"What the hell is wrong…" Delta was unable to finish the sentence as the massive beast that was pushing itself through their quarters doorframe opened fire at her, ripping her physical form apart and poofing the Prime obsidian.
Lapis screamed as both the terror from this event and nightmares from former battles overtook her. But as her reflexes had already kicked in, even if her mind was completely overtaken by insanity, her hands had already opened the glass cabinet and grabbed both her lone remaining saber.
…
The terka soldiers opened fire upon the descending lapis lazuli gems.
Shrieks, screams, roars, cries.
Lapis lazuli gems start proofing and shattering.
My arms start shaking as the assault rifle springs to life, my weak physique unable to compensate it's recoil.
Figures in front of me fall down, mutilated by the constant stream of metal and flame.
Ground approaches fast.
I throw the weapon. The belt around my body holds it.
My hands wrap around the sword handles, my frail arms moving up, drawing the long blades out.
Enemy positions closing in beneath me.
…
Blue returned to her senses as her lithe frame barely evades a strike by her enemy.
Her opponent was a massive beast, over twice the size of the petite gem and many times wider. It was clearly a gem, considering the fact that its form was a strange amalgamation of features possessed by both gems and savage organic beasts prevalent in numerous conquered planets. Its head was elongated, most of its front being a long snout, filled with numerous teeth. The creature lacked a neck, its head jutting straight out of its hunched back.
Long, muscular hands juted out of the creature's wide shoulders, ending in slightly elongated hands. The gargantuan upper half of the creature was supported by a massive torso which was wide enough it would be able to support artillery cannon.
The lower section of the creature was no less monstrous. Its massive support beam like legs, as wide as some obsidian gems torsos, went normally, until reaching the knee at which point they curved backwards, in similar angles to bows. Instead of feet the beast had massive hooves.
The beast looked so familiar…
…
I feel the impact as my body lands. My legs bend, my weak body again unable to compensate the force of the landing.
I barely evade a bullet fired by the foe in front me.
I lunge forwards and cut her down. My sabers cleave her head from her body.
Lazuli gems and terms soldiers are fighting araund me.
I fight too, butchering numerous organic creatures around me.
But this doesn't change anything, it never does.
….
Through a slight glimpse of reality the lapis lazuli is able to create a shield of ice to defend herself from the sword swing by the beast.
The creature moves backwards, clearly surprised by such a twist, a snarl heard from its snout.
It widens it's stance.
The creature takes its weapon with both hands.
Its massive support beam like legs slightly bend as it's readying to charge.
…
Countless gems are mutilated around me.
Their limbs ripped of their forms.
Their light forms breaking apart, slowly and painfully dissolving as they try to stabilise their forms.
Tens of gems are shattered around me, as they are overwhelmed by their enemies.
These were my soldiers.
Those who believed in me.
Those who fallowed me.
And I allowed them to die…
…
The beast grips it's blade tighter.
It looks straight at Blue, as if waiting for something.
It lowers it's blade slightly, adjusting towards the size of her opponent.
It was still waiting for something, for some sort of maneuver, for some sort of weakness.
…
All of these losses.
Because I'm too weak…
Time and time again failing in my duties…
A flurry of bullets flies past me, the ground erupting into fountains of dust.
I quickly dash to the left, for a short distance and stop.
I look forwards.
A massive automatic ballistic weapon has been lowered in my direction, held by a massive trooper in ornamental armor which imitated some sort of folkloric creature.
It turned it's weapon to her, and pressed the trigger.
…
When blue returned back to her senses again, she found that she had moved to the other side of the room, floor to the right of her completely decimated by the massive weapon wielded by the beast.
It drew its weapon out of the floor, leaving broken and shattered metal. The floor held, but was bent in by the massive force of the weapon.
The beast locked its eyes on its target again.
It turned to the right, to face the lapis lazuli.
It gripped its blade again.
It opens its mouth as if mocking.
…..
As the trooper presses the trigger of its massive ballistic weapon. It's helmet, forged in a shape of a beasts snarl has its maw open, as if mocking the blue gem.
The gun starts spewing bullets.
….
The beast starts raising its blade again.
Its legs bend again.
It readies to jump.
…...
I close my eyes as I know this will be my end.
I hear the bullets approaching.
I feel the bullets puncturing my arms and legs.
My weapons fall to the ground.
I fall to the ground.
The bullets stop.
Somehow my body holds.
I hear the ground rumbling.
I open my eyes.
The trooper is approaching, it's ballistic weapon thrown over its shoulder.
They lift one of my sabers.
….
Blue is barely able to evade the blade as it swings in front of her.
The lapis lazuli gem jumps even more backwards.
The beast draws its weapon out of the wall, leaving a massive hole leading to one of the corridors.
It charges again.
…
The trooper lifts the sword.
My form stabilises.
They start inspecting the blade by looking through it.
My limbs start to regrow.
The terms in ornamental armor swings the blade several times, as if testing it.
My regrown hand grips the remaining sabre.
The trooper, seemingly satisfied with the blade turns it's gaze back to me.
I jump up, swinging my blade at the trooper.
A scream escapes my mouth as my arm is cleaved of my body by the trooper.
Its second swing rips my body in half.
I fall on the ground again.
The trooper swings it's blade.
Bullets start plunging into the ornamental armor of the trooper.
It turns around and starts running away.
My body vanishes as my gem is unable to stabilise my form.
…...
Blue opened her eyes as a scream escapes her mouth.
A massive sword falls to her ground.
The beast was moving backwards.
Strange, why would it do such an action?
She started scanning the creature.
Their eyes locked.
Something clicked inside Blue.
The beast was surprised.
It was afraid.
Its hand was gone, cleaved of.
The lapis lazuli only now realized that she was standing in a battle stance.
She damaged it.
She mutilated it.
A sense of satisfaction filled the essence of the blue gem. She never felt this way about battle before, this was different, unusual.
She started slowly walking towards the beast.
It suddenly started charging at it.
Blue redied herself.
The beast was now upon her and clamped its mouth on her neck.
Her body started dissipating, as a smile appeared on her face.
The beast was collapsing in front of her, a sabre showed through its chest.
A blue gem falls to the ground.
A dark grey gem rises to the air and starts releasing light.
Deltas form appears from the light.
The gem quickly takes battle stance, but realises that the room is empty.
She quickly notices Lappys gem laying on the floor.
The prime obsidian picks it up and slowly inspects it searching for any damage, but thankfully doesn't find any.
She carefully puts it on the softbench.
Delta then walks to the open glass cabinet, takes her ballistic weapon and walks out of the room throughout the hole they left.
To her surprise several teams of peridot's are waiting in the corridor. Next to a sizable pile of different materials.
One of them, clearly a leader raises her fist in the air, to salute the Prime and then asks.
"Can repair work begin?"
"Yes" Delta confirms
"Where did the gem who left this room before me go?" She adds on.
"Towards the rear part of the ship"
The dark grey gem nods, and starts walking thru the corridor as the peridot's behind her begin the repairs.
End notes
I apologize that these chapters took so long, but due to several personal and technical problems I was unable to release them sooner than now.
Have a nice day.