Everyone began backing away. The black gem in the room began glowing some and began taking a much larger and sinister form. Light filled the room and disappeared leaving behind a strange form. It looked like a giant black cloud with a gray colored skull in the middle. It had white , sharp teeth similar to a shark's but they looked more like daggers.

The skull was covered in black veins just like Jewel had described from her dreams.

They looked like they were throbbing and full of blood. On the forehead was the Diopside gemstone. Some the of veins surrounded it making it look eerie because it looked like it was the shape of an eye. Everyone watched in fear as three gray eyes appeared. It looked around first then it's eyes focused on the Crystal Gems before him.

Jewel felt like dread over took her body. The pupils began to shrink and the third eye on the gem glared over at Jewel. It seemed like everyone was frozen in fear and they couldn't move. The evil gem seemed more focused on Jewel than anyone else and she felt like her body was freezing. It looked at her like it knew her and it was the most chilling thing.

"You..." it growled in a whisper.

Jewel's lip quivered. It's body began to separate slowly.

"RUN!"

It snapped everyone out of their fearful daze when Jewel's blood curdling scream came from her mouth. The cloud began to take the crystals from around the room. Anything that seemed to resemble a crystal like appearance, it took them. The Crystal Gems didn't stay behind to watch it as the gem tore apart the room he was imprisoned in.

The Crystal Gems were running and making their way to the door that Pink Pearl, Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl and White Pearl had opened. Jewel could feel the Diopside following them and it was fueling her to run faster. They all made it through the door way when Pearl turned around grabbing Yellow Pearl shoulder.

"Shut the door!" Pearl screamed.

The four pearls did as they were told and the door slammed shut. There were fogged up windows to look through the other side. They became relieved they trapped him behind the door. Peridot looked closely to see the dark fog behind it floating around.

"Don't get too close," Jewel whispered hoarsely, grabbing her girlfriend's shoulder.

Jewel and Peridot saw the movement through the windows. An arm was formed from the fragments of crystals.

"What the-

The pieces in his newly formed arm began to fade to a gray color like the life of the crystals were being sucked out. It turned black and they could see wires in the arms and the fingers were gray. Black veins appeared in the arm and began pulsing. Jewel covered her mouth as she realized that the skull was made of crystal now. It was like...

It was trying to become complete.

It looked up at Jewel and she could see what looked like electricity going through it in pluses almost from a heart beat. Jewel could hear something coming from behind the door. Peridot was trying to listen. Jewel recognized it and it was his creepy voice. He was mumbling.

A weird creaking sound came from the windows and they started to crack.

"Jewel, let's go!"

Peridot took her girlfriend's hand.

Jewel snapped back to her senses just in time to see this new formed arm pull back and slammed forward into the door. Everyone bolted for the warp pad. The windows shattered and the black fog started absorbing the crystal surrounding. They managed to warp away in time leaving Diopside.

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Everyone slowly made their way off the warp pad. No one could speak for the longest time. They all had horrified looks on their faces. Pearl looked more worried than scared. Jewel sat on the seat by the window just staring out at the ocean. It took Pearl some time to think about what to say to everyone to keep them calm.

"Everyone."

The Crystal Gems turned to look at their leader.

"I know it will be pretty hard but we will need to stay calm."

"How can we?" White Pearl asked.

Garnet placed a hand on her shoulder and she gave a small squeeze like she was trying to calm her.

"We can work together and defeat him. Like all the other enemies and corruption we fought against, we'll use teamwork. We have to make sure he doesn't harm anyone. We seen what he can do and at least that won't be a surprise. We can prepare for it."

"How can we fight him?" Amethyst asked, "His body is mist like."

"I agree. Have you thought about that?" Soren asked looking distressed as everyone else in the room.

"He may be like that but he has a physical part to him which is the skull."

Everyone exchanged looks.

"We can poof him through attacking his skull. We could create a gem device to ensure his imprisonment is permanent the best we can."

"Where would we be able to keep him?" Steven asked.

"Hopefully in a device once he's bubbled. We can pick some where that someone wouldn't disturb the area," Pearl answered.

"How much time do we have before he gets here?" Jewel asked.

Pearl ran a hand through her hair nervously.

"I think it's hard to say. I think we would have the minimal time of arrival is thirty minutes."

That didn't leave a lot of time to prepare.

"We have to evacuate everyone out of the city first. We don't have a lot of time."

It didn't take more than fifteen minutes to get everyone out of the city. The Crystal Gems scrambled around to get ready. Jewel was more nervous than everyone else. She had hoped that he was a just a bad dream. It was so scary it became a weird reality. It was almost like a horror movie.

Jewel watched the water trying to calm herself. To ready herself. The water was moving in slow laps and waves into the sand but something weird started disturbing the waves. She watched more closely as the water began to turn black. Water was thrown all of the over beach.

Everyone rushed to the beach to see something coming out of the water. Everyone's jaws dropped in shock when they see Diopside come out of the water in a new form and a much bigger height. He was as tall as Sardonyx with Pearl and Garnet fused. The way he looked now made him look more like a monster than before.

There were large black tentacles coming out of his back and they were whipping around wildly. It looked like his body was created from the underwater base he was in. On his forehead was the skull he once worse as his face. It was unreal something like this existed and was now standing on the beach of Beach City.

"It's now or never because he will destroy the world! The people! OUR HOME!" Yellow Pearl yelled.

Everyone snaps out of it and jumps at him ready with their weapons to attack. No matter what kind of attack they performed, his armor would fall off and reattach itself without fail. It seemed like nothing was getting them anywhere. Jewel continued to try to find a way through his defenses like everyone else. She tilted her head to the side when she heard something weird.

The murmuring. The weird whispering but this time it sounded like crying.

Jewel jumped up the body with her sword in hand. She heard her mother yell at her but she ignored it. She grabbed at the skull and tried pulling of the piece of the crystals that were attached to it. She began punching chipping off chunks of the crystal protecting the skull. She made it to the skull and tried pulling it off but everything stopped for her. She felt like she fell into a deep sleep.

Jewel opened her eyes and she looked around. The place was black and there was no light present anywhere. It was like she was in the dream again. How did she end up there when she was just trying to pull the skull off? She began walking some then stopped.

I hear something. Is it mumbling again?

It wasn't just one voice or two... it was a lot of them. They sounded distorted or corrupted.

I wonder where that sound is coming from. All those voices...

"Help."

Jewel stopped and looked around. She still couldn't see anything.

"Help!" it called.

The same voice.

"Help!" it cried in a hushed whisper that she almost didn't hear that time.

Jewel starts walking faster towards the voice and it sounded like it was getting closer. She saw something ahead... It was a faded light. She saw something standing there. She heard the mumbling of asking for help but the figure stayed facing the other way.

"Can I help you?" Jewel said.

Nothing else came from the figure. She got a foot away and realized who it was but it unbelievable.

"Diopside?"

He turned around and he looked just like a normal gem. There were no tentacles or crushed crystal against his body.

"Why- Why do you like this? Why do you look normal?"

He looked sad. He looked angry. One thing for sure was, he didn't look evil. He looked timid almost but the expression on his face was the most painful thing to see.

"The Diamonds created me. I was made to destroy worlds. Do what they want. I was one step short of destroying galaxies but worlds were as far they wanted... at that moment. Something went wrong. I don't know if my power is too much for my body or if it was because of them but I corrupted on the spot.

"I lost control and it was like watching myself do all these horrible things. The only thing I had left of myself was inside my gem. I had been trapped for the longest time. I can only be myself in here."

"Why did you attack me and my family?"

Diopside looked ashamed.

"I cannot control what my body does. I apologize for anything I had done. I never wanted to hurt anyone."

Jewel felt bad.

"I had heard... That you could help me."

She looked shocked, "Huh?"

"You heard I could help you? What could I do to help?"

"I was going to try and control myself to ask you properly but I ended up absorbing the whole base."

"Oh. Well, what do you need me to do?"

"If you can heal me, I can suppress my physical form from ever forming again."

Jewel nodded and placed her hand on his gem.

"Thank you Jewel."

He reached out and took her hand, giving it a gentle squeeze.

Jewel felt herself come back. She shook her head slightly trying to refocus. She places her hand on the skull instead of trying to pry it off. The black mist began to fade and Jewel lands in the water. She bubbled Diopside while she laid in the water holding it up. The Crystal Gems seemed to be in shock by the sudden cease of battle.

Jewel got up and walked towards her shocked friends and family. Pearl came running up to her, splashing water all over everyone.

"Jewel! Are you ok?!"

Pearl hugged her tightly.

"I'm fine."

"What happened?" Steven asked standing beside of her.

"Diopside wasn't a bad person... He just couldn't control the corruption. He wanted help. That's why he tried coming to me in my dream."

Jewel sent him to the temple.

The Crystal Gems helped the citizens return to beach City. Jewel stayed behind. The door opened up and she walked into the room where all the bubbled corruptions were at. She made her way to the center of the room and grabbed Diopside's bubble gently. She smiled to herself.

"I promise one day we will help you guys. We'll heal you completely. I promise."

Jewel let his bubble go back up and she headed out to join up with everyone else.