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Steven and Connie walked around the frightening place known as the Kindergarten. The air was tense, and it was hard to breathe. Steven soon felt uneasy, as if something bad was going to happen.
Connie felt the same. She had never been to The Kindergarten until now, but now that she was, she understood why The Crystal Gems were sort of scared of the place.
Steven looked at all of the holes that were in building-like rocks. Shivers went down his spine as he remembered the time when he first found out about the place. Steven let out a deep sigh as they continued on, looking for anything suspicious or out of the ordinary.
Soon, a headache started forming in Steven's head. It started off as a small one, but then got worse over time.
Steven winced at the pain, while making sure not to alert Connie. The pain was starting to get excruciating, but he didn't know where it was all coming from. He couldn't hear, nor sense the Replica inside of his mind, so what could it be?
Steven started to get worried as the wind started to get stronger.
"Uh, Steven? Are you alright? You seem kind of distressed." Connie asked, noticing Steven's unusual behavior.
"N-no, nothing's wrong. I'm fine." Steven said reassuringly, trying to hide the pain in his voice.
Connie didn't believe any of it. "I'm not buying it Steven. Tell me."
"Crap." Steven thought as the pain just kept getting worse.
Suddenly, a distorted yet disturbing moan could be heard somewhere. Steven's eyes widened and he soon grabbed Connie's hand and they both hid behind a rock.
"Steven, what's going...oh my gosh." Connie's eyes widened in disgust from the creature she was looking at.
The creature had two arms that were located where the head should have been, and the arms had different colors. One was white, and one was red. They could also see more arms that were located on the creatures right side. They were all different colors.
Steven looked at the creature intently, trying to find the gem that belonged to the creature. Once he found it on it's chest, he was disgusted. The gem looked like it had other different shards of gems on it.
"Connie, I think that's one of the Gem mutants I told you about." Steven said as he looked at it, frightened.
"Ugh, it's...disgusting." Connie exclaimed as the creature roamed around the Kindergarten.
"Should we take it out?" Connie questioned.
"Yes, it's better to take it out of it's misery." Steven replied, summoning his shield while Connie took out her sword. They both jumped out of their hiding places and charged at the creature.
The creature heard movement and turned around. It began to yell in misery as it tried to grab the both of them. Both of them dodged and the creature soon charged at Connie. Steven jumped in front of the creature and used his shield to block all of the creature's punches.
He knew the creature was just defending itself, but it was starting to get annoying.
Steven soon thought that he should just end this already and made his shield have sharp edges around it so it would make the creature poof. Before he could do that however, he heard something.
"Steven..." A chilling voice chanted his name. Steven shivered at the voice and it made him freeze up entirely.
While this happened, the creature took the opportunity to attack once again, only for it to be poofed by Connie who stabbed it.
Connie looked at Steven worriedly.
"Steven are you okay?" Connie asked, worried. Steven shook his head fiercely, trying to shake it off.
"Yeah, it's just...Did you hear anything weird while we were fighting that gem mutant? Besides all of the moaning coming from it though." Steven asked as he picked up the gem shards and bubbled them back to the temple.
"No, why?" Connie stated.
"It's nothing, I guess was just hearing things..." Steven said, deep in thought. Suddenly, another headache emerged in his head. But unlike the other one, this wasn't as bad.
Steven sighed. "Well, since we've been working our butts off trying to finish this investigation, how about we go to the park and try to relax a bit?" Steven suggested with a smile, hiding the fact that he was in pain.
"Okay, sounds good." Connie smiled back. Connie's smile than turned into a frown.
"Wait, you didn't tell me why you were so tense before we fought that creature. What happened?" Connie remembered.
"It was just a small headache, nothing serious. Don't worry, it has nothing to do with the Replica, seeing as how he's been defeated...I think." Steven reassured.
"Alright, but you can always talk to me Steven. You're my friend, and I don't want you to keep secrets from me."
"Okay. I won't." Steven knew that was a lie. He just didn't want the others to worry about anything else. They already had to recover from the whole Replica ordeal, and The Crystal Gems aren't that stable anymore. He had to make sure they don't have too much on their hands. He doesn't want to over stress them.
With Malachite and Peridot still out there, Yellow Diamond and White Diamond possibly starting to notice us, and the whole mess the gems were in now is kind of stressful.
"Alright, let's go. And if there is something going on, you better tell me sooner or later." Connie stated. Steven only nodded his head.
Both went back to the warp pad and warped both of them back to the house.
A/N: Really happy with this one. A special thank you to ALL of you who reviewed. You inspire me to do this. When you review, I get so excited that I want to write more, so please keep reviewing and following and favoriting and all of that good stuff. Next chapter is uh, really weird and creepy. If you're a kid who's reading this story, you're bound to not sleep at night from the next chapter. Anyways, please review! Thanks!