IE7:

I waked up as the breeze of the air carrying a nauseous scent past through me. Mysteriously, I was now back at my feet. I knew what happened last night and somehow, I have a complicated feelings and I can't sort it out right now. My thought was interrupted as I remembered John's body. I was facing at where he was last night but all I could see was remains of shredded meat. My complex and unsure emotion was ignited and I felt heat rushing all over my body as I remembered the Knights face and how he killed John.

I would never forget that eyes and that face of him. My anger was extinguished as I felt crackling of fallen leaves only to realized that my surrounding was burning. I panicked and quickly run away from the aflame place where I was. I strongly knew that fire was one of the greatest weakness of insects. The flame just spread to the place where I was so I instinctively ran towards another location which then ignited in fire.

Somehow, I finally realized that the fire was on me. I don't feel burning or any pain anywhere. The feeling I had last night flashback on me and I finally stopped frantically spreading fire. Is this my magic? But it's fire? Another memory popped up in my memories. But that memories wasn't mine. I don't remembered having my family being massacred in my past life and we never had maids and butlers. There is this ash-like smoke too which I am not familiar with.

But I felt the feeling and emotions of the person who owns that memories. The only difference is that I didn't killed the person who did it to John which he did on the people who massacred his family. From the looks of it, he awakened his powers that time. I did too and it seems that mine was flame, not smoke. My thoughts came back on the occasional crisping and crackling of burning fallen leaves.

I tried to willed this newly awakened powers to turn off but I remembered John's remains. The flame emitting from me vanished as if sensing my sadness. I can't stare too long on John's remains as it was already unidentifiable. It looks like some beast feasted on him on the night I was unconscious.

What a cruel fate. I died in my past life saving others and my Kaizer and was reincarnated as a beetle. I then was taken away from my beetle family when fighting a bird and crow. I saw how my saviour died, and now, I get to see what's left on the eaten remains of his body. Why such thing happened to me. As far as I remembered, I didn't do anything wrong to deserve such fate.

I prayed for anyone, any God who could give John a better life on his next life and started to skewer some leaves and cover his gruesome sight. I willed the flame to activate again and it quickly spread from my feet to the pile of leaves which covers John's body prayed the same prayer again.I hope this flame burn every remains of John's painful and gruesome death.

As if answering my request, the flames I created burned brightly and I just stared their in awe. I still have conflicted thoughts but I remembered my family, this trees surrounding me was the same on where my parents from. It seems that John ran towards it.

Now,I have no choice but to go back and find them. I need to.

After offering another prayer towards unkown Gods of this world to guide John's soul into a good life in his reincarnation, I continued walking aimlessly deeper in the forest while digging deep inside me on both my new powers and to what I believe was family bond. I am still oblivious about this power and I somehow felt that it was connecting on the dream occurring on me randomly. It's because the last scene it showed me was the person's awakening of his power which then when I waked up, I had mine and somehow it was easy to control as it was following my will.

As for the family bond or connection I was saying, I tried to dig deeper inside me to find it and familiarise it's signature feeling or energy. I somehow grasp it when remembering that time when I converse with my parents and read my family's emotion just by my thoughts, I tried to direct it on their image inside my head. After half hour of fruitless attempts.

A twitch of reaction brings me joy as somehow, I felt reaction from them. It was a feeling of relief,joy and hope of reuniting with me again. After pondering a bit with what happened, I formulated a theory where are connection towards each other has no boundaries or limits. But, it has a reaction time Base on the distance.

As I remembered, when I'm close on my family, the transmission was almost instant. I have a hunch that somehow, the transmission is slower than the speed of sound. I don't exactly know really how fast sound travels, just the small idea from my grandma who said to me that when a lightning strikes, start counting from one and when the thunder arrives, you're current number can be converted into kilometers which determines how far the lightning occurred for example: the thunder arrived after two seconds, then the lightning hits just 2 kilometres away from you.

If I apply that rough knowledge with this telepathy ability of our family, then I can only expect that I'm about 1 to 3 kilometers away from my parents. Which will maybe take a more days for my small size.

I send a message containing my concerns of their situation as I continued traverse the forest towards where my feeling told me that my parents are located. I crawled for almost 30 minutes nonstop when a transmission was sent back to me that they were fine and they were also heading towards my direction. I'm not sure if it was exactly 30 minutes ago when I sent the transmission but if both of us were moving towards each other, it just proves how small our progress were on closing the distance . I transmitted on them that they too keep sending me their transmission so that we can both constantly have each other's state and locations.

As usual, I continued crawling picking up yellowish leaves to eat which was served on us by mother when I was still there. I'm guessing that all of them was having a hard time more than I do because they had to keep my siblings safe and they were more easily to be spotted by predators such as those birds that attacks us. That's why we need to reunite faster. It was already almost dawn and the skies was emitting a hue of pink and Violet when their replies arrived at me. As I counted, it was 28 minutes which give joy to me knowing that we were getting closer towards each other. I transmitted again another message and just started to traverses the endless trees of the leaning forest.

I didn't mind the strain on my insect limbs as because they were still bearable and continue crawling. It was already dark when they're transmission arrived. They said that they have to stop for now to rest and it's because it's dangerous for then to roam at night since nocturnal animals and beast are more ferocious than day creatures.

I conveyed to them that I understand and I will continue my journey towards them because I'm small and hard to spot. With that, I spend the night travelling the dark forest where eventual screech, growl and other strange noises resounded everywhere. I always make sure that I was passing close to all trees in case of some dangerous events occurs, I'll just have to crawl up on the nearest tree to hide. Even though I had flames, I don't want to depend much on it because I don't know how well they would do against enemies and if I use it tonight, I will surely attract something. Besides, I somehow can see the faint silhouette of the trees which were all I need to continue.

Their transmission reached me again finally and as I counted, it was around 26 or 27 minutes. The time would surely decrease if both two sides were moving but since they were resting and being safe till morning I understand. I sent back another transmission and continued my journey when an explosion just resounded up ahead. It seems that it wasn't close but far away which made me feel worried because it was from the direction where I'm heading to were my parents are! I sent another transmission and made my movement hastily towards the explosion. After just few minutes. Two monstrous loud sound of beast resounded ahead.

One was likely from a bird. But I knew that they're location were pretty far away from here. But that bird was so loud that I theorised that it was a giant bird. We were in a magical world after all. The other one was an angry growl from what I think is a Wolf. It's thunderously loud and monstrous that I come up on a conclusion that maybe two giant beast of a bird and a Wolf were fighting.

Booming sound of explosions, roars and screech resounded occasionally. 1 hour has passed based on my body clock but no replies was received. I already send countless transmission but they were not replying! Maybe they don't have time as they were busy escaping away from the ferocious battle against the beasts.

I occasionally send transmission every 10 minutes and it continued for over 3 hours when finally, the sound no longer can be heard and just the rustling leaves and various sound made by winds meeting leaves and trees. The sky was already showing signs of dusk approaching when I finally saw some signs of destruction towards the trees up ahead. Some of the already leaning trees are now uprooted. Some are broken or scarred and all of them have patches of charcoals that stills emits smokes.

It continued along the way and more of the charred earth caught my attentions. All of this was evidence of destructions created by giant beasts. Still there is no reply from my parents. My thoughts was filled with horrors as scenarios of what might had happened to my family. I shake my trying to disregard this thought off of my head. I stopped for a brief of moment and sent each of my family members a transmission. After that, I continued the path I was following. The destruction was unbelievably wide that I already feared the creatures who did this even without meeting them.

I felt the connection between me and my siblings getting closer as I entered a space who were now open as countless trees was taken down harshly or was cut with a powerful force clearing the once green roof who were made of tree tops. As I just want to continue straight ahead and not wanting to take a detour, I occasionally have to climbed the destroyed or cut trees that lies in a mess along my path.

The countless transmission sent by my siblings were getting messy even though I can just vaguely discern the emotion carried by the transmission, now, I can't understand anything at all. It's just a sign that I was getting closer and closer. I arrived at a somewhat wide space where there was no trees growing in it.

A familiar sound resounded from my right which made my heart jump in excitement and if I had tears, I might have shredded an amount of them. From faraway on my right side, in a huge tree trunk bigger than the others was 6 small beetles screeching to catch my attention. Two of them sprint towards my direction while the others somehow jumped frantically at seeing me.

I felt my heart warm as I sprint with my 6 legs towards my siblings. I finally reached the two who ran towards me who is the biggest of us and one of two female beetles. We nudged at each other relaying our feelings of excitement, yearning and joy towards each other. Four bodies joined our nudging reunion and joy filled our heart. After for few minutes of enjoying my siblings warmth and happiness that I came back. I finally stepped out of our little circle we made which gave me a position where everyone was now looking at me. Although they were young, the improvement of their mental capacity and comprehension amazed me. It's because unlike before, they can now transmit to me complicated emotions not just happiness, sadness,fear,anger and other simple ones.

I felt that they want to tell me a lot of things and also want to hear from my side. But some lingering sadness didn't slip pass to my perception. 'Where is our parents? ' I asked in a full thought which I knew they would understand somehow because it carries emotions which was enough for them to understand what my message means.

All that was sent back to me sadness and anger. As I was still confused and can't comprehend what they were really meaning to say. The big one finally moved away from the group which was gazed by everyone including me. I unconsciously followed him as he telepathically invited me somewhere. Behind the tree where I found them screeching to catch my attention was two flattened black and green spot I couldn't distinguish. It was colored black and dirt green. I knew to myself that I knew what are they and who are they. But my heart keeps pushing away the thought that my mind is thinking as because my heart can't carry the truth of it.

I have a miserable previous life and was given a second chance. But just a matter of days,I already lost two beings who I was born to have strong bond with. It was like I was chain into them and they're death felt like it was dragging me down. My small body shuddered as it couldn't do anything to express how sad and angry I was.

Why do it has to happen this early. First, John. Even though I only spend 3 days with him and his house. All I felt from him and all I see was kindness towards me. He's like me when I was a child back on earth. Although I was planning to leave him, it was because I have to go back to my family and I have no ways to tell him that. Yet, before I could even enact that plan, his village was attack and parents were killed and all he could do was run away from the fear.

After all his struggles and parent's sacrifice to keep him alive. It was futile. Although we successfully killed one, another one mercilessly dive his sword on John's body. I was just an insect but he showed great concern to me when he threw me away to safety. And that was one of the most painful memory I will never forget. He was executed like he had done something very bad not even bothering to ask him or something. Even after death, the world was still ruthless to him. And now, in front of me was the flattened body of my parents. I can't even dare to think how exactly they die as it's like a sword was piercing my heart every time I think about my kind parents dying.

My body ignited with fire as my mind was focused on the knight who killed John and the resounding growl and screech of the two beast who was surely responsible for my parents death. Even if they don't know my parents was there, it doesn't change the fact that they killed them. The flames around my body intensified as their faces and voices run around my head.

The crackling of the leaves and screeches of my cowering siblings waked me up at my inside rage. That's when I remembered that I still have family to protect and a reason to continue. The fire disappeared instantly leaving the ashen ground under me. I looked at my siblings whose now transmitting me their worries and fear over me.

I can't. Believe I scared my siblings, I need to make up with them but first, I need to burn the remains of my parents and completely wipe out the trace of their gruesome death. I first offered a prayer onto who ever was up there and starts to pile some leaves above my parent's bodies. My heart ache as I watch my siblings who just appeared behind me doing the same. All of them was picking leaves and twigs and piling it above our parents. They all had the same feelings of sadness that dominated all of their other feelings.

I stopped for a while imagining how pitiable our situation is as I watch my siblings. Even though they weren't like me who has memory of their past life, their grief was just as great as mine. I proceed on working and after a while, me and my siblings successfully made an orange hill of yellow leaves and brown sticks and twigs.

I commanded all of them to step back which they all obeyed. I stand atop of the hill and my body ignited into lively orange and red flames, they were all dancing gracefully above me while below they spread to cover the whole hill in fire. I crawled down and my flames disappeared as I aligned my self with my siblings who didn't even have time to be astonished at my display as all of them was grieving heavily at the sight in front of us. Somehow, they understand that what I was doing was to give our parents a proper goodbye and they all just act like they weren't beetles of few days old.

All of us watch the dancing flames atop of our parents remains. Crackling sounds of leaves and and twigs resounded as smokes rise up in the clear blue skies. We stayed there, grieving, reminiscing our memories of our parents and praying to have them a safe travel towards a better place.

After a dozen of minutes pass, the flames weakened allowing us to see the black ground where our parents remain was before. After another short prayer, I told my siblings that we need to continue and find a safe place for us. I am really proud to my siblings because they were not my rowdy and naughty siblings before as they just expressed they're agreement.