Chapter 2, The heart of Us
There was a bright light...
And then...
There was one.
It opened up it's eyes. It looked around. It stood up.
"Did... You...I...We... Do it?"
It caught a glimpse of itself in a shiny meep-morp.
It had messy, dark green hair, and a visor that covered it's two, chartreuse, large eyes, Currently with stars in it's pupils. It had a red, half shirt with a yellow star holded by two black straps. It had an exposed rose quartz gem on it's naval and a Peridot on it's forehead. It was wearing blue jean shorts with green leggings that ended with yellow sock- type cloth on it's feet.
And then it shouted.
"We actually did it! Wow! W-I need to show Lapis." And so they laughed,And ran down to where Lapis was reading a magazine about.. well... Jewelry?
Before Lapis noticed that it was here, she spoke," Oh hey Peridot. I was just reading up on how earth imprisions their gems in neck straps and wrist stra-"
Lapis was staring at it like it had six heads. "It.. worked?"
"It did! I guess all of Peridot's hard work really paid off! Thanks for pushing Peridot into trying Lapis!" It had a giddy grin on it's face.
"Your welcome... Um...Steve..Peri... Who are you?"
It thought for a moment. The logical name for a rose quartz Peridot fusion should be, nothing! Because I shouldn't exist!
It glanced over to lapis' magazine. It's eyes were on a page with a message saying,'buy now! Rare gemstones of all types on sale! Includes, citrine, amethyst, diamond, tourmaline, Jade...,' the list went on. But then a spark lit up in it's head. And it felt like one of these names connected with it.
It was her.
Tourmaline.
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"Our gem shards will make good use to homeworld huh? Well her shards would make good use... AAHH I'm too ANGRY!" Amethyst shouted.
All three gems were furious and heading to the barn to 'deal with' Peridot. And when they meant deal with, they meant...
Shattering.
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(At the barn)
Tourmaline was happy. She felt secure. Being fused felt like nothing one of her halves had ever felt before. It was new, exiting, like a warm hug all over. They started to converse since they really had nothing better to do.
"I was nervous asking you to do this with me..."
"You know you can ask me anything,"
She put one arm up to her head.
"I know and I shouldn't have been scared. Well, I guess the real question is, why didn't I ask sooner?
Tourmaline chuckled, and then laughed. She, for once in her life, was truly happy. There was no one she would rather be than herself.
Then she ran across the fields. An occasional chuckle or 'woo-hoo!' coming out of her mouth. Soon she decided to stop and rest.
There Tourmaline lay on her back, enjoying the sights around her. She was so happy, a tear ran down her cheek.
And then she saw something through the corner of her eye. Three things. Tall and angry looking.
And they were approaching quickly.
"PERIDOT!" She heard Garnet scream. Tourmaline was terrified! Why are they mad at Peridot? Shethought to herself. The gems were approaching faster than Tourmaline thought.
Before she had another thought, there was a spear pointed directly at the gem on her forehead. She looked up. All three of them had cold, murderous glares in their eyes, weapons drawn and ready to strike at any further movement from Tourmaline.
"eep!"
"Steven, unfuse with her right now." Garnet spoke as calm as she could be in this situation. So she unfused. Mostly on Steven's part, as he did not want trouble with Garnet.
As soon as they were sperate, Garnet spoke again. "Our shards will make of good use to the diamonds huh? Well your shards will make good use , BURNING IN A FIRE!"
Peridot was horrified, Steven was about to summon his shield in protection of her, but then she spoke. "What did I do? What did I say?" Peridot was shaking ferociously by now.
Then amethyst pulled out a tape recorder. My old log!
Flashback
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(Peridot had just recorded the message)
"Peridot, out."
She clicked the button that stopped her message.
I really need some time...
"GAAAHHH!
Peridot threw her recorder into the dead kindergarten sand.
"I hope no one ever hears that last log..." Peridot regretted what she had said in that one. She hadn't meant to be so harsh towards the crystal gems... Especially Steven... She really just needed to vent out.
After all, she still felt like an alien on a strange planet.
Peridot ran out of the kindergarten, leaving her recorder to rot. She would go back to the barn. Back to lapis...
But what she really wanted was to go home. She had read on the Earth-website that the meaning of home was the place or person where you feel safe in/with.
And for her, she felt like her home was...
Him.
(Flash forward)
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"Oh. Oh. Oh no" Peridot stared wide eyes at the tape recorder.
"I-I-I-"
"SHUT UP PERIDOT!" The trio put their weapons so close to Peridot that Steven couldn't help but...
"LEAVE HER ALONE!"