My Life As A Reborn Monster

I jumped up as 5 of the warriors leaped towards me and my group and I was forced to grapple with one that was wearing a form of bone knuckle dusters, I swatted another one away with my tail but the other 3 had gotten past me and were closing in on the girls fast. I got worried for a second but soon felt as a wave of intense heat blasted the 3 away and through the flaps that made up the walls. However that was the signal that caused a flood of more Raptoids and feathered Raptors to come storming inside in the hopes of overwhelming us with numbers.

The one I was grappling with thrust its jaws foreward in the hopes of sinking its teeth into me but little did it expect that I would shift my jaw even bigger and just bite down on its head. It went wide eyed for the seconds it was alive before a crunch was heard and I got my first taste of this new species.

"My god! They are delicious! Lula, transform and let's eat!" I yelled as I took another bite of the body I was still holding. The ones that witnessed this roared in rage and agony at seein their comrade get eaten right in front of them but that just made things easier on me. Who wouldn't want their food to come to them? This was better than delivery back on the old world.

I heard Lula's beast form roar and saw as huge bear paws swatted away the creatures as licks of flames and bolts of darkness flew into the horde still streaming into the strangely uncramped hut. I didn't pay that thought much attention because the one that I wacked away with my tail was back up and was not slicing downwards with a giant bone that had a big rock that was sharp on one side but flat on the other that looked like some weird cross between a greatsword and a giant hammer.


I knew this had some power behind it and that without any magic I was going to take atleast a bit of damage from this, so I side stepped quickly and shoulder slammed into one warrior that was lunging towards Kitsoma with a spear. After I did that and Kitsoma put a fireball to its skull I turned back to the one I was originally facing and had to cross my arms as the flat side was inches from slamming into me, I rolled a little from the hit but hopped back up and sent a flurry of slashes at the nearest warrior near me and started working my way back towards the group..... Wait, How am I so far away from my group? Wasn't I just near them before I got hit?

I could see Kitsoma and Mara fighting back to back while Vannessa, Lula, and Alissa were fighting a few feet away. It looked like an entire army was surrounding them but that just couldn't be.... The hut we entered into was no where near the size necessary.

Knowing how bad it would hurt I gritted my teeth and sent out a pulse of mana to detect and hopefully find out just what the hell was going on. Within seconds I could feel the magic in the air penetrating everything within the hut and felt as the space itself was widening even now. A couple seconds later I detected a huge flow of mana coming from the direction past the girls and upon a closer look it was the shaman looking Raptoid that started casting a spell when the fight first broke out.

He was sending out an endless wave of mana that was stretching the space around him and it would stretch out in waves until it reached the hut walls where it would bounce back and flow back into him in a continuous cycle. He wasn't losing energy at all thanks to whatever that technique was and that was fueling him to keep expanding the space that was still being filled by the Raptoids and Raptors as they still kept rushing in, even after the numbers well exceeded what the little tribal village should have been able to hold.

"HAHAHA DO YOU SEE NOW THE POWER THAT WE HAVE BEEN BESTOWED BY OUR BENEVOLENT CREATORS!? HE WARNED ME THAT ONE DAY I WOULD NEED THIS POWER AND BEHOLD! THAT DAY HAS COME! BROTHERS AND SISTERS, DESTROY THESE MONSTERS IN VENGEANCE FOR OUR BELOVED PACK MOTHER!" He cried out like some kind of cultist and another, much bigger wave of mana flowed from him that instead of expanding the space, it settled onto every creature in the hut. I felt as my power drained but also saw as the enemies bodies seemed to stretch and grow bigger as muscle seemed to expand and their flesh rippled.
"VEXSUS! HELP US!" Cried Mara but I was so far away from them by this point that the only thing that could make me a path to them would be my Breath of the sun attack, and that would be just as hazardous to them as it would be for me... I could try and rage out but losing my mind in favor of power right now might just end up with me using that attack anyways and still end up dead. Think Vexsus think, what could I do that could have any use in this situation?

I got a bright idea.... well it was a very stupid idea, but it would end up being very... very bright.... and fiery...

I quickly opened up a spatial bubble and brought out a couple familiar looking rocks, and then immediately smashed them together like I was trying to create a spark and they instantly started to glow brighter and brighter in just the few seconds I held them before lobbing them behind me and bullrushing towards the girls. Thankfully Lula had ran out of energy by the time The light created was catching everyones attention enough that I was able to get to the girls and lift them all with adrenaline fueled strength and booked it towards the opening of the hut.

"VEX TELL ME YOU DIDN'T DO WHAT I THINK YOU DID! HOW MANY DID YOU BRING WITH YOU!" Kitsoma screamed at me as she bounced on my shoulder while also holding onto the others so they wouldn't fall off, I basically had a backpack made of my wives but I was getting worried because the spatial expansion had made the huts entrance feel like a mile away by this time and I was running full out. I even suffered and drew in magic to push myself faster. I wasn't worried about answering Kitsoma since my focus was running away from the inevitable firestorm that was going to erupt very shortly.

"VEX DAMMIT ANSWER ME!" She yelled and even smacked my head but I just shook my head and soon we pasted the doorway just as a loud boom reverberated past me with a air blast that sent us all flying. I jumped up and hurried to pick up the others and start running again but a tremor shook the whole area that caused large pieces of earth to break apart and caused a huge gap to appear and encircle the hut. Just as the earth started to swallow up the hut and dragging it down I saw the flames erupt and plume upwards into a giant flaming flower that easily reached hundreds of meters into the air.

All I could do was just shield the girls as best I can while they through up shields of magic and otherwise to help mitigate the heat and damage this thing caused. It took well over 30 minutes for the towering inferno to finally die down enough that my body could heal more than the damage it recieved. At one point I thought I heard screaming of pain and agony coming from the pit but I couldn't really tell.

I laid down and just rested while groaning in the hopes that my body would heal sooner rather than later, but the same time the girls were healing themselves with what little damage got past their shields. They came to sit next to me but Kitsoma was standing up and looking down at me with a very scary look on her face.

"Hi honey... 'Cough' 'Cough' ... Ugh now before you start I have to just say that I didn't expect that big of a blast." I tried to smile but that just caused more pain so I just closed my eyes.

"I swear you always do stupid shit like this.... How many more do you have."

"Ummm, I think like 3 more? I didn't really count and matter of fact I only just remembered that I had em haha Ahh dammit Lula that hurts!" I cursed as Lula padded a wet towel against a recently and still pink part of my stomach region.

"Sorry... But can someone explain what just happened? What was that bright light just now?" She turned to Kitsoma before asking but she kept padding that wet towel over the more serious areas of my body, it helped to cool me down and I wasn't gonna complain to much.... anymore.

"That Lula, was a reaction caused by smashing a couple of refined mana stones together Vex knows all about that because he caused one a long time ago that actually almost caused the death of one of our friends."

The others gasped as they looked over at me as I smiled sheepishly.

"To be fair I did bring him back to life as repayment."

"Don't try and weasel your way out of this mister, you should have warned us first before doing something so drastic like that."

"Honey, again I didn't remember until just a little bit ago, Plus how was I supposed to know the blast was going to be so big? I was just about at my end with having to fight so many at once and I just wanted to get you all and runaway, I just thought it was going to explode and cause a distraction."

"Now I've heard of mana stones exploding before but that only rarely happens, and only when mishandled in the refining process, But none of the incidents I've heard of resulted in such a huge explosion like that." Mara said while thinking out loud.

"Could it be that the huge amount of mana inside the hut was the cause? I mean everything was covered in it from the walls to even us, as soon as that strange mana touched me I felt my power draining." Vannessa said after she finished wrapping up my arm that was covered in blistered and peeling scales.

Me and the others thought about it some and eventually agreed that that was most likely the cause. The mana stones would naturally attract mana themselves and with the amount that saturated the inside of that place, it could very easily turn into a shitstorm of violent mana reaction.

"You wanna know what sucks the most? I didn't get to eat any of them besides that one I munched on at first." I pouted a little because that one really tasted amazing and I really wanted more.

"You will never consume one of us again you dragon bastard!" A Raptoid emerged from the forest behind us and yelled. Still guessing but this one looked like a male with how colorful the feathers were. But this one wasn't dressed like a shaman, instead this one was huge and covered in muscle that dwarfed all the other Raptoids around him. Even the biggest female next to him only came up to his elbow.

I struggled to rise up but as I did I felt a woosh of air and opened my eyes to find myself a few feet off the ground and gasping for air. With wide eyes I looked and saw as it was the huge male that had me in his hand. I was suprised by his speed and I could only match it when I had full control over my magic power, but I felt nothing coming from him, not even a drop of mana was felt.

"Did you cause that explosion that killed my brother?"