Darkness. All I can see is DARKNESS.
It's everywhere. Literally no form of light can be spotted. It's like an endless void, an abyss.
What is this? What is this place? How did I get I get here? Didn't I die? This isn't possible. IcanrememberthechildandmybestfriendIhopetheyareokaythepainthevoicethatwastalkingtomeitwasspeakingnonsenseIfeltmylifeslippingawayfrommeuntilitwasgoneIdidn'tshowitbutIwasterrifiedhowdidthishappenhowcouldthishappenicould'tmoveiwantedtosaymoreiwantedtodomoreiwantedtobetherelongerididn'twantotdieididn'twanttodieididn'twanttodieididn'twanttodieididn'twanttodieIDIDN'TWANTTODI-!
GAH!
My eyes snapped open and with a strangely squeaky yelp I shot up to a stitting position, pupils unfocused. Fear gnawing at every fiber of my being and my heart felt like it was going to explode inside my chest from whatever that was. What the heck was that? It felt like my brain was going a hundred miles a minute!
I closed my eyes, my hands reaching up to massage the temple of my forehead in an attempt to help clear the panic in my conscious...but for some reason they couldn't reach. And what's even more baffling is that my body felt disproportionate.
I froze. Along with anything I had in my mind at that moment. Everything coming to an absolute halt. Stay calm Micheal. There must be a logical explanation for this.
Surprisingly, all of my anxious nerves all disappeared with that thought. Like they never there to begin with.
...What in the...?
As confusing as that enigma was I decided to that file away that for later. With no present lingering fears of the situation at hand, new found confidence grew coaxed me into opening my tightly shut eye lids after brief moment of hesitation. Out of all the things I was expecting to see, I was not expecting a dimly litten cave.
Small greenish blue crystals lit up the grey and damp cave, the crystals themselves looked like they were radiating something. And the mysterious light they emitted felt familiar. When I say felt I'm being literal, I can actually feel a connection between me and it somehow. On the ceiling and ground there was spears of rock pointing outward, on places on the ground there are abnormally large patches of grass and a rather big lake that was shining prettily not too far in ahead of me.
Where...am I...?
My gaze continues to wander around randomly with cautious curiosity. When I leaned backwards to look up to get a better view of everthing, I noticed too late that my head felt weirdly heavier which causes me fall on my back.
Oof!
Normally that kind of impact would've hurt a little, but I felt no apparent pain. It was, however, powerful enough to see my feet and long tail to go up for a brief second. My feet looked light blue and very, very rabbit like and I'm pretty sure I do not have a tail.
With a minor struggle, I managed to get to my...feet...and waddled to the clear lake, almost tripping multiple times due to the (obvious) changes of my bodily structure so I can inspect my appearance. I made it over to the ledge by the water and peered down at my reflection.
To say I was different would be the understatement of eternity.
A head that looks like a mixture between a cat and a mouse with somewhat large azure eyes stared back at me. My small body was covered in short light blue fur. My arms were short and my hands are small, almost like a paw but still had 3 tiny fingers. My body itself was slender, and from behind me in the reflection I can see a very long tail that was longer than my body with a furry bulge at the end of its length moved in a motion not unlike a wave from a sea.
.
.
.
Micheal has stopped working. Rebooting...
My right hand (paw?) slowly, almost mechanically touched my face and rubbed it gently with a little caress, my blue eyes that were now glowing purple with some kind of supernatural force, never leaving the reflection. If I had to describe my current expression on my new face, I could only describe it as disbelief. Because I knew what kind of creature I was looking at was.
...Mew.
My mind came to a blank.
...I'm a Mew...a shiny...Mew.
My powerful new brain now suddenly started running at speeds I wouldn't have believed possible.
How? Why? What? Just...
My subdued emotions came back full force.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!?
I cringed as my small teeth chewed on the dry and crunchy texture that's currently in my mouth. It tasted weird, a hint on what would normally taste like veggies was being blinded by the prominent taste of dirt. Yeah, I'm trying to eat grass.
Why?
Non of your business.
Okay, that was uncalled for. But can you really blame me for having a foul mood? You try getting reincarnated as a fictional super animal in the middle of nowhere and remain calm...well, if you can? Kudos to you. Or maybe I should feel worried about why your not freaking out? Whatever.
Exactly 19 hours, 34 minutes and 56 seconds had passed since I discovered that I reincarnated as a Mew. How do I know this without a clock and why am I counting? Well, first and foremost, I'm not doing it intentionally, it's like my mind is taking notes of even the smallest detail of everthing that I come across and think of. I believe it's due to my psychic typing (can you call it that in real life?) that I can process things at a much higher level now. I feel like a hyper computer, except I'm a squishy cat mouse hybrid with abnormal colouring thatissaidtohavetheDNAofeverysinglecreaturethathaseverexistedInconclusionMewisabletolearn anythingthatitchoosesthisisamassiveadvantageinbattleasMewcanliterallybeeffectivetowardseverytypeofenem-!
AGH! STOP THAT!
I've being doing that so many times now. Specifically 65 times. For a brain to operate that quickly the neurons inside it must be extremely dense. Since my head is significantly smaller and according to biological research it shouldn't be possi-you know what? I'm gonna stop right there before it happens. Again.
With a few more bites I deemed the grass in my mouth soft enough, and lightly swallowed it.
I have...very recently accepted the fact that I was reborn as a Mew, and almost a day has passed.
As I managed to control my rapidly thinking mind somewhat, the first concern I had on my mind was, of course, food.
After 19 hours I should of felt at least a little hungry, but no biological need to feed has been apparent so far. Regardless, I was reasonably worried that my body couldn't feel hunger but needed food anyway, so I found the most edible looking thing that was in the cave: the grass.
On that note, I also found out that my teeth are shaped like an omnivore. The teeth at the back are flat and the front had small canines, most likely designed to be a scavenger.
But enough of that. As a Mew, I have access to one of the most scientifically impossible abilities known to man.
Psychic powers.
As a guy who liked to consider that in the infinite vastness of the universe, there had to be at the very least a chance that something like magic/chi/ki/souls and life force would exist. Because, well, Infinite universe = infinite possibilities.
Thus, I experimented. Since who wouldn't knowing that you have powers?
My psychic capabilities are...sad at the moment. I tried using telekinesis on a rock about the size of a fist to lift it, but only succeeded in nudging it about 2.35463 centimetres to the right. Even though it was depressing that I could barely do anything with my new found power I speculated that if I continuously use my psychic energy it will grow stronger. Like a muscle. I can also control my emotions to a level, say if I commanded my brain to reduce anger/sadness/disgust/joy/fear the majority of said emotion will be gone, but some will remain so I don't become an emotionless husk. Instead of a bright pink colour the original Mew has when it uses its power, the colouration of mine is a dark purple. Honestly kinda glad about the colouring, but as for why my psychic aura is like that? Your guess is as good as mine.
As a psychic, it would be logical to meditate to improve myself, like all of those training maniacs that start training as soon as they get isekai'd in fiction but...
No.
Just...
No.
I hate meditation with a passion, I once tried it to clear my thoughts like some therapists advise you when your feeling restless to calm down. With me? I got annoyed and gave up after 30 seconds. So meditation? No thank you. Nada.
There is one thing that left me slightly confused about: where the heck is the wild life?
There have been absolutely no signs of them. At all.
Well, having no idea where I am, nor what kind of cave this is, I can't say there have been none close by, but I haven't been attacked by some rabid animal until now, at least.
Thanks to that, without nothing to really fear right now, I am leisurely living life.
That is the judgement I reached after heroically suffering this bizarre situation.
Turns out, I do not need to consume anything to survive. Nor do I require to sleep.
Yep, my stomach neither craved food nor did I ever desire or needed to sleep. My body must be self-sustaining.
As for what time of the day it is–I can't tell. I'm in a cave. And no, I can't calculate what time it is since I do not know what time of the day it was when I was reborn...huh, when did I become this snarky? But it has been 9 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes and 57 seconds since I reincarnated–
I need to stop being so specific.
My grasp on my psychic abilities has thankfully improved. I am now able to lift multiple fist sized rocks without much strain on my mind, and can fling them at a reasonably fast momentum. Now I have a way of defending myself if something attacks me. And...
I can fly!
Or levitate if you want to be technical. I used my psychic energy to lift myself and boy, is it an experience. The utter freedom you feel is something that you can't describe, unbound by gravity, you own weight, nothing there to restrict you. But if I had to describe it In one word? Liberating. And with that Liberation I flew. The laws of physics can get lost because I just made it my bitch!
Needless to say that flying is now my favourite way of travelling, for conveniences and because I really didn't want to travel on all fours again.
However, other than the slight strengthening of my powers and the wonderous experience of flying, nothing else has really changed. Days of exploration and you'd think you would encounter something new.
Thus, since I have nothing to do… I am eating grass again.
Since I have no other way to kill time, I am quietly munching on some grass.
Now, I've accumulated and eaten so much grass in my body that I can sense it...somehow. It's like my body degraded so much of it, it knows exactly where to find it.
If you asked what purpose that served, I would confidently respond in kind: nothing.
I am just afraid that if I don't do something other than using my abilities, I'll go crazy.
I have created a routine not too long ago around here. First [Travel], then [Practice and train psychic capabilities], end with [Eat], and then repeat.
And that's where I found a point to investigate.
Lacking an appetite brings forth another question: what about taking a crap? Clearly food is unnecessary for this body, but what about having a poo?
The answer is… it's not necessary. Yep, dietary requirements like food is redundant to me now. Yay? I guess?
I have yet to excrete anything after all this time. So I presumed that my stomach digests things on an atomic level, since it's the only explanation I can think of for why I never pooped.
From what I've noticed, I haven't been changing in any way. No excess fat gained anywhere on my small form.
Being a Mew and all of it's glory, is not unexpected for certain things to be unnecessary, but, in that case, where does all of the atoms go? Surely they had to go somewhere when I eat it.
Maybe I can find out with my powers?
My eyes closed and I concentrated. Psychic energy searched deep into my mind and body as I looked for the answer. Cells of all kinds were seen, all of them working to keep my body alive and functioning. I have seen cells with a microscope but viewing them from every direction without anything assisting you is bizarre. I dived deeper, now I can see weird strains...DNA, the very DNA of my body now visible to my perception. There are so many, seemingly endless strains but I knew better. I barely noticed that they all had some kind of particles surrounding them, I did not see it but I sensed it. I'm not a biologist but I know that's not supposed to be there.
Focusing on the abnormality, I explored it. And information flooded my mind. It was strange. It was somehow nothing and everything at the same time. It made sense yet it didn't. It can't be explained, it just is. It wasn't good. It wasn't evil. It was infinite. It was eternal. It was an endless Dimension. Against my better judgement my presence pulled at it and-
I felt a shift in the atmosphere in front of me.
I willed my consciousness back to normal and opened my eyes. I stared at what was in front of me.
A misty black circle shaped hole floated.
...what?
Status
Name: Micheal Lingard
Race: Mew (Subspecies)
Title: None
Magic: None
Abilities: Unique Skill [Psychic Energy Manipulation]
Unique Skill [Analyse]
Unique Skill [Dimensional Space]
Mew Natural Skill [longevity, Self-sustaining Body, Genetic Manipulation]
Resistances: Pain Resistance
Cold Resistance
Heat Resistance
Here ya go!
I think I explained the circumstances of our protagonist well enough...maybe? Eh, first time writing a fanfiction so I'll see how you guys think about it.
If you find spelling errors I'll probably find them soon and correct them.
Peace!