Queen Amethyst

Deep inside a cave, if you knew your way well, you could find a small pool glittering with aquamarine rocks. These rocks were transparent, crystal-like, and light as a feather. They gave off a blue glow, it wasn't that strong, but it was strong enough to dimly light the walls of the cave. In a cluster, at the bottom of a shallow pool, the light was strong. It illuminated the walls of the small cavern room, and at the edge of the pool sat a hooded figure, its long, dark brown curls hanging out of its hood.

The figure smiled, then slowly lifted its head, revealing two amethyst coloured eyes with a dangerous glint in them. The figure slowly lifted its hood, and under it seemed to be a small crown. No, they weren't a princess of some sort. They were young, that was true, but they looked more regal, indicating that they must have been a queen.

The figure's curls lightly bounced on their shoulders as they paced around the pool, examining the crystals with a mysterious flicker in their eyes. "Oh yes," they murmured. "Beautiful crystals, they are. They shine so brightly, but deep inside of me I am afraid. Afraid that once I take a crystal, everything in this cavern shall collapse. It isn't the blue ones I wanted, of course not!"

As they stared into the pool, amethyst coloured eyes glazing with sadness, as if remembering a bad memory, they said, "It was the rose coloured crystals I wanted. Oh, what a beauty they were. I came here a few months ago, in search for somebody I had lost. They were..." The figure paused, before continuing, "They were looking for the crystals as well. But I had found them, rose coloured they were, and I come back to this cavern, finding nothing but these blue crystals."

A tear rolled down their cheek, and they suddenly broke out in anger, "It was all their fault! The...the volcano king! He filled my brother's mind with stories, stories of how the crystals would give him power! Oh poor Admiral came to these caverns, only to die without coming back!"

In their rage, they had slashed at the water, moving the crystals around. They suddenly stopped, and hung their head, looking at their own hands. "I could've stopped him. I didn't." More tears rolled down their cheeks, more sadness clouded their mind. Suddenly, out of the corner of their eye, they spotted a rose coloured spark in the water, hidden below blue crystals. Even though these crystals were transparent, they seemed to hide the spark of light pretty well.

The figure crouched down at the pool's edge and began digging through the crystals, until they found a beautiful, rose coloured stone. The stone had no jagged edges like the other crystals. It was completely smooth. It wasn't completely transparent, you could kind-of see through it, like paper.

Their eyes lit up as they held the stone in their hands. "I, Queen Amethyst, have found the stone that could bring my brother back."