"Ugh, my head is spinning, what happened?" Said Anna very confused.
Opening her eyes nothing but darkness greets her. Not even sound was present here.
Looking around she saw nothing, felt nothing. It was an odd moment where, she felt as if this was not real, however, she could still feel the bark pressing up against her back.
"Am I in my consciousness?" Asked Anna while tilting her head.
Oddly enough there was a response this time as 10 lights appeared around her. However, they were so dim she did not notice them.
Concentrating, the surroundings began to change. A wide field, with a chair and a table, appeared before her. Moving to sit down, the black sky changed and ten stars appeared, and the table chair and field crumbled without any resistance.
"Odd."
Trying once again, however smaller this time, she created a field, a table, and a chair. All of it crumbled again. As she was about to try a third time, a large thick book fell out of the sky and hit her head.
The title of the book was, how to *&$#@(*#
Unable to make heads or tails of this book, she opened it without thinking much, and almost dropped the book out of fright.
Within the book was a drawing of a cat's body, with 10 orbs next to it.
Closing the book and looking at the cover again, it still said how to *&$#@(*#
"How is this possible? I clearly didn't have this back when I started, nor have I ever found something like this since I have gone back in time."
Opening the book again and looking at the orbs.
"How does this cat have the same cultivation method as the humans"
After saying this something changed. It was like the book started to shake out of anger.
Before anything could happen though 10 orbs of light appeared between the book and Anna.
Taking a few steps back out of surprise, Anna tripped and fell on her butt.
"You can not hurt her. She is the next candidate." said the largest light.
Shaking even more, the book opened and its pages could be seen flipping rapidly.
"She does not know, her first life sealed the memories."
"Wait who are you, and how do you know that I had another life, what memories are you talking about, I kept all my memories."
Without saying a word, the ball of light slowly disappeared, and the book settled down. Unbeknownst to Anna however a pair of furry ears were twitching on her head, and a tail swished from behind her.
"What is going on, how are there other things in my sea of consciousness if I did not create them?"
Still, in confusion, the book flew towards Anna at a blinding speed, and smashed into her forehead, Knocking her out. Before the red mark on her forehead disappeared, the shape of the mark changed turning into the number 12. Oddly enough though the 12 did not look normal, however, it disappeared way too fast to tell.
Waking up in a tree with a violent shake, Anna about falls off the branch. Catching herself just in time, by locking her legs around the branch.
O_O
( That was close. )
Fixing her position on the branch, she grabs her sack. Opening it up, she started to dig through the various clothes, and items, only stopping when she gets the two bags. In one of these bags, there was her ID, birth certificate, some money, an inhaler, a torn photo of a man with no head, and a woman holding a baby. A set of car keys, and a security lock box key. In the other bag, there were a variety of odd things within it, the two items to note of, were a blue vile, with a note, and what looked like a notebook filled with odd letters. The note that came with the vile said something along the lines of, by using this on yourself you can cure your sickness. As for the notebook she never gave it a look.
Grabbing the blue liquid with fury in her eyes, she opens it and pours it onto the tree. When the liquid came out it shaped itself into a slime.
"If I had known this last time around, I would not have drunk it, causing me all that pain. If only the note said that it was a monster instead and that I needed to kill it."
Lifting her hand high in the air, she smashed it down on the glowing blue slime at a blinding speed smashing it. The slime's body after being hit, formed around Annas' hand, before being absorbed into her skin.
With a violent shake of Annas' body, she calmed down.
Looking up at the starry sky, she sighed.
( I have experienced many things in my life. I have suffered immensely under those "caretakers" care, in my last life. Had my insides melted by the slime, and killed it by digesting it at the last second, and even found out that I was not human. I learned to cultivate by chance and even had a husband and children, who betrayed me and killed me. I now have a second chance at life, but now I don't know what to do. Yea I can get stronger by cultivating and absorbing dead monsters, but this world won't awaken for another twenty years. )
Taking out the notebook, she flips it open while giving each page a glance.
( I guess, this time I could take the time to learn other languages, and see if I can translate this. )
Closing the book, she carefully put everything away into the sac.
Looking up into the sky, a small smile formed on her lips, and in a quiet voice, she said.
"I am free."
Lifting her hand into the sky, she reaches out and acts like she's going to grab the moon.
"I will pursue my own goals."
Annas' eyes flash to a crimson red color, a pair of ears pop out of her head, and a tail shoots out of her lower back.
Pulling her hand back like she was grabbing a solid object, the space around her hand warped, before tearing.
"I WILL LIVE!"
With a final yank, the space made a popping sound and tore open. Getting up from the branch, she took one last look around before she jumped into the tear.