As the sunset began to fall, the duo was still cutting through the forest and Pearl was doing her best not to ignore the feeling of Greg's stare on the back of her head. He seemed more cheerful that she said thank you and Pearl knew he earned that much.

The two reached a clearing and Pearl whistled at the decent amount of shelter they could take for the night. Suddenly a loud grumbling was heard and Pearl summoned her spear.

"Stay still." She said.

"Um, Pearl?" Greg said sheepishly and Pearl looked to see Greg holding his stomach. The gem felt incredibly silly at her paranoid stance. "You've got to be kidding me."

"Sorry Pearl, but I haven't eaten any food since we left for the hike."

"Fine, fine. You need to indulge your bodily functions. Alright good luck." She sat down and began to meditate.

The human stared at her for a second before Pearl opened one of her eyes and found him staring. "You can go hunt for your food. I'll wait here and start a fire to cook it."

He still didn't move, but looked away embarrassingly. "A-actually Pearl, I can't exactly go and get my food."

"Really? I assume with the amount of body weight you receive, that you can hunt for yourself. Rose told me how you cooked eggs for her."

He twiddled his fingers embarrassingly. "Well I'd normally but those from the stores. I can't really hunt animals for food." Pearl just shook her head back and forth. Summoning her spear, she threw the weapon into the tree trunk next to her and hit an animal stuck there.

"Whoa, how'd you do that?" Greg said as he looked at the creature impaled. Pearl smirked at his awe before hearing a large poof! It showed Greg standing next to a spear with no creature on it.

'Great.' She thought. "Greg, pick up my spear please." He glanced at the weapon and back at here to make sure she was serious. Pearl pointed at the spear and Greg reluctantly picked it up. He tugged the handle for a minute before falling down.

"Ow! That hurts!" He said as he looked at his red hands. Pearl chuckled at his dilemma and summoned another spear in her hand. "Here." He grabbed the handle and felt that their was very little weight in it.

Pearl gripped the one stuck in a tree and yanked it free. She turned and put a smug smirk on her face to Greg's annoyed smile. "Follow me."

Greg followed and the two went out of the clearing. He waved the spear around nicked a few bugs near his face. Then the sound of roaring water was heard as a massive river stood in front of them.

"Most of the creatures here are in fact gems, but I managed to find some Earthly creatures, like this fish. Hopefully this can get you some nutrition, because I am not going to explain to Rose why you starved to death."

"That's a reassuring thought, alright let's do this!" He said as he took off his shoes. Pearl smiled at his enthusiasm as jumped in, only to jump back out. "Ah! Cold, cold, cold."

"I knew you were a goof, but I can't believe that you forgot that the water's here are cold." Pearl sighed. Greg gave her a small glare, but took his time trying to get used to the cold temperature. "Now what you need to do is aim toward your target and then lunge your spear right into it's organic body!"

"Ok, that sounded...demented, but sure I'll do it!" He aimed the spear at one of the fish he had his eye on. Taking a breath, he lunged and...missed. The fish swam away as fast as it came and left Greg splitting a rock in half.

Pearl sat down on a warm rock and watched Greg, try again and again and again. It was mean spirited for her to laugh at his failings, but she wanted to do it so badly. Deciding against it, she calmly meditated.

The musician panted as he was surrounded by not the bodies of fish, but split rocks. Greg wiped the sweat from his brow, before feeling something rub against his calf. "Hey, Pearl…"

"Yes, Greg?" She said without breaking her concentration. A scream was heard along with thrashing water being heard. Her eyes snapped open to see ripples in the water and no Greg. Picking up her spear, Pearl jumped into the water, prepared for a fight. The water rose for one second and a large red fish was staring right at her.

"AH!" The gem screamed. Pearl jumped back and went into a stance. The fish didn't move until its back began to shake. A pale blue spear point covered in red. The creature leaned forward and fell into the water with Pearl's spear in the belly. Greg was panting with several blots of blood on his arms and shirt.

"Ew, ew, blood, blood, blood!" He responded as he quickly wiped off the blood like child given cooties. Pearl felt herself nervously chuckle at the defensive position she took for him. She gritted a tough grin and picked up the dead fish. "If you're done wiping that gunk off you, I'll be at the clearing."

She quickly left Greg behind, but didn't go too far as she heard him complain at suddenly ditching him. 'Rose is right about some of these humans. It's a bit adorable to watch tackle problems.'

Thirty minutes, Greg ran up to catch her and luckily found her starting a fire. The fish was on a large stick above the rising flame. "Ah, hello Greg. I hope you're hungry. Afterall I know humans find their food delicious when they work for it."

He wanted to argue so badly, but the rising smell of firewood and cooking fish. He grumbled a small retort at Pearl's smugness. The gem shook her head as she kicked some dirt over the fish guts that she had to take out.

Once it finished cooking, Greg took a piece of fish off and hungrily consumed it. Pearl watched with abject horror at how fast Greg was consuming it. Looking away, Pearl watched the sky turn from the orange and purple hue to the dark blue starry sky she's all too familiar with. She turned to see Greg eating another piece of fish.

'Wonder if Rose and the others are searching for us?'

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"Garnet's been meditating in her room, Rose. Don't you think you should you know calm down?" Amethyst said. Since Pearl and Greg fell from the path, Rose opted to go after them. Garnet, however stopped her and convinced her to fall back towards the temple. It turned out the path Rose found was infested with corrupted gems and a fight was the las thing they needed.

The pink gem paced back and forth with the occasional break to look at the temple hadn't dawned on her that the last time she was like this, was during the war. Amethyst stared worrindely at Rose's behavior. It was starting to get to her.

Inside the temple, standing in the middle of her maroon room, Garnet was silent. 'I'm trying my best, but the unknown state of Greg and Pearl make it difficult to find any proper path. I'm sorry Ruby.'

'I know. I see the same thing, but we can't give up. Everyone of these futures shows Greg and Pearl. No surroundings, no location. Rose is tense enough as it is. If we don't find something, she's going to go search for herself.'

Garnet's left hand clenched tighty. "We just need more time."

"We don't have time. Amethyst is scared, Rose is dangerously close to leaving, and we've seen nothing, but horrible future. We need to keep searching even if it pushes our body."

"You know the risk of looking too deep."

"I do."

'Damn it!' They both thought as nothing came to mind. Before dropping out something popped in. Green thorns with pink roses surrounding them. And a steady stream flowing next to them. A massive shadow appeared next to them. It was Greg and Pearl! Only it seemed they've been under attack for sometime.

Greg was carrying Pearl on her back and held a small saber. 'What on Earth, who did this?' Garnet wondered. Another shadow appeared behind them and suddenly everything went black. A creature's shriek was heard.

"Greg, help!" Garnet tried to get the picture back, but there was only screams, clashing metal, and the sickening thunk of flesh and bone heard.

Garnet's eyes snapped open as she found herself on the all fours panting.