The story of the Bloodstone
Outside of Beach City, in Lakeside town...
My name is Mike. People define me in the "Weird" class. I'm a fan of videogames and anime, and I don't care if I'm judged because of how I shelter myself in my own house during the weekend because of it. However, the reason why I'm really weird to everyone is because I was born with weird psychic powers that let me read people's minds or look into their past. I can also predict what is about to happen, but I never react fast enough to avoid it or change it. Either way, that's not the point; let me tell you what happened earlier this morning.
I work in a jewelry business with my dad. We mine, craft, and sell gem related merchandise...or at least we used to. Recently, I was mining for gems with a classic pickaxe instead of a machine to operate, and I came across a slightly cracked, spherical bloodstone, my favorite kind of gem. However, it was glowing, and I could feel power radiating from it. I touched it, and a light began to shine off of it.
The light began to move away from the gem and shape itself into the shape of a person. The gem reappeared in the shape's right arm. The light faded away, and a woman took its place. She had a noble look to her, and she was dressed in warrior's armor from the medieval age, though the armor looked cracked and dented. She had white hair, and her eyes were clear, no pupils or anything. I walked up to her, but she swiftly backed away. She tapped the gem on her arm, and a gigantic hammer appeared out of nowhere. She carried it behind her back with one hand. She stared at me with rage as if I did something.
"You... You killed Amber!" She shouted with her veins pulsing out of the side of her head.
"What?" I replied as I glared at her with anxiety and curiosity, "Who is Amber?"
"Be quiet!"
The mysterious being gripped her hammer. I predicted how she was going to strike me and saw a silhouette of her smashing my skull in directly. I instantly took a step backwards of the strike, barely dodging it, and she slammed it into the ground in front of me. I didn't get hit, but the impact of the hit alone sent me flying into a stone wall behind me. I felt highly damaged. The mysterious being lifted me by my arm and pulled up the sleeves of my jacket. Her hammer disappeared. She looked shocked and disappointed. Her eyes glowed white, and then so did mine.
I accidently activated one of my other psychic abilities: Memory Reader. I learned that her name was Bloodstone through telepathy.
-Bloodstone's most recent memory:
(All narrated in Bloodstone's honorable sounding voice)
4923 years ago, Bloodstone and Amber were partners in the gem war. They had a third gem leader who had an army, and she was green, but she wasn't around at the time. Bloodstone still had her hammer, and she had green pupils in her eyes. Amber had a healing staff. They knew that they might get killed, but their home world exiled them to earth, so they had no choice. They stuck together because they were best friends. However, they were ambushed by a gem.
The ambusher looked like me. She had long, spiky hair just like me. In fact, she had the same details I had besides for her having gray skin, so I hope she's some kind of tomboy. She had two sharp white daggers and two fluorite gems on her forearms. "Two easy gems, huh?" She said, "Wait, you two are the exiles, aren't you?"
"Florence, we don't have to fight-" Amber said in a shy tone.
Florence vanished before their eyes. Amber and Bloodstone began to search their surroundings with their weapons ready, but they couldn't see her. They didn't notice the footsteps surrounding them. It looked as if Florence was circling them. Eventually, a footstep appeared behind Amber, and the white daggers pierced through Amber's chest.
Bloodstone heard the sound of pierced skin and turned for Amber. She stood in shock. Amber's eyes rolled back, and her body vanished leaving nothing but an amber gem. Florence revealed herself, grabbed the Amber gem and held it in front of Bloodstone's face.
"Weren't you told to never to fight alongside your best friend?" Her grip began to increase until the gem slightly began to crack. "Friendships break easily" Florence shattered the Amber in front of Bloodstone's face, killing Amber. "Like so"
The shattered gem shards fell in front of Bloodstone. She stared at the shards with fear….
—Everything became static like on a TV—
Bloodstone dropped me and backed away, and I stayed on the ground in pain. Our eyes stopped glowing. "You're not Florence?" She asked as she tilted her head to the left.
"No, I'm Mike" I said. I rolled on to my back to kind of ease the pain. "You're name is… Bloodstone?"
She backed away in shock. She summoned her hammer again, making me nervous again, so I glared at her. Again. When my body began to predict what she was gonna do with the hammer, I couldn't tell what she was about to do because I saw silhouettes of her smashing the gigantic hammer through my skull. However, there was one silhouette that didn't move at all.
"How do you know my name" She asked. It didn't even sound like she was asking, but instead, more demanding.
I made a heavy sigh of relief, happy that I wasn't going to get my head smashed in. "I might have tapped into your memories with my psychic abilities" I said, "Who's Amber, though?"
Her eyes opened wide in shock. She hunched her back and covered her face with her hands. She began to scream in pain, and she disappeared. Her cracked gem fell to the ground. I had no idea what it possibly meant.
Let's see, she's a "Rock Sentient Humanoid/Being" like that blog said. Apparently, her life source is that gem of hers. I wonder if she's still wounded because the gem is cracked… I'll repair it.
Ignoring the pain in my back, I picked up the gem and rushed out of the mine. Workers in the mine began to ask me why I was leaving, but I didn't answer. I took the gem to my Dad's "Smithy" in the garage of our house. I handed it to him while he was leaning back on his couch.
"Hey Dad, can you fix this?" I asked.
"You're old enough, so why don't you do it?" He asked me.
"Because she—" I was hushed by Dad.
"Oh, I see where this is going…" He smirked. "You fell in love with someone, didn't you?"
"Not this again…" I averted my eyes away from him.
Dad stood up took the gem from my hand. "Relax, kid, you may be my adopted son, but you still are family to me, so I'll help"
I instantly became nervous, so I used my psychic powers to see what was going to happen. I saw silhouettes of his body tripping and dropping the gem or smashing it accidentally on the anvil. "Wait…" I said as I snatched the gem, "Maybe I'll do this one…"
"Alright, suit yourself, kiddo" He said as he sat back down.
He leaned back into the couch and watched me do this on my own. I placed the gem on the anvil. I closed my eyes and hummed a single low note. I saw all of the possible outcomes of my preferable methods. I would've done the same thing that my Dad would've done: smash it or make it worse. Hmph.
What is Michael doing? My dad thought, He's still as emotionless as he ever was, but what's with this method of crafting? His psychic powers still weird me out.
"I'm repairing it, not making something to sell" I said to him.
"Was that out loud?" He asked as he backed up in his couch.
"No, I can just read your mind, remember?" I said as I stared at him.
Right, right. He thought.
I pulled out my iPhone and searched for methods of how to forge bloodstone. However, there was nothing along the lines of forging it but instead rival companies to my business just selling theirs. I placed the palm of my hand onto my forehead and made the same noise with a little more effort into it. Hmph.
Without any other kind of option, I grabbed the tongs and used it to grab the bloodstone. The gem was glowing strongly, so I barely made the cracks of it touch the heated coals next to me. The gem was still glowing, and the cracks weren't changing. I pushed the bellows below me to heat the coals even hotter, and I pressed it a little farther into the coals. The cracks of the gem began to glow brighter with a fiery red.
I carried the gem with the tongs and placed it back on the anvil. The cracks of the gem were hot enough to connect to each other as long as they didn't cool before I could press them against each other. Using the hammer, I heavily pushed the cracks together, and they stuck together. I carried the gem with the tongs and dipped it into the water to speed the cooling process. I took it out after the fiery red heated spots stopped glowing.
I placed it on the anvil and watched for results. The gem was looked the exact same way it did when I found it but without the cracks. The gem was glowing even brighter than before. Bloodstone transformed into a human shape again. However, her eyes had green pupils, and her armor looked brand new, though it was the same. Dad stood up and gasped in shock.
"What the... Who is...? Where!?" Dad fainted.
I walked towards her for the second time. I tried to read her thoughts, but there was nothing. I stepped towards her slowly, and then I predicted what would happen in the next few seconds. She was about to either grab me by the collar and raise me off the ground, or she was going to...hug me? I took one more step to her, and she placed her hand on my shoulder and stared down at me with the green eyes, and I stared back with my white eyes.
"You" She said.
"Yes?" I replied. I placed my hands in my jacket pockets.
She suddenly lifted me by the collar of my shirt and raised me up off the ground. I wasn't surprised. I gave her the same emotionless glare I usually give, and she stared at me with the green eyes. It was a solid stare down, and my phone automatically played old western shoot out music.
"What did you do?" She asked.
"I repaired your gem" I answered, "It's kind of… you, in a way, so I wanted to… repair you?" I silenced my phone. Why am I freakin' blushing so much?
I saw that she grinned, unlike what I saw in my future sight. She gently placed me down and hugged me, like in my other future sight. I oddly found myself grinning back. That never really happened before, me grinning. I couldn't concentrate on my psychic powers to make sure that I could keep aware of my surroundings. But then I remembered: My back was still in pain.
"You can stop hugging…" I said as I tried to free myself from her grasp.
"The Gem Knights have a code, you know" She said as she stopped. "We have to follow those whom we owe our lives or our gems"
"Who're the Gem Knights?" I asked.
"Let's just say we're friends…" Before she tried to avoid it, I began to read her mind. Because she was thinking of several different things, I couldn't get it all clearly. The Gem Knights… We were exiles who became an army… Fought in the Gem War… Gems were cracked, and some were killed… I do not know where the others are… Wait… Stop reading my mind!
She pushed me back, and the shove sent me flying through the wooden wall of the garage. I landed on the floor, and I stayed there. "Ow!" I shouted as I laid there. My back was in the most pain.
Bloodstone quickly ran over after seeing me laying down. She thought I was dead, but after realizing that I wasn't, she lifted me up by the collar again. I stared at her.
"Calmed down yet?" I asked, "You're pretty violent, you know"
"Do all humans do this? Read minds and everything?" She said. When I didn't say anything for 3 seconds, she shook me, making my back shake and hurt all at the same time. "Well? Do they?"
"All humans, no. Me and probably some rare few, yes" I answered.
"Why are you considered a normal person if—"
"Being 'normal' is an obsolete thought that constantly goes through my head" I said with a harsh tone followed with a glare. "Put. Me. Down"
She dropped me, and I crawled away. I made it to my small mattress on the far end of the garage, my bed, and fell laid there. She walked over to me as I turned away from her. Reading her mind, I knew she felt guilty…when she should have. She placed her hand on the most painful spot on my back. I grunted and cringed.
"Don't move" She said. "This will hurt, but then it won't"
She pulled me and pushed my spine back into place. I held in a thousand screams as I stayed where I was. She pulled me towards her and rolled me onto my back. She pushed my rib cages in, and I held in two thousand screams this time.
"Because your upper body was out of place, you're going probably going to also need your arms pushed back in place in too…" Bloodstone said as she neared me.
I pictured in my mind what was going to happen instead of seeing her future actions. I thought of her either breaking my arms or, with her strength, shattering them. I thought of how I would be useless at my father's job with no arms whatsoever. I immediately stood up and backed away. I made the fakest smile and waved both of my hands in front of her trying to tell her no.
"How about we don't?" I said.
I shook my back, and I realized that the pain was completely gone. I leaned left and right to check, and I noticed how my back felt highly relieved of the pain she caused me earlier. I leaned forward and realized my ribs were feeling even better too. For the first time in several years, I made an intentional smile.
"Wow, the pain's gone…" I reached my hand out for a hand shake, "I… thanks"
She grabbed and shook my hand with a smile. When she raised my hand up and down, she accidentally shook my body and slammed me into the ground on accident. I rolled over and groaned as I covered my nose. She gasped as she knelt over me. First, she helped me up, and then, she pushed my nose back into place. I held in three thousand screams because my nose is pretty sensitive.
Bloodstone left after thanking me for repairing her gem. Her armor, even without polishing, was still as shiny as ever. I was kind of glad that her gem was fixed, and that she would never injure my body again, but then a few days passed.
A few days later…
As I was behind the counter at my Dad's jewelry shop with a friend of mine, I was bored more than anything. There wasn't really as much fun in blacksmithing ever since Bloodstone left. I still put my heart into every earing, ring, and necklace I sell, but it just doesn't really feel the same. Several customers came in to get gifts, but then I saw a shady looking person looking at the bloodstones crafted into gold in the form of two rings.
She wore a dark red trench coat and a fedora over her head. She stared intensely at the jewelry as if she was going to steal it, so I looked into it. I'm not letting anyone touch jewelry that hasn't been paid for.
"Pay attention for customers, Dean, I'll be back" I said to him.
"Not a problem, my man, I got this!" He said, still excited as ever.
As I walked toward the shady character I read her mind. So this is the jewelry, huh? This looks pretty cool, I wonder how humans do this.
Wait, I know that voice, even though it's of someone's thoughts. I thought. "Looking for something?" I asked her.
"A place to stay, if you don't mind" She said as she turned towards me. I know those green eyes from anywhere.
"Bloodstone?" I waved hello and backed away a considerable distance from her so that I wouldn't get hurt. "Good to see you again"
"And since you guys can repair gems and forgeable rocks, I would like you to repair these" She handed me an emerald and a black diamond, two very expensive gems. However, they were also glowing like her gem did a while ago. "I know you can read my mind to figure out why"
These two gems are my best friends, you know. Save them, and they will be in your debt. And besides, we'll protect you from corrupted gems, and I still owe you my word, right? She thought.
Little did I know that my life would change forever when I befriended Bloodstone, and little did I know about the upcoming events in the future…