9/17/16

Blue Pearl/ Narrator POV

I stood in the grand hall alone, waiting, The Strawberry Quartz and Charoite were being dealt with at the moment. The Iolites has left moments ago and I was left to my thoughts.

Well

Only for a few moments before a horde of Sunstones came marching in, greatly contrasting the aqua walls. They stopped a few feet away from me and separated into two rows and right in the middle was..a rather close relative.

Yellow Pearl

She seemed to be in a neutral mood at the moment, which was great as I was not fond of her nasally voice. She walked up to me and waved off the sunstones. They saluted and walked out, the door slamming behind them and only the sounds of the doors echoing...and Yellow pearl left the evidence that they were here.

It was silent between us, just staring at each other, waiting for the other to speak.

After a few moments Yellow Pearl smirked and unfolded her arms from behind her back and placed them on her hips.

Great...another spiel about our Diamonds.

"I heard the gist of today's meeting" oh really? I don't care. "Apparently this was all my Diamonds idea, isn't that wonderful. Oh It's all delightful, how my Diamond is.."

I swear she can't think past her own eyelids.

I took a few steps back and tuned her out. I really didn't want to hear her prattling, so I just held my hands together and stared passed yellow Pearl. The side door open quietly and not once did yellow pearl stop and look over, she just kept going. Purple pearl stepped in with the two plum pearls in tow, carrying in a bag.

" The objective was completed. Reconditioning Strawberry Quartz Facet 1962 cut 0662 and Charoite 1963 cut 0427. Reconditioning time has been estimated at 3 cycles and 60 turns for full completion"

The purple pearl reported, never looking up once as her gaze was locked onto the holoscreen, relying to information to Blue Diamonds right hand gem. I looked over to her and gave a quick nod, gesturing for her to leave. Without looking up, she turned, set the bag down and left the room with the two plum pearls in tow. Slamming the grand doors hard. I didn't mind, we both didn't like Yellow Pearl and Purple Pearl did it to spite Yellow and her ramblings.

"OH! THE NERVE OF THAT PEARL!. I'll have my Diamond rid her!"

Yellow Pearl shouted, like she had the authority to give out an order like that. Purple Pearls actions did not bother me, nor will it ever will, unlike Yellow Pearl, we knew when and when not to speak our minds...unlike some gem that resembled an exotic bird.

Well..I did too, but I was better looking...like..hella

I sighed and just held my hands together quietly and Yellow Pearl resumed her squawking. It went on like this for a few moments before I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. Turning my head and fully ignoring Yellow Pearl, I noticed that the bag had fallen onto its side,and had spilt feathers and blankets of all colors. The interesting thing was, was that it was movin

Curious, I dropped my hands and glided over. stopping a few inches from the opening, squatted and slowly extended a hand to the zipper, slowly lifting the upper part of it up.

slowly

slowly..It looks like something is in there..like.a...

"BLUE PEARL"

I jerked my hand back and stood up, my hands clasped together tightly and stared back. Loud yelling usually meant my Diamond is in a rut and needs my assistance...but no..It was Yellow Pearl..being a brat. As usual.

"What in Homeworlds name are you doing?! tampering with defects items!? Those should be burned, give them to me!"
She shouted, walking past me to grab the bag, as she lifted it up and hoisted it over her shoulders, the contents of the bag fell out with a very loud thump.

And then.
A cry

It pierced the air with a loud shrill and the contents of the bag shifted and shook until it rose a bit off the ground. For a moment it was still before it took off. It was a mound of feathers and blankets as it ran, us pearls both chasing after it. As we chased it, I noticed that it was losing content. smaller and smaller it got before its initial height was barely up to my thigh.
We kept chasing it until the now black figure dove underneath the couch, we both stopped and caught our breath before we tried to nudge it out. It wouldn't. The couch was to the wall and it seemed that we had the small being trapped.

Backing away from the couch we both stared at it before Yellow Pearl spoke up.

"...we should burn the couch"

"Pearl no"

"PEARL YES"

She ran off to get napalm and I just sighed and shook my head. 'It amazed me how I was related to her...' Taking the moment of quiet and peace, I seized the moment to kneel beside the couch, leaning forward just enough so that my bangs would hang and I would somewhat see under.
It was pitch black underneath the couch, but I could make out movement, the being seemed to be crawling back and forth in fear or haste. not liking the area we rounded it into.
I hummed in thought and sat up, thinking.
The sound stopped.
So I stopped humming...and there's the sound.
Interesting...I began to hum again, no tune, no tempo...just a low hum.
The figure seemed to like it and ,while humming, I leaned forward, the beings back was to me and seemed to be resting. I hope that at least.
Ignoring the absence of light, and keeping the hum strong, I stuck my arm in and blindly grabbed the being. It began to thrash and wriggle in my grasp but once I pulled it closer and it was able to hear me hum better, it began to calm down completely.
I pulled out the small thing and rested it against my lap.
It wasn't an animal, it wasn't a monster.
It was a child.
Something that other species could do.
It was an advantage to accompany Blue diamond to other planets
'Why would a child be here...Could it be a child?"
It's body type said yes..but its black monochrome colors disagreed
It was new.
It was cute
and it began to wake up.
I quickly realized that I stopped humming and started again, It kept the being calm but it didn't lull it to sleep like I hoped.
It looked up to me.
It had a gem on her lower sternum.

"well it's not a child then...right?"

At that moment Yellow Pearl came back in with a bucket of napalm and matches in hand.

It makes me wonder how those are even on the planet.

Pearl walked passed me and the child and lit a match. Staring at it for a long while before making the motion to toss it at the couch, I didn't stop her. I wanted to see what would happen, maybe she'll be crushed this time around.

Right before she could set my dreams to reality, she stopped and jerked around. Her face full of shock and anger as she realized that I had the being in my arms.

"What in Diamonds name are you doing Pearl!? That thing could be dangerous! Stop coddling it and kill it!"

She screeched, making me sigh and shake my head. The being began to squirm and rouse itself into full conscious. But I quickly restarted the hum, urging it to rest while I stood up.

Yellow Pearl winced at the screech, her grip on the napalm deadly. Ignoring her, I bounced the being as I walked around, humming all the while. While Yellow was going on her widely known speeches about insubordination and rule breaking, I turned away to focus to the being in my my arms.

The small being seemed to be in a limbo of sleep and wake, it's half lidded eyes seemed to tell that they were barely fighting off the sand man. It was quiet an amusing sight, but instead of laughing, I kept it to myself and continued on humming.

I slowly stood up and while Yellow Pearl was jabbering on (she wasn't even facing me) and walked right out on her. not waiting for even a moment.

I left the room and into the hallway, walking as fast I could without jostling the child, but just enough to where I could get away from Yellow Pearl.

I didn't know what to do

But I know someone who would

My Diamond

Blue Diamond

10/4/16