3 I Am A What!?

Everything is dark, where am I? Am I in a new body? Loading screen? Being born where am I?! I hope that this isn't going to be where I died instantly and I'm back with her. She seems angry with me for calling her a tsundere. Hehe, she was so mad. Anyways. Where am I?!

Wait a light? Wait are these my eyes opening? Wait why is it raining...As my eyes start o clear up I realize I am in a basket with my arms and legs wrapped like a burrito with no way out. Damn...Who does this to a child in the rain unless?

They left them. Was I abandoned in the middle of the rain and now an orphan? I remember a local orphan where I used to volunteer to help.

Earned credits for volunteering but also had fun playing with the kids. They seemed to enjoy playing football and catch and tag. Kids have too much energy somehow.

Man, I feel so tiny...I have the awareness of a teenager in the body of what I guess in a toddler.

Also since I am inside of a basket with occasional raindrops hitting my forehead. Feels odd for some reason. The raindrops going down my face seems to feel off for some reason. Maybe it is because I have not been a baby for like 17 years...

"Weh whaaa" Oh of course I can't speak I am a dumbass...Sounded like a cry than trying to say something. Maybe someone will notice me if I do it for a bit.

-5 minutes of crying later-

My throat is starting to hurt and I am hungry...Maybe no one is around during this time of the night.

Which makes sense I don't know what kind of magical world this is. Is it sci-fi magical or is it magic fantasy? I am in a basket I can't see anything other than drops of water going through it.

At least I have water for now. I am so tired...

My vision starts to blur, which probably means I am getting very tired since I am like a toddler. At least I am somewhat warm for now even though I will likely get soaked later on in the gentle rain. Better make the most of it as I can.

-17 minutes later-

Footsteps start approaching which wake me up. Was I even asleep if I woke up that fast? Better take my chance over whoever this person walking is. Hope I don't get sold off to some fantasy slavery thing.

"Whaaa eh ma whaaaa" geez I think I am crying since my throat still hurts. Maybe I am sick from sitting outside for a while. Makes sense since my immune system would be weaker as a newborn or at least more vulnerable.

"Hello? Who's there?" I hear a female voice. She sounds so calming somehow. Being cared for by a beautiful woman as a baby is would be amazing I would think. That's what anime portrays it I feel like.

As the footsteps get closer I whine and whimper a little bit out of habit since I am a baby. It is like I don't have full control over my own body...Hopefully, it would be like an apslit personality of me and some other identity inside me...

My basket gets lifted, I feel wobbly. As I fear for what might happen. My basket lid of safety gets opened exposed to the rain in all its might, while she holds an umbrella which seems designed for a single person to use somehow seems impractical to me.

Your legs would get exposed to think rain I would think.

I see a fair face, looks like she is a nun of some sort. Seeing some blonde strands of hair. Wearing a nun outfit but with a sun on the forehead.

"Aw, who would leave such an adorable little pet outside alone in the rain? Wait no your not a pet your a-oh! Such terrible parents to leave such a cute baby alone in the rain!" She says frowning with a displeasing tone. She seems to hate child abandoners. Good for her! Wait why did she think I was a pet? Whatever.

As I start to cry she realizes I might have been left alone for hours in the cold rain and it almost looks like she will cry. She closes the lid of my basket and starts speaking in a determined tone

"Oh you, I will take you with me and we'll find you a home and get you some food," She says swing my basket maybe too roughly...I might puke before I even get to the actual orphanage.

-15 minutes later-

Oh my goodness that was so long! I swear I was eating my own puke which must mean I ate something before being in the basket. Doesn't matter screw those parents of mine! I miss my first parents when I was alive before...

They were the best. But not only that I was also not abandoned. But I won't have this internal hate for my birth parents even though they left me. As much as I wanted to. but I guess I'll see where things go.

I feel a sign of warmth with light through my basket. This might indicate I am inside and they have a fireplace or heater or whatever they use.

My basket gets opened and I see a woman again who this time is smiling warmly. Oh my gosh, I am already gushing for her. I know since I am a teenage boy mindset but damn...I wish I was able to say something.

"We ma?" my voice projects another toddler phrase I guess...

Her smile brightens I swear her eyes looked like they sparked in light as she puts her hands to her cheeks and gushes over me.

"Aw so adorable! I can't believe horrible parents would leave you all alone still!" I promise you I will help-" a door closes interrupting her monologue. I was getting into it as well damn.

"Ariel, who are you talking to?" a male voice spoke. It seemed deeper and more masculine than that of hers. I guess her name is Ariel as well. Beautiful name as well.

"Oh. father, you see when walking back from the Church I had heard noises from an alleyway, and well..." she says nervously. I guess she doesn't have high self-esteem maybe. Or maybe it is because she just picked up an orphan out of nowhere.

"Ariel, you cant go into alleyways they could harbor danger or thugs or rodents in them. Such harm to you will hurt me and this establishment," he says in a disappointing tone.

I guess he cares for her like a daughter. At least this father seems to be caring like her tho doesn't give the same warmth in comparison to her.

I start hearing the footsteps as the man likely starts walking closer and closer. I am afraid of him. Men are scary sometimes I should know. Sort of. Maybe?

A man in robes with a sun wrapped around his neck appears and he bends forward looking at me. he raises an eyebrow. He hates me! Shit, that's not good! Or maybe I am overreacting, right?

"Where did you Uhm, find this uh..." he seems to struggle to get his words out.

"This baby? In the alleyway, as I said, father. So please we can't abandon him. I think him I haven't checked yet but let's assume" she says looking slightly down looking at her hands which are fidgeting.

*Sighs* "This-he...it cant be brought into the household like this is an orphanage...take him properly to one to care for him," he says calmly and sincerely.

I want to say something but it's impossible to...let me try saying her name at least before I am taken away!

"Erielm"(Er-ree-elm) I try with all my might as a baby to say her name.

*Gasp* "Gasp oh my lord! He is so cute! Or she is! I thought it almost said me name!" she says bending forward looking at me through the open basket.

She starts once again showing me with faces of happiness for me everytime I say something. Why am I keep being called it? Is it a way to be neutral with genders until they know? I hope I am a male, the Angel tsundere lady asked me about it and I wanted to be male. Unless she did me dirty...She would never I hope.

*Sighs* the old man does again.

"Please, take your headdress off in this household, we do not need to preach or represent the sun here," he says while taking off his sun medallion.

Ariel on the other hand pulls off her headdress bending forward and pulling off the headwear and whipping her hair back. Wait a minute?! Is she, is she an elf?! Awesome. She starts brushing her hair straightening it down for herself.

So lushly smooth looking...I am such a creep, aren't I...Just thinking of the age difference must be like immense or something. Like 300 years old.

"So what will we do with the Caiman in the basket now?" he says while crossing his arms glancing at me.

Wait did he say "Caiman"? As in the reptile that like lives in the-Oh no...Don't tell me the Angel turned me into a lizard!?