Trash Art

Contest entry!!!

(For Plush-ie )

  Azurmalachite? Azurmalachite!
   I quickly collapsed, crying on the dusty ground. The diamonds, their song. Not only had all the gems been corrupted, but a few had gone missing.
   My Azurmalachite had gone missing. I was in my science pod when the song began. My gem was shielded from the bright light. The once green grass covered ground, was now brown and dusty. The trees, once full of brightly colored leaves, were now bare. The once blue colored shy, was now as gray as my heart itself.
   I began to examine things I found on the ground, trying to see if I could find something, someone, anyone. I needed something to know I wasn't alone; that the world hadn't just abandoned me by myself.
   I needed something. I needed her. I guess the diamonds, my previous rulers, had not pitied me before they took her from me.
  What they left behind wasn't the same.
  The once beautiful red and green gem was no where in sight. The teardrop shape was lost in the endless dirt.
Rhodonite!
  Surely I've gone mad. I can still hear her.
Rhodonite!
  There it was again, only louder and more clear. I quickly rubbed my eyes under my visor and got up squinting in the direction of the call.
   A small blue figure was running towards me. Immediately, my legs took off before me and I started sprinting to her.
  She was there, she was really there.
  Then she collapsed, hugging her side. A piercing cry was heard around the world has her body began to morph.
Rhodo-
   First, her arms began to sprout feathers that soon took over her whole body. Her hands began to disappear has she covered her face. Her legs, suddenly disproportionate, stretched and bent at the knees. Her translucent skirt appeared to be pulled into a tail, a decorative one. Her mouth became a hooked beak right before my eyes.
   I continued my run to her again, only to receive a terrified look. She took off, straight into the sky. She didn't recognize me.
  I had stopped. I stopped breathing, I stopped crying, I stopped running. Everything around me stopped. I was on a pedestal, watching as the closest gem to me, looked at me in fear.
   Afraid of what, I questioned internally, maybe the real monster was now me.
   Quickly, I made my way to my ship. Azurmalachite is not the toughest gem, it can easily be poofed or augmented.
   Every second I wasn't thinking or focused on something, I saw the terrified look in her eyes as she started.  at me. That was all I could see.
  I began to feel my sanity leaving me, as if the true corruption was my own fault. I needed to know I was not alone. I needed to be with someone, something.
I had an idea, my chemistry and gemology knowledge combined provided it. Maybe with my equipment I could heal her; make her normal again.
I began to accumulate ideas, blue prints, of how it may or may not work.
I started my research and my experiments. I rested for nothing; I was determined. The Azurmalachite I knew was still there. She was, somewhere.
I began to dismantle my ship. Why? I don't know. It felt necessary. It had been a reminder of the diamonds, the ones who took my Azurmalachite from me.
They made her a beast, and I was determined to fix her.
After many trials and experiments, I came to the conclusion I was lost. I collapsed on the ground with my back to my equipment. I began to cry. Not the soft tear here the there. I wept, heavy tears began to cascade down my cheeks; sobs and whines escaped my throat. I began to cry out her name, waiting, hoping for a response. Nothing. Not even a breeze comforted my pain. I covered my mouth, stifling a sob that was waiting to erupt. I pulled my knees closer to my torso, crossed my arms, and cried into the crook of my elbow.
This couldn't be happening. We were happy, we were together. This isn't fair, I screamed internally as I punched the cabinet besides me. The equipment, my research, fell to the ground and shattered.
My hard work just like my hope and my heart, was shattered. I had stopped crying when I looked at the shards of glass, thinking about how I would have been better off like that. Shattered. At least, I wouldn't have to suffer. It would be so easy to do. I just needed the right things.
Suddenly, a shadow spread around me. I slowly raised my head, wiping away the moisture on my face. Behind me was the one person, the one thing, I needed to see.
Azurmalachite?
I faced the bird like creature behind me. She pushed her sharp hooked beak at me and dropped something. A cloth.
This wasn't an ordinary cloth. It was something we had made together when we first came to Earth. We combined our colors together and put it into our masterpiece. After we made it, we hid it in a place only we knew where to find it.
"I knew you were still in there," I said looking up at her, a tear escaping my eye.
She spoke no words, nor sigh. Just a blank, black, steady gaze.
I got up and wrapped my arms around her neck. She instantly hesitated and slighted recoiled, but then she wrapped her wings around me.
The next thing that happened was unreal. We had fused together, a corrupted gem with a normal gem. The closest glimpse I got of our fusion was on the reflection on a shard of glass.
"Get.....out" I heard.
"No but I love you!"
"Get out, I...... don't want to hurt you."
"But you won't! Azurmalachite it's me."
"I don't remember, get out."
Quickly, we unfused. I stood there, replaying the words in my head, I don't remember.
I examined my arm, it was beginning to transform. I was corrupted. I took a few deep breaths and grit my teeth. I began to pull my hair and cry.
I dug through the cabinets of my counters that were once inside my ship. I pulled out a small bag filled with paste. The one thing I made successfully. A paste that corrupted gems can't resist.
I shattered the mixture onto my gem, and turned away from her. The monster began to charge at me, digging her talons into my back.
The pain seared through my body seconds before I poofed. My gem was the only thing left before she crushed it.