Reality or Illusion?

Somewhere in the far lands there lies a grey egg. big about the height of a grown man. this egg had been long forgotten, left alone in an enclosed cave where no one could approach it.

The egg would've been left alone but maybe fate had something interesting in store.

Logic may state that an egg can be nurtured by providing it with enough warmth and care.

In the example of a hen, when it lays an egg, it sits on it to provide heat and keeps it safe from harm.

But to make this egg nurture, you need a huge amount of mana and extreme heat. A safe environment is already provided by the entrance being closed off by the cave.

The cave is already filled with mana, providing itself for thousands of years.

In a stroke of luck, a ravine had opened in the cave leading down to the magma. thus the heat radiating from the way back in the magma reached the egg and provided it with heat.

Count it as a fate play or think of it as a stroke of luck.

That depends on the person looking at the situation from their point of view, well there isn't anyone watching either way.

Now that the egg has been provided enough mana and heat over time, this process could be completed much sooner, but the lack of mana and enough heat provided problems

The egg rattles...

Unghhhh.....

dark...

What's going on?

Why is it so dark?

What am I doing?

Where am I?

huh?...

The creature inside the egg berates itself with questions inside its head but cannot find an answer. the creature tries to move but senses something in front...

"There's something there?".

The creature finally speaks...

"Wha-? why do I sound so different?"

yes, the creature finds its new voice quite surprising.

"A kid?"

The creature has a voice that resembles that of a kid...

"Why?"

I need to get out of here!

The creature taps on the shell and finds it a bit fragile...

The creature punches the shell...

"Crack!"

"It...Cracked?"

What is this? A Shell?

Should I punch it more?

yup!

One more time!

"CRACK!"

The shell cracks whole and...

"Gasp!"

The creature lets out a gasp for air...

"Weird.."

At that moment emotions gush through the mind...

"Ahhhhhh! argh!"

The creature rolls on the floor clasping his head tightly with his hands...

Gasping for air... felling as if his head is being crushed under an insurmountable amount of weight....

Then it remembers something...

"W-wait... accident...? mugging...?"

It begins to realise...

"ACCIDENT!"

I was on the road running from some people...

"Yes! I was in an accident when I was running away!"

But... Where am I?

"This isn't the hospital!"

What the hell's happening?!

"Then where am I!"

Then the creature notices something...

Looking down to his hands...

"My hands!"

It Brings them close to it's face

"Claws?!"

Why do I have claws?!

"What the hell is going on?!"

This isn't happening! It's not real!

The creature touches its face...

It feels as if it's skin was made of steel...

"Hard!"

My skin...

"What the hell is this..."

Then the creature starts to go through his memories...

"I'm Kaneko Fuji? yes... I... was in an accident..."

It remembers what It felt when it got hit by a car and got flung into the air...

The pain... The numbness...

"But i ... am sure... i... died..."

Come on!

Please someone explain!!

The moment it Thinks this in it's mind in a panic...

[Ping}

[Acknowledged]

[Loading status Menu]

[Status menu loaded]

[Succesful]

Status... menu?

[Acknowledged]

[Assessing basic layout the user is comfortable with]

[Confirmed]

[Status menu activated]

Something pops up in front of his face...

A transparent yet Holographic Image of a menu in a red color...

"Wha-?! get outta my face!"

Moving around in a panic He falls to the ground once again...

He wasn't used to his legs yet...

Then he notices something...

"Huh?"

[Status Menu]

[Level:01]

[Race: Dragon]

[Evolution Stage: New born]

[Health: 13000/13000]

[Mana: 10000/10000]

[Stamina: 13000/13000]

[Skills]:

[Wings] [claws] [scales] [fangs] [flight] [dragon breath] [swiftness] [physical attack resistance] [magic attack resistance] [low stats consumption] [appraisal] [rapid regeneration] [temperature resistance] [bleeder] [berserk] [night vision] [farsight] [clairvoyance] [extra speed]

"..."

"Huh? huh?!!!!'

What the heck?!

" Race?! level?! mana?! skills?!"

"Dragon?!!!"

"I'm a dragon?!"

This is one of those anime tropes!

Did I get dragged into one too?!

"No no no ... h-hard to accept..."

But...

"I was in an accident... could this be real?... is this one of the accident hallucinations or a delusion?... I did watch anime a read manga a lot so I could be seeing what I was imagining... but.. these hands..."

He touches its claws with claws...

"Clank"

the metallic feeling he gets ...

"This feels very real..."

"There's something on my back too... its ... a bit heavy"

He tries to shake it off but instead, it spreads open...

"Flap!"

"Wings?!!"

What the FU--

He touches his wings that popped out from his back...

"I can ... feel them"

Changing gears on a sudden pace...

"Anyway, I need to get out of here..."

I'll think about this later. Getting outta here takes priority. Cause' it's scary here...

"Heeeh... it's deep"

I look down a big ravine that starts nearby...

So dangerous... I could've fallen into this...

"Better move on"

[Step] [Step] [Step]...

his feet are bigger than those of a human. Even his legs are bigger and muscular than before...

I walk endlessly on the path that goes straight.

It's been pretty long since I started walking.

"Rumble..."

"I wanna eat something!"

"I'm hungry!"

I keep walking...

There is no way someone could get a sense of time in here...

The path that was straight up until now had opened up into a bigger cave and the cave has three crooked ways you can go into...

I go into two of the paths but all of them are blocked off...

"What do I do?... the way back is closed too..."

I go towards the third path and find it closed off too...

But...

What's this?

A wall's blocking the way? A wall but... Who built it?

hmm?

Markings...? there are markings on the wall..

it looks like a stone wall to me...

Stone wall?

"Should i... punch it?"

I mean... it worked back there didn't it?

"Punch!"

I punch the stone wall in front of me with full force...

"dong"

"it's shallow!"

But my fist hurts... So hard...

So punching won't work?

"It's too thick..."

When I remember something...

"Skills?..."

"W-wait... dragon breath!"

I thought of this as an illusion but... this is very real... the pain from punching the wall... the hunger...

"I gotta figure out how to use it first..."

I open the menu and click on the skill...

"Like this?..."

I feel the energy flowing inside my mouth and then suddenly...

[Shweeen]

Wha-?! gotta aim! Warn me before charging up!

[Boom!]

The breath that I fired was a bit weak cause' I stopped the charge Halfway...

"Heeh? it's working but it's gonna take forever..."

Charge?

"Wait this charges to doesn't it?'

Charge!

"Let's goooo!"

[Shweeeeeeeeeen!]

I charge the breath to it's near max and then...

[boooooom!]

The red beam of my breath hits the marked wall..

For a moment the cave shakes violently as if it is going to shatter.

It's gonna collapse! This was bad idea!

"Haaaah! I don't wanna die again!"

Then realisation hits me...

"Again?... huh..."

The dust clears up and I see an astonishing sight...

What?! Where's the rest of the wall?

And why is there molten lava here?!

The lava seeps between my feet...

"Ahh... I'm gonna be burned! The lava is going to kill me!"

Huh? It doesn't burn?

"why...?"

Because of this skin?

"Weird..."

Then i look in front of me...

The wall is gone... but.

Everything else behind the wall is melted too...

"Heeeh... is it this powerful? it sure packs a punch and it wasn't fully charged either..."

I see that my breath had blown away the area even through the wall and everything in the path of my breath, melting away all the rock behind the wall...

I fell sorry for the wall...