《chimera》 chapter 1 I just finished up healing a kind old lady of her cold when , she goes and tries to shove some bread in my face, says its to repay my kindness, I politely decline. I move along back to my camp in the woods. I pull out my bag and press a button and voila the bag transforms into a log cabin. I bought the bag off an extremely skilled dimensional mage. Boy did this thing cost a pretty penny. Of course money is no object to me since I can just go around getting people to pay me small fees for some healing magic. Although personally I would rather cure people of dire illnesses for free. Oh yes, I haven¡¯t introduced myself yet. My name is James Majiouse. My current alias is Timmy, no last name, for I am posing as an orphan that never met his parents, while I really am an orphan that had a family, but the story of my family''s murder is a tale I¡¯ll save for another time. Many people call me the wandering healer though, probably because I wander and heal seemingly incurable deadly diseases for basically free. Now onto events happening in the present. I enter the log cabin and go straight to the basement where I keep my laboratory. I immediately get tackled by one of my closest friends albert. He is my pet/lab-assistant. I love albert and all my other pets. Of course you''re probably trying to imagine albert right now so I¡¯ll save you the trouble and just give you a physical description. Albert is 55 pounds he looks like a small cute dog except when he opens his mouth you find red serrated daggers instead of the normal sorta sharp teeth most dogs his size have. Albert was my first ever successful creation. I created him out of mixing a few properties of a Lycanthrope which are known for having extremely dangerous sharp teeth that suck the blood out of whichever flesh the Lycanthropes teeth touch and a normal cute mutt variety puppy dog. The astounding thing is that I created him while believing it was gonna be a miserable failure, I mean I was so depressed after so many other failures, I might have actually quit studying the art of the chimera master (a person who mixes different animals together, and no not in that way obviously you useless perv) anyways back to the story, I was just a bit drunk when I was adding the features of a Lycanthrope with the mutt variety dog. I accessed deep into the puppy''s the body took out the normal dog teeth by letting them just drop out if its mouth. I then dug into the Lycanthrope teeth DNA and found out how they work. I went back into the puppy and tinkered around with the gums cells getting them to grow and adapt to Lycanthrope teeth. And surprisingly it worked. I am guessing either the being a tad bit drunk while doing it, or something special about the dog''s heritage.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. I then went on to create many more chimeras, become a master of the art of the chimera, use my research to become the best healer ever, and many more wild achievements that I really don¡¯t have time to recount. My albert is my closest friend, I love him as much as I love the world and all my research. He is one of my first friends, since I personally don¡¯t like people all that much. Albert barks, reminding me that I kinda got lost in my head for a while. I pet albert a little then I get to work. I pick up a vial of acidic poison and a vial of some sticky shit I found and bottled on the side of the road, not joking, sometimes I just scan the road to check for any organic material and if I find some interesting stuff I bottle it and shove it into my bag to experiment on later. I then really dig deep into the goopy stuff and try to replicate it. I use my magic to grow the goopy stuff giving life to the goopy stuff by using the life energy of some algae. Oh yes a tid bit, I am a life mage someone who can use magic to dick around with living organisms. Now as I do this I try to understand the sticky goop what do the atoms inside the sticky goop look like, how much energy they contain (heat). While I am doing this I also dig into the acidic poison, I already know most of what there is to know about it so I don¡¯t look to deeply I just look deep enough to get a good sense of the state of the acidic poison, just like I expect it¡¯s in mint condition. I realize the goop is really similar in property to a residue special geckos emit at their fingertips to climb onto things. I then brainstorm a while on how to mix these two things together when this idea pops into my brain why not make sticky acid, acid that sticks to its victims. I then try a few different ways of mixing the acid and sticky properties of the two things. I try to meld their chemical structure all the way down to the molecule, but I sadly don¡¯t really have a good clean way of knowing which structures equal which property. Like lets say there are hexagons in the chemical structure these hexagons could be what produce the stick effect of the goop, or they could be what make the goops color orange. This of course means that I need to do lots of experimentation. I yawn and look outside and find that it¡¯s already midnight, guess experimentation is gonna have to wait. I go to bed expecting a normal day tomorrow chapter 2 wake up the next morning,and stow off experimentation until the later. I get out of my little log house. Press a button on the side of the door and voila it turns back into my normal looking bag. I run all the way to the next little village to heal some more people. The village is 25 kilometers away but it only takes me the span of about half an hour to get there. Some of you may be confused as to my seemingly superhuman abilities, but let¡¯s just say when you have the power to change your body you fucking use it and you use it good. I boosted the muscle density in my body, I also made my heart bigger and stronger so that it pumps blood faster. My lungs use the oxygen in the air extremely efficiently. And I can actually control my body better like being able to direct the blood where it¡¯ll be the most effective and where it¡¯s needed the most. Oh and most diseases and poisons are harmless against me because I modify my anti-bodies to be most effective against whichever poison or disease is attacking my body. A loud bell wakes me up from all my introspection. It sounds like some sort of alarm. Shit is there some sort of bandit attack happening, ugh guess I am gonna have to help since I am already here. I pull out an iron rod from my bag. The rod is pretty heavy but I my enhanced body is strong enough that I wave it around like it¡¯s wood. A man comes at me waving a big ass axe, I slam the metal rod into his head and whoosh there''s a big bang and then a fine spray of blood and brain goo. Kinda disgusting but I just destroy any of the brain matter that comes at me with life magic. I burst into the fray which is just a big field. It looks like the village people won¡¯t just surrender they seem to be bringing out whichever weapon shaped objects they can find. I even see some women fighting, which huh the village must be desperate cause usually villages protect women and children like their dolls or something. Always did think that was backwards but whatever. I wave my rod around landing a few lucky strikes which result in brain and blood splatter everywhere. The field gets dyed in blood. Mostly it¡¯s the blood of the villagers, even though I was helping the villagers. I come across a few villagers that are catatonic from all the blood loss so I use the life energy of the grass and the trees around here. They get up but are a little confused so I give their systems a bit of a kick of energy. I do all this in the span of a few minutes, this is where the saying practice makes perfect comes in. I see a man in the middle of the battlefield directing the bandits. He¡¯s probably their leader and since this battle is kinda boring for a man like me I rush at him and whop him across the face. It¡¯s almost comical how his head explodes and little head bits go rushing across the battlefield. I aimed it so that all the head debris hit only the bandits. A few of the bandits actually get hurt from the force of the scatter of the brain matter. After that the battle is pretty short cuz the bandits don¡¯t have a leader anymore. I heal all of the wounded, bandit or villager. The reason for that is because the fight is already over so they don¡¯t fight and just run. And yes while they may cause havoc another day for another village, they also might become fair robinhoods. Plus I make it a point to heal everyone but the rich. You¡¯ll know why I don¡¯t heal the rich will be explained later cause if I tell you everything right now the topic might be less interesting, also I gotta have a few cards up my sleeve.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. After I heal everyone, I quickly disappear in a flash. I watch from afar my enhance eyes letting me see if there¡¯s gonna be anymore conflict from the bandits. No the bandits don¡¯t fight they just run away. I look up and see there''s still enough time to go to another village quickly before it becomes dark. And while I can see in the dark and need less sleep then a normal human being I want to experiment at night today. I run to the next village. The village is decently sized and full nice bakeries and blacksmiths. I pull out a sign saying I¡¯ll heal people for free. Apparently the rumors haven¡¯t come in from other villages that the wandering healer is nearby so at first not many com by. I heal a few scratches scrapes and even a few colds until really desperate man with a baby comes around. ¡°The girl is dying. Can you help her please, I am begging you¡± he shouts at me ¡°calm down let me check on her first¡± I say back. I gesture for him to give me his baby girl, he does so relectuntly. When I receive her I look into her trying to see what the problem is. The first thing I find is that she doesn''t have enough energy to sustain her. I look deep in and find a parasite. The girl seems to have had really weak immune system so the parasite had no problem coming right in and making itself at home. I slowly rip all the little tubes sucking food away from the babe. After I finish that, I destroy the parasite summarily. I hand the man his daughter back ¡°how much do I have to pay for the healing¡± the man says looking at his feet, probably thinking he was going into a huge amount of debt. ¡°Didn¡¯t you see the sign it says free healing¡±. The man gives me a look like I am crazy ¡°but don¡¯t you want anything¡±. I just shake my head and move him along. After that the people in the line get so much more dangerous and exciting. By that I mean actually deadly diseases and injuries. One blind man comes up to me and asks if I can heal him. I tell him I can but only at the end of the day cause it might take a while. At the end of the day after waving off a few people trying to pay me back, I heal the blind man as promised. I move into the woods, shange my bag into the log cabin, get inside get slammed into by albert, who I mess around with for a bit. After finishing up with albert I move on into my laboratory. I pick up the vial of gecko residue. I then make a dozen more vials of gecko residue. In every single vial I change the chemical structure very slightly and then I right down the effects of each change. My entire night consists of this over and over and over and over again. The results are a bit interesting. I am pretty sure I found out which chemicals compounds cause the stickiness. So I can probably cross the stickiness factor off the checklist. I look outside and I find the sun still has not risen, but with my enhanced hearing i can gouge out the wakings of non-nocturnal animals. I clear out all the chemicals in my brain that are making me sleepy which is, sorta dangerous but eh what the hell. I get my cabin to go back to it¡¯s bag form and run to another town, which unlike the last few towns I¡¯ve been to there¡¯s trouble brewing, for me specifically chapter 3 Once I reach the town I a few armed individuals walk towards me, once they see me they actually start running at me. I wait until they¡¯re close enough to talk to me. Man number one says ¡°we have been looking for the wandering healer, we know all his characteristics and you match all of them perfectly so you must be the wandering healer¡± Man number two says ¡°if you would please come with us¡± Of course I know why they want me. Some rich fat cat is probably sick or something but as I stated before I hate the rich. Those fuckers just take and take and take, never giving an actual amount. Think about it when a poor man share with you his last piece of bread that means something cause he¡¯s actually experiencing sacrifice. While if a rich man gave me a thousand pieces of the same bread he wouldn¡¯t experience shit, he¡¯d just go back to his rich fat cat life doing whatever the fuck he wanted to do. Man 1 tries to grab my arm cause I seem to have gotten lost in my head ranting about rich folk. Before anything happens I overload their minds with a bunch of sleep chemicals. They instantly fell asleep. I run back into the woods. I am a little relieved that nothing happened. I mean seriously they could have had entire armies. It really happened one time. Now that I am here in my cabin I am kinda bored. So I create some cheap dirt tasting beer. Why you might ask, well because I like the really strong terrible taste. It helps put things in perspective. I also create some for my albert. I am planning on getting drunk with my dog. -two hours of weird drunk shenanigans which I will leave to your imagination later- Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. Good god that was so fuckin fun, I feel like a new man. I give my albert a paw five, me and my bud here have been havin the weirdest shenanigans. Also while drunk I figured out how to rearrange the neurons to make albert sentient. Which I know right, what? How the fuck do you did you do that. Well I¡¯ve been doing research on how to let animals attain sentiance. I¡¯ve been analyzing all the peoples brains that I¡¯ve healed. Also I get most breakthroughs when I''m drunk so you know. I start reading alberts brain waves to somehow understand him. I clear my and alberts body¡¯s of alcohol. I then submerge myself in trying to understand alberts brain/barks. I get so submerged that I didn¡¯t hear the soft footsteps, the quiet whispers. I then feel really strong brain waves from albert which alerts me to something. I look up and see men in black, and heavy armor. One of them, the man who I believe to be their leader looks up at me and says ¡°we are here to give you an offer you cannot refuse, we will give any amount of women, money or power to you if you just heal princess jasmine¡± I look around me. I boost my adrenaline to have alter my perception of time. Their trying to get me to heal the princes of the country of aldosouthia, which means their probably royalty of some kind. And I do not heal the rich for any reason. I look around at everyone I formulate a plan in my head. But ¡.. I wasn¡¯t thinking albert was still connected to my brain and he could feel me thinking. He could also feel my disapproval for the men in black so he did aas any good guard dog would and went to attack them. He bit one of the men in an uncovered area. The man becomes like limp balloon, as all the blood gets sucked out of him through alberts teeth. Out of the corner in my eyes I see a man draw his sword. Well guess we''re gonna fight. I grab a dagger out of each of my boots then I rush at the man who is about to take a swipe at my albert. Of course me being me I reach him in a millisecond then I stab him in the heart and brain. Twice. I feel high, hmm bloodlust? From albert. Seems he killed another one. I check behind me to see albert, and it looks like albert is sucking the blood out of someone. Out of the corner of my eyes I see a man charging at albert. I go to kill the man when I feel albert get stabbed in the heart. I quickly kill the man then look back before the actual shock of the pain gets to me. I look at albert and find him impaled on a gigantic mans sword. I feel my heart break both metaphorically cause my best friend is dying, and literally because I¡¯m still connected to his brain. Through the pain I know I can¡¯t save my friend but I do know that I can imprint this memory into my mind so I can remember him forever. One of the men throws something at me. I start feeling dizzy and then I just drop. chapter 4 - An unknown amount of time later - Uuuuugh where the fuck am I. everything is dark, so I try to tell albert to turn the lights on which all of a sudden sends a spark down the neural pathway that I burned into my brain. Which, sends greif rushing through my every motion. I shudder and sob as I remember my faithful albert, loyal till the end. Unfortunately for me, though my grief tells my captors that I¡¯m awake. Someone pulls a mask of some sort off of me. I don¡¯t wince at the brightness because my pupils change near instantly to adapt to the light. I look up and memorize the places of all the people in the room. I then start to read all their vitals and how healthy they are and I¡¯m sad to say that they are all in tip top physical shape. A man in front of me in what looks like royal garments starts talking and says to me ¡°what the hell are you crying about. Is it about that weird dog you had, cause we can replace him¡± I look at the man, wondering why he can go around assuming that I wouldn¡¯t murder him for killing albert. Apparently, he could tell what I was thinking because he says to me ¡°oh yes, and if your thinking you could just kill me and my men, well I¡¯m sorry to say but we have archers around here that have a drug that was specially tailored for you so if your planning anything stop it.¡± I consider my options, and while yes I do want vengeance for albert I know that attacking them right now would not be the best way of going about it, so I hide feelings and act like nothing happened, and i ask him ¡°so what do you want me to do, and since you took such drastic measures I¡¯m going to assume that it¡¯s nothing small¡± ¡°Well you''re right about that ¡°wandering healer¡± we brought you here because our kingdoms princess, jasmine is in danger of dying. And while jasmine is probably not going to take the throne any time soon, she is on od aldsoothias most beloved royals. I mean gosh darn even I love her and I¡¯m the third prince.¡± Hmm well that changes a few things. I mean while I did expect that I would be expected to heal someone important I didn¡¯t expect to be saving the most beloved princess in aldsoothia. Apparently princess jasmine gives to charity, go on many many many campaigns to help the poor, and she¡¯s also really charming and pretty. So not only will I be fucked by the rich folk if I run, the commoners are gonna fuck me sideways if they found out I didn¡¯t heal princess jasmine. ¡°So how are you planning on forcing me to heal princess jasmine?¡± I ask completely casually like I was asking how he was planning on making breakfast this morning. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. The prince gives me a weird look ¡°I¡¯m hoping that the rewards are good enough for you to do it willingly but if you don¡¯t we¡¯ll just keep you prisoner until you do¡±. This man, he really truly must have thought this through. Well it seems that the only thing I can do is heal princess jasmine, that is until I have a better plan. ¡°well okay then guess I¡¯m gonna heal a princess. Uh, when are we gonna get there¡± I ask. I also make my voice pretty jovial to distract from my previous bad attitude. ¡°Well we also have a bodyguard specially picked for, oh and she is trained on how to please a man so if you have any need to attend to¡..¡± says the prince. He then points to a curvy women in the crowd. Me I just frown a bit, because she¡¯s probably a spy who is specially trained to get men to trust her through sex, which yeah is a thing, shocking I know. Of course she is also gonna relay everything I do the prince, so that is also a bumber. I then ask as to how long it¡¯s gonna take to get to the capital, where the princess is situated. The prince says about eight to nine days depending on the travel and the circumstances. After getting me summarily adjusted they all take a rest for the night. Of course I have my bodyguard sleeping in my room to watch. I mean she says she¡¯s there to protect me but I¡¯m pretty sure they all know I can protect myself. I am very deeply stressed and traumatized (I mean a group of armored warriors just barged into my life, killed my best friend, then asked me to heal a princess so I think I can safely say I Am both stressed and traumatized) and it¡¯s sorta killing me to have the memory of alberts death at the slightest provocation. I burned it in so deep that the slightest thing sets me off, and then I have to relive the pain of seeing my best friend die as well as having the pain of being stabbed through the heart. All of this leads me to look for an outlet for my frustrations, and since fucking the beautiful probably spy babe is outta the question cause she probably knows ways to endear herself in a man¡¯s heart through doing it sooo. I start just dicking around with life magic, cause that usually calms my nerves. I find a few bugs in my room and I start dicking around with their DNA. I start getting so into it that I forget my ¡°bodyguard¡± was still in the room. ¡°What are you doing over there¡± she says to me. It looks like one of my experiments was in particularly loud and woke her up. ¡°Uh¡ nothing¡± forgetting myself and acting like an eight year caught with his hand in a cookie jar. ¡°Uh, I mean I was just testing elixirs to heal princess jasmine¡± Of course her being a spy, she gives me a look like she doesn¡¯t buy it. ¡°No, really what were you doing. If we¡¯re gonna be living together for a while you¡¯re gonna have to be honest with me¡± she says to me. ¡°I don¡¯t have to tell you shit, you friend murdering asshole¡± I say to her back with such venom in my voice that miss ¡°bodyguard¡± takes a step back. ¡°Are you talking about that dog, you know aldsoothia is known for having the best dog breeds in all the lands, so we could replace your dog¡± she says to me, she was even gonna talk more on how great aldsoothias dogs are but I give her a look of such intense hate that it shut¡¯s her up ¡°I have spent 23 years with albert, he is, was my closest friend and you murdered him and are know talking about replacing him so, forgive me if I¡¯am not as enthusiastic as you are about getting to the capital¡± I say, again with a bunch of venom in my voice, though this time she was prepared for it so I got no reaction from her. ¡°Well I¡¯m sincerely sorry, for all the actions aldsoothia tooka and will take that will hurt you¡± she says sincerely. And i can tell she¡¯s sincere because I was plugged into her vitals and brain, and while she can keep her heart rate and stress down she can¡¯t change the electrical signals in her brain That conversation was seriously demanding. So I¡¯m gonna sleep now and how for a better tomorrow chapter 5 I wake up to miss bodyguard sitting really, incredibly close to me. Of course my body¡¯s first reaction is to uhh ¡°raise the flag¡± but I shut that down immediately. I cannot go around getting boners for the bitches who killed fuckin albert. I am still connected to my body from eh shutting down the ¡°flag¡± so as I get angrier my blood starts to literally boil. I calm myself and heal any damage. Ughhh one hell of a way to start a day. I look at the bitch that started it all. Ugh she woke up, ¡°umm why are you glaring at me¡± she says to me sounding ¡°genuinely¡± confused, as confused as a spy can be. I think in my head. ¡°Why the fuck are you sleeping in my bed¡± I say to her, through gritted. ¡°It¡¯s the only bed I had access to¡± she says to me not showing much emotion. ¡°Yeah well you don''t have access to it anymore¡± I say, again, through gritted teeth. I then proceed to shove her out of my fucking room. I already hate this morning, and it¡¯s barely begun. I sigh and look out my window, and find that the men are exercising. It¡¯s a few hours before we have to go so I try to sleep some more. I wake up again this time without any dumbass spy bodyguards going around givin¡¯ me boners and shit. I hear some knocking, and open my door. I see a man with weird dumbass spiky hair. He tells me that we¡¯re leaving soon so I should probably go get dressed. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. I consider just going out there naked, just to spite them. But, eh it would be to much trouble. I go downstairs, and ignore any greetings, I just go into my designated carriage. I first start believing that it¡¯s gonna be a boring ass journey. But then I realize I could just give the stupid fucks around me, massive headaches and colds. I start by giving the drivers massive headaches. I then give the prince a throat infection. Nothing major, just enough to piss him off. I then give all the men who fucked with me, colds/flus. I feel great now. guess it was sorta, cathartic to fuck with the people who killed, albert. I keep messing with them until we finally get there. Ugh now I get to listen to the knobby idiots, prattle on about how their justified, for barging into my home and killing albert. This line of thinking gets me so pissed that all the insects around me get mutated into weird mostrosities. I calm myself quickly. Wouldn¡¯t want anyone to see what I¡¯ve done now.