Lapis & Lazuli
Chapter 1: "My Name is "Lapis!"-"Lazuli!"
The water splashes up, and the seagulls fly off giving up of catching up to us while we race on the surface of the sea on a 2014 Victor OX motorcycle, speeding atop a narrow strip of ice that continually forms ahead of us. The early morning sun just starting to crawl up on the horizon. The clear blue sky, and the cruise ships off in the distance. The loud roar of the engine, and rush of cool morning wind on our faces. When suddenly the horizon of pure blue ends and the sandy beach comes into view. I inch up and yell and whoop with excitement.
"About time Emile, I was beginning to think you were lost." I say resting my chin on his shoulder.
He snickers, and shifts ever slightly as he accelerates, and the speedometer drops past 120 mph, the bike launches off the narrow ice streak, and onto the sandy beach, the suspension lurches before springing back in place. The bike does a doughnut kicking up a sandstorm in the process before Emile places his foot down stopping the bike, and letting out a deep laugh. I get off the bike, letting out a grunt, removing myself from the back seat and throwing the dark gray helmet at the driver, letting my navy-blue hair spill out.
"Jeez Emile way to be discreet!" I shout storming off in the direction of the town.
Emile removes his helmet, and leans over the handle bars with a smug smile, and stares out into the open sea he just exited.
The girl with the navy-blue hair and a black scarf, barrels through the empty streets with an annoyed look on her face. She passes a shop, with an oversized chocolate doughnut with rainbow sprinkles on it, her stomach reads her mind as it lets out an upset growl. She rubs both her palms across her exposed mid riff.
"ugh, I know, it looks SO good!" she exclaims, wiping slobber from the side of her mouth, shoving a now free hand into her cargo shorts pocket. "But don't you worry soon that will-"
Her external monologue is cut short as she finds nothing but lint in her pocket. Her mind flashes back to the beach, her bag had slid off the bike and onto the sandy floor upon landing and had remained there as she made off in a haste. She drops to her knees in disappointment as another loud stomach growl makes itself known.
"Are you alright?" ask a soft voice, scaring the daylights out of her as she lunges back onto her feet in surprise. She scans the eye level surrounding and see nothing, confusion clearly painted on her face.
"Huh?" she says lowering her raised fist.
"Down here" says the soft voice.
She looks down and sees, a small child, with curly brown hair, fair skin, a pink shirt, and blue jeans prostrated on the ground where she once agonized her empty stomach. A light blush of embarrassment appears clear on her pale face.
"Oh, sorry about that you just really surprised me is all." She says helping him up.
"No. no its fine, you looked hurt are you better now?" ask the kid, looking up at her.
"Yeah, just starving is all" she says as she slouches against the buildings glass wall.
The boy stares wide eyed, with a gaping smile, and begins to giggle "My, my seems were both in luck, todays the special buy four get one free day at the Big Doughnut!" he exclaims with a five dollar bill clutched with a death grip in his right hand. She smiles at the thought, FOOD! Finally, something warm and sweet, and, and, and just not fish! Her smile evaporates as a thought comes into her mind.
"Alright, but what do I have to do for you?" she asks, tilting her head to the side slightly.
"Oh, um…I guess some company for breakfast would be nice." The kid says with a sincere smile toward the girl.
She stands with absolute confidence, and smiles bombastically. Taking the kids hand and pushes on the glass door…it didn't open, she pushes again…she releases the hand and pushes and pulls on the door, until some short blonde girl rushes over saying "hey, hey, hey, hey take it easy will ya'."
A snapping sound is made as the door now opens and the employee looks at the girl causing the commotion. The boy pops in between the two and exclaims with a big smile, "Morning Sadie, this is my new special breakfast buddy!"
The would be anger melts from her face as she calms and giggles at the child's antics. She ruffles his hair before saying, "Well Steven you better take a seat because me and Lars-"
"Sadie! I'm going out to the pier Christine Meager is doing Olympic practice in a two-piece suit!" yells an orange haired teen, with gauged lobes, presumably this Lars.
Before she can argue he's out the door running, jumping and giggling the whole way to the pier with his phone out.
Sadie turns to the pair and sighs before continuing, "Alright so guess it's just me getting the store ready for the morning rush…"
"Ok!" Steven says as he spins in a swivel chair waiting for the meal to be ready.
The clock on the far-left side of the room reads…7:12, I got here at 6:23!
Another growl, louder this time, accompanied by a moan, but not by the girl no that's Stevens stomach!
"Special Breakfast Buddy, I…I…I don't think I can make it…" he says laying his face flat against the table.
"I'm right there with you Steven, by the way my name is-" I'm cut off as the smell of doughnuts and Sadie's image walk into the room.
"Come get your fresh hot, doughnuts!" she calls out, as me and Steven run to the counter.
A quick ring up later, and we've both eaten up four doughnuts and a very tasty coffee milk blend that she threw in for the long wait.
We exit waving back at the girl who's stuffing her gaze into a book while the store I empty.
"So, Special Breakfast bud-" Steven starts but is cut off when I cover his mouth.
"Steven, my name it's Emilia, please use it!" I exclaim before uncovering his mouth.
Before we can continue a loud revving, sound pierces the air as a blue and black blur of something zooms past us, an aqua marine and hot pink bag is flung off as it passes us.
"Woah, what was that!?" Steven ask oozing excitement.
I chuckle picking the bag off the ground and seeing the crudely written note stuck to the side using a piece of used gum, ew.
"Sis, I'm heading out for a drive. Try not to get crushed while I'm gone…" reads the note.
With grit teeth, she looks down at Steven with an awkward smile and says "That's my brother Emile."
"gasp you have a brother! Sudden realization!" did he say the gasp?
I nod my head and stare at the kid. Before someone in the distance catches my attention.
A four-foot-tall, purple girl with an amethyst embedded in her chest…
"Hey Amethyst over here!" Steven call out, the girl hers him and rushes over in a blur of purple.
"Yo, who's the new girl Stevie?" she asks ruffling his hair, and fumbling him around.
"She's my Special Breakfast Buddy! But her names Emilia and she has a brother!" he announces
Amethyst seems uninterested as she looks else were, not paying us any mind before suddenly smiling and grabbing both are wrist and dragging us in the direction of the beach. I only then see the oversized tarantula with green and blue specked shards protruding from its back, a horrid chill runs down my spine.
"Common Steven lets go kick its butt before you know who stops the party! Emilia, you can help too!" Amethyst exclaims as she pulls a whip from the gemstone in her chest. And jumps to fight this thing.
Steven runs over and begins cheering her on from the sideline as her whip shreds specs off this overgrown pest, but yeah there no doubt now, these guys, they must be- A blur rushes past me with the over exited screaming I'm all too familiar with.
Amethyst and Steven look to see a boy hop off his motor cycle, leaving it to speed into the ocean, but that's not the part that gets their attention, it's when the boy summons a blue tinted knecht kriegsmesser that their jaws drop open and he cuts the spider in half with just one swing, narrowly missing its gem.
The celebration is cut short as he notices the ice wall his bike slammed into to keep it out of the water, "Lia what the HELL!" he yells running over to the bike.
Steven runs to the poofed gem monster bubbling it and making it disappear, before looking at Emile and Emilia, and noticing a striking resemblance.
Emile's rant about how this is the third most important thing they own is drowned out in favor of a shocked Amethyst.
"Cool, right?" ask Emilia walking over to Amethyst, removing her black leather glove revealing half of a Lapis Lazuli gemstone in the shape of the yang symbol.
Amethyst takes a second before connecting the dots, "Then he must have-"
Before she can finish Emile removes his glove revealing his half of the gem, this time in a Yin symbol.
Before another word is uttered by anyone else Steven explodes with excitement saying "YOU GUYS ARE HAVE GEM LIKE ME!"
Emile looks directly at me as the last of his rage bubble under and we nod.
"Hi there my names Emile Lazuli Wattson, and that thing over there is my sister Emilia Lapis Wattson and we go by The Lapis Lazuli Twins!" Emile exclaims while taking a sentai pose, Steven chuckles.
I interject with "No we don't."
Authors Notes: Okay hi everyone, thanks for reading the first of hopefully many chapters to come!
I really can't believe I did it, after so long without writing to put this on paper or er screen and post it…almost surreal.
I got the idea for doing my own Steven Universe Fanfic from Vendicor, and wow it's so much fun writing again after such a long break, I have a lot in store for the crystal gems and the Lazuli Twins ("don't call us that") in store next time till then take it easy…
Quick note, I plan to update every 1-2 weeks!
Have a blast reading everyone!