Sorry about the short chapters! I'm pretty sure keeping it together (the episode where Garnet and Steven discover fused gems) is after jailbreak, but as you can tell, this story doesn't follow the rules completely, and isn't fully cannon. Hope you enjoy and thanks for all your reviews! It makes me elated every time I see a new review and I read them all! Love you all and thank you for your support!
A look into the soul
Chapter 7
Thunderous booms filled the cavities of each corner of the cave.
Ear piercing screeches rippled through the silent night air.
Something was awakening.
"Steven wake up! Did you hear that?"
The sun was barely peeking out over the horizon, while the sky was still black.
"No, what did you hear?"
"Like, a scream, coming from that cave with the mirror," she pointed down at the cave that they now are reluctant to sleep in, because of the eerie mirror that laid suspiciously dormant in it.
They clambered down the hill to the entrance of the cave and halted.
"Are you sure you want to go in there?" Steven said, anxiously.
"It's better if we sneak up on this thing before it sneaks up on us."
Connie gripped his hand and they continued further into the mouth of the cave. They shimmied along the damp, dark walls and headed towards the room of the mirror.
A startling bright light was piercing the blackness of the cave as the screaming became more and more intense.
"I really think we shou-"
"Shhh! Don't let it hear us!"
Connie cut across.
"Let's go to that side so we can get a better view,"
All of a sudden, a huge, white silhouette of a humanoid being was created, like a gem attempting to reform. However, this gem being's body was severely distorted, having limbs in strange places and no symmetry. It crashed out of the mirror, black and smoky, and charged right for the kids.
At just the right moment, Steven summoned his shield, and pulled Connie with him towards the door entrance.
"C'mon, this way!" He yelled.
As they reached the door, Steven began to grow weak from keeping his shield up for too long.
"Throw the shield at it if you can!"
Connie yelled, as she throwing stones at the monster to take its attention away from Steven. With a last burst of energy, Steven fired his shield, right at the creature's gem, causing it to crack. With one last ear piercing cry, the gem being poofed into a black cloud of smoke, that was sucked into the gem.
"Are you okay?"
Connie yelled, from the cave exit.
"Yeah, but you should take a look at this."
The creatures gem was made up of gem shards, a forced fusion. It was an experiment being carried out by home world, forcing gems together
to create one heartless, powerful being.
"Garnet was saying something about this to me, about fused gem shards,"
Steven murmured, beginning to pick it up to examine it more closely. Just as one grey gem shard met his flesh, it was attracted to the gem on his belly button, and adhered to it immediately.
"Steven, there's something on your gem," Connie asked with concern.
"It's not coming off!"
Steven exclaimed as he tried all he could to pull the shard off. A grey, fuzzy blur surrounded his gem, a lot like the blur the creature was made up of.
"We'll deal with this later, because we can't afford to lose anymore daylight," Connie said, eager to begin their journey home. Not long after they gathered a few minor supplies, they began to head deeper into the forest, towards the road of safety.