New Beginning

"Hmm, poor soul, why is your color grey instead of white like the others? Also, why is your shape a teardrop...?" thought the figure.

It had arrived in the so-called void of reincarnation. An empty void...or it would be, but this void was full of activity. The soul had arrived, ready to be reincarnated just like any other soul to the same world it came from, but there were sometimes...some anomalies...

"Let's take a look at your memories shall we..." said the figure.

The figure then swiped the soul, which then turned into a mist that turned into somewhat of a screen showing its memories.

"Now I see...poor you, Aren," said the figure.

The soul reformed back to its teardrop shape, the figure then noticed that behind the soul there was a smaller one. It was the same color grey. Perhaps an insect that had died alongside it? No, it was...

"This must be the kitty that I saw in your memories...Skylar, right? His color is also grey and is shaped like a teardrop as well," said the figure.

"Who the fuck are you talking to? We're at work...get back to work!" said another figure that had overheard then got back to work.

The void was actually a factory where souls were sent to be reincarnated. Figures would look into the memories of the souls to then determine what world they had come from and then send them back with their memories erased to start over again. However, in a different time period or in a different place of that world.

Conveyor belts would bring the souls from outside of the void to the inside. Some souls would have different shapes. As for size, every soul would be the same size except for animals and insects. Anomalies sometimes occurred where there would be souls of different colors or bigger than usual.

Aren's soul, along with Skylar's, had arrived in this void or factory if you will. Upon seeing the memories and the color of the souls, the figure labeled them as anomalies, a soul that had lived an uneventful life or a dreadful life...to say the least. It decided to fulfill its desire...

"Okay then...since you liked 'One Piece' and you desired to live in such a world, I'll send you there. However, it won't be easy as you thought it would, but I'll let you keep your memories as well as your cat. I have a feeling you guys will achieve great things...well, off you guys go to your New Beginning."

However, as it then let the conveyor belt take Aren's soul away it realized that it forgot to check Skylar's desire, but it then told its self...

"Nah, he should be fine. After all, from what I saw in Aren's memories, Skylar did love Aren and was always there for him. Besides, he liked 'One Piece' too. I'm sure they'll end up in the same place...maybe...ahhh shit!" the figure said aloud.

"Hey! Get back to work, you moron!" yelled the other figure as it had overheard it again.

"Listen hear Frank! Shut the fuck up or I'll tell everyone here that you dislike watching anime!" yelled the figure to his co-worker, Frank.

"SHHHHH! Okay, okay, just please don't do that Terry," begged Frank.

"That's what I thought, you jerk..." said Terry which he then turned around and mumbled something about "no watching anime bastard."

Terry, one of the figures that worked in the "reincarnation factory" was an anime lover. Almost everyone in the factory loved anime excluding those that don't of course. Terry loved what the human race had created, entertainment for weebs like himself and others, "a land for the lost and lonely..."

He made sure to give Aren and Skylar some advantages some of which were previously mentioned, but a little bit more...

Anyways, Terry returned to work on more souls as the time flew by...or did it since there is no time in a void/factory. Nevertheless, there was a break given here and there to which Terry watched anime (obviously) or read manga that he liked. All this was done by him going to earth in disguise as a human.

*DING!*

An alarm sounded from behind the figures, signaling break time...

"Alright, let's catch up with the current anime series..." thought Terry as he then proceeded to go into his hideout where he stashed his "important stuff."

Disguising himself as a human he headed to earth...

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Along with Skylar's, Aren's soul was being pulled by the conveyor belt towards the outside of the void. Once outside, a portal appeared at the end of the belt. A scanner then checked each soul for any who were labeled as "anomalies."

[SCAN COMPLETE]

[ANOMALIES DETECTED]

[SENNDING TO THE DESIRED WORLD]

The portal then changed pink, the souls were then sent through.

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Somewhere on an island...

"GET THIS BRAT OUT OF ME!! HE'S GOING TO KILL ME!!" yelled a woman.

After a lot of screams and a few punches to the man beside her later...

"It's a boy! Congratulations!" congratulated a woman giving the baby to the mother.

The baby kept crying until he reached her mother's side and went to sleep.

*Huff* *Huff* "I'm so happy," said the mother holding the baby boy in her arms.

"He will be named Monkey D. Draig," said a man who had a tattoo on the side of his face while he leaned closer to the mother and the baby.

"No. I had your child, I'll choose his name...Aren...Aren D. Evergreen, that's his name," said the woman lying down while caressing the baby boy.

"Why that name? Monkey D. Draig sounds better," argued the man.

"Don't argue with me. You knocked me up that one night we spent together. You said I should keep the baby, so, here we are," replied the woman with a sly smile.

"Hmm...then how about..." he thought aloud as he rubbed his chin.

"Nope," she replied to the man before he even finished his thought.

"...bu-" but before the man could talk again he was cut off by the woman.

"Nuh-uh. I do not want my child to have the 'Monkey' name in it. Besides, what if your dad finds out about your child," she said glaring at the man. Not wanting to argue any further, the man stayed silent. He had seen her angry side too many times to know not to argue with her. He also knew she had a point so he remained quiet and nodded.

The new mother then looked down at her baby. The baby then opened his eyes and much to the mother's surprise, they were dark red.

"Where am I? I was beside Skylar...and then..." thought the baby in the woman's arms who then he saw get near and kiss his forehead.

"This is..not where I was...where am I?!" screamed the baby, but everything that the people around could hear was a newborn baby's cries. The mother calmed the baby down.

Aren looked up and down and side to side trying to understand where he was. He looked up and all he could see were two big mounds of flesh looking down upon him along with a woman's beautiful face who was smiling. He was stunned, confused, worried, and scared, but he relaxed a little after a few minutes. Aren was not aware he was a baby - yet- nor was he aware that the woman holding him was his new mother.

"Really, where the hell am I?!" thought Aren.