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Error couldn't feel anything. There was no pain, no other sensations, no noise, and only darkness. He could just vaguely remember a battle and getting hit in the soul before attempting to retreat back to the antivoid. However, the portal had only led to darkness instead of the blinding white of the antivoid. Then, he just felt falling and extreme pain before nothing at all.
Error didn't mind the darkness. It was better than before when there had been near constant pain. Time didn't seem to matter there and he couldn't move so he spent most of his time 'sleeping.' Then, it happened.
Error's eyes blinked open and he winced, seeing light for the first time in he didn't know how long. He blinked for several minutes before realizing he was looking at the sky of Outertale above him.
'How did I get here? Was that place just a dream?' Error wondered. He looked down at his hand and froze at seeing a white hand instead of his normal multicolored one. Looking at himself, he saw he was smaller with white bones and... naked?! He panicking looked around seeing no one around but what seemed to be left over magic from a battle. He quickly attempted to pull up his stats.
*Unnamed*
Species: Skeleton Monster
Age: 15 minutes old
HP: 3/3
DF: 0
AT: 0
LV: 0
*A child born from the residual magic of Reaper and Dream
*Reincarnation of Error [Hidden]
'Excuse me?!' He thought, 'How come the emo chicken and lemon are apparently my parents?!'
He looked around to see if anyone was around again, only to see no one.
'I need to move,' he thought and tried to stand only to tumble over. The advantage of being born from residual magic was he wasn't as reliant on parents for magic and was more developed than a naturally born child, but he would likely grow slower. He was also unable to talk or walk currently, so he found himself crawling toward a more sheltered spot.
After a couple hours, Error was curled up under a small overhang. He could feel hunger gnawing at him since he hadn't eaten anything.
'Did I seriously just get reborn to die from starvation?' He thought glumly. Then, he noticed movement nearby. Crawling over nervously to investigate, he found 4 intact chicken sized eggs with colorful shells and 4 more shattered shells. He looked sadly at the broken shells.
'What did this? Is this some sort of ground birds nest?' He wondered. Then, one of the eggs shook.
The intact eggs were red with brighter red spots, yellow with darker yellow spots, green with pink spots, and dark blue with purple spots. The red egg being the one shaking. From what Error could see, the broken eggs were pink, red, orange, and blue. Error watched fascinated as the red egg kept shaking.
He was so engrossed in watching he didn't hear the rustling as another creature approached until it began entering the clearing. Finally paying attention to the rustling, he looked up and froze. In front of him was a large, furry red and yellow worm creature with a long tongue.
Error froze as he stared. The creature leaned down and opened its mouth some, revealing sharp teeth.
Error froze as the creature approached, wrapping around him and the nest. It leaned its head toward the nest where the red egg continued shaking before a creature began making its way out. The creature was a pure red version of the giant creature.
The much larger creature carefully licked the smaller after it had fully excited the egg.
'So, is that these eggs mother? That's a pretty big size difference,' he thought as he watched nervously. As he watched, he saw the other four eggs begin cracking. The yellow egg hatched and a worm with alternating lighter and darker yellow stripes crawled out. A green and pink striped one crawled out from the green with pink speckles egg. Finally, a dark blue worm with patches of purple fur crawled out of the last egg.
After all the eggs had hatched and the babies were cleaned, the mother moved over to Error. He tensed as the large creature inspected him. He was smaller than the mother worm's face and it could probably eat him. The creature didn't eat him, but instead began licking him like it had the babies before carefully picking him up and placing him with the babies.
The creature fully opened their mouth and spat out several fruits. The fruits were soft and saliva covered. The babies quickly began eating while Error watched. The mother noticed he wasn't eating and picked up a fruit with their tongue, which seemed to be prehensile, and handed it to him.
'They... want me to eat it?' he thought. Not wanting to displease the mother worm, he steeled himself before taking a bite out of the fruit. To his surprise, it was quite sweet and not as disgusting as he thought. Quickly, he devoured the fruit. Seeing this, the mother worm nudged him to get another and he obliged.
After eating, Error found himself laying against the mother worm with the baby worms all laying on top of him.
'Did I just get adopted?' He wondered as he drifted off to sleep.