Steven could hardly believe what he was hearing. Topaz had said that amethyst had pushed her down the cliff.

"What do you mean?" Steven asked.

A million questions race through his mind as topaz only put her head in her hands.

" Didn't I just tell you? Amethyst pushed her down. Amethyst pushed topaz down because she saw something she shouldn't have." Topaz was now pacing around the room.

"Topaz..." Steven started.

"Why do you keep referring to yourself in third person?" Steven asked.

Topaz stopped pacing and looked at steven.

"Sit down." Steven obeyed and sat on the floor.

"There is something I want to show you." Topaz said.

Steven watched as topaz's body began to glow. The light started glowing brighter and brighter until steven had to cover his eyes.

"Topaz what is going on?" Steven asked but topaz didn't answer.

Soon enough the bright light faded and steven could see again. When steven saw topaz he was horrified. Topaz was on the floor and her body seemed lifeless.

"Topaz are you ok?" steven ran over to her and was trying to wake her up.

"Steven" a voice called.

Steven turned around and saw a ghostly figure was in front of him.

"..." Steven couldn't get any words out

"Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you."

The figure voices sounded exactly likes topaz's. Steven looked at the figure closer and his whole jaw dropped.

"You're the gem I saw in the memories." Steven blurted out.

The figure had short dark gray hair, a red ribbon that wrapped around the upper torso and ended with a bow in the back, A light gray skirt with a slit on the side.

"Why yes I am steven." The figure responded.

"Allow me to properly introduce myself."

"My name is Hematite and its nice to meet you Steven."

Steven couldn't move as he was too shocked.

"Who are you and what have you done to topaz?" Steven asked.

"Steven listen, I'm not the bad guy here." Hematite said.

"Let me tell you a story." Hematite offered.

Steven only sat on the couch as hematite flew around the room.

"Well to begin this started 110 years ago.


(Flashback 110 years ago)


Ever since I was a small gem I always fantasized about studying gems on our body and how important and stuff they are to us. Growing up I spent countless hours studying and learning new things about gems and gem corruptions. All the good things I learned also made me understand the bad side to gems and gem corruption. I then made it my life goal to find a way to stop gem corruption from ever happening. All my research eventually led me to discover the place known as the black lake. This lake is made up of some substance that can cause gem corruption immediately.

I would often go back there to collect samples and try to analyze the substance. Year after year I continued to fail but I never ever gave up hope. One day I went to the lake again and I saw there were other gems at the top of the cliff. Minding my own business I walked to my favorite spot and set up my research station there. On the other side of the cliff I could see another group of gems with clipboards and research equipment. I could tell there were here for the same reason I was. A few minutes passed by and the group of gems I saw earlier at the top of cliff came over to me.

One of them kicked my table down and the other one took my precious notebook filled with all my research. They threw my notebook over the cliff. I ran toward the edge of the cliff and watched as all my years of research were now swallowed up by the lake. As I was looking for my notebook in the dark abyss of the lake, I could feel a hand on my back and I was pushed off the cliff. I was screaming as loud as my voice could go..."

Steven saw as a few tears fell from hematite's eyes.

"Even though she is a ghost she can still cry" Steven thought to himself

. "Anyway to continue with my story." Hematite said.

"As I was falling I could see the other group of gems that were doing research earlier. One of them that I can remember had blue hair jumped towards me. Even though I fell into the lake, that gem jumped in and pulled me out. It was at that point My soul separated from my body. My soul stayed at the lake but the blue haired gem carried my body away. Even though my physical body was gone, I could still feel the pain my body was going through.

Gem corruption was a really really painful thing for me. Although I couldn't see what they were doing with my body I could feel the needles and sharp objects they were using to remove my gem. This was the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life. When the pain went away I knew that my body had given up its fight.

So then for the next 100 years all I could do was wander around the black lake as a spirit..." Hematite began sobbing and was forming a puddle.

"Hematite its ok." Steven tried to comfort her.

" NO ITS NOT STEVEN, YOU HAD NO IDEA HOW I FELT THOSE LAST 100 YEARS." Hematite screamed.

"You had no idea what it feel like to wander around the same place for 100 years. I was alone and all I could do was watch as countless gems with the same intentions as me were able to live on with their lives.

I've been alone all these years." Steven felt bad for hematite as she was now crying her eyes out.

"What does this have to do with topaz?" Steven asked.

Hematite stopped crying so hard and looked at steven.

"countless gems have fallen into the lake by accident. Many had sadness in their hearts and all this sadness over the years created the monster you saw at the black lake. All those gems want is to bring other gems down with them. I watched this occur over the next 100 years. One day everything changed for me.

It was just another day at the black lake when a group of four gems who eventually I found out were the crystal gems arrived. I heard them talking about a monster or something. I knew of course they were talking about the monster that now resided in this lake. I watched as the monster came out of its hiding and attack the gems. I'm not going to lie it was a pretty interesting battle for me. Then when the two gems known as pearl and garnet had their backs turned, I watched with my own two eyes as amethyst pushed topaz over the cliff. I watched as she fell into the water only to be pulled out mere seconds later. As she was dying I took this chance to get a body back."

Steven was horrified at what hematite was telling him.

Steven looked down at topaz's body and he heart only sank.

"You mean to tell me topaz has been...dead all this time?" Steven asked.

"Steven let me finish my story then you will understand why I have done all of this." Hematite interrupted.

"When I gained control of topaz I made her body disappear to another location. I did this so I could see if I could actually use her body or not. When I discovered I could use her body I was ecstatic. Its been so long since I could physically move. After awhile I realized that this gem had just been pushed down and I wanted to avenge her death. Now that I could physically move I could use the warp pad that brought me here and go find them."

"So for the last ten years you've have been looking for the crys... I mean those gems who pushed topaz down?" Steven asked trying to keep his returned knowledge of the crystal gems a secret.

"That is correct Steven but there was also another reason I wanted to find those gems so badly." Hematite added.

"What was that reason?" Steven asked.

"When I took over topaz's body I only had one mission in mind, to find the gems that pushed me into the black lake all those years ago. It wasn't until I went into her memories to try and find out the name of the gems she was with. As I went through her memories I found out something shocking.

Topaz was the same gem that rescued me and tried to fix my body 110 years ago." Hematite suddenly flew past steven and reentered topaz's body.

"I didn't recognize her because of course her hair and clothing changed." Topaz looked at steven and sent shivers down his spine.

"Now you see why I must destroy the gems that ruined this gems life." Hematite started walking towards the warp pad.

"Where are you going now?" Steven asked.

"I need to go see something hematite said." Steven ran after her but he was too late.

"Great what am I going to do now?" Steven said to himself as he was pacing around.


(With topaz/hematite.)


I can't believe I told him the story about my death." Hematite mumbled to herself.

Hematite arrived at the secret temple she showed steven a few weeks ago. Hematite walked in and remembered all the destruction she caused when she fought the crystal gems before.

"I thought you would be coming here sooner or later." A familiar voice spoke.

Hematite turned around and saw garnet behind her.

"Why are you here? Steven isn't with me." Hematite said.

"I saw in my future vision that you were going to come here. I now know who you are and why you are here." Garnet answered.

"You might have seen the future but my intentions to why I am here are not what you think." Hematite turned back around and continued walking towards the door.

"Tell me where steven is and I'll leave you alone then." Garnet tried to persuade her.

"Its no use Garnet, Steven is important to me and I wont give him back until I'm finished with him."

Garnet ran towards hematite and activated both of her gloves.

"That won't do at all." Hematite summoned topaz's sword and swung at garnet.

Garnet was able to quickly turn her body missing the swing. Hematite threw her sword at an unbroken column before Garnet used one of her fists to punch hematite towards the wall. Hematite went flying back so fast and hard that when she hit the wall of the temple, the whole temple shook. Hematite fell to the floor and felt garnet standing over her.

"Please don't kill me, I don't want to die again." Hematite tried pleading.

Garnet picked up hematite by her shirt collar and was holding her up.

"Now I'm going to ask you one last time... Where is steven?" Garnet's face was deathly serious and it sent a few shivers down hematite's back.

"Before I tell you there is something you should know." Hematite started.

"What?" Garnet asked gripping her shirt even tighter.

"You should always watch your back." Hematite kicked garnet in the face before motioning her sword toward her.

Hematite ducked as the sword flew over her and struck garnet. Garnet fell to her knees and hematite saw this chance to escape.

"It's a shame that I couldn't do what I came here for." Hematite said to herself

As hematite made her way to the warp pad she could hear garnet running toward her.

"I didn't think i would have too but I guess I have no choice." Hematite smiled to herself.

"Garnet watched as Hematite started to float up in the sky.

"Topaz might have had superb agility and a great weapon but I'm very different.

"My powers are much stronger that you will ever be Garnet.

The air became tense as Garnet watched topaz's body begin to change.

"What is this dark power?" Garnet asked herself.

"Within topaz's heart is the pain of her death. This pain creates a strong power to avenge what happened to her. With both of our pain of our death I used it to create a very powerful force. You see Garnet we could of been good friends according to topaz's memory. Unfortunately I will not let anyone get in the way of my plan now."

Hematite looked at garnet and sent a wave of dark energy toward her.

"Hematite you don have to do this." Garnet rolled to the side just barely missing the wave.

"Yes I do since you just wont leave me alone."

With that hematite used her powers to set the whole place ablaze with a black flame.

"Don't worry this wont hurt the trees or the temple. This will only burn the gems that try to stop me and get in my way."

As the whole forest began to become engulf in the flames hematite made her way towards the warp pad.

"You forgot something." Hematite heard a faint voice in the distance.

"Impossible the black flames should of killed you." Hematite said.

"No matter the color of the flames, I'm am still invulnerable to the fire." With that Garnet came out of nowhere and punched hematite in the face.

"If I have to I will kill you and use your memory to locate steven." Garnet warned.

Hematite looked at her and only laughed.

"Go ahead and kill me I don't care. Steven is somewhere where only I have access to and killing me will only keep him trapped for the rest of his human life." Garnet was taken aback by this news.

She couldn't tell If hematite was telling the truth or not. If she was then Garnet was risking Stevens life. If she is lying then Garnet was risking her life by being here.

"I guess gems like you never learn do you?" Hematite asked.

"What do you mean..." Garnet felt hands made of the black fire grab her legs and pulled her down. Hematite kicked garnet in the face shattering her glasses.

"Always watch you back garnet." Hematite smiled and waved before teleporting away on the teleport pad.

When hematite arrived back to where steven was she collapsed to the floor.

"Topa..er..hematite are you ok?"

Steven asked. Hematite could feel her spirit begin to get weaker.

"Yes I'm fine I just got interrupted by an intruding gem and I had to battle them. I was lucky enough to escape from there with my life."

Hematite stood up and slowly walked toward the couch. Hematite fell on the couch and her whole body began to ache.

"I think its time to carry on with my plan now." Hematite thought to herself.


A/N


Wow its been almost 3 months since I last updated this story.

I'm so incredibly sorry for the long wait but things have changed.

Due to something called siblings, I'm only able to type this story roughly every thursday for about three hours at a time.

But at least with that I can now be more focused on typing this story.


Awe poor topaz, getting her body used like that

So now we have heard Hematite's tragic back-story

I wonder what her plan is? hmm

I also wonder if she is a good person or a bad person?

I think from now on, now that we know topaz's real identity I'm going to call her hematite from now on

Well goodbye for now

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