Once Steven and Connie(now unfused) got off of Lion, Lion created another portal, and jumped in. "Aww," Steven complained. "We just got here!"
"Well, you did say he mainly does his own thing." Connie reminded him. "Come on let's see what we can find in town."
Pearl opened the door to the beach house with the gems following. "No luck Garnet." She said as she saw the passed out pink cat.
While Steven and Connie were walking about the town when they heard someone singing a song that went a little something like this:
Don't go down to the swamp, If you love your wife
Cause you'll make that gal a widow, and you'll cause her pain and strife
And if you go in there anyway, she'll take your la-la-la-la-liiiifffe.
"Hi there." Steven greeted.
"Well, hello there young'n." The man greeted.
"That was a nice song. But what was it about?"
"Oh, the witch woman of the bayou."
"The what?"
"She lives deep within the swamp, My great-great-GREAT-grandaddy passes on the story of when she first came to this her small town."
"Would you mind telling us the story?"
A young green girl was walking through the town. She was lookin around suspiciously. When she caught the eye of a young boy, she glared. Out of nowhere she sommoned a kitchen knife. "Witch!" Someone cried. The young girl dropped the knife and headed into the swamp. The people that followed to catch her, never came back out.
"My grandaddy gave me this knife," he said as he showed Connie and Steven a rusty kitchen knife with empty alcoves. "We used the jewels that were origionally here to sustain ourselves."
When Steven and Connie walked away, Connie noticed Steven was deep in thought. "Steven? Are you alright?" she asked.
"Hmm? Oh, yeah, I'm just thinking of the guy's story."
"Why's that?"
"I've been thinking, if she's still alive, maybe she would know a few things about trying to hide from people. After all those people that went in never came back out"
"Maybe. But what do you think? If she was real, she's probably dead now."
"I think we should check it out."
"Why?"
"Well, we could see if she can give us tips. The Gems might be looking for us so we'll need them. Plus we'll have a little adventure!"
Connie looked over at Steven. He was so excited and Connie felt that she couldn't say no to him. "Alright. But I still believe that if she was here, she's long gone."
Steven and Connie were travling through the mucky swamp. "It's so squishy." Steven said with a laugh. the mud made sucking sounds every time the kids took their feet out of it. Steven looked forward and saw yellow lights. "Come on, I think I see something up ahead." Steven ran ahead to see what it was. Connie ran after. When they got to a drier part of the swamp, they saw something strange. A lttile hut that was built on stilts even though the ground was dry. Steven walked up to knock on the house, but before he could, a deep voice full of authority boomed from inside.
"Who's there!? Better not be those Crystals!"