And yay, I am finally back with a new chapter! Now, I have some good news and some bad news regarding this story. No longer will the chapters be one every 1-2 days, but will be out once every 2 days for about two weeks at a time, and then have an off week between every 13th chapter. Which means the first one of those breaks will be soon. The reason is simply that I have lots of work, both school and actual work, and can't write enough to be posting every day or so. But on the bright side, when I am putting them out you won't have to worry about having huge breaks between every few chapters. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this new chapter!

After being dragged to homeworld, Steven, Shard, Sapphire, Amethyst, and Pearl were all taken to one of Yellow Diamond's buildings. Once they were there, Steven and Shard's unconscious forms were thrown on the ground, the gems of the others were then dropped on top of them. After a long time waiting, Yellow Diamond came in to decide the fate of the traitors. Her towering form was very strong, enough to scare even Jasper, but when she saw Shard lying on the ground she stopped dead in her tracks.

"What is HE doing here? How did you find that... that MONSTER." she demanded of Jasper and Peridot, who both stood shaking before her.

"We, well, we found him on Earth, along with the other traitors. Apparently he thought he could help them fend us off, but he wasn't much trouble..." Peridot managed to say without stumbling too badly over her words.

"Wasn't any trouble?!" Yellow Diamond thundered. "That freak has been the bane of homeworld for millennia now! He singlehandedly took out the entirety of the Spinel Army! That was the second strongest best group of one hundred warriors we've ever created, and he took them all on and won! He's been hunted ever since. So tell me, how is it that you managed to beat him, really?"

"I-it's true though, he... he challenged me to a fight for the traitors, and then he collapsed after only about two minutes of fighting..." Peridot timidly stated. She looked sideways over at Shard, not believing what she had heard. She knew the stories of the stranger who had beaten the Spinel Army, nearly everyone on homeworld did, but to think she had been in a fight with him, and WON! Something must have been attacking him beforehand, for him to fall so quickly. What could have done such a thing she did not want to know...

Jasper also looked at Shard, wondering how such a mighty villain from old Gem fairy-tales could be real, and how a weakling like Peridot could have beaten him.

Yellow Diamond had been prepared to inflict some major damage on the two incompetent fools in front of her for loosing a ship to a bunch of weakling traitors, but now with one of homeworld's all-time greatest enemies lying unconscious on the floor, she would have to wait and find something else to chew them out for. But for now, she knew what she had to do. "Take all of them to the strongest jail cells on this level of the planet, keep them next to each other but not in the same cell. And get lots of chains, forcefields, and guards on the freak. If he escapes because of a failure on your parts, neither of you will live to regret it." she spat out at them.

"Y-yes, ma-am." Jasper stuttered out as she helped Peridot pick up the traitors. The last time she had failed Yellow Diamond her gem had been cracked very carefully, in such a way as to cause lots of pain without killing her. Eventually her gem was repaired and she was brought back, but she was promised that another slip-up would end with her becoming gem dust...

Once they were out of the room and long on their way to one of Homeworld's strongest jails, Jasper spoke up again. "It's a good thing we found this guy, otherwise we'd be dead for loosing the ruby..."

"Wait, what?" Peridot said. "The ruby should be right..." she paused as she noticed Ruby's gem wasn't there. "Eep!..." Then, after a slight pause, she made a lst comment as they arrived at the cells. "I guess it really is a good thing we found him..."

Back in her private quarters, Yellow Diamond picked up a very special communicator... much as she didn't want to, it was agreed on what must be done should the dark one ever be found. It was time to call the other Diamonds...

Woot! Chapter 12 part 3 is done, and I have decided not to merge them all into a single chapter. Chapter 13 is coming out soon, and will end the first arc of the story. See you there soon!