Chapter 41 - AGAIN!

Aisrin opened his eyes to a clear blue sky. He stretched, but, it felt oddly... off. He blinked a few times and reached up. He began processing the sight of his hand amidst the blue sky.

'...Yep... that's a baby hand..... FUCK YOU! NOT AGAIN! SUCH BULLSHIT! JUST SEND ME TO THE AFTERLIFE ASSHOLES!'

"GAAAH! GOOAHH!" Aisrin complained aloud.

'Okay, hah... calm down.... First, where am I?'

Aisrin attempted to move his body, but only managed to wiggle around a bit.

'Okay, of course, I'm an infant. I can't support my body with my undeveloped frame... Second, am I still a male?.... Yep, I can still feel that, thank God. Third, mana?'

Aisrin tried to see if he could focus on his internal energy, but was interrupted by hunger... intense hunger.

'... Perhaps I should have checked for parents first.'

"Gwahh! Gaa?" Aisrin tried speaking, but only succeeded in more baby noises.

'You know, I have coherent thoughts, and adult memories... I've literally trained myself twice in speech... AND I STILL CAN'T SPEAK AS AN INFANT!'

Silence greeted Aisrins cries. He began to wonder were he was and why no one was coming to his aid.

'Why am I so fucking hungry?'

Time ticked by slowly, and Aisrin started to realize, he was alone. He finally realized that he wasn't hungry, but starving. Just when he concluded this, he heard something approaching from behind him.

'A person?'

It had gotten dark out, but not quite night. It was about dusk. Aisrin was about to sigh with relief... until a giant white wolf was staring down at him with curious and wary, vibrant green eyes.

'Oh shit... well I'm not on earth again... or Elrim. I've never seen this style of wolf before.'

The wolf continued to stare at Aisrin, and Aisrin stared back.

"Gah?" Aisrin grunted questioningly at the wolf. The wolf cocked its head to the side and gave Aisrin a bewildered look.

'Look, eat me already, this awkward staring contest is getting old.'

The wolf got close to Aisrin and began sniffing him tentively.

'How very dog of you.'

After the wolf sniffed Aisrin, it returned to staring at him before opening its mouth and snatched Aisrin up by the cloth he was wrapped in.

'Okay, here we go. Time to die the third time.'

But the wolf did not eat him, instead it began carrying him off. Aisrin was intrigued by the behavior, but decided the wolf was just moving its meal somewhere more secluded. The wolf carried Aisrin carefully, barely moving him at all save for a gentle swaying motion that eventually put him to sleep.

When Ausrin woke up, he was comfortably warm, and full.

'Hmm? What's going on? Did I die? Why's it so damn dark? Should I try to make a noise?... What just moved next to me?'

Something lightly nudged Aisrin from beside him. Aisrin reached out, but realized he couldn't. Something soft and warm was curled up next to him.

'...Fur? Now that I think about it... I'm not in that cloth anymore either... and there's more fur on the other side... and above me... below me... Whatever, I'll ponder it later. Now... I can focus on mana.'

Aisrin pushed his concerns aside, he was alive... for now. It was better to continue his investigations. He went back to exploring his body's energies to find the familiar mana feeling. Eventually he found it and siezed it.

'Thats... odd. It's different from what I'm used to. Where before it was like waves of energy flowing in my body... this is centered in my mid torso, just under my diaphragm, there's a second one next to it, but vastly smaller. The mana... orb?... ball?... seems turbulent, violent and undeveloped.... I think I should poke it.'

Aisrin proved the foreign orb of energy with his conscious a few times, seeing if he could make use of it. Nothing happened until he thought to pierce it, in which it burst out in a violent explosion that rushed through his body, causing him massive pain as it ran rampant in his body before vanishing, leaving the orb the way he found it.

This episode had caused a commotion amongst the warm fur bodies around him, and he felt himself being licked in a comforting like manner. This too put him to sleep.

Light woke Aisrin up. He opened his eyes and stared down a... tunnel? Rock and dirt surrounded the walls of the tunnel all the way to a opening shrouded with vegetation.

'At least my vision is still good.'

The grey face of a puppy popped into his vision suddenly, it's eyes were still closed, which clued Aisrin that this pup was still in its first days of birth. The pup moved towards the warm mass behind Aisrin, and it's face moved out of sight and then a suckling sound reached his ears. Following where several others.

Ausrin, being unable to move, laid there, suddenly cold and staring at the opening, until another giant white wolfs face was staring at him. Not the same giant wolf, this one had ice blue eyes that stared kindly at him. Aisrin stared back in surprise.

'...Wolf pups.... She wolf.... previously full belly... not dead... Did that giant wolf bring me here to save my life?... How peculiar. And those puppies look like they're the size of adult German Shephards!'

"Why do you not move child?" The wolf opened her mouth and SPOKE!

Aisrin stared at the wolf, his eyes wide in surprise.

'She speaks!'

"Human children can't move on their own, Frill." A male voice answered.

'Correction.... they speak. Yet another world I have to learn about. This is both vexing and exciting me.'

"Oh, I've never seen one before. It looks... odd, it's fur is only on the top of its head. And it smells funny." The she wolf nudged Aisrin towards her belly and flipped him over and a fairly large nipple eventually stared him in the face.

'Oh.... This explains far too much.... this is unnatural and uncomfortable to look at...'

"He is different, I can't quite place it. His eyes, they spoke of many years of knowledge, and he showed no fear when looking at me. I could sense power in him too. It would have been a waste to eat him, so I decided to bring him here to raise." The male explained. Aisrin had already began feeding from the source provided. Hunger winning over his dispositions.

'Its like trying to put a whole titty in my mouth... but it's all nip... I'll add this to the things to never talk about.'

"That reminds me. Last night, it suddenly seemed to burst with mana, and it cried out quite terribly. I succeeded in soothing it, but I've never felt such vast magical energy." Frill mentioned.

"Truly? How curious. Humans don't have mana or magic energy. They use something called, 'Spiritual Energy'. Perhaps this is why I found him abandoned in the heart of the forest." The male continued explaining.

'Keep talking, I'm slowly learning things here.'

"What about when it gets older? Will it know it's different from us? Surely it won't understand us either." Frill voiced her concerns for the future.

"True, humans cannot grasp the Titan language, but we can worry about that stuff when the time comes. As he is now, we have many years to think. Just focus on raising him. I must go now." The male spoke firmly and Aisrin heard him leave shortly after.

'It seems I understand your language perfectly though...'

"As you wish. Then I shall raise this human to be the strongest." Frill answered after the male had already left.