Hello everyone, I'm back with a new chapter, and as I start this right now, I have no idea what the story of this chapter will be, so that's fun.

Also, I'd just like to say that I really do appreciate all the nice reviews, votes, and follows for this story, even just the readers who skim over the text and go on to the next story, because even you help this story be known.

Now I don't want to seem like I'm only doing this for views and such, I'm really not, I do enjoy all the stuff I publish, and I just enjoy knowing that my hard work is getting seen and enjoyed...well hard work for me, I have a $#!y imagination so it's not so easy for me, hell, you'd laugh your ass off if you got to see the first draft of each chapter.

For example, this was originally much shorter and didn't have all that much fluff in it at all, I added that in when editing.

Or even chapter three, which originally had Spinel mad at Steven for him taking Pink away, but I felt that didn't really reflect her character or the story I wanted to write, plus it's over used with Pearl. And now you have what chapter three is now, something that I'm actually happy with...what was I originally going on about, again?...

Oh yeah! So yes, I do appreciate you all for reading this story, it gives me inspiration to write and try to keep the story from coming to a standstill.

Anyway, sit back, relax, grab a snack, and let's read.

-=Homeworld Capital City=-

-=Steven/Spinel=-

-=After Steven tells the story of his mother's war=-

"-and that's basically all there is to know I guess." Steven finished, having just explained how the war for earth went to his new pink friend.

"I see...that sounds terrible, the mass grave of shards forced into one huge fusion, the corruption, all of it. I guess I should be somewhat grateful that I wasn't involved in that." Spinel spoke, taking in all of what Steven had just told her.

"Yeah, war is a pretty horrible thing, but now stuff is changing, I'm trying to make it so we are a peaceful race, that way no one ever has to go through that again." He explained, looking over the busy streets of the capital.

"But do you think everyone is happy with theses changes? Quartz Soldiers are meant for fighting, I'm sure they aren't exactly enthusiastic about peace." Spinel questioned, glancing over to him.

"Yeah, we thought of that. They're still on hold for any military action we may need to take, but they all mostly got jobs as law enforcement. Speaking of which, the new laws of Homeworld are pretty simple, and should be easy to uphold," he explained.

"No Stealing from other Gems, no shattering other Gems unless you have the authority and the law deems it necessary, no forcing Gems into fusion, no destruction of property, no blackmailing, no terrorism, do not start fights outside of an agreed upon duel, that is held in a safe place under the supervision of proper law enforcement, trying to access military property without proper authority is forbidden, no discrimination against other Gems just because of what their gem is, and well, the list continues, but I won't bore you with the details right now, we'll get you adjusted with the handbook that we gave all Gems after making these laws."

Spinel tried to keep up with all these new laws but just trying to make room in her mind for all this at once made her head spin. "That's a lot of new rules to follow, what happens when they're broken?"

"Well, you will be given a fair trial, and the non-biased Judge will decide your punishment. It's a lot like your old trial system, but now there is a jury made up of multiple Gems, the Judge is to only to choose a punishment if the jury finds the Gem in question guilty, and there aren't as many shatterings, just being put behind a destabilization shield for whatever amount of time the judge decides." He explained how punishments worked around here now. "Shattering is actually very rare, and it really only happens half the time when the Gem has shattered other Gems."

"Well I can make sense of that at least." Spinel sighed, looking over new Homeworld.

"While we're here, would you like to go around and meet some Gems?" He offered. "I'll have to bring us a little further away from this tower though, I don't want the Gems that made a religion from me and the Diamonds seeing me, they kind of make me uncomfortable."

"Oh, sure, as long as I'm not getting in the way of anything." Spinel agreed with a smile. "I'd like to meet more Gems I guess, my purpose in life is to make friends after all."

"Alright then, hang on to me." Steven instructed, lifting the pink Gem in his arms, bridal style.

This caught Spinel by surprise, but she did as she was told and wrapped herself around him with her rubber-like arms. "What are we doing now?"

"Heh, watch this." Steven grinned as he got a running start towards the end of the roof.

"W-wait, slow down, we're heading right for the edge!" Spinel panicked as she held on tighter, closing her eyes and waiting to fall.

Steven jumped right off the side of the roof, launching them far away from the building, the wind pulling his hood off of his head.

Spinel slowly opened her eyes to see that they weren't really falling, but they were soaring through the air. She looked down to see the colorful lights of the capital fly by under them like a sea of light. "You can...fly?"

"Well, not really fly, but float, I just propelled us forward with all my strength so it would get us to the less active areas faster." He explained, keeping his eyes straight ahead, looking for a place to stop.

Spinel looked up to him with a small sparkle in her eye, that warm feeling returning to her Gem as she pulled herself closer to him, looking away with a blush as he glanced down at her.

"Alright, here we are, there shouldn't be enough people to get us separated again, and 'the followers' won't be as frequent." Steven spoke as they slowly lowered to the ground.

Not long after their dissent, two Gems recognized him, luckily enough they weren't followers, but friends that he made not too long ago.

"Oh, hello Steven, what brings you to the capital?" A small white Gem with a blue dress asked.

She was slim and short Gem that was probably chest height to Steven; who had grown since he had come here. Her hair was short and white, her bangs swept away from her light blue eyes and being held in place with a blue hair piece, decorated with a small, dark blue diamond.

She wore a blue dress with transparent snowflake patterns, it stopping just over her knees, and a diamond shape cut out over her Gem that was sitting on the left side of her chest.

Her Gem was a pale white that matched the color of her skin and hair, with black markings, making it look like pine trees covered in snow.

Her power was to control and create ice and snow, also known as cryokinesis.

"Hey Dendrite, how are things?" Steven asked with a wave, letting Spinel down.

"I am doing fine, Citrine is enjoying the changes of Homeworld, as am I." Dendrite answered as a yellow Gem walked over.

She was the same size as Dendrite, and the two were almost never seen apart. They were both considered defective and yet they were aloud to survive due to being found useful by White when they were discovered to have powers instead of weapons like they were intended to have.

Citrine was a yellow Gem, relatively the same hight as Dendrite with her Gem being on the right side of her chest. Her hair being white with golden yellow highlights, running down her back, and nearly touching the floor.

Her eyes were a glowing orange color, the left one being covered by her hair, and her cloths very different from Dendrite's, she wore a whole body skin tight gold and yellow suit, nothing much more to its design other than just that.

She wore the skin tight suit that held no extra design for mobility as she was able to go at blinding speeds, as well as use electrokinesis: the ability to wield electricity.

"So who's your friend here?" Citrine asked, pointing to Spinel, who was sticking close to Steven.

"This is Spinel, I brought her here to meet some more people and make new friends. Say hi, Spinel." Steven nudged her with a reassuring smile.

She walked forward with a wave. "Hello, my name is Spinel, nice to meet ya." She smiled, stretching her arm forward to shake their hands.

"Nice to meet cha too, I'm Citrine, and this here, is my friend Dendrite." Citrine greeted for the both of them.

"Hello." Dendrite waved, speaking with a quiet voice. "How did you meet Steven?"

"Oh, well it's kind of a long story, but he found me in Pink's garden after she abandoned me there for six thousand years." She explained, rubbing the back of her head.

"Oh no, that's terrible. I'm sorry to hear that happened to you." Dendrite said sympathetically.

"It's all fine now, Steven got me out of there and promised he would stay by my side...so, I don't need to dwell on the past as long as he's around." Spinel said sheepishly, glancing back at Steven.

Citrine laughed as she slugged the boy in the arm playfully. "Looks like our Diamond boy has this little Gem falling head over heals for him."

"Come on Citrine, don't start with the teasing already, me and her have hardly known each other for a day." Steven chuckled as he rubbed where she punch him. "And besides, who are you calling little, shorty." He grinned as he propped his arm up on her head.

Citrine just laughed as she pushed him back slightly. "Woooowww, impressive, hardly known each other for a day and you've gotten her in love with you." She continued to tease, laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world to her.

"In love?" Spinel questioned. "What's that?"

"When you have very strong feeling for someone. You feel all warm inside, and you never want to be away from them for long. I guess it could be put simply as...they complete you, and you'd do anything for them." Dendrite explained with a smile.

"And it looks like our girl here has the love bug, and it's bitten hard." Citrine snickered as she leaned on Spinel.

"Come on guys, leave her alone." Steven said, lifting Citrine and setting her down next to Dendrite.

Spinel sat there deep in thought, she did dread ever having him not be around, and he made her Gem feel warm inside...but she wasn't sure about any of it, she had met him just today, she didn't want to put all of that trust in him so soon, she wasn't sure why she had developed these feelings so fast, she needed to know she wouldn't be hurt again, and while she had agreed to trust him, she wasn't feeling so sure now that she thought about it all.

"Anyway, anything new going on here? How well is everyone else adapting to the new Homeworld?" Steven asked, looking around to see the generally happy Gems walking around.

"Well as far as we know, everyone is liking your changes more or less. There is still problems with the Pearls getting treated badly, but I'm sure that will eventually pass over, it is against the law to discriminate against them after all." Dendrite spoke.

"Well it's a good start at least, I'm glad that much ran along smoothly." Steven nodded. "I kind of figured that there would be more resistance than this, it's actually surprising to see everyone settling in so nicely."

"Yeah, I was sure there'd be some kind of uprising to overthrow the Diamonds, but I guess not, you guys still have those crazy followers...which if you ask me, them making this occult around you four just made them creepy." Citrine commented.

"Yeah, their whole thing is something about how they're true followers who don't want to be let loose of serving us in any way possible, honestly it's because of them that I thought of moving out in the middle of nowhere." Steven sighed.

"Really? What did they do?" Spinel asked, confused on how freedom would make Gems just follow them more intensely.

"Well, they kind of broke into the palace, apparently we had some followers in the guard so it was easy for them to sneak in. I guess it's divided on those who don't like me and those who do. Unlucky enough, I awoke in my bed to a group of them that don't particularly like me. The guards must have been distracted or gone cause they didn't come when I called for help, so I was almost...well I'm not exactly sure what their plan was."

"Anyway, the group that did like me, actually stopped the others and probably saved my life, so while I am thankful to them for that, they are a bit...obsessive..."

"So, I had us moved out to an undisclosed location that is highly guarded, not only to keep them from sneaking in and doing whatever they were going to do, but also so me and the Diamonds could become closer as a family. Now we only come to the palace for diplomatic reasons." Steven explained the story of why he was so uncomfortable with The Followers.

"I see, that is pretty creepy, I certainly wouldn't want that." Spinel chuckled. "I understand why you were so cautious of being in the crowded areas now."

"Yeah, I wouldn't want to have anyone following me back home, much less back to earth," He said, thinking about how horrible it would be to have nowhere to relax. "I don't think it would be good to have them know about either of my homes, who knows what they would do with the Gems."

"Either of your homes?" Citrine asked with a raised brow. "I thought you lived here on Homeworld, isn't that why you're changing everything here?"

"No, not really, I'd rather not get into it right now, but I needed to fix things that someone messed up and that kinda lead me here. That person's actions effected me to the point where I ended up in a position to fix Homeworld, sinI guess it's not all bad." He admitted.

"Just try not to go doing more than you're capable of handling." Dendrite warned. "The stress will get to you sooner than your think."

"Thanks, but I've been able to handle all of this so far, I'm sure I'll be ok." Steven laughed her comment off, though she did not return the joking nature.

"Steven, what's earth like? I mean, you live there, right?" Spinel asked. "And you said something about 'the Gems', more friends?"

Citrine just chuckled. "Why, you jealous?"

"Oh, not really, just curious about this planet and the Gems that fought for it along side Pink..." Spinel said dismissively.

"Oh, well if you're curious about that, I was planning on heading over there tomorrow, would you like to go?" Steven offered, wanting to show her the beauty of earth in person.

"Yeah, I guess that would be nice, I mean if you go off to earth and leave me here..." Spinel started, but quickly shook that thought out of her head. "I guess I would be pretty bored." She corrected, putting on a smile.

"Hmm, when we get back I could help you find some hobbies." Steven offered, despite knowing what she really meant. He knew that this relationship where she couldn't handle him being out of sight, would be unhealthy for her, so he was hoping to find her friends and hobbies to open up to.

"I'm not sure how comfortable I am with that, I think I'd rather just be hanging out with you." She quickly answered.

Well, it was worth a try. "Alright, if you say so. Anyway, I'm sure you'll love earth and the people you'll meet there."

"Oh you're leaving tomorrow huh? That's too bad, we have work scheduled tomorrow, I know that I woulda went, you're really hyping this earth place up, maybe next time?" Citrine complained, having a newfound interest.

"Yeah, I go at least twice a week, I'm sure you'll have a chance sooner or later." Steven offered.

"Sounds good to me, how bout you Dendy, you think you'll want to come with?" Citrine asked, nudging her arm.

"Huh? Oh, yes, earth sounds wonderful, I'll definitely go when I have the chance." She nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

"Alright, I guess we'll have to make an appointment where we are all free to visit. Anyway, it's starting to get late, I should probably start heading home now. Spinel, you can stay and get to know them better if you'd like, and you can ask them to contact me when you are ready to come home." Steven offered, not wanting to cut the meeting of new friends short.

"No, I want to come home too." She quickly replied, rushing over to his side. "It was nice to meet you both, I hope we can see each other again some day." She smiled with a wave.

"It was nice to meet you too Spinel, have a good night. You too Steven, don't be a stranger." Dendrite waved as did Citrine.

"Heh, I'll call you tomorrow at some point maybe." Steven called back as he lifted Spinel up. "Bye you two."

He lifted his hood over his head again and jumped onto the side of a building before using it to propel himself off into the sky with Spinel in his arms, floating back towards the central hub. "So, did you enjoy the time out here?"

"Yeah, your friends are nice, I'm glad I was able to meet them." Spinel answered, holding on to him tightly.

"Well, if you liked them, I'm sure you'll love the Gems back on earth." Steven smiled, though it quickly faded as he went deep into thought. "Though I'll have to confront Garnet while I'm there I guess. I don't care if she hates me or not anymore, it doesn't matter, I just have to try and talk to her...we're family, we shouldn't fight."

"Steven, are you ok?" Spinel asked, taking note of his sudden mood shift.

"It's nothing, just...thinking. Anyway, we're at the central hub again, guess it's time to head home." Steven pointed out, changing the subject.

They landed right on a warp pad and before anyone could even look their way, they were carried off in a flash of light.

Steven turned to Spinel as he lowered his hood. "Oh yeah, you'll need a communication device, won't you?"

"I'll be getting you your own personal communicator as soon as I can get my hands on a spare that is made of actual modern technology, but uhh, for now," Steven started as he pulled something out of his hoodie pocket. "just take my spare, that way you'll be able to call Dendrite and Citrine or message them if you ever get bored, it will also have my contact information in there along with the Diamond's, so just make sure to be careful on where you leave it, we wouldn't want anyone else getting their hands on any of those numbers." Steven said, holding the device out for her.

Spinel looked it over for a few seconds before holding it against her gem. "I'll treasure it and keep it safe, I promise." She answered with a smile.

"I wouldn't worry about all that too much, it's really just an emergency communicator that the Diamonds said I have to have in case I loose mine somehow, I don't think I'll need it any time soon, plus it's pretty cheap and doesn't even have any video options, like I said, it's really just to make sure you have a way of contacting whoever you need to." He said, explaining that it would be ok if something happened to it, as it was just a spare for an unlikely emergency.

"But...it's a gift from you, that's why I'll treasure it, even if you say it's basically useless, I will keep it for as long as you will let me." Spinel kept her smile as they landed on the warp inside the Diamond house.

"Well, if it means that much to you, you can keep it, but I'll still have to get you an upgrade, those ones kind of bug out sometimes apparently. Now that I think about it, why is this an emergency phone?..." Said Steven, as he walked off the warp pad.

Spinel shook her head, once again trying to understand why she was getting so attached to this person so fast. She felt genuine joy when he gave her this, she felt actual happiness when she was around him, and not to mention the warmth in her gem that pulsated in certain moments when she was around him. She wasn't sure what this 'love' thing really was other than what the Dendrite had said, but she felt that she was clinging to him too quick.

She then thought about how he would react if she told him about her warmth and joy when she was around him. It was almost an instinctive feeling she had for him, but she was sure that not only would he not feel the same, but he might never return these feeling if she told him so soon.

"Me and her have hardly known each other for a day." The sentence played over and over again in her head. Of course he wouldn't feel the same...but that wouldn't shake her, she was determined to have her feelings reciprocated or at least acknowledged one day.

She held the communicator tightly as a small smile came upon her face, she then rushed after the hybrid, staying close to him.

-=End Of Chapter=-

Well, seems Spinel is getting some confusing feelings that she doesn't quite understand. In short, she has fallen for the one who saved her from that endless isolated hell.

Now about Dendrite and Citrine. I have two OCs, Dendrite being my first and favorite, and another, believe it or not, was Black Spinel. Now that the movie is out and we know what a Spinel really is, I won't be using her outside of the only story I have her in so far, which I will be publishing here soon.

Also, if you want to see Dendrite in more detail, why not check out my OCxSteven story while you wait for the next chapter? Or not, it's a free country, do as you wish.

That being said, Citrine was somewhat of a on the spot creation as a replacement for my Spinel, who's character will be fleshed out eventually...or not, that's really not what this story is about anyway, they're more so just other Gems for Spinel to open up to.

So, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I don't know when the next one will be out, but it shouldn't be too long from now.

Anyway, as always, good morning, goodnight, or good afternoon, I'll see you all again soon.