Monochrome

M O N O C H R O M E C E R A M I S T

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Two clanmates got agitated at the gathering for the newly graduated dragons, and were building themselves up to incinerate each other. The professor in charge felt a flood of worry rush through him, and he quickly moved in between the two dragons, who were now flying above. They ranted back and fourth, and not even a few minutes had past and they released their fiery chaos. The place went dark, black, no one could see a thing. Rhiley rose from where he was, brushing dust off his shoulder. He looked around for a light switch and alas, someone beat him to it. The lights flickered on and people were rising from their fallen positions. Some were injured, and some were fine. There was a silence to the air, as the clanmates resumed their celebration. Rhiley would talk to his friends, but they seemed to pay him no attention. After a few tries he gave up and sat at a table in a far corner, next to a girl he vaguely new. She looked up at him and her eyes widened.

Rhiley: "What is it? Why are you staring at me like that?"

Girl: 'How are you....you're...."

Rhiley: "I'm what?"

Girl: "You're...."

She looks over and points to a place a little farther down from where he previously was, and his eyes widened in horror.She was pointing to his body.

Rhiley: "How could that be me, I'm right here!" He looked around for the girl he had fallen for,
and upon finding her rushed over. He rested his hand on her shoulder and called out her name,
only for her to look up with a confused expression.

She couldn't see him.

Rhiley didn't know how to take in his situation. Was this really true? Was he dead? He walked back over to the girl that he had just spoken with.

Rhiley: "How can you see me if I'm dead?"

Girl: "I-I don't know." She looked up at him with a sympathetic look.

Rhiley collapsed onto the table, and let out a large sigh.

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scene change

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Rhiley and the girl were walking down a mainstreet, and he noticed she had a camera. They had just left a restaurant where she confessed that she'd always had a liking for him, and where they had run into the young female poltergeist. The poltergeist show Rhiley the story of how she died, and how she felt she wasn't justified. Rhiley had been writing down what she was telling him, as the girl couldn't hear the young poltergeist speaking. When the poltergeist looked at him, sadness filled her eyes and she drifted away. Rhiley's eyes began to water after he had seen the vision of the girl's few last moments before her death.

He once again, collapsed back down at a table, and sat staring at nothing. He looked over and saw that the girl he'd been traveling with had a camera.

Rhiley: "Hey! We should take a picture. Then we can send it to my mother!"

Girl: "I don't think you will show up in them, Rhiley."

Rhiley: "Let's just try it anyways, okay?"

The girl released the camera from its holding, and lifted it up in front of her, leaning it over a bit to make enough room for him to fit into. She pressed the button and her camera clicked. She then turned the phone around to reveal, only herself in the photo.

Rhiley felt himself go grey.

The two ended up leaving the restaurant shortly after, and went to the memorial that their clannmates were holding for the students that passed away during their last celebration. The two sat a little farther back, and watched as they started rolling through names. Finally, they had gotten to his. A few people rose, some of his friends, some teachers, and some other people that he'd known, but most importantly, his eyes were caught by his mother. He watched as she slowly rose, and slowly walked toward the memorial that was put together for him. He felt his heart shatter as he watched her go. He could feel the immense sadness from her, on top of his own making the feelings unbearable.

The memorial had been the last evidence he needed, that he was really dead. All he had now was himself, and the girl who had loyally been following him around.