Chapter 4: Ep. 1 — Awaking, III

I slowly started stepping backwards with my eyes open wide.

I could feel so much air in my eyes, and I so badly wanted to close them, but I knew if I blinked even once it could be over.

He gazed directly into my eyes, with his eyes narrowing… realizing I knew something was up.

Why did I care in the first place though? This wasn’t my body, and I still don’t know how or why I’m here… but I knew whoever this body belonged to before, just died, and he’s the only one I’ve seen since waking up.

[What is wrong?] He said as his head tilted.

I was trying to think of something to say but before I could say anything I tripped into the bathtub behind me.

What was I doing? I knew that was there but I didn’t stop walking backwards, and now I’ve just put myself into a horrible position.

I quickly pushed myself up with my arms to sit up while my legs were still hanging out of the bathtub, but it was too late.

He was standing right in front of me, or floating, as his tentacles lifted him above me.

[I said, what is wrong?} His tone slowly changed…

{Are your memories back?} His voice was completely different from before.

He sounded so much darker, and alien, if that makes any sense… but at the same time I noticed something… his voice was slowly sounding more like mine, or at least similar to mine when I first woke up.

I hadn’t noticed it till now, but my voice has slowly been changing to my original voice.

I can sort of understand why my voice was changing, as I probably talk differently than the original body, but why was his voice changing to hers?

{Answer me}

I could see the outline of what looked to be teeth coming out of his mouth.

“No! I don’t remember anything!” I said as I pulled my arms over my face and fell farther into the bathtub.

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“I also have no clue who you are but please-” before I could finish my sentence I heard a plop noise.

I slowly lowered my arms to see that he was gone… or at least I though he was.

I pulled my legs into the bathtub and looked over the edge. He was just standing there, as if nothing happened. He looked cuter as his eyes were a bit bigger, and I couldn’t see his teeth any more.

[I am sorry, I do not know what got into me…] Anxiously he tried to cross his arms, but failed as they were to short.

“YOU JUST SCARED THE LIFE OUT OF ME!!” I screamed as I was furious. It looked like he was about to kill me and now he’s saying sorry?

[Sorry…] He slowly looked down.

“Why did you do that, and how did I die??” I started feeling bad for him…

[I got-] Before he could say anything I interrupted him.

“And don’t try to avoid the question this time!”

“You know EXACTLY what I’m asking!”

[Well… to not confuse you to much as you don’t remember much…] He paused as if to gather his thoughts.

[I stay within your body, and most of the time I am just sleeping, as I need more sleep than you humans]

[But today, I was forced awake as the hole in your throat pulled me out]

When he said that I remembered the scarring on my chest and neck. Was he talking about that? If he was that doesn’t make sense, as it looks like the scar healed a very long time ago…

[Your body was covered in so much blood I did not know what to do…]

I was having trouble believing him, as when I first woke up, it didn’t look like he was worried about me nor trying to help me… but the blood… if the scar is old, where on my body would that have come from… was the blood even mine?

[I believe you were in a scuffle with someone else, but as I was not awake, I do not know]

“Even if what you say is true, how am I suppose to believe you?”

[Well… if I had tried to kill you, your body would probably be in two pieces right now]

“Sorry what?” I froze, not because of how gruesome that sounded, but because I knew he wasn’t lying.

[My species typically fights with these…] As he said this his small little arm transformed into what looked like a huge axe, with his arm being the support. The end of the axe looked different from a typical one though, as it had spikes at the end instead of being one sharp edge. This transfiguration of his arm looked different from the rest of his body. As his body looked slime like, his arm no longer looked that way… Instead, it was a solid purplish-magenta colour, with the spikes being a darker purple almost black colour.

I flinched at the sight, but tried to remain cool as to not trigger whatever happened to him earlier.

I leaned in a bit to get a closer look, grabbing the edge of the tub, and quickly realized that he wasn’t lying. After all, the scarring on me was pretty small, only on the front of my chest and neck… If he had done that, it would have probably been around my whole neck…

“Okay… I slightly believe you…” I said as I crossed my arms and looked away.

[Slightly?] He lowered his arm and it slowly transformed back to normal.

“Well, that doesn’t explain how I died…”

[Well as I said, you were fighting someone else, and once I woke up, you were bleeding profusely and I was unable to patch you up quick enough…]

“Patch me up?” I looked over at him confused.

[Yes, it looked like they stabbed your throat] He wiggled his little arm around where a throat would be located on a human, but he didn’t really have a neck so it looked like he was pointing to his beak.

“So is this scar that I have your doing?” I waved my hand near my neck.

He looked at me dumbfounded before realizing I was pointing to my neck.

[Oh, no…]

“What?”

[I am not sure how that happened, but before I could patch you up your body started healing…]

“Uhh… That’s… not possible?” I tried thinking hard, but in no world could I see anyone’s body healing that fast… especially for how big this scar was.

[Yeah, I was pretty sure that was not possible for your species]

[Though, the wound started glowing a bright purple before it appeared that way…]

“Wait… did it look-” before I could finish my sentence, we both heard an aggressive—

Knock Knock Knock

“HELLO!”

“CAN ANYONE HEAR ME!?!”

“OPEN THE DOOR!!”

Whoever the man was outside the door, sounded very panicked and in desperation…

My heart was racing, and before I knew it, the alien had transformed into a purple book…

Why was he hiding, and why was this making me feel so uneasy?