Chapter 14: The Rescue
This chapter is all about the Rose and Pearl dynamic. Enjoy the chapter.
The frosty tundra wind whipped Pearl and Rose in the face, as they finally warped to their destination. Rose wore a pink parka with white fur around the edges. Her winter boots were white, with two little dangle rose puffballs. Pearl wore a light blue parka, with a striped salmon hat, and a pink scarf. She also blue shoes with white puffballs.
"Sure is cold Rose," Pearl complained.
"It's the artic, there's suppose to be penguins here somewhere..." Rose observed.
"Let's just get the gems and go..." Pearl decided.
"Follow me,"
Rose kicked her horse in her stomach and took off into the snow, leading Pearl Into a blinding blizzard.
"Do you know were you're going?!"
"Garnet gave us directions, between two glaciers, on the other side is a lake of ice," Rose explained.
Suddenly, the snow stopped falling, and the gems could see the path ahead. Above their heads the aura boris lights danced with colors of blue and green.
"Just like the sea spire celebration, right Rose?" Pearl beamed.
"Yeah... To bad it ended the way it did..." Rose trailed off.
The two gems crossed over a hill, that felt like it was alive. Every few moments, it would rise and fall just like it was breathing.
"Stay close Pearl, and keep quiet," Rose warned. "We must be getting close to the prison, " Pearl observed.
The gems walked about a mile away from the sleeping hill, and saw an iron door attempting to be hidden by the snow.
"Pearl, over here I see a door," Rose whispered while stepping off her horse.
"Ice shield horsey," Pearl ordered her horse.
The white mare closed her eyes, and engulfed herself, and Rose's horse in a igloo made of her hair.
"Let's go in," Pearl decided.
Rose quietly pried the door open, and squeezed past. Pearl did the same, and turned into a pink and cream flies.
"Follow me, and stay out of their way," Rose ordered.
The two gem flies buzzed down the stairs. The first chamber had a torture room filled with powders, bottles, knives and cages. In the cages were Sapphire, and Tanzanite.
"Gems, gems, wake up!" Rose buzzed by their ears.
"What... Rosey...Why have you come to hurt me again..." Sapphire cried out.
"Whoa, sweetie, I'm here to help you, keep your voice down," Rose soothed.
"No please! Leave me alone!" Sapphire wept as she backed away from the door.
Pearl and Rose shape shifted back to their original form.
"She's being delusional, we have to get her out," Pearl said.
Rose pried open the door with her bear hands, While Pearl went in after Sapphire.
"Rose, she's all chained up,"
"okay, let me go in, and you hold open the door,"
Rose pulled her sword from her holster, and started to saw the chains that held Sapphire. The blue gem closed her eyes and cringed as Rose cuts chain after chain.
"Pearl, take her to the igloo outside, I'll get Taza out,"
Pearl nodded, and Rose drops the delusional gem onto Pearl's back. Rose cracked her knuckles, and quietly pried the next cage open. This time, the gem was completely knocked out. Hearing noises Rose began to rip the chains apart, and run up the stairs with Tanza on her back. Outside, Rose dove for the shelter made by Pearl's horse, barley making it in.
"Is Sapphire okay Pearl?" Rose asked in a concerned voice.
"She's fine, but I had to gag her, Sun warriors are showing up everywhere,"
"Not good they're-"
Pearl placed her hand over Rose's mouth, and looked up.
Above the well hidden igloo, footsteps are seen trampling over their hide out. Listening more, the gems hear shouting and yelling. Then silence. A few moments later, the tundra erupted with running footsteps, possibly searching for the lost prisoners.
"Good looking out Pearl," Rose complemented.
"Watch horseys," Pearl ordered.
Her white horse nodded, while Rose's horse wrapped her body around the rescued prisoners. Once the two gems left the igloo again, ice began to engulf the entrance. Rose and Pearl went down the stairs, but with much more caution than they did before. Further past the torture room, they found a Sun warrior interrogating Emerald. Emerald was in chains, with a Sun warrior carrying a leather whip in his hand. The warriors's gem wasn't visible.
"Sucks being left behind doesn't it?" the warrior interrogated. Emerald glared at him with angry eyes.
"I told them to leave," the green gem growled.
Further into the room, Pearl and Rose could see Peridot hanging by her arms and unconscious, and Aquamarine balled far into a cage in the corner. Rose and Pearl took their seats as flies on a chain hanging from the roof.
"Oh that can't be true, you know they left you," he murmured into her ear.
Emerald turned her face and attempted to bite his ear off. Her captor became furious, and lashed her in the face with his whip.
"Since you don't feel like playing games, let me just cut to the chase. Where is that little Turquoise gem,"
Emerald looked at her captor confused.
"Why do you want her?"
Her captor slapped her in the face.
"I'll be the one asking questions here!" he spat in her face.
"I'm not telling you anything!" Emerald called out in a defiant tone.
Before her captor could hit her again, another Sun warrior steps into the room. Her captor knelt before the gem.
"General Flourite," he said.
"At ease soldier," Flourite ordered.
"I Haven't been able to break her sir, she's a hard one to crack,"
"Nonsense soldier, we just haven't used the proper methods yet," Flourite explained.
The torturer nods, and runs up the stairs, coming back with bottles and powder.
"Let me see one of those Soldier,"
"Okay you two, back up," Emerald ordered.
"Hold still princess, this won't hurt a bit," Flourite lied.
The General smashes a bottle of powder on Emerald's head. The green gem, starts to cough and scream, as the powder burns her lungs and blinds her vision.
"Now...Tell me were Turquoise is," Flourite ordered "She's she's..."
Rose couldn't anymore of this. She jumped from the chains, and landed a kick on top of Flourite's head. Surprised by the attack Flourite rolled over to see a Pink warrior gem in front of him.
"Aww...Angel Rose Quarts, come to give me a kiss?" Flourite cooed.
Distugsted, Rose kicks Flourite in the face.
"You monster!" Rose retorts.
Behind her, Pearl slams her spear down on the torturer, making him retreat into his gem.
"I wouldn't kill me ladies, I have an important message for you," Flourite teased.
"He's adviously lying," Pearl growled.
"Sweetie if I was going lying, you'd be dead by now. Back to the point, my fellow General, Obsidian had a message for your friend Garnet," Flourite explained.
Rose dropped her sword a little.
"I'm listening, "
"Before he left for South America, he wrote out his will. It specifically said, that if he somehow dies, it will be all the Alex brothers fault. If Garnet doesn't turn herself in at the Summit of mount everest by the end of tomarrow, both of them will be executed,"
This news made Rose furious. She drew her sword, and began to slice at Flourite.
"What makes you think that she'd be stupid enough to give herself up to a bunch of traitors?!"
"I don't know Rose, people do crazy things for friends," Flourite snarled.
While two General Gems fought, Pearl snuck away behind them and started to free her friends.
"You fight like a princess," he growled in her face.
Rose spat in his eye, knocking him off guard.
"Who's the princess now?" Rose replied.
"Funny how you're fighting me, and you only have about 16 hours to get the message to Garnet," Flourite pointed out. Rose stopped fighting, and quickly sprinted out of the room. As she left she could hear Flourite's evil laugh. Inside the igloo, Pearl was waiting for orders.
"Pearl tell your horse to lower the igloo," Rose ordered.
Once the igloo was lowered, Rose and Pearl loaded their horses with rescued prisoners.
"Let's get them back home, "
The gems rode off into the tundra, until they heard rumbling. The hill that the gems crossed began to rise from the snow, standing over 50ft tall. The gem monster lets out an earth shattering roar, and charged at the two horses. The gems horses did their best to dodge the icy claws. Rose's horse constantly places bubbles around herself, while Pearl's horse launched ice spikes into the eyes of the monster. Rose looked down at the reins in her hands, then the injured and broken gems riding behind her.
"Pearl, get off the horse," Rose ordered.
"Rose are you crazy we'll-"
"Please Pearl we don't have enough time,"
Rose let go of the reins, and slid off the saddle. The pink horse turned around and attempts to retrieve her fallen master, only to get the order to keep running.
"Pearl come over to me!" Rose cried out.
The gem monster behind was closing in. Pearl leaped into Rose's arms. The monster almost pounced on the two gems, only being stopped by Rose's bubble. The monster angrily slammed the bubble onto the ice an ran after the two gem horses.
"Pearl let's fuse!" Rose suggested.
Rose grabs Pearl's hand, and both of them begin to ballroom dance. Rose twirls Pearl in a circle, merging the two gems. A crane flies up revealing a Kunzite gem. Her skin was a peachy salmon color with short pink curly hair. Because of the cold, she wore a pink parka with blue fur along the sleeves and the hood. Her eyes were pinkish blue, with a small pointy nose and thick pink lips. In the distance, she could see a flash of blue light, then a smash. Her ticket home had been destroyed, but at least the rescued prisoners are safe. Kunzite stood tall, her pink skin glowing in the snow. Separated, Rose and Pearl were about the size of the monster's toes, but fused, Kunzite stood to the monster's neck. "Hey you! Pick on someone your own size!" The fusion called out.
The gem monster turned to Kunzite and charged. The four armed pink gem summoned her pink shield from her stomach and slammed it into the head of the monster.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Kunzite teased.
The monster bellowed and launched his white paw at the shield, Kunzite was ready for every attack. Once the monster was tired of swinging, the fusion gem summoned a long pink spear, and stabbed it's stomach. The monster thrashes in pain, as Kunzite sinks the spear in deeper. With her two free hands, she summons and extra shield, and slams them into the head of the monster numerous times. A puff of smoke appeared, revealing a small gemstone. The pink gem picks it up, and bubbles it away to the Sea Spire. She then begins her long cold walk home.