Design by @wolf-drawz art credits inside Animation meme: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1013439763 Parallax: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1013595805/ [ Chapter 1 ] [ Tagged ] It was dark. Fireflies danced on blades of grass that glistened with dew. A small cat frolicked in the meadow, scattering the little glowing bugs in his wake. He lived alone, in this meadow. Peaceful. At home with the bright flashing of the bugs. Until they came. [ 4 months later ] Amber eyes shone from the shadows as a lithe creature prepared to pounce. The bug people watched, their yellow hazmat suits matching the light from the creature's tail. It hadn't yet been tagged, like the others. But maybe it would be, soon. Hopefully. But until then, it was on it's own. The bug people had thrown him into a pit full of trees of all kinds, ash, birch, oak, sycamore... The list goes on. The creature's one task? Find the fireflies. Of course it had to find fireflies. The one thing the bug people had taken from him was the fireflies. And now he was one. That's what happened during war. That's what happened when you were the world's secret weapon. ------------- <3 ----------- "Merosk! I found you!" A light and teasing voice snapped him out of daze as a small white bundle of fluff tumbled out of the bushes. The rabbit was half rock, with shards of stone and crystal bursting through her fur. At night she'd wake up screaming in agony as new crystals shot through her skin, making her bleed and shriek. "Emerila!" Merosk cried out, grinning, "where are the others?"