Author notesWoo! Second chapter, Did anyone catch the new Steven universe episode :D. leave your reaction in your review.


Chapter 2: A Dark Figure

Steven's eyes opened slowly, his vision was cloudy but he could tell he wasn't home. He was in a room that was pitch black, the only thing that gave off light was a small ball of light that floathed nearby. He looked around to see nothing. "hello?" he said expecting to get a response that wasn't his echo.

{Maybe this is a dream...} A flash back of the snake appeared in his mind; he remembered. Looking at his right hand, there were bandages. He did not feel pain while clutching a fist. He felt nauseous thinking about how the wounds could have looked. But Steven mustered his courage and began to unwrap his bandages. Unwrapping 4 layers of gauze he saw a black round gem resting on his back hand. "wha- how is this, I never had a gem on my hand!" He said confused and scared.

Steven lifted his shirt to see he still had his mother's gem. He looked back at his hand but was surprised. The gem had disappeared.

{Okay definitely a dream} He thought closing his eyes. "Think of good things Steven, like the temple." He opened his eyes and found himself in the kitchen with a bowl of "Cookie Cat Crunch" in front of him. Steven stared at the bowl in fear, he looked at the warp pad and watched it activate, it was the gem. The same gem that had bit his hand. It laid there on the warp pad staring at Steven, just like before it lunged itself at him. His instinct was to materialize his bubble and protect himself, but if he had done that... "No..." his quartz gem glowed and summoned his shield.

The snake collided with his shield, it's teeth shattered, pushing the snake away. In all this action, Stevens eyes dilated everything was in slow-motion. He watched the very thing he feared fall slowly in defeat. A fiery rage exploded in Steven, his hand was smothered in a wild dark aura. Without hesitation he swiped his hand at the snake releasing 5 dark blades. The snake had been destroyed completely leaving no remains as if it never existed.

Steven breathed heavily calming down. His eyes dilated once more returning him to normal. Looking forward he witnessed large marks that cut the warp pad and the gem door. He dropped to his knees wondering what the gems would do to him once they seen what he had done. His hand felt heavy and tingly. Ther was a slight pull in his hand, It turned into a sharp pain that grew intensely. He doubled over in pain holding his hand.

"STEVEN! STEVEN!" Pearl shouted. He could hear her as if she were in his head. "Pearl?!, Pearl! Where are you?" Steven shouted clenching his wrist in pain.

Steven eyed the marks on the door suspiciously. The markings expanded and filled the room with shadows."STEVEN! STEVEN!" Pearl cried, his mind spun around not kowing what was going on. The next thing he knew Steven was in his bed. Pearl pleaded for Steven to let go of her hand. He looked down, he was holding onto her hand in a powerful grip. He released his grip and pain shot up his arm. Pearl pulled her hand away rubbing it in discomfort. "Siiiiiiii" Steven made this sound sucking air between his teeth.

He looked at Pearls hand, she rubbed a bruise that formed on her hand. "Pearl...I-I'm sorry...H-how long was I asleep for." Pearl had fetched Steven a glass of water, "You were asleep for 2 days, you tossed and turned, sometimes you screamed. You even caused Amethyst to choke on a donut a few times." She said handing the glass of water to Steven.

"Oh..." He replied in a low voice sipping his glass of water. "Pearl my hand still hurts." he said. "Well, its been two days since I checked your hand. Let us have a look shall we?" Pearl replied unwrapping the gauze from Steven's hand. He placed the glass of water on his nightstand preparing for the worst. Pearl stopped in her tracks. "It's... it's a gem..." Pearl whispered gawking at the sight.

There were no signs of dried blood or any injuries at all. "Garnet you should take a look at this.." Pearl said motioning Garnet to come over. Garnet was sitting on the couch taking it easy. She walked to Pearl and Steven shocked to find a gem on Steven's hand.

"This is not possible" she said. " What do you mean " asked Steven. " I mean this isn't possible, the Onyx gem belonged to the "Sergemtes.". "Sergemtes?" Steven questioned. "The gem that attacked you Steven." Pearl commented. "When a gem's physical form takes too much damage, they retreat into their Gem, to regenerate from their injuries" Garnet explained. "So, why didn't I retreat into my gem?" Steven thought aloud. *His stomach rumbled* "ooo I don't feel..BATHROOM!" He yelled stumbling out of bed running as fast as he could to the bathroom. The door slammed shut as he entered. "This is very weird, I know I bubbled the onyx gem; but somehow it's on Steven 's hand. I'm going to go look if this ever happened to any other gem." Garnet said fixing her shades."Alright I guess I'll make Steven some breakfast, he must be starving." Pearl said. Garnet opened her chamber door and gone to go research.

The smell of pancakes filled the temple. The bathroom door creaked open.{mmm pancakes} Steven thought whiffing the air, the smell of pancakes made his mouth water. "Pancakes! Pancakes! Pancakes!" Steven chanted making his way to the kitchens grabbing a fork and knife.

Banging on the table chanting pancakes Steven accidently lost grip of his knife. The knife flew into the air and came back down cutting his finger and making a loud metallic bang as it hit the counter top. "Ahhh!" both Pearl and Steven yelped. The knife cut Steven's finger and the metallic bang hitting the counter top spooked Pearl making the pan flip and the pancake sticking to the ceiling.

" Steven what happened!?" Pearl looked over her shoulder to see the boy holding his finger. Pearl turned off the burner and approached Steven. "Let me see your finger" Pearl requested. she observed the cut. "The wound is infected, Let me get…" Pearls voice faded as she stared curiously at his wound.

The blood around Stevens finger gather into little spheres and made their way back to the cut entering his body and closing the cut as they entered. "whaaaaa…" Pearl let out a gasp."Steven how…" she looked up at Steven, she was flabbergasted at the sight.

Stevens sclera were dark. His eyes looked as if you were staring into an abyss. He grabbed her throat choking her. "S-Steven..." Pearl squeaked gasping for air. A shadowy figure emerged from behind his body overshadowing Steven and Pearl. The sound of Garnets door activated and she stepped out of her room. "STEVEN" Garnet yelled as she summoned her gauntlets. A gooey gel could be heard behind Garnet "what's going-" Amethyst was cut off by Steven holding Pearl in his grasp. "Amethyst get ready to fight!" Garnet commanded. Amethyst then summoned her whip and readied herself for a fight.


Author Notes: Sorry if this chapter took awhile to post. I suck at proof reading and kept trying to re-read my work. I sense a fight coming along. Just in case anyone is confused with how to pronounce Sergemtes it's (Sir-Gem-tes). What did garnet learn about the mysterious gem on stevens hand? how will garnet and amethyst handle this situation with steven as their target? next chapter will be posted ASAP. Please review and leave any tips on how i can improve my writing. After Proof reading this many times I still feel like there are mistakes in this chapter, I thank all who read this and put up with my grammar mistakes, I promise to try to be more careful and proof read more. Thanks for reading

This chapter has been double checked for sentence cuts.