Characters created by: Rebecca Sugar
Chapter 6: School Gems-Part 2: Amazonite
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Evergreen Valley Elementary School
It was now the second day of school, and a school bus drove to Evergreen Valley Elementary School. At the school, the bus stopped, opened its sliding door, and students stepped out, including Amazonite Universe. Amazonite was excited to see all the new friends he made from the first day back at school. After breakfast, Amazonite went to his first period class. Amazonite stepped into the class, and around him were his new friends.
"Hey, it's Amazonite!" said one boy, "We got thirty minutes until class starts, could you tell us more stories about your dad and his magical friends?"
"Sure." said Amazonite, "This first story is about how my half gem, half human dad met my full human mom."
"Does it involve magic?" said the boy.
"You bet it does." said Amazonite, "So, here's how it all started. This was when my mom and dad were both twelve years old. So, my father was gonna ride his bike, which couldn't even move in the sand, and there he saw on the beach beside his house, was my mom, reading a book, and he recognized her, from a parade a year before. You see, my dad was part of a parade float for his dad who is a car wash owner. My dad was supposed to be the brush. He had soap bubbles in his hair that day!"
The kids around him laughed at the thought of Steven having soap bubbles in his hair.
"And during the day of the parade, while on the float, my dad noticed my mom who walked away, and she dropped a red glow bracelet." said Amazonite, "My dad found it and tried looking for my mom, but he never found her, so he saved it in the fridge so it could last longer until he would meet her again. So, that day when my dad saw my mom again, he said to me when he told me the story, that during that second time he saw her, he fell in love with her."
The kids around Amazonite laughed.
"Anyways," said Amazonite, "So he went back into his house, and the Crystal Gems asked him who he was talking to. After that, my dad grabbed the bracelet from the fridge and went back outside to talk to her. While walking towards my mom, there was a sudden rumbling, and rocks were falling right on top of my mother, and my dad quickly ran over to my mom, and accidentally created an unbreakable bubble around them, and he didn't know how to make it go away."
"Woah, a magic unbreakable bubble." said one boy.
Amazonite continued the story. After the story about when Steven and Connie met each other, Amazonite told other epic stories about Steven and the Gems.
School Hallway-Three Hours Later
Amazonite walked through the school hallways to his next class. Amazonite noticed a man on top of a ladder, scaffolding around him, with paint cans over him as he was painting the hallway.
Suddenly, one of the paint cans fell over, causing the other paint cans to topple over too, like dominos. Everything suddenly went in slow motion for Amazonite.
"I'll save you!" said Amazonite, who ran over to the man. Amazonite went in front of the man and summoned his green shield. The paint fell onto the shield, but not on Amazonite or the man.
"Wow, thank you." said the man.
"No problem," said Amazonite, "it's just what a Crystal Gem doe-"
"You!" said a stern voice.
A teacher ran over to Amazonite and the painting man.
"You're in big trouble young man." said the teacher, who grabbed Amazonite's right arm, "You're coming with me, and so are you," the teacher gestured for the painting man to follow, "you're a witness."
The teacher led Amazonite and the painting man to the principal's office. The three stepped into the main office counter.
"You two sit there," said the teacher, "and I'm going to call your parents, what's your name?"
"Amazonite."
"That'll be easy to remember." said the teacher. The teacher grabbed a list of phone numbers for students' parents. The teacher grabbed the phone and dialed the Universe Family Residence's phone number.
"Why am I in trouble?" said Amazonite.
"I guess because you saved me from my hair being all full of colors." said the painting man.
"Well that's like the opposite of a reason to get in trouble and going to the principal's office." said Amazonite.
Universe Residence-Present Time
As Connie was in the bedroom meditating, the phone rang. Connie just ignored it and continued to meditate, her legs crossed and eyes closed. Just then, Steven stood at the door into the room.
"Connie," said Steven, "sorry to bother you during your meditation, but I got a call from the school that we need to go there because Amazonite got in trouble."
Connie suddenly opened her eyes and quickly rose from her position.
"What did he do?" said Connie.
"They didn't say, but we need to go there." said Steven.
"It's a good thing I didn't have to go to work today," said Connie, who was grabbing her purse, "or else you'd have to walk all the way there."
Evergreen Valley Elementary School-Ten Minutes Later
In the principal's office, Amazonite sat in a chair in front of the principal's desk, while the painting man and the teacher from before stood beside the door.
"Do you have any idea how dangerous something like that can be?" said the principal, "It's a dangerous weapon, wait until your parents come and hear about this."
"Sir, if I may intervene," said the painting man, "he saved my hair from being dyed red, yellow, green, blue, and all different types of colors."
"I don't care," said the principal, "no weapons on school grounds."
Suddenly, the office door opened, and Steven and Connie stepped in.
"Ah, Mr. and Mrs. Universe," said the principal, "have a seat."
"What did you do, Amazonite?" said Connie.
"So what's the problem?" said Steven.
"Well," said the principal, "your son somehow snuck a green shield into school grounds and used it to block falling paint cans on someone painting the halls, and it can be used as a weapon."
Steven and Connie both looked to each other and back to the principal.
"Are you serious?" said Connie.
"Yes," said the principal, "even I can't belie-"
"You interrupted my meditating just because my son saved a man's hair from being dyed, and you think that it's unsafe?!" said Connie, "Do you think that a shield that a boy used to protect someone from falling inanimate objects would even think to use it as a weapon?! I know my son, he would never hurt anyone!"
"Zero Tolerance is Zero Tolerance," said the principal, "Zero Tolerance Policy is not enforced without Zero Tolerance. Anything that can be used as a weapon is a weapon, we've had to catch ten Kindergarten kids who tried to draw on other kids with those toxic crayons."
"Then buy the non-toxic crayons!" said Connie.
"This cannot be real, you waste our time just because our son saved a person's hair." said Steven, "Why'd you even call us here?"
"So you could do something about your son." said the principal.
"Okay, well how about we do NOTHING?!" said Connie.
"What are you talking about?" said the principal.
"Just let our son go back to class and don't bother him about the shield." said Steven.
"But you need to-"
"No, we're going." said Connie.
Steven and Connie walked out of the office, leaving the principal confused.
"Um, Mr.-" suddenly, Amazonite was interrupted.
"Just get to class, you're already late." said the principal.
Amazonite then walked out of the principal's office.
"You too, just get back to painting." said the principal to the painter, who also walked out of the office.
School Parking Lot-Present Time
"Wasting our time with this, unbelievable." said Connie.
"Zero Tolerance, I tell you." said Steven, "Schools these days."
"You never even went to school." said Connie.
"Atleast I know a thing or two about it." said Steven.