"No way…. A Black Diamond?!" the Peridot voiced in shock.

"Yes, just as day exist with night, light and dark, White Diamond always had a sister, Black Diamond," the Agate replied.

"So who is the eldest? White I supposed? Don't tell me it was Black?" Peridot asked in urgent excitement. Her earlier stance of fear completely forgotten.

"Neither. The first Gem or rather Gems that appeared came as a fusion," Agate replied slowly.

"A fusion? You mean White and Black were fused together when they first appeared?"

"Indeed. They were fused together as the Ultimate Fusion. A perfect Colourless Diamond of perfect beauty,"

"But White hates fusions," Peridot replied.

"Yes she does. But our Diamond has a perfectly good reason for that I assure you," Agate replied.

"Did she hate being fused together with Black Diamond?" Peridot asked curiously.

Agate shook her head.

"Far from it. She was her happiest in that fusion with Black. In fact they stayed as a fusion for countless milenia, forming both the first of the courts. Black and White," Moonstone explained.

"There was a black court too?" Peridot said in surprised.

Agate nodded.

"You were part of it weren't you?" Peridot asked with a new found awe for her superior.

Moonstone, and Agate one of the first few gems who were with White since the beginning of the gem race.

"Yes, back then everything was different. Under the rule of the Diamond who was neither White or Black. We just called her The Diamond. And Diamond cared for all Diamonds, both of proper colours and off colours,"

There was a look of disgust Peridot's face.

"Off colours were accepted in gem society?"

Agate gave a bitter smile.

"Yes, they were. For you see the Black Diamond side of The Diamond seem to have a soft spot for things that were imperfect. While White was a proper and elegant Diamond, Black was the opposite of White. This was the conflict that White and Black had from within,"

"So they unfused because of the off colours?"

"No. White tolerated this side of Black. In fact it didn't bother her at all. As The Diamond, White was complete and couldn't care less about off colours. In fact Black'personality complemented Whites,"

"How was she like? This Black Diamond?" Peridot asked.

"The closes Diamond I can compare Black with was, all three of the coloured Diamonds. She had the order and logic of Yellow, yet the nurturing instincts of Blue. And she was as accepting and explorative as Pink ," Agate answered. There was a certain lingering of sadness in her voice when she said that.

"Were the off colours the reason they unfused?" Peridot asked.

"No. It was more severe than that," Agate replied grimly.

"What was it?"

"Black Diamond fell in love,"

"What! How could she. The fusions between two diamonds are perfect. No other Gem could match that!"

"It wasn't another Gem,"

Peridot was dumbstruck. What kind of being could rival the splendor of a diamond and take the affections of Black from White.

"It was the same organic creatures that we are fighting," Moonstone spoke finally with disgust.

"No," Peridot said in defiant denial.

"No. Are you saying it's a Sneekkk?"

Moonstone nodded, her mask could not disguise her anguish.

"A Snekk Chieftain named Crotalus,"

"When the universe was young, Diamond as one was happy, exploring the young universe. She left her courts to take care of Homeworld. She noticed that some planets had organic life. And this fascinated her. That besides herself, there were other sentient creatures. But these organics had a sad defect. They had a very limited timespan. After that they would expire, and return to the ground they came from.One part of Diamond, wanted to know more about these strange organics. The other part, was disgusted and wanted to stay away. The conflict in Diamond was so great it caused a strange change within Diamond. She begun to crack. She thought she would crack apart and become like the organics, disintegrating into the dust which they came from. This was not to be though. Instead she split apart. The part that saw itself above the organics, and the other part that wanted to explore these creatures," Agate explained.

"Of course White didn't approve. She was afraid of losing the only sister she had. She couldn't accept the fact that Black chose an organic over her. So she begun to become a perfectionist. Everything in Homeworld had to be perfect. Proper. Orderly. Perhaps Black would see this, and come back, realising how imperfect organics were. White also hated fusion. They reminded her of happier times with Black. And most of all she hated organics for taking away Black," Agate continued. As time went by, Black visited Homeworld less and less. This worried White. Then one day, Black visited us with a strange bulge in her abdomen. White sense something was wrong. That Black seem to be weaker. And whatever was inside was growing stronger," Agate paused unable to continue the story.

"Back then we couldn't understand what a mother was. And what Black had was not an infection but an offspring. White didn't see it that way. She knew Black was fading but couldn't explain why. And argument broke up, and Black left Homeworld for the last time," Agate explained.

Finally Moonstone broke the silence.

"Black was foolish. I don't care if she was a Diamond or not. If only she knew, if only she had know that the thing inside of her would become the scourge of Gem kind. That accursed Diamondback!!!"