I'm writing this as I'm rewatching RWBY for the thousandth time :P I also highly recommend watching RWBY if you're interested! Alsowatchthetrailersfirstbeforewatchingtherealthing Can't wait for October 22nd!
When Onyx sucked up all the blood, she tugged off some material from her dress and tied the torn pieces around Tourmaline's hands. The mint green gem said absolutely nothing the whole time as the look in her eyes became cold and emotionless.
Onyx looked down at her gem's legs and saw long scratch marks on them. She decided not to bother asking about what she did, They weren't deeply cut or bleeding anyways so she didn't really need to treat them. She picked up Tourmaline and took her to their ship or "Rocket Box" as they would call it. Their ship pretty much became their hang out spot since they hadn't used it in a while and were getting kind of bored with it.
She cringed as she tried to lay her down on the chair softly and awkwardly sat next to her. 'Dangit what do I say? She's clearly not in the mood for anything right now…' She thought for a while as the ship was still silent.
She finally looked over at Tourmaline but noticed that her eyes were shut and wasn't moving. 'Is she sleeping?' Gems don't normally sleep but this was something Onyx only thought she did. She carefully walked out of the ship and plopped back on the couch.
She heard their newly installed door open. "May I come in?" It was Pearl. Onyx turned back swiftly at the sudden noise. "O-Oh um…sure…" She replied as she scooted over so Pearl could sit down. "Is White Diamond thinking about giving us our jobs back?" Onyx asked. "No but she is still considering." Pearl answered almost immediately. "Well not to be rude but, Any particular reason why you're here?"
"Yes, White Diamond didn't give me anything to do since what happened…" She said as she glanced at Charoite's rebuilt body. "You rebuilt her?" Onyx looked up. "Huh? Oh…well Tourmaline did…" The dark colored guard sighed. "She tried really hard to bring her back…she kept crying and shouting that Charoite wouldn't wake up…I guess she felt all that work to bring her friend back…"
Pearl looked back at her. "You're talking as if you are nothing to her." "Huh? W-Well I don't think I'm much in the first place…" Onyx responded. Pearl then looked at her seriously. "Onyx, I'm pretty sure you mean at least something to Tourmaline, I mean you've been there for each other for a while now. I know Tourmaline, and I'm pretty sure by now that you're not just a guard to her."
Onyx looked back at the Rocket Box and saw Tourmaline sleeping. "Maybe…maybe not.." She said quietly as she hugged her knees. Pearl smiled. "You'll see what you mean to her someday." She said as she then left. Onyx smiled exhaustingly back at Pearl as she left.
The dark colored guard plopped back on the couch and stared at the ceiling. She thought about what Pearl had said earlier about her actually meaning something to someone. 'Huh…I wonder…how does she feel about me..?' She thought. Onyx then sat up and looked over at Charoite's reassembled body.
Without thinking, she picked up the body and propped her on her shoulder. She laid her body down on the couch and laid down next to it. "It's been a long ride…" Onyx sighed as her eyelids started to droop, And then her eyes stayed closed.
"Hahah…You're so energetic."
"Oh…you're perfect…"
"You're the cutest gem here!"
"It's okay…Someday, You'll be the strongest gem out there!"
Tourmaline immediately woke up and panted as she remembered those words. Those words were the only inspiration she ever had back then. She grew depressed from the memory because now she didn't feel any of those words were true anymore.
( 5,304 years ago)
"Hahahah."
"Ms. Queen! Ms. Queen! Look what I made out of the rocks!" A far younger but pretty much same looking Tourmaline called out.
A tall and large Tourmaline gem stood up from the rock she was sitting on and observed to rock figure the smaller Tourmaline had made. "Hmmm…you forgot something…" She said in a singing voice. "Huh? But I thought I made a perfect Tourmaline soldier!"
"Yes. But…" The taller Tourmaline picked up one last rock and placed it at the bottom of the object the rock figure was holding. "You forgot the pommel." She smiled. "Oh how did I miss that?" The smaller Tourmaline questioned. "Fufu…Oh don't be so hard on yourself, It looks great!"
"Even by the Queen's standards?" The smaller Tourmaline asked. "Fufu. Yes. Even by the Queen's standards." The Queen replied.
That night, The Queen had got back into her growing spot but was stopped by Tourmaline. "What is it dear?" She asked her. Tourmaline looked at her happily. "Can you tell me the story of how this place became your small kingdom?" Tourmaline asked cheerfully.
The Queen Tourmaline chuckled. "I've already told you this story many times before my young gem." "I know but I wanna hear it again!" The smaller Tourmaline immediately replied.
The Queen sighed. "Well I'm defeated! Fufu, come in with me and I'll tell you." She smiled as she reached her hand out. Tourmaline grasped her queen's hand and went inside the hole with her, surprisingly able to fit. "Can you tell the story now?" She asked excitedly. The Queen sighed as she started.
"A long time ago when this kindergarten was made, I was the first Tourmaline gem to come out." She started. "When did I come out?" The smaller Tourmaline asked. "Well, If I recall, you came out just 12 earth rotations ago!" The Queen replied. "Woah…"
"As I stalked around the place long enough, I found that there were more of our kind!" The Queen said in a dramatic tone as Tourmaline gasped as if she was surprised. "What'd you do with the rest of our kind?"
The Queen chuckled again. "What do you think?" she asked as she looked out her hole. "Hah. Dear, I'm really not a queen. I just assumed that role because I was the first one made." She said plainly as she set her rock crown onto the small space of ground. "But that's every reason to be queen!" The smaller Tourmaline spoke up."Hah. So being first and having a crown makes me a real queen?"
"Not having "A" crown," The small gem started as she picked up the crown. "Having THE crown!" She finished as she set it back on her head. The Queen laughed. "You're only calling this "THE" crown is because you made this!" "That's every reason why it's called THE crown!"
The two Tourmaline gems laughed together. "You know something..?" The Queen started as she held her crown. "You may look different from the other Tourmalines here- "Don't remind me…" The smaller gem interrupted. "I'm no good on a battlefield like everyone else…" "You will be, just give it some time." The Queens answered back. "Someday when the time comes, You'll be the best princess here." She said tenderly as she set the crown on the other gem's head.
The smaller gem was about to say something but was interrupted by a loud noise.
"What was that?" She asked frantically. The larger Tourmaline gem immediately came out of her hole and looked outside. Scared, the small gem hid behind her. "Stay here my little one…I'm sure it's just a noise…" The smaller Tourmaline obeyed and stayed in the growing hole.
Hours passed and the Queen hadn't come back. The small gem was getting badly worried. Her curiosity and fear led her outside the hole. She quickly looked around and didn't see or hear anything. Her breathing became erratic as she grew more afraid. She was about to go back inside the hole but then heard a blood curdling scream. The smaller Tourmaline gem turned around and ran to where the noise was. The screaming just got worse. She then stopped in her tracks as she saw the horrifying sight before her.
There was nothing but shards laying on the cold ground. The smaller Tourmaline looked at the shards and then touched her own, realizing that they were the same gem. What happened? The small gem ran all over the place, just scrambling to find her Queen. She ended up running all the way through the kindergarten until she heard a scream.
The small Tourmaline hyperventilated as she ran to where the sound was. And that's when she saw it.
A large and bulky Quartz soldier holding her queen by the neck, right where her gem is. The Queen then saw her little friend standing there in fear as she watched her gem crack little by little. A single tear fell to the ground as she softly spoke.
"My princess…"
The Quartz soldier the crushed her gem as she then poofed. The Quartz soldier looked dead at the small gem. The small Tourmaline couldn't move, She felt stuck, She couldn't stop staring at the tattered pieces of her Queen's gem. The Quartz then grabbed her with both of its hands and squeezed the Tourmaline's whole body. The Tourmaline couldn't feel it, She couldn't feel a thing from the traumatization of her queen being gone.
And in just a matter of seconds, She poofed.
(Several Days Later)
"Wake up now…It's okay…you are not there anymore." A soothing voice called. The Tourmaline woke up, feeling drowsy. She looked at herself, She's okay…Last time she was awake, She poofed in thin air. But she's okay now? The small gem looked around frantically, She was in a large white room with nothing but a throne inside.
"You are now in my court." A tall snowy gem said. "Now tell me, What gem are you?" She asked. "I-I…Tourmaline…I'm a Tourmaline…may I ask something..? "Go right ahead for now, I'm sure you have a lot on your mind." The tall gem answered. "Who are you?" Tourmaline asked. The taller gem got up.
"I am White Diamond. Your Queen's Diamond, and Your Daimond."
Tourmaline sighed. She failed as a princess but has succeeded as a member of White Diamond's court. But it can't last forever right? She'll mess it all up somehow. She got up and left the ship but she sensed something was wrong with her. She felt like a hollowed out shell. Lifeless and empty.
'What is this feeling? Why does it feel so bad? I don't like it. Why won't it go away?'
She then looked over at the couch in the middle of the room. Onyx was next to Charoite's body. 'Why did she do that? What's Onyx even doing? 'She chuckled. She moved her guard's body a bit and shifted next to her, laying her head on her lap, feeling more relaxed.
This felt a lot better. It felt comforting…
Just then, Onyx's eyes fluttered as she woke up. She felt a strange pressure on her legs. She looked down and saw Tourmaline's head laying on her lap. Onyx blushed. "Wh-What are you doing o-on my legs?"
"Don't ask, I wanna relax." The mint green gem simply responded. "Why? I thought you were relaxing earlier…" "It's not that I'm tired, It's my mind that I'm really trying to relax."
"Huh?" Tourmaline sighed. "I don't feel well…I just feel kind of…empty and hollow. Like all my emotions are just squished together into one big pile of mixed feelings…mostly bad ones…" She explained. Onyx smiled deeply. "I know that feeling…"
"Really? How?" Tourmaline asked. "Yeah. It's something I always felt that around the other Onyxes, Didn't really like them but I didn't like being alone either."
"Huh…" Tourmaline exhaled as she snuggled in her guards's legs. "Can we just stop talking now and relax?" She asked as she looked at Onyx. Onyx sighed and and gave a warm smile. "Okay…" She replied. The two then peacefully napped together.
As soon as Onyx woke up, She immediately heard a shriek.
"SHUT UP!" A deep voice yelled. Onyx looked over and saw Tourmaline being held by a large Quartz soldier. Onyx was about to move off the couch but was also grabbed by a Quartz.
"This is the same runt from the Tourmaline kindergarten!" The Quartz holding Tourmaline yelled. The Quartz the raised their fist to knock her out.
Onyx could NOT let this happen. ' Forget about White Diamond's stupid rule, I can't let them touch my gem!' She broke free from the Quartz's graps and summoned her sword. The Quartz was still stunned from Onyx which gave her the chance to stab right through them.
The other Quartz dropped Tourmaline's body and charged at Onyx. She just simply stabbed right through her as they charged. Onyx didn't notice there were two other Quartz's in the room. "HAAAAAH!" They battle cried. Onyx swiftly grabbed Tourmaline and went back inside the Rocketbox and shut the doors, without even realizing she left Charoite's body behind.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Tourmaline yelled. Onyx then powered on the ship. "I'M SAVING OURSELVES!" She responded as the ship then took off, blasting right out of the room.
'Where am I even taking us?!'