Chapter 2: Making Contact

Late morning more closely to noon of third day of July , the phone on the table beside the bed of a hall naked man ringed again, but this have no effect to the man laying on the bed . He still sleeps while snoring, as the sound of the alarm blares around the room, resonating the empty walls and the inhabited part of the building.

This building is called the department of Ancient Biology, or so what the obvious hand written placard says. In fact is ,this building belong to the department of cryptozoology, a branch of psudo-science that deal with studies of legendary creatures and urban legends.

But Dr. Peter Rubio will not have it. For him this department is a real science and that's why he renamed the building on his own, not like it matters, because his class is the most unpopular subject in the university. But still the dean let Dr. Rubio have a full furnished lab and whole building for himself. This have brought some buzz among the teaching and residence staff on the beginning , but the dean turn deaf to their complain. They did not let it slide for sometime and even send a formal complain to the president of the university but no response was send back, as time goes by the issue just die down on its own.

Dr. Rubio is not actually a doctor of cryptozoology, he is a biology doctorate . But when he came to this university he specifically choose this department that no one choose to join. Although he incessantly said that he prefer to be called a professor ,no one called him that, mostly because of spite or maybe because no one go to his class.

Because of the unpopularity, the building is extremely understaff , to the point where the only staff present in the lab is the doctor himself, alone.

Students that choose to go to the university have a really hectic time and have clear image of what they should do , that a notion of a subject about occult creatures is ridiculous, and they regarded this as a hobby class for those who have given up. The university ,being a center of science study , didn't help to it at all making the students look at subject about psudo-science with disgust.

The ray of the sun shines brightly on the sky , indicating a more. noonish time. a stray ray of sunshine travel pass though a window glass of the room hitting the face of the doctor , making him grimace from the heat . He tried to sway it away but the sun of the day will not falter in his endeavor. After a few minutes the doctor gives up and weakly pull his body up.

"AEGHHHH!"

He slowly stand up making some strange grunting . He then sits on the sides of the bed for a few seconds in daze, and afterwards pulled out two earplugs from his ear.

RING!RING!RING!

Blaring sounds of the alarm was what welcome his hearing , in which jolted awake any sleepiness left on him.

"Yawn ~~, Bastard alarm , who have sets you to go off so early !?" But as matter of fact he did, but that's question is clearly rhetorical.

He drag his body to the bath room and wash his face on the sink.

He look up an look up his reflection.

The doctor appearance show a bit of age even though he is only in his late 20s . With an eye bag that slightly sag under his eyes , complexion of paleness and markings left by scars of small wound, he appear to be in his mid thirties. But still his face retain a sense of attractiveness, with sharp jawline and a refined sculpted nose , he appear to be a weathered sculpture of a handsome man.

His body can be relegated to the fit category. He appear to be skinny but if you look closely you will notice that he have a bit of muscles on some area.

Afterwards, he find his way to the kitchen to made his breakfast(lunch). He cooked a few eggs and fried a slice of meat , he then brew a cup of coffee. He put the food in a plate and carry it with him as he walk to the direction of the lab ,or more specifically, the office that is inside the lab. He open the door and walk forward without giving attention to the curiosities on the shelves ,but as he was passing a shelve , he turn his head to look at a jar. This jar seem to be new , with its label plastered neatly on its base stating a date , July 2nd. The jar contain of a singular eyeball with red pupils. It's submerged in formalin solution , but as the doctor moves the eye moved following his movement.

A mocking smirk appeared on the doctors face .

" Ha! Look all you want , that's all you can do now" He said in a mocking tone.