Steven felt himself floating on a lot of pastel pink clouds, a wonderful sensation, like floating on the ocean. Calm and relaxed, until a kind of roots stopped him, the organs of variety of plants that grew disproportionately seizing that place "Uh? What is this place?" The 13-year-old boy wonders when he observes that structure, strange to him, even with the diversity of adventures he had lived up to that moment.

However there was something strange in that place, something almost familiar, Steven could not help laughing as he climbed those roots to the door of the structure "Hi! I'm Steven Is anyone here?" Steven greets cheerfully, to a certain extent that place mixed with Steven's memories of the battlefield of gems, a field of blackberries surrounded by weapons. On the other hand instead of growing blackberries, forget-me-nots grew.

"Pink? Is that you?" Steven hears a voice, a broken voice but still somewhat weak, the human-gem hybrid was confused, and went through the entrance of the structure. That place looked like an old garden, with a fountain in the center, a portal and a kind of pedestal with a strange object, but of all, a figure stood out in front of that pedestal, a humanoid being of pink and white colors.

"Pink? No, I'm Steven." Steven approaches the figure, who seemed to be the owner of that voice. When approaching Steven notices how that figure was also surrounded by roots that climbed throughout her body "Who ... are you?" Steven asks surprised, now something fearful of the strange figure, who turns to observe him. The last time Steven was in a dream, he had come face to face with Malachite, even at the bottom of the ocean.

"It's me!" The figure screams in a panic and absolute rage, jumping against the black-haired. The limbs of the mysterious gem began to stretch and curl around Steven, just as the roots grew back to catch them "Your best friend, Spinel ... I was waiting for you Pink, our garden is now a little neglected now" The mysterious pink gem sentence with a big smile, Steven meanwhile began to scream as he felt that Spinel's arms and roots caught him. In those little moments, Steven could only look at the gem's eyes, which looked at him with an insane love as black tears seemed to fall from her eyes.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Steven screams when getting up from his bed, there was no one in the house besides Lion, who slept under the stairs. Steven checked that he had not wet the bed and went down to the bathroom to start the day well, Steven then wanted to look for one of the gems, but only found a note in the kitchen "* Steven, we went to look for Malachite, take care of the temple - Garnet *. Just when I need them most ... I wonder if they will be fine, I also worry about Lapis ... But who is Spinel? " Steven wonders without knowing very well what to do. Maybe call Connie or go somewhere in Beach City, like the Great Donut.

Steven finally decided to stay at home reading some books that Connie lent him a few days ago, but he still felt a strange presence with him. It was strange, Steven did not know what the mysterious gem was referring to in his dreams, but the atmosphere was strangely familiar, trying to remember more about the gem, Steven could not help laughing without control, thinking about the pirouettes and dances of Pearl or Amethyst jokes. There was a strange magnetism that drove Steven's eyes to the portal.

That place had one, he could remember that detail of the mysterious place in his dream, but Steven did not know the location of the structure "Nobody has to know if I take a walk through the portal, they could spend hours and hours until nightfall looking for Malachite "Steven reasons while smiling" Adventure! " The hybrid exclaims to enter the portal and activate it.

It was at that moment in the portal beam, that Steven realized that as soon as he knew where to go, he would probably end up in a place known to him. The gem of his belly button had other plans when it began to shine and cut the lightning for a few moments, it was enough for Steven to feel the cold and emptiness that was the strange space between the portals, but quickly the lightning activated again.

"Auch" Steven complains when he falls due to the sudden change of direction, the black-haired skin felt a strange sea breeze, in no way similar to the one in Beach City. Upon getting up and observing that place, Steven found that he was in that place of his dream, a garden neglected and eaten by nature, the black-haired blood froze to observe that place, now with its withered and dried flowers.

Then Steven noticed how something moved, the teenager realized the sound of branches and roots breaking, Steven had already fought against invisible gems before, he regretted a bit of visiting that place without Pearl, Amethyst or Garnet, but then he noticed a glove Pink stroll down her neck "Pink?" The gem asks, Steven's same dream gem, with its misaligned and somewhat gray shape. Spinel's eyes watched Steven "You are not Pink" Spinel sentence.

"Eh, no. I'm Steven, and you, you must be Spinel. It's nice to meet you!" Steven kindly greets, a little uncomfortable at the touch of the gem on his neck and head, Spinel stretched and curled around him to watch him.

"What is a Steven? ... Wait ... Have you seen Pink Diamond? Are you part of his court? She sent you to look for me ?!" The gem asks more and more excited, invading the personal space of the black-haired, even depriving him of oxygen while she curled more and more.

"Who ... who is Pink Diamond?" Steven asks confused, but Spinel breaks down crying heartily "I'm sorry if I said something wrong! It is not necessary to cry for sure your friend is coming in a few moments, it doesn't seem very complicated to get here" Steven exclaims worried while Spinel unscrewed and it seemed she was melted on the ground.

"Pink is not my friend, she is my best friend! She told me she will wait here and ... and ... we would play together again" Spinel exclaims returning to her normal form, almost shivering, Steven can't help but cry when he is so close to Spinel, the black-haired then tries to approach the gem to give her a hug. But Spinel began to shine, the black-haired decided to go back a few moments to the portal before something happened.

In a few moments Spinel's heart-shaped gem changed position, the gem's pigtails grew to a spiny shape and her jester shoes grew pointedly, Spinel now didn't have such a misaligned shape, but she possessed much more dark colors, and black lines under her eyes, similar to tears "Are you okay Spinel? ... How long have you been waiting here?" Steven exclaims worried about the sudden change.

"Sorry but if I didn't change that absurd appearance, I was going to explode from anger! ... Could you tell me your name one more time?" Spinel asks approaching Steven, who swallowed in surprise when he saw Spinel's neck approaching him "I've been alone, counting the seconds for who knows how much. You wouldn't mind if I took a little of your time, would you?" The gem jokes somberly, her eyes had spiral-like pupils.

"I'm Steven Universe, I came here from the temple at my house in Beach City," Steven says, swallowing a bit of saliva, but Spinel didn't seem to intend to harm the black-haired, but in turn it seemed that Spinel had no idea what Steven was talking about.

"What are you Steven? ... Are you a gem?" Spinel asks observing the boy, raising the pink shirt of it a little and then noticing how in the thorax of the black-haired there was a pink gem, for a few moments of silence, the gem watched the black-haired, rather the gem, almost hypnotized, as if the memories attended to her head, but that quickly moved away from Spinel's head.

"Well, yes and no. My father is human, and my mother was a rose quartz," Steven exclaims, lowering his shirt completely. Spinel at that moment was surprised.

"A pink quartz?! A soldier?! Pink succeeded in his first colony! You are part of Pink's colony, Steven!" Spinel exclaims screaming excitedly, but on the other hand the smile on his face seemed to grind with anger "Pink is alive ... I ... I ... for White Diamond I think I disobeyed Pink's orders, I lost the game, I moved from my site "Words full of fear come out of Spinel's mouth, whose members began to shake like noodles. The gem then returned to the site where it had been removed before.

"Wait! ... Are you all right? I think you need to eat something and relax a little" Steven says worried approaching the gem, Spinel looked back at the confused black-haired, even interested in the strange visitor.

"Sorry Steven, but if Pink is still there ... I should follow his orders ... Even if it takes more years waiting here. Even, even if it's more than 3,154e + 15 seconds" Spinel exclaims in a shaky, almost choked voice , but then a question from Steven cut the air.

"Would you perhaps like to play a game? Pearl likes puzzles, Garnet the card games and Amethyst the one touched by Steven" The black-haired asks worriedly, but then Spinel's feet had already taken a few steps in his direction .

"A game? Would you play with me?" Spinel asks, a smile that was only widening was shown on her face "Let's play Steven!" The gem exclaims excitedly, Steven smiles before the game is decided, the gem can't stop thinking about how the black-haired reminded her of Pink, but that wasn't the important thing. More than 6000 years would not be easily erased of course, but someone had fallen in the garden, a new playmate for Spinel.