So, thanks everyone for your comments. I won't be answering them individually anymore unless you have specific questions about the story. But please do keep them coming. Reviews make me very happy! :)

Now, without further ado, I present the debut of everyone's favorite water Gem! Bear with me, this is gonna be a long one.

Steven and Connie were having a picnic on the top of the cliff that the Crystal Temple was carved into.

"So then what happened?" Connie asked as she took a bite from her sandwich.

"Then the vines turned into pink roses and the water came back to the spring, and Amethyst's gemstone was healed!"

"And you said you don't have healing powers of your own?"

"No. Sapphire said that I'd figure them out eventually, and I know she's almost always right about this kinda stuff, so I trust her judgement." Steven took a bite of his own sandwich. "Hey, can I try on your glasses?"

"Only if I can have the rest of your pop."

Steven handed her his can of apple-flavored soda. "Okay, but it's got my backwash in it."

"Good enough." Connie handed him her glasses.

Steven put on Connie's glasses as she drank the rest of his soda. "How do I look?"

Connie squinted. "I don't... wait." The girl rubbed her eyes. "I... I can see!"

"What?"

"I can see clearly without my glasses!"

"You can?! Really?!"

"I don't know what happened! It's like my eyesight was magically healed or something!"

Steven looked at the now-empty can of apple soda that Connie was still holding. "Wait a minute. I think it was my backwash that healed your eyes!"

"What?"

"You drank the rest of my soda that had my backwash in it and that healed your eyesight! I don't have healing tears like my mom, I have healing spit!"

"That's crazy! What am I gonna tell my parents? What am I gonna tell my optometrist?"

"I have no idea!" Steven gave her a big, happy hug. "Thank you so much, Connie!"

"Uh, you're welcome, I guess?"

"Oh, man! I gotta tell the Gems about this!" Steven took off down the hill before Connie grabbed his shoulder to stop him.

"Can I have my glasses back please?"

"Oh, sure. Here you go." The boy took off the glasses to return them to their rightful owner, and then continued running down the cliff.

Connie watched him go for a few seconds, then looked at the spectacles she was holding. She studied them closely, running her fingers along the frames, then popped out the lenses and put them back on.


Steven opened the door to his house. "Hey, guys, guess what?!"

"What is it, kid?" Ruby prodded him.

"Okay. You're not gonna believe this, but... I just discovered my healing power!"

"That's wonderful, Steven!" Pearl chirped.

"Connie's eyes were healed after she drank the backwash from my pop!"

"It's true!" the girl in question piped up as she came down to join him.

Pearl cringed slightly while Amethyst chuckled. "That's... nice. Anyway, come and see what we've found." She held up the silver, circular-faced hand mirror that she was holding, and the two children came inside to look at the Gem artifact.

Steven looked at his reflection in the mirror. "Cool. Is this some kind of magic mirror?"

"Yes, it is! Sapphire said that it can show you any historical monument of Gemkind. I really think this would be a good tool to teach you more about your fellow Gems, Steven." Pearl cleared her throat as she turned the mirror over to look into it. "Show me the Galaxy Warp." Pearl frowned at it, suggesting that it wasn't showing her what she wanted. She tried again. "Show me the Galaxy Warp!" Pearl's frown deepened as she growled in annoyance. "Of course it's broken."

"It was in rather rough condition when we found it," Sapphire pointed out.

"Can I have it then?" Amethyst asked. "I could use some more junk to decorate my room."

"Wait!" Steven piped up. "Can I have it? I've always wanted a magic mirror!"

Pearl looked at the mirror with a rather reluctant look on her face. "I suppose I could let one of you two hold onto it, since it isn't going to work anyway."

Steven grabbed the mirror from her hands. "Yeah!" He admired his reflection. "It doesn't look broken to me. Hey there, good-lookin'."

"Can I see?" Connie asked as she peeked her head over Steven's shoulder. "Hey, Steven, I haven't noticed how strange your eyes look before."

The boy frowned a little as he took notice of his vibrant pink irises and diamond-shaped pupils. "You really think my eyes look strange?"

"Not in a bad way! But I've never met anyone with pink eyes before."

"Well, I have been told that I have my mom's eyes. Are you still wearing your glasses?"

"Just the frames. I popped out the lenses." Connie took them off and stuck her fingers through them to show him. "I figure nobody would notice. Oh, wait! What time is it?" She took her phone out of her pocket to check the time. "Oh no! I'm gonna be late for violin lessons! Sorry, Steven, I have to go now." She put her frames back on and turned heel to leave.

"Already?"

Connie looked over her shoulder. "Don't worry. I'll come over tomorrow. My parents say we'll be able to hang out a lot more now that it's Summer Vacation."

"What's Summer Vacation?"

"That's when you take a break off school for the entire summer."

"I've heard of school from TV, but I've never been to school before. I've learned everything I know from the Gems and my dad."

"That's interesting, Steven, but I really gotta go now, bye!" Connie waved him goodbye as she ran out the door.

Steven waved back. "Bye, Connie!"

"What a shame," Pearl lamented. "I was really hoping that mirror would work."

"Well, on the upside, we can enjoy Summer Vacation!"

"We do still have to keep the Earth safe from enemy Gems on a near-daily basis, kiddo," Ruby told him while crossing her arms. "We can't exactly afford to go on vacation."

"I mean, if we could go on vacation, we totally would," Amethyst added while grabbing some toaster tarts from the pantry.

"Okay. You guys go ahead and do whatever you need to get done and I'll enjoy Summer Vacation with my new mirror." And with that, Steven ran out the door.


Lars and Sadie were setting up tables outside the Big Donut as Steven ran up to them. "Happy Summer Vacation, Big Donut employees!"

"Hey, Steven," Sadie greeted. "How are you?"

"Pretty good. You guys excited for Summer Vacation?"

"Well, I'm excited to get done setting up this extra seating for the summer rush."

"You know what I'm excited for?" Lars asked. "All those out-of-town babes coming to Beach City for Summer Break... without their boyfriends." He grinned widely while wiggling his eyebrows.

"That's nice," Steven said, not getting Lars' meaning. He held up the mirror that the Gems found. "Check out this cool mirror that Pearl gave me. It was supposed to show stuff from Gemkind, but it's kinda broken."

Sadie looked at her reflection in it. "Cool. So, do you wanna come inside and have a donut?"

"Maybe later. I've got some more people I wanna show my new mirror to." And he ran off to the boardwalk.

"Okay, bye!"


Steven ran over to It's A Wash to meet up with his dad. "Hey, Dad!"

"Hey, Schtu-Ball!" Greg was sitting in the back of his van reading a magazine. "What brings you here?"

"I just wanted to show you this mirror that the Gems found on one of their missions." The half-Gem boy held up the mirror in his hands.

Greg scratched his chin as he took a look at it. "They found it on a mission, eh? Is it magic? 'Cause you know how I feel about magic."

"Well, it's supposed to be able to show historical Gem monuments, but it's broken, so it can only show your reflection."

"Well, at least we know it's not dangerous or anything. So what else is new?"

"Well, earlier today I discovered my healing power when Connie's eyesight got healed after she drank my backwash."

Greg cringed a little. "Eugh. Really?"

"I know it sounds gross, but it's true!"

Steven and Greg jumped in surprise as they heard a loud honk outside the van. They came out to see a truck pulling a large fishing boat, and out of the truck hopped Onion and his dad.

"Hey, Yellowtail! You want your boat cleaned, huh?" Greg walked over to the man in the yellow raincoat.

Yellowtail grunted in affirmation.

"Well, go ahead and pull her in! She'll definitely fit."

"Hey, Onion, look what I got." Steven showed Onion his new mirror. "Pretty cool, huh? The Gems got it from-" Suddenly, Onion snatched the mirror right from Steven's hands and ran off to the back of the car wash, Steven quickly giving chase. "Hey! Onion, what are you doing with that?"

Onion stared at his reflection in the mirror. He then set it on the ground, the glass side facing up, and took out what appeared to be a hammer to smash it with.

"Onion, no!" Steven ran right over to him and yanked the hammer out of the smaller boy's hands. "Onion, I know you like to destroy stuff, but you have to understand that this mirror is very valuable." Onion looked at Steven for a bit, then back at the mirror, and proceeded to raise his foot to stomp on it, before there was a loud honking sound that startled the two boys. They looked around to see what was the source of the noise.

It sounded like it came from the mirror, but that wasn't possible. Mirrors couldn't make sounds, but magic mirrors probably could. Steven picked it up and looked into it. "Did you just... honk?" he asked it, though he doubted it could understand him. Then, as if to answer his question, the glass showed the image of Yellowtail's truck and produced the same sound it did not too long ago.

"Can you hear me?"

The mirror responded with a voice clip of Yellowtail grunting in affirmation.

"This is so cool! You do work after all! I gotta go tell the Gems!"

"No!"

"Why not? They're gonna be so happy to see that you're not broken."

The mirror just repeated the same clip of Steven saying "No!"

"Okay, we don't have to go back to the Gems right now. In fact, why don't we show you around Beach City?" Steven started walking away from the car wash. "There's lots to see and do around here. Well, I don't know if you can really do anything, since you're a mirror and all."

The mirror didn't respond this time.

"Oh no. Did I upset you? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Please don't be mad, okay?"

The mirror showed a clip of Steven saying "Okay."

"Good. So, I think we should get to know each other. My name is-"

"Steven."

"Hey! You know my name! What's yours? Do you have a name? 'Cause I feel kinda weird just calling you mirror."

The mirror didn't respond.

"It's fine. I'll just call you Summer Vacation Buddy, or Buddy for short. How's that sound, Buddy?"

"Okay."

"Okay, Buddy! Let's have some summer fun in Beach City!"

So Steven and his new mirror friend went around Beach City doing all sorts of fun summer activities; they used the mirror's sound-mimicking ability to pull a few harmless pranks at the boardwalk, they went to Funland and played some games, they went to the movies and saw the new Dog-Copter movie in 3D, they went to Fish Stew Pizza to have a nice pizza dinner, and lastly, they sat on the beach to watch the sun set over the ocean.

Steven sighed contentedly, hugging the stuffed walrus he won at Funland. "Today was a great day. I had a lot of fun. How about you, Buddy?"

The mirror pieced together clips of the words it had heard to make a new phrase. "I had - fun. You're - my - Summer Vacation Buddy - Steven."

"Aw, thanks! Now I really think we should head inside and show you to the Gems-"

"No!"

"Come on, just give them a chance. They're gonna love you, I'm sure of it!" And he ran straight to the Temple.

"No! No! No! No!"


Pearl and Amethyst were sitting on the couch while Ruby was on the floor doing some sit-ups and Sapphire was holding her feet down.

"Honestly, just think of all of the places that mirror would have let us see!" Pearl mused. "I can't even begin to describe my disappointment about it not working."

"There's nothing we can do now," Ruby said. "Unless Steven somehow used his healing spit to heal the mirror, it's pretty much useless to us."

Steven suddenly opened the door to the beach house, mirror in hand. "Hey, guys! Guess what?!"

"You got a walrus?" Amethyst asked.

Steven looked at his new walrus. "Yes, but I also got the mirror to work!"

"Oh, Steven, that's fantastic!" Pearl rejoiced while clapping her hands together.

"How'd you manage that?" Ruby asked as she stood to her feet.

"I talked to it! I didn't know that it would be like a person."

The Gems' smiles faded, and they just stared at him blankly for a few seconds before Amethyst simply asked "What?"

"I hadn't expected that," Sapphire mused.

"Steven," Pearl stood up. "the mirror couldn't possibly be sentient. All it can do is show you places and things that it had been shown previously."

Steven frowned at her. "But it talked to me. I'll show you." He lifted the mirror up so that it was facing the Gems. "Come on, Summer Vacation Buddy, say something."

Pearl approached him and reached a hand out to grab it. "Steven, look. Just give me the mirror and I'll put it away."

The mirror suddenly played a clip of Steven crying "No!", startling the pale Gem into reeling her hand back.

"It doesn't want to go with you!" Steven said as he hugged the mirror close to him.

"It just... But... that's not possible! It shouldn't be able to play messages on its own like that!"

"I believe we should keep it somewhere safe," Sapphire said.

"Sapphire's right, kiddo," Ruby told Steven. "We can't risk you just flaunting that mirror around and accidentally breaking it for real."

"But-"

"Steven, just hand it over, and we'll put this whole thing behind us, alright?" Pearl reached her hand out again, only for Steven to slap it away. "Steven!"

"I'm not letting you take it from me! It's my Summer Vacation Buddy, and it wants to stay with me!" And with that, the half-Gem boy ran out of the house and out onto the beach below.

"Steven!" Ruby shouted after him. "Get back in here now and give Pearl the mirror! Or I'll come out there and make you!"

"N-Now, Ruby! I'm sure Steven doesn't know what he's doing."

"He's going to be in trouble when we get to him," Sapphire said quietly as she got to her feet.


Steven was running as far as he could from the Temple, still holding the mirror in his grasp, stopping at the edge of the ocean to catch his breath.

"Steven?" he heard Pearl call. "Come back to the Temple! We just want to have a talk!"

Steven looked at the mirror. "Is there anything I can do to help you? I don't want the Gems to take you from me if you don't want them to."

The mirror showed him the image of a petite, blue woman in a dark void, sitting on her knees with her hands bound in a set of watery chains as some darker blue feathers littered the watery floor around her. The woman seemed to stare back at him, with sad, longing eyes. It then showed a simplified image of the ocean, along with a blue silhouette of Steven setting the mirror in the water, then a close-up of the mirror as its glass face dissolved beneath the waves, a blue hand rising out of where the glass once was.

"Who was that blue girl? Is she why you want me to put you in the ocean?"

"STEVEN!"

Startled, the boy looked behind him and saw the source of the shout, Ruby, and the rest of the Gems running towards him. "Hand it over right now!"

Steven furrowed his brow at them, then looked towards the ocean as he threw the mirror right into the dark blue water in front of him.

The mirror sunk beneath the surface with a splash, a few small bubbles popping in its wake, followed by more bubbles, larger bubbles which were soon followed by a blue hand rising from the water below, followed by another hand and the owner's entire upper half as she dragged herself onto dry land. She looked just like the young woman the mirror had shown him; same blue skin, same cobalt blue eyes, and same short, indigo hair. The only thing she wore was an indigo, gold-hemmed dress which was held up by gold laces that were tied around her neck. Now that Steven could get a better look at her, he could see the small smattering of golden freckles dusting the bridge of her nose and some faint cracks forming on her shoulders. What he really noticed, however, were the large, bird-like wings that sprouted from her back; they were drooping at her sides, and their feathers, some of which were falling out, were indigo and gold, like her dress. Steven knew that she must be another Gem.

"Thank you..."

"Um, you're welcome. So, what's your name?"

"My name?"

"You know, something that you call yourself and others call you. My name is-"

"Steven. You've told me."

Steven's eyes lit up in realization. "You were trapped in that mirror, weren't you?"

"For so, so long." The mysterious Gem tried to stand up, noticably a little shaky, so Steven helped her. "That's why I'm thanking you. You actually talked to me, and you set me free. My name's Lapis, by the way. Lapis Lazuli."

"Nice to meet you, Lapis."

"Steven!" Pearl cried. "There you are!"

"You're coming home right now!" Ruby scolded as she grabbed Steven by the arm.

Lapis narrowed her eyes at the Crystal Gems. "You."

The four of them just stared at her.

"Why didn't any of you help me when you found me?" The ocean started becoming restless, its waves thrashing and crashing against the sand with much ferocity. "You had to have known that I was trapped in that mirror!" Lapis raised her arm to the steadily darkening sky, and a large pillar of water rose from it before taking the form of a giant arm. "Do you know... what I am?!" She clenched her raised hand into a fist and threw it down, the water hand following suit as it crashed against the sand, though the Gems were able to jump out of the way before they could get crushed. "I am Lapis Lazuli! And I won't be trapped here any more!" Lapis turned around to face the ocean before spreading her wings, showing a good view of the large cracks in her shoulder blades near her gemstone, a royal blue, teardrop-shaped stone decorated with little specks of gold. She tried to fly up into the sky before unceremoniously falling onto her knees. She then stood back on her bare feet, then raised her arm to separate the ocean into two, leaving a wide gap, and then walked away on the sandy path she made for herself.

"Did... any of you guys know her?" Steven asked the Gems.

"No," Pearl said. "Not every single Gem knows one another, Steven. Gemworld is home to millions of Gems with many more living on colonies."

"Was Lapis from Gemworld?"

"Yes, Steven, most of us Gems were," Sapphire said. "You're grounded by the way."

"What?"

"Of course you're grounded!" Ruby said. "You deliberately disobeyed a direct order!"

"And now we're gonna have to bury you 'til you learn your lesson," Amethyst said.

"That's not what grounded means, Amethyst." Steven told her.

"Come on inside and get ready for bed, Steven." Pearl grabbed Steven's hand and led him back to the beach house.


The next morning came, and while Steven normally greeted the day with excitement, today, he was in a more dour mood. "Another day of being grounded," he groaned as he climbed out of bed and came downstairs to make himself some breakfast. That's when he heard a knock on his front door. He walked over to answer it, and saw that it was Greg. "Hey, Steven, I know you're not really supposed to leave the house right now, but I think you should come take a look at this."


The citizens of Beach City were all standing on the beach, staring out at the ocean. Or rather, where the ocean was supposed to be; instead, there was nothing but sand and some boats. Mayor Dewey was trying his best to calm everyone down while Ronaldo was writing about it on his blog.

"What's going on?" Steven asked. "What happened to the ocean?"

"Nobody knows," Greg answered. "It was right there last night and then it just disappeared.

"We know what happened." Steven and Greg looked behind them and saw that the Gems were standing in front of the doorway. Sapphire was the one who spoke. "It was Lapis Lazuli who took the ocean to try and get back to Gemworld."

"Well, what can we do to get it back?" Steven asked.

"Steven!"

It was then that they saw Connie running over to the beach house. "I saw what was going on on the news. I asked my parents if I could come over and see if you're okay."

"I'm fine, but I'm grounded."

"Lapis Lazuli was apparently trapped in that mirror we found," Pearl explained. "and instead of giving it to us like we told him to, he threw it into the ocean and set her free."

"It's my fault that the ocean's gone, so I should try to fix it, right?" Steven looked up at the Gems with pleading eyes.

"Steven..."

"At least let me help! C'mon, I feel terrible for letting this happen!"

"I was just going to say that we should come with you to make sure you don't get hurt."

"I'm coming too!" Connie declared.

"And me!" Greg added.

"We're ungrounding you," Sapphire said with a smile.

"Now get inside and get dressed!" Ruby ordered, pointing at the door.


Steven quickly got dressed and packed some supplies into his cheeseburger backpack. He went down the stairs to get out the door before bumping into Lion, who was standing in front of the doorway.

"Oh! Do you wanna come too, Lion?"

Lion gave a small growl, indicating that he did.

"Okay! We could use a big strong animal like you." Steven opened the door. "Come on!" And they both walked out the door.


Soon enough, everyone was on their way to stop Lapis Lazuli from stealing the ocean. The Gems hitched a ride in Greg's van and Steven and Connie rode on Lion.

"You're sure you and your magical sisters can bring back the ocean?" Mayor Dewey asked him over his megaphone.

"Sure we can!" Steven assured him. "Or we'll get really thirsty trying."

"Well I sure hope so! Nobody wants to take a vacation in Desert City for the summer!"

Pearl rolled down the window to the passenger seat. "Don't worry, everyone! We'll do everything in our power to make sure that it doesn't stay Desert City for much longer! But we really need to get going now if we want to save this ocean and whatever other bodies of water Lapis Lazuli might have taken." And they moved forward, Greg playing an energetic rock song on the radio.


About three hours had passed since Greg, Connie, Lion and the Crystal Gems first took off. Greg had gotten tired, so Pearl decided to take the wheel while he took a nap in the back. Connie fell asleep while Steven (though he was also getting tired) stayed awake to steer Lion and keep an eye out for any signs of water. All he could see around him was sand and some clusters of coral. Then he saw a great tower of clear blue water in front of him. It appeared to reach into space.

Steven shook Connie awake. "Connie. We've made it."

"Huh?" Connie rubbed the sleep from her eyes, which widened when she saw what was in front of her. "Wow. So that's the ocean, huh?"

Greg yawned as he walked over to the front seat. "Hey, Pearl, I'm ready to take the wheel again- Whoa. Guys? I just thought of a sick new album cover."

Steven cleared his throat. "Lapis?" he called while cupping a hand around his mouth. "Are you up there?"

"None of you are supposed to be here." Lapis' voice said. "Go away."

"I just wanna talk to you!"

"I don't want to talk to anyone. Just leave me alone."

The Gems then emerged from Greg's van. "Lapis Lazuli," Sapphire spoke. "We need you to give back our ocean."

"We're not letting you take it from us!" Pearl said.

"Fine. I guess if you won't leave me alone, then I'll have to make you."

Just then, a giant, watery hand emerged from the saltwater tower. The Gems summoned their weapons while Lion growled at it, slowly backing up as his hackles were raised.

"Lapis, please! You don't have to do this!" But Steven's words fell on deaf ears as the hand slammed down on the sand and dissipated, the water splashing and spreading across the sea floor. However, it wasn't long before the water reshaped itself into five identical copies of Lapis Lazuli. Each of them charged at one of the four Gems, and Lion.

"Kids, get in the van," Pearl said. "We can handle this."

Steven and Connie did as they were told, and Ruby, Amethyst, and Pearl proceeded to charge forward.

Pearl slashed her spear at one of the water copies, only for each of the two halves to turn into a fully-formed Lapis doppelganger. "This is why I hate fighting sentient liquid," she groaned to herself as she fired a laser at each of them.

Ruby was trying to punch her Lapis clone with her gauntlet as it continually dodged her attacks. It then grabbed her arm and chucked her right into the windshield of the van, shattering it upon impact.

"Ruby!" Steven and Connie cried.

"My windshield!" Greg cried. "Oh, sorry. Are you okay, Ruby?"

Ruby sucked in some air through her teeth. "M'fine. I've had worse." She then climbed out of the hole her body made and ran back into battle.

Meanwhile, Amethyst was continually trying to attack a water Lapis by throwing things at it with her whip, only for the clone to repeatedly contort its form to dodge everything she threw at it. "Aw, come on!" she whined. Then the saltwater being wrapped itself around her like a boa constrictor. Amethyst thrashed and kicked, trying to free herself from its grasp.

Sapphire was using her ice magic to freeze the water doubles solid while Lion tried to use his sonic roar on them, only for those ones to immediately reform.

Steven couldn't bear to keep watching this fight break out. He went out to stop it before anyone could get seriously hurt.

"Steven!" Greg cried out. "Where are you going?!"

Steven didn't answer him. The only thought that crossed his mind was to protect the ones he loves, to protect his home, to protect everything he cares about.

"Lapis," Steven called. "I want you to stop this right now."

The water clones all looked at him. One clone stepped forward to throw a ball of saltwater at him.

Steven's stomach grew warm as his gemstone glowed brightly, and his shield formed just in time to stop it from hitting him. All of the water copies stopped what they were doing and dissipated from the sudden shockwave that the shield produced. Steven then walked up to the tower and put a hand on it. "Can I come up there, Lapis?"

A giant water hand grabbed him and lifted him all the way to the top of the tower, which reached the very edge of Earth's atmosphere. Lapis was standing there, hand raised and eyes glaring hard at the boy. "Just why are you here, Steven?"

"I'm here to stop you from stealing our ocean. It's a very important part of Earth's ecosystem and-"

"Of course. You're just like those Crystal Gems. They don't care about anything else but this planet. I just want to leave it all behind. I just want to go back home."

"So, why are you stealing the ocean?"

"I thought if I could make a big enough tower, I could reach Gemworld." Lapis sighed as she hugged herself. "But that could never work, Gemworld is billions of light-years away. I can't fly back because my wings have these big cracks in them. They're useless." She turned around to show him.

Steven hummed as he examined the cracks. "I think I can help."

"How?"

"Sit down."

Lapis did as she was told.

Steven licked his fingers and made sure they were covered in his saliva. "Hold still. This might feel a bit weird." He ran his spitty fingers along the cracks in Lapis' back, the blue Gem shuddering as he did so.

The cracks then disappeared, and Lapis stood up and flapped her wings to test them, delighted that her feet weren't touching anything. "My wings! You've healed them! Thank you, Steven!"

"No problemo!"

"Goodbye now, and again, thanks!" The winged Gem flew away into the distant space.

Steven smiled before the tower started falling apart under his feet. Steven fell back to Earth along with all of the water Lapis had stolen. It wasn't too long before Lion jumped up and nabbed him out of the sky.


Everyone rode back to the shore in Greg's van, (which was encased in a bubble so Greg and Connie could breathe, which the two humans were amazed by) and when the citizens of Beach City saw the ocean again, they cheered for Steven and the Gems for bringing it back. That night, the town celebrated with a big beachside barbecue.

Steven walked over to the shoreline and picked up some of Lapis' shed feathers. He then looked up at the night sky. "Have a safe flight, Lapis."