An Ant Survival Guide

The topic of soul and spirit have always been deemed as a subject to look into, even in times before times.

Many spiritualist and wanna be would scam people off their money with subjects related to soul and spirit.

After many scientists gathered and invited spiritualist from all around the world to join hand and uncover the secrets of the soul and spirit, the scientist all chased the spiritualist out in a feat of rage as non of them could prove or provide any evidence or pointers about souls and spirits, instead after a large question and answer with some threats and little violence the scientists had publicly hanged the topic of souls and spirit's as superstition.

But at this moment the ant knew, that right above its little head is it's soul.

'after reincarnating I have somewhat started having the belief of soul but this ...this confirms it,but isn't the soul suppose to be in the body?' he looked at his soul

'but seeing the size difference it's understandable.but I could also be wrong and soul exists outside the body instead' he thought as he looked intently at his soul. Then suddenly, he could somehow see from his soul.

This in turn surprised him very much,looking left and right with his mortal body he was even more surprised s he could see from both his body and soul as time.

'no it's not that I can suddenly see from my soul,it's more like that's how it's always been yet I never noticed and it's not really 'see' but more like 'feel' things' he thought.

In his souls vision everything was in black and white yet it's didn't feel discomforting but instead it was calming. Once in a while he would see particles of things, which from reference of his former life were particles of light and some other basic particles.

'to think one would be able to see such basic flow of things without special equipments,the soul truly is marvelous' he thought.

'but more important' he said s he look at a passing worker with his soul gaze and he was surprised to find.

One a tiny speck of light shining in the ants inner being, covering the radiance speck was a phantom like form of the ant with light brown color inside the ant as though the body of the ant is clothing for it. And lastly at head of the ant where brain's should be suited was a small greyish fog constantly repealing clouds.

'those are... The speck of light the soul, the phantom body the spirit and lastly the the greyfog is the mind. How intricate, this aren't just bland mixture of chemicals' he thought.

Suddenly he had a thought and he looked towards himself in his ant Ike body from his soul gaze. His spirit and mind were as small as the worker but at where the workers speak was a string made of his soul was attached instead.

'seems as though only my soul is unique... But what can soul do other than look into hidden things?' he thought as he tried to send all his concentration into his soul only to discover how meaningless it was.

It felt like a child trying to use his mind to pick up a bottle of water only to be slapped by reality.

'if that didn't work....Then, how about this' he thought as he use his thoughts to manifest a tentacle and manipulate as though it was part of his self without much effort.

'I wanted to manifest a hand but this is all that came out? A feeler? But the things is... '

Stretching the feeler forward while attempting to grab a nearby piece of stick only for it pass through.

'it still can't much uh?then what about the spirit and mind? Lemme try those out'

But no matter how much he tries to manipulate the spirit it didn't show any reaction whatsoever. Leaving only the mind.

'from what have observed the mind ripples every time I think about something, though I only ripples lightly and returns to normal quickly but the more complex the thought the more it ripples. But it shouldn't be possible for an ant's brain to calculate my complex thought's, except it's my soul that I've been using instead to take the force of my thoughts instead of the mind. Truly fascinating'

'then let me try to use my mind instead' he thought as he concentrated all his focus to his mind which coursed it to ripple wildly. Yet after some time nothing happened making him to Stop his attempts on the mind after another few tries.

'It seems as though only the soul is able to respond to my call.... Then do I have no other options but wait and die in two weeks or so, like an ant that I've become.... What if I don't get another chance like this and this second life was a mistake on the end of some divine being, I just can't die this pointless and meaningless death' he thought as his mind slowly began to wonder off when he suddenly received a message from the queen via pheromone.... And his body responded in its must natural state, walking aimlessly amongst the other's ants towards the queens birth ground.

The message was simply to gather below her bed, that and that invaders had somehow managed to enter their nest dipper flours...they are to protect the queen—even if it means dieing.

Halfway towards the bed tower he forced himself out of that state by using his soul to somehow influence his mind. This help him to regain control over his body and to gain a certain enlightened.

Very quickly he ran towards a certain corner with a hidden space and hide himself, this space was perfect as it was behind the Queen's bed which means it is also protected by hundreds of thousands of ants soldiers.

Suddenly two hornets flew into the nest with great speed. And upon seeing them the ant was surprised then e quickly became serious as he looked forward to see if more were coming and upon seeing non he look towards the queen.

This were no mere hornets there were European hornets and were widely know for their ability to make insect colonies disappear with few of their numbers.

After flying shortly, one of the hornets landed in a unoccupied space while the other was attacked upon flying too close to the Queen's bed. A winged drone jump and cling onto it which came on expectedly to the hornet yet quickly flapped it's wings and hit the drone with it bending its neck to another direction making it fall down straight as one of its wings fell off.

As for the hornet, it seems to have been enraged as it straight up attacked the queen yet ats fell from above like rain and cling to it as it fell down it was immediately ganged up on and attacked by the joint ants.

Yet no matter how much they attack, they couldn't pierce its armor.

The other hornet attack at that moment as well and but started an onslaught against the ants not only did they kill but they feasted as they killed.

In few minutes over a large company or soldiers were killed by both of them.

And for those whom don't know, a company is compromised of 62 soldiers, while a large company is 190 soldiers.

So together but of them had killed over two hundred soldiers.

The worst parts are but of them have almost no scratch from the onslaught and are instead brining with energy. This in turn enraged the quit queen and she gave a simple order.

KILL

This time not just your average soldiers attack as this time those from the second generation lad the charge and this time the hornets could be as leisure as their were. In two or more minutes they were starting to get overwhelmed and at that moment two more hornets flew in.

This one's much bigger than the first two and probably much older and experienced than them as well. Very quickly the ants where at a disadvantage again. This in turn forced the second generation to go all out and attack the younger ones madly.

At that moment the queen gave another command, this command wasn't widespread but instead directed towards the false Queen's whom are her personal guards.

Two of the false queens attack the two new arrivals, and the ant was eager to see this special grade guards in action.

'they still have their wings?.. well they don't need to shed it after all their are not true queens'

One of the hornets noticed a large ants almost it's size flying towards it and looked at it in disdain.

It had seen many ants that size before, they had little fighting power and would hide till their people where completely massacred by herself and her gang. After they too would be killed by herself and her gang.

Without much thought she flew towards the ant and attacked the incoming flying ant in mid air.

And the next moment the hornets stinger stabbed the ant yet it didn't cause much damage as it only scratched her yet didn't penetration into her exoskeleton.

'its hard.... Impressive' the ant thought as he had been using his soul gaze to watch the battle unfold.

'but something else pics my interests... First thing I noticed is after I used my soul as force to manipulate my mind I can now smoothly do it than before, next would be the false Queen's and the hornets have similar mind waves and their spirits are more brighter even if by a little. And lastly the Queen, her mind fog is more lighter than other it's similar to how mine became when I temporarily used my soul as force to manipulate my mind' he thought

The battle carried on for an hour. And the hornets retreated in defeat with one of them being injured badly enough that it could barely fly and escape, it probably won't live long.

As for the losses on the queen colony. Over one battalion of ants were killed, around another battalion being cripple or badly injured with few seeing death soon and one of the queens special guards losing a half a wing and two legs with shallow stabs but she will survive.

The ant calculated the loses and couldn't help but shake its anty head.

'I can't live like this, I must find a way... Away, my enlightenment' he thought as he retreated back into the small cave where he had hidden.

Upon reaching inside where everywhere was dark he could still see using his soul gaze and his ant adaptation and feeling. Pushing a small rock that he had rolled inside originally to block the passage and using a stick to support it.

Then he stood at the middle of the small cave.

'now I can finally try this... '

The next moment he sent out a feeler towards his mind fog yet before it could go far he felt danger And stop. Instead he soften the feeler and made it more radiating and it's radiance started cleansing the fog.

Slowly but surely it started turning from dark grey to light grey. Yet the lighter it got the smaller the fog got.

Suddenly small light blue liquid like things started appeared and floating around in the fog. They looked like drops of rain.

'this....what are this supposed to be?' he thought.

Then he sent out the feeler to probe. And when the feeler came in contact with the water droplet he could feel a strong vibration and resonance between his being from his soul, spirit, mind and even his body.

The next moment he opened his pincers and in-between the pincer a faint glow appeared and with a little throw.

The glow vanished immediately. Nothing happened at all, not even the air vibrated to show that something happened yet he knew something happened.

'It was those lights particle that I could see with my soul gaze, the particulars gathered around my pincer yet when I throw it he powers as though nothing happened but my soul gaze saw them gather and scatter' his mind was in disbelief and disarray.

He had just discovered something which he had given up on.... Something all boys would eventually give up on, MAGIC.

'well I can't say that it's magic just yet but from my memories of all fictional base books I've read it's definitely close.....' he was unsatisfied, verily so.

'ill try again, this time I'll gather as much as I can before throwing it' he thought as he look at his mind fog and becoming surprised to see that from the five drops of water droplets, only one remains.

'it seems as though the water droplets are the source of this power...well them and the soul' he thought as he decided to start refining new mind droplets, because he knew this one wouldn't be enough for his experiment's.

Yet when he tried to refine more mind droplets he discovered that the fog had reduce so small and it had stop producing droplets no matter how much he purified it. This in turn Left him with only the remaining one and a new one which he managed to refine before it stopped producing.

'what's going on?why won't it produce? Could it be that this is my limits.... But what if I can't produce more droplets ever again?' his mind started to worry and wonder into strange directions. Slowly but surely his worries were increasing and it started developing into something bad.

INSANITY

yet at that moment his soul rippled and sent out a wave through the connecting thread into his being. Then he sent another towards his mind throw the feeler.

This ripple waves calmed his mind and corrected his stray thoughts.

'this... So... Did I just escape madness. I almost fell into depravity and insanity, his this the results of draining one's mind. The more one drains their mind the more it effects their thoughts, so straining the mind is straining ones ability to control ones though. So what would have happened if I had forced it and cleansed all the fog? 'he thought with fear.

'luckily my soul is strong and its cleansed my mind just in time... But who could have thought the soul could heal the mind?' he thought.

Suddenly he felt hungry. Looking around he found the dead bodies of two recently deceased ants and the wing of the false queen.

He walked up to one of the corpse and very quickly he started eating from the soft exposed parts. How can a eat ant you would as, is he a reincarnated civilized person you would add.

But the thing is.. four a whole week he had been eating and living like an ant, eating ant necter and devouring insect corpses. You may think that only one week and he had started acting like a barbarian.

The answer is kinda sad, you see are creatures with short lifespan and male ant, the drones have even shorter life span around three weeks if lucky. So basically for an ant a week is so many years.

An this man had been subconsciously living as an ant till he slowly and completely gains control over the body.

After a good meal,he slept a little but he didn't take long as ants are only able to take power naps.

After resting a little he discovered that his thoughts fog was rolling like clouds and seemed to have started healing and growing again.

'at this rate, it'll be refill back to the brim in a day.... But what would I be doing during that time? ' he thought.

Then he sense something.

It was the Queen's call, yet he ignored it as it seemed to be nothing serious.

Yet it came again and he ignored again, then it came the third time.

This time he wanted to ignore it as well yet a that moment a sudden realization hit him.

'That.... Might work' he thought.