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Ch 2

Nightmares

C.J stood there. he couldn't move no matter how hard he tried friends were fighting something had one by one they were poofed then shattered by the invisible force. Only L.J was left and C.J was able to move again and he started to run to her. She turned toward to him and cried out for help, then she was poofed and shattered.

"NO!" He yelled and fell off the couch he had slept on. He looked around frantically then realized he was in Steven's house and Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst, who were gathered around in the kitchen stared at him blankly. He got up from the floor and gave a small chuckle. "Dreams can be so weird." He said awkwardly.

He quickly walked out of the house and onto the beach. He took a few deep breaths, the looks of horror his friends wore on their faces before being poofed and shattered still vivid in his mind. "Hey! Your awake!" A voice called out snapping him out of his nightmare. It was Steven and all of his friends. C.J sighed in relief and called back "Hey Guys."

He wore a fake smile to cover up the fact he had a disturbing and terrifying nightmare. "I was just getting ready to give a tour of the town! You wanna join!?" The curly haired boy asked hopefully. "I don't know…." He muttered "Come on it'll be fn." L.J said with a smile. HE returned the smile, "Okay." He said and went to the group.

Steven showed his friends around the town. C.J was dying to explore the forest near here and then go to the Big Donut with L.J and Red Onyx. He broke apart from the group when they started to walk back to the house. He walked to the forest, having a weird feeling that felt like something was calling him.

Once he reached the edge of the forest he felt like something to control of his body and start to move on a obscure trail. Where did it lead? He had no idea, but he knew this force had great power to just take control of his body like this. He walked for what seemed like twenty minutes. He stopped at a cave that was pulsating with a dark light. He felt himself gain control of his body again.

"So I have a choice to leave or enter... huh…" He looked at the light pulse stronger. He took a deep breath in and out then smiled. "Well I'm going in." He declared and reached his hand into the cave then felt like a force shoved the rest of him in.

He face planted onto stone that was cold to the bone. He quickly popped up and looked behind him to find the entrance and been closed off. "Well there's no going back on this…" He muttered then looked ahead to see a large shattered mirror on the cave wall then in front of that a pure black crystal laying on what seemed to be a natural pedestal made out of the same stone the cave was.

He took a step forward, then a quiet robotic voice seemed to say in his head, "GrAb iT~" His eyes widened in fear, but he shook it off and continued to walk towards the gem. The voice grew louder and louder the more and by the time he stood right in front of the pedestal it was a full out chant. He took a shaky and uncertain breath then grab the gem.

"YeSsS!" The voice declared and a dark light broke out threw the crystal. He fell to the ground, dropping the crystal as a shadow swirled out of the gem. A shadow with a floating diamond shaped head. floating claw like hands, and a red eye with a black pupil was there. C.J gasped and asked, "W-Who are you?" He scrambled up from the ground so he could see the creature better. "Call me Tenebris. Spirit of shadows and darkness and such…" Tenebris said with a glint in his eye.

"Okay Tenebris… what do you want with me?" He asked the spirit, suspicious of what Tenebris wanted. "Smart boy ain't ya? I want something that will help both you and me. I want you to become my apprentice." C.J looked away and thought, "What's in it for me?" The spirit chuckled, "I teach you how to control shadows and darkness maybe even nightmares and I could be free from this cave that I am trapped in. So you in?" Tenebris asked a smirk on his face and out stretched out one of his floating claw like hand.

C.J thought then smirked back. "I'm in!" He said and grabbed the claw/hand. Tenebris chuckled evilly. A shadow suddenly wrapped around his arms and when he looked into the mirror his whites were pitch black and iris' pitch black. The shadow swarmed all around his body then he fell to the ground unconscious.

"Wake Up! C.J please wake up!" A voice called. C.J groaned then opened his eyes to see his friends and the crystal gems standing over him and L.J was shaking him pleading him to wake up. She realized that C.J was awake then called to the others "He's awake!" everyone sighed in relief. "Thank the stars you're not dead." Blue Amber said. C.J sat up and winced, "What happened?" He asked

"Well you disappeared suddenly and didn't come back for hours so we knew something was wrong." Red Onyx said. C.J shook his head then remembered what happened before and looked behind him to see the black crystal but no mirror or pedestal. He got up and grabbed it and shoved it in his pocket. "Maybe we should take that." Pearl said nervously. His whites turned black and iris' red "NO!" He yelled. "I mean-" He rubbed his eyes and cleared his throat. "No I'll take it."

There was worry and shock on the faces of his friends and the crystal gems. "What? I'm fine." He said then shoved his way thru the gems and walked on the trail back home. He looked behind him to see the gems just staring at him. "Well?" He asked then continued to walk back to Steven's house. He could feel Tenebris watching and following him but he didn't care. He just kept walking and it was evident something changed in him.

Hallo Friends!

So Today's chapter was um something wasn't it?

So yeh we has new character Tenebris! He is a spirit and not a good one if i must say.

But some good news! I'm doing a OC Q&A! Soooooo If you want to ask some of my characters something go ahead and ask!

Bye Friends!