I blinked as I looked up at the giant red orb as it lit up the barren area all around me.

"Yea, this isn't totally creepy" I mumbled absently to myself, accidently testing my new bodies voice, which sounded about right.

It really was eerie.

The area around me was a vast scrub land, tiny planes dotted with tiny hills for miles all lit by an oversized, creepy, blood-red moon.

I pulled myself up and inspected my new body. Before I go on I'd like to mention the idea of your sense of self. People generally don't commit imperfections to memory unless they are greatly life changing, and when we imagine ourselves doing things we imagine ourselves generally physically well off in these scenarios. From what I could tell that was the baseline for my new form. I seemed to be around the same height I remember being, but I was in a lot better shape, Somewhat lithe build, but a lot thinner than I recall having been, at lest since I was a little beanpole as a child.

As far as the baseline form was, I couldn't be happier. I wasn't going to win any Mr. Universe competitions but looking and feeling like I could run a marathon and suddenly having excellent flexibility was a very pleasant surprise. However upon even casual inspect I eventually counted a few outstanding oddities that I wasn't sure how I felt about. Embedded in the newly formed flesh where variable sized spheres of what appeared to be a very hard black material.

They didn't hurt, actually touching them felt a bit like how it feels to prodding the base of your fingernails.

All in all, I think there where only the five I could see. One on the top of each foot. One resting in the base of each palm. And a very large one in the middle of my chest.

Now, I'm not an expert on physiology, but I suspect some serious shenanigans as that one should be messing up any number of things, yet it wasn't. Well, so far.

If I suddenly keeled over that would resolve that question at least.

Eventually I had to just write it off under the 'shit happens' category of things I could worry about later on. Looking at the landscape it was fairly bleak to say the least. Oddly enough It felt..familiar? Not in a 'I know where I am' or a 'I've been her before' sense but more a 'This belongs to me.' Imagine if you purchased a piece of land in the middle of no where and drove out to it to the first time and you'd be pretty close to the feeling I had.

Looking around for a minute I more or less had two options. One, Pick a random direction and start walking in it until I found something. Two, try messing with the power that just made me a body. All in all it was a pretty easy choice, seeing as how I had no idea which way to go, for all I know the plane is just an endless expanse, and lastly I'm not sure if ill run into anything hostile.

I for one would not like to run into Cthulhu or any of his little brothers any time soon, and given the whole, "I'm suddenly in an alternate universe afterlife thing." Yea gonna stay put for a bit.

I sat myself down near one of the small trees that scattered through the area and found my 'core' once again. It only now occurred to me just how easy it was to focus without a body. Before there wasn't anything to distract me, but now every little thing seemed to demand attention. Blah, no helping it though.

Eventually I found the place where the light-shard-core-thingy was earlier. To my dismay the shard wasn't there anymore, but a strange blue aura was present. After being overly cautions for a while I started trying to mess with it in earnest however nothing seemed to work. 'Ugg, I wish I had someone else here to help me.' In a panic i snapped my self out of my meditation as a large portion of it suddnely jumped out of me, and right into the tree I had been leaning against.

to find a very pretty blue haired? Elf? Wearing what appeared to be a military-esk outfit consisting of Very tall combat boots that pinned a pair of baggy fatigue pants being held up by a belt. Her camo-vest covered a very small baggy tube top shirt which exposed a fantastic mid-drift and her delicate arms. She had a helmet that hung loosely covering the back of her neck, while a pair of large goggles covered the front. She looked confused for half a second before she fell over and started screaming in pain. Given that she was right behind me, It didn't take much to jump to her side at least.

I had no clue what to do as she writhed in agony as she started coughing blood, and she slowly started bleeding from her mouth. I tried to touch her and felt a massive pull from my core again which I jumped away from, causing her so struggle anew, 'Ah,Fuck me!' as realization dawned. I stopped resisting and started forcing as much energy into her as I could. A faint glow seemed to come from behind her body and she seemed to be mending itself. Apparently I was the reason she appeared,and apparently stopping part way was...not an option.

I was starting to become concerned as the power I had felt started to dwindle however I realized she had stopped pulling already and I was just draining myself, so I cut it off. The moment I did so she took in a deep breath opened her eyes and looked up at me 'wow, pretty blue eyes' I thought. She caught her breath and spoke "My lord, than..."she turned red as her eyes moved away from mine and widened.

"PERVERT!" she screamed in my face .'wha?' "Wha?" WHAM!

Remember when I said she had delicate arms? I lied , I lied through my teeth . Her delicate right arm propelled her delicate fist into the side of my face and I flew.

I literally flew away from her. Do you know how much force a fist has to have to propel an adult male through the air to the point of flying? I don't either but I now could hazard a guess; a lot.

As a fuzzy warm fuzziness started trickling through my brain two thoughts managed to work themselves out. The first was, 'what the hell does she mean pervert? I'm not a pervert!' I sternly objected, before the realization hit me that I was naked, and hovering over an unconscious girl. The last thought that passed through my likely bleeding skull was, 'wow, that was so cliché...'

Then I felt the ground under me and i was I was out like a light.

AN: Tweaked a small portion that i had meant to fix before posting.

AN2:Going back and editing across the board.