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Gray, Pt 1

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A three toed paw was placed onto the fresh morning grass. The big wolf growled and pulled his paw back, feeling the very energy of the color seeping into his skin. While the first wolf was  whining about the grass, the second wolf, black with many streaks of color in her fur, was already rolling in it.
"Come on, Os! We've been living in that horrible place for how long? Come on, get into the color!" she yipped like a pup. "Why haven't you showed me this place before?"
Os reluctantly stepped into the soil, getting a bit more acquainted with the feel of color under his paws. "Because, Zx. We're not going back." With that, Os waved his tail over the large gray cloud behind them. Thunder sounded ferociously, as if scolding the two wolves for exiting their colorless domain, and then it was gone. "You - we're - wanted."
Any signs of happiness faded from the young wolf's green eyes.
"... Oh."
"Now come on. We've gotta get as far away from any trace of that portal, or the pack could track us in a heartbeat."
"But we just got here, Os! We can't just start running rampant!" Zx outburst, getting upset.
"But we have to!" Zx responded with silence, and followed her older brother with regret, tail between her legs.

After some padding around, the two other worlders came across a patch of land with no grass, tall monuments, black streaks on the ground and strange multicolored things moving around like ants on them. After a moment of staring at it, Zx was the first to speak. "What do you suppose it is?" she asked blankly, not even really talking to Os, as if she was thinking out loud.
"Not a clue. But we're gonna have to go through it."
"I thought you were the smart one out of us two."
"Shut up."
Os trotted forward and onto one of the black streaks. It was hot against his pawpad, but the absence of color made it soothing. "If we follow one of these, it should take us straight through it-"
"Os!"
One of the strange things that were moving along the streaks made a strange roaring noise as it nearly rammed Os to the ground fatally. It kept on moving after the near-accident, paying not attention to the black and white wolf it had just nearly killed. Zx ran up to her brother worriedly.
"You're okay, right? You're okay?" she asked frantically. The big wolf simply nodded and licked his sister's ear.
"Yeah. I'm cool. Looks like we'll have to find some other way, because if we follow these things, they'll get us killed." Zx, in turn, nodded. What would she do without him?

The dank alleyway was home to scuttling creatures such as cats and rats. All of them looked thin, sick, or were scavenging for food. Zx could only watch helplessly, because she knew if she tried to help them, they'd scurry off. After navigating through the strange towers of gray (which Os particularly liked) they finally made it to the edge of the patch of no-grass. One question stabbed through Os' mind, though, and it was considering those strange creatures that walked on two of their legs. Of course, Os had once seen a bear do the same, but they walked on two legs all the time.
"Hey. Zx. Do you happen to have any idea what those things were?"
"Nope."
"Great. Just one more thing to add to the list of "Crap We don't Know About this Place."
A little one shot (may become a miniseries) that I'm using to introduce my new OCs, Os and Zx.

These siblings come from a world with no color. Any sort of color is considered their Satan, and any creature with color in their fur is executed immediately after birth.

Names are pronounced like they are. For instance, Ab would be pronounced Ay-bee, not ab. So Os and Zx are pronounced Oh-ess and Zee-ex respectively.

Zx is a one in a million creature. Black with swirls of many neon colors, she was hidden from the alpha of the pack to avoid execution. The alpha eventually found out and killed their parents for hiding a demon. Because of this, Os became extremely protective of his little sister, not wanting himself of herself to be killed because of her color. (Racism?)

Because of this, Os used the power drawn from Zx's many colors to create a portal to our world, where color thrives. While Os is uncomfortable around the very thing he had been trained to fear, Zx is quite comfortable here on Earth... but will other creatures accept these strange animals that have come onto their land?

And that's pretty much everything about Os and Zx before this :meow:

Os, Zx (c) ME
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Verzne's avatar
Interesting. =P

Also

"But we have to!" Zx responded with silence, and followed her older brother with regret, tail between her legs.
The "but we have to" Is Os talking right? Cause the way this is written it looks like Zx is talking. Or at least it does until you read a bit more of the sentence, then you figure it out. But until then it's somewhat confusing. =P