Maya quietly walked to the farthest corner of the room and lowered herself onto the cold floor.
She wrapped her small arms around her knees and rested her forehead against them.
The room was silent, time drifted by unnoticed.
There were no clocks.Nothing that could tell her whether minutes or hours had passed.
Then— Click.
A metallic sound broke the stillness.
The thick steel door slowly unlocked.
With a low mechanical hum, it swung inward.
Two women entered the room. Both wore identical light-gray uniforms,neatly pressed without a single wrinkle.
Their polished black shoes made almost no sound against the concrete floor.
Plastic identification cards hung from their collars. One of them spoke in a emotionless voice.
"Come with us."
Maya slowly lifted her head, her dark eyes lingered on the women for a moment before she quietly stood.
And walked toward the open doorway.
The instant she stepped across the threshold
her feet stop moving.
Her breath caught inside her chest.
Her pupils widened ever so slightly.
The room she had believed to be alone
Was only one among countless others.
A vast corridor stretched endlessly before her.
It was so long that the opposite end dissolved into the distance.
The walls were smooth white concrete, flawlessly clean .The polished gray floor reflected every light above like a sheet of glass.
Both sides of the corridor were lined with heavy steel doors. One after another.
Perfectly aligned, perfectly identical.
There seemed to be no end to them.
Hundreds...Perhaps even more.
Every door possessed the same reinforced frame, the same thick locking mechanism, and the same narrow rectangular viewing hatch positioned at eye level.
Every room looked exactly like hers.
Maya slowly turned her head.
Doors, nothing but doors.
The air smelled faintly of disinfectant and cold metal.
Hidden ventilation systems produced a constant, low hum that echoed through the corridor.
For the first time since waking in this strange place...A small shiver ran through her body.
How many...?
Her eyes wandered from door to door.
Who lives behind them?
Are they children...?
No answers came.
One of the women glanced over her shoulder.
"...She's too slow."
The other woman looked back at the little girl.
Without a word, she bent down and took hold of the back of Maya's loose shirt.
Before she could react—
She was lifted clean off the floor, "...Eh?"
She simply hung there.
The woman's grip was firm but effortless as though Maya weighed almost nothing.
Her tiny legs dangled helplessly in the air.
Her arms instinctively reached forward, trying to steady herself, but there was nothing to hold onto.
The position reminded Maya of something she had seen only once before—
A mother cat carrying her kitten by the scruff of its neck.
Except this time...She was the kitten.
The woman didn't appear to be struggling in the slightest.
She simply walked forward at a steady pace, carrying Maya one-handed as though it were the most ordinary thing in the world.
Maya blinked in surprise.
"..."
She looked down at her swinging feet, then up at the woman carrying her.
.....Am I really that light?
Her small body swayed with each step as the long corridor stretched ahead of them.
The second woman walked beside them without paying the slightest attention.
As they moved through the corridor, her eyes instinctively lifted toward the top of each doorway.
Every room carried a number engraved on a black metal plate.
The numbers continued in perfect order, stretching farther down the corridor than
she could see.
Yet something else caught her attention.
Above every number, a small circular indicator glowed with color.
[ Room 011 : RED
Room 012 : YELLOW
Room 013 : GREEN
Room 014 : ORANGE]
There was no patterns. Her small brows drew together.
Why are they different?
Do the colors mean something?
Are they for the rooms or for the people inside them?
No one explained. She allowed herself one slow glance over her shoulder.
The room she had awakened in was still visible in the distance.
[ Room : 017 ]
Her eyes remained fixed upon it.
Above the number, a small circular light glowed with a rich violet color.
She blinked once, " Hahhh.... Violet.
Slowly she searched the endless corridor again. One after another.
But no other violet.
Her small fingers curled slightly.
Why is mine different?
Did someone choose that color for me?
The questions drifted through her mind without answers.
The two women continued down the endless corridor, she remained suspended quietly in the woman's grasp.
Her eyes continued to observe everything around her.
The lights continued one after another with flawless precision, each separated by exactly the same distance, creating an endless ribbon of cold light that seemed to have no beginning and no end.
The corridor no longer felt like part of a building.
It felt like a maze built by someone who valued order more than people— a place where every room was reduced to a number.
Every hallway looked exactly the same and every turn seemed destined to lead to another endless corridor filled with more silent steel doors.
They finally stopped before another reinforced steel door.
One of the women pressed her identification card against a scanner.
Beep.
The electronic lock disengaged, with a low mechanical hum, the heavy door slid open.
The woman carrying Maya lowered her onto the floor, her feet touched the smooth surface.
The room beyond was white.
Its walls were painted a matte white, bright ceiling lights illuminated every corner.
As Maya slowly looked around, something caught her attention. The door she had entered through was not the only exit.
On the opposite wall stood another door.
It was larger.
Unlike the first, it had no viewing hatch.
It remained firmly shut.
Her gaze lingered on it for a moment.
The two women stepped backward into the corridor. The first door began to close.
Thunk. The lock engaged.
Maya remained where she stood, her dark eyes shifting quietly between the door that had just sealed behind her...
and the other closed door waiting on the opposite side of the room.
The second door released with a deep metallic CLUNK, it began to slide open.
Beyond it lay only darkness. It was impossible to see where the room ended or what waited inside.
A darkness so complete that the bright white room seemed unable to reach inside.
Silence settled over everything.
Then— A slow, uneven sound echoed from the darkness beyond.
DRAG.....THUD....THUD.
Each sound was slow, impossibly heavy, sending faint vibrations through the smooth floor beneath Maya's feet.
Something enormous was walking toward the light.
Not the measured footsteps of a person.
Not the movement of an animal,Something
in between.
A towering silhouette gradually emerged from the darkness.
Maya's body froze.
The thing was far taller than any ordinary person.
Its broad, misshapen frame nearly filled the doorway as it stepped into the room, forcing its massive shoulders through the opening.
Every movement carried an unnatural stiffness as though its body had never truly learned how to move as a single whole.
It had once been human that much was unmistakable, a human head rested upon
its shoulders.
But the resemblance ended there.
The rest of its body had been twisted into something profoundly unnatural.
One arm hung so low that its oversized hand nearly brushed the floor with every step, while the other remained bent at an unnatural angle.
Its neck was slightly too long, forcing its head to lean forward as if forever studying the ground.
Its torso was unnaturally broad, giving it the overwhelming presence of a moving monster rather than a living being.
Its legs bent at awkward angles, giving every step a strange, uneven gait that felt neither completely human nor entirely animal.
THUD....THUD.
The sound echoed through the chamber.... Every step felt heavy enough to shake the air itself.
Its pale skin bore countless signs of incomplete reconstruction.
Nothing about it appeared finished.
Its face was the most disturbing part.
It still possessed the outline of a human face.
Yet every feature seemed subtly wrong.
The forehead was unnaturally broad...The cheekbones protruded sharply beneath taut skin.
Its nose was little more than a flattened ridge.
Its mouth rested in a thin, unnaturally straight line that revealed no emotion whatsoever.
An empty, distant stare that made it even more unsettling.
The monster slowly turned its head, it's motion was slow and deliberate, gliding across the room.
The creature tilted its head fully, Its eyes settled upon Maya.
The little girl's heart lurched, her breath caught in her throat. A wave of icy terror rushed through her entire body.
"What... is that...? It's so big... "
~~
The towering Chimera slowly emerged into the white room, its distorted body filling the doorway.
Its uneven footsteps echoed through the room.
THUD...THUD...THUD...
A suffocating silence settled over everyone.
...
Mahi instinctively covered her mouth.
Her eyes widened in horror, "...What..."
The words refused to come.
Her breathing became shallow as she stared at the impossible creature.
"...What is... that...?"
A chill crawled up her spine.
Then her eyes drifted to Maya, the little girl looked impossibly small. She whispered.
"My baby is standing in front of... that?"
Her legs weakened. She slowly sat down before they gave out completely.
"Please...Run..."
Ohi felt every muscle in his body tense.
His instincts screamed the same thing
every protective adult would feel.
"Get her away. "
But he couldn't move, he was only watching a memory, "No...Don't let that thing get any closer to her."
Fahad's face lost all color,
"What the hell...That isn't a person."
His heart pounded violently as the Chimera tilted its head toward Maya.
He lurched halfway out of his chair,"...MAYA!"
His shout echoed through the room.
Faha's body reacted as though the monster could step out of the screen.
"Impossible...I've never seen anything like this."
When the Chimera locked eyes with Maya...
He felt cold, terrifyingly cold.
Mahim stood perfectly still. For the first time...his expression betrayed genuine
fear.
Fahim adjusted his glasses with trembling fingers. His scientific curiosity disappeared beneath simple human horror.
"The asymmetrical skeletal proportions...
...Dear God..."
~~
The creature took a slow step forward.
Tap....Tap.
It never looked away from her.
Those pale, unblinking eyes remained fixed on her, as though nothing else in the room existed.
Maya stood frozen, she couldn't move.
Her fingers curled into trembling fists.
"Too fast...! It's coming! "
Her breathing became shallow, barely more than a whisper.
The distance between them grew smaller...
The silence became unbearable.
Then—
The creature's body suddenly blurred.
In a single instant,it surged forward with impossible speed.
Before her mind could even process what had happened—
It was there standing directly in front of her.
So close that she had to tilt her head back just to see its face.
Its towering frame blocked the light behind it, casting a long shadow over the little girl.
She instinctively stumbled backward.
One step, then another.
Her trembling hands searched desperately behind her for something— anything—
There was nothing, only smooth white walls.
The enormous Chimera standing between her and the only other exit.
It felt as if the fear had reached beyond her body, gripping the deepest part of her very soul.
She couldn't scream, she couldn't run.
Without warning— The monster lunged.
A deafening roar tore through the room as its massive arm swept toward Maya,
"Ah...Ah!"
Maya threw herself to the side just in time.
Crash!
The creature's claws slammed into the floor where she had been standing only a heartbeat before.
She scrambled to her feet and ran.
Her small feet slapped against the smooth white floor as panic flooded every thought.
Behind her came the heavy, thunderous footsteps of the Chimera.
Thump.....Thump.....Thump.
It was chasing her.
She darted across the room, glancing over her shoulder for only an instant.
"Please...please, don't catch me..."
The towering creature was closing the distance with frightening speed, its long
limbs carrying it forward in strides.
She stumbled but caught herself before falling, "Please..Let me go."
Its massive arm swept through the air with startling speed.
Maya barely caught the movement.
She threw herself aside.
Crash!
The creature's claws struck the floor with a deafening impact. The polished concrete groaned beneath the force.
Long, jagged scratches were carved across the floor, leaving deep scars in the smooth surface.
The force of the blow sent her tumbling across the smooth surface.
She rolled to a stop, gasping for breath.
".... Ah!"
As she struggled back to her feet, a sharp sting shot through her left leg, "It hurts..."
She looked down.
A jagged cut ran across the side of her lower leg and a lot of blood slowly stained the white floor beneath her feet.
She instinctively clutched the injured spot for only a moment before forcing herself to move again.
Each time her injured foot touched the floor, a sharp jolt shot up her leg, stealing her breath for a heartbeat. but,she couldn't stop.
The Chimera was already turning toward her.
Its pale, unblinking eyes never left their target.
She gritted her teeth and limped into a run.
Every stride hurt, every breath burned.
"No... I can't stop.......
Move... please move..."
The instant she run, it attacked again.
Its enormous arm swept across the room with frightening speed.
SKRRRRAAAAPE...
The harsh sound of metal -like claws grinding against concrete sent a chill through the chamber.
Maya instinctively ducked.
The creature's claws sliced through empty air just above her head, a powerful gust rushed past her face.
Boom!
The attack struck the wall instead, sending a deep echo through the chamber.
Her small footsteps echoed desperately across the smooth white floor. She could
hear the creature behind her.
Thud....Thud....Thud.
Each one felt closer than the last.
The monster lunged again.
She twisted to one side at the last possible moment.
The creature rushed past her, missing by only inches.
CRASH!
The impact exploded through the chamber like thunder.The deafening echo ricocheted from wall to wall.
She stumbled,nearly falling.
Her hands caught the floor just in time and pushed herself back up before the Chimera could turn around.
She limped forward, desperately trying to keep her balance."Move..."
She whispered the word to herself through trembling breaths, "Please... move..."
She bit down hard on her lip and took another step.She had no plan, only knew she couldn't stop.
The Chimera wheeled around with unnatural speed, it charged.
She darted to the opposite side of the room.
The distance between them vanished almost instantly.
The creature swung.
She narrowly escaped, her heart hammered against her chest.
The room seemed far smaller than before.
Every direction led to another blank wall.
The Chimera attacked again.....It's speed refused to slow down. Every missed strike was immediately followed by another relentless pursuit.
She ducked beneath one attack, slipped around another.
She stumbled, recovered, and kept moving before the creature could reach her.
Her tiny body was driven by pure instinct.
Yet no matter where she ran...When she looked back—
The Chimera was there following.
Her eyes darted wildly around the room, searching for anything that could save her.
Maya took another step.
Then another.
Each one felt heavier than the last, as though invisible hands were pulling her injured leg toward the floor.
Then...She noticed something.
At the bottom of the second steel door—
A narrow gap.
It was only a few inches high, just enough for a sliver of light to pass beneath it.
Maya's eyes widened. I can fit...
Her small frame was thin enough.
If she lay flat, If she crawled quickly....
Maybe, just maybe...She could squeeze underneath before the creature reached
her.
Hope flickered inside her frightened heart.
Without another thought, she turned and sprinted toward the door.
Her aching legs carried her as fast as they could.
Behind her came the thunder of the Chimera's footsteps. It was getting closer, Closer.
She didn't dare look back. If she looked, she knew she would lose precious seconds.
She dropped to her knees and stretched both hands toward the narrow opening beneath the door.
The impact sent pain racing through her legs, but she barely felt it.
She was only a heartbeat away.
Then—BEEP.
A sharp electronic tone echoed through the room. The massive steel door shuddered.
With a deep mechanical rumble, it began to descend.
"N-No...No....Nooooo."
The gap grew smaller, Inch by inch.
Maya lunged forward, reaching desperately with both hands. She was so close.
But the door moved faster. THUNK!
The steel door sealed shut against the floor.
The narrow gap disappeared completely.
She remained frozen where she was, both palms pressed against the cold steel.
She pushed weakly, it didn't move.
She pushed again, nothing.
The hope that had carried her across the room shattered in an instant.
Her shoulders slowly slumped.
Her breathing became uneven.
She rested her forehead against the cold metal, her tiny fingers trembling,"Please..."
Only silence answered.
She remained kneeling before the door, her small hands pressed against it.
"It's over....I'm trapped.There's nowhere to go.
Someone, please help me....."
The last spark of hope faded from her eyes.
Slowly...She turned her head.
Behind her, the Chimera was still coming.
Step by step...Its pale, unblinking eyes remained fixed upon the little girl.
There was nowhere left to run.
Her heart pounded so violently it felt as though it might leap from her body.
"I Don't Want To Die..Please...
What Do I Do...? "
The realization struck her all at once, she was trapped completely.....She slowly stumbled backward, her breathing was uneven.