Homeworld, Yellow Palace


Tanya's pov

Walking through the hallways of my Diamond's palace, the walls, floors and ceiling were all in the shades of Yellow; it's been well over a century since I've been back on homeworld and it's still the same as always…well, other than the fact of the now empty hallways that were once lined with sentient walls, I had put in enough requests of appropriating those gems to allocate them from out of their unnecessary stations and place them elsewhere.

Quite honestly, I saw no purpose for employees to stand around and do nothing, and the gems that were made to stand around and do nothing while the Diamond Authority was dealing with resource issues was quite absurd. So while I had the time a century or so ago, I made sure to make a very worded argument of getting those gems out from their monotonous stations, and place them elsewhere that was more productive to the Empire on the whole.

My submitted argument apparently did quite well from what I heard a few decades after I wrote the message to Yellow Diamond, as it apparently took Yellow Diamond and her powers to reprogram the gems from out of their states, and into more appropriate bodies before putting them to work on one of her colony worlds; so I suppose it all worked out all in the end, but now the hallways were lined every few corners with Quartz soldiers standing at attention with weapons in hand. What was this, the equivalent of Buckingham palace?

'I suppose it's better than what it was before, the sheer amount of gems forced to be walls was absurd, why put them in that position when you could allocate them to a better purpose than wasting away as wall decor?' I continued to walk behind my Diamond as we both strided through the hallways of her Yellow Palace.

While Yellow Diamond marched ahead of me with her arms folded behind her back, her strides were longer compared to mine which meant I had to walk faster to keep in step with her as she led the way to wherever she wanted to take me and discuss whatever was on her long list of things to do or whichever it was that is important; Knowing her, it was more than likely a very lengthy discussion on my progress over the past century.

As I followed after my Diamond, we both eventually made it to the end of one of the hallways we walked through; the yellow doors opened up to show various other gems already present within the room and apparently waiting while sitting on hexagonal raised seats situated in rows with a pathway in the middle for Yellow Diamond's size to easily walk through. The various gems that were sitting, were in the midst of making small chatter amongst themselves, until Yellow Diamond stepped through the doorway.

The present audience of gems silenced up and stood while giving the Diamond Salute to their Diamond, "My Diamond!" a cacophony of voices rang out.

Yellow Diamond continued to walk into the room while I followed close behind her, "Pick a seat and sit, Citrine, the centennial review of my court will begin soon." she ordered briskly without turning to look at me, as she continued to walk in and head towards the back end of the room where there was another doorway that she headed towards and entered through once it opened up for her.

Centennial court review huh? I suppose this might be analogous to a corporate yearly review of budgets and assets, only with how long lived gems and busy the empire is, the data is compiled over a century before finally a conference is made to go over who has been slacking and who has not. I do not believe I have nothing to fear, Yellow Diamond has been sending me every which way across the stars to settle matters, and each and every time I made sure to finish them all up in a timely manner.

Taking in the scene before me, I noticed quite a variety of gems were present within the room, from a Yellow Sapphire gem in one of the front row seats to what looked like a fire Opal in the back rows of the seats, there were at least ten or more different types of gems; just as I was about to take an empty seat next to a Zircon who gave me a nervous look once we traded glances at each other, the entrance doors behind me opened back up, prompting my attention to see who it was arriving late…ish? Yellow Diamond hadn't started yet so I suppose whoever was arriving was aware of how close they might have made it late to the court review.

Turning around a bit to glance over my shoulder, I watched as three more gems entered through the doorway, a Morganite, a Beryll, and an Aquamarine, all of which were of course yellow in their color makeup; The Yellow Aquamarine gave me one glance before sneering at me and making her way off to find a seat, 'I suppose she must be one of the few gems of Yellow Diamond Court that don't approve of my ideas I've been submitting forward.' oh well, it's not like I'm out to earn the approval of every gem of my Diamond's court, I'm in this to try and get our resource problem under control, not gain favor with the entire court or even race of gems.

If they have a problem with my solutions, they can try and think up something better, otherwise, they can sit on a destabilizer and get poofed for all I care; Contribute to solving the problem or get out of the way has been my motto for the past centuries, and so far it's gained me enough favor from Yellow Diamond, or at least, I'd like think so with all the ideas she has put into effect that I've submitted to her throughout the centuries.

The other two gems however gave me vastly different expressions compared to the contempt I received from the Yellow Aquamarine, the Morganite and Beryll gems seem to have excited expressions as they both made their way over to me. The Golden Beryl gem was the first to reach me and reached out to grab and hold my hand in her own hands, "I must say, it's a pleasure to finally meet you in person!" she gushed with a calm but happy expression, before letting me retract my hand out from her grasp.

Giving the Yellow Beryl gem an odd look and raised eyebrow, "...The pleasure is all mine?" I responded back as I looked over at the Morganite who finally reached me and looked up from her diminutive stature, I almost could help but notice the kimono she wore but refrained from commenting on it for now.

The Yellow Morganite lifted her arm and covered her mouth with the back facing her mouth, her cheeks lifted from a smile she was making, "I must say, you make a more imposing figure than shown in the hologram videos." she remarked in a demure and sly way.

Hologram videos? I narrowed my eyes down at the gem, "I assume you must have had the chance of seeing my communications with Yellow Diamond from time to time, while working on her palanquin, or at least, that's what your purpose should be, correct?" I prodded the gem for information.

"Amongst other things of the like." Morganite smirked behind her hand, while looking slyly to the side with a mischievous look in her eyes, "I do after all design and redesign her palace to her whims and needs, I take pride in my work!" she answered.

"Hm." I crossed my arms and palmed my chin as I looked down at her, "So the design involving sentient walls were your ideas?" I asked, "I'm surprised you're this cordial after Yellow Diamond took up my idea of reallocating those gems for other purposes."

Yellow Morganite let out a chortle from her throat, and looked back up at me, "Oh please, that was a design I made five thousand years ago, and I hate seeing my old work, so it was a bit refreshing when our Diamond had me work on new designs for the palace." she remarked with an exceptional shine to her eyes as she looked up at me, "If it weren't for your proposals, I'd be stuck with little to no work other than updating her palanquin from time to time."

So she's thanking me for putting a workload on her? Well, I suppose when you have had such a lifestyle and an eternal life, life would get boring if you had nothing to do.

"Anyways." Yellow Beryl began to say as she gestured towards three open and available seats in the middle front row of the various rows of seats that were present in the room, "The meeting should begin soon, it'd be best to sit and await our diamond!" she remarked in a cheerful manner, before leading the way.

Quite the amiable formality that the two had towards me, so suppose it couldn't hurt to sit beside two gems that were more positive towards me; as I followed after Beryl with Morganite following behind me to sit down at the available hexagonal raise seats, the doors that Yellow Diamond entered and left through opened back up with Yellow Diamond herself exiting out what seemed to be a private office room of her own before the doors shut behind her.

As Yellow Diamond strided forward with a few dataslates under her arm and one in her other hand, her eyes glanced up from whatever she was reading on the dataslate in her hand and towards my way and seemed to pick up on who I was just now sitting down with, "hm, good, you three have gotten to know each other already, it saves me the time of introducing you to each other." she commented candidly as she walked towards a rising podium that lifted out from the center of the floor.

As I sat between Morganite to my left and Beryl to my right, I glanced between the two as both glanced back at me with knowing glances and smiles, I'll have to ask them both what she meant.

Right as Yellow Diamond placed the dataslates on the podium, a soft boom echoed throughout the whole palace and room, before a red aura wave washed throughout the room. While a few gems fell off their seats with force angry expressions, others were able to stay on their seats but hunched forward with their own expressions of ire; I did my best to unclench my teeth from whatever force was causing me to feel such an emotion out of nowhere.

"Blue!" Yellow Diamond gritted out as I looked up after forcing down some of the forced emotion that was thrusted upon me, before the aura collapsed and dissipated away. I watched as my Diamond stormed out of the room through the doorways, before the doors shut behind her, leaving the rest of her court recovering from the sudden forced anger.

"I must say." The Zircon gem spoke up from across the room of the other side that had rows of raised hexagonal seats, she adjusted her yellow monocle on her left eye as she glanced around, "Blue Diamond must have finally attended her own centennial court review, after five centuries of grieving over Pink diamond."

The Hessonite that sat beside the Zircon gem crossed her arms from out of her cape as she crossed her leg over her other leg, the gem let out a scoff with a mild smirk, "I can only imagine the kind of trouble her court has been causing with her gone for so long to cause her to go into an apoplectic temper." she mused.

In the back row of the seats, A fire opal that looked straight out like an a creme of the crop front line gem soldier, allowed her thoughts to be known as she spoke up amongst her peers as she glanced to her side towards the sphene beside her, "Rumor has it that quite a few of the Blue Diamond court nobles have been embezzling gems and resources to their own colonies."

The sphene beside the Fire Opal scoffed as she crossed her broad sized arms and shook her head, "Nah, no way, that's a mark for treason, aint it?" she inquired in a gruff tone to match her size and shape of a hardlight body, a body that was similar to the Jasper under my command.

While the peanut gallery began to gossip more amongst themselves, I myself spoke to the gems beside me as I glanced back and forth between the Morganite and Beryl gems. "So" I began to say as I lifted my leg up to rest it on my other knee and crossed my arms with a look of curiosity, "What did Yellow Diamond Mean by you two getting acquainted with me?" I asked the two other gems with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh!" The Yellow Beryl spoke up first as the two gems beside me turned on their seats to converse with me more directly, "While the Diamonds do indeed create many batches of gems under their control, Yellow Diamond has seen fit to create, summarily, custom gems for nuanced purposes."

"Like specialization gems?" I inquired with my curiosity peaked, afterall, I haven't seen other Citrine Quartz gems that look anything like me, or even any Citrine quartz gems for that matter.

"Almost." Morganite spoke up with a mischievous smile as she cupped her chin as she seemed to gauge my reaction on a surface level, "Beryl was the first of her custom type gems, that our Diamond later used as a template for lesser beryl gems."

"So a mold to work off from I suppose?" I asked as I directed my attention to the Yellow Beryl gem beside me.

Beryl made a thoughtful look, "I…supposed that might be an apt description, I was more or less later used as a base template to work off from."

So essentially a mold of data to make more beryl gems off from to acquire near the same results, "So I suppose we three share that in common?" I proposed my question to the other two gems beside me.

"More or less." The Morganite responded as she spoke to me with a sly look, before making a smug expression, "I on the other hand have yet to be used as a template, sad really, I would really look forward to the competition." she commented before making a chortle laugh whilst covering her mouth with her arm to hide her open mouth of laughter.

Honestly, with the kimono and how she covers her mouth from time to time, she'd almost make a good impression of an ojou-sama.

"That's because you have not aged enough, I keep telling you this." The Yellow Beryl spoke up beside me as she leaned forward a bit to look directly over at Morganite with an expression of admonishment.

I could help but give the Beryl gem a confused look, "Aged? I was not aware that the Diamond Empire bothered with the particularities of a gem's age." I remarked.

Yellow Beryl looked back at me as she leaned back to her former posture on the chair she sat on, "For most gems, yes, but the higher ranking gems require a somewhat trial period of a thousand years or more before actually being given more appropriate tasks to suit their duties." she answered in an informative tone.

"So is that why I've finally been tasked to join this court meeting?" I asked the two gems beside me as I glanced between Morganite and Beryl.

While Morganite grimaced and look to the side, it was Beryl that once again spoke to me as she looked at me, "You were supposed to be here after your trial period of five hundreds years passed, but with the whole Rose Rebellion that lasted a thousand years, and you being sent to Pink's colony to assist there for five hundred years, the whole process was delayed quite a bit."

So it's back to that kerfuffle that caused a widespread resource issue for the Diamond Authority to this day, huh? "So the supposed trial period of mine was stalled?" I asked, seems like there had to be more to it than that.

Morganite looked back over at me, "It's also because of all the ongoing messes that Yellow Diamond has been sending you to clean up, and she herself was busy managing other things, so quite a lot of stuff has been stalled that isn't just you among the long list of her duties."

Ah, that makes more sense…I suppose in the loosest sense. The Yellow diamond court has been swamped with work after all, and just now things have been settling down a bit, so I suppose now was good as ever to have me attend these centennial meetings.

As I converse with the Yellow Morganite and Beryl on other matters that involved what their century of work have been, in the back of my mind I couldn't help but be curious to how Blue Diamond's court session was faring that caused the Blue Diamond matriarch to unleashed her emotion aura in such a way.


Blue Diamond Palace

Sodalite was glad her Diamond finally returned from her grieving over Pink Diamond, but the amount of embezzlement of gems and misused resources over the years by her court was more than enough to cause the Diamond Matriarch to quite literally erupt in anger with her powerful aura to flare outwards.

While it was up to the administrator Azurite to help settle matters while her Blue Diamond was away to grieve for the past five hundred years, it didn't help matters that the administrator was in on the embezzling with several Pyropes and Tourmalines; don't even get her started on how long it took for her Diamond to go over each and every report, it almost took her to the last minute of finishing it all before the centennial court review had began.

Sodalite would never forget the rest of her life of the scene when her lovely and beautiful opulent Blue Diamond broke through her own doors with her gorgeous hair, all frazzled and an expression of apoplectic fury. Bodies were poofed from shots of her power whenever a guilty gem tried to defend themselves, while others were grabbed by her Diamond and poofed by her crushing grip.

Swallowing down her nervousness as she stood behind her chair and peaked over, "My Diamond?" Sodalite spoke up as her Diamond began to calm down after all the guilty gems were poofed and bubbled for later punishment, "I believe you're getting a call from Yellow Diamond." she commented as she pointed over at Diamond's podium that had a floating hologram showing an incoming call from Yellow Diamond.

Blue Diamond relaxed her shoulders from her angry tantrum, before patting her hair down with a nervous look, "Oh, Yellow!" she remarked in worry, before looking around to see the cracked walls caused from her temper and emotional aura from blowing outwards. "Oh dear." she cupped her face in embarrassment.

The call eventually came through once Blue Pearl walked over and touched the large oversize podium, "Allow me, My Diamond." she said softly.

"Go ahead." Blue Diamond nodded to her pearl as she soothed more of her frazzled hair down.

Once the call connected, Yellow Diamond could be seen with her own expression of anger and fury, "Blue! What do you think-" the Yellow Diamond Matriarch then took notice of the background behind Blue Diamond, "Blue." Yellow Diamond sighed as she palmed her forehead, "How bad was it?" she asked as she dragged her hand down over her face to look directly at Blue Diamond through the call.

"Is it so bad that I can't ask for five hundred years of grieving without my Court needing me?" Blue Diamond asked with an annoyed expression.

Yellow Diamond glanced through the video call to see the state of Blue Diamond's meeting room meant for her court, "Evidently, you're asking for too much." she sneered in distaste at seeing the floating guilty bubbled gems.


AN; Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Figured I get one more chapter out before the next year comes. Hope you enjoyed this one.