I don't own Steven Universe. I'm just a kid with an imagination and a computer.

-Nobody's POV-

The sun had just set about an hour ago. Steven was eating some dinner after having a fun afternoon with Amethyst. The purple gem was sitting across from him eating some of the pizza that she and Steven had picked up from Fish Stew Pizza earlier. Lion was lying outside of the beach house and eating some of the pizza that Steven had left for him. Garnet was out doing... what ever it was that she did. Pearl was inside of the temple giving all of her swords a triple polish. It was basically life as usual in Beach City.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Gems several gem warp portals around the globe were being quickly activated and a mysterious traveler was ricocheting around the planet. Each time this person arrived at a destination they'd take a quick look around before resuming their journey. Occasionally the mysterious traveler would get into a little trouble, such as nearly drowning at the now sunken Lunar Sea Spire, but besides such things the journey was quick and almost effortless.

About two or three hours later the residence of the beach house had retreated to their rooms. Amethyst had fallen asleep on top of some very plush garbage bags. Pearl was meditating on top of one of her many fountains. Garnet had sensed multiple disturbances within the gem warp portals and had stepped out to investigate them. Lion was napping outside of the beach house. Steven appeared to be sucked deep within a dream...

-Steven's POV-

I was riding on Lion with Connie. As we raced across the water it began to change color. Soon we were surrounded by a yellow sticky substance, the clear cause was right in front of us. A giant, evil, super juiced ,Lion Licker stood before us. As it contaminated the water, I heard lots of helpless mews behind it. IT WAS HOLDING ALL THE COOKIE CATS HOSTAGE!

Connie called in Dogcopter, and flew ahead of me to free the cookie cats. Lion and I raced ahead to take on the horrible tasting yellow menace. I activated my gem and drew a shield in time to block an incoming wave of juice. Lion leapt up towards the Lion Licker and I drew the sword in Lion's head. With one swift boomerang blade throw, the Lion Licker exploded. My world was filled up by yellow juice flying everywhere, it soon transformed into a white glow. It got brighter and brighter and too unbearable to ignore.

Sleepily, my eyes opened. Behind me the light continued to glow. Then if faded. Garnet must be back. I turned so I could go greet her, but instead saw a cloaked figure. I guess Amethyst was out wrestling.

The figure looked very tired and slowly, yet silently, moved towards the temple door. As soon as the figure was in front of the door the it admitted a white glow from beneath it's cloak. Every single gem on the door began to glow, as did the star. Soon the door grew a white spiral on it. Wait a minute. Amethyst's gem was purple. And since when did she use the portal to go to wrestling? Or wear her cloak anymore? And hadn't wrestling season ended a week ago? I was suddenly very alarmed.

The white spiral shifted around until the door had opened. Suddenly, I realized that maybe this person wasn't supposed to be here. "HEY YOU, STOP!" The figure's hood quickly turned to face me. All I could see in the darkness was what appeared to be a white, glowing eye on the left side of the person's face. It was slitted at first as if glaring, then the white glow widened as if in fear. The figure quickly turned and rushed into the temple. I tried to run after the person but the door had closed too quickly.

I stood there, banging on the door. I kept begging it to open. Suddenly another glowing began behind me. I turned to find Garnet standing on the portal platform. "GARNET, GARNET, GARNET! EMERGENCY! THERE WAS A- IT- well." I stopped to catch my breath.

"Calm down Steven. What happened." Garnet's voice managed to calm me down enough to speak without screaming.

"I was asleep, and then someone I didn't know came out of the portal. They went into the temple, and I tried to stop them but they were to fast!" Garnet registered my statement and quickly turned to the door. She lifted up her hands and made first the purple, and then the light blueish white gem glow. Within seconds Pearl had arrived into the main room. Within a minute Amethyst appeared.

"YAWN! Guys can we make this quick? I was asleep." Pearl shot a look at Amethyst. Amethyst shot a look back. They'd probably start fighting, but then Garnet began speaking.

"Gems, we have an emergency. An intruder has entered the temple." Amethyst turned and paled and Pearl looked light she was about to faint.

"But, how? Its nearly impossible to force open the door!" Pearl sounded truly frightened.

"I don't know, but we'll need to split up and stop this intruder. Pearl, I wan't you and Steven to guard the gem room. Amethyst, you will patrol the east side of the temple. I will patrol the west side. If you see anything be sure to signal the others immediately by contacting the crystal heart. Any questions?"

"Yeah, what exactly are we up against?" Amethyst sounded nearly as scared as Pearl.

"Steven?" Garnet directed all of the Gem's attention on me.

"I... well... it was a tall figure, about as tall as Pearl. It was wearing a white cloak, a bit like Amethyst's wrestling cloak, but longer. When it opened the door it made every single one of the gems glow. And when it turned to look at me it appeared to only have one, white, glowing eye." As I described the figure to them they listened carefully, though they still looked very frightened. "Oh yeah, and it also looked very tired, and alarmed. Almost frightened."

"Even the weakest enemies can become extremely dangerous when frightened. We'll all need to be extremely careful." After Pearl's warning we entered the temple and split up to stop this threat.

-Unknown POV-

I was so tired, scared, and weak. I needed to find shelter in this temple before the intruders found me. I needed to regain my strength after being trapped for... who knows how long in that amber pool. But most importantly I needed to find someplace to hide and rest before I lose consciousness and the intruders found me.

I leaned against a wall for support, and began to move along the passage. I came across a number of rooms, before finally settling on one I deemed to be safe enough. I entered, covered myself with a number of objects until I was camouflaged, and quickly felt my belt and it's numerous pockets. I located the small hour glass I'd been searching for and turned it over for a half-hour's slumber. I'll rest, then I'd have to move on. After one last check to make sure I was well hidden, I closed my eyes and passed out.

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