Monstercat: Origins (Part 1)

Chapter 6: Zion

The vine dropped him off at a train station-like building. A strange man stood before him. Apparently the floating island was just an illusion, because inside it was a whole other world with a sky and another ocean. In the center was a castle. A man in strange robes and a sunhat approached him. "This way sir.", the robed man said. The voice sounded like a robotic version of his fathers. They came to a rotating pathway. The robes figure muttered something under his breath and the platforms paused and reformed into a floating bridge. They stepped across. Each platform sunk a little under their weight, it was like being a frog on a lily pad. They approached the castle slowly and steadily. The bridge was about a mile long from Camon's perspective. At last they reached a large platform with a gear on it. The robed man held up a rocky green orb with a Q encrypted on it. It looked quite similar to the gear. The man crouched down and put the orb in a hole in the center of the gear. The green rocks on the gear lit up, and the gear began to rotate. Slowly a little pedestal rose from the ground. It bare the orb that activated the gear. When they finished spinning, they had reached another large gear. This one was on a large gate however. The man put the orb in the same location as last time. It activated the gear, which began to rotate. The gear stopped and turned the other direction. It did this multiple times until it paused and split in half. The gate opened. The gear spat out the orb, and the robed man caught it one-handed and slipped it into his knapsack. Ahead of them was a door labeled 217. "You may want to avoid that room." the robed man said. "You may not come out alive." he said with a chuckle. 217 sounded like a familiar number to him. The word Redrum came to mind for some odd reason. They came to a door labeled 27. "This would be your room here." the man said, opening the door. The room was spectacular. It had a grand window with large curtains. He had a memory foam bed waiting for him with... his blankets. He noticed there was a dresser too. He opened it to find all his old clothes. When he went to question the robed man about his things, he was gone. Camon shut the door and walked to the window. The city was amazing from far away. It was like an old overgrown Wonderland city. Zion was the name. He still questioned how he got here, he just disappeared into that island and it transformed into a whole new world. He wondered if he was still on the Cult. He couldn't believe that this was all his father. He raided his entire planet, just for him. He had all of his stuff, but he lost his mother and lord knows what happened to Dravin. Then there was Draxy, who kissed him before they parted ways, which currently seemed like forever. She was with those guys from the rebel ship. EDM were the letters on the ship. He hoped that there was somewhere he could get information here in Zion. Anyway, he would find out later. The sky began to darken, although there were no stars in this odd world, and there was no main star. Camon pulled the rope that shut the curtain and lay in the bed. It was almost 5 times the size of him, and the pillows were the size of him. It was a very large bed, definitely room for two, but it was one of the comfiest beds he had ever slept in. That night he dreamed of a familiar face, the painted angel driver of the rebel ship.