A brand new beginning

'It is my time to go' is what I thought as I was lying on my death bead with little to no motion from my shoulders on down. The inside of my body was a mess and I can already tell from a month ago that this poison, or whatever it was, was a slow killer. I messed my brown and black fur up as I rolled around on my bed from time to time to lessen the pain which was kind of the same as how you would sometimes hold your breath to stop a stomach ache from hurting from time to time but it still hurt no matter what position I was in. My ears at the top of my head flicked around every time the harsh pain came in, along with my grunting and terrible cough that always made my throat burn.

The pain I experienced every day felt like I was getting cut and stabbed somewhere random without fail from my toes all the way up to my stomach and don't even let me start on how I constantly feel like I'm laying down in sand, in a desert, with the sun just beaming down onto me all day.

The burning sensation continuously causing my mental sanity to drain ever so slightly since the day it started. It was bad and all but I still have been through worse especially since I lived a bad life that got me into dangerous situations, but it was fun seeing people's livelihoods go up in flames. The excitement I felt when risking my life daily was incredible and I had quite the thrill stealing from commoners all the way up to killing leaders who controlled land as far as the eye could see.

Killing, thieving, torture, betraying, I did it all and i had a blast doing it. But ever since a month ago i had gotten a deep cut on my leg from fighting with this one girl who deals in medicine but mainly creates poisons to use against others. Who knew that she had a hidden dagger under her rug, one that was coated in the poison that I'm suffering from to this day. It doesn't take a genius to know that i gave her a slow and painful death. Hearing her screams from the games we played was a lot of fun.

'But now none of that matters since I'm going to die soon' I think to myself before taking a deep breath, closing my eyes, and drifting off into a permanent sleep.

....Or so i thought. That sleep didn't last long as it seems like i am awake. It feels like I'm still alive but i can't see anything, I can tell my eyes are open but I can't see anything, and I also realise that I seem to be wrapped up in something, that something feels smooth, but I know it isn't silk so it must be cloth or something of the sort.

I cannot move my body at all, it is as if my strength was nonexistent especially since I can't break through this cloth or even stretch it all that much. But one thing that I notice along with my loss of sight and my lack of strength and the lack of ability to move is that I don't know where i am and that the pain of the poison is no longer there.

Last time I checked I was in my bed dying and in constant pain but now I'm alive again and feeling refreshed in a place which I can only guess to be outside. The only thing i could do now is wait and see if my eyesight will come back or if someone can find me and offer some assistance in helping me out of whatever cloth I'm bound in. So I just wait and relax for now and let time flow by.

[Two hours later]

Hmm... I hear something coming my way which can only mean two things. It is either an animal or it's probably someone who found me. Luckily I got my answer pretty quickly and luckily it was another person.

They stopped right beside me and picked me up in their arms while speaking a language a language I cannot understand and starts to carry me away while speaking every now and again to himself and from the voice I already knew that it was a man speaking. But either way I'm happy as I can finally leave from where I was. I was also getting quite hungry just laying there for the past hour or two.

During the time I was waiting I already looked through my options for when i get help and how to train my body. It will be a lot of hard work and my body will hate me but at least i can get a second attempt to become bigger and badder than I was before.

It will take time, multiple years in order to reach my goal and I'm willing to spend that time training nonstop. I will not fall behind my previous self and I will learn everything again from the basics on up. Nothing will be able to stop me this time, not even poison... Hopefully.

[A year and a half later]

My new father was making something for me all the while I was just sitting in a high chair waiting for my meal. It has been months since i last came here and from my father I have heard all sorts of things from stories that I haven't heard from before like different kinds of kung fu, masters of the arts and legendary weapons whose names I haven't heard of. Even the name of the country I'm in doesn't ring a bell so from that I can conclude that this isn't my previous world.

Funny, I heard that from people who were studying in a thing called magic back when I was younger. Said it could lead to all sorts of possibilities but I didn't believe them and those were one of the first people I killed for lying, but now that all this happened I probably should have listened as I would have known much sooner what happened to me.

While I was thinking and reminiscing about past events, I had heard a loud noise like glass being shattered in which white lines started to glow ever so slightly to outline everything inside of the room. It was surprising at first but then I took a closer look and discovered what was outlined.

I could see the outlines of my father, the seat in sitting in, the floor and walls, and more that was in the room but that was all... I could only see inside of the room as when I tried to look through the door that was outlined, I saw nothing but the dark void I was now used to.

'Well now I know that i know I can "see", everything should be much better in the future although not all that much better. Looks like those lines can only appear if there is a very loud noise that I happen to hear, but then again the light faded after just a few seconds and the outlines only seem to have a limited range.

I should probably try to train this to see how far I can take my sight, if I can make it so that the noise doesn't always need to be a loud one then that is even better but so far that isn't the case since I have heard many noises in this house yet nothing was as loud as the glass breaking.

But either way I'm excited to finally have a way to actually see even if it was only for a few seconds. During that time I was also able to take a look at my father which who seems to be cleaning up the glass he just broke. In short, my father is a sable[1] and an average one at that in terms of height.

He wears robes that seem slightly too big for him, yet it makes him look like a master of some kind. And even though he is average for his species, he is still quite small compared to the wide majority. But even if that was the case, If my assumption is correct, then I could possibly learn a lot from him.

Masters big and small always have something to offer no matter who it is, even if it comes down to training patience since they would keep leaving you to go sneak a peak at women in bath houses or brothels.

Maybe this might be the best master I have ever had or maybe not. Either way, he will be beneficial in training my sight along with just training to get strong. If he is a master then my plan won't take years and years to truly begin. But for now I can only wait and see what happens.

[Two years later]

[1] A sable looks like a weasel yet it is native to japan and also has habitats that border china