Neil stayed around the beach near the crystal gems, reason why is one because it was an order after the last event, and two he really had nowhere else to go at the time, he just laid in the sand daydreaming he remembered his claws and wondered 'If it could do it then I'll be able to do it too...Nah too tired' he continued to lay with his eyes for the time until someone walked over him casting a shadow down on him he cracked his eyes open and saw Steven. "Hey, Steven aaaaawaaaaawh how ya doing," Neil asked yawning and leaned up.

"Nothing much I'm just bored and I was going to hang out with the gems want to come?" Steven asked holding out his hand and Neil took it getting up

"Sure let's go should be better than sitting doing nothing..." Neil said smiling and the two went up to the house and Steven received a call

"Hello?...Oh Hey Connie!...I'm doing well how are you?..." he asked and continued and Neil walked over to Pearl.

"Hey, Pearl so uh who is Connie?" Neil asked whispering in Pearl's ear

"Well, Connie is Steven's friend that is a girl, Neil she was here during your uh bubble predicament," Pearl said looking down

"Way to make it awkward... So, Steven has a girlfriend? cool for him" Neil said and Pearl blushed.

"no no no no no I didn't mean it like that I am not sure if they like each other like that" Pearl freaked out causing Neil to laugh

" ..That's good when can we hang out...summer vacation from school? What is school?" Steven asked also looking at Neil and Pearl.

"I can answer that school is a place where you learn stuff and there are people that teach you there as well... like history, English, math and more, " Neil said explaining and Pearl's face began to glow with excitement.

"Hey Steven look at this," she said summoning a mirror from her gem "this mirror gem will show you the history of the gems we found it at the warp". she said continuing but Neil tuned her out and looked at the blue gem on the back of the mirror it felt familiar he could have sworn he heard something from it and when Pearl turned away from the mirror he heard it speak in Steven's voice and with another voice

"doesn't seem broken to me," it said making Neil look at it weirdly.

Steven's face glowed "so you could say school's out for summer?" he asked and Neil smiled

"Well since your teacher has taught you everything as of now yes" Neil cuts Pearl off

"ahem Neil I may speak for my self. Yes, there are many ways of saying the same thing." she said and Steven ran out the door.

"Schools out!" he yelled and Neil walked onto the steps watching him sprint "Happy Summer Vacation Steven!" he yelled at the mirror. Neil ended up losing track of him and saw him run into a table that Lars and some other person was setting up.

"Oh um hey there," Neil said looking at the three walking up to them "sorry about the last time we met," he said being awkward. with the quick moment of silence, Steven raises the mirror.

"are you excited for summer!" he asked the blonde hair girl and Neil walked over to the blonde girl. So Neil walked over to Lars.

"Hey there, I'm sorry about what happened a while back, this whole... magic stuff is new to me and it got to my head I guess... So what I am trying to say is sorry" Neil said holding out his hand and Lars looked at it for a moment before shaking his hand.

"Yeah I did go a bit overboard didn't I but geez you scared me to death," he said chuckling and didn't notice that Steven ran off.

"Alright well it was nice speaking with you Lars but I have to go," Neil said running off to find Steven it took a long time and he was making his way back to the gems. he started to hear Steven scream No back inside the house he ran inside and heard Steven's voice but also the gem's voice.

"Yeah let's bubble it!" Amethyst growls and Neil steps between Steven and Garnet

"back. off." he ordered rage overcoming him "she's not going to be bubbled you understand." Neil said turning back to Steven "let's go Steven" he said leading Steven outside he turned and saw Garnet ready her gauntlets so he quickly grabbed Neil and started running. Steven gave Neil the Mirror as they hid behind a rock and the mirror showed Neil what to do and Steven looked at him.

"what are you doing Neil?" he asked as he saw the formation forming around Neil from the water until the gem came out the mirror shattered and the gem glowed and took form as a young lady

"Thank you" she got up and almost fell and Neil quickly caught her "you two talked to me, you saved me," she said smiling and stood up "it's Neil and Steven right," she said smiling

"yeah and what's your name," he asked smiling

"I'm Lapis, Lapis Lazuli, are you really crystal gems," she asked

"Yeah," Steven said excitedly.

"I guess," Neil said smiling

"but you set me free," she said smiling

"Neil! Steven!" Garnet yelled as the Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst caught up and ready their weapons

"you're not hurting her"Neil yelled as he tried to summon his scythe his claws appeared instead. he didn't realize the giant hand appear behind him smashing Garnet down "Garnet?!" he was about to go help Garnet but Lapis behind him grabbed his arm

"They're not gonna let us leave," she said as she raised her other hand "Come with me."

"Where," Steven asked freaking out

"Home," Lapis said simply

As Steven was freaking and making noises the gem turned to Neil "As much as I want to, I have to stay here and watch over Steven" he said smiling "take care Lapis, come see me if you need help" he said telepathically as the gem let go.

she gave Neil a smile before frowning at the crystal gems"Don't trust them, Neil and Steven, goodbye" she said disappearing in a wave

Hey, There Pups! I hope you enjoyed the story! Sorry, it took so long, It's summer vacation and I'll be able to post more so keep an eye out for those. Again I hoped you enjoyed and I'm out. Howl at the Moon!