Unique ( Edited )

What.....am.....I?

Somewhere in a little puddle of water in the Everfree Forest

'What....am....I?' was my first thought as I awoke, but I couldn't see but only feel, I was floating, or was I? I don’t know but I can feel that I am very very little, maybe at a cellular level... How do I know that? Actually, I can’t describe it I just know.

But then, I felt something touching me, well touching where I could feel, after a moment I felt full, like I ate an entire cake... What is a cake? It seems like something edible. Did I eat something? Wait, what's happening?

I feel like I'm growing, or multiplying? Or dividing? It feels like I'm tearing in two so maybe I'm dividing? What is happening to me? I can feel myself and my other self divide again... It doesn't stop!

After a while, I felt like something else, like I'm a sort of liquid. Now I can feel warmth, or is it? Then I felt something, it was refreshing, it felt good, so I moved around and felt something touch me, then I felt full again then it was all starting all over again, I began tearing apart, something of myself began to change, it was like I had an army, I felt like there were now thousands of me, but some were specialised in something, I do not know what.

After a while, I could start to see, but it was very blurry, I felt like an eye. Wait an eye? I look around with my eye and only saw dark green, it was an odd feeling, if I had an eye, shouldn't I have a face? Or a body? But as I look I noticed that I could turn my eyes in every direction, so I looked behind me, but saw only flowing liquid, was it water? Am I just an eyeball floating on water? I looked back to what seems like a forest, then saw better, there were bushes flowing through the wind, leaves falling from trees, it looked refreshing.

But then I saw the bush move more, then just like that, I saw nothing, only felt like my eyeball was liquefying, after a moment, I felt like I was being pulled, or was I being pushed? I felt something.... Licking me? No I was being drunk by something, I felt incredible warmth, but then, I felt more, I could smell, then see, now it looked as if I had two eyes, as I look through them I saw a puddle of water, I seem to look down so I look up, but it wasn't my eyes that moved, it was my head.

Realising that I had a head, I turned it around but felt a little pain and stretch at my neck when I tried to turn a full demi circle. Wait neck? I felt more, I felt dirt under my paws, paws? I looked down and saw two paws with a set of claws, I could see that I had orange fur, but I felt odd because I saw red fur when I looked down. I saw a bigger puddle of water and looked at it.

I saw a lions head, big wings, and a scorpion tail on the reflection. 'I'm a Manticore?' I tried to say, but it came out as a little growl, then just like that, I could see at the same time the sky and a set of wings in front of me while still having the sight of the puddle. I turn my head to look at my back, then I saw a big eye on my back between my wings, it was bloody, had yellow sclera, orange iris and red pupils, it was both human like and when I focused on my vision, it was cat like. I closed it and my eye socket disappeared, like a wound that was healed, I didn't feel pain when all of this happened.

I then walked through the forest, it wasn't really hard to walk, as my body was surprisingly balancing itself, after a while I felt hungry, so I searched for food until I came across an odd looking chicken, it had red eyes, dragon wings and tail but was still the size of a chicken, it seemed harmless so I started getting in a position so that I can jump and end it with one bite.

After I got in position, I noticed that my fangs weren't sharp at all, so I willed it to be sharp, and they became sharp! But my whole mouth had to become more resistant and durable now that I had fangs that could rip easily chucks of wood. After my little remodeling, I noticed that I was bigger and that my red collar fur turned slightly yellow and that my general fur turned more red.

But then, when I looked into the eyes of the chicken, I had the sudden feeling that I needed to do something about my eyes, so I closed them, and opened one big eye on my front head, but it had something on it, that was harder than stone, it had white sclera and red pupils with red iris. I made it so it would lock on the chicken's eyes.

Then I jumped, the odd chicken startled by this turned to look at me and just frowned, like it was trying to do something by just staring, then I noticed something happening on my eyes, I could see what look like little bits of rock forming on it, but when I noticed it, I took a bit of this rock to look at it on a molecular scale, I don't know how but my instinct says that I can, so I did, and when I looked at it, it was indeed a formation of stone but with one unknown particule, it was constantly changing, like a shapeshifting molecule, I took a part of it's code and added it to my DNA. And instantly after, the bits of stone forming on my eye broke and instead it was the weird chicken that started to turn to stone.

It seems like I acquired it's abilities, and it was panicking when it noticed that it's turning to stone, it then tried to run away but it was too late. Now it's just a statue but I thought of something, I closed my eyes and felt my DNA, I took a copy of the little 'sample' I got from the chicken and remodeled it.

After finishing it, I reopened my eye and looked at the statue, then the stone started to fall off and the chicken fell unconscious. Taking advantage of this, I ate it, I didn't really care about what it tastes like, I just wanted to satiate my hunger.

After that I noticed that the sun is setting and a cave was nearby so I went to the cave and slept. It was a long day, tomorrow I would need to explore and learn about the forest.

Author's Notes:

Here's the chapter edited, shoutout to Crimson Arrow.
I trust him so much I don't even verify if it's okay.