She slowly opened her eyes that slowly took their time adjusting to the light. She could hear soft mumurs that grew distinct as time as time went by. She slowly moved her hand towards her face and noticed something wrong. She had baby hands. Having fully adjusted to the light, Irene could see two faces that looked at her with much excitement.
One was a female, she had long black hair and light brown eyes. She wore a white hospital gown and within her arms, Irene rested. Her mother, Aurora Curie. Next to the bed she was on was a tall man of great stature who had dark brown hair that had been pulled back and a distinct purple eyes. His father, Leonard Annabis.
" What should we name her?" Aurora asked, not taking her eyes off Irene.
" I don't know, I'm not good with names." Replied the father. He gently patted Irene's head as Irene looked at them both with confusion.
Irene looked above her mother and saw a mini version of Etherion looking at her with a smirk on his face.
" Congratulations ma sister," he began speaking to her telepathically," You have been born again!"
Irene tried speaking back to him but ended up blurting out mumbled gibberish.
" Darling," he planted himself on top of Aurora," I don't talk baby so, could you maybe try speaking to me telepathically?"
Irene took note and did as instructed." This isn't what I had in mind when you offered me a chance to be reborn." She complained. Her small eyebrows took an M-shape as she let out an angry expression. Leonard and Aurora, who had been suggesting different names to the baby, took this as a sign that she did not like any of them.
" What do you mean this wasn't your idea of being reborn? Did you want to transmigrate into someone else's body?"
" Yes," she replied as she tightly held the white thick blanket that had covered her with her tiny chubby arms.
Etherion let out a sigh. " You clearly don't understand the meaning of being reborn." He then summoned his computer." Let's see here. Aha! Boogle over here tells me it means to be born again or revived.At least according to this human called Merriam."
" Take me back to my body." Irene tried to climb her mother to go and strangle Etherion but she found it very difficult due to her short weak limbs.
" Nope. Not possible."
" Why is that? Aren't you supposed to be an all powerful entity?"
Etherion let out another sigh before snapping, making his computer disappear.
" Listen Irene, I could do it, but I don't wanna. Anyways, let's focus at the issue at hand. Your parents suck at giving names. Who the hell would suggest McButter as their daughter's name?"
Etherion was right. The names thet Irene's new parents were debating to give her were absolute trash. At that point, she began getting concerned. She imagined a scenario where she was at school and someone asked for her name or if she was a commander and her subordinates were adressing her. McButer, or any of the other names they were suggesting did not seem pleasing.
" Do something." She signaled Etherion with a tone of need. Etherion simply snapped and let his power do the rest.
Aurora's face then lit up as an idea seemed to have popped up in her head.
" I know, why don't we call her Aurora Count Annabis?"
" That's wonderful darling." Leonard said as he hugged her wife. She then looked at Aurora.
" Hewwo the my wittle Count Annabis." He hopped to imitate how babies would begin talking.
Irene looked at Etherion with a serious side eye. " Aurora Count Annabis. Really. Couldn't you have omitted the Count?"
" What? I think it sounds splendid. Besides, just calling you Aurora Annabis would sound out of touch. And hey, it's much better then McButter or any other options you had."
Etherion did have a point. Irene, who had now accepted the name, shifted her focus from Etherion and her new parents and took note of the room they were on. The room was all white with five pairs of white lights being evenly distributed across the roof. There were some advanced hospital equipment which she could not identify and making contact with the wall infront of her was a levitating bed upon which her mother lay on. To her left was a large glass wall thet enabled her to see the outside world.
She was amazed as to how much civilization had advanced as she could see lots of flying vehicles and ships as well as giant buildings that had numerous hologhraphic adverts as well as unique technical designs.
Following all that, Aurora focused her attention back to Etherion." Can you give a status report on the current world."
Etherion put on come glasses and resummoned his computer and began looking over some files.
" So Boogle over here tells me that it's the year 3708 and we are in Sunderland, the former location of Crotia, still part of Luxemburg. The 14 warring nations have been reduced to 2 after the amalgamation of Luxemberg and the the 7 countries making up the United Conference front and the fall of the other five nations to Axadon. All the others, you'll have to slowly learn them by yourself."
Aurora did not take the information lightly. With the 14 waring nations being reduced to two, that meant that it would be much easier to go against the enemy. The only problem was Axadon. Having been a serious thorn in her previous life, she was sure that taking on such a nation would prove difficult especially since it brought powerful nations such as Chaldea on Pretoria under it's control.
" Can you try saying papa?" Aurora's internalizing was quickly interrupted by the sound of her father trying to make her speak.
" Leonard, you know that she's still too young to talk." Curie hoped that his husband would stop disturbing the baby and let her rest.
" I must admit," Etherion began," You've managed to inherit quite a few good properties in terms of looks from your parents." Etherion got closer to her and summoned a mirror in front of her face.
She was impressed with what she saw. She had inherited her father's purple eyes though her's were much darker and seemed to have a small hint of pink that could be seen should one have taken a closer look. From her mother , she inherited her black hair though not as dark as hers. Etherion made the mirror vanish and then flew around the room before coming back to Aurora.
" Welcome to 3708."