Chapter the Second Stevens Story Session
I've been living in beach city for about a week now and I think I've taken quite a liking to beach city. I've gotten into a bit of a routine though sense dad is often working from home I head off to the boardwalk with a book or two, a long beach chair, an umbrella and read on the beach side. I would love to make friends with Lars and Sadie or maybe some of the other people on the boardwalk but when I'm around there usually either working, busy running errands, or rarely there tourists and tourists don't like me.
Sometimes I catch Steven when he's on his way to get fry bits, why he only wants the bits I'll never know, and we get to talk. Mostly it's about all these odd seemingly impossible adventures he goes on. Last time he told me about how he had to get a cannon out of his dad's storage unit to shot down a special meteor called a red eye, which I had to get conformation from other's to make sure it actually happened, and about how he used cookie cats to pull out his gem weapon which is a shield to fight a giant insect he called the centipedal all of which happened before I got here.
This time Steven was very eager to tell me about his crazy adventures sounding like it was quite the thing this time as he was practically bursting from the anticipation. So I asked "so Steven what crazy adventures have you been on lately."
Steven almost looked surprised not expecting me to be expecting a story but he quickly shook it off saying "so much has happened lately with the breakfast monster and my travels to the sea spire.'
What? These seem more outrages then last time he had stories. Looking back he seemed like he was about to start rambling if I didn't speak up so I interrupted him with "hold your horses there cowboy this will need some story if I'm going to understand any of these well, story's that you have today."
Steven realized I was right and so he asked "o right so which one do you want to start with." This was a hard questions sense both sounded equally as interesting and outrages but the first one sounded less plausible
So with that in mind I got out of my thinking pose and said "well let's start with the breakfast monster." With that Steven began to sit down on the sand when I remembered I had brought something for him "wait Steven why don't you sit down on this beach chair I got you." I said pulling up a beach chair from under my long chair. This got Steven excited for some reason. Then again he may just be excited to get a present.
After he got himself settled onto the beach chair he began his story about this breakfast monster. "Well it started after I got up in the morning and I was searching for the other gems. I couldn't find them anywhere though so I thought they were on some mission or something so I thought I would make them breakfast for when they came back."
That's sweet of him to care so much about them. "So I made some waffles and covered them in syrup. But they still weren't home so I popped some popcorn and put it on the waffles. Still though they didn't come back so I put whipped cream on the waffles with a cheery on top." Steven said. That sounded like a ridiculously over complicated breakfast that seemed more like desert.
"After a while though Garnet did come home holding a scroll. I tried to ask her to come have the together breakfast I made but she was still busy with the scroll saying she had to burn it. When I took a picture of it she said she needed to burn my phone to." Steven said looking slightly sad. Surprisingly the first thing I thought was not that's horrible but that must have been one dangerous scroll, I feel terrible for think that.
"So Garnet went into her room and I couldn't convince her to stay for are together breakfast. But then Pearl and Amethyst came out unfortunately they were arguing and eventually went back into their rooms. I wasn't going to give up though so I followed pearl into her room and saw her on top of one of the water spouts so I tried to get over to her while trying to also keep the together breakfast from getting wet" Steven said continuing his story
I was always surprised when I hear about the temple in the back of the beach house. The thing inside where seemingly impossible but Steven was so convinced that there had to be at least some truth to it. Not only that but I always wondered if the gems names where there actual names or aliases for their group
Steven then proceeded to continue the story "unfortunately I got swept up in the current and fell into Amethyst room. She was busy reorganizing her stuff I think. When I asked her if she saw the together breakfast I made and wanted it herself even though that would defeat the purpose." I chuckled at that and wondered how the breakfast survived the trip.
"So she chased me through the temple until we ran into the center with a giant heart with tubes going everywhere and I accidentally ran into it and I had to stay on it or I would fall down the hole that was in the center." Steven said as if it was not all that surprising. I however was very surprised. What kind of temple has a heart? Was it alive? I decided to go with it though sense I had a feeling we were getting to the actual monster part soon.
"Pearl eventually caught up by then. She told me to look down when I was holding onto the heart." Steven said
I interrupted with "so of course you looked down."
"Ya, I lost my grip a little and started to slide down the tube going into the hole like a fireman's pole. It wasn't so bad at first until it went dark and scary. Eventually though I slid down to a curve and stopped falling to see garnet who tossed my phone into so kind of boiling water. She then put the scroll in it and it caught fire so she bubbled it." Steven continued
Bubbled was a term Steven used when he talked about capturing the strange creatures they fight so I guess that scroll is dangerous.
"So after that Pearl and Amethyst caught up with me and sense Garnet was right over there I got excited and surprised Garnet." Steven said blushing
"And with Garnets concentration interrupted the "Bubble" popped right." I said. I was starting to see where this was going. The scroll is probably made from hallucinogenic plant so when the smoke filled the room everyone started seeing things, so Steven probably saw a breakfast monster.
"Ya that's right. So then the smoke escaped and was attacking Garnet." Steven began.
Attacked probably meant filled the room.
"So garnet tried to fight it off but was pushed away. Amethyst and Pearl tried to help but it was slippery."
That's strange he hasn't mentioned them acting weird yet
"And then the smoke turned to go after me but it was absorbed into the together breakfast and …"
"Wait, wait, and wait. What? How does smoke get absorbed into food? Are you sure you that's what happened?" I interrupted because this seemed too specific to be some kind of hallucination
"O ya it turned are together breakfast into a breakfast monster that stuck pearl to a mall knock Amethyst out and fought off Garnet but thankfully I had the plate so I pushed it into the boiling water and eventually burned it away. "Steven said with confidence
I was flabbergasted and probably had a blank look of shock on my face. How does smock mutate a breakfast? It was so confusing but the only phrase that came out was "so what happened next"
"We made a new together breakfast but we didn't eat it sense the last one tried to eat us." Steven said simply as if it was a simple thing.
The only part of that that made sense was the last part. I began to worry that the sea spire would be just as weird and convoluted so with my hand to my face I asked "is the sea spire story as weird or … long."
"No I don't think it's as long but it was my first mission." Steven said thinking back to that adventure
Steven always talked about how the gems would always leave for missions and how he wished to go on some of them it caused me to say "you must have been excited to go."
"Ya I was I got a new backpack the same day so I packed everything I thought we might need for the trip." Steven said excitedly.
"What were you doing?" I asked.
"We were going to fix the sea spire sense it was old and crumpling." Steven said then looked down saddened by the thought. It must not have went well if he didn't think fondly of the goal as the trip to it
I wanted to think of a way to get Steven off the sad topic so I asked "so was it dangerous? I imagine it must have been."
This caused Steven to move towards the journey of the story saying "sort of the first challenge was getting in because the whirlpool it sat in pull things down even in the air." That does sound dangerous but how does a whirlpool pull thing down even in the air? Strange. "So I tied to extra shirts I brought together and used them to hook onto the temple and pull myself up" Steven said
"WHAT! But to do that you would need to jump towards the temple with the whirlpool that pulls everything towards it." I said completely flabbergasted that Steven would try something so dangerous even if it worked
"Ya pearl didn't like it either" Steven said blushing. Pearl has the right idea. Steven then continued "so next we walked up the temple while pearl talked about the temple until we came across a bunch of crystal shrimp."
"Hmm crystal shrimp I think I've heard of them. Are they like fat worms with crystal spiked shells and large mouths." I asked remembering seeing something I think was eventually dubbed crystal shrimp being tested at some of the old labs.
Steven nodded the said "yup there were tones of them. Pearl was making a plane to get rid of them but then I thought, if I were a shrimp what would I do. So I threw some bagel sandwiches that I had packed to each side sense I would want to eat if I were a shrimp. And they did go for them so we were able to continue."
Finally something that sounded sensible. One of an animal's base instincts is to look for food. I'm actual a little surprised that Steven thought of it. Good on him.
"Next was a giant rushing stream that was too wide to jump over. All the gems were so proud of me so far that they thought I might think of something for this too." Steven said looking back "it was a little stress full."
I'm glad they had faith and wanted to encourage Steven but that may be going too far. Still I wonder what Steven thought of.
"so I thought maybe the raft I brought would be large enough to bridge the gap but it wasn't and it fell of the edge so garnet used a nearby pillar to make a path." Steven said with slight embarrassment
"That was sensible but I'm not too surprised beside even if it was large enough it would have sunk into the water when you stepped on it." I said. I didn't want to undermine his confidence but Steven should now how else it would have went wrong
Steven nodded looking like he understood but still looking a bit sad "so finally we got to the top where we were going to use this statuette to fix the spire…" Steven said stopping for an awkward pause
I could already see where this was going unfortunately so I broke the ice by asking "you forgot it didn't you?"
Steven responded with "I forgot it" looking down and continued with "so the spire collapsed."
I felt sad now. I didn't mean to bring back a bad memory. I went to comfort Steven with a pat on the shoulder saying "it's alright I'm sure the other gems make mistakes to. Making mistakes is just another way to helps us learn. Besides are the gems angry at you?" he shook his head. "Then everything's fine. As long as you learn from your mistakes I'm sure that the next mission you'll do great. I'm also sure that, like me, they prefer a happy Steven to a sad one."
Steven looked to perk up from that with a star like gleam in his eye and energy in his body he said "your right. Thanks' Mary I'll see you later ok?"
"Of course Steven anytime." I said and watched as he ran towards the beach house no drought to have fun with the other gems. It was nice to see Steven happy it's as if he made everyone around him happy in the process. I'm sure the gems are glad to have a treasure like him.
Third Person
Amethyst just watched Steven as he ran back from the beach and go back inside wanting to play with her and the others but with a hug, explanation of work, and a promise to do it later from pearl. He decided to pass the time till they were done with some TV. Amethyst however felt odd about this new person who had taken to sit by the beach. So she decided to ask Pearl and Garnet about it "say guys do you know anything about the weird girl who's been at the beach talking to Steven?"
"Amethyst!" pearl said very annoyed "it's not polite to just call someone weird you know." Pearl had been looking out with a pair of binoculars towards an island that they had suspected to have a gem on it sense it looked like it was in a different position today which had her worried she had told the others earlier if it did that tomorrow or the next day as well they would have to investigate which garnet agreed with
Amethyst rolled her eyes at that comment "o come on you agree to just look at her she doesn't look normal. Heck she almost looks kind of you know like us.
"Come on Amethyst it's probably just some new human trend. She is from out of town you know. Just moved in in fact." Pearl said trying to not agree with Amethyst's rudeness
"She's right though." Garnet interjected with her usual stoic face
"Garnet please there aren't any other gems like us left on earth besides us. the only way she could be is if she was from home world." Pearl said trying to dissuade the idea of Mary being a gem "besides her names Mary what kind of gem name is Mary."
"It could be an alias. Either way its better if we keep an eye on her when she's around just to be safe." Garnet said trying to convince pearl
"All right I suppose it couldn't hurt to keep an eye when she's around." Pearl said in defeat
With that finished Amethyst started to head up the stairs. As she did she said "whelp with that settled I'm going to head up stairs. Say do we still have any leftover pizza?"
Hurray for chapter two. this one is meant to get an idea of chracters as well as reactions to events that happen in the cannon story. so like last time please review, criticize, and also assume i know nothing about how to write properly
