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Pink Morganite
A pink Morganite could be seen walking within a hallway, her light pink hair was like any other Morganite's hair in the fashion of a brush, but with it being tied at the base of her head and and the end of the strands where it ended up as a rolled up ball of hair to keep from touching the floor she walked on; the Gem's attire, like her most of her gem line, was that of a Kimono with shades of pink and flower design on it to accentuate who her Diamond owner is…or was in Pink Morganite's case.
The Gem's destination in mind was the formal gathering of the Council of nine, an amount of high class gems that was increasingly becoming difficult for the active members to pull the strings from behind the shadows of the expanding Gem Empire, ' Would have been twelve and more, if it were not for that blasted Rose Quartz.' Pink Morganite groused in her thoughts as she passed by several doors leading into different rooms for different purposes within the space gem station she was on.
The Morganite gem could count her lucky stars that she was still in the loop of what amounted to a shadow government of the Great Diamond Authority; while the Diamonds did in fact rule with their thumbs pressed down onto gem society, it was the council that pulled the strings to a certain extent to 'guide' gem-kind to the path of flawlessness, perfection, etc.
'Perfect my cracked rear end, don't they see that they might very well cause a fracture in gem society?' Pink Morganite thought to herself with a sour face, 'It's no wonder Rose Quartz happened.' She continued to think, 'If the Diamond's aren't careful, we'll end up with more than simple rebellions.'
As the Morganite gem passed by one of the doors, it opened up revealing it was one of the rooms for a galaxy warp; within the open doorway, a pink Sapphire stood before stepping out. "Morganite?" she spoke softly with her hands folded together in front of her.
Said Morganite ceased her walking, and turned to face her fellow court member of the Late Pink Diamond. "Huh, oh." Pink Morganite said with a cautious look, before realizing it was a fellow ally gem, she softly smiled in response and waited for the Pink Sapphire to catch up with her momentarily. "You're right on time…er, future vision?" She guessed.
The Pink Sapphire, in a variation of the average Sapphire gem, but with shades of pink and hair that covered her single eye.; the Gem tilted her head a bit, "No…and yes…" she responded with some humor to her tone, earning an eye roll from the Morganite, before the two of them walked side by side to the formal meeting of the council.
"That's what you always say when I ask about your future vision." Pink Morganite grumbled as she walked beside Pink Sapphire within the hallways of the council's space station, periodically, they would pass by a few windows to show them the outside of outer space, a gas giant could be seen in the background with several moons in the view as well.
Pink Sapphire turned her head a bit to look at the Morganite gem beside her as they walked, and frowned at her. "That's because the future is ever changing, unlike most sapphires of Blue Diamond's court, I must accept the fact that no future is concrete, thus, I can't accurately tell the future."
As silence fell between the two gems after Pink Sapphire said her words, Pink Morganite was the one to break the silence, "Is your vision still branching out, like you described it to be, ever since Yellow Diamond's Citrine gem came into existence?" she asked softly between her and Pink Sapphire.
Pink Sapphire's head tilted forward a bit, before she brought it back up to look at her fellow gem of Pink Diamond's court, "Yes. I do not know why, but it seems wherever that gem goes, she seems to carry with her the ever changing influx of the future." the Sapphire gem remark, before facing her head forward as they continued walking.
After so many centuries of keeping up on reports about the Citrine gem on the side, the Morganite gem of Pink Diamond's court finally decided to pop the question about the gem"...Does her future align with our investigations on our Diamond's shattering?" Pink Morganite finally asked in a conspiratorial tone as her eyes darted back and forth a bit in making sure no other gem was around. "She was on our Diamond's planet at the time, afterall, perhaps she might know something." Morganite whispered.
Pink Sapphire, after a few moments of silence, spoke with a rather devious smile. "Would you believe me, if I said that she's already been doing some investigations of her own?" she queried her fellow court gem.
The Morganite gem widened a bit, and as both of them passed another door, Pink Morganite grabbed Pink Sapphire by the shoulders and took her with her into the nearby room after opening the door and closed in behind her to speak to the Sapphire more privately, "WHAT!" she hissed out loud, thankful the entire room was mostly soundproof, the most any gem would hear on the outside of the room would be unintelligible mutterings.
With her hands still on Pink Sapphire's shoulders, Pink Morganite's expression was that of surprise and panic, "Why didn't you tell me this sooner?" she asked with a bewildered look afterwards.
With the grace to match her gem demeanor, Pink Sapphire gently grabbed the hands on her shoulders and pulled them off with no resistance on the Morganite gem's part. "You know as well as I, Morganite…" Sapphire began to say as she gently held Pink Morganite's arms, and pushed them back to the morganite gem's sides, before speaking once more. "That we must be careful in these trying times." she warned while bringing her hands up to part her hair and look at Morganite with her eye, to show that she was serious. "We can't know for sure who betrayed our Diamond, it could be as high up as the Diamonds…or even the council of nine themselves." Pink Sapphire uttered quietly the last part more darkly.
Pink Morganite brought her arm up to place her palm on her forehead in anguish. "Why else do you think I accepted the offer to be the moderator of their meetings?" she questioned with a sour look, as she dragged her palm down her face, and gave Pink Sapphire a look, "White Olivine offered, and I took it, there was no other way for us to get any closer to the real truth!"
Unlike the majority of gems from other courts of the Diamonds, Pink Diamond's court loved their diamond very much, adored her for her kind nature for the gems in her court; Sure, the gems of the other diamonds' courts loved their own diamonds to an extent, but Pink Diamond's personality and exuberant attitude towards her court of gem earned her a popular opinion amongst her gems.
That is why when word of Pink Diamond being shattered was propagated by the Diamond to have been shattered by her own Rose Quartz, unlike the other courts and gems of Yellow, Blue and White Diamond, Pink Diamond's court refused to believe the fact that Pink Diamond's own quartz gem would shatter her. It also didn't help that the propaganda given by the Diamonds about Rose Quartz was so different from court to court, as well as how the diamonds actually defeated Rose Quartz and her crystal gems seemed to vary depending on who you asked.
It all screamed suspicious, and Pink Diamond's court of gems refused to believe their Diamond would be so easily assassinated, or even hated for that matter. The way Pink Diamond treated her court and gems was so starkly different from the other Diamonds, it was like day and night. That is why the two gems currently were doing their best to uncover the truth about what really happened, and who betrayed their Diamond,
Back to the matter at hand, Sapphire offered a simple smile in response before responding, "Morganite, you were lucky enough to be offered the position, though that's not saying much since you did help our Diamond manage her court."
"But…" Pink Sapphire continued to speak as she paced over to stand beside her fellow court member of the late Pink Diamond, "It did help give you enough credence to get the position as a moderator, we can just be glad the council allowed me to be your consultant." she mused.
Morganite looked to the side away from Sapphire, "Yeah well…" she began to say, before looking back at Sapphire with a fixated look of determination in her eyes. "Being a Sapphire has its perks I suppose." she responded with a wry look on her face.
Sapphire curled her lip in amusement before letting her hands back down, and her hair bangs returned to covering her eyeball. "Now…" she began to say as she clasped her hands to her front, "What are we gonna discuss about the topic of Yellow Diamond's Citrine gem, and her private investigation into our Diamond's assassination?" she queried.
Pink Morganite crossed her arms while pocketing her hands into her kimono sleeves, "You tell me, what have you found out so far?" she asked.
The Sapphire gem turned her head a bit, "Not here…" she whispered as it seemed she was seeing something with her future vision, before reaching down and grabbing Morganite's hand to pull her with her out of the room. "Come, the meeting is soon, we can discuss the topic later in our Diamond's domain on homeworld where it's slightly safer" Pink Sapphire said softly as she allowed Morganite to take the lead and follow her to the council meeting.
Understanding Pink Sapphire's insistence to talk on the matter later, Pink Morganite led the way; just as they passed by the next door over, said door opened up with a chime. "You two." an unnatural melodic joyous voice spoke up.
Halting in their steps to turn and face who addressed them, both pink gems took note who it was. Standing as tall as a Jasper Gem and lithe as a pearl's body, was White Diamond's first white Olivine Gem, Forsterite. Wearing on the bridge of her nose, was a pair of small round eyeglasses with small illegible gem letters periodically popping up with numbers in them. The gem's face was that of keen fascination, and framing her face were two long gray hair bangs wrapped in gem gadgets of sorts, while the rest of her hair was wrapped on the back of her head into a swirled bun.
The Forsterite's attire was a white and gray bodysuit, with a buttoned up gray overcoat that draped over her shoulders. The White Forsterite Olivine gem opened her mouth to speak with an eerie happy demeanor, "Morganite, Sapphire, so good to see you." she spoke as she walked out of the doorway of the room she came out from, and stood beside Morganite in particular and looked down at her. Placing her chin on her palm, while placing her other palm beneath her elbow of the arm that had her palm beneath her chin.
"Looking quite adequate still, I see." Forsterite spoke with a thin smile and sparkling eyes, and leaned down while placing her hands on her hips to look Pink Morganite in the eyes, who looked back at her with an unsettled demeanor while placing her arm out to block her away from the Pink Sapphire behind her. "Hm…yes, quite." Forsterite continued to say while she lifted her small round eyeglasses up to frame her over her eyes better.
"Greetings…Forsterite." Pink Morganite spoke back, while she kept a cautious demeanor up, "How's the project on White Diamond's colony planet Boron?" She tried to steer the Forsterite's attention away from her and Pink Sapphire.
It worked, as Forsterite stood up with a demure smile, "Oh, quite fortuitous,very perfect and white!" she idly answered with an eerie look in her eyes as she looked down at Morganite and Sapphire, before spinning on the balls of her feet and heading off in the same direction that the two former gems were going in. Forsterite paused in her walking, and momentarily tilted her head sideways and over to look at Pink Morganite and Sapphire. "Coming?" she questioned the two with an inflection of eeriness, "The meeting is in five minutes." she warned the two.
Morganite looked behind her at Sapphire, before the two reluctantly followed behind the ancient gem of White Diamond's court.
Meeting chamber
What looked to be a wide circular room with rows of tables and chairs on elevated floors, from the entrance and exit of the room, came Forsterite then Pink Morganite not far behind her with Pink Sapphire trailing close behind her fellow Pink court member. While Forsterite made her way up the stairs to the elevated rows meant for the council members to sit at, Pink Morganite and Sapphire walked to the center of the room where a round desk and chair were with a gavel atop the desk.
While Pink Morganite did not rule over the other gems of the council, she was given strict orders by White Diamond's Sapphire that her duty was to keep the council member from getting too rowdy in any civil arguments. As the Pink Morganite gem approached her seat, she pulled the chair out with a soft dragging sound before sitting down at her position within the meeting, while Pink Sapphire stood behind her with her hands folded in front of her. As Morganite waited for chime within the room for the meeting to start, the pink gem looked up to see who else was attending the meeting.
Other than the Forsterite gem that arrived with her and Pink Sapphire, it seemed three others were able to make enough time in their schedule to be in the meeting on time. Forsterite could be seen sitting beside Yellow Diamond's Yellow Morganite, who looked bored as she leaned her cheek into her palm while her elbow rested on her table in front of her; Forsterite seemed rather adamant in talking with Yellow Morganite, on the nature of her progress with White's colonies and such, all the while the Morganite gem seemed to try and tune out the Forsterite's ramblings.
Elsewhere in the room, Pink Morganite could see Blue Demantoid fuming with herself by her lonesome for some reason that Morganite couldn't fathom yet, she figured some gem must have caught her ire or something. Finally the fourth gem that managed to be in the meeting, was White Sapphire; the sapphire gem sat by her lonesome as well, but for some reason, Pink Morganite sword she could see the White Sapphire's eye beneath her hair flicker over to Blue Demantoid, and would occasionally let slip an amused smile before going back to a simple demeanor of an average Sapphire.
The chime for the meeting to begin finally echoed in the room, prompting Pink Morganite to pick up her gavel and hammer it lightly into her table. "With that, we can begin the meeting." she started with saying, and tapped a button on her desk for a holoscreen to pop up above her table. "With those that are here, the first to speak up and address any problems, is…Blue Demantoid." Morganite cited off from the screen she read off from.
With a furious expression on her face, the Demantoid gem stood up and slammed her fists down on her table. "Oh, we have a problem alright! Yellow Diamond's Citrine Gem is still out there, making a mockery of gem society!" she shouted, only for Pink Morganite to stop outburst with a slam of her gavel.
"Blue Demantoid!" Pink Morganite yelled out with a harsh tone, "Please, restrain yourself, and calmly state your grievances, instead of acting like an overly violent Jasper!" Morganite hissed through her teeth.
"Shut up!" the blue Demantoid yelled back as she pointed her finger at the Pink Morganite at the center of the room, "I don't have the patience to listen to you!" she screeched, her voice uneven with anger, "You're beneath-"
"Ahem!" White Sapphire made herself heard as she stood up from her chair, and faced her head in the direction of Blue Demantoid, "Demantoid." she softly spoke, "Mind yourself, or would you rather meet the same fate as Blue Garnet, your predecessor?" she warned with a simple small smile.
At the mention of her predecessor, Blue Demantoid grumbled with a withering look down at Pink Morganite, before sitting back down on her chair. White Sapphire smiled eerily wide, " Good." she purred out, then sat back down as well.
'White Diamond's gems' smiles are always creepy.' Pink Morganite thought to herself, but didn't let her inner thoughts be known. "Right." Pink Morganite began to say as she once again gave the floor, so to speak, to Blue Demantoid. "Please voice your problems with the aforementioned Citrine gem, with a better attitude, than simply shouting your head off."
"Grrr." Blue Demantoid clenched fists in anger, and gritted her teeth, until she calmed herself to her best ability, "Centuries of gem society perfection! Going down the cracks with every new authority given to that Orange Quartz gem! I don't see why Yellow Diamond gives her so many leeways in her campaigns against rising rebellions."
From her position on her own table, Yellow Morganite sat up and leaned against her chair while crossing her legs under her long yellow kimono dress; She allowed herself an amused smile at Blue Demantoid's expense. "I don't see the problem with her recent changes, if it works, it works." she quips with a snark in her tone.
Blue Demantoid's eyes snapped in over in the aforementioned Morganite's direction, and gave her a seething look. "Shut it, Morganite! I don't want to hear it from Yellow Diamond's tasteless palanquin designer." she tried to insult the Morganite gem, only for her to sniff haughtily, and give her a smug look back.
"Says you. My Diamond enjoys the functions over the form of her palanquin." Yellow Morganite seemed to look like she was enjoying the fact that Blue Demantoid's insult simply slid off her like water.
Pink Morganite took that moment to hammer her gavel once more unto her table, "Demontoid, please refrain from insulting others during the meeting, if you must, do so after!" she ordered out with a look of warning in her eyes.
"Tch, whatever." Blue Demantoid responded back with a look of derision at Yellow Morganite, before facing forward at her desk. "As I was going to say, that Citrine gem needs to go, before anymore changes to gem society are made, and the Diamonds accept more ideas from that blasphemous gem!"
"Oh." Spoke up Forsterite with an amused grin, as she glanced in the Demantoids direction, "Like how your previous attempt worked?" she asked with a wide brimming eerie smile.
Blue Demantoid's expression glowered in Forsterite's direction, as she hunched over her table with her hands clenched, "It is obvious we need numbers to rid this stain! Surely the other council members will agree with me!" she reasoned.
"Except they aren't." White Sapphire spoke up softly with a simple smile, "do not assume other's opinions, Demantoid, less you lose face ever more." she warned while glancing in Blue Demantoid's direction.
On Pink Morganite's table, where her holoscreen was projecting info on the aforementioned Citrine Gem's location, it also showed a few other details on her next actions given to her by her Yellow Diamond. "Well council members." Pink Morganite spoke up in the silence that fell after White Sapphire spoke, "Commander Citrine is on Pink Diamond's garden moon, and going by the data shown before me, she was ordered to confiscate White Diamond's gems that she's relocating off from one of her planets."
As another period of silence fell within the council room, While Yellow Morganite seemed to be rather amused at the news, Blue Demantoid allowed herself a sinister smile as if she was plotting something; However, White Diamond's White Sapphire and Forsterite had more unsettling expressions of smiles. Pink Morganite could understand the former two, but the latter two seemed to share similar opinions.
"This is it! We can use this opportunity to have that cracked gem be shattered for invading White Diamond's planet!" Blue Demantoid shouted with manic glee, while slamming her clenched fists down onto her table.
"There's a problem with that." Pink Morganite spoke up with a cautious expression, as she read off from her holoscreen, "Since White Diamond is discarding various types of gems off from her planet, they are all essentially up for grabs."
"Your point?!" Blue Demantoid spat out with impatience in her tone.
Pink Morganite looked at the Demantoid with a wary look in her eyes, "Yellow Diamond gave her Citrine gem her full authority to act with impunity, she pretty much set her Citrine loose upon the world."
While Blue Demantoid seemed to be on the verge of an apoplectic episode, Yellow Morganite seemed more amused than ever as she covered her mouth to hide her wide brimming smile of amusement at Blue Demantoid's expense. It was White Sapphire that spoke up first after the news given.
"I say we watch how this plays out." She stood up with a simple smile, "A perfect opportunity to test White Diamond's new White Quartz gems on her planet."
"I concur!" Forsterite stood up while fixing her small round glasses over her eyes, she smiled demurely with an excited expression. "A positive testing ground for both sides."
"You two can't be serious!" Blue Demantoid stood up and protested, "you're giving that cracked Citrine gem more opportunities to grow her strength within Yellow Diamond's court! This is madness!" she screeched.
In a bid to anger the gem and amuse herself at the Demantoid's expense some more, Yellow Morganite stood up with a smug smile aimed in the aforementioned gem's direction. "I too, agree on this idea, let the two sides conflict, see how this plays out." She agreed with the two white Gems within the council room.
"Grrr." Blue Demantoid sat down with a look of smoldering anger directed at Yellow Morganite.
With the majority decision settled, Pink Morganite hammered her gavel while the rest of the council members sat back down. "Majority rules, we watch the events play out on planet Albus 01." she announced.
Citrine's Ship
From within the Bridge of her ship, Tanya watched as her other ships of her armada outside her ship's windows warp away to their destination, White's Diamond's planet Albus 01. Sitting in her chair with her legs crossed, and her elbow on the armest, Tanya leaned her head on her fist as she watched her attachment of gem ships continue to warp off to their destination.
The plan was simple, regardless how any gem looked at it; While 'Commander Citrine's' ship was still being repaired, the contingent amount of her forces, outside her hand ship, would strike first upon the planet and grab as many 'discarded' gems as they could until their commander could arrive as well on her ship.
Tanya idly glanced at the nearby table placed beside her with the Spinel gem on it, rather than bubble said gem, she needed the Spinel gem able to reform and help her figure out her ongoing case on Pink Diamond. Sure, she could use the memory extractor, but she usually uses it on rebels and unwilling prisoners. Suffice to say, Tanya doubted she needed to force the answers she needed out of Pink Diamond's Spinel gem.
The only problem however, is the state of how Spinel broke down into a psychotic mess of depression and denial when Yellow Diamond told her the news of Pink Diamond's shattering by Rose Quartz. It'd take some time for the Spinel gem to finally cope with the loss of her Diamond, 'I just hope she won't be so violent when she reforms from out of her gem.' Tanya thought to herself.
