RainbowMunchies
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A angsty one-shot. I shouldn't have to tell you what they are.
Light the Darkness
"But you swore to me..."
"I never swore."
"Ever since we were kits you said it. We would be together. We would light the night sky with our brilliance. You swo-"
"I never swore," you hiss painfully, your brilliant teeth all I can see through my tears. Your rounded ears pull back, the bands of gold glinting in the moonlight, and even in the darkness-- even through the pools that merge at the brim of my eyes-- I can feel the look of anger and mournfulness that blankets your face.
"What... what did I do wrong? What can I do to change this?"
"There is nothing left to do. I chose this. I could never escape the darkness. We could not chase it away with our dreams"
And my mind flies back with a desperate hiss to the sound of laughter shaping around your voice. Both of us young, our hazel flanks dusted with the line of gold that let us know we were meant to be.
We were so different from the others-- not only in appearance but in thought. I taught you of kindness and beauty, and you in turn supplied me with passion and strength. The others looked as us with disdain when we said we wanted flames to one day coat our fur-- to whip with a violent beauty through the dirty winds of the deep forest. But we snickered at them from far away, the beauty of our future, and of each other, dulling our senses to their rejection.
And with a sickening speed the memory advances, to a time when we stood in the dark forest, no longer kits, your eyes glazed with the pain of another volley of hurtful words, and you cried so silently to me, all the strength you had once shown me peeled away. You cried for me to light the darkness, to light the sky and make it all go away. I tried with all my might, and perhaps I succeeded that time, for you smiled sadly up at me, and one by one the layers of strength were painfully replaced.
The images lurch, and this time we are smiling, having found the stone that will guarantee our dreams. But the smiles are faked, because there is only one, and there are two of us. I beg you to take it, but you tell me no. I demand you take it, and with such sad eyes, you tell me to take it-- that we will find another and one day light the sky together. I ask you why, and you do not answer, you just keep telling me to light the sky for you, over and over.
And so I do.
And it is another desperate hiss that dissolves these memories, and I feel the tears on my face turning to steam. I see you there, no longer small, no longer strong, no longer able to cope with the darkness in your mysteriously fragile heart. You have transformed into something new, and it is with a guarantee that you will never light the sky with me.
You turn to catch my eye. The fire I once saw is now dulled by brilliant crimson. Something sparkles at the edge of my vision. You have received the beauty and power we always dreamed of, but you could not escape the darkness of your doubts and self-hate.
You look at me one long moment.
"Light the sky for me."
And you are gone.
And no matter how long I scream fire into the sky, no matter how much I chase away the darkness, you never return.
/end
Light the Darkness
"But you swore to me..."
"I never swore."
"Ever since we were kits you said it. We would be together. We would light the night sky with our brilliance. You swo-"
"I never swore," you hiss painfully, your brilliant teeth all I can see through my tears. Your rounded ears pull back, the bands of gold glinting in the moonlight, and even in the darkness-- even through the pools that merge at the brim of my eyes-- I can feel the look of anger and mournfulness that blankets your face.
"What... what did I do wrong? What can I do to change this?"
"There is nothing left to do. I chose this. I could never escape the darkness. We could not chase it away with our dreams"
And my mind flies back with a desperate hiss to the sound of laughter shaping around your voice. Both of us young, our hazel flanks dusted with the line of gold that let us know we were meant to be.
We were so different from the others-- not only in appearance but in thought. I taught you of kindness and beauty, and you in turn supplied me with passion and strength. The others looked as us with disdain when we said we wanted flames to one day coat our fur-- to whip with a violent beauty through the dirty winds of the deep forest. But we snickered at them from far away, the beauty of our future, and of each other, dulling our senses to their rejection.
And with a sickening speed the memory advances, to a time when we stood in the dark forest, no longer kits, your eyes glazed with the pain of another volley of hurtful words, and you cried so silently to me, all the strength you had once shown me peeled away. You cried for me to light the darkness, to light the sky and make it all go away. I tried with all my might, and perhaps I succeeded that time, for you smiled sadly up at me, and one by one the layers of strength were painfully replaced.
The images lurch, and this time we are smiling, having found the stone that will guarantee our dreams. But the smiles are faked, because there is only one, and there are two of us. I beg you to take it, but you tell me no. I demand you take it, and with such sad eyes, you tell me to take it-- that we will find another and one day light the sky together. I ask you why, and you do not answer, you just keep telling me to light the sky for you, over and over.
And so I do.
And it is another desperate hiss that dissolves these memories, and I feel the tears on my face turning to steam. I see you there, no longer small, no longer strong, no longer able to cope with the darkness in your mysteriously fragile heart. You have transformed into something new, and it is with a guarantee that you will never light the sky with me.
You turn to catch my eye. The fire I once saw is now dulled by brilliant crimson. Something sparkles at the edge of my vision. You have received the beauty and power we always dreamed of, but you could not escape the darkness of your doubts and self-hate.
You look at me one long moment.
"Light the sky for me."
And you are gone.
And no matter how long I scream fire into the sky, no matter how much I chase away the darkness, you never return.
/end
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