"Yes, what of it?" the white Gem Zoisite retorted rather nonchalantly.

"What are you doing here?" Rose Quartz asked while now standing her guard.

"I couldn't help but notice that you made friends with this human's family."

Rose's mouth was agape. "So I've heard! Who told you?"

"Nobody did, actually. I figured that out myself."

"You're lying!"

It was then that Greg suddenly woke up for some reason and mumbled rather groggily, "Huh? What's going on?"

Rose turned to look at him. "Greg," she sternly said. "You need to leave. Now."

"Okay," he yawned before sluggishly getting up off his aunt and uncle's bed and moving on to the living room.

After that was done, Rose diverted her attention back to the Chalcopyrite chancellor. "Now Zoisite," she began. "I'm just going to say this once and that's it. If you ever try to hurt these people, I will see to it that your gems are so cracked that not even I will be able to heal them."

Zoisite could feel his blood pressure rising and his mouth creak open. Then as if out of nowhere, an idea was born. "Hurt them, you say? Well in that case, I shall go ahead and do just that."

"You wouldn't dare..." she growled.

But he did. He extended his arm toward where Jared was sleeping and the electricity began to build up in his hand. Rose was frozen stiff, conflicted on what to do next. She watched as the electricity continued to build up in his hand and now in the entirety of his arm. She knew she had to do something and quickly, but she still couldn't help but worry about the electricity he was accumulating for himself. Just as he was about ready to fry Jared in his sleep, Rose summoned her shield and threw it so quickly and abruptly that it sent her opponent flying across the hole and onto the ground. The electricity shot out of the white Gem's hand and into a nearby telephone pole, blowing out a pylon transformer.

"What was that?" Zoisite practically shrieked while simultaneously coughing and hacking.

"Just something Priestess Shattuckite showed me years ago." Rose answered while putting away the one half of her weapon set.

"Alright, I didn't see that coming," he admitted as he got back on his feet. "Now could you please step aside so I can do something about these gross bastards?"

"Never."

"I'll tell you what: how about a fight then?"

"I don't want to fight, Zoisite. I want to make sure that you never lay your hand on any member of the human race."

"But I insist. You can destroy me right now if you really want to protect them."

"I can't. If there's one thing the priestesses taught me over the years, it's that all life is sacred. Killing you would negate that philosophy and render my life goal useless."

"Fine."

He snapped his fingers and just like that, Lemhi and Rodalquilarite had come to his side.

"You brought allies with you?" Rose asked as if betrayed.

"Well, I think it should go without saying." the white Gem answered in a dismissive manner. "Now get out of the way please. Need I remind you that you already let your golden opportunity pass by?"

Realizing what she needed to do, Rodalquilarite shapeshifted into a black bear and pinned the pink Gem down. Rose struggled to fight back as the green Gem tried her damndest to fully restrain her; by the time she managed to break free from her grasp, however, it was too late. Zoisite and Lemhi had already made it back inside and were now preparing to kill the human couple in their bed.

What happened next was Rose's worst nightmare fully realized. Zoisite grabbed both of Jared's wrists and proceeded to electrocute the man while he was sound asleep, watching with sadistic glee as the man's body jerked about in a spastic way in response to the electricity running through him. Not a minute later, the man was dead.

All this woke up Carole, who couldn't help but find herself flummoxed at a strange figure looming over her with a hatchet in hand. It didn't take long for her to notice that not only was this presumed Zoisite right beside the bed, but that her husband's body was letting off a smell reminiscent of fried chicken.

"I wanna know right now: who are you?!" she screamed at the two strangers. "Who are you and what have you done with my husband?!"

Before she could receive an answer, Lemhi and Zoisite vanished before her eyes and took Rodalquilarite with them. Right after, Rose ran back inside to find Carole fuming at what'd just happened.

"Did they hurt you?" was the first thing Rose asked the middle-aged woman as she embraced her from behind.

"No they didn't, thank God." Carole said. "I can't say the same for Jared." She turned to look at her husband's corpse. "My poor husband shouldn't have died, not like this."

"What do we tell them, Carole?"

Carole trembled with fear and grief. "I...I don't know." She couldn't bear to think about it. "I don't know if I want to go on like this..."

A/N: I just want to say this off the bat: I think this chapter is the worst one of this fanfic. I was pretty much struggling to finish this chapter the whole way through because I feel that I made every bit of dialogue sound stilted. Hopefully, the next chapter will be a lot better and I'll able to end this thing soon. Ciao.