I would like to give a shoutout to "Cfintimidator" for giving me some ideas for future chapters, thanks man.


Chapter 19: A Strange Voice

"What else do they have?" Mica asked "they have lots of things: food, games, rides, shows. The usual." Steven replied. "What's that smell? its so…" Mica could not find the words to describe it as he sniffed the air. "That's popcorn. Wanna try some?" "YES!" Steven and Mica raced into the amusement park while Granite and Amber casually walked in.


"What are we going to do?" Amethyst said in a troubled voice. Neither Garnet or Pearl spoke. They sat in the living room not wanted to talk about the situation… but they had too. "We don't know when they are coming but we need to defend ourselves when they do. And by the looks of it their technology has grown far beyond what we remember. Pearl do you know of anything we can do, anything we can use?" Garnet asked. Pearl bit her lip as all eyes were now on her. "We could try and find something in the battlefield." she said. "okay, then that's where we will go. If Steven asks us where we are going improvise. He's not ready for this type of stuff at least not yet. The gems nodded in agreement and headed towards the gem battlefield in search for weapons.


Granite stood on the pier watching the rollercoaster race around the pier with passengers screaming in joy. Granite looked around while he waited for Amber, Mica, and Steven. in the distance he saw a pink creature resting on some boulders near the beach. He walked by the railing to the pier looking at this creature. He squinted his eyes trying to get a clearer look at it. {A lion?} he thought. "HEY" Mica shouted quickly landing on Granites back. "What are you looking at?" Mica questioned leaning off the tall gem holding onto his head and use his other hand to shade his eyes from the sun. "What is that?" He asked. "What's what? Steven said. He gasped "Lion!" Steven shouted. The pink lion turned it's head looking straight at Steven. it stood on all fours and roared a pink sound wave shot from his mouth and he jumped through. The same portal appeared next to them and out came Lion who sat in front of Steven."Where have you been! I missed you!" Steven said hugging his pet, slowly being engulfed by his mane. Lion gave a friendly growl in response.

"Steven!" a familiar voice called out "Dad? Steven said sounding surprised. He looked past Lions mane and his father in his van. "Dad!" he yelled running to the van the group behind him followed. "What're you doing?" he asked. "I was on my way to the wash to go and relax, but I noticed you here. Wanna spend some time with your old man like old times?" Steven smiled and hopped in the van. "Uhh what about your friends there?" Greg questioned. "Can they ride in the back?" his son asked. "I guess?" he answered uncertain. Amber opened the doors to the back of the van and entered. The front of the van lifted away from the ground as Granite and Lion hopped onto the van. The crew drove in the awkwardly tilted van to 'the wash'. "What's this?" Amber asked picking up a strange wooden object with strings attached.

"That's a guitar. it plays music." Granite answered strumming one the of the strings. "That sounds wonderful. Amber picked another string sending out another random note. The van stopped. "Alright we're here. Oh you found my guitar." Greg said. "This is yours? Then you know how to make it play music?" Amber said intrigued. "Uhh I guess you can say it play music, yeah." he replied. "Play" Amber said handing the guitar to Greg. "Well, first we need to get out of the van, because I don't know if the suspension can take anymore of this."Greg said.

Granite and Lion stepped out of the van and the suspension in the back tires shot the van up making it jump off the ground for a second. Amber exit the van and quickly walked towards Greg waiting for him to play his instrument. "Alright do you want me to play something in particular?" Amber stared at him with a blank face. "Well I'll just play some 'classical gas' this was a remake by a person called Tommy." "Tommy?!" Steven shouted he raced towards his father and waited with stars in his eyes. Granite and Mica gathered around as Greg tuned his guitar. "You're gonna love this." Steven said looking up at Amber then back to his father. Greg closed his eyes hanged his head low and waited…. Suddenly Greg started to play notes rapidly and slowed down to a calm soothing sound. Amber was wide eyed at the sudden performance. As the notes continued to play he picked up the tempo and Amber ears listened to every note. Every string being strummed and moving. Each sound wave hitting his eardrums was pure bliss. Greg slowed down and stopped.

He chuckled lightly before speaking "Man that wears me out I can't play the whole thing like I used too, sorry guys." He said scratching the back of his head. Amber looked at Greg speechless until he finally spoke "Teach me". Greg was surprised at Amber's request. "Teach me how to play the guitar." He said. "uhh okay, Steven wanna help me teach Amber some tips?" "Sure" he responded running to the back of the van in search for more guitars. "Okay, ready to learn?"


Garnet Pearl and Amethyst search the gem battlefield for any useful weapons they could use. Once finding a sufficient amount they returned back to the temple to find Steven and their guests on his bed playing video games. "oh hi Steven, I thought you were at the amusement park?" Pearl asked. "Oh, I ran out of money so we couldn't get tickets then we went with dad and Amber got to learn how to play the guitar.*Pearl looked at Amber who sat besides Stevens bed strumming on his guitar*. We played for hours and I got blisters on my fingers so we came here to take a break. Besides, what are you guys doing with those weapons." he asked. Pearl looked at Garnet nervously looking for a solution.

"We are collecting these weapons cause they can't just be left out in the open." Garnet stated. "Oh can I come?" Steven questioned. "Uhh… yes" Pearl said turning her gaze away from Garnet and back towards Steven. "First let's store these then we can go." Garnet said. Amethysts room door opened as they dumped the weapons quickly. "okay let's go Amethyst said smiling as her door closed. All of them stepped onto the warp pad except for Amber. "Uhh amber are you coming?" Steven questioned. He continued to play the guitars moving his head slowly in rhythm to his guitar. "Eh, leave him I wanna see this new place already." Mica said trying to rush them to warp. Steven and the Gems warped away to the gem battle field leaving Amber alone in the temple strumming on his guitar. The sounds from his guitar echoed throughout the temple as he played. He picked up his pace and stopped. he placed his hand on his Gem as great pain showered over him. He gripped his face as he doubled over in pain still clutching his face. A few seconds later. The pain subsided he was glad that it was over. But a question couldn't help but float in his mind. 'Whose voice did he hear?


Jasper had the Orange crystal in her hand. She spoke into it as it glowed. "Does this thing even work?" She asked annoyed. "Maybe we are not in distance besides how can well tell it does work and we are not even near earth yet?" Peridot said. Jasper huffed at Peridot and tossed the crystal to her; It's light began to die out. "Peridot held the crystal at eye level and stared at it. She placed a finger at the center of it and it started to glow. "Well, atleast I know how to activate it, now I just need to see if it'll work…


Sorry for the short chapters, but I don't think these chapters need to be as long to be good. Anyways, news for the story will be posted on my profile along with the next chapter publish date and maybe a one shot I'm planning to make. MAYBE :P