I was deep into my sleep when I felt the light shining into my eyes. I frowned before sighing. It was morning already. For some reason, the time it took to sleep nowadays was too short.
I knew for a fact that I went to sleep at 10 last night since I had to go to work at 7 today. So, why did it feel like 8 hours of sleep wasn’t enough?
I moved my hand to feel around the bed in search of my phone. It was weird that my alarm didn’t go off despite it being bright enough for the sun to be out.
However, the bed felt a little bit off. The surface was rough and... dusty. Even as I laid here, everything felt hard and stiff. It didn’t even feel like I was laying on my comfortable bed. More like I was laying on the hard ground.
I forced one of my eyes to open. I was too tired to even care. However, the moment that I did open that one eye, both of them bulged out of my eye sockets when I realized what the hell was going on.
I was completely out in the open. The wind caressed my shocked face and swayed the trees, causing the leaves to fall onto my laying body. I was in a forest, with trees and stone hills stretching the landscape.
I immediately sat up straight and began to panic.
Where was I?! This wasn’t home! Who the fuck managed to kidnap me and brought me here without me even knowing?! As far I as knew, I wasn’t a heavy sleeper.
“What’s happening here…?” I mumbled to myself.
A shock came to me again when something deep came out of my voice. It was so surprising that I flinched, thinking that someone else was with me.
I warily looked around me, searching for the said person but there was no one else here. I was all alone under a huge tree that gave me covering.
“What?” I said out loud again and gasped. It was me!
I frowned. I sounded so different just now. There was no way that I could’ve made a sound like that. My voice was unfortunately higher and had a whiny tone to it. I was always bullied for it in my school days.
Fearing that not only my voice was different, I stared at my hands and my eyes widened again. My hands were…dark grey. What the fuck…
I started to feel my body and another realization set in. This wasn’t me! I was too bulky and huge. I looked at my feet and sure enough, it was the same dark grey color. Moreover, my feet were muscly! My thighs were thick and my feet were huge!
My clothes were different too! What the hell was going on?!
I was becoming more terrified every second. I was in a stranger’s body and I couldn’t think properly.
Just as I was about to scream out loud, I heard a familiar sound. It was the sound of my phone’s notification. I looked over to where I heard it and it was there on the ground.
Finally! It was something that I was familiar with!
I immediately made a run for it and grabbed it but I made the mistake of staring at the screen. Well, it was only for an abrupt moment but the reflection on the screen made me drop the phone to the ground.
It was someone else’s face!
With trembling hands, I reached for it again and stared at the person on the reflection. I didn’t believe it was me at first but when I touched my cheek with my long-nailed hands, I knew right then and there that I was staring at myself.
I want to pass out…Please…
I slowly sat down on the floor, not having sufficient energy to deal with this as I looked at myself. I had long pastel purple hair and the same dark grey skin. Instead of the human pupils, I had somewhat of a snake with the color purple for the irises. I had a strong jawline, a long nose, and a fixed glare. When I checked out my teeth, I was somewhat surprised to see that they weren’t normal-looking too. I had crocodile-lined teeth. One tooth was sticking out of my mouth at all times, too long to stay inside.
Another feature that had me worried was the fact that I had a horn on the right side of my head. It was black and I measured it to be 7 inches in length. The problem was the horn on the left was entirely cut off. It wasn’t a nice cut at all seeing as there was a burn mark on the stump. I reached out to feel it but didn’t sense anything at all.
When I stared at my whole body, there were multiple cuts and bruises all over. It was weird that I couldn’t feel anything in the first place.
There were multiple injuries to my chest and arms. I wasn’t wearing any shirt so it was visible to me. I was only wearing a tattered pair of pants with a cloth acting as a belt as it tied around my waist.
If I could take a guess, I looked like a runaway.
Nevertheless, I turned on my phone and heaved a relief sigh when it was at 100%. I thanked God that I was the type to charge my phone before bed.
Since face recognition didn’t work, I tapped in the password and checked my notifications. Most of them were useless emails from apps that I stopped using years ago but still constantly got anyway.
Save 40$ on Premium before this deal flies away!
I cleared out the useless notifications and moved on to others. There was a message from my mom asking me to come home on the weekend. I immediately made a reply asking for help but something went wrong.
Error. Message can’t be sent. Make sure you have connections before sending a text.
I stared at the “X” bar and cursed under my breath. There was zero connection. Fearing that my phone was going to run out of battery fast, I turned on the “airplane mode” and deleted most of the games I had. I only left one offline game just in case I got bored and needed entertainment. It was a running game where you were trying to escape from the police.
Games that needed connections were deleted. I didn’t worry since I could just re-download everything and sync my account in again. My progress wasn’t deleted entirely after all. I also deleted my social media since I wasn’t one to post stuff. I just loved watching or reading memes online.
I made sure to remember to open my data back on again every hour or so or when I was able to find a town.
Just as I was about to turn off my phone, I noticed a notification that I missed out on. It was from someone familiar.
The author.
I clicked on the message and it brought me to our chat last night. There were two unread messages from him around two hours ago. The first one was long and the more I read it, the more my brows creased.
It said:
Hello there! I assume that the moment you wake up, you’ve received this message already. Suffice it to say, everything that you’re experiencing right now is REAL!
Yup, the weird body, the weird location, and your inability to contact anyone else. This is simply because…wait for it…
You’re in another world!
Cheesy, right? But it’s true.
You’re in another world, I repeat. Another. World.
And guess what world that is? Well, you’ll soon find out the more you explore. All I’m going to say right now is you’re experiencing something that every character in the books you’ve read had experienced also.
This is a fantasy world. So, you will have fantasy stuff. Monsters, kings, knights, magic, heroes, and even…DEMONS.
You might be wondering why this happened to you. Well, you volunteered! Thank you so much for being the fuel for my story! I didn’t even get to explain what that is before you replied to me saying that you'd gladly do it. Thank you so much!
The condition of this fuel is that you will be teleported to another world and reside inside the body of a person that’s best to sync in! I really wish that you got the Hero!
If you did become him, just know that you will have access to the Hero’s skills and more! That’s why I prayed that you’ll get him. It’s more fun than a random civilian. Or monsters.
Also, don’t worry about returning to your home. As you are the fuel, your journey in this world will end the moment that I finished the book!
I will send an attachment as to how some things work so you won’t be too confused in this world.
Just know that this world is something that you’re very familiar with ;)
That was the end of the message and the more I read on, the more I wanted to smash the phone to the ground! I was so angry and confused. I didn’t know where I was and this stupid message from the damn author didn’t do anything to give me information.
All I knew from it was the fact that I was in another world.
I tried to deny it for the next thirty minutes. I was hungry but that was another case. No, I was mulling over my fate and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that the author wasn’t lying one bit.
Which made me even angrier!
He used me! He fucking used me! Fuel my fucking ass! He knew for a fact that nobody would fucking agree to this stupid shit of getting transported to another world so he lied to me!
FUCK!
I was so angry that I stomped the ground. But the moment I did that, a huge shockwave was made and the entire floor made a huge crater around me.
My mouth was gaping wide as I looked around me.
Did I just do some magic? No way.
From the way that I looked, I was some kind of monster. A monster with this much destructive power? A high-grade one, perhaps?
Add to the fact that the author lied to me, he was also wrong about the person I was most in sync too.
I was seen as a monster! That made my blood boil again and I wanted to search for that damn prick of an author and choke him to death! Instead, I chose to just relax my shoulders and took a few dozen deep breaths.
Maybe it was the fact that I was a monster now that I had a hard time controlling my anger. Monsters thrive on rage and most of the time, they would have some sort of abilities relating to that in the novels that I read.
Sigh. Look at me. Already getting accustomed to the fact that I wasn’t in my original world anymore.
I moved back to the tree and leaned against it. I slowly slid down until I was sitting on the ground, staring at the cracked ground I just stomped on before.
“Why is this happening to me?” a deep voice came out of me. I was still trying to get used to my voice and this unfamiliar body.
I had no idea what to do. Who was I? Just a high-grade monster? There was no way I would be accepted in a human’s kingdom looking like this.
I turned on my phone again and opened the attachment that was sent to me after the long-ass useless message from that prick author. Before that though, I changed his contact’s name from “My Favorite Writer” to “Future Strangled Victim”.
Thank God the attachment had already been downloaded. It also made me realize that I was transported to this world around two and a half hours ago if I was able to download this.
I read the contents in annoyance.
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