When Kristen was born no one wanted her because she was a woman and women weren't allowed to lead the mafia, but that didn't mean they could kill her, and so, like any normal person would, they decided to stuff her with a single maid in a forgotten house and ignore her for the rest of their lives.
I woke up today thinking it would be the same as any other day.
Eat breakfast, read a book, eat lunch, read some more, eat dinner and go to sleep.
That was how every single day of my life had went for the last 17 years when I was born.
Who could've predicted that the second I left the bed my door would be kicked down by some random goon that immediately aimed his gun and shot a hole through my chest. Looking down I could see the blood gushing out and felt a growing sense of dread in my chest, 'I'm gonna die',I tried to think, but then everything went black.
I thought bitterly,
'wow, after all that, this is how quick it ends?'
After what seemed like an eternity a divine light flooded through the darkness and with it a warm old voice, "oh my, what a poor child". Unable to see through the light all I could do was listen. "Don't worry I'll make sure that you get reborn into a higher realm where you'll have a prince charming and happy ending", hearing these words Kristen felt immense gratitude to this person...god?...saviour?
Either way she would hug them if she was able to feel her body because currently the only thing she could sense was the intense light around her. A falling sensation appeared out of nowhere and although she didn't know it her memories were currently being erased to prepare her for her new life but in the middle of this process a shattering sound could be heard and all of her memories returned in a rush. Baffled by this new development Kristen was only able to try and manage the headache that was forced upon but before she could even process what was happening she found that she could notice her consciousness slipping away, after that it all went black...for the second time that day.
A warm feeling enveloped Kristen, 'mmmmmm it was so nice and relaxing, she thought, so nice and warm, little bit too warm, okayyy getting a little hot, WAY TOO HOT HELP ABORTABORT!' Kristen opened her eyes and all she saw was black and so, like any sane person, she immediately started thrashing around until she managed to get out of her predicament. She managed to make a hole in the darkness and rushed to lunge through it, landing face first onto a stick and bruising her head. Shitttttttt, she thought, who the hell puts fucking stick right there, rubbing my head with my hands I sat up and looked around and saw that I was at the bottom of a birds nest?
Only then did I realise with a jolt that I wasn't rubbing my head with my hands and was actually rubbing it with...feathers? Then the realisation why I was in a birds nest hit me. 'WHAT ACTUAL THE FUCK! NO! NO! FUCKKKK NO!' I pleaded internally to whatever god sent me here because I did NOT want to be reincarnated as FREAKING BIRD.
As soon as I spoke those words in my mind a status window appeared in front of my face.
[Level 1 Carrion Raven]
Name:Kristen
Martial Arts:None
Divine Abilities:None
[Stats]
HEALTH:10/10
STRENGTH: 5
AGILITY: 20
TOUGHNESS:2
[Skills]
Stab:lvl 1
Scratch:lvl 1
Appraisal:lvl 1
[Skill Points:1]
[Stat Points:5]
Taking a few breaths to calm myself down I looked at my surroundings and saw that I came out of a large egg the size of a basketball, eggshells everywhere. Then I looked at myself and holy shit because I looked DAMN MAJESTIC. Sleek, pristine feathers covered my half-a-meter long body, massive wings extended from my tiny shoulders with a sharp claw in the middle of each wing. A modest-sized tail potruded from the back of my body with small claws just before it and an extremely sharp beak below cold, unfeeling pitch-black eyes. Kristens now looked like her human body had transformed into an animal.
As Kristen got used to her new body and surroundings she saw eggshells on the ground beside and felt hunger in her stomach looking at them. She tested what it tasted like and was suprised that it was actually good. Slurping up all the pieces of the shell around her she finally, for what seemed like forever, got to have a moment of piece and quiet. A cracking sound could be heard beside her.
Kristen turned her head toward it with fury and saw that she failed to notice before that there was another egg beside hers, also failing to notice that the hatchling inside it had already broken out and was currently leaping into the air to pounce her.
'oomph'
She grunted as she got the air knocked out of her by the hatchling, looking up from sorry position she was in she saw that the hatching was disoriented after leaping into the air literal seconds after being born. Taking advantage of this opportunity she trusted her birdy instincts and aimed her beak at the throat of the hatchling, severing its head and killing it instantly.
'....'
Kristen looked over in shock as she saw what she did. She killed someone. Oh no oh no oh nononono she thought as she started hyperventilating. Trying to take a deep breath she accidently inhaled a feather and started choking uncontrollably before spitting it out. Calming her mind after killing someone and choking on a feather was no easy task and took her about 5 minutes of concentration to get out of the shock.
When she got through the shock and decided to think about what she was going to do now she met a conundrum between the options that I thought of. Wait for my parents to come back to the nest or leave and not look back.
She was leaning towards the latter because she didn't know what her parents would be like and if they would eat because she remembered that when she was a human she read somewhere that cannibilism was a normal thing for animals to do.
Although not knowing what was beyond the large nest she was currently in it would certainly be better than being eaten by her parents.
'Fuuuu' she breathed out as she began the climb to leave the nest.
She used her little legs to climb up sticks and twigs, becoming more in tune with her new body the more distance covered.
Stumbling across a rather large stick she fell, once again, face first onto the walls of the nest.
Grumbling curses while pushing herself up she continued her journey and managed to reach the halfway point.
Taking a break she looked at her status window and saw that her skill [Stab] had leveled up to lvl 2. Kristen wasn't that suprised because she killed someone with it but what did suprise her was the fact that her strength had reached 10, 'oh, thats good' she thought happily about her improvement.
Using this happiness as fuel to reach the edge of the nest she got there in no time and finally managed to look out into the world.
'woah'
That was her first though when she looked out onto the looming canopy of trees in front of her, it went on for so long that you couldn't even see the end of it. Trying to get a better view she shifted on the twigs she was standing on but this caused it fall down off the nest and take her with it.
'FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKK!'
One could hear a a black bird shrieking if they listened close enough.