CHAPTER 12: THE POWER OF HATE

"I… I don't… know… I have never seen a gem… like that before… but… there was… something… something… familiar…" Pearl muttered as she reached for Amethyst's gem, while they all looked towards the dark room where the gem disappeared.

Meanwhile:

"Servant… did you accomplish your task?" The tall, humped figure asked turning towards her servant.

But the pearl remained silent, because she knew what was going to happen if she said that she had failed her task.

"Servant… answer my question…" The dark figure hissed as she moved towards the pearl.

"I… I…" The pearl muttered in fear as her mistress came nearer and nearer.

"Answer me now…" She asked as she stopped in front of the now trembling pearl, towering over her.

"N-no…" The pearl said as suddenly… she was lifted in the air by her mistress… who held her up by her throat.

"You failed… and you escaped like a coward… even if you knew what I would have done…" The figure hissed maliciously.

"No… no please… please d-don't shatter me… I'm afraid… I… I d-don't want t-to die!" The pearl cried as her mistress let her fall on the ground.

"It seems that whatever I'll do… wherever I'll search… I'll never find a proper servant… fear is something that you shouldn't feel… how could I even think that some lost, broken, defective pearl like you could be helpful… I should destroy you now… but at least… you should work as distraction for those traitors… follow me…" She said, as the two of them silently made their way towards the center of the facility, the pearl wondering if all what she would have felt during her entire life would have been what her mistress called fear… needless to say… she didn't like the idea.

"Mistress?" Black Pearl asked as they were walking towards a dark corridor, slowly making their way towards the core's room.

"What is it servant?" She answered without turning her gaze towards the pearl.

"Why must I fight?" Black Pearl asked looking at her.

"Because so I have told you…" The figure replied coldly.

"Why must we fight them? What did they do?" The pearl asked as her mistress stopped walking, she expected her to hit her another time, but this time, she just put a hand on her shoulder, her mistress knew things about her that she still didn't know, she knew about the powers she gave her and she could see that her pearl was beginning to cast doubts upon her acting… and she couldn't permit it… she could see that this wasn't a normal pearl… she had her own mind… she could be afraid… she could have feelings… she was defective… but not useless… in fact… she would have used those feelings to make her even more determined to eliminate her enemies.

"Long time ago… all gemkind lived happily on Homeworld… that was our home but as time passed… we became too many… so we decided to travel towards the galaxies… searching for a new place to call home… we found the Earth and we thought we had finally found our new home… but… a despicable gem called Rose Quartz, whose desire was nothing more than having complete power over gemkind… betrayed us… she killed countless of our kind and once she had decimated us… she confined us on Homeworld and took the Earth as her new kingdom… we tried to stop her creating a gem fusion composed of the ones we lost… we wanted them to come back to us and help us fight the one who took their lives… but we couldn't see them coming back to us… it was too late… and now those evil gems are still here and they are trying to destroy that fusion before it even comes to life… so that nothing will ever be able to stop them…" The tall figure told, as she faked to wipe a tear under the hood of her cloak.

"They… they are… monsters… how could they kill people of their own kind?! I'm going to make them pay for what they did to us!" Black Pearl hissed as she clenched her fists.

"Yes… let that hate become part of you… you don't need to be afraid anymore… because it will make you stronger than any of those gems…" The figure said as she tittered maliciously.

"But… there is something that I… can't remember… in that group… I… I saw a… a gem which was just like me… and… it seemed so familiar…" Black Pearl said as her expression softened.

"I see you still can't recall what happened between you two… she was the one who left you alone in this place… she betrayed your trust and passed to the enemy side… leaving you in their hands…" The figure said as she began to walk, leaving Black Pearl behind.

"I'm going to shatter all of them… but you… you'll be the one which I'll make suffer the most… this life… this life now has a sense… making the one who made it a nightmare suffer for it!" Black Pearl said as she followed her mistress in the shadows.

Meanwhile:

"I think she's coming back!" Steven said as she pointed at Amethyst's gem, which began to glow in Pearl's hands.

"Already?" Peridot whispered in disbelief.

"She has always been fast in doing that…" Garnet stated as the purple gem rose in the air.

"You are min- hey?! Whe- where is that…?" Amethyst asked as she landed on the ground.

"Garnet made her run away…" Lapis stated as she looked towards the dark room.

"We mustn't waste time… if she's here… that could mean that even the one who attacked us in the Kindergarten is waiting for us… let's find the adapter and then head for the core's room…" Garnet said as she walked towards the opened door.

The group entered the research room and as they began to search for the adapter, they all began to think about what they had seen some minutes before… none of them could tell what kind of gem they had fought… it looked like a pearl but her gem was black… could it be another defective one… abandoned in the research facility during the rebellion because of it… if she was… why would she fight against them… why fight the gems who went against the ones that despised a gem just because she was different… this train of thought was interrupted by Amethyst's voice.

"I think I found the thingy!" Amethyst said out loud as she pointed at what looked like the adapter described by Peridot.

Hello guys! We are back! Sorry for the delay but I really had a lot to study plus there were a lot of serious things I needed to do (cough undertale cough) but now I'm back! I fixed the chapter and tomorrow Chapter 13 will arrive! If it was for my coworker we would have posted sooner but I really had a full period... so... sorry again and thank you all for the reviews, favs and follows, three new chapters are going to be posted very soon! To the next chapter! Bye!