Citrine

Poof. That's all I could remember when I first came about. I was inside this yellow space. I didn't know why I was in there, I just was. Soon this panel came up, it told me to pick how I wanted to look. It also told me I was a gem and other stuff like that. Soon the panel changed and it made me make what I would look like. I made myself a little tall, and I had a yellow shirt and orange gloves. I gave myself some orange with yellow rips shorts and some yellow knee high boots. I was a yellowish person or gem I should say, and I had long yellow hair. I put my gem on a ring on my hand, which I would learn was very unique later. I don't know how long I was in that yellow place, but soon enough I came out.

When I came out, I was in a green room with a cold, hard floor. I looked around, I saw others who looked like me there. They didn't look exactly like me, but similar enough for me to tell that they were the same model. I learned I was a Citrine gem, and I was meant for fighting.

I spent about a day in that room with the other Citrines, until we started training. We started learning some unarmed combat. It wasn't very hard, but I guess I was supposed to be good at it. After a few years of training for unarmed combat, we were told to summon our weapon. A weapon? How are we supposed to summon a weapon?

They told us to try and focus on our gems. How was I supposed to focus on a ring? I didn't know. Some of the other Citrines had theirs on their hands. Others had it on their shoulder, chest, head, and eyes. The ones who had it on their hands had scythes. The ones with their gems on their shoulder had flails, chest had swords, head had daggers, and eyes had bow and arrows. I didn't summon mine at the time of the others because I didn't know how to summon it when I had a ring. They tried to make me regenerate a few times so I would have a different gem locations, but it didn't work.

I always came back with that ring. I could never summon my weapon until one day in my quarters. I was sitting on the floor trying to take the accursed ring off. It would not come off. I just thought about how I couldn't summon my weapon. I tried and tried to take off the ring. I thought about how good it would be to fight and summon my weapon. I felt my ring slip a bit, so I kept thinking the same thoughts. Soon I was able to get the ring off, so I threw it. Next thing I knew, there was a yellow Bo staff in front of me. I did it! I actually summoned my weapon!

In training the next day, we were told to start training with our weapons. The instructors looked at me because they still thought I couldn't summon my weapon. I knew I had to make them have a look of surprise on their face. They told me to try and summon my weapon, so I started thinking of my weapon. I threw my ring up in the air and it changed into my Bo staff. I caught it and spun it before it landed on the ground. I guess I had made a little routine in summoning it yesterday. One of the instructors looked in awe, while the other only looked a little surprised.

Soon after I summoned it, the training began. We were told to try and fight with our weapons. We should be able to know how to do it naturally, the instructors said. I started to spin my Bo staff. I started to move like I was forcefully poking something. I swung it and it all just came naturally. I went to one of the dummies and was able to break its head off my just swinging my weapon. I was able to stab through it by doing a jabbing motion. I thought I got pretty good at the weapon then.

After a few years of weapon training, we were told we only had two subjects to cover after that, then we were free to do whatever the Diamond Authority made us do, which was most likely fight. We were told to make our weapons do their special abilities. The first one I discovered was my range attack. I was able to shoot spike balls that could explode from my Bo staff. It was nice to see I had some special abilities. I worked with that one for years.

The other one I found was also pretty cool. It took me a while to get, but I was able to find it. After working on it and focusing on my weapon, it seemed to grow a bit, I could not explain it at the time though. I keep thinking and thinking about it and it kept growing and growing. Then, all I could think about was how to reverse it. Get smaller, get smaller is all I thought. It started to become smaller when I kept thinking it. I don't know how long it took me to figure it out, but I figured out that I could make my weapon grow and shrink. I guess technically that's also a ranged attack.

In more years, I also learned if maybe I impaled something with my Bo staff, my ring would come back and I could summon my weapon again. I learned how to master my Bo staff and how to make it not break. That was easy, considering it's also made of the hardest thing in the universe. I became the best ever at my weapon, at least I thought.

Soon, we moved on to the final years of training. We learned stuff, like what to do when we have to retread to our gem. We also learned how to regenerate quickly, how to choose practical outfits (though some Citrines didn't care and wore floor length dresses), and other basic things. We learned what to do when we face our opponent and make battle strategies.

One of the most important things we learned was fusion. We learned how to make our own dance and how to fuse. Some of us fused together, only to make a giant Citrine. Citrines fusing with Citrines did not work. My dance was a little different from the other Citrines, but that was okay.

When all the Citrines finished, we were able to leave training. It took about a 5000 years to finish. Now, it was time for the next part of my life, going to the Diamond Authority to see what I have to do next.

After training, I was sent to the diamonds. The oldest one was Yellow Diamond, followed by White Diamond, Blue Diamond, and the about hundred years in power, Pink Diamond. All the Citrines were sent out for war. We were fighting gems, so this was necessary. I was out there for about 10,000 years fighting until I was called back to Homeworld. The Diamonds needed to see all the Citrines.

There wasn't many of us left as we went into the throne room. There were only about five. All the Citrines were sent to different war zones, and all but us five got shattered. We told The Diamonds about what happened and how our comrades were dead.

The Diamonds did not look pleased. Especially Yellow Diamond. We were told we were too weak of a model for fighting and that they would make Rubies, Tourmalines, and Jaspers as new fighting gems. Yellow Diamond said that we could barely survive out there, much less fight. I was appalled to hear she didn't even care about our fallen comrades. In that throne room, all the Citrines were heartbroken. I didn't stand for it though.

"How could you just sit there and not care about us? Just throw us away like some pieces of garbage?" I yelled to Yellow Diamond, who gave me a nasty look in return.

"Because that's exactly what you are. Our best instructors trained you for thousands of years, and look at you! There were about 500 of you! Now there are only five. You are just cluttering up Homeworld and you need to be disposed of." Yellow Diamond said.

"Well I'm not going to let that happen! I'm going to keep fighting! Not be shattered by you! Who's with me?" I asked the other Citrines. No one had replied, they just looked down in shame. They had no hope. They just sat there ready to be shattered. I couldn't believe this. That's when I knew I was different from the other Citrines.

I had to get out of there. I would not get shattered today. I ran out of the room. I heard poofs and shatters. I knew I was the only Citrine left, I was just going to have to live with that. Tears welled up in my eyes as I looked back seeing a few shards on the ground.

"Get her! There can be no Citrines left! Make sure you shatter her! She has a defect!" I heard Yellow Diamond say. A defect? I didn't have any defects. I knew I had to get out of there. I ran down the green and yellow hallway, not even looking at the corridors. I was in a hurry. Though, I had to think of what I should do. I stopped at a corridor and thought. As I was thinking, I remember some gem saying there was a ship leaving Homeworld today to go to Earth so they could start a Kindergarten there. It was a stretch but it was my only chance. I started to hear pounding footsteps behind me, some Painite guards were coming for me! These were the elite of the elite. These were the Diamond Authority's top guards. If they found me, I'd be dead in less than ten seconds.

I started to run to where the Homeworld ships usually are found. I ran to the one that looked like it was about to take off. I ran and jumped to the one seemingly going to Earth. I opened the cargo hold and jumped inside. I was able to hear the Painite guards trying to find me, but it was too late, the ship was already taking off. It was taking off to where I would make my new life, where I would be free and not shattered.

It was a few days before I arrived on Earth. It was a beautiful planet, it was so very green. I jumped out of the cargo hold when the ship landed and I walked away. I saw multiple gems starts to come out of the ship, and one of them was Pink Diamond! Oh no. What was I going to do? She would find me and kill me herself! I decided to watch from behind some bushes.

She wasn't an actual diamond like the others, she was a Rose Quartz, and very powerful. She could heal, and had very defensive powers. That's why she was in charge of defense. I don't know why she is in charge of Kindergarten too, but that's not my business. Pink Diamond and the other gems with her started setting up the injectors. This is the part I never liked. They would suck the life up out of this planet and give it to the gems being made here. Soon they started making some holes for the new gems to come out of.

I decided to use this time to think of what Yellow Diamond said. I don't have a defect. My physical form is just fine. That's the only defect I know of. Maybe, she said that because I act differently from the other Citrines. Though, I doubt that would be a defect. My thinking was stopped abruptly when I heard voices.

"What should we do now, Pink Diamond?" I heard one gem ask. I decided to look from the bushes. Pink Diamond looked over to them gem who was tiny compare to her.

"Scan the area, make sure there are no unauthorized gems, or unregistered lifeforms. If there are bring them to me immediately, we have to start the gem production soon, and we can't have anything get in the way of our plans." Pink Diamond ordered the small gem. The small gem started to walk away, and started to order other gems to scan the area.

I had to get a move on, if they found me I would be killed. I didn't know where to go, but I decided to sneak away, I went inside where they were going to make the kindergarten and made a run for it. There weren't yells after me, so I doubt I was found. I went to the edge of the canyon. There was nowhere to go. I was on the edge of a cliff. The other side was about 100 feet away. I couldn't make that! I decided to try though. I ran and jumped, the next thing I knew I was falling. I tried to stop it, but it was too late, I was almost to the ground. I was thinking about how bad it would hurt until I realized I should have hit by now. I looked down, I was floating! Floating is a semi rare ability among gems.

I flew out of the hole, once I was out I went to the other side. It seemed I had a special ability! That was good. Now, what to do. I pressed my fingers against my temples. I was about to leave Homeworld, forever. It's what I had to do though. I was going to be killed. I couldn't let that happen. Soon I heard yelling.

"I found a gem Pink Diamond! They are on the other side of this cliff!" I heard a gem yell.

"Well, then get them! You can fly." I heard Pink Diamond say. I soon saw a silhouette of a Tiger's Eye gem. Tiger's Eye gems were made for taking orders, so they were pretty well rounded. They were able to fight, use technology, protect and more. I didn't know how good of a fighter this one was, so I didn't think I should fight. Before I could get out of there, the Tiger's Eye was in front of me.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here, a gem that's not authorized. You know what happens to gems that aren't authorized when very important missions are happening." Tiger's Eye said in a cold voice. I did know what would happen. I would be killed.

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. Though, if you want to kill me, then be ready for a fight." I said. I wasn't going to get shattered today. I was a fighting gem, they were a gem meant to take orders.

"Fine. If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get." Tiger's Eye charged at me, and summoned her weapon from the gem on her ear. Her weapon was a battle axe. I summoned my weapon, and dodged the brown gem's attack.

"Is that the best you can do, this is just too easy." I said. Her fighting style was sloppy. Tiger's Eye slashed her weapon at me. I dodged again and I struck her head with my Bo staff. She took a step back and threw her axe at me. I dodged, but a little bit of my arm got cut. I used my ranged attack and shot spike balls at her. A few of them stuck to her, then exploded.

Once the smoke from the explosion cleared away, I could see her. She was in critical condition. She obviously didn't care. She was here for a mission, and she would keep doing that mission unless it's completed or she is shattered. She summoned two battle axes and threw them at me. I moved, but I got hit by the other one. I fell to the ground. I was struggling to get back up when Tiger's Eye came over to me. She summoned a battle axe and swung it down. I rolled away before it could hit my head. I stood back up, Bo staff in hand. I made it grow and hit her with it. I got close to her and punched and kicked her, until I did one of my special moves. I spun around, arms and legs out and hit her many times. When I stopped she was still laying there.

She got back up and summoned her weapon. She kept swinging at me, so I dodged and dodged. I flew above her and kicked her in the ground. She flew back out, and soon we were fighting in the sky. Soon there were punches and kicked being made. I put my first back and put all my power in the attack. Instead of doing my routine, I just let the Bo staff go straight into my hand as began to punch her. As my punch landed the Bo staff appeared. It had impaled her. She fell down. We were high in the sky so it was a long fall. After she fell, I descended. She tried to spin kick me on the ground. I jumped up, but she got my ankle. I fell down. I tried getting back up, but she grabbed me and pulled me down. I punched her in the face, so she let go. I summoned my Bo staff and swung it at her. I kept doing it until I used my range attack. When the spike balls got on her and exploded, I heard a poof. I looked to where she was laying, all I saw was her gem.

I walked over to the little square gem, and looked at it. I summoned my Bo staff and put it over the gem. I forced the Bo staff to come down and crushed the gem. It was either me or them, there was no way I could let that gem come back. Soon I heard Pink Diamond.

"Tiger's Eye? Tiger's Eye where are you?" Pink Diamond asked to air. Here voice was coming closer, meaning she was getting close as well. I had to leave that place before she found me. I went behind some rocks and looked. Pink Diamond walked over to the shattered gem, seeing that it was Tiger's Eye's.

"Oh no, if Tiger's Eye was killed, that means there is a fighting gem on the loose!" I can't get any of my gems to kill her. Not now, at least. She's probably long gone by now anyway." Pink Diamond said, walking back to the Kindergarten.

"Phew. That was a close one. She could have found me." I said. Now what was I going to do? I had nowhere to go. As I was thinking I felt a huge rumble. That means the injectors were starting and gems were starting to be made. The rumbling made me lose my balance and I fell off the cliff. I was already in bad shape so if I hit the ground, I would have to regenerate. I tried to fly, but I was already so beaten up from the fighting I couldn't. I looked down and I saw the ground become really close. I braced for impact. All I heard was a thud and a poof.

I was in that yellow place again. Soon the panels came up. The first one made me heal myself when I touched it. That took a while. Then, the other came up, making me choose what to look like and stuff like that. I gave myself an orange shirt with a yellow vest and yellow gloves. I also, gave myself some yellow shorts with rips on the bottom. Then, I chose some a little above the ankle orange and yellow boots. Lastly, I gave myself a lime green sash where my belt would be. After I was done, the panels went away and I was told to rest. So I did. I don't know how long I rested, but it seemed like forever. Finally a glow started to come over the yellow place, and I was back at the bottom of the cliff.

I flew back from the bottom and saw thousands of holes in the Kindergarten. I didn't see any other gems though, but I saw a ship. It was the Kindergarten ship. This ship was meant to pick up some Kindergarten gems. It looked like it was about to take off, and the Kindergarten wasn't full of gems.

Soon, I saw Pink Diamond. She was with dangerous company. She was talking to the other Diamonds! That was not good. It looked like they were arguing. I listened in.

"I think we should stop the Kindergarten now." Pink Diamond said with a pleading tone in her voice.

"No, Pink Diamond, we need more gems, and this planet has the right requirements to do so." Yellow Diamond said.

"It needs to stop now! I saw it, Yellow Diamond. I saw lives here. Lots of innocent people. We can't just take the life out their planet and kill them!" Pink Diamond said, she was really trying to persuade Yellow Diamond.

"I don't care about any lives here, our race is superior so we have to use the life from this planet even if it kills everything here!" Yellow Diamond said.

"Yeah, Pink Diamond. Gems are superior, we could kill this race with just one gem, and we have to do this. We are not shutting down the Kindergarten!" White Diamond yelled, making Pink Diamond wince.

"So, what about you Blue Diamond. Do you really want to kill everything on this planet, even though they were here first? Do you want to be known for complete genocide?" Pink Diamond asked, tears in her eyes.

"I-I. Yes. This planet needs to be used for our purposes. The Kindergarten will live on! We don't care if you like it or not!" Blue Diamond yelled.

"See Pink Diamond, we are going to keep having gem production here. No matter the costs! So take that stupid idea out of your mind!" Yellow Diamond yelled, glaring at Pink Diamond.

"No! I'm going to stay and fight for this planet! No matter the cost! I'm not just going to stand here and let everything die! You will call me Rose Quartz from now on! I don't want to be a Diamond if it means killing innocent people!" Pink Diamond, or Rose retorted.

"Fine, you won't be Diamond anymore. Nor will you be living! Yellow Diamond said, getting ready to fight.

"Wait, Yellow Diamond, let her have her little rebellion. We will kill her then." White Diamond said.

"Fine." Yellow Diamond said, walking to the warp pad, other Diamonds following. "This won't be the last you see of us Rose. Just wait."

"You'll see." Rose said under her breath. She needed to get troops together. I couldn't believe that happened. I decided to walk up to Rose, and ask her what she will do.

"Excuse me." I said looking at her. "I couldn't help but overhear what happened, what are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I'll have to get gems together for this rebellion. I guess I can see what these people on the ship will think. I know I at least have one gem I can count on. That would be the Pearl assigned to me." Rose said. This is the perfect opportunity to see how long I've been gone.

"What about your Tiger's Eye. I thought all Diamonds had one.

"My Tiger's eye is dead, died about 7 years ago. Some gem must have killed her." Rose said. 7 years? What was I doing? I can't believe it! Rose started to go to the warp pad. Once she warped, I was all alone.

"What am I going to do?" I said to air. "Once she sees I'm a Citrine she'll want nothing to do with me! Why did I even walk over to her? I can't be a part of this. What would she do if she found out I was the one who killed Tiger's Eye?" I didn't know what to do, but all I know is that I couldn't be a part of this. I think there was going to be a huge war. If I was a part of a fighting, and the Diamonds fought, I would be killed.

I started to walk out of the Kindergarten, only hearing the sounds of my footsteps as my walk started to become a run. I ran for an hour at least, until I found a huge tree. I flew up to one of the branches and laid down. This would be a good place to lay low. Soon I felt the nice comfort of sleep go over me.

The next thing I knew I was in the same forest, but all the trees were dead. I looked in front of me and a familiar figure was walking towards me. I tried to walk back, but I couldn't move.

"There you are, little brat. Did you really think you could get away from the inevitable? You aren't anything and you don't deserve to live." A cruel and cold voice said to me. I knew who it was, it was Yellow Diamond. She put her fists together and struck me on the head and I fell to the ground. She kicked me and stepped on my hand. She soon stomped on it, cracking my gem. She kept stomping on it until it was shattered.

I jerked my head up. It was just a dream. I didn't know gems could sleep. I started to hear weapons clashing and explosions. I climbed to the top of the tree I was laying on and I saw a horrible thing. I saw a complete war. I saw big gems and little gems alike, fighting to the death. I don't know how long I had been asleep, but from the looks of it, this had been going on for a while. This war was really close.

I must have been watching for days. I just had a strong desire to fight in that war. It's because I am a fighting gem. I couldn't take it anymore. I had to fight. I ran from the top of the tree and jumped. I flew all the way to the war. I looked around for Rose Quartz. When, I finally found her, she was at what looked like her base. I descended from my flight and approached her.

"Hello, are you Rose Quartz?" I said, trying to be professional. She looked over to me.

"Why yes, I am. Do you work for The Diamond Authority?" Rose asked me.

"No, I am no longer in affiliation with them. I would like to actually fight with you and protect this planet" I responded, remembering why Rose rebelled.

"Good. Come into the tent." Rose said, opening the tent flap. I walked in, in the tent there were two other gems. One was a Pearl by the looks of it, but I didn't know what the other was.

"Pearl, Garnet this a gem that I met outside. She is ready to fight for our cause." Rose said to the two gems. Garnet, remained very stoic. While Pearl was voicing her opinions.

"Are you sure we can trust her? We can't just get gems out of the blue. We don't even know what kind of gem she is?" Pearl said to Rose. She started to talk to me "Now, state what kind of gem you are."

"I-I-um." I said. That's all I could say. I couldn't say what kind of gem I was!

"Pearl, stand down. All that matters is that I know she is trustworthy. You and Garnet go outside while I talk to this new gem." Rose said. Pearl scowled at me as her and Garnet walked out of the tent.

"Now, just tell me what kind of gem you are. I already have an idea, and I promise I won't hurt you." Rose said in a calming voice.

"I'm a Citrine." I said, looking away.

"Wow! You're ancient! How are you still-" Rose said, being cut off by her own thoughts. "You're the one that ran off. When I was still a Diamond."

"Yes, that's true. I have just one question though, how long has this war been going?" I asked.

"5 years at least." Rose said. "You must have fallen asleep. Citrines are gems meant to sleep for a long time." I guess that explained why my regeneration took so long.

"So, you won't shatter me?" I said.

"Of course not, there is no reason to be scared here." Rose said. She called back in Garnet and Pearl.

"So Rose? Are we going to shatter this gem?" Pearl said, summoning her weapon.

"Of course not Pearl. She's on our side" Rose reassured her. Pearl relaxed a bit, and made her weapon disappear.

"Garnet, do you have anything to say about it?" Rose asked the taller gem.

"Welcome to the team" Garnet said to me. I walked over to Pearl.

"Hi. You must be Pearl. You don't seem like you trust gems very easily. That is a very useful skill, but you have to be careful with that. You could iss out on a great gem." I said to Pearl, expecting a conversation.

"What do you know about how I act, and how it affects me?" Pearl said.

"I know because I'm a warrior gem. I know these things." I said, ready to win this argument.

"Fine, but if you step out of line, I will end you." Pearl said. She's a Pearl, she can't take me. I'm a warrior. She should know better. I went to Rose.

"So do we get assigned to fight?" I asked her.

"Yes, but we are on an off day today. Tomorrow, you will fight. You should start training. Choose who to train with, either Garnet or Pearl." Rose said. I knew exactly who I was going to train with, show whose boss.

"I choose Pearl. A good spar would be enough." I said, pointing at Pearl, who scoffed in response. We walked into a little sparring arena, where Rose and Garnet sat down.

"Make sure there is no retreating into gems. Everyone has to be here." Rose said, looking at Pearl and I.

"Got it!" I responded.

"And begin!" Rose shouted.

Pearl stood opposite from me. She made the first move. She summoned her weapon from the gem atop her head. It was a spear, making me think of my own weapon. She gracefully made her way over to me, and started to swing her spear at me. I jumped and kicked her in the head. She stepped back, obviously angered. She started to shoot energy blasts at me, only one actually hit me. It barely hurt. I decided to summon my weapon. I threw my wing up in the air and caught and spun my Bo staff. I charged at Pearl, she braced for impact. I pole vaulted over her and struck her stomach with my weapon. She fell down.

I jumped in the air and started by signature move. I stuck all my limbs out and spun quickly at her. Since she was on the ground, it was easy to hit her. I made my weapon shoot spike balls at her, and they exploded. I kept going and going. I just loved the thrill of battle. I'm showing her that she can't treat me the way she was! Soon I heard yelling.

"Stop! Stop!" Rose and Garnet yelled at once. I descended from my flight and lowered down. Letting the smoke clear away. I saw Pearl, but in a horrible condition. I was horrified at what I had done. Garnet jumped to Pearl, picking her up and walking away. Rose jumped down to me.

"Are you okay? You almost poofed Pearl. I know you are a warrior gem, though lets be a little more careful." Rose said to me. I was looking down. Ashamed of what I had done. I knew it was a little too late to say sorry. I ran to my room in the tent.

Today was the day. The first day I battle. I walked into the main room of the tent. Rose, Garnet, and Pearl were all there, the other gems on our side were resting.

"Okay, time to start our battle for today." Rose said. She started saying battle plans, and making battle strategies. I was half listening though, I was thinking to myself.

'How could I have done that to Pearl? What kind of monster am I? Maybe I do have a defect.'

"You clear on the plan?" Rose said looking at me.

"Yes." I said.

"You know, Rose. How come you haven't told us the name of, this gem?" Pearl said, nastily referring to me.

"She prefers to keep it secret Pearl, I know she may have hurt you yesterday in battle, but that's because she is a warrior gem, she knows how to fight.

"Ugh, fine. Just I don't think I can trust her if I don't know her gem." Pearl said, looking away from me. Soon, we went out of the tent, ready to fight. I went with Rose as she fought a Jade gem. Rose summoned her shield and took out her sword. I summoned my Bo staff and was ready to fight.

"Citrine, get out of here! It's too dangerous!" Rose said.

"No! I have to help you! You can't fight a Jade gem alone! They are really powerful!" I yelled.

"That's my point, she could kill you!" Rose yelled. We continued to quarrel, until I saw I horrible sight. I sword went right through Rose, causing her to retreat to her gem.

"NOOOO!" I yelled, charging at the Jade gem. I was going to kill her. I put the Rose Quartz gem in my pocket and charged at Jade. I couldn't remember much after that. I remembered fighting her and a bright light emitting from me, and I shattered her gem. Though, what happened next wasn't so fun.

"Guys." I said as I walked in the tent. Pearl and Garnet were sitting down. "Rose is regenerating."

"What? Why? What happened? Where's her gem?" Pearl asked. I pulled her gem out of my pocket and explained how she got poofed.

"You… did this to her! If you just did what she said, we wouldn't be in this mess! You got her to retreat into her gem! This is all because of you!" Pearl yelled.

"I think it's best if you leave us alone for a while." Garnet said. I walked to my room in the tent. 'How could I do this?' is all that ran through my mind.

After a few hours, Rose came back. She talked to Pearl and Garnet. I just sat in my room, in the dark. Soon, Rose came in.

"You know, it's okay. Pearl shouldn't have yelled like that and I'm sorry for that." Rose said.

"It's not that," I said, lying. "It's just I got you poofed. How am I supposed to live with that? I could have killed you!"

"Don't worry, it's fine." Rose said, walking out of the room. It was not fine, how was it supposed to be fine? I couldn't do anything right. I almost got our leader killed! Not to mention got yelled at by Pearl, and told to go away by Garnet. What a horrible first day of battle.

A few days after, it was time to battle again. I had made a few more mistakes like a few days ago this week, but I hoped not today. I went to go walk out of the tent. As soon as I walked out, a Jet gem charged at me, tackling me on the ground. I got up and summoned my weapon. Jet went in front of me. I attack first, try to impale Jet with my Bo staff. I managed to impale her once, obviously weakening her. She summoned her weapon from the gem on her chest, a morning star. She swung it at me, almost hitting me. I dodged in time and charged at her and kicked her in the face. She stumbled back and threw her weapon at me. I ducked, but the weapon had hit the top of my head.

"Look at you, you can't fight. You are worthless. You must be a non-fighting gem. You don't belong here. I can't wait to shatter you, I will laugh so hard. You little brat." Jet said. I wasn't just mad at this comment. No, I was angry, infuriated, she just said the wrong thing to the wrong gem.

"You think I can't fight! Just you wait!" I yelled. I summoned my Bo staff and made it grow. I swung it at her head many times, almost landing each shot. She stumbled, losing balance. I did my signature move and spread my limbs wide. Once in a spinning formation, I made her fall to the ground.

"This is what you get for calling me brat! You aren't going to treat me like this anymore!" I yelled, tears welling up in my eyes. My anger just exploded, and from out of nowhere, a yellow blast came from me. It hit Jet and exploded. I shot spike balls form my weapon, and watched the explosion. Then, I swung my weapon many, many times, where Jet was. I didn't even know if she retreated to her gem yet. I didn't care, I was going to kill her. I let the smoke clear away, and there it was, a Jet gem. I put my foot over it, and smashed the gem. It shattered into many pieces. I used my weapon to shoot exploding spike balls from it, and they exploded.

I completed my mission. Jet was dead. I cooled myself down before heading back to the tent. The other gems were inside.

"There you are!" Rose said. For some reason, she sounded angry.

"Where were you? We finished up our battles, and then this huge gem started fighting us! We almost died! We needed you! Where were you?" Pearl screamed at me. They almost died? It was my fault?

"I thought you were going to be there." Garnet said, stoic as ever.

"What do you mean? I was out there, fighting for my life! Maybe if you all wouldn't just complain you would be fine!" I yelled back.

"We didn't mean to offend you." Rose said. "You just went out of the plan."

"Well I'm sorry. I was fighting a Jet gem and ended up shattering her." I said.

"You did what?" Garnet said, a little anger in her voice.

"What are you? An idiot? We were going to take her to our side! She was almost there! She would have been a useful ally! Now you just killed her! You are just a defective gem not able to do anything right! First you almost kill me, then you put Rose in danger, then you disobeyed an order, went out of the plan, and now you just lost us a very powerful ally! You just can't do anything! You're reckless behavior has gotten us nothing but trouble!" Pearl screamed. I was appalled. There was no way I would spare that Jet gem. Not after the way she treated me.

"You're recklessness has affected the whole team. You need to learn to follow orders and have respect. You aren't being shown to have any of that right now." Garnet said. She was really mad at me.

"You have been trying, yes, but I think you need to work on following orders better. Remember, we need to save this planet." Rose said. That was the last straw. They all thought I had made a mistake, that I was defective.

"No! I can't why do you all think I'm just a mistake! I'm trying to do things right! I'm not perfect though to you guys! I could have a defect maybe, but is that my fault! I'm trying to give it my all for you guys!" I yelled. I started to summon my weapon.

"Citrine! Stop!" Rose yelled. She immediately put her hand to her mouth. "Citrine…" She just crushed me. She broke one of her biggest promises to me. She said my name. I couldn't, I wouldn't…

"She's a Citrine! How could you put her on a team with us, Rose! No wonder she's endangered us all!" Pearl screamed.

"Rose, get out of here! She has to be shattered. Citrines aren't good gems." Garnet said. I was heartbroken. These people I thought I could trust, just flipped over to the other side.

"How could you? You broke our biggest promise Rose!" I yelled. I ran outside the tent. I summoned my weapon. I started to shoot exploding spike balls from it. Some of them hit Garnet and Pearl, who ran outside to attack me. Garnet summoned her gauntlets and started to run at me, I flew up and fell down with a two-legged kick to her head. She got back up launched her gauntlets at me. I went in between them and started to do my special move. I stuck my limbs out and started spinning towards her. I kicked and punched her in the face every time. She soon fell to the ground.

Pearl started to attack me with her spear. I grabbed it and pulled it toward me, Pearl with it, I punched her in the face as she came close. This is the kind of battle I liked. Doing it to these traitors made it all feel better.

"Now, do you really think you could face me? I hate you! You deserve to die with all the misery you've inflicted on me. Soon a yellow light came onto my palms. I put my palms together and shot the energy blast at Pearl. I kept shooting until I hit her. I kept hitting her over and over again. I stopped when I found her lying on the ground.

"This is what you get! Calling me defective, yelling at me! I will never be treated like this again!" I yelled. I was about to hit Pearl when a shield hit my arm. I looked to the side. It was Rose. She was holding a chest.

"Citrine! I don't want to fight you!" Rose said.

"Well too bad, this is what you get! You and your teammates treating me this way! I've been betrayed!" I yelled. Garnet and Pearl started to get up, they jumped side my side to Rose. I made a huge energy blast from my hands and shot it at them. They all clumsily jumped out of the way.

"I'm Citrine! And you can't treat me this way anymore!" I yelled, readying another blast. I shot it at Rose this time. She summoned her shield. She signaled Pearl and Garnet to come up to her. Soon, they were all holding that chest. I started to feel a pull to that chest. I tried to get away but Garnet, Pearl, and Rose were all using their strength to pull me in. As I came closer I sung my Bo staff at all of their heads, hurting each one. I started to get trapped in the chest. I tried to escape the pull, but there was no way. I just let it pull me in.

All three gems dropped the chest. There was now a Citrine gem at the front of the chest.

"I can't believe that happened. She was an unstable gem. Maybe one day she can be free." Rose said, bubbling the chest.

A/N: This is long because this is my first fic. Hope you like it so far!