Re Lizard

Hello everyone and welcome to the first chapter of my Re:monster fic, this is basically going to be about if Rou never became a goblin but instead the lizardman path. Not much else I have to say at the moment but enjoy.

(Day 1)

'So dark… where am I? I feel warm, no pain… wait is that a feint light, what's going on I can't move' my eyelids opened but the vision is still blurry, almost like I have the wrong contact lenses in. 'Wait who is that? A crocodile, no it's a bit different, did someone leave their pet on top of me…' my mind faded into the darkness.

(Day 2)

My eyes opened again this time it was clear although, it is a dark room. 'I can see, there are lot's of these reptile pets… wait a second' I managed to look down at my hands, noticing them to be scaly like the others. 'what am I… I look too humanoid to be one of the reptile pets I had back home, I look just like the rest of them' I shut my eyes tightly. 'I'm a baby… a lizard baby' were my last thoughts before falling asleep again.

(Day 8)

Over the past week all I have been able to do is sleep and be fed by a large lizard creature every day. Now I can move 'finally I can move, I can move I was going insane by looking at that cave ceiling'. Standing up, I looked at myself finding myself surprised, apparently these lizard creatures or lizard hatchling as I have been told grow up rather quickly. As I noticed, I appeared to be about the same height as a 11 year old give or take, almost the same as everyone else.

Myself and all the other hatchlings were similar to alligators in a way as we were covered in green scales with the exception of our palms, stomachs, chests and under our chins being skin like. We all had meter length tails and sharp black nails 'I really am like an alligator in human form'.

'Now let's see what this body can do' I ran wild around the cave, leaping to each corner. 'I have so much energy, I don't want to lie still forever' I continued to run around, doing different exercises as I went along finally getting used to this new tailed body before collapsing.

(Day 9)

"What no food?" my jaw dropped at the thought of being just over a week old and considering how this was the first time I spoke felt so weird.

"You're lizard hatching, get your own" another lizard hatching the same height but obviously older point towards the cave exit and left me a second later. 'Time to go hunting I guess' I headed out the cave and towards the forest.

'At least I am not alone while doing this' beside me was another hatchling I met yesterday after collapsing in her sleeping spot. To be honest I could hardly tell the gender between everyone but did notice a few differences, females had skin not scales on the inside of their thighs as well as sharper claws and were slightly shorter. However, really I only noticed at first was because of the rags covering the chest area. "Come on hatchling Zia"

"Yay let's go" she smiled as her snake like tongue hanged out.

From as far as I can tell however, the lizard hatchling tribe as I call it are very basic yet militaristic and not to mention prideful. All lizard hatchlings seem to dislike their own gender or at least not get too friendly as both males and females have their own hierarchy of who is the strongest but it seems they don't mind working with any of the opposite gender. Not to mention births of lizard hatchlings are very low, apparently no matter the age of a hatchlings involved they can't reproduce together. Either they both become lizardmen or take other humanoid races as a breeding machine, I shuddered at the thought.

"Hatchling Rou" Zia shook my shoulder and pointed to the side. "Horned rabbit" She sprinted straight for the rabbit but the rabbit simply ran from her, both going about the same speed.

'My turn' I pounced at the rabbit from the front, the rabbit unable to turn in time ended up squashed under my claws. "Gotcha" I grinned 'phew thank goodness I have these claws but even if they work on these rabbits, I will probably need something better for stronger beings'.

"Food" Zia took a large chomp out of the rabbit.

"Hey" I glared at her as she took another chomp. "Don't eat it all by yourself" I dived at her hopefully to get at least a bit before she ate it all.

(Day 10)

'Back to hunting I go' I leaped down from a tree grabbing another rabbit. 'This is getting easier by the second' snapping the horn from the rabbit, I began to chew on it. 'A bit crunchy but…'

You learned the ability "Horned headbutt"

'I don't even have a horn on my head but it looks like I kept my ability "absorption", that's useful'. I grumbled 'I wish I still had my old abilities though but it looks like I have to start over'.

"Ling-Rou, split" I looked over to Zia, well Ling-Zia now. Once you complete your first hunt apparently, only those who have not hunted are called hatchling.

I nodded placing the dead rabbit in front of me and crouched down while she placed a rat about the same size as the rabbit on top. Ling-Zia picked up the rabbit taking a large bite while I did the same with the rat 'really stringy' I shuddered. Ripping the teeth out, I popped them into my mouth.

You learned the ability "Sharp bite"

You learned the ability "Evasiveness"

Ling-Zia laid her tail on mine and smiled as we both finished our meals, I smiled back wrapping my tail around hers once. Another thing that confused me at first was, for one moving my tail at the start but that eventually was easy enough, second was interacting with others using your tail. What we done was a friendship hold apparently, if we both entangled our tails together it mean loving affection between lovers or close family and snapping tails means hating someone unless sparing which is taunting.

'Ling-Zia acts like a little sister I think anyway, I don't know about lover because… that might be a bit weird since I don't know if I find lizards attractive, humanoid or not' I stood up. "More hunting" I stated knowing she wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. 'But she does follow me everywhere and does everything I asked so far so I guess she might have picked me as her little leader'.

(Day 11)

"No Way" a hatchling stood directly in front of me. "You're eating horned rabbits and large tooth rats" she placed her tail on mine, another way of communicating with your tail of asking for help. "Are you really that strong?"

"Um yeah, they are not that strong since they are quite small" I looked out the corner of my eye to see Ling-Zia glaring at the hatchling's tail. "What have you been eating?"

"Bugs and tree sap, the animals are too fast for me" she explained. "Most of us can't catch them".

"Are you fucking kidding" I blanked. 'Well hatchlings are proud so to ask for help at the beginning until you are able to catch them by yourself, I guess it's understandable'.

"Not kidding, so please teach me how to hunt" she bowed so far that her forehead rested against my chest. "Ling-Rou is so strong, brave and smart, the best out of all hatchlings it's cool".

"C-cool? Really?" I blinked.

"mmhmm so cool no one here as cool" she praised.

"What do you think of Ling-Zia?" I wondered.

The Hatchling bowed toward Ling-Zia "the strongest female here, distant but I respect her and want to be like her".

I hummed as I felt another tail on top of mine as Ling-Zia walked into my line of sight "hunting time". She snapped her head towards the hatchling "can come but follow Ling-Rou order". The hatchling nodded quickly "name?"

The hatchling looked between us "hatchling Rei". Rei jumped and hugged us together "thank you". Ling-Zia raised her head high in pride and hugged me only.

'Guess I should hug back' I wrapped my arms around them both in a gentle embrace before we started our hunt.

(Day 15)

As usual it was hunting time for the three of us, me, Ling-Zia and Ling-Rei. Only now all three of us were more trained and prepared, enduring our time in the wild over the few days I had began crafting some clothing and weapons. I made a spikey bat using a thick piece of wood and attaching horns from horned rabbits which was given to Ling-Zia, I gave a spear made from a long piece of wood and a sharpened rock on the end to Ling-Rei, while I made two daggers from sharpened rock for myself. Apart from that I made us basic shirts and shorts from the pelts we had gathered to replace the horrible rags we were given at birth.

However, that didn't make the hunt easier as we hunted bigger and more dangerous things. Currently the three of us took a great deal of effort in carving apart a large group of venomous viper snakes. Ling-Rei was at midrange right behind us using her spear to stab right through their heads, Ling-Zia was smashing each of their heads without effort while I sliced of their heads quickly with my daggers.

"Hiyaa" Ling-Rei crushed the last snake under her club. "Too easy" she crouched down to begin her feast.

'We better start eating before Ling-Zia eats it all' I crouched down and ate as Ling-Rei followed quickly after. I sighed as both of them coiled their tails around mine while glaring at each other as both of their tails touched each other. 'I can think of that after since they always do that, what I am curious about is my level of 84, I remember the max is 100 what else did that old lizard say again'. I hummed 'when a monster reaches level 100 they rank up to a stronger version of their creature, a normal rank up for me would be lizard hatchling to lizardman to dragonewt but it can vary…

Lizard hatchling can rank up to lizardman or dragonewt

Lizardman can rank up to lizard-lord, serpent or scaly carnivore

Dragonewt can rank up to dragon-lord, drake or scaly carnivore

Serpent can rank up to naga

Drake can rank up to dragonoid

Scaly carnivore can rank up to dragonoid or omnivorous raptor

I was nudged out of my thoughts as I felt the two next to me leaning against me just to spite the other from what I saw. 'Anyway I should carefully decide who I want to be from here on out… hm'.

"Venomous breath" ability has advanced into "malevolent venomous breath" ability

'Looks like I ate a lot of snake heads' I smiled at the progress. "Are you two full up?"

"Well food wise yes we are" Ling-Rei whispered.

"I could go for something else" Ling-Zia grabbed my thigh.

I gulped knowing what the two were after 'this is awkward, since I can't impregnate them I have no natural urge like they do and I'm not sure if I am used to lizards yet. I mean technically I could do it with them, I have seen a couple of females rape some of the males that ran away from their advances, can I escape them if I ran?' I shook my head. "We can't… not here, too dangerous" I stated like a robot. "You both can't share so it's impossible" I stood up walking in the general direction of the cave. 'I'm really not safe anymore' cold sweat ran down my back at the thought. Ling-Zia and Ling-Rei stared at each other as they stood simultaneously and followed me.

(Later that night)

Both Ling-Zia and Ling-Rei roared as they began. They were both in a ring inside the cave punching and clawing each other. It was no secret out of the females those two were the strongest as only they out of all the female hatchlings hunted the dangerous animals, same could be said of me as a male. But as always there was Ling-Zia as the winner as she spun around slamming her tail into Ling-Rei making the hatchling bend down in pain before receiving a kick to the face.

"I. Am. Strongest" Ling-Zia pounded her chest with her right fist. "Who wants to fight me" she roared out mainly towards all females. In response to her roar, all the other females with the exception of Ling-Rei who was recovering and the cave guardian lizardwoman, stepped back shaking their heads.

'Well that's to be expected, most hatchlings in the cave can only hunt horned rabbits and large tooth rats, not to mention both Zia and Rei did copy some of my martial arts I remembered from my previous life' I closed my eyes and chuckled quietly.

"Oi, Ling-Rou" a claw shook my shoulder. I turned to see the only lizardman in the cave, Siokiya the cave guardian "it's time for you're match, as strongest male it's time to see if you can beat the strongest female… or you could have some fun with me".

I scrunched my face up at the last part, not that Siokiya was ugly far from it, it is just that I am 90 percent certain she is my mother or even possibly my grandmother. 'Lizard ages confuses me' I nodded sliding away from the guardian and became face to face with Zia. "So it is going to be me against you, is it?" I rolled my shoulder.

Zia grinned responding by swiping at my face with her claws, expecting it I ducked under her arm and punched her gut. "Heh, you can't win by going easy on me" she kneed my crouching form, nearly breaking through my defence with the one hit.

'Holy crap, my arms are going to be bruised because of that' I sighed. 'Zia is as strong as a tank and has got the durability to back it up, my punch did nothing but one thing she lacks is speed'. Zia charged in with the hopes of tackling me to the ground, smirking I slid forward tripping her over. However, what I wasn't expected was her rolling to her knees as she landed 'okay then'. Before she stood up, I booted her jaw twisting her head to the side.

"That's better" Zia grabbed my ankle. "Fight serious" she licked some blood coming from her cheek. She spun around, taking me with her before she slammed me against the floor leave web cracks in the ground "show me more fun".

'Time to use some abilities if I want a chance of winning now… wait no, the only abilities that I could win with are lethal' I kicked her armpit with my free leg to make her let go of my ankle then flipped off the ground a couple of meters away. 'What is her weakness?' my eyes widened 'it's so obvious'. Once again Zia charged in, quickly I side stepped out the range of her tackle but that was a feint as I jumped at Zia. Her mouth opened agape as she had lowered her guard allowing my knee to make contact with her chin, slamming her mouth shut and with her forward momentum, sent her flying to the ground. 'Her strength is her weakness, not to mention she is too predictable' I stood a meter away just in case she attacked again but it seemed unnecessary as she was unable to stand. "That was a close one Ling-Zia, good job" I offered my hand.

"I will win next time" she took my hand, lifting herself up.

"Go ahead and try, I won't go easy on you" I boasted looking around giving a challenging gaze among everyone. 'Hopefully that will stop them from trying to challenge me, every night'

(Day 16)

'All I ever do these days is hunting, not that I can complain with the abilities I'm getting' I crunched on several 7-coloured bats and shellback lizards.

You learned the ability "echolocation"

You learned the ability "pump up"

You learned the ability "vampirephila"

"Echolocation" ability has unlocked "echoed screech"

You learned the ability "hardened defence"

"Hardened defence" ability has advanced into "impenetrable"

'I guess today is a little different though, I'm hunting alone after we all wanted to see how well we do by ourselves' I sighed. 'It does get slightly lonely out here but this way I can use my more dangerous abilities' a grin appeared on my face as I smelt a strong monster with my snake tongue. 'More abilities for me' I snuck over to the location of the monster and nearly gagged. The smell had become nearly unbearable, it was a zombie that was horribly rotten with bones clearly visible. 'Ugh, that's not something I really want to be eating although, those clothes would look combined with my self created armour… after they have been washed first though'.

I stalked up behind the zombie with a wooden club in hand 'just like the movies I used to watch then'. Raising the bat up high, I slammed it right in the back of the zombie's skull '…wait, what'. I jumped back as the zombie turned to me unfazed 'hard nut to crack but this guy is way too slow'. I crouched down and swung the club, catching the zombie's feet making him fall down. 'Oh no you don't big guy, I'm going to kill you again no matter how long it takes' I slammed my foot down on the zombie's back to prevent him moving and repeatedly swung my club down over his head. 'Come on… jeez, YES finally 23 hits but this guy is finally down for the count'. I gritted my teeth as the clothes I had wanted had been torn apart in the struggle 'all that for nothing and my club is nearly broken too'.

I sighed in frustration, looking at the corpse 'I wonder what it tastes like? After all I can't gain diseases by eating due to my absorption ability but it will probably taste horrible'. I kept staring at the zombie '…ugh what the hell'. I ripped off its arm and bit down on it 'hmm…' I continued to chew on the piece of arm. 'tastes like overcooked slimy chicken, not the worst it could have been' I continued to disassemble and eat all of the zombie, even the bones.

You learned the ability "numbness"

You learned the ability "contamination"

Sniffing the air, I could smell a total of three zombies 'well I'm not a fan of the taste but they are strong, my level increased from 87 to 90'. I strolled in the direction of the closest one 'it's not like I'm doing any harm after all'

It didn't take long to reach the zombies nor was it difficult to kill them again, like the first I knocked them on their front, stood on their back and hammer down on their skulls. However, it was the last zombie that had given me trouble as unlike the other two, this one had been eating so was much stronger having actual muscles. Soon enough though, that one fell too and died as the other before it but it did come with some scrapes and blood loss, luckily combining contamination and vampirephila together allowed me to take blood from the zombie. 'That was just the power boost I needed, not to mention all the abilities I have racked up now'.

"Die monster" a voice yelled from behind, I ducked as a club passed over my head.

Quickly spinning around, I took out my dagger and swung blindly behind me 'what the-'. I blinked in confusion as the one that tried to kill me was another hatchling, well it didn't turn out well for him as my dagger slit his throat. 'That was a close one, that guy was a brute and could really damaged me there but what are these guys doing, trying to wipe out the competition'. I looked around 'three others, two females, one male'. The three didn't put up much of a fight as I exhaled my malevolent venomous breath killing the two that breathed it in within a minute of gurgling. The last female circled around me and stuck me with her club. 'Impenetrable' I knocked her club aside and pierced my dagger through her chin and up into her dome.

I gazed upon my surroundings to see if there was anyone else there 'no one'. I looked down at the hatchling corpses and secretly ate all of my own kind's dead bodies. The meat of my kind was neither good or bad, just tasteless.

Later that day, I walked back to the cave emotionlessly as to not reveal what I had done. 'I don't feel like doing much else today, I just want to sleep this day away' I allowed myself to fall backwards, hoping sleep would take me away quickly.

Your level has reached the designated

You have completed the special requirement "something" "special action"

You can "rank up" to "Lizardman-Variant"

Would you like to "rank up"? Yes/No

'What the hell, go away just let me sleep' I groaned.

Would you like to "rank up"? Yes/No

…

Ling-Rou has obtained "Nature and Soul" -ruling "Divine Protection of the Great God"

Chapter end