Hey! Just a quick note I'm getting pretty close to the good stuff, and just can't wait to get this ball rolling.

the story is finally getting somewhere that I wanted to be for some time, so hurray for that!

Looking forward to what you guys have to say about this.

Enjoy!

We stood there enjoying the delicious cheese pizza, by this point however I had just started my second slice while Steven just got to the thin crust of his first.

"This pizza's actually pretty amazing, I should have tried this sooner." I said pleasantly surprised, this led to me catching Steven giving me a shocked expression.

"You mean this is your first time eating from Fishstew Pizza!" Steven nearly shouted, standing there I could only feel myself tense up at suck shock.

"Uhh, yeah?" I replied slowly not know what to expect by this point.

"They have the BEST pizza in Beach City!" Cheered Steven with excitement, this was slowly replaced with a questioning look.

"Actually..." He said tapping his chin.

"They ARE the only pizza place in the city..." Thinking on it he was right, with my time around the city and I just figured now that they were the actual sole pizzeria in the city...that must be pretty good for business.

"Hey Steven." Called out Garnet as if appearing from nowhere.

"Wha!" I cried out in surprise, standing to my left stood Garnet as she towered over me leaving me wondering how I didn't noticed her sooner.

"Hey Garnet." Steven replied casually unfazed by the sudden appearance of the giant women.

Turning to me she seemed to look to me with her ever present glasses.

"Matthew." She greeted politely, smiling as she did so.

"Uhh, hello Garnet." I replied still recovering from slight shock.

"Garnet?" Steven called out.

"Yes Steven?" She replied, looking to Steven he stood with a hint of concern.

"Are going to go look for Malachite again?" He questioned, this left looking to them both with my own question.

'Who's Malachite?' I asked to myself.

"Yes. We need to find them as soon as possible." She said assuredly, kneeling down to Steven she gently placed her right hand on his shoulder, then with a caring voice she began spoke.

"I know you're worried about Lapis, what she did was to keep you safe from Jasper..." Garnet had become silent, worry taking hold on what she was about to say next.

"...but Malachite is an unstable fusion created from hatred, if I we don't find them soon the consequences could be..." She stopped herself from finishing her sentence, stopped only from the look of sadness forming on Stevens face.

"I'll be back soon." Was all she said before standing and giving me a quick glance, a small quick smile forming as she turned to face the door making her way out of the house.

Looking to the empty door I could only stare in confusion, wondering what exactly had happened, and about what that smile had meant, this was changed to worry as I looked to Steven.

He held an expression of worry as he eyes were staring to the floor.

"Are you okay?" I asked Steven, his gaze turning to me as an uneasy stare was quickly turned to the side.

"I...I should probably explain what's going on, I mean I was going to but I-I..." He began to stammer, my own thoughts began to wonder about trying figure out what he could be trying to say, all that kept returning to mind was the day that I had met the monstrous flaming lizard, and then to the repeated accounts of the falling hand...

Taking a step forward to Steven I steadily knelt down to him as we both met eye to eye.

"It's okay Steven, I don't need to know anything right now." I said assuringly.

"Really?" He responded with surprise, his face furled in question.

"Whatever any of this is about, the lizard or even that hand that I've been told of..."I paused scratching my chin, beginning to believe in what people had told me, but I quickly returned to my train of thought as I looked to Steven.

"But none of that's worth worrying over, considering what's happened to me so far I'm pretty sure I'll figure it out sooner or later hehe." I finished with an uneasy chuckle, the thought of the Salamander still fresh in my mind, a slight shiver went down my spine at the thought of teeth.

"Thanks Matthew." With a quick sigh of relief Steven looked over to the the side causing a look of surprise to form.

"What happened to the pizza?" Looking over to the counter top I saw that our half eaten pizza had somehow been finished.

"(Burrrp!)"

"What the?" Steven and I questioned in unison, the sudden belch had came from the other side of the counter.

Making our way around each side of the counter we both peeked around to see what had made that noise.

"Amethyst?" Steven said questioningly as we both stood there looking to the small purple form of Amethyst as she sat firmly on the floor, a bit of red covering the side of her mouth.

"Oh hey Steven, thanks for the pizza." She cheered as she took a glimpse towards me and took notice of where I stood, taking her arm and wiping away the pizza sauce from her mouth she gave a little smile.

"Hey there Matty."

Giving a small chuckle I lifted my hand and gave a small wave.

"Uh, hey Amethyst." Looking to her and then to Steven I couldn't help but let out a small laugh.

"How's the pizza?" With a simple turn she sat there staring at me with a subtle grin.

"(Burp...) pretty good." She laxly said giving both Steven and I a light chuckle as she began to pull herself off the floor.

Looking over them both, and the empty pizza box, a thought peaked my mind.

"Oh, sorry Steven but I should really get going." From this Steven looked to me with confusion, this was quickly switched with an understanding smile.

"Oh alright, off to go deliver more pizzas I hope." He said as I began to stutter out a response, this was met with a sly look from Steven, looking to him with realization that, his little question was a joke.

"Not for the rest of today..." I said trailing off, but with a half smile I looked to him with my hand fixing my short locks of hair.

"But maybe soon." Looking to both Steven and Amethyst and waved to them both.

"Bye Matthew!" Yelled Steven as I made my way to the door.

"See ya Matty." Amethyst said soon after.

With a simple wave I began to leave, making my way past the door I looked to the open ocean and began to take a deep breath

"I see things went pretty well." With a slight jump I quickly looked to my left as Garnet stood against the side of the house silently, looking to me with a knowing smile.

"Uhh, y-yeah..." I trailed off, a quick thought coming to mind as I looked to Garnet square in the, glasses?

"How are you quiet?" Looking to me Garnet just gave a shrug, her smile still ever present.

"I'm not that quiet, you just have to learn how to look." She said grabbing her glasses as she lowered them to finally reveal her eyes.

All three of them.

Then with a subtle wink and a grin she lifted her glasses again hiding her tricoloured eyes, one red, the other blue, while the one that layer in between them was violet.

"Yeah..." I said awkwardly as she let out a small laugh, this was oddly followed with a quick monotoned suggestion.

"You better grab onto the something."

"Wait wh-Whoa!" I was cut off as the everything began to shake, quickly taking hold on to the railing to my right I held my eyes closed trying to ride out the sudden quake as it began to ease up.

"Is it done!" I shrieked out, fearful to open my eyes.