No one but the remaining gems from this era can tell you exactly how long ago this event happened.
No one, not even Yellow Diamond, can tell you what became of those lost gems.
Not everyone knows the story that you are about to be told...so consider this...to be the greatest honor.
There was a God, The God of Mines, who had a simple idea.
The idea to make his gems come to life.
But he saw that his current gems were not strong enough...so he ordered his servants to gather one of every gem so he could create a more powerful gem, one worthy of survival.
In his hands he crushed the gems (Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire, Garnet, etc.)into dust.
To this dust he whispered words only he could hear, words only he could interpret, words that made the dust harden beneath his grasp.
Opening his hands for the sun to see his creation the new gem shone so bright, underneath it's rays, that sudden bursts of beautiful light and color radiated for all to see.
Even the other Gods and Goddesses stood in awe at this beautiful gem, for it was pure, it was strong, and it was called Diamond.
It's color...is clear...but underneath the light of the sun, who was the first to look down upon it's beauty, one can see the colors of all other gems from which it was created.
None spoke as The God of Mines simply laid the new Diamond gem onto a pedestal, it was later brought to a planet the God named 'Homeworld', for it would now be the 'home'...to all his beautiful gems.
That Diamond would stay there, lying dormant, for millenniums to come while it's comrades waited in the same state to be awakened.
-White Diamond's Castle-
A castle...it's walls were over seven feet tall and it's halls were empty.
It's master was Diamond, and although it never took form...the gem made sure that it's kingdom became one with it's soul.
The castle would become known as the Diamond Kingdom to those who knew it existed.
Millenniums passed before Diamond awoke and legend has it, took the form of the God of Athena, one by one they awoke their comrades and with those gems at it's side...they became the Council of the Gems.
The Council, with the help of their God, created lesser gems and became known as the Elder Gems.
Diamond wishing to have other diamonds inhabit Homeworld, to have others to take their place upon the throne, tried to create other diamonds.
But each one had an impurity, an imperfection, that caused them to be colored and would later...walk a different path from the Elder Diamond's chosen road.
The last to arise was a Yellow Diamond...the most hated of them all.
Years passed and the impurities became too strong for the other Elders to control, Diamond on the other hand was able to destroy the lesser gems but...in order to do that they would have to destroy themselves in the end.
For a Diamond to remain pure it must remain within positive energy, battle is within negative energy.
The Elder Council decided that the only proper way to defeat the lesser diamonds...was to remove their presence from Homeworld...the entire council retreated to an unknown location.
Many could say that it was selfish of them to do, that it was cowardly, that it was pathetic.
One could say many things about the Elder Council and their decision, but the decision had been placed also upon the Gods and the Gods were the final decision.
The Elder Council is unaware of what goes on at Homeworld, and Homeworld simply assumes the Elder Council died in the war between a Rose Quartz and Homeworld's army.
The decision was also a promise...a promise made between Rose Quartz and Elder Diamond long ago, before the war started but was soon to begin, when the Elder Council had taken different forms to hide their identity. That promise has never been broken.
-Steven's home-
"Heeeeey Lion!" Lion was sitting on Steven's bed while grooming himself
"Whaddya think you're doing?" Steven had a slight pout on his face because Lion refused to get down.
His pet simply stared down the boy who in return gave the animal giggles and chuckles "awww I can't stay mad at you, you're just too cute and fluffy for that kind of stuff~"
Steven climbed the steps and onto Lion's back to give him a big hug.
Lion had other plans though as he rose from the floor, taking Steven with him, and made his way outside.
"Lion! Where are we going?" the animal stood in silence and Steven tried to listen as to what could be bothering his pet.
Just barely...he heard the sound of a violin playing, it was beautiful but yet he felt it was something Pearl would enjoy just a bit more than he.
None the less Lion ran towards the sound and opened a portal, something he was starting to do a bit more often.
-At the Diamond Castle-
Birds chirping, the sun beating down on his entire body, the sounds of a waterfall, leaves rustling in the wind it sounded like heaven.
Opening his eyes...Steven thought he was in heaven "woooooah!"
Before him was a castle made out of diamond, a waterfall that was multi-colored, rainbow colored fireflies that glowed even in the bright light.
The plant life was something he's never seen before and just couldn't explain, the sky was the prettiest of blues and the sun was almost overbearing and, unknown to Steven, hardly moved.
The castle had rainbows that bounced off it's walls...he knew this place was one of a kind, he had to show the others.
"Lion...where are we?" the animal only gave him a loud snort in response.
"I'll take that as a 'I don't know' answer" for once he was afraid to get off and patted Lion on the back.
"Ok...you can take me home now...if you're going to bring me to strange places, make sure we can bring the others ok? After Jasper and Peridot I'd rather not go alone anymore..." his voice became small along with his body, he curled into a ball as Lion opened another portal.
What the two didn't know was that someone had seen their arrival...they would now wait for the next meeting.
-Back at Steven's house-
Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst had just come back from another mission when they heard a roar.
The three rushed outside to find Lion and Steven on the beach together.
"Dey guys!" Pearl rushed to Steven with a worried look on her face, the others followed.
"Steven!" Pearl carefully pulled the boy off of his pet and patted him down "are you ok?" she ran her hands through his hair.
"Yeah I'm fine, but Lion found this new weird place" Garnet had a staring competition with the wild cat as the two spoke.
"I want you guys to see it!" his eyes sparkled with enthusiasm "oh...Steven...I don't know if we would all fit on Lion, we don't want to break him..I don't even know how one would revive him if Garnet accidentally punched him or something...not that I'm saying she will."
Amethyst was the first to sit on the Lion "listen...if he can carry ME, he can carry ALL of us!" she patted his hind leg "UUP!" luckily he stood up without a problem "see!"
Steven sat behind her and held onto her waist "all aboard the L train!" (1)
"Amethyst! I know your sense of humor and that isn't funny!"
"Pfffffffffffffff I didn't mean it that way Pearl! Nice one though~ I like the way you think, we just might have something in common after all!" Garnet took her place on Lion.
Realizing she'd have to sit in between Garnet and Steven..Pearl blushed a deep blue "u-uh" not wasting any time, and with a small smile on her face, Garnet grabbed Pearl by her shirt and onto her lap "mush Lion! To the pretty plaaaace!"
-At the Diamond Castle-
The sunlight was a nuisance to the four, their eyes had to slowly adjust before all could stare amazed at what they saw.
"I've never seen a place like this before...and is that" they all stared upon the Castle with open mouths "is that...a d-d-diamond castle? d-diamond?"
Garnet had to put a comforting hand on Pearl's shoulder to assure her that she wasn't imagining things, that it would be alright.
"That's diamond?" Steven squinted at the castle "Yes my young gem...this is my kingdom..." a voice spoke from afar but yet so close, it made all but Lion shudder to hear "who is that?" Amethyst was the first to speak.
"I...am the Elder Diamond...please young gems...enter my kingdom" suddenly but silently the drawbridge slowly lowered itself over the moat, Lion made his way towards the castle without Steven's orders.
There were no stands, no little homes within this castle, no masked salesman or even an annoying but in love couple. Just a staircase that led to two large doors that slowly opened, Lion lowered himself motioning for everyone to get off.
Steven being in a hype ran towards the doors "Steven! You don't just run into random places!" he was already inside with a large smile on his face and his hands in the air "STEVEN!"
All three of the gems ran after the boy who was stopped in front of another pair of doors.
"There are a lot of doors in this place..." he poked the door "boop~"
Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst stood behind him, weapons at the ready "You're method of opening doors is a strange one young gem...I look forward to talking to you in person..." unlike the other doors these quickly opened and revealed a dining room.
Candles illuminated the room, a table able to fit over 30 people was in the middle of the room, the carpet seemed to be of high quality, and at the end of the room sat a throne covered in a thick layer of diamond.
Decided to make a few small changes to chapter 1. Nothing big and nothing you should really notice unless you have it memorized. Anyway until I decided to continue this story I'll just respond to a comment.
(Speerut): No one wants the story. So who would I give it away to? Sorry but unless someone decides to message me about wanting the story I can't just give it away to nothing/nobody. Also I'm not updating it as of now, but I MAY continue it later. Just a matter of the readers being able to wait it out.
But until then
-Ciaossu.