It was a cold night for GreenWood village, named so after their quick growing green barked trees, the Vintu.(They are just thicker bamboos)
The parents tucked in their children good night while the purple moon in the sky, Melos, made it so that you could still see a bit in the dark.
The thick wooled Lana's (three eyed sheep) enjoyed the cool night air and the Vanu (cows with antlers) moo's made sure that the nights weren't completely silent.
In this peaceful village where people managed to earn enough to live comfortably, a human(?) infant was walking towards the GreenWood Forest, cloaked in its blanket while a rectangular, semi transparent light blue box followed behind.
-"Sir while I do not doubt your capabilities aren't you worried that your mother will wake up during the night and worry when she doesn't find you in bed?"
Translation:Please let's go home, I don't want to spend the night in a spooky forest with something as scary as you.
-'You need not worry Stephen, I made sure that my mother and siblings will have a pleasant sleep until tomorrow, I made it so just in case my siblings were to inconvenience my exhausted mother with their crying.'
-"That is...very thoughtful of you sir. May I ask why we need to go into the GreenWood Forest?"
-'So that's its name, a bit uncreative but the forest doesn't seem to care's
The GreenWood Forest was enchanting, with small dirt roads made by foragers that made it so that the vegetation doesn't completely engulf the ground along with small berry bushes and flowers giving a bit of colour.
-"Oh does that mean that you can talk with the forest sir? I bet this forest has a very beautiful dryad protecting it"
Stephen was starting to get excited to see more fantasy elements. Even though during the info dump inside his mind after the training video he got some basic information about the planet he did not get anything in-depth about the flora and fauna.
-'Dryad? Curious name but no I don't really see any being that would reflect the image inside your mind and when I asked the Vintu they didn't really have much to say.'
-"While that is a shame I am curious about what the plants's are saying, I haven't become a proper system technically so I don't have all of my capabilities, what are they saying?"
-'Mostly about water and the very small rocks in the ground. Their souls are young since they grow very fast and are then harvested by the woodsmen of the village and then sold. They also cannot seeor hear but they do feel pain.'
-"So no dryad?"
-'From my mother's fragmented memories, beings that you call Dryads usually lives in places with more Ether.'
(Quick explanation:Think of Mana and Ether as Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide. Sentient beings inhale the Mana from the air and exhale Ether while plants breathe in Ether and exhale Mana.)
'but since Ether is more present where other people are, they usually appear in places with a lot of people that don't cut down tree's that much, so usually in Elvish territories.'
-"A bit of a disappointment but I'm sure that we'll meet one in the future. Are you here to see the wild life?"
-'Not quite. From what you've told me about 'fantasy world's' then they usually have monsters, but from mother's fragmented memories, no such beings exist'
-"Oh yes I know about this one sir. While spirits and demons exist, monsters like goblins, slimes or orcs do not exist here, a shame really."
-'Ah that is good to know, I will not be copying someone then when I do this'
-"Do what si-"
The Anomaly then ripped off its small arm slowly, the skin slowly tearing from the force while the muscles slowly separated. The joint popped and then the arm was brutally separated from the shoulder.
No blood seeped from the wound and eat could be seen of the inside of the arm was off. The muscle tendons squirmed and slowly extended outwards like worms burrowing out of the ground.
The Anomaly lightly tossed the arm a few feet away while it continued squirming. The veins slowly snakes outwards, extending into the air while the fingers audibly cracks as the elongated, with the arm slowly rising up until it was propped on the severed bit, with the finger reaching towards the sky.
-'oh shit oh fuck oh shit. What the hell is happening, why is the arm sentient, why am I here, I wanna go to a normal fantasy world, why did I say I want to see monsters? Whats wrong with normal animals?'
The thumb and pinky of the hand slowly broke themselves as they now pointed downwards, with the fingers on the hand now pointed like a star(⭐)
The hand then slowly lowering down the fore, absorbing the muscles, veins, skin and bones inside it, slowly enlarging until the hand also started changing yet again, with the pinky and thumb slowly Morphing into legs which then grew feet while the index and ring finger morphed into arms which then grew hands.
Stephen was starting to feel sick as the hand slowly descended further down what remained of the severed arm.
The hand slowly morphed into a humanoid body while the middle finger gradually changed into a humanoid looking blank face, completely devoid of eyes, ears, hair a nose or a mouth.
The two snaking veins that grew out of the severed part of the arm changed into two hairless tails which the creature then used to support its disproportionate, lanky figure.
The creature then slowly got off the ground, making itself more visible.
The spine was bent unnaturally, as if it was constantly trying to balance itself, using the two tails that were currently firmly planted into the ground for balance.
The legs were similar to that of a human but the feet had three large 'toes', one facing the back while two faced the front, making its footprints look like a Y. The hands were also unnatural, with four fingers on each hand positioned like the blades of a claw machine.
The skin was spotted in different colors, light pinks and Reds mixed with creamy whites and light Browns.
When it slowly inhaled, instead of something opening on its face, the sides of its torso opened up like vents while on the pectorals two eyelids opened slowly, with the pupils black and shaped like those of a goat while also slit like those of a snake.
Once the creature saw The Abomination, or its parent, it slowly started shakily walking forwards on its two legs, and once close enough the top of its head slowly opened up like a Venus fly trap, revealing needle like teeth that completely filled its mouth cavity.
Stephen was currently having the system equivalent of a panic attack while The Anomaly looked at its 'child' unblinkingly.
The creature slowly tilted its head downwards, the mouth open like a set bear trap and out of the gaping Maw a long tongue slowly slid out.
The tongue was covered in what looked like small legs along its sides while the tip was shaped like the head of a bug, making the tongue look like a long, black centipede.
Stephen started feeling uncomfortable shivers, still imagining himself a human body and feeling as if those 'legs' on the tongue were moving all around his skin.
But instead of a low guttural growl or some unholy screech, the voice of a young girl came out.
-"Papa."
It would have been quite a weird but adorable sight but the small creature still had its maw wide open while the large eyes on its pectorals were trained on The Anomaly, betraying no emotion whatsoever.
-'I swear that thing looked at me for a split second. Don't come near me, systems are not a nutritious meal for....you'
The Anomaly then nonchalantly started petting the weird creature on its head.
-'My mother hasn't named me or my siblings yet just in case we died early from some illness, thinking that that way she won't get attached. I know you'll grow up big and strong and so I'll be giving you a name now.
Your name shall be.'
"Melissa. You have been born under the light of Melos and so I think that this is appropriate."
Stephen was very surprised see the 1 day old father talk for the first time but his attention was still fixed upon the creature that would no doubt haunt his nightmares.(Although he doesn't even know whether he can sleep as a system.)
Melissa then slowly moved her small arms towards The Anomaly, with Stephen now preparing himself to see the would-be father of this creature perform a very late fetus deletus.
But instead of an attack, Melissa instead have The Anomaly a tight hug and let out a very adorable girlish laugh from its spiky maw
While Stephen was being horrified by the 'birth' of The Anomaly's first child, he hasn't noticed that his arm had already regenerated back to normal.
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After a few hours of Father(?)-Daughter(?) bonding , which constituted of The Anomaly teaching his daughter how to hunt small birds with her centipede-like tongue along with how to find proper shelter, how to differentiate between what's good to eat and what isn't (Which also includes him mentioning that Stephen wasn't good to eat.) , the suns started slowly rising, ending their bonding time.
Melissa scurried off deeper into the forest, making Stephen realise that she was walking on two legs in order to copy her father, with her natural movement form being on all four of her limbs.
The Anomaly and Stephen slowly walked back into his home where IT snuggled into the makeshift bed and Stephen tried not to think about what was released upon the GreenWood Forest.
[Melissa Status Window] (Stephen had to ask for permission in order to see it and after reading it, called the Status Window several profanities, chief among them being 'blind')
Name:Melissa
Species:Human
Stats:
STR(Strong for her small size, still a growing girl!):0.5
AGI(Family rock,papers,scissors champion):5
DEX(very flexible! Can hide inside bird nests inside tree's):3
END(Got tired trying to chase a squirrel):0.5
THG(She may be a bit thin but she isn't fragile!):5
PER(Can see well underwater,underground and her tongue can smell chemicals In the air that help her hunt.):10
WIS(Was just born so she has problems solving riddles for middle schoolers.):0.5
CHR(Pinnacle of cuteness):100
INT(She can count up to Ten!):0.2
LCK(Fate is confused):0
Mana Capacity(very smol): 1/1(Full)
Trait(s):
Night vision
Vomeronasal
Hybrid breathing(Can breathe both water and air)
Partial Mimicry(uses the tongue in order to hunt, making it look like an insect in order to attract birds)
Skill(s):
-Call for Papa
-Camouflage(Adept):Can camouflage herself under foliage due to her small size.
Title(s):
Firstborn of The Anomaly(Given by Existence)
Cutie Patootie (Given by The Anomaly)
[End Status Window]