Chapter 1: Uncivilized, Crystallized. Then forgotten?
"STEVEN, you are too curious!" Amethyst yells running up the stairs. Steven rolls around in his bed with a whine
"Amethyst! its..." He shoots up to his clock on the bedside table, but someone unplugged it. Well, rather destroyed it. He lets out a long, drawn out sigh laying back down. Shorty after he starts to snore again
"Steveeeen, GET UP. I'm bored!" Amethyst cries with a voice
"Steven said he's tired, Amethyst. Now go" Pearl stands up from the other side of the bed crossing her arms.
"FINE, I'll go ALONE!" She pouts putting both hands on her hips while giving Pearl a rude look.
"ALONE?! Where are we going?!" Steven runs out of bed getting excited as he put on a coat, hardly could get a arm through from this.
"Steven! Go back to sleep!" She cries with a point to the bed.
"We're going to Bismuth's forge!" Amethyst giggles to herself grabbing Steven's hand. "NO WAY. NO! Garnet said that place is off LIMITS!"
"Aww, come on, Pearl! It's empty! Garnet removed all those weapons months ago!" Steven whines again. They both give Pearl puppy eyes hoping for the best, she rolled her eyes with a sigh
"Fine...But I'm coming too"
"Come on, Steven!" Cries Amethyst Pulling him down the stairs to the warp pad. They eagerly wait for Pearl as she takes her time elegantly walking down the stairs with a smirk. "Come on, Pearl!" Steven tries to yell, but gets interrupted by a yawn
"I'm making my way!" Pearl said in a high pitch voice. Amethyst rolls her eyes with a hand on her hip.
"You're stalling. We're going without you!" She warps them up into the beam of light. They land on the side of a volcano like mountain. The sky was covered in black clouds, and the smell of sulfur smothered the air.
"Forgot how bad it smells here!" Exclaimed Steven covering his face with the coat. Amethyst takes a deep breath in
"Smells like eggs! Like the chicken I had this morning!" She says with a cheer taking lead down the the path cut into the mountain. It was steep and smooth gradually going down still somehow. Pearl races to them
"Its too dangerous for you two!" Pearl pulls them back taking lead with her head up high. with their excitement levels this high they didn't care while peaking around pearl; waiting for this doorway to appear.
"Here we are! You two wait here, I'll go make sure its clear" Amethyst races ahead of Pearl. She slides down the path with Steven close behind.
"STEVEN!" cries Pearl chasing behind; trying to keep her footing.
"Steven, don't do that again!" She finally reaches the bottom, but calms looking around the forge room.
"Well, this got boring fast" Amethyst sighs walking for the exit, Pearl was close behind.
"Wait, this isn't the whole room!" Exclaims Steven waving his hands around
"This seems to be it, Steven" Pearl crosses her arms turning to him, Amethyst did too but rested a hand on her hip again. This she seems to enjoy
"No...There is another room" Steven mumbles peering down below his feet. "Here, its like a key!" Steven points to the floor with a wide smile looking up.
"I GOT IT!" Amethyst rushes to the deep key hold sticking her hand into it. Then her arm melted like a mold. With a turn of her arm Instantly the floor started to shift downwards
"STEVEN!" Cries Pearl again looking down to them from the edge. She eventually hops down to them "Don't do that again!"
"Calm down, P. See, Steven brought us to another boring room. No danger here"
"Come on, Amethyst! Aren't you a little curious?" Steven says with a smirk bumping her shoulder
"For a Lava room?! No, I didn't know Garnet took all those Weapons...The only fun part"
"Well, I am" Steven mumbles looking down at the stream of lava splitting the platform. "This is such a weird room...What even is the point?"
"A testing room, I think" Pearl becomes more interested as the time passed looking at the still complete stone statues, also some destroyed ones.
"The only COOL thing is these statues!" Amethyst cries throwing a rock into the lava pool. "WATCH IT, AMETHYST! You'll hurt Steven!" She rolls her eyes throwing another one.
"Can we bring one of these back for the house, Pearl?" Steven begs looking up to Pearl, he also tugs slightly at her shirt
"You really want one?" He quickly nods with a smile. "I guess...But I'm not cleaning it up after yo...Yes I will" With a grunt Pearl rips out a still complete stone lady; throwing it over her shoulder.
"THANKS, PEARL!" Steven takes Pearl into a embrace
"Its nothing really, Steven" Pearl starts to blush as she pats his head with her one free hand. Back later at the house Pearl listened to Steven for a few hours trying to find the perfect spot for this large Stone statue.
"Pearl, we might have to continue this in the morning" Steven yawns slowly making way up the stairs
"Oh, are you sure? I think we nearly have a spot!" Pearl turns away from the statue with a cheer as she watches him crawl into bed "A symmetrical spot at least" She mumbles turning back to it.
"Doesn't matter, not my house" Pearl shrugs walking into her Stone room of pools. Amethyst walked out a few hours later with the moon still high in the sky.
"Steven, I wanna watch t.v" Amethyst didn't wait for his sleepy response as she turned the t.v on. Steven seemed not to notice as he turned around in bed snoring away. After a couple more hours there was two people snoring up on the platform in the house.
"Steeeven, wake up" She whispers poking him a pit. "Wh...What is.."
"Shh, its Garnet! she's creeping me out" Amethyst quietly exclaims covering his mouth. Steven's eyes dart off the platform
"Follow me" She crawls out of the bed peaking over the platform. Steven was close behind having a hard time keeping his eyes open. Garnet was frozen staring at the chest of the statue, as if she could see something else besides them
"She's been doing this for hours..."
"hey, garnet!" Says Steven with a wave. She turns giving a thumbs up, then quickly walked into the stone room.
"See, nothing weird here, Amethyst" Steven stood up turning the t.v off, then into bed. Instantly a new alarm clock woke him up, and so did Pearl out of her stone room
"Good morning, Steven!" She cries up to the bed.
"Morning pearl..." He whispers throwing the blankets to the side. Steven walks out into the bathroom, then to the kitchen pulling out some Oatmeal and a pot.
"Steven, have you rethought the statue?"
"No, by the fireplace is fine" Pearl helped him cook this food and cleaned the pots afterwards too.
Three Weeks Later.
"Steven...WATCH LION!" Exclaims Connie. She tries to stop him, but the Lion has a mind of his own.
"He's fine...Just hungry, maybe. Never seen him eat" Steven shrugs while cooking dinner. If you call mac n cheese dinner. Connie sighs as she stopped trying to fight the beast as he messed up the couch. She walks over to help Steven.
"Hey Connie!" Yells Amethyst running out into the Living room. She slips crashing into the table. Lion snapped out of his slumber jumping up into the air; landing on the table. It flips, then crashes into the statute causing it's fall.
"Amethyst!" Whines Connie. She washes her hands, then picked the table upright. Steven helped too
"Sorry, just happy! Dinneeerr time!" Amethyst sings back rushing into the Kitchen.
"Whoa Steven, check this out" As Connie rolls the heavy statue over, it flaked off revealing a large bright green crystal. And inside they could see something out of place.
"Uh...Is that a foot?" Steven starts to freak out backing away from it. "Steven, Stand back" Demands Garnet in a calm tone quickly stepping out from the temple
"Garnet, there is something inside this statue!" Cries Connie sticking close to Steven.
"I was afraid so" Garnet lifts it up with ease. Near the waist stuck out the Green crystal, and someone's foot.
"WHAT IS IT?!" Amethyst cries with her mouth full. Connie shrugs while looking back.
"Its...Someone, some gem in there. Isn't it garnet!" Stammers out Steven stepping forward.
"I...Don't know. I can't see" She faintly replied back, her mouth hang open as she steps back.
"Garnet!" Yells Steven starting to get upset. He marches to the statue, starting to pull it apart from the bottom up. Soon as he removed just one tiny crumb the entire large crystal falls out on the floor. Inside they could see a Gem. She was short, but taller than Steven with her arms crossed and eyes closed.
"STEVEN, Careful!" Lion walks out of the house with the looks of this. Connie puts herself between Steven and this crystallized gem.
"I'll...Uh, go get Pearl!" Amethyst runs into her stone room. The doors slammed behind
"Garnet! Get her out!"
"NO, STEVEN" Garnet starts to tear up, then instantly froze in place. As if she couldn't see anything for the first time in her life
"WHAT is it?! Where is Steven!?" Pearl came out all flustered darting around the room, but lands on the Crystal
"G-g-g-g-g-GARNET! Its crazy legs!" Pearl pats around the crystal looking for a way to open it. "GARNET!" She rushes off into her room; leaving them alone with this mess.
"Steven, stand back!" Pearl quickly summons her spear driving it deep into it. Cracks form, but still it didn't release. With one final drive into it the shards went flying, Steven bubbled them. Limp on the floor was a short red gem.
"Crazy! Its me!" Pearl forces her way out of the bubble picking her upright.
"Steven...I don't think she's alive" Whispers Connie. He doesn't reply while watching Pearl rock "Crazy" In her arms. She gasps awake shooting up
"WOAH! PEARLIE!" This gem skin was a bright red. with a short fohawk that was a dark red. She had some kind of fabric wrapped around her neck like a bandanna while wearing a vest and shoulder pads that surprise, were also red with black fabric patches spaced between them evenly.
"Pearl...There is HUMANS IN THE BASE!" This gem had a high pitch voice as she panics into the bathroom; slamming the door shut. Seemed to have trouble balancing on her feet.
"Pearl, WHAT WAS THAT?!" Cries Connie overwhelmed with emotions.
"That was...CRazy LEGS! ISn't she great!" Pearl races to the door trying to open it, but a force was acting on it greater than her.
"Crazy its me, PEARL! WHERE DID YOU GO!"
"What type of gem is she!" Said Steven getting excited, he closes the distance between them
"She's a...Uh, Crazy, what type of gem are you again?" Pearl rests against the door now
"RED PERIDOT! WHY? WHERE IS ROSE?!"
"A red...Peridot. Those aren't a thing, Pearl" Connie whispers again
"MAYBE ON EARTH THERE ISN'T, HUMAN!"