Peridot woke up a little while later, the forest was silent, as if the silence in the Yellow Diamond kingdom's forests had spread there like a disease, swallowing up all sounds of life. She stood up and looked around.

There was a small trail of blood in the clearing where the Siren had run away, coupled with a small spot where the bushes had parted. Come to think of it, that creature couldn't have been a pure-blooded Siren, she couldn't see gills on it, its hands and feet lacked webbing and its eyes had been flecked with gold. It was half Witch, an extremely powerful creature that deserved respect.

The young woman walked around a little, making sure to pick her knife up off the ground, she reached a stream when she heard a frustrated growl. Peridot poked her head up and saw it, it was kneeling down by the stream trying desperately to catch a fish with its bare hands.

Peridot watched it hesitantly dip its injured foot into the water, only to reel back hissing in pain. "I'm going to starve, aren't I?" It asked to no one.

Peridot's green eyes widened, it... No, it was a girl, these creatures were not animals. She could speak! Her voice was pretty but filled with despair, Peridot grabbed a stick off of the ground and went to work. Years ago her father had taught her how to catch (and cook) fish out in the wild, and while sure, it had been boring to her as a child it was still a useful skill. Within a short amount of time she had a small stone plate of cooked fish.

She prayed that the Siren would still be merciful, Peridot really wasn't looking forward to losing any limbs any time soon. She watched as the creature limped away from the water, her stomach was growling and Peridot's heart ached a bit for her. Here was this powerful creature, alone, afraid, injured and not mention starving.

The blonde stepped through the bushes towards the blue haired woman, who backed away growling at her. Peridot put the stone plate down and nervously slid it over to her with one of her feet. She cautiously sniffed at it and looked up at her, Peridot could have sworn the woman's mouth was watering. "W-what? You poison it or something?" She asked and the shorter girl shook her head.

"No, I didn't, I swear." She assured her and the half Siren stepped forward before grabbing one of the fish with her mouth, threw her head back and, all in one swift motion, swallowed the fish whole. She licked her lips before wolfing down a few more, Peridot gave a nervous chuckle and grabbed the smallest fish from the plate. The half Witch growled at her making her raise her hands in defence, "I caught them, I should at least be allowed one." She reasoned, and the woman seemed satisfied with that.

The blue haired girl layed down on the ground after finishing her meal and rubbed her stomach with a soft sigh. Peridot gave a soft chuckle, "Is it good?" She asked and the Siren nodded.

"I haven't eaten like that in so long..." She said wistfully and Peridot felt a bit bad. The blue haired woman sat up, "Human... Who are you?" She asked, her deep blue gaze filling with a mix of suspicion and curiosity.

"My name is Peridot Aurum." She told her, and the woman nodded.

She seemed to still be on edge, but she did respond with "Lapis Lazuli... Thanks, for the food." Peridot moved a bit closer to her but she backed away again, growling at first bit wincing when she put weight in her injured ankle.

"H-hey, it's alright, I won't hurt you." She said, but Lapis shook her head and pressed herself against a boulder. Peridot got low to the ground to try to show that she wasn't a threat. "I just want to help you. You're hurt, your ankle got cut, didn't it?" She asked gently, and the blue haired girl nodded. Peridot took a clean handkerchief from her bag and gestured for Lapis to come closer. "I can help you, you just have to trust me, okay?"

"How do I know this isn't some trick? And yes, I am hurt, no thanks to your godsdamn species." She hissed and Peridot grimaced, "Oh, I'm sorry, did I hurt your feelings like your weapon hurt me?" Peridot looked into her eyes, she was trying to make barbed quips at her, but the blonde could see pain along with fear in her eyes.

"Lapis, I don't want to hurt you, I didn't even throw that bola! I feel really bad about what happened to you, and I want to make it better somehow. Look I... I couldn't have hurt you back there, I'm not a killer." She explained and Lapis' eyes softened, Peridot then added, "And I know you aren't either... Lapis why did you let me live?" She asked.

The Siren looked down at the bloodied dirt, then at her wounded leg before bringing her gold-speckled gaze back to Peridot herself. Staring straight into her eyes Lapis told her very quietly, "Because I looked into your eyes Peridot, and you were just as terrified as I was..."

She held out her ankle, the young blonde cupped some water in her hands and washed away the dried blood, Lapis hissing occasionally when she did so. She tied the handkerchief around the wounded woman and helped her to her feet. "Do you want to go back to your river?" Peridot asked her, and the blue haired girl nodded.

"I just want to go home."

Peridot helped her walk through a tiny stretch of forest, taking note that Lapis did not have any gills visible, Sirens were said to have gills on their neck, but where were hers? Could she seal them up on land? Peridot was so curious about her, she would have to ask more questions if she had the chance, she wanted the information in her book to be accurate.

Oh boy did she ever regret bringing Lapis to the river... There weren't any humans around, and there weren't any living Sirens either. The water had turned a dark red, the once bone dry ground was slick and the air was heavy with the scent of death. She saw Lapis fall to her knees and give a strangled, grieving cry.

Peridot wanted desperately to be able to comfort her, but she didn't know what to say, her entire colony had just been slaughtered, friends and family, even innocent children had perished by the cruel humans that the blonde would be eternally ashamed to have travelled with. "I..." Her voice broke as she looked at the horrid scene, Lapis was crying softly and letting out the occasional heart-wrenching sob by the banks of the reddened river. "I'm sorry..."

The Siren shook her head and sniffed, "Y-you didn't d-do this, I'm sorry I-I got mad at you..." She said with a trembling voice as Peridot walked over and gently put a hand on her shoulder. Then the taller girl lifted her head, keeping her eyes closed, before her beautiful yet sorrowful voice started to sing as the river slowly moved by, carrying the blood of fallen Sirens with it. Peridot quickly took out her book and wrote down the words of the song that Lapis was singing.

We see you,

You don't think we do,

But we see you...

Flying high above us,

You see us dying,

You see the bodies of our loved ones...

But you ignore us,

You ignore them too...

You pretend we're not here...

Help us,

Save us...

Please don't leave...

We see you flying away,

Pretending we don't exist,

Like our lives don't matter,

You leave us drowning...

Abandoning us to our fate...

POV SHIFT- Jasper Redimido

She ran through the dark forest, desperate to get away from the monster that had attacked her, she was bleeding from the wounds that seemed to be all over her body, she had been running for a long time now first on all fours, then on her legs, she was close to her breaking point.

The tall woman burst through the bushes and trees and backed away upon finding herself much to close to a human village, but her legs finally gave up and Jasper collapsed. Scared and exhausted she no longer cared who would want to help her, she would take it. She was breathing hard, the sun was beating down on her and her thick white hair certainly wasn't helping. "Please... Help me..." She sent up a prayer to the gods and hoped that one of the good ones were listening.

It wasn't long before someone found her, a tall human woman with darker skin than Jasper's, although she had broad shoulders just like her, with her muscles and height she looked strong but all Jasper could see was fearful concern. Her multicoloured hair was in dreadlocks the fell over her shoulders, judging from her outfit Jasper would say that this woman was probably a blacksmith. "Are you okay?" The woman asked but Jasper no longer had the strength to respond. "Oh gods, look. I'm going to help you, I'll bring you back to my place, okay? Don't freak out, I'm not gonna hurt you."

Jasper gave a sigh of relief as the woman picked her up off of the ground. "What the hell were you doing out there all alone? Werewolves live in that forest, they can get pretty aggressive." She told her and Jasper nodded.

She managed to get her weakened voice to croak out "I work there, I deliver things to others..." The white haired woman explained, she wasn't lying. She had been making a delivery in the night to her half Witch half Siren pain-in-the-ass friend when a Werewolf had attacked her for the food she had. Jasper had been caught completely off guard and had been forced to run for her life.

"I see, well just take it easy, do you want anything to eat?" Asked the woman, and she chuckled upon hearing Jasper's stomach growl. "Guess I'll take that as a yes. By the way, my name's Bismuth. Mind if I ask yours?"

"J-jasper..." Muttered the white haired woman. Bismuth nodded and brought her inside a warm, but not too hot house. She set her down on what seemed to be a hybrid of a bed and a couch. There was the scent of metal in the air, along with fire. "Blacksmith?" She asked, and knew she would be cursing herself later for showing weakness in front of someone else.

The rainbow haired woman nodded with a small smile. "Yeah, I mostly just build whatever I want and then sell it but I do take requests." She explained, and started grabbing things around the house, Jasper didn't have the strength to watch. "Easy now, I need to see your arm first." She could feel her own arm being lifted before a cold wet cloth was pressed down on her wound making the buff woman growl and hiss with pain. "It's okay, I'm just putting something on your arm to stop that cut from getting worse."

Jasper nodded a bit and tried to think about anything else, the weather? Well the Blue Diamond kingdom was about to go through a drought, while the Yellow Diamond Kingdom was doing incredibly well in terms of food and water. Jasper didn't receive news about the White Diamond kingdom, and refused to hear anything about the Pink Diamond Kingdom. Not anymore...

The white haired woman had a strange sense of wonder and relief (which she was using to block out not only the pain but also the embarrassing fact that Bismuth had lifted her shirt a bit to see her side). It was an absolute relief to know that tonight was going to be a new moon, she had nothing to worry about.

Her wonder came from the fact that by a simple act of kindness this blacksmith was breaking 5 of Queen Yella's laws all at once.

1. Do not offer Monsters food.

2. Do not give Monsters shelter.

3. If you find a Monster it is to be killed immediately.

4. A wounded Monster is to be killed no matter what.

5. Do not under any circumstances let a Werewolf into a village.

Yeah, Jasper was pretty thankful for the new moon tonight, it would hide her true nature.

POV SHIFT- Jason Redfox

He tapped his fingers on the window sill, the hunters had come back about an hour ago, most of them hurt and a few had died over at the Siren nest, but they had slaughtered every last one of them... Jason had been forced to heal the brutes.

There was still no sign of the odd little woman who had recently come to the village, Peridot. She always seemed to be writing in her journal that her deceased father had left for her, and while she MIGHT have just been lagging behind the group that theory had gone out the window a little while ago. He sighed, "Where is she?" The brunette muttered to himself, once again surveying the small crowd to see if he could spot the golden flash that was the young woman's hair.

Jason turned away from the window, Peridot was a grown woman, she could (hopefully) handle herself and he was probably just worrying over nothing. The man was about to sit down when there was a loud knock on the door making him jump. The healer went quickly over to the door and opened it, the dark wood make an odd creak sound when he did. He looked at the man before him and fear shot up his spine.

A royal guard was standing in the doorway looking unimpressed. "Get your things." He ordered, "The Queen would like a word with you, Redfox." His voice was gruff and Jason felt his heart drop into his feet, Queen Yella? Why would she want- Realization hit the man like a block of marble. He was known to be a healer, this was true, but he very openly cared for Supernatural people. Although most of them were too shy to step foot near a human he had recently managed to cure an infant Vampire who had come into contact with the sun.

In the Queen of the Yellow Diamond kingdom's eyes that was a crime, the punishment was almost always death.

Jason grabbed his things, unable to tell why the guard had wanted him to and followed him out into the woods. He really hoped it would be a simple case of 'please heal someone in my palace' but in Yella's kingdom there were many healers, most were against helping Supernatural people for obvious reasons. "Would you mind telling me where you're taking me?" He asked as he held his things in a box under his arm and tried to smooth his unruly brown hair with the other.

"Like I said, the Queen needs to speak with you. She didn't give me any details, couldn't tell you if I wanted to." The guard explained. He took the healer into a deeper part of the forest and Jason gasped a bit upon seeing not a Queen Yella, but a deep royal blue palanquin. "Queen Azura is inside." Said the guard as he stood stationary outside of the palanquin, the tall man gestured for him to go inside after a few moments.

Jason stepped in, it was a bit lighter inside then he would have imagined, what with tiny streams of light entering from multiple entrances. There was a seat in the center of it, sitting there was the most elegant woman the healer had ever seen, with her soft pale blue hair and eyes that might have been piercing if she hadn't been obviously crying. She had a long dark blue dress and a pendant around her neck, a large blue diamond was inside of it. There was something oddly fragile about her, but the doctor paid no mind as he bowed to the Queen. "Your Majesty, how may I be of service to you?" He asked, her response was soft, almost a whisper.

"It is my daughter, Princess Azul, she has fallen gravely ill and does not have much time... I'm... I'm asking for your help." She explained, and he nodded before looking up at her curiously. "I do not have many options due to the Princess' heritage." She admitted, "Though I have heard that you are not one for barriers, is this true?"

It took a few seconds for him to realize she expected a quick answer. "Y-yes of course your Majesty." He said nodding, he felt like she was trying to stare right into his soul sometimes. The Queen closed her eyes with the ghost of a smile playing on her lips.

"Thank the gods, please sit, we will be moving and it would be best if you did not fall." She told him, and Jason knelt before her.

"Um, my lady, if I may ask, the Princess' heritage... What makes her different?" The doctor asked, Queen Azura looked a bit happy.

She turned to him and he instantly recognized the look a mother had when she was proud of her child. "Princess Azul is one quarter Water Nymph on her father's side." The blue haired woman explained, and Jason started thinking.

The Blue Diamond kingdom's princess wasn't that old, only twelve years old, she was quiet and reserved according to rumors, along with the fact the actual fact that she was incredibly shy, always seen clinging to her mother's dress during events and hiding her eyes behind her bangs in front of others. Though there were only a few things that could be caused by her Water Nymph blood, and the healer had the feeling he knew exactly what was wrong with the young princess.