Waking up, the mourning light leaking in from the window in the gaps in the blinds. Z lifts an arm up and sighs as he still sees the hand of bones once again confirming that it was not just all a dream. Sitting up, Z finds that his body, which one would think would be sore after being attacked just the day before, is feeling even better and more energized than he has felt in years.
"This is going to take some getting use to but I think I need to figure some stuff out that I can. Let's starts with how the hell did I kill that think like that. I shouldn't have been able to stab it at that angle with it on top of me, my arms wouldn't bend like that." Z started saying out loud just to help keep his thoughts together. "Unless because I'm made of literally nothing but bones, will worry bout how I'm actually moving later, I can bend my joints in reverse."
Immediately trying he is shocked as his arm bends back further than what would be possible for a human, but not enough to be a 90 degree angle. He then tried to move his hand into a position that would have allowed him to make the stab with his arm bend backwards he actually managed though his arm is definitely feeling tense like he had muscles resisting his actions.
"Ok this is weird but now I wanna know if I can dismember myself and if I can then will my parts move away from my body." Taking the chance to straighten his arm out he grabs a finger with his other hand and tries to pull it off feeling resistance just like when he was a human just a little delayed so his finger would have a little space from the rest of his hand. "So no on the dissembling myself plan, but what is this resistance. Though from what I know from all the things relating to skeletons it must be magic or mana that is holding me together. After all I am a skeleton and just killed a dog monster that was eating from a car battery so why can't magic be the reason. Oh yeah that dog is still outside I should probably do something about that so nothing else gets attracted to it."
Going to the window he looks outside see the corpse still there but near where the knife wound is lies a little purple rabbit. With the sight of the rabbit a new idea came into Z's head. "If I am a monster can I get stronger by eating other monsters? Hell, can I even eat since I don't have a stomach?" After deliberating for all of 10 seconds he decides to go kill the rabbit. He does have a fire pit out back he can cook on after all.
Getting his knife from the kitchen he once again goes outside. This time though Z is calm and not releasing extreme amounts of killing intent so the rabbit does not notice him immediately. What Z notices though as he approaches is the fact that the rabbit is eating the corpse of the dog or more specifically the heart. This helps the fact that Z is doing his best to not make a sound and get in reach of the rabbit where he swiftly stabs the blade at the rabbits head. Sadly, the rabbit senses the danger it is in and jumps trying to bolt over the corpse to get away. It was just a second to late as even Z is surprised when his body speeds up and while not hitting the head punctures the side of the rabbit killing it within seconds as most of its organs are slashed apart.
Not grasping what just happened with his own body but marking it as another thing to investigate he looks at the rabbit as he notices a third eye on its forehead and a small crystal that falls from the remains of the dog's heart. Z even with his lack of time to invest in games or shows knows that the crystal is probably a monster gem so he quickly grabs it.
Taking the rabbit to his back yard Z then realizes the one flaw to his plan. He has no idea how to prepare the rabbit to be cooked. He knows that he is suppose to remove the organs and drain the blood from books and shows but has no idea how to do it. He is not even sure if his knife is good for this.
"Well I just have to wing it." He said to himself as he shrugged his shoulders as he proceeded to make a cut along the stomach of the creature. Of course this led to him cutting too deeply and damaged some of the intestines. Miraculously though all that happened was when he threw them out shit went flinging everywhere but the inside of the rabbit looked fine. The problem was some of the shit got on him.
"Ugh now I'm covered in rabbit shit great. I'll have to take a shower soon. Wait, do I even have any water to shower with?" This thought actually caused some worry in his head, but he quickly went to the hose faucet in his yard and turned it on. To his relief water flowed normally so he quickly hosed off his body and the meat from the rabbit to help get the blood out. Z decided to then bury most of the organs except the heart since he remembered that weird stone being in the dog's heart he wanted to check the rabbits. Plus he might be able to eat it.
Now that the rabbit is draining some time for the next step, lighting the fire. Thankfully he has a lighter in his house. The problem is he doesn't actually have anything to burn other than sticks and leaves. Now looking around though he notices his neighbors privacy fence is broken to shit. Well free wood is free wood and not like they were home anyways. Lucky bastards getting vacations, but they were nice people who at least invited them to stuff even though he always had to work. Anyways there is rabbit that needs cooking.
After taking the time to get the fire going and then cutting the rabbit meat into smaller chunks to cook Z just happily cooks the rabbit without a care in the world. By some good fortune nothing came to disturb him. Though the weird thing Z noticed was he could smell the meat cooking, even without a nose. Of course this actually made him feel joy which is something he hasn't felt a lot of in a very long time even when he was a human. It didn't take long to cook the meat and Z even took the time to season it properly with what he had in his kitchen. Now the moment of truth he took the first bite.
He tasted nothing.
He could smell but not taste. Needless to say he was a little disappointed but he did swallow it and it did not fall onto the floor through his clothes. It went somewhere. The other thing was that after swallowing his body felt better. Not that he wasn't feeling good but after eating his body felt lighter. It was only slightly and only for a second or two but it did feel lighter. So he took another bite and the same happened, and kept happening until only the heart was the last piece of meat left.
Instead of eating the heart though he opened it. When he did so a small slime crystal fell out. This confirmed one of Z's theories though. Monsters have these crystals in their hearts. Now to see if another question could be answered. What happens if he eats it. Throwing it into his mouth and swallowing at first nothing happened. Then after a few seconds that feeling of being lighter came back but not as strong as when he ate the meat. Though this time it didn't disappear after a second it stayed. Of course it was just ever so slight almost like when you stretch when you first wake up but it was still there. He then went and grabbed the crystal from the dog and ate it without hesitation. This time he didn't feel lighter but felt as if the smells around him became a little more clearer. Notably all the rabbit shit that was flung around when he gutted the rabbit.
After eating he decided to look around his neighbors yards. Starting with the destroyed fence he noticed footprints that resembled to feet of that dog monster that was asleep on his car. Looking around the yard though he didn't find anything else other than a ruined dog house where the footprints seemed to lead from, but just seemed to disappear from there so he has no idea where it came from. Going to another neighbors yard though he saw that a portion of the house had collapsed though it looked more like it might be the front of the house that was damaged. He will definitely go investigate that more later. The other house next to his looked completely normal but it was abandoned for a while anyways so he wasn't expecting much. He decided to just call it after the glances and head back to the fire since leaving it unsupervised for long might result in him not having a house.
After getting back to the fire pit Z suddenly felt very tired and wanted to sleep but he knew he had to put the fire out first so he did so. The second he walked into his house he locked the door behind him and another day came to an end as he passed out.