Obliviating Onyx [Discontinued]

Chapter 1

 Chapter 1

The sea was beautiful but deadly. I could see the lightning strike the sea and send a shock of light through the air. I stepped out of the coverage of the cave. I could feel great droplets of water splash my face. I knew the storm would last long. At least, I told myself, it was not snowing. Looking back at the gray blue sky I studied the clouds moving and covering the sun.

I signed about to turn around when I was consumed in darkness. No that was not right, the world was in total blackness. The dying sun that fought for life had just blinked out. Just like my hope in that moment that the world would be healed.

"Onyx!" I heard my frantic father call. "Where are you? Onyx!"

I stepped back in the cave and focused on getting too where my father was. I slipped on the wet stone and went tumbling down in the cave. I landed with a loud thud. Feeling warm wetness trickle down my brow made me cursed for my clumsiness. I stood again, slightly dizzy and made my way through the tunnels of the cave. Thank the Goddess, that I grew up in these tunnels or I might of been dead by now.

I listened to my father and called out,"I'm here!"

Hearing a hiss, a swirled to find a glowing pair of feline eyes. "Damn cat." I muttered and hurried until I heard the shuffled of my father's feet.

"Thank God that you're okay." My father's deep voice sang through the darkness.

"What happened?" I asked

"What we knew would happen. The sun died out."

Hearing the bitterness in his voice took me by surprise. He was not one known to be bitter, but kind and gentle. I sat down and took the puzzle piece by piece. The storm was still roaring through the darkness and echoing my thoughts. I was not even there for a minute before a light so bright shot through the cave and world. I blinked it had gotten dimmer but was still there. The sun was back.

I laughed and ran through the tunnels with joy clutching my heart. When I turned my face to the sky my breath escaped my lungs. This was not because of the fiery sun. No the sun was not yellow and orange. It was blue. The deepest electric blue in the world. It was not my sun. It looked like a ball of blue fire.

"Onyx?"

"Yes?"

When my father did not answer I turned around. I took in his shocked expression. It was not from the sun but... Of me.

"What is it?" I asked carefully not knowing if I wanted the answer.

"Your... Hair." He se emed too struggle for those two words.

Very slowly I looked down and grabbed a strand to hold out in front of me. I gasped and ran to the ancient looking mirror that we had in the cave. No, I saw my hair perfectly the first time. My straight midnight black hair was not anymore. In its place was electric blue hair streaked with purple and white that curled slightly in perfect waves. Not only that the iris of my eyes were not green anymore but a shocking gold yellow.

I let out a yelp and collapsed into my own darkness...

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In my darkness I dreamt. I dreamed about how the world was before. Before the meteor happened and technology died out. How the world was monster free and the sun shined in radiant rays. When there was no storms that lasted for weeks and sometimes months. Where there was machines that could lift you in the sky and metal wagons that could outrun all the dangers.

I wanted that life. I wanted it so bad I could feel the rays of the sun shinning on my pale skin and in encasing the world in its soft melodic glow. Yet, that could never happen, because that world stopped being my world seven hundred and thirty-one years ago. Though I was not born then, I heard stories and legends about how the world once was. Where it was not decaying and falling to ash. That was in 2315. That was the year the meteor happened.