(OOC: 488 words. It was actually 600 words before I decided to check the first word count, so this is the short version.
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BIC:
“Stupid insomnia.”
That was all UZ could think. He had stopped trying to sleep hours ago, and by his guess, it was already 6:00 or later. He was sitting, slightly slouched, on top of a rather large rock in the forest, and to a passersby, it might seem that he was just resting from a morning jog, if he had any legs. Thoughts were cascading through his head at a rapid rate, almost moving faster than he could process them.
“When they asked me to leave the colony, I figured there might be
something interesting out here. Anything, really,” UZ thought out loud. And it was true. When he had left the colony, he had been expecting epic battles. Epic battles were what the old colony’s elders had been discussing day in and day out, after all. UZ was thinking less highly of those elders with every boring, uneventful minute that passed. It had been three weeks since he was forced out, and the only thing he had received thus far was a mild case of frostbite. His mind was being pushed to the brink of insanity not only by the incredible lack of activity, but by thoughts of his failure to himself. He had promised his master that he would never cease his training, but cease it had.
“I need training more than I ever have,” he thought. “I can’t allow myself to sit here and rot!” The tone of his voice made it sound as if he was pleading to the gods themselves, asking them for divine intervention. By this point, his body had started quivering, and one of his eyes had gone slightly askew, as if he was turning into a caricature of insanity itself. He threw his head back, and in a voice that would surprise many coming from such a small creature, roared, “I need something to happen!”
Suddenly, UZ was snapped back into reality as a rumbling occurred in the ground around him. “Earthquak-” was all he got out before his body began shaking as well. His head flew back and forth with such force that it was surprising he never smacked the ground with his sizable nose. But before anything of harmful nature could occur, as suddenly as it had started, all the movement stopped.
UZ took a second to regain his composure, and looked around. He immediately noticed that someone appeared to have replaced the forest with a desert. There was nothing but sand and rocks where the trees once were. He felt a large presence behind him, and as he turned around, his vision was filled by a majestic dome shaped building. The dome was covered in what seemed like shimmering water, giving it an almost blinding shine. The awe soon wore off, and curiosity filled the void that it had left. UZ quickly slithered towards the dark entrance, thinking “Well, I suppose this does qualify as ‘something happening.’ ”