Revalations

Chapter one

Lapis strained. Her arms weak and tired from keeping Jasper and Malachite under control. She closed her eyes and focused on the elements of her surroundings, the silence, and the suffocating darkness. It was terrible but Lapis was used to it at this point.

She focused her breathing but soon felt something. An overwhelming sadness. It was so strong it sent a pain throughout her chest. She felt confused, she hadn't thought of anything to make herself sad. It was abrupt. She sat there confused for a minute before realizing that if it wasn't her who was sad then it must be the gem she was fused with... Jasper.

The feeling was so bad that it sent tears into her eyes and made her choke up a bit.

She then felt the gem on the other side of her chains give up. The sadness then became thicker and got worse, something she didn't even know was possible.

She decided to pull Jasper up to where she could see her and her eyes widened in shock.

Jasper was in tears.

And she hated to say it but she felt bad.

Lapis didn't know what to do. Even though she had felt a terrible hatred for the other gem she also wanted nothing more than to go comfort her.

Lapis slowly walked over to Jasper and cautiously knelt down to come eye level with the other gem. When Jasper noticed her she didn't attack. Instead she fliched back a bit. Now Lapis felt a pinge of fear from the other gem.

Jasper was afraid of her.

Lapis found herself wrapping her arms around the other gem and at first Jasper tensed up but quickly wrapped her own arms around Lapis. Jasper sobbed into Lapis' shoulder and Lapis found herself slowly shushing Jasper while rubbing soothing circles on Jasper's back with her thumb.

Lapis felt the sadness weaken but not completely go away and Jasper looked up at her.

"I'm s-sorry" Jasper choked out. Lapis' eyes widened at the genuine apology but gave her a warm soothing smile.

She cupped Jasper's cheeks in her hand before whispering "It's ok". Jasper was visibly relieved and nuzzled into Lapis before looking at her with pleading eyes.

"Can we please unfuse, I-I hate here" Jasper begged. Lapis hesitated but slowly nodded.

From a distance Steven could see something emerging from the water. He squinted his eyes and stared and after a moment he realised what it was. He let out a gahsp and ran inside to get the other gems.

They all stared as Malachite slowly walked out of the ocean and onto the sand of the beach.

Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst were ready to fuse to fight Malachite but Stopped when Malachite lit up and Jasper and Lapis fell from the sky. Jasper held Lapis in her arms taking the fall so that Lapis wouldn't get hurt when they hit the ground.

Steven ran to the two gems and Pearl reached out to stop him but to no avail. He slowly approached the two gems and found that they were both passed out. Steven looked them both over for a minute before the other gems ran to him. Steven looked up to them for an explanation as to why they were asleep.

Garnet shook her head slowly "The emotional and physical strain must have gotten to them, Lapis will be okay"Garnet tried to reassure Steven. He looked up at Garnet with a confused look.

"What about Jasper" He asked. Garnet looked over to the mentioned gem.

  "We're going to bubble her" she replied. Steven immediately argued but Garnet wasn't having it. She separated the two gems and then poofed Jasper.