The morning of the third month's beginning and I woke up with minimal confusion but tired and confused nonetheless. My view was occupied with some kind of screen and my memories were almost completely gone. I knew my name, I knew where I was, I knew what situation I was in. But I didn't remember how I got there, how I knew things, how I knew I had a family that wasn't my family.
I also had something else. There was some kind of twitch, telling me I was different from before. There was something attached to my tailbone, I didn't feel cold despite the storm still raging and the weak insulation that was traded for sturdier walls.
It was strange. I felt like myself and different. I felt like I forgot everything and yet, I remembered everything.
I ignored it and went back to sleep.
I didn't know how long it had been since I went back to sleep but I awoke in somewhere else. I was in a forest, vaguely familiar but on the tip of my tongue. That said...
There were two other new sensations.
One was a vague coating around what would be my hands and the other was a vague disgust with being full as if I just ate. I first thought back, trying to see if I could remember what I did.
I regretted doing that.
A memory came up and I lived it. I realized what I was, I was an adolescent tiger with white fur and black stripes. I was staring at the lounge and other animals raging about, attacking people... killing people...
Eating people.
I looked down as I had felt something below me. It was a dead body, the idiot's body. Realizing that pushed me out of the memory as I looked at my paws and saw the white and black fur covered in a dark red crust-like substance.
It was dried blood.
Human blood.
I vomited almost instantly and passed out afterwards, only to wake up in yet a different place. It was a cave, green and amber crystals hung around me as I explored my new memories... I found worse things.
I had found a city and other larger than normal animals, no doubt like me, and we raided a human camp. I remember killing the adults who attacked me, taking a reactive offence rather than a active one. I threw their comrades' bodies onto them and killed them after. Eating all my kills at the end, I couldn't stay conscious when memory me ran at more humans.
Once again, I woke up in a different place.
This place was stranger than the others. I was on a cloud... There was a giant black crystal in front of me. There were others here. A Dragon, a Phoenix and a Turtle. Is what I wanted to say. No, this was different. There was a Leopard, a Lion and a Cougar. The Black crystal seemed to contain a cheetah.
I search through my memories only to realize I don't need to. I remember them all, every moment, every action. At the same time, there was something else... I felt like I had control over myself again.
'Why now?'
I thought over it. I had done so much... horrid things. And now is when I regain control? Why? How?
I had so many questions, so many sorrows, regrets, so many of so much. Feeling I was starting to lose myself, I took a deep breath and went back to my memories at the beginning of the transformation.
I had just turned when I saw something, it disappeared almost instantly though because I smelled something. Blood. I roamed the surprisingly empty hallways and made my way to the lounge. I saw a woman in front of me holding some kind of light. It was a strange light, I felt like it was a good omen. Well, my current self did. My past self seemed to disagree and immediately slaughtered the woman. I remembered the taste that I didn't but should've hated, the stench of copper and iron mixing with the smell of blood, the feel of air as I simply swiped and killed her, the sound of her tearing flesh.
The sight of it all.
I went back to the memory at the start and caught a glimpse of it.
It said something like 'System Loading - 26%'
I got curious and decided to call for it then, lo and behold, something appeared.
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[Name- Undecided.]
[Level: 37,530 / 40,500]
[Exp: 35%]
[Race: Black and White Winged Tiger {8 Seals}]
[Stats:
HP: (Con *2 + Str *1/2) {9,321,257.5/9,321,257.5}
MP: (Int *3 + Wis *3/4) {13,981,885.5/13,981,885.5}
Str: 3,728,503
Con: 3,728,503
Dex: 3,728,502
Int: 3,728,503
Wis: 3,728,502
Cha: 3,728,502]
[Seals:
- ⌬ Beast (Origin)
- ⌘ Magic (Inverse Variant)
- ⌭ Earth (Base Variant)
- ⌥ Nature (Flora Variant)
- ⍝ Space (Origin)
- ⌆ - Barrier (Spatial Variant)
- ⌮ - Water (Life Variant)
- ⍕ - Dark (Winged Variant)]
[Skills: Rend III, Lockjaw IV, Flight IX, Whip VI]
[States: Feral State (Beast Seal) - Controllable Passive. Anti-Magic State (Magic Seal) - Active. Tectonic State (Earth Seal) - Active. Vegetative State (Nature Seal) - Controllable Passive. Void State (Space Seal) - Active. Ever-Present Barrier State (Barrier Seal) - Passive. Regenerative State (Water Seal) - Passive. Abyssal Sky Yin State (Dark Seal) - Active.]
I was vastly confused for a split second only to have memories describe the parts of the system faster than I could've thought possible. I learned about most of it and decided to just level. I didn't have anything else I could do. Wanted to do. Would do. I just endlessly spent my life leveling again and again until the black crystal broke.
The Cheetah spoke about a coming war between us and another world. As they spoke I gained a goal. I'd level for the war to come. So I did. I levelled for 500 years, eventually becoming a 9 Seal Beast at Level 1
I had thought it was enough but when the war rolled in... I was the first to die.
