[IC] The Gems of Earth (Steven Universe RP)

[Ryuzaki]

The gray dust that coats the earth in the Kindergarten blew upward slightly. The gray clouds overhead caused the looming cliffs to blend with them to create an illusion that the land looped up all the way around the area. Holes of various sizes and shapes dotted the cliffsides, only adding to the ominous atmosphere. About halfway up the cliff face, a cave sat with a single blue gem inside it. The gem sat exteremely still, just an ordinary looking disk-shaped crystal. In the distance, footsteps echoed and the sound of somebody monologuing. The words were distorted by the echoes of multiple corridor-like ruts that made up the walking space in the Kindergarten. The gem in the cave began to shake slightly, as though it was curious. Beginning to hover, the gem created a bright white light around itself, which slowly began to shape into a humanoid form. The light began to fade from the area to reveal a seemingly human shape with blue hair and pale blue skin. A large blue hood was pulled over her head, her clothes blue and white with a blue cape trailing behind her. This was Topaz.
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Topaz jumped down from the cliff, bendin her knees on impact to break her fall. In the distance, she heard the monologuing begin to fade as though somebody decended into a cave of some sort. Alone now, Topaz half considered retreating into her cave for another 5000 years. Something told her that the war was over now, and judging by the once moving machines that planted the gems in the ground, Homeworld had lost. The bleak cliffs on either side of Topaz felt like they were sliding inward on her the more she dwelled on that disgusting event. Regardless, she couldn't bring herself to blame either side of the war, nor could she dislike either side. Something inside her felt conflicted, but she didn't have to worry about that now. Now she had to decide what to do with herself. She turned toward where she had heard the voice come from, then turned away toward the other end of the gorge.

[CLIW]

The hole in the earth was dark and silent, so very silent, until the small, smooth cabochon quivered and tapped against its stone surroundings. The gemstone, which had been completely still for so many centuries, continued its strange activity for several more seconds, looking somewhat like a little red egg that was finally ready to hatch. And then, as quickly as it had begun, it stopped, filling the cliff cavity with light.

The hole was so small that the humanoid shape sprouting from the gem broke some of the surrounding rock just by forming. The fracture calved off a large segment of wall from a cliffside, which crashed noisily onto the ground below and flooded the cave with daylight. Carnelian squeaked with fright and covered her face as if to shield her eyes from the sudden onslaught of sunshine.

It was so quiet... except for very soft footsteps down below. The gem brushed the dust off of herself and peeked down out of the hole. There was someone there, bigger than she was, clad in blue. No one else. She shuffled back from the entrance of her cave and then slowly, slowly, poked her head out again. The stranger was still there, and there was still no one else in sight in this horrible, eerie, dusty, abandoned-looking place. She let her eyes wander along the holes that dotted the cliffsides. Maybe there was someone just like her in one of them.

Casting one last glance down at the gem at the bottom of the cliff, she called out: "Anybody home?"

[RainbowFactory]

Loud footsteps echoed throughout the Kindergarten, someone exploring the quiet stone area, filled with curiosity. A tall female-looking humanoid creature colored green, red, and black was searching its surroundings. Bloodstone was her name. She has come to the hole-filled Kindergarten for adventure, and to see if any other gemstones have been here or recently formed. So far the place seemed abandoned, the gem searching very carefully for any signs of a gem or a new hole. So far she was unlucky.

"Are you serious? This place isn't exciting at all! I want some adventure or something to spar or even fight with," she talked to herself with disappointment, not knowing that her voice echoed throughout the area, just like her footsteps. Bloodstone continued to walk around the rocky environment, wanting to give very badly, until a mountain-side came to view. It was slightly brighter in this area so she had to cover her eyes while looking around, then noticed a mountainside with two colors that stood out: light blue and red-orange.

The gem quickly hid behind a nearby rock then stared at the colorful beings with stars in her eyes, and a smirk plastered onto her face. Not far from where the two stood were holes, almost the exact same size. Should I go up to them or stay here? If I go up right away they might be hostile. If not, they'll start asking me questions on why I'm here and why I don't look newly formed. If I stay behind this rock they might find me and think I was stalking them, or think I'm from this area. If they think I'm stalking them, they could go back to that question path or hostile path. If they think I'm from this area, which I don't even remember if I am, they might think I'm one of them! Bloodstone thought, different pathways rushing through her mind, making her body tremble lightly.

[Blizz]

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[2b3heart]

A small, teardrop-shaped stone lay silently on the dusty ground. The gem laid there, no visible cracks on it. It seemed just to sit there, glistening with whatever light came upon it. Suddenly, the stone began to glow and shimmer. It began to float up and a body of light began to form around it. After a few seconds, a tall, slender woman stood in the gem's place. The woman had almost porcelain white skin, along with long white hair that fell almost to the ground. The closer to the ground, the bluer her hair got. She wore a flowing, form-fitting dress with a golden sash. Her eyes were as bright and blue as her dress. And in the center of her chest, laid the gem that was alone before.
Moonstone blinked a few times and stretched. It had been years since she was in this form. She couldn't remember how long. Looking around, she could tell she was in a kindergarten. Places like this always gave her chills.

[tex]

The chasm's edge was no place for a gem to be born, but unfortunately, fate guaranteed that Fireonyx's awakening would a crude, unforgiving fall into the pits below. A tall, slim hole near the top of the kindergarten glowed with pale orange light just before its gem stepped out, onto nothing, unbeknownst to the trip she was about to take straight to the bottom of the chasm. The gem fell forwards, still dazed from her slumber, and spun through the air clumsily. What was she looking at? Several gems were scattered across the kindergarten, but Fireonyx only caught a brief glimpse of each as he vision quickly spun 'round and 'round, spanning a great portion of the chasm where she was born. She tried to call for help, but only a feint moan left her mouth, obstructed by the peculiar location in which her gem was settled. It was of no use, she was going to hit the ground. Hopefully she didn't land on anything too sharp.

Thump! The dust flew away from her point of impact, leaving a small indent in the ground where she'd landed. Fireonyx pushed herself up onto her knees and peered at the surrounding machines, all robbed of their life, standing stagnant in the quiet Chasm where gems were made. Fireonyx took note of a very nasally voice commenting on something she could discern in the distance. But suddenly it was drowned out by somebody shouting from above. "Anybody home?" the voice inquired innocently. Fireonyx turned her head towards the voice and opened her mouth, but again, nothing came out. For a moment she was frozen in time. Her life hadn't been very long, but already, she wished she was buried back in the canyon wall.

[Blizz]

"w-where am I?" azurite got to her feet and looked around, all she could see were canyon walls and small indentations every few centemeters from the ground up. At her feet lay scattered remains of broken gem shards that were dull in color, she decided to walk around and get her bearings. soon after, she came to a large area with two large machines, they were derelict and falling apart, and in their transparent heads were what appeared to be more gems, but they to were dull and some were even unnaturally grey.

A little ways away she spotted someone else, she was tall and wore blue and gold clothing, her hair almost reached the ground and became more blue the further down, azurite wondered if she should approach, but hesitated.@2b3heart

[2b3heart]

Moonstone turned and noticed and rather purple looking gem. She looked as out of place as she was in this dark and dull environment. Moonstone smiled at the gem and waved slightly to her. She calmly walked over. "Hello. Did you just reform also?" The milky blue gem asked. In truth, she did not know which side this gem was on, but she did not see any markings on her to indicate so.
@Blizz

[Will]

Aquamarine's gem rumbled while she reformed, her gem stuck in the ground, coated with soot and dust. As she formed, she had outerwear not too different from a stage performer trying to awkwardly represent a princess from a more medieval time. She had the long dress, and surprisingly under it a less formal wear, shorts and a tank top with a heptagram on it, colored in black and blue.

Aquamarine stretched and wore a smile on her face, "That took it out of me, geez." she decided to see if she could still summon her rapier. She reached down and pulled her rapier from her gem, examining the blade she spoke. "Nice to know you're still around." she threw it around in her hands a bit, just to get a feel for it, she had been reforming for quite a while. Aqua started to walk around a bit, and examine the Kindergarden.

The Gorge seemed to grow as she walked through. She kept her hand ready to grab her rapier to protect herself from any dangers. Aqua examined the machines, it had seemed the Homeworld had failed. Aqua giggled to herself, she had an affiliation with the Rebellion, but it wasn't exactly fighting. She was more of a calmer to the troops, Aqua's mere presence had made the room just seem tranquil.

Aqua had managed to stumble over her dress tons of times by now, she got annoyed with how overdressed she was, so she just kind of threw it off and it disappeared into a puff of smoke. Aqua looked just up forward of her, she saw a hooded figure. She waved, and called out to them.
"Hello!" Even though it might be a hostile, she was not one to judge on appearance.

@Ryuzaki

[RainbowFactory]

Bloodstone saw and heard more gems opening around her, and sometimes even rocks crashing on top of each other to the ground. She heard faint noises of the gems talking, unlike her, who was still hiding behind a large rock a few yards away from all the other gems. A quiet grunt came from her, realizing how many gems she might have to deal with. Bloodstone whipped her right hand sharply, her katana pulling out quite quickly into her hands.

If there's multiple gemstones here then it'll be easier to find me. If they see me with this weapon while watching, they might take me as a stalker, or protecting myself after just reforming, or even something else! I should seriously get on higher ground, she thought while quickly backing up to the slanted rock behind her and rushing backwards to the top. Bloodstone hoped she couldn't be seen at this point, being more in the sun so they would least likely look up at her. She dropped to the ground and onto her stomach anyway, hiding most of her katana below her so it didn't shine in the brightness and give her spot away.

[Blizz]

@2b3heartAzurite had no idea what the say, she wasn't very good at talking to others"u-um" she took a step back, azurite was not sure if this gem was on the side of evil, good or no side at all."h-hi"azurite was nervewracked, no words came to mind as to what she should say to this stranger.

[Ryuzaki]

@CLIW@RainbowFactory@tex

From behind Topaz came a small voice, asking if anybody was here. Topaz turned and saw the new hole that had formed around a reddish figure who stood about halfway up the cliff. "Hey, I didn't think other Gems would stick around past the war." Suddenly she noticed another Gem nearby. It was a tall red-headed Gem running along the top edge of the cliff. She called out to the other gem, “You do know you’re not THAT sneaky, right?” In the distance she heard a loud crash like one of the machines had toppled, then a huge cloud of dust rose into the air. “You must be from Homeworld! Did you bring others?” Topaz yelled at the red and green gem. A green dot began to emerge from behind a cliff in the distance and a loud voice echoed “CLODS!” as it ascended into the sky. Topaz summoned her bow and pointed it at the Green dot then at the red and green gem. “Why are you and your…. friend,” she gestured toward the dot, “Here?”

[RainbowFactory]

@Ryuzaki
An shiver ran up Bloodstone's spine. Not from being spot so easily, but from the anger that was forming for being called a Homeworld gem. She knew she wasn't a Homeworld gem; she just doesn't remember where she was originally from. She got up, gripping her katana tightly. "Did you just call me a Homeworld gem, you blue-faced brat! I don't know what... that is," she quickly waved her weapon backwards towards the green dot in the distance, "and I'm only looking around the area! Don't jump to conclusions! I mean seriously, I'm most likely from around here, too!" The gem was definitely angry now, breathing heavily as if she was about to start a fight in a matter of seconds. She didn't, not yet anyway, but stayed in a fighting stance with her katana angled towards the ground.

[The ghost in black]

The gripping darkness of the tiny hole surrounded the brilliant cut grey and black gem... though it wasn't as quiet as howlite would have like. There was a large flash of black light that radiated from the stone before the the shape of a hand formed followed by the rest of a distinctively female body. "Ahhhh, that's better" she said to herself and tried to stretch but immediately hit the ceiling of her tiny cave, she felt around before tapping an area that felt the thinnest. "Now to get out of here" Howlite said as she winded her fist back and through it at the wall causing it to crumble down the cliff.

Judging by the sounds of the rocks falling Howlite judged that she was pretty high up somewhere and prepared to jump. She launched off the ledge and began to fall, the ground began to get closer and closer but just before she landed Howlite's gem began to glow the same black light as before and a grey gripped handle expanded from it. Howlite grabbed the handle and when the end was finally free the last thing to a materialize was the heavy blade which was quickly embedded into the wall of the canyon and slowed her decent.

What Howlite saw when she was on the ground was obviously not what she had thought was happening when she had heard voices from her hole up above. "Are these really all the gems from the kindergarten?" she asked herself out loud as she planted her blade into the ground and scratched her head.

[CLIW]

She'd been noticed and it was really no use at all to keep hiding. Carnelian let out a soft whimper, intimidated by the rapid influx of gems she didn't know. Of course, there was nothing she could do to avoid them. In fact, she was so freshly-made that it probably was not a very good idea to set out on her own: she hardly knew anything about...well, anything. So instead of continuing to hide in the deep crevice in which she'd just formed, she hopped out.

Only then did the height scare her. She scrambled around, groping blindly for rock to hold onto, feeling something prickly poking at her forearms as if it needed to be let out. The sensation was so brief that, when she pulled herself into the dark hole of a gem long-gone that was just a few feet off the ground, she'd already almost forgotten it. It was at that point that Bloodstone, a quite-intimidating looking gem (as most were), raised her voice at Topaz.

Carnelian felt colder at the sight of the katana. She jumped the rest of the way to the ground and stood as tall as she could... which still put her at practically dwarf status.

"Don't fight!"

As if her voice had any authority. Ha.

[Ryuzaki]

@CLIW@RainbowFactory
Topaz looked up at the red and green gem then down at the smaller red gem who protested at the fight. Something told her that she was right. She released her bow, causing it to glimmer out of existence. Returning her gaze to the red and green gem she began to open her mouth to say something, then closed it and thought for a second, then said, “I’m not even going to ask. Why don’t you come down and tell us who you are. Then we can start over.” She almost questioned her decision but remembered the nearby place they could stay while the odd gem told her story. She beckoned to all the other gems in the immediate vicinity and began to walk toward the end of the canyon opposite where the green dot had come from.

[RainbowFactory]

@Ryuzaki@CLIW
Bloodstone gave the smaller gem a deathly glare. When the blue gem made her weapon disappear as if on command by the smaller gem and tried to communicate with her, she only rolled her eyes and dropped down to the rock. Her katana was neatly across her crossed legs, keeping it there for a few more moments. The gem wasn't going to go down there, and wasn't going to talk right away either. She waved her gem hand towards her, signalling the gems to come up to her or let her stay where she is. After about three hand movements Bloodstone put her hand onto her katana, the weapon disappearing like it was being sucked into the gem.
If I stay up here they might choose to come up to speak to me directly. If they come up I might have to summon my weapon again, but they possibly would take that as an aggressive move. If I don't summon my weapon right away, they might take that as an advantage to try attacking me! They seem peaceful, or at least, so far anyway. If they stay down there, that blue gem might try secretly shooting me using their bow and arrow! What do I do now?! the red and green gem thought, her head starting to pound slightly as the thoughts rushed through her mind again. Bloodstone shook those ideas away quickly before looking back down towards the gems.