled with books covered in dusts. In the room there’s one thing stands out, there’s one wall in the room that doesn’t have bookshelves in front of it, instead it was covered by a dirty green clothe. Alex pulled off the clothe. The wall is covered in a giant red web. Photographs are all over the wall, there are writings on them, next to them, is a giant world map.

“Finally, one step closer…” said Alex. His family was in an accident. An airplane was flying from Brazil back to the U.S.. But the plane never reach its destination. In the record, the plane simply disappear in the middle of its journey. Days later, parts of the plane were found flloating in the Carribean sea, but only the parts from the tail of the air plane. The parts from the front was never found. They couldn’t even find one body or survivers from the plane. The official called it a crash and assume all of the passengers aboard are dead, and they closed the case. Alex wasn’t convinced, most of them victim’s family wasn’t convinced, but as time goes by, some moved on, but Alex can’t. He’s been putting together the puzzle, gathering evidence. Ever since the accident, the dream with the creature with the red X has been haunting him. Some may said he’s gone mad, many victim’s family members gave up, accept the death of their loved ones, some had supported him for his search, but now, he’s the only one that’s left. You may wonder why he can keep it going for this long. Because just before the accident, his father, who is boarded the plane, send a message to him, simply wrote “KRAX”, and a picture of a red X was posted on his sister’s facebook.

He lost his parents and his sister on that day, and he couldn’t let it go since then. The creature with the red X has haunted his dream for a long time, but the “KRAX”, it only just appeared today.

“Why the delay? Why now?” Alex asked himself. If it was his memory that haunted him, it should have appeared long ago, but no, it only just came out today. “It’s not just my dream, there’s something more to it, I KNEW IT! But what is it? What is the KRAX?”

On the wall, Alex recorded of all the passenger’s information like their backgrounds, career, and more. Trying to find a connection, but he can never seems to find one. Perhaps KRAX is the last piece of puzzle. What he once think to be a random message from his father.

“Could it be?” Alex ran his finger across the wall, his eyes scan through all the information. Hours later, the KRAX proved to bring the mystery further away from its truth by bringing in a bigger puzzle. Alex, sitting on the floor on the other side of the room, staring into the wall. His hope seems dimmer and dimmer. Is it time for him to finally give up? Finally accepting the fact that his family are long dead with their bodies on the bottom of the Carribean sea? A drop of tear ran down his face. He still can’t find the answer. He grabbed the green clothe, covering up the wall once again. Just this instance, he saw something outside the window, something weird. A black car is parked right in front of the house. But the town is abandoned, it’s been years since there’s any people lived here. The youngs moved to the city, and the olds moved to live nearer to their children. Who are they, and what are they doing here?

Alex carefully covered up the wall. As he leave the room, he saw a shadow standing in the doorway, the light from the outside cast a shadow all the way on to the stairway. Looks like a man. Who is he? What does he want? A sense of fear again grasped Alex. Alex went back into the study, he removed the white clothe covering the desk. On the desk, there’s a photo of his father and his younger self. He pulled out the drawer, and found a key inside. He grabbed a key and quickly walked to one of the bookshelves. On the bookshelf, there’s a safe; he used the key to open the safe. Inside he found an old gun, old but not rusty, not yet. He checked the magazine, 6 bullets. He grabbed another box of bullet from the safe, locked it, and quickly leave the study. But he didn’t went downstairs. He turned to another room, he opened the window, and climbed out. There’s nobody on the lawn. He quietly climbed down, and ran away.

He’s been heard, he can hear the footstep behind him, and the engine started. He looked back, there’re one guy running after him, and the car is right behind him. He can’t see how many people is in the car, but that’s the least on his mind now. Who are they? Why are they after him? But the people after him doesn’t seemed armed, so they couldn’t be gangsters. He turned back for another peek. The one chasing him on foot wears a black suit. “Someone from the government?”

Alex jumped over the fence, there’s a bike on the other side of the wall. Alex grabbed it and start peddled it like crazy. He seemed to be able to ditched the guy on the foot, and the car is on the other side of the fence. Suddenly the car smashed through the fence and stop right in front of him. Alex squeeze the break, but the break seems to be broken. He slammed into the car, flew into the air, and landed on the lawn. His mind is slipping away, he can see two other guys in the black suit stepping out from the car, and then he blacked out again.

He can feel the icy cold floor of concrete pressing to his face. He’s back in the hallway again. Lying on the floor face down. He pushed himself back up, suddenly he remembers something. He looked back, and there it was, the creature. Its red eyes shines in the shadow, staring into his eyes.

“Hi, I believe our conversation was interrupted last time…” said Alex. The creature didn’t said anything this time, just staring into his eyes.

“I know you can talk…I just want some answers. What is the KRAX? Does it have anything to do with my family?”

Still, the creature stay silent.

“Who are those man chasing after me? Do they have anything to do with the KRAX?”

The creature took one deep breath, but still didn’t say anything.

“Please…I just want…”

“ROOOOOOOOOOAAAR!!!!!!!” Suddenly, the creature roared. The eyes stared right into Alex’s eyes. Something tells him, the creature can’t speak. But the red X, the eyes, everything is exactly the same. The creature jumped out of the shadow, revealing its form. It has the body like an gorilla, but much bigger. Its eyes are the size of his fist, and its head is huge. It has a tail like scorpion, and looking at its movement, the creature is very agile for its size.

“Easy…I just want to talk…” said Alex, backing off from the creature. Suddenly, he felt a piercing pain from his chest. He looked down, a giant scorpion tail pierce through his chest. Alex couldn’t believe what he saw, he slowly turned his head back, there’s another creature, much bigger than the one standing in front of him. His body was slowly lifted up into the air, and quickly smashed down. He closed his eyes as he was about the floor.

“AHHHHHHHHH!!!!” He woke up. Covered in cold sweat, the pain in his chest still feel so real. He find himself sitting in a hospital bed. Two of the guys that were chasing after him is sitting across the room. Alex tried to get out of the bed, but soon discovered that his right hand is handcuffed to the bed’s railing.

“Easy, Mr. Harrison.” said one of the man in black suit.

“What do you want with me? I did nothing wrong!”

“You…are…very hard to track down…did you know that?” said the other man, stood up from the chair. He was then stopped by the first one who spoke.

“Mr. Harrison, may I call you Alex? I’m special agent Kenway. We don’t want any trouble, Alex…we just want to know…how much do you know about the KRAX?”

“It’s none of your business…if you want to kill me go ahead…I didn’t tell anybody about the KRAX…”

“Hahaha…we’re not going to kill you, Mr. Harrison…right, Kenway?”

“Easy, Charles…” said Kenway. “Let’s do this the easy way, Mr. Harrison. You back away from all this, the KRAX, your famiy’s death, everything.”

“What if I don’t?” asked Alex.

“Then we’ll have to do it the hard way.” said Kenway, he put on a dark sun glasses. “Just like what we did to Dr. Harrison…your father.”

Alex rage overflowed, he tried to get up but with his right hand handcuffed to the bed, he couldn’t go anywhere.

“What did you do to them!” shouted Alex. “What did you DO!!!”

“Just remember this, Alex. If you don’t back away. The same will happened to you. Charles.” said Kenway, he stood by the door, while the other came toward Alex. He covered Alex’s face with a clothe. Chloroform…Alex tried to fight, but the harder he tried, the more dizzy he got. Soon, he blacked out again. He’s once again back inside the hallway.

The same chase happened, the same fall. Just before his face was about to hit the floor, he woke up. It’s in the middle of the night, the dim moon light shined through the window. Next to the door, stood a man in the hood.

—————————————–To Be Continued—————————————–

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