You and Steven slowly and finally made it to the beach house, which you both were thankful for.

Steven who had his arms all around the gems softly set it onto the coffee table that was set in the living room of his house carefully separated each gem away from each other, not knowing which one will be glowing out first.

Once you arrived at the beach house, you immediately excused yourself to the bathroom, which Steven approved but still in fear of what just had happened.

You entered the bathroom before locking the door, quickly searching the mirror in the neat bathroom.

You stripped out of your shirt, revealed your gem that was on your chest had a tiny injector on it, made your eyes went big in shocked on how deep it went into your gem without cracking it.

You always thought that being a hybrid wasn't as special as you thought they would be, it would always have a catch, and the catch was still unknown to you.

Steven even told you the story where White Diamond literally pulled his gem out of his body to let Pink Diamond, which was his mom, to survive and breathing again.

He was dying at the time!

The story terrifies you so bad that you couldn't even forget a single detail that was on the story.

Slowly, your hand reached to the gem of yours, flinching on stings it felt when you brushed your fingers onto it.

With a heavy and deep breath, you reached to the injector and pulling it out, the whimpering of the pain you felt, tears streaming downwards of your cheeks, shut your lips together so it came out as muffled.

At a time like this, you can never let Steven know how bad you got injured, it will only cause him more depression and sadness in this situation.

After a few more tries, the small injector wouldn't budge, only to be wasted and felt more pain than before.

You were panting heavily, sweats streamed down your forehead to the sink, eyes were shut closed.

"I just got my happily ever after. I can't lose it now..." you whispered under your breath.

Once again, you tried to reach to the small inject it but a sudden knot in your stomach was felt, making you puke out pink liquid out of your body violently.

The stings when you barfed made you cried softly, somehow the puke this time felt different, super different than how you usually did.

It felt like stings, burnings, scratching, and so on.

It just felt different.

Few moments passed and you finally stopped puking, washing your face with the cold sink water and put on your shirt once again.

There was no point if you tried to pull it out without any avail, so you just unlocked the door and heard someone singing.

"You must be right.
This is an Amethyst"

The voice sang.

"Pearl? Amethyst? They're back?" you thought and rushed out of the bathroom, only to be filled with disappointment.

You saw that Pearl had some weird outfit on, way different than what she wore before, and Amethyst was beside her, her hair was cut short and her clothes are also different looking, you thought Amethyst loved her hair, impossible for she to cut it off.

"Except an Amethyst is big and strong!
This one is not the best example.
Something is clearly wrong~"

You watched the scene unfold as Steven spoke in sadness.

"Pearl, don't you recognise them? Don't you recognize me?" Steven spoke as Pearl put her index finger on her chin and Amethyst got off the coffee table and mimicked Pearl's action.

You leaned to the lamp that was set beside the couch, leaning too much that it caused the lamp crashed down to the wooden ground, made everyone's attention turned to you, flinched by their gazes.

"(Y/N)!" Steven rushed to you and hugged you tightly in his embrace, not wanting to let you go. Once again, you flinched to the reason you don't even know. Steven soon pulled away and examine your face. "You're okay, right?"

You didn't trust your words at the time so you just smiled softly and nodded, another slight of pain pang onto your gem, made you internally begged for it to stop.

Steven hugged you tightly, not wanting to let you go because he was afraid that you would disappear before his eyes.

You actually would've enjoyed the hug if it's not because he was pushing right to your gem, deepening the injector.

You muffled a groan and flinched here and there, slightly pushed Steven away from you.

Steven looked at you again, clearly, he found you to be not okay.

He cupped your face in his hand and looked into your eyes worriedly, his eyebrows furrowed deeply.

"A-Are you sure you're okay?" Steven asked.

But this time, you shook your head.

The pain that was in your heart became unbearable to you but you kept it in so that Steven won't see you as a weakling.

"No, I'm fine Steven. Don't worry about me" you confirmed, quickly recovered and set a smile on your face.

Steven wasn't actually convinced but soon let himself believed that you were fine, pulled himself away from you, grabbed your hand and walked back to where his father was.

Even Greg was looking at you worriedly, there are a lot more things you still need to discover out there and he didn't want you to get hurt before you achieve its mysteries, he even assumed you as his own daughter he never had.

"(Y/N), are you sure you don't need some rest? I'm... We're worried about you" Greg told.

You nodded confidentially and still held the same smile on your face, looking up to Greg.

"I'm fine Mr Universe. No need to get worried sick for me" you confirmed again.

Greg only nodded as a response before paid attention to the glowing gem in front of the others.

Slowly, the pink unknown gem was lifted up from the coffee table, reforming her physical form.

Steven immediately went in front of you and held his arm out defensively.

"Get back!" Steven yelled out, forming a shield that soon glitched away before disappearing.

Without anything to be shield with, they only could watch the gem reforming herself, ready for the impact that she will bring to them.

Soon, a pack of googly laughter we're heard, her arms extracted long enough to catch you into her tight embrace, reminding you what happened earlier between you and the unknown gem.

Your back was now on the ground, got pinned by the laughable gem in front of you, made you terrified as hell to what she wanted to do with you.

"I'm so excited to meet you!" the gem spoke.

You looked at her, disbelieve that was the same gem that was trying to kill her a couple of minutes ago.

"W-Wha..."

Out of nowhere, Pearl came barge in, you already on your foot when Spinel got off you, with the help of Steven and Greg to lift you up onto your feet.

"This will be fun,
Aren't you the lucky one,
Her cut is perfect and she's pink as well,
She'll bring you endless entertainment,
Your new best friend, Spinel~"

Pearl finished her singing while introducing the new gem to the three of you, Spinel is her name.

The beach house went complete silent afterwards but then was filled with the yells of Steven's.

"You!" Steven yelled loudly, pointing his index finger directly to Spinel.

Steven rushed to he rand grabbed both of her arms, shaking her violently in anger.

"What did you do to us?" Steven yelled once again, made you flinched.

Spinel wasn't taken any of it seriously and booped Steven's nose playfully before extracting her hands and grabbed you instead of Steven, shaking you as well.

Your eyes could only see blurs to how hard Spinel was shaking you, made a sudden knot in your stomach reappeared.

"S-Spinel. Don't shake m-me" you told.

"Hey, cut it out!" Steven yelled. Spinel stopped for a while and looked at Steven with still a huge grin on her face. "Please?"

Spinel didn't respond immediately, slowly letting you slip out of her embrace and onto the hard ground, made your chest met the ground, deepening the small injector.

Before Steven could ask if you were alright, you rushed towards the bathroom and began to barf out pink liquids into the toilet bowl, let it all out.

Steven heard your sound of distress, instantly ran towards you and saw your head in the toilet bowl, barfing out the pink substances.

Steven kneeled beside you and patted your back, brushing softly that it could calm you someway.

It had been 2 solid minutes and you finally have done puking, resting your back onto the side of Steven's bathtub, found yourself getting weak.

Steven grabbed a towel and dip it into sink water so that it could be wet, brought it to you and wiped your lips that still contain some of the substances.

Greg had just entered to make sure everything was alright in the bathroom but when he saw you leaning to the bathtub weakly and the toilet bowl was full with pink puke, he immediately rushed to your side.

"Steven! What's wrong with (Y/N)?" Greg asked, panic.

Steven only shook his head, signalling that he doesn't know what happened to you.

Greg who was sitting beside you patted your head softly, slowly calming you down and made your breath became even once more.

"Maybe you should stay here, (Y/N). You are too weak" Steven suggested.

You quickly shook your head in disagreement.

"No, I want to be right by your side no matter what. Whatever happens, I want to be there. Besides, I-I'm a Crystal Gem too, right?" you said, eyes half-lidded.

Steven didn't immediately answer your question, instead, he scanned your face first, looking to how beautiful you were till how brave you wanted to be, it reminded when he was young, he also wanted to be part of the Crystal Gem.

"O-Of course you're a Crystal Gem. You'll always be" Steven answered, brushed your knuckles softly with his thumb.

You let out a shaky sigh, smiled happily to hear those words, giving you hope to make everything better.

"Thank you"

Steven nodded before looking to his father who was still petting your head softly.

"Let's go out and ask Spinel about the injector. Maybe this time she would cooperate with us" he said, grabbing your hand for you to stand up.

With the help of Steven and Greg, you managed to stand up fully and headed down to the beach.

Sorry for the late publish, this whole quarantine stuff is driving me crazy with online classrooms.

So, I have received some distress comments that you guys had some difficulties to read the calligraphy texts due to previous chapters. So should I write normally starting from now on or you guys still want to struggle reading the calligraphy?

The choice is yours to make.