"I believe I finally understand what the Opals meant," gasped a woman from behind a pillar. Her golden eyes widened as she backed away.
"Crystalline is doomed..."
New found determination filled her as she backed away. No doubt the Higher Ups were on their way, so she had to wait, wait to take down the monster destroying them. Until then she would sit back and let everything play out.
Her eyes fixed on the pale pink eyes of a gem shooting petal pink arrows at the flame spitting abomination of their world and she shook her head. She might as well join the fight. With a yell she brought out her weapons, a blade posturing from her orange hems on the back of her hand, and leapt at the enemy with a furious roar.
"Leave! Everyone leave! Obsidian, Stop her!" A woman of brown green skin yelled frantically. In both of her earlobes lay two gemstones similar to her skin color.
Obsidian, a beautiful dark brown female with tan to black hair curling in under her neck and a long black fringe that covered the left eye stopping just in the middle of her left breast, raised her hands. In her palms were two circular gems that were clear in the middle, working their way to be black around the edges. Daggers equal to that color flew from her palms, but as the weapons met their targets they disappeared into a black flame. "I-I can't Moldavite, she's too strong!"
A scream was heard. Both of them looked over to see a pink skinned female screaming as she was engulfed in hungry midnight flames. "AMETRINE!" they screamed in unison. Obsidian gave a choked cry at the lost if the female.
A hysterical laughter turned their attention back to their opponent. "She dead! She's dead because of you!" The female crowed. Then she gave a snarl, her black rimmed eyes hysterical. "Come Obsidian! Join her! Join her in the Void!" Black flames were shot at the female, but the golden eyes female blocked them with her two hand swords.
"You are crazy!" She yelled.
"Spessartite," the flame wielder purred. "Such a lovely day to see you. Aren't you angry? The same happened to you yah know."
"That doesn't give you the right to attack your family!" The golden eyed female, Spessartite, hissed. A sheen of sweat coated her red orange skin.
An even crazier, insane note took the flame wielder's eyes and something in her broke, more than she already was. "She betrayed me! SHE BETRAYED ME!" Flames, all as dark as the heart of night, erupted from nowhere. Flames shot through the floors like erupting volcanoes. Spessartite, Moldavite and Obsidian covered their faces to protect them from the ongoing heat. "BETRAYED! BETRAYED!"
The words were repeated, and it seems the more they were said the hotter it grew. Spessartite glared back at Obsidian. "See?! This is why I told you not to engage in any relationship with her!"
"I-," the dark skinned Gem gave a hopeless whimper.
"Never mind that! We have to get the other Gems to safety," Moldavite yelled. Obsidian nodded and raised her hands to the falling temple around them. Her full plush lips moved in a frenzy as she chanted.
Suddenly a bight light engulfed them, interrupting her. All females' eyes widened in relief. "The Opals!"
"Get them to safety," the group of females chanted, their voices light rings like bells. Oval shaped gems of different color lay between their eyes. "We cannot destroy her, and it is too late to rebirth her, we can only put her to sleep."
"What about you?" Moldavite asked.
Obsidian whimpered as one of the Opals, the tallest one with pale blue skin, smiled. "We will be alright. Like her, we will be forced in our gems to sleep until she awakens again. You must get everyone off of Crystalline, it is our only means of survival."
"But you won't make it," Obsidian whimpered.
"We will, and so will she." A screech filled the air, followed by a loud cry. The Opals turned to their opponent. "Go!" They ordered, their multiple arms stretching until they touched each other's fingertips, forming a make shift blockade.
Obsidian turned to the wielder of the black flames, her eyes brimming with tears at her lost friend and lover. Then she closed them and continued her chant, just as the Opals started theirs. Another bright light issued, this time brighter, purer. An agonizing scream was the last thing either of the gems ever heard.