In the temple the young lord gazed around, never having seen anything like this before. The floors all shined to a polish, the material felt like metal, like a sword. There were a few blacken rectangles that were in fact huge. A door that had a line straight down the middle with a weird looking symbol on it. In the middle of the room, a large circular pad with crystals at the base. It looked all so different, so ...shiny.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Turquoise yelled as she grabbed the boy from the warp pad. "This isn't a toy."
"..." Sesshomaru felt at a lost of words for a moment. He had let his childish ways get a hold of him. "I knew that...I was just curious as to what it was for...as future ruler..I..." He trailed off with his sentence as the gem shook her head.
"You don't have to explain..it's okay...but don't touch. This is Gem Tech...it's very dangerous if not used properly. Plus it's not up yet. I've still got a few wires to connect." She set him down.
"This is your specialty?" He asked oh so curious.
"Well, yes, but that's what turquoises do." She noticed his confused face. "There are more gems like me. With each operation, a turquoise is assigned to it. Keep everything going before the next step."
"Architect?"
"Hm?"
"That's what that sounds like. Designing, building, overseeing process...that's what you're doing now right?"
"...yes... Now, back to the real subject. Your my father gave you the cell?"
"It's just my father. And yes..." Sesshomaru sat down. "Those demons...gems...were on Western Lands without consent of my father. Him and his guards took care of them."
"Were their gems left behind? Or..."
"I don't know...why does it matter..."
Turquoise frowned a bit. "It just does. I can only try to buy more time." She walked to the door, her gem glowed and it opened. Sesshomaru stared and hurried over before the door shut. Inside the cavern were a staircase going down. Turquoise went down the steps. The temple wasn't in great condition, it didn't have that wow factor to it. Whoever had been here was trying to destroy this place before they vanished. Though to the young demon, he was only amazed by the structure. It had a beautiful what glow to it. He also noticed the diamond symbols on the walls.
"What are those diamonds for?"
"The Diamond Authority." She paused and turned around having now just realized he followed her. "They are the leaders.. you can say. All Gems are made to serve them."
"Made? Don't you mean meant..."
They reached the end of the spiral staircase, Turquoise went to a stand and pressed a few buttons. "No. Made. The diamonds are the rules...like how you explain over and over, that you are the...what...the Lord? That's what they are but more."
"You have a diamond. ..."
A screen popped up, the blueprints of the temple. Turquoise went through the files, Sesshomaru gazed at the blue pictures on the screen, even more fascinated by it. "My leader, among others, is White Diamond, but low level gems like me don't contact or speak to her directly. Well at least when I finish this area, I'll be promoted." The screen turned red. "Damaged. ..." She muttered. A board appeared and she began to type.
"What are you doing..." He tried not to sound so curious.
"Trying to fix the last section of this temple. This was here before the kindergarten. There isn't too many still active. They were served as a safe place for gems to see if this planet's ground was even a good enough place for gems."
Sesshomaru continues to watch Tuquoise play with the strange object. "...what do you mean by that?"
Turquoise waited for the screen to show any signs of progress. "It's...hard to explain to a young earthling but you wouldn't understand."
"I'm a demon lord!"
"Gems don't care." She banged on the keyboard when another error screen showed. "You are from earth, you are an earthling to my kind. To other species in the star maps, you are nothing more than an earthling, a spoiled one at that."
"I am not spoiled." He said in a tantrum tone. "You will learn to respect me for what I am."
"Not that it would matter." She spoke under her breath. Though the young lord heard her, he didn't speak. He just watched her work. She tried to fix the computer but it was too damaged. "Maybe if I another battery..."
"You said star maps...what do you mean by that?" He asked, Sesshomaru sitting near the panel, he stood up and tried to reach the top but couldn't.
"There are other planets besides this one with life...or...what you would call life." Turquoise stood behind him and pressed a few buttons, causing the panel to lower to his height. "It's not connect but ..." She kneeled down and pressed a few buttons. A starry screen appeared and Sesshomaru gazed at it. "Lots of them and all of them different. Some are organic. ..like yourself...and some aren't. ..like me. It's a very big ...big world out there." Turquoise said. "I've seen a lot of different worlds but none like this one...at least not really..." She spoke in a trance like tone. "Still don't understand why it's worth defending..."
Sesshomaru glanced up ato her and then back at the panel. He touched the cold metal like surface and the screen changed showing a bunch of diamond shapes on it. "I thought it was broken." Changing the subject.
"I'm trying to connect to the database back on Homeworld...my home but as far as what has already been collected, that I can still acess." Turquoise explained. "You very curious."
"It's a tactical strategy..." He began. Though she didn't listen. She scooted him to the side and raise the panel back to her height.
This was all she did. Going around and trying to fix what she could. Sesshomaru followed and asked questions. After hours went by he excused himself and went outside when they had came back to the first room in the temple. Turquoise watched e lad leave outside and raised a brow. She tiptoed in the direction he went in.
"Stop following me." He said. "I can still hear you walk."
Tuquoise froze, the voice coming from the bushes. "What are you doing?" She questioned.
"...private business..that..." when he heard rustling coming from behind him, the young demon lord turned to see the eyes of the gem staring.
"What are you holding on to and why is it leaking?"
Standing there, Sesshomaru breathed he could feel heat coming to his face. "Go away!" He yelled and repeated multiple times. Turquoise went back to entrance of the temple and frowned, this world confusing at points to her. Though a sound caught her attention, she looked up and saw multiple flying creatures. She watched them for sometime until Sesshomaru finally return.
He was about to say something about her actions but just watched her watch the birds, looking like a curious child.
"Have you never seem a bird?"
"A what?" Turquoise looked down at him. "What we're you doing?"
Sesshomaru again turned red. "Don't you know?" Turquoise shrugged a bit. Well he wasn't going to explain it to her. "Those are birds, they fly around everywhere and make homes for their babies."
"What are babies?"
He scoffed. "It's like you don't know anything."
She shook her head. "Not about this world, I don't. I don't know anything of it...all this life...it's. .different. "
"So then why do you go to different worlds without knowing anything about them?"
Turquoise was about to answer him but she didn't have an answer. She never questioned her orders, she just did them. "For one...it helps all Gem-Kind and it expands our empire."
Sesshomaru looked up and raised a brow. Turquoise frowned. "And?"
"And..." The gem drug the word
"Demons and humans some how manage to coexist, you're telling me that this setup you do cannot? It's not like it takes up space."
"It's not that simple." Turquoise said though before she knew it Sesshomaru began walking away. "What now?"
"It's getting dark, I have to go home." He pointed to the sun beginning to settle into the earth.
"Why?!" Sesshomaru stopped and turned, the young child looked confused. "Why does your planet do these things? Why do thise tiny creatures on the ground move so much or so slow." She sat on the grass and sighed. Hearing footsteps come closer to her. She looked at the child. "I've been trying to delay fixing the minor errors because I'm just so curious about the is planet."
"What happens when you fix it?"
"The operation resumes and I go to my next mission."
Sesshomaru stood there. "You remember how you said you will give me a new gem."
"Yes. When I find one that's stable and not dangerous, you can have it."
"You." He spoke properly.
"Excuse me." Turquoise sat up and then stood.
"You are a gem...so instead of some random trinket, you can be my new gem to replace the one you stole. I can always tell you about this planet too and you can tell me about gems?"
"For what purpose?"
"Education." He reached up to grab her hand. Turquoise awkwardly grabbed and the Lord studied it. Hard and cold, no life whatsoever. "Do you breathe?I don't feel a pulse."
"What's that?" She asked and he began walking home, the tall gem following closely.
"Strange..." He gripped her cold rock hand tighter. They walked I silence until reaching the gates of his father's home. "I'll see you tomorrow..." He let go of her hand and bowed down. Turquoise pursed her thick lips and copied him.
"What is this?"
"Respect. Grettings. Goodbyes." He stood up.
"Strange."
"How do you greet your family?" He asked though quickly noticed the gems expression to the word.
"...what is that?"
The young demon sighed and crossed his arms across his small chest. "This is going to be a long day, I can already tell."
Turquoise cracked a small smile and eventually stood up, she bid him farewell and went back to the temple. Sesshomaru on the other hand got ready for dinner. As demons they didn't need to eat but it was a small get together with a few other Daiyokais in the area.
He arrived just as everyone was sitting down. He joined his father at the table. The other young demon children playing. Sesshomaru snorted and shook his head.
"My son, why don't you go play?" His father asked softly.
"To be a great demon lord like you fathrr, I don't have time for silly games. Because I have questions."
"Such as?" He asked as he poured himself some saki. He really did admire his son's determination to take the Western Lands when his time came but at the same time would wish he remembered that he is a child and children can have fun every once in a while.
"Those demons. ..that you took down a few weeks ago...did you find anything?"
"No, my son, afterward all we have is jewels. Not many just two. Strange demons these things are. They smell like dirt but are not dead. They are also very small. Why do you ask?"
Sesshomaru glanced up at his father. "What if another demon comes, what then?"
"Then actions will be taken. My priority is your mother and you my son, these lands and the demons and humans that live here. You did not see what they were doing, my son, strange objects moving the earth for whatever purpose, they were hostile first." He explained.
The boy looked down. He was going to tell his father about Turquoise. Tell him how clueless she is about the customs here and even simple things like breathing. Though somehow he felt that would end wrong. He wasn't protecting a demon...gem...he just met he just wanted to get more useful information from her. Use it to their advantage. "I see...my I go to bed, I'm tired." He stood up and looked to his father.
"If that's what you want...are you okay, son?"
"I am...I rather go to bed than to be around irresponsible children like them anyway." Sesshomaru added. "Father...you said they were small...none of them were tall...taller than you?"
His father laughed. "No, of course not, why do you ask?" Thinking about if any of those weak demons could reach a large size.
"Curious. Goodnight, father." He bowed to his father and then went to say good night to his mother, who openly expression her wishers for her only child to stay and mingle with one of the demons, they could be very well a potential bride. Sesshomaru scoffed and went to bed.
I won't tell father about Turquoise. I need further proof of her intentions before deciding what I do. Though what a clueless idiot, how can someone that knows nothing of birds or privacy be dangerous? She probably find a piece of string as exciting as a cat demon...
He paused at his door. He had an idea but it wasn't so sure he'd go through with it. Though on the other hand it couldn't hurt.
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Turquoise sat at a small body of water and stared at herself.
"you can be my new gem."
Those words the boy said repeated in her mind. She brought her knees to her chest and rested her chin on them. She touched her gem on her neck, it gave a faint glow. Turquoises are not just smart gems...they can be deadly. They can fight and if need to, she will fight. Though she moved her hand down.
What was more important? Restoring the kindergarten or her curiosity as why the rebellions are protecting this planet?
"Young Earthling...you want to tell me about this world but what good what it will do when the Gem Tech involves and destroys this planet for new Gems? " She buried her head down. Saying that out loud...deep inside...she didn't want that outcome. Though how long could she stall before suspicions are raised? Before another Turquoise is sent to see what's taking too long?
"I hope I don't regret this..." She stood up to being delaying repairs.
