Hello guys, and welcome to Chapter Two of "Welcome Home, Little Pup". There will be another story called "Centipeetle and Friends". It's not a rip off of "Friends" or "Seinfield and Friends", it's just a story of Centipeetle being fully healed. I haven't published a chapter yet but here's a summary: Centipeetle/Jade gets healed and goes on adventures with the Crystal Gems. So yeah, there will be a lot of stories on my account and I love being active so I will try to be active every day. I might even do a Truth or Dare with the SU characters :D. I could do crossover episodes Truth or Dare. Anyways, sorry for the long note. I just have a lot to say about me being on here. I should've mentioned this in the first chapter, but, meh. Thank you so much for the kind reviews…thank you so much…I will put your usernames at the end of the chapter ^/3/^ Anyways, onto the story ~.
Chapter Two: Puppy Surprise
Steven was so excited he screamed with joy. The puppy and it's supplies would arrive any minute! It was such an amazing feeling, the feeling of surprising your very own family with a new puppy friend. Steven could barely contain his excitement. He decided to open CHEEPER, an app where you could CHEEP things. It was such an amazing app. He logged onto his account and CHEEP'D on Peridot's account. He CHEEP'D: You and Lapis need to come to the Temple now. In five minutes he got a response: Ok. Don't bring any clods over! We'll be over in two minutes. Steven turned off his phone and two minutes later, he heard a knock. He answered the door and saw Lapis Lazuli with Peridot behind her. "Come on in," Steven said. He welcomed the gems in his home. The gems chilling on the couch waved and quietly said hello.
Lapis smiled cheerfully. "Hello, Steven," she said. She carefully went in, so she wouldn't trip over Steven. Next, Peridot smiled. It was a huge, bright grin. "Hello, Steven!" she said, carefully walking in so she didn't drop her tablet. "I hope you guys are ready to party!" Steven said, laughing. He put on a radio and was about to blast a favorite song but then he spun around. DING-DONG. It was puppy time! Greg had arrived!
Steven answered the door. In ran an eager puppy. "Alexandrite!" he said, screaming with joy. He laughed as the puppy treated his face like a human lollipop. "What?" Amethyst said. "We aren't even fusing right now!" "Yes," Pearl said. "We aren't fused, Steven. Why are you addressing us by that name?" "Um, it's the puppy's name," Steven said, blushing a bit. "What a cute name," Garnet said, patting Steven's poofy hair. He blushed a bit more, laughing.
Lapis and Peridot looked a bit confused. Peridot cocked her head a little bit. "That looks similar to that 'cat' you showed me," she said, giggling. "What is that?" Lapis asked, trying to sound polite. She knew it seemed a little more polite to ask "What are you?" in references to gems, but it is less polite in human culture. Sort of. It didn't make sense to her at all. Peridot couldn't identify the icky, transparent thick goop coming out of its mouth. "It's a dog," Steven answered, huge smile and all. "What's that icky substance coming out of its mouth?" Peridot asked, pointing. "Umm…" Steven said, trying not to blush. "Spit, drool, saliva — whatever you want to call it." He smiled, feeling a bit weird.
"Okay," Peridot and Lapis replied. Lapis gave a thumbs up, while Peridot gave a half-thumbs up. She decided to CHEEP about this strange, new creature named Alexandrite. What is a dog? She CHEEP'D. She got lots of replies in seconds, and reading them, she said "Oh…". Steven smiled. "I'm going to help Dad unpack his stuff. You can go ahead and play with Alexandrite…" he headed to the van.
Garnet didn't know how to react, but she'd let him keep it, of course. She already let him keep a huge, pink lion – what next? A parrot? She held her gem hand for the puppy to sniff. Strangely, Alexandrite made sure not to lick her gems and instead licked her fingers. Ruby was in awe. Sapphire was impressed.
Pearl was a lot surprised to see the dog Steven had brought in. She better not make a mess – Steven knows how much I hate messes…Pearl decided it was best to stay quiet. If she spoke a single word, she would probably say something rude – not purposely, but because it was just the way she was. It made her uncomfortable to imagine the puppy tearing apart pillowcases.
Amethyst was excited to see an animal critter in the house. They could make messes together, eat vile assortments yummy to Amethyst (such as tea bags, containers, and more!) sloppily together, and more. She smiled thinking of all the cool tricks she could teach it, especially after watching "Dog-Copter 5" with Connie and Steven. Pearl cringed at the mischievous look on Amethyst's face.
Peridot smiled at the puppy, trying to lick her jumpsuit. "Oh, this dog is so cute!" she said, smiling harder. Her first thought was to grab her tablet and take a "photo" with the dog, but she didn't want the dog eating and messing up her tablet. Hmm, I'll have to research this animal, she thought, rubbing her chin. Its diet, its natural environment, if it's a gem…
Lapis chuckled warmly at the dog trying to eat Peridot's jumpsuit. It would be impossible for it to eat gem clothing, knowing that their clothes are literally bounded to their flesh, but it was still funny to think that it could bite off a chunk of clothing. The only thing similar to changing their clothing is to reform, or shapeshift.
As Steven brought in a heavy bag of dog supplies (from beds to rawhide chews), he thought about all the fun they were going to have. It was admittedly interesting to see the dog attempt to eat Peridot's jumpsuit uniform. Alexandrite is going to be a good dog when she's older, Steven thought, sighing a bit. He wasn't sighing because of taking care of the puppy, he was only sighing because of how amazing it would be. How she could go on missions – but wait!
Maybe she could try one mission. One mission won't hurt…right?
Thank you guys so much for reading Chapter 2. I hope you guys are ready for Chapter 3: Alexandrite's First Mission ;). Stay tuned for the next chapter! And I want to thank these following people: Lady Shadow92, flying ducks298, Regalness, nohelyhernandez672, gtyfg, Ctlead, lobalunallena, inten, General Jo, cosmicdreamer77, GloriaRose, and for other stories, Guest, phanese, LaetusLupus, and Kira Sema. Thank you guys so much for reading my stories JI hope this story isn't too rushed, I tried to slow it down a bit and go a little bit into the character's thoughts and add a bit more detail (big thanks to Lady Shadow92 for bringing that up J). I was actually in a hurry writing chapter one! See you tomorrow for Chapter 3.
