The sky began to darken as clouds rolled in. Latin, Malena, Vishala, and Bellona were the only Topazes that hesitated as the others summoned their weapons.

" I'm so tired of pretending. Where's our happy ending? " sang Leon.

He looked directly at Latin.

" I followed all the rules. I fought in every battle. I never asked for anything that wasn't mine. I waited patiently for answers. But when they finally came. You only lied. Now you only want me dead. "

Tears started to form in Leon's eyes.

" Am I only a weapon that is not needed anymore. Am I a monster full of rage. Nowhere to go but on a rampage? "

Leon brought a hand down as ice spears fell from the sky. Vishala raised a hand to try and stop it. Her eyes widened when it didn't stop.

Erwin was quick to use his whip to block the ice. It was then that Vishala noticed that the ice was red.

" I heard the story over and over again. That you'll finally tell the truth. So I happily waited. Waiting for the day to know it all. Only to see it was all a lie. "

Taji and Ares charged forward, wanting to end it quickly.

" And now I feel this overwhelming pain. I mean it's in my brain. I mean it's in my gem. All this pain, all this fear began because of a lie. "

Leon dogged each of Taji's swings before spinning to side.

" My thoughts are running in a circle. I'm kinda like a perfect gem but was overcooked. I don't know who to blame. "

Ares kept trying to ensnare Leon with his whip but could never get a firm grasp.

" Everyone's happily ever after has finally came. While mine was always drifting away until I was finally gone. "

Leon lept back as his wings formed. He flew a few feet off the ground.

" What will you do without me? What will you say about me? Will everyone finally be happy? "

Tears started to fall from Leon's eyes as the water in the ocean started to turn red near the shore.

" To see that the monster is gone

Will they be thrilled as you watch me fade away. Is everyone in danger as long as I'm alive? "

Leon looked down at his hands as the water that was red surrounded him.

" Was I a weapon from the start? How did I end up so unfeeling? Caught in a war inside my own head. "

Leon looked back at fellow hybrids before looking at the Topazes.

" If I die, will they be free? "

Leon gritted his teeth as he clenched his fist.

" No! "

Leon outstretched a hand as a barrage of ice spears went flying at the Topazes. Ares, Wira, and Erwin went forward and spurn their whips. The trio's whips blocking and breaking the ice.

" I have to stay alive to fix what I've done. Save the world from myself. Lives are on the line. "

More ice spears came raining down from above. Vishala waved a hand in the air as small orbs of energy formed.

The orbs burst into beams as they blocked the oncoming ice spears.

" Unsure where I'm heading. All of my senses have left me defenseless "

The red water around Leon grew and it slowly formed a dome. He stood in the center as his body started to tremble.

" This darkness around me. Is promising vengeance. The price that I'm willing to pay is expensive. "

The dome grew larger, almost covering Leon as tentacles formed.

" But there's nothing to lose. When you're lonely and FRIENDLESS! " sang Leon.

A multitude of water tentacles went forward. Melena and Bellona were the only Topazes that didn't react fast enough to dodge them.

The tentacles pulled the pair in as the dome closed completely.

"Melena!" yelled Wira, Latin, and Ares. "Bellona!" yelled Erwin, Vishala, and Taji.

Ares and Taji rushed forward. When the pair approached it, the dome expanded knocking them back. The dome fell as blood rained onto the ground.

Melena and Bellona were laid out on the ground unmoving. Leon stood in front of them, glaring at the other Topazes. Wira and Erwin were the only pair completely unphased.

Latin and Vishala tried to keep a level head and not show any sign of being upset. Ares and Taji were fuming at what they saw.

"Ares, Taji I know you two are upset but…" started Latin.

"But!? BUT WHAT?! HE'S COMPLETELY UNSTABLE AND MUST BE PUT DOWN! I THOUGHT WE ALL AGREED TO DO SO IF HE EVER GOES TO FAR!" interrupted Ares.

Latin bit his lips not knowing what to say.

"I don't know what you four talked about but Ares is right. It's obvious he's far too unstable now. It's for his own good." said Taji.

Leon laughed as Ares glared daggers at him. Ares and Taji both charged forward.

" My only interest will be to expose all your secrets. I'm no longer the fool that will happily listen.

Leon formed two swords of ice as he met Taji and Ares's blows. He pushed back before quickly moving away.

' If I'm a weapon then it's true There's only one thing that's left for me to do.

Leon spurn as more blades of ice formed around him. He sent blades flying forward as Ares and Taji stood back to back to block each strike.

" But before I fade to white, I'll do all that I can to make things right. "

The duo managed to break free of the onslaught as they charged Leon again. Leon raised a hand as he formed spears of ice. He lowered his had as the spears melted away.

" Who am I kidding? It finally took this long, to see that I'm all on my own. "

Ares and Taji stopped in their tracks stunned. It was then they saw tears falling from Leon's eyes.

" Happily waiting. To finally drift…. away. "

A water tendril grabbed Taji's wrist and yanked it forward before letting go. Taji was caught off guard as he stumbled forward. As he tried to catch himself, he noticed that Leon turned to the side.

It then that Taji figured out what Leon was up to. He quickly caught himself and got rid of his sword right before it made contact with Leon's gem.

Leon looked up at him as tears kept falling.

"Why did you stop? I mean weren't you going to shatter me? I gave you a clean shot. Why didn't you take it?" said Leon.

Taji didn't say anything as he pieced everything together. He looked over at Melena and Bellona to that they had no physical damage from what he can see. In fact, Melena slowly sat up as she rubbed her head.

"You wanted this to happen. You provoke us to make us want to shatter you. Why?" said Taji.

"Why? WHY?! I'll tell you why. I don't belong here. I've already messed things up badly here. That's why I wanted to stay gone.

'Everyone was completely happy while I was gone. Why did you have to bring me back? Why did you have to drag innocents into this?" said Leon.

Taji didn't know what to say. He looked back at his fellow Topazes for some sort of help.

"We wanted everyone to be at peace. When you suddenly left, it left things unanswered." said Vishala.

"Like what? Like how I shattered so many or the humans I killed during the war? How I'm the one responsible for Jasper's corruption and making her resent all of us?

'Oh wait wait wait don't tell me. You want me to be shattered by the hands of those I hurt?" said as he started shaking.

Leon's gem began glowing.

"Leon!" called put Erin. Leon back him and his fellow hybrids.

"Things have changed. You don't have to deal with this on your own. We're here to help. I'm sure the others will be willing to at least hear you out."

"Then what? I get rejuvenated? I get bubbled away? I get shattered? I get thrown out to have find a place to call home?

'Do you really think everyone else will take me back with open arms? I bet they didn't want any of you around because what I did didn't they?" said Leon.

Erin opened his mouth to say something but closed it. Leon was right. After all of them reformed, everyone was wary of them.

Steven and Connie had constantly fight for them to be accepted back. Even now, a few still were skeptical. The only ones that were worse off were the Topazes. However, Leon still topped them.

Steven and Connie were literally the only ones besides the hybrids that even brought Leon up. Even so, Edom and the Topazes were only ones that didn't want to change the subject or end the conversation completely.

Leon took note of the fact that none of them said anything to dismiss the idea.

"Why so quiet? I thought you were going to tell me that things were different? That everyone's idea of me has changed? But nothing changed, did it?" said Leon.

Leon began to tremble as his gem glowed brighter. Vishala was the only one that caught on to what was happening to Leon.

"Leon, please relax. Everything will be okay." pleaded Vishala.

"Okay? OKAY?! Nothing will ever be okay with me around!"

Leon suddenly stopped talking as he began to hyperventilate.

The other Topazes quickly caught on what was going on. Before Latin could say anything, Leon suddenly poofed in a cloud of smoke.

All of the hybrids stood wide eyed at the sudden poofing.

"...What? What just happened?" asked Mal.

"N-nothing hit him but he still poofed." said Ichigo.

All of the hybrids looked at the Topazes for some sort of answer. When no one wanted to say anything, Vishala took charge.

"As you all know, a gem will retreat back into their gem to recover. However, a gem doesn't need to be physical damage. If they go through an extreme enough emotion, their form can dissipate." explained Vishala.

"So he'll be okay?" asked Emma. None of the Topazes said anything. Ares ruffled his hair in frustration as he let out a groan.

"Fine. FINE! If you want to know so badly we'll tell you. In fact, we'll tell all of you." said Ares as he stormed off toward the temple.

Latin let out a sigh. "If you can, can all of you gather everyone here?" said Latin as he went over to Melena and Bellona that were starting to wake up.

All of the hybrids looked at one another in confusion before heading off.

~Three hours later~

Erin looked around Steven's house as he sat in the uncomfortable silence. Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl were near the door. Galeun, Celeste, and Thuilite stood around the kitchen.

Tiger leaned on the wall near the warp pad. All of the Topazes stood near Erin and his fellow hybrids. They were waiting on Mal and Steven to return.

All that stood there were the only ones that either wanted to come or because they live there. The warp pad activated breaking the silence.

Mal and Steven returned with only Edom.

"I guess that's everyone. I suppose all of you would like the know what's going on." said Wira.

"So now you're finally coming off your high horse and deemed us worthy of all your time. How generous." said Tiger.

Wira just ignored him and placed something on the table. The Topazes and the hybrids were the only ones not phrased by seeing Leon's gem.

"Y-you repaired him?" questioned Pearl. "Yes and no. Yes, we did repair his gem. Yes, we did bring him back.

'However, he wasn't stable. He….left before we could make sure he was stabilized. As a result, he was in a very fragile state." explained Wira.

"Fragile? Trust me, he is anything but fragile."

"I see you fail to see where I'm going, so I'll be blunter. When a gem gets shattered, their still 'alive' but are so fragmented and broken there is nothing left.

'A good example would be those gem mutants or the cluster. That is the closest a gem can get to what humans know a death.

'As a hybrid, Leon is in the middle ground. When he gets to the point that he is affected by something that will kill a human, he can retreat into his gem.

'However, if he gets shattered than that's it. His data may still be on the gem but he won't reform in parts like other gems. Even if the gem is repaired, he won't reform.

'That is because as a hybrid, he is part human. The gem half may be salvaged but his human half can not. We found a solution.

'We recreate him from scratch and combine all of his components into a new form. The gem was easy to repair but for the human aspect, I believe you can guess what we had to do.

'Due to that, he was not fully stabilized. The two gem components were unsync and he could unknowingly tap into who they once were.

'Once he stabilized, his gem would be whole again. Since a new human component was added, it would take far longer until that stopped as well.

'As a result, it was imperative that we watched over and made sure he didn't poof. That didn't happen and we've been searching for him for the last three years.

'We finally managed to track him down here. One thing led to another. He's form dissipated due to all the things he's done. In fact, I suspect he initially made it so that his gem would shatter in some way." explained Wira.

No one said anything as the information was processed. Celeste was the first one to say something after some time.

"Is there a way for him to return?" asked Celeste.

"To be frank, we're not sure."

"Then what was the point of this. Just to tell us he's gone, so we'll feel bad for what he did to us?" said Tiger.

"No. We did because we're done. We tried to fix him and it failed. There are only two ways he can ever return. One.

'He manages to stabilize and reform. If not, the new human component may overwrite his data and he'll be gone for good.

'Two. If and only if his data is not erased, we can try to remove Leon's gem from that human.

'As for the human, there is an off chance it could kill them if we don't replace it with a new gem." said Wira.

"Would that even work? What if it doesn't?" questioned Thuilite.

"You wanted to know if can come back. That is the only way we can think of. Something like this has never happened before.

'To our knowledge, no shattered gem has ever been completely restored before. Which means that Leon was the first one.

'Not only that but as a hybrid, there was no telling if that what we did would've even worked." said Wira.

"What are you planning to do?" asked Galeun.

"Wait and see if he reforms on his own. While we wait, we'll be working on repairing his shattered predecessors. That way, if he is not the one that reforms then we can give that human a new gem to use."

"Then what?" questioned Tiger.

"Then that's it. What more do you want? Frankly, I see this more of a hassle to some than for others. " said Wira.

"What are you getting at?"

"Simple. Besides a few handfuls of people, the rest of you seem to be glad that he's dead and gone."

Tiger gritted his teeth as he was on the verge of saying something.

"That's all we wish to say. We appreciate you hearing us out." said Wira as she headed to warp pad.

Ares was the only Topaz that didn't warp away.

"Why are you still here?" questioned Tiger. "So that you don't get any ideas. Also, it would be best that whoever reforms from that gem is in a place that they don't readily run away from." said Ares.

Tiger let out a frustrated groan before storming off and warping away. Edom sat down near the table.

"I take it you're going to guard him as well?" said Ares as he leaned against the wall.

"Is that a problem?" questioned Edom. Ares scoffed at that.

"Do what you want."

A/N: The is song featured is a parody of the songs Queen of mean, Other friends, Drifting away, and Monster.