You, Me, We

Panic at the disco- This is Gospel

Shadow didn't have to look at the warm feeling between his fingers to know what it was. The poncho J-Pearl (Jaspers pearl) had given him had a giant gash across its midsection from the gems attack.

The gem propelled itself at him with her water wings, its jagged ice knife poised to his face. Shadow rolled out of the way and stumbled onto the stone table. He gripped it with his hands then threw it upright just in time for the ice projectiles to puncture through it just inches away from his face.

"Oh you really are a clever human aren't you." Her childish taunting voice pissed him off more than how he even got into this situation. Granted, he did crash through the roof, and land on the couch of the very person who brought him to this horrid planet anyways.

Give it up for Aquamarine.

Shadow tried again to summon some of his powers. After the one electric knife that was it for his powers. Luckily enough when he tossed the knife it struck her bow that she used to hold people in a stasis field. Now the small blue tater tot was pissed and really trying her best to kill him.

Shadow leaped back as she flew around the table with a knife.

"Stop moving!" She screamed at him.

Shadow came to his feet and spun around, he threw his leg out in a hook striking Aquamarine from out of the air and into the wall behind the couch. Shadow looked around frantically for an escape route. A door that looked like it led out to another roof, then a window directly behind him. Not really a whole lot of options when a flying midget was trying to gouge your eyes out.

Shadow waited for something to happen. "Hey, their Tinkerbell! We can do this two ways," he said as he walked slowly towards the couch. "I swat you like the little bug you are. Or we can have a cup of tea, some snakes, maybe a massage if your…" Shadow was nearing the couch. "LUCKY!" Shadow jumped into the air with a flying elbow from hell. He wished his elbow slammed on top of her but instead he found himself rubbing a bruised elbow from striking the floor.

Aquamarine came flying over and got him right in the shoulder. "I… got," she dug deeper with the blade making him roar in pain. "YOU!"

Shadow swung at her but she flew out of reach. Blood now dripped down his arm onto the floor of her humble abode. This was not at all how he thought his day was going to go. Someone above must of really hated him to have always put him in these situations. Okay maybe not God or anybody, he just wanted someone to blame for this ridiculous streak of his.

With no warning, the door that led outside exploded sending both Shadow and Aquamarine in different directions. Shadow coughed from the dust that filled the air. As if he wasn't already having a shitty day two carnelian quartz soldiers stepped into the fray. Standing about eight feet tall, outfitted in heavy knight-like armor and wielding hammers that had an explosive substance at the head of it that make things go boom. You didn't want these soldiers coming at you unless you had at least a hundred men or rocket launcher. Shadow had neither in the colosseum and somehow did it.

Aquamarine floated through the dust screen between the two warriors. A creepy Aquamarine smile was plastered on her face. "It looks like our fun has come to an end human."

Shadow used the wall to help him up and as he did he chuckled. "Fun?" He asked. "If you think stabbing an unarmed man is fun then girl we have two different definitions."

The gem was taken aback by the way he spoke to her. "Human. You crashed through my roof."

Shadow made a horse noise with a dismissive wave of the hand. "Trust me when I say this, duct tape works wonders."

She had enough of this nonsense. They walked towards him to snuff out this abomination.

Shadow tried again to summon and again nothing happened. Just more exhausted than he was before. His eyes glanced sideways towards the window. He groaned, rolled his eyes, then took a deep breath. If he was lucky another couch would catch his fall.

Jasper remembered Shadow saying a human phrase one time that she didn't really understand.

Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn. Shadow said to her one time. Until today she didn't understand what he meant.

Jasper picked up a vase from the corner and chucked it at the wall. The poor ornament was destroyed upon impact. Pearl stepped into the room to see the damage she inadvertently caused. As scared as she was of her master's rage she knew she wouldn't hurt her.

Jasper spun around on the pearl with rage so visible in her eyes Pearl thought they were on fire.

"You let him go!" Jasper roared so loud the glass reverberated. She picked up the couch over her head and tossed it into the wall next to her. "You betrayed me and let him go Pearl!"

Pearl walked towards her master with a bowed head. "Look what's going on," she couldn't help but smile at her. "I've never felt it before. This planet has never given me the opportunity to have what you had." She stood face to face with Jasper. "Love." The word didn't sound like much coming out of her mouth. There was no use in using a word meant for something you've never had.

That one word was enough to help soothe her rage. All she felt inside when the rage slowly died down was hurt. Jasper fell against the wall to try and steady her world. "I love him so much Pearl. I would kill for him, I would die for him, run away just to protect him," her hands shook with the weight on her chest. Those flames in her eyes were gone when she looked Pearl. "I need him back Pearl."

That was enough to convince her this wasn't just some obsession with an alien. Jasper, the general of Yellow diamonds army and veteran of the great earth was in love. Cue the music people this tragic love story may just get solved.

Pearl pulled a small device from behind her.

"I put a tracker on him. You will be able to track him with this master Jasper." Pearl set the tracking device in her hand. Jasper clicked a button at the top. A gridpoint appeared then a small red blip surrounded by some sort of structures. It wasn't that far away. Maybe five to ten minutes if she really hauled it.

Jasper closed her hand around the device then turned to run. Pearl had to use two hands to wrap her wrist. "Are you really ready to leave this world behind? If you go after him you'll be branded a traitor." Her voice was a mix of sadness and regret.

They both knew the answer to that. Jaspers arms wrapped around her only friend on this entire planet. "Thank you Pearl. One day I'll make up for this." Jasper let her friend go and took off outside.

"Goodbye master Jasper," Pearl whispered to herself before watching her leap over the railing.

Jasper landed superman like into a crowd of unexpecting gems. It wasn't every day you would see a quartz soldier falling from the sky. Jasper stood to her feet, her eyes focused on Shadows location on the tracker. It looked like he was moving slowly between an alleyway just a few blocks away. Jasper prayed in the back of her mind that he was safe.

Shadow looked up at the window he crashed out of. A straight two story drop on top of a pile of snow. Still, the impact agitated his stomach wound and he was decorating the snow with blood.

"Get him!" Aquamarine screamed from her window.

He looked up frantically towards the gem awful voice. There was a crash than an explosion of rubble that rained down on him. Shadow cartwheeled out of the way just as the two carnelians came jumping through the air. Shadow came to his feet at the same time one of them swung its hammer through the smoke. Even though he managed to evade it the hammer struck the wall. The explosion sent Shadow flying backward. He flew ten feet through the air before landing in the streets. His ears rung with the force of a thousand Catholic church bell. The gem pedestrians around him panicked when they saw the alien.

It looked like a typical downtown in a city. Minus restaurants and cafes. Just buildings for gems to do what they were made for.

Out from the alleyway they came. Aquamarine resting on the shoulder of one with a smug grin on her face. "Human you really are not having the best of days," she looked towards the other gems that were standing around in shock. "If you don't leave now I cannot guarantee your safety-" she paused, then her smile grew larger, "Actually I won't guarantee your safety. I'm going to just destroy you if you don't leave now!"

The was enough to send everyone scattering. Shadow got to his knees. Some of his power must have been returning because he could feel a tingle between his fingertips. Not wanting to let this moment go by Shadow smashed his fists on the ground creating a static field. It wasn't enough to send them off their feet but he managed to knock them over or at least one of them. The second one charged him with its hammer raised. Shadow couldn't even summon a shield to protect himself. Even though he got out of the way the explosion from the hammer sent him flying through the air. Shadow didn't even know his body hit the wall till he was down on all fours with a large crack in the wall.

He scrambled to get to his feet. "Come on get up damn it." He tried to will his body to move faster. It was too late to do anything when the cornelian stood over him. Its hand's fist slammed into his chest knocking him over. Armored hands gripped around his throat to raise him off his feet. Shadow kicked and punched, nothing he did loosened its grip.

Suddenly there was a flash of orange in his view. The cornelian knight was launched into a building. Shadow was too weak to stay on his feet and started to fall. His knees crumbled under the weight of his own body for a second before she turned around and caught him.

Shadow looked up to see Jasper. As hurt as he was, inside he was happy that she was here.

"You came for me." His words sounded like both a statement and a question.

Jasper helped him up to his feet. Her toothy smile was still a working progress but Shadow always loved it. She held onto his hands when helping him up, it wouldn't be the first time she had to save this human. If she had to she would do it again and again.

Aquamarine and the other cornelian walked down the street to the right of them. The knight Jasper knocked into the building began to pull itself from out of the rubble.

Jasper pulled Shadow behind her. "Shadow I'll distract them you make a run for it!"

His stomach did a backflip. For this brief moment he forgot what she had done to him. In fact, he was scared for her. "I don't know about you but I can barely stand much less run," he tried to snap his finger and could only get a spark. "I couldn't even light up a bulb!" He shouted in frustration.

"Shadow if you don't leave you'll die!" Jasper spun around to grab his shoulders. When she spoke her voice was wavering with emotions. "Shadow I can't lose you again. Please just do this for me."

"No. Fuck you!" Shadow grabbed her back instead. "I'm sick of you trying to leave me Jasper." Shadow couldn't hold himself back when he talked. The months of loneliness he felt when she had left him began to catch up all at once. She was surprised when he forced her against the wall. "Why is it that when I give my all to you, you beat me to the ground," he slammed his hands on either side of her head when she tried to push away from him. "Things have changed between us Jasper there's no denying that, but if we are going to get off this planet, live to see another day, then we are going to have to do it together." Shadow was hesitant a little bit but he had to get his point across.

"What are you-" Jasper gasped when he grabbed her by the waist forcefully. Her cheeks heated up with the temperature of a thousand suns when their lips touched. It was a slow fire that begun to catch flames when he pulled her by the back of the head to taste her better. That dark pit in her chest was alive again. His kiss gave her a craving that she hadn't felt in a long time. Jasper wanted more, she needed more of him. "Shadow please…" Her voice held a yearning that she couldn't explain, between his kiss she tried to speak. "I'm so sorry."

Shadow was done with sorrys. The only thing he wanted was for them to live in a home on the beach somewhere arguing about UFC matches and eating ice cream. The combination was perfect, the execution not so much considering their circumstances. Maybe if he stopped being an asshole for just a second he could die without regrets. "You have any last words before we meet a horrible death?"

Jasper pulled himself from her to look him in his eyes. "I love you Isaac Shadow." Was the one thing she always wanted to say to him. It shouldn't have taken so long but better late than never.

His cheeky tired smile was the icing on the cake. With her arms wrapped around him, she pulled her body close to his. Shadow chuckled against her neck at first that sent a shiver down her spine and her gem aglow.

"You are so gay." He said smoothly. Shadow let his defenses slip to let his mind relax. That was when he closed his eyes to the brightness that came from around them.

The light seemed to wrap itself around them. A crimson red and black cloak of light took them into a swirl. The energy protruding from their gems was enough to send a column of light into the heavens until it didn't. A darkness from the center of them touched the entire block. All the light surrounding them just disappeared swallowed up by the thing in the middle of this void. It wasn't Jasper or Shadow. This was the best of them, and the worst.

Aquamarine could only see blackness all around them. Even the knights whose armor was the color of blood red lost its color to this new phenomenon.

"So this tiny thing is what gave him such a hard time? This is just sad." A husky voice whispered next to her ear.

They spun around to face it. Nothing was there but darkness.

"I've been waiting for this moment for a very long time. I wanted for them to fuse around humans. Unlike humans, you don't bleed which is most unfortunate."

It appeared in front of one of the knights. With one hand it managed to puncture through its armor and grip its gem in its hand very easily. The gem poofed into nothingness as did its gem that it crushed in its hands. Aquamarine could hear it laughing in the darkness somewhere. A haunting laugh that put a fear in her that she had never known.

"He is so scared of what he can do. She gave him a power that he still doesn't know how to use its full capabilities. And don't even get me started on Jasper," she made a disgusted sound. "How could somebody be so weak? The things she's done for him and to him just blow my mind- I mean who kills a gang for someone then beat their face in over jealousy. Quite frankly these two lovebirds are disgusting."

Something began to stir in the blackness ahead of them. A red spark like a glow stick twirled out. The sight was beautiful till it was let loose towards them. Aquamarine floated out of reach but the last knight wasn't fast enough. The electric whip wrapped around the knight so tight the armor started to crush from the constriction. The new gem whipped her wrist back yanking in the knight. With its other hand, it summoned a giant broadsword. With a swing of the arm the gem was cut in half, its gem landed at its feet. She leaned down and picked it up with a sneer. "Such useless things these are," it didn't take much to crush it in its hands. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."

Aquamarine pulled multiple daggers and tossed them in the direction of its voice. For a second there was nothing but silence. A hand latched around the back of her neck.

"Get off me!" She kicked and screamed till its grip pierced its skin silencing her protest. Out of the corner of her eye she could see the gem.

A scar ran through one of its blood red eye that glowed with fire. Its skin was a dark caramel color hidden under a black cloak that blended in with the surroundings. Long white hair swept across her face covering her left eye that was as black as a pearl.

"Hmm," its husky humming filled Aquamarines ear. When one of its claw fingers taped against her gem. "You are feisty for a gem of your size. I can see now why Shadow was having a hard time. Though a man who could summon electricity he's very pathetic isn't he." A statement, not a question.

Aquamarine spoke between the pressure from her throat. "What… who are you?" She asked.

Its eye glowed from the question. Kind of hard to answer when you've only existed in physical form for about ten minutes now. Though she has always existed behind the scenes in both of their consciousness just waiting. Tighter and tighter her hands squeezed when she spoke.

"Since I came to be I never thought of a name for myself. Murkey Quartz? That doesn't really deliver though because baby I'm so much more."

Aquamarine was on the precipice of poofing any moment now.

"No I don't think that will do. I'm thinking something less colorful, something with a darker taste. Fury… yeah, fury has a nice ring to it." The small gem popped into her hand leaving behind its teardrop gem. When she tried to crush this one he was stopping her. The mental strain from trying to fight Shadow made her sluggish.

"Why do you resist Shadow she tried to kill you!" Fury tried to fight but Shadow was giving her a run for her money. "Stop!" She roared in pain. Her form began to de-form. Fury spun around with an outstretched hand. She focused all her power to her fist then cut a hole through the air. An interdimensional portal. Fury walked through the portal. It only took a second for them to end up back where it all began. Fury did her best to fight back against Shadow but she still wasn't strong enough yet. The gem fell to her knees holding her head.

"You two need me! You're weak without me so just let me run the show!"

From deep below Shadow fought back against her. The seeds of hate that clouded them was suffocating. Shadow could barely pull himself together much less Jasper. Somehow he did it and he was fighting back. "You won't take us down with you Fury. If you think I'll stand around and let you kill innocent people you're wrong!"

"Innocent?" Fury laughed in pain. "That man you killed was innocent to huh? You don't even remember his name but you can remember the way he screamed that night."

Shadow tried to ignore her words. He knew she was just trying to get in his head. "I killed him to protect Pearl! He wasn't innocent, he was a monster."

"And you think your not?" Fury began to de-form, she knew she couldn't fight back against him, for now at least. "One day you are going to need me again Shadow and when that time comes will see what kind of monster I can make out of you." Furys laugh echoed throughout the room till she finally poofed.

All was quiet now. Shadow and Jasper sprawled out on the floor. Too exhausted to move from the strain Fury put them under.

"I'm not a monster." The man had just enough strength to grip Jasper by the hand. "I'm not a monster." He said the mantra again before closing his eyes to a well deserved rest.

Authors notes:

Happy late Xmas. Sorry about the weird upload don't know what happens. Thank you Chena and Linusatari for the heads up. I guess something is going on with uploads and the issue still may not be fixed.