Kaiju Paradise: Changing Perspective (Yes, I am indeed rewriting it.)

CH 8

'This is strange,' I thought, glancing around the lab while shifting through an assortment of science equipment on a desk looking for something. 'It should be right here...' I moved some equipment, 'aha, found it!' I pulled the vial out. It was the same one that Dr. F gave me a while back, it just seems... pinker than usual?

With a smile present on my face, I put it in my pocket before exiting the room and entering the hallway. 'When did this hallway get so... big?' I glanced down the seemingly endless hallway. Opting to just go back into the room, I turned to my right and walked to where I just was. Only to smack face-first into a wall and fall. 'Ow, what the?! But the door was just here!' I jumped up and quickly began feeling around the wall and looked everywhere for a trace of the door. I shrugged before turning right and began walking down the seemingly infinite hallway. After what seemed like an eternity of walking, someone came up to me.

"Hey there, you seem lost," they said to me.

"Yeah, was this hallway always so long?" I asked them... wait, where did they go? Spinning around I was surprised to see Liam standing there. "Oh hey, haven't seen you in a while, man! Can you help me out here? It seems that this place keeps going on forever." But before he could respond there was a flash. I turned and saw him being dragged away by a dark figure with black gloves and purple eyes.

Running after them, I turned the corner only to stop when my body flared up in pain. I fell to my knees and ripped off my gloves, only to see both hands resembling two paws with pinkish-purple crystals and purple fur.

'N-no, no no no! This can't be happening!' I scrambled for the vial in my pocket and quickly pulled it out. Only for it to slip through my paws and shatter onto the ground. 'W-wait, NO.' I quickly started trying to desperately grab the liquid on the ground to no avail. Realizing nothing was happening I fell on my side and brought my knees to my chest. Tears ran down my face as I hopelessly lay there.

I was eventually ripped out of my nightmare by a pup licking my face. I bolted awake and rapidly looked around the room. My eyes darted to my still-gloved, and mostly normal, hands. Relief washed over me as I realized I was in a dream the whole time. I was brought even more harshly into reality when my arm and side felt like it was being stabbed; even a raging headache was attacking me.

Scrambling for the vial again, in the real world this time, I quickly, yet carefully, pulled it out. There was also a syringe in my pocket as well. I quickly took the measured contents of the vial and injected it into my arm, relief washing over me as the pain died down. After it was fully gone, I pulled the needle out, made sure it was covered, and put it back into my pocket. Now that I had a moment to calm down, I was finally able to fully look around the room and see a dozen of pups staring at me; along with two of the plant goos that I had seen on day one and a bug-like one.

"Oh my, poor guy. Wish we could talk to him, see if he is alright after that," I heard one of them say before another responded.

"Yeah, but they sadly can't understand us."

"Yep, though I heard from somewhere that they could understand, which would be super duper cool if true," the bug one added. One of the two plant goos was staring at me.

"Are they alright? They seem to be staring very intently at us."

"Uhm, hello?" I attempted to communicate with them, rubbing my head as the headache had yet to die down.

"Oh boy, here we go! Who wants to go up to them and make sure they don't panic and attack one of us? I vote, not me!" the bug one said, putting their hand up while the pups sat around us absentmindedly wagging their tails.