Growing Up

Onyx was old enough now to live on her own but she didn't move away from her family. While she was sick with the ooze, they were still all together in a family den and hadn't moved since Incendium was reclaimed. She was okay with that, and she was okay with now living mostly on her own. She had dug her own den here in the Sparse Pines, family had meant everything to her since her birth even while she was a little more coarse on the surface. They understood her while other's didn't. She wondered when or even if she would start traveling, she didn't think she could stay here for the rest of her life though.

She helped her siblings when needed whether that was a hunt, a spar, or just general company not that she was really good company. Again, they understood her and her actions and she felt like she could be herself around them. Not much others. She didn't really care about what others thought of her. She had a tough exterior. But there was just that hidden, dark feeling that she had made a fool of herself. Cinaed had left after his father's pack disband, which that may have been good reasoning. She knew Ignis didn't do his great job as a father at least for Cina. And she had put herself on the ground wailing in front of Kuroki. She didn't really have crushes or anything like that on them, she wasn't that kind of girl. But she had always wanted to be proud in herself and not think that what she was doing was driving away the wolves she was fond of. She was not doing a great job at it.

Onyx had her father help her cut and sew the leather piece of her armor while she was out collecting supplies for the rest of it. Away from her den but still in the pines, she drug out the leather piece along with a bag of small bones and a sharpening stone. Putting the leather harness to the side, she dumped out her bag of vertebrae, teeth, and just other smaller bones that she was going to shape and sharpen. She also had mixed black paint in a bowl beside her.

Fighting Seasonal Prompt
Total Word Count: 380 words
Word Count Goal: 1500 words

"Onyx"