Chapter 6: Chips

Temple:

Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl all stood in the kitchen, the pale and purple gems started to come up with ideas on how to find Steven, Garnet had been silent the entire time.

"We could try to use one of Rose's reflective pools to find him, she used that think all the time whenever she needed to find Gems that went AWOL."

"Amethyst, we'd never be able to find out how to use that, besides anything Rose owned could only be used by her."

"What do you think, Garnet?"

The red Gem looked up at her teammates and sighed, removing her visor. "Lapis and Steven are trying to get off planet. They're in the area of which the Pacific Ocean used to be..."

"Well let's go!" Amethyst hopped off the counter and headed for the door, then the last part of the leader's sentence finally hit her and she stopped. "Did you just say used to be?"

Just then, the front door was thrown open, Greg was there, sweaty and out of breath, "Hey...you guys might wanna see this..." He sounded like there was a serious event going on.

The gems followed him out in front of the boardwalk, even before they got there they can see what had the dad so frazzled. The ocean was gone. One name popped into all of the warriors heads: Lapis Lazuli. As they approached the boardwalk, they saw that all of the citizens of Beach City were standing in front of where the ocean used to be, murmuring in panic.

"Where did it go?"

"Whoa!"

"What happened?"

Pearl and Amethyst walked into the crowd to explain what happened, Garnet pulled Greg to the side. "Mr. Universe, something dreadful is happening to your son..." She explained as she placed a small pink shard in his hand.

Pacific Ocean:

Lapis and Steven were riding an elevator made from water into the sky, and the whole way up the hybrid was sneezing. "Are you okay, Steven?" Asked the blue gem with concern.

"-sniffle- Yeah, I'm fine...there must be a lot of dust or something.." He responded, Lapis shrugged and continued to extend the tower of water.

"So...what's the whole story on how my friends trapped you in that mirror?" The boy was curious.

The mirror gem bit her lip, "Well...I'm not really positive it was actually them..."

"What?"

"You see, my gem is cracked and I can't really focus on some of my memories. They're all basically a blur. But I can remember enough to tell you that the gems that put me in that mirror were like your friends. But don't worry, once we get to the home planet I can get my gem healed and I can tell you for sure what happened.." As lapis spoke, Steven stared at the broken gem on her back, then he sneezed again. But this time he'd sneezed all over her back, spit sprayed on her shoulders and her gem.

The girl gasped in surprise and disgust, "Aww, gross!"

"Oops, sorry!"

Suddenly, Lapis' gem began to glow and the crack sealed itself, then wings of water sprouted from it. Her usually blank eyes changed, and two blue irises formed. "Y-you healed my gem! Your spit healed my gem!"

The short boy just stared in shock, "Wait, I-I did that...but how?"

"I don't know, but thank you!" She giggled and gave him a hug.

"Okay, so now that your gem is healed and all, can you tell me who put you in that mirror?"

"Oh my gosh...I'm so sorry..." The tower stopped moving just above a patch of clouds.

"What is it?"

Lapis slapped a hand to her forehead, "Your friends didn't put me in there.."

Steven raised an eyebrow,"Then who did?" After he asked, a thorn began to protrude from his shoulder. The blue gem was about to answer when she noticed the abnormality, "Wait, what's that?" she pointed to it. The boy looked down at his shoulder, "What the...why is that happening, I didn't want that.."

"Steven, look at your gem..." Lapis said slowly, he glanced down and saw that his gem was chipped and gasped. Then he began to feel weird and began to double over, "I don't feel very well..."

Lapis stepped back and watched as flowerless rose vines began to grow out from Stevens back.

Beach City:

"Wait, so you're telling me that my son is turning into a corrupted gem monster?" Greg inquired to Garnet.

Pearl and Amethyst overheard what he'd said and ran over, "Hold up, what's going on with Steven?"

The red gem sighed, "Here's what happened, Steven was running down the boardwalk with the mirror, then he tripped and fell, breaking a piece off of his gem. He's already-"

Garnet was cut off by the sound of the ocean returning and the crowd of citizens cheering. She peered into the distance and saw Lapis hurriedly trying to fly away from what appeared to be a giant walking thorn bush with a giant rose on its head.

The blue gem in the distance was then caught by the wings and thrown through the air, she landed on the sand in front of the Gems, the humans scattered into the nearest building they could find.

The remaining beings looked down at Lapis who was extremely beaten, possibly due to a previous battle with the monster. The damaged Gem weakly lifted her head and muttered, "Run..." Before retreating into her gem.

Amethyst bubbled it into the temple, summoned her weapon, and ran towards the beast that just approached the shoreline. Garnet joined her, Pearl just watched in horror, she didn't think she would seriously have to destroy Steven...or Rose.

Hope you enjoyed that chapter! Sorry if it seemed a bit rushed! Anywho, what do you think might happen, Steven cracked his gem and turned into a monster! And who put Lapis in that mirror? Here's a spoiler: two Fusions gems will appear in the next chapter, and one of them you already know! Who will it be? Leave a review on what you think!