Chapter 4

Ice's POV

I was on my way to my Queen's temple. Today would be the day! The day, she will officially be mine, forever. I finally put a matter of thought of the engagement. And if she says yes, I will take her home to my kingdom. I'll tell them that Pearl is mine and NO ONE SHOULD EVER DARE TOUCH HER.

I am starting to feel my nervousness. Nonsense! Why do I have to be nervous about this? Then a face came up on me. Onyx. Tch, why do I have to worry about HIM. He's the one who dared to betray me. Ever since me and Onyx first saw Pearl, we already fell for her. She was astounding. She was like no female gem I have ever encountered. She was much graceful in her form, like a fragile flower, blooming ever so slowly, revealing her true beauty. Her pretty face is as beautiful as her name, Pearl. I was about to court her when Onyx came up first. He knew that I also had taken a liking on Pearl. When I found out that they were dating, I grew furious and also heart broken.

It pains for me to see my trusted friend dating my Pearl. But I will never give up on her. So, in order for me to have her, AND keep my hands clean, I decided to have him killed by Aqua. He's my second trusted friend and I know that he will never betray me. I forced him to bring out the sea serpent and kill Onyx without leaving any trace. Then when he is killed I would just have walked in and comfort her. And I knew that if I kept this up, she will take the liking on ME! HAHAHAHA! I simply have no care at all if they accuse me. I am the ruler of the Gem Homeworld. I can simply crush their gems in a matter of seconds. WITH OR WITHOUT AN ARMY.

I chuckled to myself and kept my head held high. I am confident about this marriage proposal. As I walked in front of the temple, I saw two figures coming out. One was my beloved Pearl and the other…THIS CANNOT BE! ONYX?! I THOUGHT I HAD HIM KILLED?! And there he goes again, taking what's rightfully mine. WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING?! Pearl saw me and immediately froze. Onyx looked up and saw me as well. I pointed to him.

"YOU! Hands of my girlfriend!" I menacingly glared at Onyx.

Onyx's POV

I snickered and smirked at Ice as I walked towards him. As I come across him, face to face, I returned his glare.

"You don't know how long I have wanted to have my revenge on you!"

"And you don't know how long my Blood Reaper has wanted to have a new gem for my collection." We both stared at each other immensely. I summoned my battle axe and held it tight. I won't let him get Pearl again.

"Well, let's finish this once and for all!" Ice shouted as our battle commenced. His blood reaper was sharp so I was taking precautionary measures. He's fast I admit, he is faster than he is before. But he wasn't the only person who trained. He swung his weapon to the right as I took advantage in the left. I jumped backwards and took a breath before I composed myself and chuckled.

"Is this all you got after how many years I was gone?" I chuckled. He glared at me and charged at me with speed. I dodged it but a second late so I got a cut. I also managed to hit him in the side so we were both even. He backed away and smirked.

"I'm surprised you survived. You weren't even supposed to survive. After you were eaten by that serpent, Pearl cried and she waited for you hoping you would come back. But there never was an Onyx who emerged himself out. Not even a word that you were alive. So I came and comforted her. After how many years she had moved on, I can't believe that you would even show your face to her after what you did. How pathetic and ruthless of you. You don't have any shame, you only think about yourself and not considering the others, especially Pearl." I grew enraged, although I felt ashamed of my actions. All I did, I did it all for her. I thought she trusted me enough so she can wait for me. I thought she loved me so much she won't look at others. It hurts, it does, but I won't believe any of that unless it she said it herself.

"What now sad sack? It's over." I charged at him and threw my anger at him. I was eaten by my own anger. He's too much. I can't believe that he would say that to me when he was the reason behind all of this. A big cloud dust surrounded us and I couldn't see where he is. I searched around, getting cautious that he might just be anywhere.

"STOP THIS FIGHT AT ONCE!" I heard someone shouted but I couldn't recognize the voice. It must be Ice, so I threw my Axe at the direction of the voice. When the dust cloud disappeared, my world shattered. I found my axe hit someone but it wasn't Ice, it was hit on Pearl. I saw that Ice's reaper hit Pearl as well. I looked at Pearl and her pupils were small. She dropped to her knees and a "poof!" was heard. The only things left were my axe, Ice's reaper and Pearl's gem.

I couldn't move. I know that she will be fine, but the fact that we were the reason who made her regenerate was us. I saw Steven running towards where Pearl's gem was sitting. Tears were streaming down his face.

"I can't believe you! You couldn't just have to talk to each other, but instead, you had to fight and dragged the one you were both fighting for!" Me and Ice looked at each other and back to Steven. I tried to reach to Steven but he just shrugged it off.

"I know that she will be fine. But this doesn't erase what you did to her." And that he ran away, with Pearl on his hands. I sat at the sand and sighed deeply. I don't know what to do. I looked at Ice and he glared at me.

"This is your entire fault!" He said as he pointed his finger to me. I stood up and glared back.

"Seriously?! Do you even just shut up and think? If Pearl regenerates she'll know what we did to her and we'll lose her."

"I do know that. And I blame it all to you. If you hadn't come back then none of this ever happened. If you went back to her when you had the chance then none of this will happen. I don't care if you did that in the past and I don't care if what happens to the future or what happens now. Our friendship in the past became the vengeance of enemies….I didn't do anything Onyx, YOU just happened." He said and walked out. I don't even know what to say for myself anymore. I guess he was right in a way but it wasn't right for him to plan to kill me.

I stood up and walked around the beach. I don't get it. Somehow, comparing me and Ice to Pearl, I guess that Pearl still loves me more than that fraud. But if it comes to the things that happened, it would just come out as me being the bad guy. Am I even that guy? Truth be told, I'm scared. I'm scared to lose Pearl. I'm scared that if she comes back, she won't take my side. I don't want to lose her. Then, a thought came to me. This sounds stupid, really, but I have to find Ice. But first, I have to fix things with Steven.

I went back to the house and saw Steven, sitting and watching Pearl's gem. He looked at me and I smiled at him but he just looked back at Pearl's gem. I slowly approached him and tried to talk to him.

"Steven?" I called out to him but he didn't move a muscle.

"Steven, I just want you to hear me out. Look, I admit that letting my anger overcome me was a bad, really, really bad idea. I didn't thought twice when I saw Ice and when we fought. I didn't think of Pearl being there and worrying for us. I didn't want to lose her to anyone but it seems to me that I was the one who pushed her away. I even managed to break a promise to myself that I wouldn't hurt her." I said as Steven just blankly looked at Pearl's gem then to me. I kneeled down to him and smiled.

"I wanna make up for what I did. Apologizing doesn't help much, but asking for your forgiveness is one of the first things I'll start off." I saw Steven smile and I held out my hand.

"Buddies?"

"Buddies" He said as he held my hand. I smiled as I'm slowly rolling this out. Now to find that Prince Ice.

End of Chapter 4

A/N: Kill me now people. I know I haven't updated this story and I'm really really sorry. I'm thankful for the people out there still reading this story. I also know that I have wrong information of the ruler of the Gem Home world but its my story. I'll leave the Diamonds somewhere in the story, I think.

Oh! and who here ships Steven x Peridot? Yeah, I know that ship won't sail and pretty stupid but come on! They look cute together now that I have found out Peridot's quite cute XD Everyone has their own opinions on this, mine is that I ship them. Please let me know if there is at least anyone who ship them. Leave comments down below and for the other stories, I'll do my best to update. Love you fellow humans XD Bye!