Born a New

Falling with speed without fear felt like something like an empty memory fading into the back of my mind as new instincts filled the spaces. The excitement I felt made me shed a slight tear, as I was about to hit the ground I instinctively flipped and landed with force. I heard a crackling and small explosion sound around my lower legs and as I looked down there was small teal, red with some white smaller ones expanded out around fragment shards of my legs. They quickly now reformed and with the destroyed cement seemed to become stronger now having an obsidian black vein within them. This started to give me a concept of some of the power I was granted but I still didn't know the extent or anything at all. The only thought in my head at the moment was the realization that I am free. Finally, I was in the outside world with it feeling like fantasy and after the convergence, it looks as if it is as well! I got a bad feeling though from the way the voice spoke about this world of fantasy and myth. I found that the reason no one was around was my part of the city had been completely lost. Though from the hospital you could not tell because of the distant fog I was devastated to find that I was on an island at least 6 kilometers from the mainland it seemed. Also with the dimensional shift came wildly overgrown vegetation from the other side mixing buildings with large trees and very colorful flowers that were the size of full-grown oak trees! I was amazed by the horror of what I could see but also it let me know my senses were no longer human. My eyes with split iris could not only perceive vast amounts of light and where it had been disturbed from things moving through it but also magic and all types of energy that the land was now endowed with. Among my sense now also was infrared and keen smell allowing me to see trails of heat and pheromones. The new vents on my face didn't stop there with their additions allowing me to sense killer intent, changes in physics, motion in a three hundred and the sixty-degree area around me, immunity to any inhalation problems, along with the sense of natural geolocation. To think that I would be here in a world like this with a new body of this making. I can only wonder why me but I won't pry too hard into a gift that has blessed me with not only a capable body but an overwhelmingly powerful one-of-a-kind type at that. Well, what I wanted to be one of a kind I laughed to myself in silence. I wanted to test myself though to see where my physical attributes would be in this form. I walked down the desolate road from which massive roots grew through roads and vegetation had melded with mankind's structures. I saw a line of parked cars that seem to be slightly still intact even though a couple had been turned over or destroyed by the vegetation. I thought this is the best time and place to see what I can do! I threw myself forward with a speed unknown covering about 2 miles in a second. The instinct to naturally throw out my hand with a slightly open palm like a claw but tighter mixed with what I had read was the best way to strike using your palm in my mind to send out a blow that made my eyes sparkle as metal tore like paper under my hands and the impact of my palm at the beginning right before the edge of my claws hit twisted the entire vehicle in a way the force didn't fully send it and another truck in front of it flying into the air until after my claws had cleaved through them. The shock and amazement filled me that I was now superhuman even above that I felt. This feeling was cut short by seeing the body of what looked like a pale blue and dark purple stone tortoise-looking creature. It was quite large compared to a human minivan being about the same size. It seems to have died from falling a great height and now was just left here. I hear a sound in the distance and dismiss it as the cars finally coming down laughing to myself for some reason something in me is calling me toward the body of the creature. Once I was within about 25 feet of it's body now getting closer I see black and maroon mist coming from it's chest and back. In the next moment, the thought of flesh magic came into the front of my mind strongly. Before I knew it I spoke the words "twist and turns reform anew!" came out in a rumbling whisper. From the creature's rotting body came a twister of black and marron magic and from it stepped a pale blue and dark purple Orc that then bowed to me?!? I had so many questions that were quickly put into view when the Orc points to a pool of blood that reflects my full image and I have grown tusks in my jaw after using my power on the cars and now it seems I have made a companion I don't want to call him a minion. He is a little bigger in stature with a massive build of muscle ready to kill on command. I could feel that I was his creator but now I saw that I was a higher version of him or a unique variant I could only guess. After I got a bit closer to him I could see he had a bit of skeleton showing and some of the flesh was a but decayed. As that thought crossed my mind the name came to me "The rotted V.1" came into my head. Okay, so this isn't like a video game but as an actual strategy plan-style action. Is that how the magic worked in their world. Not expecting an answer but the rotted spoke saying yes magic works on a hierarchy system going one through fifty and in special cases seventy. Magic and sorcery can come in all forms and shapes to be used. For example, there can be fireballs and fire cubes that disperse fireballs as they land. The complexity is something that baffled me and his intelligence left me speechless. Seeing this he was sharp saying "your legends and tales may say the primitive are dumb but we know more than our grunts let on too. It's just how we communicate but you can understand us because you have gotten the last and most powerful of us blessing. This is a lot to take in I told him quickly and he understood saying focus on it and it will become natural. Following his instruction, I grew a little in size and so did the tusk on my face my eyes darkened to black where the white used to be white, and my hair now even now shaggy but still in locs. I was now in a full form thinking to myself where I stood to let me know that I was a V.2 it seems. I smiled to think of what I could become. Strangely though I had no name next to the thoughts. I'm guessing it's because I am myself but as he bowed before me and spoke a little more on where we were going he understood and said since I summoned him from flesh even if he is slain if I give him a name he can be summoned whenever. With a smile, I said I will call you "Stone" for you are the first new ground I have created. I laughed knowing I sound ridiculous and smiled at him while he seems to try and smile but I feel his happiness. I wonder and ask him where are the rest of your people? His face changes and says we are long gone now I'm guessing I wouldn't know I'm just born and with all of us we know only what the tribe knew before us. Well, we can find out together as we were about to have to the mountains through the same sound as before but now a lot closer was heard accompanied by cloud dust. Instantly I felt a killing intent coming my way as I see with enhanced vision a car on top of a large lizard's head. Embarrassed looked directly at Stone who was already staring at me. This was a great opportunity to see what I do or so I thought as five more lizards were seen behind him all the size of a modern tank. This should be interesting I guess.

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