What's going on with my life? Is it just going to be metal working and fighting monsters now? Whatever, I was in the garage, again, making items that people would want, very good looking necklaces and rings. I've already made 20 of each within the first hour, each made out of different materials, and very little of them looked cheap. These were always easy to make, but I decided to make something else again, something that could suit the newest gem to join us, Beryl. Have I not described her yet?

Beryl has an average-sized body with a lighter green skin. Her hair is a light green color, and she has green pupils for eyes. She wears a green spaulder on her right shoulder with a leaf spike on the end. She has an emerald green cloak (Without a hood) starting from a little below her shoulders and then going down her back and lower than her legs like a cape. She then wears brown leather clothing under her cloak, probably light armor. Her gem location is unknown to me.

I took a step outside and looked up at the trees. From here, I could see her petting a squirrel and reading a 21st century book called the Unfamiliar Familiar, book 1 of the Spirit Morph Saga. I walked over to the tree and leaned on it instead of climbing it. I waved to get her attention.

"Enjoying the book?" I asked.

"Yes, thank you for asking" She said politely, "Reading is like a vision that my intellect gathers, teaching me things of fiction that can be seen as a moral lesson to our real life"

"That's true" I said as I tossed my silver hammer several times and caught it, "You like to analyze things, don't you?" I implied, "You must be the smartest in the group"

"Yeah, it is why I'm good at hunting" She said as the squirrel climbed up on her spaulder. "Speaking of which, is there any game nearby?"

"Depends, rabbits and occasional deer, yes, but anything larger is nowhere around here" I looked at her as I spoke. "Can you jump down for a sec?"

Beryl stood up from the branch. She held her left hand near her spaulder, and the squirrel ran onto it. She lowered her hand onto the branch, and the squirrel ran onto the branch. Beryl leaped off of the branch, did a front flip, and landed perfectly on her two feet. She then looked back at me with a smile.

"What did you need?"

"Well..." I was trying to think of the right words so that I wouldn't lifted by the collar of my shirt. I tried to read her mind to see if she was planning to, but I couldn't control my powers again. "Can I check the sizes of your head?"

"I don't have a big head"

When she said that, I backed up and raised my hands near my shoulders, but she didn't do anything. I lowered my hands and sighed in relief. "I know you don't have a big head, but I'm just wondering, you know?"

Beryl stared at me with a brow raised. I then realized how awkward my question was. I shook my head and walked away. "Forget I asked" I said.

Before I took another step, Beryl stopped me by placing her hand on my shoulder. I immediately turned around and placed my hands on the handles of my guns, alarmed about what was going to happen. However, the look on Beryl's facial expression suggested other than violence. She looked like she wanted an answer, but in a nicer way than Bloodstone and Black Diamond.

"Are you trying to make something for me?"

I looked away, letting go of the handles. "Nothing wrong with it, right?"

"Nothing is wrong with knowing a purpose, it keeps me aware" She said as she smiled. "So... you needed to know my head size?"

"Right…"I pulled out a tape measure and circled her forehead. It measured 55cm. Before I could remove the tape measure from her forehead, both of our eyes began to glow.

Beryl's memory, narrated in first person with her positive voice.

My name is Beryl Emerald, professional rogue hunter from homeworld. When I came to Earth about 6000 years ago, I became a pro hunter, knowing all kinds of animal tracks. That's one of the reasons why I prefer the bow as a weapon of choice. I used my hunting skills to track down gems too for a good reward, whether they die or not, as a mercenary.

I walked around the forest alongside Florence, my only sister. It is highly unlikely be a gem and to have blood relatives at the same time we are alive, but we are sisters. We were out for revenge on some person, but as of right now, I can't remember who our target was. I had take a side path to regroup with another friend of ours, Star. When I came back on the route that my sister walked on, I saw someone I knew now, Bloodstone.

At the time, she was crying in front of gem shards, shards of someone she knew, obviously. The shards were probably damaged beyond repair, meaning they wouldn't even form a tiny bits of limbs. I decided to walk over to her and cheer her up—

I backed away, covering my eyes. My head began to throb even harder than it usually would, and I couldn't focus on anything anymore. When I can't focus, I can't control the power I was born with. My psychic abilities were completely uncontrollable at the moment, making me freak out over everything as if I were an insecure being.

I only get minor headaches after seeing into other people's memories, but this one began to hurt even more. I tried to calm down, but it only got worse. I could hear the voices of the thoughts of everyone nearby at once. I began to cover my ears, and I kneeled down to the ground while hunching my back. Whenever I covered my ears, the voices grew louder.

"Michael?" Beryl called out as she reached her hand out towards me.

"Stay back!" I shouted I smacked her hand away.

Still covering my ears, I ran away. I ran past a few trees and near a lake and clumsily fell onto a tree next to me. There were only two voices instead of twenty by now, but it was still pretty loud. I covered my eyes and tried to concentrate, but then I got more memories. However, I couldn't tell who the memories belonged to...

?'s thoughts and memories

Narrated in a familiar female's voice in first person, without any cut scenes.

I reached my goal in coming to Earth. All I planned on doing was to come here and ruin the life of the person who had ruined mine. She killed my best friend, Topaz, and she framed me and ruined my reputation on homeworld, making me a master assassin instead of the hero I was once called. Not only that, but I began to change from good to evil by corrupting the star squad and targeting the gems that remain on earth. I did that for hundreds of years until I caught on to the fact that I was insane in my own way, knowing I only did this out of rage. I still felt the rage, so I disappeared and tried to calm down by not using violence for a while.

I settled down in Colorado in the year 1800, soon to be a town called Lakeside. It's now 1989, and I've made a good human friend, then becoming a husband several years later. With the powers I have and the decisions I would make, I decided to never have children, but then I became pregnant. It's a classically ironic thing, I guess, not wanting children and then having children. I found out that I was going to have twins, something I never thought possible.

In the x-ray, I saw one had a gem, and the other one didn't. I knew that the one with the gem was going to have my weapon and invisibility. But… I wonder if the human will be the one to have no powers and live a normal human life, but my personality and weapons are only carried in my gems, so would the twins have one each or something? I don't know the science of human/gem babies. If they have my gem, they will be like me, people willing to do anything for revenge. Her life would be rough, and she'll be a part of something she doesn't want to be. I only want the best for my children—

-Everything slowly became static as she continued speaking, and her voice was immediately cut off-

I felt my conscious slipping and my head pounding. My back fell over from the tree and onto the ground. I tried to get up and stay awake, but my eyelids only grew heavier. Everything slowly became darker as someone ran towards me.

Three hours later…

"—ke up, Michael" I heard someone say as I slowly opened my eyes. "Wake up, Michael, wake up!"

I rapidly opened my eyes and sat up. It was night time, and there was a bonfire lit close to me, keeping me warm. I faced my body to the fire to get as much heat as I can because it was a cold night. I sat in the sand on the shore, searching through it for anything for no reason. I tried to remember the memory that wasn't Beryl's, but I couldn't remember anything. "What happened?" I asked aloud, "Am I... This isn't Lakeside"

"Yeah, we're somewhere else" Someone said from the other side of the large, blue-flamed bonfire. The voice was obviously Beryl's. I instantly remembered everything. "We borrowed a friend's warp pad to get to a place-"

"We teleported? Who owned the teleportation pad?" I quickly asked, "This kind of tech is advanced"

"Just a group of old friends of mine who decided to call themselves the Crystal Gems" Beryl looked at the circular platform hidden behind the bushes.

"Huh, more gems, what are the odds" I said as I held my hands closer to the fire, "I should be back at home so that I can talk to friends and continue working"

"Because we're hunting together today" Beryl said as she stood up.

She snapped her fingers once, and a powerful gust had blown away the bonfire. Before the bonfire blew out, it was pushed towards my direction. I backed away, but the fire already caught onto my left leg. I tried shaking my leg constantly to get the flames off of my pants, but it didn't work. I finally began to feel the burn and began to bounce around in pain.

"Beryl!" I shouted in pain.

She shook her head, took off her cloak, and covered my leg with the cloak. She smothered it, getting the flames off of my leg and placing pressure on my wound. When she removed her cloak from my leg, I saw that a part of my pants was burned away, and my leg was darker. I sighed in relief and sat back down. I examined the area around me.

"What islet is this?" I asked. "I can tell it is small, but the forest looks huge"

"We're hunting on an island called the Crescent Moon islet" She said as she summoned her weapon.

She reached behind her back and pulled out green bow with glassy material, an emerald bow. The string on it was nearly invisible. As I admired the bow, she began to walk. I caught myself and began to walk fast enough to catch up to her fast pace.

We walked along the shoreline to find a way to get in the forest. I looked around as I walked next to Beryl so that I could try and concentrate on my powers, but there wasn't any luck. Beryl, on the other hand was completely aware of the things in front of her. We took a dirt path into the forest.

"What are we hunting?" I asked as I finally pulled my two pistols out of my pockets. I cocked the guns and was ready to fire at anything. "This seems a bit ominous"

"Just something to prove that you're not weak like the rest of the humans" She said bluntly, "At the peak of the woods, there is someone who goes by Star Quartz, or at least they used to be. Now they are two corrupted gems, Star Moonstone and Star Black Sapphire. You will fight them this time"

I shook my head. After all of the situations I have been in the past few days, I knew I could handle this. "Do I really have to do this?"

"With all due respect, I won't be working with a weak person" She said as she gripped the bow harder and kept her eyes forward, "Your death won't be my fault, kid"

For a moment, my powers came back. I read her mind to see why her feelings had changed from benevolent and kind to an equivalent of Black Diamond.

He knows how to use two smaller weapons in both hands, doesn't he? He might be able to take this monster on his own. Just like someone I knew...

I wondered about those words, 'Someone I knew'. Who did she know with that kind of skill?

"A person you would/wouldn't want to know" She said as she made her weapon disappear.

"Stay out of my thoughts…" I thought as I looked away.

She pulled an arrow from her quiver and pointed it towards the sky. The arrow began to glow a bright green color, and then a trail lit up in front of us. The trail was green, and it was a straight path leading to the top of the island, something we couldn't see otherwise. We followed the trail until we couldn't go higher. The peak was a flat, large circled stage like an arena.

"The peak?" I asked, "This looks like an ancient gladiator ring without walls to keep us in"

"Just wait for it" She said as she backed up.

She backed up until she was off of the peak. Metal gates covered the exits to the peak, trapping only me. The ground began to shake harder than a dangerous earthquake. It than began to feel like someone was digging under the ground. I grabbed my two guns and prepared for a fight of some kind.

Two corrupted looking gems, one completely black and one completely white, rose from under the ground. One looked like a skeleton, and the other looked a bit like a zombie. He black one was equipped with a shield like a knight, and the white one was equipped with a pointed sword, just like a night. The black one's gem was on her shield, as if it was attached to his body, and the white one's gem was located on her forehead. They slowly sidestepped next to each other, and a light grew bright near them. The light was bright enough to temporarily blind me, but when I could see them again, they were one tall grey knight armor shining at the moon.

I backed away into the gate, but I couldn't escape. "Beryl, what the hell?" I asked, "Do you really want me to die?"

"This is a test," She said on the other side, "But I thought they couldn't fuse together"

The knight ran towards me. I predicted its attack, and learned it was going to attack me with the shield first. If I dodged to the left, she would attack with the sword, and if I went right, I would still get hit by the shield. Without any other ideas, I pointed both of my guns at the knight and shot it multiple times. All of the bullets bounced off.

"Wait a sec..." I said as I thought about the option of going right.

I then predicted her actions again. If I jumped high enough and placed both of my feet on her shield the right way, she would launch me on to the edge of the tall gate behind me. If I could pull that off, I could actually have a chance to stall for even more time to think of how to fight back. The knight finally got in range to where I could act, so I jumped. I landed on top of the knight's shield as he unintentionally launched me high enough to reach the top of the gate.

While in the air, I placed my two guns in my pocket and prepared to grab the gate. I flew over the gate and nearly missed it, but I still landed on the opposite side of the gate I intended to grab. I began to think.

I could use my improved reflexes after predicting her actions so that I could try and remove her helmet, and then I could easily head shot her. No, that's too risky. I could, however, aim directly at the slit of her helmet to get the kill, no, that won't work either; I'll run out of ammo. Maybe...

"Shield!" Beryl shouted.

"I don't have a shield" I said to Beryl as I continued to think.

I looked back at the knight, and I saw that its shield was quickly spinning towards me. I tried to duck in time, but I lost my chance. The shield cut through my left eye and knocked me off of the fence. I felt my conscious slipping, and my eye was covered with blood. Beryl caught me on that other side and placed me down.

Beryl grabbed bandage wraps from my pocket and wrapped it over my eye and behind my head. She carried me over my shoulder as my vision was getting darker. I looked at the gate, seeing the knight, who was more of a monster. Before I blacked out, I saw the knight's shield fly back to the knight's arm, the knight jumped over the fence, and Beryl's cape/cloak covered my sight.

I woke up deep in the forest again on oak tree. I had a large headache that kept me from moving. I could feel the bandages tightly wrapped around my left eye without hurting, and I could see some of the bloodstains on my shirt. I reached into my pocket for my guns, but they were missing. I looked around the dirt and ravaged through to find the guns, but I couldn't find either one of them.

"Looking for these?" Someone asked me. That voice alone stopped my headache.

I recognized the voice and turned around. I couldn't remember where I heard the voice to whom it belonged to, but I know that I'd heard it somewhere before. I saw what almost looked like a holographic reflection, but it wasn't me. It was a woman who was holding my guns with a smile. She was familiar to me in a way.

"Don't die yet" She said with a passionate voice, "I know you can make it through this alive. I believe in you"

She began to fade away, so she dropped my guns on to my lap. In her final moments, she reached for my hands. I was highly confused about what was going on, but I felt like I could trust her. I grabbed her hands until she faded away. When I looked at her arms, I was suddenly startled. They both had grey gems that I instantly recognized. "Fluorite!"

She faded away like small piles of dust. I was confused, though. Why would she want to support me if I helped two people she targeted? Why would she even speak to me in the first place? I might/might not have been hallucinating, but it all seemed so real.

"Michael? Are you still there?" Beryl asked, "We have to move!"

I grabbed my guns and began to run. We both ran side by side, but I had no idea why. "Why are we running?"

"I never should have brought you here! Star Quartz is too much, corrupted or not!" She shouted, "I never thought they could fuse together while corrupted, this is all wrong! Any fusion, any kind between two gems becomes so strong that regular non fusion gems cannot stand up to it! And what's worse, the fusion left the gate! We have to leave, now!"

Right then, I could hear the fear coming from her. Her eyes were fear stricken, and she ran like there was no tomorrow. She never shouted or said anything that would suggest fear before, which made me wonder.

A fusion between two gems becomes overpowered? Can't we call for help from anyone if we can't fight this alone? I didn't come here against my will only to die... labelled weak... "No" I said as I stopped running.

Beryl instantly turned around and yanked on my shoulder. "We're leaving!"

I turned my shoulder away and glared at her. "I'm not a coward" I said to her.

She looked at me in shock, shook her head instantly and placed her hands on my shoulders. "There's no shame in-"

"There's shame in running away" I said as I reloaded my guns. "Look, I just got blinded in one of my eyes, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to see in this eye again. You said it yourself, you don't want to work with a weak partner"

"And I don't want to work with a dead partner either, let's go!" Beryl said as she continued to run.

I turned around and walked back to the top without replying. Beryl unwillingly followed to have my back. I made it to the peak and waited for the knight to arrive. I didn't care if the knight was too strong, I didn't care that I was blinded. I'm not going to give up for giving up. Bring it on, Star Quartz.

Bring it on!

To be continued