*Krieeeekk!!!* A loud cry resounded behind me as I felt my body got pulled by my mother. I was able to look back and see what did my parents saw just to be grabbed by a bird's feet right by the face. Oh no! Another bird! Luckily, I felt father locked the other feet by his trunk and the pulling force emitting by mother's magic got stronger.
The bird we killed got yellow feet, but this one was black. I got a glimpse of its body which was all made by a dark feathers. It's a crow. It's bigger and stronger than the one we killed! Father was lifted and got slammed repeatedly on the ground and nearby trees but the crow nor can fly. My father was finally got shake off the crows feet. I felt despair from my parents. My heart raced. This shouldn't be happening, I was a lived just 3 days from this world! I don't wanna die yet! Mother, father! My siblings!
My body got thrown upward and I saw the gapping beak of the crow. No! I felt a force pushed me out of the way to the crows beak and I landed on its back. I quickly digged in my claw like limbs on its back making it screech in pain. He's fast! No! Just by 2 seconds, we're already up the air. I even only see my parents as black dot. My dad desperately released a countless blue worm to attract the birds attention. But he was so focused at flying and twisting it's neck to reach me. I managed to stay unpierced by its beak. I quickly crawled on its neck which puts me in a safer zone. But I'm still up in the air and I can't see my family anymore!
No! My family! I didn't know what happened but anger rose up deep inside me and my body moved on its own. I was already in the middle of the birds head. My claw like limbs dug in deep in the creatures eye. My body moved by anger or is it really my emotion or me whose doing this?! My claw even moved deeper and savagely played the inside of the crow's head.
It release a last screech as it's body stopped moving and we quickly reached the ground. I got separated from the crow and took the whole damage of falling high a high altitude. My body fell with a thud. I felt my internal screaming in pain and my vision was turning dark again. No! I-i don't want to die again! Someone! Please! Help me!
'Papa!' 'Papa!' 'Papa!'
A familiar scenario played in my head. Kaizer, now I remembered. I know in myself that he called me before I die. Perhaps, he's the cause why I got reincarnated as a beetle in a different world with memories intact. But now, no one is around for me, to call for me.
Hope slowly left my body same as my consciousness. But I felt warmth engulfing my body and when I opened my eyes, I saw golden light. It was like when the first bird died. That light surrounded us and we felt strong. But this time, I felt stronger and my consciousness fighting back the drowsiness I felt.
The golden light vanished and the pain I felt lessened. I am currently flipped upside down. I can see the inverted forest in front me. The trees was the same in the forest we where at! I need to get back! My family must be worried about me. I tried my best to flipped me but it's no use.
I tried and tried for hours of futile efforts flipping myself. My body protested to stop and I felt some ache from all over my body just by doing it. I saw from my peripheral vision that the sky there was illuminating in color of sunrise. This is bad! I'm a defenseless flipped over infant beetle and theirs a crow's bloodied corps beside me. It might attract predator which will be very bad for me.
As I was immersed thinking about every possibilities, I get back at trying futile efforts of flipping myself. Even though my insect body was on ache. I never stopped until it was already bright as morning. I don't know what to do anymore. My family,I've been lost for almost many hours now. I wonder if their OK too. No matter what, I will find them once I fixed this problem.
It's been like 2 hours since the sun completely shined above but there's no any predator coming for it. I wonder if there's not much of land predators here but just some birds. Suddenly, i heard nearing footsteps. It's getting closer to me!
Every step made my heart race faster! At this point, whatever finds me can kill me or eat me effortless! I still wanna leave! Why is this happening to me! I want to come back on them! If I only had tears, I might have made a pond beneath me. Something shoved me and lifted me. I was inverted but I'm facing towards a human child! Yes! He's a human child! He stared at me for a few long seconds before finally remembering to flip me. I don't know what to do. I'm too scared to make any attempt to escape. Unlike those birds. He's bigger than me for like 20 folds. He must have noticed my fear when he caress my back. He's speaking something I don't know but from his stone, he's comforting me.
The boy then put me in the basket he was carrying along with him and he grabbed a sack from inside of it. I was just as wide as his hands but I'm still too short to reach or peek out of his basket. I felt the basket kinda swinging slightly and from the sky, I realise that we were moving. No! I need to get back on my family! I've only lived with them for 3 days but my connection to them was already deep! Even though I'm 36 years old internally already, I still felt great pain and sadness imagining myself being separated from them just at the beginning. I still wanna learn my parent's magic and spend time with them and my siblings.We were both just insect but the emotion we showed to each was so humanly.
Sounds of human voices grew louder and nearer which interrupted my thoughts. I was in grief and pain to pay attention at my surroundings.I just cuddled my self in the basket's corner. The boy whose carrying me inside his basket finally stopped and I heard a man's and a woman's voice. Of course I don't know what they were talking about. They continued conversing with each other for few minutes while the basket I am being contained was put on something. I could see the wooden ceiling above me illuminated by the joyous bright light of the sun outside by the house's wooden window. Webs loitering at the beams at every nook and crannies.
The father took the sack beside the basket where I'm in. He scrambled inside of it and showed a surprise expression before shifting his gaze towards me. He's brows express that he's doubting about something and then he called the boy which seems to be his son. The boy said something debating towards the father which just release a sigh of giving up. The father walked away from me and finally, my abductor showed his face again. Now I could see that he has a red hair with pair of light blue eyes. He has a very cute face and wearing a genuine smile while looking at me. He scooped me up both hands which I didn't react in protest.
He said something to me then walks towards a door and when it was opened, you could see a small bed and wooden swords and Shields hanging like designs on the wall. He place the basket near the window and gently scooped me up and then placed me in the windowpane. I could see their garden full of vegetables and a tree thriving with pear shape fruits. I could also hear the lively chatters of the villagers close by. The sun was now up high but the ambience of the village is still refreshing as sunrise. I felt a large thing caressing my back. My body instinctively turned around and pointed my tiny trunk onto whoever is touching me.
I faced his shocked expression and then later turned into laughter. He muttered foreign words towards me again and then he walks towards his kitchen at a fast pace. He returned with a long bread, it's very light brown color same as on earth. He pinched it's top and offered me the small portion of the bread. It's smells nice to me, but at the same time, weird. It's been a very long time since I had the smell of a bread and it was on my second life so I don't have any familiarity left on it.
I took it by mouth and placed it on his palm which I then started eating on it. The boy has red hair and blue eyes, he has light skin and has freckles across his cheeks which has slight touch of soft brown in it. His nose is soft round pointed and under it was his soft red lips. In a village full of normal people, he will surely shine with his charming but not too handsome face. I haven't look closely at his parents's faces yet, but I bet they were both good looking.