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Jade, Pearl, and Garnet woke up early the next morning to get an early start. As they walked, Jade started to recognize the area more and more each mile, but a problem struck as they got closer to their designation...
Somewhere in the Gem Forest...
"Watch out!" Jade jumped, and tackled Pearl. Garnet came to help as another wild monkey-like gem creature attacked them. This creature had bright purple fur, and had blue gem in it's hands, feet, and at the end of it's tail. This had been the third one this morning. Garnet summoned her gauntlets and punched the beast, knocking it out of breath, she didn't want to kill it, she just wanted to scare it off (Jade said they weren't like this until now, and to please not kill them.) Plus, they are wild and Garnet saw no real harm the things could do. She sighed as the monkey things ran off.
"I don't understand. When I would come visit, the Gemkeys were very nice, and let me pet them."
"Gemkeys?" Pearl raised an eyebrow, she had never heard of such a gem animal. "Yea, they're similar to monkeys, but I guess when the guys who named the geminals couldn't think of any other name for it. But, I can cut the guy some slack, I mean c'mon, he came up with the word Centipeedle!" She giggled, 'Whoever it was, they were sure creative!' Jade smiled, she sighed, 'Man, it's gonna still take a day or two to get there...'
"Jade, how long do you think it will take to get there?" Jade turned to Garnet, her smiling faded, "A day or two..." Garnet nodded, and turned to Pearl, who walked with her head down. Garnet sighed, 'I hate it when she acts this way...'
Unknown Location...
"Peri, come quick!" Peri rushed out of the room they kept Jonah in. "What is it?" She stepped aside and let him look into it, only to see Jade with Garnet and Pearl. "Where are they going?!"
"To find your mother and aunt..." Peri looked into Melany's eyes, "So? What can my blind mother do? What about my helpless aunt? They couldn't stop me! What makes you think they can stop me now?!" He laughed, which only made Melany enraged, "Because, your aunt has been practicing in light magic for over 50 years now, she may be more powerful than I could ever be!" Peri's childish jester stopped immediately, he reached his hand out, and grab her chin. Pulling her closer to his face, making her blush, he said, "Well..." At first she was expecting maybe a kiss, but was surprised when Peri finished his sentence harshly, "Practice harder!" He let go of her chin, and walked away.
Just before he left, he looked back at her, "I have an experiment to conduct..." He slammed the door shut, Melany looked away from the door, her eyes swelling up, "You wouldn't even be alive if it wasn't for me..." She went back to her spell books, thinking of a way to make herself stronger, she had to impress Peridot.'
'Maybe I can stall them for a while...' She smiled as she found the perfect monster. "Omã levacus draconemus gigas Serpentes; nunc petat!" Her black cauldron oozed a black/grey smoke, she smiled as the shadow of the creature showed in the smoke, "Go my creation!" With that the black cloud left, and landed in the Gem Forest...
Back in the Gem Forest...
"Let's rest here for the night." They sat down their bags and went to set up the tents. "I'll go get some firewood." Pearl walked off, leaving Garnet and Jade, "Pearl wait!" But she was already gone. To be honest, she didn't really want to get the wood, but she needed to be a lone for a little bit. As soon as she was out of ear, she sighed and looked up at the orange-pink sky, "Rose, i-if you can here me, please...please help me!" She felt tears swell up in her eyes, "I-I need help finding Jonah, he's my world, my universe...just like Steven..."
She wiped her eyes, 'I need my son back...' She felt like the worse mother in the world, and the guilt was slowly eating her away. She had refused to eat (even though gems don't need it, no one likes to go without food.) She also refused to do anything besides go on missions, even that, if it wasn't that important, she stayed home in her room.
She looked around for something that would burn, since the trees were made of gems... 'I think this is why Jade tried to stop me...' But Pearl needed to be alone. After about 15 minutes of searching, she decided to head back to the campsite. As she walked back, she heard something running into the gem flowers, making them clank a little but when their gems hit each other. She turned around to see if it was just another Gemkey, but, it wasn't. Her eyes widened at the huge snake with a dragon-like face. It was black as night, and had blood-red eyes, which were gems. It roared a terrible sound, that sounded worse than finger nails on a chalk board. In response, Pearl screamed and ran as fast as she could.
"JADE! GARNET!" Pearl screamed, trying to run faster; she could hear the monster getting closer. When she finally reached the camp, Jade and Garnet were startled by Pearl who entered screaming. "Pearl, what's wrong?" Garnet's question was answered when monster came out of the forest. "WHAT IS THAT?!" Pearl hid behind Garnet; she already had her gauntlets summoned. Jade had her sword, and Pearl finally summoned her spear.
It screamed again, the gems covered their ears, when it quit, they look up and saw nothing. Confused, they turned, which resulted in Jade getting hit across the forest. Garnet looked for a weakness, but couldn't see one because the creature started to blend in with the nightfall. This made Garnet frustrated, luckily, Pearl hit one of it's eyes, it screeched. 'That's it's weakness!' Garnet smiled, the one thing that could blend in with the dark setting was it's glowing red eyes. Garnet jumped and hit it in it's other eye. The creature fell shortly afterward. When it exploded, it had no gem, therefore someone made it.
Jade walked back to Garnet and said, "Looks like they're trying to slow us down, huh?" Garnet nodded her head and said, "Someone should stay up and keep watch. I'm making Pearl go to bed, so I'll stay up. You can get some rest."
"Garnet, I'll stay up, you're the only one who can comfort Pearl and her nightmares." Garnet finally agreed to stay with Pearl, although she though that it would protect her wife more if she just kept watch. Later that night, Garnet was actually a little happy that she stayed with Pearl. Pearl laid down, cuddling Garnet. Garnet loved moments like this, Pearl was never one to have much body heat, and was cool all the time. Garnet on the other hand, had body heat that could her warm in Antarctica with anything on. It was perfectly set, Pearl had her warmth, Garnet had her coolness. Pearl's arm draped over Garnet as she slept soundly, with adorable little snores here and there.
Garnet could feel herself growing drowsy, she smiled and decided to let herself fall into a deep slumber. Next thing Garnet knew was Pearl kissing her, "Pearl?" She heard Pearl giggle, "Good morning, my love." Garnet kissed her back, "Good morning." They laid for a little while, the sun was just rising, so Garnet figured she could hold her wife for a little longer. She grunted as Pearl got up, "C'mon, we have a big day today."
"Okay." She smiled and got up, she was greeted by Jade. She seemed extremely happy this morning. "She seems happy today." Pearl turned to Garnet with a smile, "She says get there today!" Garnet felt her heart swell up with joy. Knowing she can now have a greater chance at getting her son back. They walked for a few hours, when they finally saw a huge mountain. Jade was acting like a small child in a candy store as the traveled further up the mountain.
When they finally reached the top, they were greeted by a woman slightly taller than Jade, with jet black hair, and pale blue skin. She walked a little funny when she walked to greet them. She had incredible hearing, Garnet and Pearl then realized as they stared into her pale, blank white eyes, that she was blind.
She smiled, turned and screamed, "FLORA! JADE'S BACK!" Jade ran up and hugged her mother, her aunt ran out of the house and hugged Jade. The happy family reunion didn't last long, "Mom, aunt Flora, um...we need your help."
*Oooh! Cliffhanger! I love my cliffhangers! XD
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