Shattered Stones
Chapter 1: Stone-Cold Meeting
Disclaimer: I do not own Steven Universe or any of the characters involved except Amarl.
Steven slid down the tube of the Crystal Heart frantically panting in fear as he descended further into the tunnels. He began to slow and eventually stopped as the tube turned, he made sure together breakfast was ok before looking down into the room and seeing Garnet. She walked toward a pit of lava, broke Steven's phone and tossed the pieces into the pit, and then unfurling a scroll under her arm. She lowered it in with her gem magic and it screamed as it was lit aflame. Garnet then trapped the smoke in a bubble as Steven slid down off the tube. Amethyst and Pearl floated down next to him.
"Steven, we need to get out of here," Pearl whispered tugging on his sleeve.
"Yeah dude, we're not supposed to be here," Amethyst added.
"No, I've been trying all day to get everyone in the same place for together breakfast!" Steven shouted as he pulled away from Pearl, "Garnet! Are you ready to eat breakfast?"
Garnet gasped and the smoke fought against the edge of the bubble. She forced it back.
"Steven, you need to go,"
"Not without us eating together breakfast," Steven walked toward Garnet hoisting the plate of waffles, syrup, whipped cream, and popcorn.
"Steven!"
The bubble popped and the smoke billowed out into a large cloud forcing Garnet back. She slid to a stop and looked up as the smoke tried to find a way out through the ceiling.
"It's trying to escape, push it back!" Garnet shouted.
She summoned her gauntlets while Pearl and Amethyst jumped in with their weapons. Garnet punched the smoke forcing the tail into the ceiling and spreading it out further. As the smoke brushed against some of the bubbled gems it touched a purple bubble containing two gems that popped before being engulfed in smoke. Amethyst whipped some of the smoke away from Steven and Pearl stabbed it causing a shriek before it retreated into a large cloud. In an instant it sent a stream of smoke past the gems and into Steven's together breakfast, the force of the blow knocking him on his back.
The two gem shards hit the ground and a light began to emit from them.
"What's that?" Amethyst asked seeing the light.
"No time, we need to take care of the smoke first, it's taken on organic matter!" Pearl shouted as she charged at Together Breakfast.
It roared and erupted from Steven's plate forcing him fight back against its weight. With a large slam it sent Pearl flying into the wall with syrup and whipped cream.
"Be careful, it has all the powers of a breakfast!" Garnet shouted to Amethyst.
The light of the two gem pieces began to coalesce into a human form, and as the light faded it was a humanoid shape. The figure dropped to the floor and groaned loudly before slumping over.
Garnet slammed her gauntlet into Together Breakfast, but its gooey core absorbed her blow and the whipped cream began to crawl up her arm. Amethyst pulled her back and the two watched as Together Breakfast roared sending a giant waffle at them and slamming them both into the wall. It continue roaring as it swelled into an even larger size.
"Man, I wake up after who knows how long and it's in the middle of a fight," The gem figure said.
It stood revealing the look of a young man wearing a light green long-sleeve, flowing, half-top with a sea-foam green colored undershirt and pants that had different shades of darker green legs that met in the middle with a line. His hair was a dark green, almost black color.
"Hold on little one, I'm coming," He held out his right arm and light began to shine from it and a handle appeared, drawing it with his left hand the light faded to reveal a jade green sword and handle. The weapon itself was jagged and looked like it was ready to break.
In a second he was off, clasping the handle of the weapon in both hands he leapt into the air and swung cutting Together Breakfast in half and sending the top half into the lava pit. Steven took his chance and fought to stand.
"Enough! I don't care if you are the most important meal of the day! I made you to bring us together, not tear us apart!" Steven shouted as he fought the bottom half toward the pit and shoved it into the lava.
Together Breakfast roared defiantly once more before melting away into the pit. Garnet punched out one of the waffle squares before she and Amethyst climbed out. At the same time Pearl managed to rip herself free from the syrup and whipped cream mess. They all approached the lava pit panting with exhaustion.
"I'm sorry guys, I guess I dreamed too big," Steven said with sadness in his voice.
"So, mind telling me what's going on?" The figure asked as he approached and the sword disappeared.
The gems gasped as they turned to see him standing a few feet away, leaning to the right with his left hand resting on his hip.
"Emerald!" Pearl shouted.
He sighed, "Amarl, but close enough,"
"What are you doing here?" Garnet asked him.
"I was hoping you could tell me, apparently we're fighting organics now?" He asked walking over to where Pearl had been trapped and swiping some whipped cream into his mouth.
"Not bad,"
"That was a corrupted gem artifact, things got complicated," Garnet explained.
"I figured. Anyway, who's this?" Amarl walked back over to the lava pit and pointed at Steven.
"Oh right, you went missing before Rose and Greg did their thing," Amethyst stated.
"Missing? The last thing I remember was fighting off a gem monster," He held his head and tried to remember.
"Yes, after the fight Rose found your gem broken in two and bubbled you to keep you safe," Pearl explained.
"You guys didn't tell me?" Amethyst shouted.
"You were so young at the time, we didn't want you to see a shattered gem,"
"To be fair Emerald was already shattered long before I met Amethyst. What's this 'thing' Rose and Greg did?"
The trio looked at Steven who lifted his shirt revealing Rose's gemstone.
"Wait, you're telling me… that Rose reformed into that?"
"No, she gave up her form, she's gone. She and Greg… they made Steven," Pearl explained.
As he heard Pearl say Rose was gone Amarl's eyes went wide and he took a step back, "Gone?"
They nodded.
"I… I see… well…" He slumped down and looked at the floor.
Steven walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Hi, my name is Steven, I hate to ask this but, who are you?"
Amarl looked up at him as he spoke.
"My name is Amarl… I… knew your mom and your dad,"
"You know dad? I bet he'll be happy to see you if it's been that long," Steven said with a smile.
"Greg's alive!?" Amarl asked excitedly.
"Yeah, he lives here in Beach City. He runs a car wash,"
"I have to see him, please, take me to him," He picked Steven up as his face broke out into a grin.
"Yeah, sure,"
A short while later the gems, Amarl, and Steven exited the temple. Once they were through the door Amarl and Steven took off to go talk to Greg.
"I wonder how he's still alive after all these years," Pearl said to Garnet.
"And that he looks the same," She replied.
"I guess there's a lot we still don't know about him," Pearl said sadly as she lifted her hand to her chin.
Meanwhile Steven and Amarl were running through the streets of Beach City until they made it to the car wash. Amarl stopped when he saw Greg's long, flowing hair. He was panting with Steven when Greg turned toward them. He was smiling before seeing Amarl, in surprise he dropped the hose he was holding.
"Amarl? Is that you?" Greg asked.
"Yeah… dad… it's me," Amarl rushed over and gave Greg a hug, beginning to cry.
"Dad?!" Steven shouted in surprise.
"Well, that's a long story Stuball, I'll have to explain it now though," Greg said with a smile as he patted his hand on Amarl's back.