The walk from the park into the city was a quick one. Even with people giving me a wide berth with my newfound body. I like it and hate it. I may not be a very outgoing guy but I still enjoy smiling at and talking with the occasional person. Still neat to watch them walk across the street so they don't walk into me. Hope i can find a decent hotel to crash for the night. I'm mentally exhausted.
{Doubt you really use that brain}
Oh shush it, Abby. Always so judgmental.
--Hours Later--
Anyone ever tell you that a motel in the city districts are very expensive? Well just a heads up, they are, and hotels are even more so. So needless to say, I am a very unhappy camper.
It cost me $75 for a for one night! It barely meets a three star quality , so not worth the cost. Sigh. Doesn't matter, I am tired and want to sleep.
"Hey Abby you there?"
{I'm always here - not as though I could simply leave as i please}
"Yeah, look, I know you don't like me"
{Whatever gave you that idea}
I sigh and respond. "Just do me a favor would ya. Look after my body while I rest. This place does not really suit me but meh."
{Now why should I care for you, child. Your body is already modified to perfection when you merged with me. You needn't even require the protection}
"Look - I don't want to have to wake up. So just do your thing and "devour" any undesirables that break into the room. Free reign, have fun, fill your gullet, whatever makes you happy. Please and thank you."
{. . . any undesirable?}
"Yes, I'm not exactly a deep sleeper but I don't like stirring when I do lay down. And if, somehow, I'm woken, it just ruins my whole day."
.
. Several Hours Later
. Slight belch was heard
Oh man did I sleep well. Best I had in months. Even if the dream was an odd one. I mean seriously, being reincarnated with a symbiote? Maybe I should stop reading some of the odd fanfiction stories.
{I assure you that it was no dream, child. And you are a reincarnated soul? Not exactly a new subject, but what is a fanfiction?}
HOLY SPACE BALLS IT WAS REAL?! I. .I. . I'm really glad it wasn't a dream. Hehe, I'm living in a truly different universe with a new lease on life.
{Child, I don't need to deal with one of your odd mental episodes so answer my question}
"Fine fine, you're quite pushy just so you know. So long story made short - I died"
{I already know that you imbecile}
"Sheesh, calm down. That wasn't the whole story. So I died and was given a chance to reincarnate. Some tech crew called it the Reincarnated Souls program. I spun a wheel and here I am with you nagging in my ear."
{That's not what I asked you for. What in the Celestial Beings is a fanfiction?}
"Oh, those are just stories from my old life that people would immerse themselves in as a sort of guilty pleasure. Take your universe for existence, I barely know much about it but even I know what a symbiote is. They are just that incredible."
{You are saying that people from your world read about us?}
"Yeah in a sense."
{Why I feel flattered. Then why did you not read about me. I am the strongest Symbiote ever created!}
"Too broke. Didn't have the money to buy another comic when I was growing up. Got bored after missing plots. Small stuff really."
{A comic? I thought you said there were stories}
Tomaytoe. Tomahto.
{I do not appreciate your casual dismissal of me, child. I wish to know more if I am to be stuck with you}
"Then let's start off by you not calling me a child. I'm a grown man. Hell, you created me one heck of a manly physique. So let's start there."
{As you wish. . Richard. I assume you wish to call me Abby still, I shall permit it. Much easier than teaching a lesser being my language}
"Why so magnanimous of you oh so mighty one. But hey, why don't you try sharing your real name to me. I can learn."
{So impetuous. Fine, my true name is Abigail or Abby for short}
"Ha! You just said Abby was short for your name!"
{I did not, I said my true name is Abigail}
"And the short way is Abby! I understood your language!"
{But. . but how?!}
"Must have been the auto translate. It makes me able to understand other languages! Ha. Ha. Hahahahahaa! I so called your name before you even told me."
{Whatever child}
She scoffed and I could even feel her turn her metaspirtual back to me. Heh, win for me. Welp, time to look in my inventory and see.
"Holy Moly! What the hell, Abby!"
{Yes?} she innocently says.
"No no no. No doing that. Why are there TWELVE new bodies in my inventory?!"
{Well you did say any undesirables. And I doubt anyone desired them}
"One, that's cold. Two, how did you grab them all from inside the room. And was that burp I heard that woke me?!"
{Well to answer your questions, little Richard, you left the door unlocked. So they wandered in here. And as I said, I doubted anyone desired them with the stench of death on their persons. And no, I do not 'burp' - I am sure even if aeons have passed the standard for ladies has not.}
"Uh huh, lady, sure. Sure sounded like one back in the park."
{Hush you}
"But now I have thirteen bodies to dispose of because of you. Even if I did forget to lock the door. . ."
{Just dispose of them in the sewage. I'm sure they have developed those even if this is a lesser world}
True. . . welp, guess it's time to get rid of my lovely lady Symbiotes' leftovers. .Shhhh, no telling the superheroes. Gotta be very quiet. Initiate Elmer Fudd Mode!