I saw another chance, so i took it. It was dark out which may have not been the smartest thing but well, i just grabbed a sheet so that the shine from my outfit wouldn't make me that visible. Second time is beter i think. The first time it was a whim and i needed to learn what not to do and maybe a suggestion what to do. This will be a better time.
Then i heard footsteps behind me. I looked to see two topazes fall behind me, but their pace was faster and their eyes said i was the target. Instinct kicked in and i ran, with them keeping up behind me. I rounded a corner to be met with more topazes. "Where you going there, little lady?" Why do people think I'm a woman with this hair?
"I- I was - I was just" I stubbled, hoping to find the right lie that would make it so that neither of us were shattered.
"We know what you were doing! You are coming with us!" Oh, yes the classical 'You're coming with us' I got picked up by the collar on my cape, almost choking me. I didn't enjoy it like most probably wouldn't.
They carried me all the way back to the military quarters, and up to the Major's office. They then dropped me and I hit the floor, rolling to my side so that the gem in my hand didn't shatter.
"I am very disappointed in you two." The major said and turned around so that she was facing me. I tried to get up but was met with a foot in my back, shoving me back to the floor. "I really wish that you hadn't put me into this place." The major said and walked over to me. "You have everything that you would ever want. Everything you were meant for, right here. Why would you ever attempt to leave?"
"Fine!" she said. "Since you aren't going to answer I will let you live in a cell until you decided to change your mind." I was lifted by my arms and dragged to a cell. They opened it and threw me in and i rolled to avoid shattering.
"Be thankful she asked for you to go in a cell." A topaz said and slammed the door.
They still had no idea if they realized that I was holding a gem in my hand. What would happen if they realized? All of a sudden it decided to glow so i tried to hid it in my arms. I felt it expand, kick and grunt. "Sorry." i said as it flew out of my arms but before i could grab it again. "No, no, no, no," i gasped as it reformed and Ninja Brian sat on the cel floor.
"Well," he said, looking around the cell, "At least it is an upgrade. From what we used to have?"
"Ninja Brian."
"So what got you into this mess?"
"I tried to leave."
"Again? Danny, how many fucking times have i told you, we will never leave?"
"I almost had it this time-" I shot back.
"But where are you know? Oh a jail cell isn't it?"
"I will get out of it!"
"And how do you propose that?"
"Eh!" I heard a topaz say outside the cell.
"Ninja Brian, i am so sorry for this." I said and poofed him with my sword.
"What's goin' on 'ere?" The topaz said.
"Nothing, just casually talking to myself and having to one sided cause it's nice to be able to act like there is another person with you." the topaz nodded in understanding and left me to be. How did he believe that? "You better not reform again." It seemed to kick my hand a little.
After a long, long time, a topaz opened my cell and grabbed me by the arm. He then proceeded to take me to the major's office again.
"So what should we do with you, Danny?" she asked, probably more wonder out loud. "lock you up until you learn? Torture you? How about a good old bubbling for a couple of years?" then she gained a devilish smile. "I have something better." then she saw my hand. "before that, what do you got in you hand?" she said an motioned for a topaz. He promptly took my arm and pried the heliotrope out of my hand.
"'ere you go manm." he said handing it to her.
She inspected it. "This is your partner, am I wrong?"
"He did nothing. He has been in his gem the whole time." I pleaded. "I promise he did nothing wrong. Let him go."
"Fine." she sighed and tossed the gem to the other side of the room. I listen as it hit the floor but it didn't seem to break at all. When she saw the look on my face and laughed. She looked behind me "Topaz, take the heliotrope back to their general." She looked back at me, "He has no business in this matter." I let out a breath of relief, whatever was going to happen, he had no part in it.
"What are you going to do to me?" I asked, but i really didn't get an answer at that moment. Just the Major walking over to the closet and going inside. She appeared almost immediately back out holding a bubbled gem. She walked back to her desk and popped the gem and quickly caught it.
"She was just like you once." She started, talking about the gem. "She felt like there was more for her, just not here. Problem was, was that we needed her here. She decided to steal a ship and leave one day. She got caught and put under surveillance. Then she slipped out again. She did have some sas to her, but that's not we need." she sighed and then looked over near me but not at me. "She seems to have a worse fate then you."
"What do you-" But i was cut off from the realization.
Her arm quickly descended upon the pointed spike by her desk, and the so familiar sound of a gem shattering came again, but this time it actually brought me to tears. I looked up to see her hand let go of the pieces that were left in her hand and she looked back at me. "Feast!" she demanded. I looked at her confusingly. "I said feast!" she demanded again.
I was picked up by the topazes and thrown to the ground where the shattered pieces of the gem were. I looked up to her to see if there was any hesitation in her face, but there wasn't, but I did. "EAT!" she demanded and shoved my head down. She let go and I reached for a shard, was it really worth it? I stared at the shard, knowing this was once a gem like me, well not exactly but still a gem that had an idea, a past, friends, a hope. I tried to get the thoughts out of my head. I finally laid it in my mouth and chewed, then I swallowed. Visions filled my head, a girl, a guy, a battlefield, a sword going through gem after gem, a ship. I felt a pain in my stomach and a visions of looking down at their stomach and everything went black and the pain disappeared. I was shoved back into the real world.
"More." she said to me. "All of it must be gone, then you may leave."
As I ate more, I felt the gem more. I would see the girl I would feel trust, I saw the guy and felt love, the battlefield I would feel worry, the sword going through the gem I felt the adrenaline, the ship made me feel free but anxiety almost masked it, then the sword through the stomach, hopelessness. She knew what was going to happen, before it did.
When I was finished I looked up at her. "Learn you lesson?" she asked, I nodded. "Next time, you will be the one eaten." she said. The soldiers picked me up by my arms and dragged me back to my quarters. They proceeded to throw me in and left. Ninja Brian was there at the table, reading the paper. I looked up at him and got up and ran to hug him. I started to cry into his ninja suit.
"Wow," he said, still his emotionless voice. "What did they do to you?"
"They made- they made me-" I stubbled "they made me- made me eat a ge-gem."
"That is interesting." he said.
"She- she shattered her and then- and then-" I said and started to cry again.
He was crying alright, I just ignore him. All of a sudden Danny looked up at me but with no expression on his face. His eyes were glowing with a mix of his blue and an orange. He suddenly flew up from me. "Nothing is going to change, ninja." he said, but it wasn't him. "You will want to leave this miserable place and find a new home, you just will need to accept that." suddenly Danny's normal eyes came back and he looked as me and tears filled his eyes as he fell to the floor.
"What just happened?" He choked. "Brian, what just happened?"
"I-I have no idea." I said and he looked up at me, eyes like that of one that had just realized they lost a fight before it was even officially over.
"Brian, what is going on?" he asked me with pleading eyes.
"Maybe it was the gem you ate. I have never had to deal with that, or even heard about what the effects of cannibalism does."
"Please, don't call it cannibalism." he said, helplessly. Suddenly his left eye started to glow again like the last time, while the other eye looked confused and scared.
"You will never escape it." he said harshly. I saw a tear fall from his right eye as he said it. The glow disappeared again
"What did She mean? We? I?" he started to get flustered. "Ninja Brian," he said with a helpless voice. "Please help me."
"There is nothing I can do." I said. He looked hurt. "I have no experience so lets watch it and see if it gets worst. I bet that it will be like it never happened in a week." I walked over to the chair I was sitting in and sat back down and continued what I was doing
I felt like he didn't care. "You are not concerned? I am your partner-"
"And it is not my problem." he said, cutting me off.
"But if anything goes wrong, we will both get blamed."
"But who's idea was it that got you into that mess? Oh wait! That was you."
"One day, you will be happy we left this planet." I said.
"And that day will be the day right before I am shattered for defecting. Priorities, fluorite."
"You will see, that if you left someday, you won't have to worry about anything. You'll see."
