Sphalerite was born.
She felt so exhilarated.
Such intense emotions were welling up inside her that she couldn't contain it anymore. And with a blast of fire she shot towards the ground, creating a crater of magma where she landed. Her body was weightless, she walked over the molten liquid and stepped onto more solid ground.
Half of her was pink and the other half was a reddish hue. The pink color, extended into the red, like tendrils trying to wrap around the other half and take control.
But the red was intense. It gave off such heat that the pink around it was starting to redden.
Not good.
Sphalerite was unstable. If she wanted to stick around longer she'd have to be quick in finding the white thing and starting a fight with it.
She shot forward and after a quick flight landed right in the stands, right next to the only sitting and not panicking individual.
A voice that was not hers escaped her mouth. She felt like she was being split in two. How nauseating.
"That white creeper. Where'd she run off to?" the voice asked.
"My diamond, did you-" the Pearl tried to ask her, but one of her halves cut her off.
"When a diamond asks something you answer!" it barked and the Pearl blushed and lowered her gaze.
"Of course, my diamond. That way." she pointed at a direction and Sphalerite nodded. She flew in that direction. Finally a clear goal to unite her two halves.
She located the white woman slashing through security with her scythe and dropping them like flies.
"Hey! These there are my coworkers you're killing! How would you like it if I- well your name is basically death so you'd probably like it. Yeah you'd like it a lot, you sick clown." The red half started and the pink half finished.
Ugh just let Sphalerite do her job. Those control freaks weren't budging an inch in there.
"Let's finish what we started!" and so with one leg she jumped forward and tried to deliver a punch. That woman disappeared right before her eyes.
"Idiot, you know what she dropped on that stadium. Weights weighting 30 000 tons each. You can't keep up with her. Just let me handle it!" the other one yelled.
She would've hit them had it not been for the other half of her sending out a burst of flames in every direction.
Sphalerite faded out. She was transforming against her will. One part took the pink one's form and the other, the red one. She wished they would defuse. This was like being a prisoner in her own body. Such strong wills, those two.
Pink half decked the approaching D.E. in the face.
"Who's the real idiot. Don't you remember her insane pain resistance from when I fought her. Good job slowing her down though." Pink said. She moved to crack her knuckles with her other hand but when that didn't respond she cracked them against her head.
"While I didn't research her origins well enough, I do have a good grasp on her abilities. She has what's called [Will Erasure]. Whoever and whatever she cuts with those scythes will lose the will to do whatever it is she desires. The strength of the effect depends heavily on the physical and mental strength of the subject, but,"
D.E. Athra stood from the debris. A black liquid seeped from her ears, eyes, nose and mouth. She smiled a smile that showed all the black teeth which hadn't been knocked out just now, and she charged.
She swiped the scythes in front of her.
"No way, she's cutting through the air's will to resist" the red half exclaimed, "she cut through the air resistance!"
The white one stood and waited for the red half to finish her sentence before kicking them through several walls and into the stadium wall.
The pink half chuckled. This was nothing to her and by virtue, them all.
"Thanks for calmly waiting for red here to finish her little explanation. Show off." she reached into their mouth and pulled the tongue out, then she touched her cheek and pulled down in a rude gesture. "Show off."
"It took me 20 scythes but I did it. You no longer have the will to fight. Now you can either run while I hunt and slaughter you or you can stay here for a quick d-d-d-d, destruction at my hands!" the white thing cackled. This was it. Nothing Sphalerite could do and with their will to fight gone, she was disappearing anyway.
"Don't get too cocky just yet." the pink half smiled, she now looked exactly how she did in her original form, completely overriding Sphalerite's own form. The red half clicked their tongue, she too looked like she did in her own form. She finished the first one's thoughts. "Look around you, idiot."
D.E. Athra did look around and she seemingly went even paler. There was a bubble all around the stadium and the related building next to it.
She glared at them.
"So what!" she yelled at them, "You're still gonna, s-still gonna, d-d-d-di, damn your creator for making you! You can't fight me after all, not when my scythes took away all your will to fight."
Red half clicked her tongue again.
"Why'd you think I went through all that trouble to find somebody to fuse with. I needed you close enough to know your general area." she explained.
"Oho." exclaimed pink half. "So you knew that I'd catch the hint and catch her first moment I got. You didn't fill me in since you knew that she'd show off and stay in one place only if she were confident we were through and that wouldn't happen if I knew what I was doing."
"I'm still kinda worried about our newfound pacifism though." pink half complained.
"Oh please, you still haven't figured that part out." red half rolled her eye.
"No, oh wait, I got it now. Yeah" pink half used her hand to bob their head up and down. "So we needed a sacrifice for when we got all close and personal with death."
"Precisely!" red half exclaimed and they both used their hands to bob the head up and down.
"A sacrifice?" Sphalerite and D.E. Athra asked in unison.
"Yup someone to take the scythes for us while we prepared the traps." red part said in monotone.
"Thanks for the help buddy. Hope I never see you again!" pink part said with a smile.
"Oh-!" Sphalerite exclaimed as she started to glow. A moment later standing in her place were the full forms of the stretching Pink Diamond and Zogi.
"It sure was tight in there." Pink complained as she touched her clown slippers.
"Whatever you say whale hair." Zogi cracked her neck.
"Did you just call my hair fa-" and she barely ducked under a barrage of scythes.
"It really is a big target though, let's burn it." Zogi said and the whole inside of the giant bubble went up in flames.
"Flames, you expect to k-k-ki, cremate me with fire. Silly, clumsy plan." she cackled again and nearly hit Zogi with a scythe.
"Not really." she muttered and then called "Scatter!"
Try as she might D.E. Athra couldn't locate them in this atmosphere of fire.
"But I am the only one who can navigate this place, plus the fact that you can't leave here, I feel pretty confident in my plan." she said from a place she hoped her enemy wouldn't be able to determine.
"By the feeling of your head breaking when I punched you," Pink said "I can tell you're organic, and from that punch I can also tell that you won't survive a second one."
"How can this be, even with all my training even with all my speed I still couldn't avoid d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-!"
One punch and she was on the ground, seeping black liquid. Pink grinned over her fallen form.
She turned her back to the burning crater and slung D.E. Athra over her shoulder.
"Come on let's grab my Pearl and go. White will not be pleased when she finds out I stole her prize and her pet away." she turned to Zogi. "You got a spaceship right?"
"Sure do."
"Okay, we'll stop by the stadium and-"
"No. I have personal matters to discuss with you." Zogi said as she led the way.
Pink looked her over and nodded.
"I see." she said.
"As you said this D.E. Athra is an organic life form, if you'll look closely, you'll see that she has a gem here." Zogi parted the thick mop of hair that was hiding the gem on the white forehead.
Pink's eyes widened.
"That gem's just like-!" she couldn't say the words aloud. Her hand went over her mouth. Her entire world was spinning. "She wasn't joking when she said she was her 'child'. That's sick. Her of all gems."
"This is what I wished to discuss Pink. If you do not wish to lose in this rat race against the other diamonds, you'll need to keep up with their scheming and research." she said without looking back at Pink. Her words were sad and defeated but they were the only way. "As a half organic I can be a vital tool in your research. But like everything I do have a price."
They stopped in front of her ship with Zogi in front of the door and Pink a few steps behind, D.E. Athra over her shoulder, black and white.
"What's your price half-organic?" Pink asked. All her humor had escaped her after she'd discovered the truth.
"Earth, the planet that you won." she said as she turned to Pink. "In exchange for my life, I plead you. Save organic life on Earth. Or at the very least, protect my tribe."
Pink thought long about this. Her face was like stone, never revealing her true intentions to her companion. Finally she gestured with her head for the door and Zogi opened it. The hostage flew from her holder's arm right into the ship, shaking it a little.
"Consider Earth, and especially your tribe, under my protection. I shall battle with everything I have for this promise I made. And in exchange you will ensure I have every advantage against my sisters in this little militaristic race."
She climbed onto the ship. Zogi behind her got on one knee and saluted. "My diamond, I shall not forget this."
"Come aboard, red," Pink smiled a bright innocent smile. "There are so many fun things to discuss."