Hello there everyone Crow here. Before anything else I want to apologize for taking so long to get such a short chapter out. The reason it took so long was that my editor decided he would take a random vacation out of no where. So yeah sorry about that. Anyway this chapter was meant to have major feels, buuuut... I am horrible at writing the feels so please lower your expectations. I promise I will get better in the future I promise. So without further ado chapter 5.
I DO NOT OWN STEVEN UNIVERSE OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS. ALL RIGHTS GO TO REBECCA SUGAR. THE ONLY CHARACTERS THAT I OWN ARE MY AND MY FRIENDS OCs.
Chapter 5 "Everything Will Be Great"
"That party was awesome, *Yawn*, even if you guys did attack each other."
"Yes Steven, it was awesome. Now get to sleep. We will talk about it in the morning."
"Ha, okay Garnet. *Yawn* Good night."
Garnet climbs down the stairs ascending to Steven's room after putting Steven to bed. Once she gets to the floor, she walks over to the temple door, where she activates the door to the burning room, walking
to where all the other gems were standing. All four gems: Pearl, Amethyst, Spessartine, and Umbalite, were look towards the door were Garnet had just entered from and follow her with their gazes as she
walks towards the fire pit in the center of the room and stares into the boiling lava before speaking: "Steven's asleep."
"Oh good. We should talk now," Pearl turns her attention back to Umbalite and Spessartine as she finishes her statement.
"Sure. What do you want to talk about?"
"They probably just want to know more about us."
"You're right Spessartine. We don't know who you are or anything about you. So, we just want you to tell us about yourselves."
"Okay, so everything about ourselves?"
"That's right, everything."
"Well we should start with the fact that me and Spess emerged from the ground about two days ago and-"
"Wait!" Umbalite was instantly cut off by Pearl practically screaming. "You emerged only two days ago!?"
"Yeah. I emerged slightly before Umbalite, two days ago. Why?"
"Well, no wonder you look like that. Emerging so long after you were supposed to would definitely cause severe defe-"
"Pearl!" Pearl was stopped by Garnet suddenly yelling at her.
"Right, right. Anyways, continue."
"Wait, say what now? What were you about to say about me and Spess?"
"It's nothing don't worry about it. Please continue."
"NoNoNoNoNo, if there is something wrong with us, we need to know!"
Garnet examines the red gem before her working out her options and consulting her future vision. Eventually she decides to just tell them instead of making an excuse. So she spoke with a gentle voice:
"*Sigh* Well, you see when gems are left to grow for so long without emerging, they may develop... defects."
The air in the room was silent, no one sure what to say next. Before Umbalite broke the silence. "Defects?"
Pearl was the one to answer, "Yes, they are imperfections or errors that occur while we are growing. In your cases it would be your male forms."
Amethyst now realizing something spoke up, "But I was in the ground too long. Does that mean... I'm defective too?"
"Yes... Amethyst, you are."
"And you didn't tell me!?" Amethyst was screaming at this point. "You knew all along that I was wrong, and you didn't tell me!"
"No Amethyst! You aren't wrong. You're just... a little small."
"Small! I'm small to you!"
"Wha- no, you're-"
"So this whole time, I was just a joke to you!"
"No! Why would you ever think that?!"
"Why else wouldn't you tell me!" At this point Amethyst had tears running down her face.
"Because it didn't matter Amethyst! You were, and still are, perfect in our eyes."
"I... am?"
"Yes! It never mattered what you looked like. You were still... you."
As Pearl finishes her statement, Amethyst brings all three Crystal Gems, even Garnet, who had been silent this whole time, into a big hug.
"Look at that Spess. Isn't that cute?" Umbalite turns to look at his friend for the first time since their chat had began. He finds Spess pressed against the wall with a wild look in his eyes. "Spess, hey
Spess, you alright?"
Spessartine snaps out of his trance after a few times of Umbalite calling his name as well as shaking him a little. "Huh. What?" Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl had stopped hugging and were now gathering behind
Umbalite, staring with worried looks on their faces. "Yeah... Yeah, I'm fine"
"Yeah... Yeah, I'm fine."
Umbalite watches his friend with concerned eyes. Spess had been sweating and breathing heavily a few moments before, but was now starting to regain his composure. Spess seems to have taken the news of them
being defective harder than he had himself, and it was very visible. He said he was fine. All the gems seemed to relax as if a great battle was over, but Umbalite knew differently. They hadn't been alive
long, but Spessartine was Umbalite's best friend and Umbalite knows him better than anyone, if it shook him this much it would probably come back to haunt them later. Umbalite wants to press forward, to try
and help his friend but thought instead that he should just let Spess work it out with himself. So he says: "*Sigh* Alright if you say so, but if you ever need to talk, I'm here."
"Yeah... thanks."
"Okay. Now if you would finish telling us everything that has happened since you emerged, we can decide what to do next." Pearl's statement had shattered the silence that had fallen over the gems in the few
minutes after Spess and Umbalite had finished talking, as well as reminding them of the reason they had started the conversation in the first place. With all five gems back on track, Spess picked up where
Umbalite had left off: "Okay, so where were we?"
"You had just told us that you emerged from the ground only a day or two ago." Garnet finished with a monotone voice.
"Oh, well after that we..."
Deep below the ocean waves, the giant green creature still slept peacefully. But deep in it's mind the blue figure still dances. She is stumbling more than last time and seems to be slower in her movements.
A jump, a flip, a pirouette, she trips, she recovers. The dance seems to be improvised with no thought to the steps or movements, most notably because of it switching rapidly between styles. A slide, a bow,
a twirl, another jump. Her dance continues on, seemingly endless, even with the amount of effort the blue dancer has to use to resist the large tangerine woman standing in for her reflection.
"Listen to me Lapis! You will fail! Me and you both know you can't keep me like this forever!"
But Lapis ignores her, the dance still going on: a jump, a landing, a pirouette, she stumbles, she continues.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHH, Lapis! Once I get out of here I'm going to kill you, then I'll kill those stupid gems and Rose Quartz!
But Jasper's screams and threats only serve to strengthen Lapis's resolve. Even though she is tiring, her determination keeps her going. Her determination to stop Jasper, to keep her from hurting people,
from hurting Steven. And so their dance continues, as the green giant(yum) sleeps.
It is sunrise now. Everything is peaceful as the orange sun sets the sky and the ocean ablaze with a soft orange glow. Everything is peaceful. Everything is quiet, save for the sound of the wind blowing
through the air and the waves crashing against the sandy beach. It was perfect.
On a high up ledge that protruded from the side of a cliff, a tall, orange gem sat, marveling at the perfect, peaceful scenery. A calm, tranquil look in his eyes as he thought of nothing but the beautiful
scenery in front of him.
"Hey Spessartine."
The orange gem looks down from his ledge to see a sleepy Steven, who probably just woke up, waving up at him. Spess decides to return the wave since Steven won't be able to hear anything he says, and he
also doesn't want to shatter the beautiful silence.
"Wait just a second. I'll be right up." Steven starts lazily trying to climb up the side of the cliff with little success, until Spess jumps down, picks him up, and jumps back up to the ledge, sitting
Steven down next to him, then turning his attention back towards the beautiful sunrise.
"Thanks."
Spess didn't reply but instead just shook his head, eyes never leaving the horizon.
"So the party was fun wasn't it?" Steven, now leaning back onto the wall of the cliff, relaxing a little more while following Spessartine's gaze towards the sunrise. "But it ended so late that nothing else
really happened afterwards. But we can have tons of exciting adventures since you and Umbalite are going to stay here from now on. You guys are going to stay right?" Steven looks towards Spessartine with a
little sparkle of hope in his eyes.
Spess couldn't help but chuckle a little after hearing Steven's concern. "Don't worry Steven. Me and Umbalite decided we would stay last night after you went to sleep," That wasn't the only thing that had
happened after Steven went to sleep, but Spess decides that if Steven ever needed to know about their meeting last night, that had ended only a few hours ago, then one of the gems would tell him.
Steven's eyes fill with stars after hearing Spess's response. "Really?!"
Spess smiles a little, while still staring at the sunrise, which was almost over now. "Yes Steven. We did."
"This is going to be so awesome! Now you guys can go on adventures with us and we can hang out and have parties and you can meet everyone that you didn't talk to at the party, which is a lot, but it doesn't
matter! This is going to be great!" Steven falls on his back, laying on the ground (well... ledge... I guess), seemingly tired from his excited rant from a few moments earlier, before sitting back up and
whispering: "Everything will be great from now on."
"Yeah... Everything will be great."