I was having a great nap, enjoying the peaceful bliss when I was disturbed by the annoying chirping of birds and the loud rustling of leaves. The sound drove me away from the void and back to the world of reality. I groaned as the bright light of the watching sun overhead pierced through my slowly opening eyelids.

My eyes creaked open to see around me umber-brown, ancient forest. It reeked of age. Its woody incense invaded my senses. The composting, organic smell rose up in waves like a miasma. I could see that I was on a bed of flowers, peonies, bluebells and primroses bursting forth from the ground around me, obscuring my peripherals.

'Where am I' was the question on my mind.

I was in a state of confusion for a few seconds before an avian aria erupted from the knot of trees. Landing on one of the branches that stretched out above me. The bird, eyes brimming with curiosity, watched me. The solitary songbird was soon joined by his beaked companions, who then created a symphony of the song the songbird was roused from its curiosity and it joined its friends, flying into the forest and leaving me behind. The heart haunting melody that echoed throughout the ancient forest waking me from my confused state.

'Well, that was some good melody. Now I think I should get up.' I thought.

I slowly rose in defiance of my protesting body that acted like a stiff board that wished to stay immobile for eternity. As I pushed myself off the bed of flowers and rose to my full height, "Ow!" I cried out in surprise as I slammed my head against the branches above me.

Was the world smaller, or was I bigger? As I rubbed my head, perplexed, I noticed that my forearm and hand were different. They were huge. So big in fact that I could easily grip an average head with ease. My arms that were originally scrawny were now incredibly buff with muscles that looked like they were going to burst out of my skin.

Not only that but there were scars on my arms, hundred of cuts and gashes littering my tanned skin. But it wasn't the wounds that made me look in horror. One of my arms was, in fact, a lion's paw. I prodded the furry surface and realized with a shock, that it was part of me, it was me. I felt every sensation, from the prodding to the slight breeze of wind.

I then looked down at my body, from hands to feet and when I did, I had to do a double-take, complete surprise etched onto my face. Gone was my old scrawny body, now in its place was nothing but muscle upon muscle. I am now wearing a black zip shirt that hugged my upper body, showing off an 8 pack. My feet were the size of tree trunks, covered by black pants and boots that loosely hugged my body.

While I was checking out my new body, I began to feel really thirsty, and that was when I could hear the sounds of water splashing. I looked around the area searching for it, only to find dirt and trees in my surrounding area. So why could I hear the sound of water?

I honed in on the sound following the sounds of running water for a long time. I finally reached the source of the sound and came across a turquoise-blue stream that wounded its merry way through the forest. Babbling and burbling, it sprung over the limestone rocks in its way. Pebbles whisked about in the under wash like pieces of glitter. Chords of soft light speared down from above, bathing its surface in gold. It was glinting with little sparkles, like a thousand diamonds blessed with an inner fire. A galaxy of dragonflies fizzed through the beams of light, wings a-glitter in the sun.

I immediately dove my head into the clear water and started consuming massive amounts of the clean water. My thirst that seemed infinite. As I withdrew from the water, trickles of liquid pouring down my body, I finally got a good look at my the reflection in the water. I could not recognize my own body because It wasn't my body at all.

In the reflection, I saw a very tall hulking figure with monstrous muscles. Ocean blue eyes stared back at me, and those eyes lifted to see slicked back red hair in my head. My new face also had many vertical wrinkles on my forehead that make my face look like it was forever in a scowl. But the most noticeable difference was the fact that the left cheek was missing, the inside of my mouth clearly visible.

Then and there it hit me like a bus, THIS was my new body. The body of Heavenly King Zebra. This was why I could hear the sound of water splashing from far away because I had Zebra's Superhuman hearing. The shock was unbelievable so much soo that I fell backwards and looked into the clear sky.

As I laid there while thinking about the Disappearance phenomenon, the rumors were correct, things about people disappearing and the merchant, they were true. If that is what had happened then that means not only am I in a new world, but I may now be in possession of all the powers that the characters from the costumes I bought from the merchant.

I stood back up slightly excited that I could try out these new skills and abilities but stopped when I looked at my reflection again. I saw that I also wearing an indigo coat with white fur at the border that made me look like somewhat that of an upper-class citizen, although some would say even lower. I just thought it looked cool.

I whistled at my complete look. The attire actually made me appear like a nobleman or some of the upper-class gentleman.

I smiled at the thought but then remembered that I needed to try out my powers, I needed to try all of the $50 000 dollars of skills that now resided within me. I had to try out one of my favorite character's trademark moves. I spread my legs a little and gathered a small amount of energy in my body, feeling natural as if I had done this exact thing many, many time over. After gathering the energy, I motioned out some hands sign and shouted "Shadow Clone Jutsu". I was really hoping that it would work and to my surprise, it did to my delight.

There were a series explosions that left white smoke in front of me. When the smoke dissipated, what I saw stunned me. Hundred of exact copies of me were standing around me, they to seemed to share the expression of astonishment and surprise, conversing with each other with excitement. Although some seemed to have disfigurements and other problems but with practice I should be able to perfect the technique.

"Haha, first try!" I cried out in happiness, and all the clones turned to me and begun to cheer as well. I dismissed the imperfect clones who disappeared in a puff of smoke because they were creeping me out.

However, the single most shocking thing was the fact that the amount of energy I used was so ... minuscule. In the anime, when doing such an advanced ability, the characters would require a tremendous amount of power to utilize the Jutsu and what's more was that they needed to train himself for that technique. Yet I flawlessly did it on my first try, and I felt as if the energy inside me was even touched. Like only a drop in an ocean was taken to complete such an action.

"Alright, let's see what we, no I can do," I said aloud with a grin. If I could do the shadow clone Jutsu, I could only imagine what else I could do.