The Strange Rebirth of a Diamond

Chapter 1 Re-Location

My vision pulsed with vibrant colour as I floated through the void around me, I could have been here for days or weeks now or so I assumed. I couldn't look down at my hands as I believe it was only my conciousness persisting in the void.

I had died.

Despite all the messy feelings involved with the initial event I found myself growing numb to it, in my memory it felt more like a broken bone would have. It's happened and now I've learned to constantly check a fire alarm. The last thing I remember of my life was waking up to the house on fire and smoke everywhere, running around trying to find people and then passing out due to smoke inhalation.

It wasn't exactly the most fun thing, and once I realised what had happened I was confused, acceptably if I remember religion right. Unless I was in limbo something strange had happened. All descriptions of the afterlife were different from this. I spent the first day or two trying to figure it out and then the rest of perceptible time mulling over what had happened. As perceptible as time was here anyway.

'Bloody lonely.' I thought to myself, watching the colours around me react to the thought. 'What even am I at the moment? A Soul? Some sort of collection of memories?'

A change.

The pattern of colours fluctuated between solid colours now instead of the wash of psychedelia it was before. White Yellow Blue Pink Green Orange Purple Cream Red Pink again, then White and Blue again.

'Huh, kind of reminds me of Steven Universe.' I thought to myself as the colours continued to flicker between each other. 'I suppose I'll never get to see what happens with older Steven than, I could always make it up as I go along. Shame we never got to see more of Pink Diamonds back story.'

Pink flashed again, more vivid and longer than before, taking my thoughts for a moment before the colours began flickering between each other again.

'Odd, nothing's effected my surroundings before.' I thought to myself as the cycle continued unabated. 'Pink?' I waited for a few moments as the colours cycled, but nothing stood out.

'Pink Diamond.'

The colour immediately changed to pink and flashed as vividly as before, only lingering a second more before the cycle continued unabated.

'It reacts to names?' I thought to myself, contemplating on whether I should continue. 'Hell Nothings happened for a while, and you know what they say about curiosity and humans.'

'Pink Diamond.' Pink flashed in front of me.

'Pink Diamond.' The Pink kept it's same hue but seemed to grow brighter as the thought persisted.

'Am I really doing this just to find out what's going to happen?' The glow lessened as I lost focus, in my panic I thought as hard as I could of Pink Diamond, her form and response the glow of colour around me intensified, I could almost feel a hum from just the colour alone. It was at that point I blacked out again.

I felt strange, like I was constrained, but not. Naturally I pushed out and the odd feeling of my body warping around me replaced the constrained feeling. Sight returned to me and I opened my eyes, I immediately fell to the ground on my butt, though I still didn't feel much of anything. Not as much as I'd expect too anyway. My eyes widened as I remembered the floating, and then the life before that. It was hard to recall though, as if my mind was having to fight against something to remember myself. Another presence was in myself, but as I thought of more memories of myself it seemed to slowly disappear before leaving entirely as if it was never there.

"Okay, that was fucked up." I said out loud, at the sound of my voice though I stunned myself and brought my hands to my mouth. "I-I sound- am I a girl?!"

Looking down at myself confused me even further, as I could see only a raised chest, but with flat surfaces Pink in colour.

"Nope. No thank you, oh please for the love of god..." As I brought my hands up into vision for inspection I saw the pink gloved hands of Pink Diamond, and further bending down added to my worries as I saw the Gem itself. MY Gem.

'MY GEM.' I thought to myself as a hand slowly drifted towards it. "HOW IN ALL THAT IS HOLY DID THIS HAPPEN?!" I yelled to myself, causing the trees nearby to crack at the power of my voice. The ground beneath me cleared of grass as the dirt unsettled from the simple power of action as well.

"Okay, okay. Gotta calm down." I said to myself, although I was having trouble with it.

I slowly stood up, carefully getting my balance before looking around me. I was surrounded by trees and other plants, one of the cracked trees around me fell down, making me jump a bit. I looked up and flinched back away from the canopy of leaves and branches. Instinctively I shrunk down to a size I was comfortable with before realising what I just did.

"Holy shit that's cool." I said to myself as I looked around, everything now at a much more manageable height, even if I was still taller than I normally was. "I'll definitely have to play with that later."

'As for now...' I thought to myself, looking around before picking a direction to walk in.

'This feels like one of those fan fictions I use to read back... on earth? Is this still earth?' I thought to myself. 'It feels like earth but I'm a Gem, surely this wouldn't be MY earth?'

Another clearing in the forest opened up before me, only this time I could see a visible trail through the bushes and trees, one obviously used by humans if the chip packet was anything to go by.

"Wait a minute." I whispered to myself as I bent and inspected the- "Well shit, Chaaaaaaps. This is definitely not my Earth."

I gave a shaky sigh and sat down against a tree, my weight shaking the leaves and branches on it a bit. As I leant my head back I felt the bark get caught on my now pink fluffy hair, but couldn't care less, in fact I snuggled closer into what was now my own hair due to it's comfort.

"Uuuuugh, why me?" My now higher pitched voice said, muffled from the hair it was coming from. "What's so special about me?"

I brought my legs into my chest and rested my cheek on them and closed my eyes. At that moment I silently wished that this was all some dream and I'd wake up surrounded by colours again, but when my eyes opened all I saw were plants and a good bit of my new hair. I closed my eyes and simply sat there, for how long I don't remember. But after a while I released a sigh and stood up, and started walking down the trail. At this point in the day there was orange light from the sunset flittering through the bushes ahead of me, there was a feeling in the back of my heart as the colour itself reminded me of the flames in my life before, but I continued walking determined to at least GET somewhere.

The Sun had set by the time I could see and end to the forest, with lights in the distance telling me that I was close to a town of some kind, I couldn't really recognise it though. But given what's currently going on I was assuming that this was probably either Beach City or somewhere close to a warp pad. I emerged from the forest out the back of someone's house, and walked around to the road and stood on the side-walk. I felt a good amount of relief being back in civilisation, the sigh I gave visibly representing that. I took a right and saw the beach behind a few buildings, the closest one being at the end of the road.

Once I got to the Visitors Center I knew I was in Beach City, mainly because of the sign hung above the entrance. What I appreciated the most though was the glass windows which gave me the first look at myself.

I was definitely Pink Diamond, if a bit smaller, although I was still pretty tall. My reflection being cut off just above my head, not giving my a view of all my poofy hair. My hands slowly wandered to different parts of my body, to the pink tutu around my hips 'Or where they'd be' to the arm poofs along my shoulders, which crumpled under my touch before expanding back to their original size once I let them go.

"Hey, are you okay?" I heard from behind me. I turned around with a start which made them take a few startled steps back, Them turning out to be Sour Cream's mom.

"I-I don't think so, I'm a bit lost and confused to be honest." I replied, forcing a smile.

"Are you another one of those Crystal Gems that Amethyst hangs out with?" She asked, giving me a look up and down.

"Maybe? I don't exactly know. But there's other Gem's?" I asked, not really having to try that hard to pretend to be out of it.

"They usually keep to themselves but yeah, they're shacked up at the end of the Beach under that huge statue." She replied, shuffling the groceries in her hand to point the hill and beach out to me. "I'm sure they'll be able to help you."

"Thanks. I'll head there in a bit after I have a look around, I think." I answered honestly with a smile.

"Okay, have a good night." She replied with a shrug, walking off towards wherever she lived.

"Huh, wonder where 'I'm' going to live now?" I thought to myself as I looked back to my reflection. "Better question, who would let me live near them? I look so...Gemmy."

My hands wandered over my body again as I examined myself before the answer struck me, shape-shifting!

Looking around to see whether anyone was looking at me I then returned to my focus and thought of what I wanted to look like, just a simple shirt and some jeans would do for now. I focused on that and changing into what I needed to and eventually that feeling of reforming from before returned and once it was over I opened my eyes and wooped in delight at seeing myself.

It wasn't perfect, but it was closer to being somewhat normal. Both the jeans and the shirts were different shades of Pink but I was fine with that, although the red combat boots were a nice touch that I hadn't thought of. In fact once I saw them it threw off my celebrating a bit as I thought about that.

'Wait, I didn't think of those specifically.' I pondered as I looked at them, admiring how they looked. In fact they reminded me of the pair I'd had in my previous life. Another look told me that there was a symbol of a Diamond on my shirt, which miffed me a bit but I rolled my eyes and went with it anyway.

"I wonder what I call myself?" I said to myself, the expression on my face in the mirror becoming one of deep thought. "I'm not Pink Diamond, but... I also am? Huh, I wonder if this is how Steven feels" After saying that I took a look around before walking through an alleyway between the buildings and emerging onto the board walk, the fryshop and fish stew pizza visible ahead.

I continued walking out into the sand and sat at the beach, watching the waves, letting them calm me. The sound of the water washing the sand with each wave was one of the few relaxing things I could enjoy right now, and a small smile grew on my face as I took in the sound and laid back into the sand. A sigh escaped my mouth once again as I sunk back into thought.

'I'm pretty much screwed I think.' A sad smile reached my lips. 'I look like Pink-I AM Pink Diamond, at least how everyone will recognise me. And that's not going to go down well.'

I turned in the sand to the left and looked at the grassy hill at the end of the beach, the top of a lighthouse visible from the top and the arms and hands of the statue of the fusion Obsidian stretching out from the sides.

'Pearls going to flip her shit. That much I can expect if I meet up with the Crystal Gem's.' I thought to myself as I rolled back onto my back. 'I have no idea what Garnet's going to do, depending on what time I've been dropped into her last interaction with a Diamond didn't go so well. Actually come to think of it none of her interactions with the Diamonds have gone so well.'

As I thought of it more a revelation struck me, I sat up and had a look around to check for the Gems but laid but down when I realised they weren't there. Garnet had Future Vision. It seemed I was going to run into the Gem's eventually, or not.

'Would Garnet even tell them about me?' I pondered, shifting a little in the sand. 'She seemed pretty terrified of Blue Diamond when she was on Earth, Will she do the same for me? I suppose even then it wouldn't last forever, Steven or Pearl would get the information out of her. Would she even think of my existence as a likely possibility?'

"Uuugh, I'm so screwed." I said to myself in lament, staring up at the starry sky above. The clouds formed clearly overhead and the stars were still perfectly visible despite the lights of the town behind me.

A/N

Well, this is my first entry here for years. Been so long my first account was lost in the waves of time.

Still, very much investing in this story, a few more chapters have already been written and are on the way. So Stay tuned Folks! ;P