p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Three perfect quartz soldiers emerged from one of Yellow Diamond's first colonies and became known as the Aventurine Trio. They consisted of an aventurine with a gem for an eye, another with their gem in their navel, and the third with his gem on his left shoulder, who preferred to be called 'Ven'. They served their diamond faithfully for hundreds of thousands of years, acting as her personal guard most days, rarely leaving her side. Yellow put on a mask when facing her public, appearing cruel and harsh to intimate her court, but she offered a much lighter side in private, a side that her oh so special Trio often got to see./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The only reason the Trio ever had to part from their diamond were if she required privacy, or if they were stationed elsewhere, often being on planets where the life upon it posed a challenge in colonization and the trio's combat abilities were needed. So came the case with the planet Earth, a small rebellion had been brewing on the planet for quite some time. The rebels' message was unclear, and was mostly ignored, but it appeared they were fighting for control of Earth. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Soon, all the doubt surrounding them became clear as crystal. Homeworld had to listen after they had done the unthinkable to prove they were serious: shattering the diamond that was threatening Earth, Pink Diamond. The rebels took the name of the Crystal Gems, was lead by a rose quartz, and were gaining more and more numbers each day;they had to be stopped./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Although Ven didn't necessarily see why, giving up one colony was surely an option, Yellow Diamond had even mentioned it as an option, but that was before the rebels took it too far; shattering Pink was the last straw. All rose quartzes were recalled, and Homeworld increased the number of gems being sent into battle. Rose Quartz's gem was now wanted more than Earth itself, and the Trio were Yellow's personal bounty hunters./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Rose was rarely seen on the battlefield, and rumors of her being sighted in the fight were most often based on a single soldier's account of seeing the terrifying Rose Quartz and witnessing her abilities that ranged from being able to take out a platoon of jaspers with a single swing of her sword, to rumors that she possessed healing abilities. The later of which wasn't completely impossible, Ven himself had healing abilities as did most aventurines, rose quartzes, or smoky quartzes. Although Ven's abilities surpassed most healing gems', Rose Quartz apparently could heal unlike any other./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Rumor has it she can speed up a gem's regeneration time!" The aventurine possessing the navel-gem exclaimed, looking quite afraid actually./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Don't be silly Outie," Ven smiled, he'd recently came up with a nickname for his brother, which he seemed to adore greatly./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""They are just rumors 3XA." The eye-gem aventurine scolded. Ven had a nickname for him too: 'Eyepatch,' or simply 'Patch'. Although he seemed to hate being addressed as such, or even when Ven called their brother by 'Outie'./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Well still, she's got to be some sort of great warrior." Outie pouted./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Patch once again dismissed Outie's claim, "average rose quartzes are about as equal as average aventurines, if she's a perfect quartz like us then she will be on our level. Dismiss all rumors from your view towards her." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I wouldn't say that," Ven interjected, "even the rumors share some similarities, such as she's always seen near established Crystal Gem bases, and she's always seen fighting alongside her pearl. We can assume these statements hold some truth."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You're not as dim as usual 2XA." Patch gave a light smile, before Ven had the chance to retort, he announced: "we're landing, ready yourselves." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Outie summoned his whip, and Ven grabbed a nearby rectangular knife from a wall. Outie's weapon was a whip with a sharp, diamond-like metal piece attached to the end, and Patch's was a brilliant long sword with many diamond insignias embedded in its guard, but Ven couldn't summon his weapon. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"An agate once remarked to him that it could be linked to how expressive he is, as the gems like him she had worked with struggled in summoning their weapons because the ways they were summoned were so unique. Whatever the case, Ven had become quite skilled in wielding numerous weapons because he simply had to use what was available, so it didn't bother him, much./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A small thud was felt throughout the ship as it landed. The three quartzes walked to a room just outside the ship's cockpit, standing patiently until a green pod engulfed them. It jolted upward, forward, and then finally downward, opening to reveal the Strawberry Battlefield. Gems were scattered all over the place, most engaged in a fight or running away from one. Screams and grunts rang through the air, the occasional clanging of metal standing out in the chaos./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The two sides waging war had their soldiers outfitted with one key distinction: a star or diamond insignia. A star anywhere on a gem's form meant they were Ven's enemy, although he didn't necessary agree with this bit of his training, he did agree that it was either him or them in this fight./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Before he knew it, his brothers were gone, both jumping from Aventurine's side into the battle. Ven sighed, and took a couple steps back, then he ran forward and leaped into the air, becoming a spinning ball of light. He charged through the crowd, hearing many gems point out his presence as he carefully dodged them all. These gems were not important, they not apart of his mission. The Aventurine Trio were sent to search and capture rebel leader Rose Quartz, she was to be put on trial for Pink Diamond's shattering, so she was wanted alive./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He stopped spinning, knowing he was approaching where the rebel base was rumored to be. Knife in hand, Ven looked around for the rebel leader, she was rumored to never stray too far from her base, so he opted to move closer. He noted immediately how unguarded this section of the battlefield was, although he couldn't tell as much as he could now, even on the way in it was sparsely littered with Crystal Gems. It was almost as if the rebels weren't accounting for anyone coming to the northwest of the established base at all./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The Trio had spilt the search into three sections, Outie took to the north, where platoons of jaspers had been dropped off several hours ago, some of which has since advanced northeast, also where Patch planned to search, and finally Ven was scheduled to scout the northwest, where few gems had been seen at all. Rose was likely fighting in either Ven or Patch's designated areas, as she tended to stay away from the heart of the battle, Ven just hoped he wasn't the one that ended up finding her./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"After a while of walking, he finally arrived at a dark, metallic structure which Ven assumed to be the base as a warp stream was seen to go off just beyond it. He heard a huge clang, his attention immediately being directed towards it; he found what he was looking for. Rose Quartz held a large pink sword at its pommel and rear edge as she shielded herself from the halberd of a jasper. The tables quickly turned as she summoned a translucent pink shield to her arm, her attacker was knocked back and stunned, which gave Rose more than enough time to slice clean through them and poof their physical form./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The orange, oval gem fell to the sand, and it was unsurprisingly left there. Ven knew the Crystal Gems weren't shatterers, neither was he, he could never force himself to take the life of another gem… /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Rose suddenly turned around to face him, Ven couldn't move to grab his knife, and Rose didn't bare her sword or shield, both froze at the sight of one another. Finally, Rose spoke, "what are you- NO DON'T!" She lifted a hand and ran towards him as Ven felt a pain work its way through his abdomen; he'd been sliced through, and his physical form couldn't hold, he poofed./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" ◇ /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh heya, thanks for reading! Ven went out to capture a Crystal Gem and ended up being captured instead, how disappointing. Yellow sure ain't gonna appreciate hearing about this, although she doesn't have to know the complete truth… right? Tune into next chapter to see how it all plays out. For now though, bu bye!/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Here's the AU's Tumblr though if your interested:/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"a style="text-decoration: none;" href=" "span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /span/a/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"For now though, bu bye!/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The only reason the Trio ever had to part from their diamond were if she required privacy, or if they were stationed elsewhere, often being on planets where the life upon it posed a challenge in colonization and the trio's combat abilities were needed. So came the case with the planet Earth, a small rebellion had been brewing on the planet for quite some time. The rebels' message was unclear, and was mostly ignored, but it appeared they were fighting for control of Earth. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Soon, all the doubt surrounding them became clear as crystal. Homeworld had to listen after they had done the unthinkable to prove they were serious: shattering the diamond that was threatening Earth, Pink Diamond. The rebels took the name of the Crystal Gems, was lead by a rose quartz, and were gaining more and more numbers each day;they had to be stopped./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Although Ven didn't necessarily see why, giving up one colony was surely an option, Yellow Diamond had even mentioned it as an option, but that was before the rebels took it too far; shattering Pink was the last straw. All rose quartzes were recalled, and Homeworld increased the number of gems being sent into battle. Rose Quartz's gem was now wanted more than Earth itself, and the Trio were Yellow's personal bounty hunters./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Rose was rarely seen on the battlefield, and rumors of her being sighted in the fight were most often based on a single soldier's account of seeing the terrifying Rose Quartz and witnessing her abilities that ranged from being able to take out a platoon of jaspers with a single swing of her sword, to rumors that she possessed healing abilities. The later of which wasn't completely impossible, Ven himself had healing abilities as did most aventurines, rose quartzes, or smoky quartzes. Although Ven's abilities surpassed most healing gems', Rose Quartz apparently could heal unlike any other./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Rumor has it she can speed up a gem's regeneration time!" The aventurine possessing the navel-gem exclaimed, looking quite afraid actually./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Don't be silly Outie," Ven smiled, he'd recently came up with a nickname for his brother, which he seemed to adore greatly./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""They are just rumors 3XA." The eye-gem aventurine scolded. Ven had a nickname for him too: 'Eyepatch,' or simply 'Patch'. Although he seemed to hate being addressed as such, or even when Ven called their brother by 'Outie'./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Well still, she's got to be some sort of great warrior." Outie pouted./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Patch once again dismissed Outie's claim, "average rose quartzes are about as equal as average aventurines, if she's a perfect quartz like us then she will be on our level. Dismiss all rumors from your view towards her." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I wouldn't say that," Ven interjected, "even the rumors share some similarities, such as she's always seen near established Crystal Gem bases, and she's always seen fighting alongside her pearl. We can assume these statements hold some truth."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You're not as dim as usual 2XA." Patch gave a light smile, before Ven had the chance to retort, he announced: "we're landing, ready yourselves." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Outie summoned his whip, and Ven grabbed a nearby rectangular knife from a wall. Outie's weapon was a whip with a sharp, diamond-like metal piece attached to the end, and Patch's was a brilliant long sword with many diamond insignias embedded in its guard, but Ven couldn't summon his weapon. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"An agate once remarked to him that it could be linked to how expressive he is, as the gems like him she had worked with struggled in summoning their weapons because the ways they were summoned were so unique. Whatever the case, Ven had become quite skilled in wielding numerous weapons because he simply had to use what was available, so it didn't bother him, much./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A small thud was felt throughout the ship as it landed. The three quartzes walked to a room just outside the ship's cockpit, standing patiently until a green pod engulfed them. It jolted upward, forward, and then finally downward, opening to reveal the Strawberry Battlefield. Gems were scattered all over the place, most engaged in a fight or running away from one. Screams and grunts rang through the air, the occasional clanging of metal standing out in the chaos./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The two sides waging war had their soldiers outfitted with one key distinction: a star or diamond insignia. A star anywhere on a gem's form meant they were Ven's enemy, although he didn't necessary agree with this bit of his training, he did agree that it was either him or them in this fight./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Before he knew it, his brothers were gone, both jumping from Aventurine's side into the battle. Ven sighed, and took a couple steps back, then he ran forward and leaped into the air, becoming a spinning ball of light. He charged through the crowd, hearing many gems point out his presence as he carefully dodged them all. These gems were not important, they not apart of his mission. The Aventurine Trio were sent to search and capture rebel leader Rose Quartz, she was to be put on trial for Pink Diamond's shattering, so she was wanted alive./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He stopped spinning, knowing he was approaching where the rebel base was rumored to be. Knife in hand, Ven looked around for the rebel leader, she was rumored to never stray too far from her base, so he opted to move closer. He noted immediately how unguarded this section of the battlefield was, although he couldn't tell as much as he could now, even on the way in it was sparsely littered with Crystal Gems. It was almost as if the rebels weren't accounting for anyone coming to the northwest of the established base at all./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The Trio had spilt the search into three sections, Outie took to the north, where platoons of jaspers had been dropped off several hours ago, some of which has since advanced northeast, also where Patch planned to search, and finally Ven was scheduled to scout the northwest, where few gems had been seen at all. Rose was likely fighting in either Ven or Patch's designated areas, as she tended to stay away from the heart of the battle, Ven just hoped he wasn't the one that ended up finding her./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"After a while of walking, he finally arrived at a dark, metallic structure which Ven assumed to be the base as a warp stream was seen to go off just beyond it. He heard a huge clang, his attention immediately being directed towards it; he found what he was looking for. Rose Quartz held a large pink sword at its pommel and rear edge as she shielded herself from the halberd of a jasper. The tables quickly turned as she summoned a translucent pink shield to her arm, her attacker was knocked back and stunned, which gave Rose more than enough time to slice clean through them and poof their physical form./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The orange, oval gem fell to the sand, and it was unsurprisingly left there. Ven knew the Crystal Gems weren't shatterers, neither was he, he could never force himself to take the life of another gem… /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Rose suddenly turned around to face him, Ven couldn't move to grab his knife, and Rose didn't bare her sword or shield, both froze at the sight of one another. Finally, Rose spoke, "what are you- NO DON'T!" She lifted a hand and ran towards him as Ven felt a pain work its way through his abdomen; he'd been sliced through, and his physical form couldn't hold, he poofed./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" ◇ /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Oh heya, thanks for reading! Ven went out to capture a Crystal Gem and ended up being captured instead, how disappointing. Yellow sure ain't gonna appreciate hearing about this, although she doesn't have to know the complete truth… right? Tune into next chapter to see how it all plays out. For now though, bu bye!/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"For now though, bu bye!/span/p