Hatching

'Who am I?'

'Why do I exist?'

'Where am I?'

These were the three questions I have asked myself over and over again without rest like a broken record.

The darkness was all that could be seen, as it has engulfed my very being for as long as I can remember of my own manifestation of self-awareness; while being constricted and bound within a limited space of no allowed movements.

However, I didn't find this lack of freedom as unpleasing as many would think it is, as a matter of fact, the involuntary imprisonment within my egg gives me a morbid but claustrophobic and serene level of comfort that I cannot describe with mere words.

Horrified at the thought of tight spaces, but enjoyable nonetheless, it is an ironic point of view if you ask me, but it's just my honest feeling in regard to my situation with my unique circumstances.

Every day I learn something new, for instance, I know that I am alive, but how I came into being is currently unknown to me.

Even though I know that I am currently within the protective embrace of an egg, I have no recollections of my actual parents' identity, but I do know like most living being I was created via sexual intercourse, as I have a mother and a father, but like previously explained, anything about them is currently unknown.

However, I know that this egg that I was hem in against my will, is actually not an egg but more of an incubator, for what reason I was placed into an incubator is beyond me, but I know my parents did this out of good intentions.

But my knowledge doesn't end there, if I had to put it into a written contest, I might as well say I have the knowledge of a human who has reached full maturity and is well-versed in Earthly common sense.

I am also aware of the fact that I will soon be born into this thing the voice calls the world.

And because I learn new things every day, I know a lot of factors a newborn like me shouldn't even know at my age which is technically zero, despite my personality being that of an antediluvian person with years of experience, however, that is far from the truth.

I want to learn more.

I want to experience more.

I want to explore the wonders of the world and acquire much genetic information along the way, as I slowly progress to perfection with time.

Despite the fact that I was born with immense power, and unique physiology

For instance, I am aware my body, is rather... How do I explain this, well for lack of a better word, I feel as if I have a lot of tendrils, I can't tell the exact amount, but I do know these tendrils of mines will be my main weapon when hunting for food, as they are highly dangerous as it can penetrate even the likes of diamonds

My diet consists of pure protein, I prefer my meat tender, and something easy to chew, I also know that this jelly-like substance that I am currently in, is providing me with temporary sustainability, so after I free myself of my shackles, I will have to hunt on my own to feed myself.

I am also aware of my three natural abilities of mine that I was born with, the ability to take the genetic codes of other living species and apply them to myself, this is more of a racial ability that all my kind can do with ease.

I can also replicate, fuse, and manipulate genetic codes in any way I, please.

My second power is not the power of my race, but a special power that I inherited from my father, I don't know my father, or who or what he is, but I just know it came from him, his power, well my special power, is the power to adapt to death, meaning anything that kills me, only makes me stronger.

So when I am hit with something that can kill, I only stay down temporarily, as my body will instantly adapt to all harm before it truly kills me, I call this ability of mine "Adaptive-Immortality" it's my greatest asset, however, I am not sure how strong this ability truly is, but I'm not taking any risk, as I want to survive at all cost.

And finally, my most destructive ability which can be used for both offense and defense is an ability I inherited from my mother, it is the ability to manipulate these weird crystals called the "Shubla-Veins" these crystals can transform into any weapon I imagine, they also absorb Cosmic Energy from the stars during the night time, and I can utilize that energy to heal, repair, create, and obliterate my enemies with cosmic energy via cosmic rays.

For instance, I know I hail from a species called the Omnimorphius, what the Omnimorphius truly is, or what we do as a race is beyond me, however, I always have an urge, or is it a need, honestly, I don't know myself.

It was a question that was yet to be answered.

I spent a prolonged amount of time gathering my thought to myself, as I was curious about my existence as a race of interstellar origin I presume.

For days, or was it months or years, honestly, the flow and the concept of time and its meaning do not affect me in the slightest, seven years might as well be seven seconds.

All I wanted however was to escape the confinement of my prison to pursue the greatest desire within my imaginary heart, and that was to feast on the living, to acquire genetics as a way to progress myself even further than I am now.

This has been my personal train of thought for as long as I can remember.

As the feeling, and desperation of wanting nothing but freedom invade my mind once more, I began to hear a sound

** CRACKKKK! **

This took me by surprise as I said.

'Is it finally time?'

** CRACKKKK!!, CRRACKKKK!! **

And for the first time in my life, I began to see something other than the usual darkness, that I have grown accustomed to.

As multiple red lines came into my view, and then a sense of unforgettable liberation could be felt, and with desperation for release, I push all my tendrils outwards, and with great force at that.

The constraints of my binding began to let loose, finally freeing me from my incubator, and that was when I saw it, the first thing my eyes bear witness to was the beautiful twin moons that were both red in the sky, followed by the countless sea of stars that glimmer with grace and elegance of the visible night.

"Beautiful."

Those were the first words I had ever said out loud, now that I think about it, I finally got to hear how I sound.

I had the voice of a male, or that is how I perceive myself otherwise, it was weird seeing that I don't have vocal cords to even talk, no I don't even have a brain, it is like I exist just to exist.

However I was amazed by the beauty of the world around me, imagine being born with knowledge but never witnessing such phenoms yourself, it is like saying you know how to surf, despite never surfing before.

After all my birth was unique, I was not born all-knowing, if anything I am far from all-knowing I only know what I know, but I do have otherworldly knowledge that people from this world don't have, for example, I know how to utilize cosmic energy better than anyone in this universe that for sure.

What is Cosmic energy you might be asking, well its the very energy around us, for example, this planet that I am on is filled with a finite amount of cosmic energy, however, it doesn't end there because the stars, the moon, and the space around us is constantly producing cosmic energy, that I can utilize from what I know I am at my strongest during the night time.

Even my sight is amazing as I can see everything within a 360-degree radius, leaving me with zero blind spots.

"So this is the world ha... if I remember from what the voice thought me, this white, and cold substance is called snow, interesting, I like the snow."

I said to myself in glee, or what I perceive to be glee, as I don't have a full in-depth understanding of these things called emotions as yet, after all, I am still learning as I go along, and for some weird reason, I feel very comfortable in cold terrains.

But as I touched the snow below I also noticed, not one, or two, but countless amount of long thin, and glowing blue tendrils, that stretch for about two meters each, but to be precise I have a total of 1,600 tentacles.

And to make things even more amazing about my Omnimorphius physiology was the fact that I was floating in the air, or more like swimming in the air, but to be precise, I am swimming and floating through matter.

"This is surely interesting, however, I want to do more exploring, but this place seems to be absent with life, if that is the case I will never acquire genetic information this way, hmm... although this is very concerning I can't tell which way is North, South, East, or West."

"I need more information for now let's just swim in a straight line."