Seeing the young brunette come forward to join the others, Rob smiled again before saying "Alright! Now, if you all would follow me, I can take you to where you can heal your friend."
Watching as Dean, Seth, and Roman all fell into step with and followed behind Rob, Bayley still found herself feeling a bit nervous about whether she and the others really could trust Rob and if his method of healing Sasha would really work. 'Even though Dean and the others seem to trust Rob, how do we know for sure we can really trust what he says? What if his idea for how we can heal Sasha doesn't work? What if-' Bayley found her worried train of thinking cut off by the feeling of Sasha's Gem warming slightly in her hand again. Looking down at the surface of the cracked magenta Gem, Bayley asked "Really, Sasha? You trust Rob, too?" Seeing the surface glow a bit just like earlier, Bayley a bit warily said "Well, ...OK, Sasha. If you and the guys think that we can trust Rob this much, then I guess we can give using what he has to heal you a try."
Having noticed that Bayley wasn't with him and the other Gems, Dean turned back to see that Bayley was standing back where they had first entered the tower. "Bayley, come on! We've got to give this a try for Sasha so that she can be healed, remember?"
"R-Right, Dean! Sorry!" Bayley nodded. Looking from Dean back down to Sasha's Gem and back up to Dean, Bayley took a deep breath in before letting it out and dashing over to join the older Gems. 'Since Dean and the others seem to have so much faith in what Rob can do, and since they all seem to trust him so much, I guess I probably should too. I just hope that whatever he has that can help heal Sasha will work.'
So, just what will Rob's way of helping heal Sasha entail? Read on to find that out down below, my loves. =)
Walking along with the older Gems, Bayley looked around at the inside of the tower and was quite in awe of all that she was seeing: All around the ponytailed brunette, there were stone statues of what looked like warriors from different periods of time-"looked like" being key, as many of the statues were crumbling and missing parts of their structures-there were support pillars that helped to support the second floor of the tower, and there seemed to be doorways that possibly led to other rooms. It all just seemed to be so amazing for the brunette to see that she didn't notice that the four older Gems had stopped walking until she had walked right into the wall at the end of the corridor they traveled down.
"Ouch!" Bayley hissed as she bounced off of the wall and stumbled back to where the other Gems were standing. Looking up to see just what she had walked into, Bayley was surprised to see that what she was looking at was a rather high and wide stone door with a panel similar to the one on the door back in the house in the center of it, the most defining characteristic of the door being a fairly faded painting of what looked like ocean waves. 'This must be where Rob says we can heal Sasha.'
Taking a look at the door, Dean asked the question that was on Bayley's mind "So, I'm guessing we can go through here to heal our friend?"
"You'd be right in thinking that," Rob nodded in confirmation. "The room through here is one where in years before, others of our kind would heal themselves here after battles that were waged. Hopefully, this is what you all were looking for." With the four Gems watching him, Rob held out his right arm with his hand palm up as the Gem in his upper arm glowed which caused a space in the door to glow light blue before opening up to reveal a rather spacious room that was lit by plants many giving off a soft glow with a large rounded pool in the center of the room with a smaller area helping close off the room. Lowering his hand, Rob smiled before saying "Behold! The room of healing!"
Stepping forward with Roman, Dean, Seth, and Rob, all Bayley could say to what she was seeing was an amazed "Wow." And she had thought the sights of the woods they traveled through were quite spectacular to see; seeing this room was on a spectacle of beauty all its own. Looking over to Rob, Bayley asked "And you're sure that Sasha'll be healed in here?"
"I'm positive, Bayley," Rob reassured the young brunette after remembering her name. "All you'll have to do is take your friend Sasha over to the pool, place her into the water, and just let the room work its magic."
Looking from Rob down to Sasha's Gem to the large pool of water that gave of what the ponytailed brunette could only say was a calming light, Bayley took a breath before saying "OK. Guys, let's heal our friend."
"You got it, Bayley," Dean smiled down at Bayley with Roman and Seth mirroring the sandy blonde Gem.
Walking forward with the other Gems following her, Bayley made it to the edge of the pool before stopping and looking down at the surface of the water. Seeing as the water calmly rippled a bit, Bayley said "Sasha, I'm about to put you into this pool. Rob told us that the water in it'll heal you, so ...I hope me and the others can see you with a fully healed Gem after this." Feeling the magenta Gem warm a bit again and seeing the surface glow again, Bayley nodded her head before holding the magenta Gem to her one last time and then slowly placing the Gem into the water in a shallow end of the pool where she decided to peer into the water and keep an eye on Sasha's Gem.
As Bayley kept an eye on Sasha's Gem, Seth said "We thank you again so much for letting us heal our friend here, Rob."
"It's no problem, Seth," Rob said. "Anything I can do to help out fellow Gems that may need it."
"We sure needed the help, too," Dean added in. "Sasha's Gem has been cracked for a fair number of years now, so I'd been researching ways to possibly fix it. Then I remembered this place, so I'm glad it's still standing after so many years."
"Yeah. It helps that there doesn't seem to be much of a Gem presence around here," Rob nodded. "I've been here for a fair number of years myself, and I've been living here in peace, save for the occasional Gem beast that'll wander in here."
While Seth and Dean talked with Rob, Roman had walked over to join Bayley as she watched Sasha's Gem, where he sat down on the ground beside the ponytailed brunette.
Looking over to see that Roman had joined her, Bayley said "Ro, I don't think this is working. Nothing's happening down there."
"Give it time, Bayley. After all, Sasha's Gem had a pretty bad crack in it, so I'm sure it's just taking a bit of time for the water to really help with healing her. Just be patient, and I'm sure she'll be healed up just fine," Roman reassured Bayley.
"R-Right," Bayley nodded a bit hesitantly before returning her gaze back to where Sasha's Gem sat in the water. She knew that what Roman said was right and that it would take time for the water to work its magic on the magenta Gem, but honestly speaking, ...the waiting was making Bayley feel antsy. In a bid to distract her mind, Bayley looked around the room and admired the greenery that had managed to thrive and flourish in the room: From what looked like clumps of moss covering a fair amount of the surface area of the walls to what looked like lilies growing out of the moss to the few flowering lily pads that floated on the surface of the pool's water, it just amazed Bayley that plant life like this could live in a room that didn't have much in the way of natural light filtering in. 'I wonder if Mom knew about this place when she was around. It sure seems like the kind of place that she'd know of,' Bayley thought, her hand unconsciously moving to touch the Gem that sat in her belly button.
Looking over to see Bayley admiring their surroundings and the way she was touching her Gem, Roman couldn't help but let a slight smile slide across his face. It was always a goal of the older Gems' to teach Bayley more about what they were and their world, so seeing Bayley taking in some of the beauty that could come from the Gem world made the brunette Gem feel pleased that their little trip had turned out as well as it did...save for the obvious with Sasha getting poofed back into her Gem. The brunette Gem was almost set to say something when a surprised gasp from Bayley drew his attention to where there was a glowing wave of light coming out from the pool.
"Roman?! What's happening? What's going on?!" Bayley asked, feeling worried that something might be going wrong with how Sasha's Gem was healing.
With the other Gems coming over to join him and Bayley, Roman had a fairly good idea of what was happening. Finally managing to find his words, Roman said "I think Sasha's about to come back to us."
Wow! Could it be that the pool Bayley put Sasha's Gem into has worked its magic and healed Sasha? It sure seems like it since that what Roman's thinking and since that was what Rob told the others. We'll have to wait and see on this...next chapter (which will probably be the chapter that ends this arc). So, until then, don't forget to R&R please. =)
