Beach city, a small little town in North America on the western coast. Most of the businesses were family owned, but there was one place that was for those who were more 'mature'. This place was The Jewelry Box.
The camera pans down to the sign, which was a neon sign of a jewelry box opening and closing around the title. At the door stood a large woman with long white hair, orange skin and what looked like a gemstone where her nose should be.
The other woman besides her had black hair as big as the first woman with purple skin and a pair of shades with a mean frown on her face.
"Slow night, hey Sugilite?"
"Sure is Jasper." nodded the purple skinned woman. She then spotted someone walking on the Beach heading straight toward them. "Then again, maybe not."
Whoever it was wore a dirty pair of sneakers, blue jeans with holes everywhere, and and a ratty green Jacket with a hood covering their face.
"Hold up." spoke Jasper to the figure. "You gotta be at least twenty-one to get in."
"Greg sent me." the figure said in a young feminine voice.
That got both woman's attention as Jasper let the figure by. "Look for Rose. She's the large woman with a link stone."
The figure nodded and walked inside. The place was rather elegant for a Gentlemen's club. Marble columns, hand crafted furniture, a chandelier on the ceiling, scented candles, and a stage connected to a cat walk.
She looked around for the woman she came so far to meet. On the stage walked a woman with pale skin, blue eyes and orange hair. She was tall with a pointed nose, and unusually large feet. In her forehead was a pure white gem
She danced along the stage like a ballerina.
The figure waited for a moment and watched her. "Wow, she's really good."
The other onlookers thought the same. Their admiration clear on their faces.
The figure shook their head before continuing their search. On the left side of the building she found the stairs. She walked up them and found a door with a strange pink symbol. She walked up to the door and knocked.
"Come in." spoke a female voice through it.
She opened the door and poked her head inside. "H-Hello?"
"Come inside." the woman said kindly.
The figure gulped and complied.
"Well now, you must be the girl Greg told me about."
"Yes, that's me." she replied with her hands behind her back.
"No need to be shy, take off your hood."
The figure reached up and shyly pulled her hood down. The girl had tan skin, auburn hair and blue eyes. "My name is Lana."
"Hello Lana, I'm Rose Quartz."
"I was told that you could help me." Lana said.
"I can." Rose replied with a nod. "Tell me, what is it that troubles you?"
"My father."
"Please Tell me more." Rose said with a look of concern.
"For as long as I could remember he's been cold and hard. He never really did anything for me or my mother. Whenever he was upset he'd take his frustration out on us."
"I see, tell me about your mother."
"Well, she was a kind woman who tried everything in her power to take care of me." Lana smiled. "I loved her with all my heart. She protected me when my father came home in an angry drunken stupor. That is until she got sick."
"What happened?"
"Cancer."
"I'm so sorry."
"On the night she died she told me about how you take in girls in need of help and gave me enough money to get to Beach City. She told me to leave immediately, but I wasn't able to take anything else be for my father got home so I ran with nothing else but the clothes on my back."
"Well you made it here, and I will help you." Rose stood from her seat and walked over to hug the girl. Lana instantly felt warm and safe upon her touch. "No one will hurt you here Lana."
"Thank you." she smiled with tears in her eyes.
*knock* *knock*
"Rose?"
"Come in Garnet."
The door opened as a woman with shades, an afro, and a magenta colored outfit walked in. "It's closing time Rose."
"Thank you Garnet."
"Who's this?" Garnet asked looking at the new girl.
"Lana. She's going to be living with us from now on."
"Ah, so she's a new addition?" Garnet smiled. She stepped in and closed the door behind her. "I look forward to getting to know you Lana."
"Thank you."
"Garnet, gather the others so we can begin Lana's initiation."
"On it." garnet nodded walking out.
"Initiation?" Lana questioned
"That's right in order to join us you must be initiated, and you must do exactly as we instruct you. Understood?"
Lana nodded.
"Very good, now let's go introduce you to your new sisters."
That's when the door opened. One by one girls of all shapes and sizes filed in.
"Everyone, this is our newest initiate, Lana." Rose introduced.
"Sup." greeted a small girl with purple skin and hair.
"Uh, hi. Wow, so your my 'sisters' never had siblings before. Ah, I like your body paint."
This made everyone giggle.
"What?" Lana questioned
"You'll understand soon enough." Rose said to her then looked to a pair of abnormally small girls. One with red skin and dressed for a fight. The other had blue skin with hair that covered the top half of her face. "Ruby, Sapphire, would you please?" the pink haired woman gestured to the curtain on the back wall.
"Of course." nodded Sapphire.
Both girls walked over to move the curtain out of the way and reveal a door with a star on it.
"Now, who among you will initiate your new sister into her new life?" Rose asked before raising her hand.
"I will." the pale girl from earlier raised her hand with a hint of excitement in her voice.
"I figured you would Pearl." Rose chuckled
"Eh, why not." said the purple girl who also raised her hand. "Having some new blood around here might be nice."
"Excellent." Rose smiled. "Now we just need two more."
"I'll do it." spoke ruby.
"As will I." added sapphire
"Very good," Rose then turned to Lana, "Now then in order to pass through this door you must let go of all you own including your name."
"You sure?"
Rose nodded in reply.
"Start strippin' Girl!" the purple one exclaimed
Lana blushed as she heard that.
"Amethyst!" Rose scolded.
"What?"
'this is so embarrassing.' Lana thought before taking off her clothes. "Now what?"
"Now we unlock the door, girls let us aid in her entrance." Rose's stone began to flow which surprised lana. Until a pink glow behind her caught her attention. The top of the door now had a pink triangle.
"What the-"
A white triangle appeared on the right of the pink with a blue one at the bottom next to it. On the left was a purple triangle with a red on under it. Lana turned to see the gems of the other girls along with Rose were glowing too. The triangles aligned perfectly with the points of the star and the door opened.
"Follow us." Rose instructed.
Lana was hesitant but did as she said.
They entered a room that looked like it was underground with gemstones floating around inside of bubbles.
Rose turned to face her. "Here is where you will be reborn as one of us, as a Crystal Gem."
"A what?"
"A Crystal Gem, once a Gem has bonded with you only then can you be one of us."
"So I just have to pick out one of those gemstones and I can stay."
"You don't choose the gem, the gem chooses you." Pearl spoke.
"You make it sound like they're alive."
"Trust us when we say that your life will change forever after tonight." Amethyst said.
"If you say so." Lana then walked through the room not sure what she was supposed to do. She poked a bubble with a spherical green gem but only managed to push it away.
She kept walking while passing more and more bubbles. 'This is ridiculous.' Lana thought. 'I'm in my birthday suit, in some freaky room, in a strip club, with bubbles floating in mid air that have gems inside them. What did you get me into Mom?'
Soon she stopped at a blue tear drop shaped gem which oddly looked like it was glowing.
'Do they mean this one?'
Lana gathered her courage and walk towards it. She reached out and popped it. Instead of falling to the ground the gemstone began to glow brighter and circle around her faster and faster. It slammed in between her shoulder blades and Lana was enveloped in light.
She gasped and felt her whole body tingle with an odd sensation. After a few moments the tingle grew into a quake and ever fiber of her body felt like they were exploding. The light faded and she fell to the floor in a quivering heap.
"Stay calm. It's always odd." advised Pearl.
She pushed herself from the floor and looked at her hands. They became a shade of light blue. She looked over the rest of her body and found she was completely blue.
Rose walked over and held a mirror in front of her. Lana was shocked to see her hair had changed in both style and color. Her eyes were still blue only now they were now a darker shade.
"Welcome to the family, my Lapis Lazuli."