The sounds of beautiful song birds chirping flittered through Night's ears, perking them up from their place on the dirt. As she shifted a bone deep aching crackled through her body, making it painful to open her eyes. But she did, because she needed ever so badly to see the light of the sun instead of the darkness trapping her behind her eyelids.
Eventually Night was able to stretch her eyelids just enough to see the world awakening around her. Light filtered in through the leaves and painted the ground around her in a series of orange shades. Last night she must had hit her head terribly hard, because of what she remembered was impossible.
Standing up, Night's muscles screamed, but she had to ignore it. She needed to get home and attend the wound across her stomach. But oddly enough she didn't feel it, even when the rest of her body ached.
She stiffened as she looked down, and saw paws the color of midnight. M-Maye they had dampened so terribly in the rain last night, they must have. A fluttering panic filled Night's senses.
She immediately looked around at herself and saw that the rest of her body was the color of the night sky. Her breath caught in her throat and it became difficult to push the air from her lungs. They were pushing down on her, hard and constricting.
A quiet, rippling pool of light, glittering water caught in Night's gaze and she immediately rushed toward it. She begged it would feed her some sort of lie and tell her everything was fine, but that all shattered as she looked down into the water.
She didn't recognize the Pokemon that looked back at her. Yes she did have those wide, terrified violet eyes, but her nothing else looked familiar. Her legs were longer, and her body had become slimmer. She had a sharper and longer muzzle, with ears that flared above her head like tall black and blue beacons.
Night didn't even want to get started with why she was an shiny umbreon, but she preceded to hyperventilate over the fact that she was just an umbreon.
Even if they were not hunted throughout the kingdom, and even if they were not banned throughout Ethos, there was still her family. The very family who hated dark types and claimed they were the scum of the earth. The same very family that had been one of the original to sign the banning of all these types. A family that would not take Night back and would never show her a room or a warm meal again. What if Zeark turned his back on her?
Night broke out into a fit of panting sobs, as she tried to control her mind from ramming into her emotions. But hadn't he already turned his back on you?
All that staying late to get closer with his soldier friends? His close friendness with the prince, and then he had left her. He usually never stepped back away from his mother when she spoke to him that way, but why did he then? He had left Night to deal with their abusive mother all by herself.
Look where that had gotten her? Look at the monster that she had now become, all because her fear and anxiety had led her to run away.
"You have led yourself right into a mess Night. Look at yourself." She roared into the forest, feeling a flaring fury like no other fill her veins.
"You, and only you, have turned yourself into this, Night. You are the one who ran away and decided to throw away the life you had. How selfish could you be?" She snarled into the water, wanting ever so terribly to hurt something.
She looked down at herself, and the thought lingered in her mind. What if that something was... No! She couldn't. Not after that promise she had made to Zeark. The promise to never hurt herself, no matter how awful she felt, because there would always be a place for her in this world. Her issue was not having a place, but that place not being by her family and friends, no matter how cruel they had been before.
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Bearer of the Stars
FantasyIt all seems normal at first for Night Kimberwick. Boring School, tough expectations of her parents, the struggle to manage a social life, but that all goes down hill during Prince Jaspur's birthday party. Night's life is suddenly turned upside down...