sorry. I was/am sick. I couldn't write much. And I wrote this but it probably still sucks cuz I can barely keep my eyes open.
Chapter 15(Amethyst)
They pulled into the port. Pearl stopped the ship perfectly. A large green gem waved them down. So they all walked out of the Ruby ship, not knowing what to expect.
The muscular green chem had long curly hair. It reminded Amethyst of rose. Until she sneered at them.
"Why wouldn't you answer any of our tracking calls! And why is this pearl standing in front of you, Sapphire?",The green gem sprayed it instead of saying it. Ha, ruuude.
Pearl stepped back and looked down.
Sapphire spoke up," I just like my pearl more than most gems. She has been a great help to me. As for your earlier question, our communicator is down. We couldn't get any signal through. Thank you, for not shooting our ship down. It's nice to see a gem with such politeness." Sapphire added to the flattery with a small smile.
Amethyst had a hard time making a face at this... Gem! She didn't know what kind she was. She only knew that she didn't learn what manners were.
The gem rubbed the back of her head and blushed at the flattery."It's what I do. This way, Sapphire."
Ruby was burning the floor as she followed behind the green gem.
"cool it Ruby. We need to act, casual.",Amethyst whispered to her over her shoulder.
Amethyst herself felt very out of place. She knew gems weren't supposed to be like her size. She changed her outfit to a blue diamond outfit that a quartz would traditionally wear, but still.
They were led into a large room with pretty yellow pillars. Not much in the room itself though. Just a bunch of pillars. Amethyst was already bored of this room. She wanted to go home and kick her garbage around like she has been the last few months. She has been needing change. Everything has been driving her crazy lately.
The floor was some kind of white rock. It was too clean. Amethyst spit on the floor when nobody was looking.
"I'm sure it's important if blue diamond sent this... group to inform yellow. So just wait here. It might be a few minutes.", With that the green meanie (ha! I like that one!) left the room and back to where she was originally. By our ship.
As soon as she was out of ear shot Sapphire turned to all of us and spoke quietly. "Okay you heard the lemon Jade. We-"
"Ha! so that's what meanie greenies name is?! Lemon Jade! Phft-Ha ha!", Amethyst exploded into loud laughter that she needed. It felt good to laugh.
"Amethyst!", Pearl whispered and then gave her the look.
"What? It was funny."
"Gems! We need to focus. Saving Steven, remember?",Sapphire whispered.
Pearl and Amethyst both nodded in agreement and focused their minds on what was important.
"like I was saying, we need to hurry. Don't split up. we have no way of contacting another. we need to look down the hallways for Steven. If he's still... He'll be in a cell or something like that. I haven't been on a home world in a long time. None of us have. Stay quiet and out of sight! I will try to scan my vision for him but I haven't had much use of it lately so it might not work. Let's go."
They all quietly followed Sapphire as she ran down the halls looking for Steven. Ruby held her hand trying to reassure her.
Amethyst was getting tired of running. Couldn't she see him by now! Her legs were aching. She was going to ask for a break soon when Sapphire slowed down and looked into an empty cell. It's door thingy wasn't even on.
"He was here.", Sapphire whispered with a broken breath.
Amethyst needed to see for herself. She pushed passed Pearl and peaked into the room. It was dark. The only light was coming from the hallway. It had weird metal floors and walls. One wall had a dent on it. In the corner there was a pile of half eaten something or another. In another corner was a sheet of thick metal coming out of the wall.A bed?
"Oh no." , Amethyst looked away. She didn't want to see anymore. Pearl was crying. Ruby and Sapphire had their heads together again.
"Let's go. We need to find where he is now." Amethyst said this with confidence and it made the upset gems turn to her.
"You're right Amethyst. Let's find Steven. I can see two possible futures from this point. He either got away from Yellow Diamond or he tried to; got caught; and then... mmm. let's go with the first option. If he managed to escape it was probably recently. His cell hasn't been cleaned yet. Pearl, can you somehow look into the cell files? If we can see what happened then we might know where to go to find him."
"If I can find some kind of computer system. Im sure I can figure it out."
"There is one on the cell door. You'll find a way into a bunch of files from there. Trust me"
"If you say so"
Pearl turned to the door screen thingy.
She touched it and it out up. Amethyst didn't bother watching her try to figure it out. She doesn't understand any of it anyway. She looked around both corners of the hallway.
That's when she saw her. There was another gem walking down the hallway towards them.
As soon as she saw them she took out her destabilizer and asked,"What do you think your doing? That's the cell I'm supposed to clean right now. There shouldn't be anyone else working on it... You're not even a yellow soldier? I'm calling this in!" The beefy brown gem disappeared in a flash of light.
All of the gems gasped at the sudden turn of events and looked towards Sapphire for guidance. She was still. Poor Sapphire so much leaning on her shoulders. Amethyst felt sorry for her.
"umm.. Hide!" ,Sapphire said.
The gems all took action and went into a cell around the corner.
"one of us should hide somewhere else. They might not notice one of us being missing. Amethyst, hide in a different cell! Go far as you can before they can see you!", Sapphire looked up at her with such a desperate face.
"Okay", Amethyst panted as her legs carried her fast as she could. She was crying. It was hard to see much now. "Stupid emotions!", she thought. She didn't know how long she was running. She stopped and ducked into an empty cell as soon as she saw a distant light up ahead.