"Sit!" Vexus said, "Sit or you won't get your treat, Clover."
Clover sat and yipped as another puppy was patiently sitting. Vexus gave them both treats and petted their soft fur.
Azurite knelt next to the small black puppy and ran her hands through its fur, "Gosh, I haven't petted any dog-like creatures since Citrine, Carnelian, and Blue. You have such a soft coat, Titus."
Titus rubbed his head on Azurite's shoulder and licked her chin. The blue-eyed gem smiled, standing up, her, Vexus, and Tiger had trained the pups nicely. Emerald and Jewel were steadily training the cats so that they could get along with Clover and Titus but it wasn't working as well as they had hoped. Clover always wanted to jump and play with them while they just wanted to sleep.
"We can try making them stay alone in a room for a couple minutes?" Emerald communicated, "Maybe that could work."
"It could, but what if they started fighting?" Azurite said, looking to Tiger.
"Wow, we are gems that try and change the world and here we are tryin' to train animals. Just do it, we can worry about the after affects later," Tiger said, shrugging.
"Okay," Vexus said, ushering Willa and Titus into the guest room.
Emerald carried her three cats while Jewel followed. They closed the door and timed an hour on the oven clock.
"What's the worst that could happen?" Tiger said, "We have two healers even though ONE can't heal as well."
"Hey!" Emerald shouted rather loudly, making Tiger Eye jump, "What a scaredy cat."
"Whoa sorry if I hit a sore spot that ya can't heal," the pale gem chuckled to herself as the remark hit her, "Oh what, ya want to fight?"
"Guys stop, he can heal small wounds faster than me and can withstand much more hits than you," Jewel said, grabbing her lover's arm.
"Fine," Tiger said, "Jewel speaks the truth so I will leave ya alone."
When an hour was up, Vexus opened the door with her eyes shut for fear of it being ugly. Clover and Titus sat up on top of the tan bed curled up next to the three cats.
"Phew, it looks like Citrus, Blue, and Carn are fine," Emerald said to Jewel, sighing in relief.
"I had no idea it would turn out this great," Jewel smiled, looking to Emerald, "At least nothing was broken-"
"Oh no," Vexus said, putting her hand to her forehead, "A couple bubbles were popped."
"Do we know which ones?" Azurite asked.
"Yeah, a Chrysocolla that I defeated when I was with yer mother," Tiger Eye said, "She was the last gem we defeated so I was saving 'er fer interrogation later. We also lost two corrupted gems."
"You had a Chrysocolla you didn't tell us about?" Azurite asked, "Didn't you think that that would be important?"
"No, she would just bring up bad memories," Tiger Eye said, shaking her head, "I never thought she'd escape. I had no idea she would go with the other bubbles, she was always in my room."
"Oh well Azurite said, "Let's go get them back."