green.
everything was green, unsettling, uninviting. She felt a shiver run down her spine as she walked through the green nothingness. Why wasn't she in the temple? Where was she? All she saw was green. She decided to wander around, maybe she could find something familiar, something other than all of this lime green.
While she ventured in this strange green nothingness, she noticed something. The bright lime green around her was slowly turning darker. Alot more unsettling than before. She felt another shiver surge through her body. "h-hello..?' she cried out, her voice echoed all around the green nothingness but instead of fading, it turned louder and went from all directions, swarming around her head, becoming unbearable, the echoes turned into whispers. They slowly buried into her ears with their constant quiet whispers until she couldn't take it anymore. both hands clutched the sides of her head as she almost dropped to her knees, letting out an annoyed and frightened scream "RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHH". She started running, where she was going? She had no idea, she just had to get away from her own voice in constant whispers. Running turned to sprinting as the fast moving echoes followed her ears. She felt tears sting the corner of her eyes. "MAKE IT STOP!" She cried into the now very dark green nothingness. "PLEASE" She cried out, pleading for the echoes to stop assaulting her ears . Suddenly, the echoes stopped abruptly, leaving the strange place to go silent, eerily silent. The green gem stopped her sprinting, finally able to calm down and dry the tears streaming down her face.
She inhaled a long, deep breath, even if she didn't need to breath. She looked around, expecting even more dark green. She was surprised to see black, nothing but black, 'this...is weird' she thought to herself, once again, feeling even more unsettled than before. She looked into the distance, instead of nothing, she saw a door.
Excitement and hope engulfed her small form as she broke into another sprint towards the door. She stopped right in front of it, panting and examining the door carefully. It looked like any other normal door, made out of oak wood with a silver handle. The only weird thing about it was that it wasn't attached to anything, just the air. All of the doors she had seen had been attached to something at least, a wall..something.
Curiosity overtook her and she opened it. She saw..nothing. A vast world of nothingness just like the one she had been wondering in, she decided to take a step inside, and another, and another. She did not notice the door lock itself behind her. Suddenly, she felt the nothingness around her start to blur and twist, she felt confused and dizzy. She felt her legs start to tremble, threatening to give up under her, she struggled to stay up. The blurriness around her soon faded, and she opened her eyes, expecting the same world like before. She saw...The temple? She was inside the 'beach house' as they called it, she was in the middle of the room, but it looked like she was the only resident. This had made her a lot more uneasy than before, she would prefer the weird world of green and black than this. The entire house looked abandoned as if they had been gone for years, no. Not years, centuries. Everything looked worn out and dusty, spider webs decorated each corner of each spot. Furniture was torn up and she could even see faded stains of crimson painted on the couches. Peridot, yet again, felt another shiver run through her upon seeing this creepy version of her new home. She looked behind her, there was no door. "Wh-Wha?" the green gem seemed to automatically stutter out, instead of running towards the spot where the door had once been, she ran up to the foot of the stairs. She slipped and fell on her face, getting up, she couldn't help but realize that she was slightly wet...Wait, wet? How had she not noticed? The floor was covered in water, this slightly worried her, what had happened here while she was gone? Had Lapis Lazuli come and covered their house in water? no. No, that wasn't it, Steven told her about Lazuli and how they had been 'beach summer fun buddies', Lazuli would never do this to them. The gems, maybe, but she probably knew that Steven would be very upset. This was Steven's home, Lazuli would never do this to Steven's home.
Peridot's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of sizzling water, she felt the clear liquid wash around her legs. Fear, surprise and confusion clouded her mind all at once in a hazed up mess. She didn't know the cause of this, but she knew she had to get out of there. Panic surged through her nonexistent veins as she bolted up the stairs. They weren't long and there was a window at the top, she could jump out and flee from the house, she could go and look for her friends who had once lived in it...If they weren't shattered..
AN (authors note):
yooooo, did you like that so far? It sucks i know DX i am not the best of writers, but yeah, trust me, this going to have ALOT of feels. Also...sigh yeah..another depressed/dark peridot fic..what is this one anyway? the fourth? meh, probably.
Reviews are REALLY appreciated! i will not ask/beg for them but i will say that they do help motivate me :3