(Sapphires point of view)
A week.
It's been 7 whole days since the diamonds invaded earth. 7 days since my whole life came crashing down around me. 7 days since i saw the sky it's natural shade of bright blue. Nowadays it's always various shades of dark grey. Even though it's only been one week, i can barely remember what life was like before the "apocalypse", which is what we call it, because that's what it feels like, the end of everything.
Day 7 of the apocalypse.
The invasion process began nearly a month ago, when the town of beach city experienced the first disastrous storm in years.
But even though our small town has experienced natural disasters before, something about this time was off. As the rain came down harder, the sky filled with lightning. Big bolts of yellow filling up the sky, shaking building walls with each BOOM. Even after the storm cleared, things still seemed suspicious. All the plants and crops growing were soon dead in the matter of days. Every flower, tree, piece of grass, dead. After that came the earthquakes.
They seemed small at first. Nothing to worry about we thought as we continued with our day. But the more frequent they came, the more violent they got. It got to the point where everywhere you looked things were falling apart. Giant cracks in the roads, making it impossible to leave the town in any type of car. Buildings crumbling apart, leaving people without homes. We lost our close friend Bismuth in all the chaos. We fear she has been captured or worse, killed.
The damage also took lives. At least 8 people were dead within the first 2 days. So here we are a week after, barely alive. As far as i know we are the only humans left. By we I mean me, my girlfriend Ruby and our friends, Pearl, Amethyst, Steven and peridot. oh and jasper, well sort of. she wasnt really "one of us". she usually just hung around, even though no one could stand her. we should have known she was evil. from the way she laughed at the people who were scared of the unusual amount of lightning, to the way she smirked as we all ducked for cover during each earthquake. She was part of it. She was loyal to those who sought out to kill each and every human. She was loyal to the diamonds. But we learned that to late. By then we had already lost to much. Were seperated from our friends. First bismuth. Then it was Greg. Next, Lapis. She was out on patroll with jasper, though before she realised she was with a traitor, it was to late. We haven't heard from her since. Its been weeks and still no signs of her or Greg.
We call ourselves the crystal gems, earth's last survivors (the whole team name thing was Stevens idea. The poor kids been through a lot, so we went with it to keep him happy). Steven was always like a son to me. Ever since his mother Rose, who was a close friend, passed away during childbirth, me and the others have been helping Roses boyfriend Greg raise their son. Greg is a nice, funny guy and a great friend. Sadly during the diamond invasion we were separated from Greg. Steven was devastated, but optimistic that we will find him.
Eventually.
If you are confused, the diamonds came to earth 7 days ago but the earth started dying a month ago. The diamonds poisoned the the earth so it would be easy to take over. If you've ever read the book or watched the movie of the 5th wave, it's kind of like that. The storm and earthquakes were like stages of the earth breaking down and collapsing, ending with the diamonds (who are ruthless aliens in this story) coming to earth.