#cause i dont think (i hope not) the postal service will just leave a box labeled live animal in front of my house

[dykecrawler]

im gonna have 2 lizards again in like. 24 hours

[zippydodahgay]

Hope for a lost gem

(terquoise fic, taking place a log time after terq ditching the war) 

Cool easy to breath breezes, chirping little birds, and sun rays peeping out of between the leaves that swayed in the easy air, Terq lay against a tree, eyes shut and tired she rested. the bark wasn’t the best pillow but she’d gotten used to not sleeping very nicely, living in a forest for many many years took time, but she had plenty. she’d been traveling through the large forest for some time now, looking for some other souls, she was lonely, very lonely, she slipped her eyes open, easing the sunlight into her eyes she gazed around, a nearby animal fleeing at the moment. terq rubbed her eyes and arose, brushing the leaves and bugs off her, she sighed, and began walking in the same direction she left off from yesterday. her ribbons danced behind her as she walked, the two tangling together every now and then to shake hands and say hi, the sun made her blue outfit shine with majestic beauty, but no eyes to see it, no eyes to gaze anywhere around her. she was too much of a attention needing and social gem to be alone, it got her depressed, she only thought about seeing someone else, another gem, even a mean one, she just wanted company. the trees around her began to thin in numbers, some even starting to be stumps and piles of logs. she’d never seen trees like those, with a suspicious yet curious narrowed eye, she continued, looking at each stump and thinking of how such a odd tree grew like that. or so on. 

the sun showed itself completely as the trees ended abruptly, showing a small wood pathed town, terq tilted her head with her mouth open, curious. 

“this isn’t like what i’ve seen” she thought.

she continued on to the structures, the buildings of humans she only heard of from peridots. she walked up to one, put her hand on the window glass and splayed her fingers on it repeatedly. a large yet small man bellowed out of the building’s door with a raised fist; 

“AY YOURE SMUDGIN’ ME GLASS!” 

terq hunched and backed away like a timid puppy, head ducked she moved on to the next building. it looked alot more welcoming, she simply pushed her face to the glass this time, looking in she saw a store for animals and toys, happy humans were in there. terq wished she knew more about earth, because the objects people were coming out with were very cute. a human looked at her, her head rose suddenly-spooked by the human she moved on to the next, between the walk to the next business her toes felt something under them, she looked down at her foot, raising it off the object. she knelt, it was a small box car toy, like one in the toy shop, she picked it up and looked it over curious of it, this car certainly wasn’t yelling at her, so she liked it, she open mouth smiled at it and held it with both hands happily, still kneeling she looked ahead of her to arise but stopped herself, a human child was looking at her. standing in front of her, with blank eyes he said nothing.

terq gulped, intimidated. but then she glanced at the car, then to the child, she raised the car to the child, who smiled excitedly and grabbed the car, he hopped up and down with it and ran off to a older human. terq smiled, the human lost its toy, and it was good to bring it back. she rose from her kneeling and looking out at the sky, she was near a beach, this must be a port town. she looked at the gulls flying freely and sighed. 

she heard some tapping and turned around, it was the human child and the older one, she tilted her head at them, backing up a step and looking down at them due to height difference. the older one smiled warmly and said; 

“you returned my dear steven’s car didn’t you?” 

terq didn’t expect the humans to speak to her, she gulped and smiled back shyly. 

“yes.. yes i did”

the old human smiled and waggled a finger in the air.

“oh hohoho! oh i know what you are! you’re one of those space rock people aren’t ya?”

terq looked amazed, she really didnt expect a human to be so aware too. 

she nodded and voice-cracked-ly said 

“yes, yes thats right. i am”

the child known as steven pulled on his granny’s gown excitedly. she nodded and waved him to calm down, laughing happily.

“me and steven see you guys on tv all the time! your people save us all the time in that beach city area.”

terq beamed.

“wait, theres more gems on earth? oh!!” terq dropped on her knees

“please please please tell me where they are!”

the granny smiled and laughed at how ridiculous terq responded cutely.

“oh of course! i can tell you’re one of the nice ones,say whats your name” she said, lightly holding steven’s hand now.

“terquoise” she answered. 

“such a pretty gem dear, follow me and steven, we’ll show you the gems we see on tv all the time. we dont know them personally-” she said, starting to lead terquoise.

“we’ve only seen them on tv, they arent anywhere near us, they’re across the country!”

along the walk steven looked up at terq, he-as he walked-gave terq the car and smiled nicely, terq took it and smiled genuinely grateful, she bubbled the car and popped it off to be safe, steven looked amazed at her, terq giggled. 

“we bubble objects that mean alot to us, like this” she said, making a ton of bubbles before her, steven grabbed two and held them excitedly, looking like the best thing to him happened ever. terq smiled and giggled, they arrived at the house.

granny let the two in, and pointed to the tv for terq to sit, she sat and gazed at the little box. the granny showed many video tapes of a group of gems saving the town from gem mutants and monsters, terq’s eyes gleamed. they were gems! and nice ones at that! her goal! friends!!! she looked up at granny, stars in her eyes. 

“i wanna be there!”

granny chuckled, “i would too, but its very far dear”

terq thought for a moment and looked up at her from the floor. 

“does earth have something like gem bubbles?”

granny nodded. “the postal service, but you’re a bit big to fit in a box dear”

terq rose, “i can make myself smaller! steven! can you help me?”

steven looked up from his toys, stars in his eyes now, he nodded excitedly.

“wait here, ill come back smaller! please get me to there!” she ran outside to the front yard, steven behind her, she stopped and turned around, back to steven. 

“i need you to grab my weapon out of my back, its lighter then it looks”

her gem glew and a pole emerged from it, steven grabbed and removed the huge long pole axe and awed at it like a amazing toy. granny ran out yelling. 

“OH MY GOODNESS NO AXES YOU TWO!!” 

she snagged the axe from steven, “terquoise what in devil’s name were you thinking?!” she said, worried.

“OH! oh oh sorry! us gems, if hit with damage can be reduced to our gems, *she pointed to her back gem* i’d be small enough for a box! and i’d be perfectly fine too!”

granny gulped, “well dear you’ll be ok if this happens?”

terq nodded. 

“well....if you meet the kid named steven tell him his biggest fan is clyde. *she gestured to the kid known as steven* he calls himself steven cause hes such a big fan. alright?”

terq nodded. “i will”

granny swayed the axe, just enough to poof terquoise. they delicately put her in a gift box, wrapping with ribbon, and marking it with a lovely heart.

to beach city

the crystal gems