Author's Note: Alright, another chapter! Enjoy!
Midnight splashed her left eye with water. Her eye was still purple. Midnight opened the medicine cabinet and grabbed an eyedropper. She squirted some medicine into her eye. Her eye was still purple. Midnight rubbed it ferociously. Nothing changed. Midnight began to panic.
"Midnight!" Midnight's mother suddenly called. Midnight stopped dead in her tracks. She couldn't let her mother see her eye. Midnight ran into her room and dug through her closet. She grabbed a pair of sunglasses and placed them over her eyes.
Midnight casually walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. Midnight's brother and sister were already sitting at the table. Crossfire, Midnight's brother, was a green hedgehog with yellow streaks on his quills and red eyes. Sundown, Midnight's sister, was a pink hedgehog with long quills and purple eyes. Midnight's mother was washing dishes but stopped almost instantly when Midnight walked in. Midnight's brother and sister stopped eating. They all stared at her uneasily.
"What?" Midnight asked as she sat down at the table.
"Honey, why are you wearing those sunglasses?" Midnight's mother asked.
"No special reason." Midnight answered.
"Is that some new style or something?" Crossfire snickered.
"Shut up, Crossfire." Midnight snapped as she ate her breakfast.
Walking into class that morning was not the easiest thing in the world for Midnight. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at her. Midnight tried not to notice them. She took a seat by her friends and pulled out a book. Some of the other kids started to giggle. Midnight's friends just stared at her.
"Midnight, what's up with the fashion?" Latch asked.
"None of your business." Midnight answered. Midnight's teacher walked in.
"Alright class. Today we're going to-." Midnight's teacher started. She was cut off, for she noticed Midnight's glasses.
"Midnight, take those glasses off." Midnight's teacher ordered. Midnight was hesitant, but slowly she removed the glasses. Once they were fully off, everyone gasped at Midnight's purple eye. Midnight's teacher walked over to her and inspected her eye.
"Go to the nurse's office." Midnight's teacher ordered. Midnight sighed and did as she was told.
The nurse wasn't sure of what to do either, so she sent Midnight home.
The next day, as Midnight washed her face in the bathroom, she looked into the mirror to see if her left eye had been cured, but she found something entirely different. Midnight let out a scream. The pupil in her right eye was now a light shade of orange.
Midnight's mother ran into the bathroom. Her mouth dropped at the sight of Midnight's eyes. She ran over and inspected them.
"Midnight, what did you do?" Midnight's mother asked.
"I didn't do anything! I don't even know what's happening to me!" Midnight explained.
Midnight's mother took her to the eye doctor that afternoon to discover the enigma of Midnight's eyes.
The eye doctor inspected Midnight's eyes with a bright light.
"I've never seen anything like this before." The doctor explained.
"I've seen dogs with two different colored eyes, but I've never seen a human with different colored eyes. And I've never seen eyes with these colors." The doctor explained as he looked into Midnight's pupils.
"Is there anyway we can get rid of them?" Midnight's mother asked.
"Well, I'm not entirely sure. To be honest with you, I've never experienced anything like this before. The only thing I can recommend is to just wait and see if it gets better." The doctor answered.
The next day, as Midnight and Latch were sitting in the cafeteria eating lunch, Midnight caught sight of the school nurse.
"I'll be right back, I want to talk to the nurse." Midnight explained to Latch as she stood up. Midnight didn't notice the small step that led to the hallway, so she tripped on it. Midnight let out a yelp and everyone turned to her. Just before Midnight hit the ground, her wrists began to glow a pinkish color and she was slowly levitated back to her feet. Everyone in the cafeteria stared at her in awe and shock. Midnight turned to them. She quickly thought of a plan.
"There are eye tests in the art room." Midnight explained. Everyone instantly stood up and began filing out of the cafeteria.
Later that night as Midnight sat in her room inspecting her wrists, she wondered what in the world was happening to her. Midnight tired to think of a logical explanation, but it seemed almost impossible. Midnight sighed and turned off her lamp. She laid down on her bed and looked up at the starry sky. She suddenly remembered the wish she had made on the Taishita star.
"Is this your doing?" Midnight asked, even though she knew she would not receive an answer. With that, Midnight drifted off to sleep.
The evening breeze pulled Midnight out of her sleep. Midnight turned to face her clock. It was currently ten o'clock and the lights in Midnight's home had been shut off. Midnight turned to the window.
A bright light suddenly began to glow. Midnight gasped softly. The light slowly developed into a white orb. The orb hovered into Midnight's room. A bright light suddenly flashed.
Once the light faded, Midnight gasped to see a woman hovering in her room. The woman was none other than the woman she had seen when she watched the Taishita star fall.
"Hello Midnight." The woman greeted. Midnight stared at her in awe. She tried to be polite and say hello, but that wasn't what came through her lips.
"Who are you?" Midnight asked. The woman smiled.
"I am Tishia. Your guardian angel and the keeper of the stars." Tishia answered.
"M'am, I think you've made a mistake. Guardian angels don't really exist." Midnight explained.
"Midnight, please listen to me. Have you ever wondered what your future holds?" Tishia asked.
"Sometimes, but not a lot. I find it best not to fret on those kind of things. After all, they're a long way off." Midnight answered.
"No, Midnight. Your future is very near. Your destiny is soon to occur." Tishia explained.
"Well, what is my destiny?" Midnight asked. Tishia closed her eyes and Midnight's wrists began to glow a red color.
"To circle to earth for all eternity,….as a falling star." Tishia answered.
"Midnight, you were born from the cosmos. Your home is not on Earth. You were destined to protect the cosmos and the stars of your true home from the moment you were born." Tishia explained.
"Then what am I doing here on Earth? And why am I in hedgehog form if I'm a falling star?" Midnight asked.
"Because when you were very young, the Earth below called to you. Your soul wished to answer that call and so, you fell to Earth, but this is not your home. You must return to the stars where you truly belong and began your course around the Earth." Tishia answered.
"Where do I start if I want to achieve my destiny?" Midnight asked. A bright light suddenly flashed.
Midnight opened her eyes and turned around in her bed to see that Tishia had vanished.
"I knew it. It was just a stupid dream." Midnight groaned as she turned on her side. Midnight suddenly heard the faint sound of shattering glass. She turned to see the floor of her room shattering into millions of pieces like breaking glass. The pieces of the floor fell into a white abyss. Midnight's whole room began to shatter to pieces. Midnight turned to the door. She jumped off of her bed and into the hallway. Midnight ran to her mother's room and opened the door only to find the room empty.
Midnight turned to see that the unknown force was shattering the hallway. Midnight slammed the door and ran to her brother's room. She quickly opened the door to find it empty as well. It was the same for her sister's room. Midnight began to panic. She looked around the hall. The force was pursuing her. Midnight darted down the stairs with the force hot on her tail. Pieces of what was once the second floor of Midnight's home were flying everywhere. Midnight looked around.
"MOM! CROSSFIRE! SUNDOWN!" Midnight screamed. No one replied. Midnight looked around frantically. She suddenly caught sight of the door. Midnight ran to the front door and hurled it open. Midnight gasped at the sight of what was beyond her home.
The neighborhood had transformed into some sort of ocean with golden glowing water. Midnight's house now sat on a small island right in the middle of the sea. Midnight turned around and watched her home dissolve into thousands of tiny pieces. The pieces melted into the ground of the lone island and vanished.
Once all of the pieces had vanished, Midnight looked at her surroundings. There was no way off the island. Midnight crouched down to the water. She slowly moved her index finger towards it. Midnight gently touched the water.
The water instantly began to plummet like a waterfall. The water plummeted into a white abyss that the glass had fallen into as well. Midnight knew that the island would soon plummet into the abyss as well. She looked around for any sign of an escape. Midnight suddenly spotted a thin rope that stretched out to another island across from the island she stood on. Midnight wasn't sure she could obtain the balance to walk across it, but she had no choice, and time was running out.
Midnight slowly placed one foot onto the rope. She then placed her other foot onto it. Midnight stumbled a little bit, but she slowly regained her balance and began to walk across the rope. Midnight clenched her teeth in fear and concentrated as hard as she could onto the rope.
As Midnight placed one of her feet in front of the other to take another step, she slipped and began to plunge into the abyss. Midnight screamed as she fell. Midnight squeezed her eyes shut.
"It's over. It's all over. I'm going to die." Midnight thought. Midnight suddenly felt wind blowing through her fur. She opened her eyes to find the starry sky swiftly charging towards her. Midnight turned to see the white abyss and the golden ocean growing smaller and smaller. She turned to her right and gasped almost instantly.
Midnight's right hand was glowing a cherry red color. Streams of yellow, blue, green, red, orange, purple, every bright color imaginable combined protruded from her fingers and wrist. Tiny white spheres that appeared to be stars flew through the streams. Midnight turned to face her left hand. The same thing was happening to her left hand. Midnight looked up to see that her feet were doing the exact some thing.
Midnight looked around and realized that she was flying. The energy from Midnight's hands and feet were yielding this ability. Midnight was sure of it. Midnight was flying to no real destination that she knew of. She was just flying up. Up into the star struck sky. A bright light suddenly flashed and before Midnight knew it, everything went black.