I hope everyone's liked the start to the newest arc of Bayley's Universe. After writing this chapter up, I feel like this arc is probably going to shape up to be the first instance of heavy stuff happening in this story...that and this is where I'm gonna try to work more in the way of action scenes into the story. Curious about why I'm saying this? Read on to find out, my loves, and enjoy. =)
Lying on her bed as she looked at the brooch Dean and Seth gave her, Bayley was still fairly captivated by the simple piece of jewelry; although, said captivation could be because of the cracked Gem that lied in the center of the brooch. For the whole time Bayley had been alive and she had exposure to Gems that weren't in human or creature form, she had never seen one that had a crack in it.
'I wonder why there's a crack in this. Maybe it's because the guys have had it so long and it got cracked when they were moving stuff around. Although, if they've had it for so long, it's kinda weird that they haven't fixed it,' Bayley thought, looking at the surface of the stone.
Knocking at the door broke the young brunette from her train of thought. Putting the brooch in one of her pants pockets, Bayley headed down the stairs from her "bedroom" to open the front door. Pulling open the door after checking through the peephole to see who it was, Bayley said "Hey, Sami. What brings you over here?"
"I was just coming to see if you might need some help with your project for Mr. Regal. I know you said that you might have something by now, but I just wanted to see if you maybe wanted help finding something," Sami stepped into Bayley's house.
"Actually, Dean had something waiting for me when I got home today," Bayley said. "You want to see what it is?"
"Sure. That is...if you don't mind giving me a sneak peek," Sami said, curious about just what his friend had.
"Of course I don't mind. In fact, I'd like someone to look at it anyway," Bayley said. Watching as Sami took a seat at the kitchen island, Bayley reached into her pocket and pulled out the brooch. Showing it to her friend, Bayley said "See? There's a big crack in the Gem, and...I want to fix it, but...I don't know how. You think you might know how to fix it?"
Taking the brooch and looking at it, Sami felt fairly confused about how to fix it. The only idea he had was to glue it back together, but he didn't know if that would work. But, deciding it'd be better to try that than do nothing, Sami suggested "Do you have any glue? Maybe I could glue it together."
"Um, I think we have some here somewhere," Bayley mused. "I'll have to look for it first."
"That's okay," Sami said. "Also, do you have anything I could use to maybe pry the Gem out of the metal part?"
"Um... Just a sec," Bayley said. After digging around in one of the kitchen cabinets, Bayley found a blunt edged ball tool Seth used when he worked on models. Giving the tool to the redhead, Bayley said "Maybe this could work."
"It probably will. Thanks," Sami nodded. Laying the brooch on the island, Sami slid one end of the tool under one side of the Gem and began to push down on the tool in the hopes of popping the stone out of the metal. The redhead had tried this for a number of minutes before finally succeeding as the Gem popped out of its metal enclosure. "OK. I got it."
"Wow. Thanks, Sami," Bayley said, watching on as Sami picked up the Gem and handed it to her. Now getting a chance to hold the Gem in her hand, the ponytailed brunette was impressed with how the Gem only had a crack on the side that was facing out of the brooch while the back was seemingly in one piece. She was so focused on looking at the Gem that the bright glow emitting from the Gem's surface made her almost drop the stone in surprise. "Wha-What's going on?!"
"Bayley? What's going on?! Why is that stone glowing like that?" Sami asked, leaping down from the stool.
"I-I don't know! I didn't think it was going to do something like-AAH!" Bayley let out a yell as the stone started to feel heated. Quickly dropping it, Bayley backed away from where the stone landed. Seeing the glow from the Gem spread into a large form, Bayley ran over to Sami and summoned her shield. "Sami, stay behind my shield! I don't know what's happening, so stay back where it's safe!"
"OK," Sami nodded, feeling a bit scared of just what was going on as he moved to stand behind Bayley.
With Sami behind her, Bayley kept her shield up as the glowing form spread into a more humanoid form. It wasn't until the form stopped growing and spreading that Bayley saw the form stand into a figure that was about her height. Watching as the glow faded away, Bayley couldn't help the surprised gasp that escaped her.
Seeing the form in front of he and Bayley, Sami nervously asked "Bayley? Wha...what is that?"
"I don't know," Bayley admitted. "But, I...I think it's another Gem like...like me, Dean, Seth, and Roman."
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Walking up the stairway that led to their house, Dean carried the bags from the grocery store that held what he and Seth would make for dinner that evening. He was almost set to open the front door when a bright purple glow shined through the windows.
'Oh, hell,' Dean thought, dropping the bags in worry. Throwing open the door, Dean looked inside to see Bayley standing behind her summoned shield and Sami standing behind her in the kitchen area and a girl with magenta hair dressed in a sleeveless white top, black leggings, and a pair of white calf-high boots with purple lines extending up the lengths of the boots; the most noticeable thing the sandy blonde saw was the cracked magenta Gem that was in the girl's upper back. Feeling breathless at seeing this Gem, Dean got out "Sasha."
Hearing her name said, the new Gem, Sasha, turned to look at the sandy blonde. A look of recognition crossing her face, Sasha only said "Dean" before summoning a whip that looked similar to Dean's-the only difference being that purple crystals went down the length of the whip-and lashing out with a yell as Bayley screamed out "NO, DON'T!"
...Wowzers! Talk about some major Gem craziness happening all in the span of one chapter, huh? In between Bayley and Sami inadvertently freeing a Gem from its metal enclosure to said Gem actually assuming a human form to Dean coming home, seeing the new Gem, and recognizing it (...err, her) to the new Gem lashing out at Dean and this worrying Bayley, a lot is going on in our ponytailed cinnamon roll's world. Will Bayley be able to stop Sasha before her attack hits Dean? Just why does it seem like Dean knows this Gem, Sasha? And, just who exactly is Sasha (along with many other questions that abound around her, like A) What caused her Gem to be cracked?, B) Why was her Gem in a brooch?, and others)? All of these questions and more shall be answered in the coming chapters of this arc (how many, I'm not sure yet). Until then, don't forget to R&R please. =)
(And, if anyone's noticed the slight parallels between how I brought Sasha Banks into the fold of the story, I was watching one of the newest episodes of Steven Universe, Alone at Sea, and just seeing a Steven and Lapis episode got stuck in my brain, so...I just went from there. I hope Sasha as Lapis is a nice treat for you all. =3 )
