*Ruby :))))))*
Overwhelmed, i remembered that was how i felt when i met him. One who is more fragile than me yet was still talented. The slippery ice covers the whole ground, there he stood, hand gripping his saw tightly, those eyes were cold yet so fierce. His moves create a tune, his slashes rumbles the ground, such an elegant gem i thought to myself. Back then, i can feel his eyes when we first team up, it was annoyance and pity he gave me. Gradually, we became closer, i learned how he do his job and the way he acted is just to protect me. Oh how foolish was i back then to lose my hands, even worse, to lose him. The winter job, without Antarcticite, felt lonely, it still does.
It was still it strucked me again, the cruel reality.
"Sensei! Sensei! A gem lunarian is here! He wants to talk to you!" Ruby ran in suddenly, breaking my chain of thoughts.
"Which gem is it my dear?" I stood up from the wooden chair.
"His name is Antarcticite" Ruby responded.
"A-antarcticite?" I was left in shocked.
I immediately stood up and ran out to the grass field, from far, a familliar figure appeared, it was indeed, Antarticite.
Other than Antarcticite, Opal and Moissanite was also observing him. He looked at me, after all those years, his glance still haven't changed even when he was turned into a lunarian.
"Phos...how are you, those arms seems to have turned into something else" he spoke calmly.
"You are back...you are really back" my voice shooked from remembering the old memories.
"Why, why did you try? Why did you treat Kongou like that?" He spoke again, now with a colder tone "Why won't you just end this cycle of suffer for both sides?".
It was hard to hear, his words, after you all forgot about me and leave me like that, you think you can say that? But again, this was Antarticite which made me felt even more terrible. I want to hold his hands, to apologise, to keep him here, thousands of year of waiting in hope for him to come back just to say this, i felt grief, anxiety, sick to the core. Why would you say it like that?
"No i-, i am just-" i stuttered horribly.
I felt like falling onto my knees, begging for him not to think of me like that, yet all i could do was just stare at him.
Opal was the one to move closer to me and took a glance at Antarcticite "That is irrelevant, think of how they treated him! If it is not that you are someone inportant to sensei, i would have sliced you right here".
"N-no Opal" i stopped her from advancing to Antarticite, i couldn't bare watching him dissappear again.
Opal looked at me, his eyes shallowed, it was that confused look he usually give me. He shook his head and walked back inside. Moissanite who was observing the situation still stood there silently, a pen in his hand and some notes in the other.
Antarcticite sighed pitifully, he spoke "Well, i want you to know one last thing, i never wanted you to feel guilty because of me and...i will be back."
I couldn't do anything but nodded, trying to stop him from leaving would be imbecile. Still, some memories still lingered on my mind as Antarcticite closed her eyes and turned away on the lunarian's ship.
Moissanite gently closed her notebook and reached out to me "Sensei, this is the 20th gem visitting us since yellow diamond's trip".
I nodded at those words, still longing after the lunarians who are far away in the sky. Antarcticite was my savior and also the fall of me.