Steven stared at the monster before him, his mind running wild with thoughts as he tried to comprehend it's existence, it's relevance to the diamond, everything it was saying, it was as though it echoed in his mind, like a piercing scream that held him captive in its gaze.

"Wh- what do you want from us?" He asked, his voice betraying the fear that cemented him to the floor. The beast laughed, shaking the room with its noise.

"I want my harvest." It answered, turning to look at Blue and Yellow now. "We all want our harvest."

Steven glanced at the two of them, then at his friends, who grew mortified at the mention.

"What's the..." his eyes fell on the giant beast and focused further on the colorful coat it wore. Gemstones. Thousands, millions of gemstones with various cuts and sizes, some even shattered, in one terrible instant he understood with mortifying detail what the harvest was, what these creatures were. It all fell into place like the chainmail of gems bound to the monsters body.

"No!" He screamed, drawing the beast attention, it turned toward him, it's eyes squinting as it glared at its tiny counterpart.

"You dare disagree with me?" It growled, shaking the pedestal on which Steven stood. He trembled, but stood fast against the monster.

"I do! You cant just- just take gems to horde for- for whatever!" His eyes flickered toward Yellow, and she tensed, preparing a devastating shock to the creature in secret. She nudged Blue, who nodded slightly.

"You can't just take control of White!"

The snake like creature bobbed its head, opening its mouth wide as it cackled at him.

"You, filthy organic child, we created you and this is what your kind repay us with?" It's voice grew to a snarl, "this beguilment with freedom and choice?! You were not made to have choice!"

It's eyes narrowed and it blinked at the boy, coiling itself around the pillar until it nearly crumbled under the pressure.

"You evaded your design from the moment you emerged- I can forgive one colony, I would have forgiven your little...escapade." the creature bared its fangs to Steven, causing his to stumble backwards into Amethyst and Pearl.

"But you've single handedly upended all of our work with your...peace, hmmhmmm." Its tail lifted and wrapped itself around White Diamond who sat entirely bemused, lost in her own childlike wonder at the moment.

"I fixed your White Diamond. I've ended your silly little war, you should thank me."

Steven stared, at the beast as its venom dripped from its fangs onto the pedestal. It rumbled with soft laughter.

"But you can't be fixed. So I will eat you instead."

Steven braved himself, drawing his shield as the giant monster brought its teeth down on him just as Yellow Diamond yanked its tail, sending a wild shock through its body.
The beast constructed itself in pain, crushing the pedestal it had wrapped itself around, dismantling Steven and his friends from their footing.

He dropped from the air, landing hard on the ground, before scrambling out of the way of the slithering creature as it writhed and whipped around to face Yellow Diamond.

"You heathen-" it howled in pain once more as she sent another shockwave through its gemstone scales. It squirmed, its muscles twitching and contracting as it reared its head to attack her, ripping its tail from her grasp and striking where she stood, only to bite hard into a pillar at her side.

Spinel watched the mayhem unfold as the giant creature dismantled the palace with its coiling and striking as she desperately searched for Steven in the dust and debris it caused.

"You will not harm our Steven!" Blue cried, bathing the room in blue light as she forced the gems protecting the beast to weep.
Steven nearly collapsed, unprepared for the emotional wave of righteous rage and grief that pounded him like the ocean waves.

The creature hit the floor as the tears of millions of gems began to flood the room, the weight of the water tearing them slowly away from its skin. It hissed in pain, lashing around and hitting the pillars that held up the ceiling of the palace. It reared its head in agony, glaring down at Steven,  before a whip wrapped itself around on of its fangs.
Amethyst stood, grappling with the creature until it shook the whip from her hands, forcing her to let go and stumble behind Steven's sheild.

All while White sat entirely confused by the whole ordeal.

A flood of tears pushed Steven and his friends away from the creature as it writhed uncontrollably, knocking down the walls that surrounded it until the starry sky was in full view of them all.

Yellow Diamond pressed her hand into the beast and sent another agonizing shock through its core causing it to spit and bite a shriek with rage.

It whipped around for another strike, this time hitting its target and placating yellow with its venomous bite.

Spinel watched from the crumbling walls as the diamond fell to her knees with a large thud, before spotting Steven finally, the beast was striking at him repeatedly, dwindling his shield with ever hit of its fangs.

Blue sent another emotional wave out, causing more gems and gemstones to wail and weep in forced empathy.
Steven buckled under the wave, temporarily losing his sheild from the forceful tears.

The creature reared its head taking advantage of the opening Blue inadvertantly provided.

Steven felt himself suddenly weighed down by terror, unable to move before-