AQUAMARINE


Where are they?

Aquamarine frowned. She usually wasn't impatient, but waiting too long (And in Aquamarine's case, she had been waiting for days) had finally taken it's toll on her. She had sent the invitations out a week ago. Surely it hadn't taken too long for the other birthstones to recieve them. But what if the invitations got thrown away? A look of pure horror washed over Aquamarine's face, but as quickly as it came, it left. She chuckled and shook her head. She was just over reacting, something that she did every once in a while. Paying attention back to the book the golden-eyed woman held in her hands, she read a line. ' "My love, I shall look for you in the nigh-" ' Aquamarine stopped reading. She stared at the book for a good few minutes until she laughed and threw it on the floor. Where had she gotten that horrific peice of shit? The golden-eyed woman normally didn't read books with romance, she was more of a comedy reader, she liked to read things that made her laugh. Chewing her bottom lip, she started thinking of something to do. Suddenly she smiled. Aquamarine knew what she was going to do.


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Standing at the very top of her estate, she decided on jumping into the lake behind the estate. It was going to be a thrill! Not only was she jumping from Lord knows how many feet, but she was also going to land in the cool and soothing water. "Being a daredevil is fun!" Aquamarine squealed as she got herself ready for the jump. She didn't need to change clothes, she could simply remove the water with her own hands. With your power being water, this came in handy. Not waiting any longer, the dark-haired woman jumped from the estate. A scream of joy escaped from her peachy lips as the wind whipped her hair and made her clothes ripple. As she neared closer and closer to the lake, Aquamarine got into diving position. "Here it comes!" the golden-eyed woman declared. And with one big splash, she was submerged under the water.

Oh shit... Oh shit!!! Is what Devan thought when he ran to the location the invitation gave him. "I'm late... Who the hell transports two people into a painting, anyway? Not to mention I was stuck there with two girls porbably half my physical age! I'd look like a pedophile!" Devan cursed and cursed and cursed again. Why did I even come again? Devan thought. I could be reading some manga right now... Wait, why did I choose to come at all? I'm anti-social, damnit! Devan held a blue rose in his hand. It was something of a good luck charm, really. He didn't need to bring it, but he held onto it like a little child to a teddy bear.

And thar she is. The giant estate that the invitation had led Devan to was in sight. Devan neared it when he got a slight chill in his back. "Geh.... Probably just paranoia..." Devan muttered before turning left and running up the steps. The man knocked on the doors 5 times, then waited patiently. He sniffed the blue rose. It smelled strangely like paint.

(Cookie to whoever got the thing I was referencing. I made it so many times it should be obvious. xD)

Sapphire

A young looking lady with a small backpack and mini luggage bag was walking down the road...

For once...the ever punctual Sapphire was actually late. She had planned to arrive at this...La Maison des Joyuax since three days ago ever since receiving the letter a week ago...but the poor girl had clumsily lost her way during her commutes. And three days had made her dusty and sweaty from the travel on the road. But finally, the large estate came into view and she jumped for joy, a small spring seemed to have manifested itself in her feet, as she bounced along the last roadside to the estate with undeniable glee...and fell. She floated with her little nose just a few inches away from the hard tarmac before she straightened herself out with a relieved sigh.

Was Aquamarine there? What about the others? One part of her wanted to meet everyone else, but her klutziness was afraid of being kicked out if she broke too many things.

Making her way quickly AND carefully to the front of the estate, she saw that someone was already standing there knocking on the door with a blue rose in hand.

"H-Hello?" she uttered out softly from far away. There was a long pause before she realized that the person wasn't going to hear her if she spoke like she normally did from such a distance. A throat was cleared and then, "H-HELLO?!"

It wasn't that loud...but it was the best the shy, black haired girl could manage. Hopefully the stranger would be able to hear her. She blew her fringe up, causing dust to spread all over the place. Oh boy... she was dusty as an old untouched attic.

"A-are you one of the 'stones'?"

Adaria walked calmly to the location he had received the invitation from. He was dressed in his brilliant turquoise suit with a matching trilby fedora atop his head showing himself obvious to any of the other Birthstones who he was. He carried nothing other than a small satchel he carried over his shoulder with a few changes of clothes and his pet which roosted happily on the boy's shoulder, not saying a word.

The manor came into view as well and he smiled and watched as a girl bounded down the road and the boy let out a small chuckle in his head for her energy. He watched the gasped a small bit when he saw her fall. He rushed forward a bit causing Checks to take flight from his master.

He walked up to her and watched her, she seemed awfully dirty and slightly ashamed and he decided it would be best to make the girl smile a tad. He stood behind her and tapped her shoulder calmly. "Madam, are you alright ?" he said then looked her over at the closer view. She was quite stunning with the slight look of innocence in her eyes and her wavy hair. His thoughts were stopped by Checks landing again and causing him to snap back into reality and cease his staring.

Garnet woke in the middle of a forest with no idea where or when he was. He had just been brought into existence in a human form. Previously he had just been a disembodied mind, observing every moment in time simultaneously. He wasn't really able to remember much from that point in his life, and he suspected that attempting to do so would destroy his mind entirely, but he did know quite a few things. Among these things was the knowledge that he was the incarnation of the birthstone garnet, he also knew a lot about the others, and even had an idea of where/when he was meant to go and meet them.

With these things in mind the debatably eternal being stood and stretched before allowing time to whisk him away to the proper place and time. From Garnet's perspective, reality seemed to bend and warp around him. When things reverted to normal he could see that he was outside a large house, perhaps better described as a mansion or estate, and in front of a lake. Before he had the chance to look around he heard some shouting and saw a girl leap from the roof into the lake. Having a fairly good idea who that might have been, the effeminate lad sat at the edge of the shore, he had no intention of actually going into the water, and waited patiently for Aquamarine to come to the surface.

Yeo-reum stares in amazement as the taxi got closer to the address on the letter she had received. "It's so big!" she whispers aloud.
"Excuse me?" the driver says
"Oh, sorry. I was talking about the house." Yeo-reum replies blushing
"Yeah. It is big." he says nodding.
The conversation shouldn't have that effect on her, but he's been looking at her strange the whole ride from the bus station. She's convinced he is thinking bad things about her, so she's tried to be as quiet as possible. When the car stops, the man offers to help her get her things out of the car and the trunk, "No thanks." Yeo-reum says politely. "I can manage." She gets her suitcase, backpack and duffle bag from the car and pays the man. She stands watching him drive away, then she stares at the house.
"Wow!" she says in awe. "What a big place." Yeo-reum has never lived in any place so big, not even close. She's always lived alone, except for her cats and a few friends, so she's never needed a place bigger than a four bedroom apartment or a traditional house. "There must be many people living here." she says to herself. Yeo-reum reaches into her book bag and pulls out a white, fluffy, teddy bear, "What do you think?" she asks the bear as if it could actually answer. Yeo-reum is 117 years old, but her maturity has always been about fourteen or fifteen years old, in many ways younger. She likes stuffed animals, kittens, pretty colors. She likes to collect cheap pieces of colorful glass, colored paper swans, watch cartoons and cosplay where she dreseses in gothic clothes, uniforms, wear colored wigs and other things. But she is also very smart; she reads history books, economics, she's good at science, likes to chart stars and planets and other things. Her divergent interests make some people she's met very nervous because she seems so strange.

She places her bear back in the back and checks the address on the letter to make sure she's got the right place. This is Yeo-reum's first trip out of Korea and she's very nervous. "Rich people often have bad tempers" she broods, "And if I have the wrong address they might have her arrested, or worse..." she worries, "They might shoot me." That would be bad for many reasons, mostly because they couldn't kill her and she'd be forced to hurt them. "The address is the same." she whispers. "This is the place." she swallows.
Yeo-reum looks around to make sure no one is watching collects her bags and begins walking toward the house. It's a big place, with beautiful trees and well kept lawns and bushes. "It's nice." she thinks to herself. "This could be a good thing." she says softly, "I didn't realize there were others out there." she says walking, the bags feeling heavier as she carries them.

"Huh?" Devan turned around and saw a woman who looked about his physical age. She had long black hair, black clothes, and looked really uncomfortable. If this was another person, Devan would've chuckled. Sadly, he was as nervous as this stranger was in being social. "Oh, hello there..." Devan muttered. The stranger blew up her fringe, as well as the dust on it. Devan coughed a little.

"A-are you one of the stones?" She asked. The stones? Does she mean the birthstones? Devan thought.

"If you mean what I mean.... Then, yeah... I'm onyx... and you?" Devan replied and asked at the same time. Then he saw another come up to the girl from behind. "Hey, do you know that guy? He's talking to you..." Devan muttered, while stepping back a little.

April smiled, her normal chipper self. She pulled her bright pink luggage behind her as she walked down the long path. She saw other people at the door, and walked forward. She was about to introduce herself, but then she turned around and looked at her luggage with a frown on her bright face. "Kitten!" She called, and a small white dove flew down and landed on her hand. She nodded and turned "Hello," she said lightly, "Name's April" She wasn't really looking at any of the people by this point, but the manor. It was huge, and looked like it could accommodate a thousand of her. Then, she looked down at herself. She had traveled for a long time, and she was feeling slightly off-put from her normally pristine condition. There was a plane from Greece, her home land, where she had brushed up on her English. She already knew it, of course, but she had never had the need to speak it for more than a little while. Then the train, then she had walked to the house from the train station about a mile back. She was very far from home now.

April looked over the people quickly, trying to identify their gems, then she gave up. She had never really kept tabs on the other stones, so she never felt the need to know what each one looked like. Then the invite came. "So, nice to meet you all" she nodded, crunching her nose and eyes together. "The name fits the place, don't you think? Well, I mean, it's a good name for a place where a Gemstone lives"

The water felt divine against her skin. It was just so cool and soothing. Actually, Aquamarine could sit here all day talking about water and how nice it was. Except that she can't talk underwater and she would eventually need to come up for air. Bubbles came out of her mouth as she sighed and swam to the surface of the water. Taking a fairly large gulp of air, she saw someone sitting at the edge of the lake shore.

The golden-eyed girl automactically thought they were a fellow birthstone and swam as fast as she could toward the person. At last! They were finally here! Well, she couldn't exactly say 'they', but one person was enough for her to be happy. When the dark-haired woman arrived to the shore, she got out of the water and sat almost next to the person who had been sitting there. "Hi there Mi--Sir!" Aquamarine quickly corrected herself. "You must be a birthstone like myself. I'm Aquamarine, and you are?" Barely, just barely, the girl heard voices that weren't normally heard at the front of her estate. She gasped lightly. "Those must be the other birthstones! Follow me!" Aquamarine called out to the boy as she got up and ran towards the front of the estate. She was still dripping wet but that was of the least of her problems. Once she was at the front of the estate, she saw five other people standing at the front door. Finished catching her breath, she decided to announce herself. "Hello hello everyone! I'm Aquamarine and welcome to La Maison des Joyuax! French for 'The House of the Jewels', which is ironic because this place looks everything but French."

Realizing she was still soaking from her dive earlier, she did a fluid-like motion with her hand and all of the water that was currently on her, hovered and formed into a orb in her hand.

SEETHRA

Seethra sighed blissfully and she soaked in the night air with a glass of red wine. The stars were truly gleaming tonight; they adorned the sky like diamonds. It was a cool night in India. She was here in pursuit of blood stones and the souls they contained. She was on a mission now a days to release all the souls trapped within her gems so they could move on to their final places of rest. Seethra lay on a handmade Indian cloth with intricate designs and colors as she thought of her current goals when a white bird of an unfamiliar species landed on her knee, seemingly out of nowhere. Seethra didn’t flinch but smiled crookedly at the odd thing. It was a strange looking, overly feathered bird. It seemed to be made entirely of fluff. I had in its beak a very fancy envelope baring the seal of the birthstone Aquarium.

“Aquarium?” Seethra said curiously “What does she want with me?” The bird looked directly back at Seethra and made a very abrupt and odd sort of gobbling, screeching noise. It was obvious that with bird was demanding she open the envelope. Seethra did so. “A party…” she said softly. “How interesting” Seethra continued with a devious smile. “This could be fun… I’ve never thought of associating with the others.. I wonder how human they are, if they are anything like me? Hah! God help us all if they are” Seethra smiled to herself as she considered the possibilities. Quickly she stood, the blood stones would have to wait, there are parties to attend.

Sometime later Seethra made her way to the estate. She stood a distance away as to not yet be seen. She really wasn’t sure how to go about this. This very well could be a trap, gather all the stones and trap them so one could use their power for their own means. In fact, why had she not thought of it before? Seethra grinned as she saw a woman holding water in midair. Very Impressive. Seethra liked to bluff, she likely would not harm other stones. However saying so was fun.

There was a flustered black hair girl, the water woman, a man with an identifying turquoise fedora, a girl who looked too old to be with her teddy bear, a boy with a blue rose, a sunshine looking girl and a man who might first be mistaken for a woman. They seemed to be interacting. Seethra scanned the landscape. It was beautiful, and just as importantly, very expensive looking. Aquarium does well. Seethra made her way toward them, standing a bit outside the group. She usually liked to jump right in the social scene and party it up but this was different. These people were not just humans. They are gems. They could make powerful friends, or very entertaining enemies. Either way, caution seemed the best course of action at this particular time.

“Thank you for the invitation Aquarium” Seethra said rather politely “Your home is beautiful” she said with curiosity. She wondered about the story behind these other gems.

"Hello Aqua, I'm Garnet." He had introduced himself upon her arrival, despite seeing it as somewhat redundant to him. He had noticed the momentary confusion regarding his gender, but said nothing about it. Quickly following her to the front of the estate, though he did lag behind a bit as he couldn't keep up, he saw the group of people gathered there. Garnet beamed at the sight of them all, he knew who they all were. He remembered them all, to some extent, from before.

"Yeo-reum, April, Ada, Saph, Devan, BQ! You're all here!" The birthstone of January exclaimed brightly. It hadn't yet occurred to him that, since they were only aware of events that had already transpired, they probably wouldn't know him yet. Existing outside of the normal flow of time for what was both an eternity and no time at all had done quite a number on his cause and effect reasoning. Garnet did pay attention to Aqua's explanation of the estate in spite of the fact that he already knew most of it. He was rather impressed at her trick with the water though, and he wondered what degree of control the others possessed over their abilities.

Charlie

Charlie gave an annoyed sigh as he blew a lock of his dark auburn hair from his face. He was laying in the backseat of an old yellow cab that had probably been a nice volvo... at some point in time. His legs were dangling out the side window as he was too tall to completely fit. The old cab drive, with his yellow teeth and garlic breath, had asked him three separate times to get his feet back inside the cab before he got pulled over, and each time Charlie had made loud snoring sounds to shut him up. He was not sure why he was going to this stupid place. There was really no point in it.

Would all the stones get together and live happily ever after? A creepy supernatural Brady Bunch? Ain't no way in hell they were getting him to be Cindy.. Well... maybe.. Charlie reached up and tugged on his long hair, maybe pigtails would suit him? Sadly no one was around, so he could share his genius of jokes, well besides garlic breath, but the amount of garlic breath that would come out from his hacking and coughing from laughing to hard at his amazing jokes would be torture for everyone.

Still, it did not answer the question. Why in the hell did he come to this? He could be home... sitting on the couch and watching bad cartoons... yet here he was in the back of some cab, in... well, wherever they were for some group meeting? He could almost see it now, all of them arriving in some strange unhuman manner, all trying to be super friendly and nice to people they have never met. It was enough to make him gag. He didn't care about the other stones; he knew they were out there somewhere, but so what?

The cab came to an abrupt stop and before he could stop himself, Charlie rolled and fell his torso stuck in the wedge between the front seat and back seat, with his legs flipped over the window. "Ouch.." He grunted, "You just totally lost your tip." Slowly, and awkwardly, he managed to unwedge himself and slid out the back seat leaving the amount of 231 dollars and 32 cents on the back seat. Exactly how much he owed.

"Don't forget." Charlie warned leaning in, "Come back for me in two days. For the love of God, come back for me. Don't leave me with these people."

The old man rolled his eyes before roaring off, but over the sound of gravel being flung, Charlie's shout was heard over, "Take me with you!" Of course it was after this that Charlie realized he had forgot his bag in the trunk of the cab, "Son of a bi.." He stopped mid-word as he noticed the large group at the front of a very large manor. Well, and here he was thinking the person who sent the postcard was over-compensating... boy, how right he was.

Slowly he made his way to the group, and horrified, noticed he was right. They looked like a bunch of weirdos! "Charlie. Amethyst, yatta yatta, pleasure to meet you all. Don't bother with the names, I won't remember half of your names. I'll figure them out eventually, now if you will excuse me." He said trying to slip through the crowd, "But I'ma go find a nice room before they all get taken."

AQUAMARINE

Aquamarine looked at the group of people in front of her. There was red-headed lady, an awfully shy looking girl, a guy holding a blue rose, a regal looking guy, a chick with a teddy bear, and a girl who looked happy. Everyone looked nice enough. As she counted the number of people in her head, she frowned. She'd sent out thirteen invitations total, but only seven people were here. The golden-eyed girl looked up as the sound of a car driving off was heard. A dude who had apparently forgot his luggage started walking towards to group. Now there were eight people. I shouldn't even be worrying, the others are probably still on their way here.

The red-headed woman had started talking to Aquamarine. "Anytime Miss," The brunette laughed a bit as she replied to the thank you. "But my name isn't Aquarium, it's Aquamarine, and I couldn't agree more with you on that, once I saw this place I just had to buy it(Okay everyone, let's just pretend Aquamarine has money coming out of the ass. Now, back to your regularly programmed show.). The guy who lost his luggage had finally reached the group. He announced his name and said something about finding a nice room before they were all gone. "Well I hate to break it to you Amethyst dear, but you won't be finding any nice rooms until I open the door." The golden-eyed girl said walking towards the door. She felt around for the small key in her pocket and successfully found it. Aqua stuck the key into the keyhole, turned, and opened the door. She stepped aside and looked at everyone with a smile on her face. "Do come in."

Yeo-reum stands in a big group of people, a woman calling herself Aquamarine addressing the group. It's strange to be standing around so many people who share abilities. Her thoughts are broken when a rather loud and annoying man pulls up in taxi. She listens as the man whines to the driver about being picked up in two days, "God, he sounds like a jerk." shesays to herself, rolling her eyes. "Like he's anything special."
"Charlie. Amethyst, yatta yatta, pleasure to meet you all. Don't bother with the names, I won't remember half of your names. I'll figure them out eventually, now if you will excuse me. But I'ma go find a nice room before they all get taken." The man says pushing his way through the group, nearly knocking her down in the process.

"God what a jerk!" she mutters. "You'd think he was God's gift." she stops at that thought and looks again, "He is cute." she stops at that thought and shakes her head, "Oh, no Yeo-reum don't even go there." she tells herself.

"Do come in." the woman calling herself Aquamarine says.
Yeo-reum walks up and bows, "Hello. My name is Yeo-reum Ahn. My name means Summer. I'm June." she stops for a second thinking, then giggles. "I'm Pearl. Thank you so much for inviting us." she looks around, "Well... at least me. You have a beautiful home." Yeo-reum looks down and realizes she's holding her bear in her hands, "Oh.." she says laughing, "This is my bear. I thought... I thought I put him back in the bag. I guess not." she says sounding a little absent minded. "But, thank you again."

Yeo-reum smiles and bows again. She walks over and grabs her backpack putting it over her shoulders, then her dufflebag over that, then she grabs her book bag and then her suitcase, "Oh. Heavy. Where do I put my things?" she asks huffing. "Hopefully it's not that far..." she looks up, "...or that high."

April smiles, clicks her tongue, and Kitten flies outside. She makes a note to open the window to her room. "April, again. Month: April. Gem diamond" She smiled. "Yep. I'm dreadful tired, I have never been on a plane ride that long before at once" she laughed and turned the suitcase around, pushing the handle down and sitting on it quickly. "Cute bear. I had a black one like it, but Kitten thought the stuffing was bird feed and it didn't go well. I tried to buy another one, but it wasn't the same" She was a little bit immature, too, but that didn't bother her. She smiled and leaned down, fixing one of her heel straps. They were uncomfortable, but worth it. She straightened up and fixed her headband, looking over the people "So... nice to finally meet the other jewls" then she looked over to the guy who had rudely tried to get in earlier "though some of us are not exactly jewls"

Adria saw the girl walk up and address the home as her own and call herself Aquamarine. She seemed very friendly to invite a group of several strangers sharing one common bond into her home. He turned back to the girl and smiled. "Well I am sorry that I can't chat but I truly must find a secluded room as to not hurt the others with my temperatures. If you need anything just find me." he bowed and then walked through to the house as he watched Checks take off into the air after a small dove took off from another girl.

He went to the hostess and bowed before her and took off his hat. "Madam Aquamarine I am honored to be allowed into your wonderful home. My name is Adaria. I do not with to intrude upon your humble abode so I shall try to keep the request to a minimum so I bid you adieu for now ma'dam." he said with another bow and returned his hat to his head, then walked forward with a small hum then walked past another girl and smiled. He remembered her releasing the dove and he smiled. "Hello my dear I believe you had a bird with you before. If you or your pet encounter any problems with Checks, my owl I apologize in advanced." he said then smiled softly. "Oh, I'm so rude" He took off his trilby once more and held it to his chest. "My name is Adaria, Turquiose, and you are my dear ?"

"Oh, hello there..." the man with purple hair in a turquoise suit and fedora she was talking to responded to her, and coughed slightly. Was it because of her being dusty? Sapphire made a mental note to take a shower as soon as she got into a room. She was glad though, that she was heard.

"If you mean what I mean.... Then, yeah... I'm onyx... and you?" he answered her question.

"Ni-nice to meet you On-Onyx. I'm Sapphire." she stammered, hoping she hadn't screwed up her greetings, then she heard Onyx tell her that someone was behind her before stepping back. "Hey, do you know that guy? He's talking to you..."

Sure enough, there was a male with black hair and blue eyes staring closely at her. "Madam, are you alright ?"

"I-I'm fine!" she managed out, he was staring at her too much and she felt a little uncomfortable with it. Thankfully an owl landed on the guy's shoulder, which must've been his pet or something, it caused him to stop staring at her too much. Was he a birthstone too? "I'm the birthstone Sapp-"

"Kitten!" she heard a girl call out and turned just in time to see a small white dove fly into a girl with blonde hair. "Hello," the girl said lightly, "Name's April"

Sapphire might have nodded and smiled a little too enthusiastically, but she was happy that people were introducing themselves.

"So, nice to meet you all" April nodded. "The name fits the place, don't you think? Well, I mean, it's a good name for a place where a Gemstone lives"

A young looking girl with a teddy bear and what Sapphire could clearly identify had enormously heavy bags and a red haired girl arrived.

As soon as she said that, a new soaked girl with golden eyes dragged a...gir-no...a guy a long, seemingly out of breathe and announced herself. "Hello hello everyone! I'm Aquamarine and welcome to La Maison des Joyuax! French for 'The House of the Jewels', which is ironic because this place looks everything but French."

Aquamarine then did a fluid-like motion with her hand and all of the water that was currently on her, hovered and formed into a orb in her hand. Sapphire watched in awe. That was so cool. So this was the Aquamarine who had invited the birthstones to stay here. Sapphire had a feeling they might get along pretty well.

"Yeo-reum, April, Ada, Saph, Devan, BQ! You're all here!" the brown haired male greeted them. He knew all their names...

“Thank you for the invitation Aquarium.” the red haired one said rather politely, however she got Aquamarine's name wrong. “Your home is beautiful”

As Sapphire had expected from the generous Aquamarine, she smiled and corrected the red haired girl, as well as adding in about how she loved the place and had to buy it right away.

An incredibly rude male pushed through everyone, announcing his name as if he didn't really care about them, which might've been the truth. He was really just aiming for the nicest room there was in there. Sapphire didn't really like the guy. Amethyst...pfft. She could tell the others didn't really like him either.

"Well I hate to break it to you Amethyst dear, but you won't be finding any nice rooms until I open the door." Aquamarine told him, before opening the doors and inviting them inside.

The girl with the teddy introduced herself to Aquamarine, Sapphire caught her name. "Hello. My name is Yeo-reum Ahn. My name means Summer. I'm June." she stopped for a second thinking, then giggled. "I'm Pearl. Thank you so much for inviting us."

"Oh.." Pearl said, laughing, "This is my bear. I thought... I thought I put him back in the bag. I guess not." she was sounded so absent-minded and cute. "But, thank you again."

Sapphire watched as the girl stacked heavy bags over her shoulders. "Oh. Heavy. Where do I put my things?" she asks huffing. "Hopefully it's not that far..." she looks up, "...or that high."

Sapphire knew exactly what to do with Pearl. She approached the girl carefully, not wanting to trip and accidentally hurt her or anything. Sapphire felt a little comfortable around Pearl, since she wasn't as intimidating or big as the others were. She placed her fingertips on Pearl's shoulder.

"Hey...Pearl, right? I-I'm Sapphire. Let's help with the heaviness...alright?" Sapphire managed to sound really gentle and mellow instead of scared. With her touch, she lessened the gravity of the bags, making them weight a lot lesser, almost as if they were just a regular backpack. Sapphire smiled rather sweetly at the girl, her dark wavy hair seemed to splay around elegantly from her gravitation. "There, light enough for you?"

Sapphire felt good. So far she hadn't messed up and had managed to end up helping someone for once. She turned to Aquamarine to bow, but instead, she hit her forehead into her luggage bag's extended handle, emitting a loud whack and a cloud of dust from the impact. She wailed for a short while before rubbing her forehead with both hands to ease the pain.

"I-I'm Sapphire, thanks for inviting me. I was to arrive three days ago...b-but I got lost. I'm a little clumsy and absent-minded sometimes, but I'll try to be on my best behavior." she said meekly with tears in her eyes and a rather red forehead. "I'm sorry if I appear filthy...I'll go freshen up as soon as I get into my room. "

Yeo-reum struggles with her bags trying to everything together. "This was so much easier when I was dragging them." she thinks.
As she struggles with the bags, she hears a voice from next to her"Hey...Pearl, right? I-I'm Sapphire. Let's help with the heaviness...alright?" Before Yeo-reum can say anything back to her, the girl touches her arm. When she does, her hair seems to almost float and as it does, her bags also feel lighter, "There, light enough for you?"

Yeo-reum is amazed, but not frightened. She figured if everyone was like her, then they too would have some special power. "Thank...thank you." Yeo-reum stammers watching as the girl turns her attention to their hostess. When she finishes Yeo-reum steps up and begins walking with the girl, "Thank you. This is much better." Yeo-reum says politely. She's pretty sure she's not annoying the girl because the girl seems so friendly and helpful.
"So, Sapphire, right?" pretty name. "I'm Yeo-reum. It means summer. I think I got that name because my birthday is on the first day of summer June 21st. You called me Pearl, which is okay, too. I don't really care which you use." Yeo-reum stops walking and stares at the inside of the mansion, "Wow! It's really big. It's like a museum." she looks around at the people walking upstairs to their rooms and begins snickering as she releases her bags, "I am so stupid!" she says laughing, "I forgot where my room is." she stands and thinks, "Oh yes. I remember now. Second floor... or was it third. No matter. It's the door at the end of the hall on the left. So if someone is there on the second floor I'll be on the third."

She nods, proud of her logic and picks up her bags, "So Sapphire tell me about yourself. Sapphire is a pretty name. It fits you perfectly."

"Hello hello everyone! I'm Aquamarine and welcome to La Maison des Joyuax! French for 'The House of the Jewels', which is ironic because this place looks everything but French." A blue-haired lady from inside the mansion greeted. Devan was calm on the outside, but shaking like crazy in the inside. He didn't expect to see so much people show up at one time. He thought that there would be some who would show up like 2 at a time. Then again, nothing ever goes my way. Devan mentally sighed. There was the black-haired girl from earlier, some gentleman, a red-head, a man who obviously showed that he had the "I-Don't-Give-A-Shit" vibe, a girl with a teddy bear,

As he turned to go inside, Devan heard someone call his name along with various others. "Yeo-reum, April, Ada, Saph, Devan, BQ! You're all here!" A brown-haired girl said. (This is in Devan's perspective, so of course he would call Garnet a girl.)

"Do I know you, Miss...?" Devan responded to the one who called his name. His tone was surprisingly calm, and it didn't show that he was having a mental meltdown inside his head.

Garnet

"Do I know you, Miss...?"

Garnet looked back at Devan, significantly confused, why was everyone asking who he was? Didn't they already know? "Of course you do." Garnet replied, "I'm Garnet, resident time-traveler, birthstone of January. You're Devan, onyx. We're the only two here that have existed since the beginning of the universe, and possibly even before that. We watch anime together on occasion, any of this sounding familiar?" This didn't make ay sense, they couldn't have all just forgotten him simultaneously. Then it dawned on him. Humans observed the progression of time in a strictly linear fashion, perhaps the others did the same, he wasn't used to having to conform to that kind of logic, but decided to give it a try nonetheless. "Actually, I don't think we have met yet, at least from your perspective." Garnet said extending a hand to Devan. "My name is Garnet, nice to meet you. And I am male by the way, so, you know, not a 'Miss'."

"I'm Garnet, resident time-traveler, birthstone of January. You're Devan, onyx. We're the only two here that have existed since the beginning of the universe, and possibly even before that. We watch anime together on occasion, any of this sounding familiar?" The birthstone of January responded. So he is as old as me? Devan wondered, then the "girl" said "Actually, I don't think we have met yet, at least from your perspective. My name is Garnet, nice to meet you. And I am male by the way, so, you know, not a 'Miss'."

"Nice to meet you too, Garnet." Devan replied. "So we meet up with each other to watch anime and read manga? Then I'm going to enjoy being friends with you." Devan smiled. At least he got used to talking with ONE person. Maybe two at most. "By the way, haven't I seen you around before...? Oh! I saw you when the very first manga came out. Then that means I should add 'again'." Devan chuckled. "Oh yeah... Why do you cross-dress, if people keep mistaking you for a girl? One of these days, I can see someone hitting on you, only to find out that they involuntarily turned gay. Doesn't this... Kinda annoy or bother you?"

Garnet

Garnet's face turned an impressive shade of red as he managed to splutter, "I do not cross-dress. This is gender neutral clothing. Actually on closer examination I think it's a highschool uniform for a boy, which kind of makes me wonder where I got it, but that really isn't the point." He paused for a moment, non-literally, to catch his breath when something seemed to occur to him. "Oh, you were making a reference to Hideyoshi, weren't you?" Garnet gave an embarrassed chuckle. "Well played, friend, well played."

As they passed Aquamarine the temporally-awkward youth had to ask, "Excuse me Aqua, if they all arrived because you tracked them down and sent them invitations, where did you send mine?"

April looked around, confused. Her eyes landed on the boy who everyone seemed to think was a girl, Garnet. The 'gender neutral' was pushing towards the feminine side. She decided that she has best find the rooms. She stood up, straightened her dress, and rolled the suitcase behind her. "I need to find a room, if I can. I have horrible jet lag. Thank you for inviting me into your home, Aquamarine" she smiled and started off, the wheels of her suitcase making a loud noise behind her. She started to really look at the place then. It was huge, that was for sure. It was also elegantly decorated. Fit for a king or queen. Eventually she figured out she was never going to find the rooms, so she walked back into the room where everyone was "Yea...... I can't find anything in here" she said quickly "I should have just waited for you to show us, I guess, as you were the one to buy the house, Aquamarine. It is lovely, by the way"

Charlie

Really? Charlie was stunned by this golden-eyed woman... so she left the door locked, but still met them outside? How in the hell did she get out.. wait, no, he didn't want to know. "I am no ones bambi." Charile said with a shrug, the dear comment was just strange. Was she trying to be some high-bred English matron well past her youth? If so, he was not going to be the one that got stuck dealing with her menopause. He didn't notice, which was because he did not care, the people he bumped into as they were much like wallpaper.. odd wallpaper with teddy-bears and large 'I am weird and shy!' tags stamped on their heads.

Charlie had a goal, and he was going to do it. Given the layout, he assumed the bedrooms would be on the upper floor with the bottom floor being reserved for the kitchen, dining hall, and other useless rooms that rich people always seemed to deem nessecary. He wasted no time in flinging himself up the stairs climbing them two at a time in his rush to find a good room, but he dearly hoped that the outside of the old manor did not match the inside. Charlie felt the smile slide across his face as he guessed right. He was sure there may be bedrooms elsewhere, but he had found a hallway with some, and it was a nice start. Each bedroom door he opened was followed by a quick, "No." It continued until he was at the end of the hall, and the sinking feeling entered the pit of his stomach. There were no T.Vs... dear god, what was he going to do now? He wanted to be that asshole uncle who just sat in his room watching T.V, so he wouldn't have to listen to their stories.. The hell was he supposed to do now?

"Aw.. god dammit." Charlie cursed, so he retraced his steps back to the bedroom on the second floor, third door down the hallway. He wanted it for two reasons, it had its own very large bathroom and a very large bed. The floor was a hardwood floor with a large ornate circle rug underneath the bed, probably so people would not freeze their feet when they woke up and stepped out of bed. The bed itself was a large king size bed with four large wooden post that shot out to the roof, probably so someone can add a curtain to the top for privacy.

Seehtra

There were a few conversations going on before a man came in with quite an entrance. Noisily he yelled after his cab from another direction. Seethra looked over and sneered at the sight. He was Charlie Amethyst and he was in pursuit of the best room, according to his abrupt proclamations. Boy, his show simply begging Seethra to intervene. She could not resist such a miserable soul. He was a perfect toy, easily flustered and already in a bad mood. Maybe things wouldn’t be so boring after all, Seethra had a new project.

Then Aquamarine spoke, graceful and polite. “Oh Aquamarine, My apologizes. I Often miss read things” Seethra replied with a sharp smile before Aquamarine went to open the door for the young man that was soon to taste the hell that is Seethra. They also had a quick dialog as were others, but it was too many voices at once for Seethra to keep track of. She would play with them later, for now, she had found a target too tempting to pass up.

Slyly Seethra slipped through the open door and followed the young man. Much to her joy, he even had a soul attached to him, seeming to try and torment him. Perhaps that was why he acted so disturbed. “What fun I could have with him…” She smiled as the woman spirit came to her and whispered his story. Only Seethra could see and speak to spirits, he would not know the spirit was haunting him. She wore a devilish grin as she followed him to the nicest room available. “So much to use… where to start? Small perhaps?” Seethra thought to herself, she loved knowing people’s most private past. It proved not only entertaining but helpful as well.

He was in the room and had quite obviously claimed it. Seethra entered rather casually, eyeing him. She wished to memorize his features. “Ah, so you found my room did you? Wonderful. The Blood Queen does deserve the best room in the house” she said flinging her luggage onto the bed. “I did enjoy your entrance earlier, so obviously miserable. Hah! Handsome thing like you, how did you get this way? I might have an idea… hee hee, but lets save that for later hmm? As our first order of business you may enjoy me taking this room.” Seethra smirked as she collapsed on the bed. “So soft” she smiled. She enjoyed confusing her prey, insults and seduction combined provided for a rather frustrating yet alluring air. “I’m Seethra by the way, Blood stone. I’m sure you know of my.. Heh, ‘reputation’” she added with an evil smirk. This was just the small start of her work on him.