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Prologue How did this happen? i found myself lying in a pool of my own blood, life fading from my eyes. Those bastards broke in to my home, in trying to save my family and protect my property. I was in my early 20s and to die like this is abhorent. I was a jack of all trades in this life, working for low pay and long hours but it was very rewarding. just to be able to rest at the end of the day with a sense of accomplishment was all I wanted anyway. I had gone through school while I was highly intelligent I just couldn't be bothered with half the stuff. Marks didn't matter to me because they gave nothing to me in the end, all I cared about is how I saw myself not how others saw me. when I did bother I had really good marks when I tried but most of the time. It was beyond me I studied my interests out of school in the end not bothering to find any reason to submit any papers or journals but finding answers for myself. I practiced various martial arts desciplines as a hobby, I had always enjoyed watching movies showing off the various martial arts, not the ones where people were leaping from tree top to tree top but the ones that showed more practical forms of how the weapons were used and how strong the human body could become. I read alot of fantasy and historical fiction of time periods where martial weapons where used (pre-14th century globally). As I lay there I suddenly found my consciouness returning to me, I found I couldn't move or see at this point but it seemed like I was alive and I was thankful for this turn of events. As time passed time passed my strength returned I found I could move to some degree but my body did not respond in the way I expected it to. Then i heard an unfamiliar voice call out. "Look honey he's finally starting to look around and move go call your father" a soft woman's voice said.Not realizing that she was talking about me I tried rather to my frustration unsuccessfully to locate and see who was talking about me. As I did I found two enormous hands grasp me to my utter terror, I tried to scream but all that was heard was a soft whine like a new born baby. Her seemingly familiar face that I could not place, but I knew deep down somehow that I should recognize her. She turned me to face a mirror to my horror I was staring at and complete horror I realized that this body I was inhabiting was not mine but that of a very young child. Its soft newborn features were completely foriegn to me, they seemed to mix human and animal features, the face was for the most part human in nature but the strange cat like ears stood above my head, I felt a strange sensation at my back only to realize I had a tail as well. I thought to myself "at least I'm still a man, but what the hell is going on." I stared in utter fear unable to speak trying to come to terms as to what has happened to me. I heard to new figures approach, both terrofied me both possessed long whip like tails and cat ears and fangs growing from their mouth in both in gigantic grins. The woman's voice chimed in "father, hunny meet your son, fang junior." Realizing that my body was not my original height I was able to approximate their heights they were no larger than your regular human, the younger of the two men was probably around 6 feet tall, his hair was a dark brown as were his ears and tail, he looked to be in his early to middle 30s. The older man was a bit shorter probably about 5 foot 10, his hair had probably been a shade of brown as it could been seen among the greying hair, he also had a long beard that reached halfway down his chest, if I had to say he was probably at least 60 probably older. The woman stood around 5 foot 4, her hair was all a redish gold, she looked fairly young in her late 20s to early 30s, she was really quite beautiful now that i had begun to come to terms with what seemed to have happened. They all seemed to be wearing crude linen clothing, the woman carried a pair of metal barbed whips, the younger man had a large sword strapped to his back, he was quite muscular and it looked like a Claymore being about a foot shorter around 5 feet long and about 6-8 inches wide, both edges flashed with a sharpness that could easily cut the air flowing around it, it had strange intricit symbols carved into it that glimmered with a strange light. The old man leaned heavily against a curved long staff topped with a chrystal that glowed with a mysterious light. We all seemed to have a strange glow around us, the old man had a brownish tint to it, the man who was apparently my father the glow seemed to change constantly between blue, red, and green, the woman who was undoubtably my new mother seemed to be a deep blue color with a mild greenish tint to it, the glow around me was pure white both lacking in color at times yet at other times seemed to be made of all colors.

Chapter 1: The Early Years

Having the memories of my past life intact i quickly learned this worlds langauge both written and oral, they did not have a formal education system it seemed so while I had little interaction outside my family I had to assume there was a low literacy rate, just like on earth unless someone had invented a printing press or a method to quickly copy vast amounts of texts learning was a hands on or oral in nature. My new family seemed quite well off they had a few servents all had varying animal qualities about them some seemed related to cats and dogs for the most part there were a few that exhibited reptilian qualities, a few that had avian qualites that made them look like angels. I learned that my new mother's name was Snow, both my father and grandfather were named fang, my grandfather had merely added the senior title to his name to seperate them. I suddenly heard a voice behind me "what are you doing you little scamp." It was my personal maid she appeared young definitely no older than 20 more than likely in her teens, her long ears, and prominate large front teeth indicated lapine heritage, she had brilliant platinum blond hair, her name was Blanche. I am in the process of carving this worlds characters into stones to try to begin making copies of several easy to read scrolls. I told her I was gonna start making copies of the scrolls for her and the rest of the household staff in order to help them learn to read and eventually write, she looked at me strangely at first then waved her hand, a copy of the first scroll appeared on a nearby blank scroll, i stared in amazement than quickly asked her how she was able to do that. "It seems like young master should learn some basic spells it would make copying so much easier". she said after she saw how i was looking at this newly copied scroll examining it for any variations. "let me go get your parents and they can arrange a tutor to begin to teach you, though it is rather weird that you are so capable." she said that last part since i had only been on this world for 3 or so years, it was hard to really know how long since this world didn't have calendars, clocks or any other time keeping devices, but 3 winters had passed, the days seemed significantly longer, than what i was used to on earth that could only indicate that this planet's rotation was either slower or that it was significantly larger than earth, it was also a fair bit cooler than earth was, apparently they had never had an ice age so this led to the conclusion that this planet was also further from its star.