Steven Universe and the court of Blue Diamond.
Chapter One.
"Heya Steven!"
The sound of his name being called made Steven Universe look up from where he was crouched on the boardwalk, his gaze was out towards the sea and he had a pensive expression on his face. When he saw Sadie Miller from the Big Doughnut approaching however he could not stop the smile.
"Hi Sadie!" He cried out happily as he stood up and glanced at his friend with a bright smile, Sadie was wearing a black jacket over her usual clothes and she had a doughnut bag clenched in her first, the sweet aroma of fried dough drifted from the bag and Steven couldn't deny that aroma was almost irresistible. "Are you heading home for the night?"
"Yeah, just finished closing up. Kinda surprised that I didn't see you in there today." Steven could understand that, he was always in the Big Doughnut when it was open and he would be in it when it was closed but then that would technically speaking be breaking the law all thought his guardians had always said that human laws were too confusing and he shouldn't have to follow them if he didn't want to.
But he didn't want to cause problems for Sadie and Lars and so he had resigned himself to waiting for the days when the Big Doughnut was open. Though if it were up to him favourite place in the entire world aside from Home and his mom's sanctuary.
"Sorry Sadie, I was busy. Holly Blue wanted me to practice trying to use my Gem powers and she said that I had to take it seriously." Steven had never been allowed to accompany anyone on any missions, not until he could his super secret amazing diamond powers.
He had been really trying hard ever since Holly had been asking him to start with his training, he wanted to join the rest of the gems on missions. It kind sucked that he had to spend most of his day waiting for them to come back, not that he didn't like hanging out with Dad or anything cause Dad was great but he wished could go on adventures and save the day just like the rest of the gems did.
"Oh, well. I guess I will see you later, you should head back home soon Steven. It's going to be dark soon. Bye!" Sadie cried as she turned and began to run down the boardwalk. Steven jumped to his feet and waved his hand as the girl ran down the boardwalk away from him.
"Bye Sadie, see you later! Give Lars a hug from me!" He cried out as he watched Sadie diminish into the distance, he glanced towards the sea once again before with a sigh he jumped down on to the beach and ran towards the cliff, running around it to the other part of the beach that was hidden from sight.
Steven saw his quarters, made up of a living rom, his bedroom in the loft of the quarters, his bathroom and his kitchen. He knew that most people would call it a house but to him it had always just been his quarters. His home was the temple and his quarters were just the part of the temple in which he happened to live.
He glanced up at the statue which held his quarters safely in two of her giant hands, she had eight arms but the hands off all but three had long ago broken off. Several of those hands were littered on the beach, though some had long since been carried out by the tide.
Aside from the multiple limbs however, the strangest thing was that the woman had two faces on one head. One on the top which was gazing up into the sky while her lower face was gazing out into sea. The statue almost seemed to be looking out for any oncoming threats from any direction.
He ran up the wooden steps which he could just vaguely remember watching being built on a hot summer day, up to the porch. He opened the door and was about to call out when a slender sharp darted out of the side of his vision and scooped him up into their arms before jumping out of the way of a glob of green fluid landing against the floor of where he was standing.
Steven found himself in the loft of his room, the green glob was eating through the floor of where he had been standing. He looked up at who had saved him and found himself staring up a woman with a blue cone nose with messy hair covering her eyes from view, she was dressed in a light blue body suit and a sheer skirt that sparkled in the light. "Thanks for that Pearl."
The woman nodded with out a word and then gently placed him on to the bed and without a word leaped off of the loft, standing in the middle of the room was a monster with a long worm like body and three heads, each on the size of a microwave with green acid dripping from their jaws, tendrils the size of water hoses were erupting from it's sides and they were tipped with what looked like steel tips.
Pearl raised her hand to the gem on her chest and with a glow of light pulled a glave out of it, she ducked as one of the tendrils swung at her and then with a swing of her long axe took one of the tendrils. Before the severed limb could hit the ground it disappeared in a cloud of pale pink smoke.
There were three others surrounding the creature, the tallest was only half as tall as the Hydra Worm with periwinkle coloured skin and pale lavender hair with side buns that were pointed out like two upside down ice cream cones. She was dressed in a dark blue body suit and a diamond shaped opening on her chest, white puffy gloves on her hands and white heeled boots on her feet. On the back of her head was a teardrop shaped gemstone on the back of her hand and clutched in her hand was a whip handle, the whip it self sparking.
At the back of the creature was a woman that was only an inch or two taller than Steven with powder blue hair that covered her blue face and flowed down to her back which mean it nearly reached down her entire body, she wore a dress that covered her feet and had puffy sleeves.. She had a round gemstone embodied in her hand but she did not seem to have a weapon.
The last woman was shorter than the one with a whip but taller than Pearl, she had cyan skin and was wearing a blue halter top and a long flowing skirt that went down to her knees with messy dark blue hair. Her back was to the kitchen so Steven could not see her gem but he knew it was shaped like a rain drop, she didn't seem to have any weapon either but she didn't look like she needed one.
A hand was placed gently on Steven's head and he looked up into the smiling face of his father. "Heya Stew-Ball. Did you have some fun?" His father was balding and reddening from the sun and he was a littler overweight from not having to do much other than sit around the house all day but he was one of the smartest people that Steven had ever known.
"Heya Dad! Where did that come from?" Steven asked as he pointed down at the monster that the woman with the whip was now reeling back by wrapping her whip around one of it's heads and drawing it back, the woman in the skirt had wrapped two long tendrils made of water around it's other heads.
"Don't know kiddo. Turned up about a few minutes before you turned up." Greg said and then let out a shirk as a glob of acid slipped free and sped towards them, he grabbed Steven and threw them both down to the floor and the glob melted through the glass of the window.
The shortest woman held up her gem and it began to glow and the two watery tendrils froze solid, Pearl raised her spear and silently hurled it into the creature's middle. It let out a harsh shriek and disappeared into a poof of smoke. Once his dad loosened his grip on him Steven shoot up and jumped off of the loft and landed on the sofa that was placed under the loft.
"That was awesome!" Steven cried as he ran over and wrapped his arms around Pearl's legs, a delicate hand came down to ruffle his brown locks. "I wish I could do that, I could've been here to help and could've ordered it to stop attacking you. Or...or ordered it to poof or blasted it with my super secret diamond energy beam."
Steven heard Lapis, the woman dressed in the skirt, mutter "Energy beam?" But he barely heard that over the sharp gasp and he turned to look at Holly Blue Agate who was staring at him with a horrified expression on her face, her quivering hand held in front of her lips.
"My prince!" She cried out in horror as she gazed around the partially melted remains of his quarters. "Oh, there are not words for how sorry I am! It came out of nowhere!" She rounded on the tiniest woman with a furious expression on her face. "Sapphire, are you not supposed to predict future events? Why did you not see this coming?"
Sapphire stared up at Holly Blue with a blank expression, saying nothing watching as Holly grew more and more angry with each second that she didn't speak. She eventually did speak however, her voice not rising above a quiet monotone. "I can not see the future, Holly Blue. I can predict the most likely outcome but I need data and variables to predict the most likely outcome."
Holly let out a grunt before she turned back to Steven with an apologetic expression on her face. "I am so sorry my Prince, we shall have this repaired in just a moment. How did your training go?"
"It didn't, nothing I tried work. Concentrating really hard didn't work, not trying to hard didn't work, doing both didn't work but I didn't really know how to do that and then I got a headache and just sat down for a bit and then Sadie came to talk to me and then I decided to come back here cause it was dark and that's how training went." He said with a tiny frown, frustrated at his lack of progress.
Lapis walked past him and ruffled his hair on her way to the screen door out on the way to the porch. "Don't worry Kid, you'll get the hang of it sooner or later. I'll see you later." She said with a smile that Steven gladly returned as Lapis gingerly stepped around the acid hole in front of the door before opening it and stepping out on to the porch.
"Lazuli, where do you think you are going?" Holly called after her and Lapis turned her head to look at her, a smirk on her face as her gemstone glower and two wings made of water sprouted out of her back, each of them about the size of a longsword and the width of a tractor tyre.
"Going to get some air." And then with a flap of her water wings Lapis was airborne, Steven ran to the window but Lapis was already just a slowly retreating dot in the distance. He stood watching her go until he couldn't see her anyone more and could only see the slowly darkening sky.
Suddenly there was a loud rumble and Steven was terrified that another monster had turned up but when he spun around he didn't see anyone expect for Holly, Sapphire, Pearl and his Dad who was now climbing down the stairs of his loft. With a blush he realised that it was coming from his stomach. "Whoops, kind forgot to eat today."
"Say no more my Prince. Pearl! Your Diamond is hungry, making him something to eat. Make it quick and make it good." Pearl did nothing but fall into a low curtsey before she turned and walked over to the small kitchen, getting a saucepan out of the cupboard as well as some peppers and tomatoes.
"You need any help Pearl?" Greg asked but Holly let out another gasp like he had just suggested stealing candy from a baby or throwing a man with cement shoes of a bridge or doing one right after one another.
"Absolutely not, forgive me. But you are the consort of our beloved and much missed Blue Diamond! I will not allow you to lower yourself to doing a task fit for Pearl, even one who belonged to her grandness. Forgive me Mister Universe, but I will not hear of it." It was clear form Holly's tone that she really was not going to allow Greg to help.
"Holly." Sapphire spoke up and Steven noticed that there was hint of something that sounded like anger as well as something that might have been alarm in her voice. "The creature didn't leave a gem, I've never known a monster have an offspring this large before. My Future Vision suggests that we are dealing with something that can create copies of it's self, I would recommend that we discuss this more in the temple."
"Very well." Holly followed Sapphire to the large cavern at the back of Steven's quarters, stepped around the large circular pad that crossed the wooden floors and the stone floor and then stepped in front of a single door with a golden star emblazoned on it, the star had hollows that suggested something was once set in it but they had long since been removed. Sapphire held up hand and her gem glowed, on the door the golden star glowed and the door opened, though it almost seemed to be resisting the pull.
The two gems stepped through and once the door slid shut after them Greg stepped behind the counter and began to help Pearl cut up some onions. Pearl stopped and turned her head in his direction and if Steven could see her eyes then he would guess she was staring at him. "Greg-
"What Holly doesn't know won't hurt her, and I am not letting you do this on your own. It can be our secret, right Stew-Ball?" Steven nodded with a grin and after a few moments a small smile appeared on Pearl's face as she began to chop the peppers, expertly and thoroughly removing the seeds.
Once all the vegetables had been cut and they had been placed in a saucepan to began to make the sauce and another sauce pan had been filled with paste, Greg told Steven to go and wash up for Dinner. Steven nodded and ran over to the door that lead into the bathroom.
He began to run one of the sink taps but before he put his hands under the water he stopped and gazed into the mirror before he slowly began to pull up his shirt, he looked down and embedded in the soft pink flesh of his stomach was a Blue Diamond, he brushed his fingers over it and felt a jolt.
It didn't hurt but he could feel the power inside of it, power he couldn't reach no matter how hard he tried. Steven let out a sigh and dropped his shirt and went right back to cleaning himself up. He wouldn't worry about it tonight, he would try not to at the very least.
Tonight, all he was going to worry about was not chocking on a meatball.
End of Chapter One.
Welp, this is new.
So I hope that everyone enjoyed this and this AU is of interest to you, Steven is still out loveable goofball but he's been raise by different people and that is going to have an impact. What Blue Diamond's involvement in the Gem War may have been, if that is our Sapphire, what happened to the Gems in the temple door and more questions, raised in that chapter or not, will be answered later down the line.
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