AN: Howdy partners! This is my third chapter, and also from here on out it is officially the longest thing I have ever written with only 0.01% of the planning of regular pieces!
Anyway here is the key for the things?
(‘-’) = thoughts
(“-”) = speaking
((-)) = extra info
([-]) = character who is speaking
(*-*) = action
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Chapter 3: Rebirth & Restart
Krystal’s POV:
New life: Month 0
‘Damn it! She really did send me off without letting me ask a single question! Seriously she didn’t even tell me the name of this world!’ I shouted in my mind since I honestly didn’t have the physical capacity to use my non-existing vocal cords.
Judging by stages of pregnancy I’m probably still in the conception stage, after all I did just get here, and have absolutely no senses at all other than my own lonely mind. After this I still have to become an embryo, and further develop until I have a proper body. Then I have to wait another six months until the approximated day of birth.
Now to actually tell my imaginary audience about a few things that I had conveniently forgotten about before now so I can use some of this time that will probably pass really~ slowly for me. Like I stated earlier imaginary audience-kun, I was a 17 year old college student, and child prodigy. Some people called me beautiful but I think they were just plain stupid, then again I don’t really care about anything that isn’t cute so I can’t really speak. I had long straight blond hair, and pale white skin, as well as orange lips, and grey eyes. In the past my mother claimed that it looked like I was melting into the sunset. I was taller than average compared to most girls, but not too tall as to be called strange. Though I was slender my chest, and butt were small compared to everyone else, but I was just lucky enough that it wasn’t non-existent.
During my previous life I had this strange fixation on cookies, and pancakes, almost to the point of obsession over them. I hated anything that was too bland or bitter, and hated the smell of sweat. So I ended up becoming a neat freak, because I also had been diagnosed with OCD, and ADHD. All that combined with my Androphobia, and I was a complete handful to deal with during your daily life.
Going onto the physical plain, and you will find that I have only one functioning kidney, and my tonsils removed. Also I had Asthma, and a minor case of Myasthenia Gravis,which is a chronic disease that causes the muscles in your body tire,and weaken quickly, but also rest just as fast as they tire or weaken. So I had the whole works at the time, and I bet you could probably guess where a few of these came from, i'm just lucky I didn’t get AIDS or something.
Well that’s enough about me, since i’m getting tired now… I think i’ll go to sleep now.. and wake up some.. other.. time…
New life: Month 1
It has now been a whole month since my reincarnation, and you won’t believe what happened! Thats right it was… Absolutely nothing! Even if nothing really happened it doesn’t mean my growth hasn’t made any progress.
I’m now officially an embryo, and have gained a very weak sense of touch, but it is still enough to tell that I have a body, and am still alive. Well if i remember correctly then.. I should be consisting of two layers right now with the chance of starting to develope body parts soon. All I really know is that i’m one month close to being born again.
There is also the fact that my mind has become clearer, and I am capable of retaining my consciousness for longer. Truthfully I shouldn't even be capable of holding a consciousness in this body yet, but think it may be a side effect of reincarnation with my soul being what is temporarily housing my consciousness.
New life: Month 7
Before I knew it seven months have passed in my new life, and as usual there is nothing going on that I can make out too clearly. In these seven months that I have been growing inside my mother’s womb I have found that being in here is rather comfortable. I had a vague idea about how comfortable it was at three months, but it didn’t really sink in until I had hit the four month milestone.
I have been capable of telling the time in here because I somehow had enough control of my body to tell what it’s current state was, so using my knowledge about fetal development I managed to keep track of time.
My body is mostly developed by now, and the most recent part I gained control over was my eyes. About a month ago I began to hear very minute sounds that I have by now been capable of making out as heart beats, and they are too loud to possibly belong to me so I figured they were that of my mothers. As if to prove this theory my mind would become relaxed every time I heard it. I already know that humans couldn’t possibly have hearing this good only seven months through pregnancy, so i’m most likely a race that has good hearing (god i wish i’m an elf!).
It’s only two month until I finally get born into this world. ‘I will get to meet my new mother! I only hope my father is either dead already, dies soon, or is away from home a lot, other wise I don’t think I will live a very calm life.’ At least not for a while. ‘Though I really~ want an adorable little sister who I can dote on all day~!’
New life: Month 9
‘Wooohoooo~! I’ll finally get born soon!’ I have recently reached the final stage of pregnancy, and am ready to be birthed at any time. Honestly I kinda don’t want to leave this comfortable embrace that is called the womb, but I have to be born eventually, and I want to grow up so I can go adventuring. Hopefuly there I won’t be unlucky enough to have that horrible reference to that one game that was sorta popular, and had people making the same reference for two whole years!...
So far it has been what feels like hours, and I can finally since the contractions that represent a quickly approaching birth, also my mother’s water broke only minutes earlier. This I could tell by the sudden drain of fluids, the strong contraction that came at the same time, and the loud noise that sounded like a yell coming from what I presume is up.
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I can feel a tugging sensation on my body trying to force it in one direction, but my surroundings are too narrow for me to fit through the gap I was moving to, so it would have to stretch to match my body. Which I can only assume must be one of the painful parts about pregnancy. Combined with a squirming baby trying to make it’s way out of you.
Thinking along these lines I try to stop my body from squirming as much as possible, and do everything in my power to help make the whole process easier on those trying to birth me. I can hear screams from outside of this place that must belong to my mother, and even if they are screams of pain they also hold a kind of resolve that only a mother determined to give life to their child could possibly have.
By now I am already a good way out, and I feel my mother about to give the final push to get me out, and into the world. I feel a push, one much stronger than those previously used, and I get pushed out completely from my mother’s entrance. Then I hear the most frightening words of my life.
[???] “Congratulations Heiya, it’s a boy!” A voice reminiscent of an old lady calls out.
‘What?! Why?! Was this the doing of the damned goddess?! Should I just kill myself the next chance I get?!’ I screamed in horror in my mind, and felt as if I was on the verge of collapse. I started crying as if there was no tomorrow.
This is, when a masculine voice called out at the old lady in an angry, and annoyed tone.
[???] “Hey! Are you going senile old lady?! Any sane person could tell that it’s a girl!” This person yelled at the old lady for what she said.
[Old lady] “Hohoho, aren’t you getting too worked up on only a joke? Dear Gake.” The old lady said in a playful tone.
[Gake] “Of course not! aren’t you just trying to confuse my wife?!” He yelled in a rather annoyed tone.
Hearing their conversation I calm somewhat internally, but i’m still crying for some reason. ‘Hmph, this is one of the reasons I hate men, they can’t even take a joke.’ I thought taking the old lady’s side. ‘I wonder if he is supposed to be my father or something, tch, why does it have to be such a brute.’
[Heiya?] “Please, let me.. see her..” Said a somewhat tired voice that still held endless love, and affection towards me in specific.
I immediately recognised this voice as the one who has been carrying me, and caring for me for the past nine months. Then again, why can I understand them? I think it has something to do with the fact that they are speaking Japanese. Is the language barrier between world really this small?
When the old lady heard her voice, she quickly, and carefully handed me to my mother. I felt the shifting around, and saw my line of sight moving about. When I stopped I was then embraced by a pair of slender, soft, and gentle arms, then pressed against something soft.
Looking up I saw my mother for the first time. She had long, straight light-brown hair, and deep green eyes that looked like they would pull you in. There were also a pair of long, and pointy ears protruding from the sides of her head, she was absolutely beautiful.
When I saw her for the first time I stopped crying, and purely felt as if I was finally where I belonged, as if my life in my own world wasn’t supposed to have even happened, and was a stupid mistake on the part of some mad god. I melted into the warm embrace of my mother’s arms, and her very comfortable just-right chest.
[Old lady] “Heiya, have you decided on a name for her yet?” the old lady asked my mother in a curious tone of voice.
When I heard this I started to pay good attention to my mother, wondering what my new name would be. But what I heard next surprised me quite a bit, and gave me the feeling that someone I recently met was pulling some strings here.
[Heiya] “Nine months ago I was given a divine oracle that I would in the future give a name most befitting to my child, and that this name would follow them until the end of time. So I, upon hearing this, received an inspiration. Her name will from this day forth be, Krystal” She said this with quite a bit of emotion in her voice that was clearly not faked, and held endless love towards her offspring; me.
[Old lady] “what a wonderful name you have given her. I’m sure that she will have a great life ahead of her.” The old lady said so with voice that showed emotion.
[Gake] “Of course the name is wonderful. It is a name my wife chose after all.” He said in a haughty tone as if he were bragging.
‘How disgusting. Why does my father have to be such a cringe worthy person? What did I ever do to deserve this? I bet he’s going to be one of those over-doting type of father that is always hated by the child isn’t he?’ I thought after what my father said, which was very disturbing. ‘Then again I feel sorry for him, if for no other reason than he has that sort of personality’ I felt a sense of pity start to rise inside me, but soon disappeared again.
[Old lady] “What a pitiful man, I really don’t know what Heiya sees in you. Look even your own daughter seems disturbed by what you said, and she is only mere minutes old at the most!” The old lady said in a sort of matter-of-factly manner.
My father had a shocked look on his face, and looked like he was about to burst into tear right in front of me. The only thing I could bother thinking in this situation was ‘So I was right, huh.’
I then slowly drifted into unconsciousness, and then relaxed more deeply into my mom’s embrace. ‘How comfortable, I might just enjoy this life more than I thought’ Was my last thought before drifting away.
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AN: Hey people! I kinda got this in a ‘little’ late (3 days actually), but I swear that I was not being lazy! I had a legitimate reason to not get it out on time! for the first day at least…
Anyway enjoy this thing of stuff! :)