Chapter 20: Freedom

Sorry guys I haven't been updating as often. School is work! Anyways enjoy the chapter!

Back at the spire, the tides of war have seemed to tip in favor of the ladies. After Garnet's outburst, Rose took the guys of the solar spire captive. Instead of using chains, the ladies of the lunar spire used super strong vines to rope the boys. They dragged them to the stadium, and lined them all up. Lady Moon descended down with Moonstone in front of the prisoners.

"Hello boys, remember this place?" Lady Moon asked.

The solar spire boys nodded.

"Mmmm... I remember about a couple years ago, Blue Topaz died her by one of your generals. Am I, or am I not right?" Moonstone added.

The boys looked away in guilt.

"Yeah, I thought you'd remember. Lady Moon, should we try them for the murder of Blue?" Moonstone suggested.

"I don't think we should, they're not the ones who raised the hammer that killed Blue," Lady Moon reasoned.

"True, but they might know what happened to Jade..."

"Well boys, what happened to Jade?"

The solar warriors all looked away.

"Well, let's pull one of them from the group and ask," Moonstone suggested.

Lady Moon leaned down, and grabbed Pyrite by his collar. The gem looked away in guilt while Lady Moon floated away to a secret room. She dropped Pyrite in a chair, and glared at him. "It's okay Solar warrior, we don't treat our prisoners the way you treat yours," Lady Moon assured.

Pyrite sighed in relief.

"But that doesn't mean your off the hook!" Moonstone snapped.

"Tell us sweetie, what happened to my dear gem Jade?" Lady Moon asked.

Pyrite swallowed the knot in his throat.

"My officers forced Jade into her gem...I never agreed to any of this...none of this hardship and broken gems. Jade, was drained of her magic... I'm sorry girls...She's never coming back... But can you do me a favor? " Pyrite asked.

"What is it that you want?" Lady Moon responded. "Just...kill me now. If you decide to let us go, I'm as good as dead anyway... Sunstone won't be happy with me giving any information to you,"

The girls exchanged uneasy looks.

"We can at least give you a painless one..." Lady moon suggested.

Lady Moon and Moonstone left the room, without a solar warrior behind them.

"Alright gems, stand up and follow me," Lady Moon ordered.

The boys stood up and followed Lady moon to the warp pad out.

"Amethyst, Pearl, Citrine, take these prisoners to the drop off," Lady Moon called. The three officers leaped down from the spire and saluted to their leader.

"Yes ma'am!" All three of them called.

The team, and the prisoners all warped back to Flordia.

"Wonder why she chose here..." Amethyst thought outloud.

The two Colonels shrugged, and lead the prisoners to a clearing. There the officers created a gem tent and forced the prisoners inside.

"Amethyst and Pearl, keep watch while I go and scout," Citrine ordered.

"Don't even think about trying to escape us!" Amethyst warned.

"Trust me, being at the sea spire again has been a vacation, prisoner or not," Howlite confessed.

The gems tied up behind him nodded in agreement. Citrine, rolled her eyes and dissappeared into the forest. She darted and leaped between branches to see the village, overrun with bandits. In the distance, Citrine could see a small fire, telling her that the sun warriors were close by. She dropped down through the trees to find a easier path to their camp. Suddenly, she felt an arm wrap around her waist, and a hand pin her arms.

"Follow me if you want to live," the voice called.

Citrine felt herself being sweeped off her feet, and carried off. Once to person stopped, she realized were she was, the old magnolia tree. The person stepped through the moonlight, reavealing a Moss Agate gem. Citrine was stunned.

"Mossy I...You...What..." Citrine stammered.

"Shhhh...No words this time," he whispered as he placed a finger on her lips.

Citrine stared at him, her yellow eyes glistening in the starlight. Mossy wrapped his arms around her waist, and pulled her in close.

"Mossy...we...shouldn't..." Citrine whispered.

"Shh...You talk to much," he replied.

Moss Agate leaned his face close to hers, causing her two yellow gems to flash.

He slowly leaned in...and kissed her. Never in all her existence, Citrine felt this alive. To her it felt like it lasted forever. Suddenly he stopped, and looked into her eyes again.

"Don't tell anyone, " he warned.

Citrine was to dizzy to even answer him. He stroked her cheek, then took off running through the woods. Suddenly, Amethyst burst through the trees to find the dazed officer.

"Citrine? Are you okay? I saw your gems flash and-" Amethyst stopped talking when she saw the yellow gem, shaking her head, and trying to stay on her feet.

"Umm...What just happened? " Amethyst questioned.

Citrine shook her head one last time, and looked at Amethyst, blushing.

"I'm... I'm fine Amethyst...I just... fell," she lied.

Sensing something else was going on, Amethyst crossed her arms.

"Did you find the boys yet?"

"Yeah, they're over the hill," Citrine pointed out.

"Well, I'm not going in there! It could be an ambush!" Amethyst protested.

"We could just leave a trail of nightshades," Citrine suggested.

"Good idea,"

Citrine jumped into the trees dropping nightshades every couple of leaps. Once she reached the camp, Citrine tossed one last nightshade in the middle of the camp. "Hey guys, look," Onyx pointed out.

The black gem picked up the flower and began to follow the trail. In the middle of the clearing, the Sun warriors saw their troops covered in nightshade, and wrapped up tightly in vines.

"Howlite! It's great to see you man!" Onyx exclaimed charging towards his friends.

Pearl could be seen in the distance watching the affair take place. The sun warriors stopped cutting their friends loose and stared at her, angry. Pearl raised her arm high, swung it around, and bowed. She then leaped into the trees and disappeared. Citrine and Amethyst leaped towards the lunar warp pad to, were Pearl landed.

"Let's go home guys our work here is done for now," Pearl decided. Pearl, and Amethyst quickly warped back home, while Citrine dragged her heels to the warp pad. She pulled the sunflower out of her armor, and looked into the distance. She saw Mossy over the hill, waving at her. Citrine smiled and held her sunflower closer to her heart, and teleported home.