Everything stayed pretty much the same at the peaceful lake, until one faithful morning...


Steven's head lifted from beneath his wing, as a massive din resonated from outside! Some loud, violent...something had awoken the baby mallard!

"Peep?" The duckling left the safe bed of feathers, and stuck his head out of the tree nook in curiosity...

A new duck had found its way into the peaceful lake. It was the fastest swimmer Steven had ever seen! The bird was able to zoom through the water like a motor boat! The creature had a blue plume and a magnificently white beak. Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl were all honking at the intruder in frustration from the shore.

The blue duck responded by zooming as close as she could to the sitting bench from the lakeside, and flapping her wings, splashing the elderly Humans and scaring the lake's source of bread away!

Steven's family honked even more aggressively at this! Garnet jumped into the lake and attempted to swim toward the intruder with anger! This strange blue duck was threatening Steven's food source!

"WOOOSH!"

The new duck didn't even NEED to fight! She simply swam past Garnet at lightning speed, and overwhelmed the duck with a massive wave!

"HONK!" Garnet breached the surface after being covered with water. She quickly swam back to the shore. The trio would have to come up with another plan...

"PEEP? PEEP!" Steven waddled toward his family with interest.

"TRILL!" Pearl immediately approached the duckling with worry. She knew the mallard was not a very good swimmer, and DID NOT want him getting involved with this...HOOLIGAN.

"Peep?" Steven looked at the new duck with curiosity.

"WAK!" Garnet shook her head in disagreement. Steven had offered to talk to the new animal in hopes of coming to a truce.

No...this new duck was too dangerous!

As the trio quacked in debate, Steven used his family's distraction to enter the lake, and swim toward the stranger...


Lapis zoomed around the lake, before spotting a new, helpless, baby duckling struggling in the violent current! The blue duck slowed to a tread immediately, and swam toward the frightened baby to make sure he was ok...

"Sqeek?" The blue duck had a very high pitched whistle. She asked Steven if he was alright.

"P-Peep! Chirp..." The mallard was a bit dizzy from the current, but was (overall), safe and quite fine! "Chirp?"

"Sqaaa..."

The two birds exchanged names.

Steven thought that "Lapis" was a neat name!

Lapis was just glad that this duckling "Steven" was safe. She enjoyed playing pranks with water, and fighting for territory. This little duckling, however, did not know of such things...he was innocent when it came to fighting over nesting areas.

Lapis now knew why the crowd of odd ducks had been so angry and defensive. Lapis swam with the duckling back to the shore.

"Peep!" Steven thanked the new duck for her assistance, before Lapis spotted the duckling's family approaching as fast and aggressively as possible.

"Sqaa!" Lapis chirped at the duckling before taking flight into the horizon!


"HONK!"

"HONK!"

"HONK!"

Steven's family all yelled at the same time! What had he been thinking?! Disobeying them?! Putting himself in danger?! Approaching a stranger?! Swimming on his own?!

"HONK!" The lecture went on for sometime...

"Chirp...chir..." Steven answered sheepishly.

The mallard had disobeyed his family! No bread for Steven! Only healthy things like frogs and fish for now!


HOLY COW! I was NOT expecting such a grand response to this story! Thank you all so much!

Some of the credit for this AU definitely goes to the writer VonSmore. We were discussing Steven Universe AU's that didn't exist one day, when this silly one was magically created!

I (originally) wrote this as a joke. (The plan being I was going to write one chapter every day until April 1st- making 7 short chapters in all)

However, if enough interest is shown- would you guys like me to extend this thing past April Fools Day?

Also, to excentricaluli: Steven is a mallard duckling in this AU! They are usually yellow with brown patterns on the top as babies. They eventually grow into those ducks with the shiny green heads!

Also, Lapis is (literally) a "blue duck". They are an endangered species that comes from New Zealand. They can swim SUPER fast because they hang out in rivers with strong currents more than lakes...