"You disappear for a year and go on a rampage, and then come back acting like nothing happened?" said Rose, her cheerful voice slightly dark. A condescending tone almost. "You've a lot of nerve pulling that off."
"What is wrong with you?" said Garnet. "It's disgusting how you're able to just, shatter someone like that. You're a monster."
Amber stepped back a little. "But I was just following orders." said Amber His back against the temple door. "Rose, you told me to-"
"Oh just cut the shit already." shouted Garnet.
"Honestly" said Rose stepping behind Garnet. Her smile just barley noticeable, but Amber caught it. "Must you blame everything on me?" She was definitely smiling. A large grin printed on her face.
"No." said Amber, he held his arms up. "This, this is a joke. Right? Just a funny welcoming party for completing my mission."
"You're a desperate and delusional creep." said Garnet. "You cling to Rose like an animal. You might as well not be a gem at all!" Tears began to flow down his face.
"But, what about all the time we spent together?" asked Amber, stepping closer to Garnet. "All the missions we went on. I even met Ruby and Sapphire." Garnet shoved him against the temple door.
"That was a mistake." said Garnet. The temple doors activated, opening up to cold hallway. The last thing Amber saw was Garnet's disgusted look on her face, and Rose's evil smile. Almost like she was enjoying herself, like she was almost enjoying his pain.
"For the next five hundred years you'll stay here." said Rose. "Until then, think about how you could have avoided this." And with that Amber stayed in that hallway for over five thousand years.
"So sad." said a mysterious voice. Amber turned away from the screen, looking for the source of the voice. It sounded faintly familiar, almost like he knew the person speaking. "I wish I had known."
"You lie." said Amber. "No one wants to know, I don't want to know. I'm just a bloody shadow, just like Rose wanted me to be. Just like the diamonds, just like the other Amber's. I was a success, but I was defective. I held feelings, love and joy. The only things I could ever feel, though small. It still made me wrong. So I was thrown out by my diamonds and fellow amber's, only to be picked up by Rose and thrown out once again." Out stepped Steven from the shadows. Amber was quite surprised that he imagined talking to the little boy he'd only just met. "Now I'm nothing without a master, without a friend."
"I can be your friend." said Steven with his arms spread out, like he wanted to hug Amber!
Amber chuckled "I've got a great imagination. I'm so lonely that my subconscious made you the new person talking to me in my head." Steven looked worried, now that was something he hadn't seen in forever.
"I'm not fake." said Steven stepping closer to Amber. "I'm real, I can talk to others in their dreams."
"Now this is new. You're much to elaborate for you to be my imagination." Amber sat down and thought to himself. "I must be going crazy, maybe i'm corrupt? Jeez if I knew that shattering myself would take me back to the hell I was stuck in for five thousand years then I would have never done it."
"You did what?" screamed Steven, he looked shocked. "That shouldn't be possible, I'm talking to you right now. You can't be dead."
"Well it's the harsh truth." Amber got up. "Amethyst watched me fall to my death, if you're real then she'll tell you what I did."
"Oh no, this isn't right!" screamed Steven as he melted away, and Amber saw a flash of light.
Amber reformed, confused at where he was. He looked up the cliff, in the distance he saw the base in the far distance. No purple gem in sight. "Bet she went to tell a now happy Garnet that i'm dead." Amber fell on his knees, smashing the ground with his fist. Tears flowed down his face like a waterfall, but he refused to make the sound of crying. The sound was an ugly one. Instead he pounded on the ground with his fist, breaking the sharp rocks into small pieces. Amber reached around his back, feeling his cracked gem. "At least I made it halfway there." Amber looked around, he refused to go back up to the base. Instead walking down the mountain, the cold snow feeling great on his bare feet. Though temperature didn't effect him, the feeling of snow was amazing. He stumbled down a bit, his form glitching and threatening to change forever. He was use to it but that didn't mean he liked it. Amber kept walking, wanting to find a bigger, even steeper cliff to fall off of. "Something to finish what I couldn't even do." he kept muttering to himself until he found what he wanted. Another large drop off, without a purple beauty screaming at him. He looked off the edge, there were sharp rocks at the bottom, perfect! Amber turned his back to the edge and smiled to no one. He was going to die just like he wanted, just like everyone else wanted. He fell, the wind whipping threw his hair. It was music to his ears, until he heard someone screaming. It must be because his gem was cracked, yeah that was it. His eyes were shut, and he waited for his beautiful end to come. He felt the sharp rocks on his back, but only for a second. As he was pulled up by a whip with purple blades on them. He crashed into a gem, her soft lips on his. They stared at each other for awhile before Amber got off Amethyst. "Is this what I get for finally dying? For doing everyone a favor, because if it is. I wish I had shattered myself sooner!" Amber went in for another kiss but instead was met with a hearty slap to the face, and Amethyst crying.
"But I saw him, I swear." said Steven "He was watching you and mom lock him away." Pearl tried to comfort Steven, while Garnet just looked annoyed.
"Maybe it's like what happened with Lapis." muttered Pearl. "And If that's true, let's hope he was only cracked."
"I hope he was shattered"said Garnet. "No you don't" said Garnet again.
"Oh no"said Steven "Ruby and Sapphire are fighting again" and with that, Garnet split into two. Leaving Ruby and Sapphire fighting on the floor.
"This hasn't happened in years" said Pearl
"Have you forgotten that he shattered gems like they were nothing. Like they were just things that didn't matter!" screamed Ruby.
"You have to understand." said Sapphire "He was forced to, by Rose. I've seen it with future vision. He's a tortured soul, believing that he has no right to live. He's so sad that he's been pretending that none of that never happened. Hopping that we had forgiven him, but of course your hotheadedness drove him away. Yes he did horrible stuff, but he didn't know what else to do! He was made to do everything he was told to do, to be a gem perfect enough for the diamonds."
"Well I don't care." said Ruby. "He's still a bitch that ruined everything." Sapphire slapped her forehead, giving up on trying to explain it to Ruby.
"Um, great to see you guys again." said Steven. "It's been awhile guys."
"Hello Steven." said Sapphire in her normal monotone voice. "You've gotten pretty tall, not as fat-"
"Hey" said Pearl
"-and grown your hair out." Sapphire gave the thumbs up. Ruby was stomping around, muttering to herself as she began to set the house on fire.
"Oh no you don't" said Steven as he grabbed Ruby and threw her out onto the beach. Where she left a trail of sharp glass behind her every step.
"Now we have to fix the problem of where Amber and Amethyst went" said Pearl.
Steven yawned. "How about we wait until morning? Cause I'm still sleepy."
"Yes, of course. Good night Steven" said Pearl in a motherly tone. With that, Sapphire was left sitting on the floor, with no where to go.
"You idiot." screamed Amethyst. "Why would we want you to die?" Amber looked at her.
"So, I didn't make it to the rocks did I?" asked Amber, sadness reaching his eyes. He sighed. "Why cant you just let me fall. It was so much fun."
"Excuse me?" said Amethyst "Fun? You would have been shattered! You're already cracked"
"And?" said Amber "It's not that big of a deal. Mistakes happen to mistakes, that's just how the world is. That's just how I am." Amber smiled at Amethyst. "Though I'm kinda glad I didn't get shattered." He moved closer to Amethyst. "Because this happened." Amber leaned in for another kiss, and Amethyst slapped him again.
"That kiss was a mistake!" she said, blushing furiously, "Nothing more, nothing less."
Amber grinned. "Then that was the best mistake to happen to me." Amethyst looked away and blushed. "Thank you." Amber leaned on his back, expecting to feel the ground. Instead he fell off the cliff. But this time, he didn't feel happy. He felt empty, without noticing he shoved his arm into the side of the cliff. Effectively stopping himself in the most painful way possible. He grunted loudly as he began climbing the cliff with his hurt arm. Amethyst looked over the cliff and saw Amber struggling.
"You know you can always ask for help." said Amethyst sticking her arm out to Amber. Amber gladly took it and landed on top of Amethyst again.
"Is this another mistake" asked Amber, this time more hesitant to lean in for a kiss.
"Oh yes" said Amethyst with a smile. "A very nice mistake." and with that, they kissed. There lips not separating for what seemed like hours as the sun rise made there bodies glow. When they did finally separate, they just stared into each others eyes.
"I need to show you something." said Amber "Before we do, this, I need to show you who I am. What you'll have to deal with if you decide to take this seriously."
Amethyst nodded. "I'll be ready"
"No" said Amber "No you won't be. They're never ready." Amethyst wanted to ask what he meant by that, but just followed him up the mountain. To the base.
Amethyst looked at the security video in horror. Amber wielded two swords, shattering every gem in the base. Whether or not they were a solider. His eyes were crazy looking, black wrappings covered his mouth and nose. "There's more then the video." said Amber, and Amethyst already knew what he was talking about. Amethyst thought that because she had already seen it that it wouldn't be as bad as it was. But the terror was worse then the first time. Amethyst screamed when she saw it, Amber closed the door and wrapped Amethyst in his arms. "I'm so sorry, but you have to know what I am. You have to understand why Garnet wants me to die." Amethyst cried into Amber's shoulder. She cried, and cried, and cried. Looking up at Amber, she was surprised when she saw Amber crying. Not making a sound, just letting the tears drop onto the ground. Amethyst pulled Amber closer to her and whispered into his ear.
"I love still love you, you know" Amber smiled and looked at her.
"What a cruel joke to play on a gem." Amethyst pulled him into a kiss. And there they stayed, until the tears stopped flowing and dried on there face.