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'Steven'=thought

Steven=hollow

**Steven**=TV broadcast or talk through radio

I can't say I remember how I got here, or where I am to be exact, but I know where I used to be. It's strange really, I keep on thinking in the back of my head on how much I want to go back, but now I know it's a duty...my duty to protect them from this hell they've been experiencing. So for now, I'll take this sword and I will be...

Their Shinigami.

Chapter 1: Prolouge

"One..."

"...two."

"Thre-"

"Steven!"

Pearl approached the creamy white couch where Steven was lazily playing with a paddle ball. He'd been in the same, belly-up position since she left to buy some goods. Pearl put her hands on her hips and wore a tight frown, it was a major warning sign to Steven.

"Have you been playing that 'paddle ball' game all morning?!"

Steven's head slightly squeaked. "Mayyyybe." He pointed to Amethyst. "But Amethyst's been sleeping since yesterday."

"Amethyst, you're setting a bad example for-"

Amethyst raised an arm up and her hand did a shut-up-I'm-trying-to-sleep motion.

"Unnghhh! Amethyst!"

"Hey I have an idea!" Steven dug inside the couch cushions and pulled out the TV remote. "Pearl, can you call Connie? We'll watch Crying breakfast friends together while we wait for Garnet to come back."

"Well, it's better than nothing." Pearl admitted and she headed to the kitchen.

Steven mashed the power button, he watched as the TV flickered on. "This is definitely gonna be the best morning ever!"

**Welcome to Crying-This is an emergency warning to all residents of Beach city!**

"Huh?"

Amethyst and Pearl ran over to the TV area to see what was going on.

**Humans have been dying left and right from invisible...forces and-oh!**

**AHHHHHHHH!**

Steven, Pearl, and Amethyst watched in horror while a giant, black claw snatched the news reporter, seconds later he plummeted down, now nothing more than a lifeless corpse.

Pearl summoned her spear. "Amethyst, we have to hurry! It looks like it was in an area by the boardwalk!"

"But, what about Garnet?!"

"We'll just have to go without her, people are dying!"

Steven sprung up from the couch and ran out of the house.

"STEVEN!"

He pushed his way through the scorching heat. 'I have to get there in time! I have to protect people with my shield!'

OoO

Peedee tugged on his older brother's shirt. "Ronaldo, we have to go!"

"But, the blogrtunity is calling me!"

"Dad's finished packing our stuff up, we have to go, NOW!"

"But..."

"Is your blog really worth dying for?!"

Before he could answer, the roof of Beach Citywalk collapsed revealing the deep blue sky of the city. Peedee clung onto his older brother. "Wh-what're we gonna do?! That invisible force is gonna kill us!"

Ronaldo stared at the sky, his voice calmed down. "...it's all my fault this is happening. I should be the one to sacrifice myself for your safety."

"Older brother!" Tears welled up in Peedee's eyes. "I don't want you to...die!"

Ronaldo levitated into the sky, in seconds he would end up just like the reporter. "JUST RUN, PEEDEE, PLEASE!"

"NO! RO-"

Ronaldo dropped down and landed on one of the tables, Peedee ran up to his brother. "Are you ok, what just happened?"

"It was..."

A large, pink shield covered them.

"...Steven."

"Everyone, go!" Sweat poured down Steven's face as he struggled to keep the giant black thing from hurting his friends.

Ronaldo he stumbled off the table. "Thank you, Steven."

"I got it from here." He looked back to them and smiled. "Leave everything to me!"

Ronaldo glanced at Steven then his brother, he took Peedee and together they escaped the restaurant.

OoO

'...what am I going to do?! How long can I hold this?!' Steven's shield began cracking from the violent pounding and scratching, with all the damage, there was no telling how long it would last.

*CRACK*

With one final punch, his shield shattered and the beast rampaged inside the greasy restaurant. Steven backed away into a corner, desperately trying to dodge the massive droplets of drool that leaked from the crevice's of its mouth. "What now?! What now?!"

"Steven!"

A whip wrapped around Steven. "Huh?!" He jerked back away from the monster and landed outside near two purple feet, he looked up. "Amethyst, Pearl!"

"Steven! You could've gotten killed!" Pearl scolded.

Amethyst nodded in agreement.

"Hurry, we have to fight them, if we do it together, then maybe-"

"No." Pearl cut-off, she gave Steven a devastating look. "A while ago, we were ambushed by those things. Despite every method we tried, that creature just kept on coming, it's limbs, it's body regenerated instantly. The best thing any of us can do is evacuate until we figure out a way to handle them."

"But our home, it'll be destroyed!"

"Buildings don't matter, what matter is our survival."

Steven got up and followed Amethyst and Pearl back towards beach house, as they were nearing the beach house, Pearl stopped dead in her tracks.

A colossal creature, donning what looked like a black cloaked, staggered towards them. What terrified them the most was its size. The creature was just as tall, if not taller than the Crystal gem's Temple itself, easily, it dwarfed every single other creature they faced up to this point.

Pearl gripped her spear. "Let's make a run for it!"

Right before their eyes, the creature's head split in half and it's body dispersed into thin air.

"Problem solved!" Amethyst quipped.

Seeing no sign of danger, they finally made their way back to the Beach house. Steven's hand rested on the wooden door. "I hope Garnet's back."

Steven pushed open the door and much to everyone's surprise, two people clad in black were lounging on the couch. One of them, the taller one, had unusual bright orange spiky hair, while the one next to him had glossy, jet-black black hair along with a lost piece of hair down the middle of her face.

The orange-hair one raised his hand. "Hey, you guys alright?"

"What in the-WHY ARE YOU IN OUR HOUSE?!" Pearl screamed at the top of her lungs.

Amethyst lightly chuckled from another one of Pearl's over-the-top reactions. "This is too hilarious!"

"Oh, we thought you were one of the people who evacuated. I mean, you did have your door un...ah! Rukia!"

Rukia was busy squeezing the life out of Steven. "Oh, aren't you the cutest little thing? I love you so much!"

"Well, I am pretty cute."

He stood up from the couch and approached the gems. "Sorry for being so rude, we shouldn't have just intruded into your house."

Pearl's eyes narrowed as the boy got closer.

"Let's introduce ourselves. My name is Ichigo Kurosaki," Ichigo pointed to Rukia. "and that's Rukia over there. We're Shinigami."

"I-chi-go?" Pearl repeated the name over and over in her head. 'Like a strawberry? That must explain his hair.'

Rukia stopped hugging Steven and stood up. "I'm not actually a 'human', but we'll forget about that for now. You haven't really told us anything about yourselves, let's hear it."

Steven took this as a chance to jump in. "The one with the bird nose is Pearl, the purple one is Amethyst, she isn't here right now, but there's another one with a square head, that's Garnet and I'm Steven Universe. We're the Crystal gems!"

"Those black creatures, you not only see them, you destroyed them, how?" Pearl suddenly asked.

"The creatures you saw were hollows and we Shinigami specialize in dealing with them. Until we can get a proper Shinigami for this town, do you mind if we stay here to investigate? From what I can tell, hollows haven't been here previously and we would-"

"Actually..."

"I would like to figure out why." Rukia explained.

Pearl glanced at Amethyst and she nodded. "...Fine, but we have to lay out some-"

Once they heard the word 'fine', Rukia went back to hugging Steven and Ichigo went back to lounging on the couch.

"Unnngh! Listen to me!" They didn't listen. "Amethyst, back me up!"

Amethyst stretched her arms and headed to the couch as well. "Sorry P, but I need to catch up on the sleep I missed this morning. We'll lay out some rules *yawn* later."

XxxxxXxxx

Garnet stepped off the warp pad, it had been a long, busy mission in the rotten depths of an active volcano and she was exhausted.

'Her head really is square, Steven wasn't kidding.' Ichigo raised his hand. "Hey, you must be the Captain of the Holo-rocks, Garnet, right? Nice to finally meet you, Steven told me-"

Ichigo quickly ducked his head as Garnet's gauntlet lodged into the wooden walls.

"HEY! What's wrong with you crazy lady?!"

Garnet clenched her other fist, and another gauntlet formed around her free hand. Amethyst, Ichigo and Steven leaped off the couch, barely dodging one of Garnet's blows.

Pearl dropped her mixing bowl and ran over to Garnet. "Wait, Garnet! You don't understand, this...person, no, Ichigo saved us and all of Beach city from the Hollows! We owe our lives to him!"

"Yeah!" Amethyst yelled.

"This boy has something evil inside of him, I can feel it." Garnet answered. "That's why we have to take him down!"

Garnet pushed Pearl off her and stormed over to Ichigo.

Ichigo began backing away. "Listen, I don't want to hurt!"

"Stop lying!"

"If that's how you really feel..." Ichigo sighed. "Then beat me up. Use me as a punching bag, I don't care, I'm tired of having so many enemies!"

New gauntlets formed around Garnet's hand, there was no sign of her reconsidering.

"Garnet, please stop!" Steven cried, he clung onto Garnet's leg and tried pulling her back. "You can't say he's evil when you never met him, he's our friend!"

The gauntlets disappeared. "...fine." Garnet turned around and walked back to her room.

"..."

"Man," Ichigo rubbed the back of his spiky, orange hair. "What stick got lodged up her ass?"

Pearl pulled Ichigo up. "I'm not sure. She's never acted like this before."

Amethyst shrugged her shoulders. "Who knows. Maybe she just doesn't like the color orange."

"What? Hey! Take that back!"

Rukia walked down the stairs wearing Steven's light blue, buttoned up pajama's. "Was there something I missed?"

"The hell?! You're wearing Steven's clothes and wait...it fits?!" Ichigo yelled.

"I got another great idea!" Steven ran up the stairs, a couple of minutes later he ran back down with the same pajamas on. "Now we're matching, Rukia!"

"Steven, what's wrong with you?! She's wearing your clothes and...you're okay with it?!" Ichigo yelled again.

"It's okay to be jealous," Steven held up a clump of blue pajamas. "I brought pajamas for everyone so we can all be matching buddies!"

"What?! We're not wearing little boy's pajamas!"

Amethyst and Pearl got the blue pajamas and wore them over their clothes, fitting them both quite well.

"Ok, I'm still not wearing little boy's pajamas!"

"Have you all gone insane and how is it a one-size fits all?! "

"Stop being such a wimp, Ichigo. Besides, I'd bet you'd look cute in them." Rukia teased.

"Sh-shut up!"

Later that night...

While Steven shared with Rukia in his room for the night, Ichigo was stuck on the couch. He stayed awake, staring at the window-captured stars. 'I wonder how's thing are going back in Karakura town? Ever since I somehow landed here...wherever here is, I've always thought about them. I wish I...I really wish...I knew how they were all doing.'

"Hey."

Ichigo shifted his head and met with Garnet's gaze. "It's you...what do you want?" He grumbled.

Garnet's head hung low. "I apologize. The way I acted earlier was unacceptable."

"Oh it's nothing, forgive and forget. And..."

"Hm?"

"Don't get the wrong idea. Rukia and I will protect this place, whether you want us to or not, we're not evil at all."

"Then can you tell me..."

"What?"

"Why are you wearing Steven's night clothes?"

A/N: I'm sorry, its short only because it's a prologue and I want to set everything up first, the real story'll take off in Chapter 2.