Prodigal Gem ch. 4
I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!
"-You hid it in your room!?" Screamed an angry Pearl.
After further assessing the damage, they'd found amethysts room to be a mess(well, more a mess than usual anyway). And that's when Amethyst realized that that the journal she'd been entrusted with to hide was gone!
"Come on guys! You've seen my room! It's like a black hole! What better place to hide it!?"
Pearl growled. "Of all the lazy, irresponsible- Do you realize what you've done!? Now we've lost one of Stanley's journals! The knowledge in that book...it could destroy the world!"
While amethyst and Pearl argued, Garnet thought about what this all meant.
Aside from the journal, the only things that were missing were all the bubbles(Including Centipeedle...She was not looking forward to breaking that to Mabel), also Scorpion and Lion(Mabel was never going to forgive them!) were gone from the quarantine!
Even more disturbing...She hadn't told the others yet...But her future vision couldn't pinpoint Dipper at all!
There were only two people she'd known before now that were able to block her sight, Stanley...And Bill. She shuddered as she remembered the day she meet Stanley...Bill...and those journals...
…...
The Gems were amazed by what they had just seen! They hadn't known what to expect when they explored this old Gem temple...but it hadn't been this!
How'd this human even manage to get into the inner sanctum? The traps nearly killed them! And they were Gems!
But even that couldn't compare to the fact that the human had successfully summoned Bill!
They'd heard the legends and fought his mad followers as all gems had...But never did they think that they'd be standing in the presence of the Gem Devil himself.
The Gems(even Rose!) was paralyzed with fear!...But not the human though! He just calmly stood there and addressed Bill! Even made a deal with him!
The Gems gasped at this! Was this human insane? Didn't he know that deals with Bill never ended well!?
Evidently not, because he was now asking for 3 books filled with all the Paranormal/Supernatural knowledge in the universe!
They appeared right into his hands, he began to open them-
GAAAHHHHHH!
Cried Bill as the human rapidly flips the book around to expose the contents to him!
The human had actually turned the tables! Apparently he deliberately worded the wish in a way that Bill would exploit it; so that he'd fill the journals with secrets that would drive anyone mad at the mere sight of it! Even Bill!
As Bill's mind begins to destroy itself; the Author approaches him with a new deal.
Let him off the hook for keeping his end of the bargain in the last deal, and give the books the power to stabilize insanity. And in exchange he'd show him the book to stabilize his sanity. Not having any other option...Bill agreed...
"T-this is impossible!" Shouted Pearl in disbelief.
"How could this...human...succeed where some of the greatest minds known to Gem-kind...failed miserably!?"
Amethyst was too busy looking at this human in amazement to answer.
And Garnet was too busy wondering how on earth this human was jamming her future vision!
And Rose- Rose was walking toward him!?
"Rose! What are you doing!?" Exclaimed Pearl.
Rose smiled. "I'm going to have a chat with the human that bested the devil!" Said Rose not even trying to hide her giddiness...
…...
Garnet smiled. That "chat" lead to a ten year long adventure of discovering the mysteries of the journals!
They'd learned things about the world- No, the universe that they'd never thought possible!
And thanks to the journals new found power of immunizing people for insanity...they stared into the face of Cthulhu...And they were fine! And that wasn't even the craziest thing they encountered!
It however became clear that Bill wanted those journals for himself. Evidently he'd been hoping to get them for himself after Stanley became a vegetable.
Apparently, he can summon knowledge when it's part of a deal...but he can't instantly know it.
And although the books were filled to the brim with knowledge(and also had numerous blank pages for Stanley to fill in)...it was a pain to find.
The journals had no index, no page numbers, no chapters, no sections, there was no organization of any kind! Stanley literally had to make a deal with Bill to find the page about synthetic gems!
Synthetic Gems...Garnet frowned as the current problem surfaced once more. Was it dipper's Gem causing this? Was this Bill's handiwork?
They'd always had their suspicions(the fact it was a Black Diamond certainly hadn't helped), but...
At that moment Pearl's fight with Amethyst had reached it's boiling point.
"-honestly, take what I did with my journal for example. Putting aside the numerous deadly traps that I placed there, I also placed it into inhospitable, unreachable, unlocatable-"
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Pearl paled as her private monitor showed a break-in at her "unreachable" Hiding-spot...
TO BE CONTINUED?
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