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Chapter 13: The Best Laid Plans

The wolf creature; Lazarus as Ron had codenamed him sat on the corner seat of the couch with his back facing a wall. He felt more comfortable there for a reason that he couldn't quite understand or explain. Maybe it was because nobody could sneak up on him this way; it certainly wouldn't surprise him. A cold shiver ran up his spine when he thought about what would happen to him if Obsidian got his hands on him. He found himself shivering until a warm hand on his shoulder stopped him. He felt himself relax as he looked up through the top portion of his hood. Sadie smiled warmly at him and he smiled back before looking back down at his lap. He was grateful for his rescue and the comfort he was provided, but he wouldn't ease himself into the illusion that he was safe; he had looked into beast's eyes and saw what true pain was. Sadie turned her attention to Lars who rested peacefully on Steven's bed on top of the covers. Not only were the lacerations and profuse bleeding severe he had gone into shock. Unfortunately this had to be fixed by a saliva infused drink; something that Sadie would never say two words about after this. The wounds on his arm had an unexpected reaction to Steven's abilities; rather than mending themselves instantly they slowly grew and converged back into one piece of flesh. Nobody wanted to watch the living muscles and veins patch itself together so they avoided looking at him altogether. The gems and humans sat together in the living room with nothing but silence between them Peridot included. She had no reaction for this; she couldn't even begin to think of one. Garnet held a suspicious gaze on Lazarus; something felt…wrong. The timelines she saw with her future vision were distorted and unclear; more so they always ended when it felt like something important was about to happen. She was shaken when he met her gaze though she kept this suppressed. She just couldn't understand what was happening and looking into his scared sad eyes didn't help. He only held eye contact for a moment before looking back down at his lap.

"Is he okay?" He asked softly.

"He should be fine," Garnet started. "His wounds are healing and his condition is stable; he's going to be dizzy for a while but he'll be fine," Ron let out a sigh and hung his head.

"This was our only chance. We needed to find out what his plan was! We needed something to go off of! We can't just go back to what we were doing before; we needed to know his motives! We needed to be one step ahead of him! What do we do now?!" Ron stated gradually getting louder as he went on, shouting in frustration and fear. Something clicked in Lazarus' head as a smile of childish joy forced itself on his features.

"I might be able to help you with that," He spoke calmly. In an instant all eyes were on him. He took a deep breath knowing that the story he was about to tell would be a long one. "I woke up in a field of strawberries and a lot of weapons,"

"The battlefield," Pearl interjected. "You must have been in the gauntlet temple," She explained.

"I didn't recognize myself. I didn't know who I was, or where I was, or what I was going to do next. I must've walked until the sun disappeared and came back at least three times. And then I felt pain a lot of pain, before It all went black again when I woke up I was in the temple," He looked to Sadie who nodded before he continued. "There were a lot of others like me there. We were all kept in one room they were just stumbling around with no direction in mind. I don't know how long that went on for, but it felt like a long time. I always noticed this one woman with black hair and one eye watching over us through a window that was too high for us to reach and too small for any of the flying creatures to fit through. The number of creatures in that one giant room kept growing and growing; after a while the light turned red, the stones that made up the room began to chip and the window turned into a balcony where Obsidian stepped through. They follow him and do everything he says; I think it's because he's the strongest. Over time I got closer to them, I listened to them. I heard the woman say that she had escaped from a place called the sea spire or the moon spire or something like that," Steven's eyes widened in horror as he looked to the gems for a reaction.

"The lunar sea spire," Steven whispered as if that was all he could muster.

"And after that she tracked down Obsidian in a place called the rose shrine or something along those lines,"

"It's possible that she was powering the enhanced gravity device that surrounded the spire." Pearl thought aloud.

"They kept on talking about another temple. Obsidian said that there were thousands of soldiers there maybe even millions. And that after he got them he would be unstoppable and that he could rule the world." Coincidentally he just then noticed the door in the back of the room. "Oh," was all he had to say about that discovery. The eyes of humans and gems alike urged him to continue. "I pretended to be like the others for a long time. IO watched the door as he sent more and more of them out to test how well guarded the temple was and pinpointing its location over time. But one day when I got too close to the door and it opened right in front of him. He had not ordered me to do that and he knew that if I was under his control I wouldn't have done it. I didn't even try to it just happened," Garnet put a finger on her chin some things were starting to add up. "He grabbed me and looked closely at my gem and when he saw it he dispelled me, but I came back right away. I didn't stay in my gem for very long at all. Finally he just put me in that tiny cage so I wouldn't have enough room to regenerate," He told the final part of his story as he pulled back the left side of his gi to reveal a purple gem over his heart. Garnet's suspicions were finally confirmed.

"You are or were an Agate, a very rarely but easily made gem used as a sort of skeleton key. The reason they were very rarely made was because there was always such a high risk of the enemy getting their hands on them. I'm guessing that you're how he planned on getting into the temple," Silence fell on the room once again. Steven was the next to speak.

"This is all my fault,"

Galway, Ireland

"Mysterious activity arises in a city half way across the world," A news reporter recited in a thick Irish accent. "Beach city, Delaware in the USA is a historically rich and often active city that has had a recent spike in inexplicable happenings some of which include giant holes in pavement, a straight line of pine trees that have been knocked off their stumps by sheer force, a violent random attack on livestock-"The reporter was cut off when the tv was flicked off. A shadowy figure sighed heavily.

"Those blades can't keep out of trouble for a couple of centuries," A gruff voice groaned (blade is Irish slang for girl).

ATTENTION: The Lazarus exposition scene sucked majorly. I tried it as a flash back, but it just didn't work. If any of you think you can I encourage you to write a better way of explaining everything that needs explaining. It doesn't have to be good to be better than mine. PM it to me if you write it.