Steven happily plucked and strummed away at his ukulele, smiling and humming along. The sun shone through the temple's windows and gently warmed the wooden floor, and Steven began to dance to his song. He stopped dancing for a moment, his foot in mid air, as he plucked a mis-tuned string, and slowly began to adjust the knob.
A bright flash of light erupted from the teleportation pad, and the three crystal gems appeared.
"Guys!" Steven yelled, rushing forward with a smile on his face. "Guess what? I created a new song! You should hear it! I have been trying to include a lot of our adventures in the lyrics, but it's still coming along." Steven was practically jumping up and down with a bright smile on his face. Garnet looked over at him and smiled, remembering seeing his mother, Rose, once having a similar look.
"That's wonderful, Steven," Garnet said with a simple smile. She looked at the ground for a moment and shivered. "I need to head into the temple for a little while to take care of something. Would you mind waiting for a bit?"
As Steven nodded, Pearl looked at Garnet curiously, almost scrutinizing. As Garnet headed off, Amethyst settled onto the couch with a bag of chips in hand, and began to happily munch at them. Steven turned back to his ukulele, and began to miscellaneously strum it once again. Pearl merely stared after the direction in which Garnet left.
"Hey, Amethyst," Pearl said slowly, not breaking her gaze from the direction of the temple. "Did something seem a bit off about Garnet to you?"
"Oh, lighten up, Pearl," Amethyst said. "She's always aloof after missions."
"So, what did you guys do today?" Steven asked curiously.
"We went out and fought a giant squid. It was pretty awesome," Amethyst said.
"That is the coolest thing ever! Did you get splattered by its guts! Oh! Did you get stuck in its suction cups?!" Steven kept rattling off questions while Amethyst ate.
Pearl's head snapped upward as she heard coughing coming from within the temple.
"No, the fight wasn't hard. Garnet took a bit of hit, but she got back up and was fine," Amethyst said.
Steven paused for a moment upon hearing this. "That's a bit weird," he thought. "Garnet can predict most enemies' movements. A giant squid really isn't that special, so how could it have reached her?"
"Did you guys distract her at all?" Steven said, and then the coughing was heard again.
"No," Pearl said slowly, and now Amethyst had stopped eating and was looking up at the temple as well. "Come to think of it, she seemed a little bit unfocused for the past few days."
Steven gasped and began waving his arms. "What if she was infected by some sort of nano virus by some foe! And what if they try to render control over her!"
"Steven, relax," Pearl said, her hand moving to her forehead. "How do you even come up with these things?"
"I don't know," Steven said quietly. "My imagination just does all the work."
Amethyst laughed loudly as Pearl raised her eyebrows at Steven. "Well whatever it is," Pearl said, looking back at the temple. "Garnet has been acting strange lately. I'm going to go check on her."
"Wait, I'm coming to!" Steven yelled, racing after Pearl, and Amethyst followed in suit.
Alright, first chapter is up. I'll try and update this in awhile, so that we can get into that good hurt/comfort that every sick fic brings in =)
I don't own Steven Universe. I have no idea why I have to say this on a fanfiction website, but I guess it's atleast traditional. =D
