Chapter 23: What ended it all
Rose charged through the fog, to see Garnet, taking blow by blow. The Lunar troops summoned their weapons, and charged directly towards Sunstone.
"Oh you little girls want to play games?" he taunted.
Sunstone rose in the air, and into the dark fog. He raised his arms high, and summoned a shower of fireballs, that hit the ground like earthquakes. The solar warriors cheered, as the the lunar guardians scattered like rats in the light. Fireballs rained down on Rose's troops, but she still charged, undeterred. When Garnet saw Rose trot towards her, she sighed with relief.
"Thanks Rose," she gasped.
"Garnet watch out!" Rose shouted as a fireball flew towards them. Rose's horse quickly summoned a bubble. The fireballs continued, as Sunstone descended before the two generals.
"Beautiful isn't it?"Sunstone admired as he pointed towards their running troops.
"You monster," Rose growled.
"Oh, you think I'm a monster now? You haven't seen anything yet!" Sunstone bellowed.
The gem raised his arms high, and slammed a huge inferno into the pink bubble shattering it. Rose and her horse slide across the battle ground, injured. Before Garnet could even reach Rose, Sunstone send lighting onto the general, making her retreat into her gem. In the distance, the grounded troops watched in horror. "Guys! We're in trouble!" Citrine called out.
"We need a plan now!" Emerald added.
"No worries guys, we got this," Angel Quartz assured.
Amber walked up to the two higher ranking officers and handed them blue shards.
"What are we going to do with a bunch of gem shards?" Emerald asked.
"Observe,"
Angel Quartz, dragged clunky red battle armor in front of the two officers. She tossed the shard into the armor causing it to move.
"Up soldier!" Amber commanded.
The armor stood up and saluted to it's master.
"Now, go fight the solar warriors!" Amber commanded.
The armor took off into the fog.
"Wow...Well, thats useful," Emerald observed.
"See, we don't even have to fight now! The shards do all the work," Angel Quartz beamed.
Further into camp, Turquoise could be seen throwing shards into more and more armor. Turquoise raised her arm, causing the gem armor to rise with it. She pointed her arm, sending a stampeed of gem armor into the dark fog.
In the heat of the battle, Garnet struggled to move with her injured leg.
"I can't be hurt now...my army...needs me..." Garnet gasped.
The red war horse placed a moat of lava around them while Garnet struggled to her feet.
"C ' mon, to Rose," she ordered through gritted teeth.
Through the fog, a pink horse holding a rose quartz in it's mouth was being chased towards camp. If the solar warriors found the warp pad in camp, it would be the end of the sea spire. Garnet changed her course, and charged towards the pink horse's attackers. Gauntlets raised, Garnet was more than prepared to give her life for the spire. Instead, she felt a stampeed of gem armor run past her "What the..." Garnet said, as she stopped mid trot.
The armor was fighting for the guardian Garnet turned her horse around, and charged after the pink horse. Once both horses were at camp, Garnet removed the pearl, amethyst, and rose quartz gems from the pockets of horse.
"Garnet! You're not dead!" Citrine squealed, as she ran to her cousin.
"No time Citrine, get these gems to the spire," Garnet ordered.
"Why? Since we got the armor to fight, I think we'll-"
"Citrine listen, things are going to get really bad, really quick, get the stones to the spire, now!"
Citrine nodded, and grabbed the gems from her cousin. While her cousin, was taking care of the officers, Garnet can rush back into battle, without anyone holding her back. Before she left, she tied a nightshade around her injured leg.
Garnet charged back into battle, only to be knocked off the horse by a large fireball.
"Well, Garnet, any last words?" Sunstone asked.
Garnet's head was spinning, as she saw Stone rise above her head.
"Tell...Citrine...I'm...sorry..."
Basking in the defeat of the last lunar general, Sunstone rose into the air, and created the largest fireball deployed. Garnet quickly looked around. She saw her troops running from fireballs, and gem armor ending Solar warriors. "The prophecy...has come true," she gasped.
Sunstone send the fireball onto Garnet, making her retreat into her gem. Before he could send another one, a green dagger cuts itself through sunstone's gem. His body was engulfed in light, then he disappeared, never to be seen again. Citrine watched the whole thing from the telescope. Ignoring her cousin's orders, Citrine mounted her horse and prepared for battle.
"Citrine! We're supposed to stay here!" Emerald shouted.
"Garnet said, if something happens, we're in charge. Well, I'm in charge and I say we go rescue Garnet!" Citrine explained.
"Fine, you're the boss,"
The two gems mounted their horses, and rode into battle. Upon riding in further, the gems realize, that the fireballs never stopped. Not only that, but the gem armor turned on the lunar guardians. The scene looked like complete chaos.
"Any officers out there?" a gem said on the the communicator.
"Colonel Citrine, and Captain Emerald present, " Citrine responded.
"We're taking major casualties, what do we do now?" another gem asked.
Citrine summoned her hooks and picked up the two garnet gems laying on the ground.
"Everyone retreat to the spire! Anyone stays any longer, we'll be wiped out!" Citrine explained. "Roger that Colonel," the troops responded.
Upon watching her troops retreat, Citrine saw reinforcements, charge through the smoke.
"We gotta move Emerald!" Citrine ordered.
The two officers turned their gem horses around towards camp. When they reached it, they saw gems dismantling, tents, and running to the warp pad.
"No time to dismantle tents! Just grab the healing water and nightshade and go!" Citrine ordered.
The gems nodded and ran towards the spire. Emerald and Citrine hopped off their horse and sent them both back to the spire. "Hey Turquoise! Can you help us with something?" Emerald called.
"We need to set up a self destruct, so we can buy sometime to prepare,"
Turquoise nodded. More gems dove towards the warp pad, as the officers set up the self destruct devise. Stampedeing feet, and fireballs were starting to sound louder and louder. The officers finally stepped on the warp pad, and were sent home right before the pad was destroyed.
Dang that was tense. If you think this was good next chapter is really going to get you! Going to be spicy, and unexpected. Love the reviews Spaceawonder! Keep 'em coming!