Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems
The Meeting
"Steven, come on already!" said the impatient Amethyst. "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just making sure I have what I think I'll need in my backpack." Said Steven who was finally finishing putting the last of his items in his backpack. "I thought that portal was destroyed?" Pearl said as she and Garnet walked to the portal. "No just shut off, but someone or something turned it on. And now we are getting an S.O.S from it." Garnet said. "Yea! We get to help someone" Steven said as he jumped onto the portal. Amethyst laughed "Or something." The portal stared up, a bright light surround them. "Oh I wonder if it's a stranded gem?" Pearl said with stars in her eyes getting excited to wonder who it could be. "Let's not get our hopes up, be ready for anything." Garnet said, once she finished talking they were there at the new place.
They were surrounded by different types of flowers, the flowers made a giant circle around them, at the boarder of the flowers were several different types of blossoming trees. All on a floating large piece of earth. A decorated bridge lead to what looked like a Gem temple, it if course was falling apart. "Wow! It's beautiful!" Steven finally said after a while, the Gems on the other hand still a bit stunned. "Hmmm, the S.O.S. is gone" said Garnet "well maybe we should look around, Steven stay close." Said Pearl "okey dokey" said Steven following the Gems to the bridge.
When they got to the bridge Garnet stopped, Pearl was about to ask why when a red blast exploded in front of them. Once the smoke cleared they saw a little pink girl in front of them.
The little girl was no bigger than Steven, a bit pinker than Steven, chubby like Steven, her hair look like rose blossoms but pink. Her dress was white and at the edge of her dress it was torn and dirty, also she had no shoes at all. Her hands and feet were scratched, her feet muddy. She kept her eyes closed, if she opened them they'd be pink as well a very glossy pink, but they'd be useless to her since she was blind.
"A kid?" Pearl said, "Cool!" Steven said as he ran toward her to say 'hello', Pearl yelled his name but before he could get far Garnet stopped him. "Hold on." She said.
"For the last time there is no treasure here!" Said the little girl. "Bummer." Said Amethyst "Quite!" Pearl said as she glared at Amethyst. Garnet got up and put Steven behind her, then walked to the little girl, she kneeled a few inches away from her. "We didn't come here for treasure, we had received an S.O.S. from here when the portal here stared working." The girl stayed quite for a bit after Garnet stopped talking. "But there isn't anyone here to call an S.O.S" She finally said in a soft sweet voice. "May we look around just to make sure?" "Fine but please be careful of my plants. I have worked really hard to make them look nice." "We'll be careful." The girl stepped aside to let them pass. Once all the Gems crossed the bridge, Steven stayed back to talk to the girl. "Hi, my name is Steven. What's yours?" The girl giggled a little. "You're nice, and my name is Rose, welcome to my home Steven." "Thanks! It's really nice here. Did you do all of this yourself?" "Yea, like I told your friend I'm the only one here, so there couldn't be an S.O.S." "Well we better make sure of that. Hey can you give me a tour while the Gems look around?" "Sure, …. Um can you help me cross the bridge? I don't like crossing it." "Sure! What are friends for?"
Out on the middle of the bridge Rose finally asked Steven what are his friend's names? And he told her with a big smile on his face. Garnet, the lady who talked to her first. Pearl, the lady that yelled his name. And finally Amethyst, the lady that said 'bummer'.
After a while of showing Steven her home they went looking for the Gems. Finally found them in front of a very old statue of a Gem Man. The Gem Man was really tall, and had four hands. One hand was above his head holding an orb of light, the other held his weapon, a sword that was the same length as his legs. The other two hands were out in front of him as if he wanted to receive something. "Wow! He is so tall!" Steven said at first site of the man. "Oh! Steven there you are!" Said Pearl, "You'll never guess how important this guy was to us." Said Amethyst. "What do you mean?" Both Steven and Rose were sharing the same confused look. Garnet placed her hand on the statues out stretched hands. "This is …." "My Father." Said Rose before Garnet could finish speaking.
All the Gems gasped, "But the Gems knew him and you're so young Rose, how is he your dad?" Said Steven. "Rose!?" said the Gems. Rose gave Steven a half smile. "Cuz I'm dead. My father died a long time ago. Then when I died he brought me back to life …. Kinda. Even though he is dead his magic still is able to do lots of things. Even keep me alive without a body." Pearl walks over to Rose and kneels and places a hand on her shoulder. "What's your full name sweety?" "Rose Quartz" "What! You can't be?! … Can she?" Steven said while he is close to tears. "From the sound of it, yea?" said Amethyst. Pearl wraps Rose in a tight hug and cries. Then everyone joins in to make it a tighter group hug. "What is the matter with all of you I don't even know you." Steven pushed the Gems back a bit. "Of course you do! You have to! You're my Mom!" He shouted with tears in his eyes. "How can I be a mom if I'm a kid ghost? I must have died when I was a child. Like from falling off a cliff." "Nooooo! That's Amethyst's job to do that." "HEY!" Short giggles ran through them but as soon as it started it also stopped.
Before they could decide anything the ground started shaking, and Rose disappeared. "MOM! No! We only just meat!" "Gems outside quite!" Said Pearl. Amethyst grabbed Steven and ran outside while he struggled to get free, he kept shouting 'no'.
After a while the ground stopped the Gems tried to calm Steven down. "Aw come on Steven we'll look everywhere to find her again, she couldn't have gotten far." Said Amethyst. Steven still cried. A sound came from the bushes, the Gems were still and Steven still sobbed. "Who's crying?" Still a sweet soft voice but this time the body was different. Rose stepped out of the bushes looking like a teenager. Her hair longer and poofier than before. "There you guys are. Garnet I thought you were going to help me move rocks today. And Pearl why have you stopped practicing your sword fighting? Amethyst! Stop pulling everyone away from their training, please it's a little bit longer than we'll do something together ok? …. Who's the kid?"