"What the hell is going on!" asked Pearl as she ran up next to Steven and Amethyst. They watched as Garnet chased Amber around, attacking him with all she had. But it wasn't enough. Amber laughed, his cloak gracefully fluttering behind him as he jumped into the air. Garnet threw rocks at him, he smashed everyone of them to pieces.
"You've lost your bite Garnet." Screamed Amber as he fell towards the ground. Garnet was waiting for him, getting ready to smash him back into the sky. Be before she could Amber's cloak consumed him. Making him evaporate in thin air, Garnet looked around for him. "I use to think you were scary back then." Amber whispered into Garnets ear from behind as he formed into the shadows.
"That's the fifth time he's done that." said Amethyst eating a bag of popcorn. Pearl just stared at Amethyst and Steven as they watched the two gems fight.
"Why don't you do anything?" asked Pearl. "Garnets in trouble, we need to help her!" Steven and Amethyst looked up at Pearl as if she was crazy.
"Um, P?" said Amethyst "Do you see what's happening right now? Garnet's fighting someone who's even stronger then Jasper and I hate to say it but, he's stronger the Garnet. Garnet!"
"Oh what makes you think that?" asked Pearl as Amber caught Garnets gauntlet with only one hand.
"That." said Steven, jumping off the railing of the beach house and running up to the two gems. Garnet was on the ground and Amber was crouching right next to her, giggling like a child.
"You really are something else Garnet." Garnet just growled as she got back up, summoning her gauntlets again. "Remember the old days, fighting off armies worth of gems together. doing secret missions for Rose." Amber grinned as he saw the teen smelling of Rose run into earshot of him. "And shattering Pink diamond together." Garnet got ready to charge again, but stopped when she heard Steven behind him.
"Is that really true?" asked Steven, confused and worried about Garnet. Looking at her now pained face. "Did you really shatter Pink diamond?"
Before Garnet could answer, Amber stepped in his cloak disappearing in a flash of light. "No, I was the one with the pleasure the shatter a diamond. Of course she was the weakest, but still. I expected her to do more then just beg, I wanted to shatter her in battle. Not while she was in a pool of her own tears." Steven shuddered at how calmly the gem talked about shattering, like he enjoyed shattering.
"Steven, don't listen to Amber." Garnet stepped towards Amber while he was looking at Steven. "He's an insane gem, stuck in he past like the rest of the corrupted gems." Amber laughed at her comment.
"Oh yeah, that was the joke. I looked like a male because I was corrupted! Oh my diamond how did forget about that!" He continued to laugh until Garnet proofed him, making him retreat into his elegant red amber. Pearl and Amethyst ran up to Garnet and Steven, Pearl apologizing for not helping. And Amethyst cheering Garnet on and asking questions about the gem she was fighting. Finally, after an hour of Connie saying goodbye to Steven, Garnet refusing to answer any of anyone's questions, and Garnet trying not to crush Amber's gem with her feet. All conversation was stopped when Amber's gem began to glow. And out came Amber, only wearing tattered and old pants, barefoot, and still covered in scars. Amber was still laughing when he regenerated. He stopped laughing when he noticed he was in the house again, instead of on the beach.
"Jeez, you finally proofed me." said Amber sitting on the counter right next to Amethyst. "Thought you would miss all the chances I gave you. Least you haven't changed in that aspect." Amber looked at Pearl, Amethyst and Steven. He pointed at Steven. "Tell me, why do you smell of Rose? And who are the other two gems?"
Garnet opened her mouth, about to tell Amber that he no longer had any power. But before she could Steven being Steven, he told Amber everything. "I'm Steven, Rose's son, and this is Pearl and Amethyst. The other crystal gems." Amber looked at Pearl, she almost jumped back when he walked towards her.
"Are you the renegade Pearl I heard so much about. Rose's right hand?" Pearl just froze, unable to process how this gem knew of her. But she recovered quickly.
"Yes, yes I am." she said proudly. "I' am Rose's one and only right hand." Amber smiled.
"It's so good to meet my equal." he said bowing. Everyone was confused at what Amber was doing, especially Pearl. "I'm sorry, I've yet to introduce myself." Amber stood up straight and stuck his hand out. "I am Rose's left hand, and assassin. It is so nice to meet another person powerful enough to fight me one on one. Rose spoke of you very well, saying that you would act as a challenge for me if I were to shatter you." Everyone froze, shocked at what Amber was saying.
"Excuse me, but um. I have no clue of who you are." said Pearl. "And if you were Rose's left hand, I would have known." Amber shook his head.
"No you wouldn't have."
"Yes I would!" screamed Pearl.
"Pearl" said Garnet. "Yes he was, and I'm not surprised that you don't know who he was." Everyone sat on the couch next to Garnet, except for Amber who leaned up against the wall. "Rose was extremely secretive about him, only a total of ten people knew of his existence."
"Including the diamonds." chimed Amber.
"Anyways." continued Garnet "He was a shadow, Roses assassin, her bloody petal. He did what others could not, only ever teaming up with me. He was ruthless, sparing none standing in his way. A terrifying gem, one even Jasper would be afraid of. One day, Amber ignored Roses order of retreat. Instead he went missing for a whole year, taking down entire bases by himself. And even shattering Pink diamond in the meantime." Everyone gasped at that, they were shocked. "After that Rose took the blame for it and locked Amber away in what used to be his training room. Never to be released again, I'd forgotten about him to be honest. Until today when Steven and I accidentally used our gems at the same time, opening up Amber's prison."
"And here we are." said Amber surprisingly calm.
"Aren't you, like, mad at Rose or something." said Amethyst. Amber just shrugged.
"I expected her to throw me away at some point. She was just another owner waiting until the right moment to throw me away. I planned on finding someone else who could use me in a useful way. But she locked me up instead, much worse then just throwing me out in my opinion." Amber looked at Garnet. "And for the last time Garnet, I didn't run away. Rose ordered me to shatter Pink diamond and overthrow the bases. Out of all my friends I expected you to know that!" Garnet stood up and stomped over to Amber.
"We're not friends, we never were." Amber's face didn't change, but his eyes did. They were hurt and saddened. "And I know you're lying. It's not the first time you lied either."
"You just won't accept that Rose wasn't what you wanted her to be." Said Amber. "We both know what Rose was really like, but instead of accepting the truth you just sided with a painting of what you wanted to see. Not what you really saw." Garnet summoned her gauntlets. "Go ahead, shatter me! Like you should have, no, like you wanted to five thousand years ago." Amber turned around, exposing the gem on his lower back. "Back stab me just like everyone else." Amber felt nothing so he turned around and looked at Garnet straight in the eye. "Just like Rose did, just like the Diamonds did, just like the other Amber's did."
"STOP" Screamed Steven. Everyone looked at Steven's unexpected outburst. "Just, stop it. You guys are like Jasper, you hold a five thousand year old grudge."
"I'm sorry." said Garnet. "But this man can't change, no matter what you say to him. He's just a killer who needs someone to give him an order so he can justify shattering someone. He's not like Lapis, or Peridot. He's like a corrupted gem, you can' help him. He's just another monster." Garnet turned to attack Amber, but he was gone! The warp pad activated with Amber on it. Garnet reached out to grab him, but he disappeared before she could. "Damn it." she said.
"Um" interrupted Pearl. "Where's Amethyst?"
"Uh oh" said Steven.
"Now why on earth are you here?" asked Amber, pointing at Amethyst.
"You seem interesting." said Amethyst, moving closer to Amber. "I want to hear more about your stories in the war."
"Did you never hear the rumors about the crimson gem?" asked Amber, surprised that Amethyst had never heard of the rumor about him. "The bloody gem, shattering everything and anything he didn't like."
"Well I popped out of the ground after the war, so I never participated in it." Amethyst just kept smiling.
"But Rose never made gems, and Home world wouldn't make any gems here after the war took place." Amber looked up at Amethyst. "Were you defected?" Amethyst froze, a look of sadness and anger on her face. "At least there's another one like me?" Amethyst looked at Amber surprised.
You're, defective!" Amethyst look of sadness and anger replaced by that of confusion.
"Well yeah, why else does Garnet hate me? I was mistake, a good one at that. But still a mistake." Amber's eyes reflected sorrow and pain. Never meeting anyone like him. But he took comfort in the fact that he wasn't the only mistake on earth. "We've arrived." Amethyst took in the surroundings. It was a cliff, a lot like the barn that Lapis and Peridot lived in. But it was even bigger, with a large metal base on the edge. "This is one of the bases that I took control of in my one year absence. It had a great view on the mountain, so I decided to keep the base." Amber walked up to the doors and opened it up. There was a large hallway with doors on either side, mostly cells.
"So" said Amethyst "Is this where you lived?"
"I guess you could say that. I stored my weapons here but did not much else." Amber continued walking towards the control room, but a door caught Amethysts eye. She opened the door, but was pulled back from the door and heard it slam shut. "Trust me." said Amber, his eyes narrowed "You're not going to like what's in there one bit." Amethyst just nodded dumbly and followed Amber into the control room. Amber was telling her something, but she wasn't listening. Even though she didn't open the door all the way, she saw what was inside and it scared her. Inside the room were piles of shattered gems!
"Really wish I had taken Garnets words seriously." Amethyst muttered to herself. "He really is a monster." Amber heard what Amethyst said and looked out the window. He summoned his cloak, to teleport to a shadow on the roof. He looked at the edge of the cliff.
"I wish someone could shatter me." Amber jumped off, sailing off the cliff. "But of course I had to become stronger then a diamond. Stronger then anyone in this universe." Amber heard Amethyst screaming at him to teleport to safety. But he refused. He looked up at her and smiled. Before smashing his gem against the rocks below.
(Trust me this is not the end of this series, That would be a boring ending. Tell me what you want to happen and I might include it in the story.)