A tiger.

I am a tiny little baby tiger.

Who would have guessed?

I would have not.

And magic. Fucking magic.

This is far too similar to all the Anime, Manga and Novels I have seen and read. Everything feels far too real to be some kind of messed up joke or some kind of hightech secret project of some government or messed up organisation and even if it actually is, I don’t think I would be able change anything. I mean, what do you expect me to do? Scream and shit with my mind at my body that is maybe in some kind of machine or interdimensional alien horror?

Seriously, fuck life.

Thinking back for a second I realise something important. How can this be?

I can’t remember almost any specific details of every damned Anime, Manga, Novels or even Series and Movies, forget that, ANY kind of story I have ever read, seen or listened to.

Shit, maybe there’s more than just stories? People? Names?

...No, still there. I still know my name and I think all of my friends and family. Maybe there are some I did forgot, though? It shouldn’t matter anymore anyways now...

Well, reincarnation isn’t without some kind of drawbacks, I guess. Better than nothing, though, for now at least. Maybe I’ll curse the celestial or higher being, power or whatever fucking object later on. Any kind of shit could happen in this now new life of mine. 

How did I even end up dying? I can’t even fucking remember what I did hours, if not even days before I bit the dust… Fuck. All this thinking makes me so fucking tired and I was just born lmao. What a life. Being tired of life just a few minutes after being born.

Laughing at my own self-deprecating jokes and sighing inside my head I try to get away as fast as possible from those slightly negative thoughts before my mental health depletes even further. Danger! Danger! Abort mission! Begin the retreat and use evasion maneuvers “swearing and excessive use of vulgar words”! Depression, Anxiety and their allies are about to strike! If they hit us, we will be lost for only god knows how long!

Jokes aside, best to just stop thinking about all these “ifs” and concentrate on the present, to be honest. Being stuck in the past never helps and won’t ever help, I can confirm that with enough of personal experience from myself and others I know, or is it “knew” now..?

Let’s see. 

I got reincarnated. Reincarnated as a tiger, a little tiger cub, freshly born. All those fucking sensations I experienced finally make sense now.

That big fucker is probably my new mum and the little shits next to me are my new siblings. With a high chance I am in the wild and not in a zoo or other kinds of human captivity or a “protected” place, because it did not feel like there was someone or something helping with the birth process.

And Magic. Don’t forget about the magic. MAGIC!

*Rustle*

Mama tiger is suddenly moving again. Probably because she is done with cleaning everyone of us. What’s she going to do now, though..? Think stupid, think! What’s the usual animal behaviour during and after birth? Think! Think retard!

…food!

I feel my new mum getting even more near to us until she is almost completely pressed against us. Right, the teats! Gotta drink fast before it’s too late and mama tiger moves away again! I really don’t wanna starve to death just because I was the only sibling not being natural and looking for the tiddies…

Fuck, even more hardships. I am guessing that my active mind is not suited for this little baby body usually driven by instincts, which are probably getting suppressed right now.

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Argh! Stop thinking, stupid me! MILK! NOW!

I stop using my head for awhile and just feel around with my little cute kitten paws and mouth, finding a nipple a really short time later I start sucking as if my life depends on it. It actually does, though.

Minutes pass by as I finally stop and blissful sleep slowly starts taking hold over my body.

---

A few days pass by like that. Waking up in darkness, getting fed by mama tiger, rolling and tumbling around the little shelter or hideout I am now living in and falling asleep some time later again. Now that I think about it. Some animals are blind in the first few days, weeks or months after birth, aren’t they?

I had enough time to think about shit, too.

One of those things was Magic. MAGIC!

It seems like there is some kind of magical system in place. Even though I should still be on Earth. The notification said “Siberian Tiger” and I am sure there’s a place called Siberia on Earth somewhere in Europe or Asia. For all I know I could be in some kind of magical parallel world version of Earth or on a completely different planet or maybe even a plane with a place, country or whatsoever, which could have something to do with the word “Siberian”.

Maybe something happened, a magical apocalypse perhaps? Maybe I died because of that and now I got reincarnated as a tiger? How the fuck did I even reincarnate? Who or what reincarnated me? How low even is the fucking chance to get reincarnated? So many fucking questions…

Let's just try some shit. Menu! 

…

Status!

[Infant]

That's… at least something. Let's see...

Stats! Interface! Options!

… 

Fucking shit!

I mentally sigh to myself. Ugh, what can it be? Did I just hallucinate?

...User! Info! User Info! User Interface! User Status? Fuck! …Profile?

[Siberian Tiger]

[Status: Infant]

[Name: ??]

[Traits: None]

[Skills: None]

That is…. Interesting.

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I didn't waste my time for once. At least in this new short life of mine. I'm pretty sure that I was a big ass procrastinator in my last life.

After finding out about an actual magic system, I tried to feel magic. As stupid as it may sound.

I tried to feel the presence of mana or whatever kind of similar shit there might be. Qi, for example.

I didn't find shit.

Well, only at first, though.

First I tried to look inside me, some kind of meditation style whatever the fuck you call it and all that yada yada yada. There I found nothing. Inside my body neither. Around me, outside of my body, it was the same. Nothing. Everything was fucking normal.

That's when an idea came to me. Why look for mana in general when I am already completely shrouded in an "element"? 

I started to concentrate at the darkness around me. It was pretty easy since I am still blind but I fell asleep twice until I felt something different.

I was sinking in darkness again. No, not in but into the darkness.

I do not even feel my body anymore. It just feels like as if my soul is drowning. I guess that Souls do exist, my reincarnation would be so much harder to explain if not.

Fuck, I think shit just went wrong, though.

…

Seconds or minutes pass by, I don't know how long to be honest, as I suddenly feel some kind of "surface" appear under me. 

And… light, in the distance. No, wait, not light. 

It's fire. 

There is a small flame very far in the distance. I can see? How? Where am I…?

… 

A second light. There is a second light now. Uh, no. Flame, it's a flame, fucking retarded brain.

A massive roar, a scream.

A sudden enormous, eye-consuming flash of light, of fire. 

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Darkness again.

*Cough*

Blood. 

I taste blood. Fu… 

I pass out.