A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this up. I had finals last week; plus, the weeks before, I had to write a couple essays for English Comp. II and work on some projects for Creative Writing and Mythology. Well anyway, now that my freshman year of college is behind me, maybe I'll use my vacation time to work on some new fanfics. (I hope so anyway.) Ciao!

When they finally met up with Khaidarkanite, she'd already stripped herself nude for some inexplicable reason, much to the confusion of her guests. She actually didn't mind them seeing her like this, but they weren't whom she'd shed her clothes for. Nevertheless, she welcomed them inside.

"Eck!" Pearl exclaimed in disgust. "Kai, why are you naked?"

"You mean Pyrite's not here yet?" Khaidarkanite asked back. "If he is, could you let him know what I plan to do later tonight?"

"We don't have time for that right now, Kai," Rose interjected. "We were attacked while Kitane was preparing to sacrifice that bull!"

"So?"

"It looked like another Gem, but we've never seen her before."

"I'm listening now."

"Blonde, white eyes, could shoot lightning from her hands... do you know who we might be dealing with here?"

Khaidarkanite tilted her head back and forth in confusion for a bit before finally shaking her head and answering, "Nope nope nope. Would be cool to shoot lightning out my limbs, though." She chortled at that.

"Kai, this is serious. We need to find a way to stop her before this escalates into omnicide and solving her identity could help us do that. Now tell us: do you know anything about the Gem we just encountered?"

"Well, I've already said no, but..."

"But what?"

"What you described earlier reminds me of a Cubic Zirconia I've been hearing about lately."

Rose's pupils shrank into practical nothingness. "A Cubic Zirconia?"

Khaidarkanite eagerly nodded her head. "Yeah, that must be it. I keep hearing about this Zirconia lingering around... with the chancellor of Chalcopyrite, no less. Can you even believe that? After all these nymphs he's dated and the motherfuckin' queen, now he's got this enhanced beauty of a jewel."

In an instant, Rose knew who the light blue Gem was talking about. She could hardly grasp this herself. First, he bailed out on the Earth colony and now this? However, she knew better than to blurt out her suspicions right then and there, so instead she kept quiet.

"Unbelievable." was all Garnet could muster up.

"You know where she came from?" Rose asked once more. "Tell us anything we might know."

"I dunno, actually," Khaidarkanite returned. "Maybe you can ask him back at Chalcopyrite, hmm? I bet he knows a thing or two about that figure."

Meanwhile...

"Yaahhhhh!" someone shrieked in the Heavens above.

"Mother, what's the matter?" asked a golden chubby Gem goddess named Heliodor. "Did an overzealous atheist denounce your existence?"

The yellow-orange goddess Amber groaned while clutching her head. "No, nothing of the sort, dear," she answered in a pained monotone.

"Then what is it?" asked the shimmering white Gem goddess named Selenite. "Tell us, Mother."

Amber couldn't help but shudder at first, but then she spoke. She said, "I just now realized that someone stole one of Pumice's artifacts and is using it for their own selfish goals."

"B-but how?" both of her daughters asked at the same time.

"I don't know," lamented Amber. "But we have to do something before this situation gets out of hand! We need somebody who'll be willing to go hand-to-hand with this wicked soul, but who could we find to take this on?" She thought about this for several minutes, first going over some of the legendary Gem heroes who'd taken on some of the pantheon before eventually settling on...

"Rose Quartz!" she squeaked.

"Rose Quartz?" both her daughters asked again. "As in the Younger?"

"Yes, her!" their mother snapped. "I don't know why, but I have a feeling that her kind heart and her undying love for the humans will be enough to stop this fiend once and for all!"

"Where is she anyhow?" Selenite asked separately.

"You were expecting me to be omnipotent? We have Malachite for that. Speaking of... why don't we send him to the blue planet to find her?"

"Are you sure that'll work?"

"Was I able to give birth to four children in just two days? Then it has to work. Quickly, we must find him!"

Back on Earth...

"You think she came from your dimension?" Eudoxia was asking Rose.

"Well, it seems very likely," answered the pink Gem. "I don't think we've seen her around here before and if we did, we'd certainly remember."

"So why are you telling me all this?"

"I'll explain later, but let's just say that if we don't do something about this, the entire universe will be in jeopardy."

"And you know this how?"

"Garnet forecast it with a kiss."

Just as the homely Minoan priestess was about to react to that answer, a winged mammoth-sized green-irised eyeball materialized right before them and pretty quickly established himself as a force to be reckoned with.

"Are you a god?" was the first thing to come out of Eudoxia's mouth, albeit in a barely-audible squeak.

"Yes, I am a god," the eyeball answered humbly. "But do you know what I'm capable of?"

"Well-" The priestess was a bit stumped.

Rose gasped as if starstruck and was quick to interrupt. "You can send hurricanes with just one flap of the wings alone, you can see as many as about a million years into the future, create devastating floods with your tears and even outmaneuver your own son Zeolite! Why, you're Malachite, the god of prophecy!"

"Very good, very good," Malachite said as calmly as he could muster up. "I knew you were the one."

"The one?" Rose couldn't help but ask. "For what exactly?"

"You're the one who will save the humans and the blue planet as a whole."

"You mean from her?"

"Exactly. Now would you like to come with me for a moment? I assure you it won't take long."

"Why? Where are we going?"

"To meet my wife, the original Venerable Goddess."