Disclaimer: Characters, settings, names from the cartoon television show 'Steven Universe' are creations and property of Rebecca sugar and Cartoon network. Any Non-steven universe characters, settings, names, Gems, Gem powers, beliefs, mythology are my own creation.

Author's Note: After seemingly failing to put Soren, the male space gem, down for the count. Steven faced almost certain death from an earlier blast. But when he appeared out of a portal with lion, he was shocked to see Lapis lazuli, dead. This sent him into a State of Gem Possession, even more, he and Lion have now fused.

Story Tags: Steven Universe, Connie Maheswaran, OC's, Lapis Lazuli, Pearl, Amethyst, Garnet, Beach City, Gem Powers, Romance, Adventure, Comfort, Destiny.

Music Inspiration for Chapter: "A Promise That Doesn't Need Words" By: Sana

Chapter 18: Leo Kunzite!

Monday

May 11, 2016, 10:35 [Night]

Atlantic Ocean

10:30 [Night]

Looking up at The fusion between Steven Universe and his partner Lion, Soren changed the ocean of lava back into an ocean of water. The lava's glow went away, and the molten rock seemingly vanished. Soren hovered above the surface of the ocean, the heat his body gave off boiled the water below his black riveted Sabatons.

Standing before him at 500 feet tall, was a humanoid pink Lion with a dark pink body. His mane was light pink and glowed intensely bright like the moon on a clear night. His eyes glowed just as bright as his mane. Behind him was a long tail with pink glowing fur, almost like fire. He had six arms and hands. On his left side he had one clawed hand. One hand gripped the handle of rose's scabbard. The third hand gripped the handle of a battle double sided axe.

On his right side, he had Rose's shield on the forearm of his middle arm. His bottom hand grabbed black orb of vibrating energy. and the top arm carried a hovering giant Rose Quartz diamond. The more Soren inspected Leo Kunzite, the more he saw how much trouble he was in. Leo Kunzite's body gave off pink flickering embers.

The last piece to finish Leo Kunzite's fusion, was a long black open trench coat that covered him from shoulders to foot. The long sleeves rolled up to his elbows automatically on their own. The hems were pink, with Rose Quartz's symbol on the back of the coat. Soren dared not blink, any movement no matter how small could mean a battle to the death.

"He's under the possession of his mother's gem right now. He's lost all rational thinking, typical of a hybrid. Had he learned to master his mother's gem first, this would be a different kind of fight, and a different kind of fusion. That lion has the other half of Rose's gem. I can see it clearly. And since that creature has origins from Homeworld, his physical body which is made up of pure magic has only multiplied their power exponentially. I only know of one Sacred Fire Method that might return that hybrid's mind and undo their fusion. Red beryl help me."

Soren said one prayer in his head and readied for a fight that could end up killing him.

Crystal Temple, The Beach

Back over at the beach, Amethyst and Garnet took off flying as an owl and hawk. They were going to check on Steven and Lion and see if they could support him. Pearl remained behind and cradled Lapis's lifeless body In her arms. When Lion and Steven fused, the crystal gems saw a cylindrical pillar of pink light off in the distance, just beyond the horizon.

Looking down at Lapis's expressionless face, Pearl spoke to her.

"Lapis, second only after Steven. you truly were just as powerful as Rose Quartz in her prime, I felt it when we were one. But now you're gone. and now all of our hopes lie with Steven and Lion. I think he was in love with you Lapis, maybe more than he was with Connie. And you were in love with him too. just as I was with Rose and am now...with Carlos."

Pearl let a tear fall down from her eyes. it landed square on Lapis's forehead. Pearl pulled lapis up and rested the side of her head closer to her chest. Quiet sobbing followed shortly from pearl. just then.

Atlantic Ocean

10:40 [Night]

"Do you think we can really catch up to them garnet?"

"yes, we just have to keep focused."

"You said Steven was gem Possessed? I've never heard of something like that."

"Normal gems like us can't experience it since we were born or made this way with magical inhibitors. We already have a good concept of how to use our powers, shape shift and pulling out our weapons in the first few days of our lives. We know how much power we can exert, when to release it all or hold back. Gem hybrids, which are not uncommon but still fairly rare lack our inhibitors. Steven in this state has technically mastered his gem, but he lacks the focus and rationale thinking to utilize it correctly."

Amethyst listened to everything Garnet was telling her with an attentive ear. She looked concerned for Steven. "Steven, as long as you can still remember us, please don't hurt anyone." Amethyst prayed in her head.

The two of them didn't have to fly very far. The sounds of several sonic booms rattled the night sky and created disturbances on the ocean's surface and inside of it. Garnet flew in front of Amethyst to stop her from almost getting split in half. In her future vision she saw Leo Kunzite unleashing a torrent of punches, drilling his fists into Soren's back. Leo was flying and had Soren at his mercy and rage.

The punches created sonic booms which blew holes in the clouds, turning them into puffy Swiss cheese in the clouds. Had amethyst continued flying in the same path, she would have taken a punch which would have obliterated her down to the atomic level. Unable to return back from such damage.

Soren vs Leo Kunzite

Being propelled like a torpedo into several different location of the sky by Leo kunzite's continuous and relentless punches. Soren was thinking of how to escape this beating as quickly as possible. Each punch caused a level of pain that made him grit his teeth, and threatened to literally break him.

"You're not the only one with hot fists!" Soren shouted painfully angry.

Soren fired jet like boosters from the bottom of his Sabatons and use them to propel himself out of Leo kunzite's attack. When he gave himself enough distance, Soren covered his gauntlets In royal blue fire and bumped his fists together. "Let's Go!" he said, challenging Leo kunzite.

Leo Kunzite cocked his head to side, like a confused animal. He furrowed his brows in anger and roared loudly. His roar caused a wave of energy to blow towards Soren. it also caused a massive sky-quake that blew away all the clouds in the sky. Soren saw the wave of energy take the form of hundreds of giant lions charging towards him. Soren clasped his hands together and fired the royal blue flames blazoning on his gauntlets like guided laser beams.

The royal blue fire beams each struck a lion made out of energy, causing a line of several hundred explosions in the night sky. The atmosphere was covered in smoke, heavy and blinding. But this wasn't an impediment for Leo Kunzite, not at all. With a second roar, one more powerful than the last one. Leo kunzite created a two kilometer wide wall of pink energy that compressed itself and formed into a giant clenched fist and forearm. It was headed towards Soren.

Soren saw the danger in such an unrestrained attack and dove for the ocean. The giant fist followed him still. Soren was a speedy gem and an even faster swimmer. He lead the giant fist of energy on a goose chase with no sign of the fist ever catching him. Jumping out of a portal, Leo Kunzite came out of it right in front of the path of Soren was swimming and bashed him with three of his elbows on his side.

Stunned and frozen from the pain, Leo kunzite moved out of the way and watched his fist of energy torpedo its way to Soren. From as far away as the crystal temple, Pearl saw a flash of pale pink of light that looked like the rising sun. the explosion below the ocean unfortunately caused a sea-quake that sent a 500 foot tall tidal wave in the direction of Beach City. Garnet nor Amethyst could stop it, only Lapis could.

The Beach

Shocked and confused, Pearl watched Lapis's gem glow, fixing itself apparently. Her pupils returned back in her ghostly white eyes when she was completely healed. She walked into the ocean and extended her hands outward in front of her. The massive incoming tidal wave was rebounded back to the direction of the ocean. Lapis turned around and gave Pearl a thumbs up.

Pearl breathed a sigh of relief and returned the thumbs up back.

Atlantic Ocean

11:30 [Night]

Back under the ocean, Soren floated slowly back up to the surface. His armor was damage and so was his leather armor which had tears on it. His poncho was all but shredded into nothingness. Leo Kunzite's left arm came out of a dimensional tear beside Soren and grabbed him and pulled him in. Punching him out of his dimension. Soren was punched and kicked, sliced, elbowed and knee'd from left to right and top to bottom. Leo kunzite came out of his dimension and jumped back inside of it, repeating the process.

Seeing to end this brutality being inflicted on him. Leo kunzite chomped down on Soren. The hovering black orb in his hand was sucked into the palm and traveled up his arm and to the back of his mouth. With a quick charge, Leo kunzite fired his sphere of energy and sent Soren flying up out of the ocean, into the sky and all the way into space.

Up in space an explosion similar to an atomic blast shined through the night sky. A small temporary star could be seen by spectators on earth. Back down in the ocean, the disturbance caused by Leo kunzite's onslaught disturbed Peridot's tomb and allowed her cracked gemstone to float up to the surface of the ocean, it ended up being wash up on shore. unbeknownst to pearl or Lapis at the moment.

Without anyone to fight, Leo kunzite roared wildly and angrily in every direction. Garnet and Amethyst dared not approach Leo for fear that they might face his blind Ire.

"Garnet, maybe we should head back to Pearl and form Alexandrite. Steven and Lion can't stay like this." Amethyst told garnet.

"It wouldn't make much of a difference, even with our combined might. I scarcely believe we could bring those two down."

Space, Low Earth Orbit

Up in space, Soren's mangled body floated aimlessly in low earth orbit. His left arm was missing, his right forearm was shredded. His left leg was torn and he had wounds all over his torso. Soren's eyes were closed, his face, flat and expressionless. But this was not the end of the young commander. Solar wind from the sun, invigorated his gem with power which was located on the back of his tongue. It healed his wounds, regenerated lost limbs and unseen damages.

Soren opened his eyes and moved around. He took his time to think about how he should approach a wild and out of control powerful fusion like Leo Kunzite.

"He's a speedy fusion. His power to jump in and out of dimensions to attack and retreat into them makes it nearly impossible for any of my attacks to land. And that hovering Pink Rose quartz diamond that he has in his hand. If he ingests that thing- I have to put an end to this right now."

sounding more like a concerned gem rather than a villain. Soren encased himself in pure black fire with white outlines. Soren was inside of a giant 100 armed humanoid that took the form of Japanese Oni, or Demon with several glowing flaming white spheres in it's hands. Soren flew back down to earth and focused on the bright glowing pink dot in the Atlantic ocean.

Atlantic Ocean

12:01 [Night]

Flying towards Garnet and Amethyst's location, Pearl's eyes widened and her pupils dilated when she looked upon the fusion that was Leo Kunzite. He was on four, with the extra four hands raised. he looked and acted more like a wild animal. He roared, swiped at the air and slapped his large tail on the surface of the ocean. Pearl joined Garnet and Amethyst who shape shifted into ducks and kept their distance from Leo Kunzite.

"Garnet, Amethyst. Thank goodness you two were smart enough not to confront Steven. Where's lion."

"That is Steven and Lion, pearl. They fused somehow." Garnet started, "He absolutely dominated Soren. soren couldn't even touch them. It was terrifying and amazing at the same time."

"But that black coat and that...is that rose's symbol on the back? Where did that come from?" Pearl asked.

"Pearl, what are we going to do about him. He's even more crazier than Sugilite and stronger than Alexandrite." Amethyst wondered.

"Lapis is going to take care of that." pearl answered.

"Lapis!?" Garnet and Amethyst said together, shocked and confused.

"I didn't know how she came back at first, but she told me that it was Steven's kiss. She stopped the giant tidal wave from drowning all of beach city. She's going to try and reason with Steven, if his kiss brought her back to life, then maybe hers can bring them back."

Lapis walked on water, wearing her dress instead of her casual attire. She walked past the crystal gems and looked over to them, smiling confidently. Lapis traversed the wild rocking waves with ease. almost looking like she was walking on stairs when they came her way. Leo Kunzite continued to roar here, there and everywhere. He saw a flock of birds fly, and he swung his mother's sword. Sending a giant crescent wave of energy at them.

"Steven! It's me Lapis! Please stop and talk to me!" she pleaded with Leo.

Leo Kunzite spun around and faced Lapis. Leo Kunzite looked at Lapis, his white glowing eyes dimming down enough to lessen the brightness being casted on Lapis. Leo pressed his large nose on Lapis and sniffed her. He brought a clawed finger and ran a claw down Lapis's cheek.

"My name...is... Leo Kunzite." he said in a deep almost demonic like tone. His low guttural growling would have caused anyone to turn white, the hot air he gave off through his nostrils burned hotter than opening the door of an oven at it's max temperature. Or rather it was similar to that.

"Leo Kunzite, my...my friend Steven and his partner lion are inside of you. Please, I want to see them. I need you to unfuse. The longer you stay, the more you're like;y to hurt someone or the whole city."

"Soren killed you. Steven cried and was...heartbroken. He kissed you." leo said, taking pauses in his statement.

"And it brought me back. I'm fine, Steven doesn't have to worry or be heartbroken anymore."

"Steven is...in love with you."

"I...I- um" Lapis was taken by surprise, unsure of how to respond.

But there would be no response, at least not tonight. Soren came down like a comet. Leo Kunzite saw Soren and roared furiously at him. Leo Kunzite jumped, leaped off of the surface of the ocean and apparently flew to meet Soren up in the upper atmosphere.

"Leo wait!" Lapis cried out to him. She sprouted her water wings and flapped them frantically, hoping to follow Leo. But he simply whipped his tail in an arc motion, sending an invisible wave of energy that temporarily canceled her water based abilities. Lapis fell back and crashed into the ocean.

"One way or another, I will separate you two. You two can't remain fused! You're not ready for that kind of power!" Soren shouted defiantly through his battle avatar.

Leo only roared at him. When the two were at arm's reach length, Soren grabbed Leo by the three arms on his left side and spun him around. They spun around fast enough to cause a tornado. Soren then released Leo and watched him fly out of the atmosphere like a reverse meteorite. Taking this moment, Soren and his hundred white flaming orbs of energy floated up out of their hands and collected into one giant white fiery globe that formed above the head of Soren's battle avatar.

With all of this raw power pooled into one giant spherical mass. Soren raised all one hundred hands up and condensed his massive white flaming sphere into the size of a baseball. He threw it into the mouth of his avatar and became enflamed with nothing but pure raw power. His battle avatar's body turned into pure white fire that gave off silver flickering embers.

Leo Kunzite, in response swallowed the pink rose quartz diamond that hovered in his hand. After ingesting it, His entire body except for his black and pink trench coat started to flash wildly, much like a giant white and pink strobe light. The two of them flew towards the other, dead set on ending each other.

From the perspective of where the crystal gems were watching from, they saw a white comet and a pink and white comet basically heading towards the other like two titanic sized Ballistic missiles. Leo Kunzite flew with one balled up fist out in front of him. Soren flew with all one hundred of them out in front of him. The two collided with all of their might in front of them. Their clash created the largest known explosion to take place in low earth orbit. For ten minutes, a small "sun" appeared in space, giving off great light and heat. It was an event that would forever be known as The day The Sun Shined at Midnight.

With the massive explosion was disappearing, Steven and Lion unfused and fell down back to earth. Soren's battle avatar faded. Soren's vision went blurry and he too fell back towards the earth. Lapis's ability to manipulate water returned once Steven and Lion unfused. She Re-sprouted her water wings and flew up to catch both Lion and Steven.

Steven and lion both appeared to be irradiated, giving off a light pink glow. The power they both shared was still clinging on to them, albeit fading away slowly. Lapis caught Steven and carried him under her right arm and lion under her left arm. Soren followed behind and fell and crashed into the ocean. Amethyst was sent out to retrieve him. She shape shifted into a squid and swam at incredible speed. She fired her two main large tentacles and wrapped them around Soren's unconscious body. She took him back onto the shoreline.

Pearl took a seat and breathed a sigh of relief that this battle was over. Her relief made her look at the beach and examine the battle site. "not since the battle for earth five thousand years ago have I felt like this."

but while she assessed the damage to the beach, her eyes caught the small green glint that Peridot's gem gave off. "Oh my dear rose, can it be...it is!" pearl said, cautiously excited.

Pearl picked Peridot's triangular gemstone, dusted off the sand it had on it and brought her back to the crystal temple. The next time Soren woke up, he would have no choice but to answer questions. Meanwhile, Peridot was in for a surprise.

Continued in Chapter 19.