So let me just say that being incorporeal doesn't feel all too good. It's kinda like sleeping but the dreams were real life and your body is, well I actually don't know since last I recall I think I died?
Well that life wasn't going too well to begin with, the end of the world and all. Almost everyone I knew and loved died from Armageddon with the rest surviving just to meet our ends from the big bad boss. No wait, I think there were still a few heroes left after we struggled our damndest to kill the BBEG. I hope they survived and are living a good life restoring the planet. It took us a few centuries but beating that bastard was frankly calming even if I was dying.
Anyways, after killing him a glowing orb shot out of his chest and landed in front of me. I wasn't the one to land the killing blow and since I was dying, I decided to pass it to whoever was left. Unfortunately, the moment I touched it, the thing sparked and lasered me right between the eyes!
Of fucking course it was a trap! I should've known that sneaky asshole had one more trick up his sleeve! Too bad for him though, I was already a dead woman, so color me surprised when I felt my soul(?) get sucked into the orb and here I am.
Floating, or am I going somewhere? Actually how long has it been? I can't exactly tell since I don't really have any senses at the moment and whatever I AM 'seeing' Is all just whiteness with random breezes of colors flying about.
Huff! Can we just do something already?
*WHOOSH!*
Wait, did I do that?
Almost as if I wished it into being the multicolor lights devoured the whiteness and I 'watched' on as the whiteness slowly shrunk smaller and smaller.
I tried to turn around to get more insight of my new surroundings but that wasn't going to happen. Damn you incorporeal body!!
*VIRMM!*
Without warning my new environment changed once more, this time becoming a beautiful starry night.
I honestly can't express just how majestic the sight was, everywhere I looked was a shining light. I tried once more to turn around and this time I surprisingly could. Turning around, I finally got a view of whatever I just went through.
In front of me was a physical crack in reality as I 'saw' it. I could still 'see' whatever was behind the crack even as it glowed and emitted the colored lights.
But it felt strange, almost foreign to wherever I was. When I turned around, in the corner of my 'eye' the object didn't shift from my view, it actually shrunk! As if the crack itself wasn't actually what I could see but just a piece of it's true image.
Creepy stuff that is, I hope I'm not going back through it. Or should I want to since it could take me back? I don't know.
Just as I was going to test if moving was an option, I blasted forth into the stars! 'Seeing' what I am, I just know if I had a body I would definitely be throwing my guts up.
All around me stars and galaxies flew past me at differing speeds, it honestly was super mesmerizing. Looking forward, one galaxy was gradually getting closer and closer into view, I guess this is where I am going huh?
The galaxy was pretty unique looking in itself, it was two galaxies halfway in the motion of crashing into one another in a spectacular view to see. It looked as if one had t-boned the other and to make things worse a little further out one more galaxy was coming in hot, although this one was significantly smaller than the other two.
As I continued studying the sights, I was quickly making my way towards the one galaxy that had gotten hit. I could now 'see' random solar systems come and go into view; with a few I am almost certain were colonized just by the star shining really funny. As I continued to make my way towards an unknown destination, gradually one solar system in particular gradually came into view.
A large red giant with six planets surrounding it, two massive gas giants and four rocky planets with various sizes, with the rest just clusters of little rocks in rings around the outer planets and system. But the ones I was heading to were two of the rocky planets orbiting one another a bit far out from the sun's habitable zone.
One was a solid green and white planet with large streaks of blue here and there. The other was slightly smaller and far whiter with equal measures of brown, red and green sporadically inside the white.
Between the two planets I honestly hoped for the former but of course my new life had other plans. Making my way towards the smaller planet the very first thing I noticed was that there was fucking spaceships fighting one another just outside the planet!
Am I coming in during a war?!
Sigh… Of course I leave one fight just to join another…
I quickly make way into the planet's atmosphere and come closer towards what I can only describe as an enormous domed megalithic city. Strange rocky pillars jutted from the ground and into the sky like skyscrapers, on top of these pillars was a clear-bluish dome radiating and converging with of the pillars. Every so often a smoldering red object would fall from space and smash into the dome with a loud bang, creating ripples but nothing more.
It was then I realized I was heading straight towards that exact dome!
Shit, shit, shit! Ghostly form don't fail me now!
I touched what I'm now guessing to be a shield and went through with no issues whatsoever.
...
Yeah, I feel kinda stupid now, but you never know!
Entering the dome a large city came into view and if I focused a little, I could even see people moving about. Moving further into the city I flew directly towards the largest building in the city. The building was on the outskirts of the city, not too far away from one of the pillars.
Fazing through the building's roof, I flew through multiple rooms too fast to see anything of use. Suddenly and very abruptly I stopped in front of a person who looked as though they were dying.
How did I know? Well a knife in the heart would surely do it right?
And whoever did it wasn't all that kind either since there were a few more in other places as well, including the crotch. Ouch bud, sucks to be you…
Wait. Aw shi-
*SLIRP!*
My soul was swallowed by this mystery man, yeah man, I guess I'm a guy now, not that I really care to be honest.
"gAsP!" I took a deep breath in who knows how long annnnd immediately began throwing up blood.
"BLURGH!"
Falling out of bed, I crawled my way to what these foreign memories now reverberating through my skull said to be the bathroom, all the while throwing up what felt like all the liquid in my body.
Reaching the toilet, I finished up hurling and stayed there feeling up my new, but sure as shit not fresh, body. The knife was no longer impaled in me and all the stab wounds had healed up. Thank goodness too, I definitely didn't want to die once again.
After collecting myself I groggily stood up from the toilet and looked into the mirror, well it really was just a smoothly polished sheet of metal in place of a mirror.
Since there wasn't much light with the exception of a small night light next to the mirror and toilet, I couldn't get a full view of myself, but it was better than nothing.
Starting from the top I had animal ears! Short round ones that flicked uncontrollably, it was pretty cute. I also had long hair that hid another pair of human looking ears, I guess that answers that question, although I will have to cut my long hair. Not really a long-haired kind of gal, er... guy. Maybe shoulder length will do.
Then my face, damn I am pale, I also look far more androgynous than masculine. With black tuffs of fluffy hair under my eyes, on my eyelids, and on my nose which itself was blackened and button like. I lacked facial hair which I am kinda thankful for, I may be a man now but I still don't like facial hair. I honestly look pretty cute if pretty unkempt, I wonder if past me was a fuck boy?
Given the knife wound on my meat it's definitely possible.
Moving down to my chest and arms was even more paleness, did I live underground or something cuz this can't be my normal tone. I didn't have any breast nor chest hair, but I did have simple muscles. My arms also have some more black tuffs starting from the elbows down, and although I had human hands, I had sharp black nails, darkened fingertips, and little beans on the tips on all five digits and one more on the palm below the thumb.
Looking below I found something interesting, I had both genitalia, noice! Moving on to my legs it was similar to my arms but not quite. Black fluff from the knees down with human feet and black nails but no beans, the back of my foot has a large black nub which I think is a shaved nail? But something in me tells me that can be changed, those memories I spoke of, which I'm just gonna call past me's memories, are telling me that I can morph for the lack of a better word my legs into some kind of beast form. I could do that now but I don't think I should since I don't have the memories to change them back.
Speaking of memories, I do have partial memories of past me's life, nothing much, just tidbits of knowledge. Remember how I asked if I lived underground? Yeah, I was right on the money, all the stuff I saw on my way here is just the well off to rich people's land. The MAJORITY of people live underground in slums and sometimes worse, the ancient grounds. Past me didn't live there and also didn't have many memories of them so I can't say anything about it.
I really didn't have much memories of much to be frank but I do know that I volunteered to join the army for a better life and made it. Just for an invasion to happen out of nowhere, just my luck. It's been two months since I left the undergrounds and two weeks since the invasion started.
At the moment it is my off hours, ironically time is the same with minutes and hours being the same. The exception is that one day is thirty hours, one week is six, and a month is when the two planets get close to each other before pulling back again, this takes thirty-two days.
Oh, and a year is 345 days. I wonder if this was on purpose? Or maybe someone is just lazy…
Anyways, since the invaders haven't done a ground assault yet, I have just been doing daily training and watch duty. And by I, I mean past me of course.
Welp, I may as well just clean up my mess and go back to sleep I guess. I still have no clue who killed past me and I doubt they'll come back tonight. Sigh... something tells me I won't be getting a good sleep in a long while…