Noire
Planetoid
- Joined
- May 13, 2017
The skies above Beach City burned.
With the city vacated, there were almost no souls around to view it -- the refugee train miles down the road could only see the occasional cloudburst, molten metal streaking down through the clouds like God's own buckshot, landing throughout the city and the surrounding countryside.
The gem invasion had come with little to no fanfare, the Crystal Gem defenders defeated in an instant. But once Jasper's gem arm ship had been destroyed from within, the ship was coming down hard.
In another time, the entire arm might have swept down from the sky to land across the mountain, depositing the survivors all across Beach City's landscape.
This time, however, things were different.
A pink bubble landed some miles away, blown free of the wreckage with a young Crystal Gem and his guardians smashing down into the countryside, tearing through fields but coming out ultimately unharmed.
The last two remaining souls aboard the ship were just a little less lucky than that.
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Lapis Lazuli had been blown free of the ship, wrapping herself up with all the water she could possibly produce or whip from the air and atmosphere, doing her best imitation of a bubble on the way down to earth's surface. She was fortunate, however, that she had been blown right off the coast of Beach City, meaning that when she was going in to land, it was to be skipped across the water until she slammed into another sandbar.
An island, some few miles south of Beach City and just off of the coast. Far enough away that she couldn't even see the city she had once called prison.
Lapis groaned, clutching at her head as she stared dazedly up at the sky. Her trim form was as battered as could be, and it was only by luck she had managed to survive at all -- especially as she had landed on her back. She had to reach back to feel if her gem had once again been cracked, but it was to her gratification that it was not.
She pulled herself to a sitting position, staring out with blank blue eyes at the island she'd managed to slam into.
With the city vacated, there were almost no souls around to view it -- the refugee train miles down the road could only see the occasional cloudburst, molten metal streaking down through the clouds like God's own buckshot, landing throughout the city and the surrounding countryside.
The gem invasion had come with little to no fanfare, the Crystal Gem defenders defeated in an instant. But once Jasper's gem arm ship had been destroyed from within, the ship was coming down hard.
In another time, the entire arm might have swept down from the sky to land across the mountain, depositing the survivors all across Beach City's landscape.
This time, however, things were different.
A pink bubble landed some miles away, blown free of the wreckage with a young Crystal Gem and his guardians smashing down into the countryside, tearing through fields but coming out ultimately unharmed.
The last two remaining souls aboard the ship were just a little less lucky than that.
____________
Lapis Lazuli had been blown free of the ship, wrapping herself up with all the water she could possibly produce or whip from the air and atmosphere, doing her best imitation of a bubble on the way down to earth's surface. She was fortunate, however, that she had been blown right off the coast of Beach City, meaning that when she was going in to land, it was to be skipped across the water until she slammed into another sandbar.
An island, some few miles south of Beach City and just off of the coast. Far enough away that she couldn't even see the city she had once called prison.
Lapis groaned, clutching at her head as she stared dazedly up at the sky. Her trim form was as battered as could be, and it was only by luck she had managed to survive at all -- especially as she had landed on her back. She had to reach back to feel if her gem had once again been cracked, but it was to her gratification that it was not.
She pulled herself to a sitting position, staring out with blank blue eyes at the island she'd managed to slam into.