"Midnight Theater: A Diamond In The Rough"

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I was a gem, but not like the one in Steven Universe. I was a force so powerful my strength was condensed into a singular point, a singular gem inside my body. I was stuck in the middle of a heated confrontation between the angels and demons of this current world. As a form of retaliation the demons had decided to use me by kidnapping three of my friends who were the same type of race as me, these hybrid gem races.

Their motives were to use me as a device to strengthen their forces by tasking me with missions that would benefit their army against the angels. One of the tasks was to kill a guardian siding with the angels that guarded the dark forest; home to the rebel dark elves. I was flying so high up in the sky for our battles I could almost taste the rays of sun above the clouds.

Once the guardian was finally thwarted, the leader of the dark elves, a figure with eyes covered in cloth and mouth wider than it should be, spoke to me. I had told him I was doing this on behalf of the demons and he took it as a sign for them to side with the demons, I was horrified. I had not wanted or known this would happen and did not want any part in the confrontation between the two powers.

I went to do my next task which was to steal the sun drop left within a forbidden castle. One almost similar to that which was in Tangled, you know, the Rapunzel movie. Anyway, upon reaching the castle I was greeted by these horrifying beasts. Eldritch abominations with fleshy and tentacle like appendages and eyes covering every inch of their bodies. with my powers I was once again able to defeat them and obtained the sun drop.

However when I arrived back at the demon’s domain I was torned to find my friends heavily tortured by these creatures. The demons had beheaded one of my friends and hung her head so the pool of blood would be drank by the tinier demons below. I took the head and said a small prayer to ease the passing of my friend’s spirit. As I whispered my final prayers, I reached into the mouth of my friend's severed head and pulled out the gem that was hers, lodged within her throat. I clenched it and placed it into my chest cavity, right next to my gem which was situated at my heart.

Another one of my friends laid beaten, legs and arms broken and mangled to the point it was unrecognizable and she was at her last breath. As strong as I was I had no healing powers, but with the power of the sun drop I was able to use it to heal my dying friend. I propped her up onto my shoulder and flew us out of the domain but wherever I looked, I was unable to find our last friend. She had been taken away by the demons.

I woke up unable to save two people whom I dearly loved.