Not Their Fault

Chapter 1: A Surprise

Three gems walked slowly through the dark and abandoned place known as the Kindergarten. The tallest of the gems, their leader Rose Quartz, along with her two companions were responsible for shutting this horrible place down. They visited it every so often to look for any dormant or corrupted gems that may have woke up. The Kindergarten was a place were the Homeworld Gems created new gems to add to their armies. Rose Quartz didn't believe in destroying another planet in order to create more of themselves so she started a rebellion against the Homeworld Gems to save earth. They eventually were able to push the Homeworld Gems from Earth but not without great loss. Garnet, Pearl and herself were the only remaining Crystal Gems from the thousands that joined their ranks. They decided to stay on Earth to protect it from further invasion and from the corrupted gems that started showing up after the war ended.
"Rose, do we really need to keep coming back here? This place is so...depressing." the tall slender gem with a pearl embedded in her forehead walked next to their leader and held on to her arm as they walked.

Rose looked down at her friend and smiled. "Yes we do. If there are any dormant gems here that happen to wake up, I want to try and save them." Rose looked to the many humanoid shaped holes that lined the walls of the Kindergarten with a angry expression. "It is not their fault they were created for the purpose of war. Kindergarten gems are born with the urge to fight and kill one another and they learn to summon their weapons almost instantly. They are skilled warriors filled with nothing but blood-lust and the will to serve the Homeworld. That is the ideal Kindergarten gem. Sometimes, what the Homeworld calls a "defect", is born. They are more docile, childlike and do not have the blood-lust that the other gems have, they emerge from their holes scared and confused." Rose's expression saddened as she looked back down to Pearl. "They are tossed to the other gems and brutally destroyed."

Pearl looked up to their leader and back to the numerous empty holes of the Kindergarten. She remained silent as they continued walking. She was thinking back to the day they came here to shut this horrible place down. The gem's desire to kill was frightening. There were only a small number of them left after the Homeworld was ran off Earth, most were destroyed in the war. Pearl was pulled from her thoughts when Garnet suddenly summoned her gauntlets.
"I sense a corrupted gem" Garnet stated as she began looking around trying to see the creature.

Rose summoned her shield and Pearl summoned her spear as the trio prepared for a battle. What they saw wasn't really what they were expecting. A small gem with purple skin and wild, white hair came into view. She was sitting on the ground with her back to them, throwing rocks at a bigger rock. She was oblivious to the three gem's presence. Rose stopped in her tracks and stared at the small purple gem, not believing this to be a corrupted gem.
"Hi there." Rose called out to the purple gem.

The small gem jumped up and turned around in surprise. She stared at the three gems with a look of confusion and fear on her face. She suddenly turned around and ran behind the large rock she was previously throwing rocks at. Rose lowered her shield and took a few steps forward and called out to the young gem again. "Oh, I am sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. My name is Rose and this is Pearl and Garnet, we want to help you. We aren't here to hurt you little one. Please come out." Rose crouched down to hopefully present a less intimidating pose to the young gem. She signaled to Pearl and Garnet to do the same. As they crouched down they saw a little head of white hair peak over the top of the rock.
Rose smiled and crept forward a few more steps. "What's your name little one?"

The purple gem's head disappeared behind the rock again, only to peak out from the side of the rock this time. After a few moments she slowly came out from behind the rock and stood next to it, looking cautiously at the three strangers in front of her. Her eyes fell to the pink gem on Rose's stomach and she slowly raised her hand and rested it on the purple gem embedded in her chest. Rose noticed this and spoke to the gem again.
"That's right, we are the same." Rose smiled with stars in her eyes and slowly stood back up placing her free hand over her pink gem. She took a few small steps towards the new gem, not wanting to move to fast and startle her. The purple gem dropped her hand from her gem and looked at the fully standing Rose Quartz as the other two gems stood back up as well. She took a few cautious steps towards the group and stopped. Rose stretched her hand out and encouraged her to come with them. The little gem looked at the group with a hopeful look on her face and started to walk towards them when suddenly a loud roar echoed around them. The Crystal Gems snapped to attention looking for the source of the sound. The small, purple gem started to panic, not knowing what was happening. She started to run towards the other gems when suddenly a large creature jumped between them. It stood on two legs and hunched over with its huge body. It had reptilian like features with spikes running down the length of its back and tail. Sitting in the center of its chest was a dark blue gem surrounded by hard scales.

The creature snarled as it looked at the gems. The three gems held their ground waiting for the corrupted gem to make a move. Suddenly the creature snapped its head around as it heard movement from behind. The little gem took off running in a panic, her short legs not taking her very far. The creature spun its body around, ready to take chase, smelling the fear coming from the purple gem as she tried to run. Garnet saw her opportunity and jumped towards the reptile, landing a blow on top of its head with her gauntlets. It barely fazed the creature as it stumbled a few steps but kept chasing the small gem. Rose yelled and threw her shield hitting the monster in the back of the head, finally getting its attention. As the corrupted gem spun around in anger, its lizard like tail came around catching the purple gem and sent her flying towards a large boulder. The gems looked in shock as she smashed into it with a sickening crack and fell to the hard ground and didn't move. Rose yelled in anger, pulled out her sword and charged the creature head on.

To be continued...

Author's notes:

This is my very first fan fiction. I love this show and this is just my thoughts on how the kindergarten gems are like and how they found Amethyst.