Chapter 0: Reincarnated?

Chapter 0: Reincarnated?

Cold. That’s how I felt. Cold, pain throughout my body, my consciousness clinging to life as I felt myself grow weaker and weaker. The distant sounds of an ambulance ringing in my head. The truck driver crouched over my body. I can’t make out his words, but… He looks distressed.

Am I going to die? I think to myself, as I feel my world grow darker and darker. I see my vision flickering, in and out of reality. A figure on a throne briefly comes into view with each and time my vision grows dark with the flickering of my vision.

“I don’t want to die…. It hurts. I hate pain.” I think to myself. My voice is already too weak to let my pleading reach anyone’s ears. I swear I can feel my own blood pooling in my throat. It hurts so much.

“Deal.” The words are cold, and reverberate through my mind like a parasite clinging to my skill. I swear, through my flickering vision I see the dark figure give a wicked grin, before… My whole vision goes black. And the pain goes away.

I feel… something. A heavy rain. Hitting my skin, but it’s supposed the forecast said it wasn’t meant to rain all summer. My body feels different. But, I should be dead, right? My eyes SNAP open in surprise to the sound of nearby thunder. I’m… alive?

Confused, I sit up. But… I instantly notice that these aren’t my clothes. Instead of the hoodie and pants I was in, I’m wearing a tattered tank top, and some kind of leather shorts with a weird belt with a knife sheath on it. Instead of my normal sneakers, I’m wearing rugged leather boots. My confusion grows as my hair falls in front of my face. Blonde? But… I have black hair. But, with a confused hand, I pull on the strands in front of me. Ow… Yep, it’s my hair. And… I’m wearing fingerless leather gloves? Taking in my surroundings, I notice I’m smack dab in the middle of nowhere. Only a simple knife impaled in the ground next to me is around. The rest is rain, rocky terrain, some mountains, and a few cliffs.

Sudden thunder CRASHES near me, as lightning strikes only a few hundred feet away. Scaring the absolute crap out of me. In a panic, I scramble to my feet, grabbing the knife from the ground and hurriedly speed walk as fast as possible out of the immediate area. Clutching the knife like a lifeline.

After I have gotten a bit farther away, aside from the rain, I realize… It's oddly quiet. Like people aren’t around at all. “So quiet…” I mutter to myself, looking around nervously.

I spot a human silhouette in the distance, and I approach them gingerly. Reaching out. Thank god! Someone to tell me what the hell is going on! I’m saved.

“HEY! Do you know where….” My voice grows into an unsure mutter at the rancid smell, and the figure comes more into focus. “I am….” my voice grows increasingly unsure, and my eyes go wide in horror, stumbling back a little, as I raise the knife in fear. My arms shaking like a leaf. Not human. That is NOT a human! I see the rotting skin, the missing chewed off arm, the patches of bone, and decay. They turn towards me slowly and I start to see they are missing most of their jaw muscles. Half their face is just freaking down to the skull!

“Is that… A zombie?” is all I could think. As it slowly turned towards me, its grotesque features became more prominent. I’m scared. The thing looks like most of its body has been rotting, with only patches of loose decayed skin over a bunch of rotting muscle and exposed ribs.. It’s now visible second eye just a hollow socket with rotting skin covering it. Most of its nose looks to have rotted away. It approaches me, I keep the knife at the ready, fear overwhelming me it gets closer, and closer every decayed movement of its feet making fear for my life even more, until I close my eyes, bracing for my life to end once more. “Oh god. I’m gonna die! Again!” I think to myself.

And…. Nothing. No attack, I don’t die, I’m ok. Confused, I open one eye, and… It’s gone. Looking around, I see it behind me. Walking past me? What? “Huh”

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK! Wait, what? Why did it ignore me? What the hell is going on?! DID IT NOT SEE ME? I reach out to try and figure out what the hell just happened “um…” The moment my finger points out into the air, something suddenly pops into my field of vision. WHAT? HUH? The hell? Stats? Wait…

Reading through the status window, I see my name is blank. Guess I gotta make up one? I’ll do it later. My head hurts. Guess Asuka Kano doesn’t work. Guess I can’t use my previous name? This is confusing. Let’s see… strength’s an eight? Is that super strong or something? Dexterity is.. Seven. Agility is a seven as well? Weird. Intelligence is a five…. Why do I feel insulted by that? Wisdom is a four… Now I feel super freaking offended. Luck is a seven. Wow. is that meant to be super high or something? Charisma is a… NEGATIVE two!? That’s fucked up! WHY?! Wait…. Race? So there are races aside from humans?….

“Why…. the hell…. AM I A ZOMBIE?!”