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With a groan, Adrian sat up and looked about. He decided he wasn't much of a fan of the absorption process, but he hadn't thought it'd would give him such a headache.
"You're already awake?! All conditions were pointing to you not becoming conscious for another few days. I don't see how you are...Hmm." Adrian looked to where a door had appeared in the wall where there hadn't been one when he had first looked. Another him was standing there, but it most certainly wasn't Henry. No, this soul piece was different, especially considering the fact that it was a girl. She was looking at something in her hand, papers of some sort, while slightly twirling a lock of long brown hair. Adrian watched her as she apparently tried to clue in on why he wasn't still unconscious. When a splitting pain shot through his head he grimaced, gaining the attention of the female him. She looked up, "Oh, sorry I should probably introduce myself. I know you've gotten the whole 'I'm you' bit so I'll just get straight to it. Hi, I'm Kendra." She walked towards him holding out her hand. Adrian was just going to shake her hand when she quickly pulled back before he could even touch her hand, "Oh, I almost forgot. That was a close one whew!" At Adrian's puzzled look she continued, "Don't you remember? Oh, well your mind must still be processing all the lives. You can probably now remember some of them…
"But anyways, I can't touch you otherwise you'd absorb me. I'm guessing you're wondering what happened. Okay, so, we started your absorption of a few soul pieces and of course we had the majority of the other soul pieces there since it was considered a big deal. Nothing really happened when you absorbed the first two, but when you absorbed the third, you kind of turned into a vacuum and sucked in over ¾ of your total soul pieces before we could remove you from the area and you stopped absorbing.
"If that hadn't happened, you probably would've only felt slightly disoriented immediately afterwards, but you absorbed thousands upon thousands of different life experiences with the souls. That's a lot of information for your mind to process, changes to your own form, and the building up of your soul's size. That's kind of a recipe for aches and comatose-like conditions. That's kind of why I'm surprised you're awake, you absorbed all those pieces just yesterday and you should be out still for another few days, but seeing as you're awake now I guess it doesn't matter so much. Your mind must be very strong." She ended, smiling.
After a moment Adrian did recall what she was talking about, but before he said anything along those lines, he realized that he felt the need to go to the bathroom, "Excuse me, but where is the toilet?"
"What?" Kendra asked, looking at Adrian as if he was being ridiculous, "We're soul pieces, we don't have actual physical form, it's why you aren't hungry or thirsty even though you've been here about three days. I think your mind is acting off due to the overload of info."
Adrian realized she was right when the need vanished and he actually felt some of the aches already fading to nothing. It was at that moment that a question came into his mind, "Wait, how am I going to exist where I'm going if I have no physical form?"
"We're pretty sure you will actually materialize once you get to where you're going, but you'll be finding out pretty soon now since you've absorbed most of your soul now. There's only about 30 left, not including the major ones anyways, there's only a few left including me."
"Well, well… um… so where am I going to be going? Wait a minute. What am I even going to be gender-wise? I'm pretty sure that you're not the only female soul piece. I just thought of another thing; Why do I only have a fuzzy memory of where I came from?"
"Really? Well Adrian, I think it's because of all your soul memories. I believe you will lose your unimportant memories, but the important ones will be somewhat fuzzy. Strangely, any education received by any of your soul pieces will be clear and you will probably acquire an eidetic and photographic memory. It's still in question though. To answer your first question, I'm pretty sure you will be going where your soulmates are. To the second one, I don't know I think it's likely that you will be male due to the majority of the pieces being male, but being female could be like a dominant gene in genetics. I can't say. Heck, you may become both somehow. We'll see when there's only one or two of your soul pieces left."
"Well, I might as well continue absorbing now. Right?"
Kendra was slow to answer, "If you're up to it, then yes."
After a brief nod from Adrian, Kendra led him out of the room into a gray hallway, "Kind of bland isn't it," she spoke as they walked. When Adrian only nodded she continued, "We didn't think it important for the place to be decorative since we wouldn't be here very long anyways, but I find it a bit depressing."
Adrian remained mostly quiet, preoccupied with his thoughts, so Kendra stopped trying to start up a conversation and just walked with Adrian in companionable silence. As they were walking, it seemed to be a bit of a walk to get to where he was going to absorb more pieces, Adrian kept getting strange memory flashes-of things like a stick, cloak, and stone, a strange screwdriver, beautiful countryland, a dog getting its neck broken as it called out to him with a different name, searing pain in his pelvic area (must be a female soul piece there), a strange object shaped like an infinity symbol, a bronze sword, a strange purple creature, a sparkling person with a smell of enemy, a night guard, a gray cat and a 'bluestar', a giant bodyguard fighting a disgusting smelling creature, someone yelling 'Oh, sugar honey iced tea!', cold and the moon, flying so silent, immense torture, being kidnapped, dying in a car where no one could reach, a man smelling of prunes and a boy yelling 'Cacaw, cacaw rawr!', little chihuahua puppies all muddy, being fed dead humans by fellow teenagers, receiving multiple electronics and fixing an old man's diner, his 'one true love' dead of poison and taking his own life, a man dying with a blade in his throat from Adrian's wrist, riding a great sapphire colored dragon, a cat drifting down a stream in a box, and so many other things- but any feelings came detached and it felt like he had never experienced them, but yet experienced them all. It made him somewhat dizzy and he stumbled once, but it calmed down after that.
They arrived at where Adrian was going to absorb and Kendra split away from him not wanting to be absorbed just yet. They began. Adrian walked up to a very beautiful girl and asked her a few questions before absorbing her. He found that her name was April and that she was a reporter, but when he absorbed her he got a flash of green faces with purple, orange, red, and blue cloth covering their eyes. He moved on and repeated the process with a sandy-blonde haired teen wearing a brown cloak, who he discovered liked to fly in spaceships. From him, Adrian got a flash of a small green creature and a dark mask. Adrian started to get an odd feeling and knew that there'd most likely be a repeat of what had happened before he woke up again.
Making a decision, he told those around that he'd like to absorb as many pieces as he could before he became unconscious. Hesitantly, several more pieces were brought into the room. Adrian started to absorb them one by one and by the fourth piece he got to, he started to feel like he was opening up. Fighting the feel and suppressing it, Adrian actually managed to absorb all the pieces without actually going full-vacuum, but he was pale and shaky at the end of it. He was sure he could continue, he just wanted it all over with, if he just got an hour of rest. He was made to rest and sleep, but he told the soul pieces watching over him to wake him in about an hour so he could continue, but he felt like he should probably set an alarm just in case. Before he could he began to fall asleep and just figured the pieces would actually heed his wishes.
He knew he should've found a way to set an alarm, he just knew it! He sat up in the bed he was in and looked at the clock they were using in the building to keep track of how long they do something, 10 hours. They left him to sleep for 10 hours, but Adrian logically figured that if he actually slept that long, then he probably did need it and he wasn't mad. He got out of the bed and made his way back to what he decided to call the absorption chamber. On the way, he again had more memory flashes, but they were different from the previous ones.
Upon his arrival, he found himself presented with several pieces and he heard the voice of Kendra over some sort of intercom, "Alright Adrian, these are the last of the minor soul pieces. According to the soul pieces watching over you, when you fell asleep, you actually absorbed several hundred pieces while you were asleep somehow. That's why we left you for so long." Adrian saw the common sense in it and didn't really react, he just started absorbing quickly. He had an easier time this time thanks to the rest he got, even if he did absorb some soul pieces while asleep, and managed to absorb all of the pieces and only be slightly pale and shaky.
"Well," he said slightly unsteady, "glad I got that over with. It would've been much longer if I stuck to the other way of doing it."
"Oh yes, but you're not done yet you still have us to absorb." A voice came from behind Adrian. He turned around to see five soul pieces. One was a stunningly beautiful woman, so beautiful that Adrian wondered how her soul was even part of his. The one to her right was an extremely large man that was insanely muscled, Adrian wouldn't have been surprised if he had large everything and muscle everywhere. The middle piece was the one speaking, it was a younger boy who Adrian could sense was very intelligent. Next was a dark blue dragon with a round-ish face and cat-like behavior, Adrian belatedly wondered how that would affect his appearance. Finally, there was Kendra, and she was waving slightly at Adrian.
Kendra spoke up, "Well except me, you won't be absorbing me yet. I'm supposed to be your support somewhat."
The middle one spoke again, "Yes, that's true, but he will be absorbing us now and then he will soon be able to move on to the place he is meant to be."
The middle one moved forward and touched Adrian in the forehead and disappeared into the point of contact. The muscled man went next, followed by the beautiful woman. Adrian looked at the dragon and before it could touch him he asked, "What's your name?" It looked at him and came forward and laid its head on top of his. Before it fully disappeared, Adrian heard a growl, 'Toothless' go through his mind. That's when things started to darken, he fell over and the last thing he saw before he became unconscious was Kendra leaning over him.
Adrian woke up still on the floor with Kendra sitting cross-legged across and facing away from him, "Okay, Adrian your form should actually be having physical changes now. I know you're probably not going to like this but… take off your clothes."
"Why?"
"You, yourself, and I need to see any changes to your form and talk about things. Also, we need to figure out your gender, although it seems to me you're a male by your voice."
"Okay then, I guess." With that he started to strip and got to his underwear and straightened up. Kendra turned around with her cheeks slightly red, but when she got her first full look of him she was amazed- for his face he had a defined chin and jawline, fairly arched eyebrows, fairly high cheekbones, somewhat full lips, brilliant blue eyes that at times could seem dark blue or sapphire, and to add to it he had a light beard since he hadn't shaved before he was transported there; for his upper body (in her head she could just hear the girls going crazy if they saw him) he had a slight v-shape, an 8-pack of abs that was fairly toned, upper arms that could probably hold over 180lbs easy, strong forearms, a sturdy neck, and medium-going-on-large hands; for his lower body- that's where she stopped and looked up at Adrian, "I did mean everything you know." she continued to evaluate as Adrian blushed slightly and started to take off his underwear. For his lower body he had muscular thighs that would make Heracles proud, large calves, she noticed he had rather large feet, and when she moved up to those "special" areas she noticed that he was quite well endowed. Overall he was probably around 6ft.1in tall. Deciding to mess with Adrian a bit, she said, "Well you're definitely male with that monster," and pointed. He looked down to see what see was talking about and, while being surprised himself, he blushed. He knew it didn't matter quite so much since she was a part of him anyways, so it was like him embarrassing himself. He started wondering why the female pieces didn't have more sway in the whole thing, followed by: what would he look like as a woman?
It was then that Kendra noticed something odd, Adrian's body was changing while he was thinking. She watched as he shrunk down to around 5ft.8in., lost his muscle, grew out at the hips and chest areas, gained breasts, and lost his fine, as guys would call it, "tool". Her mouth dropped through it all and she realized that Adrian could morph into a different gender. When Adrian was finished he looked down at himself in astonishment, how did he turn into a woman? He realized after a moment that it wasn't just a question thought in his head, but also something Kendra just asked. He responded, "I have no idea, but I want to change back. I mean, I was thinking about why the female pieces didn't hold more sway over my gender and I started thinking about what I might look like as a woman, but I only look like what I was thinking. Maybe I did it by thinking about it? Hang on, I want to try something." He stopped, closed his eyes, and began picturing himself as Toothless and could feel his body start to change. When he opened his eyes he was looking through slitted eyes and could feel wings on his back.
"Wow, so you can morph depending on you thought, but the question I have is: can you get back to your original form by just unfocusing on what you want to be or do you have to focus on becoming your original?"
To answer her question Adrian focused on being back in his original "male form" and once he was back to his human form he answered, "I have to focus on becoming my original."
"Well, that's interesting, but now we have to test something…"
Adrian guessed that it wasn't something he'd be comfortable with and queried, "What is it this time?"
"I have to test your fertility, see if there's any health problems-I'll need a stool sample of course- and I'll need to watch you as your transformation may be incomplete and drastic changes could still occur. Also-"
"I thought you said I had no physical form so I couldn't have waste to get rid of?"
"That was before you absorbed all those soul pieces, I've found that you have actually taken on a physical form, but that you're still changing and have yet to figure out what permanent form you'll have. But continuing, I'll also need to help you find any possible abilities you may have, like the morphing ability," finishing, she scribbled down a few notes on his features and the morphing ability, but she looked back up and asked Adrian to turn around. She recorded what features she observed- his back was very well-muscled, his glutes were very good and probably filled out his shorts nicely, he had a good stance, and his neck and shoulders were muscled proportionately to his body, and he had a very nice back.
"Well Adrian, I'm going to give you some privacy. Leave a stool sample in this," she said holding up a container, "and a urine sample in this cup." With that she walked out, leaving Adrian to do his business.