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. 

“Come on! Just for a little!” The little dinosaur would peg while trying to get his siblings to join him. He would try his best to share how he felt with his siblings almost everyday. He would run around them, splash them in the water, or playfully tackle them, but the other never wanted anything to do with it. 

“Go away, what are you even doing? Just be like you’re supposed to be” they would tell him before walking away to graze at a spot further away from him. 

“Let’s at least go chase some bugs! Sometimes they change like me if I catch them!” The little Chroma would say happily pleading. 

“Why would you chase a bug? You don’t eat them,” They would point out, not getting the point. 

“Because, I.. well I don’t know how to describe it, but its good, I like it, and it makes me kinda glow” He did whatever he could to try and convince them to join him, so that he could share they way that he felt. 

“Leave us alone” was always the response, it was times like that that made his scales a little less bright, and he blended into the environment a little more. 

He was an outcast, but it did not bother him too much when he wasn’t trying to get his siblings to join him, 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 stretched 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 scared 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. He had seen some bugs change and a couple flowers he had trampled over change, but nothing to this extent. 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 stared up in fear and backed up, the other dinosaur was bigger and had horns and growled hungrily. The big dinosaur stepped closer to the field growling hungrily and the chroma turned to run away through the field. The big dinosaur stepped into the field and stopped and seemed to just notice they way that it looked. 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 wasn’t successful. 

“Hi!” The young dinosaur said looking up at him. “You know, I don’t think you’ll be able to see more if you keep turning like that,” he laughed.

“Yeah, I guess you’re 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 haven’t 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 don’t really remember that. Everything else is really boring. Like my family, all they do is stand around all day! They don’t 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. It looked really cool and I felt like I needed to run fast as I could to get to it 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. 

He did not stop on his way back, he kept running. As he ran he noticed bugs flying past him that must have changed when they fled the field, they were flying not in the usual straight line but in zig zags and loops. He smiled at the bugs, it seemed that it had worked for them too! He hoped it would work on his herd so much that he almost knew that it would work, as long as he could get them over there. He ran by a couple of other dinosaurs that he did not see before. 

“Hey! You should go check out that big field back there! Trust me!” he shouted as they stared at him running by them. They looked at each other, shrugged and turned to go the direction of the field. 

He wanted to get back as fast as possible so he did not go the exact path that he had gone to get here, he cut straight through sections he ended up going around. Some of the shrubbery that he was brushing past changed color partly as well, this made him even more hopeful that he could help his herd feel the way that he does. It is not even that he just wanted to fit in with them and be able to play with them, he wanted them to experience the fun that he had, like that other big dinosaur.

 He did not know why things were starting to change around him, they didn’t before that field. All he knew was that running down the hill towards that field was some of the most fun that he has ever had. He has always contrasted with the pale environment, but he swore that he was even brighter, almost glowing since he started running towards the grain field. The dinosaur kept sprinting home excitedly trying to think of how he could get them to follow him to the field. He did not have much of an idea before he came to the clearing on the side of a big lake where his herd lived. 

“Hey!. . .  Everyone!” The young Chroma shouted realizing that he was out of breath. Some of them turned their heads towards him still chewing leaves they were eating but turned back after a few seconds. 

 “Follow me! I know a really cool place!” He shouted, managing to catch his breath. Most of them kept ignoring him, uninterested in leaving. However there were a few that kept watching him almost intrigued. The little dinosaur looked around at the couple dozen dinosaurs in his herd, thinking. 

“Uhm, this place… will . . .well you’ll see, just come!” The little chroma didnt know how to convince everyone to come to the grain field so that they could feel how he could feel. His glow that he had from the field was starting to dim. 

“Why would we leave? There’s no carnivores around here, and the food and water here is good, it’s unnecessary ” One of the adults said. 

“And you should stay here too, if you know what’s good for you” Another chimed in. “just because you’re like that,” the dinosaur paused and looked at him pointeedly “doesn’t mean you can’t stay put, and be like the rest of us” She finished. 

The little dinosaur suddenly became a darker shade, and sighed annoyed. He ran off to find one of the even smaller dinosaurs that had just hatched which were his cousins. He did not bother to say anything, he just kept pushing her towards the direction of the field. The adult dinosaurs did not seem to care and let him push the little one with him. Thankfully she did not put up much of a fight, and just went along with him. 

They got far enough away from the herd that it was obvious that none of the others would be following, which made his glow even more dim. 

“Look, can I stop having to nudge you along, and will you just follow me?” He asked her to stop for a minute. 

“I guess so” she responded, and started to follow him towards the field. 

The chroma picked up the pace a little and was happy that even one would follow him. He looked back at her and she had to run a little to keep up, he smiled at her, and started running a little faster. She followed him all the way to the top of the hill before the field. 

“Okay, were here” He told her, as he stood at the top of the changed grain field. Thankfully, the big dinosaur that wanted to eat him earlier had left. 

“Okay, it looks like you” She said uninterested. 

“Exactly!” He said excitedly, “Come on!” He shouted and started running down the hill like he did before. He felt a lot better than he did when he went back to his herd, his glow was coming back as he ran. The chroma looked behind him to make sure the other dinosaur was following him, and she was. 

He laughed as he ran into the tall field, scaring the bugs that had thought it was safe to return. He turned to watch his cousin run into the field, but she stopped before touching the grain. She sniffed it and took the last step in.