Ch. 5: Activating

As Steven went out the door, he knew he was going to be late. He wanted to sneak out earlier but Garnet and Pearl were up and blocking his path. It was only a few minutes ago, after Garnet left back into her room, he was able to leave without being caught and asked where he was going without missing breakfast, which is a rare thing for him to do. He knew what he was doing might be wrong, but it was training for his gem so that could make up for the fact he was disobeying orders, right?

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Onyx was putting out the fire from last night as he thought of what he and Pearl had talked about. It was a while since the two talked and it felt good to talk to the gem one on one. He hoped he would get the chance to do so for Amethyst as well, if she decided to talk to him too. His train of thought was broken when he heard someone running towards him. well it sounded like running. He look to see Steven, a bit out of breath running towards him as best as he can. Yeah, the boy needed to eat less donuts.

"Hey Onyx! I'm here and ready to learn!" said Steven, smiling as he stopped near the black gem. "So what are we going to learn today? How to fight? Transform? Oooooh how to be cool in the face of danger?"

Onyx chuckled. The kid got spunk, he admit to that. "Well...do you even know how to activate your gem powers?"

Steven's smile dropped as he looked down and twirled his index fingers together. "Um, well...not exactly..."

"What? Didn't the others teach you how to do that already?"

"Well, Pearl said I need to work hard at it, Amethyst said don't try at all, and Garnet...I couldnt understand what she meant."

"Of course you couldn't. You're just a kid."

"Hey!"

"Relax. I mean you need to be in more your term of words, if you know what I mean. Tell me, has your gem activated at all?"

"Yeah!"

"Good, good. So what activated it the first time?"

"Cookie Cat!" Steven said, smiling, giving the older male gem a confused look.

"What's a Cookie Cat?"

"It was the best ice cream sandwich ever!"

"Was?"

"They discontinued it." muttered Steven, a little sad. "And I sacraficed the rest to save Beach City."

"Ah...so you loved this stuff uh?"

"I did! And thought it helped summoned my sheild."

"...A sheild?"

"Yeah thats my gem's weapon." smiled Steven. Onyx smiled back. Just like Rosie, he thought. "What's your weapon?"

"I'll show you, and how I summon it is very simple. I summon it out of things I really care about." said Onyx as he put a hand over his onyx gem eye. "If you just think what makes you happy, what is important to you, you know will know how to activate it." Suddenly his eye began to glow and something came out. It looked like a long stitck Onyx grabbed the end and in one swing pulled out a beautiful, dark, scythe, that was a bit taller than him. After doing a few fancy twirls and stuff, he placed it on the ground, next to an awe-struck Steven.

"Is that scythe?"

"Why yes it is."

"Cooooooooooool."

"Yes yes it is." smiled Onyx, looking at his weapon. He then turned to the boy. "Now you think of something you care about...like anyone or anything?"

"Ooooh I like donuts, and my cheeseburger backpack, oh and my friends, and the gems, and ice cream, and this one girl I like, and my lion, and-"

"Ok, you have a lot of things to like." chuckled Onyx. "Concentrate on one of them."

"Ok...concentrating...focus..." said Steven, as he breathed in and out a bit, closing his eyes. He thought about the people in his life, and how important they were to him. The Gems, his dad, his friends. He thought about them long and hard when suddenly, his gem began to glow slowly and then suddenly, a small disc pop out from it.

Onyx's eye grew wide in awe, it was just like Rosie. "You're doing it Steven! You're really doing it!"

Steven open his eyes. "I am?" but as soon as he said those words, the disc shot out towards Onyx who ducked quicky in the nick of time before getting his head chopped off, as continued on its path before vanishing.

"Well, it's a start." muttered Onyx, fixing his beanie, as he stood up once more and picked up his sycthe, which he dropped to the ground when he ducked.

"Sorry about that." said Steven.

"Eh its ok...it takes time, after all Rome was not build in a day...took like two thousand seven hundred and forty one days."

"Uh?"

"Nevermind." said Onyx, as he made his weapon dissappear. "Maybe we should continue later after something to eat."

"Awwww but we just started." moaned Steven.

"Yeah, but I can hear your stomach growling." replied the black gem, giving off his shark-like grin. "We can train later. Want to get some pizza?"

"Sure! We can go to the Fish Stew Pizza!"

"That sounds...interesting." said Onyx, as the two walked towards the city.

"Hey Onyx, what do you think about when you summon your gem?"

"Your mother." replied Onyx, without missing a beat.

"My mother?" asked Steven. "Um, did you two ever..."

"What? Oh no, she was like my big sister."

"Aaaaaaah." said Steven, a bit relieved. "Hey maybe you want to meet my dad after pizza. You two can talking about my mother if you want too?"

"Hm..." muttered Onyx. He did want to see the man who took his Rosie away...and any man who took Rosie's heart was probably a big, strong, manly-man who was a tough and strong fighter as they were. "Sure why not, would like to meet the guy."

"Awesome!" said Steven, as they continued to walk unknown to them they were being followed by three different color seagulls.

"See, he's not being evil at all, Garnet." said the purple seagull.

"Still we should keep an eye on him." replied the dark red one and flow a bit closer to the two maes. The purple and cream color seagulls let out a sigh and flow towards the dark red one was well.

TBC