Chapter 4
{{Before you read- Most of this chapter will take place in the past, when Steven was being raised by Rose Diamond. There will be a lot of time skips, so be prepared! Also, the past part of this chapter will contain blood and abuse. So I'll let you know when the time changes to the past.}}
When Rose came into view, the first thing she did was hug the pink lion. "Hello, Lion. It's good to see you too." She said, letting the lion rub against her. "Where is he? I got the signal that you found him, where's the mirror?" She asked, looking around for any sign of the silver mirror. Lion nudged her and bounded ahead, he jumped off the platform and landed behind a pillar. Rose slowly followed behind him and went behind the pillar; what she found was the young kid she raised. "Steven?"
Steven bared his teeth and he leapt into the air and swung the sword at her, surprisingly she grabbed his arm and took the sword from him. This made Steven mad, he squirmed around trying to get out of her grip. "L-Let go of m-" The young gem got cut off by a sudden hug from the diamond.
Connie and Lapis were hiding behind another pillar, watching this. "What do we do? She took his sword." She whispered, with that Lapis used her gem to make water and she formed a hand out of it, she then used that to smack Rose away from Steven, causing Steven to be dropped. Once Rose was on the ground, they quickly ran over to Steven. "Steven! Are you ok? Did she hurt you?" Connie asked, kneeling down by her friend, Lapis standing behind her.
"No...she just hugged me." He replied, sitting back up as he rubbed his head, he looked back over at Rose. I'm sure that's the real Rose, it can't be a trick or an allusion. He thought.
Lapis and Connie looked at each other, "hugged you? So she isn't evil?" The Indian girl asked, just as they thought it was over, they heard a loud screeching roar and the two were pinned down by the snarling pink lion.
Steven jumped up and he rammed against the lion, trying to get him off. "No! Don't hurt them! They didn't know!" He begged, trying his best to push the lion, but it stood its ground.
Lion swung his head back toward Steven, causing the boy to fall backwards. Once Steven was out of the way, Lion looked back at the two girls he held under him, he snarled and opened his mouth. "LION! Get off them this instant!" Rose shouted, walking over to her companion. Lion whined and he got off of them, walking over to Rose slowly. "I'm so sorry, he gets over protective." She apologized, helping them up.
Steven walked over to his friends and smiled at them, before looking up at Rose. "Is it truly you? Are you my Rose?" He asked.
Rose kneeled down in front of the small boy and she nodded, "yes, my child. I am your Rose, and you're my Steven." She replied, giving him a sweet smile. Steven eyes teared up and he hugged the diamond tightly. "Are you hurt? How did you get out of that mirror?" She asked, pulling away from their embrace.
"Lapis let me out." Steven responded, turning to look at the blue gem.
"You? Thank you for freeing him, I am very grateful." Rose Diamond said, standing back up to over tower them all.
Lapis was completely shocked, she couldn't believe that this was the diamond she was told about. "Y-You're welcome." She replied, bowing her head to her.
"And who's this?" Rose asked, turning to Connie.
Connie was startled to see that she actually noticed her, "I-I'm Connie, your majesty. I'm nothing, but a simple human." Connie replied, giving her a quick bow. She didn't know how to act, this was so surprising to her.
Steven snorted, he walked over to Connie and put his arm around her. "Nothing?! Simple human?! You're more than that! You're a friend, my friend. Connie is the one who made me feel welcome, and get over my silly fears of everything." He explained, he noticed how Connie started to blush and this made him smile.
"This is all so wonderful! I'm so glad you're happy, Steven." Rose said, taking a seat on one of the stairs.
Steven looked back at Rose, he moved away from Connie and took a seat next to his mother figure. "How did you get here? How did you even find me?" He asked, patting the spot next to him. Connie smiled and sat down next to Steven, Lapis next to Connie.
Lion walked up and rubbed against Rose, she smiled and wrapped her arm around the lion's neck. "Well, Lion made most of this possible. I sent him here to find you." She explained, as she dug through Lion's fur, until she found the collar. "This collar was a sensing device, when he found you it would go off and send a signal to me. Though I was expecting him to find the mirror, not you in person." She explained, taking the silver collar off of the pink beast.
"That explains a lot..." Steven mumbled, it relieved him that Lion wasn't a spy for Yellow Diamond. "Wait! That lion's name is actually Lion?!"
"You don't remember? Steven, he's your lion. You named him that yourself." Rose replied, this was unexpected, she didn't expect Steven not to remember his own pet.
"What? That can't be my lion, I never had one!" He gem boy replied, this was all so confusing and frustrating to him.
"Do you not remember? Being stuck in that mirror must of made you lose some of your memory." Rose said, this might be harder than she expected.
"Excuse me, but if he can't remember some of his memories...could you maybe tell us?" Connie asked, shyly. She wanted to know more about Steven's life, and this was the perfect way to do it.
"You want to know about Steven?" Rose asked, both Lapis and Connie nodded. "Well I guess I'll tell you...however, some parts only Steven can tell you."
(This is the start of the past story! So be prepared. When it times skips to age 12, there will be blood and abuse! So if you don't like that, skip that part.)
Back on Homeworld, 14 years from now; a gem baby was born. With no family to take care of it, the baby was taken to Rose Diamond. "Your majesty." A service pearl greeted, bowing her head to her.
"Yes, what is it?" The diamond asked.
"I was sent to deliver this to you." The pearl said, showing the child to her queen. The baby started to cry, and move around in the arms of the pearl.
Rose stood from her throne and she walked down to them. "What is it?" She asked, taking the crying child into her arms. Once he was in the large woman's arms, he stopped crying.
"It is known as Steven." The gem replied.
Rose smiled, as she let Steven suck on her finger. "Steven? That's a wonderful name. Though I have never heard of the gem Steven."
"That's another thing...it's not full gem, it's part human."
"Part human? Is that why it has this strange body type. Very well, thank you. You can go now, Pearl." With that the service gem walked out of the room and left Rose with Steven.
Once she was alone with Steven, she set the naked baby on the ground and watched him crawl around. "You are very strange, but very cute! I'm not sure though, do I call you by her or him?" She asked, the baby sat down and stared up at Rose with his pink curious eyes. When he sat down something stood out more than everything else, "uhh, by the looks of it...I'm guessing that you're a boy." The queen giggled, picking him up, she started to rock him back and forth. "When you were made, you must of not been formed with clothes. We need to get you some, can't be going around naked." Rose added, tickling his stomach, causing the baby Steven to laugh. "You don't talk much, do you? Oh well, I guess I'll teach you."
(Time skip to when Steven is 8 years old.)
Steven ran around the large cave like room, swinging around a pair of visors. "Give those back, you little runt! What kind of servant gem is this thing?! He doesn't listen to anyone! Why do you keep it?" The green gem asked, as she chased the boy around.
Rose walked into the room and watched this scene, it made her laugh. "Peridot, he's not a servant gem. He's just a kid and doesn't know better. I'm still teaching him." She replied, as she walked in front of Steven. "Steven, may I have those?" The diamond asked politely, with that the boy handed her the visors and hugged her. Rose took the glasses and handed them to Peridot, "see? You just got to be kind."
Peridot snorted, and put her visors back on. "Still, he's useless. Why keep a gem, who doesn't even do anything!" She growled, folding her arms, it was difficult to do it with her limb enhancers, so it just looked weird.
Rose Diamond shook her head and she looked down at Steven, "Steven, show Peridot what you can do." She whispered.
Steven grinned and he turned to Peridot, his gem started to glow and he drew his sword from it and swung the weapon at her. This caused Peridot to screech and run behind Rose. "What the?! He can summon a weapon?! B-But I can't even do that!" Peridot whimpered, still clenching onto Rose's dress.
"That's not all. Steven, show here the other thing."
Steven grinned and he swung his arm in front of him and a pink shield formed in front of that arm. The boy looked up at Rose with a excited grin. Peridot couldn't believe this, "he has two weapons?! That's impossible! Only high ranked gems can summon two weapons." Peridot exclaimed, moving in front of Steven, she examined his weapons. "I take back everything I said...he isn't useless." The green dorito gem whispered, pulling up her screen. "In fact, I've never seen this type of gem before. What is he? And Is there anything else he can do?" She asked, taking notice on how he made his weapons disappear.
Rose kneeled down next to Steven and hugged him, "he's a special gem, that's all I can tell you. Actually, yes. We have been working on a power he has, but we haven't quite got it yet." She replied, ruffling up her child's hair.
Peridot made her screen go away and her fingers went back in the right place, "show me."
"Steven, show her your special power. The one we've been working on." Rose whispered.
Steven closed his eyes and took a deep breath, his gem started to glow brightly and petals started to form behind him. The petals started to grow and form a shape, but that shape soon failed and the petals fell to the ground. "Hmm, interesting. Alright, thank you. I'm going to go back to Yellow Diamond's headquarters now. If you need me to babysit your serva-I mean Steven...I'll be happy to help." Peridot said, about to leave, when she was hugged by the small child. This was new to her and she didn't know how to react, other than blush from embarrassment. "O-Ok, that's enough...goodbye Steven." The green gem said, before pulling away and walking out of the room.
Once Peridot left, Steven walked over to Rose and looked up at her. "I didn't get to show her. I'm never going to get my wings to form. I wasted her time by trying." He sighed, looking at the floor.
Rose knelt down in front of him and ruffled his hair. "Stop, don't say that. I know how much you like Peridot, and want to impress her. However, you did awesome! You impressed her, you just couldn't tell. Did you see how she reacted to your weapons? She was very impressed! Showing her the wings wouldn't of changed anything." The mother gem whispered, hugging the young boy.
"But, does she think I'm cool? I want to be as cool as her!"
"How about you go to bed now, and in the morning, you can ask her if she thinks you're cool."
"Yeah, ok! Goodnight, Rose." Steven said, kissing her on the cheek, before bounding over to his room.
Steven was up early and already training with Rose Diamond, they were working on shape shifting. "You can shape shift into anything! Gems, animals, and even objects. All you got to do is think of what you want to be and let your gem do the rest." Rose Diamond explained, showing a demonstration, she shape shifted into Steven. "See? It's pretty easy! You've been doing so well, I'm sure you'll get it in no time." The gem added, turning back into her normal self.
Steven nodded and he closed his eyes, thinking of Rose, his gem started to glow. "Hey Rose, you told me to come back." Peridot said, walking into the room.
Steven turned to look at Peridot and his gem stopped glowing, "Peridot's back!" He shouted, sprinting over to her, he glomped the gem.
"Steven! We're not done with training! Get back here!" Rose demanded, walking down to the two.
"Better listen to your queen, or she'll crack ya." Peridot warned, even though Steven had no idea what she meant. The tech gem looked at Rose and then back at Steven. "Want me to return him to you?" She asked, grabbing Steven, she picked him up and turned him toward Rose.
"No, let him play. He's been waiting for you to come back, he really likes you." The diamond replied, waving to them as she left her home and headed outside.
"The runt likes me? You like me? Why do you like me? I'm just a tech gem." Peridot said, still holding Steven from under his arms, he was facing her, with that stupid grin on his face.
"Yeah! You're so awesome, with your fingers that makes screens and guns! What's not to like? You're the best sister ever!" The young gem complemented.
Peridot smiled and she put the child back down on the floor, and ruffled up his black hair. "Thanks for the complement, but what on Homeworld is a sister?"
"It's a family member! Rose is my mom and you're my sister, or aunt!" Steven explained, he thought his explanation was perfect, but Peridot didn't seem to understand, so she pulled the word up on her screen.
"This word doesn't explain me at all, I don't know why you chose it for me." Peridot grumbled, making her fingers go back into place. When the gem looked back down at Steven, he was staring up at her. "What? You have something to ask me, don't you?"
"Do you think I'm cool?" Steven asked, his eyes sparkling with excitement and eagerness to know the answer.
"Cool? Uhh, sure..." Peridot replied, even though she had no idea what this word meant in the way he was using it. "Ok, Steven. Since you like me so much, can you tell me what gem you are?" She asked.
Steven pulled up his shirt, so his gem was showing. "I'm a rose quartz." He replied, dropping his shirt back down.
"Rose quartz? I've never heard of that gem. How high ranked are you? Surely you're a high ranked gem, if you can summon two weapons." Peridot asked, searching through her screen to find any other rose quartz gems.
"I'm not sure what rank I am, I was never told."
"I found your gem, but it contains no information on rose quartz being able to summon two weapons. This can't possibly be your gem, you look nothing like it and the information doesn't match. What are you?" Peridot asked, making her screen go away to face the kid.
Steven smirked and he folded his arms "I'm a special kind of rose quartz." He answered, Peridot was about to ask another question, but he stopped her. "I won't answer any more questions, unless you carry me on on your shoulders." The gem said, raising his arms up.
Peridot growled and she picked up Steven and placed him on her shoulders, where he held onto her hair. "I don't understand the point of this." She groaned, looking up at him.
Steven giggled and he played with her hair, "there is no point, it's just fun." He responded.
"I still don't understand, but whatever. Tell me why you're special now." Peridot demanded.
"I'm special because I'm part human! My mom was a gem and my dad was a half gem."
"Human?! But, that's against the rules! Wait..Dad, mom? Explain."
Steven was too infatuated with Peridot's hair, "your hair is very pointy."
"Steveeen." Peridot groaned, wanting him to explain mom and dad to her.
"Oh right, sorry. Moms and dads are the people or gems that made you! Instead of a kindergarten, I was made by two gems, that gave their physical forms up to make me. Moms and dads are parents, they are gems or people, who you look up to and love very much." Steven explained, sad when Peridot put him back down on the ground.
"No more shoulder rides, I'm done asking questions." The green gem admitted, ruffling up his hair. "Thanks for telling me, now I can update the information for rose quartz." Peridot said, pulling up her screen she started to write, but was stopped by Steven grabbing her arm.
"Don't! Rose will see what you added and get mad at me."
"Why?"
"I don't know, she always told me to keep that information a secret."
"Oh, because of Ye-"
"Yellow Diamond, yes." A voice said, placing their hand on the tech gem's shoulder. Peridot swung around to find Rose Diamond there, she looked back at Steven, and found him hiding behind Peridot's leg. "And the rules." The diamond added, she knelt down near Steven and folded her arms. "I'm very disappointed in you, Steven. How could you tell Peridot your secret?" Rose asked, this caused Steven to whimper and cower away.
Peridot stepped in front of Steven and blocked Rose's view of the child. "It wasn't his fault, don't punish him for my mistake. I was the one who wanted to know his secret, I didn't know he wasn't suppose to tell me." She said, knowing how Diamonds punish their gems for disobeying them, since she worked under Yellow Diamond. Rose looked up at Peridot and she stood, placing her hand on her hip. "I take the blame for what Steven did, so punish me."
"Punish you? I can't do that, you're Yellow Diamond's gem. I don't punish either, I'm not one to do that." The diamond replied, she looked down at Steven, who peaked out from behind the tech gem.
"Y-You don't punish? But how do you teach your gems a lesson? Oh, never mind...I promise to keep Steven's part self a secret from everyone, even Yellow Diamond."
"Thank you, Peridot. You may leave now." Rose said, with that the green gem, bowed and left.
"Come, Steven. Let's get back to training."
(Time skip to when Steven is 11 years old)
"Just breath, and focus all your energy on your gem. You can do this, Steven." Rose Diamond encouraged, with a large grin on her face. This was the day, this is when he would figure out how to create his wings, she could feel it!
Steven stepped back and he closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. "Ok, let's do this." He whispered, his gem started to glow and a shape of petals started to form. They shape started to change and form into wings. The petal wings flapped once and folded behind him, "I DID IT!" He yelled, looking over his newly made wings.
Rose jumped for joy and she picked up Steven and swung him around, "you did it! You did it! You did it! I'm so proud of you!" She yelled, kissing her boy all over his face, causing him to laugh. "Now, let's see you fly!" She giggled, setting Steven back on the ground. However, once Steven was about to try and fly, they were interrupted by a pearl coming in.
"Rose!" The service gem shouted.
"What? What is it? We're sort of busy here."
"The diamonds are having a meeting, and they're waiting for you."
"Oh, I forgot. Well, I guess I have to go. Stay here and practice flying, while I'm at the meeting." Rose whispered, ruffling Steven's hair, before walking out with the pearl.
Steven was flying all around the palace, when Rose came back in with something in her arms. "Oh! What's that?" He asked, landing down, he bounded over to his queen.
Rose opened her arms and she placed down the pink creature, "it's a lion. I got him for you as a gift, for figuring out your most unique power." Rose replied, pushing the lion cub up toward Steven.
Steven grinned and he took hold of the cat, "he's so cute! Hello, Lion! Where did you get him?" He asked.
"Somewhere special. I just wanted you to have a friend, when I'm away at meetings." Rose replied, looking down at the small animal. "What are you going to name him?"
Steven played with the tuff of mane on the head of his lion, "I like Lion. That's what he is, right? Why change his name?" He replied, hugging Lion close to his chest.
"That's a good name." The diamond said, she picked up Steven and walked to her throne, when she sat down, she placed the boy on her lap. "Steven." She whispered and the gem boy looked up at her. "The diamonds' want you to come with me the next meeting, how does that sound?" She asked, not sure if he would be comfortable with this
"All the diamonds?" Steven mumbled, he looked at the yellow diamond in the center of his shirt and he looked back up at Rose. "Yellow Diamond too?" He asked, knowing that she was one of the head diamonds and one of the more powerful.
Rose nodded slowly, "she will, so be on your best behavior. We want them to like you." She replied, not knowing if he was up for this.
"Alright! Can I bring Lion? He should meet the other diamonds too." Steven said, holding up the pink animal to her.
Rose was about to decline, when Lion licked her nose. This made her unable to say no, "ok, fine. You can bring Lion, but make sure he behaves too." Steven nodded and he squeezed Lion close to him. Rose noticed that Steven still had his wings out, "Steven, you can't have those wings out when we go to the meeting."
"Why not? If I make them go away, they might never come back! I don't think I can form them twice...can't I keep them out forever?" Steven asked, giving her a pleading look.
"No! The other diamonds will see them and think you are something very special and high ranked. They might take you from me! Steven, please..." The queen replied, her worst fear was for Steven to be taken from her, and she wasn't going to let that happen.
Steven sighed, his wings fell apart and the petals disintegrated. The boy looked away and tried to not make eye contact. However, that failed when Rose started kissing him, making him laugh and squirm away. Rose smiled and placed Steven back down on the ground, "thank you, Steven. I'm positive you'll be able to form your beautiful wings again." Steven grinned and nodded, still holding his lion close to him. "The meeting is next week, so be prepared."
The next week Rose was waiting outside for her boy, very nervous and scared. Just a few minutes later, out came Steven running over toward her, with the little pink lion chasing after him. "Ready to go?" She asked, Steven nodded and he walked next to her as they headed to the headquarters. It was a long trip, but they made it on time. "Pick up Lion and hold him, please." The diamond whispered, and her child obeyed and held his lion. "Make sure to answer all their questions if they ask you them, if you feel uncomfortable answering one, just tell them that." Rose added, she walked into the room, all the diamonds were sitting at a table,
talking. When Rose walked in with Steven they stopped talking and looked at them, this made Steven very nervous. "We're here."
Yellow Diamond looked down at Steven and snorted, "this is the gem you have been training? He is small and defective, what is this? I was expecting something better from you." She growled, shaking her head.
"Actually, he is pretty powerful. I wouldn't judge him on his size." Peridot pointed out, she was standing next to Yellow Diamonds side and was her chosen assistant for this meeting.
"Did I give you permission to speak?!" The head diamond snapped.
Steven whimpered and he looked up at Rose. Rose smiled and picked him up, she took a seat next to Blue Diamond and placed Steven on her lap. "What is your name, little one?" Blue asked, giving him a smile. Blue Diamond was a nicer diamond, but she was still very strict and always followed the rules.
"I'm Steven!" Steven replied, it made him happy that this diamond seemed to be nice. However, that changed once they started whispering to each other after he said that.
Yellow diamond folded her arms and she just stared at the boy, "what kind of gem name is that?" She asked.
"I-It's not...I'm a rose quartz."
"Oh, really? Because you look nothing like one. What are you, really?"
Steven started to shake from fear, this made Lion jump out of his hands and onto the table. The pink cub walked over to Yellow Diamond and sat down in front of her. "What on Homeworld is that thing?!"
Steven panicked and he quickly grabbed Lion and pulled him back. "S-Sorry! He's my lion." He replied, holding Lion close to his chest.
Rose stopped all of them from asking any more questions, "let's just get to the meeting, Steven isn't the reason we all came here today." With that they got back to the meeting, using Peridot's screen to pull up images and other stuff specifically for the meeting.
(Time skip to when Steven is 12 years old)
Steven was riding on Lion's back as they ran around the planet, just jumping over things and dodging gems that were walking. They were making a lot of racket and being a nuisance, but they didn't really care. The two kids were having fun and didn't see why it was wrong to do this.
"Do you're magic roar!" Steven said, and his lion roared, opening a portal, they jumped through it. Lion came out of the portal in Rose Diamond's palace, he slid to a stop and accidentally threw Steven off. "Haha! That was awesome! Did you see all their faces? They were so shocked when you opened a portal." The tween laughed, he stood up and walked over to Lion. "What did you think?" He asked. Lion had grown from a cub, he was much larger, and his mane was growing. The mane was from his head down to the end of the back of his neck, and some was found on his chest. It isn't a full mane yet, but it's getting there.
Lion soon responded by rubbing against Steven's face, purring softly. "We should do that more often!" He laughed, hugging the pink beast, before searching around for Rose. "Where's Rose? Do you think something happened?" The gem asked, getting worried. Lion just yawned and sat down.
Rose walked in soon after, with a gem following her. The gem seemed to be mad and arguing with the diamond. "I know, and I'm sorry. I'll do something about it." She said, making sure this gem left, before walking over to Steven. Rose stared at Steven and the cat, she folded her arms. "I'm sure you know what I'm going to say." Steven sunk down and he looked over at Lion who was doing the same thing. "Steven, what have I told you about leaving the palace without my permission? You made many gems angry and they wouldn't stop demanding me to punish you! Steven, what if a different Diamond caught you? They would of cracked you! Running around the town with Lion, disturbing the gems, isn't ok! It's very dangerous." The diamond growled, tapping her foot on the ground. Rose didn't want to punish her child, but if he kept doing these kinds of things, she would have to. "Do you want me to start punishing you?"
Steven looked at the floor and he shook his head, "no..."
"Then make sure not to do it again! You and Lion are to never leave this palace again, not without my guidance. Do you understand?"
"Yes."
"Very good, now let's get to training." Rose Diamond said, summoning her sword from her gem. The sword was large, much more large than Steven's. It had diamonds engraved into the handle and a pink diamond at the end. "Summon your weapon and your wings, Steven. We're going to see how well you are with fighting in the air."
Steven shooed Lion away into his room, so he didn't have to be here, while training. After Lion left, Steven pulled his pink sword from his back and held it in front of him. His wings formed from behind him, and flapped once, before folding. "Ready!"
Rose leapt forward and she swung her sword near his legs, Steven dodged by flying into the air. The boy dove behind her and went to hit her back, but she swiped around and collided their swords. "Very good, Steven! You almost had me there." She laughed, quickly drawing back her sword.
Steven hovered above the ground, he glanced down, then back at Rose. Quickly taking this advantage, he dove down and flew under her, coming out, he hit the side of his sword on her back. Thus showing, that he would of got her if this was a real battle. "I win."
"Only a round, my boy. We still have two more rounds, we'll see who truly wins then." The diamond replied, taking a step back. "Round two, go!"
Steven landed and his wings folded behind him, he swung his sword toward her side and she blocked it with her blade. Rose smirked and she pulled her sword away and swung it toward Steven's chest, he quickly jumped out of the way and over to her side. Rose just swiped back around and aimed for his side. Steven flew back into the air and hovered above her sword, he was about to use a counter attack, when he spotted someone coming to the door. The boy instantly landed and his wings fell apart, behind him. "Someone's coming." Rose glanced behind her and she made her weapon vanish, as did Steven. The pink diamond grabbed Steven's hand and she hid him behind her, getting ready for their guest.
Their 'guest' was actually Yellow Diamond, and she didn't look too happy. "Hello, Rose." She growled, how she said Rose's name made Steven shiver. Rose simply responded with a bow of her head. Yellow Diamond slowly moved behind her, "so, Rose...there's a rumor going around..." She began, trying to get behind her, but Rose kept moving, so she couldn't. "About a human hybrid being trained by a gem, do you know about this rumor? Or have anything to do with it?" The diamond asked, glancing back over at Rose.
"No, I have not." Rose replied firmly, not taking her eyes of the head diamond.
Yellow Diamond scowled, "you're lying!" The diamond grabbed Steven's wrist and pulled him away from Rose Diamond. "This is a human! You raised a human on Homeworld, you broke the rules! This thing needs to be destroy!" She shouted, raising Steven up to look at him.
Steven was squirming around, he grabbed the diamond's hand and tried to pull it off of his wrist. "Let me go! Y-You're hurting me!" He cried, this just made Yellow Diamond grip harder. The diamond turned away from Rose and headed toward the exit.
Rose summoned her weapon, "NO! GIVE HIM BACK!" She screamed, swinging her sword toward Yellow Diamond's head.
Rose's sword was stopped by another blade, a much longer and stronger one. "You dare try to attack me?! Pathetic." She snarled, throwing Rose's sword out of her hand, with her own blade. "You are a traitor, Rose Diamond; and you always have been." Yellow Diamond stated, just before walking away with Steven still in her hand.
Rose fell to her knees, crying as she watched her baby get taken away from her. "Please...don't take him." She cried, but it was too late, the door was slammed shut and they were gone.
Yellow Diamond was walking toward headquarters, looking down at the boy, every so often. Steven was still trying to get her to let go, even went as far as biting his arm. "Are you trying to bite your arm off? How stupid." She mumbled. Once they got to headquarters, she chucked the boy against the wall.
Steven gagged, when he hit the wall, pain flooding through him. The gem boy, could see Peridot in the distance, and this gave him hope.
"Steven? Why is Steven here?" Peridot asked, walking over to her queen.
"This boy is a human hybrid, he needs to be destroyed! Peridot, get the destabilizer and kill him." Yellow Diamond demanded, staring down at the injured boy.
Peridot looked at Steven, his eyes full of fear. "W-What? He's just a child!" She replied.
Yellow Diamond was starting to loose her patience, "Peridot, don't disobey me! His age doesn't matter to me, use the destabilizer!" She ordered, clenching her fists.
Peridot stood her ground and she folded her arms, "no! I refuse!" She replied, she saw how happy Steven was when she said that.
"Fine! I'll do it myself!" The diamond growled, she slammed her fist on the button and a destabilizer shot out. Yellow Diamond quickly grabbed it and she walked toward Steven, she grabbed his wrist and raised him up. "You are an abomination! You don't deserve to live, I'm doing you a favor." She whispered, just when she was going to shock Steven, Peridot ran up and grabbed her arm.
"Don't you dare hurt him!" The tech gem shouted, slamming her fist onto her queen's arm.
Yellow Diamond threw Peridot off and she dropped Steven. "I thought you were loyal to me, Peridot. I am very disappointed in you." She then stabbed the destabilizer into Peridot and she poofed instantly.
Steven screamed at this and he kicked his legs to try and move away from Yellow Diamond. "No, Peridot! How could you do that?!" He cried, pressing against the edge of a wall.
Yellow Diamond grabbed Peridot's gem and she bubbled it, sending it off to the harvest room. "She disobeyed and betrayed me, you should be glad I didn't shatter her gem." She growled, walking over to Steven.
Steven was about to run off, but Yellow Diamond grabbed his arm. "But you. I will shatter you." She whispered, just before stabbing the destabilizer into his chest. Surprisingly, it didn't poof him, it just shocked him and hurt him. "W-What?! Why isn't it working?!" The diamond asked, as she kept shocking the boy with the destabilizer.
Once she was done trying, Steven was burned and hurting everywhere. The poor boy couldn't even move, he was so hurt. However, this didn't stop Yellow Diamond, she picked him up and slammed him against the wall. "Why won't you retreat into your gem?!" She kept slamming him against the wall, until he was spitting up blood. This confused her and she dropped him, "that's it!" Yellow Diamond yelled, she summoned her sword and drew it to her side.
Steven opened his eyes slightly, he could see her sword and he shut his eyes tightly. Just as expected, she used her weapon to cut Steven all over. Once again, he wouldn't poof, he just kept bleeding. This angered the head diamond even more, so she stabbed him in the stomach, close to his gem even. When she pulled her sword out, she watched as Steven clenched onto his stomach wound and cried. Just when she thought she would have to stab him again, he poofed and pink smoke filled the room.
"I knew you could retreat into your gem!" Yellow Diamond laughed, she picked up his gem and noticed the blood all over the wall. Hmm, I'll get a pearl to clean that up. She looked down at his gem, about to crush it, when she realized something. The diamond looked behind her at the control panel, where a silver mirror was. "I changed my mind, I'm not going to shatter you. I will banish you into a mirror, and send you to earth. If the enemy finds you, then they will most likely shatter you." She explained, setting his gem on the table she cracked it with the hilt of her sword and shoved his gem into the back of the mirror. After that, she used a small machine, Peridot created, to send that mirror to earth. Yellow Diamond didn't even get the thought that the enemy might actually help him.
(And that's the end of the past! After that you have read up to where we are now, in the present!)
Steven finally finished explaining the last part of the story, he was staring at the floor the whole time. All the others were silent, just looking at Steven. That is until, Rose broke the silence. "I can't believe she hurt you that bad! No wonder you're not the same like you were back at Homeworld, they destroyed your cheerful personality." She whispered, hugging her boy.
Connie and Lapis joined in with the hug, they didn't know how that could of felt, but they could imagine. "Are you sure you're ok?" Connie asked, pulling away from the hug.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's in the past, I have you guys now." The boy replied, looking down at his hands, when he realized something. "Rose, where is Peridot? Is she ok? Did she get shattered?"
Rose placed her hand on Steven's shoulder and gave him a soft smile, "she's ok. Yellow Diamond was going to harvest her, but she changed her mind. I saw her just the other day, she's perfectly fine. Well, minus the fact she doesn't have her limb enhancers, at the moment." She replied. Yellow Diamond was still in the process of making the other peridot's create another set of limb enhancers.
Lapis sighed and she looked up at the sky, it seemed to be almost sunset and this worried her. "Uh, the gems are probably worried about me. I should get going, before they come looking." She said, noticing how Lion's head perked up.
"Too late." Connie replied, she knew what that meant when Lion did that, just as expected the portal was activated, and out came all the gems.
Pearl sprinted over to Lapis and hugged her from behind, "you're ok! Where were you?! We were worried sick!" She cried, looking over at Garnet and Amethyst, who were heading down to Pearl.
Lapis was about to reply, when Rose stood up and placed her hand on Pearl. "Hello, Pearl."
Pearl looked up and she gasped, falling over from shock. "R-Rose Diamond?!"
{{Ok, I know I've been very slow on updating, and I'm sorry. I have a lot of things to do when I get home, like math homework I get every day, and babysitting. I usually write at night, when I can't go to sleep, or when traveling. I get inspired to write then, and those are rare...so that's why I am slow with publishing. But this chapter was WAY longer than I expected and that's another reason it took this long! That and I was finishing a Connverse one shot, while writing this. I will post that one shot, if you're interested in reading it.}}