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// Soul Searching 
// Story: Gem-Cord 
// by Discorded SheepcityUSA 
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After the big mess that Discord made in Pearl’s chamber of the temple, it was decided that Amethyst would be taking him in, since Pearl didn’t seem to quite trust him enough to let him stay with Steven full time just yet. Given what he’d just done, she was pretty much in the right to believe her decision was the proper one. Amethyst however, was not very happy with it.

“Woah, that smell is something else alright. Blech.” Discord said with a scrunched nose as he caught wind of the awful smells that plagued Amethyst’s room that was practically being devoured by mountains of trash. The smell was so bad from his perspective that his head shriveled up and disintegrated into dust, followed by a new head popping back into place.

“Hey, you asked for this when you messed up Pearl’s room buddy. Credit where it’s due that was pretty awesome, but if you touch anything in MINE then you’re really not gonna like what happens next!” Amethyst growled. She’d been accumulating all this stuff for nearly centuries and she wasn’t gonna let some little freak screw with anything and claim dominance over her room.

Discord put up his mix-matched hands defensively. “Okay yeesh, jumping to conclusions a little too fast aren’t ya?” Discord asked, suddenly with a pair of glasses poofing onto his face. “You wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses right?”

Amethyst let out an annoyed grunt. “You know I’m not gonna immediately trust a guy with a title like ‘God of Chaos’ don’t you? Not to mention in the few hours I’ve known you, you’ve burned my scalp and made fun of my size.”

Discord’s glasses disappeared from his face and he crossed his arms. “Gimme a break, I’m a kid. I’m just joking around. Besides, you’re gonna take a height comment seriously from ME?” he asked, shrinking down to the size of a rabbit. “I mean, I’m not really one to talk, now am I? Here I was thinking you were the fun one.” 

Another annoyed grunt came from Amethyst. “Don’t put my awesomeness into question EVER. Look, we’ll get along as long as you keep your face outta my face. You get it?”

Discord grew himself back to normal size and nodded with his eyes shut. “Oh understood completely Amy.”

“And if you wanna keep your teeth, you won’t call me that”

“Right, right sorry.” Discord said as he climbed onto an abandoned and dirty mattress next to one of the bigger trash piles and laid down on it, trying to get comfortable. It didn’t take him long to realize that Amethyst didn’t seem to be going out of her way to find anywhere overly comfy to sleep. “…You uh…gonna find a mattress or…”

Amethyst shook her head. “Nah, I can sleep pretty much wherever.” She said. Not even a second after that statement. Amethyst dropped to the ground face first and loud snoring could be heard coming from her.

Discord only looked at her in disbelief for a moment. Even with someone as magically strong as he is wouldn’t be able to find comfort on a cold-looking floor like this one.  Truly this woman…rock was not one to be taken lightly. ‘…It really is a shame we’re at each other’s throats right now. I know I’m a chaos spirit but…come on, throw me a bone.’ Discord thought to himself.

If he was really honest with himself, it really did tear him up that the only one that seemed to give him the time of day right now was Steven. The other gems were too suspicious of him to give him a chance at being…well he didn’t really know. Friends maybe? When he really thought about it though, it was his own fault. He’d already established himself as not very deserving of their trust. 

He really hated to admit it, but with a face like his, and with the magic he possessed he didn’t really blame them for mistrusting him. Discord sighed a little sadly and looked down next to the mattress he laid on and saw that there was a small puddle not far from it. Looking into it, he saw his reflection and realized just how hideous he would look to an outsider. Those bright yellow eyes and that one tooth jutting out of his mouth would probably be considered horrifying. Not just that, but even for a kid, he still had that sleazy and con-artist look about him which would immediately pass him off as someone that’d pretend to be a good friend, only to steal your wallet the second you had your back turned. 

He had to be more than that, he HAD to. For all he knew, before he lost his memory he probably could’ve been some epic war hero or some scientist that’d somehow cured some terrible disease. It was dreaming big for a child, but this was different. Not every kid needed to think about what they’d ALREADY done with their lives instead of what they were going to do when they grew up. It was so unnatural for someone his age to have to even think about something like this. From his perspective though, if everyone was only going to see him like a conniving and sneaky little monster…well then there didn’t seem to be much point in trying to be anything else. 

Discord sighed again deeply. ‘Just remember one thing mister God of Chaos. You are not scared. You are NOT scared.’ He thought to himself as he tried to lay his head back down on the mattress. With some of these thoughts being kept at the forefront of his mind, sleep was going to be near impossible.

That, and the mattress he was laying on wasn’t exactly what one would consider luxury bedding.




Just as he thought. He wasn’t getting any form of rest from the lumpy and dirty mattress or any of his more personal demons. It was getting beyond exhausting. He’d been trying and trying to relax for a few hours now and had had little success.

“Ugh…insecurities…this is why I can’t have nice things.” He grumbled quietly to himself. Just then one of his ears picked up a very subtle and quiet sound coming from outside the door to Amethyst’s chambers. Curious, he sat up and looked at the door, trying to figure out how to go through it, seeing as he didn’t have a gem to help open it. 

“Hmm…Oh, duh. Doors are for losers anyway.” He said to himself in realization. He snapped his fingers to teleport himself into Steven’s room of the temple. When he did though, he wasn’t prepared for what he saw in there in the slightest.

Standing on the warp was a very tall figure that appeared to be green in color. Whatever it was had its back turned so it had not seen Discord yet, but the position allowed him to see the back of the figure’s head, showing off its very distinct shape of triangle-like hair. Discord squinted a little and noticed that the figure had some very strange fingers that weren’t attached to what he assumed was the creature’s hands. 

The thing that really set Discord off though, was that whatever this thing was, was currently holding Steven in its arms and appearing to struggle to keep him quiet and restrain him from moving out of its grasp. 

“M-MMMPH!” Steven’s yells were muffled out by the creature’s arm being pressed against his mouth.

“Urgh, keep quiet!” It scream-whispered in a malicious but clearly feminine sounding voice.

Now Discord had the right to panic. His heart rate immediately began to increase when he saw that his new friend was about to be kidnapped right in front of him. He was prepared to snap his fingers and do away with the creature, but before he got the chance, the warp lit up with a bright blue light and both Steven and the figure were completely out of his sight now. 

To say the least, Discord was fully terrified. There was no point in trying to deny that right now given the situation. Steven was just taken who knows where and he had no idea how this warp thing worked. 

This was no time for self-doubt of his bravery or soul-searching. He needed to wake the gems up immediately.