I awakened but was wrapped in some kind of fluid, it was a weird sensation that I have never experienced before. I had yet to take in a breath, wait no that’s wrong I couldn’t breathe but something tells me that I needed to force my way to take in some air.

It was dark but my eyes can’t adjust themselves I feel I am enclosed in something and quickly move my limbs to break free. I start bashing my way around but something feels off with my body everything is there yet it’s not like it was before, as weird as it may sound I feel extra limbs some around my back and another limb connected to my rear.

I struggle harder to free myself from this unknown container and finally, a crack appears before me letting some light inside. A bit more and I can finally be free or so it seems, using my arms I make the crack bigger and push the walls of the container as hard as I can.

I can now take in deep breaths but I get tired of pushing and take a break, so far some of the fluid poured out but the crack I made isn’t sufficient enough for a part of me to get out. I start getting tired and doze off.

After a nap I start pushing again wondering why my body got so weak, a few minutes pass by and I feel the crack is enough to fully break a large piece of the container and start climbing out from the top. Weird my eyes have not become clear yet as I see everything with a translucent film type of view I try blinking a few times but the problem remains. My hands seemed to have shrunk as neither of them can reach my face to wipe whatever is on it off. My eyes sight is taken and I feel these extra limbs, something is wrong here and I start stretching to see if that helps.

The objects on my back are like small arms which only move up and down, it’s not something I can’t relate to. The problem is the feeling near my rear which is nothing like a leg since it’s not possible to walk with it but more like something connected to my spine as if it was part of my neck. Speaking about my neck it seems to have become longer, I fear that someone has taken me and done experiments on my body.

I blink a few more times since I need to get a look at myself, and after twenty or so blinks I feel like if I had an extra eyelid. With a bit more time I felt I could control that other eyelid and one of my eyes becomes clear. Doing the same for my other eye clears it up as well and everything is fine until I see my nose, it was longer but it was not a human’s nose as it was long like a snout.

So now I’m not even human please let this be a bad dream seriously, more questions are popping in as I try standing but am forced to use all four limbs to walk around. There was supposed to be light but it was just something glowing in the ceiling giving off a faint shine of blue.

I could smell a source of water in front of me, seems my scent got stronger and I could identify a few of the odors lingering in the air. I felt thirsty but since my hands couldn’t reach I was forced to lick the water like a dog. What have I been reduced to?

With my eyesight adjusted to the darkness, I could finally see the large room or should I say cave since everything around me is made of rock beside the small lake near me. I felt tired again and was dozing off without the ability to resist.

I came to hear the sound of a creature lurking around, it was smaller than me and was scratching around. Seems it was trying to get out from this place but checking around there was no visible exit. I started feeling hungry and something inside my head kept getting attracted to the creature scratching the walls looking for a way out.

Although I have never seen one before it looked like a type of armadillo. Watching it for a while my hunger intensified I tried ignoring it but the more I looked at the animal the more my stomach grumbled. I have never killed anything in my life except bugs but something inside me told me to survive I will have to kill.

I kept suppressing my desire to jump and bite it, I had a hard battle with myself as a human I never had an urge to kill but I can’t see myself as a human anymore only my memories of being one are there. It was a moment I was in thought that the creature tumbled and a strong emotion overpowered my reasoning and I jumped and struck it. A cry was heard but when I regained myself it was dead with my jaw around its neck. I felt guilty but I couldn’t stop there I started biting in and eating parts of the creature.

After clearing away the smell of blood from the animal or most of it since my strong sense of smell still picked it up I laid down in a bit of fear. I felt powerless unable to stop myself from attacking it and it was something that kept bugging me until sleep got the better of me.

A few days passed by and I was still in the same room inside the cave, it was like being a prisoner but I noticed my sized increased every day. Without seeing anything I knew before to take as reference, I could only guess that I was about a meter long now and that I was a type of lizard with the only difference being my warm blood and the small limbs on my back.

When I awaken there is usually an animal around to eat. Since the incident of the first day, I try hard to keep myself from losing control but have yet to succeed bringing conflict with my emotions kind of like losing a part of my human self.

A week has gone by and I had grown considerably large, I was beginning to worry about growing too large for this place. I tried scratching around with my claws but they would do nothing to the walls I could only loosen up the floors which I dug to place waste in.

As far as the food I was given I had yet to know who places them but I was given more than one creature now. There all weak and could be killed easily so I can at least say I am being looked after well.

I was done eating today and drinking water when I felt sleepy which is usually around this time and I took my normal rest which usually lasted a few hours but this time I awaken to the sound of a large impact. I looked around and found a new hole added to the room.

I quickly got up and explored the area. It was another room but larger than the one I was on before nothing added it was just bigger with no exits I could see a bolder which could be moved but with my strength, it wouldn’t budge. I gave up on finding an exit and continued living the life of an inmate.

It was the day after the new room was added and I was just waking up near the small lake in the middle of the room where I made a bed by digging a small crater, removing rocks and leaving behind only soft dirt which kept me warm. When I rose from the bed there would usually be something to kill but this time something new that I haven’t eaten was in the other room.

It sounded like it was larger than the beast before, so I got up to see what I was placed with. There was a large humanoid shaped monster with the face of a bull and it kept bashing the bolder that I couldn’t budge yesterday. His size was close to mine which was a bit more than two meters. When it noticed me coming inside the larger room it took a defensive position and I noticed it was wielding a large axe. My carefree days were over I now had to fight to eat it seems.

The difficulty I had about killing slowly started to be replaced by respect to those I killed to keep me from going into a depression. The few creatures I was given to eat were a type of animal so I still thought I could be on Earth, but looking at the Minotaur type beast in front of me I now had doubts since they were a type of mythical beast.

It started growling while clearing dirt with its hoofs as if getting to charge but stayed in place while I was just standing near the entrance. Since it was a demi-human I wanted to see if I could communicate with it but the more I moved made it more aggressive, still, it didn’t charge forward maybe weary of me.

I got tired of waiting and it looked like it could not be reasoned with since it didn’t stop from its intimidating posture, I carelessly went back in the cave when I heard the hooves get closer. Looking back it was closing in on me with its axe held above him I had no time to prepare so I roared trying to scare him.

I had yet to fight anything since everything thus far could be killed with one bite with my powerful jaws. My back was still vulnerable but as it got closer I used my long tail to slap him away but it jumped back to avoid it. We were back to a standstill and now I had no other choice than to kill him or be killed. I was in full throttle trying to think of ways to get passed the large axe which could easily cut one of my limbs.

I began looking for its weaknesses, it didn’t seem to want to attack me when I faced him so we were on equal grounds but it looked for opportunities to get me off guard. I had to act first and try removing its axe while avoiding the two large horns on top of its head which made this harder.

I kept roaring to keep it at a distance while giving myself time to plan out some tactics. I got closer and started biting at a distance trying to see how skilled it was but it only swung its axe from above and didn’t do anything flashy just clumsy attempts to strike.

Since it was carrying a large object with time it started to get tired and since I was rested that proved to be useful. As time went by I was able to dodge a few close hits but it looked like its time to hold out was nearing its end. I didn’t enjoy toying with it but one of us has to go down and if I want to stay alive I had to kill.

I did another faint bite and it charged forward but this time I quickly turned and swung my tail faster than before, hitting it in its left flank making him crash into the wall, hunger was taking over me and I did the final blow. This time I won but now I had to think about tomorrow and what I now had to do to get a meal.

Chewing on the Minotaur the taste reminded me of beef, sadly I could not cook it but my sense of taste at the moment made me like meat regardless of it having been cooked or not. Again I felt respect for the one that had to die in order for me to keep living. The thought of trying to find a way to get out which so far looks to be impossible kept going through my mind.

I got sleepy after thinking of ways to combat the ones that might be placed here tomorrow, the axe was left behind but I could not use it with my limbs which had five large claws. I dug a hole and hide the axe which could be used against me in the future, then I started to get drowsy and went back to my bed.