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Chapter 1 - The forest.

Chapter 1 - The forest.

Well yeah that something was me, so let’s go back a little after I died, so then after everything went dark, I felt a weird sensation, not sure how to describe it, but it was rather uncomfortable, and then everything was fuzzy for a long time, until now, I regain my awareness and first thing I notice, or rather the first thing that came to my mind was that I wanted to get out I felt enclosure, I would say it was some form of primal instinct, but I wanted out, easier said than done, what was this thing around me, so hard, everything was hard, I was pushing with everything I had, to say the least it was troublesome, not to mentioned the gooey feeling of my immediate surrounding, I felt like I was swimming in oozed, and my arms did not feel like arms, they felt odd, different but, the important thing right now was to get out.  I disregard all the odd weird sensations and concentrated on finding my way out and then ¨Crack¨ some of the resistance that I felt earlier gave out, and so little by little I was making a crack in this hard shell, later I would find out it was my egg, so as I was making the opening larger in this outer shell container, I was able to see light little by little, I was able to somehow see a bit more clearly, after some minutes of struggling I was able to come free, o yes I close my eyes and starting to enjoying this feeling of freedom, I felt great, finally out.  After getting used to this feeling of freedom I got a bit more serious I open my eyes, first things first where was I? Last thing I remember I was dead, or I had died, due to a lame heart attack, or so I recall, so why was I inside a container? I had walk a bit far off from that place where I had surface, so I turn around to face the place from where I emerged, and o man! Did I got a surprise, right there in the middle of some sort of crack within some rocks was a pretty big egg, and on top of the egg was a hole, I was sure I had come from that hole, but from an egg? Questions starting flooding to my mind, why had I come out of an egg? What the hell happen to me? I walk back to the egg just to be certain and came to realize that as a matter of fact I had come out of that egg, but why? I couldn’t understand it, now that I think about it, everything about me felt odd now, different, I raise my hand to my eyes and just stood there shock, my arms weren’t arms, all right they were arms but different, for starters my hands, they look more like claws, five finger like claws were on my hands, and really close together, I try separating my fingers apart and It kind of hurt, but not much, probably due to me being recently coming out of that egg, they weren’t that hard, soft and flexible but one could tell that in the near future this things would have a hardness to them. And my arms were a bit longer than usual, wait one arm was way longer than the other what’s this? And lower than the other one? What? Was I deformed? I calm a bit down after this sudden shock and started to get a feel of both of my arms and then I notice why one was longer than the other, I was stupefied, I had four arms!!!!!!!!!! The longer arm I had been staring at was near my lower ribs, and I had one in each side, I had four arms two lower arms and two normal arms, well normal if you could call them that.  I started inspecting my arms, they had spikes all over them, but not long, I could compare them to how scales would look on a dragon, but in the shape of spikes, and small while somehow maintaining the angle of scales, truly fascinating, now as I am saying this, I must say I was not able to control the lower arms that easy, due to them being longer, and well I guess me not having prior experience with this things, I could move them but it was really hard for me, at the moment, so after looking at my claw like hands and spiky hands I took a look at my body, for starters I was short at the moment, my legs were the same as my arms long a bit skinny if I do say so myself and end up in claw like things, while maintaining the shape of a foot somehow the combination was just too surreal, while inspecting my body I found out, I had a armor type thing close to my ribs, layered and somehow cinnamon light color, next I inspected my back, hopefully I didn’t have a tail, emm no, I didn’t have one, good!! Somehow I felt relieve and disappointed at the same time, I kind of wanted a tail, what? I would have found it fun, at least I think so, but wait? What’s this?  I felt a light membrane light and flexible thing on my back? I trace that membrane all the way to my lower neck, and they had a decent width, could this be wings??? I check the other side with my other hand and yeah, I had another membrane on that side, I had wings!!! Yes yes yes!!!! I had wings, so before I go any further, I will say this to fly is anyone’s dream, I am sure of it, or humanity’s dream, well whatever who wouldn’t mind flying?  I sure wouldn’t mind it, so moving on, I had to inspect my face but I was already making an idea of what I would feel, after verifying everything up until now, a pretty good logical explanation was coming to mind, ok so I calm myself yet again, and send my hands towards my face, I was certainly shaking at this point, let’s see, I touch my face first and well it felt normal to some point, there were some hard protuberances  close to my forehead, two of them actually one on each side each one on top of my eyebrows, I had an idea to what they were so I trace them to make sure, and sure thing my guess was correct, I had two antennae, and pretty long ones at that, they would trace back to my short hair, while the hair was a bit short my antennae were a decent length about 10 inches long, and close to my mouth I could feel some other protuberances, I could take a guess as to what they were, but the odd part, is that they were inside my mouth in form of teeth just two of them, like fang, canine tooth, or vampire teeth (they were black by the way but this would be found out later on). so I had two on each side of my mouth, am I a vampire?  No that was out of the question, I was certain that I was some kind of insect humanoid thing, and I had just recently hatch? Or born? Well the correct way to put it, would be that I had recently hatch, but I had died, I am positive I had died, as I was processing all the information through my head, the only logical explanation that came to my mind was that I had reincarnated into a insect humanoid species, by the way I had a guess and from the look of it I was a type of cockroach being, this was certain from the way I look and felt, I was sure of this.  After processing everything through my mind, and having accepted I had reincarnated I felt devastated, No!!!!! Why????? Why did I reincarnate as a cockroach? I have read several novels, or manga where our main protagonist reincarnates as a rich person born of a nobility family, or with magical powers unrivaled by anyone from that world, or at least a very handsome person, I would not mind being reincarnated as a harem magnet, I was a cockroach, I was sure the gods if they exist must hate me, ¨hahahahhaa¨ I started laughing, that was the only logical explanation I would reincarnate as a non-human species, the gods must hate me. In short I am ugly or at least I think I would bring some disturbing glances upon any one that would look at me, by the way I did not had a mirror so I could not measure my ugliness at this point, but by the way I look from being recently hatch I was not liking what I was seeing. I am a humanoid cockroach but where am I? I took a look around my surroundings and it seems I was in a forest, by the way the sky looks like the night was closing in, few traces of the sun, could be seen, so inside a forest? The second question that came to my mind, is this forest in earth? I had no way of knowing this right now, since the woods around me seem to go for quite a long way from where I was, an exploration of my surroundings was needed, usually when one reincarnates one does not reincarnate in the same world, at least this is what was implied in my previous knowledge from when I was a human, but this information was not certain since the source of the information was rather fiction, after thinking this I was planning ahead what I needed to do, first I needed to make sure, if this was earth or not, to do this I needed to explore my surroundings, before exploring my surroundings I needed to get used to my nearest surroundings, I had to do this while avoiding clashing into whatever was the main predator in this forest, because I’m sure this forest had other creatures, and some of them would not mind taking a bite out of me, just thinking about it, made me nervous and wary so I took another look around, ¨pff just my imagination¨ I said, it seems I am rather out of trouble for the time being, so I had to explore, and to explore I had to reconnaissance everything around me, next issue was food, what do I eat? I have no idea, while I was a part cockroach I was also part human I guess, so food was not limited, at least for now, I don’t feel hungry, I do feel a bit tired, even though I had just hatch and while cockroaches where nocturnal insects in my world I was previously human, so the normal thing for me to do at this moment was to sleep, I head back to the crack in between the rocks, the space between there seem like a mini cave, nicely done picking this place for my egg? By the way where was my mom? Or dad? I see no sign of them, I wonder if they were like me and lay and egg and I was born, well I will ponder this questions another time, for the time being no one seem to be around and the night was closing in, I better sleep and in the morning start my primary mission, explore and eat, this were my top priorities, survival, I mean I had another chance at life, might as well see what I can do with this right? While processing all of this excitement and a bit of disappointment started to arise again, no point in thinking about this now, I told myself, I lay down and close my eyes.