Trapped
By: Adazula
Story description: Blue Pearl wasn't always this way. She took her orders and she didn't question the life she was supposed to have. Not even her fate when she broke the very rule that is unforgivable. Now here she is. Free from her oppressors, but she is still trapped in a prison she foraged on her own.
Blue Pearl clutches onto herself and rocks her way through her prison cell on the homeworld ship. She was scared. She embarrassed her leader and failed Homeworld. What she did was unforgivable. She is being taken somewhere to be destroyed. She should never had done what she did.
But she did what she did. There was no doubt about it. She knew what she did was wrong. She knew the whole time she did it from the very start.
She whimpers in fright and grunts in pain. She can't really scream. Homeworld saw to that.
She feels her cell shake when a Jasper punches her cell from the other side of the barrier.
" Shut up in there!" The Jasper shouts at her which makes her shudder violently. " You should have thought of not disobeying your orders in the first place! Now we're stuck with handling you!"
" What about cluster?!" The Peridot shouts.
" Rose Quartz takes priority!" The Jasper says. " Get back to the control bridge and set a course for Homeworld!"
" Well what about the Pearl and the Lapis Lazuli!?" She says. " We were also tasked with getting rid of her."
" We'll deal with her on the way and Lapis Lazuli later!" The Jasper grunts.
Blue Pearl shakes as she attempts to quiet down her whimpering to no avail as the Jasper and the Peridot leaves. She can't even be scared correctly. It's understandable that she was to be destroyed. Who would want a defective pearl like her?
She wearing a dark midnight blue halter neck dress with a high leg slit on her right and a low back that contrasts her light blue skin and messy short blue hair. As well as matching long gloves and leggings. A light blue ribbon wraps around her body before making a bow at the start of the leg slit. Across her face is a beautiful midnight blue translucent veil that covers across her mouth that shimmers in the light. Her polished gem is located in the middle of her chest.
Her fears disappear for a second as she suddenly sees an unusual type of gem run past her cell. It was short and stocky. It had a pink shirt and blue pants on. She wonders what kind of gem it was to have such an unusual color scheme.
It was not long after she sees the Jasper running around frantically and full of anger.
" Where is she?!" The Jasper shouts as she runs through the hallway.
Someone must have escaped. It must have been the unusual gem. Which is a bad thing. Especially since the Jasper in charge is a real brute.
Not long after hearing the Jasper shouting, the ship starts to shake violently and is falling towards the atmosphere. Fast. Blue Pearl is shocked. Don't they have a capable Peridot?
The ship becomes more violent as time moves on and before Blue Pearl could register anything that is going on, the ship makes a crashing impact.
It was only a few minutes before she comes to and sees everything aflame. The ship was destroyed. Everything was destroyed.
She touches the ground which seems strangely soft to her and grabs a handful of this substance before she lets it fall out of her hand. What kind of planet is this?
She feels like she was electrocuted when she hears voices nearby.
" Amethyst! Put that down! We don't know if it could explode!" She hears a high strung voice that seems familiar in a strange way. She just can't seem to remember.
" Relax. P. The ship can't be more exploded or damaged than it already is thanks to Garnet." A carefree voice says.
" I did what I had to do." A cool voice says.
The footsteps become closer. Which frightens Blue Pearl. She shakingly gets up and tries to run but collapses immediately. She looks down to find her left leg misshapen and deformed. Unnerved, she looks at her gem to find it has been cracked down the middle.
She starts breathing frantically as she starts crawling as fast as she could. She has to get away. She has to get away!
" Huh? Guys! Look! There's another gem!" She hears the carefree voice which sends Blue Pearl into a full blown panic.
Knowing it's no use, she tucks herself into the fetal position and shuts her eyes as she shakes violently as the footsteps rush to wherever she is.
" Guys. Her leg." The carefree voice says.
" She must have cracked her gem. What do you want to do Garnet?" The high strung voice says.
" We better get her to the fountain." The cool voice enters the conversation.
Blue Pearl goes rigid as feels hands slowly go under her and pick her up bridal style before she feels the person make a run for it with her in their arms. At this point, she was at a level of fright where she can't make herself whimper or cry at all. She doesn't know what they're going to do to her and she's scared. She knows she should accept her fate, but she's scared. All she can do now is keep her eyes shut.
Before she can even think the next thing on her mind, She is suddenly submerged in water. She opens her eyes and sees pink water around her. She doesn't know what to make of this, but she doesn't move. This is all new to her and for some reason, it's pleasant.
Has she been shattered? Did the ship crashing finally end her existence and this is some sort of after effect. This euphoria. This feeling of being safe. It has to be. The life of a Pearl does not feel this way.
She then sees glowing coming from her gem and feels her physical pain melt away. But along with her pain disappearing, she starts to feel weak. Her eyes threatened to shut and she lets it as someone pulls her out of the water. If she was to be shattered by these gems, she might as well give into her wants for one last time.
Blue Pearl jolts awake and rolls off of what was that she was laying on. She is still shaking from what's going on and is hyperventilating. She looks down and touches her gem in shock. It's been fixed. Which doesn't make sense. She was supposed to be destroyed.
She looks around of what it appears to be her new prison cell. Only this time it was more pleasant looking.
The walls were like crystals. They shimmer with different angles and different lights. There was a bed which was never present in the last prison she was in. When in any place she really was in. Pearls don't sleep. They work for their masters. Whom are the ones allowed to have the pleasures to sleep.
The prison also has a door instead of a barrier that prevents gems from leaving which leaves Blue Pearl baffled. Is this primitive or what?
" What kind of place is?" She thinks before she hears footsteps coming towards her cell door.
When Blue Pearl hears the door open, she jumps out of the bed and runs to the farthest wall as fast as she could. She knows she can't escape, but it was on that instinct of hers to get as far away from the door as possible.
She squeezes herself into a ball and tucks herself into the corner as much as possible. As she hears footsteps come closer to her, she starts to shake and whimper. She shouldn't whimper, it guarantees her to be destroyed in a slow painful manner.
She closes her eyes as tightly facing the corner as she could when she senses whoever is behind her is within arms length of her now. She tenses at the thought of her fate.
But then something unexpectedly happens. A hand gently touches the back of her head and runs its fingers through her hair in a very gentle manner almost comforting.
She shudders in response and whimpers even more. She doesn't what to make of this. What is this gem doing to her?
" Don't be afraid." The cool voice tells her quietly. " We're not going to hurt you."
But it causes her to shake more violently and whimper more loudly. Blue Pearl can't believe it. She shouldn't believe it. She just wants it to get her beating over with and for the gem leave. Leave her to her emotions.
The hand slowly leaves her hair and she hears the footsteps become more distant as whoever was there left her cell and shut the door. Which confuses her. Where was her punishment?
This is a short story I wanted to do for a bit and it has gone through several changes. Mainly the characteristics of well the main character. She is definitely different from what I am used to writing. So please be patient because she is very childlike for a reason.
The story won't really be more than five chapters and hopefully I will finish before I go back to school and get back into my regular stories for the rest of you guys waiting. I guess because of all that is going on in my life this is my way of coping with the losses. I really do want to get back into the swing of things. Blue Pearl is really me right now.
Anyway. Enjoy the first chapter.
Please tell me what you think.