3rd person POV

"Pearl! Watch it"

"I got it, Garnet! Amethyst, you too!"

"Don't worry, P. I- Whoa! Where's Steven?"

"Over here! Do we need the Cannon?!"

In Beach City, a group of people, all of which aren't known to be human and are better known as the Crystal Gems, are currently fighting a monster on the beach. Nothing new to them but the giant red-yellow armadillo-like armored up monster is doing work and giving them a run for their money with its blade-like tongue and spiked flail tail. The four individuals working to try and contain the creature are no slouch when it comes to combat, however at least 3 of them could be considered non-human by their appearance alone.

One that goes by the name of Pearl, has skin almost white in contrast but can be argued as ivory. She has sky blue eyes and pink hair that leads to a point in the back. Her clothes consist of a sleeveless, sky blue top with a silk transparent ballet skirt around her waist. She also wears pink leggings with light green socks and finishing off with slip-on ballets shoes. The weapon she uses most often is her pearlescent spear she can summon from her pearl gem, which is placed directly on her forehead.

The second is Amethyst, who is a bit more abnormal to the human eye, consisting of lilac skin, pale lavender hair with her bangs covering her left eye, which both are a dark purple-indigo color. She wears a light purple oversized tank top with the shoulder falling off and a black bra. She wears black leggings as well with star-shaped cutouts on her knees. Her weapon is a whip with a purple gem a the pommel, light pink star as the handle guard and ends with three split pointed purple gem shards and small purple gems lining along the whip. She can pull it out just like Pearl from her Amethyst Gem, on her chest above her cleavage.

The third is Garnet, who is by far the strongest of the group and the most coordinated. Her skin is red-maroon colored with black hair styled to look like a cube-shaped afro. Her clothes are a black and red-crimson bodysuit with magenta and crimson shoulder pads. A pink star adorns her chest with long, elbow-length black gloves that cover her middle fingers. She also wears an orange-tined visor that covers her eyes. Her weapon is actually a pair of heavy-set crimson, magenta and black tipped gauntlets with a gold star on the knuckles. Her gem is not one but two gems, one on the palm of each of her hands.

And lastly but not least of the crystal gems, although still new to the team, is Steven Universe, a half-human half-gem kid who is roughly the same size as Amethyst with curly black hair, black eyes, and wears a pink T-shirt that has a gold star in the center of it. He also wears blue jeans and pink flip-flop sandals. His weapon, although he still has trouble taking it out, is a pink rose-encrusted shield with a spiral pattern to it that once belonged to Rose Quartz, his mother. His gem, which he inherited from his mother, is placed on his navel, right where his bellybutton is.

Being the defenders of earth, the Crystal Gems have done what they can to protect the earth and its inhabitants from extraterrestrial and otherwise harmful creatures inhabiting the planet. Right now, is one such fight.


'500 Meters'


"No we don't Steven. It's too armored up and fast! We wouldn't be able to hit it." Garnet explains as she bats the tongue away.


'300 Meters'


"Amethyst! Distract it!" Pearl yells as she rolls to dodge the tail.

"You got it." The purple gem confirms. She whips the creatures face, who turns in question. "Hey, big ugly! Over here!"

The corrupted gem creature retaliates by whipping its tongue at her which she jumps out of the, leaving the creatures flank open.

"Gotcha." Pearl says confidently before hurling her spear at the soft spot below the creatures shell. Unfortunately, it bats the spear away with its tail…


'100 Meters'


…Right back at Pearl.

"Pearl! Look out!" Steven warns her from his position on the docks.

"EEP!" she squeals and ducks under her own projectile. It disappears in mid air and rematerializes in her hands.

"We need a new plan." Amethyst says as she dodges another attack.


'50'


"I'm open to ideas." Garnet says as she and her two allies form up on her sides.


'25'


"Huh?" Steven is puzzled at the loud blaring engine coming closer. He looks back…


'Now'

I race by the kid on the dock on my Suzuki SV650 motorcycle and use the end of the dock as a ramp to launch myself at the creature. While over the three ladies, I kick myself off my bike, sending it directly at the creatures face and grab my weapons. I roll on the ground for a second before stopping in a ready stance as my bike crashes on my opponent, ricocheting off its face and landing on the soft sand a few dozen feet away. As the Armadillo-like creature shakes its head to stave off the concussion I gave it, I grip my swords tighter.

But not just any swords.

The weapons I have in both hands are two long Japanese Katanas with green square cross guards, black hilts with the blades being a very deep dark black green color to them.

I turn my head slightly to the right and look at the civilians in my peripheral vision. 'A little odd looking but no doubt surprised by my entrance.' I quirk an eyebrow as the kid from the dock comes up behind them and begins talking to them. 'So they know each other. Interesting.'

"Watch out!" The kid yells at me. Taking the initiative, I pull back hard and angle myself into an almost perfect right angle as something flies just an inch above my nose. Rolling back and getting into my combat stance again, I see my opponent has gotten his bearings again.

'Alright. Time to nut up or shut up.' I bounce on the balls of my feet with anticipation and make my move. I dash forward as the creature tries to retaliate. Keyword 'try'.

I duck, jump, slide and deflect the offending tongue when I can as I make my way forward. With another duck, I push forward and aim for the eyes. With a slash, I manage to cut a large gash on its face as well as one of its eyes just before its tongue whipped me on its way back. I jump back as the creature squeals in pain and anger over my action. Not letting up, I chuck my right sword at it. With precision that I smile at, I embed the sword in its right shoulder just under where its shell covers its flesh. While it squeals even more in pain and tries to dislodge my sword, I take a look at my surroundings.

'Sand… water… sand. Not very helpful. Wait… Yes.' I smirk as my eyes land on the stone water wall that prevents instant flooding to the town. Quickly formulating a plan, I turn back to my opponent, who looks very very pissed off because it was not able to shake my sword loose. 'Now to get its attention… even more than now.'

"Hey ugly!" I yell and use my free hand to grab one of my Beretta's. Taking aim, I fire a few rounds at it. A couple of my shots deflect off its armor but I've clearly annoyed it. "Cmon! I'm right here!" I yell as I spread my arms wide in a challenging manner.

He takes the bait. He curls up into a ball and prepares to do some type of rolling attack on me. 'Let's do this.'


"Steven, who is that?" Pearl asks as she watches the strange human look around after threw his weapon, hoping the somewhat human of their group has an idea of who the strange human is and why he made such an entrance.

"Mm-mm." Steven shrugs his shoulders, clearly just as much in the dark as the others.

"Garnet?"

"No idea." She calmly replies as the strange human yells at the corrupted gem.

"Ameythst?" Pearl asks but not as confident as she was in the previous two.

"Hey! What makes you think I know him?"

"I don't know! I just think-!"

"Uhh, guys?" Steven gets their attention as he points to the battle. "I think he needs help." Looking back to the fight, it looks like it since the human turns tail and begins running away as the gem creature rolls after him.

"We have to save him!" Even if the human is an idiot, Pearl can't very well leave him to die.

"No." However, Garnet thinks otherwise.

"What?!" Pearl asks incredulously to her leader, "Why not?!"

"It looks like he's got this."

"Huh?" Amethyst asks, just as confused as Pearl. As a reply, Garnet points to the fight.


'Hope this works!' I yell in my head as I holster my pistol and run up the stone wall. At the end, I tuck both my legs in and send myself into a flying back flip over the creature, just as it hits the wall and goes flying up. Landing back onto my feet, I watch as it comes back down and lands on the wall, cracking it and making it unfurl onto its back right in front of me. As it squeals and try's to reorient itself, I slowly walk up and tear my sword from its body. It doesn't have enough time to squeal even louder before I stab both swords into its soft underbelly, twist, then tear them out along its body.

*Poompf*

Sending it back into its gem form. As I stare at the gem at my feet in front of me, I hear footsteps behind me but I pay them no mind as I bring my right katana up, prepared to smash it.

*Snap!*

Something halts my arm mid-air. A quick look shows a purple studded whip wrapped tightly around my arm. Turning around I spot the short purple woman holding the whip.

"What are you doing?" The white pale lady asks me with a slight surprise but maybe irritation as well in her voice.

'I don't have time for this.' "What does it look like? I'm making sure it doesn't hurt anyone else." I say to them. "Now let go."

"Uhhhh, no." the purple one firmly says as she tightens her grip.

"Fine." I growl out. Using my free sword, I bring it up and cut the whip, making my attacker fall back in surprise. Now that my hand is free, I try to continue what I was going to do.

"Wait!"

Again, 'try'. What stops me this time however is the boy right in front of me. "What now?" I ask annoyed.

"You don't have to destroy it. We can just bubble it." He frantically says.

"…" Slowly I lower my arm. "What?"

"Yeah! We can just bubble it and it won't be able to hurt anyone."

"What are you talking about?" I ask.

"Exactly what he means." Suddenly our conversation is interrupted by the tall magenta woman as she walks past me and the boy to the gem on the sand. Before I can stop her, she crouches down and does what they've been talking about. She bubbles the gem in a pink bubble as it floats in her hand. I stare at her, mouth slightly agape as she taps the top of it and makes it disappear.

'What the hell?! How…' "How did you do that?" I ask, breaking out of my stupor.

"Easy. It's our job." She nonchalantly replies.

"What?"

"We fight these things, we poof them, then collect the gems to make sure they don't run free and hurt anyone else."

'Just like me. Albeit with a more… non-lethal sort of way.'

"Anyway, thanks for the help." She says as she walks back to the others, clasping my shoulder with a hand as she walks past me. "But we got this."

I stare at her as she walks back to the others, still more than a little surprised at what I saw. "Ugh, fine!" I growl out as I walk forward. 'I'll find out what they know later.' "Out of my way kid." I push past the kid towards my bike. "I got more important things to do than- Agh!" Unfortunately I didn't notice the rock in my path. As a result, I trip over it and land with a face full of sand and my swords disappearing. "Pah! Crap. Son of a…" I silently curse to myself as I get up. I cough up dirt and sand as I try to wipe my face clear of the offending pieces of grime. "Damn it." I stare at the rock in the ground and pick it up. "Stupid rock." Without thinking, I chuck it far off into the sea where you can barely see it splash.

Silence follows.

"Nice throw." The purple one comments.

"Thanks." I reply. I look to see the three odd women staring at where I threw the rock. The kid is… looking right at me. "What?"

Instead of talking, he points to me. I look myself over to see if something out of the ordinary is about me. 'No wounds so I'm not bleeding. Why is he-… fuck.' I curse in my head as I find what's got him so silent.

My sleeve was pushed up when I fell, leaving my Jade gem free for anyone to see. I quickly cover myself and stand up. "I'm not like them. Don't come after me." I start walking away. 'Better get out of here before he-'

"You're a crystal gem too!" the kid yells not in anger or surprise but… happiness? However what he says especially causes me to stop. "Guys! He's a gem too! Like me!" He happily yells to the others. They take notice and start walking to us.

"Steven, what are you talking about?" The pale woman asks as her spear disappears. 'Wait…'

"We know, Steven. He's a human , like you ." The Magenta woman says.

'Why is she talking like that? What does she mean?'

"No. I mean…" While I'm having my inner battle, the kid lifts up my sleeve again, snapping me out of it.

"Hey!" I yell as I quickly cover it again but it's too late. They saw it. Their eyes widen as a response.

"Like me!" the kid yells again as he lifts his shirt up. 'Why is he-!'

I freeze as I see what he reveals to us. His bellybutton isn't there. It's a pink gem.

'A gem… he has a gem… on his body… like those monsters I've been fighting…' My eyes shrink as another realization strikes me. 'Like me.'

My legs give out on me, prompting me to land on my hands and knees as my breathing becomes a bit more ragged.

"Hey, you alright?" I look up as the kid stands next to me. He helps me into a sitting position.

"Yeah, yeah, I am I…" I try to calm down but so much has been dropped on me. I grasp his shoulders, startling him a little and lift his shirt. I stare at the gem imbedded in him before slowly touching it. 'Yeah… its real.' Releasing him, I lift up both my sleeves and touch mine. 'I'm… I'm not alone. I'm not alone!' I smile at the revelation. 'I'm…'

'Having a panic attack.' My breathing becomes labored, my vision becomes blurry and my hands start to shake.

I hear their voices and they sound frantic but I can't hear. All this time I thought I was alone. I thought I was some fucked up experiment gone wrong or messed up extraterrestrial creature that my father wanted nothing to do with. He kept me in the dark all my life and I… "Oh god." I manage to croak out.

"… ear… e…" My hearing manages to pick up something. "Ca… ou… hear… e?" I look up to see a blurry white blob in front of me. "Can you hear me?" The voice becomes clearer. I nod. "Good. Now close your eyes." I do as I'm told. Everything goes dark but a headache still goes on in my head. "Breathe in for 4 seconds." Breathe. "Hold for 3 seconds." Stop. "Exhale for 5." Exhale. 'Hearing returns fully.' "Repeat. Breathe in." She mirrors me. "Hold… breathe out." My shaking stops. "Again."

'Breathe in… hold… exhale.' I open my eyes. My vision returns as I stare at the pale woman's blue eyes in front of me. "Thank you."

"Your welcome." She says with a smile and stands up.

"Can you stand?" the magenta woman asks me with an extended hand.

"Yeah." I take the offered hand, allowing her to pull me up. She has a hell of strong grip and pulls me up with ease. I also take notice of the gem in her hand. Literally in her hand. I stare her visor covered face as she gives me a smile. I look to the woman who calmed me down and take notice of the pearl in her forehead. Looking to purple, I see half of an Amethyst gem peeking out from the top of her shirt. I look at Steven to see he has a smile on his face and almost bouncing in anticipation. I scratch my left gem a little.

"*Sigh* I guess, questions and answers, for both sides?" I ask Magenta.

"That would be best. C'mon, we'll talk at our place." She begins walking away to my bike. She picks it up like nothing with one hand and slings it over her shoulder. "By the way, the names Garnet." She points a thumb to herself.

"Amethyst." The purple says as she walks to Garnet.

"I'm Pearl." The pale woman and the one who calmed me down courteously says.

"And I'm-!"

"Steven. Yeah, I heard." I cut him off before he can finish saying it.

"What about you? What's your name?" Pearl asks me. Looking to each one of them for a second, I contemplate my decision. 'There isn't much to talk about. Right now they are as close to answers I can get in 5 years.'

"Marcus. My name is Marcus."


After we came to Steven and the Crystal Gems house, which is in a badass location by the way.
I mean seriously, on top of the beautiful goddess statue, the houses placement is awesome with it being placed into the mountains and with an unobstructed view of the entire ocean. I'm pretty sure people pay millions for that kind of view. Anyway, when we got there me and Steven sat on the couch while the gems, as they are called, stood or sat around the kitchen counter across from us.

We exchanged information. They told me who they are, what they are, and what their job is. Steven was especially helpful considering we are one and the same, half-human half-gem hybrids essentially, and helped keep me calm through the talking. Pearl even kept reminding me a couple times of the breathing exercise, just in case. I also told them what I could. Not everything obviously. I still have some demons of my past I'd prefer to keep secret, especially if I hope they can maybe help me find out in the future about whom exactly I am. Right now, they told me who Steven is and that he inherited his mother's gem. For them to know who mine is without just my gems, I have to show them something else.

"Ohhhhhhh." Amethyst and Steven show their amazement of my weapons verbally with sparkles practically surrounding them.

"Neat, huh? Still not sure who they belonged to but man did she have good taste." I twirl the swords a couple times to show my proficiency with them.

"Oooohhhhhh." They continue to gawk. With a smile, I hand one each to Garnet and Pearl. They look at them from different angles, even going as far as to testing their sharpness.

"Hmm." Garnet hums. "I have an idea but nothing concrete. How about you Pearl? Know who this is?"

"I'm sorry Garnet, Marcus. But I'm stumped, I can't decipher these markings or even who's weapon this is. Again, sorry." Pearl apologizes to me as she and Garnet give my katanas back to me.

"Its fine." My swords disappear. "I've been waiting for soo long to find out about my mother. I can wait a little longer." I say with a shrug.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Steven apologizes to me. I smile and ruffle his hair.

"Thanks man. Your good people." I say as I sit back down.

"Sooooo, what now?" Amethyst asks.

"What do you mean?"

"Well," Pearl begins, "You know about us, we know about you. Where do we go from here?"

I think or a second. "Well, I could give you my number so if you find some info about me you can call me and I'll head back here." I propose.

"That sounds promising."

"Where do you live?" Steven asks. My eyes drift off away from him as I contemplate my answer.

"My truck." I answer. 'Okay, that sounded better in my head.'

"You live in your truck!? That's so cool! My dad lives in his van." Steven proclaims.

"Oh… well, I'm sure he has more room than me. Backseats in a pickup type truck aren't the best sleeping arrangements." I say as I rub my back. It's true, the first few days when I started sleeping in my truck left me stiff as hell for awhile. It was annoying but a necessity that I've grown used to. "But its fine. I need to keep mobile so I can-"

"Oh! I know." Steven interrupts me. All eyes are on him. "You can stay and sleep here!"

"…" Silence.

"Gems, huddle up." Garnet proclaims as she grabs Steven and pushes the other two out the door. I see them conversing through the window.

"Huh, well that's an idea." I say to myself with nothing to do but wait, I stand up and look around. On the wooden part of the house, everything seems normal, but the missing wall leads to the stone part of the house, with some type of crystal pad and a door with varying colored gems on it in a star formation. "Nice."

"Alright," I hear Garnet, "We've come to a decision." She and everyone else comes back in but Steven looks especially happy so I think I know what it is.

"And?"

"If you want, you can stay here." Peal speaks. 'Wow. A new home. That's awesome!'

"Really? Wow, thanks! I really apprecia-!"

"But..." she cuts me off. 'Crap, always a catch.'

"Buuut?"

"We expect you to help us fight when 'we' ask you too and for you to teach Steven whatever it is you know about your powers and try to help him hone his own." She says.

"What do you mean?"

"Stevens's young," Garnet says as she places a hand on said kids head, "He still has a lot to learn about being a Crystal Gem and we don't fully know how to help him when we don't rightly know exactly 'what' he is. Considering you're the same as he is-"

"And how awesome and cool you were at fighting that monster out there!" Amethyst happily interrupts.

"Correct, I guess. Basically you show tremendous skill and adaptability for a… human-gem and we'd like you to teach Steven what it is you know." Pearl finishes up. I look at them all, taking each ones facial expression to my memory. 'As I said before, not much to think about.'

"You know, I think I can agree to that. Alright, I'm in." I say my decision to them. Amethyst and Steven high-five each other, Pearl gives me a smile and a nod, while Garnet gives me a thumbs up.

"Well, now that that's over with. I say we turn in. It's getting late." Looking outside, I see Garnet is right, the sun is starting to set. "Marcus, you'll have to take the couch for now."

"Hey, better than being cramped."

"I'll go get some sheets." Pearl turns to grab them from a nearby closet.

"I'm gonna head into town and get my truck. Don't want anyone to steal it." I say and begin jogging to the door and out.

"Hurry back!" Pearl calls out. I wave back and continue running, jumping down the stairs till I hit the sand.

As I make my way to the outskirts of Beach City, I can't help but be ecstatic about my new situation. For nearly my entire life I've been in the dark about who I am and now I have not one but four points of reference. Granted one of them is still young but screw it. I'll take what I can get! And now a place for me to sleep properly and help out more.

I finally make it to my truck and climb into the driver seat and happily grip the steering wheel.

"Looks like things are finally looking up."

*Clink*

I turn to the passenger seat and find what made the noise. My backpack fell over. The one that contains two… dozen… broken… destroyed…. Gems.

"Ooohhh f-" My head slams into the steering wheel, activating the horn.

*HOOOOOOONNNNK*

Well, that was interesting. Feels good to write again and hopefully I'll still have this drive throughout my time in college. I hope my descriptions of the characters were alright. I got most of it from the wiki so if the description seem off, that's why. A couple of you asked or may be thinking of pairings being a thing, well your right. I got an idea but I won't reveal it now, obviously. Probably gonna be a slow burn but who knows. Kinda making most of this up as I go along. Well when it comes to next time, we meet Frybo.

Thanks to those who already faved this story, I appreciate it.