"I feel like today feels off some how?"

Sabo cocked his head "What do you mean by that Luffy?"

Luffy sighed "I don't know it just feels….. off"

Ruby punched him on the shoulder "Come on Luffy today's gonna be..." Ruby took out her dictionary and flipped to a page "Gonna be... FUN! So stop being weird or else I'll punch you again"

Ace ran out of the bushes "GUYS! SOMEBODY TOOK OUR KILL!"

"WHAT!" Sabo, Luffy, and Ruby mouths gaped

Fire exploded out of the gems head burning her helmet "Why I outta- WEVE BEEN TRACKING THAT CLOD HOURS. When I find the guy who took our prey he's going to have hell!." Ruby tilted down her hat and ran straight towards the bear leaving a streak of flames.

Sabo took a deep breath, "come on guys lets calm Ruby down before she burns the whole forest" The blonde followed up after Ruby

Luffy quickly tailed after Sabo "SQUARE WAIT UP! DON'T BURN EVERYTHING"

"Idiots" Ace followed after them

The bear just looked utterly wrecked, there was a huge gash on its head and its limbs look twisted; Ruby was raging mad.

"Look Ruby its nothing, its just a bear."

Ruby just exploded "NOTHING! NOTHINGG! WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THAT THING FOR TWELVE HOURS! TWELVE HOURS SABO!"

Sabo pulled out a water balloon, " Ruby cool it!" He threw it making the gem simmer

"WHY DID YOU-?"

"I AM NOT GOING TO TALK TO YOU WHEN YOU'RE MAD!"

Ruby took a deep breath and exhaled a huge amount of steam through her nose.

"Better?"

"Yea." Ruby muttered

"You can't just blow up like that Ruby. You don't think straight and you might end up getting one of us hurt."

"Sabo, I didn't mean to-."

"I know; that's why me and Ace come with water balloons incase you do"

"How come I didn't get any" Luffy puffed out

"Luffy we didn't get you any cause you would have thrown them all."

"Oh"

"Guys, the bear"

Luffy anxiously pulled his hat down covering his face "Do you think it's gramps who killed it?!"

"Definitely"

"Why are you guys assuming Garp did it and not some rock"

"One of its arms was twisted and it looked like it took a blunt hit."

Sabo took a closer look at the bear and realized Ace was right

Smoke started to rise out of Ruby as she paced in circles "What are we going to do? We are in no position to fight Garp!"

"Ok we need to sit down and think about this"

"Well we can't head back to the tree house; it's way too close to the hut."

"-And we can't stay in the woods. Last time when we tried hiding here he found us!"

"Maybe- No that's never going to work."

"What is it Sabo?"

"It's a horrible idea but maybe we could go to the Grey Terminal? It'll buy us time"

"Ether face death or go to a garbage pit."

Luffy was jumping up and down. "I think we should choose the garbage pit!"

"Yaaaa!" Ruby gave Luffy a high-five.

"Garbage pit! Garbage pit! Garbage pit! Garbage pit!" Luffy and Ruby chanted

"DON'T YOU IDIOTS REMEBER WHY WE'RE NOT GOING THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE" Ace hit the pair on the head

"Ooooooooooooh right Sabo's parents"

Ruby hit Luffy on the head.

"OWWWW"

"THATS FOR PASSING ON YOUR STUPIDITY."

"I DIDNT PASS ANYTHING! THATS YOUR OWN STUPID!"

"HA! NO. RUBIES ARE ANYTHING BUT STUPID."

"THEN HOW COME YOU DIDNT KNOW WHAT TREES ARE!"

"BECAUSE ON HOMEWORLD THERE IS NO TREES OR ANY ORGANIC LIFE AT ALL!" Ruby started to catch fire

"YOUR BOTH STUPID! CAN WE MOVE ON NOW!"

Ruby glared at Luffy "We'll settle intelligence laaaaattterrrrrr"

"Ya! Whatever that means."

Ace took a deep breath "Ok everyone there's a chance we could run into Garp if we stay here or a chance to run in with Sabo's parents if we go to the grey terminal"

"Their both equal in horribleness"

Sabo closed his eyes and evaluated his options "well if we go to the terminal there is a low chance they would be there; their nobles. Waaaaaay too stuck up to even thinking about going the terminal"

"Hmmm. I don't know Sabo I still feel uncomfortable with the whole idea"

"I second Ace's notion! We know nothing about your parents Sabo; at least if we're dealing with homeworld gems we would have some clue but theses are human nobles and for all I know they could pull something crazy if we get in there sight."

Luffy piped in. "Ya they might!"

"Why would the both of you say that?"

"Well with you humans your just so unpredictable. How can I even explain"

Sabo broke out in laughter "Ruby you got to understand that's only with us how we live is not even close how normal people. We live by instinct here and that means we come up with really uncommon solutions to common problems. These two live by instinct" Sabo pointed at Ace and Luffy

"Was that a complement or an insult?"

"Both."

Ace growled.

"So your parents don't work like that?"

"Ya, if anything they would send some guy to get me back instead."

"Well then I guess if it's safe then I'd say we go. We stand no chance against Garp"

"I still don't feel comfortable with this idea."

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Luffy looked high and low but he couldn't find what he was looking for, "CAN YOU GUYS FIND ME A TELESCOPE"

Ruby gave a big thumb's up "SURE THING HUMAN!"

"ILL KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR IT!" Sabo shouted back.

"FIND IT YOURSELF!" Ace was too busy pulling out something from one of the mounds of trash.

Ruby looked around for a good place to start looking for a telescope. The mound right in front of her looked super promising. Ruby dived into one of the mounds of garbage in search of the device.

Mean while Sabo looked around his pile and saw something that looked to be the end of a telescope, he yanked out the end and came out the telescope. Sure one of the lenses is cracked but Luffy would be really happy with this.

"HEY LUFFY I FOUND A TELESCOPE" Sabo noticed a big shadow blocked the light

"So you're that runt the humans have been looking for?"

"Huh?" Sabo looked up to see a women towering over him

She looked over the wanted poster to see if it was an exact match "For a human you put up quite a chase."

Ruby popped her head out of the garbage pile "HEY HUMAN I-" Ruby felt dead as soon as she saw her. What is a Jasper doing here? She's was talking to Sabo; with a grin any gem could recognize.

Ruby just felt her body move before her mind. "LEAVE SABO ALONE!" Ruby charged straight at Jasper. Reached out to her gem and on command the pipe came out.

The gem striked it right at her face but the Jasper quickly struck her down "A Ruby?! HA YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! Did Pink diamond really think I needed reinforcements that bad?!"

"I DON'T SERVE PINK DIAMOND ANYMORE! I AM MY OWN GEM!" Ruby called out her pipe again and began to charge at Jasper.

"A Ruby drawing out a weapon! This might be interesting" The Jasper reached out her gem and called forth an axe

The two weapons clashed "Tell me when did you start thinking that you were different from the other rubies?"

Luffy and Ace saw flashes of light in the distance

Luffy dashed towards the source "RUBY!"

"LUFFY! ACE! GET OUT OF HERE! SABO PLEASE GO WITH THEM" Ruby pushed back the axe with her pipe and with enough force pushed the Quartz into a pile of trash

"Ruby we're not going to let you fight this guy alone!"

"You have to! She's Jasper! And she set her sights on you as her prey; I can hold her off while you, Ace, and Luffy get out of here"

"Ruby what about you! You'll get killed"

Tears started to well up in the gem's eyes "As long as you, Luffy and Ace live I don't care"

"YOU DEFECTIVE CLUMP OF DIRT!" A wheel of fire shot straight at Ruby

The Gem was quickly put under the Quartz's foot.

Ruby was feeling the pressure under Jasper's foot "Why are you huntin

g my brothers"

"Why should I tell a defective soldier like you."

Ruby felt the Quartz weight crushing her as she was trying to crawl out of her foot "BECAUSE THEY ARE MY PURPOSE!"

"LEAVE SQUARE ALONE!" A stretched out hand grappled to the Quartz neck pulling her back, freeing Ruby.

"AUUUGGHHH" Jasper looked to see the source of the interference was a human grappling tightly to a tree while his arm was tight around her neck "No way" she quickly whipped around grabbing the humans arm and pulling him off the tree and hurling him to a near by trash heap.

Jasper walked over to the human who was arm was stuck in heavy metal "Human's with abilities like gems? I thought those were rumors. Pink diamond would certainly want to see you"

"DIAMONDS ARE A BUNCH OF STUCK UP JERKS" Luffy spat at Jasper

"Nobody insults the Diamonds!" The Quartz pulled out her axe

Ace came out of nowhere kicking the axe out of the Quartz's hands" LEAVE MY LITTLE BROTHER ALONE!"

Jasper kicked Ace thrusting him into a pile of garbage.

"ACE!" Ruby bolted towards him "Are you ok?!"

Ace got up holding his rib " I-I am fine I've been through worse; that A$$ $&&0 wants to hurt Luffy and Sabo. I-I can't make it there fast enough; Ruby don't let her hurt them"

"I promise I won't" flames start to rise out of Ruby as she charges straight towards Jasper. "I TOLD YOU WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU MESS WITH MY COMMERADES!" Ruby swung at the Quartz as hard as she could making the Quartz move slightly

"That's cute. You honestly think you can beat me"

Ruby felt herself getting backed into a corner "SABO, LUFFY, ACE GET OUT OF HERE! PLEASE-"

Jasper swung her axe, slicing Ruby in two.

Ruby dispersed leaving a red gem behind.

"R-ruby" tears started to well up in Luffy's eyes as he collapsed to his knees. "RUBYYYYY"

Sabo was in shock. "S-she just killed Ruby"

"SABO! LUFFY! RUBY ISNT DEAD!"

"R-really?"

"ACE SHE WAS SLICED IN TWO! HOW IS THAT NOT DEAD!"

"Ugh-how can I explain this., RUBY IS A ROCK! SQUARE TOLD ME WHEN IT HAPPEDED BEFORE!"

"This happened before and you didn't tell us!"

"That was a stupid move on my part! But Ruby is really in danger we can't let-"

Jasper picked up Ruby's gem "Those who don't fit their purpose should die."

"We can't let anyone shatter her!"

Sabo charged straight at Jasper grabbing her arm. "DONT SHATTER HER!"

"What-"

"ILL DO WHAT EVER YOU WANT AS LONG AS YOU DON'T SHATTER HER"

Ace eye widened "SABO-"

Jasper dropped Ruby's gem and grabbed Sabo's arm "Your parents were looking for you." The Quartz pointed towards Luffy "And you brat; I'll be telling pink diamond about you."

Luffy broke his arm free of the pile and ran after Jasper and Sabo but something was pulling him back; he looked back and saw it was Ace tightly gripping his arm. "Ace! We need to go after them!"

"Luffy. We can't. Sabo.. Sabo was willing to give up his freedom to keep us safe. You saw how strong Jasper is! She could have taken you away and killed Ruby! And me …. me and Sabo can't live with ourselves if anything were to happen with you two!"

Luffy looked at Ruby's gem "Will Square really come back?"

Ace put his hand on Luffy's shoulder "She said she will the last time she's done this; I honestly don't know"

Luffy picked up the red gem off the ground "Ruby please come back." Luffy hugged Ruby's gem tightly "Don't be dead please!"

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HEY GUUUUYYYYS GUESS WHOSE BACK! Ya I was gone for like 3-4 months buuuut I UPDATED! I was busy with my own projects. Liiikkkkee writing an original story about a knight from the renaissances waking up in present day. Thank you all for giving me sooo much slack and not coming to my house and lecturing me of how I am keeping you sweet hearts waiting on a cliffhanger. Remember you all this story isn't a main priority to me, I am drawing and writing like a fiend to get into major art colleges for animation (That way I could make more nerd trash in the world) but anyways I do not like to keep you lovely cinnabuns await but one of the main problems isss I need somebody who can read and beta AND CRITIQUE MY WRITING BRUTALLY as in ULTRA ENGLISH TEACHER BASHING A FANFIC WRITERS DREAMS OF BEING LEGIT OF BEING A LEGIT WRITER AND IF YOU ARE WILLING I WILL SEND YOU THE STORY ROUGH DRAFT. But please I really need somebody to read this before hand and suggest ideas or something the story needs. Like I know with the last chapter with Sake I didn't describe him enough but I would have never known that unless someone (Cough cough you guys) read this and told me. And to me a beta is like Future vision; someone sees the problem before hand and tells someone his or her choices to prevent a tragedy And I Have no future vision so please someone be my Garnet and prevent me from being roasted alive in front of millions. Oh Ya JASPER MURDERED THE BEAAARRRR. And please critism is welcome and methods of how to practice is welcome.