A cold breeze swept through the morning air. The sun shone brightly through the fog, distilling it's light and spreading it through the air. The sunlight weaved through the incredibly tall buildings, seeming to follow an invisible path. A small blue gem stepped out into the light; feeling the warm sun burn her skin, she looked up and raised her arm to shield her eyes from the light. Her face went from a calm expression to annoyance and hatred towards the sun. She scoffed and continued walking. The blue gem barely reached up to most gem's shoulders, but she was still a terrifying enough presence to carve her way through the field of gems, clearing a path.
At her side a grey gem with striped skin followed her. He kept a look out with his dark grey eyes, suspicious of anyone that would dare to come close to his Aquamarine. Anyone that got too close was given a cold glare by Psilomelane as he held his right hand over his gem, ready to draw his weapon at a moment's notice. The two gems continued their way through the field of gems, making a path to the center of Blue Diamond's court, to speak with her majesty face to face.
Suddenly, Aquamarine bumped into a tall gem that refused to move out of the way for her. Psilomelane almost ran into her as well before he stopped himself and immediately drew his sword from his gem.
The Amethyst soldier looked down at the two of them and smirked, "What are a couple of shorties like you two doing here? You walk right out of the defective camp or something?" She said laughing.
Aquamarine's face flared up with anger and disgust at the mere thought that this Amethyst would dare compare her to a defective reject.
"How dare you-" Aquamarine began to say before Psilomelane stepped in and pushed the Amethyst back.
The flowing sea of gems around them stopped and formed a circle surrounding the three. No one dared to continue walking or even go near them. Each one of them feared that their gems would be harvested if they got involved.
"Hey what the?!" The disobedient Amethyst said as she got up off the ground.
She looked down to see Psilomelane in front of Aquamarine, his sword drawn and ready to defend his Aquamarine.
"Why you little!" The soldier shouted angrily before pulling a whip from her gem and cracking it in the air.
The Amethyst flicked her whip towards Psilomelane, striking so fast that almost any gem wouldn't have enough time to react, but Psilomelane was faster. He swung his sword to the left and deflected the whip away from him, and more importantly away from Aquamarine. The Amethyst, shocked, pulled the whip back and prepared to strike again. In the split second between when Psilomelane had deflected the whip and the Amethyst had flicked her wrist, launching the whip back at him, Psilomelane began to charge toward her. He swung his sword to the right, deflecting the second attack.
"Enough!" The Amethyst shouted before drawing a second whip from her gem and flicking it directly at Psilomelane.
Psilomelane, now only a couple feet from the Amethyst, swung his sword to the left to block the blow; instead, as soon as the whip made contact with his sword the Amethyst yanked it to her left, wrapping the end of the whip around the sword.
"Ha! Got you now!" The Amethyst said as she yanked the sword out of Psilomelane's hand and flicked her left wrist, firing her second whip at Psilomelane.
Psilomelane stopped in his tracks and raised up his left arm, exposing his gem to the whip as if he wanted to be shattered; but just before the whip struck, a shield phased in above his gem, blocking the blow and reflecting the whip right back at the Amethyst. The blow struck the Amethyst's forehead, knocking her onto her back. As she opened her eyes, she watched as Psilomelane landed on top of her, and pierced his sword into her chest, causing her physical form to evaporate in an instant. The gem that was once imbedded into her right shoulder dropped onto the cold glass floor of the overpass.
Psilomelane picked up the gem and stood up straight.
"What should we do with her?" He asked Aquamarine as he bubbled the gem.
"Send her off to be harvested, no use having a insubordinate soldier" Aquamarine said walking past her protector.
Psilomelane tapped the top of the black bubble and continued following behind Aquamarine. The sea of gems began to flow again, curving around Aquamarine and Psilomelane.
The two gems continued walking until they reached a door that was at least 40 feet tall and 20 feet wide. The giant door slid open, exposing a long corridor that split off into other smaller hallways and walkways. But at the very end of the corridor was another giant door with a massive Blue Diamond imprinted on it. Aquamarine and Psilomelane walked up to it and watched as the door slowly opened, revealing a giant circular room with a domed ceiling. The walls were blue and had a gold and white lining tracing around the inside, forming diamond patterns across the walls and the ceiling. On the floor was a giant blue diamond, and in the very center of the room laid Blue Diamond's palanquin. Surrounding it were 4 huge Quartz soldiers, standing guard.
"Come" echoed the loud but soft voice of Blue Diamond as she extended her arm out of her palanquin and motioned her hand towards herself.
Aquamarine swallowed before she walked up and stood in front of Blue Diamond, Psilomelane not too far behind.
"My Diamond" Aquamarine said saluting. "Aquamarine facet, 3S2Z. Cut, 2XA accompanied by Psilomelane facet, 7H5X. Cut, 3XQ reporting in"
Psilomelane stood strait up, saluting with Aquamarine. Blue Diamond raised her hand, indicating that they lower their salutes.
"I called you here because I have a very important mission for you. I want you to go to the planet Earth and capture at least twelve different humans for the Human Preservation Facility. The Aquamarine that I sent before was too incompetent to gather more than 1 human" Blue Diamond stated, her soft voice echoing throughout the room.
"Of course, anything for you my Diamond" Aquamarine said bowing. Psilomelane stood off to the side of her and copied everything that she did.
"Polyhedroid Agate will accompany you as well" Blue Diamond said lowering her giant hand to point towards the blue and yellow Agate standing off to the side of the palanquin.
Aquamarine raised her head and looked up to Blue Diamond. "Excuse me my Diamond but, I already have a personal guard. He has served your court for over eight thousand, six hundred, and fifty two years. Seven hundred and forty three of those years serving directly under me." Aquamarine said, afraid of what Blue Diamond's reaction would be.
"Polyhedroid Agate is not going along to keep you safe, she is accompanying you to make sure you aren't as incompetent as the last Aquamarine I sent to Earth" Blue Diamond spoke with a touch of annoyance in her voice.
"O-of course my Diamond, who am I to question your supreme judgement?" Aquamarine said nervously as she bowed again.
"You may leave now" Blue Diamond stated as she waved her hand too the door.
Aquamarine and Psilomelane walked out of the room, Polyhedroid Agate following behind them.