I'm sorry about this not being on Valentine's day, but I didn't have time to write it. So here it is, enjoy!
It's only the first part of the Valentine's bit.
Garnet yawned and shook her head tiredly. "Amethyst?" she asked, as she turned her head to look for her sister.
She stretched and got to her feet. "Sis?"
The only sounds that could be heard were the tweeting of birds, and the familiar screech of Fleeches.
After a while of these sounds, Garnet heard her sister's muffled voice.
"Don't worry, I'm down here!"
She stood on her tiptoes and spotted her sister sat further down the grassy hill leading to the hustling, bustling city.
Amethyst waved at her twin and smiled.
Garnet ran over to her and sat down.
"Hi, did ya have a good sleep?" Garnet asked her sister, looking at the bright, sunlit city below her.
"Yeah, like a baby!" Amethyst lied, rubbing her arm.
"Good!"
Amethyst nodded and got up. "Come on, we ought to have a look at this place, it looks nice!"
Garnet whooped and stood up too. "How about... We roll down the hill? We haven't done something like this in years!" Garnet suggested.
"Yeah, I don't see why not!"
And they lay down on the floor and spread their bodies out, ready to roll.
The twins slid down the steep hill, grass staining their skirts.
"Ahh!" Garnet screamed, as she bashed into her sister.
They laughed at it and fell in a big heap at the bottom.
"Woah..." Amethyst said dizzily, her head spinning round in circles.
"That was fun!" Garnet cried, sniffing the scent of the grass on her clothing.
Both of them were now stood up, and they made their way to the city gates tipsily, banging into one another, chuckling at their sillyness.
There was a female Mudokon stood at the wall, she had a happy smile pasted on her face.
"Happy Valentine's day, friends!" she said creepily, giving Amethyst and Garnet a heart-shaped piece of paper each.
"Uh... Thanks?" Amethyst said, and she stepped sidewards and faced the gate.
"I suppose you'd like to get inside, children?"
"Yes please!" Garnet said politely, blinking at the freaky lady.
The woman walked up to the steel gates, and inserted a tiny key into a huge, rusty padlock, and did a little dance.
The twins stepped inside, and heard the metal gates rattle behind them, and they squeaked as they were closed.
Hundreds of people were dashing about, going into different buildings, and they were all giving eachother gifts and flowers.
A little Mudokon boy ran up to them both, and gave them two roses.
"Welcome! This place is called Ethyria!" "Oh, and Happy Valentine's day!" he added, and he ran off to give more roses.
"That was sweet!" Garnet commented, her face glowing.
They carried on, and saw giant 25-foot buildings, with little windows in them. Fountains of gushing, clear water sprayed the place, making it more alive.
A creaky, wooden sign with a symbol of a beer glass hung on the side of a shack-like building, it's hinges halfway broken.
"Maybe we could find out more about this place if we talk to a bartender?" Amethyst wondered, pushing the saloon-like doors open.
This place was filthy, unlike the beauty of Ethyria's exterior.
The floorboards creaked loudly, and nails stuck out of them.
"Ewness..." Garnet whispered, sticking her tongue out.
They looked around. There were a couple of middle-aged Mudokons huddled in a corner, smoking pipes and downing their alcohol drunkenly.
In the opposite corner, there were several
Slogs sat round a square table, and it looked like they were playing cards!
"Now THAT, is what I call weird!" Amethyst said, her eyes staring at the poker playing Slogs.
The sisters pulled up two seats and sat at the bar, next to a Mudokon wearing a black leather jacket, and a Gabbit wearing some an army uniform.
Garnet looked over at them and stared curiously.
Amethyst slapped her on the arm and whispered in her ear not to stare.
"There's some rough looking people in here, don't doing anything like that..."
A fat Clakker bartender came up to them, he was cleaning a very dirty glass, and he scowled at the twins.
"Yeah? What d'ya want?"
Amethyst looked at him carefully, and replied.
"Two Akdovs please..." she muttered, and when he turned his back she stuck her two fingers up at him.
He bent down and opened a small storage cupboard.
Garnet started to tap her 2 fingers on the counter.
The bartender straightened and turned, he had 2 bottles of Akdovs in his hands.
"Stop it..." he said impatiently to Garnet, and he slammed the bottles down on the counter angrily.
Garnet glared and supped her bottle. Amethyst paid the Clakker some moolah from her purse.
They drank their Adkovs silently, until the Mudokon in the jacket turned to them.
"This place is a craphole, aint it?" he shouted drunkenly.
Amethyst hutched her stool closer to Garnet.
"You heard that fatty? This place is a CRAPHOLE!!"
The Clakker bartender stopped cleaning the glass, and glared at the Mud.
"Say that again, but to my face!" he roared, his eyes going dark and fiery, and his feathered fists were clenched.
The Mudokon dared to climb onto the bar and shout loudly in the Clakker's face. "THIS PLACE IS A CRAPHOLE!!"
The bartender grabbed the Mudokon's leathery collar hard, and lifted it up.
"Oi!" Amethyst said, and she kicked her stool backwards.
"He's drunk!"
"Do you want some too missy?" the bartender said, lifting his huge fists in the air.
"Bring it on, chicken boy!" Amethyst mocked, beckoning the Clakker to come closer.
He roared out in rage and dived at her from behind the bar, he knocked her bottle over, and it crashed to the floor, sharp, glass pieces spreading across the dusty, creaky wooden floor.
"Hey! Leave Amethyst alone!" Garnet cried, booting the Clakker in the ass.