Genesis

7- The challenge

-OH MY STARS!!! OH MY STARS!!!!! How I going to make fire!? OH MY STARS, I am going to fail!- I shouted, very worried.

I shouted like for some minutes until I started to calm myself. When I calmed, I went to the ground, using what I had at my hand to create fire, failing over and over and over and over and over and over again. It took me all the day and the night was about to end. I just simply can't create fire with anything. I tried rubbing some sticks, some rocks, some leafs, but I failed miserably, which led my into pessimist feeling. Everything that I knew at that moment was useless to create fire. Besides being the most perfect beings in the entire universe, the Gems didn't knew how to create fire without a Ruby.

-This is useless!!!- I said launching some wooden sticks away from me.

Tears started to fall from my eyes. I thought that my opportunity to become the disciple of the Great Mew was closing, just because I didn't knew how to create fire.

-How it is possible that we are so advanced and perfect but don't know to create a single fire without a Ruby!!! The Gems aren't perfect!!!- I shouted angrily.

Then, I just realized what I said. And that was true. The Gems aren't perfect. We had flaws. Our society is not perfect. Our laws weren't perfect. Even the Diamonds weren't (and still aren't) perfect. Pink Diamond is a great example of the imperfection of the Gem Empire and race. There was not perfection on it. Immediately, I was illuminated by a very bright idea and my hopes to become Mew's student returned.

Instead of flying into a far place or hiding into a cave, like I did in all my nights, I searched for the savages. If the Great Mew knows that fire can be made from the materials of this planet, maybe is because she learned to do it or the savages knew to do it.

I searched and searched for a lot of time until I found a weak orange light between some trees. I hide behind the trees and I found that the savages were frying their food with the fire, using it also to warm themselves. They weren't so savage and irrational after all. They knew how to make something that we, the Gems, besides having an immortal live, we didn't discovered. At that moment, I considered that, besides being a Gem and knew a lot of things, even the most ignorant being could teach me something. I started to being humble and started to change my perspective about that savages.

I saw and learned their techniques to create fire. Then, the sun started to emerge from the horizon. I quickly flied away and searched for a dried wood stick and leaves to start my fire. I started to chafe stick with the leaves.

-Come on, come on!- I said while making the fire.

I saw how smoke started to come out, until, finally, the fire was made. I was, very, very happy.

-I MADE IT!!! I FINALLY MADE IT!!!- I said jumping of happiness.