Author's Notes so after the epic fight let's take a break and examine what is Stevens aftermath.


Chapter 10: Questions

*huff, huff, huff* his breathing went as he ran for his life. He ran straight not knowing where he was heading only that he had to run away from the purple Puma that chased him. Steven continued to run. his path ahead of him began to grow narrow. He turned to look behind him and seen the purple Puma was running after him but upside down? The Puma then stepped onto a path that made it look right up so that it was behind him once more. he then realised he was the one upside down. Upon realising this, he fell with gravity. He clothes were soaked and his hair was flattened as his lady in a massive body of water. Steven floated in the middle of no where.

*SPLASH*

An enormous leg had slammed in front of him causing him to move with the wave. Alexandrite and The colossus were fighting again. except alexandrite was equal to the colossus size. They brawled until Purple puma had body slammed onto the two giants. She took down the giants and caused a tidal wave that engulfed Steven. He moved violently in the water with his eyes closed. He opened his eyes to find himself in space. The planet earth was in his view, it was beautiful. The sun rose on the horizon, this was breathtaking to him, but something caught his attention. A rocket was flying out of the atmosphere of earth. The shuttle looked alot like the one Pearl made when she tried to show him the stars. The hatch to the shuttle had opened and what he saw inside was confusing. He watched the time that he convinced Pearl to let go. Steven watched as the shuttle climbed higher and higher looking at his other self talk to Pearl. Steven eyes lit up as a mysterious object collided with the ship destroying it. The weird spherical object raced towards earth. The sphere was massive as it dwarfed the shuttle. it made its way down and transformed into a ray of light shooting out into space. Steven was stunned at the event. his heart raced and his body sweat icicles due to the temperature in space. The hairs on his neck stood on end, He felt something sneaking up on him. Turning his lower body he turned his upper body He came face to face with the colossus curled up in a sphere, men gem stared at him. He saw his reflection in the gem. The reflection was a bit warped due to the gem being oddly shaped. Steven looked at his reflection, it did not look like him. It was like looking at himself through a one sided mirror, and he was looking at someone that looked like him but was not him….

The reflections skin began to peel as a dark shadow revealed itself hiding under the skin it wore a red lining with white eyes and a smile that read chaos. The giant gem collapsed on itself forming a black hole which sucked Steven in. He no longer saw earth but floated in darkness. The same white eyes and smiles appeared before overshadowing him. It opened it's mouth releasing a large stream of his mother's tears, He was buried underneath the stream with his eyes closed. The stream stopped as the sound of seagulls echoed in his ears; he opened his eyes, but quickly closed them as the sun blinded him. Steven sat up and opened his eyes once again, He was on a beach. He picked himself up and made his way to the forest that seemed to form itself as he walked. Steven passed giant shrubs and leaves that were in his way. He stopped as the sound of a puma growled behind him. Steven did not move, he dared not to even breath. The growling stopped. He was more scared than he ever was before. The puma growled as it attacked and Steven rolled to the side landing in a chair. He was sitting at a checkered table with dogcopter as his opponent. "Relax..." Dogcopter said, sipping from his cup of tea. "You should drink some too" he said calmly. Steven looked down at his hand and he was holding a cup of tea. He did not question it and sipped from the cup. The tea did not soothe his thirst in fact his throat seemed to grow more dry. Dogcopter moved the first checker piece.

(A Game of checkers commenced. Several minutes have passed.)

Steven moved his checkered piece and took one of dogcopters. Stevens opponent sat cross legged with one paw under his chin and the other holding the cup of tea. Dogcopter seemed to sip his tea without the cup ever needing to be refilled. "Checkmate" Dogcopter said as he placed a King piece from chess on the board. "What?" Steven said in confusion. He looked at the table with the most confused expression on his face. He tried to drink from his cup but no matter how much he drank he only seemed to grow more thirsty. "Well, then I think it's time for you to head back now." dogcopter flew from his seat towards a field of flowers. Steven watched itching his throat from the dryness that resides inside. Dogcopter hovered over Steven shaking the bundle of flowers he carried releasing pollen and petals that fell over Steven." A-CHOO" he sneezed, "A-CHOO!" he sneezed again his throat stinging with pain with each sneeze. Two petals covered his vision he picked them off to see his mother standing on the beach looking into the ocean. "Mom" he said as he rose from his seat. He ran towards her but was not getting any closer to her. Steven ran faster sneezing and getting farther away from his mother."Mo- A-CHOO! M-A-CHOO!" he sneezed he eyes getting watery until his vision was all blurred. He breathed in deeply as his eyes closed, he froze.

"A-CHOO!"

He sneezed sitting up in his bed. His snot dripping from his nose he eyes colored red and the rest of his skin looked pale. He opened his eyes and saw Garnet who was standing in front of his bed in the path where he sneezed. Garnet stood with snot that covered her face. Mucus slid down her shades. Garnet touched her shades, her hand touched the gooey substance she pulled her hand away and looked at Steven who had a string connected to his nose. Her whole body Shuddered as she held out her hand. Pearl handed her paper towels as Garnet cleaned herself with them. Steven breathed in again. Garnet quickly reacted and formed a wall of paper towels in front of her. Steven sneezed into his hand "uggghhhh" he groaned. Garnet ripped a sheet from the wall of paper towels and gave it to Steven; He cleaned his hands. "HAHAHAHAHA!" Amethyst was laughing clutching her sides laughing at Garnet who got covered in snot. Garnet replied to Amethysts laughter by scrunching up a paper towel filled with Stevens snot and flicked it at her with just enough force for It to open and land on her face. Amethysts laughter immediately stopped. She pulled the wet towel from her face slowly, a disgusted look on her face. Sure Amethyst was as slob but even she knew when something was so unsettling. Pearl was standing cowering behind a support beam hoping that Amethyst would not place one of those on her. Pearl was the most educated about humans, And just knowing more made it more unsettling for her.

She cautiously made her way to Steven who looked like he was dieing. She placed her hand on his forehead, a thermometer in his mouth and waited. 120°, you're burning up she said walking towards the kitchen. Steven flopped backwards onto his bed, he felt really heavy, no energy, and worst of all; he had a tough time breathing. Pearl came back with a bowl of soup. "Here Steven according to this childrens heatlh book this should make you feel better. Until I can figure out what's making you sick." Pearl said holding a bowl over Steven. He grabbed it and sat up. "Be Careful, it's really.." she stopped as Steven gulped down the piping hot soup. Pearl still had the spoon in her hand. "Steven how did you not get burned?" She asked surprised. "What do you mean?" he asked with an empty bowl in his hands. "The soup was freshly made, it was extremely hot for human consumption and you just gulped it down like it was nothing." Pearl replied to his question astounded. "I don't know" he said with a confused look on his face looking at the bowl. "Here Steven have another." Amethyst said holding out a bowl for him. Pearl looked at the bowl and noticed fire salt had been sprinkled onto the soup. "Amethyst what are you think-Steven don't eat that!" Pearl cried. She was too late, Steven had already drank half of the soup. Pearl waited impatiently for Steven to start screaming for water. "Why what was in it?" he asked concerned, his chest started to puff a little bit. Steven's cheeks puffed as well; his stomach growled he chest returned to normal as he let out air from his mouth, it was not air but a reddish steam, he smacked his lips. "Why do I taste fire salt?" he asked. "It was worth a shot. I figured since the soup wasn't spicy enough maybe some fire salt would be enough. Besides, I only put a little. Amethyst commented holding a vial of fire salt. "Amethyst that was uncalled for and you could have hurt Steven" Garnet said looking at Amethyst. "But we know now Stevens not sick like an normal human." she fixed her shades as she said "I'll be back." She walked to the warp pad and transported to another location.

Steven stared blankly at the warp, almost as if he were expecting something to happen. Pearl called Stevens name, "I'm sure you have plenty of questions for us about what just happened and I'm going to tell you, I will answer them as best as I can." she said pulling up a chair and sat with her hands folded on her lap. Steven looked at Pearl; "Well, I guess to start off, what was that thing?" he asked. "The creature that we fought was called a Colossus." she replied. "Well, where did it come from?" He asked, Pearl was about to answer but stopped. She thought for a second where could a colossus of such size come from? Then, it came to her…"Homeworld" Pearl accidentally muttered. "Homeworld? What's that?" He question while sniffing."Homeworld is where Garnet, Rose, and I came from it's our home." Pearl said. Amethyst seemed to just sulk at the word 'homeworld' as she made her way outside. Steven watched amethyst leave feeling like he offended her. "Are there other gems out there? Like you or Garnet?" he asked in a low voice. Pearl clutched her hands, "Steven, do you think we can hold off for the questions until Garnet arrives? Pearl asked him this time." Yeah…" He replied lying back down in his bed. Pearl got up from her chair and grabbed Steven another bowl of soup and placed it on the nightstand that laid besides his bed. "If you need anything just use this whistle." She said summoning a whistle that looked like the one she gave to Greg when he broke his leg. Steven replied with an okay as he shut his eyes and drifted into dreamland, but what Steven didn't know was that dreamland had something special for him…


Author's Notes: Sorry I wanted to post this chapter yesterday but I didn't get the chance too.