A/N: Sorry, meant to put this up yesterday but didn't get the chance. Enjoy!
Chapter 19: The Labyrinth
Garnet had called a meeting for all of the Gems. It was very important.
"I think it's time for us to go there…" said Garnet.
"You don't mean…" said Pearl.
"All right! I was wondering when you were going to al for it." Said Amethyst.
"What are you talking about?" asked Steven.
"A couple centuries ago we found this old giant gem maze, we don't know what it was for but it was crazy!" said Amethyst.
"There were a lot of gem monsters in there, right?" asked Mirajane.
"So many that once we were able to escape that we made a promise we wouldn't go back until we found a way to purify the monsters." Explained Garnet.
"In order to increase your numbers." Said Robin.
"Should 't we wait until we get Tenten and Vivi?" asked Sakura.
"Maxixe hasn't attacked in a while." said Robin.
"And after Mira and Erza's fight I'm sure she still needs sometime." Said Pearl.
No one could argue with that after that fight left a crater in the desert.
"Should Steven be going?" asked Sakura, "I mean this doesn't seem like something he should be doing."
"Steven is beyond D rank." Said Hinata.
"If you say so." Sighed Sakura.
"D Rank?" asked Amethyst to Lisanna who shrugged.
They all took turns to the warp pad, until all of them were there. It was a strange room with many corridors.
"All right everyone be carful." Said Garnet, "There are a lot of traps here."
That was when Steven stepped on something.
There was a rumbling noise.
Suddenly a huge rock ram for the celling. IT was about to crush Steven but Sakura pushed him out of the way. However while neither was crushed it started moving to one of the corridors, pushing the two as well as Nami who was near the corridor inside.
"Steven!{" yelled Pearl.
"There wasn't any blood so he seems fine." Said Robin.
"That's not helping." said Pearl.
"Don't worry, we'll find them." Said Garnet, "Just be careful there might be another trap."
That was when there was another noise.
Mirajane looked to see she was the one that stepped on it this time.
"Sorry…" she said.
Then it turns out where she was standing and Pearl and Robin was a trap door and the three of them feel down which then closed up.
"Pearl's gone…" muttered Amethyst, "Just great."
Amethyst leaned against a wall. Turns out said wall was another trap. A trap that caused the wall to spin on a place platform, turns out both Hinata and Erza were on that platform. Both of them were now on the other side of the wall.
"Did this happen last time?" asked Lapis.
"No…" answered Garnet, "But there are more people than last time so I think that might be the case."
"We should go look for them." Said Lisanna.
Garnet stood there for a second.
"All right this way." She said.
Meanwhile with Pearl's group. All of them were in a purple net.
"It's a good thing there's a net here." Said Mirajane.
Robin laughed when both Mirajane finally noticed the net was made of arms.
The net was slowly lowered until they made it to the floor.
"How are we going to find our way our?" asked Mirajane.
"Don't worry." Said Robin, "Ojos Fleur!"
Robin smirked.
"This way." Said Robin.
"Wait how do you know?" asked Robin.
That was when an eye appeared on Pearl's arm causing her to scream.
"I can duplicate my eyes." Said Robin with a smirk.
The eye disappeared.
"Glad you we got seprated with you." Said Mirajane.
Meanwhile with Amethyst, Hinata and Erza, Amethyst was banging on the wall.
"That's not going to work." Said Erza, "We just need a way to get out of here."
"Byakugan." Said Hinata.
"This way!" she said.
"It's a good thing she's here." Said Amethyst.
Erza nodded.
With Steven, Nami and Sakura.
"You okay?" asked Sakura.
"I'm fine." Said Steven.
"Looks like we're trapped here." Said Nami, "Great just great… why did this have to happen?"
"I just realized something." Said Steven, "None of us can find a way out!"
"Wait… you're right… Garnet has future vision, Hinata has the Byakugan and Robin can make new eyes." Said Nami.
"Oh man… this is great…" muttered Sakura.
"Hopefully one of them will find us." Said Steven.
"It will be fine." Said Nami.
She picked up a stone and began to crave a mark on the wall.
"This will help us if we get lost." Said Nami.
"Great idea!" said Steven.
"It's not as good as the other things but it will work." Said Sakura.
And so they headed out.
Meanwhile with Robin, Pearl and Mirajane.
"I found a set of stairs." Said Robin.
"That's a good sign." Said Mirajane.
They got to the stairs, which of course led up.
"All right let's go." Said Pearl.
"Wait…" said Robin, "It's a dead end."
"What!" yelled Pearl.
"The stairs suddenly stop at the top." Said Robin.
"You have to be kidding me…" muttered Pearl, "Who would build something like that."
"Well considering that this was built by the gems for some evil reason it kind of makes sense." Said Mirajane.
Meanwhile with Hinata, Erza and Amethyst.
"So Hinata how exactly does your eyes work?" asked Erza.
"I can see almost 360 degrees, as far off as 10 kilometers and it's a little like x-ray vision which is the main thing I use for fighting." Explained Hinata.
"Wait if it's like X-Ray Vision…" said Erza.
She began to blush.
"Erza!" said Hinata blushing.
"Oh yeah… she might act all cute and innocent but she sometimes uses it for that." Said Amethysts smiling, "Trust me on it… I've seen her…"
"Amethyst…" said Hinata blushing even more.
"Really." Said Erza.
"We shouldn't be talking about any of this!" said Hinata, "Now not the time to be focusing on it…"
"Sorry I got distracted." Said Erza, "Which way."
"That way." Said Hinata pointing in the right direction.
"All right let's go." Said Erza.
"That was a weird shift." Said Amethyst.
"That's Erza for you." said Hinata.
Meanwhile with Lapis, Lisanna and Garnet.
"How long have we been here?" asked Lapis.
"For about 10 minutes by my guess." Said Garnet, "Why?"
"Didn't you say this place was filled with Monsters?" asked Lapis.
Garnet froze and turned towards Lapis.
"Wait you're right." Said Lisanna.
"Why haven't we seen a monster?" asked Lapis.
"I'm getting a bad feeling about this." Said Lisanna.
"We have to find him soon." Said Garnet.
Meanwhile with Pearl, Robin and Mirajane they continued their search for a set of stairs.
That was when they found another set of stairs.
"It's a dead end too." Said Robin.
"Okay." Said Pearl.
They got to another set of stairs, which were upside down.
"We can't go up those…." Said Pearl.
"Sorry." Said Robin.
They found yet another set, this time just a normal spiral.
"Still a dead end." Said Robin.
They got to another spiral staircase… however this one was upside down.
"Again!" yelled Pearl.
Mirajane giggled.
"It's not funny!" yelled Pearl.
Meanwhile with Hinata, Erza and Amethyst.
"So…" said Amethyst, "All of your swords and armors are your gem created weapons?"
"That's right." Said Erza, "Each one is based on one I owned when I was a human."
That was when Hinata stopped.
"Hinata what is it?" asked Amethyst.
"I found something… something that isn't right." Said Hinata, "its a few rooms that way…"
"What do you mean?" asked Amethyst.
"Is it one of the monsters?" asked Erza.
"It is… but it's not normal…" said Hinata.
She looked a around a little
"If we go this way we can avoid it for now…" said Hinata, "We should find the others first…"
"How bad is it?" asked Amethyst.
"One of the worst…" said Hinata.
Meanwhile with Sakura, Steven and Nami they continued on their way with Nami making marks.
"Steven… are you should be here?" asked Sakura.
"IS this about him being too young?" asked Nami.
"How do you know?" asked Sakura.
"I lived with Hinata for three year, the subject of D Ranks have been mentioned a few times." Said Nami.
"Oh yeah she mentioned them a couple times too." Said Steven, "Mostly about the cat."
"I hated that mission!" yelled Sakura, "That dumb cat kept escaping!"
"I know you're worried about me but I've been doing missions for a while now." Sid Steven, "They're dangerous, but I'll be fine."
Sakura was quiet.
"Okay." Said Sakura.
"You know…" said Nami, "You're the newbie with this one."
"Oh yeah, this is tour first gem mission." Said Steven.
Sakura blushed a little.
"Let's keep going." Said Steven.
Meanwhile with Garnet, Lisanna and Lapis.
"What's this?" asked Lisanna.
Garnet saw what Lisanna saw, it was a making,.
"This mark is fresh." Said Garnet touching it.
"Maybe someone made it." Said Lisanna.
"Probably Nami since their the only group with out someone to get out of here quickly." Said Garnet.
"Oh yeah." Said Lisanna.
"We'll follow the marks and we 'll find them." Said Lapis.
The three nodded.
Meanwhile with Hinata, Amethyst and Erza.
"I found one of them!" said Hinata.
"Lead the way." Said Erza.
"But it might take a while to get to them." Sighed Hinata.
"If you say." Said Amethyst.
"Which group?" asked Erza.
"Oh it's Garnet, Lisanna and Lapis." Said Hinata.
Hinata found some paths that help them get there.
At the same time Garnet stopped.
"Good news." Said Garnet.
"What?" asked Lapis.
"Hey!" they heard.,
They turned to see Hinata, Erza and Amethyst.
"Good you're okay…" said Lisanna.
"So looks like we're half way there." Said Lapis.
"We just need to find the others." Said Hinata.
"We're on the trail of another group, we think its Nami." Said Lapis.
"That's a relief." Said Amethyst .
"wait… before we continue there's something I have to tell you." Said Hinata.
Meanwhile down below, Pearl, robin and Mirajane found yet another found yet another set of stairs.
"Please… please tell me it's a real set this time." Said Pearl.
"It is" said Robin, "Oh…"
"What is it?" asked Mirajane.
"Just be quiet." Said Robin.
Meanwhile with Steven, Nami and Sakura.
"Is that a set of stairs." Said Sakura.
"It seems that way." Said Nami.
"Should we go down?" asked Steven.
"If we can't find anyone else. "said Nami, "Then we'll come back here and look down there."
Sakura nodded.
That was when Steven started screaming.
"Something's touching me." Screamed Steven.
Both Nami and Sakura saw what it was. A Purple hand.
"Seriously!" yelled Nami.
That was when Pearl, Mirajane and Robin came up stairs, Robin was laughing a little.
"Sorry I couldn't help myself." Laughed Robin.
"Steven thank goodness you're alive." Said Pearl hugging Steven.
"What happened to the others?" asked Nami.
"Well… I ended up setting off another booby trap." Said Mirajane.
That was when they heard a growling sound.
Robin send some eyes to the location.
"What is it?" asked Nami.
"It's a monster." Said Robin, "And a big one."
That was when the monster came out of the hallway, it was very big and blob like with many eyes and many mouths.
However the thing that was the worse thing was that it appeared to have many gems all over its body.
"It can't be… it's impossible…" said Pearl staring at the monster.
"Is that…" said Nami.
"A fusion monster." Said Nami.
"Run!" yelled Pearl.
They all ran with the monster following them.
They managed to find a large chamber. However the monster followed them.
It made a strange noise, as if it was laughing.
Many of its mouths began to shoot out a liquid. It his Pearl and Robin.
"What is this stuff?" asked Pearl.
"I don't know." Said robin.
Both of them tired it run, but the stuff was like glue and wouldn't let them run.
"This is bad…" said Nami.
Sakura summoned her gloves.
"All right!" she said.
She went to punch the monster but it did nothing.
The monster created a tentacle and slammed Sakura into a wall before gluing her.
That thing is a fusion." Said Pearl, "Get out of here!"
Steven covered himself, Mirajane and Nami in a bubble.
"We're not leaving!" yelled Steven.
"What?" asked Nami and Mirajane.
"I'll protect while you two fuse." Said Steven turning to the two.
"It's crazy enoguh for it to work." Said Mirajane with a smile.
"You just want to fuse." Said Nami.
"I haven't gotten the chance." Said Mirajane.
The monster attacked the bubble however sending it into a wall.
"Maybe it's better we don't try it in the bubble." Said Nami.
"Yeah." Said Mirajane.
Steven got rid of the bubble and Mirajane held out her hand. The began to do a very up beat dance and once it ended there was a bright flash of light.
There stood a very tall (much taller than Hinami and Opal) woman with orange skin and long orange hair that was very wavy. She wore a tank top with a white sash and a darker orange skirt. Her gems stone were tiger's eye on her chest and one of her shoulders.
"This is interesting." She said, "At least it's not headache inducing… oh yeah Byakugan."
The monster made multiple horrible roars.
"Let's hope this work." Said the fusion.
"All right go Namira!" cheered Steven.
The fusion dubbed Namira (as both names shared "Mi") nodded. She summoned both the clawed gloves and two pieces of Nami's staff. She then combined the two in a set of a twin maces.
She spun the maces, one of them caught on fire while the other was arcing with electricity.
"All right! I'm all fired up!" giggled Namira causing Steven to laugh.
"There's an inside joke there…" said Pearl, "But I don't know what it is."
Namira jumped high into the air hitting with the fire mace an area where there were a few gem. The fire burned the monster and she was able to get a few of the gems free.
The monster roared as it lost a few of the mouths and eyes.
"Catch!" called out Nami tossed the gems to Steven.
Steven nodded and handed a couple to Pearl and Robin.
"I guess I should teach you how to bubble." Said Pearl.
Robin nodded.
As Pearl taught Robin to bubble, Namira continued her fight.
She used the lighting mace to electrocute the monster, and just electrocuting it got another of the gems free once again weakening the monster.
They were caught and bubbled before nay of them could revealing their true form.
Meanwhile with the other group.
"I found it." Said Hinata, "Everyone else is fighting it!"
"How bad is the satiation?" asked Erza.
"Nami and Mira have fusion!" said Hinata.
"Lucky…" muttered Amethyst.
"we should help them." Said Hinata.
"What about the others?" asked Garnet.
"Pearl and Robin are glued to the ground and Sakura's the same but stuck on a wall." Said Hinata, "Steven's fine though."
"That's good to hear!" said Lapis.
They headed to where the fight was going on.
Back in the chamber, the monster continued to get smaller and less blob like, but it was still an abomination. It tried to use the glue on Namira, but she blocky spinning the fire club, which burned the glue like substance.
That was when the others arrived.
"Need help?" asked Hinata.
"Sure do!" said Namira.
"Lapis you should see if the glue will dissolve in water." Said Garnet.
Lapis nodded sending some water to Robin and Pearl's feet, which did melt the glue.
"All right!" said Pearl.
They continued the get rid of monster of the gems, however even Hinata's gem destabilizing abilities didn't help that much other than cause more of the gems to fall off.
While it was no longer a blob it still was a horrific mass of limbs and mouths and that seemed move much better than when it was a blob.
"Lapis do you have any cold water?" asked Namira, "I want to try something of."
"Of course." Said Lapis creating some water.
"Turn it into mist!" said Namira.
Lapis nodded.
Namira quickly spun the fire mace, which did indeed create a cloud.
"Today's forecast calls for severe thunder storms" said Namira.
She spun the lighting mace and the cloud grave off a giant lightning bolt that seemed to be five foot wide. Thankfully Steven covered everyone in the bubble so they weren't effected.
"That was much more powerful than I excepted." Laughed Namira.
Indeed this did kill the monster a giant lighting bolt would.
They picked up the remaining gems and bubbled them.
"Well that fun…" said Namira.
"Fun?" asked Amethyst.
"Why was that thing so weak though?" asked Erza.
"Well if I to guess that while it was a fusion monster it was extremely unstable, so unstable that it had no strengths what so ever and it's only attack seemed to be that glue…" said Namira, "Which makes since they already were unstable to begin with… also I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that the monsters were here so long that they somehow all of them just fused, and since this is a unique place it would make sense that it was a unique thing…"
Everyone stared at Namira.
No one wanted to say it but she came as bit of a ditz.
Then again that seemed to be something she got from Mirajane.
"Do you think you can un-fuse now?" asked Lisanna who was little weirded out by her sister fusing.
"Of course." Said Namira who defused to Nami and Mirajane.
"That was fun." Said Mirajane.
"Did you already say that as Namira?" asked Amethyst.
"We should go find the Warp." Said Garnet.
"Wait!" yelled Sakura.
They all turned and realized they did forget something as Namira mentioned.
Sakura was still stuck on the wall.
"Oh right…" said Lapis.
After getting her down they searched for the warp. "
"So what was your first time?" asked Lisanna.
"It was." Said Mirajane.
"But it my second." Said Nami.
"When the first." Said Sakura.
"A fusion with me." Said Hinata blushing a little.
"It would be a good idea to learn how to fusion." Said Robin.
"Oh yeah doesn't it involve dancing?" asked Lisanna.
"When we get back we should start training in learning how to fusion." Sid Erza.
Garnet stopped.
"I don't thin that's a good idea after today…" said Garnet, "Or any time soon…"
"Okay…" said Erza, "But I should let you know back home I was known as the Dancing Demon…"
"I can see that." Said Garnet.
Garnet saw the future where they did practice that night… and Garnet had seen in that vision that nickname was indeed because of her skills in dancing…
Indeed they took on the maze that they left so many years ago… which was much easier than it would have been…
However they still didn't know when Maxixe was going to appear and it was something that they had to be ready for…
However they now was able to make Namira… so that was something could use in the future…
Next Time: Hinata and Sakura need to come up with a plan on how to reach Tenten, can they figure it out? Find out next time!