Lazulite quickly summoned his hammer, and bashed up the tech. The small Moonstone flinched in my arms from the noise Lazulite was creating. I looked down at her. She was a light blue tint, and her hair was long, and wavy. She wore a short skirt, and a long sleeve shirt. She was short, maybe only a foot tall. I looked at her again, looking for her gem. I finally found it after a while under her chin. The whole time, she seemed unconscious, since she didn't react to anything. I figured it would take some time for her to wake up. We suddenly saw the others in the distance, looking worn out and tired.
They slowly walked towards us, Amethyst breathing hard, as well as Pearl. They stopped in their tracks when they saw Moonstone in my arms. I gestured to the new hole, and the bashed up tech. Garnet walked over next to it, and summoned her gauntlets, and smashed it to bits. The small pieces flew in the air, falling all over the dusty ground.
"Peridot was too fast for us…" Pearl said, out of breath.
"We got one of her fingers though!" Amethyst showed off one of peridots long green fingers.
"Oh, and, uh, who is that?"
"It's a moonstone, Pearl. She came out of the hole this gem tech made."
"It's so bashed up, though! How could it make a gem in such a condition?"
"It wasn't this bashed up before, you can thank both Lazulite, and Garnet for its condition now."
"Well, that explains a lot. Anywho, what are we going to do with this Moonstone?"
Garnet suddenly cut in the conversation, "We keep her." She walked over to us, as her gauntlets dissolved back into her normal hands.
"Garnet, she was made in the kindergarten, the odds are good she will be reckless, and rude!"
"True, but in a few futures, I see her becoming one of your favorite gems, Pearl. Not because of being reckless, or rude, either."
"Fine, we will keep her. Though, I'm not taking care of her."
"Who will?"
"I can…" I said softly, and Lazulite nodded.
"Sure, I got no problem with it. I'm of course helping out as well, if she takes care of Moonstone."
"Then it's settled. Gems, let's go back home."
We all walked to the warp pad, and warped back to the house. Everyone stepped off the platform. Pearl and Amethyst flung themselves onto the couch, and Garnet sat down with them a moment later. We followed them, and sat down with them as well, Moonstone still in my arms. Steven rushed downstairs at that very moment, and jumped onto the couch, almost instantly catching sight of the new gem.
"Who's that?" He gestured at Moonstone.
"That is Moonstone, a new Crystal Gem." Pearl said.
"Awesome! I have to go tell Lars and Sadie!" Steven said, a giant grin on his face.
"Yo, get me a doughnut when you go there. Anyone else?"
Lazulite looked at me. "Get me one. I'm gonna split it with Emerald."
"Can do!" Steven said, excited.
Amethyst tossed Steven some money, and he bolted out the door, leaving us all on the couch. Lazulite put his feet on the table as soon as he left, and I tapped his shoulder. He shrugged, and took his feet off it. I felt the gem stirring in my arms, likely finally awake. I placed her easily on the couch, in a sitting position. She opened her eyes, and looked around, taking in the layout of where she was. I waved my hand in her face, seeing if she would respond to it. She turned and looked at me.
"Hello?" She said softly.
"Hello, how are you feeling?" I quickly asked her.
"Fine, I think."
Everyone turned to look at her.
"Yo, she's finally awake!" Amethyst said, a bit excited to see how she would act.
"Hello, what's your name?" Garnet asked.
"Moonstone. I think it is, anyway…" Moonstone replied.
"Hmm, so Emerald was right. Not bad Emerald." Pearl commented, a small smile on her face.
"Thanks," I said back.
"So, uh, where am I?..." Moonstone asked.
"You, are at the Crystal Gems base. You were born in a kindergarten, though." I said.
"What's a kindergarten?" She asked.
"It's a bad place," Garnet said bluntly, cut in.
She started sucking on her fist, thinking about what Garnet just said.
Pearl suddenly cut in. "Oh my goodness, I keep forgetting, you three need rooms!"
"It's not that urgent," I commented. Lazulite nodded in agreement.
"Nonsense, we can make you rooms easily, and it's better you have your own,"
"We need a moonstone, a emerald, and a lazulite," Garnet suddenly said.
"Oh, that's easy, Garnet. Just, ya know, shapeshift into a mole, and get digging!" Amethyst said, a bit excited.
"It IS better if all of us look…" Garnet said outloud.
"So, then let's get to digging!" Amethysts leaped off the couch.
The rest of us got up, as Steven ran through the door, a bag in his left hand. He tossed one to us, and the other to Amethyst. Amethyst ate it in one bite. Lazulite snapped ours in half, and handed half to me.
I took a giant bite out of the doughnut, letting the tastes slide down my throat. It was pure chocolate, with candy sprinkles. I tossed the rest in my mouth, and ate that in a heartbeat. I pointed to Steven, then to the couch, then his eyes, then finally Moonstone. I couldn't talk, due to the doughnut, but I could point. I wanted Steven to stay, and watch Moonstone.
They needed to stay, so there would be no trouble. Amethyst shapeshifted first, into a snow white and lavender mole. Pearl was next, turning into a light blue and white mole. Garnet went right after, becoming a dark red mole, with her glasses on. They looked really good on her as a mole. Lazulite turned into a dark blue mole. Finally it was my turn.
I watched as my arms, and legs became short, as was my body. Fur sprouted out from all over me, a bright green. My size changed a bit more, then stopped, I looked down, looking like the others, except green. Garnet gestured for us to follow her outside. We all did, like puppies following their mother. We soon were on the beach. We each took a spot, and started digging.
My paws moved furiously, and dirt flew out of the ground, and behind me. I hoped the dirt hit no one. I kept digging though, instead of checking, since it would be a pain getting out. I just kept moving my paws, back and forth, letting the sound of the dirt moving relax me.
It was a while later, that I found a Emerald, and shortly after, a Lazulite. I turned upwards, and began to dig up. It was only a few minutes before I exploded out of my hole at the surface, only to find the other gems all waiting. Lazulite was tossing a moonstone she found in the air, then catching it on the way down. Pearl, was hugging a rose quarts she found, and garnet had found a sapphire, and a ruby. Amethyst… She found nothing. I quickly shapeshifted back into myself.
Lazulite suddenly spotted me, likely from the flash of shapeshifting. "I can only hope you found a lazulite and an emerald? After all, you dug up most of the beach, along with Garnet."
"I dug up the beach? Oh, and yeah, I did get our gems." I tossed the lazulite gem to her.
"Come on then, bring them in the temple, and I will make your rooms." Garnet said quickly, before walking to the temple.
We ran after her, but once we all caught up, Garnet was already in the house. She quickly grabbed the emerald and lazulite I found, and the moonstone Lazulite found. She put them in the palms of her hands, as they glowed a bit.
"Alright, what you want your rooms to be?" Garnet questioned us.
"A giant mountain, with the inside hollow, so it's a big room in the mountain! Oh, and snow on it too!" Lazulite suddenly burst out, excited. I knew it's a place he always wanted to be, since he always told me.
"A overgrown jungle will be fine for me. Just make a treehouse in the jungle, please." I said, shrugging.
"What do you want, Moonstone?" She looked at her, only to find her asleep on the couch. She was curled in a tiny ball, and was snoring very softly. She was still sucking on her fist, though.
"Cute. Reminds me of Steven as a baby." Pearl said, looking at Moonstone.
"Let's make her a room later, we still don't know what she likes." Lazulite commented. We all nodded in agreement.
Everyone but Garnet sat down on the couch. I turned my head so I could see what she was doing. She had put the moonstone down, and had the other two gems floating in her palms. She slammed her hands with the gems in them onto the temple door, and stepped back. The two gems melted partly into the door, and froze there. Garnet then walked over to the couch.
After that, they started everyone started talking a little. I started thinking about Moonstone. I had forgot I would have to get the food of choice. Every gem had a certain food they eat when they are first made, since their gems are too weak. I would have to ask Moonstone for hers, then get plenty of it. I sighed out loud, then asked Garnet something.
"Hey, Garnet, are our rooms ready to work?"
"Yeah, the gems should have fused properly into the door by now, you can go test it."
"Okay, thanks."
I walked up to the door, and held my gem towards the emerald on the door, as a long vine stretched across the door, as it opened. I walked inside, looking around. My room was what I asked for. A large jungle, with a tree house. I walked up to the treehouse, and climbed up a rope ladder nearby, into it. I looked around my new house.
There was a nice bed in a corner with a spare blanket on it, and next to it, a side table, with a lamp on it made of vines. In another corner, was a small couch, with a table. The rest was all empty. I looked around it a moment more, before going out of my house, and through the temple door. I sat back down at the couch.
