Prologue: Earth to Terra

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Life was boring. I ate, slept, geeked out about weapons and vehicles of war, and played games with said weapons and vehicles when I had time. My mom just bossed me around till I got fed up with it and I did what I wanted and stopped then rinse that shit and repeat. Even if it sucked I accepted it and lived perfectly. College was quickly approaching meaning I was going to the time of my life. Well till one day, on my 18th birthday. I partied with friends and took my mom and brothers for a long walk, well extremely anxiety-filled run to be exact. That night I fell asleep thinking of the next day tomorrow.

August 6, 2029

Wisconsin, USA

2 AM

I slowly opened my eyes as I felt the need to use the bathroom. Jumping from my bed, I looked out the window beside me to see the black night sky. Suddenly, a blue wave of energy rippled through the sky as a crack appeared in the sky. "What the hell," I mutter before I see a giant blue orb suck in everything around me. "This is some straight sci-fi bullshit," I comment before I feel myself and the roof of my house become the orb's newest meal. "Wait wait wa-." I can only let out a scream as everything goes black like I was beaten unconscious.

August 6, 1094, Chernobog, Ursus
7am

I stared into a mirror for what seemed like an eternity. It was clear I wasn't in my own body anymore but now I possessed the body of a teenage boy younger than my original self. I stared at the halo and wings attached to my new body and jumped at the physical feeling of new unworldly features. I admired myself in the mirror.

"At least I'm hot I guess."

Besides my appearance, confusion wasn't the only thing affecting me

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Besides my appearance, confusion wasn't the only thing affecting me. My family and my home are gone, at least based on my memory, and I am now stuck in this world with angels and god knows what else. Thankfully, the room I occupied gave me a few clues to the current situation. My name in this world was Parabellum Bellator, a 14-year-old only child of a semi-military family consisting of some sort of dark angel as a father and a bear-human hybrid mom baker mother. The world seemed to be based on Earth but without the humans. I moved to the window to see a schoolgirl running down the street with a cell phone in her hand. I sighed and sat on my bed before looking at my uniform on the bed. After a quick examination, I was impressed by the previous Parabellum's style, unlike his name. The black and orange sneakers resembled Jordon 6s and were complemented by a white dress shirt, orange tie, and black utility pants. I put the clothes on taking off my original hoodie and replacing it with a white hoodie with a white Ursus armband with black text and a black Laterano armband with white text. After putting on the uniform and looking at my jacket, I heard a voice from downstairs.

"Honey! Come downstairs, it's time for food!"

"Yes Mom" the words naturally came out my mouth but it felt almost uncomfortable to say. I had taken over some kid's body and now was impersonating him.

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