Hi! I'm back again with chapter 3 of my first story! Please enjoy it, I worked hard on this one!
As they walked, they found the temple, but a strange cavern, never noticed before was right under it. Davis, entering first, walked in slowly with a flashlight in his right hand, keeping his left hand free, just in case.
As he walked in, his light was getting smaller, and then, it started getting bigger, and then he said, "It's alright for the first few yards! You can come in!" Amethyst, being herself, ran in with Steven at her side as fast as possible, having fun on the way in. Pearl grumbled, and walked in slowly. Amethyst, seeing a teasing opportunity said, "Pearl, why are you walking slow? I thought you said you moves were..." But Amethyst didn't finish, because Davis had fallen down an unseen ravine, plummeting into the darkness below. Steven watched as the light got smaller, and smaller, and smaller, until he couldn't see the light anymore.
The dark cavern was now frightening to him, he started to panic, "What if Davis doesn't make it back up? What if there's a Gem Monster?" Steven started to hyperventilate, clutching his hands on his hair, but then a Giant Hand came from the deep abyss, and Steven ran for Pearl, looking for something to protect him from the monster. The hand grabbed a huge rock beside Steven, wrapping itself on it, then, when the hand stopped coiling itself against the rock, Steven saw that at the end of the hand was Davis, looking like he had something sharp stabbed in his arm, as he grabbed the ledge and pulled himself up, said, "Nothing can get rid of me that easily..." and then he fell to the ground. Steven ran for Pearl, and found that, was knocked Davis on the ground was a Gem Monster, it came form the same ravine Davis fell into, it was green, big, scary, it had 6 tentacles for arms, and at the end of them were giant claws. Davis getting up, summoned his weapon, it was a red baseball bat, but, it wasn't an ordinary one, it had spikes on the end of it just in case they enemies was really tough. Davis swung furiously at the Monster, with Pearl and Amethyst following, and Steven hiding behind a rock. They were fighting like there was no tomorrow at the monster. Davis was slamming the one of monster's arms, Pearl stabbing the top of it, and Amethyst whipping at it's front. Davis managed to hit one of it's arms off, but he didn't notice another arm coming for him, it grabbed him hard, swinging him ferociously around the cavern. Steven then heard loud cracking noises coming from Davis' direction, and then, he said during his extreme pain, "Steven, you are the nicest kid I've ever known, and for that, take this!" he threw at Steven's direction a bow, just like Opal's, but it was gold, and it has silver outlines. Davis took off his bandanna threw it at Steven and said, "Tie it around the..." and before he could say more, there was a cloud of dust, and only a gray Ruby was left behind.
Just as it happened, Pearl stabbed the monster ferociously, and it only left a cracked peridot. Steven ran over to the gray Ruby, and said, "What do I do? I've dealt with this before, but Pearl, your gem never lost it's color!" Steven asked, with tears starting to form. Pearl didn't know what to say, she had only seen this once before, but she never understood what it meant. "I guess, this means he needs to regenerate for alot longer than we do, I'll keep it safe, I promise, Steven." Pearl said in a kind voice.
As they went back to the temple, Steven noticed that the fog was now gone, and garnet went out for a mission by herself. "Garnet!" Steven asked, almost yelling, "What does this mean?" he held up the grey Ruby to Garnet. Garnet said nothing, just went over to Steven's TV. "What? I am asking you a serious Gem related question and you ignore me!?" Steven said, this time yelling, at Garnet. All Garnet did was put one finger to her lips, and then, with her gems, turned on the TV. This time, instead of the channel where Crying Breakfast Friends, it was a picture of a gem that had an Amber on the bottom part of her back, and the TV turned towards Steven and then said, "When Gems get really hurt in battle, they go to their gems to regenerate," the TV then switched to a picture of the Amber now laying on the ground, "but, sometimes, Gems can get seriously hurt in battle, they do go back to there gems, they have to use the color of their gem too, to help them regenerate better" the TV then switched to a picture of the amber with no color, "but, do not worry, the color will be restored soon and they will come back, but, if the gem's color is not already black, like a Onyx, and the gem turns black, I am sorry, but the time to say goodbye to them has now come." the TV returned to it's original stance, and shut off.
Garnet turned to Steven, then said, "Who's gem is this, and why were they here?" Steven, shocked to hear Garnet say that, said, "It's General Ruby's. He got hurt trying to save me from a Vicious Gem Monster." Garnet, almost having a surprised look on her face, said, "What were you were doing, and was it defeated?" Steven then said in his Serious Steven voice, "We were investigating the strange things that were happening on here at the temple, and he came to help us, and yes, it was defeated." Steven said, while holding up the peridot. "Good Job Steven, Pearl, and Amethyst. I hoped you liked that adventure." Garnet said, then left into her room.