A new cycle

*Crash*

The green dragon fell down from the skies after being hit by the magical lightning bolts that flew out of my left hand. The ground rumbled as the dragon crashed and its muscles uncontrollably contracted as electricity coursed trough its body.

I heard loud cheering behind me, originating from the damaged city walls that I was heroically defending.

The loud cheering quickly died down as the huge and muscular green dragon got up. It towered over me as it started to desperately charge towards me.

I clenched my hands around my 1,5 meter long zweihander and readied my muscles. My mana flowed trough the sword, enhancing its prowess. I swung my sword, and as the dragon and I almost clashed, I heard a strange sound from faraway and the world around me seemed to freeze.

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Jack... jack...

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JACK!

I slowly opened my eyes and looked around me. There, I saw an old man staring at me, fuming. "Jack, is my class so boring that you would rather sleep?!" The teacher said. I got out of my stupor and hastily replied: "ah! Im sorry teacher!". The old man luckily just let it go as he walked back to the teaching board while grumbling.

I heaved a sigh as I waited for class to end and endured the teasing of my friends. Once the bell rang, we started to walk to a nearby, somewhat high-end snackbar. I was arguing with my friends how chicken meat tastes better than pork while crossing the road, when I suddenly saw a truck driving towards us with high speed.

The driver noticed us too late as he was texting on his phone and froze in panic. As I pushed my friends away in a rush of adrenaline, my field of vision suddenly changed as I looked downwards while my body was hurled through the air. My eyes closed as I cried and screamed from the pain. I started to lose my senses, as it didnt even feel cold even though I was lying on the snow-covered concrete.

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I dont know how much time passed as I only saw darkness. In fact, I couldn't sense anything except for a constant warm feeling and some movement.

I tried everything, from shouting for help and smelling to walking, but it felt like I couldnt do anything at all in this state.

But after an unknown amount of time passed, I heard a cracking sound. I started to trash around in desperation. After some struggle, I heard a cracking sound again. This continued for a while before I suddenly saw light along with a loud cracking sound.

*crack*

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My eyes hurt from the light while I was trying to adapt to the sudden overload of my senses. I slowly became able to make out shapes and diffrent colors.

The first thing I saw was a weird hairy but slanky figure lying beside me. If I had to compare its body to animals, it somewhat looked like a cat with a longer and more bulky tail. It shockingly was bipedal and could switch between walking on all fours and upright. Its hair texture was simular to a cat and was white in color. Its face was simular to a cats but it was also quite diffrent.

It didnt have wiskers but it had weird but cute looking ears. They were placed on top of its head and were quite big, Like those of a dobermann pinscher but more round. It had a small nose like that of a cat, which was black. Its eyes are big and round, and were also black but with a hint of pink. They had no white as it was simular to a black bead.

They were also very reflective, and it was looking straight at me. Panic started to kick in, as I tried to back off. To my surprise, it felt very clumsy to do so as I fell on my back.

The panic was now at an all time high as the creature walked towards me. I closed my eyes in fear, not knowing what to do. Even though its appearance was very cute, its size was not.

It was about 10 times as big as me. Which, if you put it in perspective, is a HUGE difference as it towered over me even when it was still laying on ground.

While I was thinking, I suddenly heard a voice, saying " you are so cute! Say hi to mama"

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HUH?

ME??

THAT GIANT CAT THING IS MY MOTHER?! I opened my eyes in shock, and looked straight at its eyes. Whithin those reflective eyes I saw something. Me. A cat...thing. A million diffrent thoughts raced trough my mind as I couldn't believe what i saw.

'How did it talk? How was it even smart enough to talk? Was I abducted by aliens? Did I die as a human?' My thoughts couldnt stop racing as I kept thinking about simular things.

But then suddenly, the cat thing talked again, saying "dont be afraid my child", as it started to caress me with its strangely dexterous hand-like paws which had something similar to 3 fingers and a thumb.

It gave me a warm and strangely familiar feeling. I started to look around as I was a bit more at ease. I was surrounded by dirt as I was underground, presumably in a burrow. I saw 2 more eggs that looked just like the one that I hatched out of. They looked white in color and semitranslucent, Presumably my siblings that hadn't hatched yet.

As I switched my focus, I suddenly saw movement behind mother. I looked and saw a simular looking cat thing, but this time, it was almost the same size as me but a bit bigger. It looks like im not the oldest.

It looked at me with curious eyes and I did the same. It started to aproach me and I noticed that its eyes had a blue tint to it instead of the pink that my mothers eyes seemed to contain.

When I was looking in my mothers eyes before, I noticed that my own eyes had a green tint mixed with the dominant black color that every cat thing I met so far has.

As we were both inspecting each others appearance, we heard another cracking sound. The 3rd egg was starting to crack. All 3 of us present had our attention on it as it was slowly hatching. All 3 of us, especially my mother, had expectant gazes as we watched.

It took a while, but eventually it hatched. Somewhere along the lines, the last egg also started hatching . My third sibling seemed to be a female, contrary to myself and my older brother. It had a purple tint in its eyes and surprisingly also had bigger ears then the both of us brothers.

I was wondering wether it was a female/male diffrence as an explanation for the bigger ears or just a coincidence. It seems to be the latter now that I think about it as I also differed from my brother. My tail was longer than his by 50%, although his was thicker than mine.

The youngest was about to hatch. It seemed to be struggeling to get out of the shell as the effort it showed to get out was starting to fade. My mother had a worryful gaze as she got closer to the egg. She decided to help the little thing as it would probably die if nothing was done.

As the youngest noticed the external help, it began to frantically trash about to get out as its instincts told it to. It rolled about on the ground as it already hatched soon afterwards, but didnt seem to notice it yet as it had its eyes still closed. After a while it noticed that it wasnt stuck anymore and opened its eyes, which it immediately regretted as her senses got overloaded with information.

On the side, I was smirking as I felt relatable to the situation it was currently in. Speaking of it, its not an it but a he. Looks like I have 2 brothers and a sister.

My youngest brother was physically the weakest of us. Its legs are larger than ours on average by a quarter though. Its eyes had a yellow tint to it and it looked quite goofy because of his long legs and thin figure. He reminded me a little of a certain brother of a game character about 2 brothers that are plumbers.

My youngest brother was actually the tallest because of his legs. Then the following order of length was my elder brother, me and last my sister.

*growl*

'Ah I am really hungry...' im curious as to wether we are carnivorous or herbivores. I hope the first because I would not appreciate it if I could only eat plants and fruits.

My mother also got the hint as she grabbed 2 blue fruit-looking things that hung from the ceiling by some biological sticky stuff and put it before us. As I looked at it, I started to salivate and just realised that my mouth was diffrent from before.

As I went to take a bite, I felt the thousands of tiny teeth in my mouth and felt shocked. They shredded the food in my mouth at an amazing speed, turning it into a smoothie like substance which felt and tasted pretty good actually.

After this initial bite, my siblings also started to eat it and I also further indulged in it. I got a closer look and was surprised that it was actually the egg of a bat that we just ate.

Happy that I wasn't stuck to eating grass. After eating, I tried to talk for the first time but alas. It was quite hard to form words with my current mouth that was straight from a horror movie.

I noticed that my siblings started to imitate my sounds and it looked quite cute but also disturbing because of their mouths.

I suddenly felt sleepy after all these tiring experiences and before I knew it I fell asleep.

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After some time, I woke up and saw my siblings still sleeping. I started to contemplate on what happened to me and sighed.

It was so much to rap my head around, me dying, getting out of the egg and meeting my new family made me think about my old friends and family with a heavy heart.

I knew I died but it was a hard thing to accept. My family and friends must be missing me...

I kept remeniscing about my old life with a strange feeling. I was quite happy in my previous life and felt bittersweet. Luckily, I was reincarned as a sentient race, so my life should probably be somewhat safe, right?

I started pondering wether I was still on earth but immediately dismissed the thought as I was reborn into a creature with sentience other than a human. It could still be possible but I highly doubted it.

Still, if im not on earth, would there be humans on this planet? As I was philosophising about the grand stuff, I heard footsteps coming into the cave.

I was immediately alerted as all my siblings and my mother were still inside sleeping. I tried to move but my body still felt very clumsy as I could barely walk. The tail was really putting me off as I never had one before.

I decided to walk on all fours for now as it required less balance but it was still hard. Then, the suspect came into view. It looked strangely familiar as it also had a blue tint in his eyes like by older brother, but darker.

As I was alert, my mother also noticed the intruder but contrary to my nervousness, she happily walked over. "Look! All our children hatched healthily!" My mother said in good spirits.

'Ehh? So hes my father?' I said in my mind, as the situation suddenly became clear to me.