There Comes A Day

What Onyx once believed was a blessing was now so obviously a curse. She was punched into reality with her last meeting with Kuroki where the crystals she saw as similar to his own horns put her on the ground in pain. If the crystals were mutations, mutations hurt like hell. But as she saw the different creatures around, few in the northern lands closer to home in the last few weeks, she understood that the crystals were in fact some sort of plague rather than a gift.

The crystals had grown heavily along the length of her front legs, to the point where walking had become unbearable. She also had a trail of thicker crystals along her cheeks and jaw but they affected her a lot less than the ones on her legs. Her parents and siblings were almost her caretakers at this point. Hunting and her favorite, fighting, would no longer be on her agenda. She wondered if the crystals would ever go away, or if she was going to live out this lowly fate... Maybe ask one of her family for a mercy kill after so long. That wasn't on her mind though, maybe just a late night thought but not anytime soon. She wasn't so weak.

Laying on the furs of a portion of the den that had been dug out for her, Onyx shivered from the cold though it wasn't really all that cold inside the warmth of the den.

"Onyx"