Ruby raced through the halls, each corner a new gem popped up, but what horrified her the most was they were landing on homeworld any day now, any hour really. She searched the cells, finding things other than gems surprising her. She thought Lapis was only going to get revenge, were the homeworld gems planning something behind her back? It sure seemed like it, judging by the several orbs and other creatures, a blue lady with a tail and cat ears looked at her, she had warrior style clothing on, a feathered hat, a animal skin skirt with feather belts around her waist, and arms and legs. A sleeveless top with feathers hanging down the front, underneath was animal skin. She had bare feet. The creature also had pointed ears like elves, her/his eyes were a bright yellow, several black tiger marks were on her face and arms. Her eyes had three dotted circles above them, resembling eyelashes Ruby supposed.
Another creature had no arms or legs, instead was a amphibian like creature. it had instead of a tail a webbed foot, no fins instead large eyes replacing them, its face had no eyes, instead a large light in the center of its face, with gills where its mouth would have been. It was rather horrifying and made Ruby gag a bit, she shook it off and ran further into the maze like place they called a space craft. Ruby ran for hours it seemed until she heard the singing again. She ran the opposite direction. It stopped, suddenly the singing was in the other direction. It kept switching courses, "Sapphire!" Ruby cried, she put away her weapon and collapsed in front of a couple cells. A large light and a smaller one beside it were in a cell, it was only a light... Why would they have that in a cell?
'Are you lost?' The light asked, with word its light grew a bit brighter, it seemed to communicate through brain waves. Ruby shook her head.
"I don't have time for this I need to find Sapphire!" She groaned. She beat her fists on the ground in frustration. She turned around, she began running through the halls, ignoring Sapphires singing, it was getting her off course, so if it kept coming form different directions it had to be a fake, Ruby needed to find the real voice.
Pearl and Amethyst stared in awe at the young girl before them. Yellow diamond planted her feet to the floor, and readied her ax, her gem glistened beautifully, casting a faint glow around her.
"W-we got in here by mistake!" Pearl cried. "We don't want to cause any trouble-"
"Already have." Diamond insisted. Amethyst said nothing, every gulp or breath she took went with pain as the blade poked her neck. Her eyes went wide, she imagined the blade slitting her throat as she gasped for air, struggling to stay alive. Pearl watched her friend and this new threat stare at each other, she eventually decided she'd have to fight to free herself, and Amethyst if she could, she was afraid she'd accidentally hurt Amethyst in doing so, no choice now, there was so little time it was now or never. Pearl tapped her gem, readied her spear and lunged at Diamond. Diamond's ax was thrown to the other side of the room as her reflex cause her wrist to snap back and dropped the blade. Pearl did a back flip for show as she landed on her knees, she shot a powerful burst of energy at the attacker. Diamond fell into the wall, landing on her hands and knees. Diamond reached for her gem to pull out another ax, Pearl sliced her wrist in half. Diamond doubled over in pain, it was a bloodless fight because of their magic was able to heal them, but Diamond's wrist didn't heal very easily.
Yellow Diamond sneered, she pulled out a remote, a large yellow button was on the tip, she pushed it and several sirens echoed throughout the space craft. Pearl and Amethyst covered their ears as the sirens blasted through their skulls.
Steven and Connie saw the large metal doors open as sirens blasted in. The button Diamond had alerted all forces, but a downside was it was so loud and took up so much energy everything else powered off, including the cells, making the door unable to stay closed and the cells lose their substances and black out.
The entire space craft was pitch black, Connie and Steven held hands as they raced around for Pearl and Amethyst. They suddenly felt the entire ship shake, gravity was no more, they lifted into the ceiling as the ship crashed downward, they held on to each other, hoping the landing would not kill them. They saw a bright light on the other side of the ship, they raced over to the light which had happened to be a window casting in light, they cheered for a moment, but stopped as they realized a horrifying fact, before it could processing the thought, the floor caved in.
Ruby lie on the hard ground, she remembered the floor caving in and falling down to an unknown planet. It was defiantly not Earth, nor was it the home world she remembered. She picked herself up, tears rushed down her face at the thought of Sapphire not surviving the fall. She couldn't move to check, piles of metal and debree and other various pieces of the ship had fallen on top of her. She opened her mouth to call for help, but no sound came out. She slowly opened her eyes, the bright sun rolled over her glazed eyes. Her face was dull, lifeless besides the quivering of her lip, and the tears falling from her face as she thought of her defeat. She tried moving out of the piles, but found herself paralyzed from the fall, her nerves weren't responding, she thought it was the end, her arms and legs were tingling and began to sting. The tingling bit at her arms and legs like several invisible bugs crawling over her.
A looming shadow cast over Ruby. The figure smiled. Her blue long hair blew in the wind, her dress torn to pieces leaving rags. She reached out to Ruby and cast a soft singing over the sounds of metal and piles of ash falling over the other. She sung beautifully, giving Ruby a tinge of hope.
"Sapphire.." Ruby said, hugging her. "How did you-"
"Its alright, common we need to go." Sapphire pulled Ruby to a tree, laying her hand on the tree trunk. Ruby noticed something, she backed away as she saw Sapphires gem, it was no longer on her hand... it was on her back.
"Lapis.. Lazuli.." She murmured. Lapis formed back to her own self, grinning victoriously. Lapis took Rubies hand and brought her face close to hers. She held Rubies face close, cupping her chin.
"Awe.. I thought you wouldn't be so clever.." Lapis teased. Her grin sharpened around the edge, keeping her dangerous look on. She twirled Ruby around playfully, spinning Ruby into the tree. Lapis trapped her with her back against the tree. "Sapphire is-" Lapis didn't finish, she let a giant tsunami hit the beach, stopping right behind her in mid air.
"Wheres Sapphire!" She cried, struggling free. The wave inched closer. Slowly. Deadly waves. With every inch was another inch closer to both their downfalls, unless Lapis was quick to fly above. Everything happened so slow. Lapis grew her wings, slowly taking Rubies hand again, lifting her just above the waves as they crashed into the tree. Lifting her ever higher. Then Lapis looked to Ruby, her head hung on her back, making her face dark, water dripped down from her wings.
"You have bigger problems." She said. She loosened her grip, Rubies eyes widened as her fingers inched away from her hand. Then-
"Sapphire!" Rubies cries echoed over the waves as she fell down. She felt the world tipping beneath her. Slowly pulling her to the ground as gravity dropped her. Lapis flew down to Ruby, water dripped down from her wings leaving droplets in the sky. Lapis slipped her fingers around Rubies palm. She chuckled.
"Don't you think I deserve some applause?" Lapis asked. She threatened to drop her, she lifted their arms up side by side so they were eye level. Lapis grinned mischievously. As if this were a game she twirled around, watching Ruby spin around her. "I think you need to say something before you-" Lapis cut off as she dropped Ruby. She raced back down pulling the girl up by her hair, letting water droplets slide down onto her skin. Ruby watched in horror as Lapis smiled, she had won. "Now I think you owe me some answers, before you go..." Lapis insisted. Ruby gave up, and she opened her mouth to speak.
Steven pulled out from under the shards of glass and metal. He couched up ash and dust. He searched around for Connie. He saw her arm poking out of the piles. He tried pulling several metals and glass shards from on top of her, but his arms struggled to pick them up, from under the piles he saw Connie's bruised face. She moved a bit under the piles, struggling to get up. Steven fell onto his knees trying to pick up the metal wall.
"Connie!" Steven cried listing the girl up. She was able to just barely make it through a few gaps they'd struggled to make. "I'm so sorry.." He said, guilty for making her come.
"I-i'ts alright.." She said a mouthful of ash and blood. They picked each other up, leaning on one another as they fell from the piles and into the water, they were on plains with a beach. It was very small, they weren't on Earth though, there was pink and purple gas all around them, making it hard to see, the water was blood red and the beach had a green color too it blending into the plains. His eyes grew wide as he saw a figure from above. He pulled Connie onto land and looked straight up.
"Lapis!" Steven cried staring at the gem who was holding Ruby. Tears fell down his face as Ruby was instantly dropped, he went down on his knees preparing for pain to shoot through him as Ruby fell on top of him.
Well that's all I've got for this chapter, phew this took a good few hours to make, hope you enjoyed and look forward to next times chapter, it'll be intense trust me! Till next time, bye~!