Title: Smashing Story of Praise
Rating: T for Teen; Contains violence, language, sexual themes and unsuitable humor
Pairings: Tourmaline x Moonstone, One Sided Lapis x Black Prince's Ruby, Moonstone x Almandine
Summary: Tourmaline illustrates her life as a gem while she still had her body.
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To be beautiful, this beautiful, must be a crime to all of gemkind. For me, I was alluring and make no mistake was I in any way stupid. I was a sparkling gem who all other gems must have despised. It made sense, for no mere mortal was able to defy me in any way possible.
My ending, it was that of a fairy tale ending. Not one of those happy go lucky princess gets the prince ever after bull they try to shove down a child's throat. The part where the evil stepmother or witch or anything relating to the sort gets 'destroyed'.
Ehehe... I'm not here to complain though, I'm here to tell you a story. A story on the lovely 'Crystal Gems' you all so proudly look up upon on your Instagram and Tumblr blogs. To tell you my story about the life of a gem and to basically kill time as the fake Tourmaline gives me my revenge on the damn people who took away my body.
Ahem, let me start by telling you who I am and what had happened just in case that little introduction video didn't clarify. I'm Tourmaline, a gem warrior who sought destruction in my wake. Though the idea of destruction sounds awful to you in your point of view I'm only here to convince you that I in the very least had reasons for my ahem violent character. Shall we commence?
Let's see... I guess I'll start with the beginning of the Soluna Four obviously. We were (and counting our fakies still are) a group of mercenaries and such for the the constant Gem Wars among the gem country. We worked to get paid, no matter what the job was. I for one was prefered for assassination work which I was of godly tier.
Anyway, the Soluna Four consisted of four members hence the name. There was I Tourmaline, Moonstone who was a ditzy ditzy girl, Almandine who was quite the raging hypocrite, and our leader, the crowning runaway prince of our gem nation, Black Prince's Ruby. The four of us were an unstoppable team. Were.
Now, let me explain to you something about groups. There were different groups of gems fighting together. One group in particular are the Crystal Gems. Their so called word was that of justice and peace and equality and such. The four of us never believed that was the case, not even my scatter brained Moonstone who was so naive she'd take candy from a stranger and follow him home!
The Crystal Gems were gems we never ever got along with. While Black Prince's Ruby makes pleasantries among them, Almandine keeping his poker face, and Moonstone playing the shy card, I liked to outright be pompous toward them. There was nothing wrong with it. They liked to mess up our missions with their leader Rose Quartz constantly talking peace amongst us gems. I laugh every time she says it. We're gems! We're born to fight like humans are born in the face of war everyday.
Oh dear Michealia, looks like I've rambled onto another subject! Sorry about that, when it happens again come and tell me or else I might be stuck doing that for hours at a time. If I may, I shall start my story of pitious melodramatic inconsistencies.
We started out as a forum. A bulletin with the latest jobs and news set out asplayed for all gems to see. This was that the time where I was working alone and had this sort of dark depressing suicidal attitude. Ha! I make myself laugh everytime I think of how whiny I was back then! But anyway, I saw an ad there. A young gem was travelling from Coltener to Frachel and he needed someone to protect him from the war that raged in Panella in between. The payout was fifty million rupees which made me jump. Think about it, all I had to do was escort some kid somewhere else and get paid jackpot. Obviously, I wasn't the only one thinking this as many other gems stared at the flyer in interest, one in particular was that of Amethyst of the Crystal Gems. I figured that she might go tell her others about the flyer and take the mission so I dashed off to go tell the kid I was taking his mission.
This is when I met the remaining members of the Soluna Four. You see, Black Prince's Ruby was the one who had asked for assistance. Almandine was his personal knight. Moonstone was one who wanted the job. I had met them and with that Black Prince's Ruby had hired both me and Moonstone to go with him for the money. The money was not to be split however, we would both get fifty million rupees so neither I or Moonstone complained.
I remember it, when I first met them in a high class salon to discuss with them about the job. Black Prince's Ruby was suffering from pastelite, a gem sickness known to pale the gem of it's colors completely. It was a deadly illness and the only cure for it was in Frachel which made complete sense to me. At the time he looked no older than a pre-teen boy with limbs as thin as branches. His eyes were somewhat large and they held no color due to the sickness, poor child. Ha!
I and Moonstone had got there at the same time. Apparently, everybody else was so frightful of getting the illness that they all ran away. I found it funny how little miss cotton candy fattie Moonstone would be so brave as to come here but I guess that's why I love her.
"Hello," Almandine greeted us with stern dismay. He stood beside his dear lord with his hand close to his blade, even then did he hate us.
"Hi hi!" Moonstone said with her cheery high pitched voice. At that time I hated the way she was so peppy.
"Ah... Are you two... here for my job... offer..." Black Prince's Ruby's voice was quiet, as if he had aged into an old man.
"Do not speak my lord," Almandine said. "You are too ill to talk to lowlife scum. Let me do the talking for you." Ah, how wonderfully gay.
"No... Do not... trouble yourself..."
"But!"
"It's fine..." He coughed. "You two have the courage... to help me... You will both be paid equal..."
"We have to split the reward huh? Bullshit," I cursed.
"How dare you low -"
Black Prince's Ruby rose his hand to shut the dog up.
"No... both... will receive fifty million rupees... Now... let us begin..."
He had explained his whole plan of getting to Frachel for his medicine. He said that only the three of us were to know of his whereabouts. Protect the prince at all costs of suffer from no pay! I would never question money when it speaks but something came to him. Why didn't he just have it delivered to him? Why did he have to come? Oh the answer came to me in such a strange way.
Now I bet you're wondering, what do the Crystal Gems have to do with this? Well you see, they had an order from the king, Kooh-i-Noor er... Lord Kooh-i-Noor. The king had told them that his son, the prince, had gone missing. Now wait a minute, his son? Is that supposed to be...? The Black Prince's Ruby. He had supposedly been kidnapped or so the King told them and that their greatest knight, Almandine, had been missing in action. They've all been tasked with it and had dashed off in search for us, his 'kidnappers'!
For two weeks, we've had our asses running up and down mountains and rivers sneaking past battles in order to protect our dear prince. It's funny though, during that time Almandine and I have been getting close to Moonstone. In that time, I grew to love her and hell protect her as well. She made me feel a bit happier about living. Almandine had try to flirt with her by constantly complimenting her and telling her lovey dovey garbage like "I think you're cute" and "If you weren't here with me then I wouldn't be as happy as I am now". Ahahaha! Of course the latter remark offended our dear prince which had knight in shining armor over there apoligizing!
After those dreaded two weeks of rain, snow, storm, sand, and worst of all 'bonding', we finally made it to Frachel, a medical paradise. It was large and shining like those stereotypical futuristic town of human movies. There, we managed to get our hands on a very fast acting (and expensive) medicine. The medicine worked and Prince was healed! Yay! Happy ending!
Wrong.
What had happened, the job Moonstone and I took, was the catalyst for a great war. The moment we met the Crystal Gems in Frachel with weapons on hand with claims of a kidnapped prince, in our minds we knew that all of gemkind were going to destroy themselves.
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An original character story. Submit your own in the form of PM or Review. If you're doing it review style then may I ask that you give yourself a name so that I may credit you. Anything goes however, certain gems cannot be submitted. Below is the list of gems that cannot be used.
Tourmaline, Moonstone, Almandine, Black Prince's Ruby, Beryl, Ruby, Zircon, Labadorite, Larimar, Kooh-i-Nor
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Teamed up or Freelance in the beginning (Will eventually be teamed up however):
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Role in War (Optional):
This is optional, choose from the following roles: Soldier of the King, Merchant, Holy Knights, Priest, Nun, Freelance Worker, Assassin, Civilian, Tactitian, Spy
Hope to see a good amount of characters!