So many birthdays.
So this episode is a nightmare. Idk why but… I just can't… this single episode… I just can't do this. So I did the only logical thing and sent Coral on a separate mission so that she doesn't get traumatized. So hope you enjoyed this one cause I had nothing to go off. Also I'm sorry if I messed up some things. I haven't been in a library in years. Also Idk why I made Coral a bit of a book nerd but i did. Don't hate me plz.
Also sorry for the beast thing. In my defence I had autocorrect on.
ALSO HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.
"How can you live like this?" Pearl asked. She was covering her nose with both hands to avoid the terrible smell.
"It was fine till you guys started whining." Amethyst shrugged.
"Whining?! The whole temple reeks." Pearl almost screamed.
"Guys just found it" Steven yelled, pulling out a wrapped thing out of a bunch of junk. The temple has started to smell and the smell was coming out of Amethyst's room.
"What is this?" Coral asked. Steven opened the wrapper to reveal a disgusting thing wrapped in a tortilla.
"It's a burrito." Garnet said plainly.
"It's the duno burrito from aqua Mexico" Amethyst explained.
"Didn't that place close like forever ago?" Coral asked.
"It closed five years ago" Steven exclaimed.
"Eh" Amethyst said unwrapping it and starting to put it in her mouth. But Coral grabbed it out of her hands.
"Hey. I was gonna eat that." Amethyst complained, reaching for the rotten food. Coral bubbled it and put it in her pearl to throw away later.
"Trust me you are going to regret eating rotten food. Good poisoning won't kill you but it will hurt a lot" Coral told Amethyst.
"Hey guys. I found a picture of you and my mom" Steven exclaimed, pulling out a really old photo of the gems and a few people that were dressed in extremely old outfits.
"Oh Steven. That is us." Pearl said.
"Really?" Steven asked, surprised.
"The hard part was getting the shark to pose" Garnet said.
"Why is everybody dressed like old time people." Steven asked.
"Those are old time people." Pearl told him.
"But that means… how old are you?" Steven asked.
"Much older than any human." Coral said.
"Do you live forever?" Steven asked in awe.
"No. We just don't age but we can still get hurt and die." Coral explained.
"How do you find a cake big enough for all those candles?" Steven asked, trying to imagine a cake so big.
"We don't really celebrate birthdays." Garnet answered.
"What? Why not?!" Steven asked.
"Not our way" Amethyst said, shrugging.
"Well I can't just ignore this unjustice. I'm gonna throw you the best birthday party to make up for all the parties that you missed. You will have all the candy, cake, and ice cream you have been denied." Steven said, running towards the exit to get the party ready.
"Well good luck and have fun guys." Coral said walking towards the temple door.
"Where are you going?" Pearl asked.
"I gotta return some books to the library and get some new ones. Tell Steven I won't be back for a while." Coral answered. Garnet adjusted her glasses and nodded to Coral.
"Coral are you not staying for your party?" Steven asked.
"Sorry Steven. I gotta return some books and visit some places. Just save me some cake." Coral said walking towards the warp pad.
"Aw. That's ok I'll just throw you a party later." Steven promised, getting stuff out of the fridge.
"Alright bye." Coral said, warping away. The place she warped do wasn't far from civilization. The only thing separating her and a nearby city was a few mountains. They were easily crossed by shapeshifting into a bird, and after a few minutes of flight Coral arrived at her favorite library. She waved at the librarian. The librarian was nice as long as you didn't break any rules.
"Hello miss. I would like to return some books I checked out a month ago" Coral said, pulling the books out of her pearl.
"Ah yes. Welcome back Coral. We got a lot of new books on the fifth row. I'm sure you'll find something of interest." The librarian said, scanning the books.
"Thank you." Coral said, walking towards the fifth row of books. The library was her favorite place other than the temple. It was so full of new knowledge about earth and everything that happens on it. It always fascinated Coral that there was such an amount of knowledge on a bunch of fragile pages.
Coral made her legs longer and easily reached the top shelves. But after a few seconds of choosing her books she felt the ground shake. A few seconds passed and it shook again. And again. Books started falling from the shelves and people started screaming. It got closer and closer.
It broke the wall of the library and knocked down the shelves. It was a giant lion looking monster. It was a corrupted quartz soldier. Coral summoned her ribbon wand and ran towards it.
"Everybody out" Coral screamed at the people in the library. She slid under the creature and caught its foot with her ribbon wand. Unfortunately it was a lot stronger then Coral thought it was, and it flung her into a shelve fool of books.
Coral reached into her pearl for her lance. She grabbed the chandelier with her ribbon wand and sound towards the creature. It reached for the wand but Coral despawned it, slid under the creature, stabbed it with her lance, and caused it to poof.
The corrupted gem dropped to the ground and Coral bubbled it. She surveyed the damage done. A few bookshelves were broken and a big chunk of the brick wall was missing. She got a few tools out and new wood boards and fixed the bookshelves but she left the brick wall to the professionals. Some of the people started to return. The librarian walked back inside. She thanked Coral for stopping the monster and let Coral keep the books that she wanted to check out. Coral thanked the librarian stored the books into her pearl. She looked at the clock. It was 18:00.
'I still had some time to kill. And there is a supermarket not far from here' Coral thought.
3 hours later.
Coral was walking back to the warp pad, a smoothie in hand. She got a few new tools and materials for repair of any kind. When she warped back to the temple no one was there. She heard some commotion outside.
"Hey everyone, I'm back." Coral said, to everyone when she found them.
"Hey Coral." Steven said. Thought Coral noticed that his legs looked a lot longer.
"We'll work on the rest later." Garnet said.
"What did I… never mind. I have the feeling I don't want to know" Coral said, walking back into the temple.