Author's Note: It's about time I got this up! Well, I've been awfully busy with school and life and stuff, but that hasn't stopped me from planning out chapter 4 of Starchild, chapter 2 of Fight to Stay Alive, and working on Deity Heat. Well, happy Easter!

-Voltalia

The day had come for young Rose Quartz to tie the knot with her beloved father Nephrite. In a smaller, windowless part of the Temple, the seemingly-recovered lilac priestess Kunzite was fixing the pink Gem's hair into an oversized, frizzled, spiral-textured topknot bun (her hair was that curly) and had just crowned her with the chartreuse, diminutive rumored jewels of a goddess named Sphene Titanite. The stola was snow-white with some wine-colored stripes along the edges. Around the neck was the traditional bulla embossed with some celebratory mottoes and symbols.

"I never thought we'd have to do this with you, dear puella." Kunzite said, misty-eyed. "And especially with your own father..." She sniffled a bit before composing herself again.

"Will the Queen be there?" the young girl asked anxiously. "I've always wanted to meet her."

The metallic blue priestess Shattuckite answered, "Yes. Yes, she will. And so will her companion Zoisite." (Queen Jubilee Diamond had a habit of calling her Chancellor/husband her companion.)

The young bride squealed with delight. She had always adored the Queen and her companion, but this would be the first time they'd meet for real. As energetic as she was, the thought of actually meeting the Queen Jubilee riled her up even more, so much so that the red priestess Ptilolite had to press her hands down on the young girl's shoulders and shift her body weight.

"Ye Gods!" Kunzite exclaimed. "Calm yourself, girl! We must get going!"

Kunzite hastily placed the flamma upon the young girl's head and rushed her out the door to the atrium where everybody else was.

Rose was amazed to see just who was there. Besides the snow-white Gem-eyed Chancellor Zoisite and the yellow Queen Jubilee, present were the cerulean-hued pointy-eared Topaz who possessed a rather large pink crystallic cannon that resembled a rose, the dark violet-hued Kermesite (who happened to be an old friend of Nephrite's), steel-gray Petzite, and a whole other group of Gems that cannot be named right now. Officiating the ceremony was the pontifex herself, green-hued Sphalerite.

"Nephrite, Rose." the cold, rule-oriented Sphalerite imperatively said. "Come."

The former Chancellor and his surrogate daughter stepped forward to where the pontifex could get a good look at them.

"Now hold out your right hands." Sphalerite said once more.

The two soon-to-be-weds did as told. Sphalerite produced a small but sturdy gold-seamed rope and ordered the couple to face each other. She then bound their hands with the rope and began.

"Alright." she finally said again. "Now Rose, repeat after me: where you are Gaius, I am Gaia."

"Where you are Gaius, I am Gaia." the young girl said to her father with ease.

The pontifex nodded once before shouting, "It's done! Good luck to you and may you live out your lives with joy and loyalty."