Steven glanced back, trying to shift the mirrors view, by tilting sideways. Once that didn't work he began shouting at Pearl, who was holding him in a shaky fist, to turn him around, although she couldn't hear him. He tapped a icon that showed a replay sign, or a recycle sign, he tapped a smaller box once inside and hear the replay,
"Pearl!" It was Amethysts voice he replayed, they had been arguing last night and Steven guessed the mirror picked that up and began recording it, anything it hears it replays. Steven tapped another icon, hovering his finger over the 'stop' button.
"Let-" He stopped it instantly, it was the middle of a sentence, Steven was able to edit the sentences to make a mash up of one whole sentence, this was the beginning, it was from Pearl shouting, 'We have to find a way to let Steven out!' She had cried while Steven was asleep in the mirror on the ground in their hut.
"me-" He stopped again.
"See-" This time there was the beginning to the words, 'See, look!' From Ruby a few nights ago. She pointed to a green mist coming from a while away, guessing that was where Peridot was.
"Lapis Lazuli!" The end of the sentence, he mashed them together with a icon saying, 'Mirror mash ups' Steven wondered who could've made it, Lapis most likely, but someone had to make the mirror itself to support the icons.. He shrugged, playing the sentence over, all the voices mashed together sounded odd. He played it audible for Pearl.
"Pearl- Let- Me- See- Lapis Lazuli!" The mirror cried, Pearl looked down at the mirror for a second before turning the object around, Stevens jaw dropped.
He finished processing the scene, there was smoke everywhere, broken gem pieces lie on the ground with several cats eye gems sinking under the water, and dissolving after a while, turning to dust which was carried away towards the northern ocean. Steven glanced down, they were floating on a raft, Garnet sat in front of him, making Peridot, Topaz, and Yellow Diamonds wide-eyed faces hardly viable, they were in shock. They floated on top of a strange device, he assumed was a escape pod.
"W-wheres Lapis?" He asked once he finished making another sentence with the icon. Pearl kept the mirror turned, Garnet glanced away.
"We're not sure, we can only assume she died when her gem burst and knocked out all the others, she was very powerful, it wasn't surprising all the force inside her gem was powerful enough to destroy and army." Garnet said softly, then Steven saw it, a green rope...tied to the opposing teams escape pod.
"W-whats this?" He asked, unable to find the word rope. Garnet glanced down, seeing the rope.
"...We lost..." Pearl said quietly, that was all Steven needed to hear to know they'd been taken hostage, if they tried too flee they'd end up drowning because they got tired and couldn't find anywhere to rest, or they'd not been able to swim with their injuries, or even they would be shot down by the homeworld gems out of fury. And if they went along with them they'd be kept prisoner.
Steven nodded, knowing they couldn't see him, he laid his back against the large cold wall, Pearls image and the icons went black as Steven dozed off.
Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst saw that Stevens gem had dulled.
"He's probably just asleep, it's been a tough day for him, for all of us.." Garnet said, doing something out of her nature, she yawned, Garnet never yawned, she never got tired, nor did Pearl, only Amethyst who was as lazy as a gem got. Pearl eyed her suspiciously.
"What, I can yawn too." She shrugged. Pearl dismissed it as Amethyst beginning to rub off on the tall gem. Either that or Ruby was surfacing more than Sapphire, it wouldn't be the biggest shock in the world if Ruby got tired, she was not only a kid, a young gem, but she also had a nature similar to Amethysts, although not to Amethysts extreme lazy, no one could go that far, except Amethyst herself. Pearl tapped her gem lightly with her fingernail, a habit she'd come used to upon having to raise Steven once Rose was gone, the stress had gotten to her, developing a habit of listening to the sounds of her fingernail against gemstone. Pearl caught herself and shoved her hand back down, resting her chin on her knees.
"If Garnet is going to sleep count me in." Amethyst cheered, flopping happily onto her stomach next to a dozed off Garnet, Pearl couldn't blame her, Garnet was just a couple of kids, even fusions had to process things once n' a while. Garnet didn't often doze off though, it was most likely due to the lack of entertainment she chose to let her mind wander within the depths of her subconscious, the kids would often due that when they were separated, they'd doze off, unable to stay awake, even if gems didn't need sleep it was sure refreshing.
"If there's nothing better to do.." Pearl said wearily, not used to the sleeping concept, she simply closed her eyes, waiting for her subconscious to take over.
Minutes seemed like hours, hours seemed like days, and after those long~ Long~ moments of trying to doze off, her mind wandered aimlessly, making its way into its dream, Pearl liked the feeling, it was...so...odd.
Pearl felt reality drift off as her mind closed off, she could no longer think, remember, worries were blurred and fogged. She took one step after another, her memories were replaced with false ones, conjured up by her imagination, that had been closed off for oh so very long. She wandered around the thick grove of trees inside the dream. The leaves were there, then they weren't, they went unnoticed perhaps, although Pearl knew they were there, paying no attention to when they weren't, she couldn't explain it, she felt so confused, yet the confusion was so dull...Her subconscious took over, placing one foot in front of the other, her vision snapped, she was somewhere else, she kept wandering, unknowing that she had shifted spots. Her foot landed on a large cloud, she felt herself rising upward, not caring what would happen. She placed her hands on some broken glass, the dream shifted, she was yanked out of her subconscious greatly, before dozing back off, forgetting the scene, what was it again? She didn't care.
"PEARL!" The voice snapped her awake, finally yanking her mind from its state of dulling dreams. She no longer remembered the random events from her dreams as they drifted away in a matter of seconds she realized she was awake and glanced around, they were on longer on their small raft, they were in prison cells.
With no way out.
First before I talk about THIS chapter, I wanted to say, yes you guys voted for Lapis to become neutral, so she sacrificed herself for Steven, but never officially made it to either side, she was good for sacrificing herself, but bad for kidnapping the gems and everything, but just to let you know, that may not be the end of her.
Now, this chapter. Yep. I decided to do a dream, I love doing dreams and stuff such as that, its just my favorite thing to write, although I hope you enjoyed it, trust me if you didn't there's not gonna be much more of it, also we're reaching the finale of this story I believe, unless I somehow come up with some way to delay it, there isn't much left, I might be able to make about 25 chapters at most by the end, for the main story line, 30 if I can come up with some way to make an interesting delay, but mostly we're reaching the end, but I hope you've enjoyed so far! Await more chapters!
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