Chosen

Chapter 3: Sincere Prayer

As my consciousness slowly return to me, I feel a tight and cramped space that's pressing over my body, the space that I'm in seems to fit just right for myself but somehow an immense urge inside me is telling me to break myself free. As I open my eyes i can see walls with veins and liquid that surrounds my skin. 
The weird thing about this is the walls themselves seem to glow bright, so without thinking i start to push my body against this glowing veined restraint. Stronger, and stronger as i continue to try to break through, and finally while mustering all of my strength one of the walls give way. 

Stretching my body I try to see what in the world happened and where I am, I mustered all my remaining strength so I could get my body out and finally did so. I looked around with questions on my mind and my gaze met the walls that I had broken through, it was an egg shell. Yet unkown to me the shell is glowing white but started to fade until all the light from it dissipates, i looked around to see what else. I noticed then the sky, beautiful and dark with stars shining upon. As i gaze i finaly see why the world isnt dark while its evening, I found my self staring at the moon. The moon in this world is quite large, larger than the sun itself. It somehow emits somekind of energy still unkown to mankind, as to prove it, the sun's rays feels warm as the light envelopes your skin, but the moon in this world seems to give off that same feeling yet its slightly cold with a nice tingling sensation as the moonlight embraces your skin. Somehow its the 1st time i ever felt this light to be so strong. 
It also seems to make me stronger as if I'm gaining power. As i looked down i finaly noticed, my hands.. don't have skin anymore but black metallic scales that shine on the edges with the same color as the moon, on the tips on my fingers are opal nails sharp yet fragile.

"Scaly Armor?" 

Moving my body to look around i see my chest with scales as well, but in between a beautiful black stone that glows with a beautiful moonlight luster for a few seconds and back to its mysterious black color. Glowing bright , then goes back to a shadow state as if to hide what light it has captured. 

"Ooh I wonder how much this would sell?" 

I tried to pull it out but cant and it seems I can feel it.l

"Ah, guess I can't sell my organs then."

With this serene yet confusing feeling I start to notice, a body part that I did not have before.. a long slender tail with 2 bladed edge on each side.

"If I cut this tail, will it grow back?"

Questions entered my mind and it gave way to worry and doubt but as my teachings taught me in my previous life -"If one is confused, stop and look around. Close thy eyes, answers will be found if worry shalt be disowned from the mind and heart."

"I usually use that teaching to not worry about anything and sleep in class, but I guess it comes in handy now."

And so I did, closing my eyes I try to remember the last events. I remember my death, and the seductive goddess. She gave me new life not as a human but a divine being yet a humble creature, but what? I searched upon my memory, as a follower of the goddess of life we managed to learn the elements as well as the plants and beasts of this world. I had an interest to some species that are quite hard to find. One of those that I remember is a mysterious reptile almost extinct..

The Blackstone Lizard (almost has the same look, this is just for visual reference - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Cordylus_niger_-_Black_Girdled_Lizard_with_millipede_on_its_nose.JPG ) , eyes that glows white but turns to black if light is supressed and covered by an all black metallic like scales that emits a small amount of moonlight luminance on their edges and a black stone on the center of the chest that gathers the collected moonlight essence for energy via moon-basking. 
It's an omnivore yet it hunts its prey as well as defend itself from predators using its bladed tail as a weapon. Almost extinct due to the high market price of the black gem they garner as their core. Not much is known since the lizards were few from the start and before further study could have been done they have been hunted down to near extinction.