I won . I thought it was over. I died a natural death after the sum of it all, what I can't deny to expect, was for Being X to confront me once more; however when he confronted me as I lay in my bed and breathing my last passing breath, he spouted how he washed his hands of me and our little spat. I'd say deal instead of spat, but I never signed anything or agreed to his little test against me and surviving in this second life of mine. With the infuriating tone I've known to associate Being X with, he said something about throwing my soul to the winds of luck for someone else to deal with.

I don't know if Being X was being literal, hyperbolic, or simply throwing a hissy fit with me winning his little test against me, but all I remember next was pitch black and the feeling of floating after I let out my last breath of life. Unlike the time between my first and second life, in what felt like an instantaneous moment from being hit by a train, and waking up as a baby girl in my second life, the time spent till my third life felt long and short' it was a surreal experience when you don't feel any part of your body, I was simply consciousness drifting in the dark to who knows where. I couldn't see anything, I simply felt weightless and felt myself drifting.

Not knowing how long I would spend my time in nothing, as nothing, or at the very least, a supposed soul wandering in some vast space of nothing of sorts, I tried to look around, or what equated to the equivalent of looking around as a disembodied soul. The moment I saw the mere speck of light, I tried my hardest to maneuver myself towards the source of light. Whatever I was doing to move my disembodied soul to the source of light, it worked; perhaps I was simply willing my soul to swim to the light, all I knew, I wanted to escape the vast expanse of darkness and be free of being a disembodied soul.

I did not want to stick around and experience the boundless nothing that surrounded me.

The closer I 'swam' to the sort of light, the more color I could see; the most prominent color that was visible was yellow, and not just yellow itself, I was 'swimming' towards a spectrum of yellow. I kept maneuvering my disembodied soul towards the yellow light, and the closer I was, the more prominent I saw the sight of yellow electrical volts spinning within a vortex. Before I knew it, I felt the feeling of being pulled towards the yellow light with yellow lightning bounding around it and dancing outwards into the vast expanse of nothingness.

What I didn't expect next…then again…who can in my situation…I found myself feeling cramped and feeling life returning to me. I felt an overwhelming amount of life return to me, as if a large swathe of life energy was thrust upon me, and invigorated my mind to an inimaginable level. I felt small, then I felt my body form, followed by my limbs and head. Like I said before, it was a surreal experience, and I'll never forget the moment I finally burst out from my confines, in a rather explosive manner…to say the least.

As I…guess the right word is…ejected, myself from out of my confines, my body felt like it could dance a thousand hours without end, I felt the boundless energy at my fingertips; all around me, as my vision came back to me, I witnessed the fertile ground on whatever alien planet I was on become dead. It was later I found out that every gem pretty much drains the life energy in their given location and spot to energize their new life so to speak. I suppose the nigh immortality and power has to come from somewhere for a gem, but for me, I witnessed I was the only one in sight with an enormous amount of dead life around me. I may not be the biggest life conservationist, but surely there needs to be a less…violent and deadly way for a gem to be made…

As I stumbled a bit forward, and did my best to contain the unbridled power that I beheld at my fingertips, for goodness sake, I swore I saw small yellow sparks light up between my fingertips; While I took every step forward cautiously, and tried my best to get reacquainted with the feeling of having youthful legs once more, I didn't focus in front of me until it was too late and fell face first into a massive hand.

The next words I heard were 'perfect' and 'easy now'. My hearing was still a bit off, seeing as how I had just come back from the dead, and getting used to having a body again. As I sat on my knees within the massive hand that began to pick me up, I looked up with a no doubt speechless face. Right before me was a massive woman, she was Yellow in different shades of the color, I couldn't help but gape at what was before me.

Apparently the woman took my staring as a compliment, seeing as how I found out later that most gems after their emergence, look up to their diamond's with reverence. She must have mistook my staring as being in awe. At least I had that going for me, as first impressions…who else couldn't help but stare up at a massive woman for the first time?

An early passage from commander Citrine's private diary.


Planet D39u23ch4ff of StarSector Y3110w

Within a spherical hexagonal sphere observatory atop a tall cylindrical spire, all in the matte color of shades of yellow, small gem-like drone video-cameras were flying around until an opening at the top slid open, allowing them to fly out and tend to their programmed duties outside of the observatory. Sitting within a large facet carved chair, was Yellow Diamond, typing away at her personal terminal that was connected to the nearby Kindergarten in the works nearby.

Yellow had a small satisfied smile on her face as she placed a few more inputs into the keyboard on her terminal, and finished the personal project of hers that had been incubating within the nearby cliffside of the kindergarten. "And…done." She clapped her hands together to mark her project finished, and stood up from her chair to exit out of her observatory. As she made her way to the exit portal that led directly down and next to the kindergarten, she passed by her personal Pearl. "Come Pearl." She simply instructed as she stood within the teleporter.

With her hands folded behind her back, Yellow Pearl preened at being addressed and stood on her tiptoes. "Yes, my diamond!" she responded back, before hurrying to catch up and stand behind her diamond and wait for the teleporter to take them down to the nearby kindergarten.

Without another word, the both of them teleported in a shimmering light, before ending up just outside the edge of the kindergarten, where the land was being sucked dry by kindergarten for the express purpose of creating Yellow diamond's personal pet project. A means to lighten her load of managing her colonies and armadas. Within the face of the nearby cliffside in sight, Yellow Diamond and her Pearl bore witness to yellow static dancing along the cliffside walls, and converge to a single point where Yellow Diamond had been incubating her personal 'Citrine' gem.

Unlike most other gems, Yellow used her own essence to create her new 'Citrine', she wanted to create the best Citrine gem, and what better method than to use her own essence? As Yellow Diamond stood just outside the range of the thunderous spark being emitted from the earthen cliff face where her new gem was about to emerge, she smiled with confidence as she witnessed a crack form, signifying her Citrine gem was finally emerging from her long incubation.

Nearby, Yellow Pearl was unsure of herself, she wanted to say something, but it would have been out of line for her to ask if everything was going to her diamond's plan. The emerging gem was letting off an enormous amount of energy, she had her dataslate out to measure the data, nothing was abnormal so far…that is to say, within her diamond's set parameters that she predetermined that'd be used and released from the emergence of the new Citrine gem.

Yellow Pearl's musings were soon interrupted as the new gem emerged in an explosive yellow static eruption; Yellow Pearl was grateful that they were out of range of the explosion, but her worries were soon founded when her diamond began marching off towards her new Citrine gem with a delighted smile. She wanted to tell her Diamond to be careful, but then she reminded herself who she was serving.

Back with Yellow Diamond, she grew satisfied with herself of a job well done, "Perfect!" she said as she bent a knee and brought her hand down to the stumbling Citrine gem of hers, she watched with mirth as her personally made gem plopped face first into the palm of her hand; "Easy now." Yellow Diamond calmly said to her pet project of a gem, and lifted her hand while standing back up.

Lifting her personal Citrine of hers to eye level, Yellow diamond cracked a proud smile as her Citrine gem groggily looked up at her with a look of awe in her face. "Well now, You shaped up quite well to my specifications." She mused as her Citrine's body occasionally let off residual yellow static. "Hmm…energy output is good." Yellow mused with a smirk as she noted her personally made gem's body was calming down from its emergence. "Yes. You'll do just fine!" She remarked with a small chuckle as her Citrine gem looked back at her with curious expression.