We're Monsters

Chapter I - Curiosity Killed the Cat

Monsters AU

Ship(s): platonic logince

Warning(s): Mentions of anxiety but nothing happens

Summary: After many months of searching for an appropriate work area to take out there research in search of these monsters changing to human on Youtube and walking into stores, leaving with food, Logan, Roman, Thomas and Remy find a research area in the middle of the woods, hopeful to find some sort of evidence that these creatures exsist.

Logan's Perspective

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After months of attempting to find a suitable work space to conduct our experiments and find these creatures the world has come to know as 'Monsters'. I'd prefer to call them 'creatures' instead of 'monsters'. A monster is something you fear. I do not fear these creatures, therefore, I do not see fit for me to call them monsters. Roman makes sure he has the camera rolling in the car every few hours just in case we spot one of these creatures.

The many videos show a variety of monsters. Although, I do have a theory. What if these creatures were originally humans? Often, a creature will have a skin tone on a certain part of it's body before it fades into another color. Most times, they wear human clothing or human accessories.

Not only that, but they also have the same build as a human, often taking certain parts and either removing it or it would be more advanced. In some cases, it may be a part of an animal or something you'd see in a horror movie, making the creature look more sinister, deadly, dangerous. But I also believe that it could be a way to keep humans away. Like a defense mechanism. Of course, that's just a theory.

It's been hours since we left for the lab. Thomas is back behind me, along with Remy. I'm seriously hoping to find something while we're up there. The Lab is large enough, with containment centers, Habitat spaces, a bird's eye view of most of the forest, cameras, a lab area of course to conduct our experiments.

"Ugh, can we turn on some music?" Remy complains behind Roman.

"Why didn't you bring your headphones?" Roman question, looking into the rear view mirror. Remy rolls his eyes and takes a sip of his iced coffee. Roman takes a deep breath before attempting to find something on the radio. After searching for something, all that comes up is static.

"We must be close to the Laboratory then." I say and my statement is proven correct after a glass dome peaks through the trees. We see a dirt path, covered in leaves, rocks, and sticks. Roman turns down it and we see a large, slick metal gate in front of us.

"What ever it is, it's large enough to conduct our experiments." I say as Roman drives up to the gate, before slowing down and grabbing the manila folder, grabbing his key-card and swiping it. A light goes a dull white after being a soft yellow. The gate slowly opened and Roman drove through the gates, and stopped when a light turned a soft yellow again. Roman and I looked at each other, worry evident in his eyes.

Something dashed in front of us as the gate slowly closed behind us. The light turned white and Roman drove forward. As we pulled forward, a pair of large, soft purple eyes stared at the Jeep as Roman drove slowly down the path. As we drove farther, the pair of eyes followed us on my side of the car. I was unable to remove myself from the fascinating eyes. Roman had turned down another path and the eyes lowered a bit and they tilted. They must be curious.

"What is it?" I hear Thomas asked me, his anxiety seeping through.

"It is nothing Thomas. It's okay." I reassure Thomas, not wanting him to be scared. Soon after, a pair of clean, white steps come into view along with a garage and a reinforced glass entrance. Roman pulls up to the garage and it automatically opens. Roman parks the car and turns it off. We all get out of the car, grabbing our work tools as we do so. We head up stairs, gaping at the amazing work space that we have to finish this project.

We split up and find our work spaces. Thomas stays in the middle, smiling when he finds his work area. He walks over to the habitat area and Roman, along with Remy walk into another room. I head upstairs finding the testing room and the Lab part of this laboratory. I place my bag down and I quickly jog back down stairs to find Roman. I see him in an empty room with multiple outlets along with a decently sized window.

"Roman."

"Yeah Logan?" Roman looks up at me with his multiple cameras, three laptops and recorders.

"Will you go with me so the two of us can get used to the area? The two of us are going to be working out of the laboratory more."

"Yeah, sure thing."

"Great, also...bring your camera in case we find something."

"Sure thing Microsoft Nerd."

"That's what you are Roman."

I turn around, walking out of the room, hearing Roman laugh. I walk back out into the hall, seeing more rooms. I open them and see they're mostly empty. Besides some equipment we could move. We could use them as bedrooms. We'll worry about them later tonight though. I walk back upstairs, finding my bag where I had left it and I grab it, walking back upstairs to prepare myself for my 'walk' with Roman.

I open a door, returning to one of the many empty rooms as I saw that it had a large window that you could see the sky from. I removed my tie and I had undone my black polo shirt, freeing my shoulders, allowing my warm skin to be touched by the cool air causing me to shiver. I slip on a tight dark blue T-shirt and I remove my jeans, replacing them with black cargo pants. I remove my dress shoes and I slip on my combat boots and tie them.

I pull out a folded bag and place water, plastic bags, a knife, and a gun inside so I can collect samples and attack if something comes after me. I leave my bag in the corner of the room and I wall back downstairs, seeing Roman at the bottom if the steps,

"Ready?" Roman asks and I nod my head, pushing my glasses farther up. We walk up to a metal door with glass strips to look through. Roman hands me my key-card and he opens the door with his own we walk in through the door and after going through another door, we're outside.

We walk down the path before hearing a sound. We turn towards the sound and see a river. Across the river, I see a figure unlike and animal I've ever seen. I get down on the ground behind the bushes in front of us and I motion for Roman to do the same.

"Turn on your camera." I whisper to Roman and the creature's ears point upward as I speak. Can it hear me whispering? The creature looks up and I remember it's eyes. The same, large purple eyes from when we entered.

It's arms meet at dull points and it's legs are like the shape of a deer's just thinner and black. I notice it's feet and how it turns into an odd shape, like a hook. The creature tilts it's head and it gets on all fours and it starts to walk into the rushing river, the force of the water doing nothing to the creature or it's balance. As it comes closer, I notice it's mouth as it's mouth is covered by something stitch like. As it crosses the river, I see it touch the part of land we're on and it just sits right in front of the river staring at us with it's rather beautiful eyes. It's curious.