Chapter Eighteen: Refuge
One stab.
Down.
Bubbled.
All of it happened in a flash.
Onyx appeared behind Jet, using his lance.
He stuck the gem to another obelisk, this time more secure, and sent it away.
He took Tiger's Eye's gem.
"How could you have brought this upon yourself? I swear, this happens too often."
He felt the golden ring around it, then looked at Malachite, who was staring up at the sky.
A Gem Warship, and it arrived ten seconds after it was visible.
The two led the Gems into Malachite's cave.
It was pretty much the same, except there was only a mat stretched out in front of the waterfall.
There was a door there which led to his room in the Temple, which acted like Rose's room in the way that he could hide the cave entrance by summoning an object.
Steven was the first to go into the cave for obvious reasons.
Once the ship landed, thousands of Gem warriors poured out.
Pearls, Howlite, Serendibite...
The list could go on for a long time.
This is it, thought Malachite.
We could use this to go find the armor sets we need to destroy the Tower of Impurity.
He didn't care it the armor was too big or not.
He didn't care how many sets there were.
He was just determined to protect this planet with his friends by his side.
Turquoise put a hand on his shoulder.
"What are you thinking?"
He looked her in the eye.
"It might seem crazy, but we need to escape. We need to go to the Strawberry Fields."
She flinched. "We're going to go dig for the armor?"
Malachite nodded. "We need it to take on the Tower of Impurity. I know what's going to happen."
She looked at him.
"There are crystals in all of the towers we'll eventually take on. In the Spine, there was a crystal deep in the Cerebral Core. We ignored it. If you crushed that crystal, the corresponding Diamond would be weaker."
"What are you saying? Doesn't the Tower belong to Black Diamond?"
He nodded.
"Yes, but he's not around anymore. The other Diamonds aren't either. The only one left is Yellow Diamond, so surely the crystal takes on the color yellow because there's no one else to control it."
"Ah, so that's how it works. Let's go out there and get this over with, then."