Chapter 4: A day at the beach

" Hey Pearl!" A voice shouts. Blue Pearl looks up to see that it was the unusual gem from the ship she saw.

" Hello Steven." The Pearl says with a smile on her face. The Steven looks up at her in a friendly manner before turning his attention to Blue Pearl.

When he makes a step forward towards her, she backs away and hides behind Pearl. It's not like she's completely afraid of him, but she doesn't know what to make of him.

" It's probably not a good idea to get too close to her yet Steven. She really has some reservations. Best if you keep your distance for now." Pearl tells him.

" I understand Pearl." He says before turning his attention to Blue Pearl. " Hi I'm Steven. What's your name?"

Pearl sighs and looks at Blue Pearl, who nods her the ok to explain for her to the Steven.

" I'm afraid Blue Pearl can't talk Steven. I don't if she has always been like this or if something happened, but she can't talk. That's all I know." She explains.

" Oh. I see…." Steven says looking a bit disappointed.

Blue Pearl sighs in frustration as well.

Then Steven looks up at her friendly again. " Well. That's ok. We can still have some fun. Follow me!" He says before he runs towards the water.

Blue Pearl looks at Pearl in confusion. Fun? What do you mean by fun?

" Come on." Pearl tells her. " We better humor him."

Blue Pearl follows the two to the water. She watches as the Steven jumps into the water and starts splashing around. Which makes her raise an eyebrow. For what reason could this be important?

All of a sudden a giant purple shark pops out of the water which makes Blue Pearl yelp as she falls on to the soft ground.

" Amethyst….." Pearl growls at the purple shark.

The purple shark shape shifts into another gem that is purple with the gem located on her chest.

" Hey. Chill it dude." She says as she and Steven are laughing as they continue to splash around. Steven then leaves Amethyst to going back to shapeshifting for fun and comes up to Blue Pearl.

" Are you ok?" Steven asks out of concern for her.

Blue Pearl doesn't pay attention as she looks at the ground in curiosity before she lifts a hand to see it made an imprint on the soft ground. She grabs a handful of it like she did the first time before she lets it fall out of her hand once again.

" Oh!" Steven says. Catching her attention. " It's called sand. You can make sandcastles. Leave handprints. Even write. Look."

He then writes his name in the sand.

Blue Pearl gets on all fours and looks at the writing curiously. She's shock that this 'sand' could do that. She then slowly places her finger on the sand and starts mimicking his hand movements. Only this time it was her own name in her native language.

" Huh?" Steven says in confusion. He's never seen this type of writing before.

" Wait a minute….." Pearl looks at it for a second and realizes. " You can write!?" She shouts which makes Blue Pearl jolt for a second in response.

" Sorry!" Pearl apologizes. " I'm…. I'm just surprised. Pearls don't usually know writing. How did you learn to write?"

Blue Pearl was hesitant but nevertheless she turns her attention to the sand and writes slowly, " Someone had taught me when I couldn't talk anymore."

" Who?" She asks.

By then, Blue Pearl takes her finger away from the sand and kneels. Pearl sees the look of shame on her face and could tell she hit a touchy subject. Which leaves some sort of clue to her past. A painful past.

" You don't have to tell me now." Pearl says to Blue Pearl. " Like I said, we'll take this one step at a time."

Blue Pearl looks up and nods at Pearl before she hears footsteps coming up behind her.

" I see that our guest is out and about." The Fusion says as she stands next to Blue Pearl. Blue Pearl squeaks and backs away a bit in response.

" I thought getting her out might do her some good Garnet." Pearl says.

" Well you might want to consider heading inside real soon. A really bad storm is coming." She says.

" Cool!" Stevens says enthusiastically. " We can make s'mores and watch Lonely Blade!"

" I'm in." Amethyst says as she comes out of the water.

" Well. I guess that's our plan then. As soon as I take Blue Pearl back to her…..uh…...room?" Pearl says uncomfortably as looks at Blue Pearl.

Blue Pearl gives her the look of " Really?"

" Aw…. What?" Steven says in disappointment.

" Well I guess she can stick around for the movie, but today has already been much on Blue Pearl anyway." Pearl says.

" It's also weird anyway. Calling her Blue Pearl. I don't know. Maybe we should call her something other than that." Steven says.

" We'll think of names later. Right now we should get inside." Garnet says as they look up at the now dark grey sky.

All of the gems get up and head back towards the temple. Blue Pearl lags behind as she looks at the darkened sky. She has never seen a change in the sky before. It was always black skies with stars out on Homeworld. She has never seen a star so bright it light up the sky. Nor see the sky this dark grey before. There's just so many things she hasn't seen before on Earth, it's overwhelming.

The next thing surprises her when a drop of water hits her cheek which sends her back to a memory.

" I know we shouldn't be in here, but come on. It'll be great!" A massive green name Jade says with a smile on her face.

She's a big gem with light green skin with tribal armband tattoos all over on both arms. She looks like but is a bit bigger than most Jaspers and has a much kinder face. Her long wild mint green hair is in a high ponytail and her gem is located on her shoulder.

Blue Pearl is hesitant, but she takes the green gem's hand anyway is lead into the fountain.

She looks down to see her feet wet when they are in the fountain and she chuckles in response. What is she thinking!? This is crazy! Being in her mistress' private fountain. They could both get in trouble! Especially her! She can't believe she had let Jade talk her into this!

But it doesn't cross her mind as Jade splashes her which causes her to yelp and for Jade to laugh. Blue Pearl smirks at Jade before she splashes her hard than the big gem did. Instead of being angry, Jade laughs as she sticks her head under a waterfall and whips her hair around.

" Come on!" She says. " Try it!"

Blue Pearl chuckles as she ducks under the waterfall and gets soak everywhere with Jade at her side. Not even caring that she was late on her errands or breaking the rules just this once.

Blue Pearl blinks and sees herself getting soaked by the water droplets. Despite getting wet, it all feels comforting. Even when she is hearing light footsteps running towards her.

" Blue Pearl!" Pearl calls as the rain falls harder. " Blue Pearl!"

She then stops as she finally sees the gem. She's standing in the sand with her arm stretched high towards the stormy grey sky as the water drips down her arm on the rest of her soaked body. But that's not what Pearl is focused on, She watches the gem look at it with such fascination.

Pearl is shock when she looks at her. This is the first time she has seen this Pearl without fear on her face. Without sadness of any kind. But of pure curiosity and fascination.

Steven runs up to Pearl and sees the other Pearl as well getting soak in the rain.

" Rain." He says. " She likes rain!"

" Strange." He hears Pearl say. " I usually hate it."

" Well she is her own gem." Steven smiles before getting starry eyed. " Rain….. Raina! We should call her Raina!"

" Raina?" Pearl says looking at Steven in confusion.

" Yeah. Because she likes the rain and it's easier other than calling her Blue Pearl."

Pearl looks back at the gem as she mumbles, " Raina."


A bit of a short chapter, but we get a bit of insight on Raina and also we get a new name for her. I just felt that she needed her own name instead of just being called Blue Pearl throughout the entire story. The past will start to develop more.

Anyway. I will be a busy bee tomorrow. So no guarantees on updates. I can't wait for the next chapters and for the show to have the season three finale!

Well have a good day. Please Review!