"Phos, you need to watch your balance next time. Remember your hardness is level 3.5, anything can break you." Morganite said to the fallen down, new gem.

"Aw come on! I'm way stronger than that!" Phos picked herself up and suddenly there was a loud clunk on the floor. Both Morganite and Phos look down only to find Phos' broken hand there. Phos groaned and picked it up. She was made only 4 weeks ago and she had already broken pieces of herself off 39 times.

"Sheesh, isn't there a way for Rutile to replace parts of me for some stronger stuff? I keep breaking! I don't want to make Sensei worry anymore than he needs to." Phos spoke as she made her way to Rutile's office. As she entered she found herself staring at a very bright, shining Diamond, giving her warmest of smiles to the doctor treating her broken leg.

"Dia, I don't think overworking yourself like this is healthy. Maybe you should find another partner besides Bortz." The doctor said as she put together Dia's broken leg. Phos could tell that Rutile was rather tired, although she always had that look when Phos had to come in for another fix up.

"No no, it's alright. This is all my fault. I just can't seem to find a good fighting technique to match up with Bortz. Next time I'll get it for sure!" Dia smiled. She wasn't going to give up Bortz that easily. Bortz was hers after all. It also helped that Bortz seemed to enjoy her company! She also needed to learn how to better herself for everyone's sakes; Bortz was the only person who could help her do that. Dia clutched onto her uniform tie, pulling it slightly. Diamonds can't show any signs of mistakes.

"Uh sorry to bother you, but uh…" The mint green gem held up her broken hand. There was no way Rutile was not going to tell her off for this.

Dia, not haven seen Phos due to much needed training and patrolling, jumped up and hugged her. "Careful, I just attached that leg. If you move too much it won't set and I'm going to have to reattach it all over again." Rutile signed. Fixing up gems was a tedious work indeed.

"Is this the new gem everyone was talking about? She's so cute! Oh my goodness I can just hug you forever! What's your name?" Dia squeezed the new gem tightly, cracking her spine. This gem was absolutely adorable! Dia loved adorable things.

"U-Um, Im Phosphophyllite, Phos for short and I would really like to ask you to please not squeeze me so hard cause I'm going to brea-" Phos' spine cracked in two, leaving her half split body to fall to the ground, causing the poor innocent Dia to let out a small shriek in shock.

" Oh geez, Rutile is going to have fun repairing me now. Isn't that right doc?" Phos took a look at Rutile to only see her with her hand on her face and let out a long sigh.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't know you'd be so weak! What's your hardness?" Dia said as she picked up the broken pieces of the Phosphophyllite and neatly placing them on Rutile's table. A new gem this weak? She won't make it when battling the Lunarians. Bortz is going to hate her. Dia giggled at her thought. The thought of Bortz maybe hating her gave her a relieving feeling.

"I'm only a 3.5, so I kinda suck. I only hope that Rutile can find some stronger stuff for m-" Phos was interrupted by an angry Rutile slamming her tools onto the table. The poor gem widened her eyes in fear. She had upset the Doc.

Rutile sighed yet again and explained to Phos something she had already explained to her many times. "You can be fixed up by material with the same or similar hardness to you. To fix you up with other stronger material will only hinder your movement and most likely make you immobile. Your body will not be able to handle such change. " Phos groaned.

Dia stood there and watched as the young gem was put back together by Rutile. "Why do you want to change so much?" she blurted out. Dia was surprised at the sudden words that came out of her mouth. She, herself, has been thinking of changing herself so she wondered why a fresh, new and young gem wanted to do it so quickly.

"Isn't it obvious? I wanna be of use to Sensei. The other gems havre already told me I might not be able to fight the Lunarians because of my weakness, but I want to surpass that and show everyone that I can! I wanna be more than just a weak Phosphophyllite. I want to be something other gems can look at and think, 'I want to be just like her!' or, 'Phos is so cool and brave! She's an amazing gem!' Stuff like that is what I want to be. Not something so easily broken by something so simple as the ground."

Dia's eyes widened. An intense feeling of worry came over her. A gem who was so weak, that even a simple tap from a sword can break her, wanting to overcome such huge obstacles just to show everyone they're truly great, felt so… familiar yet strange to her. The familiar feeling of wanting to be the best she could be but she couldn't quite pinpoint the other, mysterious feeling. Dia wanted change but she could never truly express what sort of change she wanted. All she knew is that Bortz was most likely the key to that change.

"I hope you achieve your goals then Phos! I'm sure you can do it!" With that, Dia left running, having the sudden urge to train harder than ever before. She must push herself more and more. She must change. Everyone will look at her. Everyone will like her. Bortz will-

Dia bumped into something hard as soon as she turned towards a corner. She caught herself mid-fall and readjusted herself. A smile grew on her face as she knew this hardness.

"Dia, I see our training has been working. The fall was good, work on it some more." Bortz said with the same stern face he always had. Dia's smile brightened the entire room whenever she was around Bortz. Bortz couldn't help but look away whenever she smiled like that, it made him feel embarrassed, but that's not something he would say out in the open.

"Bortz! I was just heading to training! I'm so glad you noticed my fallback! I'm working real hard! Working with you has made me better than ever. It's perfect!" Absolutely perfect.

The stern, darker diamond, looked at the pure Dia in front of him. It was time he said something. "You're overworking yourself. I'm sure you've already heard this from others but since you seem to have this strange fascination to me, I'll tell you myself: Take a rest. It would be best if we separated for a few weeks, maybe then you'll get your common sense back. A gem who can't train as hard as I can can only handle so much. You already broke your leg on battle due to your wavering. I don't want a partner like that with me. Either remove this strange fascination towards me and take a break, or we will never team up like this again." Bortz crossed his arms. Hopefully a stern talking would finally fix her up. After all, he didn't want anything bad to happen to her. She was his partner and for the years they've been together now, she was the only one to actually be able to handle his serious nature. She was special to him, although he would never say that out loud, it would only lead to an opening for a weakness.

The glistening Dia's light seemed to have died down after what her moon had said. This immense sadness came over her. It engulfed her and all she could do was stare with an open mouth at her beloved partner. A partner in which she could find no faults in suddenly telling her to get away from her. A partner which told her he would leave her. Dia clutched her uniform and fell to her knees. She felt strange.

"Diamond? Are you alright?! I'm going to take you to Rutile." Bortz picked up the fallen Dia and began running towards Rutile's office.

Being carried by Bortz felt so nice to Dia. It almost made all those bad feelings go away. It almost made her crack on the spot. In fact, she was cracking. Her whole body was shattering itself bit by bit, making Dia slowly lose her consciousness. The only thing she could hear was Bortz telling her she was going to be alright and something else she couldn't quite comprehend. With her consciousness slipping away, she looked at Bortz face. He looked strange. This wasn't something she normally saw and if anything, hadn't seen once since teaming up. Bortz always had a stern look, so why did he look so different now?

Dia felt herself being placed on a somewhat soft surface and felt Bortz's presence disappear. She looked forward but could only barely see Bortz talking to Rutile through her cracked face. Making out the sounds, he sounded extremely different. Dia smiled with whatever strength she had left. A diamond was not supposed to crack so easily like this. Why is she cracking? Why is she being useless? Dia shouldn't be useless.

Suddenly a thought came to Dia's head. Looking at Bortz now, she realized what this strange feeling towards him was.

This feeling was-

"DIAMOND!" Bortz shouted as every bit of Dia's body cracked into tiny pieces onto the table. Rutile hurried over to fix her up, meanwhile telling Bortz that this was probably caused due to an exposure of mass amounts of physical exertion or incredibly large feelings of sadness, cracking a gem not able to withstand such emotions, even with the hardness of 10 from a Diamond.

Bortz was in shock. He didn't know what to say. All he did was tell Dia the truth. She was the only one who could withstand his harsh criticisms without being scared and running off. What has he done? He made such a harsh training workout that she felt she wasn't good enough unless over exerting herself.

As Rutile went to get more ingredients in order to piece back together Dia, she noticed something about Bortz that no one has ever seen.

For once, Bortz had a worried look on his face.