An: Whew, well, here we go again. I love hearing your reviews and it makes me so happy to see that people like my story. I mean, this is my second attempt at a story thus far, so the reviews really motivate me. But, you didn't come here to listen to me ramble all day, so here's the new chapter!
Disclaimer: Steven Universe is owned by Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network. Teen Titans is owned by DC comics and Warner Bros. If I have left out any owners feel free to tell me, I don't know them all.
The moment that Amethyst saw that Steven saw something else, she knew there was no getting out of this one. Not like she did with most of her problems. Not how she would disregard it and wait until it was too important to not do. She had a knack for that. Always doing it, honestly she wants to. She wants to not track down Peridot and not search the depths of the ocean for Malachite. Rather, stay at home and eat and be lazy and make her room even more of a mess. Thinking of doing anything other than that bored her, and made her wish Peridot had never come to earth, and that would mean she would stay at home and do her normal activites. But, this time was different. Different from any of the other experiences she had had previously.
This matter however, was somewhat of a mix between her wanting to do it and her not wanting to. She wanted to put it off and save it for another time, but she also wanted to help the poor girl. She looked really hurt, like that was the icing on the cake. As if she had so much stress and hurt building up, that it just chewed her up and spit her out, leaving her disoriented, confused and hurt, wondering why that made her feel that way. After all, that girl didn't look like she felt anything at all. Her purple eyes just reflected other people's emotions, never revealing her emotions like a one way mirror. Maybe she wanted to feel, but she couldn't. 'That Robin guy did say if she feels too much things will get outta wack. Hmph, better take his word for it.' She mused, distracting herself in her thoughts.
"Hey! Amethyst! Are you coming!?" Steven called back to her, waving his hand to get her attention.
Amethyst pulled herself out of her thoughts, coming back to reality. Steven was ahead of her, a few feet into the dark passageway. She mustered all of her will not to just turn back and leave. And to pursue the girl. Clenching her fists she moved foward.
"Yeah, I'm coming." She said in a low voice just loud enough for Steven to hear.
Steven was really eager to find the girl, ready to give her the best of hugs, and thank her as much as he could. Even if she was all but a stranger to him, it was the least he could do. And, being Steven, he couldn't help but be nice and hospitable. And he just couldn't wait to she what she was like. Every single living being Steven met was like a new book waiting to be read, and boy, did he love reading. I mean, ever since Connie had shown him multiple series, he fell in love with all of them, especially Unfamiliar Familiar.
The girl, Raven, he heard, was anything but an open book in the sense that she was more mysterious and vauge than anyone he had heard of, ever. Even from the glimpses he saw of her, she showed only her violet eyes and part of her lower portion of her face. 'She probably has a lot to hide' Steven mused. Raven, after all wasn't fully human, and she wasn't a gem either, so she would have a lot of explaining to do.
Perhaps they should've brought some sort of light, like a flashlight or lantern, because it was pitch black in this part of the cave. It was eerily quiet in there however, the only noise being their own footsteps. Steven slowly went behind Amethyst as they got deeper into the cave. Clearly a little psyched out by the kept walking until, "Ow!"
"Steven what is it?" Amethyst spoke, turning to him, eyebrow raised slightly, wondering what had made him say that.
It probably was nothing, as Steven over emphasized every little bump that he got. Even one time he cried for a minute when he bumped his head. He cried as if he had split his head open, Pearl had to calm him down like a baby and it's pacifier.
"I stepped on a sharp rock, and it's bleeding!" He replied, touching his foot.
"You sure?" Amethyst asked, looking at his foot, still unsure if he was actually hurt still. She hoped he wasn't so she could waste her time lecturing him like Pearl just to stall him.
Suprisingly, there was a rock in his foot, and he was bleeding. Amethyst nearly jumped a mile into the air because she was so shocked. He wasn't over exaggerating this time, compared to all of the other times, this had been some sort of record.
"Dude pull it out!" Amethyst half-shouted at Steven, having no experience with this type of stuff. Steven mubled something and took his foot and placed it on his knee. He pulled the rock out of his foot, wincing. He recuperated himself, before Amethyst promptly took his hand.
"Oh man, we gotta find that girl c'mon." Amethyst said, having a new motive to keep her going.
"Shouldn't we just head back? I don't know about this, she might not even be in here and my foot really hurts."
Amethyst looked back at Steven before turning back around and kept walking. 'She'll be able to help' she noted.
"She's probably around here somewhere, I mean Garnet gave me the 'look' she gets when she has used her future vision. So she must have known." Amethyst answered, not giving a thought on her words.
Steven mumbled something under his breath and they continued, a little slower than before. Steven was struggling to keep up, and was now limping fast just to stay in range of Amethyst. But, they kept going. They had to find the girl.
It was still fairly silent, but they started to hear the quietest of things. They both stopped dead in their tracks. They waited there until they heard another noise, someone was speaking. The speaking was consistent, like a mantra. In fact, it was a mantra.
"Amethyst, do you think that's her?" Steven inquired.
Amethyst nodded slightly, and they walked a few more feet, before noticing that the passage was becoming less narrow. Wider with every step in fact, until they noticed a boulder blocking the way. There was a small crevice however, that allowed them to look. Amethyst approached it slowly, motioning for Steven to follow her. The light from inside of the otherwise dark cave. She postioned herself onto the wall so she could look through the small hole. Once Amethyst looked inside, she was shocked to what she found.
"Azarath... Metrion... Zinthos..." Raven chanted, hovering off the ground -cross legged, meditating, in an attempt to calm herself down.
Her emotional outburst, had been, odd. Normaly, she would have ignored it and moved on with her life, but she just snapped. Partly because of all of the stress that had built up in the last few minutes. The other part was because of how accurate that guess was, not that the short lilac haired girl had tried when she said that. It was just a lucky guess and nothing more, but Raven's mind had decided to linger on it, making her completey snap. Although, this wasn't much, she could've done far worse, but she stopped herself, and restrained her emotions once more. She fled off into a cave in an attempt to regain her otherwise stoic composure. Kindling a small fire to keep the light dim, but present. And she began to meditate.
The problem was, she couldn't clear her mind. Her emoticlones were having what seemed like a war inside Nevermore, yelling things back and forth. It was near impossible to ignore them, but she continued to meditate.
Bringing her to the present, it was still a struggle to even concentrate, the voices seemed to get louder and louder.
"We ruined it, there's no way they'll forgive us now." Timid sighed.
"We should just kill them. Yeah, they'd deserve it for being idiots." Rage declared.
"Don't worry! It'll all work out!" Happy assured.
"The probability of them asking us that was so low. How she did it is the question." Knowledge wondered.
"Let's just go out there and tell them everything!" Brave spoke loudly
"It's not our fault! That was what she said!" Rude blamed.
They were becoming so loud and annoying that Raven herself wanted to scream. Her mind was a mess, and for no good reason. Her head hadn't been so awfully crowded and disorganized like this since she was a child, and even then it wasn't this bad. She stopped her mantra, now only floating cross legged, eyes wide open. Little did she know Amethyst was watching her.
Raven stopped and sat down for a moment next to the fire. Staring at the orange flames blowing around, it only reminded her of her current mental state. She couldn't do anything about it, like a bad headache. There wasn't a simple solution like Ibuprofen, she had to fight through this one. She was so enveloped in her own thoughts, she almost jumped when she heard a noise coming from the other side of the Boulder. She shrugged it off though, as nobody could get through it. In fact she had to phase through it. But she was still a little curious on who or what it was. And this of course, made the emoticlones stir up again.
"Don't! It could be them... and they hate us.." Timid worried.
"Whoever it is, I wanna beat 'em into the ground." Rage said.
"It has to be them." Knowledge said rather blatantly.
"If it's them that's great!" Brave announced excitedly.
"Ugghh, well it's someone all right." Rude quipped.
Raven sighed, muttering something in one of her many languages. She was about to stand up when, CRASH! Amethyst had made the boulder shatter by spin- dashing her way in. Startled by this, the fire had been enveloped in a black aura and disappeared.
"Whoops. Heh heh, sorry." Amethyst said, not meaning to make such a large mess. She put on a fake smile in an attempt to seem sincere.
'Yeah you better be SORRY!' Rage screamed in the back of Raven's head. Raven tried to ignore her menacing voice.
Raven stood up, brushing small rock debris off of herself. She turned to Amethyst who was still holding an awkward smile.
"What are YOU doing here..." She said glaring at Amethyst.
Raven realized what she had said, 'Ugh, stupid empticlones.' she thought.
"Me? I just wanted to say uh. Uhm, ehm, ehem, s-s-orry." Amethyst finished, her voice almost in a whisper.
Steven walked in front of Amethyst and payed his regards.
"A-and I wanted to say Thank You!" Steven squealed, pulling Raven into a tight hug, much to her unkown dislike.
Raven though, was at a loss for words. She couldn't speak at all.
Again sorry I was late, but this isn't my top priority and this is just one of my 'for fun' thing. But here you go! Hope your happy with the chapter. I tried my best with my terrible writing skills.