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Chapter 7 After the battle

He summoned his shield

This wasn't something he'd done for awhile the first time he'd done it was when he was twelve and it was completely by accident and he honestly didn't know why it just all of a sudden appeared, his powers were very strange like that, lapis theorized that it had something to do with his emotions though they never really explored the reality of that, but now in his head it was confirmed it did have something to do with emotions and his state of mind.

The monster had slammed right into the shield when it had pounced on him but it withheld enough for him to take his sword and slash it on its lower unshielded part of its body, it immediately roared and lept back and steven jumped up as meanwhile the rose quartz was looking stunned 'what is he' she thought 'he looks human but he's also clearly a gem' while she was thinking this though steven was slowly making his way toward the beast sword in hand and shield equipped 'come on you big ugly bastard come and get me' the beast let out a small growl and charged at him again but he just stood there waiting for it 'what are you doing get out of the way' the quartz yelled at him, but he just ignored her and when the beast got to him it tried to hit him with his left arm but he ducked under it and sliced at his back left leg which was unarmored and with his strong swing he was able to cut through it severing it.

The corrupted roared in pain at its leg being gone and it turned towards though since it was pretty wounded it just started crawling towards him 'hah what are you doing to do now ' he said and he was about to put the finishing blow when the corrupted just roared again and it poofed revealing a green square gem, steven was confused 'why did it just disappear all of a sudden' he thought and then he heard the quartz ' don't you forget about me' she said as her weapon disappeared and she fell to the street passed out.

Steven looked at her for a second and grabbed the gem from the corrupted and walked over to her 'I can't just leave her out here I guess' he said to himself as he picked her up bridal style and started walking toward the shop 'I hope no one's going to notice anything out of place when morning comes' he thought that battle wasn't as bad as the first one so maybe not. He walked in with the quartz and headed up to his room since there obviously wasn't anywhere else he could put her, lapis wasn't home yet so he didn't have to explain why there was a rose quartz with him yet. He came up to his room and placed the quartz in his bed and examined her most gems if not badly damaged enough to retreat back into their gems would heal on their own though she would probably need some help, he licked his hand and placed it on her shoulder, leg and stomach all either bruised or cut he watched as the wounds glowed and healed themselves 'this is probably the only power I use and am glad I actually have'.

He put the covers over the quartz gem and went over to his closet and pulled out some blankets for himself laying one over the uncomfortable carpet and laid down on it pulling the other blanket over him and resting his head on a pillow he had taken as well.

'I can't believe this is all happening' he thought to himself 'whatever happened to just staying out of this stuff you know just keeping out of it', he wondered but then again he always knew this would come back to him no matter how much he wanted to deny it apparently it was inevitable considering there was a pink gem recovering on his bed right now but as he thought about it maybe it wasn't such a bad thing because of course he'd protect these people if more of those corrupted gems out there and maybe he thought t could work with the quartz gem help her fit in on earth like lapis.

The next morning

When steven woke up he was expecting to just see the ceiling above him but what he saw was instead was a head full of pink semi curly hair with two eyes similar to his staring at him 'Um hello' he said to her but instead of a hello back he just got a couple pokes to his face and body, he caught her hand as she tried to do it to his Cheek again 'what are you doing' he said looking very annoyed 'trying to figure out what you are' she replied 'Isn't it obvious' he said getting up 'no it's not' she replied 'you look human but yet you have the powers of a gem, a rose quartz gem to be more precise' she said, steven though was just staring at her blankly 'does she not know that she just summed it up perfectly' he thought 'I guess she wants proof', he lifted up his shirt to reveal his gem and the rose quartz's eyes widened and she looked at him with a surprised face 'so you are some sort of hybrid' she said to him 'that's right my mother was a rose quartz gem who gave up her physical form to make me while my father who I live with is a human' he said, 'that's amazing' she said 'I don't think any gem has ever thought that possible' steven just looked at her and said 'yeah' but it was with a far way look 'are you okay' she asked him 'huh' he snapped out of it 'yeah I'm fine' though at that moment his stomach rumbled signaling he was hungry, the quartz gem looked curious when she heard it and he just sighed 'looks like she doesn't know anything about humans' but he smiled at it 'just like lapis' he thought.

'Come on' he told her 'I should introduce you to lapis and my dad' he said as he starting walking to the steps and then realized something,

'Ah man I'm going to have to tell dad and lapis' he said out loud

Well this was kind of a hard one to write for some reason but still sorry for the long wait because it really shouldn't have taken this long.