HELLO EVERYBODY! SORRY ABOUT THE DELAY (insert innocent face). AS I TOLD YOU GUYS I HAD SO MANY EXAMS AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF WORK FOR SCHOOL. ACTUALLY I HAD COMPLETED THE HALF OF THE CHAPTER BUT I COULDN'T MAKE MYSELF TO COMPLETE IT FOR A TIME. AGAIN, SO SORRY. ANYWAYS STORY CONTINUES…

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DISCLAIMER: I ONLY OWN THE PLOT. I DO NOT OWN SU WIKI (WHICH I USED FOR REFERENCE WRITING THIS CHAPTER) I DO NOT OWN TT OR SU. IF I DID, THIS STORY WOULD ALREADY BE AN EPISODE FOR THE SHOWS (OR A MOVIE).

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

ON WITH THE STORY:..

CHAPTER 3

SENTIENT SPACE ROCKS

She didn't hesitate. She didn't even think to be precise. Which was very rare because of her cautious and perfectionist personality. All she realized was two strangers in Steven's room and their weird looks -which was the reason they were categorized as Homeworld gems almost immediately…And one of them was standing disturbingly close to Steven. In a matter of second her spear was flying towards the cloaked one after her audible gasp.

"Rae watch out!" Beast Boy shouted. He made a move to grab her arm to pull her out the way of the spear. However, before he could, spear was already encased with black energy. With a flick of her wrist, Raven broke it in half. It disappeared in blue sparks after it fell to the ground with a thud.

"She broke my spear!" the tall, slender women, who had threw the spear, exclaimed, stating the obvious.

"And she didn't move an inch!" the short and noticeably purple women beside her added with a hushed tone.

Both teams get into their defensive stances, all varieties of weapons ready. No one moved an inch, eyeing the other team and daring them to attack. A few tense moments they just stood there until a certain boy jumped between them.

"WAIT! Guys, guys! They're friends. Friends don't kill friends." Steven said referring to his family standing in front of the warp pad. Which was round and seemed like it was made of crystal. It seemed extremely delicate and it had impressive workmanship, Raven was surprised she didn't notice it before. She wanted to study it more but she knew she had a far more important situation in hand.

"Friends?" the one who was wielding the spear, spat venomously, distrust obvious in her voice. "Steven, they might be dangerous! They don't look human. They might be hostile gems. One of them is green even." She said her voice gaining a motherly tone as she referred to the young boy in front of her.

"Alright that's it!" Beast Boy jumped in, making Pearl's grip on her spear tighten and grabbing the attention of others "I know being green is not exactly normal but can someone NOT mention it, every single minute?" His childish exclamation seemed to ease the tension a bit.

A tall, maroon colored woman, with square afro and shades, obviously their leader, stepped in front of her group and spoke.

"State your business." Sensing her monotone voice and large body intimidated Beast Boy a little,(just a little he would protest later) Raven stepped up.

"We are here on behalf of the super hero team 'Teen Titans'. We received strange readings here and a weird blog* being our only reference, we decided to investigate."

"Why is he green?" purple one asked rudely, obviously not really caring since she was picking her nose absentmindedly.

"Amethyst!" the pale one snapped at her. Enemy or not, would she die if she hold more respect for people?

'So her name is Amethyst' Raven thought.

"Hey! Rude!" Beast Boy almost shouted at Amethyst, taking her question as an insult, then mumbling something about a disease.

"What was that?" a green, short woman with translucent shades and weird triangle shaped greenish, blonde hair said, revealing herself to be hiding behind Amethyst.

"Basically, it is a side-effect caused by a cure to messed up disease." He said, a little hint of despair hidden in his voice.

"So you are… human? Just an, uh… for the lack of better word, unnatural one?" Pearl asked.

"Yep! The unnatural human with awesome abilities, Beast Boy at your service." He said obviously gaining back his usual enthusiasm. After nodding at the energetic introduction, the tall red women turned her head at Raven.

"And you?" she asked. However the answer she got was very short, monotone and lacked the enthusiastic demeanor of her friend.

"Raven."

"You mentioned having 'awesome abilities', care to explain or share." Amethyst said.

"Of course-" he started but Raven cut him short by putting a hand on his shoulder.

"I think that can wait until they introduce themselves." She said referring to gems. However before they could introduce themselves, Steven had already taken the job himself.

"This is Pearl." He started. Pearl bowed her head in greeting but narrowed her eyes nonetheless. 'So she is called Pearl' Raven mused. She was the one who threw the spear.

First thing to grab Raven's attention about Pearl was the large Pearl sitting on her forehead. 'Hence her name' she thought, somewhat sarcastically. Pearl had a slender and tall, almost inhumanly body structure. Her peach colored hair resembled a pixie-cut in the front, while in the back it was leading to a point. Her nose was pointed and her sky blue eyes were glaring at them with caution. She was wearing and aqua-blue tunic with a yellow star embedded on the center of her chest. A lighter shade satin sash ribbon was around her waist. Her short leggings were amber and she was wearing pink socks with blue ballet flats.

"This is Amethyst." Steven introduced the second gem on line.

"Sup?" Amethyst asked in somewhat careless fashion, lazily raising a hand in greeting.

Again the thing caught Raven's attention was the gem embedded on the careless girl. This time however, the gem was purple, with a different cut and was sitting on her upper chest, only half of it visible behind the girl's black tank top. An Amethyst. Raven decided that they take the names of the gems as their own names.

Amethyst, in contrast to Pearl, had a short and plump body. She was just a little taller than Steven. Another intriguing future of her aside from her gem was her skin color, it was purple! Her hair was a very light shade of lavender and a large bang was covering one of her dark indigo eyes. Aside from her tank top, she is wearing mauve leggings with star shaped patches on her knees with white boots.

"Garnet." Steven once again introduced a member of their group, pointing to their leader. Garnet nodded in acknowledgment, otherwise impassive as always. Raven looked for a trace of a gem on her but couldn't find any. But her sharp eyes caught a glint coming from Garnet's palm which was hanging next to her legs. Noting that as a possible place for her gem, Raven examined Garnet further. She was the tallest of them, had cerise** colored skin, almost black, dark-indigo hair and mirrored glasses that covered her eyes. Raven also noted that she couldn't sense much emotion coming out of Garnet, she was well composed and was doing a pretty good job at hiding emotions.

She was wearing a body suit. Her right leg is covered in a indigo stocking while her left is covered in a dark purple one. On her top there was a pink star with a soft-pink outline. She was also wearing a pair of oval like dark purple shoulder pads. On her arms were long, elbow-length gloves that covered her middle fingers, the same color as her shoulder pads.

"And at last, Peridot." Steven said pulling the green women by her arm who was hiding, to show her to his new friends.

"Look! She is green too." Beast Boy whispered to Raven, pointing at the women struggling with Steven's grip. "Why are they making such a big deal about my skin color?" He whined. Raven rolled her eyes.

"We'll see…" and turned her attention back to now calm Peridot.

Peridot had lime green skin and triangle shaped greenish, blonde hair. Her height was the same as Amethyst more or less. Her green, triangular gem was on her forehead like Pearl's. A green translucent visor covered the top half of her face. She was wearing a sleeveless green V-neck top. At the center of the neck of her top, there was a yellow diamond shape. Her suit looked like a leotard and it's color changed to dark-green below her chest. Her leggings were green and featured yellow diamond shaped patches.

"We are the Crystal Gems!" Steven shouted, fully introducing his family and team.

"Crystal Gems huh? Cool!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "So you guys are heroes too or what?"

"Yeah we are heroes I guess." Steven answered. "We fight monsters, save the world and stuff!" he said while punching the air.

"Alright but how did you guys do that weapon-summon thingy? It was awesome!" Beast Boy asked while clumsily trying to mimic their movements while summoning their weapons. This time it was Garnet who answered but not before sharing a look with Amethyst and Pearl.

"We are from a alien race that came to the Earth thousand years ago. When some of our kind tried to hurt the planet and use it for their benefits, we rebelled against our own kind and since then we are the protectors of this planet. The weapon-summoning you saw was a natural ability of ours."

"Dude! That is soooo cool. And you are thousands of years old?" He turned his head to Steven. "You certainly not show it Steven."

"Me? No." Steven said laughing. "I'm only 14!"

"But she said you came here thousands of years ago…"

"No, they came here that time ago." Steven answered pointing at gems. "I was born on Earth. My mother was a gem and my father is a human, he owns a car nearby.

'So, Steven is half human and his family is from space. Talk about weird. But then, who am I to judge ' Raven thought.

"Well, you already know who we were and our purpose." She said and at the end of her statement she threw her hood back and there was an audible gasp.

The small house was eerie silent for a moment.

Growing tired of the silence and attention she was receiving, Raven's eyes wondered around the room, resting at the each occupant's faces. All of them had a expression of shock on their faces with the exception of Beast Boy who had an expression of surprise and confusion while he was trying to understand why everyone was so silent and staring at Raven. Pearl was more guarded and Raven noticed that she had moved a little close to Steven. Peridot was once again hiding behind Amethyst, mumbling something like 'They have come for me…they found-'. And Amethyst had her hands up in a guarded position, ready to fight. Garnet, didn't show any signs of emotion except the shock that managed to crept on her face but she had also tensed and it looked like she was ready to jump on them if they dared to move a muscle.

Reaching out with her empathy she felt the storm under the calm and silence of the room. Emotions were radiating out of their owners like a beacon: Concern, sadness, confusion, anger, fear…

"What?" she asked, fed up with the sudden foul mood in the room. The answer came from Steven, who was the only one who had somewhat happy expression on his face and his eyes where shaped like stars again but Raven can feel the little amount of fear inside him. Raising a hand and pointing at her forehead, he asked:

"Are you a gem too?" Her eyes darted where he was pointing and saw the gem on her forehead. 'So this is what that was all about' she thought but a bigger part of her mind was repeating his question over and over. 'Are you a gem too?.. Are you a gem too?.. Gem too?.. gem too?.. gem too?.. gem… gem…GEM!'

'The gem was born of evil's fire

The gem shall be his portal.'

Shaking her head, she got out of her daze, her emotionless mask on place.

"No." she said strictly, pulling her hood up. She turned her back to a slightly crestfallen Steven. She was barely keeping herself from storming out of the room.

"Raven?" Beast Boy asked as he reached a reluctant hand, aimed for her shoulder. "Are you...ok?" Concern evident in his voice.

"I'm fine." She said shaking his hand off her. 'Just great.' She thought.

Pearl couldn't believe her eyes. Here they were suspecting the green one but the danger had come from the cloaked girl. Once she pulled her hood off purple hair had fallen free to her pale face. So pale that it could be compared to her own. But unlike hers, this girl's skin had a grayish tone to it, just like a human corps! Her eyes were a few shades darker than her hair and matched the color of Amethyst's gem. However the most shocking thing that was revealed under that hood was the red little gem sitting on her forehead. From this distance she couldn't tell what kind of gem was it. It looked like a ruby but girl couldn't be a Ruby, her color scheme was off.

Pearl's grip tightened on her spear as she stepped closer to Steven. After a few moments the said girl opened her mouth and asked.

'What?' in a rather harsh tone. Despite her silent protests, Steven stepped forward and asked the same question everyone was wondering about. 'Was she a gem too?' Girl's face twisted to an expression of shock for a second but she composed herself rather quickly. She said she wasn't a gem, pulled her hood up and turned her back to them.

Pearl turned to look at Garnet for her opinion. Garnet's face showed and expression of calm but spending time as friends and fighting alongside each other for thousand of years, Pearl could tell she was slightly distressed as well.

"Garnet?" she asked as the one called Beast Boy asked his companion about her wellbeing. Garnet put her hand up to Pearl and walked towards the dark bird.

"If you are not a gem at all. Why do you have a gem on your forehead?-" she started but was cut of by Peridot who decided to show herself once again.

"-And what are you?!" she shouted and proceed to hide after she's done.

"That was a rude way to put it but yes. Please explain." Garnet rounded up once she was done glaring at Peridot, crossing her arms.

To be honest Garnet was skeptical of this girl. Her future vision seemed to be wavering when she tried to look her. It almost looked like the girl wasn't supposed to have a future.

Raven turned around to face the leader of the gems. With a sigh she started to explain as well as she can, without giving too much away.

"The gem balances my powers and helps me control it, to put it simply. To the question of what I am… I am human, at least half human and half… something else." She averted her eyes at the last part.

"So you are half human. Just like me!" Steven jumped into conversation.

"I guess…"

Before she could say any further, Steven was by her side hugging her***, smiling wide, so much that Raven thought it wasn't possible (and that was saying something since she was living with Beast Boy).

"We can be half-breed best buddies!" Raven stiffened in the touch and blushed a little. Once again she was grateful for her hood. After composing herself, she gently pushed Steven away and glared dangerously at Beast Boy, who was trying to hide his snickers behind his hand after Steven's latest comment and failing miserably.

Suddenly the house shook and a huge noise grabbed the attention of the residents. All heads turned towards the beach. Just as another explosion was heard, Raven sighed. This day was just getting better and better.

*I think everyone understood which blog I'm talking about…but to be specific, it's: Keep Beach City Weird

**I looked at the wiki to find what color her skin was :) I looked at wiki for the whole introduction part…

***Steven is shorter than Raven (think about the height difference between Lapis and Steven, it is not exactly like that but similar more or less)

THIS CHAPTER WAS HARD FOR ME TO WRITE. IDK WHY. SOOO… DID YOU LIKE IT? DID NOT? EITHER WAY, TELL ME ABOUT IT IN YOUR REVIEWS. AGAIN I'M REALLY SORRY I DIDN'T UPDATE IT SOONER. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT. I REALY HOPE THIS CHAPTER DIDN'T DISAPPOINT THE ONES WHO WERE WAITING FOR THIS STRORY TO CONTINUE. AND I'M PLANING ON ADDING SOME ACTION IN THE NEXT CHAPPY. BTW THIS CAHPET WAS THE LONGEST ONE I EVER WROTE :) *congratulates herself*

BYE! *nods to Beast Boy and he flies her out ( a dream of mine) *