Hey guys, sorry for the wait, and sorry there wasn't much development. Btw, Thulite is also called Rosaline in the gem world, hence the name change. Oh and thanks for all the reviews and everything.
"I'm alone... alone forever. What did I do, no I need to go after her."
Lapis ran to the door, hoping she wasn't too late, that she could catch her before she left, but she was too late, Aqua was gone. The only reminder of her presence was small air bubbles, drifting aimlessly in the sea.
"Aqua?" Lapis jabbed one of the air bubbles, looking up towards where Aqua swam away, leaving her. "Maybe, I could catch up to her."
"Catch up to who?" Lapis looked around, searching for the source of the mysterious voice, she traced it to an unknown gem. "I'm sorry but who are you?"
Lapis looked up at the slightly shorter gem, she had medium length, straight, light pink hair with little black streaks running through it, her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She wore a standard issued Homeworld uniform, except hers had a pink diamond in the middle, and, like Lapis, she wore no shoes. Lapis couldn't spot her gem anywhere though, all she spotted was the black choker around her neck.
"Oh, yeah sorry, name's Thulite, but call me Rosaline, I'm a friend of Yellow Diamond." Lapis was again confused, why would Yellow Diamond send a gem to her quarters? "Uhh, well nice to meet you but why exactly are you here, and where's your gem?" (Mostly corrupted gems hid theirs away, with the exception of Aquamarine.)
Rosaline tugged down on her black choker necklace, revealing a bright pink Thulite gemstone. "Here it is, I know pretty right? I just don't feel the need to flaunt my gem everywhere, I like to keep it hidden, kinda like your friend Aquamarine."
Lapis snapped her attention to the nosy gem, "What did you say?"
Rosaline chuckled at her sudden interest. "Oh yeah, silly me I forgot to mention I was supposed to come here to, well let's just say to.. disable her, but I see she's ran away, what happened trouble in paradise?"
Lapis suddenly shook with anger, the sea surrounding her was becoming frantically more unstable. "Don't you dare say a word about her." The smaller gem just continued to laugh at the infuriated water gem.
"Aww, was she your companion? Well I hate to inform you of this but your mate was nothing but a traitor, unless you already knew this?" The gem glared at Lapis, suddenly losing her mocking tone to a more serious one. The waves around Lapis quickly disappeared.
Lapis looked away from the cold eyes of the smaller gem, "No, of course not, I would have reported her immediately." Lapis sucked in her lip, her gem glowing at the obvious lie, but Rosaline seemed not to notice.
"Good, you know if I knew my mate was a traitor I wouldn't even have reported her." Lapis felt a little hope rise in her, "Maybe she isn't so bad."
"I would have dug my hands into her gem and shattered her myself, I can't even share a room with anyone who would go back on Homeworld for.. Earth." Lapis laughed nervously, this little gem was making her very anxious.
"Ha ha yeah, so how did you know she's a traitor anyways?" Lapis wanted to change the subject as fast as she could, she wasn't very good at telling lies, and her constantly glowing gem wasn't helping.
"To be honest it wasn't just her, we found out about a lot of high ranking gems that are involved in this rebellion. Can you believe even Pink Diamond was involved? One of our own leaders, such a shame, she was a great general."
"They found out about Rose? Oh no, that's probably where Aqua was headed, I have to warn her at least." Lapis really needed to get away from this lunatic, she had to make up some sort of excuse.
"This was nice and all, but I really need to get going, so excuse me." Lapis started to walk away, but not even a second later she felt an extremely strong grip clutching her arm.
"Hold up there blue, I was also sent to pick you up, Yellow Diamond wants me to get Homeworld's soldiers together, we're forming the army at the Authority building, Rose Quartz has her soldiers headed to Earth already. This is going to be one big war."
"War! Right now?! Why do we even have to go to war, why do we even care about them wanting to stay on Earth, why don't we let them be miserable there?"
"Lazuli, I don't think you understand, that planet can produce so much soldiers for us here, besides this is a direct order, straight from the Diamond Authority itself. We need to do this, Homeworld needs us to do this, and we will do this, even if I have to drag you there myself."
Lapis knew she was beaten, there wasn't any point in putting up a fight, it would just make her look like she had something to hide. "Of course I'll come with you, I'll do anything for Homeworld, I just have to grab my sword and shield."
"Fine, but quickly, we're already late, everyone's being assembled right now, finishing training, tomorrow we'll be headed to Earth to fight, we got new equipment in the ships so it should only take about one week, give or take."
Lapis nodded, she didn't want to die, she didn't want to risk her life for a boring hunk of rock, but she had no choice, Homeworld is her home. She walked into her quarters, knowing it might be the last time she'll ever see it. All her memories were here, the good and the bad, everything she ever loved was in this small room, on this huge planet that she called home.
She ran her little, nimble fingers over all of her and Aqua's possessions, every little rock Aqua collected from Earth, every seashell from their planet's ocean, a little golden necklace Lapis found on Earth before, (she's never seen a cross before, she found it strangely appealing), and the broken mirror that still laid on the floor, the thing that Lapis hated the most right now, she clenched against her body, remembering Aqua's gem was once in there.
"Hey we don't got all day, now hurry up, grab your shit, and let's go." Lapis snapped back to reality, quickly grabbing her sword and her blue shield. She looked back at her home one last time before walking out the door, leaving everything she ever knew behind.
"Finally, man you gotta be the slowest water gem I ever met, now we got to go fast, got any ideas?" Lapis smiled for the first time that day, grabbing the smaller gem around the waist. "Hold on tight, we're going to go pretty fast."
"Wait, what do you m-" Lapis summoned her wings, shooting off at an incredible speed towards the surface of her ocean. "Whoa, s-slow down blue, we ain't in that much of a hurry, and if you're hoping you'll see your little friend on the way, you're wrong, she's probably already on en route to Earth."
Lapis barely listened to Rosaline, she was too focused on the light shining in the sea, signaling that the surface is getting closer, her Aquamarine was getting closer, even if she has to see her in this way, at least she'll get to see her once more.
"No, that's okay Rosaline, I'll see her on the battlefield..."