I was like a deer in front of headlights. I am now a statue, i will not move a muscle so this monster won't notice me and slurp me up with that big and long straw like mouth!
"Lesser presence concealment was added to the soul"
Shhhh! Who ever you are please shut the hell up! I am certain you don't have a physical body and you live rent free inside my head but shut up! Don't you realize that if i die you won't be able to live in my head because I'm gonna die!
I was expecting for the ground to shake every time this giant mosquito stomp it's legs on the ground but there wasn't any. After it landed, it headed towards the water and if i have a jaw, it would have dropped already because the giant mosquito stepped into the water. It didn't sink as if the mosquito can walk in the water.
Oh wait, i think the one in my previous life can actually, but this giant mosquito shouldn't be able to float like that!
I swear i felt like i died when the giant mosquito slowly faced towards me. I just got reborn or whatever! Why is my fate like this! I closed my eyes and hoped that my death with be quick and painless.
But few moments later i hadn't died yet. I opened my eyes and saw that it's still facing towards me. It doesn't seem to be interested in me though. And also why is it's abdomen touching the water and moving weirdly?
Is it relieving itself? It might be, i can clearly see that small balls are being poured on the water. Is it laying it's egg? After few more minutes, it's abdomen became smaller with all the eggs out and in the water. All of a sudden, it's long legs contracted as if curling up, slowly, it became motionless and was slowly swaying up and down along with the mysterious water where it layed it's eggs.
And also where i hatched on. I see, i don't know much about mosquitos in my past life but i know that female mosquito dies after laying eggs. Wait, it layed eggs on the water where i came from. Does that mean....
I'm a mosquito?
After some, realization, reminiscence and contemplation, i have conclude few things.
First, I'm indeed a larva from a mosquito. But there are few things that I'm confused. Usually mosquito are so small that dozen of them can fit in your pinky. But this one who just layed egg infront of me and died after was towering over the plant that i am hiding in.
So either the world has changed and somehow, there are mutations among insects and animals or I'm in another world which I'm more inclined to believe.
Second is i did die. Well, it's kinda still a mixture of feeling. Although me and my brother's life went downhill after our parents death, we are still happy to have each other although every day is a challenge to survive. I wonder how he is back there.
Lastly, the voice in my head is related with everything that is happening right now.
"Accelerated thought was added to the soul"
There you go again! Why don't you show yourself and explain what did you do to me! I also figured out that this voice is somehow doing something. It keeps saying it's adding something to the soul. Is that soul mine?
Thought acceleration, lesser pressence, big appetite, extreme flexibility and speed and i think the last one was clear sight. Aside from the clear sight which i did acquired and felt it worked, the rest is hard to know if they did work.
Also i am back at the trunk of the grass where i climbed up earlier. I munch on those green ones on the way. The reason why i came back here is that i remembered mosquito larvas are always in water or damped area so I'm worried if i don't get in the water i won't evolve into a fully grown mosquito.
While I'm here on wherever is this place is, i might as well do all i can to survive. It's funny that i reincarnated into the same creature that brought my death in my past life. I can't wait to evolve into a fully adult one.
"Advance evolution is possible:
Normal mosquito: evolve into a female normal mosquito. Produce offspring by consuming blood. Life span: 5 -10 years.
Scarlet great mosquito: evolve into a female scarlet great mosquito. Can no longer produce offspring. Increase lifespan and growth by consuming blood. Life span: 1 month."
What! 1 month? The second one sounds so cool! Plus i don't have to deal with kids! Well, the one who give birth to me is surely not a scarlet great mosquito but she too didn't care to deal with her kids.
The second evolution sounds so tempting but the fact that the lifespan it provided says 1 month sounds sad and scary. That 1 month of lifespan can increase to a lot after consuming blood right?
The first one guarantees me a 5 to 10 year lifespan although that lifespan is so small for humans, for mosquitos, that's incredible. But it's boring. Existing just to reproduce is not something i would want to be.
I might as well take the risk, very well. I want to evolve into a scarlet great mosquito.
"Commencing advance evolution. Entering pupal stage."
The grip of my many arms suddenly weakened and all of a sudden, i felt myself fell and submerged in the water. Before i could even try to swim up and curse the voice who didn't give enough warning, my conciousness disappeared.
.....
"Astreia, i want you to closely observed her and help on her growth."
"I will as you wish Nuclea. Forgive my impertinence, but in my opinion, it's best that i handle the void. Why should we entrust something this important to an unkown and irrelevant lower life form?"
"I would have done it myself if it's that easy Astreia. You see, the universe is big and it keeps getting bigger. The void is as essential as my essence in the universe. To completely eradicate it means a great catastrophe to the universe."
"But it expands it's power and corrupts everything it touches! It's by no means a big threat to the universe! Something like this should he dealt with before it harms the flow of the universe!"
"But you see, the void is also part of the flow of the universe. It consumes and expands it's power. Tell me, what would you think would happen if the void never existed in the first place?"
"I guess you're right. The universe would have been cluttered by the rate of creation matching that of the rate of expansion. But letting the void be will pose a possibility that it's rate of consumption would harmonize with the rate of expansion."
"That's why i created the likes of her. Her kind's purpose is to slow down the speed of consumption. Not to eliminate it."
"I see. Forgive my lack of knowledge Nuclea, i will oversee her and make sure she fulfill her roles after the first stage!"
....
Where am i? Crap. Did i die again? Seriously? My conciousness slowly came back and my sight was blinded by the light outside.
Wait, outside of what? I willed my limbs to reach forward and i was surprised to see a long and thing insect limbs. Unlike the one that that giant mosquito i had seen earlier, this one that i had had razor like points protruding from the brace part. As the point of my limb that composed of 3 sharp finger like body part touches the mysterious stuff enveloping me, water bursted inside.
It quickly filled up the space inside and i instinctively freed my self out of this thing and blindly swam upwards. I gasped for air and as the air filled the siphon that protrudes from where my mouth should be at. That's when i fully noticed it.
I'm a monster! Ah! I saw the reflection of me in the water and it made me scream. But what came out of my siphon.
Okay calm down, just take a breath, from your siphon, yes slowly and calm. Hoo, okay. Now, what the hell?
After getting shocked by my own appearance that i saw from my reflection in the water, i noticed that the water now is much more normal. It's not like a smooth translucent hill anymore.
I looked around and that's when i realized that i just became bigger. Just few steps from my thin insect limbs, i remembered the plant that i took shelter on. It has the same stem like leaf bending towards the water. And now it's just as tall as where the joints or the knees of my insect limbs are.
Ofcourse i would grow after evolving but i didn't expect to be this big! I'm truly am a monster!
It seems like I'm in a swamp. The sun is up high but there is a thick fog everywhere. Not to mention, it's seems like the fog is flowing and it's coming not from the swamp but deep in the forest.
I started to walk towards the land because my back feels so heavy and seems like it's drenched. I really looked like a hideous monster. I have 4 limbs for walking and the other feels more like my arms. Not to mention that my limbs are composed of 5 stick-like body parts and 4 joints with the 2 limbs on behind bigger than the others.
For some reasons i feel used to it already. I slowly wriggles my self to get rid of the small amount of water stuck on the crevices of my new body and that's when my wings finally unfolded.
Woah, it's as long as my height! It's a translucent wing held by 2 strong insect skeletal bone. It still looks monstrous but i think it's the most unscary part of my new body.
I still can't use to this pointy siphon infront of me. The wings and the ability to fly is the only thing that excites me about this new body.
"Evolution successful "
Oh, i guess thanks for making me a bigger monster unknown suspicious voice in my head.
Now, time to say goodbye to this swamp. I will definitely forget about it. There's nothing worth remembering about except that it's where i became a bigger monster.
As if i am used to being able to fly, i effortlessly used my wing and flew upwards. Woah! No learn how or anything just instinct, I'm loving this body! Although slowly, i am flying around the swamp, enjoying the air against my body made of exoskeleton and enjoying my 300% wider view in my sight because of this pair of eye.
After a lengthy hours of soaring above the swamp, i landed on top of a tree. Whoo. That was fun. Now what. What do i do with this body. Aside from smaller insects, there seems to be no other creature around. I don't want to check if there are creatures deep in the swamp of course.
Speaking of creatures. All of a sudden i feel hunger. It's bearable but I've never felt this before. It's not the need to eat but more like the urge to eat. Weird but i don't see any fruit bearing trees. Am i even able to eat fruits with this mouth of mine?
I once again flew above the swamp to search of anything possible for my siphon to feed on. I spotted some small fish in the deep part of swamp but i am afraid to even try to get near it because the fishes are twice as big as me!
And there's that big guy in the center. There is giant crocodile. If i could guess, i am just as big as it's eyes. I am now officially afraid of this swamp. I'm lucky i didn't caught it's attention when i was in my pupal stage.
I decided to delve deeper in the forest in search of smaller creature that i can prey with.
Finally, i found one. It's a white squirrel with a horned at its forehead. Although it's 3 times bigger than me, i have to give it a shot. If i don't try to, i might die. I hope i can get close to it without being noticed.
I flew behind the tree where it was sitting on it's trunk. Slowly, i make my way toward it and i successfully landed on it's back unfortunately it noticed my presence. I'm a big mosquito on it's back so it's unavoidable so it's now or never.
It keeps turning it's head to reach and grab me off from it's back but i positioned myself perfectly behind the squirrel where his short arms can't reach. I latched my sharp class on it's nape and it was surprisingly sharp as i felt it penetrating in it's skin making it screech and run around frantically.
My grip on it's skin was surprisingly strong as it can't shake me off it's back. I'm stronger than i thought! Well then, time for my first meal as a monster mosquito! My surprisingly sturdy and pointed syphon easily stab through it's skin. I started siphoning blood the poor big squirrel.
The more blood i sucked from it's nape more frantic it ran around. I was like in a dazed as the blood travels on my siphon onto my gut the continues to expands as more comes inside.
The squirrels movement slowed as i siphoned ridiculous amount of its blood as if I'm draining it of it's blood. After few seconds of struggles, the squirrel flops on the ground. Although still alive, it's slowly loosing it's life as i dry him off his blood.
Finally, my siphoning was done and i haven't even noticed it but my gut is now enormously big! It became an oval like gut filled with blood. I feel so invigorated and satisfied as i pulled out my siphon of the neck of the squirrel.