Reborn a new

I slowly started to come to and open my eyes, but when I did, all I saw around me was pure darkness. As I tried to move, I could feel that my entire body felt as though it was being restrained by something all around me.

As I moved around and tried to get free, cracks of light formed all around me as what looked like walls broke away, blinding me with light.

I tried to look around after it was gone, but my eyes were still adjusting to the room's brightness. Finally, as my eyes came into focus, I looked down at what was left of what I was trapped inside and to my shock, I was sitting inside half of an eggshell.

As I kept looking, I noticed my arms and legs were much shorter and stubby, and the rest of my body seemed to be the same, 'What the hell happened to my body?! Even my skin is a milky white now!'

While I was completely confused about what was going on, a giant woman walked over to me, picked me up, and cradled me in her arms. I looked up at her face and saw she had yellow eyes, a slit pupil, long flowing brown hair, the same milk-white skin I now had, and a beautiful face that looked overjoyed to see me.

I tried to talk, but I couldn't form words; all that came out was nonsense, 'Who are you?' "Ah waa." I realised I couldn't speak. My mind started going while from everything that was happening to me.

All I could do at the moment was try and figure out what was going on. 'Okay, I need to keep calm. The last thing I remember before this was falling down a hole and blacking out.'

Following that line of thought, I looked up at the woman holding me as she smiled brightly at me, 'Wait, did I die after I lost consciousness? If I did, then that would explain why I woke up to find myself so small I fit in the arms of a beautiful woman. I was reincarnated then. I read a couple of books about it, but I never thought it was actually real.'

The woman holding me then walked over to a chair in the corner of the room. She sat down with me and wrapped me in a blanket that was next to her.

As she wrapped me in the blanket, I looked around at where I was. The room looked like a warm bedroom with some pieces of furniture dotted around and a pedestal where the egg I was inside was placed.

As the woman held and cradled me, a child came wandering into the room. The child had the same brown hair and yellow eyes as the woman. When he saw the woman holding me, his face lit up, and he ran over to us, "Mommy, did the new baby finally hatch?!" She smiled at him, "Yep, this is your new baby sister!"

As she said that, the child couldn't have looked any happier, but I was more focused on what she said, 'Hold on, did she say, SISTER?! I was reincarnated as a girl!?'

The child kept smiling at the woman and me, "What's my new baby sister's name!?"

The woman smiled and laughed slightly at how fixated the child was with me, "We haven't given her a name yet. She only just hatched a few minutes ago. What do you think we should name her?"

The child stopped and went into deep thought, "Hmm, well, she has Mommy's brown hair and Daddy's magenta eyes... how about Sasha?"

The woman smiled, "That's a perfect name for her. We'll name her Sasha then." While they were having a great time talking about my new name, I was still trying to come to terms with everything, 'Why did I have to be reborn as a girl...?!'

The woman slowly got to her feet, "Shall we introduce her to your dad and big brother then, Tom?" He vigorously nodded his head in agreement and then went running out the room. The woman laughed slightly and then looked down at me, "Let's go and meet your Dad and big brother then."

She walked out of the room. It led out to what looked like a network of cave tunnels. All along the walls was an unusual type of lantern I'd never seen before.

They looked like they'd put a glowing ball in a lantern, and the ground was levelled and decorated with what looked like seamless wood panels.

The only part of this that still resembled a cave was the walls and roof, but despite that, the environment was warm. Usually, inside a cave, it feels cold and damp, but this place was warm.

After a while, the corridor opened up into a large cavern. The cavern was a large open space with natural stone pillars coming down supporting it. Inside the room, sitting around a large hand-carved table, was the child I saw earlier, waiting eagerly around the table for the woman and me. Also sitting around the table was another child and a grown man.

The man, from what I could tell, looked like he was tall. He had black hair, magenta eyes, and very delicate facial features.

The other child looked like he was about seven years older than the other one. He looked like what you would imagine the man with black hair would look like when he was a child. The only real difference between the two of them their age, and the child had the same yellow eyes as the woman holding me.

As the woman walked closer to the table, her excitement grew until she called out to the man, "Walter!" The man looked over at her, "What is it, Crimson?"

"It finally hatched!" Walter's eyes grew wide and lit up as he looked down at her arms to see her holding a bundled-up blanket. He rushed over to us in moments. He looked down at me while brushing the blanket away from my face.

I looked at him, staring each other in the eyes, and I thought, 'So, these are my parents then? My Mother looks like she fell straight from heaven, and my Father looks strong despite his soft face.'

Crimson handed me over to him as they smiled at each other, "We decided to call her Sasha. Tom came up with it. Isn't it just perfect?"

"So we have a daughter this time?"

"That's right. She even has your eyes."

"You're right, but she looks just like you." As they had a sweet and loving moment with each other, the older child came up to us and started trying to get a better look at me.

As he did, Walter lowered me down so he could see, and our eyes met. "So this is my new sister, then? She's so small, and she looks weak."

I couldn't help but feel annoyed at his comment, 'Let's see how strong you look after just being born.' As I breathed an irritated huff at his comment, a small flame came out of my mouth instead of just air. The site of it startled me, 'Did I just breathe fire?' As I looked around at the three of them surrounding me, they all had a look of shock on their face.

After his initial shock, Walter smiled, "I guess our daughter is going to be a very powerful dragon. Newborns don't normally get their first breath until they're a week old." I looked at him in pure surprise, 'I'm a dragon?!'

As they were talking, I started to feel tired. Just being reborn and breaking out of an egg had taken its toll on me, and I fell asleep in Walter's arms.

Walter looked at me to see me fast asleep. Seeing me sleeping in his arms made him happy, "Enjoy your rest."