Chapter Seventeen: Legend Has It

Pink Diamond was just there to watch the fight. Nothing more.

She'd felt like performing an ambush, but that'd be too…revealing.

Instead, she brought back the data and worked with it. The Steven had newfound abilities, making a strong opponent for a child. The Gems were capable of impossibly formidable fusions, as she knew from the previous war.

The previous war…

The Gems were adults for at least two thousand years, or you could say one year for them.

They had been a fusion that the tribes had worshipped as a god.

But their identity was concealed from all, especially their name.

Pink Diamond just called the fusion "Mis-hap."

Mishap had been fused since the day all the Neo Gems met each other. That was also when they meet the two original Diamonds, Blue and Pink.

Pink Diamond hated their guts already.

She and Blue Diamond fused into a giant monster to counter their fusion.

They were known for their blue-fade-to-purple arms and body and four vivid lavender eyes. Their body shape was similar to Lapis when she fused with Jasper into the Malachite fusion, who was nowhere close to the non-fusion Malachite. Their legs changed color, but were occasionally platinum.

They were known by the forbidden and unspoken name.

They were called Orichalcum.

That also explained the sphere above the Diamond Spire loaded with orichalcum.

Mishap had just about taken down Orichalcum, but was defeated in the process as well. The base Gems regenerated, but it was a process of fifty thousand years before they came back. And here they were, roaming free, possibly fusing again soon.

Yes, Orichalcum's strength made them regenerate for fifty thousand years. But Mishap's valor did the same.

Ancient legends told of two deities clashing over control of the planet, and that was how volcanoes, ravines, and such were formed. These deities WERE the two Gem fusions.

There was a third deity, however. And it was NOT a fusion.

It was Yellow Diamond.

But she's long gone now.

Because of Mishap and Orichalcum's fighting, an earthquake formed below Yellow Diamond and closed when she fell in, devouring her.

They never found her gem.

Probably crushed in the process, like Titanium's poor Diamond.

Oh.

Her.

Him.

They were definitely coming back, even if it was the last thing the Protectors did.