The Unlikely Confidant
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Chapter 5: Surprising Results
Normally Blue Diamond would not bother to spend much time walking amongst the pink corridors that brought her an everlasting jeremiad feeling across her. Most of the times when she visited the zoo she stayed in what was once Pink's private quarters to see to the bubbled rose quartzes. Her pearl was not with her, as her pearl was escorting the human to the aquamarines.
The idea to attempt to socialise with a quartz guard about her personal relationship with Pink was beyond comprehension.
The blue matriarch sighed deeply as she wandered down a corridor. How did she come to this stage of complying with an organic being's advice to seek out a quartz to talk to? She was once such a logical figure with a mind that could easily pinpoint the best solution to a problem. Now… she was a wreck that could only seek help from a human. She really could not think of any other alternative that could help her overcome her grief. Such pessimistic thoughts made her dour mood intensify to the point that anyone that would be near her would feel her sombreness.
Her bright blue eyes caught the sight of two amethysts posted the door to the hangar bay, chatting amongst each other and chortling about something. She growled lightly in a mixture of irritation towards them not taking their jobs seriously, and out of jealousy because of how gleeful they were. She and Pink used to socialise like that: laughing, smirking at one another, oh how pleasant their time was together.
She was stalling herself. She, a diamond, was finding it impossible to approach those amethysts because of her superiority complex. There never was a reason for her to engage in a conversation with simple-minded gems before. Now though… well the human advised her to do so. The human was all she had to listen to. It wants to help her get better so why should she not listen to it? What could it hope to gain by making her more miserable?
With that thought in mind the great regal figure approached the nattering amethysts. They continued to chat, completely oblivious to their matriarch that stood behind them. Blue Diamond waited for a few more seconds to see if they would notice her, but they continued to be totally ignorant of her. As loud as she could she cleared her throat.
Sharky laughed at the sound of a gem clearing their throat. "Geez was that good ol' Skinnys trying to sound all tough and buff like us?"
Curls snorted humorously and slapped her knee at her friend's comment. "Oh stars Skinnys keep up that growling and you'll frighten a peridot!"
"Are you saying that I am of little worth, amethyst…?" A low and menacing voice spoke softly from behind the amethysts.
An intense feeling of dread gripped at the two amethysts' gemstones. They quickly turned and saw Blue Diamond glaring down at them with her icy blue eyes. Immediately the two amethysts gave the diamond salute towards their superior.
"F-F-Forgive us, my Diamond! W-we mistook you f-for someone else!" The two purple coloured gems quickly apologised, feeling like meek creatures compared to their diamond.
"Clearly," Blue Diamond curtly remarked, her eyebrow raised to emphasise her deadpan expression. "I have been standing here longer than you may realize…"
Both the amethysts yelped and shot nervous glances at each other. They then went down on their knees to plead for forgiveness. "Please do not shatter us, my Diamond! We will never repeat our mistakes ever again!"
This was the perfect moment for the great and knowledgeable Blue Diamond to do a double take on the human's advice. Clearly the human has not spent enough time with amethysts considering it has only just arrived at the zoo. Perhaps the human has miscalculated? She could not blame the organic for a miscalculation, as it was only starting to learn the customs of gemkind.
But she could not turn back. She has already gathered the purple gems' attentions. It would seem like she would have to continue with the human's advice.
"You best to never repeat such mistakes again," Blue Diamond addressed, and the two guards stood up back on their feet.
"What is it you desire from us, my Diamond?" Curls asked, her voice louder than she would have wanted due to her anxieties.
With everything now back on course, Blue Diamond eased her icy glare under her hood at the incompetent guards. "I need you two to listen to my experiences I had with Pink Diamond."
Both guards blinked in puzzlement regarding the unusual order, but they quickly hid their bewildered expressions with the most solemn and devote expressions they could muster.
"Oh that doesn't sound so hard!" Sharky commented cheerfully, only for her glee to be cut short by being elbowed by Curls. Sharky cleared her throat and reverted to her serious stand. "I mean we will be honoured to hear your stories of Pink Diamond."
Blue Diamond hummed in a mixture of aggravation towards these amethysts' lack of composure, and in satisfaction regarding that they'll listen to her. She fingered the hem of her hood, for she tried to make sure it casted over her eyes so that the amethysts would not see their leader cry. With her hood hiding her eyes she then began her first story of Pink.
"My very first memory of Pink Diamond was when I first spend time with her," Blue Diamond started, her voice steady. "She was so full of energy that she was practically jumping around wherever I took her."
"In fact she was so excited that she accidently knocked one of the smaller scale statues of the Supreme Diamond." Blue Diamond continued, just remembering that, that incident had occurred.
Curls snorted and chuckled humorously to the point that her curly hair bounced against her back. Sharky tried with all her might to keep herself from smirking but all could see her toothy grin. Blue Diamond was startled by their reactions, and it was not due to anything related to rage or being offended. She was, dare say, pleasantly surprised by how open they were. Most of her subjects would simply acknowledge her comments with 'my word, my Diamond' and 'how truly wonderful, just like yourself my Diamond'. But these two amethysts could not contain themselves, which was showing their true colours and not the illusions that other subjects would masquerade to 'please' their diamond.
Curls recovered from her chuckles and rubbed her nose. "Wow I never thought a diamond could be such a klutz!" She said without realizing how blunt she came across.
Sharky gave an audible gulp at her friend's words. Curls then realized what she said and immediately covered her mouth in terror. They both eyed their diamond with unfathomable petrified trepidation, expecting to be poofed on the spot by her.
But the diamond did nothing. Actually that statement was not entirely true. She was chuckling. It was such a soft and light chuckle that many would have not heard it. It was like a whisper in the wind. It certainly startled the two amethysts, in which both glanced at each other as if to ask one another if they heard their usual sombre superior chuckle.
"Yes, Pink Diamond was… not exactly aware of her height and strength," Blue Diamond mentioned fondly, a ghost of a smile appearing underneath her hood.
"She was one to compliment everything she saw," the gem matriarch continued, her tone now beginning to sound happier as she spoke. "The very first thing she said to me was how elegant my cloak looks."
"She became so fascinated by my cloak the first time we met that she practically begged me if she could wear it throughout the day." Blue Diamond recalled, a light smile gracing her features.
"Well it does look really soft!" Sharky said with a light nervous chuckle, hoping that she did not offend her superior.
"Did you allow her to wear it, my Diamond?" Curls asked quickly to save her friend from any potential punishment.
The sovereign gem gave an affirmative hum to Curls' question. "I promised her I would allow her to wear it after I showed her around, and I did as I promised."
"How did she look?" Sharky inquired, genuinely curious about what the diamond had to say about Pink Diamond.
"Ridiculous, considering my cloak was too large for her," Blue Diamond chuckled faintly.
The two amethysts heard their superior's chuckles and shot goofy grins at her comment. It was so fascinating to learn that their diamond creator didn't appear so intimidating as they had imagined! None of the quartzes present on the zoo knew of their original diamond, Pink Diamond. The other gems on board the zoo belonged to the blue court, and only Holly met and spoke with Pink Diamond once or twice in her existence. So it was incredibly interesting to hear from a diamond who has known Pink Diamond for many years stories of her!
"Speaking of Pink Diamond being ridiculous, there was that time when she embarrassed Yellow Diamond," Blue Diamond remembered with a smile that now was exposed to the amethysts to see.
"She told Yellow Diamond that her hair looked like a beak of an animal…" To show the clueless quartzes what a beak was, Blue Diamond extended a hand that formed a beak and told the amethysts that a beak looked something like this. Their eyes lit up in vehement awe that creatures had such strange mouths.
"And she said it in a rather loud tone for all to hear in Yellow Diamond's court, much to the chagrin of Yellow Diamond," Blue Diamond explained and gave a chortle, her eyes sparkling from which the amethysts could see under the hood. "As a result Yellow Diamond chased after Pink Diamond until Pink stumbled into me and tried to hide under the hem of my cloak."
That last comment exploded a barrel of laughter from Sharky and Curls, who were clutching their stomachs to ease their intense laughs bursting forth from their stomachs. As they continued to be hysterical Blue Diamond began to chuckle, and then those chuckles turned to chortles, and finally those chortles transformed into laughs. It has been millenniums since the blue matriarch had laughed. To be hearing her melodic and gentle laughs after so long brought a sense of relief and joyful release.
"Oh I wish I could have seen that!" Sharky barked out through her laughs.
"Yeah but then we'd probably get shattered by one angry diamond!" Curls added through her dying chortles.
"You would have not been shattered, as too many gems witnessed the whole event," Blue Diamond informed, back to her solemn state. "But you would have been most likely scolded at."
We're used to being scolded at. Both amethysts thought simultaneously, with their minds reflecting to the terrifying image of Holly shouting at them.
Blue Diamond then stared up at the pink ceiling, her eyes sparkling in reminiscence and wonder. There was a small smile the crept up along her elongated face, a sad smile that reflected how she pondered about her wonderful times with Pink.
"I will never forget the first time Pink took me to Earth," Blue Diamond spoke wistfully, her attention still directed to the ceiling. "She showed me all the different landscapes of that planet, and she explained her deep fascination of it and its inhabitants."
Curls and Sharky glanced at each other, unsure whether their superior was feeling melancholy and how they should speak to her. Their monarch lowered her head and was now staring down at them with her forlorn blue eyes.
"I didn't see why she was so invested with that planet…" The regal gem paused, and then she lowered her head to stare at the ground. "But now… now I see why she found Earth a beautiful planet."
Now the two quartzes were panicking. What should they say or do to make their ruler feel better? They knew nothing about the Earth! If they said something wrong they could be poofed or shattered! What to do, what to do, what to do?
"At least you know now, and she'd be happy that you now share her interest!" Curls stated.
Sharky slapped her forehead at how stupid her friend's comment sounded. Well she was certainly going to be shattered for such a thoughtless and blunt comment!
Blue Diamond thought she could never be as surprised as the concept of a human relating to her grief, but these amethysts just added a new layer of shock to her. These gems that she had found irritating and humiliating to gemkind just a few moments ago have now expressed wisdom and genuine comments to her. Perhaps it had to do with their low rank, or because they spend their lives on the zoo but astonishingly it was… helping her.
"Yes, you are right," Blue Diamond acknowledged, her tone indicating that she was surprised by such a wise comment from a usually gormless soldier. "I thank you for your words of wisdom."
Curls gave some flattered giggles and she rubbed the back of her great mane of hair to hide her embarrassment. Sharky was too flabbergasted to even say anything. A diamond complimenting an amethyst? Wow maybe these diamonds were not like the menacing, stoic and strict rulers that Holly had made them out to be!
Well the monarch has told her three stories. In all honesty she never thought she would even be stable enough to tell one. But she has told them, and it wasn't as hard as she anticipated. These two amethysts certainly made telling these stories easier, as they were invested and fascinated by her stories. Perhaps the other amethysts and the jaspers were much like these two. Maybe she could speak to the others too. The human had informed her that it would be wise for her to speak to as many gems as possible. That settles it-when she locates other quartzes she will repeat her stories to them. Afterwards… well she'll need to hear what the human has to say.
"I shall leave you two to attend to your usual duties." Blue Diamond straightened herself up and ran her fingers through her loop-hair as she wondered whether to leave to Pink's chamber to meet up with her pearl or to speak with other quartzes.
She decided on the first option, but before she would head back to the chamber she ordered, "When you see Holly Blue Agate inform her that quartz soldiers are not to be surprised when I come to see them and that it is not because they are in trouble."
Curls and Sharky gave the diamond salute. "Are you going to tell them the stories of Pink Diamond that you told us, my diamond?" Sharky inquired.
Blue Diamond hummed affirmatively. Then without anything else to say the sovereign giant turned and sauntered away, leaving two incredibly stunned amethysts to discuss whether everything that happened, happened.