p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center;"emThe Truth to the Tale/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Peridot sits in an airborne roaming eye with five rubies around her, looking fearfully at Amethyst, the purple gem holding her whip with it wrapped around the ship./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Amethyst grabbed higher on her whip, pulling against the ship. "You took away my trust," She grabs even higher, pulling the ship even lower. "you took away Opal," She pulled the ship even lower. "and now you want to take emher/em away." Amethyst got a good hold on her weapon, glaring at the yellow eye. "Well, you know, I think it's about damn time I take something important from you."/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;""That emthing/em took away our strongbaby/strong!" Sapphire shouted to a shocked Pearl. Her anger only rose as she stood, ice beginning to form on the ground around her. "I don't just want that freak to be defeated, I want to see the emworthless/em gem on its nose strongcracked/strong!"/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"The Crystal Gems stand, back to back, weapons ready for whatever horror they will be met with. There are buildings standing around them, most partially destroyed and in flames, the fires providing the only light in the pitch black night, only a sliver of the moon present in the dark, smoke-filled sky./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"A loud boom sounds in the distant, the ground shaking slightly. Another one sounds, louder and closer. Another comes, the force making small pieces of the towering buildings close fall. The Crystal Gems feel fear, but refuse to back down, keeping their footing as another, even more powerful quake comes. Hair peeks over the tops of the building, moving with boom. Soon, the shaking earth wasn't the problem anymore. With one last quake, a towering, shadowed figure begins to slowly come from behind the buildings, not even seeming to notice the group of gems. Yet, when its entire body had come into view, it took a look over to the Crystal Gems, the only visible features on it being its glowing eyes and the orange stripe on the gemstone on its nose/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Lapis Lazuli sits by the seashore, staring at the ocean, eyes empty. She wears a long, blue dress, a navy blue diamond depicted on it, though the water gem had been thinking about changing it, given her lack of loyalty to the reason for the symbol. She wore no gloves, the only cloth present being the pink piece she always held in her left. Her dark blue hair was styled in a pixie cut, her bangs dropping over her shoulders. Her eyes, usually a beautiful shade of blue, were dim and cold. She, for the most part, was unfeeling, save the pain resting deep in the pit of her stomach. She couldn't think about it long or she would be forced into a fit of tears from which there was nothing that could help her except time./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"She idly strokes the piece of cloth in her hand, waiting patiently as she looks deeply into the waves beating against the shore./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"You think you know their tales, the stories that I will tell. Well trust me you know nothing of how lives can become a hell./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"emstrongAuthor's note:/strong/emem And this is the final chapter of THoR…I'm not kidding. Don't worry, I've put the s/emem style="font-size: 14.4px;"equel out: Heart of Thorns. See you there!/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Peridot sits in an airborne roaming eye with five rubies around her, looking fearfully at Amethyst, the purple gem holding her whip with it wrapped around the ship./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Amethyst grabbed higher on her whip, pulling against the ship. "You took away my trust," She grabs even higher, pulling the ship even lower. "you took away Opal," She pulled the ship even lower. "and now you want to take emher/em away." Amethyst got a good hold on her weapon, glaring at the yellow eye. "Well, you know, I think it's about damn time I take something important from you."/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;""That emthing/em took away our strongbaby/strong!" Sapphire shouted to a shocked Pearl. Her anger only rose as she stood, ice beginning to form on the ground around her. "I don't just want that freak to be defeated, I want to see the emworthless/em gem on its nose strongcracked/strong!"/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"The Crystal Gems stand, back to back, weapons ready for whatever horror they will be met with. There are buildings standing around them, most partially destroyed and in flames, the fires providing the only light in the pitch black night, only a sliver of the moon present in the dark, smoke-filled sky./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"A loud boom sounds in the distant, the ground shaking slightly. Another one sounds, louder and closer. Another comes, the force making small pieces of the towering buildings close fall. The Crystal Gems feel fear, but refuse to back down, keeping their footing as another, even more powerful quake comes. Hair peeks over the tops of the building, moving with boom. Soon, the shaking earth wasn't the problem anymore. With one last quake, a towering, shadowed figure begins to slowly come from behind the buildings, not even seeming to notice the group of gems. Yet, when its entire body had come into view, it took a look over to the Crystal Gems, the only visible features on it being its glowing eyes and the orange stripe on the gemstone on its nose/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Lapis Lazuli sits by the seashore, staring at the ocean, eyes empty. She wears a long, blue dress, a navy blue diamond depicted on it, though the water gem had been thinking about changing it, given her lack of loyalty to the reason for the symbol. She wore no gloves, the only cloth present being the pink piece she always held in her left. Her dark blue hair was styled in a pixie cut, her bangs dropping over her shoulders. Her eyes, usually a beautiful shade of blue, were dim and cold. She, for the most part, was unfeeling, save the pain resting deep in the pit of her stomach. She couldn't think about it long or she would be forced into a fit of tears from which there was nothing that could help her except time./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"She idly strokes the piece of cloth in her hand, waiting patiently as she looks deeply into the waves beating against the shore./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"You think you know their tales, the stories that I will tell. Well trust me you know nothing of how lives can become a hell./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"emstrongAuthor's note:/strong/emem And this is the final chapter of THoR…I'm not kidding. Don't worry, I've put the s/emem style="font-size: 14.4px;"equel out: Heart of Thorns. See you there!/em/p