Steven, Peridot, and I walked into the woods for awhile. I don't know what Steven was looking for, but I just went along with it. Finally Steven stopped and looked into the distance.
"What's the matter Steven?" I asked. Steven suddenly dashed as fast as he could. Peridot and I didn't follow him at first. We just looked back at each other confused then back where Steven ran off too.
"I FOUND IT!" Steven screamed. Peridot and I walked towards Steven. As the brightness disappeared I saw an open field. Steven all of a sudden appeared out of nowhere saying "This is the perfect camping spot!"
"Is it far from the barn? Are we too far to let them see the fireworks from the distance." I asked.
"It shouldn't be from as far as I counted we are a good enough distance from the Crystal Gems," Peridot said. I looked over at Steven already unpacking his things. I followed his lead and unpacked the stuff he had in the bag he gave me. I looked over at Peridot and saw her staring at us confused.
"Come and join us Peridot" I said waving my hand for her to come over. She came over setting her stuff down and we unpacked together. Though Peridot's way of unpacking is throwing things all over the place. Once we were done I felt achieved. "Now what Steven?"
"Now we're suppose to have fun" Steven said. He went over and grabbed a stick. "How about we go hiking?"
"Sure" I replied smiling.
"Why not" Peridot said. I went over to where we had put supplies.
"Shouldn't we bring the fireworks just in case?" I asked.
"Like there's anything bad happens when hiking." Peridot said.
"You never know Peridot" Steven said. I looked at the fireworks. Three of them, but no way to tell which is which. Peridot came over to the three fireworks and grabbed one.
"Do you even know which one that is?" I asked. Peridot looked at me and shrugged.
Peridot didn't seem too enthusiastic about this whole thing. I think it was the gem troubling her. How I know is because the whole hiking trip she kept staring at it. She fell over one time and even stumbled her way down a giant hill. When we reunited with her she was covered in dirt and worms. It was great hiking besides that. The air smelt nice and the wind was blowing ever so gently. On our trip we saw some deer frolic through the woods. At one point we settled down at a river to take a break. Steven went to get something to eat. I went over to the river and cupped some water into my hands splashing it on the face. Peridot came near the river slowly. I looked over at her. She wasn't too happy.
"What's the matter Peridot?" I asked.
"What is that?" She asked back.
"It's a river" I replied.
"Will it hurt me?" She quickly asked shielding herself.
"No it's harmless" I replied. I looked back at the river and scooped out water keeping it in my hands. "See harmless" I showed her the water. She still didn't get it. "You can put it on yourself. Here I'll get the mud off of you," I said dropping on the top of her head. I swiped out the mud stuck on her hair. She allowed me to do it on her hair then she walked closer to the river put the firework down and stuck her hands in and splashed the water on her face. "Their you go!" I said while gentle tapping her. I startled her and she fell in the river.
"UGH!" She cried when she fell into the river.
"I'm so sorry Peridot! Hey at least you're clean. Heh heh" I said slowly laughing.
"Great now I'm wet" Peridot said.
"Sorry I just gently tapped you." I said quickly as I could. I reached my hand out to help her. Instead she splashed me with water getting me soaking wet. "What was that for?"
"For getting me in here," she replied back. I went over to her bent over and splashed water on her. She got mad and splashed me back. It ended up being fun trying to splash each other. Well I thought it was fun. Peridot just had this face looking determined. We splashed each other till we heard a rustle in the distance. We both looked at it then I looked back at Peridot. I heard a cry that I've never heard of before. I was getting scared now.
"Peridot what's that noise?" I asked.
"It's uh probably Steven messing with us," She replied to me. She looked at the bush. "Alright Steven very funny come on out!" The bushes still rustled and the cry was heard again, but louder and scarier.
"What if it's a gem mutant?" I asked. That terrified me even more. The bush shook even more than before. I closed my eyes shut and shielded it from whatever it was. After a second the shaking stopped. I opened my eyes and saw a tiny brown creature on the ground. It was holding a nut in its hands. "Peridot look it isn't dangerous it's adorable" Peridot looked over.
"What is that?" Peridot asked.
"I don't know, but it's cute." I started inching towards the creature. It seemed calm when I approached it. "Hey little guy I won't hurt. I reached my hand out to touch it. The creature stared at me. Once my hand got a hair bit away from its face it sniffed my finger. It was too cute.
All of a sudden the creature bit me! It dug in deep. I started yelling and screaming, but the creature was still stuck on me. I ran around shaking it off, but that still didn't get it off of me.
"PERIDOT HELP ME!" I cried. Peridot tried to catch me but I kept moving around.
"Hold still" Peridot said. I stood still as she said. She reached towards the creature and pulled at it to get it off. It felt even worse!
"EK!" I cried. Suddenly my weapon started to shoot out of my gem all over the place. Peridot had to stop tugging my arm and run. The daggers wouldn't stop coming out of my gem. I have to keep calm, but I can't with this creature on me. All of a sudden I saw a dagger flying across almost hitting my hand with the creature on it. FInally the creature let go. I felt the pain from my hand rush to me. I didn't move. I didn't say anything. I can see from my eyes Peridot looking at me. Peridot was in a stance like she threw something. Did she throw the dagger at the creature? She kept repeating
"Tabby are you ok? Tabby?" I didn't reply to her. I was still in shock. The next thing I knew was me falling to the ground. I didn't feel myself fall, but I saw it happen. I didn't move, but I just stayed in a pose on the ground. Peridot went over to me shaking me. "Did it paralyze you? Tabby? TABBY?!" After a couple more seconds of just staring at nothing I snapped back and looked at Peridot. She was on me with her hands on my shoulders shaking me. She was really upset. I could tell because she was starting to tear up. I reached my hands over onto her shoulders. That's when she stopped shaking me.
"Peridot" I paused for a second till she stopped shaking me. I saw a tear roll down her cheek. "I'm ok" I said while whipping a tear off of her. She quickly got off of me.
"What happened? Did it poison you or even paralyze you for a second?" She asked in a hurry.
"No no I just froze in shock for a second. It didn't do that to me." I replied.
"Oh well that's good" Peridot said. She paused for a second. I was taking deep breaths. "I'm uh glad you're uh ok." I looked back at her and smiled.
"Thanks Peridot." She turned her head. I think she might have not wanted me to see her blush, but I had a feeling she was blushing. I looked at my hand again. It was still red from that creature. Yesh it dug deep into my finger. I rubbed my hand for a second then for a quick second I thought I saw black in my gem. I don't know if that was real or the creature had let me see some crazy things. Anyway I went to the stream to rub my finger in the water. Digging it into the water felt nice. The water was nice and refreshing. In the corner of my eye I saw Peridot looking over my shoulder. I was about to say something when we heard a rustle in the bushes again! Peridot quickly screamed and hugged my back scared. I looked at her and tried to get up. This time I wanted to fight the creature. Luckily I was able to get Peridot off of my back. It was quite easy
"Stay here Peridot" I ran to the bush and jumped diving into it head first. I landed on Steven who was the one causing the noise. I didn't hear Steven scream when I landed on him. When I looked at him my hand was covering his mouth. I jumped backwards and landed on my back. It hurt, but it felt weird on Steven. Then again I did fuse with Amethyst. As I landed I felt a slight pain. Not from landing hard on the ground, but something else. I quickly checked my gem if it was cracked, but it was fine. I looked back at Steven who was slowly getting up. I tried to get up and help him, but the pain got worse. I layed back more trying to not go on the pain spot, but everywhere was a pain spot. My head ached as I clenched my hands on my hair. I barely saw Steven trying to get my attention. Though it was too hard to focus. Many times my head flashed and I could see just darkness. It was just for a quick second though. Then I saw Steven again looking at me worried. "What did I do this time?" I knew if he looked worried something had to happen to me.
"Your eyes" Steven said.
"What about them?" I asked though I was scared to hear what he had to say.
"They were black for a couple seconds." Steven replied. As he said those words I got upset and started to back away from him. "Hey don't worry about it Tabby we'll help you" I was still upset as I kept thinking to myself what if they can't fix this?
"I'll be right back Steven. I'm gonna take a mini walk. I'll be back in a couple of minutes." I said. I got out of the bushes back to where the river was. Peridot was their sitting on the ground. When she saw me she quickly got up and came over to me.
"So what was it?" she asked.
"Just Steven" I replied. I started walking alongside the river. Though Peridot saw this and started walking with me.
"Where are you going Tabby?" Peridot asked.
"Just to walk around you know, take in the beauty." I replied.
"Then I'll join you!" Peridot said.
"Peridot I really don't want anyone around me ok? I'll be back soon. Go back to Steven."
"NO! I uh want to enjoy this scenery too. I won't talk I promise!" She seemed desperate. I mean I guess.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt having a friend come along." So we started walking where the river was going and enjoyed the scenery around us. We didn't talk for a while. But when we kept walking the nice moving river turned into a rapid one. "Look at the river Peridot!"
"Interesting at first it was calm but once it hits this point it starts to pick up."
"I wouldn't want to be in that mess" I said. I looked around and I spotted across the river a big creature getting in the water so easily. Both Peridot and I were fascinated by this, but then more of these creatures came from our side of the river. "Peridot" I whispered.
"Yeah?" She whispered back to me.
"Should we get out of here?" I asked whispering.
"I don't know" Peridot replied slowly. Soon even more creatures came. They were big, brown and full of fur. They didn't look too happy. One of them looked at us and took a big sniff out of use with its big black wet nose. Once it got a sniff it growled at us and stood high in the air with two feet. This did not look good. I was stiff as a rock and I didn't know what to do. The creature was about to attack when Peridot shoved both of us out of the way. "RUN!" she screamed as we both got up. We started running fast as we could and when I looked behind us a bunch of those creatures were chasing us and catching up quickly. Soon enough we found Steven and we both yelled
"RUN STEVEN CREATURES ARE COMING TO ATTACK US!"
I think he saw the creatures because his face was in shock and he turned around and started running with us. We kept running and running until we ended up at a cliff that led to a huge hole in the ground. It was humongous! It was really deep and I don't think there's a way out of the hole. We all turned around and saw the group of creatures surrounding us.
"What kind of creatures are those Steven?" I asked quickly.
"Brown bears and they look really hungry." We backed up a little bit more until their wasn't that much space left for us to go. I was so scared, but then I remembered I have a weapon. I got out my weapon and stepped in front of the bears. "What are you doing Tabby?"
"Protecting you and Peridot" I replied swinging my dagger in the air trying to scare the bears away, but they didn't move. They decided to inch closer to us instead. I looked back at Steven and Peridot then at the bears. I know what to do. I started charging towards the bears. The bears saw this and charged at me with no hesitation. We collided with each other and I tried to use my weapon to attack the bears. But no matter what I tried the bears outnumbered me. I was being clawed and bitten all over the place. I tried my hardest to get out, but their grip was too hard on me. Their teeth sank in too much that I wasn't able to wiggle out. The bears that had me in their teeth gripped on tightly and started to pull me in all different directions. It was tough not to poof myself. Steven taught me that word poof. I couldn't I had to save Steven and Peridot. They need me, but the more and more I resisted the more painful it was. Any bear that wasn't gnawing at me were either clawing me or started moving towards Peridot and Steven. I looked over at them and saw them distressed. Unable to do anything. Finally I was able to see them look at me. Though I think I looked distressed. I looked at them one more time till I got attacked one more time by the bears and I got poofed.
I was in my gem for a while I think. I was fixing myself and even add more changes. Maybe Peridot was right. I don't need this dress. Though my look isn't really my concern right now. I need to get out of here and find Steven. If the case that the bears didn't shatter me. Garnet taught me about that. How gems are shattered and they forget everything except to find their missing part. I feel so bad, but what can I do. I'm just one gem. Anyway I feel better then I was before. I gotta go out and find them before something bad happens to them.
As I got out of my gem I looked around and saw the sun going down. Gee I must have been in their for a long time. I looked and saw lots of bear tracks. Oh I hope they didn't get Steven. I went and looked down from the cliff into the big hole. And their they were! Steven and Peridot were at the bottom in Steven's bubble. I was so relieved. I looked a second time and saw a bear attacking the bubble. I looked around and saw a boulder near the cliff and I pushed and pushed until it finally fell down causing an avalanche of boulders coming right at the bear. The bear saw the boulder and ran away as the boulders fell down. Thankfully none of the rock broke the bubble. Or can it break by itself? Whatever. I looked around once more trying to find a safe way to get to Peridot and Steven, but saw no way of getting down safely. I instead found a firework. Peridot must have dropped it when being attacked. I took the firework and instead of finding a path down I slid down to where they were. I did get hurt, but who cares. I went over to where the bubble was and saw them in their. They looked at me and Steven's face just told it all. He was so happy he dropped the bubble and came running towards me. Steven gave me a big hug and started to cry.
"You're ok!" He cried.
"Of course I am. I wouldn't want to leave you." I said. I looked over at Peridot who just looked at me and smiled.
"I'm glad that you're safe!" Peridot said excitedly. But then she paused and looked up at the cliff. "So how do we get out?"
"Oh geez I forgot to bring something down!" I cried.
"No problem Tabby we just er need to uh cliiimb!" Steven said trying to climb the wall. The wall was big and doesn't look like their are places to climb. I checked the walls and it seemed like it was covered in water. It was all slippery, the entire wall. I don't think we'll be able to get out very soon.
"Looks like we'll have to find another way up" Peridot said feeling the walls.
"We can't" I said. They both looked at me. "When I was up there I looked around and I didn't see any place where you can safely get up."
"Hey Tabby what is that in your hand" Steven asked while pointing to my hand. I looked at it. It was the firework that I found.
"Maybe we could signal them from here" Peridot suggested.
"Well where is the barn from here?" I asked.
"I'm not sure" Steven said. We are probably way off course from where he wanted us to go.
"We have to try at least" Peridot said. I looked at Peridot determined. I looked around trying to see what to fuse the firework with. All of a sudden Steven shows up next to me with two stones.
"Here back then humans use to smash rocks together to get a fire started." Steven said handing me the stones.
"Hm this can work. Ok here's the plan I will light the fuse with these stones. Steven, you and Tabby once I light the fuse lift me up and throw me as high as you can in the air. At that time I will position the firework and by that time it should be ready to be released." Peridot suggested.
"Sounds good lets do it!" Steven said excitedly.
"I just hope you grabbed Amethysts firework Peridot. With her whip we could climb the wall or her and I can fuse and get everyone safe and sound up their." I said pointing to the top of the wall.
"Don't worry about it. My Periplan is full proof" Peridot said.
"Any help will be fine" Steven said. So we did what Peridot said. She light the firework, steven and I tossed her in the air as high as we could and like that the firework was off. When it exploded the color was red. But something seemed wrong.
"Didn't one of the gems say it was color coded to fit their gem colors?" I asked.
"I don't remember" Steven replied.
"I think they did Steven." Peridot said back.
"Then why was that one red. Amethyst isn't red is she?" I kept questioning.
"Tabby it'll be alright. At least we have some help coming. Everything will come out. I think we signaled for Garnet. She can help us with her future vision!" Steven said.
"Ok I'll wait" I said. I saw Peridot looking around me.
"You changed your outfit" She said.
"Yeah I did what you said no dress." I said though I didn't even know what kind of outfit I was wearing after I got poofed. I looked down and saw myself for the first time after I reformed with a poofed up skirt and a wavy top with puffy things on the side, and my feet were golden. Literally!
"It looks interesting" Peridot said.
"What do you mean interesting it looks amazing!" Steven commented.
"Aww thanks Steven!" I said happily. Then I thought what the gems would think. Boy they would think. What would they think? Maybe that I'm weak or useless. I walked over to a fallen rock and sat on it thinking. Peridot and Steven left me alone though we were waiting what seemed to be a long time before anyone came. After awhile I heard someone faintly calling
"Steven! Peridot! Tabby!" The voice sounded like Garnet!
"GARNET! WE ARE DOWN HERE!" Steven screamed. As soon as he screamed that Garnet jumped down to where we were. I quickly turned around ashamed that I got poofed. I did hear the conversation they were having.
"You're ok!" Garnet said.
"Yeah we're fine. Well most of us." Steven said. I knew he had to be looking at me.
"What happened?" Garnet asked.
"Well…" Steven started talking, but he was really whispering so I couldn't hear. All I heard were mumbles. Then it stopped.
"So how are we gonna get out of here?" Peridot asked.
"Hold on." Garnet repled. I could hear footsteps coming closer. Then they stopped as I felt a hand go on my shoulder. I looked over my shoulder and saw Garnet looking at me. "You got poofed and reformed."
"Yeah I did Steven told you everything huh?"
"No…"
"He probably told you about the bear attack and how I was weak and couldn't help and I…" Garnet put her finger on my mouth and shushed me.
"It's alright. You did your best"
"Well I don't feel like it. I don't feel strong"
"Tabby you keep working up your emotions when you should be believing in yourself. You put yourself down too much that you think you're weak and so your actions do the same as your thought." She was true I always think and think about how I'm hurting others and how I am. These emotions aren't helping me become better. Their only leading to my defeat. "You think it was easy for Ruby and Sapphire to get the hang of fusion?"
"Yeah. You both are so great together"
"But we weren't when we started. We had to help each other with our weaknesses to help us grow stronger."
"Really?"
"Really" Garnet looked at me as her glasses flashed. "When you fuse you work together to help with those weaknesses. Not everyone is perfect. There's always something different about each human or gem."
"I get it, but I'm just not sure of myself."
"Do you wanna help get everyone out of this hole safely?"
"Yeah! But I ended up forgetting about bringing something down to help us get out and that's why we shot the firework in the air. And that's why you are here."
"How about we both help with this situation?" Garnet suggested.
"How? To climb these walls is hard enough they're too slippery."
"Let's fuse" Garnet said. I was shocked that she said that. Me fuse with her! I don't think I want to ruin Ruby and Sapphire's relationship.
"Are you ok with this? I don't wanna ruin a relationship." I asked.
"It's fine, common" She answered while walking over to an area where the bolder weren't at. I went over to her and looked around. Steven and Peridot weren't even looking over. "Ready?"
"I'm ready" I replied. She started to swing her arms around all over. I leaped and swayed my arms all over. Once we got to each other Garnet would swing me around gracefully. We finally swayed back and forth arm and arm on each other. As we got together our bodies merged together. We were fusing!
I'm so sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I'll try my best to post the next couple chapters ASAP! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
