-Welcome everyone to my first attempt at a Steven Universe fanfic. I'll admit this show has take me by storm not only by how enthralling itself is, but by how everyone else was enthralled by it. Mostly due to how creative some other people were making their little Crystal Gem OCs. So I figured I would give a shot at my ideas for a potential story. Do enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Steven Universe; what I do own are my OCs Kunzite and Hiddenite, among others...-
Razor ice winds whipped all around, obscuring everything into a white, unfocused haze. Somewhere deep inside was a humanoid with the figure of a woman. She wore a skin tight long-sleeved faded green shirt and matching finger-less gloves, both sporting small stars here and there. It easily showcased the outlines of evident muscles in here upper stomach and all around her arms, while her legs were kept hidden with in baggy pants.
Hiddenite had to shield her eyes with her arm almost touching her head. Sometimes she wished that her dark green hair was longer enough that she could use it as an eye-shield. But as it was it only could go perfectly cut around her neck just above her collarbone. These cursed ice winds were bad enough, she could've done far worse alone.
Hiddenite for as long as she could recall resided on this dreary ice rock somewhere in space with her sister Kunzite. The two of them had only each other to rely on for the longest time. They treasured the very few things they were able to do together, like sparring, or gazing at the massive planet with gaseous looking rings in constant rotation. Somewhere on the surface they could see a red spot almost resembling an eye looking at them. Hiddenite would often comment on much that did look like an eye, to which Kunzite would 'smartly' correct her.
She had for the most part grown used to it; Kunzite was the most scientifically attuned of the two, always learning, always wanting to know how things ticked. Hiddenite simply couldn't understand how she could have the patience for such stuff. Why couldn't she just accept something for what it was and be happy with it?
Finally, her outstretched hand felt the familiar shape of the threshold. With a gentle swipe of her hand, the door magically de-materialized and the light green-shaded woman stepped through inside, the door resealing itself behind her.
To say that her home was primitive would've been an understatement. If it weren't for the strength of the braces fashioned from tough rocks they had found, the ice walls they supported would've caved in on them by now. 'A perfect internal skeleton'; Hiddenite reminisced at the analogy her sister had once described it. Not that it changed her opinion of it: a tiny little igloo with literally nothing to do. After all there were only two rooms inside their little safe-house: their main gathering room, and Kunzite's little lab.
Which was exactly where Hiddenite found her sister, tirelessly working over that beam pad. She sported a somewhat more conservative silver-metallic top though was short sleeved with a turtle neck, with hair that was twin braided over both shoulders.
"Hey," Hiddenite called to her. The lightly-pink shaded of the two looked up at her sister.
"Oh, Hiddenite, didn't hear you come in," she acknowledged.
"Any luck with that thing?" Kunzite sighed in response.
"Sadly no, there's still about one or two crucial components missing," Kunzite said, "For some reason the power sources will start but will never stay that way without something to keep them constantly energized, and something else to bridge the two together!" To this Hiddenite could only let out a small sigh as well.
"Sis, don't you think you're working a little too hard on this? I mean you've hardly left this room for anything."
"I have too!" Kunzite protested, "I have been keeping up on my physical training!"
"Well that aside," her sister said, "I hardly ever see you outside this room."
"But I'm so close! I could actually have the warp pad working perfectly again, and we could be off of this ice rock! We could even go home..." Kunzite slowed her small rant when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to see her sister had moved closer to her.
"Believe me Kunzite, I wanna leave this frozen wasteland as much as you do, I really do... I just don't want us to go insane trying!"
"But-"
"Come on, let's take a break, huh? For me?" Kunzite looked into her sister's chocolate brown eyes. Deep down she knew she was right.
"... Hmmm, very well, I suppose I could stop for a moment. It could take off some unwanted pressure."
"That's the spirit!" said the light green girl and with her stretched out hand, helped her sister to her feet, "Come on, we can see if you've really been keeping up your training!"
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If Kunzite was the smartest of the two sisters, then Hiddenite was definitely the best fighter. She worked almost as tirelessly as her sister did with that beam pad to constantly stay in combat shape, though mostly for her it was a way to pass the time. As a result, she boasted a fairly strong muscular build in her arms, her legs, and a visible set of abs.
The two of them stood in their other room across from each other.
"You ready, Kunz?" Hiddenite asked. The light pink crystal gem smirked at the nickname.
"Let us begin."
Both their gems began to glow their respective colors, Kunzite's gems on her forearms, and Hiddenite's on her chest. Kunzite held her right arm out in front of her to expose her glowing gem. From it materialized two tonfas that she then gripped with her free left hand and then her right. Hiddenite put her two fists together over her chest as a small ray of light shined over them. She then pulled her hands away to show two green spiked knuckle coverings fitting over her fists. Both sides of each one had small blades on both sides that reached the end of her fists.
The two then refocused on each other this time with weapons in hand. Hiddenite gave a small smirk and pressed an attack; a simple left jab to which Kunzite easily blocked by crossing her tonfas. It of course left her sides open for a strike which Hiddenite tried to exploit, but Kunzite was faster and shifted her weight to her right foot to block her left side with her free leg. Hiddenite regarded this with a raised eyebrow.
"Whoa, nice block."
"Thank you," the pink gem said, then kicked the arm away with the same leg, and pushed her arms forward to free them from her sister's stretched hand. Now free, Kunzite pressed an offensive, swinging her tonfas on each side of her fellow gem. Hiddenite was able to deflect such attacks with ease, until suddenly her sister unexpectedly launched a roundhouse towards her.
"Whoa!" the greener of the gems bent over backwards to avoid a close encounter with a foot. Using her momentum she flipped on to her hands and back to her feet again.
"I almost had you there, Hiddenite!" Kunzite said.
"Alright I admit, I was a bit surprised," Hiddenite replied, "but let's see if I can return the feeling!" She then charged forward with a couple head jabs which Kunzite was able to avoid by moving her head easily. Then suddenly Hiddenite attempted a hammering kick of her own. But this time Kunzite was able to crisscross her tonfas again beneath her sister's leg along the calf and hold it there in a precarious position. However rather than do something from there, Kunzite looked at her sister.
"I will actually give you a chance sister," she said, "seeing how there's very little you could do from the positioning I have you in. So why don't you just yield?" Hiddenite struggled to maintain her balance.
"Actually Kunz, I could say the same thing about you," she said smugly, "after all, who's the one with their arms tied up?" Kunzite's eyes widened with the sudden realization, then Hiddenite lifted her caught leg out of Kunzite's tonfa grip and swung it around herself into a sweep. Kunzite easily jumped over the leg, and swung her left tonfa towards Hiddenite's left side. The attack was easily blocked with her right hand, and with the left blocked an overhead strike. She knocked the hand at her side away and with the same hand thrust her palm into Kunzite's unguarded midsection. She hadn't put her over-strength into the attack, but nonetheless her opponent skidded backwards on flat feet until she hit flat against the wall.
The impact was swift, but knocked some breath out of the light pink woman.
"Whoa, Kunzite!" Hiddenite exclaimed and rushed over to her side, "Are you alright?"
"Oh, yes Hiddenite I'm fine," Kunzite said, "I thought we were both holding back though."
"Yeah well, guess I still don't know my own strength," Hiddenite chuckled, putting a hand behind her head, "But man Kunzite, you really are improving! I think you may be faster in a fight against me!"
"You believe so?"
"Sure! You've been countering everything I do almost perfectly!"
"Well, no offense, but you are easy to read for me," Kunzite said smiling nervously.
"Aw come on, I can't be that predictable, can I?" Kunzite dispersed her weapons and put a hand on her sister's shoulder.
"Maybe unpredictability is something I can teach you sometime," she said. Hiddenite smiled at her.
"I think I'd like that," she said. A few moments passed before Kunzite spoke again.
"You know, I'm actually feeling invigorated from that spar, I don't really feel like going back to work just yet... Hiddenite, do you think I can explore with you outside?"
"What? Sis are you sure?"
"Absolutely!" said Kunzite, "You were right Hiddenite, I'm getting nowhere currently with the beam pad cooped up like this. Perhaps I can find some useful items out in the field."
"All you'll ever find out there is ice."
"Well even if we don't find anything else, I can still use a walk outside."
"Hmmm... alright I guess," Hiddenite agreed, "We can leave whenever you're ready."
"So right now?"
"Alright, sure!"
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Somewhere in orbit over that same ice rock, a figure hovered just outside its pull of gravity. Like with the former two, it was also a humanoid, but because it was in the wake of the side untouched by the planet's light, it only appeared as a silhouette. It sported wings that seemed to flake liquid within the vacuum effect of space.
The figure looked towards the massive body of ice as if it were trying to see something small and unseen. After a few moments it hovered its open palms on both sides of its body and spheres of transparent magic glowed around them. Within the spheres grew two small orbs that were more solid and black and slowly began to increase in size to at least two feet wide. It shot its hands forward and threw the orbs towards the moon at near mach 3 speeds until they could no longer be seen from it's spot. Once they were out of sight, the figure spoke,
"I've finally found you... Spodumene..."
-There you have it, I hope you all enjoyed that first part! I probably will get around to continuing this if I ever find time to.-