Azurite didn't know where he was, or what was happening. He found himself levitating in a black endless place, which was replaced after a minute of two with a huge battlefield. There was a huge warship flying above it.  He immediately recognized this ship. It was when Thanos' cleansed Konoritos. It was Sanctuary 2.

He levitated above the battlefield, noticing many people he didn't knew, but he stopped in the moment when he was himself  swinging his arms around into the nearest Outriders, as Shi'ra stood proudly by his side, slicing every down Outrider and Chitauri that rushed at her down with her spear.

However, Shi'ra wasn't the only person he knew that was present on this battlefield. Most of The Guardians of the Galaxy were there as well. Azurite also noticed Gamora wasn't standing by their side. She actually was nowhere to be seen, and he didn't know why.

Suddenly, he found himself levitating in a black space, once again, only difference from the last time was a small field which showed him, Shi'ra and The Guardians fighting off their enemies, which became invisible for some reason, then all of them stopped, like something terrible had happened, and it made them stop fighting. 

An idea of what could have happened appeared in his mind when Mantis disintegrated into ash right in front of their eyes and there was nothing they could do. He reached his hand down at the place where she just stood a moment ago, causing him to levitate down on the field.

He touched her ashes, but he couldn't feel them. He was like an ghost, and he cursed himself mentally for not realizing it sooner.

As if the situation wasn't bad enough, he looked around himself to see Drax, slowly turning into ash as well, which was followed by Quill and Groot slowly sharing the same fate as Mantis and Drax did.

He watched how he, Shi'ra and Rocket couldn't do nothing about it but stare in horror at what was happening in front of them, as the scenery has once again changed into the same battlefield as before. 

All of them were staring at person that stood in front of them. In front of them stood The Mad Titan himself and all four members of Black Order stood proudly by his side.

There was one more thing that Azurite noticed about Thanos. All of the Infinity Stones were shining in the golden gauntlet which was on right hand.

Azurite woke up with a gasp as he sat straight up on his bed, breathing heavilly. It was actually a while since he had a nightmare like that. It must've been caused by yesterday events when he had to bring up Thanos' name several times, which included him telling Steven and Spinel what happened on Konoritos.

When he finally calmed himself down, he got off his bed, and moved across his new house, and stopped until he saw Spinel and Jasper.

"Morning to you two." He greeted them, rubbing his eyelids.

"Hi, Azzie!" Spinel greeted him back, "How was your sleep?"

Azurite's mind flew to the nightmare he had, before replying, "It was nice. Sleeping is refreshing. You should try it, both of you." 

"I think I'll pass. I like being aware all the time." Jasper said back.

"Your loss then." Azurite said with a shrug of his shoulders.

Then, there was a knock on the doors, as Spinel said, "It must be Steven. He came here about thirty minutes ago, but I told him that you were sleeping."

Spinel made her way over to the doors, and opened them, revealing Steven, "Azurite. You're awake! How was your sleep?"

"It was good. The bed in my room is really comfortable." Azurite's answer was short and quick.

After Azurite answered to Steven's question, Steven took him, Jasper and Spinel out of their house and began to lead them through the streets of Little Homeworld, and Azurite had to admit that to himself, it wasn't actually as bad as he thought it'll be, all he got was some weird looks from some of the gems they were passing. He also could hear Steven telling them about how the life is different these days and how everyone is now safe to explore their dreams, but he didn't paid much attention to that.

They finally stopped when Steven took them to first exercise he was planning to show them first. It was something related to art, and Vidalia who was the human Azurite met yesterday, when he was pretending to someone else, was the one who runs this thing. He recognized some of the there. There was Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl, and even a Pearl he hasn't seen before. From her looks, he could assume that her name was Orange Pearl. There was also a Jasper who he called in his head Rainbow Jasper because whole body was covered in different colors attending it, and when he saw another Nephrite he hasn't seen, yet, it made him once again wonder how many of them actually lived here.

"Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl? Weren't they in Homeworld, like yesterday?" He asked, looking at Steven.

"They just like coming here. Blue Pearl likes to draw and Yellow Pearl likes to be a model." Steven explained, then added, gesturing at Orange Pearl, "And Orange Pearl got here a week ago, she is trying to find something for herself."

"Yondu! You're still here? I saw your ship last night, so I assumed that you left." Vidalia said, as they approached her.

"His name is not Yondu. It's Azurite. He's a gem. And he was moving his ship to Little Homeworld." Steven explained.

"Oh, I thought that all gems were girls." Vidalia said, after a moment of silence, glancing over at Azurite.

"I'm the special case, I guess." Azurite said, rubbing the back of his head. He wasn't angry at this, because he had a feeling that he was going to hear that a lot from the citizens of Beach City.

"It just makes me wonder why you lied about your real name, when you came here.'' Vidalia wanted to know.

"The reason why I used fake name was because I wasn't planning to stay here for that long, but this guy here conviced me to give living here a chance, so here I am, now." Azurite explained, pointing at Steven.

"Why am I not suprised that Steven conviced you." Vidalia smiled at Steven, before looking at Azurite, Spinel and Jasper, "C'mon, pick a seat."

"Alright. I just have to warn you that I'm talentless in this area." Azurite said to Vidalia, before he, Spinel and Jasper took their seats. Him and Jasper were doing their best to show that they would like to do something else than drawning at this moment.

Even Steven decided to join them in this exercise as he took a seat as well.

Azurite then looked at Yellow Pearl who was giving him weird looks, probably because of the things he said a day earlier to the Diamonds about Thanos, or him having his part in the death of Ego, or him being a male gem, "What?" he asked her.

"Nothing." She quickly answered.

For the next several minutes, Azurite, Spinel, Jasper, Steven and the gems who attend this exercise were drawing Yellow Pearl in complete silence. Vidalia was eventually giving them tips how to improve their skills, and it was mostly to Azurite and Jasper.

"So, what are you going to wear on Halloween?" Steven asked, wanting to start a conversation.

"Halloween?" Azurite and Jasper asked at the same time, which caused to share a quick look with each other.

"Halloween is a human holiday, when we dress each other as something scary, or something else, whichever you want and have fun." Steven explained what Halloween is to Azurite and Jasper.

Rainbow Jasper, Nephrite and Orange Pearl all said that they didn't think about it, yet, while Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl stated that they don't know if they're going to be on the Earth that day. Azurite, Jasper and Spinel remained silent about that, because they just found out what Halloween is.

"What about you, Spinel? You could dress up as Grim Reaper, you already even have a scythe." Steven said said to Spinel. Spinel told him that she got another scythe from the Diamonds, about two weeks after they took her to Homeworld, when they were catching up to Azurite after he left the throne room of the Diamonds after he had a talk with them.

"A what now?" Azurite asked, as he looked at Spinel, who took a scythe out of the gem in her chest, "Wait... you had that for the whole time?" 

Spinel nodded her head in confirmation, "The former version of it which was destroyed by Steven. I got this version two weeks after the Diamonds took me to Homeworld."

"So, you had this for the whole time and didn't even use it after I started fighting with you?" Azurite wanted to know, as Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl, Jasper and Vidalia looked over at him. What fight? Orange Pearl, Nephrite and Rainbow Jasper weren't that suprised by what he just said because they saw him fight Steven and his friends.

"I didn't think that I was going to need it, considering that you were going against all of us." Spinel answered, rubbing the back of her head, "And we still had some difficulty in defeating you."

"I knew that I was going to lose the fight the moment I used my glove to form myst around you. After all, you had this kid here on your side, but I fought with you anyway because I knew there no backing down from it." Azurite explained.

"Where did you get that glove, anyway? I don't think that even Homeworld has something like that in it's stock." Steven asked him, hoping that it'll help him learn more about Azurite, than he already knew.

"I got it from Quill and Gamora, and it was a part of my birthday gift from Quill's crew. Those hooks I've been carrying with myself were a part of this gift too. I got it from Drax. And yes, I know that gems don't celebrate birthdays, but Quill who I'm certain was the one who came up with it, and still decided to do it even though I told him that I don't celebrate birthdays, but it just Quill being Quill." Azurite explained, but then he mentioned someone Spinel and Steven never heard him mention before, "I celebrated some birthdays with him, like Quill's or Drax's. I wasn't confused about how birthdays work, because before I met them, I and Dragan celebrated birthdays with Sydney, Osgar and Lambert."

"Sydney, Osgar and Lambert?" Spinel asked. Azurite didn't mention them before. He didn't even had their picture on his memorial wall.

"I and Dragan used to hang out with them for a few years, I think. I didn't had their picture on my memorial wall, because It was lost several years ago." Azurite explained.

"How did they go? Those birthdays." Spinel asked him.

"Dragan, Azurite, guys, there's something I need to tell you something." The sound of one of Dragan's friends sounded in Azurite's head at Jasper's question.

"What is it, Sydney?" Dragan asked, in a very drunk tonee. Azurite and Dragan came across Sydney not long after Dragan made sure that Gregor was not going to be walking on this world anymore. While Azurite wasn't as close to him as he was with Dragan, he enjoyed his company.

"You and your gem here, can be a real son of a bitches, but I love you both." Sydney's voice seemed to as drunk as Dragan's.

"And you're a douche, but, I'd jump into a fire just to save. C'mere brother." Dragan said, standing up from his seat. His elbow touched his glass, which then fell on the ground, and the sound of it shattering rang through their ears. Dragan didn't care about it as he and Sydney shared a tight hug with each other.

"Guys. This was one of the most emotional moments I've witnessed in my entire life." Azurite stated, wiping a tear from his right cheek.

"...They were really nice." Azurite said with a nod of his head.

"Who taught you to fight like that?" Orange Pearl spoke up for the first time since this art exercise began. She hid in one of the houses when she heard the real reason why Azurite came here, but in didn't change the fact that she was the entire fight throught the window.

"The same guy I mentioned a few times in the last several minutes. I owe Dragan so much, and I wish I could've done much more to him. At least, the last thing I could do for him when he passed out was burning his body and and spilling his ashes on the planet where he was born." Azurite answered.

"And who taught him to fight like that?" Orange Pearl seemed to be genuinely curious about that.

"A friend of his, her name was Michelle, I think." Azurite answered. Michelle died about a year before Azurite and Dragan came across each other, and he never really found out how Michelle died. 

About thirty minutes later, this exercise was slowly coming to an end and all of them were showing their drawings to Vidalia. While most of them, even Spinel did a pretty good job at drawing Yellow Pearl, Jasper's and Azurite's drawing weren't very good.

As the exercise was over, Steven said his goodbye to Vidalia, and began to take them to another exercise

"So you fought Steven and all of his friends?" Jasper whispered to Azurite.

"Yes, and for most of the time, I wasn't even trying." Azurite told her. He wasn't having much trouble for most of the fight, until Lapis picked him up in her water powers before he used his myst forming glove on her.

It was when he realized that this fight was slowly coming to an end, and it did, but it ended much differently that he thought it'll end.

"You wasn't trying?" Jasper asked him.

"Yes. There are many things that I'm not good at, but hand-in-hand combat is one of the things that I'm really good at." Azurite told her.

"If you're that good at that, then how about we spar with each other?" Jasper asked him.

"Sounds good to me. We can try it now if you want to." Azurite said.

"Now?" Jasper asked him.

Azurite just nodded his head, as he continued to walk by her side, not paying attention to her.

"I see you already doing a mistake. You shouldn't take your eyes off your opponent." Jasper told him, as she threw a punch at Azurite's direction, and he grabbed her arm and twisted it to the other side, which suprised Jasper because Azurite wasn't paying any attention to her a second before. He wrapped his legs around her neck and flipped her over onto her back.

As Azurite got himself back on his feet, which was followed by Jasper who also got herself back on her feet, and she couldn't help but feel embarassed by what just happened, he could notice everyone staring at him. He didn't notice anything interesting about their expressions, except for Orange Pearl who had her mouth wide open for a few seconds, before whispering something to herself.

"Wow." Was what she said, which Azurite failed to hear.

"What is going on?" Lapis asked, confused as she landed in front of them. 

"It's nothing, Lapis. Azurite was just showing off, right?" Steven said to Lapis, sending Azurite and Jasper a quick glance.

"Yeah. I was just showing off to my roommate." Azurite said with a nod of his head.

Lapis just nodded her head to that, before sending Azurite and Jasper a look which said "I'm watching you", before flying off.

"So, Steven." Spinel said, once Lapis was gone, "Where are we going now?"

"To Pearl. She is going to teach you about Earth's technology." Steven explained.

"You got lucky." Jasper whispered to Azurite, as Steven began to lead them to another thing he was planning to show them, once again.

"If you say so, we can spar one day to see who's better." Azurite whispered back to her.

"Yes. It would be nice." Jasper whispered to him.

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For the rest of the day, Steven was showing Azurite, Jasper and Spinel all the exercises they could do in Little Homeworld, and while there some that Azurite didn't enjoyed, he actually found a few that he may actually attend from time to time. Like the yoga exercise which was run by Garnet, and it was actually one of the not many exercises, which he, Jasper and Spinel all enjoyed doing.

He was even sure that Shi'ra would enjoy this exercise.

At the end of the day, Steven walked all three of them to their house, and when Spinel said her goodbye to him, she walked Azurite to his room, who told him that he'll be there if they needed him in something.

"So, Azzie? How did you enjoy this day?" He asked her as they walked into his room.

"It was nice, I guess. There are some exercises in this place that I actually enjoyed." Azurite answered, "How about you?"

"Same here." Spinel said with a nod of her head, as Azurite sat down on his bed.

"Spinel? Why did you had a scythe with you? Didn't you tell me that you were created for entertaining Pink Diamond?" Azurite asked her.

"Just between us, the Diamonds didn't want me to have another scythe, after the last was destroyed by Steven, but I eventually conviced them to give me one, because they were giving me everything I wanted. As for my other scythe, Pink Diamond gave it to me, because she wanted me to protect myself with it, if I would need to defend myself." Spinel explained.

Azurite nodded his head, as he thought to himself, "Guess that explains to me how she defeated Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl so easily in her story."

Spinel smiled at him, "Hey, Azzie. Have you ever tried juggling?"

"No. Why?" Azurite seemed to be suprised by the sudden question.

Three balls suddenly appeared on her hands, "Then how I teach you how to do it."

"...What?" Azurite was thinking that she was joking.

"C'mon, try it." Spinel encouraged him, pushing the balls closer to him, 

"Spinel, I don't think this is a good idea." Azurite shook his head.

"C'mon. I won't laugh at you, I promise." Spinel gave him an encouraging smile.

"You're not going to let go, until I agree?" Azurite asked her, even though he already knew the answer.

"Yup." Spinel confirmed his words with a smile.

"...I can't believe I'm doing this." Azurite said, standing up from his bed, then he took all three balls from her, before throwing one of them in the air, "If, Drax or Shi'ra or Rocket would see me do it, I would probably die of embarrassment." 

As Azurite threw another ball in the air, it didn't last long before both of balls fell on the ground. He repeated this action a few times, and with each try, he and Spinel could say that he was getting better at it, and when it seemed like he was finally getting hang of it, his device on his hand opened, which made him drop all of the balls in panic, that someone except Spinel may see him do it.

"Azurite!" He immediately recognized this voice. It was Shi'ra, 

"Shi'ra! How long has it been since we talked? A week?" Azurite asked her, trying to hide the fact that he was nervous, but was not doing a good job at it.

"A week and a half." Shi'ra corrected, before pointing out, "Why are you so nervous?"

"I'm not." Azurite shook his head.

"Your voice says otherwise." Shi'ra pointed out.

"If you say so?" Azurite said, as Spinel came to his side.

"Azurite, is that Shi'ra?" She asked him, recognizing that it was the huntress from the picture Azurite mentioned a few times. But, there was one thing different about her. And that thing was the fact that her right hand was a metallic denture. She must've lost her real arm.

"Yes. It is Shi'ra." Azurite confirmed who it was to Shi'ra.

"Well, then it's nice to meet you, Shi'ra!" Spinel said to Shi'ra.

"It's nice to meet you too." Shi'ra said with a nod of her head.

"Hey, Spinel, can you leave us two alone. I want to talk with Shi'ra in private." Azurite said to Spinel.

"Sure thing, Azzie! I'll see you later!" Spinel said as she moved over to the doors to Azurite's and opened them.

"Azzie?" Shi'ra chuckled as Spinel shut the door behind her, leaving Azurite and Shi'ra to talk with each other in private.

"She came up with it." Azurite said with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Azurite? Who was that?" Shi'ra asked him.

"That was Spinel. My roommate." Azurite answered.

"Roommate? The last time we talked you didn't say anything about having a roommate." Shi'ra pointed out.

"Because it's a fresh thing and I'm not in my ship." Azurite explained, as he waved his hand around, to show Shi'ra where he actually was.

"I could actually realize that before you told me about that." Shi'ra smiled at him before asking, "Where is that, by the way? I want to know so I could pay you a visit, when I'll be able to."

"I live In Little Homeworld. On Earth." Azurite answered.

"...You're living where?" Shi'ra asked, rubbing her left right ear, wanting to be sure if she didn't misheard it. Azurite was living among gems?!

"In Little Homeworld, on Earth." Azurite repeated himself, "I decided to give it a try." 

"Decided?" Shi'ra asked,

"It took this kid some time to convice me, but I eventually decided to give it a try." Azurite explained.

"What made you come to this planet in the first place? Because something tells that you didn't decide to suddenly come to the place where the people who banished you for being different from the rest of them live." Shi'ra stated.

"I was in the need of units, and I got a message from The Collector to come to Knowhere, then he gave a contract which would reward me with 1 millions units if brought him a Pearl, so she could serve him. I wouldn't normally agree to do that, but I was in the need of units." Azurite explained.

"Which name did you pick to hide who you really are? Because I highly doubt you told them your real name because it would be quite suspicious if a guy wth gem name came to their place." Shi'ra pointed out.

"You're probably not going to like this..." Azurite said as Shi'ra waited for him to answer, "I told that my name is Yondu."

"Yondu? Quill would kill you if he found out." Shi'ra stated.

"I know. I regretted picking this name the moment I used it to introduce myself to them." Azurite agreed with her.

"You know, if you were in a need of units, you could have just asked. I would borrow you all the units you needed." Shi'ra pointed out.

"I'd have to return it you, so I would need them anyway." Azurite pointed out.

"Point taken." Shi'ra said, nodding her head in understanding, "So... I should get going now. We'll talk later, right?"

"Of course. Talking with you is always a pleasure." Azurite smiled at her.

Shi'ra smiled back at him and put her hand on her heart, and said, "Your words are warming my heart." before ending her conversation with Azurite.

Then, he looked over at his bed, and decided to lay down on it for a bit.

His first day in Little Homeworld was... quite nice, maybe  except for some weird looks from some of the gems, but overall, it was a pretty good day.

But he knew that he couldn't distract himself. He knew that Thanos was still out there, and that he had to be ready for the day when the Mad Titian'll be ready to gather all of the Infinity Stones.

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As you've already noticed, Little Homeschool wasn't present in this chapter, because most of this chapter was written before first episode of SU Future where it was introduced it aired, but I took some elements from it (like Pearl's class about Earth technology) and mentioned in the chapter. As for Vidalia's drawing class, I began writing this part, when I saw it in the sneak peak to SU Future.

FunFact: If Azurite wasn't taken off the guard by the fact that Steven didn't know about Thanos existance, he'd lose the fight with him and the gems, by the punch in the head by Garnet. It would also end up with them finding out that he's a gem, just like after losing the fight with them in the story.