Day 1 part 2

　　Squirt my jet, squirt for your life! ...okay I may be over-exaggerating here... the brightly colored critter isn`t able to even keep up. Poor sea-horse, you`re just lost and hungry in this big bad sea. Hovering along, you just chanced upon me. Now if I hadn`t noticed you I`d be a meal...

　　Racking pain assaulted me and I fell to the sea floor. It was agony, absolute mind numbing pain as my body nearly tore as I expanded, my injuries though were not healing, only opening again. I thrash on the sea-floor, sending clouds of sand and grit into the water. I haven`t really noticed until now but the water seems... warm.

　　As the pain begins to fade I pull myself together and carefully observe my surroundings again.

　　Its murky now from the dirt. Ah! The sea-horse is right on top of me! Wait... Ha. You`re just a little too slow huh? It seems he caught up to me here, it is sitting only a few of it`s body lengths away from my eye.

　　It just bit off a little too much. If I were to guess at my new body size; I`m about the size of a small child. Three foot? I`m still only a day old too, so this is the infant state of whatever it is I became. I assume all of this based on my knowledge of the usual size of a sea-horse; although it wouldn`t be unlikely if it were bigger than the ones back home.

　　Well waste not, want not. Hungry after a day of fighting and fleeing I shove my banana yellow would-be predator into my beak and chew. Not too bad, perhaps a little pony. Slip of the tongue, I meant brony... no wait, bony. �

　　I glance at my arms and notice no `fangs` in the suckers. That and a set of brilliant blue and white stripes indicate I must be a `lesser icicle squid`.

　　My vision is much better I have to say. Now to find food.

　　Passive ability: Predator`s Gaze unlocked~

　　Oh, a new window... related to my sight? Is this enhanced long distance vision an ability? I knew I had massive eyes, but this is pretty impressive. �

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　　There we go...

　　A school of fish a few hundred feet away... sardines again. I think I have a bone to pick with them. I begin my attack run...

　　Ability: Jet Charge unlocked~

　　Wow... with a sudden burst of acceleration from this new ability I burst right through the school, there are several stunned fish around me. I grab them and stuff them in my beak quickly before...

　　Premonition activated~

　　Large bright red fish appear. Large mouth and only a little smaller than me. They whisk around the swarm of smaller fish, taking stragglers and stealing mine. Thankfully I got five before they had a chance to take the rest.

　　I`m mostly full but I could do with a little more food. I jet through the tiny fish again, only this time they avoid my body.

　　Annoying... they worked out how to evade the attack. Wait... I`m an icicle squid, so why don`t I try some of my new abilities.

　　I realize I have a whole set of skills that I somehow know about. Is this what having innate magic is like? Like knowing calculus without having ever studied addition and subtraction?

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　　I pick a good one and charge through the sardine wall.

　　Freeze Touch activated~

　　As the fish avoid my body I sweep my tentacles out in all directions and skim all that I can. They just stop. Wow. A few dozen fish are just slowly floating where they were touched. I snatch one with my arms and take a bite. It was pleasantly tasty. Hmm. So squids clearly have different tastes... it reminds me of crushed ice, only flavored with sardine.

　　I eat a few more, as they are now firmly inedible to the snappers. The few that tried spat them out immediately. Nice. I can eat my fill without worrying about thieves. Now I only have to worry about myself being eaten...

　　Premonition activated~

　　Oh, I hate that window... can`t you ever have anything nice to predict?

　　Five dark shapes, long bodies with fins. Not sharks again!

　　...

　　...

　　No? Dolphins? Really, bottle-nosed dolphins?

　　Hey, I don`t like that look in your eye Flipper. Stop smiling at me...

　　Agony.

　　It is like someone is letting a steam-whistle off in my ear... and I don`t have ears... I hear sounds just fine but... this is a damn sonic weapon.

　　Shut up!

　　Reflection Field activated~

　　Huh. This is troublesome. I`m now trapped in a hexagon of clear ice with only a spare foot of liquid water around me. Did I do this? Must have. Oh, this is the reflection field spell that stops projectiles... it works on sonar as well? So how do I get out of this...?

　　I tried to force my way out. As I did the dolphins clearly also confused began to hit my shield from outside with their noses. Go away, we don`t want any~

　　Finally it becomes clear to me I`m not only able to use spells and freeze things with a touch, I can manipulate ice itself.

　　Ability: Lesser Cryokinesis learned~

　　I like the sound of that one...

　　I use my new skill and warp my shield trying to work out how to free myself, intimidate the happy looking would-be murderers out there and judge my limitations all at once. It is a little difficult, the range is apparently only about ten feet, maximum. The bonus is I can do it without actually touching the ice. A swarm of frozen sardines make a decent missile weapon, as Flipper and co. learned. They retreated quickly with a few bruises.

　　As for the shield, I simply added a crack down the center, all the way around and pushed.

　　Yay, freedom.

　　I looked around.

　　Oh, crap.

　　Premonition activated~

　　Horrible, horrible freedom...