I definitely did not plan on adding this many oc's to this story but really it should have been inevitable. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter and therefore it's a heck of a lot longer than I planned it to. Tomorrow we'll be back with the fleet and some other fun things will happen, which is a shame because I really have so much fun writing Yellow Pearl and Yellow Diamond. Anyway, enjoy the chapter, see you tomorrow!
"What in stars name is wrong with you!" Yellow Pearl said the moment they were out of earshot of the Diamond. "We're never going to find her! We're going to end up shattered!"
"No we won't." Pink Pearl said. "We'll find her,"
"How? Pink this is madness!" Yellow stopped when Pink had already stepped up on the warp platform.
"Yellow I promise, You're not going to get shattered." She said "Come on, trust me, I have a plan." The pearl stared at her and shook her head before joining Pink on the pad.
The warp stream let out in a spire in Blue diamonds District, the hallway was completely empty with the exception of a black Pearl standing outside one of the study rooms. She glanced at the approaching Pearl's, looked away then did a double take when she saw Pink Pearl.
"What are you doing here?" Jet asked stepping away from her post and keeping her voice low.
"I need your help." Pink said.
"Well I can't just leave now, who's she?" Jet gestured to Yellow Pearl who was looking between the pearls completely baffled.
"Pink we don't have time for this" Yellow muttered.
"Yes we do," Pink said then turned back to Jet. "Don't worry about her, she's with me."
"Fine fine, whatever. What do you need?" Jet asked glancing worriedly back at her post.
"My Diamond's gone missing, do you have anyone in the lower city that might have seen her."
"I think someone would have noticed if a Diamond was traipsing through the lower city. What makes you think she's there anyway."
"She's.. Different." Pink said. Jet rolled her eyes.
"How old are you that you're still enamored with your owner? Much less one you weren't actually made for" Jet said. Pink frowned and projected a picture of Domina, one from this morning. Jet's mouth snapped shut. "Oh.. she is." She said.
"Exactly. As I said," Pink said
"Right, " Jet scribbled out a map and handed it to Pink Pearl, "Mauve keeps her eyes and ears more open than the rest of us. she knows just about everything that goes on down there, could probably even tell you where that 4 gem permafusion is lurking these days."
"Permafusion?" Yellow hissed. Pink waved her off.
"Thank you." Pink said.
"Don't mention it. And make sure she doesn't either." Jet said with a pointed look at Yellow who scoffed.
"Pearl!" A Jet's voice called from the room where the black pearl had been standing outside. Jet Pearl turned suddenly and quickly ducked into the room with a dutiful smile plastered back across her face.
"So what I've learned is that it's completely possible that the Renegade was completely sane and that it's apparently being White Diamond's Pearl that turns you into a traitorous clod." Yellow said as Pink led the way into the quiet side streets of homeworld, slowly descending into the older parts of the city.
"I am not a traitor." Pink Pearl said.
"Yes because hushed meetings in places you have no buisness being in just scream 'loyal subject'." Yellow Pearl said stepping daintily around the wreckage
"No one would ask, nobody on homeworld would question one of the Diamond's Pearls."
"You know I swear I heard White say the same thing before she ran off with that Quartz."
"Well I'm not planning on running off without any quartzes."
"What about a spear, have you tried to summon some kind of ridiculous looking spear, or learned to use a sword?"
"A sword really isn't my style Yellow."
"Pink I'm being serious!"
"So am I," Pink said stopping outside a cavern "Wait here"
"You can't leave me here!" Yellow said plaintively
"I'm not I'm just going in, I won't be long, keep watch." she said. Yellow Pearl grumbled and turned with her back to the cavern opening glancing up and down the empty tunnel. Pink Pearl stepped into the cavern, fully expecting it to be empty like the one she had met Blue and Jet in.
Instead inside the cavern sat a tall gem with mauve skin. The mauve colored pearl was on the back of her left hand and she had a purple cloak wrapped around her. She was carving into the rock around her, large designs of the tunnels underneath homeworld.
"Jet sent you?" the Mauve said without looking at Pink.
"Er, yes she did, I'm guessing you're Mauve?"
"I am, what is it you need?" Mauve put down the tool she was using and turned to face Pink Pearl with a weary smile, her eyes were covered by her long hair, not unlike Blue Pearls. Most obviously there was another stone set into her collar bone, a mauve colored sapphire "No one ever comes to me if they are not searching for something, or someone."
"It's my.." Pearl hesitated, not sure how much she should tell the fusion "It's someone a bit different, she would have come down here maybe an hour ago." Pink Pearl projected the picture of Domina she had before. "There probably would be a lot of wind wherever she is."
"Ah the new Diamond." Mauve said. "Looking for home in a place decidedly unhomely." Pink Pearl blinked.
"How do you.." she began to ask. Mauve waved her off.
"A sapphires predictive powers often take different turn when fused. You are not disturbed by my appearance?"
"I have more important things to worry about." Pink Pearl said. Mauve chuckled.
"Right you are, you will find your Diamond in the caverns underneath what used to be Pink Diamonds district." Mauve said. "You will feel the winds as you get closer."
"Thank you," Pink Pearl said "Is.. is there anything I can do for you?" Mauve hummed in thought for a moment.
"Our paths will cross again, I may ask something of you then, but you will not be obligated by me."
"Well I will do my best to help you then." Pink Pearl said, not necessarily put at ease by that statement. Mauve smiled broadly.
"I know you will."
"Why in star's name would she come here?" Yellow Pearl asked once they had once again left the crowds of the streets above and descended into the ancient kindergarten, following the strength of the breeze. "If it had been her own district that might have made a bit of sense."
"I don't know, maybe it was just the first one she came across, Kindergartens are probably the most familiar thing to her on this planet."
"Which is another thing that is greatly distressing to my diamond." Yellow muttered. Pink sighed.
"At this point what about Domina doesn't 'distress' Yellow Diamond."
"Well-"
"Wait." Pink Pearl said stopping, the winds had stopped. "Frack," She muttered, then cupped her hands in front of her mouth. "Domina!" She shouted. Her voice echoed out into the tunnels and caverns but garnered no response.
"We're going to be shattered, this is it." Yellow said rubbing her hands through her hair.
"We're not going to be shattered!" Pink snapped. "We're going to find her and everything's going to be fi-"
"And just what are you two doing down here?" a gruff voice said behind them. Yellow jumped and spun around. Pink Pearl turned and saw a pair of Jaspers standing behind them with folded arms. One with her gem on her left eye and one with her gem on her right shoulder.
"We..we.." Yellow stuttered and glanced at Pink who was frantically trying to figure out whether she should try to make an excuse or just attempt to shoot both Jaspers.
"They were waiting for me." Domina's voice said. Pink Pearl turned and saw Domina walking slowly up the opposite direction.
"And just who are you?" The eye Jasper asked. "No one's supposed to be down here."
"I'm ..white diamond." Domina said after a moment. The Jaspers looked at each other and burst into laughter.
"Yeah right, I've seen White diamond and she's certainly not some trumped up pebble. What even are you?" The Shoulder Jasper said.
"Doesn't matter, You get the Pearls, I'll take care of the Diamond impersonator." Eye Jasper waved off her counterparts statement.
Yellow and Pink stared at eachother then back at Domina who looked momentarily crushed, and then indescribably angry. Her gem glowed and once again the caverns began to fill with Wind. The Quartzes stopped laughing and looked around in puzzlement. Pink pulled Yellow out of the way.
"I told you, I'm white diamond" Domina said, her voice had taken on a different more forceful tone. A much more Diamond like tone "Now leave my friends alone."
The walk back to Yellow Diamonds quarters was very quiet. Domina didn't say anything, there was no wind. Yellow Diamond didn't say much when they returned, just informed Domina that her pearl was beginning to show signs of a defect and that she should consider getting a new one. Domina grunted noncommittally and left with Pink Pearl trailing behind her to bear the full assault of Yellow diamonds gaze.
"Do you hate me?" Domina asked when they were in the warp stream to go back to the ship.
"My Diamond?" Pink Pearl asked startled.
"Please Please don't call me that Pearl" Domina said softly. Her arms hung limply at her side and she stared at her feet. The pair appeared in the ship's entrance room. "I shattered all those gems and I ran away and you and Yellow's pearl had to come find me and I'm not a good diamond and I-" Domina said the wind was back, blowing Domina's hair around. Pearl hesitated and hugged her.
"I don't hate you Domina, Nobody does."
"Yellow Does!" Domina cried, she hugged Pearl and hung onto her tightly "I want to go home!" She wailed. "I want to go back to the fleet! I'm never going to be like mother and I don't want to be!"
They stayed like that for a while in the center of a vortex. Domina had grown enough that she had to lean down to rest her face on Pearls shoulder and Pearl just held her for as long as she wanted. Eventually both the crying and the wind stopped leaving only a slight breeze, Domina wiped her face on the back of her sleeve only for Pearl to retrieve a handkerchief from her gem and dab at her eyes.
"You don't have to be like your mother." Pink Pearl said. "And no one should make you feel like you have to try."
"But I'm not a good diamond, I say the wrong things and get excited and knock things over and I'm too short and I can summon a sword and-"
"And none of that matters. Your you. You're a diamond." Pearl gently brushed back Domina's hair and touched her gem. "And you're Domina." Domina looked at her, eyes still wet and face more blotchy than normal. "You're both, and you get to decide what that means."