"Soooo...where are you?" Steven's flip flops slapped the floor creating an echo as he walked to the throne. He noticed a dark shadow in the middle of the throne and diamond but he couldn't tell if it was human, gem or even alive.
"Upon my rightful throne my young gem" Steven's eyes lit up in realization "you're in there?! That's...that's actually really sad..." his eyes died down for he thought the stranger was stuck.
Garnet summoned her gauntlets to try breaking the gem encasing "warriors...your weapons cannot pierce my gem...you see...it lives like you do, but in a different state...even if you could cut through it, it would simply regrow."
Amethyst and Pearl still pulled out their weapons ready for either a fight or to help "Steven! Get away from that throne!" pearl cried out in a motherly but stern tone as the diamond slowly began to crack.
"What's going on?" he took a few steps backwards as the entire throne seemingly exploded from the Elder Gem standing up, it's gem removing themselves from their master. As if they had a mind of their own the scattered pieces shook violently on the ground.
"Back to sleep my children..." the scattered pieces quickly placed themselves someplace within the kingdom.
There was a beautiful diamond crown placed upon the Elder Diamond's head, a diamond the size of Pearl's upon its forehead, a beautifully carved heart shaped diamond placed upon the heart. All of it's jewelry was made of diamond that complimented the two (four in total) diamonds placed upon the palms and back of the hands.
But the Elder Diamond contained no visible form besides armor. Its armor was crafted from gold. There were gems seemingly embedded into the shoulders and ran down the arms.
A barbute helmet, bevor (neck piece), gorget (neck piece), cuirass (chest piece), hauberk (mail shirt), faulds (protects hips and waist), pauldron (shoulder pads), couter (elbow pads), gauntlets, tasset (upper legs), cuisse (lower legs), poleyn (knee pads), and sabatons (cover the feet).
Steven's eyes became stars at the sight of the warrior before him "whoah! You're so freaking cool!" Pearl on the other hand was having a sort of panic attack "y-you ma-match the description of the Elder Gem..." her breathing became fast as she spoke.
"Do not be afraid young pearl, I wish no harm to come upon the quartz army" the throne now clear of any diamonds the Elder Gem sat back down "why did Lion bring us here? What do you want from us?" Amethyst spoke with irritation.
"Amythyst! That is the Elder Gem! Practically our "parent" as Steven would call them, our CREATOR...you can't simply speak to an Elder Gem like that! Especially not a WHITE DIAMOND!" Pearl and Amethyst glared at each other until Diamond rose a hand.
"Please...no fighting..." their hand lowered "I do not know as to why, or even how, your 'Lion' found the path to this kingdom for I did not call upon this lion. You five should NOT be here..."
Diamond raised a hand as if to halt their speech but the entire room shook as two swords that adorned the walls detached and into their hands. Everyone but Steven readied their weapons "guys! we don't need to fight!" he looked back at his friends in a pleading manner.
Diamond rose from their throne and properly equipped their weapons "Young gem..." Steven faced his new possible friend "yeah?" Diamond carefully kneeled down "I promised a Rose Quartz many years ago that I would only ever bend my knee to someone worthy of my follow, I promised that gem I would fight with her in battle if ever needed...all she need was to call."
Steven put a hand on Diamond's knee in a sort of respect "Her spirit follows you...it is within you..." the Elder Gem placed a hand on Steven's head "if you ever need me whether for battle or protection...call me however you wish...I will hear no matter how it is done."
Slowly Diamond rose from the kneeling position and stood up straight "it has been many years since I have talked to anyone other than the other Elder Gems...but the five of you must leave immediately...if you stay any longer my kingdom could be in danger, the other and corrupt Diamonds could find my kingdom. I cannot risk it's safety for a minor task such as talk."
Steven pouted "is it ok if I call you so we can hang out?" Diamond stared down at the boy "I understand loneliness...if that is what you wish young gem..." although one could clearly see Pearl being upset at the idea of Steven calling such a powerful gem to open something like a pickle jar...no one commented on it.
Diamond stood at the foot of their throne as the crystal gems left the area on Lion's back, they thought long and hard about the crystal gems. Could the young gem known as Steven Universe be the leader to the next war? The war that will completely change homeworld?
I'm so sorry for the lack of chapters I had to do a wedding project that was major points and I just finished a 65 or 100 point project in ELA so I had to focus on those first. I am also sorry if this chapter was quite short compared to the other I realized that I meant to cut the first chapter when Steven goes back home because he's afraid to be places without the other gems after Jailbreak (or where it says -back at Steven's house-). But I figured that I might as well leave it there rather than making everyone think I made two whole chapters while gone.
I tend to do a LOT of research when doing fanfictions, although they are fanfictions, so I had to look up the components of medieval armor (you should be able to type in exactly that and get the wiki I used for the armor set). I included that in so people could draw fanart of the character if they really wanted to but my idea for the armor was a daedric and nordic armor mix (from the Dragonborn DLC) from the Elder Scrolls video game Skyrim. I also use the website for the basis of this story and why the diamond gems are placed in those certain spots...because of Chakra points. Go to that site to read on exactly why Elder Diamond has those gems in those spots.
But be warned that that might contain spoilers as to Diamond's behaviors or what they can do...so do that at your own risk, this website was actually the huge basis for helping me figure out Diamond's character so this site could be a huge spoiler...possibly. But then again if you research Chakra points that could also "spoil" some stuff I think but that is once again up to you guys to research/read on that sort of stuff. But don't worry I do my research, I don't think gold armor would maybe be the best but I meant it to be more of a color rather than material. That you guys can decide on yourselves since I don't work with metals. The most I did with metals was for my Big Hero 6 fanfic where I had to google a bunch of stuff on Tungsten Carbide, how to break it down, melt it, harden it, it's melting point, etc.