The crystal gems and steven ran desperately to guide humans about what was coming. steven and the crystal gems quickly passed by a tv store, and the tv immediately changed to the breaking news channel. the reporter was talking about the events, and soon several other reports began broadcasting from different countries, alerting that the same thing was happening worldwide
"This is breaking news, we advise everyone to stay at home, things are falling from the sky and emerging from the oceans, oh my god... they're moving" replied the reporter
"Ocean city is under attack" replied another tv
Steven looked in horror at the tvs, everything seemed like a huge nightmare, he could see the gems in distress, not knowing what was happening, soon, the sky became cloudy and dark
"i.. i.. i've never used a sword before" said nephrite, frightened
Suddenly, one of the stars fell into the ocean, causing a thunderous burst of water, everyone recoiled in fear, the gems assumed defensive positions, after a few seconds, a creature emerged from the water with a growl, the creature looked like a spectral form, giant and eyeless, bipedal, and emitting black smoke, it had no color, and the crystal gems noticed a gem on what seemed to be its shoulder
"An ammolite!" shouted pearl, grabbing her spear
The gem started moving towards the humans, garnet activated her gauntlets along with the other crystal gems, and they headed towards the ammolite specter, many humans were running in panic, ammolite prepared to attack with a grow, pearl shouted and fired a laser from her spear at the specter, which defended itself with its arms, garnet then jumped and delivered a powerful punch to the monster, sending it flying, it fell to the ground, and peridot and lapis combined their powers to create barriers and a kind of handcuff to restrain the creature
More and more stars fell into the ocean, giving rise to these monsters, quartz soldiers, rubies, and topazes advanced to fight the monsters, defending the humans
"Steven, we need to take people to a safe place" said garnet, looking at steven
Suddenly, the creature broke free from lapis and peridot's powers and went back into battle, pearl advanced placing her spear above her face, the monster then spun and, with its fist, hit pearl's chest, making her fall instantly, obviously, that monster had fighting abilities, ammolite prepared for a final blow, but amethyst held ammolite's arms with her whip, peridot then jumped with a spin, pulling reasonably large and pointed metals, she launched her hand forward, and the metals flew towards the monster
the metals pierced the region that seemed to be the monster's abdômen, everyone believed it was a victory, but the monster roared even louder and continued to attack, the monster punched peridot, who defended with her left arm, but peridot was sent flying, hitting a house and destroying the front, lapis flew to help peridot, screaming her name, steven activated his shield and with his super speed, pushed the monster away hitting another small house
Steven suddenly looked to the side and saw some people lying on the ground, he ran to help them, but the monster jumped in front of him with a roar, steven took a step back, and ammolite gave a powerful punch on steven's shield, steven defended the attack by moving minimally, but it seemed like he was using a lot of strength, pearl, garnet, and amethyst quickly came to help him, pearl deliberately slipped on the ground, attacking ammolite's leg with her spear, ammolite kneeled, and amethyst followed with an attack using her whip slapping the specter's face, soon steven pushed the monster backward, and pearl, with a jump, spun her spear, cutting off the creature's head
The creature knelt on the ground and suddenly exploded like a burst of smoke and yellow light, flying towards the sky, everyone breathed a sigh of relief for a few seconds, then peridot joined them flying on a metal
"Peridot, are you okay?" asked steven
Peridot just nodded
"Peridots are tougher than they seem, remember... just a few scratches" said peridot
"We need to get the plaque" said pearl placing her spear on the ground
The sky continued to rain stars, many of them hitting the ground, sea, and buildings, many soldiers gathered in the city center to fight against the talisto's gems, the crystal gems returned to their beach home, and more stars fell like the buzzing of gunfire, they stopped for a few seconds at the edge of the beach
"Fighting without strategy will result in failure" shouted steven
"We must unite forces to protect beach city's weak points, steven, we need to act quickly, i can hear the people... they're suffering" said lapis lazuli
Then more stars fell on the beach home, starting a fire inside with two more stars causing destruction, the gems looked in horror at their home being destroyed, but their concern was not for the building but for those inside
"Turquoise" shouted peridot running towards the house
"Peridot, wait!" said steven already knowing what was there
Peridot ran as fast as she could to reach the location, it took a few seconds until she reached the stairs, peridot climbed the stairs quickly, not caring about the consequences, she reached the door and opened it with a leap inside
"Turquoise" said peridot
As peridot entered, two specters were already waiting at the door and tried to attack her from behind, attempting to cut off her head, peridot felt this and quickly ducked, the specters redirected their attack towards the gem, but peridot defended herself from their blades, holding the arms of her attackers in a pose similar to wing chun, peridot spun the arms of both and gave a little push with each arm to the specters
Peridot stepped back, and one specter tried to kick her face, peridot moved back avoiding the kick, then two more came at peridot, one of them held an iron staff and tried to hit peridot's legs, peridot jumped with a spin forward, dodging the blow, she then assumed her stance again, similar to wing chun's basic pose (siu nim tao), with a roar, the three specters came at peridot simultaneously, she didn't know what their gems were, but she could identify their appearance, the first one was tall and robust, wearing a mask that covered almost his entire face except for the mouth, its clothes looked like black rags with blue shimmer, and his short hair was gray, the second one was the same height as peridot, a few centimeters taller, she wore a blindfold, and her clothes resembled ancient chinese warriors, the last one was easier to decipher; her spiky green hair and leaf-like clothes gave her away
The blindfolded one attacked peridot with a spin, and peridot quickly dodged with her arm, peridot thought
"how does she see me if she's blindfolded?"
The taller one tried to hit peridot's abdomen with his weapon, representing a knife, peridot kicked the weapon away with a powerful kick, sending the spectre flying, then all three were attacking peridot suddenly at the same time, peridot was making a lot of effort to dodge all the blades
With peridot's last dodge, she gave a double spin with her feet and gave a kick over the face of the taller specter, knocking off his mask, the specter turned to peridot, and peridot could see its face it was disfigured, resembling a zombie
"What are these things?" said peridot
As peridot finished her sentence, she received a kick to her chest, peridot walked a few meters back until she stopped, hitting the table slightly, she then raised her arms again looking at everyone, soon she began to hear cries from her daughter coming from upstairs, peridot started to attack the specter, they began exchanging punches, indicating that the specter knew martial arts, then peridot's punches began to weaken, she dodged the specter and followed upstairs, but the taller specter attacked repeatedly with his blade, after its attacks she walked forward, hitting peridot with its chest, peridot walked a few steps back, and then peridot gave very fast punches to the specter's chest and abdômen, they seemed ineffective, the specter then attacked peridot with its fist, peridot grabbed the monster's fist and threw it away
Peridot was a few meters away from the stairs when a specter jumped from the top floor and began to confront her, this specter looked like a giant crow with metallic claws on its fingers, peridot used some of her moves to try to defend herself, suddenly, the specter placed one of its claws on peridot's thigh, and she grunted in pain, peridot used her left forearm to remove the claw from her leg as she did so, the specter walked its claws over peridot's shoulder quickly and pulled it back, making large cuts on her arm
Peridot tried to attack again, but the specter dodged the attack, giving two punches to peridot's abdomen and chest, followed by a kick that made peridot fly over the kitchen wall, breaking it, peridot tried to stay on her feet, but the impact was too strong and she kept walking backward, trying to maintain her balance until she hit the kitchen sink, peridot was panting, she could see all of them gathering and preparing their weapons, peridot caught her breath and assumed her posture again, waiting to show them her true wing chun.
