Amethyst was hunched back into her hole in the kindergarten. It was the only place the reminded her of Onyx properly.

She knew that she wasn't going home soon. She couldn't stop thinking about Onyx.

She hugged her legs and buried her face between them and her torso. "I'm sorry, Onyx."

The gem was broken. Not literally. She was emotionally damaged. And she hated feeling it.

"Why did you have to leave?"

"Amethyst, I want to talk to you."

"Sure Rose. Can Onyx come?" Amethyst asks their leader. Onyx shook his head and looked down at her.

"I don't think she wants me to come, Amethyst. I'll be waiting here, don't worry." He patted her head as she smiled up to him.

"Okay." She follows Rose into her room.

The temple door closes behind the two. Amethyst saw that the room was all pink and...cloudy. "So, what's up, Rose?"

The bigger gem looked pretty uncomfortable. She knew that the small gem didn't read her letter.

Amethyst had no idea what was happening. "Is there something wrong?"

"Amethyst, this might be hard for you. But..." Rose stopped.

Amethyst was still confused. "What's gonna be hard for me, Rose?"

"I-...I need you to stop communicating with Onyx..."

Amethyst's eyes widened. "W-what? What are you talking about, Rose?"

"It's for your own good, Amethyst."

"No, no no no. This must be a joke. Pearl, is that you shape shifted into Rose?" Amethyst hoped it was Pearl.

Rose inhaled. "Oh, Amethyst. I know that it'll be hard for you, but we can't truly trust him. He was sent here for a reason!" She yells softly.

Amethyst narrowed her eyebrows. "No! You don't know anything about him! He's my father!"

"There ARE no father Gems, Amethyst! We need to send him back to homeworld before he gets tracked by other homeworld gems and leads them right to us!" Rose explained to the small gem.

"You don't know that! Onyx can protect us!" Amethyst argued.

"That's it Amethyst, he might get hurt protecting us! We don't know what homeworld will do to us when they get here!" Rose broke it.

Amethyst didn't find the words. It made sense. "Why don't we just ask him nicely?"

"We can't, because I know that you're gonna come with him."

"Why does it matter to you?! You don't need me!"

"Yes I do!"

Amethyst stopped yelling. She didn't know why Rose wanted her to stay so much. "Why?"

Rose sighed. "Amethyst, you came from the kindergarten. You are strong. And we don't want you to take their side."

"And why do I take your side?"

"Because their evil, Amethyst. They don't care about us, they are just gonna capture and shatter us. I didn't rebel for no reason"

Amethyst pondered. She knew the Homeworld wasn't friendly. But she wanted Onyx to live.

She was being tugged.

Rose felt bad for her. She didn't really want to do it, but she knew it was the right thing to do.

"I-...I don't know, Rose!" Amethyst held her head. She was gonna go crazy.

Rose put a hand on her shoulder. "Amethyst, I know you care about him. But you've gotta sacrifice something for the protection of your loved ones."

Amethyst started tearing up as she jumped on Rose. Rose hugged the small purple gem.

Amethyst looked at Rose. She knew that part of her was right.

And she had never thought she'd hate Rose to be right.

Amethyst left the room and completely ignored Onyx. She waited for the door to open to her room.

She laid down on her trash and read the letter Rose had given her before.

"Amethyst?!" A voice called out for the purple gem.

Amethyst knew who it was. And she had nowhere to go.

"Amethyst!?" She recognized the voice, Pearl was with Garnet.

She groaned. She came out of her hole, all slumped down.

The two other Gems looked over to the mopey gem. "Amethyst!" Pearl jumped down to the small gem. "Why did you run away? You got us all worried!"

"Why do you care?!"

This surprised Garnet and Pearl. "Why do we care?!" Pearl blew up.

"Yeah, why?! You two just want me with you because Rose told us to stick together forever!" Amethyst yelled at the two. "I promised Onyx to stick with him together. And Rose didn't want me to, I was stupid enough to follow!"

"Amethyst, you're not stupid. You know that we had to do it for his safety." Garnet butted in.

"Oh yeah?! Do I have to stick together with you guys forever?!"

Garnet and Pearl were left speechless. "If I couldn't stay with him in the past, then does it mean I don't need to follow you two anymore." Amethyst said as she summoned two whips from her gem.

"Amethyst, this is unnecessary." Pearl tried to reason with her, but she was met with a flying rock towards her. She was sent a few feet away from the other two.

"Amethyst, what are you doing? Your temper is getting the best of you again!" Garnet told the purple gem.

"How do you know, Garnet?!" Amethyst had never stepped up to Garnet, ever. But this was different.

"Amethyst, control yourself!" Garnet said in a calm voice.

Amethyst just continued to whip her. Garnet dodged every single swipe.

Pearl struggled to stand as she touched her back. She didn't feel the gem tied to her ribbon. She started to look for it.

Amethyst had wrapped her whip onto Garnets arm. Garnet pulled her towards her for a big punch. Amethyst quickly did her roll move. Garnet wasn't expecting this one.

This sent the red gem flying. Amethyst looked over to Pearl. She looked like she was lost, but Amethyst just ran to her and got ready for another clash.

Pearl's eyes widened and looked down to see Onyx's gem. She was about to grab it, but she saw that Amethyst was inches away from her. She had pulled back her whip, ready to attack.

Pearl closed her eyes and got ready for the pain to come. As her eyes were closed, she heard a noise familiar to her, while a bright light came to her vision.

A lone Onyx was walking along the kindergarten.

He saw all kinds of Gems pulling out other Gems from their holes. He sighed. "Why was I even sent here with these war machines. I should've just joined pink diamond when I had the chance."

He stopped walking at the thought. "On a side note, I don't even know who she is..."

He then looked to his right to see a very unusual small hole. "Huh...someone made a mistake..." He looked inside to see nothing. "Okay...?"

He backed up and tripped as he fell on his back. He opened his eyes to see a small gem smiling at him.

"Um...hey?" Onyx greeted. The purple gem just stared at him.

"Uh, do you understand me?" He spoke slowly as he could. He got no reply.

He sighed. Then he noticed something. She looked...smaller and chunkier than the other ones.

He heard her snicker. "I do understand you."

Onyx was baffled. "You know how to talk human?"

She stopped. "What's a 'human'."

"Well, a human is a anthropomorphic being, they are the inhabitants of this planet, called earth." Onyx explained.

The purple gem lost her at the start. She was completely clueless. "Um...what are you?"

Onyx looked at the small gem. "I'm an Onyx. And by the looks of it..." He looked down to her chest to see a purple gem. "you're an Amethyst."

"Amethyst?"

"Yes." Onyx nodded.

Amethyst looked at her hands. "What am I for?"

Onyx's eyes widened. He couldn't tell her that she was gonna work for a ruthless empire. He didn't want her to be one of those mindless soldiers, fighting in the field.

He saw something in her. She was different. She was special.

"Uhm..." He stood up and looked around to see if anyone was looking. Luckily, there weren't any. "Do you trust me?" He asked the gem as he reached out his hand for her to grab.

She looked at him questioningly. "Why?"

"I'm just...asking."

Amethyst hesitated. She smiled as she jumped on his leg. "Well...I may need to learn from someone." Amethyst said.

Onyx smiles and grabs her from his leg to his shoulders. He started running away from the kindergarten.

Amethyst looked back to see that they were in a good distance away from the kindergarten. She looked back down to Onyx.

She might now have the knowledge about everything.

But she knew that she needed someone to teach her. To be with her.

Even though they only met five minutes ago.

Pearl opened her eyes back to see a figure wearing a familiar kind of black.

Amethyst's eyes widened. She couldn't believe what she was seeing in front of her.

It was him. He was back?

But how?

She kept questioning herself. She then noticed that her whip was wrapped around his sword. She quickly let go of the whip and stood there.

Onyx was back. But he had different clothes...kind of.

He was still wearing a robe, but is a little shorter than the last one. He had his infamous fin hair. He had a silver plate on his left shoulder with a black star engraved in it. His cloak was a bit more darker than his old one. Removing the huge white diamond symbol on his back.

Onyx looked at Amethyst. She looked at him as well. She started to tear up. "A-...are you-"

Onyx quickly swiped towards her and picked her up to give her a warm hug. "Forever...right?"

This made Amethyst break down. He remembered.

She ran up to him and gave him a crushing hug. Onyx struggled. "O-okay, too hard."

This didn't stop her. Pearl hugged the two, followed by Garnet.

Onyx was being crushed, but he liked it.

He's back.

He sighed and felt the comfort he wanted. "I missed you guys..."

The three Gems separated from the hug and looked at the new and improved Onyx.

"What do you guys think?" The dark gem asks.

"You look great, Onyx." Garnet replied.

"Yeah, you look wicked!" Amethyst complemented as she punched his back.

Onyx flinched from the hit, then looked at Pearl. "Uh...Pearl?"

"I can't believe you actually sacrificed yourself!" She ranted.

Garnet and Amethyst rolled back their eyes, as if they saw it coming.

"Aw come on Pearl. I'm back now, don't think about it anymore."

"I know you are, but don't you ever do that agai-!" She was stopped by Onyx's lips connecting to hers.

Pearl still felt infuriated, but she closed her eyes and relaxed. Garnet and Amethyst just looked on and smiled at the two.

Onyx backed up from the kiss and smiled at her. Pearl's eyes were sparkling with tears. But she felt amazingly happy.

"Feeling better?" Onyx asked the place gem.

Pearl blushed. "Y-yeah..." She hugged him and sighed. "Don't leave us again..."

"I'll try my best not to." Onyx said with a smile.

Garnet patted his shoulder. "Are you okay, Onyx?"

"Yeah. Why do you ask?"

Garnet pointed at his missing arm. "You should've had your arm by now."

Onyx put on a proud smile. "I don't need my old arm. Someone already made me an arm, and it feels better." He looked at the gem holding onto him.

Garnet smiled. "Very well then."

Amethyst came up to Onyx and climbed on his back. "Don't ever scare us like that anymore. We couldn't even handle ourselves for a day without you."

"Don't worry, I'll always be here." He said with a heart warming smile. He knew part of it was a lie. But most of it was true.

Steven, Lapis, Connie and Peridot were all in the living room. They were waiting for something to happen. Mostly Steven. He was hoping they would come back with Amethyst.

An earthquake suddenly occurred. Steven and Connie scrambles to go under the coffee table.

Lapis and Peridot just struggled to balance their selves. "What's happening?" The ocean gem asks.

Peridot's eyes widened. "It's happening!"

"What's happening." Connie asks.

"The cluster is expanding!"

Steven looked at Peridot from under the table. "Really?!"

"Yes!"

The shaking then stopped. Connie and Steven sighed as they got off the floor and out of the table.

"So, what is the clusters purpose anyways?" Connie asks.

Steven looked at Peridot. She looked at him back. "What?"

"Aren't you gonna explain what the cluster is?" Steven chuckles.

Lapis was clueless too. She had heard about the cluster before, but didn't know what it is. "What is the cluster anyways?" Lapis asked the small gem.

Peridot clears her throat. "Well, the cluster is a fusion composed of millions of gem shards. If it becomes whole, the earth will explode!"

There was only silence. Connie knew that Steven told her about the cluster, but she didn't know how bad it would turn out.

"Can't we stop it?" Connie asks.

Steven nodded. "Yeah. We've finished the drill, now we just need the Gems to come back and figure out when we'll defeat it!" He said with pride.

Lapis gave a soft chuckle to the boy's action. She was then distracted by a sound coming from the warp pad.

The four looked and waited for whoever was gonna come, or come back.

It was only Garnet. Steven was confused. "Garnet, where are Pearl and Amethyst?"

Garnet fixed her shades and replied to him. "They'll be here. Don't worry."

Steven ran up to the fusion. "Are you sure?"

Garnet smirked. "Don't be worried, Steven. They'll be here quickly."

A knock suddenly came from the door. "Literally."

Steven runs towards the door quickly and turned the knob to open it. What he saw exceeded his expectations. "Amethyst, Onyx, Pearl! You guys are back!" Steven gave the three a tight hug.

"Aw...you miss me Steven?" Onyx gave Stevens head a pat.

"Of course I did! Who would make me the Universe Soup again?!"

Onyx chuckles. "Well, Pearl can." He pointed at the pale gem next to them.

Steven went starry eyed as he looked at his 'uptight mom'. "You can?!" He asks with a huge smile.

Pearl's face flushed. "Oh, yes. But I can't seem to perfect it." She said with slight disappointment.

Onyx smiled. "I'm guessing no one can, except for Greg."

Amethyst nodded. "Yeah, he's right. I tried to do it myself...we almost burned Greg's hair." She paused. "Almost all of it..."

Steven laughed. He then put on a frown on face. "Amethyst, you shouldn't have ran away..."

Amethyst sighed. "I'm sorry, Steven. I just can't control myself, you know?"

Steven let out a slight laugh. "Yeah...I know."

Garnet cleared her throat as the Gems looked at her. "Well, Onyx, now that you're back, you need to give us an apology."

Onyx swallowed a lump in his throat as he looked around him. "I-I have no clue what to say though..."

"You don't need to say anything. Actions speak louder." Garnet looked at the dark gem with a grin.

Onyx got the message. "Alright, who wants The Universe Soup?!"

Steven quickly raised his hand and waved it around. Connie had hers up as well. Even Amethyst and Lapis.

Onyx looked over to Lapis. "You eat?"

Lapis' face went hot. "U-um...I can..." She mumbles.

Onyx felt his heart melt. He loved seeing Lapis like that. Heck, he loved seeing Lapis anytime.

He then felt a hard elbow hit his side. He looks at Pearl who had a jealous look. Onyx shrugged. "You don't eat, right Pearl?" He jokingly asks.

Amethyst snickered while Steven anticipated her answer. Pearl went from jealous to nervous. "I-I..."

Onyx slightly laughs. "It's okay, Pearl it was just a joke."

"I can eat..."

Onyx and Amethyst's eyes widened. "What?!"

Steven gasped. "Really?!"

Pearl gulped. "O-of course I can!"

Steven questioned. "But you said said you never want to try eati-"

"Don't worry, Steven. There's got to be a day where I have to try it. And that is today." Pearl said fastly.

Onyx chuckled at her behavior. He knew what she was doing it for. He then felt something touch back. He looked at the culprit, it was Lion. He smiled at the pink creature. "I'm guessing you want some too?"

Lion replied with a soft growl. Onyx sighed and started walking inside. "Let's go then!"

"Hey, Greg. Are you sure you know how to make this, "soup"."

"To be honest... I don't." Greg laughed nervously.

Onyx looked at the ingredients they had. They were only on the beach, using a campfire to heat up the soup.

"Okay, how about we try to get some carrots." Greg walked towards the van and got some sliced carrots. He walked back to the bucket they were cooking with and throw the carrots in.

"Do we have those string looking things?" Onyx asks.

"Oh, you mean noodles?" Greg walked back to the van and tried to find some. Fortunately, he found a pack. "We've got one pack only. So no retries."

Onyx groans. "Didn't you say that you've been trying this for weeks?"

"Heh, yeah. I can't seem to do it right though." Greg said as he put noodles in the bucket.

Onyx took in the smell from the bucket and exhaled. "We need to wait for it to heat up. I already put in the other ingredients in there."

Greg nodded. He sat down on the sand beside the campfire. Onyx sat beside him.

"So, how are you and Pearl?" The long haired human asked.

"Hm?"

"I said, how are you and Pearl?" Greg asked once more.

"Oh, we're good."

"You sure? Doesn't sound like it."

Onyx sighed. "It's just the, Rose is being a little hard on her because of me."

Greg scratched his nape. "Yikes. Every time huh? I should meet this Rose person."

Onyx froze for a moment. He really didn't want to tell Greg about the other Gems. He didn't even know that Onyx had powers. He just thought he was...skilled. "I don't think you should."

"Why? You've been telling stories about me to them haven't you? I should meet them some day."

Onyx didn't reply. He just looked at the ocean.

Everything was silent for awhile. Onyx liked it.

Greg sighed. "Can I tell you something?"

Onyx looked at the human. "Anything."

"Well, last night, I saw a big lady with curly hair. But I didn't know if it was real. I just fell in love when I saw her. I didn't even get to see clearly. She was just in the dark." Greg spoke.

Onyx knew what he was talking about. Or Who he was talking. "Wow, sounds like quote the dream." His voice cracked. He was glad Greg didn't notice.

"I'm serious Onyx. It felt real! I just don't know..."

"Don't know what?"

Greg paused. "Nah, never mind. I think this thing is ready." He pointed at the soup.

Onyx stood up and inhaled. "Hm...smells better than before."

Greg ran to his van and got a spoon. He ran back to Onyx and got a scoop of the soup. He blew it so he wouldn't burn himself. And sipped it up.

He took his time tasting the soup. "Needs a little more salt."

"Should I call, Pearl?" Onyx asked jokingly.

Greg chuckled. "Nice one." He then thought of it. "Seriously, Onyx. You gotta let me see your 'family'. I've never even seen one of them."

Onyx sighed. "I don't think they'll understand..."

Greg was confused. "What do you mean?"

Onyx immediately raised his hands in defense. "No, nothing!" He then grabbed a salt shaker from his pocket and poured a small amount into the bucket.

He mixed it with the spoon and scooped up a little.

The gem looked at the spoon. He gave the spoon to Greg. "You taste it."

Greg laughed. "alrighty then."

Greg grabbed the spoon and sipped the soup.

His face lit up as he swallowed the soup. "That's amazing!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, try some!" Greg gave him another spoon as he gladly took it from him.

Onyx scooped up a spoonful as he put it in his mouth. He was impressed. "It's perfect!"

Greg jumped in joy. "We've done it!"

Onyx laughed at the human. "Now, what should we call it?"

Greg stopped to think about it. "Hm...how about Hot soup special?"

"Nah, too generic."

"How about, Star soup madness!?"

"Nope, too funky."

Greg put his hand to his chin and looked at the bucket of soup. "You know what, let's just call it, The Universe Soup for now."

Onyx nodded. "Alright. We'll think of it tomorrow morning."

"Okay. I have at least thirty days left before I leave for my next stop." Greg said as he grabbed the bucket and put a lid on it.

Onyx stomped out the fire. "Well, I'll seeya around Gregory."

"Alright, seeya later Onyx."

Onux had finished cooking for the Gems.

Pearl, Amethyst, Connie and Steven were with him on the coffee table, sitting on the floor.

Onyx, Steven, Connie and Amethyst chowed down as Pearl just stared at the bowl of soup.

Onyx looked at her. "Pearl, you don't need to eat it you know."

Pearl snapped out of it. "Oh, nonsense. I LOVE your soup!" She forced a smile for she was nervous.

She saw that Lion was right behind her. She looked at the three who were focusing on their food. She quickly put the bowl down next to Lion. "Mm...how delightful!"

Steven looked at Pearl. "Pearl, you weren't supposed to eat the bowl."

Amethyst snickered. "No, Steven. She just gave her bowl to Lion."

Pearl's face went hot out of nervousness. "I-I did not such thing!?"

"Oh, yeah? Where's your bowl then?" Amethyst asks with a smile.

Pearl stopped. She decided to go with it. "I ate it."

Amethyst bursted out laughing, Steven just smiled at the her. "Don't worry, Pearl. We can buy more bowls."

Onyx chuckled. He then pushed his empty bowl to Pearl. "I know you like cleaning stuff. I'm doing you a favor."

Pearl's face went really hot. Her face was just a colour of turquoise.

She took his, Steven's, Connie's, and Amethyst's bowl and put it on the sink and started cleaning them up.

Onyx sighed and looked around. He saw Peridot sleeping on Steven's bed, as per usual. Steven, Connie and Amethyst were chatting. Pearl was doing the dishes. He knew Garnet was somewhere doing what she does. Lion was still licking the bowls of soul. But for some reason, Lapis wasn't anywhere inside.

Onyx stood up and walked towards the door. He opened it to see Lapis leaning on the porch railing. Her bowl of soup was balanced on the railing as well.

He slowly walked up from behind. He then gave her a surprise. "Hey."

Lapis gave out a small scream and jumped out of her skin as the bowl fell down the sand. "O-Onyx? W-what are you doing here?" She asks as she held her chest tightly.

"Did I scare you too much? I'm sorry." Onyx apologized.

"No, I'm okay..."

Onyx looked at her. She looked pretty sad. "Something wrong?"

Lapis shook her head. "Nothing."

"Why are you so sad then?"

Lapis didn't look at him. Didn't even answer.

"Lapis?"

Lapis turned around to meet with his eyes. His eyes widened to see her eyes forming some tears.

"Lapis..."

"I can't stop thinking about it!" She cries to his chest.

He just embraced the ocean gem for her to calm down. "Thinking about what?"

"I keep remembering you being shattered! And...I don't want to see that again!"

Onyx just hugged her tighter. "Lapis. I can't make promises right now. There are things need to be done. And you know that, right?" He lifted his hand to remove a lock of her from her face.

She looked at him. Then nodded. "I just...don't know what to do without you. I couldn't even think straight without you."

Onyx smiled. He cupped her face and kissed her warm lips. She kissed back.

After the kiss, Onyx removed her tears from her cheeks."Don't worry Lapis. Even if I'm not here physically, I'll always be in here." He pointed at her chest. "For you, for Pearl, for Steven, for anyone who I love."

Lapis released him from the hug. She sniffled. "Thanks...I needed that...really..."

Onyx gave her a wide smile. "No problem. Wanna go back in? I can make you more soup."

Lapis smiled back. "I'd be glad."

The two nodded as they went in the house.

Lapis felt better...

She felt amazing.

Hey guys and gals. I'm so sorry for my update times. I've been getting hate messages from my twitter feed often. Don't know why they don't understand the word 'fandom'.

Anyways. If I don't post much often, I'm announcing the other chapters I'll be doing. Because this might take awhile. Sorry peeps. Hope you all understand.

Here they are:

"Hammockery"

"Gems Night Out"

"I say Jam, You Say Clod"

"Greg's Plumbing Service"

"Vivere la vita"

"Romancing the ocean"

"Race the dawn"

"Crystal Gemlympics"

"Snowed In"

"Cream Stew"

"Blogged off the net"

"The Black Case"

"Forced Split"

"Secret Team 2.0"

"Stevonnie Vs. Onyx"

"Shoot ge messenger"

"What a Cluster"

"A dance with death"

"Goodbye to a world"

"Epilogue"

And that's it. Some titles are gonna change...maybe. I didn't want to put the plot in every chapter since it might get spoiled. You guys can guess the plot of some chapters. Just look at the title and give me your ideas on what the chapter will be about.

Well, again, I'm sorry.

Luv u peeps!

-Onyx