With fury, Rose said, "Fire at will!"
And will her gems all had
So foes fell down in screaming heaps
Despite in armor clad.
The sizzling crack of laser shots
With howling darkly merged
And up the hill at Black's behest
The enemy tide surged.
Though Amethyst took steps, would run
To meet advancing foes,
"Hold back and wait; to us they'll climb
And tire themselves," said Rose.
"Throw spears upon their heads!" cried Rose
And volleys tore the air
To split the facets, shatter clean
The lives of gems once fair.
The vanguard clashed and chaos rained
As gems surged left and right.
The smoke that from the lasers oozed,
It darkened skies once bright.
Among the tides of battered gems
Young Amethyst did try
To tell her friend from foe but found
The chaos tricked the eye.
But little room to crack a whip
Exists on such a field
A death blow meant for her, though, struck
Upon the Rose Quartz shield.
But Rose to other fights she turned
And Amethyst, alone,
Herself found facing great a foe;
With malice Topaz shone.
The gems, the crystal enemies,
Attacked with vengeful strikes
So whip and spear became a whirl
As none had seen the likes.
As Topaz ripped her weapon free
And leapt to make the kill
Quick Amethyst with clever whip
Caught Topaz, held her still.
Then Aqua, Rose's loyal friend,
With axe cruel Topaz struck
And shattered Topaz, foe of Rose;
The fiend'd worn out her luck.
So Aqua with her partner, bright
Young Citrine, went her way
And gems down stepped on Topaz shards
Now crushed into the clay.
Her back against a boulder's side,
Good Pearl performed her dance,
A lunging whirl, a deadly game,
To duck each spear and lance.
A dozen gems of red and blue
Lay shattered at her feet.
Then Emerald did shriek and said,
"You, Pearl, I shall defeat!"
Those jaguar eyes of Emerald
Emerged from war's dark throng,
Her locks a deep and glistening green
Her build both tall and strong.
With lunges lighting fast the pair
Approached and clashed their blades;
They leapt and pranced as horses prance
In soldiers' long parades.
A roar screamed Pearl. Her foe had ripped
A cut into her side,
But fury came, to fail her Rose
This Pearl would not abide.
She ducked and lunged and cut the leg
Of Emerald her foe
And when stumbled her enemy
Swift Pearl there laid her low.
Through Emerald's small, chest-set, gem
The sword so neatly cleaved,
And for the end of such a fiend
Not even allies grieved.