Steven Universe: The Diamond Legacy

Chalcedony 2 : Journey to the Lost City

I was shaken awake the next morning. "Nora you gotta get up."

I nearly jolted out of bed. "Huh...Amethyst what's going on?" murmured. Selene, who'd been keeping watch over me during the night. "What has happened?" She asked urgently.

"Nothing's happened." Amethyst responded, turning to me. "Your Mom and Dad are here. They wanna talk to you pronto."

"About what?" Selene asked.

"Beats me." My cousin shrugged her shoulders. "Throw on something quick. Whatever it is it sounds pretty urgent."

We hurried downstairs to find Skyla and the Big Three sitting in the living room. My parents standing up looking at me. "It's all right Nora." my mother reassured me. "We just need to talk about something."

"Am I in trouble?" I said nervously. "Because this looks like an intervention."

"No, not at all." She assured me.

My father spoke. "I know what you found last night." He held the tape in his hands. Skyla looked nervously at me, droplets sprinkling from her wings. "I swear I didn't tell them."

"It's okay Sky, I know you're not a snitch."

Dad gestured me to sit down beside him. "I didn't know Grandma left things behind for me to follow. Did you watch the tape?"

"I watched it through your eyes." Dad explained. "You remember me telling you that sometimes I dream and see through other people's sight? It happens sometimes without my control, and it's usually through family, but this isn't the first time I saw that tape."

I looked at him and clenched the arm of the couch. "You're the one who unlocked the chest the first time."

Dad nodded and explained further. "I opened it up a year after the Gem Empire ended. When I saw the tape and the stuff inside I thought your Grandmother left it for me. I was going to be named Nora if I was a girl, and maybe there was another chest somewhere else addressed to 'Steven', there wasn't. At first I thought she didn't wanna waste time making the same chest again."

"We didn't search for the old city until years later, a few weeks after our wedding. I went with your mother and the Gems, together we found the ancient Gem colony and unlocked the shrine using the knowledge of the map and those crystal artifacts. When I went inside the shrine with Mom we both saw what Grandma left behind. It was a sword, lodged deep in the rock like those stories of the Good King we used to read to you as a little girl. Like in those stories the sword could only be pulled out by the one who it was intended for."

Dad smiled, but he wasn't happy. "I tried to pull it out, but it wouldn't budge. Not even a bit. I was so confused, why would my Mom send me a map to a weapon I couldn't use."

He took my mother's hand. "That's when your Mom realized the truth. She said to me 'the sword isn't for you.' and placed her hand on her belly, 'it's for her.' Let's just say, that was the craziest pregnancy reveal in the history of pregnancy reveals."

Mom laughed. "I was trying to find the right time to tell you. I only found out the morning before we set out, and the DNA test confirmed the baby would be a girl. We both planned on naming our daughter after his mother and the name Nora also stuck with us. We left the that jungle with a better treasure."

I was amazed by the whole story. "This is....." My pupils enlarged and changed to stars. "So awesome. I can't believe Grandma left me a sword hidden in an ancient ruin that  only I can wield ! We gotta go find it! We'll all go together and follow the map using the artifact she left  behind. It'll be an adventure! Oh man this is so freaking epic on so many levels, my granny was the coolest person I've never met !!"