This took forever honestly, and since it is a thousand year war, I'm gonna fast forward probably towards the end of the war next chapter but thanks for the reviews you guys are great
As Topaz and Rosaline's portion of the Homeworld army turned away, Aquamarine looked away in shame. She showed no emotion, shooting her best friend a cold-blooded look instead of a worried one. "Hey don't worry about it, I got one over there too and trust me, I'm sure mines will be less forgiving than yours."
The reddish-brown gem she believed was named Carnelian gave her a comforting pat on the shoulder, giving a look of sympathy. "But how did you k-"
"I can kind of read minds, it's actually sort of a burden really, wasn't exactly my choice though. But yeah trust me, my Rosaline's probably gonna want to crush my gem herself, that Lapis though, she seemed like she might be more.. understanding." Aqua took the gem's words into consideration, maybe she was right, there's no way Lapis would hurt her, right? They've been together forever.
"How long were you and Rosaline together?" Aqua felt the need to ask, maybe the small gems weren't as close as her and Lapis. "Hmm well let's see, about 18,000 years, so basically all our lives." Nothing could describe the look on Aqua's face right now, all she knew was that her hopes just plummeted.
"Wait, I know what you're thinking, hahaha, sorry." Aqua rolled her eyes at the obnoxious pun. "But it's not like you think, me and her always had different views, I know she knew this day was coming, I read it in her thoughts, but she didn't want to accept it, now it's just boiling in her emotions, killing her inside."
The gem's words settled her a little more, after all Lapis and her almost always got along, and Lapis had no idea about her involvement in the Rebellion, their relationship was nothing like Rosaline's and Carnelian's. "So if you knew she would react like this, why did you join, why didn't you stick by her?"
The gem pause, thinking over before she spoke. "For the same reason as you, I couldn't live a lie anymore, I couldn't be like her, so I decided to be against her." Realization painted itself on Aqua's face, she was right, completely right.
Before either gem could speak another word, a loud bang shook the skies. All gems glanced to the blue sky, watching as the last of Homeworld's ships landed on Earth's surface, the Homeworld gems loaded out, forming an equally enormous army in the horizon.
Out of the huge army of gems, a singular tall gem stepped forward, her yellow eyes glaring into them all. "ROSE, HOW UNFORTUNATE THAT WE HAVE TO MEET UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES OLD FRIEND, HOW UNFORTUNATE THAT TODAY I SEE FORMER FRIENDS, TECHNICIANS, GENERALS, OFFICERS, ALL ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THIS FIELD!"
"YOU MUST BE MISTAKEN YELLOW DIAMOND, FROM MY VIEW IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE THE ONE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE FIELD!" Yellow Diamond laughed loudly, "HAHAHA, YOU'RE A FOOL ROSE QUARTZ, I JUST HOPE YOU'RE PREPARED TO DIE TODAY!"
Rose let out a loud laugh as well, "SORRY DIAMOND, THAT DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE ON MY SCHEDULE!" The gems on Rose's side laughed along with her as Yellow Diamond turned back, obviously disgruntled.
"So what happens now?" Aqua whispered over to Carnelian. "We fight.."
"CCCCHHHHAAARRRRGGGGEEEE!" At Rosaline's words Lapis and all the thousands of other gems charged forwards, forgetting their organized state and just going full speed towards the Crystal Gems. Lapis' body clenched as they neared, she was pushed towards the back with other water gems, but that didn't stop the sounds of screams and metal on metal from being heard.
She stopped running and instead chose to summon her wings, she felt the height might have given her an advantage. As she rose above, she witnessed a massacre. Several other gems were also seeking the same flight advantage as Lapis, but instead of fighting they were also drawn to the terrors below.
Gems were literally ripping other gems limb from limb, a rainbow of blood was sprawled over the lush strawberry fields. The more brutish gems were taking things further, choosing it necessary to dig their fingers deep into the others eye sockets and pull out their eyes, veins and all attached, and pop them into their mouths, the victim's blood dripping down sharp fangs.
Random body parts were pulled off, ears, eyes, tounges, fingers, all met the same fate, being crushed in strong, cold hands and chewed up into small bloody pieces, spit back out into the victim's face. Gems were shrieking, terrified yells polluting the air, Lapis' ears burned, she could hear when each and every gem died, their screams slowly dying with them.
Lapis saw the gems being shattered, crushed under boots like gunk on somebody's shoes, being smashed into the Earth's crust. She was hoping to the stars that none of those shards belonged to Aquamarine's gem. However, Lapis was too distracted by her search to notice that a sharp tipped arrow was headed straight for her.
All she felt was a terrible pain in her shoulder, then warm, sticky liquid running down the length of her arm. She brought a hand up to feel, wincing with pain as she felt her first battle wound. The blood was a dark, navy blue color and covered her arm and fingers in a trail of stickiness.
Lapis looked for her assailant, landing her sight on a young Moonstone gem, who was fumbling with trying to fly and load her bow at the same time. "She can't be more than 4,000 years old." Lapis raced towards the young gem, who had a sheer look of terror in her eyes.
"I-I-I'm sorry please, I don't know what I'm doing, please don't hurt me!" Lapis looked at the small gem with sympathy and pity, for a moment considering just leaving the gem alone. Then, she remember where she was and what was going on around her, all the death and destruction. She looked over the gem, finding her gem on her chest, uncovered by anything.
"I'm sorry... I don't have a choice." Lapis struck her as hard as she could in the gem, shattering it instantly, the small gem disappearing in a silver smoke forever, her shards collecting on Lapis' hands. "I'm sorry." Lapis looked back down at the field, her eyes locking with the eye of the gem she's been looking for, who was now looking at her in disbelief.
Aqua stared at Lapis, mouth agape, her innocent water angel, the cause behind the death of one of their youngest gems. She turned away, she didn't dare to see her another second, instead she ran away from her, straight into the heart of death.
So many friends already died, so many allies were torn apart, unnecessarily tortured before being killed slowly, every shard and drop of blood seemingly falling in slow motion to the ground.
Rose was off in a whole different area, fighting more experienced gems, fortunately far from this bloodbath. She had yet to be injured, but she also had yet to fight, it seemed that every drop of blood she felt on her, wasn't her own.
Seeing Lapis kill like that though, just made her want to hurt something, anything really, so she went deeper into battle. She swung her sword to anybody without a star on their ensemble, she knew by now that she shattered several gems in her rage, but she didn't care right now.
She kept swinging her sword, recklessly going into a storm of her own infuriation, carelessly ending the lives of gems over and over. She was only stopped momentarily when she felt a dagger pierce her face from below her eye to her nose, gushing salty blood into her lips and on her tounge.
She looked at the poor gem who dare step in her path, a Rhodochrosite gem, who had a cocky look glued to her striped cream and pinkish face. "You fucked up, you know that right? You're gonna die today sweetie!"
The gems clashed their weapons, metal scraping against metal as they dueled. Aqua glared at the gem, not expecting her to be so good. Somehow she managed to sneak behind Aqua, who didn't notice until she felt sharp metal on her neck.
"Looks like you're the one who's gonna die, any last words?" Aqua thought over her possibilities, smiling as she came to one. "Yeah I do actually," Aqua sunk her sharp teeth into the gem's hand, licking her blood off her lips, as the gem released her. She then proceeded to bite the side of the gem's neck, taking a nice chunk of it out and causing the gem to scream in pain, at this Aqua then got close to her and took her tounge between her teeth, ripping half of the gem's tounge out.
"Cat got your tounge?" Aqua spit her tounge on the ground, watching as the gem clutched her mouth, trying to stop the blood for outpouring, then she fell, convulsing on the ground for several minutes before finally retreating to her gem. Aqua looked down at the striped cream and pink gem and put her foot over it, taking only a second before crushing it under her feet.
She looked up only to be met with the horrified gaze from a certain gem's brown eyes. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT AQUA?!" Aqua looked down at the gem shards under her feet before looking back at Carnelian. "I... I don't know."
The gem just hugged her, which was pretty awkward considering all the chaos around them. "Oh sweetie, I know how you're feeling right now but this isn't how to deal with it, you're not a monster." Aqua's eyes were threatening to form tears as the gem broke the hug, but she resisted any from falling.
"I have to go, but I promise we'll talk more after all this is over okay?" Aqua nodded furiously, giving the gem one last hug before they parted, not knowing that would be the last time they'd ever see each other again.
Lapis had been circling the destruction for a few hours, shattering a few gems but mostly just observing everything. She had yet to see Aqua since there last encounter, but she didn't think she could face her anyways, not now.
"NO NO NO STOP SOMEBODY PLEASE!" Screams of desperation were heard faintly over the sounds of war bellowing below but Lapis quickly followed it, not knowing if she'd find a friend or a foe.
The screams brought her to two gems struggling on the ground, one was completely unarmed, the other was situated on top of the other gem repeatedly stabbing her over and over with a large knife. The other gem's blood was splattering everywhere, staining the green fields a harsh brown color.
"ROSIE PLEASE, JUST KILL ME PLEASE!" The gem on top, a small pink haired gem, was sobbing uncontrollably over the other gem, her tears mixing in with the seemingly endless pools of blood that formed from the equally small reddish-brown haired gem.
"NO NO NO, WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME CARNELIAN, YOU'RE ALL I HAVE!" Lapis could only watch as her usually strong commander had an emotional breakdown on her former companion. "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, WHY NEL?!" Carnelian just sobbed louder and louder as blood now started trailing out of her mouth.
"I LUB YOU TOO ROSLYN!" Carnelian's words were almost ineligible due to the blood pooling in her mouth. "I'm so sorry Nel." Rosaline pulled her hand back as far as she could and formed a fist as she struck Carnelian's neck, right where her gem was, and shattered her gem to little pieces.
"Commander..." Rosaline looked up slowly at Lapis, her partner's gem shards still in her palms, fresh tears forming in her eyes. Then, she brought her hands up to her own neck, slowly crushing her own gem. Her eyes met Lapis', a small watery smile formed on her face as she said her last words. "Fight for her Lazuli." With that she crushed her own gem, the shattered shards of a Thulite gem and a Carnelian gem intertwined in the grass.
"I will commander, I will.."