AN:It physically hurt me to write this one. But that's okay. Anyway Steven Universe is owned by not me, but I do own my pants and that's all that matters. Enjoy ^^
Chapter 9-Goodbye Old friend.
To anyone looking at Garnet, one would think she was simply laying awake as she faced the ceiling, in reality, she had managed to fall into a dream like meditative state while she thought. Her mind wondering to the day that she hated remembering.
Emerald had been missing for two weeks now, Garnet hadn't given up hope of her coming back, despite the lack of her appearance in her vision. But she insisted that she was missing something. No one fought her on it, wanting to believe as well that Emerald would return to them, though that was starting to seem like a slim chance. By now she would have sent a letter or something to tell them that she was okay, either she didn't want to be found, or she wasn't okay.
Rose and Pearls searches hadn't come up with anything yet either. Pearl had been helping Garnet search tirelessly between missions, Rose however had been less eager to help. That angered Garnet, but what could she do? Rose was their leader and her friend, she couldn't exactly accuse her of not searching hard enough, because it wasn't true. Rose just had other responsibilities to deal with.
Garnet sighed and moved about her room not really knowing what to do, something was going to happen soon, she wasn't sure what, but she had seen dread in her vision. She had let the others know and now they were all waiting in their respective rooms. She glanced for the hundredth time to the tunnel that led to Emeralds room and thought for the thousandth time of going into her room to see if she had missed anything in the initial search. Though with Pearl she knew she hadn't. So she chose to walk to her hidden alcove that held her sitting room. She was just sitting down when a pounding could be heard ringing through the temple, she jumped up and ran to the source, the door. The pounding had stopped seconds before she got to the door, she frowned and commanded the door to open. On the step was a small brown box with Emeralds handwriting on it, it was addressed to the Crystal Gems.
None of their names had been written, just the Crystal Gems. She frowned and picked up the box, it was small enough that it fit in one hand, but it had a bit of weight to it. She walked into her room and called her three companions into her room. One by one they filed into the room, Rose leading and Amethyst at the back of the group.
Garnet presented the box and looked to Rose, deciding to let her be the one to open it. Rose took the box from her and pulled the tape off of the top. In the box was sand, lots of it. Garnet gave a confused grunt then felt her stomach fill with dread, peeking out of the sand was a green glint of a gem. Pearl noticed it as well and reached with a shaky hand to touch the source of the green glint. Garnet beat her to it and pulled a small shard of a broken gem. She heard a noise that scared her, an inhuman wailing, and her room was beginning to blur and warp, and when did she get smaller?
She looked up at the warped faces of Rose and Pearl, and came face to face with Amethyst, who was saying something but she couldn't hear her over that wailing. What was that?! Oh! she was making that noise, the warping just so happened to be tears. She fell against Amethyst, a loud sob ripping from her throat, on a level she thought it was kind of funny that the youngest member was comforting one of the oldest members, but she didn't care right now.
Emerald had been shattered, and it was intentional. She had been shattered after writing on a box addressed to them, then she had been put in sand and hand delivered to them. Garnet didn't know what made her angrier, but anger could wait. Now she needed to mourn. She stood on shaky legs, tears still tracking down her face, as she looked at Rose. She place the broken shard back into the box and formed a bubble around it. She watched the bubble drift up out of her hand to join the other gems at the top of her room. She didn't say a word as she turned and moved to the door. Rose called to her, but made no attempt to stop her. The door opened before she even got to it and she walked out of the temple, feeling a need for air even if she didn't need to breathe.
She walked to the ocean and simply sat in the tide of the water. She let her glasses vanish and just looked out over the water. She couldn't understand why Emerald would have left. She could only imagine that Emerald was either kidnapped, or left because of them. She sighed and looked at the water as it gathered around her hips, the push and pull of the ocean calming her a little, but not much.
"Garnet?" Garnet blinked awake having actually fallen asleep, she wiped the wetness from her cheeks and stood to see who was calling her.
"Hello Amethyst" She said walking from the hidden room, Amethyst jumped then rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly.
"Hey we got a mission." She said holding up paper that Peridots escape pod had given out warning them about any gem activity. Garnet nodded and followed Amethyst out. Pearl and Steven were already waiting on them on the Warp pad. Peridot and Lapis decided to stay home claiming that it was a desert so they wouldn't be needed.
Garnet and Amethyst stepped on the warp pad, Garnet commanded the pad, and in a flash of red light they were...Still in their living room.
"What?" Garnet asked in shock noting the absence of Peridot and Lapis. Steven stepped off and walked over to the counter noticing something first.
"Guys" He called and held out a photo. Pearl took the photo and gasped, dropping it in shock.
AN: What was in the picture? Where is Peri and Lapis? Where are my pants? Most of these questions will be answered next time in A Life forgotten. Anyway stay safe, stay awesome.
~Fangy
