Steven Universe Of The Creek Chapter 27 Cobalt Stone Abduction

Craig and Jessica walked together in the creek after they left their house. While Craig has to go through a whole day without taking Steven from place to place in the creek, he also needs to keep an eye out for Ruby and Aquamarine, as they could appear at any minute.

“Craig.” Jessica spoked. “Not that I’m the only one who misses Steven, but why are you looking everywhere?”

“We’re still gonna meet my friends and tell them that Steven isn’t with us.” Craig answered while still looking around. “I’m making sure something doesn’t happen.”

“What's something?”

Craig took a deep breath, after he and Steven didn’t tell his parents last night about the biggest threats coming after his friend. “Steven’s…two…enemies.”

“He has enemies coming after him!?”

“Shhh!” He covered her mouth.” Not out loud!”

“Don’t shush me!” She pushed his hand off. “We got to go find him now!”

“Jessica, they’re not coming after him. They might come after me.”

Jessica felt frozen, as if she and her brother were getting chased down. “Who are his two enemies?”

Craig lowered his head to spill the beans to his sister. “Ruby…and Aquamarine. They’re not Crystal Gems…but they’re revenge gems.”

“You didn’t tell our parents about them?”

“If I or Steven did tell them, they wouldn’t allow him to sleep over.” Craig then placed his hands on his face. “Us telling them of me having pink eyes is what I thought would get Steven kicked out.”

“Well, what are we gonna do?”

“If one of us sees them we head straight back to our house or the houses of my friends for safety. It’s not the best strategy, but we don’t stand a chance against them.”

Jessica stomped on the ground in frustration. “We can’t run away like losers, let’s fight back like wrestlers!”

Craig bites his lip, especially that Steven didn’t give him any details about them, including their Bluebird fusion. “We can’t fight back, they’re too powerful.”

“They’re not as powerful as the other foes Steven’s dealt with, right?”

“Yes but when they’re one, they are.”

From the tree branches from above, Ruby and Aquamarine popped their heads out, spotting Craig and Jessica. They both grinned, ready to put their plan into action without Steven in their way. “Jessica, I stopped them during the rainstorm two nights ago and even if I save Steven momentarily, I doubt I’ll ever beat them in a real fight.”

“I don’t believe you.”

“If you actually saw it, you would know how aggressive they are.”

“You were brave enough to go out in the storm, you can’t be weak from them because of that.”

“No, I’m referring to their powers, you know Steven isn’t the only gem who has powers. I’ve seen ice arrows of some sort on the ground.”

“Ice arrows? You mean like from that action adventure game?”

“Kind of. The point is, their powers are more dangerous even if I’ve never seen them fight. Even weapons have no match against them.”

“No match? How did Steven even beat them?”

Craig sighed, knowing Steven’s history with foes isn't as easy as he thought. “He didn’t even when he won the war.”

“But not the battle against them?”

All that Craig did was nod, then out of nowhere, Aquamarine flew out of the branch, snatching Craig from the ground and up in the air. “Perfect remark.”

“Ahhh!” Craig reacted as Ruby also appeared, landing on the ground catching Jessica’s attention. She took out her chisel knife, pointing it at Craig’s sister.

“Stand back and you won’t get hurt!” Ruby shouted.

“You put my brother back down!” Jessica looked up from above.

“Not happening, toddler!” Aquamarine taunted as she turned to Craig. “We’ve been waiting to get our hands on him since he interfered.”

Jessica clinched her fist in anger. “You don’t mess with my brother!” She grabbed hold onto Ruby’s chisel knife, taking the gem by notice.

“So you really want to get hurt like your brother huh?” Ruby holding her grip on her weapon. “You don’t know how dangerous we are, kid.”

“Jessica, just let go!” Craig shouted.

“I’m not letting go! They can’t be more dangerous if I get their weapons away from them!” Jessica launched back with her foot, hitting Ruby’s leg. However upon impact, a tear came out of her eye with the wince of pain on her toes. “Mmm!” She cried while letting go of Ruby.

“I would fight back, but that's enough amusement for me.” Ruby grinned as Jessica landed on the ground, taking off her shoe and sock to feel her toes.

“It felt like hitting a brick wall…”

“You had to learn it the hard way.” Aquamarine smirked while picking up Ruby. They flew back in the air, leaving Jessica all alone while taking Craig away.

“I’ve got to get help, even if Steven won’t be back any time soon, I’m not letting them take Craig away.” Jessica tried to get back up but soon got back down with her toes sore. “...ahh, it’s probably worse than a brick wall!”

Aquamarine flew higher up from the ground while Craig shook in fear. If he does something, they might fuse again and take him down the hard way. “Where are we going!?” He reacted.

“Somewhere really safe…” Aquamarine looked down. “For you.”

“You’re gonna hurt my friends are you?”

“No.” Ruby replied. “That is, unless they try to rescue you.”

“That is again, if they can find you.” Aquamarine searched underneath the trees as she saw a cave. Upon heading down, the cave itself is darker in the inside. Craig has never been inside the cave, if he had more time before Steven came here, he would’ve got the chance to explore inside, including his friends.

“Now that’s a cave no child would ever go to.” Ruby grinned.

“This creek he’s been telling us is a lot more hidden for our plan.”

Craig hoped they’re not referring to his worst enemy, but what else they would work for who’s not Steven, or his friends. Ruby and Aquamarine take him inside the cave as Ruby glows with her gem eyeball. Soon they stopped when they saw the cave having a steep entrance. Ruby searched down, while witnessing a huge opening underneath.

“We can’t get any more hidden than this.”

“So let’s have our new friend, Craig go first.” Aquamarine pushed Craig down the steep cave while also taking his bag off. Craig landed on the ground with his arms and knees in pain. Just when he’s about to get back up, Ruby and Aquamarine got down immediately while Ruby pointed her knife at him.

“I’m not fighting back! I’m not fighting back!” Craig raised both of his hands.

“Just keep walking and don’t stop until we say so.” Ruby ordered.

They forced Craig to enter the opening in the darkness. Ruby looked around, surprised the inside’s bigger than she thought. More than twenty folded beach chairs all around them as if kids used to have a show here. “Okay, stop!” Aquamarine called as Craig stood in place.

“We may need to move these seats, but this is still perfect camouflaging.” Ruby smirked.

“Anyway.” The two stared at Craig. “You’re Craig Williams.”

“And Steven told me your Ruby and Aquamarine.” Craig stood back. “And Bluebird is your fusion.”

“Steven really caught you up about us.”

“He did tell me about gems before you two came.”

“Who else would? If anything, us would’ve been the last gems he would ever talk to you about.” Ruby replied. “But in case you haven’t noticed, we’re his only enemies that are left.”

“And we’re keeping it that way, permanently.” Aquamarine flew behind Craig. “Especially since we’re your new enemies.”

Craig sighed, knowing he got in their way after he rushed to the creek. “I wasn’t gonna leave him all alone okay!? I wouldn’t even have helped him if you hadn’t attacked him.”

“It’s been a long time since we’ve last fought him, only because of his Crystal Gem friends, but without them,” Ruby pointed his knife close to Craig. “He’s defenseless.”

“And you should’ve left well enough alone, allowing Steven to leave so you wouldn’t be down here.” Aquamarine taunted.

“And look at the bright side.” Ruby gets Craig’s attention again. “If everything had never changed between us and Steven back at Homeworld, you would’ve dealt with way worse consequences.”

“Homeworld?” Craig stood in place. “Steven never told me that.”

“He did tell you about the Diamonds right?”

“Yes.”

Aquamarine landed next to Ruby while Craig sat down, not risking the two chasing him down. “For your information, we were taking orders from them. I would’ve kept my wand and things would’ve been really easy to prevent anyone from fighting back, or escaping.”

“If I knew you two personally or any other gem, maybe I would’ve hesitated.” Craig spoked. “But for your information, Steven’s gem is what caused me to grow on him in the first place. Especially when other kids in the creek, including my worst enemies, knew what happened between you and Steven.”

“You think that we would rather be anywhere in the creek?” Ruby retorted. “It’s not our fault several kids watched us, while spreading information.”

“Also keep in mind.” Aquamarine showing Craig their spare phone. “If you can keep Steven here from suspicion, so can he.” She turned on her phone as Ruby pressed the facetime app, revealing Xavier sitting in his chair with a smirk on his face.

“The former King.” Craig quipped, feeling uncomfortable.

“Long time no see Craig.” He replied. “Was your wild guess of me out of all people forming an alliance with these two Gems more horrifying than you thought?”

Craig remains silent while closing his eyes. “Yes! Who else would it be?”

“I don’t need to ask how much you know him.” Aquamarine replied.

“Exactly.” Xavier crossed his arms. “Where’s your friend Steven Universe? Oh, that’s right, he’s making a friend his age.”

“Bet you also don’t have to ask who’s friend he’s making.” Ruby added.

“I actually need to know.” Craig spoked.

“Well too bad.” Xavier leaned close to his camera lens. “As long as everything is intact, I want to distance myself from Steven while he’s away.”

“He’ll find out I’ll be missing and he’ll tell me what friend he’s making!”

“As if he knows me better than anyone else at the creek. But at the same time…I want to meet him in my own way.” Craig couldn’t piece together what the former king is up to. Even by chance, Steven would find out sooner with him disappearing, but when that happens, Xavier could have the upper hand rather than him. “You always think everything will be sunshine and rainbows after the Capture The Flag war. But you never defeat someone even after being victorious.”

“Nor change what they act or feel.” Aquamarine added.

“It’s staying that way forever.” Ruby added.

“Talk all you want.” Craig looked straight at Xavier. “But there’s no way you’re gonna start another war with only three of you.”

“We’re not starting another war.” Xavier replied. “But we are planning on going to where Steven used to go.”

“You want to go to Beach City!?”

“And Homeworld.”

Craig is aware Lion is the only way for them to get to Beach City, but even if Connie and Lion found out about Xavier’s plan, they don’t know what strategy Xavier’s pulling to avoid defeat. But once Steven finds out, he’ll have to get to the bottom of his as fast as possible. And if they succeed at their plan, Steven would go into turmoil on his own.

“You’re all beyond insane.” Craig said. “Everything will turn into complete chaos if you go to where Steven was born.”

“Steven isn’t the only one who needs time here, I do.” Xavier pointed at Craig. “The only thing I want isn’t another war to win, just revenge. And I can’t think of a better way to see you back to the bottom with your new best friend farther away from you in misery.”

“And not the misery from our battle if you just left us alone.” Ruby taunted.

“Why don’t you make me feel misery while you three are at it?” Craig lowered his head, sighing.

“Misery is a term of victory to me.” Xavier said. “I’m waiting for the right moment for you to feel just as much misery as Steven. And you know I’m not wrong.” Craig couldn’t retort, he can’t prove to Xavier wrong, especially since he’s right that no one trusts a bully like him, but not Aquamarine and Ruby. “Just as we thought.”

“The misery is coming to him already.” Ruby said.

“And it’ll get worse by the minute.” Aquamarine added.

“Well anyway, I’m gonna play some video games. See you three later.” Xavier logged out of facetime as Aquamarine turned off the phone.

Ruby glowed up with her eye gem, causing Craig to cover his eyes from the brightness. “You should be lucky enough none of your friends are getting hurt. You and Steven are enough for us.”

“You know, if I had powers like you two, I would fight until I’m the last gem standing.” Craig commented. “Even if I’m not solid like you two.”

“You’re beyond untrained Craig, you think it's all that easy?”

“No. But I would’ve followed everything similar to Steven when he got trained.”

“We’ve only fought Steven once together in a battle, including as Bluebird.” Aquamarine said. “You’re just like every other kid in this stupid creek, your accomplishments are what toddlers get for stars in kindergarten schools.”

“I appreciate your egotistical tone. It's clear you don’t know how people function here.” He turned to Aquamarine with a serious look.

“Similar to how Steven’s friends function since you never met them in person?”

“At least I’ll still be safe from you two. Even if Steven won’t take me there, you two and Xavier are the last people he would ever take, since you two left Beach City in the first place.”

“Hey!” Ruby pointed at Craig. “We couldn’t get back to Homeworld with everything changed over the last couple of years.”

“Also, we couldn’t fuse on Homeworld. We would’ve been zapped from Yellow Diamond while humans like Steven, would’ve been thrown into a cell.” Aquamarine commented.

“We can’t eat, but since you do, you could starve.”

“You're just trying to scare me, aren't you?” Craig replied.

“Do you have snacks? We can stomp them if we want.”

Craig remembered that he packed snacks in his bag and knew the two gems wouldn’t hesitate to make him starve. “You do know I’m not scared of you two, right?”

“If I had my wand, I would’ve given you nightmares.” Aquamarine retorted.

“Hey, Maya of all people scares me way more than you two.”

“Funny you mentioned her because we also met her yesterday.”

“And I don’t need to know she didn’t become Xavier’s BFF again.”

“Ugh!! SHUT UP!” Ruby shouted. “You’re so fearless of us, I just want to give you more misery until you cry!”

Craig backed away from Ruby’s rage, not long until Aquamarine knew what made Craig scared. “Ruby.” She spoke to her attention. “I think we should have Craig get to know who he's really dealing with.”

This caused Ruby to grin yet again. “So on your side.” They both fused with the glow causing Craig to look away. When the glow went away, all that Craig saw was pitch darkness. But soon, Bluebird turned on the flashlight on her phone, revealing herself to Craig.

Craig clenched his teeth, scared to even come near Bluebird. “Bet you can’t fuse with Steven like us.” She walked up to him.

“Technically, we were close to fusing, if we hadn't been interrupted.” Craig commented.

“Really?” Bluebird leaned close. “Steven just wanted himself to get stronger towards anyone he’s growing towards on the inside. But know this.” She magically formed her ice cutlass in her hand, pointing it at Craig. “Becoming a fusion is a lot harder upon being a different person.”

Craig refuses to believe her but if he knew how to fuse with a gem on his own, he’ll never be afraid to admit how becoming a different person wouldn’t be intense. “I didn’t realize how close I was with Steven over the last several days.”

“Then where has your childhood been all your life?” Just after Bluebird’s retort, Craig’s eyes turned pink, visible in front of the fusion.

“Mostly here in the creek.” He sat back down again. “But Steven never took that away.”

“Even when he turned you into a pink eyed freak?”

This caused Craig to look straight at Bluebird. “He will turn me back to normal!”

“You don’t know that for a fact, right?”

Craig’s whole body shook while looking straight into Bluebird’s face. With darkness all around him and her, all he saw was the light from her eyes with a menacing grin. “Yes, I doubt he’ll fix me. And now I’m having nightmares just by looking at you.”

“Well, something I like from your ominous pink eyes.” Bluebird then flew next to Craig, wrapping her arm around him. “Just stay in place or we’re gonna make your nightmare come true. You don’t want that, don’t you?”

“No…” Craig replied. “But can you at least allow me to have my snacks when I get hungry?”

“As long as you don’t do anything, fine.” Bluebird left him alone as Craig took a deep breath. “And also Craig.” She turned around. “Learn how to feel trauma like Steven.”

As she guards the opening, Craig took the words to heart. He never understood the word trauma, but from how Bluebird said it, he wants nothing to do with it. His heart pounded while still seeing in his pink vision. He glowed brighter with each pound, even brighter than the last, but with one final heartbeat, his body lit up in pink, which engulfed the whole cave. It caught Bluebird’s attention as Craig immediately took notice with his eyes back to normal.

“I swear I wasn’t trying to distract you to escape!”

“Just don’t make me do real harm to you!”

As Bluebird went back to her guarding, Craig placed both of his hands on his head. It felt like his body lost control from the inside. But now he’s afraid that the effects from Steven aren't just from his eyes anymore. “Steven’s gonna freak out about this.” He whispered to himself.