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Chapter 6 Quartz gem revealed

After the whole with him crying and convincing Lapis and his dad that he was alright, he was just climbing his stairs to his room and he was definitely ready for bed, along with dealing with idiots all day in school and then getting his back smashed into a car and then seeing a Rose Quartz that clearly wasn't his mother but a different one that somehow made it to earth, he was beat.

He laid down on his bed and pulled the sheets over him, it was late September and it had almost been a full month since school started though it felt like an eternity already. It was still warm out so he just wearing a beater and a pair of shorts his fan was on as well and so soon he drifted off to sleep.

Around one in the morning

A loud roar suddenly echoed outside accompanied by a roar and you can already assume that was enough for Stevens eyes to shoot open 'what the hell was that' he said out loud, he ran to his window to get a view to the outside street where the noise had come from and his eyes widened 'no way not another one' outside on the street was another corrupted about the same size as the spider though it had four legs, no eyes, a white mane and armor plating on its face and upper body. He heard another bang and remembered there was another person there, no wait another gem and she seemed to be having trouble with this one because as far as he could see she was riddled with cuts, bruises and her dressed was ripped at the bottom and at her stomach and she was barely holding her gun up to her shoulder.

'Her bullets must not be strong enough to pierce that armor' he thought 'I have to help her' he really didn't know why he felt the need to help this gem out, considering the fact he didn't really want anything to do with the whole gem side of himself, what was he feeling right now, was it regret, remorse was it…guilt.

Well whatever it was he wasn't pondering it anymore as he went to his closet and dug around, he had a lot of stuff crammed in there, he lucky found what he was looking for pretty fast, the object he had in his hands was a European medieval sword the handle was black while the guard and the pommel were gray, his father had gotten it for him at a flea market for a good price to the guy clearly didn't know what he had. After he had gotten the thing out he ran down the stairs as he got to the living room he looked around lapis wasn't here and he didn't feel surprised too much, lapis didn't need to sleep so she went out at night simply because it was easier for her to fly and wander around less people staring at her she only went out shopping in the daytime and that was only if he was coming and if you're wondering what his father was doing he was simply put… sleeping that guy could sleep through anything.

He ran down the stairs to the shop and ran out the front door and as he did so the bell above the door made a loud RING and he stopped for a second as the beast with no eyes turned to look at him along with the Rose Quartz though hers was one of 'what are you doing idiot' he just gave her a look of his own 'helping you idiot' though the game of stares and looks didn't last too long because he saw the beast starting towards the quartz and knew she was too weak to move out of the way fast enough and so he quickly got to her before the beast could and pushed them both to the ground though he switched them so he would be the one landing on the ground and not her, he wasn't chubby like he was when he was a kid but it was still there just as muscle.

He stared up at her for a few seconds, she didn't really look like his mother hell the only similarities were she had a white dress and pink hair but he couldn't help go back to a certain memory.

Flashback

It was Steven's tenth birthday party and he was really having a good time, lapis had made his favorite dishes included a cake with a yellow star on it and he had opened his presents while sitting on lapis's lap that was when he had gotten his gamecube and the two games he had wanted most which was Mario kart and Metroid prime but as he was opening the last game he looked up to see his dad sniffling with a few tears on his face 'wow ten years old already your mother would have loved to see this ' he said although Steven didn't really feel too good anymore seeing his father crying about his mom

End flashback

He suddenly remembered what was happening as he heard the beast roar and the quartz trying to get him up and just like that he was up and pulling the quartz out of the way of the beast next charge and as they dodged it and were to the side it was then that the quartz decided to speak pulling her arm out of his grip 'what do think your going to do with that' she spoke and he just stared for a few seconds, because one she had a really nice voice and two he didn't even know what she was talking about until it he realized she was talking about the sword in his hand.

'What do you think I'm going to do with it, I'm going to cut that thing to pieces with it' he said, the quartz gem though just looked at him like he was stupid until she spoke again 'how are you a normal human going to take down a corrupted armored gem with just a normal sword' she told him 'I don't know but I do know I can at least distract it until you can summon your rifle again' he said annoyed, she just gave him a glance 'fine it isn't my fault if you get hurt though' she said 'oh gee thanks' he yelled back already charging at the beast, the quartz gem had a look of terror come over her face though 'he's going for a front on charge he's going to get himself killed' she thought as she struggled to summon her weapon 'I'm too weak it's a surprise I haven't been enough to be brought into my gem to regenerate yet' she thought.

Meanwhile the beast had seen Steven charging it and starting coming at him as well Steven didn't back down 'ill show her I can take this thing down in my own' he thought and as they both met each other in the middle of the charge the beast swung its right arm and he swung the sword in his left but it didn't do what he expected it to, the sword no matter how hard he tried to grind it into its arm the only thing it did was make sparks fly everywhere, it then used its other arm while steven was stunned by what happened to back hand him across the street 'you CLOD I told you that you wouldn't stand a chance and now you're going to end up dead' he heard the quartz yell at him 'just shut up' he roared back at her and it was at this moment that the beast was about to on him to deliver the finishing blow but at that moment steven wasn't thinking about dying nor leaving lapis and his dad behind, he did the thing he only had done once in his life.

He summoned his shield.

So yeah that's it this chapter took a bit to write but I knew what I wanted to happen. Hope you enjoyed and don't forget to catch me on twitch.