Nightmare Steve's Second Chance

CHAPTER 21 - The Broken Prophecy

(Steve Saga origins Episode - A New Prophecy)

Magma's P.O.V

"So a dark steve?" Rainbow Steve asked for the 20th time.

"Yes, which means we will have to deal with him as well as nightmare steve" Blue steve said adjusting his coat as what seemed to magma a nervous gesture. Magma rubbed a hand down his face with a sigh.

"We won't get anything down at this rate!" The other two steves looked at magma in surprise.

"Are you okay?" Magma sighed and nodded his head.

"I'm fine...just a little stressed out" Blue Steve gave magma a look of understanding.

"What are we going to do now?" Rainbow Steve looked down at his red shoes as he kicked some dirt.

"Well..." blue steve began "There was a prophecy near my village talking about a way to defeat nightmare steve.

"Where is it?"

"In a jungle" Blue steve spoke about how it might help them find out another way to defeat nightmare steve and dark steve. Once he finished explaining his idea they started walking towards the blue steve old village.

~Time Skip 1 hour~

Magma jumped over another large tree root as he continued to follow blue steve. In the past, he hated jungles because of how little area there is to fly around in but now he realized that it was an advantage due to the many hiding places.

"Which won't do much good since nightmare Steve can sense me," Magma thought flicking a leaf as it landed in his messy hair.

"Hey, Blue steve? Are we going to your home?" Rainbow Steve asked.

"No, later though"

"Why?"

"Because it is closer" Blue steve answered looking around with an intense look. Magma couldn't help but feel something bad was going to happen but he couldn't remember. At this magma frowned and concentrated on remembering and all he got back was flashes of screams and fire which made him very worried.

"Found it!" Blue steve proudly shouted pointing at a hole covered in vines and vegetation. Both rainbow steve and magma looked down the hole and saw some water at the bottom with a tunnel on the other side. Magma blinked and turned to blue steve.

"Are you sure this is safe?" Magma could see the structure falling apart and was a little worried about how stable it was.

"Uhmmm...I'll go check" with that blue steve flew down and went into the tunnel. After a few tense seconds, blue steve screamed and magma immediately jumped down ignoring rainbow steve's protests. As soon as he landed in the water making a loud slash he landed only to see blue steve holding his hands to his mouth as he laughed silently. As soon as blue steve noticed magma he grabbed the magma arm and dragged him out of rainbow steve's view. Blue steve has been stronger and faster than magma thought he could let out a small grunt as he slammed into blue steve who in return yelped. Magma pushed himself away ignoring the light blue color appearing on blue steve's cheeks.

"What are you doing?!" magma harshly whispered to blue steve. Magma however didn't wait for a response instead he signed and walked into the rainbow steve's view with blue steve next to him.

"We're fine Rainbow steve! It was just a joke" Blue Steve yelled out while making his arms form an x. He watched as blue steve apologized to rainbow steve before telling him that he would be fine jumping down. Rainbow steve walked closer to the edge but tripped and fell into the water.

"You okay?" Magma asked after rainbow steve's head popped above the water's surface.

"Yep!...just...give me a moment...there" Rainbow Steve shouted happily as he climbed out of the water.

As soon as he got out of the water magma noticed how the water seemed to slide off the rainbow steve's clothes and skins. Rainbow steve looked at blue steve and he looked at him as if it was normal?

"What?...OH! Blue steve abilities!" Magma thought almost facepalming as he realized that a blue steve ability was not getting wet.

"Now that is over let's go on '' Blue Steve said pointing down the dark corridor.

~Time Skip 10 minutes~

They began to walk down the long hall passing by multiple traps. Until suddenly the area in front of them lit up with burning hot lava and the only way across was a white pole. A small bat that was flying around was hit with a piece of the falling ruble and screeched as it was burned by the lava

"That is definitely not terrifying," Rainbow Steve said in a high-pitched voice. Magma had to disagree because he was immune to lava but the flying arrows that they had to dodge were scary because of the arrow and up missing his head and getting stuck to his hood. He quickly flew across the lava and waited for blue steve and rainbow steve to make it across. Rainbow steves it 2 feet away from reaching the end when his foot slips and begins to fall. Magma grabs rainbow steve's hands and pulls him a little too hard because he went flying and landed behind magma, luckily, on his feet.

"T-Thanks Magma" Rainbow steve thanked shakily. Magma gave a sharp nod of acknowledgment. After a few more minutes passed they reached a large room that looked to be beautiful once but was now falling apart and had much moss and other vegetation growing everywhere. In the farthest wall from the trio stood a group of signs with writing on them.

"Is that it?" Rainbow steve asked walking forward, eyes glancing at the writing. Blue Steve nodded and in 4 long strides, he was in front of the signs as he began to read them. Rainbow steve on the other hand began to read out loud much to blue steve's annoyance and magma amusement.

"This must be the first thing rainbow steve had read since he was created..." magma thought as blue steve's irritation died down in a few seconds and listening to rainbow steve speak. After he finished blue steve had his face scrunched up in concentration as he thought about the words meaning. It only took blue steve half a minute before he realized that the prophecy was talking about rainbow steve and the artifacts. As blue steve and rainbow steve turned to the exit of the room where magma had been sitting on the floor with his back against the wall. They began to walk towards him before the two young steves paused mid-step and stared at the corner of the room with pale horror-filled faces. Magma looked and in the dim lighting, hiding in the shadows were two ruby-red eyes glowing as it stared at their prey. In the next second the figure stepped forwards revealing the only dark steve who was staring at them with a blank expression. The blank expression suddenly grew into a grin that was so wide that magma was worried it might have hurt, but the way his pupils turned a yellow tint also helped tell him that it wasn't truly dark steve. Rainbow steve screams for them to run and they do with magma and blue steve keeping dark steve busy. Magma throws some fireball that hits the area near dark steve as a warning while blue steve tries to hit him with snowballs. As soon as magma felt rainbow steve's energy reach the top he grabbed blue steve and began to fly away from dark steve. After a few minutes, they ran into a snow biome and hid inside of a cave until dark steve left after some lighting strikes.

"Everyone okay?" asked Rainbow steve. Blue steve gave a thumbs up and magma nodded.

"W-we should go to my village for some shelter" Blue Steve said, noticing how magma was rubbing his hands to give himself some warmth. The walk across the snow and onto a mountain. As they reached the top there stood a large village covered in flames. Rainbow steve covered his mouth in horror and blue steve's eyes and mouth wide open in shock.

"NOOO!!!"