'Here's a special treat for you guys, another new chapter this week. I had no school today, so I decided to spend some of my time to you loyal readers. I dreaded writing the ending though, I thought I would never get it done. Again, as a remainder, the poll for my momswap fic is up, and I really would appreciate it if you answer it. It might even get mote chapters out faster, 'wink ,wink'.
"Ugggggggh, this is the taking forever, why can't we just sit down for a moment?" Whined Carnelian as she and her sort of little brother traveled between the light streams.
It had been several hours since they've found the scabbard to rose's sword, and right now Rhodonite was really starting to regret taking the red gems advice in finding the missing half.
"Hey, I was trying to find what was causing Peridot all that trouble, you're the one who wanted to find it in the first place." He looks at his sort of older sister with a condescending look.
"Hey, I'm doing this for your sake, besides, I didn't think that it would take soooo long to do."
"Really, you thought we were going to find a lost piece of valuable gem history that's hasn't been seen in over 5,000 years, in a blink of an eye?"
"Kind of" she shrugged," besides, at least the last few stops had been interesting"
"Like how we warped into a sky field and got eaten by a giant bird"?
"Hey, you saved us with that shield of yours. No harm, no foul."
"Or how we were almost turned to mossy goop because you thought it would be fun to play in?" He shudders at that memory, just feeling the gooey plant crawling up his skin.
"Hey, at least we got to see an amazing array of flowers fly buy us"
"Or how we almost got completely obliterated into nothing but star dust when you cracked that gem geode?"
"Hey, in my defense, that thing should've been better built 5,000 years ago, plus you had that magic healing spit on you, you were able to fix it up like nothing happened."
"Yeah, except the thousands of burn marks and craters the leaking lightning made! This is what I meant Carney, what if something was following us? It would know how to follow us but our trail of destruction!" He shouts out rather dramatically.
"Geez, you're getting more freaked out than a peridot in a frenzy. Nothing going to happen to us, not a single serious threat to gem-kind has been here for centuries. What would follow us anyway?"
What they didn't know, was right behind them was three rather colorful gems following them.
Earlier that day, Garnet received her first clear vison of Steven in years. She of course being her usual Garnety self, smiled but remained calm.
The same, however, could not be said about her two friends.
"Steven is alive, and he is in one of the gem sites as we speak"
As soon as those words left he mouth, the entire temple becoming a arena of unstable emotion.
For Amethyst, it was unbelievable amounts of joy. Steven, their littlest and cutest member, her little brother, was alive and well. For years, she just wallowed in the junk in her room with no ambition. The others would go out on missions while she would stay back.
She would just look around the piles of trash in her room, sorting through it. She would occupy her time by separating the stuff she would keep, and the stuff she would share with Steven. She would daydream telling him about all the pranks she pulled, the pranks they would pull together, and how they would weasel their way out of trouble from said prank.
Now he was back. Now was here chance to bring joy to the greatest gift she ever received, from the greatest person she had ever known.
For Pearl, came an unending wave of tears and sadness.
Ever since the day he was taken, she felt like a shell of herself. She was a defective pearl. A pearl without cause, a pearl without direction, a pearl without a master. She was liberated by rose, but she would always feel that need to serve other people. She would do anything for Steven, anything to make him happy, to make him safe. But with him gone, she lost that drive she once had
On missions, she would often breakdown in the middle of battle, often putting Garnet and herself in compromising positions. Sometimes after words, she would look at one of the t shirts he was supposed to wear, and she would just sing his little tune, with eyes full of tears.
But now, she had the chance to fix everything, to prove to rose that she kept her promise.
"Are you s-ure you saw him correctly Garnet?" Pearl said as she tried to recapture herself. "I know that your future vison isn't clear of specific at times of distress. Maybe you saw…."
"No." She flatly stated. Expecting her skepticism, she moved on. "I know it's hard to believe after all these years, but it's true. I've never had a clean perception when it came to Steven's future, but this was the clearest view of him I have ever had. There is now doubt he is here."
"But if he's here, where has he been all this time? Didn't Greg called services all over the world to look for him?" Amethyst chimes
"I don't know, I cannot see any path that shows where he came from, I just know where he's going to be."
"Well, if he's at a gem site, then he must be looking for us, come on tell us where and we'll be there!" Amethyst shouts with a vigor and energy that had been missing for years."
Meanwhile, while our three heroic ladies pinpointed where he was, out two favorite quartzes were in the middle of a desert. They have been searching for only 20 minutes, but that didn't stop Rhodonite from sweating. After all, he was only human, right?
"Ugh, remind me to switch your place with Skinny when we get back to homeworld."
"Oh please, as if you could ever replace little ole me. Besides, I think Skinny loves her position as second in command of the zoo too much". She chuckles a little at the memory of her best friend from the Kindergarten.
"You should've seen her when I gave her the promotion." He smiles softly before yawning. "Ug, sometimes, I hate being half organic." He says a little bitterly.
"Yeah, it suck sometimes, but if you were full gem, you would be so fun to squish and hug." She then grabs him and pulls him in for a really tight squeeze.
Rhodonite just chuckles once she put him down. "Heh, heh, ok. I'm just going to lay here for a while. Wake me up if you find it, or give up, either way, I don't care." He quietly says as she walks away.
Once she was gone, Steven immediately laid his head against the closest thing he could find to rest his head.
Funny, he didn't think giant pink pillows grew in the middle of the desert.
"Oh well," he yawned as he closed his eyes. "the things you miss while your off world."
Little did he know was that the "pillow" he was sleeping on was breathing.
"Huh, could've sworn that the castle wasn't there before." She murmered to herself. She was getting no where on her search for that sword. She thought it would just be a fun little side quest, but all it was really doing was dragging out the mission more than it needed to be.
"Uhh, I guess I have to admit to Rhody that he was right, again" She groaned as she prepared to turn around….
"Are you sure that he's here? I can't imagine him going across the world like that on his own, at least, not without the proper navigation and equipment." One worried voice said.
A voice. In the middle of the desert? Who would come all this way, to here of all places?
"Awww, come on P, if our little Steven could survive on his own for the last eight years, I'm sure scaling a desert would be no problem for him" a raspier, slightly more familiar voice asked. I she didn't know better, she sounded almost like an Ametys….
Wait, did they say Steven.
Rhodonite's original, human name?
How would these people know it? And why where they looking for him?
"Quiet" a third, more authoritive voice chimes in. "I since something close by."
What did these people want with Rhodonite? Why were they here in the first place. The only people that had any business here were….
Other Gems.
She gasped. Crystal gems. Left on the planet.
"That's what must be causing the interference! I got to warn Rhodo…
"Hey"!
Carnelian turns around and sees that right behind her was a rather short Amethyst, a peal, and what appeared to be a ruby fused to something that was not a ruby.
"A homeworld spy!" The tall permafusion shouted. "Get her!"
Around the same time, Rhodonite started to wake up.
"Ahhh, nothing like an impromptu nap in the desert to recharge one's batteries." He smiled as he got up. He slept a lot less now that he was one of Blue Diamonds top soldiers, but it never hurt to take wink or two every once in a while.
"I guess I better try to get Carnelian and" he stops in the middle of his sentence as he turns around to see what he was sleeping on.
It was a pink lion.
And it was looking at him.
Normally this would be cause for Steven to freak out, but considering the horrors of space he goes through, this was relatively tame.
"Huh, I had no idea that lions come in pink. Are you lost?"
The lion just stares.
"Do you belong to anyone?"
The lion blinks.
"Can I pet you?" Steven says with a little eagerness. He hasn't seen any tame animals in a long while,, so this was a definite welcome to his usual crazy life.
The lion, as if to answer his request, moved forward until he was within the young quartz's personal space.
"Awwwww, you just wanted someone to pet you, didn't you? It must be all lonely being the only pink lion, isn't it." He says as he continues to pet him.
"I know the feeling." He starts to speak a little quieter as he begins to look down.
"I mean. I surrounded by gems every day, but I'm the only hybrid in existence. It can be pretty lonely, but it can fine. I mean, Blue diamond is the best mother I could ask for. And carney and B.p are like two older sisters, always disagreeing with each other, but in the end, are always loving and kind, and that's all anyone could ask for, right?"
The lion gives out a soft purr, as if he agreed.
"Heh, you're just a cute little creature, aren't you? Say, you wouldn't happen to know where the sword to this is?" He pulls out the Scabbard for the giant cat to see.
The lion just bows his head as a giant circle forms on it and begins to glow. He then starts to nudge to little hybrid.
"Oh, you want me to grab something, in your head? Ok, weird, but ok." He shrugs as he puts his and in. He feels nothing, but before he could pull it out, he feels a sort of handle like thing that forces his hand to grip it.
With all of his might, he pulls it out, and to his shock, it was a bright pink sword.
Rose Quartz sword.
"Whaaat?! You had Rosen Quartz's sword in you head?" He squealed in delight and excitement.
"I can't believe it! Carney will never believe me when i…..
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" a scream breaks out.
"Oh no, Carnelian! I have to save her, come on you, lets…." He turns around to face the pink beast, only to find the spot where he was completely empty.
Having no time to question, Steven just shrugs off his confusion to save his friend.
That friend of his, was not having the best of luck. She used her weapon, a two chain flail, to fight them off to the best of her ability, but the shear force from the Fusion alone made her tremble. The constant attacks from all three sides were just too much for her.
"Rhodyyy" she whimpered, "I'm sor-r-y" she falls to the ground, unconscious.
"Quick she's down, I'll finish her!" Pearl states as she prepares her spear to poof the fallen Quartz.
"Leave her alone!"
A bright pink shield flies through the air and knocks the spear out of the white gem's hand.
All three turn around and shock as the find a short, tiny, slightly more pink then usual, young human with curly, dark brown hair. He wore a uniform with various shades of blue, held a shield in his left hand, and a giant pink sword in the other. Despite the clothes and the age, all three gems where able to come to one clear explanation.
"Steven!?" They all gasped.
It might've taken him awhile, but before he could attack, he got a good look and realized what was wrong.
"Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl?!"
Yes! Now everyone's united! But will the harmony be restored?