We'll Do It Together
Day two (17th): Art (meep morp) School AU
Lapis Lazuli snapped awake. Her eyes fully open and quickly casting themselves on the sleeping form next to her.
Peridot was still there.
Peridot was still asleep.
Lapis breathed a sigh of relief. She brought the hand she had draped over Peridot's body to her face and rubbed her exhausted features before letting said hand droop over the side of the hammock. Lapis looked out towards the entrance to their barn. The tarp they used for a door was covering most of the view but she could tell it was still well into the night. She looked down at the tired green form still clinging to her. A line of drool was streaming down one of the corners of her mouth and more to Lapis' surprise Peridot was actually quite the snorer when she slept. It was a high-pitched, nasally snore. It fit her just well.
"I don't understand how Steven is able to do that every night." Lapis whispered to herself as to not disturb her peacefully sleeping barn mate.
"Or maybe it's just me. That would make more sense."
Lapis raised her hand to her face and started rubbing the bridge of her nose.
"It's so hard to know what's real and fake when you're sleeping." Lapis though to herself while she rubbed the bridge of her nose.
Lapis suddenly felt Peridot's tiny form move from Lapis' body and outstretch itself on as much of the hammock as possible. Peridot's right arm is still underneath Lapis, while her right leg now drapes over her. Her left leg and arm are draped over the side of the hammock and her head is facing forward positioned right in front of an empty stretch of the ceiling. Lapis' attention was brought to one thing in particular, though.
Peridot's gem started glowing with an incandescent light.
The light from her gem then projected outwards onto the empty slice of ceiling Peridot's features have been facing towards.
"What do you have going on, Peri?"
The light shooting out of Peridot's gem created a triangular shaped light on the ceiling and suddenly images started appearing in the shape. The familiar noise of a warp pad echoes throughout the barn.
"Wow! I can't believe Steven's dad paid for us to attend Meep morp school!" exclaimed an unseen but familiar voice from the projection. The view of the projection was simply showing a simple metal arch which read "meep morp" school. In the distance there were myriads of different people all walking around, sketching, sculpting and doing anything and everything.
Lapis was staring up at the flashing images with sheer awe, opting to watch how this played out. She stayed silent as the images moved flawlessly in the triangular view provided by Peridot's gem.
"Yeah. It was nice of him. Considering I broke his leg." Another familiar voice chimed in.
"And after I pushed him off of our barn."
"And after destroying his boat."
"You destroyed his boat?!"
After the last voice chimed in we finally get to see the main characters, a familiar, enthusiastic, small, green gem and an indifferent, taller, blue gem. Peridot and Lapis (of course).
"So where are we supposed to go?" Lapis asked, assuming her neutral face but quirking an eyebrow at the scene playing out in front of them.
"Let me check!" Peridot shouts loud than necessary as she brings a cheeseburger backpack out from behind her. She unzips one of the pockets and pulls out her tablet which she fastens to her right wrist. Peridot holds down the power button until the screen lights up and she begins tittering away on the touch screen.
"You're not just going to have it float beside you like at home?"
"Of course not! We may be among fellow meep morps, Lapis, but who knows what they might do if I just have my things floating around me!"
"If you say so, so where are we going anyway?"
Peridot types away on her tablet.
"According to this message which was gifted to me personally by the internet itself, we need to be at this location in ten minutes." Peridot pointed at her tablet's GPS marker.
Peridot gasped incredulously.
"But it's going to take us 30 minutes to get there!"
Peridot began overreacting to this predicament in classic Peridot fashion causing Lapis to snort loudly and laugh at her evident overreaction.
"Maybe it will take you 30 minutes."
Lapis summons her water wings.
"But I'll get there in no time."
Lapis ascends into the air elegantly and quickly darts off from a scrambling Peridot who is following behind running as fast as she can.
"Lapis, wait! That's the wrong wa-"
Peridot falls on her face causing Lapis to snort and laugh while fluttering in the air. Inevitably lead Lapis to turn around to help her small green gem.
~Ten minutes later~
Peridot and Lapis are seen descending from the sky. Lapis carrying Peridot with her hands underneath Peridot's arms. As soon as Peridot's feet touched the ground she started running off towards the building in front of her.
"We are running late!" Peridot shrieked out.
"You need to relax, Peri. We're just going to be making meep morps or something, right?"
"I think so…I don't actually know what we got ourselves into."
Peridot and Lapis enter in through the big double doors in front of them and on either side of them are rows of classrooms, each labeled with a number.
"Room 209…" Peridot recited to no one in particular while looking down at her tablet.
Lapis looked up at the room numbers, noting they were at the one they needed to go to. She grabbed Peridot by the arm as she had been too distracted with her tablet to even look up and see the room number.
"We're here." Lapis stated evenly.
"You ready?"
"Sure, whatever."
The duo enters the classroom in front of them. It was a huge lecture hall style. There were hundreds of other people in the classroom.
"What are we supposed to do?" Lapis asked slightly annoyed and the general hum of noise floating around the lecture hall.
"Let's find a seat! I can't believe all of these people are here to make meep morps." Peridot replied, semi-excited. Lapis smiled in response and let herself get led by the hand by Peridot towards two seats a few rows up from the center stage.
"I wonder what they'll have for making meep morps here." Peridot practically bouncing her seat with anticipation.
"Hmmmmm." Was all Lapis could deliver in response.
Suddenly the entire lecture hall went silent. Peridot and Lapis looked down at where all of the focus was. Peridot and Lapis saw a pale, middle-aged man hold a large binder underneath his arm make his way to a lectern. The man stopped at the lectern and popped the book from underneath his arm onto the lectern. He then took a piece of chalk and began writing on the board behind him, it read "Professor Boxer". The man then turned back to his lectern and opened up his binder, looking down, coughing briefly then speaking.
"Thank you, everyone, for joining me in Modern Meep Morp for this semester. I'm Professor Boxer, now if you'll take out your syllabuses and turn to page one we can begin."
Peridot and Lapis faces' were completely dumbstruck.
"What…What is he even saying?" Peridot questioned.
"I don't know."
They both look around the lecture hall around them. Everyone is simply looking at pieces of paper while the man up front is droning on and on.
"Where are the meep morps?" Peridot inquired more to herself than anyone.
"I don't know, but I'm going to go ask that human up front." Lapis stated, summoning her water wings and flying out of her seat towards the professor.
"Lapis, wait!" Peridot whisper-yelled out. No one notice that however as they were all far too distracted by Lapis' flying in the middle of the lecture hall and landing next to the professor who was more than in awe at what he just witnessed, to say the least.
"Excuse me, miss! This may be the first time I have ever said this but the sentiment is still strong- please do not interrupt the class by…flying…in the middle of a lecture. It's very distracting to the class and most importantly it is very distracting for me."
The older man said this to the Blue gem in front of him. Her face screamed, "what are you even saying".
"When do start making the meep morps?"
The professor huffed in response.
"Miss, you can't just make morps whenever you want. To perfect the craft of making meep morps to the point of making it a viable career takes years of study and practice. Years of study and practice means attending this prestigious university and attending this university means you need to take my class and listen to me or you will fail. Do you want to fail?"
Lapis' featured immediately strained after hearing this man speak.
"So you're saying all I'm allowed to do is sit here and listen to you? I can't make morps?"
"Not in my class."
Lapis summoned her water wings and turned around the rows of students in the lecture hall and faced towards Peridot.
"Peridot. I can't stay here. I'll be outside if you need me."
Lapis floated over to the door, opening it and flying outside of the room. It was at this point all eyes were on Peridot, who was nervously looking around the room. Beads of sweat were trailing down her face and visor and her mouth was in a distinct turtle frown. It was at this point Peridot stood up and starting descending down the stair, walking past the dozens of pairs of eyes staring at her. She finally made it to the door. Peridot opened it but took a quick glance around at the crowds of people still eyeballing her. She looked at the professor who was also staring her down. Peridot quickly exited the room, continue down the hallway she trailed just minutes ago before finally reaching the double doors leading outside. She pushed the doors open and scanned the environment around her.
"Lapis!"
No response.
"Laaaaaaaaaaaapis, are you out here."
Still no response.
Peridot walking a bit away from the building, she scanned around herself again. She looked up in the sky.
No sight of her.
Peridot then turned her gaze to a happy medium and checked the roof of the building they were just in and sure enough she was lying on the roof, eyes closed and distinctly frowning.
"Hey, Lapis! Can you come down here." Peridot yelled up and Lapis perked, finally noting her.
Lapis summoned her water wings and very easily floated down to the ground.
"So that was a little unexpected." Peridot jested.
Lapis crossed her arms defensively.
"I just didn't like feeling trapped. I thought when we came here we would just be doing what we were doing at the barn-"
"Humans tend to make everything needlessly complicated." Peridot interrupted.
"It's hard to understand why they feel the need to make even meep morps complicated but do you wanna know something?"
Peridot grabbed Lapis' hands and held them between hers.
"What?"
"We can still make Meep morps whenever we want. And I think we should even make some right here, right now."
Lapis' eyes started glimmering before she nodded her head, face brimming with determination.
The next couple of hours were spent with the duo making myriads of meep morps on the fly if their choosing. Stacking bundles of trash cans from around the school. Taking random articles of clothing from various other students around the school campus and tying them at various points on a flagpole. Then they decided to end their meep morp spree with their masterpieces. Twin statues of each other. Peridot made a metal statue of Lapis and placed in next to a large fountain in the middle of the school's courtyard, while Lapis made a proportionally-sized Ice Peridot next to the metal Lapis.
It was at this point there were a fair number of Campus security officers approaching Peridot and Lapis.
"Going up?" Peridot asked.
"Going up." Lapis responded grabbing Peridot while summoning her water wings, propelling them both into the sky and flying off towards the sunset.
"This has been a really nice day, Lapis."
"It has."
Peridot looked back at the school.
"We're never coming back here again."
"Agreed."
With that, the projection coming out of Peridot's head suddenly stopped. Lapis was shaken out of her trance of watching the dream by its sudden ending. She looked down at Peridot to make sure everything was alright. Only to see her eyes blinking awake.
Peridot didn't say anything. Instead she just looked over to a nearby pile of materials in the barn and put out her hand. She lifted her tablet out of the pile and started pulling it towards her. Lapis didn't say anything, she just let it happen.
The tablet finally reached Peridot's hands.
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Peridot finished logging her thoughts on the internet and set her tablet down. She turned towards Lapis and gave a big smile.
"Hey there Lapis! How'd you sleep?"
