Wild Flowers - Chapter I

Instructions

ᴡɪʟᴅ ғʟᴏᴡᴇʀs 'ᴜɴᴀ ʜɪsᴛᴏʀɪᴀ ᴅᴇ ᴛʀᴀɢᴇᴅɪᴀ' ᯽ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪ ᯽ sᴀʟʟɪᴇ's ᴘᴏᴠ I look at my small, delicate paws. Should I really be looking into this? At this time? Right here? I doubt myself and all my decisions that lead up to this moment. Was I really going to be a coward in front of my new friends? No way! This was my moment to be friends with the popular kids and to show everyone that I wasn't the weird and quiet kid they thought I was. I wasn't going to let this moment go to waste and ignore this random black goo that was just sitting on the floor...  Random black goo? What was it? I looked back at my friends who were watching me with their judging, sharp and cold eyes. I felt their gazes dig into me but I ignored them and took a step towards the mysterious black substance. Then I gasped. The black goo now had strands of gold in it. Now this is getting weird, but I need to show them that I'm worthy of joining their group! Here goes nothing... I got closer to it so I could easily reach out my paw and touch it. I was shaking, more people were gathering around and watching me. Some of them were chanting to me to touch it as others joined in. As I looked over my shoulder one last time I saw my old friend Lunar. Lunar. The one other student I was close with. The one student I pushed away for my new friends. Oh, what have I done? I turned back to the black-gold liquid on the dew-sodden grass and sighed. I'm going to have to do this, aren't I...? I took a deep breath and touched the strange substance... suddenly I could feel a tingling sensation in my paw. It paralyzed my whole foot. No. My whole leg. What was happening!? I just wanted to get out of here! Run away from this place, from this substance. But I couldn't. I was trapped. People were now getting worried, gasping, stuttering, backing away slowly, but no one helped... no one... I yelped as I tried to move my paralyzed leg. Then I realized that my other leg was stuck, and then my hind legs, then I felt and saw it moving up my legs. I felt it going up onto my back and just decided to go limp. There was nothing I could do now. I was hopeless. Completely and utterly hopeless. I'm sorry Lunar, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry! I'm just so sorry! It covered my eyes and I felt them being forcefully shut. I began to feel faint and dizzy. My legs were giving up. I couldn't see anything. It was like, well, death. But is this really what death would feel like? Who knows... It was only a matter of time before my eyes flung open to... a magenta-coloured forest?! What on Earth was going on here? Where and what was this place? Was it real? Was I just imagining things? Just then a white and black creature appeared from the bushes.