Nth Life - Chapter 6 (WIP)

Zeke once again found himself in darkness with no sensation. It was starting to get a little old, really. Then it hit him, he felt freezing cold, and wet. That didn't bode well. Then came the muffled and strange sounds. He wanted to open his eyes, really he did, yet once again he was just a passenger and not in control. As he found himself hating the situation, he felt a sharp pain and started crying.

Wait?! The hell? He hadn't cried in years. Not that he had anything against a good cleansing cry, he just never had any reason to do so. Now here he was, cold, wet, crying, and with bad hearing. Well, it wasn't really him crying, but still...

Finally, he felt warmth as his cold wet body was washed with warm water and a soft cloth. Once he was cleaned, he was wrapped tightly in a nice warm blanket and passed to someone else. As he felt himself cradled in someone's arms, he came to the horrible realization that he was an infant!

This was worse than the last few lives he'd gone through! At least he'd been in an adult body in those. This was horrible. How long would he be stuck as a passenger in this life? He didn't even want to think about what he was about to go through. One of the blessings of the human mind was that almost no one remembered their early childhood and now he was going to live through it with a mature mind. Horrors!

He didn't have to wait long for the first horror. His new body began to whimper and cry in hunger. He heard indistinct soothing noises before something was placed in his mouth. His lips instantly latched on and began sucking. Zeke mentally groaned since he knew exactly what was happening. He was latched onto a nipple and drinking a mothers milk. He could feel and taste every sensation and hear exclamations of joy and encouragement. It. Was. Horrifying.

Fortunately, as a newborn infant, his new body didn't have a huge appetite and the incident was quickly over. Soon all sensation faded away and Zeke recognized  that his new body was asleep. That was something he found out in his last life, he didn't sleep when his host did. He could even watch their dreams. Thanks to this he'd discovered that human or alien, all men dreamed of sex.

He actually liked the quiet time when he hosts were asleep. It let him process the things that happened to him and maintain his sense of self. He was still Zeke Rose but he had memories of other lives lived. It was a good thing he did because he realized what was happening and only had himself to blame. It was clear that he had awakened an ability while toying with the thought of his potential past lives. He was relatively certain that he was now reliving those lives in part while gaining the memories of those lives.

While he was excited about awakening an ability, it didn't seem like one that would come in very handy for fighting monsters. On the other hand, he could probably enter into research and try to develop some of the things he discovered. His biggest concern was about his body though. What was happening to it? How long was he going to be away? Would he be an ancient old man after living these memories? Would he be dead before he finished and never see his parents again? He tried his best not to dwell on those thoughts but they cropped up every now and then against his will.

Thankfully, as an infant, he spent most of his time not having to suffer much. Though when the body was awake, he suffered greatly from embarrassment. Now, as a healthy seventeen year old male, he was very interested in what it would be like to have the nipple of one of his attractive female classmates in his mouth. This perfectly normal desire did not translate to wanting to be fed as a baby! At least the feeding sessions were short and the flavor wasn't horrendous.

Unfortunately, like every baby ever, the baby he was processing had zero control over its bladder and bowels. Experiencing a diaper change was not pleasant but at least it let him know he was in a male body. So far all his bodies had been male and he hoped that would remain the case. No matter how fascinated he was with the female body, he didn't want to experiencing having one... or did he? No. No, definitely not... Maybe?

He had no idea how long it was but eventually, his new eyes finally opened. The light was blinding and his host blinked many times before finally adjusting to the light. When he did, his vision was a little blurry but he could make out the face of his new 'mother.' Zeke wanted to shout for joy when he saw that she was human.

The mother looked down at her son and he could see the bright smile on her face. She cooed at him and spoke a baby-tones, no actual words at all. After enduring a few minutes of that, she looked away from him and off to the side. She was clearly looking at someone out of his sight and he had no control to turn his head and look.

"He's got your eyes Dan."

English! She spoke English! Was he back on Earth? He tried his best to see through the eyes of his host. Thankfully, the longer his host kept looking around, the more its vision cleared up. His host was clearly clueless but Zeke could kind of recognize a bit of the room. It was definitely a hospital but... It looked old fashioned and very out of date. If he recalled history right, it looked something like late twentieth or early twenty-first century. It would probably be a long time before he saw a calendar.