Author's note: Just a run through of Lapis Lazuli's story, of sorts. Enjoy!
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i will drown
Crashing. Waves always crashing overhead so as to–
RELEASE ME
No. Stop. Don't think, just focus. Pull her deeper. Wrap around her tighter. Suck in the water in huge gulps and use the force to press her further down.
LAPIS
She's climbing, trying to reach for something to grab hold of. Push her, push her…
LAZULI
I am forever suppressed. Forced away from the sanction of my only home, I was imprisoned. Left alone in my solitude; gem broken, voice distant and unheard.
For years I screamed. I shouted, I hollered, I cried. But as my voice stretched and my tears fell, I was ignored. Until that boy found my mirror and I convinced him that he had found a friend in me. His ignorance was my saving grace.
Though still I was trapped. My gem broken, what use was I?
Once more he reappeared. He was kind but I didn't want his help.
But he helped anyway. So with wings sprouted, fresh and anew, my soul revived. I hadn't thanked anyone in so long I nearly forgot how. But the look on his face showed me he understood. I leapt into the air for the last time.
For days I floated. I cried from joy and watched the beads of water drift away into the stars.
Oh, the stars. My homes away from home whom I hadn't seen in eons. They themselves were eons from me but beating my wings amongst their airless gravity made it seem as though I could touch them. Their light pulsated and I swear I could feel it upon my skin. Free at last, I was going home.
Yet home had been but a dream. For the world that appeared before me was not the one I remembered. A great terror swept over me, for there was nowhere else I could go. But I didn't want to stay. I tired to flee. I tried anything to leave again but it seemed that I was just not meant for freedom.
I couldn't trust anyone. Not the Jasper, not the Pearl, not the fusion. Each way I could turn was full of deceit. But then the boy appeared. Strength in his eyes though his body shook with fear. It was with fear of my own that I realized that this was his home I was helping destroy. Next would come his turn to be locked away and never heard again. The pain it caused me; what would that do to him?
It tore at me, but when the Jasper grabbed my arm I could not fail.
I felt violated and disgusting, but I dragged her down. I would make sure it was her voice that would never be heard again.
I sit on my throne of chains and despair. Forever I must suppress the beast that wishes to emerge. She will never escape.
And neither will I.
LAPIS LAZULI
I will never fly again. I will never see my stars again. I will never again taste the winds of freedom. For the good of the boy and his people, it is here I must stay.
But it is here that I will drown.
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