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// Chapter 1 The Transformation Begins 
// Story: Is This Me? 
// by The-Third 
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        I woke in some kind of black room, around me were a few creatures. they were bug like creatures with a hard other shell, and small slits for pupils, but they also looked like some kind of equine, like a horse or maybe a mule. What really confused me was what was happening before. They weren't bugs before, some were humans and a couple were dogs that the others were walking, I was out in the park when they attacked me. Knocking me unconscious and dragging me here, where they were engulfed in green flames and showed this form, which by my guess was their natural form. I noticed a female in the group, taller than the rest, that also had hair-like web on her head, similar to the haido she wore in her disguise.

        She finally looked over to me after whispering to the other creatures. "w-who are you?" I asked her trembling, trying to figure out what exactly was going on. "Me?" The female asked in a raspy voice similar to how a snake would sound "I am Queen Chrysalis" I figured that that was the case, well, at least that she was the queen, I had no idea what her name was, I may not like science but I know enough that I know that most hives have a queen. One of the bugs walked up to his (or her) 'queen' and asked her something. She replied with something that confused me "Give him a cocoon" The drone nodded  and walked over to me dragging the chair I was tied up to, and brought me to another room, inside I could see a green cylinder that was most likely the cocoon the queen was talking about. I was untied and forcefully pushed into it. Not being able to breath I slowly lost consciousness and. . .

        I woke up in my bedroom I grabbed my phone and looked at the time, It read 5:45 AM, It was all just a dream, I found myself second guessing that for a second but my brain decided to go along with it, and I drifted back to sleep.

        My alarm was blaring as I tried to turn it off, it always confused me why someone invented the alarm clock, was it just to torture himself and everyone else. I arose from my bed and headed into the bathroom and got into the shower, as I came out I first noticed something was up. "What the heck?" I asked myself looking at a patch of skin that turned black, not african american black, like pure black, and it was hard. when I touched it, I didn't even feel anything, like it was growing over my skin like some kind of shell.
        That was it! It was like the bugs in my . . dream? I was even more confused than I was before. Was I turning into a bug? How does that even work? Did it have to do with the cocoon? Luckily, it was a very small area, about the size of a dime, so it was really easy to cover up with my shirt. Although I did try to pick it off, but it seemed as if it was impossible to do so.

        After getting dressed, I walked downstairs to breakfast and saw the normal chaos that was going on, mom giving pancakes to everyone as my two younger brothers fought over each one of the pancakes my mom finished, and my younger sister, Lily, had a little stuffed bear sitting in another seat as it was 'having breakfast' with her. Lily was actually quite the adorable little thing, and she wouldn't even hurt a fly, but if you mess up her plans with her toys, you are in for a world of hurt.

        "Good morning, Lukas" my mom called to me from the kitchen.

"Good morning" I replied "In a rush, don't need any pancakes" I called to her as I grabbed my backpack from where I was keeping it and started heading to high school.

        My high school is pretty small, only about 700 kids go there, so compared to some other high schools, this one is just a speck. However, we are pretty well known, our sports teams are the best in the state of Virginia, and we have a higher percentage of  A’s and B’s than most of the other schools. One of my friends, is one of the oddballs in my school that don’t get amazing grades. His name is Clayton, and usually, he is just a class clown.

        When I got to school, I went to the cafeteria, they were serving breakfast. Grabbing a bagel, some cream cheese, an apple, and Orange Juice, I sat down next to Clayton.

“Hey, Luke” I was surprised that Clayton wasn’t being all funny and calling me some weird names.

“Hey Clayton, what’s going on?” I asked him,

“Nothing really, just got here before you, and now I’m thinking about today, and how I’m going to annoy Mr. Orsak” Mr.Orsak the Science teacher, that honestly, everyone hates. I never got why exactly, but he just gives off that negative feel, that nothing is wrong per say, but that nothing is right either.

        I looked down at my chest, it was slightly bulkier than usual because of the shell, and I thought that Clayton might have noticed it. I was debating about telling Clayton about my, well, new development is probably the best word. But, if you found out your best friend has turned into a bug, you would probably be freaked out. For right now I had to keep it a secret, at least for as long as possible.