The sun was setting. Pearl and Onyx were still laying on the grassy hill.

Pearl had her eyes closed while she laid on Onyx's chest. He didn't know if she was really sleeping or just savoring the moment.

But he saw her drooling on his chest. He just chuckled and then sighed. He continued to look up into the sky.

"Can you do this?" He asked himself.

"I don't want them to get involved in our situation. Even if they help, that can get hurt."

"But you need to let them help you. You've gotta make them feel that you're part of their family. Or else they won't trust you."

"I can't. This is pointless. Not when they care about me."

"...do you care about them?"

"Of course I do."

"No...the two of them."

"..."

"If you do, then you have to tell Pearl about Lapis. Or tell Lapis about Pearl. You can't play around with their feelings!"

"I'm not playing around! I've tried to think about it. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I've seen both of them in the same room."

"Seen who?..."

This made Onyx's body freeze. He felt Pearls gaze on him. "Are you talking to yourself Onyx?" She asks.

"No!" He answered quickly as he just laid down there.

Pearl got on top of him and faced him. "It sounded like you were. You want to talk about it?"

Onyx hesitated for a moment, but he gave in and sighed. "Look, about 5 years after I left earth, I encountered an Obsidian on my path."

"He was ruthless. He wanted to destroy everything in his way since I was working for the diamonds at the time." He paused. "Yellow diamond sent me out to crush him. But yellow diamond tricked me,

"Any last words, Obsidian?" Onyx asked the gem below him as he pointed his sword at his chest.

Obsidian growled and swiftly kicked Onyx's foot as he fell down. Obsidian stood up and charged at Onyx. Onyx did the same.

But Onyx didn't feel like he was getting any closer. He looked behind him to see yellow diamond controlling his movements with the collars that she put on him.

Obsidian continued to charge at him with his axe.

Onyx decided to accept his fate and hoped for the best. He was met with Obsidian axe slicing him. His gem on his chest, sliced, but not shattered. He was in two pieces. He couldn't move.

He only heard yellow diamonds laugh. The laugh that he wanted gone.

Onyx's vision was still black. Until he tried to open his eyes, his vision was foggy, but he could see. "What the-..." He rubbed his eyes to see that he was on top of alot of Gems. They were just Gems, some crushed some were just cracked. He then remembered what happened. He quickly looked at his chest and saw that his gem was...intact.

But he didn't feel the same, and he never would feel the same.

Pearl was a little confused about his story. "That didn't answer why you were talking to yourself."

Onyx sighed. "Whatever Obsidians axe did to me. It split me into two. And my gem. But that's the same time I found out that I had healing powers. I don't know. It sounds impossible. But it happened."

"So, you're two?" Pearl asked.

"In other words, yes. But the dominant one is me. The good guy. The other guy only comes out whenever I need him. I just wish I was me."

Pearl understood his situation. "Well, I don't care if there are two of you in there." She said as she massaged his gem on his chest. "I still love you for whoever you are."

"Pearl...I don't know. I just..."

"Just, what?"

"It's complicated. You'd hate me if I ever told you." said Onyx.

There was silence for a while. Until Pearl finally found the courage to ask him. "Onyx. Is it Lapis?"

Onyx froze at the spot. This was it. It was all or nothing. "Look, Pearl..."

"Just answer me. Yes or no?" Pearl asked again.

"I don't know, Pearl. I'm trying..." He said as he started to form tears in his eyes as he sat up. Pearl sat up as well.

Pearl cupped his face and looked at him. She smiled. "Just think about it for awhile. Make sure you make the right choice. I do love you, but I wouldn't want to see you beat yourself up because of this." She said to him as she kissed his forehead.

Onyx smiled back at her. He then stroke her face with his one hand. "Thank you for understanding." He then kissed her, and she accepted. Their tongues danced as they savored the moment.

She understood. They parted as they hugged each other. "But I won't promise you that there won't be any conflicts." Pearl said as she giggled.

Onyx sighed then groaned. "Oh, boy. This won't be good." He said as they stood back up and went back to the beach house.

"What's taking them so long?" Amethyst whined.

"Do you think they're in trouble?" Steven asked.

"With Onyx with her. Probably not." Garnet reassured the boy.

Lapis was worried. Not because Onyx wasn't back yet. Because she knew when he comes back, something already happened between the two.

Peridot was laying on Stevens bed. She was listening to the Gems whine.

The door suddenly opens. They see Pearl come in, but Onyx wasn't with her. She found the Gems were staring at her. "Is there something wrong?" She asks.

"Are you okay, P?" Amethyst asks.

"Oh I'm fine. Just had a conversation with Onyx, that's all." She said as she caught a glimpse of Lapis sit straight when she said his name.

"Where is he anyways?" Steven asked as he jumped off of his bed and came down.

"Well, he said that he was gonna visit, Greg. So, he might not be here for a while." Pearl answered the boy as he helped him go down.

"Oh, that's gonna take a long time." said Amethyst.

Steven raised his eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"Well, whenever Onyx says that he's visiting Greg, they take a long time to talk. Mostly because of relationship problems." Amethyst answered.

"Oh..." Steven nodded. "Well, I guess we should call it a day. Goodnight everyone!" He said as he hugged Garnet, Amethyst then Pearl.

"Goodnight, Steven!" Amethyst said as she and Garnet came to the temple door and went into their respective rooms.

Pearl kissed Stevens head as she told him, "Goodnight, Steven. Make sure you sleep well." She then went to her room.

"Goodnight Pearl!" He laid back down on his bed. "Are you coming, Lapis?" He asked the gem that was sitting on the couch.

Lapis looked over to Steven. "I'll be there. I just...need to go out. If it's okay."

"It's fine. Goodnight Lapis!"

"Goodnight, Steven..."

Lapis walked over to the door and went out. She walked down the steps and continued along the beach.

"Well, I just sat there and looked to his instrument. I grabbed it and smashed it on his face." Onyx told the story about how he nearly killed a human with a guitar.

Greg laughed hard. "No matter how many times I've heard that, it still gets me!" He said as he wheezed and wiped a tear from his eye.

Onyx just chuckled. "So, why are you really here, Onyx? You only ask for a beer and my advice whenever you're in trouble or you have a big problem."

Onyx sighed. "Well, I'll tell you this. When I left earth, I was killed. But I healed myself."

"But since my gem was cut in half, I guess my healing powers couldn't work properly at the time. So now there are two types of me inside. And they're killing me."

Greg listened. "So, you're saying that there are two types of you, inside one body? Just like a fusion?"

"No, not a fusion. Separate personalities. I'm the guy who gets stuff done, while the other is a loose cannon."

"Oh...so. So, does he talk on his own?" Greg asked.

"Sometimes when I need to talk to someone. He mostly gets out when things get out of hand." Onyx explained.

Greg understood this. "Speaking of hand. What happened to yours?"

"Oh yeah, this is one of the reason why I came here." Onyx stood up.

"Smack me with something on the face as hard as you can." Onyx suggested.

"But won't that poof you?"

"That's the reason. I want to regenerate my arm whenever I come back."

Greg nodded. "Alright."

Greg went in his van to get his waffle maker. "Ready?" He asked the gem.

"Do it!" Onyx said as he closed his eyes.

Greg yelled as he charged at him getting ready to smack. It hit. Onyx's gem fell on the floor.

Greg picked it up and set it on the other chair next to him and put a can of beer next to his gem.

Greg sat there as he waited for Onyx to come back.

Lapis didn't know what to do. She doesn't know if Pearl and Onyx are really back together or not.

She just didn't understand why she was so attracted to him. No one really liked her for who she really is, except Steven and Onyx.

She didn't know if the Gems really cared about her that much.

She stopped walking and sat on the sand. She was playing around with the water in front of her.

"Why do I feel this way?"

"This doesn't make sense." She spoke to herself.

Then, she remembered when he received a kiss from Onyx. Or she kissed him, but he kissed back.

"I don't know what to think of you..." She buried her face between her legs. Tears started to fall on the sand.

Softly, she was crying. In pain. Inside. Her mind didn't feel right. She wanted to run away. But reconsider staying for Steven.

Steven. She sometimes used his name even if she wanted to use Onyx's name. But she cared about Steven...but Onyx was different to her.

As Greg was snoring while holding a can of beer. Onyx finally came back as a bright light illuminated from his gem.

Greg woke up, seeing the light. He watched as Onyx came back to the ground. But...nothing changed.

Onyx looked to his right and he still didn't have his arm. "What's going on?!" Onyx asked himself.

Greg sighed. "It's probably best to leave it for a while." He said as he settled Onyx down to his chair.

Onyx huffed. He then opened the can and drank a little bit. "Hey, Greg."

"Hm?"

"It's happening again."

Greg raise an eyebrow. "What, with Pearl?"

Onyx nodded. "Well, that's great!?"

"No, its not. There's two of them this time. My split personalities are fighting. The other guys can't stop holding the grudge from what happened the last time. But I already forgave her."

Greg was confused. "Who's the other one?"

Onyx palmed his face with his hand. "It's, Lapis."

"The water witch? She looks nice. But she tried to kill all of us."

Onyx didn't say anything.

"But hey. I haven't been on a romantic relationship for a long time. But all I can say is, that you need to talk to them. Even if you three are together in a same room or alone. Wait for them to do something. Then maybe your mind...or minds, will be made up by then." Greg said to the gem.

Onyx always liked Greg's advices. "Well, I guess that could work."

Onyx stood up. "Well, I gotta go Greg. Catch you later." He said as he held his hand up high.

Greg smacked his hand and replied, "You too, Onyx. Tell Steven to meet me here at the car wash tomorrow."

"Will do." Onyx said as he swiflty dashed thought the road and towards the beach.

Greg smiled and grabbed the chairs then folded them.

Lapis was still sitting on the sand. Thinking of what her next move is.

Onyx didn't want her, but her only purpose is to protect Steven. She can't run away. She might get captured.

And she can't go to homeworld.

She had no choice but to stay.

"Hey." A voice came to her ears. She jumped back, not expecting anyone to be with her.

She looked next to her to see Onyx. He looked...happy. His arm was still missing. "He-hey..."

"What's going on?" He asked as he sat properly on the sand.

Lapis just looked down. "Why'd you come here?" She asks.

"Well, as I was coming back home, I saw you here all alone. So I decided to keep you company."

Lapis let out a small smile. "Thanks..."

"No problem." He said with a smile. He continued to look at her.

She knew he was staring intently at her, she just didn't want to stare back. She was embarrassed. "You know, you look better with a smile." He said as he removed a lock of her hair from her face, to take a better look at her.

Lapis didn't answer. She didn't know what to do at this point. "Shouldn't you be with Steven at this hour?"

"Shouldn't you be with Pearl?" Onyx was shocked. Lapis finally looked back at him, she was crying. "You shouldn't even be with me right now."

"Lapis..."

"You should just forget your promise."

"Lapis!"

That made her stop. This was the first time Onyx had ever yelled at her. It made her cry more. She then cried on his shoulder.

"Good grief. Is this how girls act now? They cry every time they want attention." Onyx's other half said with an annoyed voice.

"Shut up, this is not the right time...but it actually has been happening alot huh? Crying...talking...hugging..."

"Yeah, see what I mean? It's like we're being written by a writer who is as lame as Greg's past music career."

Lapis continued to cry on Onyx's shoulder. Onyx had enough and grabbed her shoulders. He pushed her as to make her face him. Onyx removed some years from her face. "I told you already, were not together. We're just thinking alot of stuff through."

Lapis didn't talk.

"Lapis. I don't break my promises. I never had. I once promised the Gems that someday I'll be back here on earth. And here I am. With the ocean gem."

She felt warm inside. She looked back at him. "I know...its just that. I feel...something...and it's because of you."

Onyx smiled. "It's called love. It's natural."

"But don't you love Pearl?"

"...I do. I love you as well."

Lapis wasn't really catching up.

"Listen. Pearl and I talked about it. I admitted that I feel really happy with both of you. But it's fully equal. I know its confusing. But Greg didn't really tell me anything about human relationships with two or three more in your life."

"I-...I don't get it." Lapis replied as she looked down.

Onyx rolled his eyes. "Here...I'll show you." He said as he grabbed Lapis' waist and the back of her head.

He just went for it. Without anymore words. He sure was gonna get it from Pearl, or Lapis.

But she seemed to be enjoying it. Onyx was as well.

But this made Onyx's mind mix up again.

"That's it. I'm tired of being the bigger guy here." The unstable one said.

"Hey, If we just calm down, everything would be fine!"

"Tomorrow, we're separating. No buts!"

"Wait, we can't! It'll unbalance Onyx!"

"Blah, blah. Who cares?"

"I do. We need to be together to keep him the way he is!"

"...fine. But if we start playing them again, I'm out."

"Look, we can't do anything. We love both of them. And both if them need us. And we're too nice for that."

"I'm not nice!"

"Ugh...forget it."

As the two separated from the kiss, Lapis was crying. But this time, they were tears of joy. "I'm sorry if I did anything to change your mind about Pearl."

"Nah, I can't decide. So...wait...nothing, never mind."

"What is it?"

"No. Nothing, it was just nothing." Onyx said as he sweated a little.

They were sitting in silence. Lapis was just happy. He cared about her, that's what she wanted.

"Hey, Lapis?"

"Hm?"

"You're gonna hate me for this...but I need to tell you something."

Lapis held his hand and looked at him. "You can tell me..."

"Um..well."

After a few minutes. Onyx was done telling Lapis about him making the choices. If he wanted Lapis or Pearl.

Lapis didn't know what to say to the gem. She wanted him, and he wanted her back. But he wanted another one.

"So...that's why I didn't want to tell you. I just get confused, Lapis. Since my gem was sliced, everything inside me went haywire."

Lapis looked sad. But she managed. "I don't mind...It just feels...weird. Isn't it weird for you? Knowing that you love two people. Or in our case, Gems?"

Onyx swallowed a big lump. "I know it's weird. The two just keep on fighting inside me. The other one wants Pearl and the other one wants you." Onyx explained to the blue gem.

Lapis thought of it for a moment, then she spoke. "But who do YOU want."

Onyx sighed. "I want you Lapis. And even Pearl. I can't decide because of them..." He paused. "You probably think I'm super weird right now...I can't believe I'm feeling this."

Onyx's world was falling apart. He was being tugged by two beings inside him. And no one was winning because of him.

He suddenly felt Lapis hug him. "I think you're perfect..."

"You saved me and set me free. Even if I wanted to be with you... It made me felt...freer." She admitted.

"Well, I gotta do what's best." He said proudly.

Onyx stood up and helped Lapis get up. "I actually feel like sleeping. Let's go back." Onyx said as he started walking.

"Where are you gonna sleep?" Asked Lapis.

Onyx shrugged. "Dunno. Probably in Pearls room just to piss her off." He said with an evil smile.

Lapis giggled at his expression. "Just make sure you have a good rest." She quickly gave him a kiss on the lips and ran towards the house. "Goodnight!"

Lapis didn't feel shy anymore when he was around her. She just needed that talk, now he knows how she feels, and he felt the same...kinda'.

Onyx came in the house only to find Steven, Peridot and Lapis sleeping on Stevens bed.

Onyx smiled at the, then moved towards the temple door. He touched the white gem as it turned light blue. 'Or turquoise, if you're confused'.

He entered the room and stepped on the water platform. He didn't see Pearl anywhere.

"Huh...must be on a mission." He guessed as he jumped to the tallest water platform and laid down like a starfish.

He just thought things through.

He had told both, Pearl and Lapis what was happening with him. Both of them seemed alright with it. But Pearl gets a little...challenging whenever it gets to these kind of situations.

The door then opens. Onyx looks down to see Pearl. She looked really tired. She didn't seem to notice Onyx.

She then did something out of the blue. Her clothes began to light up, Onyx knew what she was gonna do.

He closed his eyes and yelled, "No! I'm here!"

Pearl felt her face burn up. She discontinued to change her clothes. "Onyx?!"

Onyx still covered his eyes with his one arm. "Sorry! I just thought that I would hang out in your room."

Pearl was still frozen from humility. She almost did it too. "You should've said something earlier!"

"I'm sorry!"

Pearl jumped to the top platform and looked at Onyx. He still had his arm on his face. Pearl stuttered. "J-just, don't lo-look."

Onyx's face was hot. He knew what she was doing. "Okay...I'm done."

Onyx removed his hand from his face and looked at Pearl. "So...where did you go?" He asked, changing the topic since it was an obvious awkward situation.

"W-well. I was continuing the construction of the drill. Peridot worked on it without me. It's the best I could do for my apology to her."

Onyx smiled. "Huh, you should let me help with the drill. It'll be faster." He said with a sly face.

"You can if you want to." She talked to the gem while she was looking at her collection of swords.

She almost forgot. "Oh uh...I built something for you." She summoned a metal arm from her gem.

Onyx caught it with his hand as he was still sitting down. "What's this for? You building a robot for me?" He joked.

Pearl rolled back her eyes. "It's for your missing arm. I built it myself." She said proudly. "It was kinda' hard looking through some of the parts in the barn. I needed to get a distance sensor and aa power circuit board. And some plasteel plates for protection. And solar panels inside so it won't stop working. And it's waterproof."

Onyx was dumbfounded. He stood up and came closer to her. "I like it when you get nerdy on me."

This made Pearl shiver. Her face grew hot. She then dunked his face down the water. "I'm not a "nerd"."

Onyx stood up and spat out some water. "Sure you are."

He then grabbed Pearl from her waist. "You're MY nerd." He whispered.

Pearl felt butterflies in her stomach. But she decided to tease him.

"Then what is Lapis to you?"

This stopped Onyx. He felt his heart drop. His arm slowly let go of Pearl.

This made Pearl think. "I think that was a bad idea..."

"Pearl...you know it's hard for me to choose."

"I know, I was just joking!" Pearl said in defense.

"Oh, wow. You have a dark sense of humor." Onyx said to the pale gem.

He looked down at the robotic arm. He inhaled and latched it onto his right shoulder.

He was expecting pain, but it didn't come. He moved his arm around. It felt different.

"Sorry, but this is the best I could do..." Pearl said shyly as she sent closer to him.

The arm was just a full paint of silver. It shined a little. But its fingers were pointed. "I'm guessing you couldn't find anything with a rounder edge for my fingers?"

"Yeah...I only used the edges of what was left of our tungsten." She said as she admired the "new" look of Onyx.

Onyx sighed. "I still don't know why my arm won't regenerate."

"Do you think it's because of your gem?" Asked Pearl.

Onyx shrugged. "Maybe. I haven't really been seriously hurt after what happened to my gem. Except the time where I got shot by that stupid Peridot."

Pearl leaned on him and touched his gem on his chest. "Well, it was either your arm or your gem."

Onyx wrapped his left arm around her, she snuggled closer. "Are you willing to hug a gem with a rather dangerous arm?"

Pearl looked up at him with a sly smile. "I think I can manage that."

The two bugged and fell to the water floor. They talked and talked until Onyx fell asleep.

Pearl looked at him with a warmhearted smile. "I atleast have you here for tonight. And that's good enough." She said to the sleeping gem as she planted a kiss on his.

She laid there beside him, in pure bliss.

"That Onyx is gonna pay!"

"Yellow diamond, calm down."

"No! You failed me, there were how many of you in that station. And all of you against them, you got blown up!"

"I know, but we were-"

"No buts. Go back and fix the station."

'Y-yes Yellow diamond."

The next morning. Everyone had their own thing to do.

Pearl and Peridot weren't working on the drill as it was almost done with.

Garnet left to check on some lose gem mutants, Lapis came with. Steven and Amethyst were hanging out with Connie. Peridot just slept on Stevens bed. Most to her own discomfort of "sleeping".

Pearl was waiting for Connie in the house with Peridot. They were gonna train once more.

On the sky arena. Onyx stood there in the middle. Be was alone.

"Okay, you can come out now." He said to himself.

His other half then came out of him. He had his teeth all sharpened. His eyes were pure white. "You finally let me out eh?" He asked in a grindy voice.

Onyx rolled his eyes back and look at his gem. It was half an Onyx gem. The other half was with the other one. "Up for a sparring match, Nyx?"

"Nyx?" Asked the other half.

"Well yeah. It'll sound weird If I call you with the same name."

Nyx growled. "Fine." He then cracked his finger on his left hand. "Make sure to thank Pearl for giving us this arm."

"Yeah. Just get ready." Onyx said as he took out his sword from the wind.

Nyx just smirked and went down on all fours. He growled at Onyx. "Come!"

"Bite me!" Nyx yelled as he ran towards Onyx, still on all fours.

Onyx just waited. Nyx suddenly stopped. He then dug his left arm into the ground as it travelled under the arena.

Onyx jumped as he knew what Nyx was doing. The hand suddenly came out of the ground where he was previously standing.

The hand caught up to Onyx as it grabbed his leg and dragged him back down. Before he hit the ground, he sliced the hand off as Nux retrieved his arm. His hand regenerated. They were both confused. "Wait...if that did come back. Why didn't our arm come back as well?" Onyx asked.

"I have no clue. But who cares? Let's rumble!" He charged at Onyx.

Pearl, Amethyst, Steven and Connie were all at the Sky arena warp pad. "Well Connie. You might just be the best sword fighter I've ever seen!" Steven complemented.

Connie blushed. "Aw, I'm not that good."

"That's right. In fact, I am better." Pearl said with a smug face.

Amethy scoffed. "Pearl, you know that Onyx is the best at swords."

"He is?!" Steven asked with stars in his eyes.

"Oh yeah. He's super good and super fast with a sword." Amethyst continued as they walked up the stairs only to hear fighting.

"Hey look, there he is now. Hey Ony-" Steven was pulled back by Pear as they watched the two battle it out.

Onyx was panting. "Wow, you really are persistent." He said to his other half.

"Hey, you're using a sword while I use my claws. Judging by that, I'm better than you!" Nyx teased.

"Yeah sure. Keep telling yourself that."

Onyx bolted towards Nyx. He ended up behind him. Nyx stood there like nothing happened. "Wow, you really are getting sloppy."

Suddenly, Onyx snapped his fingers as multiple cuts appeared on Nyx's body. He knelt in pain. "That was totally unnecessary!" Nyx told his dominant half.

Onyx shrugged and walked to him. He reached out to help him, he accepted. "Nice sparring match." He told Nyx.

"We can't all have the time we need." He said before he morphed back into Onyx.

Onyx stretched his arms, including the metal one. "That was a good stretch." He said as he headed towards the stairs.

He then saw the four staring at him, mouths gaping in awe. "Oh...hey guys. What're you doing here?"

There was only silence. Until Steven broke it. "That...was awesome! I can see why Amethyst said you were the best at swords!" He said as he ran around Onyx.

Onyx chuckled and looked back at the three. "Oh, Connie. You're gonna train with Pearl?"

Connie snapped out of it when he asked her. "Yeah. How'd you know?"

"Well, Steven told me everything about you. Pearl's an excellent teacher. She's amazing when she's in the lead." He said with a sly voice. Pearl blushed madly as Amethyst laughed.

"You have no chill, Onyx!" Amethyst said as she continued to laugh.

Onyx wrapped his arm around Pearl and pulled her closer to him. Pearl just face palmed. Steven and Connie just shrugged.

Hey there guys. The next chapter might be a little late. Exams are here.

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