Chapter One: Where Am I?
Amethyst's P.O.V
"Pearl! Your right!" Garnet yells at Pearl, Pearl dodges the giant claw hurling towards her. I run at the gem monster, whip in hand, ready to attack. We were in a battle against a sickly green gem monster, almost resembling a crab of some sort. Steven was with Connie for the day, he wanted us to have a relaxing vacation for one day. That didn't happen though. It wasn't our fault that a monster decided to pop out of nowhere! These things just seem to happen so often. The battle was surely about to end, we all stood there, ready to complete the mission. We all attack with our weapons, a small POOF could be heard as the monster retreats to its gem. Garnet walks over, hands steady and bubbles it.
We were at the beach in front of the temple. The golden sand resting under my boots, a cold breeze blowing through my hair, I could so get used to this. My hands were behind my head and my eyes were closed. I give out a sigh, that mission sure was tiring. Were the waves getting bigger? I shake the thought off ,that's probably just my imagination…
"Glad that's over!" I shout as we begin to walk away and head to the temple. I hear a WHOOSH and my eyebrow cocks up slightly. "What's th-" I get cut off by a strange portal attempting to suck us, The Crystal Gems, into it. "GARNET, WHY IS THIS H-HAPPENING!?" Pearl yells across to Garnet shakily. "I DON'T KNOOOOOO" Garnet was sucked into the swirling purple vortex. My eyes widen, "GARNET!" Pearl yells frantically into the purple void. Tears now stinging my eyes I manage to choke out, "PEARL I'M SORRYYYYYY" I was sucked in. The last noise I heard being Pearl screaming for me. The portal was all purple and spinning inside, its pace quicken the longer I was there. Then the world seemed like nothing, I passed out.
"W-Where am I?" I ask as I frantically search around me. I was in a desert; it looked like the ocean disappearing in Beach City because of Lapis. There was almost nothing, if it wasn't for a road and some cacti. "Where a-are the others?! More importantly, are they even here?!" I ask myself, panicking. I look at my hand, it's different! My eyes widen when I look at my other hand. It was a dark caramel color, instead of my normal purple. "WHERE'S MY GEM!?" I shout, my gem wasn't there, it was nowhere! Instead there was a necklace, an amethyst necklace! It was in the same shape of my actual gem, a circle. It looked cool! My face breaks out in a grin as I hold it in the palm of my hand.
My outfit was the same, a black tank top; my light purple leggings with the stars cut out and filled with black. I had on my white boots that began mid-ankle. My hair was a dark brown, like chocolate! It was wavy and ended by my feet. I was still pretty short. The only thing that was new was the necklace, hair and skin. I get up and start walking over to the road. I could see a sign it read "Welcome to Ridgecrest!" with a sun with sunglasses peeking out of the bottom of the sign. I began walking north of the sign, assuming that's where this city would be. I could hear the sand crunching under my boots, it was almost relaxing.
I was in the city now; the wind was blowing hard and was cold. I was shivering, my teeth were chattering. The sun was going down in the horizon. I needed to hurry or I would be stuck out here. A dark blue truck drove past me. I was almost ready to just give up trying to look, they're not here. The truck turned around and came back towards my direction. Was this it? Was I going to die on my first day? Suddenly my questions were cut off by a screeching sound. I close my eyes and pull up my arms to shield me. No impact, I was fine. The truck stopped by me on my left; I sat there confused and bewildered. Whoever was in there, rolled down the window and looked down at me.
It was a woman who looked like she was in her late teens to early twenties. Her eyes were a dark brown and had genuine concern in them. "Are you lost?" she asked, her voice was kind and soft. "Yes" I answer back to the strange woman. Her hair was a light brown and extremely curly, it looked long. She had on a strapless white tank top from what I could see. She almost looked like Rose. I decided to get in the truck; I went around it and opened the door to the passenger side.
"So what's your name little one?" she asks me. "Uh, Amethyst" I finish looking towards her. She pulls over, her eyes looked big. She stops the car and looks towards me. "It's me Amethyst, Rose" she says with a big grin plastered on her face. "I-I thought you died when you gave birth to Steven!" I shouted at her. I was young when she gave birth, I barely remembered it. Garnet told me she had to give up her physical form to have Steven. That's all I was told, we were all upset about it, but we knew we had to take care of him. "I thought I was going to. Instead I was sent to here" Rose told me looking happy to see me again.
"Has it really been that long Amethyst?! Did you know the gender?" Rose asks me, she thought I got pregnant and gave birth?! "WHOA SLOW DOWN THERE! I DIDN'T HAVE A CHILD!" I yell, my arms form a x then go down. "Garnet, Pearl and I, were fighting a gem monster and a portal appeared and sucked us up." I informed her. I realized I didn't actually know if Pearl got sucked up. Rose cocked her head sideways and had a confused look on her face. "That's peculiar…" Rose mumbled. I cocked an eyebrow up at this but I decided it wasn't important. "Well!" Rose clapped her hands together ", let's go find them!" she shouts, smiling as she started the truck up.
A/N Yes Ridgecrest is a real place in California and I don't live there I live near there. This whole story will be in Amethyst's P.O.V unless she meets a new character like Rose. This is taking place in a AU where gems don't exist. Ill upload weekly until school starts; no specific day. Bye :P