Onyx

Part 4

This is set for when Diamond banished Onyx from Imperium Caeli, their homeland.

The portal behind Onyx closed with a burst of fire, stranding her on the other side of the Astral plane. She looked around at her surroundings. For some reason, she felt a spiritual presence to the place. Onyx noticed a sign, "huh, what's a graveyard?" she looked around, noting the headstones and crypts, coming to the conclusion that the human's dead did not vanish into crystal. 

Overwhelming sadness took Onyx by surprise. "I can never return home..."  She walked over to a crypt and sat on the steps. Tears began falling, black as ink, just like the her hair, eyes, magic, clothes, everything. Hell, the only thing that wasn't black was her chalk white skin. (I'm not trying to be racist guys, it's just for the sake of the story. I'm so sorry please don't hate me) 

Onyx noticed something odd. Where her tears fell, sky blue flowers sprouted. Onyx laughed a dry, miserable laugh. The universe was mocking her. The flowers her tears sprouted represented her past self. 

Onyx sat for what felt  like  hours, crying, and slowly the feeling of mournful emptiness inside her eased. 'They want a monster, let's give them a monster. Time to figure out this dark magic thing.' Onyx stood up and went into the crypt. 

'Pardon me, I'm new here, can we speak for a few moments ms... Astrum?' Onyx knocked on the crypt. The door opened and a very pale young lady, of about 20, sat up and stretched. 'Um...Hi.' Onyx said semi-awkwardly.

'Oh dear lord! Who, i mean what, are you?' Ms Astrum exclaimed. 'Why am I in a crypt? Am I dead? Are you the devil?' She was clearly freaking out at waking up in a coffin with a black Valkyrie next to her.

'Calm down, please. No I'm not the devil. Who even is that?' Onyx desperately tried to calm down the girl in front of her. 'My name is Onyx. You died in the year 2053 and I just brought you back using Necromancy.' Onyx continued telling the distraught human her life story.

By the time Onyx finished, not only was she crying, but Ms Astrum was comforting her. They were surrounded in blue sky flowers, sprouted from Onyx's tears. 'Please, call me Ava. It was my first name. I'm so sorry for everything that has happened to you. If you want, I could tell you my story? I remember it now.'

'Okay.' Onyx choked out between sobs. She had been holding in her emotions for so long, she just couldn't do it anymore. 

'I was the daughter of a very rich woman, a super thief, and she had a lot of enemies. I was a kindergarten teacher, and I wanted nothing to do with my mother's ways. After a particularly bad fight with her, I ran away and wound up getting kidnapped by one of her enemies. They tried to use me as a bargaining chip and failed, accidentally killing me with poison.' Ava whispered. 'My mother took her own life shortly after, with the same poison they used on me so we could be together again.'

'Do you want to talk to her again? I could wake her up too.' Onyx offered, much to Ava's delight. 

'You could do tha-' Ava was cut off by the sound of a portal being opened. 

Onyx was immediately suspicious, but hopeful too. 'Wait here. Someone just opened a portal and I don't know what's going on.' Onyx hissed. 

Ava nodded silently and watched as onyx crept out to see what was happening.

Onyx peered out from behind a headstone, watching as Lyulf, Ignis, Glacies, Lux, Akita, Tenebris and so many others who were loyal to her marched through the portal, heads held high despite the chains on their wrists. The last Valkyrie was shoved through the portal and the chains dissolved into nothingness. Lyulf rubbed his wrists as he took command of the situation. 'First thing we need to do is find Onyx. If I know her, she has a plan to fix this mess. Lux, lead a squadron to the nor-'

'I don't think that's going to be necessary. Ava, you can come out now.' Onyx interrupted, standing up from behind to tombstone. Ava walked nervously out from her crypt, eyeing the five hundred something colorful Valkyries in front of her.

Lyulf slowly turned around, not believing his ears. 'Onyx! Your here? Why is there a human there?' He ran towards Onyx, lifting off and gliding over the headstones to embrace her. He lifted  her up into the air, flying up a few hundred meters and slowly coming back down to earth. 'It's been so hard without you these past few months.' He said when their feet hit the ground. All around them lovers embraced each other for doubtless the first time in months. 

'Darling, it's been about an hour since they dropped me here.' Onyx said. 'This is Ava Astrum. She  was dead and I used Necromancy to bring her back to help me figure out where I am. She is the daughter of a super thief and I accidentally saw in her mind a bunker, now abandoned, that we can use.' 

'Wait, you can read minds? But I'm dead. Gosh, that feels weird to say. And what about my mother? You said you would wake her up.' 

'I did, didn't I? Do you know where she is?' Onyx always kept her word as Sky, why stop now?

Ava led them to a fancy crypt adjoined to her's with the name 'Stella Astrum'  She opened the door and teared up seeing her mother's coffin. Onyx knocked on the casket and Stella sat up and stretched. Her eyes went wide seeing her daughter next to Onyx and Lyulf. 'Who are you and what are you doing with my daughter?' Stella demanded. Ava quickly jumped in to explain everything. 

'I hate to break up the reunion, but we better be going.' Glacies stuck her head into the crypt. 'I found the location and opened up a portal. Everyone else already went.'

'Good call, sis. Lets go!' Lyulf ran out and through the portal with Onyx, Ava and Stella close behind. Glacies jumped in last and closed the portal behind her. They appeared on a desert mountain, the sunset behind them, the whole 'new beginning' cliche, facing the next step in their endless journey.

Sry if it's a bit cringe... please vote and comment. Thnx ☺️😁

- Sonea Shirosagi signing off