“Hey, stay with me, open your eyes,”
“Oliva, you can fight this”.
Hearing the sheer terror in his voice made me want to see his face one more time but I couldn't feel my body anymore.
“Don't be sad. I'll be ok” I murmured
I just wanted to protect someone, anyone. I never wanted to put such an expression on his face. Even if I died, I was happy because everyone was safe. I can't help but wonder though did forfeiting my life change anything. Is this the kind of hero I wanted to be? I guess it doesn’t matter now. That was my last thought before the darkness claimed me.
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“Look Rafe, she is waking up”
When I regained consciousness, I saw a strange creature. It looked like a small mouse with reptilian features. It had yellow fur with hints of white and black. It's tail was in a zigzag shape and had sharp eyes like a snake. But the main thing that stood out to me was the large wings behind its back.
If there was a Charizard and Pikachu hybrid out there somewhere I’d say it would look like this.
“You’ve finally woken up I see, welcome to the world little one”
Eeh. What the heck is this thing? Is it going to eat me? No, this is a dream. I tried to pinch my cheeks to see if I could wake up from this nightmare. But I then realized that my hands were not the same as before. They were small, and they were covered in fur and scales.
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Don’t tell me . . . have I become a Pikachu and Charizard hybrid too? Wait, that is too long, how about pika char? No, focus that is so not important right now.
The feminine-looking pika char turned me over and brought me face to face with a living nightmare. He was massive, easily towering over the dainty pika char, if I had to guess he’d be about 13 feet tall. He looked more like a Charizard than the feminine pika-char, with his blue scales covering his body and black ones along his belly.
He has no fur or a zigzag tail so maybe he isn’t a pika char.
He leaned forward bringing his huge claw close to my face and I instinctively started crying.
“Wait, please don’t cry”
He seemed genuinely saddened by my tears, but I could not stop crying. He started making funny faces and doing weird dances. But, little did he know it made him look even scarier. I mean have you ever seen a clown do weird dances and make faces at you? It's terrifying. The next thing I knew he was sent flying into the air into the faraway wall.
( Note to self. Don't anger the female pika-char)
“You big imbecile even a grown yukimaru would cower if you started reaching toward them like that. Turn into your Kitei jōtai form. Right Now.”
“I’m sorry geez I was just happy is all. You do know how rare it is for monsters from different clans to have a successful pregnancy right”
He took a deep breath and right before my eyes, his nightmare-personified body shrunk down to a human-like figure. He no longer was a 13-foot giant but a 7-foot-tall man. Wait, how did he turn into a human suddenly? Also, since these pregnancies are rare, does that mean I am a rare monster?
The female pika char sighed and looked down at me with an expression filled to the brim with parental love. A look that I haven’t seen for so long.
“I am going to name you Livi. Our little miracle child”
And this is where my new life began.