Chapter 10: The New Temple Room
After the recent incident of Connie being captured and Steven's gem getting cracked, it really helped that today was particularly quiet. Although White Diamond was still plotting against the gems, trying to figure out how to defeat them, there weren't any more attacks from White Diamond or her army yet so far.
Connie, Onion, Sadie, and Amethyst had decided to sleep in a little longer with the peaceful day that they had so far. Meanwhile, Peridot, Lapis, Bismuth, and Pearl were at the barn building a realistic battle simulator for training sessions, while Steven and Garnet were working on a brand new addition to the temple….
Two hours later…
"Hey Connie."
Connie opened her eyes to see Garnet standing next to her temporary bed on the air mattress with her usual calm expression, though it was clear to see that she was also smiling.
"Yeah… Garnet?" She replied yawning.
"How would you like to see something cool?" She replied, using a fairly quiet voice so as not to wake anyone else.
"Sure. What is it?"
"Well, let's just say there's been a new… addition to the temple." Garnet replied.
The two went down the stairs and Garnet led Connie to the temple door. Garnet proceeded to pull out Peridot's gem scanner she had borrowed and scanned Connie, much to her confusion. Through a short but complicated series of actions, Garnet added a teal 'gem' in the middle of the star on the temple door, which would be used to access the new room in the Temple.
After Garnet finished, she showed Connie the new symbol on the temple door. "Connie, this is a little something that Steven and I have been working on for the past few hours. You now have your very own room in the temple, just like me, Pearl, Amethyst, and Steven." Garnet explained.
"Wow. Cool!" Connie exclaimed. "So, how do I get in?"
"I figured you would ask me that." Garnet replied, pulling out the scanner again. She then used the scanner, on the temple's door this time, and the instructions on how Connie can open the temple door appeared on the screen.
After Connie read the instructions, she gave Garnet a quick nod, then proceeded to follow the directions. Connie closed her eyes and lifted her hands up to her gem, which began to glow. The gem on the temple door also began to glow, and shortly after, the door split into four sections from four spiraling light-blue lines coming out from the center of the star, which then pulled away completely to reveal the brand new room in the temple.
Inside of the room was quite interesting. Inside, there appeared to be a semi-large room with walls painted into a landscape of what appeared to be a volcano with several cracks in the rock and pools of boiling water around it. The sky was painted a deep bluish-purple color dotted with several stars and a full moon high in the sky. Although the landscape was painted, it was done so in a way that made it look realistic enough that it appeared as though the landscape was actually there, instead of painted on a wall.
The actual room portion itself was actually quite similar to a bedroom. There was a small bed with blue fitted sheets and pillows, a wooden desk with a table lamp, a dresser, and a closet inside, which all matched the painted landscape of the walls very well. There was also a bookshelf built into the wall with several books on it. Inside, Steven could also be seen putting the finishing touches on the room and straightening everything out.
"Oh, hi Connie!" Steven greeted cheerfully. "How do you like it? Garnet helped me design the walls."
"It's beautiful!" Connie said. "I can't believe you guys did all this for me!"
"Eh, it's no trouble." Garnet replied casually.
"Wait, wait. There's more…!" Steven said, pulling out a small cardboard box from under the bed and handing it to Connie. When she opened it, it revealed to be holding a light blue T-shirt with a yellow star sowed on to the middle, making it look like Steven's shirt, but with a homemade touch added on.
"Do you like it?" Steven asked. "Garnet and I went and bought the shirt, and Pearl sowed the star on!"
"I love it! This is so cool you guys!" Connie said. "Also, I think this is my new favorite shirt." She added, making herself and Steven start laughing.
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Meanwhile, on White Diamond's ship, White Diamond had finally come up with a plan to defeat the gems. She ordered that the gem technicians begin working on creating the ultimate creature of chaos and destruction…