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I flew gracefully above the abandoned arena, my pale blue wings shimmering in the even sunlight. It did feel a bit awkward, being only half-shifted, but it was more graceful and beautiful than having bird's feet. I landed softly on my toes, making sure I didn't disturb the pale pink floor. It was quite fragile after so long. I sighed and shifted back into a human, the wings on mY arms and the small, pale gold scales on my legs disappearing. I sighed and smiled. It was so peaceful to be here alone.

"Hey pearl!" I heard somebody call out. I turned around, expecting to see amethyst, but instead was surprised to see Steven sitting off to the side of the abandoned arena.

"Oh, Steven! Hello" I said. "How did you know how to get here?"

"Lion took me here " he responded in his usual cheery tone.

"Well, I was just leaving, and you probably should too. It's getting late." I said. Steven sighed and mumbled an 'okay', then hopped off to... wherever lion was right now. I had to walk for a bit to get home. I would have taken off to fly, but I was already to close to beach city. I couldn't have anybody seeing me flying around.

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The walk home was very uneventful. Once I got home, I decided to sit on the porch and watch the waves splash against the sand. It was night time now and the full moon cast bright light onto the calm sea. I rested my head on my hands, which were on the fence surrounding the porch. It was quite peaceful out here, alone with just my thought and the sea.

"You okay pearl?" I heard a voice behind me say. I turned around to see amethyst. Her platinum colored hair was tied up into a ponytail.

"Yes, amethyst" I said, sitting up. "I just wanted to sit outside for a bit"

"Okay... well, pearl, this is gonna be hard for you to believe, but I have to show you something" she said. I raised an eyebrow in concern.

"Show me what-" I abruptly stopped when I noticed to two small, pale purple cat ears on her head. I would have thought that they were just props, or part of a costume. But then they started moving. She pinned her ears back and then turned them forward again. She also had a fluffy cat tail of the same pale lavender color. I was mesmerized.

"Wow..." I whispered. She smiled.

"I... I already told garnet and Steven, and I really need you guys to keep it a secret. I can't have anybody else knowing about this, 'cause-" I interrupted her by shifting one of my arms into a wing.

"Because if they knew that we were mythicals, a hunter or ETOK would hear of it eventually." I finished for her. She looked less shocked than I expected.

"Are there any more mythicals I need to know about? Because I just found out that garnet is psychic  and can control electricity which she had some fancy word for that I can't remember, and Steven can make sentient plants and heal stuff and apparently we all hid this from each other for years?" She said. I could hear a slight bit of anger in her voice. I was too amazed to respond. I felt my feet waving under me. I knew amethyst was saying something but I couldn't hear what. As I fell back, the world curling and collapsing into darkness around me.

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Pearl looked shocked. She began to sway and stumble where she was standing.

"'You okay, P?" I asked. She didn't respond, but instead fell over and collapsed. I gasped and hopped over to check on her. She better not be dead-

"Pearl!" Somebody said behind me in a very surprised tone, I turned to see Steven, running over to check on her. He gasped.

"I she...?" He didn't finish, but I knew what that sentence would end in

"She isn't dead, she just passed out. Let's get her inside"

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A/n

Omg that was a terrible chapter. I now know why nobody reads this.