1 From two to a new one. (1/2)

Darkness.

All over him was shrouded in darkness as he regains consciousness. His body was no more, his memories were no more, his life was no more, but here he stood in complete darkness, in none other forms that a small cloud of cerulean blue mist.

Without any memories to link to this particular state, he could only stand, unmoving, looking around with the curiosity of an unafraid child, while trying to comprehend what to do from now on.

With gone memories and body, any fear that should have been deeply rooted in is subconscious had vanished, leaving him truly breaking of the shackles of his previous humanity.

One could ask then, now that it was nothing more than a blue cloud of gas, why does he think itself as a male then? The response is quite simple, it was due to the simple fact that his new instinct, born of his actual state, dictate him that he was actually who he was. A somewhat shapeless mass of indefinite matter that would have either been male or female and hazard had made him male.

So now here he was in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do more than look at the infinite darkness surrounding him. Being a new leaf of its former self without is awareness, concepts like time, space, anger, sleepness could affect him.

After who knows how long, something finally starts to change in the darkness. Moved by nothing more than the new change the space around him was subject to, he slowly drifts toward what appears to be nothing more than three dots floating like him.

The dots were like nothing he had been subjected before, not that it was something difficult when you are a memories less cloud of mist in infinite darkness without matter around you.

But the sudden apparition was just that. After they came to existence, nothing more happened, returning the space where they were to its previous state with just three new residents.

When is excitation toward them starts to fade, he just returns to his previous state, gazing in the darkness while drifting aimlessly around his new point of anchor.

Its was only after taking them as is anchoring space that this very concept resurfaces, bringing forth with its multitude of other concepts and sensation. Slowly, the knowledge he had once in his past life resurfaces, bringing along new sensations and feeling to it. While they resurface, they couldn't erase the time he had to spend here.

Merging his new and old personalities was nothing easy, knowing that you float in the space with nothing to sustain his existence here and needing nothing ever so.

After all, who could boast to have a similar experience and feel nothing but acceptance in one part and dread that something could happen anytime in the other? Those kind existential issues couldn't be anything than armful to his mental fortitude, thus his subconscious takes a choice for him. He has live eons is that darkness before taking conscious of what it implies and had been fine, now that he knows it and understand it why should it be different?

It was those situations that refine is two personalities in a new one, taking the good of each one and leaving its previous weakness aside, forging a greater fortitude able to bore those extreme situations.

While he was subject to those, his mind wasn't the only thing that evolves, or it could be said that one was linked to the other. That right is physical representation also evolves alongside his forming mind.

Before any change, if is shape could be compared to an ethereal cerulean cloud-shaped mist, now is form could truly be counted as one. As wisps of mist appear and thicken, they immediately merge with the previous shape, adding more and more a 'consistent feeling on it. The ethereal cloud slowly turns into a real tangible one. One that was unable to be seen through, as every memories, concepts, and emotion where adding physical weight to it.

When his two personalities finish merging, it leaves a thick deep dark blue cloud three times larger than before and much more solid. The only way he knows that he was that large was simply due to the existence of the three dots who were previously like a bowling ball to him and now appear like tennis ones.

Another fact concerning those balls of matters was that he was now able to identify them or at least have a good idea of where they were. The only reason that he could only suspect and not be sure was that he never seen one in is previous life, only synthesis images of them in documentaries.

Coming closer to them until nearly touch them, and carefully observe them, his first impression where confirmed. those weren't dots of matter but eggs, none fertilized human egg's.

It's only then that he was able to somewhat gain an idea of measure. What was left of him was surely something akin to a soul or similar and compared to its previous size, ether the soul is extremely tiny or it was just him.

Completely lost in his through he wasn't able to see that three tendrils coming to his own cloud slowly extend and enter the eggs. It was the semi-transparent white window popping out of nowhere that brought him back and let him know what happens.

'What..?'

Before he could even think of the meaning of those two simple lines, thousands upon thousands of possible genetic genome starts to appear in the elongated white window, before a cursor appear on the right size and reduce significantly in the space of mere seconds.

While he was stunned by what appears in front of him, his gaze caught the appearing icon on the top of the list. Those icons where divides in threes simple one:

-animal

-vegetal

-mineral

The one open was the animal one and the second line of icons divided in a further two: