Hey sorry for the wait, school sucks, anyways as I promised a longer chapter enjoy, and sorry for any possible spelling mistakes.
"Move it runts, we have to get moving now!" Lapis was jammed into an already filled residence belonging to some higher ranking gems, those gems being Citrine and Topaz who she was literally shoulder to shoulder with right now, awaiting orders from the small gem she remembered as Rosaline.
"Now listen up runts!" Lapis snorted by habit, "Is she really calling us runts?", causing some gems to look at her, but most importantly interrupting Rosaline's instructions. Rosaline glared in Lapis' direction, her eyes filled with the venomous look that could stop anybody in her field of vision to stop dead in place, "Do you got a problem runt?"
Lapis looked around the room, searching for the poor soul that was soon to be ripped a new one, until she realized that she was the poor soul. "E-e-excuse me ma'am?" Rosaline just mimicked Lapis' embarrassed stutter, "D-d-d-didn't you hear Lazuli, actually you probably didn't, come to the front NOW!"
Lapis scurried to the front embarrassed, her gem glowed furiously, lighting up the room like the sun lights up the sky. "What the fuck is that!? Lazuli turn that down this instant, I can't see a damn thing.!" Lapis tried to calm down, tried to dim her gem down as much as she could, but the more she tried the harder it was to control her gem's brightness.
"I-I'm sorry ma'am I-I-I can't really control it, my gem just does this when I'm embarrassed o-" A sharp pain in the back of her head threw Lapis off guard and, a few seconds later, caused her to retreat to her gem. It seemed that Topaz jammed his dagger into the back of Lapis' head, making her go into her gem, maybe in hopes of dimming the light.
"Sorry Lapis, but that was honestly getting a little annoying, and well Rosaline's voice really irritates me." Topaz whispered to Lapis' gem, as if Lapis could actually hear her, being inside of her gem kind of just muffles the sound.
"At least I can see what's going on." Lapis was given a sort of magnetized vague look at the outside world while inside her gem, she could also feel the warmth fading from her slowly dimming gem.
Lapis could only watch as Rosaline demonstrated something that involved a lot of body and arm movements apparently. The other gems in the room were watching in on these antics intently, not missing one word of this obviously important speech.. that she was missing. At some points expressions of surprise and anger could be seen, but, for very few gems in the room, looks of sadness or sympathy were glued onto their faces as Rosaline continued her lecture.
Lapis wondered what her expression would be at that point, would she too be filled with rage, or would she be torn, heartbroken by the words that spewed from the small gem's mouth. She wasn't sure, all that Lapis knew at that moment was that she missed Aqua dreadfully.
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Before she knew it, the speech was over and the muffled words of, "you can come out now" were said, but of course Lapis couldn't hear. Instead, she felt her gem being shook, signaling that she could now exit out of her gem.
Lapis did exactly that, deciding not to change her physical form just yet, and exited out, voice echoed off the walls repeating her question two times more.
"Oh, yeah they're all gone, Rosaline was just going on and on about the necessity of having to fight for Homeworld and our fellow gem sisters.. blah blah blah, didn't really care too much honestly, she gives this speech every war." Lapis believed it, Rosaline seemed like the type of gem that'd do that, she just seemed so ruthless for such a small gem.
"So when will we be leaving for Earth, one week? Two weeks?" Topaz let out a loud bellowing laugh that seemed to shake the walls, "Are you kidding me Lazuli, it's the Rebellion, we're not waiting that long, we're leaving today."
"Today? Why so soon?" Another laugh was let out from Topaz. "Well we could always let them get the chance to have their armies formed and ready to shatter us, yeah that sounds like a plan." Lapis mentally slapped herself for letting out such a stupid question in front of her superior, of course they were gonna leave as soon as possible.
"Sorry Topaz, so do we got a plan?" Topaz turned more serious, her prior cheerful demeanor vanishing. "Of course, we're gonna go to Earth, land, and kill them ALL." The tone of her voice made Lapis flinch, Topaz was usually quiet and emotionless but Lapis could sense the hatred laced in her voice now.
"Kill them all?" Lapis accidentally let her statement slip out as more of a question, this caused Topaz to raise her eyebrow, looking strangely at Lapis. "Yes, why do you have an ally on Earth right now?" Topaz's voice rose with every word spoken, anger starting to slip through.
Lapis looked at her a moment, then down at her wrist, where Aqua's bracelet was now placed. "No ma'am, I have nobody..."
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Aqua sighed deeply as they ship neared closer to the Milky Way galaxy, home of Earth. All the gems around her were chatting, everybody had somebody to talk to, except Aqua. "Hey, you looked a little lonely over here." Pearl gently sat down next to her, but not before dusting off the layer of dust particles that seemed to cling everywhere.
"Yeah, hey Pearl, you didn't have to sit by me if you didn't want to, I know Rose Quartz probably has you doing something important." Pearl took Aqua's hand in a comforting way, "I think you need me a little more than Rose, besides this 'important work' you spoke of is just for me to enjoy myself apparently."
Aqua chuckled at the usually serious gem, "Oh okay I see, well in that case yeah, I could use somebody to talk to right now." Pearl squeezed her hand a little tighter, "Go ahead then, tell me everything."
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After Aqua explained the whole Lapis situation, Pearl just stared at her, a look of complete sympathy plastered on her face. "So, you two have never really been apart like this?" Aqua nodded sadly. "Well then this must be just awful, for both of you of course." Aqua looked completely stunned right then and there, she hadn't even been thinking about how Lapis might have felt about this.
"I-I didn't even think about how she may feel, I was too sucked into my own emotions, man she must be losing it without me right now. Lapis has never been good by herself, she doesn't know how to be by herself, we're always connected."
"Always really?" Aqua nodded, explaining how her and Lapis' gem had a special connection, and how they've always been connected in a way, ever since the beginning. Pearl looked dumbstruck, "So you're saying she can see what you see?! You know how much of an advantage they can have over us from that, we'll be destroyed in minutes!"
Pearl's little tantrum made Aqua grow angry, "It's not like that Pearl, she can only see from like my gem's point of view, which is hard because of my hair, besides Lapis would never do anything to hurt me!" Pearl scoffed at the enraged gem, "Really says who? Who says she wouldn't do anything to get on Homeworld's good side, from what you told me it seems as though she has a very strong loyalty to her home, maybe even more so than she has to you."
Aqua's had it with Pearl, but she made no response, maybe because she was right? Aqua didn't know anymore, would the Lapis she left be the same Lapis she'll see? For once, Aqua didn't have any type of answer or snarky remark, for once she was silent.
"Yeah, that's what I figured. Just cover your gem up or something, we can't risk anything." Pearl dissapeared to go find something to cover her gem, leaving Aqua with a sad, bitter feeling. "I hope she isn't what Pearl thinks she is, I hope they don't turn Lapis into a monster. Or maybe that's what she really is, and I just been holding her back.. no no that's NOT Lapis, she isn't like them."
"Ah here you go I think this will be perfect, plus it'll protect your gem." Pearl pulled out a pure black, half-mask, it was all black steel but stretched like latex, she pulled it over the half of her face where her gem lay, and the mask immediately seemed to lock into place.
"Uh how would I get this off exactly?" The feeling was foreign to Aqua, her gem's never been covered so tightly. "All you have to do it pull from the bottom and it should go back to being flexible again." Aqua just let out an audible "Oh" letting Pearl know that she understood.
"Well that's pretty cool I guess, thanks for the.. thing?" Pearl just walked away, shaking her head at Aqua's blatant ignorance for knowledge. "Ugh, no fun at all I swear." Aqua turned her attention back towards the Milky Way, it was just so beautiful. All the colors swirling around, small comets suspended, moving slowly through the galaxy, Earth was right around the corner.
She let out another sigh, this one a little more melancholy. "Will you change when I see you, will you be their puppet, a prisoner to their every will and want? Another mindless drone, following orders, shattering innocent gems all for a higher rank? Will you forget me, toss me to the side, forgetting everything we ever done? Lapis, promise you won't forget me."
Aqua rambled on to nobody, Lapis wasn't there, Lapis couldn't hear her, she was by herself, lonely in this ship filled with gems. "Don't worry Lapis, we'll be together again after the war." A tear rolled down her face, burning on her skin, she knew they couldn't be together after the war, but the lie felt too good to let go.