Sorry it took me so long to put up this short monstrosity. My mom had surgery, among other things so I'm not going to bore you with my life. But it appears as if people like this story and are generally interested in this so I'm going to be writing more and longer chapters. Thank you for those who reviewed and followed and favorited . . . So as long as you guys like it I'm going to write it. And yes that rhyme was unintentional.

I don't own SU . . . unless I'm Rebecca Sugar in disguise but I'm not so . . . yea.

-With Steven-

The young gem continued to run through the lit cave, crystals large and small lined the cave walls glowing brightly with green and pink hues. Steven sped up as he saw an opening ahead. Skidding to a stop he was amazed by his wonderful discovery. Crystals even larger than the ones he passed, they filled the room with a mysterious symmetry, from the walls to the ceiling. A small pool of water was the center of the cavern with small flowers blooming with the same colors as the crystals. Or he thought it was water. The water was glowing a strong pink color and a with a green glint in the pools center from the green glow beam of light connected to a large structure of crystals and redirected back to his gem.

"Looks like there's something over there." Steven figured he can either climb down the Pearl or climb down the Amethyst way, while the Pearl way was safe and slow and had a less chance of an aching Steven and the Amethyst way sounded more fun and ended up with a more aching Steven OR no achy Steven with all the fun . . . he chose the Amethyst way.

"STEVEN JUMP! . . . AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" As soon as Steven flew, Steven fell he rolled and tumbled until he hit the water in a loud splash drenching Steven. "Ouch! I regret half of everything." The young boy groaned as he stood up in the water. The water reached a little above his waist. He looked towards the Center were the green glow. He slowly started to wade through the water. Once Steven made it to the center he reached it the water.

"Hmmmmm . . . AHHA!" Steven's hand had grabbed a object out of the water " DUN! DUN! DUN!" Steven held the item into the air smiling. He brought the item down to get a good look. What he saw surprised him.

" Is this . . . It is!" It was a gem. It was green with a long hexagonal shape. Steven expression went from pure joy to confusion as he took a closer look. Steven gasped when he realized that the gem was cracked. Spider web fractures dance along the green gen, hairline even but it was there. " How do you-" Steven for the umpteenth was interrupted by a small rock knocking him on the head. "Ouch! Again!" then it hit him." Those rocks must of hit you didn't it they" Steven spoke to the gem receiving no response. "Don't worry Ill fix you with HEALING SPIT!" Steven licked his open hand and gently placed it on the gem.

Thank you.

"Yourrr Welcome." It took a second to for Steven to realize no one was there. " Wait huh? Who was-"

"STEVEN!" The boy turned to see his three guardians at the opening to the cavern.

"Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl! Look at what I- huh?" The gem flew out of Steven's hand and into the air in front of him. The Gems and Steven just stared in wonder or I Pearls case slight fear. As soon as the slight fractures in the gem disappeared, light burst from the gem and condensed into a small figure. It had medium body shape and only a pit taller than Steven but shorter than Amethyst as the light disperse to see a young boy. With white skin and white hair with a green glint here and there, being a medium length and spikey on top and short in the back. The two long bangs tied by bands hung on each side of his face. Big green eyes stared at Steven warmly button nose and small smile.

The clothes the gem donned looked . . . exactly like Steven's. His shirt was white with a green star but it was a bit too big, the shirt hole nearly came off his shoulders and it was a bit long, but not too long, his jean shorts peaking out of the rim of the shirt and green sandals.

The boy dropped to the water with a loud yelp. Steven and the gems rush forward. The gems landing behind Steven weapons drawn. Steven walked up to the sitting gem and held his hand out to . . . him?

"Hi I'm Steven what's your name?" the half gem asked with a smile The gem took Steven's hand and with his help stoop up. The gem started at Steven for moment before speaking returning Steven's smile with his own.

"Hi-i Steve-on my name is Emerald." The cute moment didn't last as long as Steven was ripped away and Emerald was launched to the other side of the room by purple blur. Pearls hand where all search Steven or any injuries.

"Steven thank goodness your ok! Do you have any idea how worried we were! "Pearl was frantic, Steven could see he made a mistake. But why does he feel like he did something good.

"Steven." The boys attention turned to Garnet. " Explain yourself." Garnets voice was never this stern with Steve she must've really been worried too.

Steven looked down at the water." Well it was when we first got here. I noticed something. It was a light coming from the forest. I felt like it was calling to me like it needed help. I really didn't, think I'm sorry."

"Hey guys what do we do with him?" Attention pointed to Amethyst and Emerald who was tied up with the purple gems whip next to her. " To be honest . . . this is kinda comfy."

"Amethyst, release him." Pearl stared at Garnet with a infuriated expression. Amethyst only shrugged, tugging the handle of her weapon sending the green and white gem spinning around. "Ah! Hold on ill help! Excuse me!" Steven gently pushed past Pearl to help.

"Garnet surely your making a mistake, we barley know anything about this gem, he could hurt us, the earth, everything we've worked for! He could even hurt Steven! " Pearl pleaded, Garnet just turned toward the two boys watching Steven steady the new gem. A purple Alligator snuck up behind to boys and roared startling Steven making him fall over in the water , Emerald stood there with curious eyes wondering what just happened.

" . . . Nope totally serious." She walked towards the young gems with a disgruntled Pearl trudging behind. Garnet got the gems attention with a quick cough. Emerald was amazed when he look up at Garnet. She was the tallest person he had ever seen in his life or . . . in the few moments of his existence. Garnet knells in front of Emerald.

" Hello Emerald, I am Garnet leader of the Crystal Gems, Its our duty to protect the earth from Supernatural forces the that might harm it or its people, for this reason we need you to come with us, alright." The green gem could only nod at Garnet still mesmerized by her stature. He was snapped out of his trance by Steven and Amethyst, grabbing his hands and spinning him around, Steven proclaiming all the things him and his new friend will do together and Amethyst exited about the idea of fresh meat. Pearl was standing off to the side still upset by the decision her leader had made. When she realized something, the thing they came here for.

" We need to find source of those electric spikes, if we don't locate it soon it could- wahhhhh." A ground beneath there feet started to shake making the youngest gems fall on their buts. Rocks and lose crystals began falling from the ceiling. In a quick motion Garnet began smashing apart the falling hazards around them.

"We need to get Steven out of here!" exclaimed Pearl! She summoned her spear and cut a falling crystal in two. "I have a plan we need-" She was interrupted when she heard a familiar sound. She didn't want to believe it, she snapped her head to the side to see Garnet holding a large bubble and inside was Steven and Emerald. And before Pearl could protest they were gone.

"Garnet how could you send Steven and . . . him to the temple!" Garnet turned to Pearl and replied.

"Steven and Emerald will be fine. Steven knows his way out through Roses room." Rock and shard began to fall faster. "Oh yea, Watch your head."

"Whoa . . .Déjà vu." Stated amethyst as the cave finally collapsed.

-End of Chapter 1-

Start of the Welcome Beach City Arch

So how was that? Are you interested? Review to ask me questions or PM me . . . I should explain what I mean. While this story does have a plot it will move along but until then Ill be writing chapters about Emerald interacting with the residents of Beach city and life in general. I have some set chapters with certain characters but I was thinking that you guys could give me maybe a topic or a random sentence and ill make a chapter out of it. About the questions part if I left something out that your wondering where a certain character was or you have any questions about Emerald. that don't delve deep into the plot. And I will answer every question that I can.

Thanks for reading.