30 MINUTES LATER
I woke up to the not so welcoming embrace of a throbbing headache. I tried to move my arms, but I couldn't move them. I was wrapped up in that Amethyst's whip. So, all that I could do is groan in pain.
"Garnet, do you really think that this is a good idea? She's a DIAMOND. I don't think that we should trust her."
"Don't worry Pearl, if she ends up being bad news, we'll have it under control."
"Shhhh, I think that she's waking up."
I opened my eyes to see the 3 gems from earlier and Steven conversing in front of me.
"Oh, hey." the tall, lanky pearl spoke up "My name is Pearl. This is Garnet" She pointed to her right to that tall gem that knocked me out.
"Yo." Garnet gave me a thumb up.
"And this is Amethyst" Gee, what creative names.
"Sup" Amethyst smiled at me.
"And this is Steven, you've probably met him already." Steven waved at me "So, do you have a name?" Steven seemed discomforted by the question, probably because of what happened last time, so before he could step in and say anything
"Diamond! Just…call me Diamond." I gave myself the worst name possible.
"Okay Diamond, it was a pleasure to meet you. Garnet!" Pearl backed up and Garnet stepped forward.
"Diamond, follow me." After being released from the grasp of the whip, Garnet and I stepped onto a warp pad and were teleported to an empty room.
"What is this? This is just an empty room." I looked around to try to find something, ANYTHING. But the room was devoid of anything. It was an empty room in the shape of a cube.
"Diamond, I want you to summon your weapon. Then come at me." Garnet summoned her gauntlets and waited for me to summon my weapon. The thing was, I didn't know that we even had weapons.
"We have WEAPONS!?"
"Of course, just focus on retrieving it and you should receive it from your gem." Garnet smirked as she made her gauntlets appear and disappear seemingly at will. "Now, you try"
I closed my eyes and focused on getting my weapon. I couldn't wait to use it. This is going to be EPIC. I opened my eyes and in my hands a recurve bow appeared, along with a sheath of arrows that were strapped over my shoulder.
"Exotic." Garnet gave me a thumb up.
"Thanks" My celebration was short however, because Garnet suddenly charged at me. She swung at me, but I jumped out of the way before firing an arrow at her. She dodged my arrow before charging at me in midair. I tried to fire off another arrow, but I was hit by a Garnet punch that sent my flying into a wall before I could do so. My bow skidded on the floor behind Garnet.
"You should never let yourself be separated from your weapon in a fight." She charged at me, looking to deal the finishing blow… but I don't go down that easily. I moved my head out of the way at the last second and watched as her fist tripled the size of the crater that was left by my head. She followed that up with a kick that I rolled out of the way of before sprinting to my bow and picking it up mid stride before whipping around and firing a barrage of 3 arrows. She blocked the arrows with her gauntlets, but shortly after they EXPLODED. And I had nothing to do with it… Awesome.
Garnet's figure was enveloped with smoke. The silence that followed afterwards was deafening. I was beginning to think that maybe by some chance that I won. All that hope went away instantly when out of nowhere Garnet burst out of the smoke cloud. I tried to fire off another arrow, but Garnet was able to punch me before I had the chance. I flew into another wall and fell to my knees.
This isn't going to work. I need a closer ranged weapon for this.
"Trying to beat someone at their own game huh?" I honestly didn't know what she was talking about… until I looked at my hands.
"What are you talking abou-WOAH!" My bow and arrows disappeared and were replaced with 2 white gauntlets that were not as big as Garnets, but were still huge. I struggled to my feet and faced Garnet with determination in my eyes and a fire in my soul.
Garnet charged at me again and threw a hook that I ducked before giving her an uppercut that sent her a few feet in the air. As soon as she gracefully landed on the ground she charged at me again. This time she threw a straight right hand, but the result was the same. I was faster than her, so dodging her attacks was very easy. I sidestepped the attack before hitting her in the exact same spot with the exact same punch.
Once she landed from this punch however, she simply backed up and gestured for me to come at her. It was obviously a trap. She wanted me to come at her and fight aggressively because she knew that I could dodge every punch that she threw. There was no way that I was going to fall for that.
But I did.
"AAAAAA!" I screamed as I charged at her with all my energy going into one punch. But instead of dodging the obvious attack Garnet charged at me with a punch of her own. Our fists collided in midair with a force so great that it could destroy spaceships. The knockback of the punch sent me flying backwards and I tumbled and rolled on the ground until my back hit the wall. Smoke and dust obscured my vision, but when it cleared, I was in for a rude awakening.
Garnet was standing right in front of me, fist ready to deal the finishing blow. "Can you get up?" She looked pretty beat up, but she was still STANDING after that. Unbelievable.
"No, I can't." I tried to get up a couple of times, but I couldn't.
"Well, welcome to the Crystal Gems" She picked me up and carried me to the warp pad.
"But I lost. How does me losing equal being accepted by the 'Crystal Gems'?" My voice was quiet and low. I lost. I failed. How am I deserving of this?
"I have been fighting for thousands of years and you almost defeated me with no prior experience. I just needed to see if you could hold your own. This could've gone much worse, or you could've won… if you didn't charge at me. That was dumb."
I knew it.
But wait, did I even sign up to be a member of this team? UGH!
"Gee, thanks."
We were warped back to the dwelling, where everyone was worried about us.
"Oh my! What happened to you two?" Pearl looked at our damaged forms and nearly freaked out.
"Don't worry Pearl, everything's going to be okay." The statement didn't help comfort her at all. Garnet laid me down on a soft large chair in the middle of the room. "Gems! I would like to welcome Diamond to the Crystal Gems!" Steven, Amethyst, and Pearl cheered and started clapping.
The pain became unbearable, so I retreated to my gem to regenerate. I had regenerated fully within minutes, but I wanted some more time to rest. So, I stayed inside of my gem until
THE NEXT DAY:
I stood up and looked around. The house was empty and silent. I stepped inside a weird room with some sort of reflective glass.
"So, this is… me?" I stared at myself for the first time ever. My skin was fair. I had messy, light brown hair that went down to my shoulders and dark brown eyes. I took a moment to remember how I looked before leaving the dwelling to try and find the others.
The first thing that I noticed when I left was a green spaceship that was shaped like a hand.
Wait, I know that spaceship!
Fearing the worst, I ran as fast as I could towards it. My fears were quickly confirmed as Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and Steven were all on the ground and were in serious pain. And that Peridot and her grunt were responsible.
"Can't you 2 just LEAVE ME ALONE!?" I asked out of desperation and infuriation
"You're not dead?" the orange gem smirked "2 nuisances handled at once."
I was furious. I'm sick of running. Running straight into dead ends. This makes no sense! I felt as if I was losing control of my body. I was letting my anger take over. "I" gestured towards the large mass of blue liquid for no good reason. I really couldn't think of why "I" would do that, especially since I had no special powers that I could think of. But suddenly, some of the liquid morphed into a large fist that threw itself towards the orange gem. She wasn't prepared for it, and was steamrolled by the punch. She struggled to get up in the seconds that followed.
"This is what I'm going to do to you." 'I' began to laugh as I sent another liquid punch her way "First, I'm going to destroy your physical form. Then, I'll SHATTER YOU!" 'I' summoned another fist to deal the finishing blow.
"Please… don't do it." My head whipped around to a struggling Steven pleading to me "Please don't… shatter Jasper"
Almost instantly I regained control of my body… and my liquid powers went away just as fast.
"Don't you dare turn your back on me!" I was distracted for a few seconds and that was all Jasper needed to hit me with a headbutt that sent me flying. I was out of it before I hit the ground.
Author's Note: I post chapters based on whether or not I'm satisfied with the length. No schedule = No stress, but there might be some inconsistency. I'll try to squeeze em out as fast as possible ;)
