Steven Universe: The Diamond Legacy

The Power of Five

The sun's rays pierced the canopy onto my closed lids, stirring me awake with my aching back. I sat up, unzipping my sleeping bag and stretching my arms. Hanami crawled from my bag, she'd been resting beneath my palm like a baby.

"Buenos Dias mi amiga!" Chalcedony jumped in front of my face, startling the heck outta me. "Gah!" I jumped backwards. "Callie what the hell!?"

The adventurous Gem laughed. "Good to see you're up and awake! I was wondering if you were gonna sleep for days."

"I told you she would wake up soon. She just needed to recharge." Skyla approached from the creek, levitating water to replenish my thermos and water Hanami. I rubbed my eyes. "How'd the night watch go?"

"Pretty good." Skyla said. "We didn't see anything suspicious except for a shifty looking lizard on a branch."

"And a mysterious watcher who brought you food." Chalcedony added.

"What!?" I screamed. Skyla darted a glare at her. "We were supposed to wait and tell her that."

"Well she aught to know." Callie shrugged her shoulders.

Skyla grumbled and explained it to me. "Last night someone approached our campsite bringing armfuls of edible fruits. They'd been watching us from the trees , and Selene was on high alert like a guard dog all night sensing they were there. When she caught sight of them, she shot at them with her arm cannon. She didn't hit 'em, but it scared the figure enough  they approached us from the cover."

"Did you see what they looked like?" I asked, stomach churning.

"No." Skyla shook her head. "They wore a dark leather coat and a hood that covered their face, but they had human eyes. Their voice sounded neither male nor female but a mix of both."

"They spoke to you?"

"Yeah." Callie said. "We were about to go all full-warrior mode on their butt, they cried out 'Stop, I mean no harm!' They dropped the fruits in the middle of our campsite and backed steadily away. 'For her.' They said and disappeared into the jungle. Selene spent most of the night trying to hunt them down, but she didn't want to leave you for too long. returned and kept watch over you while Skyla and I took turns patrolling. She hasn't left your side since."

"Until recently, she just went off to scout the perimeter just now, but only because she sensed you were waking up and told us to fill you in. She should be back any moment." Skyla said. Right on cue Selene returned with a pike full of fish and a flinty look in her eyes that reminded me of a wolf.

"You're awake. Good." Her voice was sharp but her eyes became gentle seeing I was up. "I brought breakfast , you need protein." Without saying more she started a fire and pulled out a frying pan from her pearl, cooking the fish.

"Thank you." I said, watching her cook the fish. We sat together and had breakfast by the fire. Well, I did, none of my Gem companions took a fish. "This is really good, you guys should try some. Just watch out for the tiny bones."

"You need to eat Nora." Selene answered firmly. "I can't eat all of this by myself." "Whatever you don't finish we will eat."

I nodded, taking what I wanted and leaving the rest for my friends. "Skyla and Chalcedony filled me in on last night. You  should've woken me up, I could have done something to help, maybe spoken to whoever it was and see what they wanted."

"I didn't want to worry you," Selene answered quietly. "and the last thing I would've done was allow you to put yourself in danger....again. We don't know who that person was or what their intentions were."

"But they wanted to help us." Skyla said. "Why else would they leave Nora a bunch of fruits to eat?"

"Maybe they were poisoned. Maybe that was a Remnant Gem who wanted to kill her."