Monstercat: Origins (Part 1)

Chapter 7: The Ism Hotel

In the morning, Camon woke up to a crashing sound from outside his room. He cracked open the door to peer through. At first he saw nothing, but he knew he wasn't going crazy, he had just heard that sound. Then, a drunken servant stumbled by. He was a very odd figure, what do you call it, bony. He was literally staring at a bright-robed skeleton with a small serving tray in his hand. The figure was surrounded by fallen metal trays and crashing silverware. Camon stepped out and asked, "Uh... hello? Are you alright sir?". The skeleton jumped back, startled, and swiped up his fallen things and escaped down the corridor. "What a strange fella...", said Camon to himself. Today was the day. Camon was in desperate need of information. He had a slight idea of where he was, and why his planet was obliterated, but he needed to know the letters. EDM, he remembered them distinctly carved on the rebel spaceship that saved Draxy. Boy did he miss her. It seems like once you fall in love with someone you can never have enough of them, he thought. He noticed another figure slithering through a hallway adjacent to him. He ran down the hall towards the figure. When he got to the other hallway, the other figure was gone, but a thick line of slime had trailed behind him. Camon followed the slime trail, observing its magnificent purple shade. Suddenly, a slurping sound came from behind him, followed by a lot more. A whale-looking alien butler carrying a bright blue mop is where it all came from. The butler followed the slime trail, mopping it all up and dropping it in a bucket. There were many more buckets, empty and full, on the wagon he was dragging behind them. "Um, excuse me sir, do you know where everyone is?", Camon asked. "Oh.... Um.... My master is joining his friends in the cafeteria... If that's what you mean.", the butler politely replied. That seemed like the first time anyone had been polite to him on this blasted ship. Camon followed the butler and the slime trail to a sign that said Cafeteria and went in a door on the left. In the cafeteria were a lot of aliens. They were all crowded around a robotic figure that sort of looked like his father. Camon recognized the skeleton servant from before, except he was now in green attire and holding a beverage tray. Camon approached the crowd and decided he was going to have to speak up to one of the strange aliens. Suddenly, a loud robotic voice yelled, "Well hello there newcomer! Welcome to the Ism hotel of Zion city!" Camon stared puzzled at the familiar robotic figure that had just spoke to him.