Emerge From Kindergarten
I look out from the dirty hole. Deserted. Nothing to be heard or seen. Nothing.
Nothing.
I slowly creeped out. So careful. I poked my head outside. I breathed in the sweet air. The air of freedom. The sweet air of the earth kindergarten. I step outside. My hole was close to the ground, so reaching it was easy. I took a look at myself, and touched the gem that was buried in the right side of my neck.
Aquamarine.
Such a sweet name, has quite a bit of ring to it. I crinkled my nose to it. The clothing I had on was great for movement. I had a light blue crop top with darker lines going through diagonally, and light blue skirt that was short in the front and long in the back. I also had dark blue gloves from the crook of my elbow to my wrist and extending to my index finger. I had very light blue skin, very pretty if I do say so myself, and chest length straight hair colored teal blue. My gemstone was very shiny, as it was reflecting what little sun shone through the foggy sky onto the walls of the Kindergarten.
A crack of a twig was heard on the other side of the Kindergarten which sent me scrambling to hide behind a nearby boulder. Breathing heavily, even though gems don't need to breathe. I heard foot steps, but there was something weird about them, they seemed graceful. Swift footsteps. I heard some kindergarten manager's footsteps before I mustered the courage to climb out of my hole, and they were nothing like this. They didn't sound anything like this.
A big bang was heard near by, almost like a cannon. Why would there be cannons in the Kindergarten, what did the rebels want here? I then felt being lifted off the ground with powerful hands.
"What should we do with this one? She is just a defect. Look at her, she's tiny." the gem in front of me said.
The other gem looked at the trembling blue runt in front of her. She took about thirty seconds to look at her, to see all the imperfections of the tiny gem in front of her. As if she was thinking about what to do with her.
"Shatter her. She will provide nothing to our army, even if her kind is very powerful, not to mention rare. Not every day do you see a gem with an incredible amount of power like Aquamarines do, with even more power than Lapis gems, and we only have one Lapis. But this Aquamarine is defective. She is supposed to be twice her size, she just simply stayed in the ground longer than she should have." The other gem said.
The first gem then pulled out a scary looking mace from her gem and pulled it above her head, ready to swing down. Ready to end my life. I didn't want to die, so I closed my eyes, looked away and waited for the crash. But nothing happened.
The next thing I saw was a pink sword in the chest of the gem, and a big puff of clouds it seemed like. The gemstone laid on the ground, and the next thing I know, it is in a pink bubble, disappearing to who knows where.
"Hello sweetheart."
Gasp. I curled up into a ball trying to block this all out. It was so scary that I was trembling. I never usually do that. Who is she? She was huge, larger than anyone I've ever seen, or it might be just her big hair.
"It's alright sweetie, I promise not to hurt you."
I slowly uncurl and apprehensive look at the gem standing before me. She was so pretty. She had huge pink hair shaped into ringlets and a beautiful dress not meant to be in a place of filth and dirt. I noticed something though. She had a star cut-out on her stomach, revealing her beautiful pink gem. Why a star? I have a diamond, so why isn't she?
"What's your name?" she said with the kindest voice.
"A-A-Aquamarine." I stuttered, obviously showing the fear I had. I mean come on, a giant women, small body, get the gist here.
"Hello Aquamarine. I'm Rose. Rose Quartz. Can I call you Mari?" Rose said.
"Yeah, sure."
Rose. I heard of her before. The managers had mentioned her, but never mentioned nice things about her. Always on how she was fighting Homeworld for the Earth, to stop the process of the Kindergarten. How she was a traitor, once with huge status, and now with none. She's really nice though, is she really what they think of her?
"It's alright, they won't hurt you anymore. They really need to see the beauty in everything, the Earth, and in you." she said.
She saved me. Well that's a first. There is a first for everything, right?
"Who were they?" I asked
"Generals for the Homeworld army." she told me honestly. "They were looking for newly emerged gems like you. One's to join their army against me."
So she was part of the traitor group that I heard about. But thought that the rebels were mean, even more mean than the managers here. My head fumbled around something to say to the person who could also end my life in a flash.
"They were mean." I finally said.
"That's ok, because they aren't going to be mean to you or anyone else. Do you want to come with me? I promise nobody is going to be mean to you." she said with a smile on her face.
She didn't kill me? I thought I was defective, and nobody want's a defective gem, the managers certainly didn't want me because they left me alone, not even bothering to check on me, and the generals wanted to kill me, and she wants to keep me? This is really weird, but I do need a place to stay out of danger, so I obligated to join them. To join the rebels. To join the fight.
"Promise?"
"Promise." she said.
She held an outstretched hand. I took it, and she helped me up to my feet. I wobbled a bit, probably because I haven't really walked since I came out, so she picked me up and put me in her arms. Well, so much for being a rebel warrior. It felt so comforting though, like being in my hole, except one hundred times better. How can this be so?
Rose then jumped into the air, so high that I literally almost squeezed the life out of her arm. In a matter of seconds we managed to land by a warp pad in the center of the kindergarten. I want to learn to jump that high, well, I can, I just would probably fall and faceplant into a tree or something. Seems like something I would do. Anyway, she stepped onto the pad that was glowing a blue hue, and we were in a cylinder of light beaming us somewhere, I just don't know where. The light finally stopped and we were in a cave of some sort. There was a door behind us, with a star in the middle and five gems placed at the edges of the star. Cool.
"Welcome to the Crystal Temple little Mari." Rose said.
