As John was pushed into the bubbling pool, merging with the being that was to emerge, the dream like state he was in disappeared and in its stead a clear conscious. As he was fully conscious, he could feel how he was underwater, the heavy feeling pressing on his body was especially noticeable.

Though his mind was clear, the confusion of how he even got into the situation was even stronger, making him float within the pond completely still. Right now, John should have emerged from the pond already, violently splashing his way out of the pond accompanied with a roar only fit for the body he inhabited. Alas, that was if the body was not occupied by John.

Now, with John occupying the body, all he knew was he trained, got really tired, crawled to the fridge, ate cold spaghetti, and then fell asleep. Now he was in a body of water, how could he not be confused? Eventually,  his mind put together the clues and came up with the brilliant conclusion, I am in water! Yes, yes you were John now get out, I am getting bored waiting for you to emerge from the pool.

And with the conclusion, his mind panicked. Nothing could possibly explain the situation to John right now, except me of course but that doesn't matter. With his burly, scaly arms he flailed his arms in the water, hoping to push himself out of the water. His current state of mind made his sense of judgment haywire, causing him to flail his arms instead of actually swimming out.

Luckily for him, the body he currently inhabits is... special, yes, very special, and he was just under the water, allowing him to flail himself out of the water. As he emerged from the water as if a humongous rock had fallen, water splashed in numerous directions.

John with his new body breathed heavily, confusion, panic, fear, numerous emotions swirled within his eyes. He looked around himself, still completely oblivious to the new body he had. Hopefully, he doesn't check, just imagining his panicked look when he finds out....

"Pffff.."

I struggled to stop the laughter emerging from my mouth, tears started to well within my eyes, I... It's so hard to watch! I continued to watch John as I stifled my laugh as best as I could. He continued to observe to his surroundings, it was dark, really dark. Yes John, yes it is, you are in a cave.

Eventually, his eyes landed upon a single crystal. It floated upon a small pillar of rock, glowing with a light blue hue, illuminating itself. Within the cave, the lightly glowing crystal stood out, as John stared at the glowing crystal, he stopped moving. His eyes looked at the glowing crystal was interest and curiosity, but the emotion that glowed within his eyes was hunger. Pure, savagery.

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The conscious of the crystal shivered, at first it was overjoyed at the emergence of a strong monster, but now? Now it felt regret. Seeing the creature that emerged from the pond had looked at it with eyes filled with hunger, it knew what it wanted. If the core had spawned it, the look of reverence and respect would have been prominent, but never hunger.

Even crystals had instincts, and its instincts cried danger. It quickly blared alarms to its creatures, requesting for aid as soon as possible. But before the action was even done, the creature was upon it. With its sharp claws, it dug into the crystal, giving birth to numerous cracks to appear. Next, it grabbed it with its hands, with the strength that could crush a rock, the cracks on the crystal grew bigger. Finally, the jaws of the beast had already clamped upon the crystal, drool smothered the crystal.

With its razor sharp teeth, the beast gave a mighty chomp, effectively smashing the crystal into smithereens. All of the shattered shards of the crystal went into the mouth of the beast. The crystals upon the touching its tongue, melted into a clear blue viscous liquid, flowing down his throat. The feeling of euphoria when it smoothly went down its throat into his stomach was something John had never felt, but currently, the instincts I had implanted within the creature seems to have taken over for a bit, interesting... He seems to have also taken parts of the original body.

But, of course, such thoughts do not matter right now. I continued to watch on in interest, seeing him consume the crystal with great fervor. Soon, John finished consuming the crystal, the instincts that had taken over gone. Still, even though he had done it out of instinct, he could remember it as clear as day, now his mind was really messed up.

Randomly finding himself in a pool of water, then finding out that he's in some random dark place, then seeing a glowing crystal that floated, then eating it, then that feeling of euphoria when he ate it? Best feeling in his life. He ran towards the edge of the crystal clear pond, seeing the reflection... Oh boy... I.. I can't... I..

"AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

His.. His face! I... I can't stop laughing! His face looks so ridiculous! Look at him! Standing at the edge, patting his face like some confused child! Well, he is confused but he's an adult. No matter.

As he continued to look at his reflection, dumbfounded. The pond started to bubble and froth once more, and with it beasts with a striking resemblance to John emerged, giving out roars at the same time. 

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!"

 their roars were so loud, it shook the cavern, causing dust and small rocks to fall from the ceiling of the cavern. John just sat there looking at his new companions, his stare full of confusion. His day was too messed up for his frail modern mind, this made absolutely no sense to him.

As he looked at the newly emerged Lizardmen, his mouth opened and closed much like a fish out of water, before screaming his lungs out,

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH!????????" (WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON??!!!!!!!!!"