"LEAVE THIS PLACE!"

She shouted the gem on her back glowed bright white

They had harmed her forest

Her home

Our home

Dark shapes streaked past the intruders

The three teens cowered and scrambled over each other in an attempt to save them selves

"Pitiful humans"

She never needed to lay a finger on them and they fled from just the sound of her voice and a little help from her pack,

"Hmp"

Mabey they weren't all bad, they just didn't understand her, or the damage they did to the earth they had fought so hard for. A pang of loneliness struck her heart, they were all gone, onyx, abalone, even agate, oh agate, she was the last of the crystal gems, and she was alone.

A dark grey shape shifted in the darkness and came by her side

She ruffled her beta wolf neck fur and he wagged his tail.

She sighed and smiled

Maybe not alone.

The beta wolf howled into the leaf ridden sky, shape shifting into the form of a white and grey she wolf, she joined him, as did the others

These wolves were her life, she had reformed in the packs territory so many moons ago, she had been accepted and risen to alpha, she had seen pups born and old wolves die, but the wolves filled a void in her, with them by her side she was hole, she was howlite

Steven Wandered into the forest, he liked to just relax in the sun dappled clearing and reread un-familiar familiar and the no home boys, he made sure not to leave anything behind, that's what pearl said but he wasn't sure if it was because she didn't want to damage the forest or for him to make a mess.

He liked the forest and the forests seemed to like him, he had said this to the gems and while amethyst laughed and pearl giggled at him, garnet seeing his blush had picked him up

"What or who wouldn't like you Steven"

He smiled at the memory

The figure that sat in waged the tail like appendage at the bottom of her long wild grey hair, the human boy smiled, she enjoyed seeing him happy, he was kind to the forest, and he smelt familiar, in a good way. The sun started to set, the boy looked up his eyes widened, and he grunted and stood up to walk away. Still absorbed in the book he headed towards multiple low branches and loose roots. Howlite giggled inwardly, he always did this, she silently followed him in the tree tops stretching her hand in his direction and flattening her palm the roots and braches slowly snaked away. Her smile faded as she heard six short yips from her betas, it was an alarm to tell her that someone with hostile intent towards the forest had entered her territory. Howlite gave a snarl and drew back her palm having just enough time to feel guilty when she heard the boy get wacked with a branch but smiled when she heard him laugh it off, her smile shifted into a serious frown and she leapt through the trees

Steven walked slowly, immersed in his book, it was almost dark when he reached the beach he started to walk up the slope

The beach was quiet

A body flopped down behind him…

There were lots of humans, they carried axes and were about to hack into a tree when howlite got there.

"LEAVE!"

She yelled the pack dashed through the trees, attempting to spook the humans. One of them looked nervously at the other and he mumbled something about tree huggers and got back to work. Howlite growled

"Persistent clods"

She outstretched both palms vines and roots curled around her body to form a massive beast. Its eyes glowed the white of her gem its teeth were massive splinters of wood its tail made of leafy branches that rustled in the wind creating an eerie atmosphere, she opened its mouth wide ad yelled.

"LEAVE THIS FOREST, IT IS PROTECTED"

The humans turned to look at her most ran some froze, she laughed

"I knew y-hurrg" she grunted in immense pain

The large wooden beast froze

A human had attacked her with an axe and ran like a coward

It had cut into her chest so deep it had reached her gem

Her vines retreated leaving only her slim grey form, she coughed up blood but couldn't retreat to her gem

Her senses blurred but one sent remained…. Rose quarts.

Yes, rose would fix her up

She followed the sent, half walking half crawling, leaving a red trail behind her

The green blur that was the forest faded into the grey of the city and eventually the pale sandy yellow of the beach

At last she found her

Her vision was all but gone but she knew that sent,

She flopped down on the sand, colours blurred together, a grey void consumed her vision

Everything went black