//------------------------------// // She protect // Story: Distant Shore // by Artistkun //------------------------------// "Great, we're stuck in the middle of the woods!!! Isn't that just.... SWELL?!" Lapis Lazuli couldn't tell whether she wants to laugh or tell Sunset everything is going to be fine as long as they're together but in a situation like this, she decided to keep quiet. Sunset was pacing back and forth with a paper and a pen in her hands that she didn't know that she had in her leather pocket. She had drawn all the routes that she had taken with Lapis but they kept coming back to the middle of the woods. Lapis could only do now to sit on a big rock as she watched her savior going crazy. "Sunset... maybe if you should calm do-" "We've been going circles for Celestia knows how long and all we could see are trees, animals and more trees! I've drawn the routes and we only came back in the middle". Sunset said as she continues to draw. Ten seconds later, she finally gave up and sits down on the grass in frustration. "This is all my fault! If only I have remember where we begin our journey, we wouldn't have been stuck here!" Lapis didn't sigh or feel annoyed towards her friend, she wanted to calm Sunset. Sunset's eyes winded when she felt a weight against her shoulder and saw that Lapis Lazuli had her head against her savior's shoulder. Sunset didn't seem like she wanted to finish her sentence when her Lazuli is on her shoulder. "Wh-What are you doing, Lazuli?" Sunset asked. "I thought maybe this would calm you down since you've been stressing yourself for the past several minutes. I can stop if you feel uncomfortable with me doing this to you." Lapis innocently said as she closes her eyes and Sunset's heart was beating so fast. ASDFGHJKDKLKDJK, I C AN'T TELL IF SHE'S DOING THIS ON PURPOSE OR WHAT!! "Please don't stop!" Sunset nervously said while she continues to draw again but this time in a messy way. Lapis giggled of how funny Sunset sounded when she said that. "You're so funny, Sunset and that's what makes me like you even more". Sunset Shimmer blushed really red like her hair when Lapis seems to be flirting with her but the gem might just be saying that because she was her savior. Sunset slowly smiled and continues to draw all the paths that they had taken. She was glad that she had showed Lapis everything that is to know this world and that she could tell that the gem was willing to stay with her. Sunset's eyes winded when she had looked up to see something shining through the distance. "Whoa!" Lapis immediately woke up from the moment when Sunset had suddenly shouted. "Wh-Wha-" "I saw something from afar. Maybe it's showing us the way home, Lapis!" Sunset picks Lapis like a bride and runs towards the direction of where the light had come from. "Slow down!" Lapis pleaded but it seems like Sunset was really desperate to go home with the gem. "Sorry!" Sunset shouted as properly held Lapis close to her like her bride. Sunset and Lapis saw the light again from the direction that they were taking and both of them stared at it in awe for about two seconds before it disappeared. "Did you see that, Lapis?" "I know what that light is. Keep running!" Sunset smiled in determination and didn't plan to stop running to the only source of their way out of this dark forest. After twenty minutes of running, Sunset puts Lapis down and both of them hide behind the bush. Lapis was about to say something but stops when Sunset had signaled her to be quiet as she pointed to what's in front of the bush they were hiding. Both of them pops their head out of the bush they were hiding to take a look at the source of where the light had come from. There was a tall skinny woman with a pearl gem on her forehead. She seems to be looking for something or someone but Sunset didn't want to scare the woman. The two of them watched the woman who was doing some investigation around the area where there is a big crystal circle in the middle. "She seems to have a gem on her forehead. Lapis, is she from the same race as you?" Sunset asked and she heard no response. "Lapis?" Sunset began to notice Lapis's mirror eyes and her expression, the gem seems to be furious with the skinny woman. "Lapis, are you okay?" "She's one of the Crystal Gems! She knew I was in that mirror and she didn't even bother to free me from that prison!!" Lapis angrily whispered and Sunset quickly took action when she saw that the gem was ready to pounce at her kind in any second. "Calm down, Lapis! We don't want her to think that we're a threat. Let's just wait until she goes away, we need to know how she used that.... thing". "Sunset, it's called a warp pad. Home world gems use it to travel around the galaxy." "Do you know how to use that warp pad?" Sunset asked and Lapis frowned at that question. "Yes, but my gem is cracked. I don't think it will work on me". Lapis felt her savior's hand interlock with her and both of them stared at each other. "It doesn't hurt to try. Who knows, maybe it will work this time, Lazuli". The gem smiles and both of their foreheads touched each other. "You always know what to say don't you, Shimmer?" Lapis softly smiled which made Sunset blush. "You're the one and only gem that I will only talk like this". Sunset whispered "I know that you're in there! I've already sensed you from the beginning!" Sunset pulls back and looks towards the other gem's direction. The other gem was taking some cautious steps towards her direction which made Lapis tense up and Sunset noticed this. "I'll handle this, Lapis. I'm going to protect you. I won't let you get hurt". "Sunset?!" Lapis whispered in a shock tone but she was too late to stop her savior to reveal herself to the Crystal Gem. Sunset Shimmer left Lapis in the bush and stares at the other gem. It seems like the gem was examining her for a while before looking back to her eyes. "Another human. So this is what Garnet meant". The gem said. "I'm Sunset Shimmer. I was wandering around the woods until I saw a bright light coming towards this area. I was hoping that I could use it in order to see if it can take me home". Sunset said. She was taken back when the gem suddenly pulls out a weapon through her forehead and points it at her. "I was told that you are going to be a threat!" "Me?! What do you me-" Sunset Shimmer quickly dodged to the right and she was almost going to be stabbed through the chest. She puts her hand on her pendant and ponied up. She didn't want to start a fight but it seems like the gem wanted to hurt her. As long as Lapis is safe, Sunset is okay with being hurt. "State your name before I even have the chance to strike my move!" Sunset shouted. "My name is Pearl and I'm going to kill you before you hurt the Crystal Gems!" This woman is insane!!! TO BE CONTINUED....