okay first off this chapter is going to have the perspectives change between Obsidian and Steven. I know its a little weird but I still think that its for a better experience. If you don't like it I'm sorry. Any way back to the story.
I paced on the beach "I have to have something I can do, I cant lose them like..." I shook my head. Then it popped in my mind "The earpiece!" I said as I dug in my pocket for one. I shoved it in my ear and turned it on. "Call nearest earpiece" I told it. "voice recognized, calling earpiece located in low earth atmosphere" I said then it made a ringing sound as it called.
Steven's point of view
"ugh why does my head hurt?" I said waking up on the floor. I looked around to see myself in what seemed to be a jail cell. "Amethyst? Pearl?" then I remembered what happened. "Garnet!" I said to myself worrying what happened to her. "Vvvv...vvvvv...vvvv" a sound was coming from my pocket. "The earpiece!" I whispered to myself in amazement. I pressed a button in it and put it in my ear "Steven?" Obsidian asked from the other side. "Yeah" I answered. "Oh thank the stars. Are you hurt? Did they do anything to you?" he asked. "Well Jasper headbutted me in the eye and knocked me out so I don't know if the did anything to me while I was sleeping" I answered feeling my black-eye. "I see, so where are you in the ship?" he asked me. "I'm in jail cell I think, but there aren't any bars. Instead there's a yellow wall but I can see through it" I replied staring at the strange yellow wall. "Well your right, that is a jail cell. But..." he trailed off. "But what?" I wondered. "Well Steven it that yellow cell wall was only made for gems not humans" he explained. "Meaning what?" I inquired. "It might be risky but you could possibly walk through it" he concluded. "Really?" I walked to it and put my hand on it. "eww" I said watching yellow lines going in my arm. "cool!" I said walking through it. "I'm out!" I said feeling victorious.
"good, now we need to find the others" he replied. "Right" I said back. I started to walk down the corridor. After passing two cells I found a gem. It's skin was a dark red and its hair was in a squarish shape "hey, are you okay" I asked it. I startled it and it got mad and slammed its fist in the wall shaking the room "great! This is just perfect!" it said sounding feminine. "Uhh do you need any help?" I asked. "No! I mean don't look at me! Just go away" she yelled at me before going into a fetal position. "Wait, Steven who are you talking to?" Obsidian asked from the line. "I found a gem in a cell close to mine" I answered. "Ask its name" he told me. "whats your name?" I asked complying with his request. "ruby" she answered. "Let her out" Obsidian said abruptly. "Okay if you say so" I answered then I looked at her. "Look I'm gonna get you out so come to the door" I said motioning to her to come closer. She walked up to the wall " how did you get out?" she asked. "Like this" I answered waling closer to the field. "no,no,no its-" she stopped as she saw me stick my hand in and used my arm as a shield of sorts so she could walk through. "Here lets go" I said shaking from the effects from the field. She dashed through and started to run away and I ran after her. As we were running I heard singing echoing through the corridors "what is that?" I asked myself as I tried to catch up to ruby. "Hey my name is Steven by the way" I said as I finally caught up. "Quiet, I...cant...see" she said holding her head. She started to run again but this time I kept up "how many gem are here?" I asked her. "don't know, don't care" she answered simply. Suddenly she stopped "she stopped singing" she said to herself sounding like she was losing hope. "Sapphire!" she shouted. I walked up to the window we stopped at "whoa" I said amazed at the sight. I noticed ruby running down a corridor so I followed. We ended up at a cell with a gem in it. Ruby gasped but then sounded disappointed "oh its just you" "Lapis!" I exclaimed. She turned "Lapis I can get you out" I told her as I walked closer to the field. "Stop!" she shouted. "Its okay I can-" she cut me off. "No I don't want your help. Things are bad enough as it is. I've already made too much trouble, once we get back to home-world they're going to decide what to do with us" she explained. "Steven who are you talking to now?" Obsidian asked through the piece. "Its Lapis, she says she doesn't want to leave the cell" I answered. Obsidian went silent for a minute "give the earpieces to her. I'll see if I can talk some sense into her" Obsidian requested. I came closer once again to the field "i thought I told you to stop!" she shouted at me. I walked though "here" I said holding out the earpiece. "someone wants to talk with you" I finished. She reluctantly took it and put it in her ear.
Obsidian's point of view
"Who is this" she asked. I hesitated to speak, I mean what would I say? "its me" I stated simply. "Me who?" she asked now sounding annoyed. "Umm... Obsidian" I said slowly. She went silent for a few seconds then I heard her start to cry "what? That's not possible! He died thousands of years ago when I was younger" she shouted in confusion. No I didn't, that was just what they wanted you to think! I'm still alive and well" I replied. "No it cant be. Tell something only he would know" she demanded. "How did we first meet?" she asked abruptly. "You came walking towards the orphanage and I confronted you at the base of the hill" I answered rolling my eyes. "Of all the more personal questions she could of asked she asks that?" I thought to myself. "You... really are... him" she struggled to say as she cried. "Okay that's enough Lapis! We're wasting to much time! You need to go with Steven and escape" I told her. "Okay... I...will" she said trying to stop crying.
Back to Steven
"are you okay?" I asked her as I took back the earpiece and replaced it in my ear. "Yeah I'm fine, lets go" she said wiping her tears. I let her out the same way I let out ruby but when we looked down the corridor she was no where to be found. We heard the singing again and started to follow it "I think we're getting closer" I told Lapis as we ran. We kept running until we heard a door open " get back!" I whispered to Lapis as I forced her against the wall. "we cant leave yet! The whole point of coming here was to check on the cluster!" Peridot whined to Jasper. Jasper then punched the wall next to a cell where the singing seemed to be coming from. "STOP SINGING!" she shouted making Peridot look uneasy. "Listen. I don't care about your research, Rose quartz takes priority! Now get back to the bridge and set a course for home world!" Jasper said intimidatingly pointing at the smaller gem. Peridot looking scared walked the other way back down the corridor they came. "Why does she have to be a jerk to me all the time?" she said as she passed us by and entered the other door. I peeked around the corner to see if the coast was clear. Then I walked towards the cell with the gem who was singing. She was a deep blue with hair covering her eyes and she was wearing a dress. "are you sapphire?" I asked her. "you escaped!" she exclaimed. I then put my hand through the field "of course" she said before I let her out. "Thank you Steven" she said calmly. "Your welcome" I said with a smile. "Sapphire!" we heard someone shout. "Come on you two!" she said grabbing me and Lapis's hand "wha-" I was cut short as we dashed at high speed through the ship. We stopped at a open room where we found ruby on the other end "Ruby!" sapphire shouted. They ran to each other and hugged "did they hurt you?" ruby asked her. "No,no I'm fine. Did they hurt you?" she asked back. "Who cares?" ruby replied. "I do!" sapphire answered before she kissed the red gem. Ruby then twirled sapphire in the air with both of them giggling until a light flashed and Garnet landed laughing "Steven thank you!" she exclaimed. "Garnet!" I said surprised. "Your a fusion?" I then asked. "Oh, I'm sorry we didn't want you meeting us here like this" she explained. "Well did I make a good first impression?" I asked. "Oh Steven, we already love you" she said caressing my face. "Where is she?" we heard Jasper shouting from somewhere close. "This is good and all but we need to get away before Jasper comes" Lapis pointed out. "Steven find the others and get to the control bridge!" Garnet told me. "But I don know where they are!" I shouted. She then kissed my forehead and I could see what I had to do to get to them "future vision" I whispered. "Are you going to be fine on your own?" Lapis asked. "Its okay, I'm never alone" she replied. We ran out of the room before Jasper came and I followed the route that Garnet gave me. After a few minutes we found Amethyst and Pearl moping in they're cells. I let them out and we made for the control bridge. While we ran there we heard loud crashes and explosions in the ship coming from where Garnet was fighting Jasper. We finally made it to the bridge and opened the door. Peridot heard us and turned around "how did you get out?" she asked shouting. She grabbed a destabilizer and charged at us. I caught it in my hands and held on to it absorbing the electric charge as Amethyst wrapped her up in her whip. "don't touch that! You clogs don't know what your doing!" Peridot pleaded. "You got this Pearl!" Amethyst shouted to give encouragement. "Okay ship turn us around" she said to herself. "Steven, I don't think you guys are going to be able to achieve that" Obsidian said through the earpiece. "What do you mean?" I asked. "From here it looks like the ship is suffering to much hull damage. I surprises me that its still in the air" he answered. Then the whole ship shook and we lost balance. I watched Peridot hit her gem against the ground to form an escape pod and transported away "Obsidian, Peridot got away!" I said sadly. "Not quite, it looks like she had engine failure and she's now in free fall with the ship" he explained. Suddenly Garnet came bursting through the door "this ship is going down" she shouted. "Lapis come on we need to stay close together so I can activate my bubble and protect everyone!" I shouted motioning for her to get closer.
Back to Obsidian
"maybe I should get out of the way" I said to myself as I saw the ship barreling towards the earth. "Yup, sound like a plan" I said sprinting out of the way of what I predicted was the point of impact. I crashed the cliff with a loud impact which then resulted in a huge explosion. I found lion next to me behind the cover I took to escape the blast "we need to find Steven, can you help me?" I asked the animal. He growled as if to say yes. He ran to the wreckage with me following him until he stopped and turned towards a pile of metal "here?" I asked him. He growled again. I gripped the metal and ripped it off of the part of the hull it was still attached to. I found a giant pinkish ball with Steven, Amethyst, Pearl, Garnet, and...Lapis. I turned away when I saw her "are you all okay?" I asked them as I knelt to inspect Steven's eye. "yeah" the all answered. "so Jasper did this to you" I asked touching it to see how sore it was. "Ouch! Yeah she did" he answered right before we heard a some metal clanging. "Stay down and be careful. I'm going to see what that was" I told them as I got up. "Obsidian wait!" Lapis shouted. "Not right now Lapis, you all are still in danger" I said to her as I walked away. I went around the corner to check where the source of the noise was. Walked along the beach searching the wreckage for signs of life until I saw a green glow. "I wonder" I said to myself. I slowly started to walk to it, hearing loud banging and thrashing as I got closer. When I got there however it stopped moving and the light started to slowly fade. I gripped the wreckage that was on top of it and pulled it as hard as I could "come...on!" I thought to myself. Finally I ripped it off and it made a huge crashing sound that reverberated along the beach. I looked back at the source of the light to find Peridot's escape pod and her inside it looking severely injured. When she saw me she snapped to her senses "Jasper!?" she shouted out of the pod. She tried to move but she couldn't move because some wreckage pinned her inside the pod. I heard some metal clanging somewhere behind me and saw a huge figure rise onto its legs "oh great" I said to myself. "Jasper!" Peridot shouted. The figure turned our way and limped in my direction "thank the stars" she said in relief, however when the figure got close enough to see me it stopped. "You!" she said pointing at me. "Who are you?" she asked with her colossal voice. "I am no one you need to know, just the one that's going to defeat you" I replied calmly. She walked closer and laughed "just you?" she was taller than me by about a foot and she had more muscle than me as well. "Jasper! get me out of here before he kills me!" Peridot shouted from behind me. "I don't think so greenie" Jasper replied. "what! Why!?" Peridot now sounding more afraid. "There are many versions of you that are a thousand time more advanced. Me on the other hand have very few others of my type so I'm just more important" Jasper finished. I turned to Peridot and saw all hope drain from her eyes and she slowly started to go into a state of apathy.
"Well now that has been dealt with we can get back to our conversation" she said getting into a fighting stance. I was furious. Not only did she hurt Steven, she willingly left her comrade to die at the hands of the enemy. I walked closer to her but I didn't draw my blade. I wanted to kill her with my bare hands. "No weapon? Your just like Lapis. WEAK" she stated with a smile not taking out her weapon either. She then initiated by charging at me with full speed. I dodged however I was amazed at her quickness despite her size. I turned around and saw her coming around with the same attack. I looked for an opening in her attack and found one. She came blazing at me again but this time I ducked under her and uppercut her in the stomach. She staggered backward holding her stomach "how did you?" was all she could saw before I spin kicked her in the face and she fell down. She stood up and summoned her helm realizing her mistake "its over now. I'm done playing with you" she said as she got up. "That's good, because a wasn't playing in the first place" I said back withholding my anger from my voice. She then spin dashed at me with a lot more speed than the attack before. I barely dodged it but she wasn't done, she came back with the same speed and hit me in the back. I went flying into a boulder on the beach. I fell off and slowly got to my feet I looked up and saw her coming again with the same attack. I dodged barely once again and hid as soon as I could. "I'm fighting an enemy with more strength and a high durability so what do I do?" I asked myself. I got up and ran to some wreckage for cover then it came to me " the wreckage!" I thought to myself. It looks like she needs an open space for her attacks so if I stay within the wreckage it will make it difficult. "There you are!" Jasper said from on top of the place I was using for cover. She jumped down making the ground shake as she hit the sand "no more running. I thought you said you were going to defeat me?" she asked with a smile. She started up her dash attack and I smiled. "You fell right into my trap" I whispered to myself. She dashed at me and I dodged once again but this time she dashed right in to some metal parts of the ship. She rose up slowly holding her arm and looking dazed. I took the chance and started a barrage of attacks on her. I kicked her in the face as hard as I could, then I punched her in the stomach, finally I grabbed her arm. She looked at me in anger "What are you doing?" she asked but it then turned to fear as I put my foot on her elbow.
I slowly applied pressure to it causing her to feel extreme amounts of pain. Eventually I put enough pressure on it and it made a loud SNAP sound and Jasper wailed in pain. She fell to the ground shrieking and holding her arm. I put my arms under hers and started to drag her back on to the open beach where we started and she flailed along the way where there were some pieces of metal and wreckage. "Leave me alone!" she cried. I didn't reply to her and we stopped. The others came around the corner from where they were hiding "Obsidian!" Steven shouted as he ran closer. "stop its still dangerous!" I yelled back and he stopped dead in his tracks. "Obsidian?" Jasper asked herself. Her eyes then widened as she realized who I was "Obsidian!? You mean that Obsidian?!" she was in even more in fear of me now as I turned to her. I didn't reply and I brought her up to her knees. As soon as I did she tried to headbutt me but I caught it in my hand, she seemed to have lost her energy in our fight. I removed it from her head "what are you-" she stopped because I hit her upside the head with it. Then I threw it away and it dissipated, then I grabbed her shoulder tight and she raised her face. I punched her hard in the jaw "that's for hurting Steven!" punch "that's for splitting Garnet!" punch "that's for imprisoning Lapis!" punch "that's for attacking earth!" punch "and that's for abandoning your own comrade on purpose!" then I proceeded to punch her non stop for a few minutes. Then I stopped and looked at her disfigured face looking up at me "Go ahead. finish it" she spat out. I raised my fist up high and I was about come down when I felt a hand on my arm. I stopped and looked over my shoulder to find Lapis there pulling on my arm "Lapis don't interfere!" I shouted. "You need to stop Obsidian" she said calmly. "Why? After all she's done she deserves this" I asked still in a rage. "But if you do this you'll become no better than them! You'll become..." she pleaded before she started to cry. I looked back at Jasper and started in to her eyes full of fear, fear of death...fear of me. I turned to the others to see they also had the same look in their eyes that look of fear, then I looked at Steven. I could see the utter mortification on his face. I stood there for a moment and I was shaking, not because I was afraid but because I was...happy."What am I turning into?" I asked myself. I threw Jasper on to the ground and staggered backward. Lapis caught me and helped me stay standing "are you alright?" she asked. I stood up on my own and looked at her "I'm fine" I replied as I turned to walk away and she came with. "coward" Jasper said still lying on the ground. I tuned back to face her "you're beaten. so be quiet" I shouted back. I turned away once more and started to walk "I think I'm going to need to get patched up" I said holding my stomach. Lapis turned her head and smiled "Its fine I can help-" she stopped and her eyes widened. I looked down and a rod was protruding from my chest "when did..." I fell to one knee. "You should have killed me when you had the chance" Jasper said sounding triumphant. "Now your going to die and so are your friends" she said with a smirk. I could feel my energy draining from my body, I needed to act quickly before I disappear. Jasper looked up at the others as if to taunt them to come save me. I took the chance, I summoned my weapon and shoved it through her chest. She looked down at me in surprise "now we go together" I said before we both reverted back into our gems in a cloud of smoke.
I liked this chapter, and yes I know it got maybe a little...violent, but I think it was done well. I'm glad that you guys have stayed with me this long (even if some of you aren't the nicest).although I think I'm pretty late at this but I just watched both seasons of Tokyo ghoul! I have to say it was a little heart wrenching but I thoroughly enjoyed it. if you have any suggestions of anime you like and think I should watch please tell me! I'm finding it hard to find good anime so please help. Remember if you have some advice or some criticism about the story please don't hesitate to comment. Thanks in advance and see ya next time.
-Joe