Author's Note: "Syrc" Town is "Crys" backwards, which stands for Crystal. Also the Ocean Town thing references the sign seen in "Last One Out of Beach City" which says "Ocean Town – No Longer On Fire" and the episode (S1 E51) where Mayor Dewey is comforting the citizens about the giant green hand and says "At least we're not Ocean Town, am I right?" Anyways this chapter is the worst one I've written. If you don't like a chapter filled with talking, then just skip it. You won't miss much.

"Can you pass the soda, Lapis?" Steven asked me. We were sitting in the kitchen of our house. Well, not so much of a house as a cave in a cliffside that was very nicely decorated. I'd used a giant water hand to carve it out years ago. About eight years ago, when we first settled here in Syrc Town.

We'd started out in Ocean Town. Ruby had found us there, and burned down most of the city. So I'd traveled to many towns, but people kept chasing us out, and the gems were always chasing. After about a year, I'd used my water wings to fly us far away into Syrc Town. I'd collapsed from exhaustion, and Steven, who was on my back, drooled a bit onto my gem, which healed it.

I'd then used water to carve out a nice cave in a cliff. It now has windows and a porch, and it's really nice. I designed it to look like Steven's old house, except there was a basin of water to replace the warp pad, and when the sunlight hits the pool, the entire house shimmers with blue light. The furniture was made of stone, not wood, and there weren't couches, just another pool of water that I used to teach Steven how to swim in. My room had a normal door and was not magical. The walls of the house were all made of a light blueish-grey stone, and the windows were tinted slightly blue. It's not much, but at least I – at least we have a home. Steven is now thirteen, and I haven't really changed at all.

"Hey, Lapis? You there?" Steven asked. I realized that I'd been lost in thought. "Yeah, I'm good. Here, you can have my soda." I handed him my Sprite. "Listen, Lapis? I've been lost in thought a bit as well. I've been having these dreams, and I keep seeing these three girls… a red one, a white one, and a purple one. Are they… my memories? You've never told me much about my past, or my father. Was he… bad… to you? Were those three girls bad to you? Were they gems too? What I'm… really asking is can you tell me about my past?" Steven asked, looking sad.

This was a topic I had avoided. I'd known who his father was. There was a picture on the table Steven was eating at on the day I was freed. Later, I saw him in a magazine as a rock star. He didn't seem so bad. But the gems… if he found out about them…

"Well, Steven, your father is a celebrity, and never had time for you. So I moved, and never told him where. His name is Greg Universe, and he's a rock star. Those three girls…" I paused, not knowing how to spin it. "…chased after us, trying to punish us for leaving. They'd trapped me for thousands of years, and I had to leave." I finished, letting out a deep breath. I wasn't telling him all of the truth, but I wasn't lying either.

"I'll tell you the story of how we escaped, what about that?" I said, hoping that this would satisfy him. He nodded, so I started. "I had flown a couple hundred miles south, and so I stopped to rest. The purple one suddenly grabbed my leg with her whip, and pulled me towards her. I formed a water knife, and stabbed her as she pulled me in, and she poofed. Then, the white one started blasting me with her spear, and so I shot an ice wall at her, and when she blasted it, I made the ice shards attack her, and so she poofed as well." I paused to take a breath.

"Wait, they poofed? So they were gems?" asked Steven. I hesitantly responded "Yes. Now do you want me to finish the story I'm just going to assume you do and continue talking without letting you answer now here's the story."

"The red one shot multiple fireballs at me, and so I just incased myself in a water bubble-" Steven interrupted. "Wow! I bet she got mad! That's really smart!" I smiled. Steven really hadn't grown up to be like them. He… loved me. That's more than anyone else had ever done. I ruffled his hair. "Can I finish? I was in my water bubble, and I walked right up to her. She threw a little tantrum, and so I just made a water arm and punched her, and guess what? She poofed, too. I used water to make a hollow in a cliff, and I froze their gems in ice, so they never reformed. Then I came here. The End." I'd left out Sapphire. She just sat on the sidelines, crying, until I threw an ice knife at her. I froze her, too. Steven said "Wow, you're great at fighting! Can you teach me?" I smiled. I had no clue what his powers were, or how to teach him. But, to reassure him, I smiled and said "Sure, dude. First thing tomorrow." What was I going to do?

It felt like an eternity. There was no warmth, but there sometimes was light. No form for her to convey her thoughts through. She couldn't remember much, it had been so long. What was her name again? Ruby. But then one day it changed. Slowly, days became warmer. Then, one day, she felt exposure. She formed as quickly as she could. She looked around. The others were in the ice. She summoned fire, and shot it at the ice block, hoping that she wouldn't hurt the other gems. The other three formed. Sapphire ran up to her. "Ruby! You saved us! How long were we out for?" I looked around. New buildings had been constructed around us, Lapis was gone, and all signs of our battle had vanished. "I don't know." I said. "But we have to find Steven. It's our only hope for things to be right." We didn't just have to find Steven. We had to shatter Lapis for what she'd done.