Long ago the world did not look as it does today. The world was dull, and void of all color. The grass was not green, the ocean was not blue, and all the world’s creatures did not bear their beautiful colored coats. There was a time when everything was black, white, and tones of grey. The leaves on the trees did not change in autumn, and the flowers did not show their colorful blooms. No one knows if all of the colors have been discovered yet; there might be hundreds more that have yet to be revealed. The world will not know unless a new Chroma is revealed. 

Over time, each color was brought into the world by a Chroma. Each color had to be discovered. Each color has a purpose. Each color has a history. Each color has a Chroma. A color’s Chroma is who discovered that color and brought it into the world.  The first Chroma, a young dinosaur, discovered the first color. This is the story of yellow.

The storm started slow at first, started with a slow drizzle of rain throughout the land. Soon however, the rain fell harder, and harder and the thunder grew louder. There had been storms before, but none this big. Flashes of white lightning took over the sky and the rain and thunder were the only things that could be heard. 

A cluster of eggs was sitting out in the storm, they did not have shelter from the rain and thunder, and their mother was nowhere to be found. One flash of lightning, that was bigger and different than the rest lit the sky and struck one of the eggs. That lightning did not break the egg, but it did change it. The egg glowed for a few moments before dimming, but it stayed different than the rest. The egg became unique, it shone brighter and different. We know now that the egg was shining yellow, and that egg was the beginning of the first Chroma. 

A few weeks after the storm the eggs began to hatch. The Chroma’s egg was the last in the cluster to hatch. It was immediately obvious that more than the little dinosaur’s egg was different. The young dinosaur matched his egg in the same contrasting way from the rest of the environment and other dinosaurs. His personality was just as individual as his appearance, all of his siblings did not do anything too different than the older dinosaurs, they were herbivores so they stood around and grazed all day. That bored the dinosaur, he wanted to run around with his siblings, but they would not join him, instead they ignored him and went back to grazing. They just wanted to either sleep or stand around and eat all day long. They ignored him, and he did not fit in. The Dinosaur wanted this to change, he knew that the feeling he had when he was running around, playing and exploring was a good one. He wanted others to feel it too. But when he tried to get them to feel the same, they would just turn away and continue to be miserable and boring, because that is all they knew. The Dinosaur did not know why he was different or why he had these feelings. He wanted to share them he knew they were good, but he couldn’t, they didn’t even give him a chance to show them how it felt. 

He was an outcast, but it did not bother him too much, he found his own way of entertaining himself. He would go off exploring by himself and chase bugs and smaller creatures. He would be away from his siblings and the rest of his herd for hours at a time, but they did not seem to care. They just did not like to run around, explore or play like he did. All he wanted was for the others to want to join him, he knew that he felt good when he was doing so, and he wanted to share that. 

Oftentimes he would meet others on his adventures, and they always seemed to stare at him for a longer period of time than normal. Sometimes they would turn and whisper to their friends, but then go back to whatever they were doing before. The strangers that he met did not seem any more interested in playing or exploring with him than his siblings did. 

One day on one of his many adventures he came across a particularly interesting field. Big flowers were poking out of the tall grain waving in the wind. The young dinosaur had never come out exploring this far from his family in this direction before. The grain was not trampled or eaten down like all of the grass was closer to his home. He stopped at the top of a hill nearby and smiled and looked down at it. He felt connected to this tall grey field somehow. The Chroma began running down towards the field laughing. He felt that he had never run as fast as he did then, he lept forwards every now and then to get closer to the field while whooping with joy. Tons of bugs and critters fled out of their hiding place as he came barreling towards the grey grain field that was almost as tall as he was with his long neck stretch out. This made him laugh harder and run faster as they flew up around him. 

As soon as the chroma ran through the first few inches of the field, a big wave rippled through the grain from him. This scarred the rest of the bugs and creatures living within it away in a big swarm around him. As the ripple went through the field it changed, and caused a gust of wind. As the ripple poured through the grain and flowers, it changed. The chroma stopped running and looked around in awe at the grain. The ripple continued further, and reached the other end of the field. The field had transformed, it shined bright, it did not glow but it was still bright. He was confused as to what had happened, but he smiled at the field. 

Another dinosaur walked up to the field and looked between the newy changed grain and the dinosaur. The young dinosaur backed up, the other dinosaur was bigger and had horns and growled hungrily. The big dinosaur stepped closer to the field and the chroma turned to run away through the field. The big dinosaur stepped into the field and stopped. Just as he stepped into the field streaks of the same brightness of the field appeared down his back and tail. He seemed to forget about the young dinosaur and looked at his tail and what he could see of his back and smiled. The chroma stopped running when he realized he was not being chased and looked behind him, the big dinosaur. He smiled and went up to him cautiously. The big dinosaur kept turning in circles to see more of the new streaks on his back but he wasnt successful. 

“Hi!” The young dinosaur said looking up at him. “You know, I dont think youll be able to see more if you keep turning like that” he laughed.

“Yeah, I guess youre right” The big dinosaur chuckled, he seemed to forget his hunger for the time being. “What happened to this field kid” The big one asked looking around the field with amusement. 

“I dunno! I ran into it and it changed to look like me! And then you walked into and changed like me too! Your stripes look really good by the way! They are like me! I havent seen anything else like me, well except for my egg I guess, apparently it looked like me too after a big storm anyway but I dont really remember that. Everything else is really boring. Like my family, all they do is stand around all day! They dont want to run around with me, so I usually just wander off and explore all of the time which is how I found this field. I looked really cool and I felt like I needed to run into as fast as I could and then it changed”  He said excitedly. 

“Thinking back on it, I have been really bored all of the time.” The big dinosaur looked up  and smiled. Without saying anything else he smiled and ran past the little dinosaur and ran through the field laughing. 

This gave the little chroma an idea. He chuckled and started to run back the way he came from. He was running home to get his family to come to the field.