Reincarnated as a Demi-Human

Chapter 4: The Name Game

Camille flooded the table with snacks for her new best friend to try. She made sure to include healthier choices such as dragonfruit, bananas, peaches, lychee, and a custard apple on the right side. On the left end were potato chips, meat buns, rice crackers, and chocolate.

The moment the spread lay before her, the girl started chomping into a dragonfruit, purple juice dripping from her lips with each bite. After polishing off the dragonfruit, she moved on to the custard apple.

Camille and her friends watched from a safe distance-mostly Yin and Jin- while the girls sat close by, listening through bites. The girl recollected her thoughts on how she came to find herself in their hideout.

"Okay, let me get this straight: You're telling us YOU are THEE Yellow Dragon. As in THEE Yellow Dragon that lies within the center of the Cosmos, leader of the Sixiang, and Guardian of THEE Jade Emperor?" Camille said, processing the information so her brain didn't explode.

"That's right.", she mumbled while chewing on a lychee.

"And the last thing you remembered was the sky coming undone. Your body was covered in cracks, and you awaited your doom until you awoke and found yourself here."

"That's right, I was expecting to find myself on the other side with my friends. When I opened my eyes, I found myself here in this...new form and nearly died of food poisoning by your pals.", she said, giving the brothers an annoyed glance.

The brothers stick out their tongues before resuming their lunch.

"Least you didn't die, but it was just a bad brand of dumplings. Don't know why they like em', but the worst that would've happened was you spilling your guts to the floor.", Camille said letting out a sheepish chuckle.

"So if I didn't die, my guts would pour right out of me from that dumpling?"

"Not literally, but it would have been super gross."

"Let's steer the conversation back on track." Scorpion Queen interrupted as she turned to the girl with a sincere smile, "Now, I don't know if what you're telling us is true or not. It's not that we believe you-it's just that...It's rather unusual for an immortal beast to pop out of nowhere as a human."

"Demi-Human", she clarified, "I believe that's the right term for my form since I'm neither human nor a demon."

"Right. Demi-human. Anyway, an immortal beast like yourself appearing out of the blue doesn't happen every day."

"Yeah! And we've all seen a LOT of unusual happenings going on in the world: Demon Bull King nearly taking over the city, Spider Queen turning people into zombies, crystals popping out everywhere! Then there were the cracks in the sky before it got patched up, and suddenly folks got magical powers!"

The girl nearly choked on the water when Camille mentioned folks getting magical powers.

"Cough! Cough! F--folks getting powers?!"

"Yeah, when the sky looked like it was going to come undone- suddenly, these colorful lights shot out of nowhere and hit a bunch of folks, including some of us! Then those lights shot back up into the sky; the cracks began to fade, and boom! The sky was normal again, and since then, folk got all magically even a cute doggie with a spinny tail."

The girl stared dumbfounded at Camille. She couldn't believe her ears! Colorful lights shot out, granting folks powers, and shot back up to fix the cracks!? That's not possible! The only way the sky-nay, a pillar of heaven, was to be repaired was the five stones coming together and a noble hero such as Nuwa giving their life to fix it! Never has she heard of the lights repairing the sky after granting powers to mortals!