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Dream/ unconscious

'Thoughts'

Authors note

Story/ regular

"What's that?" Amethyst asked as she saw Steven rummaging around in his pocket.

"H-huh?" He asked, startled by her question. "O-oh its just some loose change I kept in my pocket." He said, he hated lying, it was what he was worst at, and if he could see himself he bet he would probably be sweating nervously, and fidgeting, with a face full of guilt. Amethyst didn't buy it for a second, but didn't ask any more questions, neither did the others. Steven could tell they were catching onto his strange behavior.

Turning his attention back to the artifact he felt a pop in his wing, he tried to see what had happened and noticed he had another wing. 'Oh no..' He thought as another wing appeared on his elbow, his face was full of worry and fear, as was the others.

"S-Steven!" Pearl cried, in fear turning back to her original form, and catching him as he fell back, she examined the situation and looked around frantically to find something she could use. He had to use the tactic, but what if the gems got suspicious and asked how he knew? What would he say then? No, there wasn't time for that, he wouldn't allow himself to be overtaken anymore. He attempted to turn his finger into a cat, as he flew over to water, ignoring the curious looks the gems gave him, flying after him, Pearl now once again a flying swan. Steven felt his finger morph into a cat and he brought it next to the wings, they seemed to cover in fear a little, but, lie the wings the cats were spreading fast too, he jumped quickly into the water, his cat fingers and cat boy slowly disintegrating, and with it his wings.

Steven attempted to swim upwards, but something grabbed at his shirt, he let out a bubble of air as he tried to call for help. His cried were muffled and hoarse as he was slowly brought down into the ocean.

Steven felt cold water his his back. 'Where am I?' He thought as he sat up. Oh..He instantly remembered this place... He must have fallen unconscious, he looked around, the ground was cold water and had a green tint all around it, it seemingly illuminated the dark vast place. But, this time he saw no Lapis or Jasper, or big scary Malachite. He looked around further, nothing, what was going-

That's when he heard it.

"S-Steven?" It was Lapis's voice, Steven rain to the voice, and saw her chained up to a wall.

"Lapis!" He cried, he wasn't sure whether or not to be happy or pitiful for the ocean gem. She gave him an irritated look.

"Steven how are you here AGAIN?!" She cried, she didn't want Steven in danger here, again.

"It's okay! I can't even reach you anyway.." Steven said. "Even if you told me where you were."

"W-what do you mean?" She asked, a look of curiosity crossed her face.

"Honestly I'm not to sure myself all I know is I'm back a year or two ago when my gem glowed for the first time ever." Steven said.

"You mean you went back in time?" Lapis asked, before sweat dripped down her face again as she kept trying to keep Jasper down. She groaned a little as pain shot up her spine.

"I-I think so." He said. "I just don't know how or why.." He said, suddenly he felt himself waking up.

"Steven wait-" But it was already too late the dream had ended.

Steven woke with a start, pulled out of his dream of Lapis he looked around, he was on the islands beach, no more wings or cat fingers, the gems were staring down at him, Pearl was relieved, Garnet was skeptical, and Amethyst was...well Amethyst.

He sat up, giving a small smile at them.

"H-how did you-" Pearl was cut off by Steven immediately.

"It doesn't matter we need to get the gem artifact now, then you can ask questions later." Steven said, Pearl nodded, grabbing Steven as she morphed into a swan, the others did the same, carrying Steven as they flew.

The artifact was pulsing brighter, Steven guessed it meant it was about to wake up, Garnet stepped in front of him and started pulling on it, trying to release it from its grip. It took three to four tries to get it out of its socket, inspecting it a bit, Garnet sent it back to the temple.

The gems warped back to the house, Steven sat on the couch, all eyes stared at him, waiting for an answer. "So, how did you know?" Pearl asked. Steven thought to himself, 'What should I say?!' He racked his brain for answers, but upon finding none he sighed, then an idea came to him.

"W-well I just saw Amethyst try it a few times.." He said, remembering her turning into a cat and getting water all over herself. "When she transformed into a cat she got water on herself and instantly turned back, so I figured I'd try that, but this time since cats hate water, and birds hate cats so, I just kinda.." He trailed off. Hoping the others would buy his excuse, Amethyst sure seemed to buy it, Garnet not so much, Pearl he wasn't even sure was listening.

But at least there's no big threat for a while. Right?

Welp that's all! I'm running out of ideas for closing chapters so...Bye! Hope you enjoyed!