Domina Alba

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Domina's proclamation stunned the party into silence, until Steven stepped forward from behind the Pearl. He looked up at Domina starry eyed.

"You're half gem." He said voice awestruck. Domina shifted uncomfortably and glanced around the group, the looks on the others faces raised from stoic to terrified. She looked back at Steven.

"I am, what does it matter to you?" She asked. Steven lifted his shirt slightly in response, embedded in his stomach was a pink quartz gem with a pentagonal cut. Domina gasped then she quickly broke into a wide smile.

"Oh my star's you're like me!" Domina's voice cracked ever so slightly as she kneeled to Stevens level, and then the words were coming out as fast as she could speak them "Wait so you're a quartz? Can you summon a weapon? How old are you, do you age irregularly as well? What about shapeshifting? How does gravity affect you? Do you have all the quartz abilities? Wait, can you spin dash?"

"How..." She heard the other Pearl said softly.

"I mean probably the same way we got Steven." Amethyst said.

"White Diamond state your buisness here." The Garnet said cutting Domina off mid question. She froze and pursed her lips, standing back up and dusting off her pants.

"I could ask you three to do the same thing, I was told there were no gems left on this planet." She said.

"You were misinformed." The Pearl said flatly.

"Wait I thought diamonds were supposed to be like super tall." The amethyst drawled, she was the only one who had unsummoned her weapon.

"Yeah well so are Amethysts." Domina retorted.

"Don't have to be tall to kick your butt" The Amethyst drew her whip back out from her chest.

"Bring it pebble." Domina hefted her sword.

"Hey hey, Guys, don't fight!" Steven moved in between them holding his arms out. "Can't we just

talk?" He asked. Domina and the Amethyst stared at eachother for a moment then Domina sighed and dismissed her sword, She looked at the rest of the gems.

"The rest of you unsummon, I'm not going to fight you." She said. After a moment the Garnet's gauntlets disappeared along with the whip and the spear from the Amethyst and Pearl respectively.

"How are you five still here." her Pearl asked. Domina blinked slightly as she double checked her count again, there were only three gems and Steven in front of them.

"Rose Quartz, myself and Garnet survived the Diamonds final attack at the end of the war. Amethyst emerged 500 years after the blast." the Other Pearl said, she was pacing, gesturing as she talked, very different than the other pearls Domina knew.

"Who do you belong to?" Domina asked leaning against the hull of the ship. The Pearl paused and gave her a ferocious look that Domina had only seen on quartzes mid battle.

"Nobody." She said darkly. Domina cocked an eyebrow, she swore she saw the hint of a smile on her Pearls face.

"Pearl come on..." Steven said pulling the Pearl back by the hem of her tunic "Can't we just get along, I talked with Domina for like an hour yesterday, she's really nice."

"Steven you don't understand she's a Diamond who knows what she's planning on doing here!" The Pearl said stepping out of his grasp.

"It's not any of your buisness what my plans are." Domina said.

"Yes it is." The Garnet said stepping forward, she could look at Domina eye to visor. "We are the Crystal Gems it is our job to protect the Earth. Now. State what your plans are here." Domina frowned slightly in confusion, then turned to look at Pearl.