Welcome to chapter six, everyone! Please enjoy and review!
A few hours of swimming deep under the ocean saw Shard approaching the crater in the ocean floor holding the monstrosity Lapis and Jasper had become on their fusion. Long black trench-coat still on his back producing tremendous drag, yet not tiring him in the least. Looking down into the crater he saw them, or it, depending on the point of view. The… thing… down there was still struggling against the watery chains holding it tight, but it was no use. The tremendous stamina Jasper had now fueled the perpetual imprisonment she was bound in.
"I'm so sorry for what I have to do to you Lapis…" Shard thought. "But Jasper… I'm going to enjoy getting you."
Jumping off his ring of safety into the crater, Shard ran at a surprising speed for being so deep underwater towards Malachite, a speed nearly as fast as a brisk jog would be on solid ground. At first he was not even seen due to the struggle Malachite was having against herself, but once at the edge of her arm, he jumped up and landed on it, bringing the full attention of the many eyes upon him. Grinning like a madman, Shard got a short running start, jumped forwards, and flung himself all the way from her wrist up to the top of her nose. Reaching into one of the many pockets hidden away inside his coat, he soon brought out the de-stabilizer. Still sporting his insane grin, he pointed it downwards and stabbed it as hard as was possible onto Jasper's gem.
The sudden massive loss of volume that accompanied Malachite separating and collapsing down into two little gems caused a huge implosion of water, pulling Shard and the two gems in separate directions as it scattered them across the crater on the ocean floor. Thankfully, Jasper's gem landed close by since it had been right next to Shard when Malachite broke apart, but Lapis' gem was now lost somewhere in the crater. Maybe he should have thought this though a little more… Well, it was nothing a half-hour of searching couldn't fix. So, he picked up Jasper's gem and placed it in its own special pocket in his coat, a special one designed to hold captured Gems in place of bubbling them, and then floated off to look for Lapis' gem.
Late that night, Shard walked up from the water onto the beach not far from Steven's house. Water began pouring out of his trench-coat as he walked, soon fully dry. Auto-drying clothing had been something of a necessity to him while he had been hiding on a very watery planet a long time back, so ever after inventing it he had made every article of clothing he had using the same tech. And so, Lapis' gem in hand and Jasper's in pocket, he made his way up to the temple door.
"Hello in there! It's Shard! Could someone let me inside? I have Jasper here and I think you should do with her what you see fit before she comes back out of her gem." He said as he knocked on the door. It wasn't long before the Gems arrived to let him in. After gently setting down Lapis' gem on the couch, he reached in to his coat and pulled out Jasper's. "Here ya go." he said as he tossed it to Garnet. "I'll be asleep on the couch if you need me before Steven wakes up in the morning. 'Night!"
After bubbling Jasper and sending her down into the depths of the temple, the other gems also went off to their beds. Shard picked up Lapis' gem and stretched out on the couch to get what sleep he could manage. Setting Lapis' gem down on his chest for safe-keeping, he soon left the waking world for the land of dreams. Unfortunately, his dreams that night were not to be pleasant, nightmares were on their way.
Sorry for another short chapter everyone. The next one will hopefully be longer. Hope you enjoyed anyway! Bye!