This is a story me and a friend started. We wanted to create our own characters. Read and Enjoy!

Prologue

8 years ago...

"You little brat! If it wasn't for you, Jade would still be here!" The fist came down, connecting with my face and sending me sprawling to the floor.

"I'm sorry, daddy." I sobbed as tears spilled down my cheeks. "I know it was my fault!"

My name is Spencer Daniels. I have short dark brown hair and my right eye is dark brown as well. My left eye was different. It was this green thing that I honestly didn't know what it was. I'm not like other kids my age. For one thing, my mother disappeared when I was an infant and ever since then, my dad had abused me and neglected me. It wasn't so bad until he started drinking. There seemed no end and my 4 year old body was reaching its limit. All the abuse and neglect was taking its toll and my body was smaller then normal, even for a 4 year old.

Daddy took off his belt and started hitting me with it, all the rage he felt coming out in the hits. I bit my tongue, keeping myself from screaming. I had learned a long time ago that screaming only made things worse. He used to apologize for hurting me, tell me he loved me, but then he'd turn right back around and start it again. But I didnt know what to do. What do you say to your father, the man who is supposed to love you?

When I was 8, he took the abuse a step further, burning me on the right side of my stomach with a brander he had taken from a barn who knows when. It ended up scarring, a now constant reminder of the man my father had become.

I endured 7 more years of this until I was 11, when I finally figured out that nothing I could do would help him. Then one day, at the library, i came across a blog called "Keep Beach City Weird" and I saw articles about these people called the Crystal Gems. I realized that the thing that took the place of my left eye was a gem, though what kind of gem I still didnt know. So I put in an anoynomous tip about my dad, packed my few belongings and left.

Everythinng after that is a blur and the next thing I remember, I was waking up on the beach outside this temple looking thing. That group of ladies, plus a boy, saw me and took me in. That's when I learned who my mother was. She was a gem named Jade Nephrite. Turned out, she hadn't disappeared when I was an infant. Giving birth to me, meant giving up her physical form forever. My dad had just never understood that.

I never summoned my weapon until I went into a battle with the Gems. In a last ditch effort to take the creature down and protect the people of the Beach City, I finally summoned it: my mother's cross bow. I fired a green energy arrow, instantly poofing the creature.

"Whoa." Was all I could say.

How was this? I'd love to know. Just, no flames please.

If you wanna check out my friend's side of the story, she's been putting it on wattpad. It's titled Onyx and the Crystal Gems (and Steven!)