Still angry?
As they all sat at the counter Ruby entered with her chest puffed out and Sapphire's gem in her left hand. Everyone looked at her like she was crazy. Her eyes darted around the room looking at everyone.
"What up Rube?" Amethyst said viewing over her friend, Ruby looked straight up in her eyes. Amethyst was getting a little concerned as she saw that it looked like they were being sucked back into her head. "You okay?" she asked. A sizzling sound was heard and a little smoke was rising from the floor as Ruby looked at all of them.
"We need to discus what are we going to do with Sapphire's gem, it froze to my hand this morning." she looked at everyone, James could relate. Pearl was confused, did she really spend time with it last night in her room. "And some of my room." she added. "Most of my room." She sat on another stool and put down the gem. Burn marks were on the floor and Steven had had to sweep away the flies that went after the one day old pancakes. They weren't for them, they were for Ruby and Sapphire or Garnet.
"We could bubble it until we get the shard back." Steven suggested. Ruby looked like she was going to explode in fury but bit her tongue. How could he even think to treat Sapphire like some regular old gem monster and put her in a bubble! This was Sapphire they were talking about, his mom!
"But Steven, we have so many gems already in that room, she'd just get lost with all the other corrupted gems." Pearl reasoned. Steven sighed looking down at his half eaten plate of breakfast. Warm messy fried eggs, bacon, toast looked right back up at him. James had barely finished his extremely small plate and Amethyst had unfortunately also taken a bite of the plate with her meal. Pearl just had the usual, nothing. Ruby quickly went off outside without saying anything else.
They all looked out the window, there she was ranting to herself and leaving trails upon trails of glass near the shore. If it was a better time Steven would probably say something like; "Well it's not beach glass, but close enough." Right now he watched thinking that it was the Keystone motel all over again, only without a certain Pearl and Sapphire to rant on about to be mad at.
James sighed, he made Ruby angry like this. If it weren't for him Sapphire would probably still be here. And there she was, just heating up sand in anger. He frowned looking out into the ocean thinking about what Sapphire might look like. She'd have to cool glasses, have a star on her chest, shoulder pads, and be really short like Ruby, and of course she'd be blue. The ocean was vast, ans so was what Sapphire would look like.
"Hey um James," Steven looked at him, James looked back at Steven. "do you want to go out and um, go do some stuff." he suggested wanting to cheer him up. James hopped up the couch along with Steven as the two left. As they passed by Ruby Steven frowned as she heard her rant on something about bubbles, usually Garnet would ask them where their going or just use her future vision to see, but Ruby just ignored the two children. They ran off into town quickly.
Ruby watched them go off quietly. She couldn't yell at Steven and James. Sapphire wouldn't want her to yell. Garnet wouldn't do it, but Garnet wasn't here at the moment. She sat down on the sand as it felt hard on her butt. It was glass now due to heat. She mumbled something to herself angrily. She looked up at the house, she wanted to see what Amethyst and Pearl were doing. She walked up the stairs and stealthily looked in the slightly opened window.
"Amethyst what are we going to do?" Pearl said scrubbing a messy plate with the wrong side of the sponge on the wrong side much to her annoyance. Why wasn't it working, sponges were so complicated. Amethyst scrapped Steven's cold leftovers into her mouth and splashed it into the soapy water, accidentally soaking Pearl. Pearl shook her head angrily and clenched her fists.
"Oh Amethyst! Why you, you just!" she shouted, Ruby merely looked and listened on to the two. Jeez, was Pearl always this harsh on Amethyst when Garnet wasn't there?
"Sorry, I should just..." she miserably brushed her hair back going into her room. Pearl sighed then walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. Amethyst turned around and looked up at her, Pearl looked back down at her somewhat comfortingly.
"It's okay you didn't mean to." she smiled. Be Garnet she repeated in her mind, be a leader. Ruby was too angry, Steven was still a kid, and Amethyst wasn't right, Pearl had to step up as a leader. (Plus she was the tallest) They both walked over to the sink and Pearl washed while Amethyst dried. Ruby gave a confused look to them.
"It's okay." Pearl said letting go, she'd just dry off. "We'll get Sapphire back, and then we'll have Garnet back. As Steven would say; we'll be a family again." Amethyst sort of giggled at the joke, it wasn't really like Steven at all but still felt like him in some way.
"Yeah, one big Family." she smiled drying her half broken plate. She convinced Pearl to keep it, it'd be in her room. There was silence between the two for minuets. "Hey um, uh Pear?."
"Yes Amethyst?" she looked from down at the sink to the fellow crystal gem. Amethyst had a deep look in her eyes.
"Did you ever think about what it'd be like if maybe one of us or Ruby got chipped instead of Sapphire?" she said sheepishly. Pearl had the urge to yell at her for thinking of such a question, but thought about what Garnet would do right now. She thought about it for quite some time, Amethyst was now embarrassed at what she had said. She was going to yell, wasn't she? It was the worst thing to say to her, it was a very mean question.
"I'd rather it'd be me. I'd give anything to have her back, she's the best of all us. Her future vision is so useful, she protected all of us so well during the war. I might have been Rose's confidante, but she had her vision. She saved me sometimes with it you know before you came." she remembered her, Sapphire, and the war. She wasn't like Garnet, she was like Pearl. Amethyst had tears in her eyes thinking about what it'd be like to just be there.
"Really?" she looked in awe at the idea of her future vision in the war. Amethyst was younger, she didn't know Sapphire or Ruby, she had only known Garnet.
Ruby's jaw dropped and tears boiled then steamed up in her eyes. She sniffed and wiped her eyes. She ran over to the door, opened it, and hugged Amethyst and Pearl tightly almost as she could, well Pearl's legs. "I love you guys so much." she said with tears in her face. "And Steven."
"Uh, Ruby, you're, ugh!" she choked as Ruby hugged her even tighter. Pearl sort of squatted and hugged her too. They all smiled. Ruby just wanted to stay in this position for all of eternity.
Lower class gems were in a hidden building on Homeworld, Ruby's gauntlet whacked someone in the face so hard, a poof was heard. The crowd cheered as a magnetite collected the gem off the ground. The gem fights, you and another gem just smacking each other for fun. She took it all in smiling, she loved it. The next round wasn't her's, it was two other peoples' turn.
"Next up is Angle Quartz!" Zincon announced. She stepped back. Angle stepped out. She was big like a Quartz and her hair was short and white. Her rainbowy shimmering shirt was cut off at her stomach and she wore a short skirt and long thigh light gray boots. Her gem was on below her lip was clear and shiny.
"Before I go out and beat the loser, I'd just like to say congrats to Ruby. Who knew someone so small could kick so much butt." her voice was smooth and somewhat like the voice of the soon to be famous Rose Quartz. Other gems applauded just like she wanted them to. She put a hand on her hip and let one hang off to the side. "So who am I fighting tonight?" she cracked her knuckles.
People in the crowd moved away as Ruby saw two gems carrying another smaller blue gem. She was fighting them and kicking to get away from them. They threw her down near Angle Quartz who looked at her.
"We thought you'd like a practice round, got un of 'em off the street. Little miss high class." a Pink Sapphire snarled. (Pink sapphires are rubies that lack the stuff that makes them deep red making them pink.) Her hair was spiky and her outfit was punk and spiky. It was mostly black with light pink. Her gem was at her throat.
Sapphire looked up. She was afraid to face her, she wasn't all that strong. She stood up fiercely facing Angle. Angle summoned her weapon, it was a mace. Sapphire didn't summon her's though. She swung it, Sapphire dodged it. She wasn't strong, but she was fast and had her future vision.
After many swings Sapphire's foot caught onto her dress and she tripped, Angle took advantage with this. Sapphire went flying and then fell back down. Ruby ran out and slid in front of her as Angle was about to finish her. Angle growled at her, why would she do this?
"Get out of the way, shorty." she growled. Ruby stood her ground firmly and looked up at her glaring.
"She's not going to do this alone!" she jumped summoning her weapon and punching Angle in the face. A gasp came through the crowd.
Now it was Angle, Ruby, and Sapphire all in a fight. Ruby was on Angel's shoulders and tying to hit her. "Ruby, to your left!" Sapphire shouted. Ruby swung herself to the left and punched. Sapphire kept on shouting and Ruby kept on punching Angle. Ruby then jumped off as the tower of a gem toppled to the ground with a slam then a poof. Pink Sapphire collected the gem. The night was over after that, but something even greater had started.