Steven just finished getting ready for bed. He had his PJ's on and brushed his teeth. As he turned off the lights he comfortably drifted off to sleep. He opened his eyes to find complete darkness. 'Oh yay, another diamond dream. Give me a break.' He groaned. Behind him he heard a sound of chains rattling and quickly looked behind them to see that he was now in what seemed like a dark blue hallway filled with jail cells, one at the end had a man in prison garbs, his hair frizzy like Steven's and gray dull eyes.
He seemed to not notice the boy, seemingly whispering something to himself. "Hey," Steven tried to introduce himself. The frizzy man jumped at his appearance, looking shocked to see another human, 'well, sorta human' other than himself. "My name is Steven, and it looks like you might need my help." "How did you get here?" The frizzy haired man replied. "Oh, I can sometimes enter people's dreams, I can't control it though, so it is your choice if you want to let me help you."
The frizzy haired man looked shocked. "This isn't a dream though...oh yeah it is!" The frizzy man eyes flickered. "If this is a dream than that means I could do this!" Suddenly the bars broke and the man walked out. His garbs became what appeared to be a thief's outfit. A black coat with a gray button up vest in the middle, red crimson gloves, a pair of high boots and finally a white and black mask on his face.
Steven was shocked about the man's uniform, but the shock disappeared when a hand came down on Steven's shoulder. The masked man smiled, "Thank you for helping me out, normally when I have this dream I stay there till I get executed. It always scared me how close to death I was that day." He looked me in the eye, "Wait, how do I know if your not part of my dream?" Steven sighed, "As I said before, I can enter people's dreams, though most of the time it is by complete accident though. The masked man's eyes widen, "Why can you enter dreams? Do you have some weird powers that let you?"
"Oh? Oh, well it is kinda hard to explain but I am a hybrid of a human and an alien. Basically there is these species called Gems and they were trying to take over the Earth, but my mom, who was a space dictator known as Pink Diamond, who actually owned the Earth decided that she wanted to save the Earth, so she faked her death and caused a rebellion." The masked man eyes lit up with wonder and amazement as if he was a child. Steven proceeded to tell the tale of how his mom along with her friends fought to save the Earth.
"- but then the diamonds grew furious and sent the beams filled with a song of some sort to Earth to kill all the gems. Mom was only able to save Pearl and Garnet. The rest of the gems got hit. The song didn't kill them as planned, they only distorted their physical form and lost pieces of their minds. Luckily a few years ago we got the Diamond's on our side and they have been able to help us bring the gems they corrupted back to normal."
The masked man looked shocked at the story. He learned all of this because of a kid entering his dreams. "When did all of that happen?" He asked with pure curiosity. "6,000 years ago." Steven states. The masked man looked at Steven dead in the eye, "Can I give you my backstory now?" Steven shrugged, "Yeah you can tell your story."The masked man smiled, " First, let me introduce myself. My name is Akira Kurusu, before I continue, have you heard about the Phantom Thieves?" Steven tilted his head,"Nope, sorry, I haven't been on Earth that much recently in the past few years." Akira chuckled, "That's fair."
"The Phantom Thieves were vigilantes that changes the hearts of criminals, forcing them to admit their crimes to the public, either that it will cure your depression." Steven tried not to hang on to that sentence. "I am a phantom thief. Recently we disbanded because we thought are powers have been taken away from us, I found out recently though I could use my powers in the real world!" "Real world? You mean you did all this stuff in a different world?" "Sorta, the other is a cognitive reality. In that world you can see everyone's- well actually," Akira backed up his sentence. "There is an app known as the MetaNav. You put a name, location, and how the person sees them self or the area around them. For example Kamoshida, Shujin Academy, and Castle."
"Hmm." Steven hummed softly, curious about how the system worked. "So basically this app lets you enter people's minds and change how they think?" "Yep! Only if you steal their treasure though, also you need either A: A lot of weapons or B: A Persona which is the manifestation of one's soul." Akira, realizing this is a dream summons Arsene as an example. Steven stared in awe at the beast-man-bird thing. It had red flames for eyes and dressed very classy. It wore a top hat and had wings coming out of the back. I glew a light blue aura as it stood there staring at Steven.
Akira chuckled seeing Steven hypnotized at the sight a unsummoned him. Turning Arsene back into the mask he wore. Steven was amazed, someone who was sorta like him with powers. "There are all types of different personas, all based on tarot cards." "Tarot cards, those things used for future telling? Huh, I thought they were for superstitions." "Depends on the person." Akira chuckled. Suddenly loud ringing echoed through the halls. "My alarm…" "Sucks we can't call each other longer." Steven sighed. Akira quickly summoned a piece of paper and handed it to Steven. "So we can contact each other. See ya!" Suddenly Steven woke up in bed.
He looked down and saw he was still holding the piece of paper Akira gave him and smiled. He would need to call him as soon as he can, but first he needs to talk to the Diamonds.