Ball of Nothing

Chapter 8


Chapter 8

*Plop*
Alright, what is it this time? The bird has been eating a lot more lately . I don't know why it is doing that but I suppose it might have something to do with how I'm constantly emptying the contents in its stomach .
It took me a while to get to where I am . For a very long time, the process of constantly absorbing and passing out was frustrating . However, the efforts paid off when I was finally able to move the things I absorbed outside of me . Although I was still unable to move on my own, it was a huge improvement from not being able to influence the things around me directly .
It was an accidental find but one that was totally worth the troubles . I wasn't making much progress with the training and was idly thinking if I could transform a part of myself to conveniently grasp and absorb whatever that fell before it hit the liquid, I would be able to absorb a greater variety .
Before I knew it, something that resembled the sand I absorbed appeared for a brief moment and grabbed hold of the falling frog . Granted, it may have just been the head but it was still a frog . Upon contact with the frog, it was automatically absorbed by the sand into my system . Something strange happened after that . It might have been due to the fact that the frog was a more intelligent creature or that I absorbed enough of it, but I found myself viewing its memories after I fell into food coma .
It was a strange feeling to be waking up after living the life of the frog . For a moment, I could not understand how my home in the forest smelled so bad and looked so dark . Understanding came to me after I remembered that I wasn't a frog .
It was through the accidental finding that I could now manipulate what was absorbed in me . Apart from training my stamina for absorbing things in quantity, I trained to extend my 'transformation' timing . It was rather hard at first, I could not form sand properly and often, it fell apart before I could catch the newcomers .
Right now, I could hold the sand just enough to reach the prey when I see it falling . With this method, I've now received the memory of two crickets, five shellfish, two frogs - one tree frog and one poisonous frog, one worm and four butterflies . From their last moments, I could now roughly make out the size of this bird and it was rather intimidating .
The bird had five different colours of feathers, yellow eyes with a long pointed beak that was very sharp . That beak was as long as its neck and its feet were about the same length as its body, fully armed with deadly talons . From wing to wing, the bird could easily fit thirty large shellfishes!
*Guuu*
There it was, the sound that alerted me to look out for a new creature . What was it going to be this time? My sand was ready for it, whatever it was .
Just as the mysterious newcomer made its appearance, I froze . Maybe I shouldn't have spoken so soon . How was anyone going to be able to absorb that?!