Sudden monster.

The year is 2078, every country in the world lies in ruin, nothing was spared when the monsters came. They came in various sizes and numbers, some would tower over buildings having fists that could flatten small hills whilst others were the size of small children. Don't think just because they are small that they are weaker than the bigger ones, no, the small ones are the ones you need to really watch out for. Fast bastards I tell ya.

In my 30 odd years of living on this planet nothing has sucked compared to this moment, everything I did in my life eventually led up to this point. Dying to a group of B-rank monsters, normally I would easily be able to handle such weak monsters but the amount they came in was just too much for me to handle.

Whilst I was having my inner monologue about how my life went from birth to death the world continued around me. In the bigger cities that didn't fall during "the Calamity" which is what we call the day the first monster was spotted 50 years ago, people just continued their everyday life although a bit different then before. People dressed in black suits and other kinds of garments walking from the train station to their offices or other work locations they work at not bothered by the fact that a man just breathed his last breath a moment ago.

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When this last breath was taken a new one quickly came after, but not as his former human self. 'Where am I?' I was confused, why can I still feel touch and breath in the cold air, am I not supposed to be dead? Is this heaven or is this hell, where even is this?

To get more answers I started looking around and the first thing I noticed was that I was fully naked, but my skin color wasn't the same tanned one I had most of my life, it was gray-ish black with a hint of silver, it looked inhuman, like no human was supposed to have this kind of skin.

I started to feel around my body but due to my carelessness I somehow managed to stab myself with these… claws? I looked closer at my hands where now 10 claws, one on each finger was present. They looked extremely sharp, sharper then even the most expensive weapon I was able to acquire before I died.

The wound that had penetrated my inhuman looking skin suddenly started to close at a visible rate, a few seconds later it was as if nothing had even changed about my skin… Wait a minute, why did I not feel any pain just now, and why am I ignoring the fact that I had died and when I look down at myself that I look inhuman?

I read somewhere that we fear the unknown but why am I not afraid or freaking out about something that I do not yet know about? Taking a deep breath to collect myself from my thoughts I started to try and piece things together. Firstly what happened was that I died, that I'm certain of, then I "wake" up naked in this weird looking body?

The only possible things that I think are possible are either I somehow did not die which should be impossible so I scrap that idea, the other one is that this is my subconscious replacing what I feel to replace for the lack of life. But how can my subconscious even work when I am not alive? That idea was quickly left behind for another one that sounded the most plausible.

What if I actually died but somehow regained this new body after death? I always used to read stories that were written before the "calamity" about people dying and traveling to worlds full of the impossible and have adventures with friends and companions and since the day the monsters came magic came to our world. I died, and was reborn here, at a yet unknown place at an unknown time.

Yeah… it sounds ridiculous. I almost started laughing at my own terrible imagination but after a few seconds of good laughter I suddenly stopped. I did not recognize my laugh, it was different from that tone I used to have, I suppose it lacked… humanity. There were no emotions present, it felt like a primal growl that could only belong to a monster.

No… The inhuman skin, the claws, the healing, the voice, my death…

Somehow I kept calm when I should be freaking out, by all means my humanity screams that this isn't normal and that I should be freaking out, but there is something deep down keeping that feeling suppressed. I am starting to not feel human anymore.

I think I have been lying around for long enough now I thought as I finally stopped my train of thought and started to actually take in my surroundings. I started to stand up, or I tried at least, instead of standing up like I intended to do I was launched into the air and hit the ground a few seconds later face first.

So, my strength is greater than i thought it would be, why is it even different than before? Heck, according to logic it should be weaker than before I died yet I feel as if my strength now towers over the amount I had. Now I need to manage my strength so that I do not launch myself in the air again…

<With a sigh our monstrous friend started trying to stand up like any normal person would, yet he failed miserably. If this scene was seen by any human on earth they would almost think that this was a part of a comedy movie but because our friend looks like a monster they would flee on first sight of him.

After failing a lot, he finally managed to stand up, but he quickly sighed in defeat knowing what comes next. Looking around seeing the crater he had made from his attempt at standing up.>

Standing up is only the beginning, after that comes balance, walking and eventually running. If I try to run as I am now I have the feeling that my face will meet with a tree instead of the now familiar ground, if I make it out of this crater I made that is…

Okay, walking is manageable, since I have already somewhat mastered limiting my strength. Now comes the next part, climbing out of this crater, and I feel like jumping is the correct option here.

<If you looked closely at the forest that our monster was located at you could now see a humanoid figure falling down at the earth at a speed that indicated that this figure has been falling for quite some distance.>

*Boom* <A loud explosion noise came from the impact that was our monsters face meeting the earth after falling a few hundred meters.>

"Ouch, that hurt, I think?" <Came out of the mouth of our favorite test su… I mean person. Though with the language it was spoken the people on earth wouldn't be able to recognize it, let alone translate it. If it was before his death most people would be able to understand him since the language was translated 20 odd years after the "calamity". Why that is is not what matters as of now, what matters is that our monster is finally out of his crater. Luckily this landing didn't cause another big crater that he had to jump out of so he could easily walk out of it.>

I need to get my strength under control, pronto. Or else I will leave an imprint of my face everywhere I go, be it a tree or the hard familiar ground. If I am not careful I can even end up lost because I lost my sense of direction, what I did notice was that whilst I was moving at a speed that should not be allowed I was able to clearly see my surroundings as if I was normally looking around. it seems as if my perception of time has slowed down, but not when I am standing still doing nothing.

I also noticed whilst I was unfortunately falling down that a giant forest surrounds me, all I could see was forest for hundreds of miles. I myself was even surprised I could see that far but I just piled up as one of my new perks, just like my absurd strength. Now that I think about it, where does my strength put me? Before my death the strongest monster hunter, or hunter, which was my job that led to my death by the way, had the strength that could put the one I have shown so far to shame.

I think I should now be easily able to take out those pesky B-ranks that killed me but an A-rank monster should be too far off for me. You see, the difference between ranks is huge, a B-rank is not even a hundreth of an A-rank monster, let alone those rare S and SS ranked monsters. There were also speculations about a Triple S ranked monster but you know how humans are, they like to over exaggerate everything to the tiniest details.

Now back to my original plan. Oh, I seem to have forgotten to tell my plan to you guys, silly me. I want to look for a source of water or any sort of reflective serface to see myself, and ofcourse see if I have retained those stunning looks I had before I died… *Cough*< It seems our monster has started hallucinating>. (A/N : I plan to make our main character be "able" to "talk" to the reader, much in a deadpool like fashion, although I want to try and keep this to a minimum, with and emphasis on"try")

Oh shut up you party pooper…

Now where was I? Oh right, I was planning on finding a place to inspect myself. Now that I am out of that crater and I am able to walk, running comes next, and I feel that this time it will be easier than the last two times.

<And surprisingly our main character didn't jynx himself unlike last time. After only three tries that ended up in him entering a few trees' personal spaces. The trees put up an admirable fight but in the end they snapped because of the weight behind our main character "Did you just call me fat?" *Ahem* Well, as you now know already, he is finally able to control his strength so that he doesn't meet anything with his face.>

(End of chapter one of "Sudden monster")

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(A/N : This project has been in the back of my mind for some time yet I was unable to start this story and after my "many" dropped stories I had sort of given up on writing thinking I would end up dropping this story too but I finally was able to write it down on "paper", well word. I do not know my update schedule or if I will even be able to even upload a chapter once a week but I will try.)