Kaiju Paradise: Changing Perspective (Yes, I am indeed rewriting it.)

CH 10

'Why is everything so... black?'

I glanced around the dark void I was in. I stayed like this for a while before hearing a voice in the distance. "-aaaaatt, Maaaaaaatt," snapping and clapping followed. I felt as if my body was being shaken a few times but didn't want to wake up. "I know you're waking up..." The voice went quiet for a moment before I heard them snap their fingers, "Oh I know what to do!" I suddenly felt my body get lifted and moved somewhere before I was set down and a bunch of freezing liquid got dumped on me, instantly bringing me back to the waking world.

Groaning a bit, I looked around the bright room in a perplexed state before seeing the culprit, and a familiar pair of sunglasses. "Hey there, Bud!" They exclaimed excitedly, pushing a bucket out of view with their feet. "Great to see you back, especially after the whole bat-to-the-face situation."

"Is that what that was? My head freakin hurts." I rubbed my head a bit to try and calm my headache. I felt as if something extra was on my head but disregarded it.

"Yep, that would be the bat part of it!" He smiled a bit before bringing a gloved finger to his chin and resting his finger against it. He looked up as if he was in deep thought, "Ya know, you reeeeally gotta work on not getting hurt when the facility has lighting issues."

I sighed before starting to slowly get up off the floor, I appeared to be in a bathroom. He offered me a hand, which I gladly took. "I know, I know," I said, stumbling a bit when fully up.

"Welp, time for your brain check!"

"My... what?"

"Well, I'ma be honest, after a bat hit like that, there is a very good chance that you may have a very minor case of serious brain damage. Just do what I tell you and follow my finger," he explained before pointing up. Which I respond by looking at the ceiling. We did this for a bit, looking in various directions and also following his finger when he told me to. We even did some movement and balance exercises, but I struggled with those. "Well, I got good news and bad news. The good news is your brain is in prime, although slightly concussed, condition."

I sat down on some nearby crates. "I don't know how you got that from those exercises. But that's great, what could the bad news be then?"

"Oh yeah, the bad news. Well, I don't actually know how to check if you have brain damage. I just wanted to see if I could and, well, I can't. The more you know!" Hearing this I facepalmed. "Oh, and a minor side note, you seem to have changed eye colors and grown a pair of ears. Normal stuff, honestly," he added with a smile.

"Ah, ok. Wait a second... Did you just say ears?!" I jumped up and rushed over to the big mirror above the sink and looked. My eyes were now a pinkish-purple with a light blue around them, representing the eyes of a Carneline. And yep, I had a light purple set of Carneline ears on my head, they were poking out of my hair. I hoped they were a prank, but I began freaking out when I touched them and they moved!

"Yep, pretty neat."

"What!? No, not neat! Not neat at all, I-I am supposed to have human ears, not animal ones." I cried out.

"True, true. But falling on a mysterious crystal does that to someone. Heck, I am surprised you haven't fully turned yet, it's honestly fascinating."

I looked at him questingly. "What do you mean by that? How long do they normally last?"

"About 6.5 seconds,"

"Did you just stand in front of someone while they turned and record it on a stopwatch?" he paused, looking up thoughtfully for a second.

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(Flashback)

"Oh man, you are so close! Just one little misstep is all it takes," Dr. F eagerly mumbled, watching from a distance while a scientist chased a pup around a crystal.