章節 17: A nice surprise
I watched as Pink just laughed on the ground for a few moments until a pearl appeared beside her, not before giving me a diamond salute and going back to Pink's side. This pearl has a thin and flexible build and a pointed beak-like nose. She has an overall pink color scheme, with her skin being light pink and her eyes are a very pale magenta, and her lilac hair is twisted into two Princess Leia-like buns that are held to the sides of her head.
She is wearing a hot pink and dark rose midriff-like top, with lilac glove-sleeves. She is wearing dark rose tights with hot pink leggings, as well as very pale magenta flats and a sheer lilac tulle skirt. Her gemstone is located on the upper part of her navel and is an oval-shaped cabochon, similar to Pearl. She looked like she did in just the show without the crack in her head.
Wait, what should I refer to her as? I feel as though it would get confusing if I refer to her as Pearl when I called on my Pearl and I'm going to meet other Pearls so… I'll just put their colour in front of their name then, wow that was simple.
While I was having this inner debate, Pink finally managed to calm down enough to stop laughing and actually looked at me for the first time and spoke.
"Hah hah haa I-I-I'm sorry Black, I just had so many flowers from my-ahh." She gave a surprised scream when she looked at my shadowy appearance. The fear then turned to curiosity and wonder as she jumped from the ground and hovered around my face and spoke in rapid succession.
"You look so cool! How can you do that?!? Can I do it too? What's it like?" I swear she had stars in her eyes that seemed to grow bigger as she spoke.
I then replied in kind.
"Thank you , I manipulated the aura from my power to cover my face, you might be able to do it but don't need to, and it feels like I'm wearing a cover but less inconvenient."
I then stretched out my hand in a way that caused her to sit on my index finger and put her on the ground near Pink Pearl. I then question her about the flowers.
"So care to explain the flowers?" A white slit smile formed on my cloaking, similar to my diamond eyes.
Pink just put her hand behind her head as sweat form on her forehead and began to speak.
"Well, since you said you were gonna visit us in a week to see how we were doing, I wanted to impress you. So with Pearl's help I managed to learn to make flowers and plants." She begins to look down. "I know this doesn't have any practicality but-"
I interrupted her by crouching down and putting my finger on her head to use head pats and spoke.
"You did well Pink, it's actually really impressive."
A light blush begins to form on Pink.
"Really, but I just made flowers?"
"You were able to grow life, you made something that can grow beyond its previous design." It was true, I might be able to affect inorganic life with my power and organic with science, but she was born with it.
Pink just blushed deeper with my words, her eyes showing a spark of joy and pride at my admittance. If only I knew how much my words would have affected her.
I retracted my hands and stood up and put my hand on my hip as I spoke.
"Now come on, we have to meet the rest of our sisters."
"Ok Black, can't wait to show them what I can do! Speaking of, what can you do with your powers Black?"
I just let out a soft chuckle and said.
"I'll show you on the way."
I then used my telekinesis to lift Pink and the Pearls to my level. Pearl, who already had experience with this, quickly sat on my shoulder and Pink who was shocked at first quickly began laughing before floating around me as I walked and played with Pink Pearl.
As we walked over to Yellow's portion of the city with the pink flower petals still on my body, Pink began to ask me a few questions as she held Pink Pearl in place in her arms.
"Hey Black, why are you covering your face with that Black stuff?"
"I just noticed that everyone was alway staring at my face and was constantly bothered by it, so I made this in order to make it more convenient."
"It's not a bother at all! Your face is just so amazing to look at that Gems get lost in them!" Wow the same reaction as the rest, with tension written all over her face.
"If you're worried that I'll never show my face again then don't, I'll take it off when it's just us. Besides, I wanted to look cool and mysterious to the other Gems we would meet."
Pink became visibly relaxed before she spoke in her usual spunky tone.
"That's good and I understand, if you want I'll begrudgingly take the title of the most beautiful Diamond." Her voice became a tad bit more haughtier at the end.
"How about you take a look at my face without blushing first." I retorted
Pink just looks away in denial while Pink Pearl had a cute and confused look on her face, wondering what the big deal with my looks. We passed the time with pleasant conversations until we reached Yellow's door.
When we opened it we saw Yellow sitting on the floor with her legs crossed as an electrical aura pulsated around her. It continued for a few moments before the aura became withdrawn and she opened her eyes. She then stood up and greeted me and Pink who was sitting on my head with her knees drawn to her face with Pink Pearl sitting on her legs beside Pink.
"Black! Pink! It's nice to see you again." She said with a light smile and we replied in kind.
"Hi Yellow." Pink waved her hand from side to side excitedly.
"Hello Yellow, I see you made progress with your powers."
Yellow puts her hand on her chest near her gem as she exclaimed.
"Of course! I wanted to surprise you."
She is… adorable! Look at how serious she is trying to be, awww little sis I know you can do it!
"Well Pink already showed me what she can do, do you wanna try?"
Yellow agreed and the same yellow aura surrounded her as she began to move across the room, almost as if she was flying. After a few minutes she stopped and raised her hand to shoot an electrical beam of energy that left a scorch mark on the wall.
Both Pearls broke out in applause and as did Pink in extra gusto as she yelled and whooped in applause. Huh, just noticed Yellow Pearl isn't here. I looked around the room and it looked the same with a light yellow wall that contained some tapestry, an extravagant throne with multiple designs, and a waterfall on both sides of it. I then noticed a Yellow tinted pearl near the throne and figured Yellow hadn't activated it yet.
Never mind that, I brought my attention back to Yellow and walked up to her. I could feel her nervousness behind her calm facade and I brought my hand to her face, she closed her eyes not knowing what to expect. I then used the greatest weapon to punish her.
I patted her head to get over her cuteness. I swear she acts tough but is really a softy on the inside. As I patted her head she opened her eyes and had a slight blush as I spoke.
"That was really impressive Yellow and you worked hard, good job."
"Ah~ thank you Black."
I then withdrew my hand from her head and wrapped my arm around Yellow's shoulder and spoke in a giddy tone.
"Now then let's go meet Blue, I'm sure you're dying to see her, hmmm?"
"Yes actually, I'd enjoy that." She slightly blushes. "Don't tell her that!"
Look, a wild tsundere has appeared!
Pink and I just laughed, much to Yellow's embarrassment, and we all walked to Blue's sector of the city. On the way we conversed, Yellow asked me about my cloaking and I gave a similar answer to what I said to Pink. Then Pink actually led the whole social atmosphere and actually got a few laughs out of every one.
When we appeared in front of Blue's door Yellow was about to ask me about the flower petals that were still sticking to me and I replied with.
"I'll just tell you with Blue since we're here."
Yellow just nodded and we opened the door and were met with a surprise.
Sitting near the pool was Blue with her dress half submerged talking to White! She must've known about me visiting the other Diamond, since she was there.
Blue and White turned their attention to us as we entered and I quickly used telekinesis to put Pink on the ground in front of us and the Pearls behind us.
Blue seemed shocked seeing a walking shadow but grew excited as she saw my Gem and knew it was me. As we came closer to the room I looked around. The room also looked similar to the show with an ascending staircase, pools of water organized to each row, a flowing waterfall behind the big pool Blue was in, and we were surrounded by artistic looking branches and root like pillars and sculptures in the water. I noticed Blue's Pearl wasn't here and I couldn't find the gem either, must be some where else.
We ascended the staircase with the Pearls waiting at the bottom of the stairs. As we reached the top of the stairs Blue came running and lifted Pink into the air and did a group hug with us. Yellow was flustered and didn't know what to do at first but eventually reciprocated, Pink as usual was laughing and hugged Blue's cheek, and White approached behind her and just looked at us and we stayed as we were for a few moments before Blue broke the hug.
"I missed you, all of you! I also practiced for the week and I can't wait to show you!" She took hold of my hands and intertwined our fingers together.
However White interrupted us.
"You know Black, you can take off your covering now it's just us." I suppose she has a point and I nod my head, turning off the cloaking and my hair spills out around me. However a noticeable difference from the usual silky sea of hair were the addition of pink flowers and petals scattered across it.
This coupled with the petals and flowers that stayed on my body because of my power made me look fairy-like. Every Diamond, but White, became horrible blushed and if Gems had blood they would be gushing. The worst was Blue who went from happy and bubbly soon became embarrassed and shy.
Her hands subconsciously loosened but I held on for her and my own amusement. After a few minutes Blue came out of her stupor and realized what I was doing. She didn't mind it, that perv, and asked about the flowers.
"These were a present from Pink, it was a product of her power."
Pink became embarrassed and quickly spoke out.
"You know Black you can take it off, it's no big deal I can alway make more flowers for."
"You worked to make this Pink of course I'll keep this."
Pink, Blue, and Yellow just blanched at my words, Pink at how much I cared for a byproduct of a prank and the rest realizing they should have gotten me a gift. Pink used this opportunity to do her usual thing with her hand holding her chin.
"Well then since you care so much about the flowers then I'll make some for you whenever you want, but be careful!"
"Why?" Please don't tell me they would turn out to be alive.
"You might accidentally fall for me."
"… Too late I fell in love with you the moment I met all of you."
The Diamonds blushed more and even White brought her hand to her mouth covering it. Blue then went about showing her power by creating a sky blue sphere of light and manipulating it across the room. It went around us and the pillars and multiplied up to five before eventually dispersing. Pink then shouted.
"Amazing! That was awesome Blue!"
"Well done." Yellow offered a warm smile
"You've made excellent progress Blue." White placed an arm on her shoulder.
I patted her head and she nestled against my touch and blushed under everyone's praise. She is such an emotional baby. Pink then offered to spend the day together since we were together and we all agreed, even White.
We mostly played in the pool for the day and talked, however it was mostly Pink that led the fun and activities. It… was actually quite a bit of fun, more than I was expecting from a cold empire of non-biological beings ruled by a cosmic order of Diamonds.
When the day had passed I and White walked everyone to their rooms, I made a lot of reluctant goodbyes to every Diamond but promised to visit which helped their determination. When we finally got to my room White spoke to me.
"Black I received the schematics of the new injectors and there is a marginal improvement than the current standard. I'll be implementing it as soon as possible and I'll give you your testing site in Homeworld in a few days."
"Thank you White." This is good, I can experiment and edit my formula until then. I was about to enter my room when I felt something warm on top of my head.
White was patting me and it felt comforting. Is this what it feels like? It's nice, I should do it more, but I wish there was something my size I can pet. I should work on shrinking. Just then White spoke.
"I just wanted to congratulate you, I saw you doing this to our little sisters and figured it must be nice. Am I hurting you?"
"No, you're doing just fine." I spoke with a smile with my flower filled hair moving in the wind.
Eventually she stopped and said goodbye and I entered the room with Pearl. I brought up the throne and asked Pearl to bring up the screen for the formula. As I was about to work I paused and used telekinesis to bring the spare metal I had on the table nearby.
I then altered its structure and built it into the shape of a box. If Bismuth learned of this she would throw stuff in anger at how easily I could make things. I proceed to put all the flowers from Pink's prank into the box via telekinesis and stored it into my gem.
"Now then back to work."
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