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pearlplusau · 5 years

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Pearl Plus AU- The bright light part 2

Amethyst 8XWJ was one of the earliest to pop up from the Earth’s crust. When she first emerged off the kindergarten walls, she face-planted on the hard ground and was immediately greeted by a fellow quartz soldier, 8XWI. All gems she emerged with were great and fun, but 8XWI was special. When she saw others summoning their weapons, she was able to conjure her own with just one attempt. When she was taught about the Great Diamond authority and how the system works, she immediately adapted to the idea of higher power and understood her purpose of serving to live, living to serve. She was skilled, she was talented, she was… listening and attentive.

“What’s holding you back?” Holly asked in a sympathetic tone, her face twitched from calm to manic. “No idea where My Diamond’s pool is?” She brings back the whip once more, grinning to herself, “Shocker! (pun intended)”

She gripped the handle tighter, amplifying the static and electric current, causing an ear-splitting buzz to ring around the area, and flunged it towards 8XWJ’s arm. “Huh?” before she was able to react, electricity coursed from the handle to the tip and zapped her whole without warning, “Ahhhhh!” she screamed and trashed, but the whip won’t let go!

She kneeled down, and tried to resist! But it was too much, she thought of her comrades, her fellow amethysts losing the battle on Earth! Never will she be able to see them again! She didn’t want to give in, but…her form begged to differ.

The surge of destruction was too much! Being weak from her previous punishment, she couldn’t hold much longer, and…

Poof!

A purple quartz gem clinked as it landed on the platform, clattering as it stayed on its spot. 8XWJ was poofed and retreated into her gem.

Holly Blue Agate was smiling as she set her weapon down and thought to herself. ‘Finally, took care of the annoying purple upper-crust.’

“That takes care of that!” She claimed out loud as she dusted her arms off, and glared to the other gems gasping around her.

“Was that really necessary Holly?” Aquamarine questioned in annoyance, “Poofing gems in the open wide would be lead to…” She held her thought and snapped her fingers, realising her true intentions, “Ohhhh, I get it, you want us to report your little crime to the diamonds so you’ll be able to deliver the message, clever…”

“Yeah yeah, don’t get your hopes up, I know the rules around here.” Holly replied as she slipped the purple gem into her front pocket.

A loud voice boomed from all around the area, “HOLLY BLUE AGATE FACET 2D CUT-22! YOU HAVE BEEN SEEN TO HAVE TEMPORARILY DISABLED AN AMETHYST, PLEASE REPORT TO THE HALL ROOM IMMEDIATELY! YOUR CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR ACTIONS WILL BE JUDGED BY THE GREAT DIAMOND AUTHORITY. HOLLY BLUE AGATE FACET 2D CUT-22! YOU HAVE BEEN SEEN…” the voice repeated the same statement until the blue gem found her way to the hall room.

As she leaves, she glanced at the surrounding gems as they muttered their predictions, different coloured sapphires glanced around nervously and whisper information among themselves, but Holly took no interest in what the future holds, her plan of meeting the Diamonds will be worth all the negative impact on her image.

She went in search of a warp pad, the fastest way to the Diamonds, a white pearl was at the control panel and stated her crimes,

“Holly Blue Agate, you have been reported of dismantling an amethyst out on the open. As you know, you will be sent to the judgement hall and be set on trial by the Great Diamond Authority! Any last words dear?” The pearl asked before giving the confirmation code on the warp pad.

“Why yes Pearl! I look forward to be in the presence of the powerful Yellow Diamond, AND my glimmering diamond of course! This judgement will be a little talk between us don’t you worry.”

“We’ll see about that…” The pearl thought while typing in the code.

Holly was cuffed in glowing white shackles by two Topazes, her eyes widen as this is something unexpected.

“What is this? Handcuffs? Is this really nessasar-” Before she could finish her question, the shackles glowed and bounded Holly in a white bubble. Frozen in time, she was unable to finish her statement, her mouth was wide open but her facial expression remained annoyed.

“Huhu! This new law implemented is really rather convenient for us, don’t you think so Topaz?” The pearl had a smug face of enjoying these minor “punishments” while the topazes were unfazed with the statement. They proceeded by raising a control panel that resembles a joystick and monitored the bubble by sending it to the designated location.

Inside the orb, Holly could still see, but she could not speak, she could not move. The only sense she could control was her sight, but all she saw was the orb heading to somewhere no agate had been before. Her white boots were in uneven positions, this frustrated her, but she cannot do anything about it, she simply stayed frozen,

It was a long journey, but Holly can make out the structures and buildings leading to the black coloured cubed Courtroom. As she gets closer, she realised there’s still a chance the diamonds won’t even attend the trial for a Quartz soldier, she tried to have cold feet as she felt nervous but the atmosphere wouldn’t allow it!

The orb came to a halt, the front of the orb scanned the building’s wall, taking a sample of the colour to match the Courtroom building. The colour dripped down from the top like a small current of black ink being poured over. When the orb was fully covered in Black, it slightly floated up and went through the wall with the sound of electric current zipping through the air.

The black orb enters a dark room, where it finally dissipated away in a cloud of back dust.

“-ary…” She finally finished her sentence hung over her mouth during the entire trip. She sighed and readied herself, wanting to look as best as she could be for the Great Diamond Authority.

The wall opened up a door sized hole, a tense, anxious blue zircon came in mumbling with floating screens around her, she was just a bit shorter but also belonging to Blue’s court by her colouring. She looked around the room and spotted the blue agate, her face contorted in bewilderment and confusion.

“YOU’RE the one on trial? But you’re an Agate! When the files came in it says two quartz soldiers “roughhousing” in front of the Great Ballroom!” She examined the tall gem and retrieved a hologram picture from her monocle, it shows a purple gem being violently taken hold by the blue gem.

“Why yes! I did took advantage of that amethyst, you see, she had vital information about an issue of a colonisation process and asked me to inform the diamonds!” Holly tried to explain her actions, but Zircon just looked mortified while taking in the information given, she pulled out another hologram screen and typed in the new info.

“The door to the trial room will be accessible any second, do you have any more information to give before we proceed matters and actions to the diamonds?” The lawyer gem urged as she readied her equipment.

“That will be all, surely the diamonds would listen to what I have to say before deciding what to do with me!” Holly spoke with a dab of uncertainty.

The door to the courtroom opened up.

“Let’s go.” Blue Zircon led the way with Holly trudging behind her.

In the dark room, Holly stood on a glowing platform, waiting for the arrival of the three diamonds. A yellow zircon warped to the left of Holly, she took one look at her opponent lawyer and smirked, “New to this huh? First job and you get to defend an abuser? Isn’t that a bit, anticlimactic?”

“Being my first assignment, no, it’s not thanks for asking.” The tone in her reply was not at all thankful nor sincere, but before she could finish, two pearls warped into the room in front of them.

Yellow Pearl was the first to speak, “All rise for the luminous Yellow Diamond!” Yellow warped in and proceed to her throne with an expression of annoyance.

Blue Pearl continued, “The lustrous Blue Diamond.” Blue warped in and slumped into her throne in…. anger?

Both pearls synchronise for the last diamond, “And the Great, Magnificent, Brilliant White Diamond!” The brightest diamond warped in and shone the room so bright Holly was blinded for a moment, until the diamond dimmed her light and proceed to the throne in the midst of Blue and Yellow.

“Let’s just finish this so we can go back to our duties.” Stated White diamond before starting the trial.

Having the three diamonds present was not as glamorous as expected, in fact, it was intimidating.

The three diamonds stared down at the accused with annoyance and little patience.

It was VERY intimidating.

The yellow Zircon initiated the trial by stating the situation and the actions committed.

“…And so, here we are, at the end of this trial our great leaders will decide the fate of this Agate and end this case.” Yellow Zircon was about to proceed to her points and arguments but the diamonds up there were not at peace with each other.

“Is everything all right my Diamonds?” The lawyer asked with her arms saluting.

But the diamonds took no notice, Blue and Yellow Diamond were silently arguing about the topic beforehand, while White looked like she wants to just zap the accused and get things over with.

“This does not look good….” Blue Zircon whispered to Holly, “Why don’t you just admit your bad choice of actions and get it over with?” She suggested.

“Never! What I did to that gem was for a reason, and that reason will not be wasted from the inconvenience of the diamonds.” Holly protested but took one more glance at the diamonds, Blue diamond looked more unhappy and upset than usual, she looks like she’s trying very hard to hold in her sadness and frustration, Yellow diamond has her outfit to be slightly ruff and off placed, with her electric current leaking from her finger tips, not being her usual strict self. As for White Diamond, She just looked as same as before, her face says, “It would be so much easier to just blast this gem with my powers and have this all done immediately!” And it looks like she’s not having the patience to handle the current situation.

“Fine! Just because this trials wasting out leaders’ time, I’ll just present the information, but not without evidence.” Holly glanced at her pocket and checked the purple gem in place, and went into the confession.

“My Diamonds!” Holly saluted while addressing the leaders, “There is something I would like to confess.”

The diamonds paid little to no attention to the Agate, as they were occupied with their own matters.

Holly could hear some words mumbling amongst them, but could only pick up Pink Diamond’s name and nothing more.

Yellow spoke with a slightly louder voice, loud enough for Holly to get the picture.

“Blue, this is not the time to defend pink and her failing colony! You of all gems should have known her failure was inevitable, why struggle now to try and help her when you could help me convince this to White?” Yellow Diamond whispered, sounding infuriated but also trying her best to lower her voice for the sake of their reputation.

“This is the exact type of behaviour that will led her thinking we don’t trust her! You gave her a chance to prove herself, so you must stick with it!” Blue snapped at Yellow louder than she should, which tipped White into snapping back,

“Enough!” She demanded and glared, both diamonds froze and sat back down.

“Proceed this trivial little judgement so we can get it over with!” The diamond commanded.

“Yess of course My Diamond!” Blue Zircon saluted and summon some holographic files, she fuddled a bit, tried to pull the right file, but ended up dropping them to the floor like paper scattering around everywhere, but worse.

“Deepest apologise, I’ll just….uhhh…” Blue Zircon was dripping more tears than sweat, she tried to collect herself and the files, but she could feel the stares of the three powerful diamonds looming over, her anxiety is building up, it’s reaching the limit, she wasn’t ready for this!

She took on a desperate glance at Holly, hoping someone would help her out, but Holly had other plans in mind.

“My Diamonds!” Holly stood up, addressed and saluted in a clear, articulated voice.

The diamonds glared daggers at her for disrupting the defendant, but it was clear that she had caught their attention.

“I understand that this trial has interrupted your daily schedule, and I know you are all in a hurry of getting back to more important matters, I will be able to speed up this trial if you generously allow me to speak freely for just mere minutes. Hopefully, this can all be resolved as soon as it can be.” Holly explained to the diamonds and hoped that they would agree with her.

The three diamonds exchanged looks of uncertainty, but they also wished to get back to more pressing matters.

Finally White Diamond spoke, “Very well, you are given 5 minutes to prepare your explanation that will be brief and informative, no stuttering and mumbling will be tolerated and if so, you will be executed immediately! We shall have a short recess, Dismissed!”

Everyone retreated into their own rooms.

(First of all, i would like to thank @marzipanotaku16 for her amazing points and criticisms for making this work better than anticipated, we’ve known each other online and through the magic of steven universe. She’s also the friend that encouraged me to start a blog and share the writing for everyone to read, this blog wouldn’t be here without her.

Anyways, this story took longer to write and it would be concluded at part 3, I have some plans and ideas for more stories that may intrigued y’all but haven't really started drafting yet, so that’s gonna take a while to finish up.

And I would like to remind y’all that this is not completely a pink pearl oriented story, this blog is for me to express my ideas through the power of writing and the internet (lame lol)

This tells me you read the whole thing, so thank you, dear reader, and have a splendid day, happy reading and enjoy! )

#Diamonds #HollyBlueAgate #Zircons #Pinkdiamond #Corruption #yellowdiamond #bluediamond #whitediamond #stevenuniverse

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fandom-madnessess · 7 years

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could you maybe do a Malia/Kira/Lydia ot3 thing where Lydia runs a flower shop Malia owns a bakery and Kira owns a tattoo shop?

Lydia Martin/Malia Tate/Kira YukimuraRating: G, Word Count: 1950Tattoo Artist Kira, Baker Malia, Florist Lydia, Fluff, Pining, POV Kira, Polyamory, Established Lydia/Malia, Malia&Stiles Friendship♥Read on AO3

Kira is used to being stared it, and most of the time sheloves it. She loves people tracing the ink on her arms with their eyes,puzzling over what the pictures are, trying to read the words. Sometimes,little kids come up to her and ask her if she’s a fairy,or they ask their parents why they aren’t allowedto draw on themselves but she is. Not all stares are admiring, but she lovesevery line of ink on her body, and no amount of raised eyebrows is going tochange that.

Every once in a while though, when she’s in a bad mood, she just wants totell those people to fuck off. And today is one of those days. She didn’t sleep well, her neighbours had avery enthusiastic and loud—so very loud—sexathon, and then Stiles, her business partner, called insick. It’s not really a problem fortoday; they don’t do walk-ins on Mondays, andMason is great at handling disgruntled clients, so rescheduling theappointments is only a minor inconvenience, but she still needs an extra artistfor this week, and she’s notsure anyone’s available.

This is why, when she walks by the new florist andcatches the woman staring, it’s notentirely Kira’s fault that she gives in toher impulses, and flips the woman off.

‘Youokay?’ Mason asks, when she walksinto the shop. He hands her a cup of coffee with a look that is a mix ofcheerful and concerned.

‘Don’t have loud sex. Ever. Respect yourneighbours,’ Kira grumbles. She takes asip of the coffee and hums, already feeling a little better. ‘You’re anangel.’

‘I know,’ Mason grins, patting her shoulder incommiseration. ‘I put the stencil for yourfirst client by your station. Stiles said it was good to go, right?’

‘Yeah,’ Kira nods.

She was supposed to have the morning free of clients soshe could go over the inventory, but Stiles’ firstclient would’ve been busy the rest of theweek, and didn’t mind Kira tattooing herinstead. Mason will have to multi task for a little while, but without walk-ins,and if they keep the sign flipped to closed, they should be fine. As Mason goesoff to do inventory with a pout on his lips, Kira quickly sets up her stationfor the first appointment. She’salmost done when there’s aknock on the door. A woman with short brown hair is standing on the other side,and Kira quickly lets her in.

‘I’m Kira,’ sheintroduces herself. They shake hands, the woman’s hand iswarm and firm in Kira’s. ‘You must be Malia. Stiles said youalready knew he’s out sick today and are finewith me doing it instead?’

Malia nods. ‘Hetexted this morning when I was at work.’

‘What doyou do?’ Kira asks as she leads Maliafurther into the shop.

‘I’m a baker. Mostly pastries and pies,but I also make bread and cookies.’

‘Wellthat explains the tattoo.’ Kira gesturesfor Malia to sit down, then pulls out the stencil Stiles prepared. It’s a heart with a loaf of bread insideit, and “loaf” written in stylized letters inside the bread. It’s not very big, no bigger than herpalm.

‘It’s a pun,’ Malia explains. ‘Loafinstead of love. Stiles drew it when we went out last week. Said he’d do it in return for free pastriesfor a month if I still wanted it when sober.’

‘He toldme,’ Kira chuckles. ‘Left out the part where you’re the one making the pastries,though. I hope you set a limit on the number of pastries, because he’ll clean you out if you don’t.’ Sheholds up the stencil. ‘Wheredo you want it?’

‘Myshoulder,’ Malia says, pushing up thesleeve of her t-shirt. ‘It’s one pastry per employee everyweekday, and they’re non-transferrable.’

Kira laughs again. ‘Smart.’

The next half hour is filled with easy small talk and thebuzzing of the machine. Kira likes Malia, she’s alittle offbeat, catching Kira by surprise with some of her remarks in a verypleasant way. When she’s doneand Malia’s shoulder is cleaned andwrapped up, she finds herself reluctant to say goodbye.

‘Do youhave any favourites?’ Maliaasks. ‘So I’ll know if I have to save you anything.’

‘Notreally, but I do have a sweet tooth,’ Kiraadmits.

Malia nods. ‘See youat lunch.’

Kira smiles as she waves goodbye. She’s already looking forward to it.

The next day Kira goes to work with a skip in her step.Stiles is feeling better and thinks he’ll beback tomorrow. She managed to get Hayden to fill in for him today. She’s a great artist and working with heris always fun. Mason will be a little late, but that’s okay because he’s alsobringing her hot chocolate.

The skip in her step falters when she walks past theflower shop. She feels a little guilty about yesterday. The woman probably didn’t mean anything by it and became theundeserving target of her bad mood.

All through the morning, Kira tries to think of a way toapologize. Normally, she’d get flowers,but buying flowers at another shop for a florist seems a little rude. Theperfect apology hits her when she walks into Malia’s bakery that afternoon.

‘Whatkind of baked goods say “I’m sorry”?’ she asks Malia.

‘Cookies,’ Malia says firmly. ‘An assortment of cookies if it’s really bad. Unless it’s your partner, then I’d say a personalized cake.’

‘I’m single,’ Kira says, shaking her head. Was this Malia’s way of fishing for her relationshipstatus? She hopes so. ‘And it’s not really bad. I was kind of rudeto someone yesterday, and I figured I’d saysorry.’

Malia nods, places a couple different cookies in a box, andties it off with a neat bow. ‘Thisshould do it.’

‘Thankyou,’ Kira sighs in relief. ‘And can I get one of those glazedbuns for me?’

Ten minutes later, Kira pushes open the door to theflower shop.

‘Hello?’ she calls out.

‘I’ll be right there!’

Kira waits by the counter and looks around. There is somuch colour in here it’salmost blinding, and the air is thick and heady from the mixed scents offlowers.

‘How canI help you?’

Relieved, Kira sees it’s thesame woman she flipped off.

‘I cameby to apologize for yesterday,’ Kirasays, holding out the box of cookies. ‘I’m Kira, I own the tattoo shop downthe street.’

‘Lydia,’ the woman introduces herself. Shesmiles and holds out her hand. ‘Andthis is my flower shop.’

Kira shakes Lydia’s hands,that are rough from handling flowers all day. Lydia takes the box and pulls thebow, humming when she sees the cookies.

‘Do youwant one? I could make some tea,’ Lydiaoffers.

Kira shakes her head. ‘I’d loved to.’ And she really would. Lydia is pretty and she seems nice.‘But I should get back. Lunchbreak isalmost over.’

‘I hopeI’ll see you around,’ Lydia says.

‘Me too.’

For over a week, Kira tries to figure out if she shouldask out Malia or Lydia. Malia is blunt, caring, and Kira’s pretty sure she offered to beat up one of herex-boyfriends. Lydia is sharp, funny, and incredibly sweet once she’s decided she likes you. Both womenare gorgeous, creative, and passionate about their jobs. It’s a terrible choice that Kira doesn’t want to make, and she’s all but decided to flip a coin,when Malia makes the choice for her.

‘Theonly other person who loves these cookies as much as you is my girlfriend,’ Malia says, handing Kira a gianthazelnut cookie.

‘Youhave a girlfriend?’ Kira asks. She quicklyrearranges her disappointed face into something that, hopefully, resemblesinnocent curiosity.

‘Lydia,from the flower shop,’ Maliasays. ‘I thought you knew?’

‘No, Ididn’t. Well, I still have somethings to do, so I should go. Bye.’

Kira quickly walks out of the bakery and back to hershop, walking on the other side of the street to avoid seeing Lydia. Back inher shop, behind her desk in the office, Kira groans and slides down in thechair. Why? Now that she thinks aboutit, Malia and Lydia do seem perfect for each other. And she’s happy for them. Really. It just… kind of sucks for her, she’s really started falling for thesewomen.

Kira eats her cookie, but barely tastes it as sherealizes what she needs to do. She needs to cut down on the time she spendswith the women. No more lunches with Lydia or taking almost an hour to pick outfresh flowers for the shop. No more jokes with Malia over bread puns. She needssome distance to get over them, and then they’ll be justfriends. It’s not really the scenario she’d hoped for, but the thought nothaving the two women in her life at all is unbearable.

Kira sticks to her plan, she keeps her visits to thebakery and the flower shop short and to the point. Any concern from Malia andLydia she waves away with excuses about being busy or working on new ideas.

She thinks it might working. The thought of seeing Maliaor Lydia still makes her smile, but it doesn’t makeher chest feel too small for her heart anymore, or her skin tingly, or her legsrestless. Now it does all of that at the same time.

This isn’tworking at all.

Kira is wallowing in self-pity, doodling at her stationas she waits for closing time. It’sFriday, and they’re always open late. Withseveral bars close by, you’d thinkthey’d be pretty busy, but theyhave a firm policy against tattooing anyone under the influence; the late hoursare mostly for anyone who doesn’t havetime for a long session during the day.

The old-fashioned bell on the door goes off, and Kirajumps in surprise. When she sees it’s Maliaand Lydia entering the shop, she almost falls of her chair.

‘Hey,’ she manages to squeak. ‘What are you guys doing here?’

‘We’ve barely seen you all week, so wethought we’d stop by,’ Lydia says. ‘And I brought flowers.’

‘Thankyou.’ Kira can’t help but blush and smile. She triesto hide it by ducking her head and admiring the bouquet. It’s beautiful, mostly made up of rosesin different colours. She traces a delicately pink petal with her fingertip. ‘It’slovely.’

‘Ibrought you cookies,’ Maliasays. ‘I’ve been trying something new, I hope you like them.’

‘I knowI will,’ Kira grins.

She puts the cookies on the front desk, then goes to theback to hunt for a vase. When she comes back and sets the neatly arrangedflowers next to the cookies, Malia and Lydia are both looking at her expectantly.

‘Iseverything okay?’ Kira asks.

‘Youwant to go on a date?’ Maliaasks.

Kira’s handsare still around the vase and she almost knocks it to the floor. Did Malia really just ask her that? Shelooks from Malia to Lydia, hoping to find some answer there.

‘We bothreally like you,’ Lydia explains. ‘We talked about it, and we’d love to take you out on a date.’

Kira’s brainis tripping over itself as it tries to process this. ‘You’reasking me out? Both of you? Together?’ shehas to ask. She has to be sure.

‘Yes,’ Malia says.

‘I’d love that,’ Kira says, nearly knocking over the flowers again in herexcitement.

#malydira #kira x lydia x malia #twfemslash #twrarepair #twpolyamory #my fic #my polya #my femslash #my teen wolf #this was the fic i thought i'd posted #MONTHS AGO!

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