Hey guys, it's been awhile since I've updated this story so let's start Chapter 3 of The Fifth Gem.


Within the Crystal Temple there were four Crystal Gems. One of which was male who went by the name of Cobalt.

Just yesterday he and his new teammates had completed a mission. Morning had arrived and Cobalt was the first to wake up (despite the fact that gems don't need to sleep). He had awoken to find himself in Amethyst's bed.

"Did I seriously fall asleep in Amethyst's bed?" Cobalt asked himself in his head with a raised eyebrow. "Hm. And it looks like she fell asleep next to me" he thought. Being careful not to wake her, Cobalt slowly got Amethyst off of him and quietly got out of bed, exiting out of Amethyst's room.

"Hey Cobalt" he was greeted by Steven.

"Oh, morning, Steven" Cobalt greeted his young, half gem teammate.

"So you're really going to stay here on Earth?" Steven asked.

"I guess. Might as well since the planet I was supposed to protect got destroyed" Cobalt told him.

"And are you also going to be living here at the temple?" Steven asked excitedly.

"I-"

"He sure is!" Amethyst said from behind him, cutting him off, the other two gems right beside her.

"But I-"

"Oh no need to worry, Cobalt, you're a gem, you belong with us" Pearl interjected.

"But-"

"And the best part is, he going to be staying in my room!" Amethyst said.

"Whoa! I never said I was going to live with anyone in their room!" Cobalt said.

"But you said you were going to stay at the temple" Amethyst said with a look of disappointment.

"Yeah, I said I was going to stay at the temple. I never said anything about being roommates with any of you" he said with his arms crossed. Amethyst was a bit upset at this, but then perked up.

"In that case, why don't you make your own room in the temple?" she thought out loud.

"I'm not sure, I don't want to damage the temple" he said, unsure of the idea his friend gave him.

"The damage won't be that bad, Cobalt" Garnet said.

"She's right, Cobalt" Pearl told him with reassurance.

"There's no talking out of this, is there?" he asked.

"Nope!" Amethyst said quickly. Cobalt sighed under his breath.

"Alright, I'll think of where to put my room when I come back" he said.

"Where are you going?" Amethyst asked.

"Just going around the city" he told her.

"Oh! Can I come?" Steven asked with joy.

"Uh, no thanks, Steven" Cobalt told him, letting him down easily.

"Oh, let him go with you, Cobalt! It would be a good chance for you two to get to know each other. Besides, Steven could probably learn a thing or two from you" Pearl told her fellow Gem.

"Ugh... fine! Come on, Steven" he said, walking out.

-Beach City-

"So where are we headed?" Steven asked the blue colored teammate.

"No where special. Like I said, we're only taking a walk around the city" Cobalt told him without even looking back.

"In that case, can we stop by the big donut?" Steven asked.

"Why?" Cobalt asked.

"I'm hungry" Steven replied with his hands on his stomach and a look of hunger on his face.

"Ugh... you're just like Amethyst" Cobalt said with a slap to his forehead. He looked at Steven to see he was giving him and huge grin. "If we go get donuts, will you stop looking at me like that?" Cobalt asked. Steven nodded slowly. "Alright, let's go"

-Big Donut-

Steven and Cobalt had arrived at the big donut.

"Hey Sadie, hey Lars" Steven greeted the two co-workers of the small donut shop.

"Hey Steven" Sadie greeted back. "Who's your friend?" she asked, noticing the blue male next to Steven.

"This is Cobalt, the newest member of the Crystal Gems" he told her.

"Great. Just what we need, another magic freak" Lars said as he was carrying a crate.

Annoyed by this comment, Cobalt slammed his foot on the ground, making a loose plank hit Lars straight in the groin which caused the crate he was carrying to be dropped. Lars held his balls in pain.

"So anyway..." Cobalt began. " We'll take three glazed, three chocolate frosted, and three pink frosted with rainbow sprinkles" Cobalt made his order. Sadie put the nine donuts in a paper bag. Cobalt thanked her, took the bag and left with Steven.

"So why nine donuts?" Steven asked as they walked.

"Three for you, three for me and three for Amethyst. Simple as that" Cobalt said simply.

"Hey Cobalt? Can I ask you something?" Steven asked.

"Sure, what's up?" he asked back.

"How is it that you can turn you axe into a crossbow?" Steven asked.

"You really wanna know?" Cobalt raised an eyebrow. Steven nodded. "Well, I guess it's just an ability I have. Sure all gems have the same abilities, but we each also have our own individual abilities" he explained.

"Ok then. Is it Ok if I ask you another question?" Steven asked.

"... If you must" Cobalt replied.

"So are you in a relationship with Amethyst?" he asked.

"What?!" Cobalt asked both shock and surpried at this.

"I'm asking if Amethyst is your girlfriend" Steven said.

"No she's not my girlfriend! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Cobalt yelled at him.

"It was just a question" he said with a slightly frightened look.

"Well don't ask it again!" Cobalt said. He exhaled a breath of stress. "Now. Shall we get back to the temple?" he asked.

"Not yet. There are other places I want to show you in Beach City" Steven said.

"Fine, but make it quick" Cobalt told him.

-The fry place-

"Hey Steven" Fryman said, noticing Steven.

"Hey Fryman, give me the bits" Steven said nicely.

"The bits?" Cobalt raised an eyebrow.

"They're the parts of the potatoes that didn't get to become fries. Steven likes them though" Fryman told him.

"Why don't you just get actual fries?" Cobalt asked Steven.

"Bits taste better" Steven told him, which made Cobalt roll his eyes.

"Here you go, Steven" Fryman said, handing Steven the bag of fry bits.

"Thanks Fryman" Steven said, taking the bag. "Fry bits, Cobalt?" he offered as he and Cobalt walked together.

"I'll pass" Cobalt said.

"Oh, there's one more place I want to show you" Steven said.

"That place being?" Cobalt raised an eyebrow.

-The arcade-

"The arcade!" Steven said.

"I've heard of these places. This is where humans come for entertainment and escape boredom" Cobalt said but then realized how he said it. "Oh man, I sounded just like Pearl!" he facepalmed himself.

"There are tons of games here. Maybe you'll find one that you'll really like" Steven said.

"Steven, I don't-"

"Oh don't worry about money; games are on me" He cut Cobalt off by showing him a baggie of quarters.

"I was about to say I don't have time to play any games" Cobalt said, correcting Steven for interrupting him.

"Oh, come on! One game?" Steven pleaded.

"Fine. One game! Then that's-" Cobalt was yet again cut off mid-sentence, this time by the ground shaking. He and Steven ran out to see what was going on.

What they saw was a gigantic turtle. And not just any giant turtle, a giant turtle with a spikey armored shell.

"Whoa!" Steven said with surprise of how big the creature was.

"Steven, get out of here and get to safety" Cobalt told him as he summoned his weapon.

"No, I can help!" Steven replied.

"How? You can't even summon your weapon!" Cobalt shot back. "Just stand back while I deal with this" he told him.

The turtle roared aloud. The creature then fired the spikes from its shell. Reacting quickly, both Cobalt and Steven jumped out of the way, avoiding the spikes that would've most likely hit them.

Cobalt held his axe in his right hand and threw it, making it spin through the air towards the beast.

However, the bounced off of the turtle's rough skin. Cobalt however, had planned this.

Jumping in the air, he grabbed his axe and slammed it down on the turtle's hard shell. Sadly, his attack did little against the enormous reptile.

"Damn it!" Cobalt said in annoyed tone as he landed. The turtle then stuck out its tongue. "My weapon!" Cobalt said, seeing his weapon get swallowed.

"Cobalt, what are we gonna do?!" Steven asked with worry. Suddenly Steven was also grabbed by the turtle.

"Steven!" Cobalt yelled as he watched his young teammate get swallowed.


"Oh dang! I'm in trouble!" Steven said with both worry and concern. "I got to find a way out of here" he said.

He searched around, looking for way out of the belly of the beast. It was at that very moment that he found what he could use to escape.

"Cobalt's axe!" He grabbed the weapon. "If it can't be destroyed from the outside, then maybe it can be destroyed from the inside" he said to himself.

It was easier said then done. This animal was huge. But Steven remembered something that Cobalt had done earlier.


on the outside Cobalt was busy dodging spikes shot out from the creature's shell.

"Damn it. This thing has too big of a defense, how can it be destroyed?" Cobalt asked himself

Just then, something flew out of the creatures skull. The item landed at Cobalt's feet, revealing to be Cobalt's axe. He then looked at the beast to see it cough up something. It was Steven.

"Steven?" Cobalt raised an eyebrow.

"Hey Cobalt" Steven said.

"How did you escape?" He asked.

"I did what you did earlier and threw your axe at its head... except from the inside" Steven told him.

"Impressive. Now then..." Cobalt grabbed his weapon. "Crossbow mode!" he shouted, switching his weapon from axe mode to crossbow mode.

He aimed his weapon at the dazed turtle. It roared one last time before Cobalt fired a lightning arrow down its throat. Upon hitting the stomach acid, it exploded in a flash of light. When the light diminished all that was left was a gem that rolled towards Cobalt, which he made disappear.

"Ok, NOW let's get back to the temple" Cobalt said.

-The Crystal Temple-

"Hey guys, we're back, and we brought donuts" Cobalt said as he and Steven walked in.

"That's good. We were went on a mission while you were gone" Pearl said. "I hope Steven wasn't too much trouble" she said to Cobalt.

"Nah, in fact he helped me take down a creature" he said.

"And you were right, Pearl, I did learn something from Cobalt" Steven said.

"Well I'm glad you two protected Beach City while we were away" she said with a smile.

"Eh, it was no big deal. Now let's celebrate with some donu-" Cobalt cut himself off when he saw the bag of donuts missing from his hand. He looked up to see Amethyst had eaten them all. He gave her a look of shame.

"What?" She asked with her mouth full. Cobalt simply shook his head slowly.

Amethyst swallowed the food as she looked at him. She then shape shifted into a cat and cuddled him around his legs while purring, asking for forgiveness. Cobalt couldn't help but smile.

"Ok, I forgive you" he said, holding her cat form in his arms. Amethyst licked his cheek and then cuddled it with a purr. "Anyway, I'm ready to make my room" he said, changing the subject.

"Alright! Let's get started!" Amethyst enthusiastically said with a paw raised, still in her cat form.

-Cobalt's room (hours later)-

"Not bad, Cobalt" Amethyst said, playfully punching him in the arm.

"Thanks" he replied.

Cobalt's room was inside a cave that he made inside of a giant that above the waterfall in the temple. Basically, his room was in the rock ceiling above the river/lake between Amethyst and Pearl's rooms.

"Now all that's left is a door leading to outside the temple" Garnet said.

Cobalt nodded and made his gem glow. Shortly afterwards a door appeared. Cobalt then opened it using his gem, which opened with crescent moon shape.

"Done and done" he said, dusting off his hands.

"Congratulations, Cobalt" Pearl said.

"Welcome to the team" Garnet said as she and pearl walked past him.

"Glad you're here to stay, Cobalt" Amethyst hugged him and walked away as well. Cobalt chuckled to himself.

"Yeah... me too" he said to himself with a smirk.


And there's chapter 3 Steven Universe fans, hope you all enjoyed it. See you all in chapter 4.

Also, if you have any ideas for future chapters, don't hesitate to put them out.