Pearl's Gem Adventures
II.
Baby Bears and Anacondas
The door busted open and Amethyst's foot was still in mid-air. Lowering it she revealed that she had three boxes of donuts. Steven ran out from behind her with a grin, he was holding three more boxes.
Garnet stared at them and felt the urge to shake her head at them. Steven held out a box to her, "Want a doughnut, Garnet?"
"No."
"Aw c'mon they're really good!" Amethyst said, stuffing five in her mouth at once, crumbs fell onto her clothes.
"Where's Pearl?" Garnet said.
Amethyst waved her hand and stuffed a few more donuts in her mouth. "Forget about her, let me tell you what happened. I turned into a giant anaconda and demanded that we get six boxes of donuts for free, can you believe they gave it to us!" she said with her mouth full.
"Where's Pearl? I want to give her some." Steven smiled.
"I can't find her. I needed to ask her something but she wasn't anywhere to be found." Garnet said.
"She could've went on a mission." Steven offered.
"She'd tell me if she did." Garnet said.
Amethyst shrugged and sat down with her boxes. "She's probably out collecting flowers."
"Amethyst get up and go look around town." Garnet pointed out the door.
"Why!" The gem groaned.
"Because I said so."
"Fine!" Amethyst stood up and left the house in a huff.
"I can help!" Steven raised his hand high.
Garnet stared at him for nearly a minute. "Steven you can check Pearl's favorite places."
Steven saluted, creating a dent in his afro. "Yes ma'am! I won't let you down." He bounced out the house excitedly.
Garnet sighed. Being the leader she was, she knew deep down that Pearl wasn't going to be back soon.
Pearl was knee deep in gem powered orange gooey quick sand that was swallowing her up quickly. She was keeping still since she knew if you moved you only sunk faster but this quick sand was different, she was still sink despite being stiff as a board.
Pearl's arm's were still out so she summoned her weapon and while still holding it stuck it deep into the ground and attempted to pull herself out but something stopped her. A tiny gem bug that hopped on the tip of her nose.
"Eee!" Pearl shrieked and was submerged in the quick sand, she managed to hold her spear tight. The quick sand filled her mouth and she flailed through the thick sand.
Then the ground dropped and sand disappeared. Pearl fell and fell until she finally hit the ground, hard.
"Uh..." she groaned and rubbed her soar back. Sitting up she looked around, she was in a beautiful temple.
"The quick sand was a portal." Pearl said in realization.
"Yep! That's correct!" A tiny voice said. Pearl looked down and was pointed her spear at the thing but retreated when she saw it was cute gray bear cub with two emerald gems embedded in it's furry cheeks.
"Oh my god..." Pearl covered her mouth and dropped her spear.
"What?" the bear cub looked around, confused.
Pearl grabbed the bear cub and hugged it into her arms tightly. "You're are so cute!" she said.
"Ah, let me go! I can't breath!" the bear cub struggled to get away from the gem overcome by the bear's cuteness.
Pearl released the bear, she blushed a bit. "Sorry little bear, you're just really really adorable."
"I'm not adorable, I'm a beast of mass destruction!" The bear cub imitated flexing it's arms.
"Aw!" Pearl reached her hands out as if to grab the bear cub again.
The bear cub jumped back frightened. "Please. No more hugging." it held it's hands out as if to hold her back.
"Sorry."
"Wait." The bear cub held up a paw and it's right ear twitched. "Come on follow me." it ran on all four legs.
Pearl looked around finding nothing but followed the bear anyway. This was supposed to be an adventure and she was going to make it one.