Chapter 19: The wrath of Garnet
Garnet finally resurfaced with the other officers late at night.
"Dang guys, what took you so long?" Citrine asked.
"They wanted to try a different route, we hit like four dead ends, but we're finally out of that death trap!" Pearl exclaimed."Where's Amethyst's team? They have the desert glass," Rose observed.
"Wasn't there guards out here?" Citrine added.
"Solar warriors are here, just like they predicted..." Garnet trailed off.
"Oh no...the glass...Amethyst! She could be smashed!" Pearl panicked. "This is no time to freak out Pearl! We need a plan!" Rose reasoned.
"Wasn't Turquoise building you a cannon? we could use that to get in," Citrine suggested.
"Good idea...Me and my team will go after the cannons, and figure out were they are while the rest of you find and keep watch on the castle," Rose gem troops lied in wait, a couple meters away from the sand castle walls.
"Can't we just break it down?" Citrine whispered.
"No, the magic in the desert glass makes the walls to strong to break down with more traditional methods," Garnet explained.
Quietly, Rose Quartz and her team of gems rode up behind the group with 15 lazer light cannons. The pink gem closed her eyes, and the cannons began to activate. Her troops held up the cannon with all their strength, as 15 pink and white lazers blasted it's way through the sand the castle they heard an angry voice.
"The Lunar guardians! Gems, prepare for battle!" Bloodstone angrily ordered.
"Charge!" Garnet yelled.
The full force of the lunar army charged at the castle. Before the gems could reach the sandcastle, Amethyst's purple horse started to run laps around the castle, and began to secrete purple sticky stuff. As the solar warriors attempted to advance, they fell In the sticky liquid, and descended like they were in quicksand. The lunar warriors didn't even have to fight, they simply stepped through the the purple liquid and rescued their friends. As Citrine carried Tiffany Stone out of the sand castle, her shirt began to glow. Citrine dropped and uncuffed Tiffany, letting her pull out the gem from her shirt. The amethyst rose into the air, revealing a white silhouette of a plump short lady. Amethyst finally regained her physical form, and dropped to the floor.
"Guys! The worm!" Amethyst gasped.
"Don't worry Amethyst, we have everything under control, Right Garnet?" Rose beamed.
Garnet wasn't paying attention to anything, exept Bloodstone struggling in the sticky liquid. He turned his attention to Garnet and began to glare at her.
"You're so weak Garnet, just like your little friends. You should have heard them scream your name, like you were actually going to rescue them," he taunted.
"Shut up," Garnet said with hands clenched."You actually thought you were going to help them, well guess what Garnet, you failed,"
"Shut up" she yelled a bit louder.
"You know, they didn't even like you," Bloodstone said, taking satisfaction that he pushed her over the edge.
"SHUT UP!" Garnet screamed as she snatched the red gem from the sticky liquid.
Bloodstone baited Garnet to help him out and it worked. But now, he'd have to deal with her. Seeing Garnet go completely feral made the army back up in fear. Bloodstone socked Garnet in the face, breaking her glasses, but she glared at him unfazed. The angry red gem summoned a gauntlet and punched him into the sand castle with a huge gaping hole. The two gems were out of eye sight of their armies.
Bloodstone laid against the far wall slightly mangled.
"You have no idea, what we were," Garnet growled through gritted teeth.
"I grew up with them, and for you to take them away from me...over a stupid will,for person you don't even care about!?"Garnet snarled as she slammed her gauntlet into his leg, snapping it in half.
Outside the Solar gems could hear their Captain cry out in agony.
"Well let me tell you something! Obsidian is dead, because I thought he had a little bit of good left in him. I thought there was good left in you gems...I guess not," Garnet snapped while she ripped the other leg. Garnet stood up, and closed all her three eyes.
"For the brothers,"she murmured.
For Bloodstone, the world went in slow motion, as Garnet dug her heal into Bloodstone's gem. Too traumatized to even scream, he groaned as he finally retreated into his broken gem. Garnet held the cracked Bloodstone in her gauntlets. She left the castle in one hand, the desert glass, the other hand the cracked gem. Garnet's face was scratched up from her glasses breaking on her face, and her eyes were still focused into an icy glare.
"Garnet?" Citrine said as she reached out to touch her cousin.
Feeling the sheer anger radiating off of her, Citrine pulled her hand back and watched her cousin walk back to camp in the middle of the night, alone.