Citrine Part 10
Disclaimer: Do you like Lapis? If you do, I'm sorry if her behavior in this chapter is weird. I tried to make it as not weird as possible, but I can only do so much. Well, enjoy the chapter! Until the end of the chapter!
Drip. Drip. Drip. That sound. I feel that pitter patter of water falling on the ground this whole fight. I look up again. Amethyst and Lapis are still fighting, I didn't know Amethyst had it in her. Amethyst was breathing hard, and sweat was all over her head. Lapis wasn't faring any better, as she was also breathing hard. Lapis had managed to make a ball of water and made it spin around. She threw it at Amethyst. Amethyst threw her whip up, and swung it down. The water ball split into two. This whole fight, I hadn't seen any special abilities from Amethyst. I'm starting to fear for the worst. Amethyst would be crushed.
Amethyst started to lunge at Lapis, punching and kicking. Lapis could barely take it, she was so exhausted. Lapis managed to stand up, but she looked very weak. She started to sway back in forth, but was ready to fight nonetheless. She made little daggers of water and shot them at Amethyst. Amethyst kept dodging but a few hit her. Amethyst fell down. She struggled to get up. Amethyst summoned two whips and made them explode by Lapis. Once the smoke cleared away, Lapis was standing there, looking ready to keel over.
Lapis decided to pull her trump card. Lapis made a tower of water and out came a clone of Amethyst. On the other side of the tower, Lapis rested. Amethyst fought her water clone.
"Oh come on! How am I supposed to defeat a me version of water?" Amethyst yelled, becoming irritated. Maybe this would be it, maybe her special ability could come out now. Amethyst tried using her whip to slice through the water clone. The clone, per usual, split itself in half and put itself together again. Amethyst did her spin dash technique on the clone. It actually worked. The clone turned into a puddle. I have a feeling this is part of Lapis's loss of strength. Over on the other side, Lapis doesn't know her clone is defeated. I look over and I see her still trying to rest.
Amethyst ran to the other side of the tower, rather quietly in fact. When she got to Lapis she put her whip around her. Lapis opened her eyes. Amethyst squeezed her whip. Lapis finally gave up. Lapis put her head down. I decided to stop the fight.
"And done!" I yell. I move my arms to the side to prove my point. Amethyst walks slowly over to me. She has scratches all over her. She collapses on the ground.
"Finally." She manages to say. I chuckle slightly. I walk over to Lapis, still in the same place where she lost. I look at her. She has no emotion on her face, her eyes are blank. Her mouth moves just a little bit, so I decide to see what she is saying. I lean in a bit closer.
"How? Useless. I should be in that mirror, or still with Jasper protecting Steven. How could I protect him if I can't even defeat a stupid Ame-"
"Lapis!" I yell interrupting her, I felt a warm rush of fiery fury. I knew what she was going to say. She looks up at me, teary-eyed and maybe even a little bit of fear. I let my glare at her go away. Lapis stood up and backed away just a little bit.
"Lapis?" I say. I try stepping toward her. "What's wrong?"
Lapis shakes her head. "I just, I can't believe I got defeated by her! That's not how it's supposed to be! How am I going to protect Steven if I can't even defeat one of his former teammates?" I walk towards her. Lapis goes back.
"Don't!" She yells. I calm myself down.
'She only is doubting herself because she lost. Stay calm.' I think to myself. I stay in my position, but I try to talk to Lapis.
"Lapis, don't be hard on yourself. It's probably because this was staged. You subconsciously didn't fight with your all. You are very strong and there is no reason to get like this!" I tell Lapis. I accidentally yell the last part. Shit!
"I fought as hard as I could! I can't protect anyone!" Lapis yells, hands on her head. No!
"Yes you can!" I yell back. I'm not going to let her go down this path.
"No I can't!" Lapis yells. She shakes her head, all too violently I think. She is not going to do this. I have to get some sense into her. She sprouts wings from her gem.
"You can! Don't leave!" I yell, hand outward.
"What's the point? I wouldn't be able to help you anyway!" Lapis says, turning t leave.
"No!" I yell. I try getting to her. She turns around, her hair now messed up entirely.
"You left me!" Lapis said she started to cry. I stood, mouth agape. Did she really think I left her? Amethyst starts to walk towards me.
"Citrine, just let her leave. If she is going to be like this then so be it." Amethyst says, putting a hand on my shoulder.
"How would you know anything about this? You don't know anything!" Lapis yells at Amethyst. No, no, no, no. She just crossed the line.
"You…" I say, the coldest I can. Amethyst backs up a little bit. "How dare you! You lost! Just leave it at that! I understand how you feel Lapis, I really do. I really think you are a good gem Lapis, but I can tell what you really want to do. Go, Lapis. Go to them. Become a Crystal Gem." I put my hand on her shoulder.
"How'd you know?" Lapis says, looking up.
"I just know these things. Now, go." I say. Lapis sprouts wings from her gem. Giving a light wave, she flies off. I look down, tears stinging my eyes.
"How are you holding up?" Amethyst asks me. I look up.
"I'll be fine, in little time. And Amethyst. I hate to make the mood worse, but I have bad news." Amethyst gets herself ready to take it. She swallows a lump down her throat.
"What is it?" She asks me.
"You, you don't." I say. I can't finish. Amethyst gives me a look. "Have a special ability. I watched you fight, and even begin pushed to your limits, nothing happened. When you were pushed to your emotional limits earlier, nothing." I look at Amethyst. She starts to tear up. I stand up. Amethyst immediately hugs me. I hug her back. We sit down.
"I'm sorry." I whisper to her.
Peridot's POV…
I've been for a while. Stupid clods, taking my foot. Good thing Yellow Diamond is coming to get me. I can't stand another day on this stupid planet, but I'll have to wait at least a few days. I rest for a second.
"Stupid cruddy planet! Nothing works, I'm stuck here with those Crystal Clods! My foot is gone!" I yell to no one in particular. I am so irritated, I'm tired of limping, and I just want to go back to Homeworld. I look down. All the smoke coming from the hole on my leg had disappeared a long time ago, but I let my fingers swing around that area anyway. Sighing, I stand up and get ready for my log.
"Log date 672, still stuck on this stupid planet. Managed to successfully contact Yellow Diamond. Finally going to go back to Homeworld in just a few days. I can finally get away from those Crystal Clods." I say into my finger screen. I close the screen and sigh and sit back down. I rest for a few minutes and get back up. Struggling, I start to limp to a beach nearby. It is in the dead of night, I just hope those cods don't ambush me. I limp over to a huge patch of grass in front of the beach. I go behind it to scan the area. I look through it. It seems the coast is clear.
I make sure to double-check, hey what's that? I look again. There is a yellow being there. Presumably a gem, is Homeworld already here? Probably not, and wait, who's with them? It's one of the clods! I decide to back away, but since my foot is missing I fall down. Stupid clods. Those two beings probably know I'm here!
Back to Citrine's POV…
I stop hugging Amethyst, when we stop I hear a rustling. I stand up immediately. I scan the area. I see a large patch of grass, definitely a good place to hide, and spy! It was those gems! How did they find me! That's it, no mercy! I run to the grass. I put my arms out and spread the grass. I float up in the air and look down. I see a green thing. Not human, that's for sure. Is it a gem? Not a Crystal Gem, no stars on her outfit.
"Who are you?" I state firmly. The gem looks at me, I now see the triangular gem on her forehead. Must be some sort of updated Pearl. The poor gem has fear in her eyes. Reluctantly, I show some compassion and mercy. I descend to the ground, hearing a slight crunch sound on the sand as I land. "I don't want to have to repeat myself."
"Why would you like to know?" The gem retorts back. She struggles to stand up, I notice her foot is missing, why hasn't she regenerated?
"Because I need to know if you are a threat. Now, who are you?" I repeat. I hear Amethyst's footsteps come close to mine.
"Peridot?" Amethyst says. She seems ready to pull her weapon out, but hesitates.
"You! You're one of the Crystal Clods!" Peridot yells. She turns her floating fingers into a canon, and gets ready to shoot Amethyst. I need to take immediate action. I step in front of her and Amethyst.
"Stand. Down." I say. All of the emotion I have is gone. My voice wasn't exactly monotone, but there is still no emotion. I glare at the gem, looking down. She backs up a little bit and makes her canon go away.
"Fine. Now what do you want?" Peridot asks.
"I want you to either explain what you're doing here, or gone." I say. I sharpen my glare. Peridot clears her throat.
"I'm just getting ready to be taken off this miserable planet." Peridot says. Hmmm, my curiosity makes me want to know more.
"By whom?" I ask. Peridot smirks.
"Yellow Diamond." She says. The words ring in my ears. Yellow Diamond? No damn way.
"Yellow Diamond? Yellow damned Diamond?!" I yell, storming towards the poor green gem. I pick her up by her diamond outfitted uniform. "Why the hell would you bring her here?!" Peridot looked at me, she was terrified. I realized that my hand had an energy blast ready in it. I made the charged blast go away. I threw Peridot to the ground. I wasn't done with her yet. Amethyst scooted back, she knew how much a hated Yellow Diamond, the terrible gem. I walked towards Peridot.
"Do you have anything to say for yourself?!" I yell, the yell echoing through the night sky, I think Lapis could have even heard.
"I-I just wanted-"Peridot stutters. She starts to shake as she looks at me. She looks as if death was standing in front of her. Maybe it was.
"Give me a reason why I shouldn't shatter you right now?" I say. Peridot's mouth moved, but no words came out. I summoned my Bo staff in my hand. I put it up in the air. Amethyst saw and ran towards me.
"Citrine, don't." Amethyst said, putting her hand on my back. I let my weapon dematerialize.
'A Citrine gem? I've heard of that, but I can't remember much else other than that it was a model.' Peridot thought to herself, despite her maybe about to get shattered.
"You're right, murdering this gem won't do anything." I say. I turn to the gem. "You, are going to tell me why you're here, and why you want Yellow Diamond here."
At Homeworld…
Yellow Diamond walked into the ship department. She watched as the lower class who worked on the ships paint and make them. The reflection of the shiny ships got into Yellow Diamond's eyes, she decided to leave the room. She went back to her throne room to make sure the plan to go to Earth is all sorted out. It feels like Homeworld had gotten so boring lately. She loved when there was some sort of "danger" lingering around.
"So, once we have Peridot and Jasper, we would be able to leave." Carnelian finished telling her. Yellow Diamond knew something was missing from the plan.
"We have to also shatter those gem rebels, we have to make sure they don't give us any trouble. Do you understand?" Yellow Diamond said.
"Yes ma'am." Carnelian said. Yellow Diamond decided to make Carnelian check on the ships.
"Carnelian, I have a job for you Go check on the ships and make sure they are ready for launch." Yellow Diamond said. Carnelian put a hand to her head.
"O-yes ma'am!" Carnelian said. What Carnelian about to say something? Yellow Diamond couldn't have free thinking like that around
"What did you say? I think you were about to say something." Yellow Diamond said, nearly whispering. She bent down so she would be close to Carnelian's ear. Carnelian started sweating like crazy, she knew what she nearly said. This is it, she had a good life, 1000 years.
"I did not say anything ma'am." Carnelian managed to say, despite her being terrified.
"Carnelian, are you lying? You know what happens when you lie." Yellow Diamond said, grin starting to spread across her face.
"Yes." Carnelian said. She knew this was it, she was going to the Refinery.
"The Refinery." Yellow Diamond said. Yellow Diamond pressed a button on the wall. "Guards, you're needed, my Carnelian needs to be taken to the refinery, bring me a new one as well, one with much knowledge."
Soon enough, two Painite guards came in. They both grabbed one of Carnelian's arm. Carnelian knew she couldn't do anymore, her legs started to wobble, she soon fell limp and let the guards support her. She started to cry.
"You're sick!" She cried. "Sadistic, malicious, and terrible! I can't believe you are going to kill your own kind! You are just as bad as those rebels on Earth I was always told about!"
"Guards. Take her to the refinery. Now." Yellow Diamond said, turning her back. She looked over one last time as she saw Carnelian being dragged out of the room. The short gem's orange hair was messed up, and her brown clothing didn't have the tidiness it usually did. When the guards turned the hall, Yellow Diamond turned her head back. After a few minutes she heard footsteps again. She turned around. Another Painite guard was there, with a new Carnelian.
The Carnelian's orange hair was in a perfect pixie cut. She was short like all Carnelians. Her gem was embedded on her stomach. A symmetrical gem, good, no flaws. Her brown suit was very crisp and clean, and there were no blemishes on her skin. Yellow Diamond sighed with relief. The Painite guard left, and the Carnelian was the only gem left other than Yellow Diamond.
"I hope you know what you're going to be doing with me. Or else you too will go to the refinery. Do you understand me?" Yellow Diamond said. This was the first test.
"Yes ma'am." The new Carnelian said. Yellow Diamond smirked. She told the Carnelian about what they were doing, just in case. In time, they walked towards the ship department.
"Is everything in order?" Yellow Diamond asked the supervisor of the ship workers, a Turquoise gem.
"Yes, we are ready to take off on your order ma'am." Turquoise said.
"That is good, because I am ready to leave in ten minutes." Yellow Diamond said. Turquoise looked a little surprise, but t subsided quickly. Soon all the gems needed were in the port, and the two ships going were all filled with gems. Yellow Diamond went into a ship that looked like a hand, it looked exactly like the other one. Yellow Diamond sat in the biggest chair on the ship. With legs crossed, she told the captain of the ship to go. The gem immediately started the ship up. After two minutes, they were in space, and they made the ship go as fast as it could, they were on their way to Earth.
Yellow Diamond allowed herself to relax, it would be a few days before they got there.
With the Crystal Gems…
It had been a few days since they last saw Amethyst, ad the Crutsal gems were a wreck. Pearl had been throwing herself into finding Peridot, just like when Garnet was mad at her. Garnet was going on way more solo missions than usual, s=and when she came back she was always silent. When she went in her room, you could hear Ruby tryng to cope, so it could be assumed that Garnet was unfused when she was in the temple. Steven, poor Steven was crying all the time. He was so sad Amethyst was gone nd what he did to her. It was a constant battle in his head whether to hate Citrine, or feel bad for her.
"I shouldn't hate her, I'd probably do most of the things she did. She probably hates me though now, same with Amethyst. If only we could all be friends again. That's it! Maybe I can try and be friends with Citrine, then everything could be fixed!" Steven said, he knew no one was listening, because Pearl was in the temple and Garnet was who knows where. Steven got up from his bed and got his cheeseburger backpack. He put some of his clothes in there, some food, and other supplies like first aid. He put the backpack on his back and went to the warp pad. He remembered to write a note for Garnet and Pearl, so he put a paper and pen on the counter. He was about to write when he heard something.
He looked at the door to his beach house. He saw Lion.
"Oh yeah! I can use Lion! Lion? Do you know where Amethyst and Citrine are?" Steven said. Lion actually nodded, he took that as a yes. Running from the counter he got on Lion as Lion teleported to somewhere. He forgot all about his note.
A Few Hours Later…
There was a knock on the door of the beach house. Pearl, luckily just came out of the Temple so she went to see who it was. She opened the door absent-mindedly. She looked up, she saw someone she wouldn't expect, Lapis Lazuli.
"What are you doing here?" Pearl said, readying her weapon.
"Wait! I don't want to fight. I want to protect the Earth, as well as Steven, I want to become a Crystal Gem." Lapis said. She looked like she was begging. Pearl decided to have some mercy.
"Come inside, once Garnet comes back we'll see how it goes. I'm going to see if Steven is around." Pearl said, letting the door open all the way. Lapis sat on the couch. "Steven?" Pearl looked around, she couldn't find him anywhere.
"Steven! Steeevvvveeenn!" She cried. She looked in the Temple too, he wasn't there. This was going to be a problem.
A/N: Man, was this a long one! I made it long because there were some places I didn't want to stop. So yes, Lapis will become a Crystal Gem. Next chapter should come out in a few days, I hope. I'm glad to see so many people look and review my story! Thanks guys! I can't believe this fic is little over a month old! I'm glad to see people like it. I hope you like my fic so far!