Greg the Human
It has been a couple thousand years since we won the war against the mighty Homeworld. Boy, has human-kind evolved. They now have these things called cars that they use to transport, and their style of clothing literally changed every decade. They can't seem to make up their minds. I think, last time I checked it was the year 2000. Apparently rock music is dying down. Thank god. The "concerts" they held here were so loud, I could hear them when I was miles underwater. Yes, I like to go underwater and swim around, looking at all the wildlife in the ocean. I don't have to breathe, so I would sometimes be down there for days at a time, usually when I had conflicting emotions towards the gems, and I didn't want to get them hurt. I found out during these couple thousand years that I literally can control fire, air, water, control heat, and use my gem energy to make a deadly weapon energy sphere emitting from my axe, almost like a gun. Yeah. It's also a gun.
Everything was fine until Rose went to that concert. A concert that nobody went to. She felt so bad for him that she ended up showing up, to make the human feel better about himself. Humans. They expect everything to be perfect, well wake up sunshine, it's not. They expect to have a crowd when the get nothing. At least in this situation Rose was there, who is literally so full of compassion that she would heal a fly with her tears if someone stepped on it. There are trillions of other flies in the world, man she is weird. But the good weird! She is really nice. She went to the concert and he followed her to the fence we built around the temple. I was by the shore when Amethyst, who was keeping watch, squaked and flew in the temple. I didn't know what that was about, until I turned around. I saw a human man climbing over the fence. Ugh, Amethyst! You lured him into the temple. Great. It's dangerous for humans to be around the temple.
I walked up to the man who was running to the temple and stopped him in his tracks.
"Here to see someone?" I asked him.
"Yeah actually," he said looking down at me. I hate being short in these situations. "I'm looking for a tall lady, you know, with the pink hair?"
"You see she was talking about Ro-" Amethyst started to say, but Pearl cut her off by placing her hand in front of her mouth.
Suddenly Garnet warped into the temple, holding two bubbled gems in both her hands where she quickly noticed us and sent them back to the temple.
"Pearl, Amethyst, Mari, you're with a human." she said.
"He followed me over the fence." Amethyst said, obviously not realizing what the severity of the situation was.
Pearl leaned over to Garnet and said, "I don't know how to make him go away."
"I'll just throw him back over the fence." Garnet said, with a very stoic voice, as usual.
I was just watching all of this. I didn't know what to say, I mean, this has never happened before. Humans should stay on the other side of the fence like the sign says. We wouldn't have to deal with this if they just followed instructions like they should.
"Excellent idea, humans should stay on the other side of the fence like the sign says." Pearl said.
Irony overload. I thought those same exact words.
"Wait, hey! Put me down!" the human exclaimed while Garnet held him over her head as if he were a five pound weight. Man she is strong.
"Wait! Stop!" Rose said, appearing out of nowhere. "Mr. Universe?"
"It's you!" he said softly. Garnet dropped him and the look of pure embarrassment spread across the half of face she showed. Um. That's new.
Rose softly jumped up and landed gracefully, as usually, in front of the human half the size of her. Granted she is a big women even in gem standards, I mean, seven foot two is tall. Garnet is seven foot, but I count her out because she is a fusion, not in a bad way, I'm proud of their relationship. The rare occurrences that she talks to me, one time she mentioned Ruby and Sapphire. They are so cute together. Anyway, Rose helped this "Mr. Universe" of the ground and they started staring at each other for a couple seconds before Pearl interrupted their little staring contest.
"Wait, you know this human?" Pearl said.
"He had a concert on the beach, and I just couldn't help myself." Rose said.
Yep. Sounds like Rose. This is Rose everybody, give her a round of applause.
They talked a bit more, and I just quietly walked into the ocean. Just, no chill, walk into the ocean. I shapeshifted into a mermaid, because why not, and went to my little trench I dug a couple decades back. It's a good thinking spot for me. I thought about the human and Rose. What if they fall in love. What happens then? Is she going to leave us, no, she couldn't, even if she tried. Humans have such a shorter lifespan than us, is she really going to go through the burden of watching him grow old and die right in front of her, while she lives on to probably find another human and fall in love. The cycle will just go on and on and on. I can't bear to stand her crying all the time because all of her lovers die. Geez, I could never do that.
Anger, Grief, Sadness, all these emotions bubbled up inside me. I need to calm down. Now. If I don't, I might heat up the entire ocean into steam, heck, I'm already doing it right now. Bubbles of heat rise from me, and I tried to take deep breaths, but I also remembered that I am underwater. I shapeshifted back into my normal form and started to swim back up to the beach. Usually when I get this frustrated, one of the team members would come to help calm me down, but I didn't see anyone there. Instead I saw the same stupid human right by the crystal temple door, singing some sort of rock song. Wow, this kid has some determination. Suddenly, I saw Rose's door open and she stood in front of the human and they talked for a little bit, until I saw her starry-eyed. Oh great. Another human lover. I know that face from a mile away. And it has happened before. A couple times actually. There was something special about this one though.
He finally went back to his van, which he had crashed into the fence. Man, it took hours to put that fence up with what little money we had. Ruined. I'll make a mental note to fix it later, but it sounds like Pearl would do that sort of thing, so I will leave it to her.
Rose finally noticed me, coming out of the ocean, and she knew what my face meant. I need help to calm down. Now. She rushed over to me and put her hand on my shoulder. I was so worried that she might burn herself. Can gems get burns? I don't care.
"Shh…" she said. "Calm down sweetheart. Take deep breaths."
"I….. Can't…." I stuttered, trying to take in the air, but I couldn't. I would describe it as a human having an asthma attack, but ten times worse.
She kept stroking my shoulder, giving me a hug in between. She didn't complain of burns, so I assumed that she was ok. God I was scared. I tried a breathing technique that Garnet told me about, so I tried that. I breathed in, held it, and breathed out. It felt a little better. It was so much better when Rose was there. She does the best of calming me down than all the others. She seemed to know how to calm me down, like she has techniques. She was the best thing that happened to me.
What I didn't know was that the human was staring at the entire time. Uh, talk about rude. I'm really dangerous to be around when I'm mad, why didn't Rose shoo him away.
"What are you doing here?" I almost yelled, with a very dangerous sounding voice.
He walked backwards from me, hands in a protective position. Good, he should be scared of me.
"N-n-nothing. I-I-I just n-n-needed to give R-R-Rose her t-shirt." he shakily said.
"You are fine Greg, just a situation that arose. You can give it to me when the sun rises." Rose replied. Hehe. Rose puns.
"A-alright." he said then running away to his van.
I turned to Rose.
"I'm sorry Rose." I breathed out. "I didn't mean to scare him."
"You are alright Mari. These things happen. No worries." she said back to me.
Ok, now I felt bad. I scared a human away. I'm not usually that type of person. What happens is I make friends with humans, at least until they die, but I never fell in love with one. But I scared him away. I felt so sorry.
"Sorry." I said softly, looking at Greg and stared at him until I passed out.
