Chapter 2

Lars Pov

The dread I've had about this situation had gotten worse the farther along we went, I still didn'ttrust them. They were taking us to what seemed like a small hidden cavern amongst the walls of the "kindergarten" as Steven called it. The truth is I would be hiding and cowering in fear inside the hull of a gem spaceship without steven's help so I decided to trust his judgement, for now.

"guys you can come out the coast is clear." they called out into the empty cavern.

"Yea it's just us." the other one echoed back.

The silence dragged on for what seemed like an eternity until finally the not so subtle sound ofrock being moved could be heard. Two gems emerged the first gem was the taller of the two. She had four eyes and arms,she had hair of mixed colors. The second gem was way smaller Icouldn't get a good look at her face but the little I could see told me her skin was orange in hue.

"you sure guys weren't followed" as she came out nervously

She took one look at us and and froze.

"You've been followed!" she screamed as she backed away

"They were about to be scanned we couldn't just leave them"

Steven tried to talk with them and convince them that we weren't dangerous every so often the orange one chime in saying things that already happened.

"What would Fluorite think of this!"

"Whose Fluorite" I thought to myself but was brought out of it when I heard a loud thumping.

Not knowing what it was I freaked out and ran behind steven. A huge smiling face of a gem emerged from behind a huge stalactite making her way over. She was clearly the wisest of the group and the biggest.

"Who are they, they don't look like gems." she said slow and calmly.

Her voice was so soothing even I relaxed a little.

"Hi I'm Steven I'm half gem and this is Lars, he's all human". Steven said and gave me a smile.I half smiled back.

"That's why you look so unusual." Fluorite silence

"We look unusual?"

"Yeah you're off-color just like the rest of us " said Rhodonite

"Off-color, I don't see anything wrong with you guys." Steven said looking amongst the group ofgems.

"Gems like us aren't needed" Fluorite spoke

"Like us, were two rutiles who came out wrong, we survived because they feared us". They said as they held each other.

"Feared you, so you've lived in fear your whole life?" I asked.

Looking at them I saw a part of myself in them, not just the twins but all of them.

"What's gonna happen if they find you" I asked nervously

There was a moment of silence before

"We'll be shattered".

I looked at them with shock and fear in my eyes. I didn't know alot about gems but with the way they said it so bluntly made me nervous. The look on Steven's face confirmed what i believed.How could they do that, sure they were different but that didn't mean it was right.

Suddenly the twins gasped and pointed in the direction of the entrance seeing the same eerie red light that had been following them had but this time it brought company. Three gem drones entered the,the split up and began scanning the cavern.

"Steven what are gonna do" I asked my voice shaken with fear

"Everyone hide!" he responded .