Chapter Four: Iol-Something
After Malachite dismissed Howlite into the Wasteland of Homeworld where Yellow Diamond wouldn't find her, he took a walk outside, trying to relax for the first time in millennia.
Turquoise decided to sleep outside by the sea again, and luckily, there was no crab clinging to her braid.
Altaite still hasn't come back yet. No one knows why he's taking so long; It's been a couple of days now.
Tourmaline, Tiger's Eye, and Onyx decided to go out to Funland with Greg and Steven.
There, they found peace and quiet.
Because no one was there.
Turns out, yet another Howlite arrived.
However, it wasn't normal.
The white parts of the meteorite were a light lavender color.
When the Gems came close to it, the gray veins disappeared.
Instead, a strange figure emerged from it, the meteorite fading away slowly.
So it was an illusion.
It wasn't real.
The figure flew up at the speed of light the moment it could be seen.
The Gems (and human) saw something purple on its back, the sunlight reflecting from it.
So it was a Gem, could conjure illusions, and it was one of the few purple ones.
It couldn't have been an Amethyst or a Tourmaline; those had died out over the ages, the only exceptions being the bubbled ones and the two Crystal Gems.
Even so, there was still one possible purple Gem.
Iolite.
The Iolite were far superior than Amethysts, Tourmalines, Charoite, and any other Gem that fell in the purple category, which were known for being mysterious and the like.
So, if it was an Iolite, it was one of the last and oldest.
And it blasted away, probably to Homeworld, before their very eyes.
Would it return?
Probably not.
