'Hehehe'
'Hahaha...hahahahahaAHA'
'HAHAHAHAHA AHA'
'MWWAHAHA HAHAHA HAAHAA WHOOOHOOOO!'
GOT YA BASTARDS.
I GOT YOU!
I jumped up and down in glee and screamed out "YEACHHHIII" with every bounce! The absolute mirth that emanated from my yelps could bring a smile to any sad clown, I was truly on top of the world!
I watched the lizards, flicking their tongues out, walking towards the perimeter of the oval and then shrinking back in disgust. Take that you scaled freaks! That's monster repellant personally approved by my best friend Raphael! I thanked the old man once again in my heart, if not for him chasing me around with his powerful spatula I would've never been witness to this beautiful sight!
I joyously watched the reptiles freak out over their situation for a bit, sitting on the grass while munching on some stray fruits I had found running around the forest, they definitley paled in comparison to Ol' Ralph's fruits, however they were delicious nonetheless, made much sweeter by the trauma I was inflicting on my enemies (and less sour due to the lack of an old man yelling)!
Maybe I was enjoying this a bit too much, enjoyment and passtimes was hard to find in this world ok! I can't log in to YouTube or pick up a gaming console, the pain of my enemies is the addiction I'll take on in this new world :).
Um.
Sometimes I catch myself having a worrying train of thought... the more I think about it, the more the Pallidi chick evolution path suits me I feel...
Has this world already begun to change me?
Bah! No need to worry about that for the moment, while watching these guys scamper around in fear is delicious revenge meant to be enjoyed, I also need to harvest them for the sweet EXP/Status Sum which lay hidden beneath their scales. Bringing my repellant up again, I re-sprayed the perimeter of the oval, I wasn't sure how long it'd last and I knew Raphael would come spray every few days or so but it was better to be safe than sorry.
I continued respraying the oval, each time shrinking the area by decreasing the perimeter, I was going to give the lizards who had claustrophobia quite the fright! After 10 rounds, the area which they occupied was tiny, they could no longer run about and had to settle for lying on the grass, some even taking up rest on top of their brethren due to lack of space. Each time the area was decreased I felt myself slowly succumbing to the guilt of entrapping and killing other creatures, but I only needed to think about the times they chased me to banish that thought.
I looked around the vicinity and saw a rock the perfect size for my beak, it had a small crevice I could use to pick it up via my orange pincers and was heavy enough to deal some damage... awesome.
I doused myself in repellant, 5 sprays to be exact. I hid the repellant beneath a bush, marking it on my system and then faced the group of lizards around me. They numbered 28 in total, all I saw however was 28 sacks of experience, if some lizards had shown me empathy I would've spared them, but these were nothing but animals, or better yet, beasts.
I walked towards the nearest Lizard which had been unlucky enough to be alone in the tiny circle. I jumped on it with my body covered in repellant causing it to immediately black out. I dragged its body away and behind a tree.
*CRACK*
It was a gory sight, the thing which propelled me forwards was the imagined picture of me if I hadn't escaped them those times I was being chased. I did this for 3 more lizards, until the third lizard which had a status sum lower than mine, no surge of power was felt when I smashed it. I could continue on my warpath and destroy the rest if I wanted to... I picked up the now bloody rock and tossed it aside. I had killed enough for today.
I had done the deed behind a tree, but I'm sure their lizard brain could figure out what was happening to their kind. I gave them a look which meant "Do not mess with me... or else" and waddled away. I then quickly realised that waddling would break the immersion of me being a dastardly cruel anti-hero so I picked up the pace and ran back home, much better.
I sat down on my bush/hut, I had left my spray bottle from Raphael near the territory of the lizards, the bottle was nearly empty and it wasn't smart to leave all my eggs in one basket, even if my mother in this world would disagree.
Today was quite the day.
'So, I managed to extract me deep and powerful revenge onto those who wronged me and gained a significant power up when doing so... hehe. I'm so cool.'
I was growing cocky again, but let me bask in victory for a while alright?!
I rested my head on my wings and stared at the leaves on my roof, I could see the stars if I peeked through the crevices. There wasn't much you could see unfortunately, either this world had the same or similar levels of light pollution Earth had, or this galaxy simply lacked stars, I wasn't sure.
I made my routine check via the system that I had enough food and water, while I was going through the list, I spotted the small notification icon on the mini-map... Oh god what was it now? Previous memories of my failed evolution resurfaced but I pushed them down and got ready top inspect whatever new information it had brought me.
Willing it to open, the long ,orange, rectangular shape confronted me.
'Ah, I have bad memories of you, why have you shown your square shaped head here again?!'
I scrolled through and checked to see if the Pallidi Chick evolution path was available.
[ You have selected Caelestin Chick, commence evolution? ]
Ugh. Ignore it man, just keep scrolling, just keep scrolling, just keep scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
Continuing down the page, I saw an option previously not there on the screen. It was an oblong shape with the word "MUTATIONS" written in bold... what was this?