The Beat of a Gem

by PeanutButterCouch

The blue pearl knows too much. This much is true. She has gathered every piece of gossip and memorized the details of the court meetings, and has stored them in her memory. No one could suspect such a perfect pearl of having such information. No one would ever realize that perhaps she could be a very real threat. That is, except for the pearl herself.

1. Chapter 1

The Beat of a Gem

Chapter One

Every life begins with darkness. This holds true for every gem, including those found at the bottom of the Gem Hierarchy: pearls. But, most gems forget that they are the same at the core, and are quickly swept away by the harsh discrimination of the outside world, never formulating their own opinion of anything.

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Darkness is all she can see, all she has ever known. There is no time here, no standards, no pain; only the cold, deep, darkness. She is growing in this dark, and she knows it. She can feel her core expanding, stretching the limits of her gem's capabilities. There is no telling how long she has existed in this blackness, and she is content to stay in it forever; that is, until a brightness appears. All at once she can see a faint glow in the darkness. It appears so suddenly that it starles her, so for a while she hides in the darkness's caress. After a time, she emerges from the dark, curious to see this new, and potentially dargerous thing. It seems so new, so small and fragile, and so diffrent from her dark. She finds that she is drawn to this light, and is comforted by its presence. She is afraid if she moves this miracle will fade. So she waits.

The time for waiting is over. That feeling resonates through her. She has been content to watch, to observe, but now the urge to move to it is too much to bear. So she inches towards the light, scanning it the whole time, to make sure that it stays. It does. She is mere yards from it now but she stops. The intense light has bathed her in a shimmering glow. The light is blinding, and yet she feels no pain from studying it for so long. The light seems to be getting brighter now, the light now reflecting of the boundaries of the strange place. As it intensifies, she knows that she must enter into it's brilliant rays, letting them ingulf her very core. But this is a very important moment for the gem, and she is content to watch for a while.

She knows she needs to enter the light now, and let its warm light embrace her. She moves. A tentative step forward. Then another. Soon she has covered the distance between her world of darkness, and this new world of light. As she closes the distance between them, a feeling of excitement resonates through her.

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This has been an idea in my head for a while so I decided to finally start on it. This is my first fanfiction story, so I guess I'm just testing the waters. Hopefully I'll be able to update soon.