Hi my name is Moonstone, I was once a very powerful elite gem under the diamond authority, but a thousand years ago, I fled to earth and became a crystal gem.
Name: Moonstone
Gem placement: upper chest
Gender: genderless but uses She/her pronunciations.
Weapon: a long, crescent moon scythe
Powers: telepathy (rarely uses), can summon wings of starlight, shapeshifting (only if pressured to) and can heal people under the moon's glow and can see into the future by looking into a body of water lit by the full moon and can change forms and stores weapons in gem.
Personality: quiet, kind, sarcastic, antisocial and violent but has a sense of humor and can have fun. Mostly spends time with Pearl, Lapis and sometimes Amethyst (we are a terrible menace in Beach city)
Appearance: an elegant gem with white long hair that fades to a deep blue and is knee length, wears a dark blue dress that is ankle length and trimmed with white stars on the bottom, giving a galaxy like look
Allegiance: Crystal gems, Homeworld (formally)
Anyway… on with the story!
I walked into the temple where Steven greeted me. "Moonstone! Moonstone!" he called as I had my nose in a book and ignored him before entering my room.
Steven is like a little brother to me, but I prefer to be left alone some days.
I looked around my room, circular with 7 doors. I called my room 'the infinity room' because each door was marked with a number, each one led to a pocket dimensional room with a different purpose.
1 my Armory full of Armor of all kinds, more of a trophy room then anything
2 my weaponry, ok I had help from Bismuth on this one, but it's full of a thousand different kinds of weapons, both gem and human.
3 sparring room for my anger issues
4 a study room with a desk on it, along with many filing cabinets, to retrieve a subject, call out its Project name and it will appear on the desk
5 my Garden, full of healing herbs and beautiful plants and a waterfall, it's my place to wind down a bit
6 my library, possibly my favorite room, full of thousands on thousands of bookshelves, each one jam packed with books, cataloged by author, subject and in alphabetical order, you only need to call out the subject or book name, and it will appear next to you, to return a book, you hold the book up and call out the book title and say return. And it will go to its shelf.
7 my labyrinth, possibly the most complex room in the infinity room, it starts off with one entrance that leads to a fork in the path and soon into a complicated system of ways. I alone can guide the maze, changing it to as hard or easy as I wish, in the center is a clearing known as the Scrying room.
I walked to door number six and returned warriors, vision of shadows: shattered sky by Erin hunter before I called out "memory book" and a worn leather-bound book appeared next to me, hovering, I grabbed it and walked out of the room before entering room 5.
I was greeted by the familiar gurgle of water as I sat down on a bench before opening the book, a picture of Rose was there, she smiled sweetly, just as if she was still here. I turned the page to see pictures of me and Bismuth, us sparring with swords, her teaching me how to make weapons, Amethyst and bismuth laughing as I was covered with glitter and glue. Me and Bismuth laying together on the bench I was sitting on. I felt tears prickle in the back of my eyes, but I jumped as I felt Steven's hand on me.
"You… knew Bismuth…?" he asked. "Yes… I did…" I said softly, running a hand over the pictures. I started to shake as emotion overcame me. "Go… away! how did you even get here?!" I growl as Steven steps back. Suddenly, I feel a familiar hand on my back, I turn to see Garnet, who is looking at me with tears in her eyes. "Why did you do it Steven!" I yell, Garnet was using two hands to hold me back. "Moonstone. Don't do it…" Garnet warned, but I had summoned my scythe as I grabbed the book. Steven tried walking forward, only for me too swing my scythe. "Out! Get out!" I yell. Garnet summoned her gauntlets and charged me, I caught them in one hand and said, "Let's take this to the arena!"
~in the sparring room`
The dummies were cleaned out and the stands were up. Steven, pearl and Amethyst were watching us. It was one of the unspoken rules of my room that if you trespassed in my garden, you would face my fury.
"One weapon, fight until the other yields, oh, and no profanity, Moonstone." Pearl said, I smiled. "Really?" I said, but it was a rule that if Steven was around, I could not swear, I tended to swear when mad.
"And, begin!" Pearl said. "Go Moony! Woo!" Amethyst cheered as I drew my scythe and began my attack. I remembered the advice Garnet drilled into me. Never fight angry. I knew that fighting angry clouded your thoughts and made you see red.
I lunged at the fusion, who caught my blade in her hand before throwing me to the ground. I drew another scythe and charged, slashing with calculated strength, accidently hitting her gem.
Garnet unfused as Ruby hit the ground. I knew my mistake as I knelt to the ground. "I-i-I… I yield!" I said fearfully as Ruby charged me. I dropped my weapon and let Ruby take her anger out on me.
~later, the kitchen~
Pearl gave me an icepack for the burns I was nursing. "It was not your fault, you just slipped up, and Ruby will forgive you in time…" Sapphire said as she sat on the couch, Ruby was cooling off in the ocean, much to every gem's amusement. "What if she doesn't?" I asked. "You'll be fine." Pearl said. I grumbled something under my breath before I finally stood up and walked to my room.
I walked to the weaponry, the familiar heat of the room bringing back memories of Bismuth. I smiled and hummed as I worked on a sword, but a bang alerted me that someone else was here, but I already knew who.
"Amethyst! Why are you here?" I asked, going to grab a whetstone and running the blade along it, sharpening it.
"Im here to see you!" amethyst responded. "Yea right, and pigs fly." I growl. "You did make Harvey fly…" amethyst said as I remembered the spare metal I had used to make a pair of wings before shoving a pig (aka amethyst) off a cliff. I started to laugh as I took them off a rack, "come here Harvey!" I said as Amethyst turned into a pig before I harnessed the wings to her back. "You ready to fly you dumb animal?!" I asked. Amethyst wiggled her fat butt and said "yes yes yes!" as I picked her up.
~on a cliff~
"Here we go!" I said, throwing Amethyst into the air and off the cliff. "Wee!" amethyst cried out as I watched her fall "pull up!" I yell, Amethyst nodded and pointed upward, suddenly, the wings flapped as they spread to their full extent. I leapt off as my own wings unfurled and joined Amethyst. "We did it!" Amethyst said, I scowled. "You mean I did it! You did nothing!" I said over the wind, angling myself towards the temple.
"We're landing now!" I said, touching down onto the porch with Amethyst, Pearl greeted us. "Moonstone! That was fantastic!" she said happily, I smiled before realizing the sun was setting.
"It's a full moon tonight!" Amethyst said, shaking the wings off before I smiled. "That it is. Meet me in the Labyrinth at moonrise." I said before I walked to my room.
`In the Labyrinth, Scrying pool~
The beautiful room danced in the light of the full moon as it shone into the worn moon temple type room, a beautiful large bowl was in the center, little engravings in the floor made a star pattern that flowed outward of the bowl, the scent of fragrant flowers filled the room as I walked in, Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst following me.
I said nothing as I walked to the bowl and knelt before it, I let my hands brush along the ruin stones engraved in the bowl, I silently then ran my hand just above the surface of the bowl as I looked into it, the moon then reached its peak, coating the room in a beautiful light as I shut my eyes.
And opened them where I was on the beach, fire was everywhere, I looked around to see Jasper and Amethyst fighting, somehow, Jasper was no longer corrupted, I stepped forward, only to feel something under my foot, it was gem shards, it was Peridot. I trembled as I saw Greg lying lifeless, Steven's mouth was open in a silent scream. I felt myself fall to my knees as I saw myself, tears running down my face as I held shards, I ran forward, phasing through things as I looked. I saw Bismuth's shards in my future self's hands. I started to tremble, only to see a figure built like an amethyst with black hair and cold eyes, I watched my future self turn around as the gem summoned a war axe before the vision went dark…
I was screaming on the ground, Pearl was kneeling beside me as I sat up, tears were dropping on the ground. "I-i-I… im not going to scry ever again…" I whimper, Garnet put a hand on me, her face concerned. "W-w-what did you see?!" Pearl asked, she was scared, I could tell she was.
No… this will not happen… I swear it will not… I think as I stood up and open the way out.
"Moonstone, what's wrong?" Amethyst asks me. I trembled as I avoided eye contact. I growled and I walked to the library, I temporarily blocked the gems from entering the room I was in as I broke down into tears. When I slept, I always had the same dream, I was in a burning beach, gem shards surrounded me as I saw a face of a gem I had known my whole existence, her name, was Onyx.
Onyx had been my personal guard when I had served homeworld, and my closest friend, only for me to betray her for Rose Quartz…
"Moonstone, what is it? What did you see?" Garnet's voice broke me from my thoughts as I instinctively unblocked the door.
"Garnet, it's the dream I keep having, it was worse though… I think in my vision, Onyx shatters Peridot and… I saw myself holding Bismuth's shards… I-I think Onyx will start a war…. To get revenge on me…" I whimper as Garnet holds me and I start sobbing into her shoulder.
"Onyx, the Onyx Rose said you were with?" Pearl asked, stepping into the library, her eyes wide in disbelief. I look over my shoulder to see Garnet giving Pearl a 'Shut up before you piss her off' look, too late. I felt myself growl as I broke away from Garnet, I withdrew from my gem, a long sword. Pearl looked fearful as my form changed to reveal myself in a soldier's outfit, a white Diamond insignia on my chest.
"So this is who you think I am?! A Homeworld Soldier?! Why can't you see that im not one of them?!" I scream as I summon my wings before taking off out of my room and out the house, past a sleeping Steven, who woke up and said in confusion "Moonstone? You look different…"
I chuckled coldly before giving Steven a quick hug and a kiss on his forehead before telling him "Steven, I have to go on a… trip. I'll be back." Someday I think before patting his head and seeing Garnet and Pearl appear out of my room, looking panicked as I opened the door. "Tell Lapis and Peri I said hello." I said before flying off. Where I would go, I didn't know yet…