CHAPTER 21: HOW IT BEGAN
Yellow Diamond reached Steven and looked down at him with pure disgust. After some moments, she took him by his shirt and began to walk towards Peridot, who was staring at the ground with wide eyes.
"Technician… take the gems of those filthy traitors and place them inside of the cells of my ship…" Yellow Diamond said as she began to walk over the bridge that was connecting her ship with the beach.
"Wh-what about t-the h-hybrid?" Peridot asked but stepped back as Yellow Diamond stopped walking.
"I have something special in mind for this little freak…" Yellow Diamond said as she entered her ship, her sick laughter becoming more and more distant.
Peridot began to move slowly towards Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl's gemstones. She took them in her hands and walked over Yellow Diamond ship's bridge. As she reached the entrance, Peridot stopped walking and looked at the gems she had in her hands. She perfectly knew what would have happened to them, on Homeworld, in front of its people, they would have been executed… but Peridot knew that this wasn't what was going to happen to Steven... he was the one who prevented Yellow Diamond from obtaining her revenge against Rose Quartz… and if what she would have done to her was terrible… then… Peridot couldn't even think about what she would have done to him. It was then that Peridot's eyes got wide, as she noticed drops falling over the gemstones in her hands, what baffled her more, was the fact that it wasn't raining, those drops were her tears. She tried to hold them back, she shook her head as hard as she could, but they wouldn't just stop, she couldn't stop crying.
'Why are you even crying?! He is nothing to you!' Peridot thought as she made her way towards the cells, leaving each gem in one of them, activating the force fields.
'H-he is just a-an abomination against o-our kind… j-just a traitor t-to the diamond authority…' She thought as she walked towards the control bridge, as tears continued to stream down her face.
'H-he… he w-was… he was j-just… the only one who ever cared about me…" Peridot thought as she collapsed on her knees, tears streaming down her face, her body shaking.
'He helped you… he saved you… he cared about you… and you… you did… nothing!' Peridot buried her face in her hands, gritting her teeth, why couldn't she just forget about that hybrid?! Why was she feeling this way?! Why did he have to save her?! If she had just let her die nothing of this would have ever happened, so why?!
'I… I can't… do anything… I can't help… I am… too weak… too scared' Peridot thought as she closed her eyes, her shaking stopped and so did the tears, she raised her face from her hands, sighing heavily. After some moments, she rose up, she opened her eyes, and as the door in front of her opened, a whispering voice came out from her mouth.
"You were wrong Steven… there is nothing in me… nothing at all…" Peridot said, before disappearing into the control room.
In a dark room:
Steven began to wake up, as he opened his eyes, he tried to move but he couldn't. He began to look around and noticed that three bars were holding him against a metal table. Steven began to panic as he frenetically tried to get free. He pulled as hard as he could, but the bars were too resistant. If only Yellow Diamond had made the mistake to imprison him behind a force field. Suddenly, a bright light enlightened the room as a tall figure began to walk towards him. Yellow Diamond stopped in front of him and as she looked at Steven with those wicked, yellow eyes, full of disdain and hatred, she began speaking.
"Long time ago… far away from this miserable piece of rock… a comet crashed on a desolate planet… that's… when it all began… what came out from that comet seeped deep into the ground… reaching the core of the planet itself… the first thing I remember is darkness… then… a bright light as I came out from my cradle… it is then… that I saw them… three other holes… on my right… on my left… and in front of me… and near them… three beings… who were staring at each other… trying to understand who they were or why they were there… I don't know for how much time we stayed there… just wondering about the meaning of our existence… oh but I remember the first thing I heard… 'I am White Diamond… you are Blue Diamond… you are Yellow Diamond... and you are… Pink Diamond'… time passed as the four of us wandered around our world… realizing everyday more our capacities… our power… we built from nothing our society… understanding what has brought us to life… that is when we became the great Diamond Authority… invincible… unstoppable… immortal… we began to explore the universe around us and found other planets… other creatures… but they were nothing compared to us…nothing more than roaches unable to understand our power… we wandered from planet to planet… using the life of their cores to enlarge the greatness of our kind… but then… one day… we reached a planet called… Earth... and that is when the brightness of our race began to fade… when Pink Diamond betrayed her own kind to protect it…" Yellow Diamond said as Steven's eyes went wide.
"N-no…no! Mom wasn't-" Steven yelled angrily before being cut off by her.
"One of us? Of course she was… oh you should have seen her… killing all those harmless beings… without any regret… without mercy…" Yellow Diamond said smiling evilly.
"You… you are lying! She would have never done that! She wasn't like you!" Steven said lowering his head, tears streaming down his face, before Yellow Diamond grabbed his hair and made him look in her eyes.
"Oh she was even too much like me… but for some reason she saw something in your kind… humans were no different from the other species we had swept away… but... there was something in them… something in this planet that changed her mind… she took away from me my dignity… the respect of my sisters… the loyalty of my… people! And you… you took away from me the revenge I had been waiting for since the end of the war!" Yellow Diamond shouted, before releasing Steven from her grasp.
"W-what have you d-done to Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl?" Steven asked, his eyes filled with concern.
"My technician brought them inside of my ship…" Yellow Diamond replied coldly.
"P-please… you… you have me… l-let them go... d-don't hurt them!" Steven pleaded as a wicked grin appeared on her face.
"Oh I won't hurt them… I have something special in mind for them… and so for you…" Yellow Diamond said tittering, moving her hand towards Steven, placing her index finger on his forehead, as his eyes became wide and a loud scream of pain echoed through the corridors of the ship.
Hello guys! I'm back with another chapter and I hope you have liked it, plus, I have already written the next part but I didn't want to make a single chapter, so I made two chapters and the next one will be out tomorrow or the day after. I hope you have liked the story so far, thank you for all the reviews, favs and follows and I hope you will like how I decided my story to end, bye!