One-Shots // Steven Universe

Voices We Hear • Pearlmethyst

December 26th, 2016

Irascible (adj.): Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.

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The gems were on a mission to retrieve a mysterious artifact hidden somewhere on the Watermelon Island. Steven had been having dreams about it and was getting a bad feeling about it.

The gems set out to an old cave to find it.

"So what exactly are we looking for again Steven?" Amethyst asked.

"It's kind of like mirror thing," Steven lead the way through the cave, "It looks a lot like Lapis's except it's more rusty and doesn't have a gem on it."

"Well whatever it is it's having a very negative effect on the watermelons," Garnet said, "They shouldn't of tried to stop us from coming here."

"Whatever's in here they must be trying to protect," Pearl guessed.

"Is this it?" Amethyst called out.

The gem's rushed over to her. Amethyst was holding small, hand-held mirror that looked extremely similar to Lapis's except the silver was rusted off leaving an old bronze and as Steven said there wasn't a gem in sight.

"Let's get it back to the temple," Pearl said, "Maybe we can see what it is."

"I don't know..." Steven said unsurely, "I don't like it. It's really upsetting the watermelons. We should probably bubble it as soon as we can."

"Well we have to know what is first," Amethyst asked, "Right?"

"It would be helpful to understand it," Garnet said.

They all walked to the nearest warp pad. When they got to the temple, the gems tried everything to see what it would do but nothing seemed to work. If they hadn't known any better they would've thought it was just some regular mirror.

"Well there has to be something!" Pearl looked it over.

"It's getting late," Garnet said, "Maybe we can try again tomorrow."

Amethyst picked up the mirror, "Im going to look over it some more if that's alright with you guys."

"Go ahead," Pearl sighed, "Call us if anything happens."

"No problem," Amethyst walked into her room with the mirror and sat against a comfortable pile of garbage.

"Now..." Amethyst looked into the mirror, "What is your secret?"

Amethyst...an unfamiliar voice said in her head causing her to jump and nearly drop the mirror.

"Did you just..." Amethyst stared at the mirror wide-eyed, "No you...you couldn't have. I must be tired." She stared at the mirror as if expecting a response but nothing happened.

Amethyst took a shaky breath but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't make herself fall asleep.

The next morning she walked out of the room slowly with the mirror in hand.