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Ranboo was walking down the streets of his suburban neighborhood when it happened. He had his headphones on with his music much higher than it should've been, even after his mother's countless warnings not to so he would be more 'aware of his surroundings'
He never heard it coming.
One second he was walking along the sidewalk. The next?
He can't remember.
It was like blinking, but he didn't blink (at least he didn't think so), one second he was looking at the bars of the crosswalk as he crossed. The next he is in an endless void of darkness. Ranboo looked down not really expecting to see anything, because it was dark, but was surprised to see that he was mostly transparent. Like a ghost...
Ranboo stayed in this strange place for who knows how long staring at absolutely nothing. He managed to entertain himself by singing his favorite road trip songs, but singing the beer bottle song gets boring after a while, so he switched to the song that never ends and after singing the same verse 1,284 Times in a row (yes he counted) Ranboo thought he would go mad but, when he reached the 1,285th verse. Something changed. There was an odd violet light(?) Coming from in front of him. Without really thinking about it Ranboo moved towards the strange light. (Don't ask how, the author doesn't even know)
Upon getting closer Ranboo could now see that the glowing thing was some sort of gem, like a glowing amethyst. Ranboo grabbed it to examine it further but as soon as he touched it the strange stone glowed brighter than ever before and ripped itself out of Ranboo's hand floated for a second and then shot itself at his chest, and for the second time Ranboo he blacked out.
Ranboo woke up somewhere completely different.
He opened his eyes to see a canopy of trees. Ranboo tried to sit up but became perplexed when he couldn't. His entire body felt strange, like some things weren't where they should be. Ranboo looked down at himself and embarrassingly let out a shriek. His entire body was completely black not a speck of any color anywhere, and oh, oh his legs didn't bend that way before, and he definitely never had paws for feet and claws for hands. Now slightly panicking Ranboo went over scenarios in his head as to what the hell happened to him. None of them sounded good. He shoved those thoughts away for now instead trying to focus on how the hell he was supposed to move.
His limbs now much longer than they used to be, not to mention his legs. Let's just say getting up was a struggle. Eventually Ranboo managed to stand on four legs. He couldn't keep his balance well enough to stand on just two. Ranboo looked around now that he wasn't using all of his attention to avoid falling over he could properly passes his situation. The sun is high in the sky. He's in a forest that appears to be made up of oak, birch, and maple trees from the what he can tell. Lots of undergrowth.
Ranboo elected to explore since sitting there would not help his situation in the slightest. As he walks his mind drifts to a survival class his mom had made him take, food, water, shelter. Simple enough just have to find some running water, some wild berries of some kind, and he doesn't think he'll be able to do much building due to his currant predicament so a cave it is then.
After walking for what Ranboo could guess was like an hour he heard the sound of rushing water. He began to walk towards the river that had come into view using a trail that he guessed many kinds of wildlife frequented with how well worn it was. Soon he came across a problem though, there was a large hedge filled with thick brambles that small animal could definitely fit through but not Ranboo and there didn't really seem to be a way to properly get around it.
Looking at the river bank Ranboo tried to think of a way to make it through the thick brambles. He is was looking at the river bank and dreading having to clear a path through the brambles to get there when his world went dark for a split second and he felt a strange tugging sensation in what he assumed was his gut, a soft "vwoop" was heard then he was right next to the river bank.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Ranboo bewildered looked behind himself to see the bramble patch he was just on the other side of mere seconds ago. 'Well that's more than a little bit strange' he thought to himself. Teleport? Did I just teleport? He tried to think of a different reason as to how it had happened but this was the only answer he could think of that made sense.
but teleportation is impossible. Unless.... no that's stupid thats, There's no way that happened. But what if? I.. what if.. I. Died..? what if this is some sort of afterlife or something? Could it? Maybe. Or maybe it's something else, wh- Ranboo's attention was almost immediately redirected as out of the corner of his eye he caught his reflection in the water. Well.. that's interesting.
In his reflection he saw himself, for the first time. Still completely black in skin(?) Tone, his heterochromia was gone replaced with sharp violet eyes with slitted pupils. His split dyed hair was gone replaced with twin black horns that slanted backwards. The next thing he saw he would've slapped himself in the face for not noticing earlier, if he wasn't worried about accidentally blinding himself. He had a tail, it was long and rope like on the end it was a spade shape like the depictions of a devil's tail. His mouth stretched from one of his long pointed ears to the other, and when he opened his mouth the action revealed a row of long almost needle sharp teeth that got shorter towards the back of his mouth. Then finally we move on to his most perplexing feature the strange Purple amethyst from before was embedded right in the middle of his chest.
Ranboo sat by the the river so long staring at his reflection he almost lost his balance and fell in, he was able to catch himself and only his right hand/paw/claw touched the water. Which was a very good thing because as soon as he touched the water his hand fizzled and burned from the contact with the water. Huh strange.
Ranboo then decided he didn't want to be near water anymore he wasn't thirsty anyway. The next thing he wanted to do was figure out how the hell he teleported. So he did the same thing he did before, he looked where he wanted to go and focused, for a second nothing happened. then Ranboo felt the pulling sensation again his vision went dark and with a "vwoop" he appeared exactly where he had been looking.
Ranboo let out an excited "vurr" of excitement not caring how animalistic it sounded. He set of to explore getting even better at doing it, so now it was instantaneous. Within an estimated time of three hours Ranboo found a cave. An hour later, after he explored the cave, Ranboo decided to see if he could teleport to a place he couldn't see. A ways away from the cave Ranboo tried it. He envisioned the cave the gray jagged edges of the walls the pile of rocks he made in the corner (they looked cool ok?) The now familiar tugging feeling came, darkness, "vwoop" and he was back in his cave.
Since he still had a couple more hours till dark, he wasn't tired yet, and he had literally nothing else to do, Ranboo began exploring again. It was probably three or four hours before it got dark when Ranboo found the village.