THE LOST DIAMOND
Chapter 1
It was late in the afternoon and Steven and Connie were doing their daily training with pearl. "You both are making remarkable progress. With your swordsmanship Connie and Steven's ability with his shield, you both will be the perfect tag team.", Pearl said. "Thanks, Pearl." said both Connie and Steven. "Can we take a break now Pearl?", said Steven. "I guess you ca-", said Pearl before being abruptly interrupted.
"WOOHOO!", said Steven and Connie with extreme excitement as they run to the seats in the arena and sit down. "You have the snacks right Steven?", Connie said. "Of course I do Connie," Steven says as he takes out jam and biscuits along with a few juice boxes from his backpack. "I also brought some special limited addition chiiiiiips." Steven looks in his cheeseburger backpack but immediately is struck with confusion as he takes out a note. Steven mumbles, "mumu ma mumumu... ONIIIIOOOOOONN!" Connie only giggles.
"Its alright Steven we can eat chips another time." Pearl sits next to them and says, "I don't understand what the big deal is with those chips. They are just the same as any other chips. Why they are just baked vegetable slices with artificial flavoring." Steven then says with a pouting face, "Pearl they were limited addition and Onion won't even eat them." Connie is still just giggling at Steven's drama of his chips. "I guess I'll forgive Onion this time but this is the last time. At least we still have the jam and biscuits." Steven then passes the juice boxes to Connie and Pearl.
As Steven is doing that Connie is spreading jam on the biscuits for them all. "Do you want a jam biscuit Pearl?", says Connie. Pearl looks at Connie with a smile and says, "No thank you, Connie, I'm still trying to get used to liquids after that Mystery girl fiasco." Steven's eyes light up at the words "Mystery Girl". "Did you ever call her, Pearl?", Steven says.
Pearl then blushes and pretends to be extremely fascinated with the straw of the juice box. "Why of course I did Steven. It's rude to not call someone who is expecting it." Steven and Connie looked at each other with smug grins. Connie said, "So what did you tell her Pearl?". Pearl then blushes some more and says, "Why do you have to ask these questions, Connie. It's not like I need help to be social and all that... We may have made plans for meeting up Tuesday at the nearby Moonbucks coffee shop." Steven and Connie look at each other and both say, "Oh my gooooosh!" Steven says, "When were you going to tell us, wait did you even tell Amethyst and Garnet."
Pearl replies with, "Of course I was going to tell them it's just that... I didn't know how to tell them." Before Steven or Connie could pry Pearl for more information, the Warp Pad activated. Garnet and Amethyst ran into the ruins with a concerned look on their faces. "Um, you guys should come see this.", Amethyst said. "Whats going on?" Connie asked. "There's no time to explain. Something has appeared over Beach City." Garnet said. They all started running back to the Warp Pad.
"Is it Homeworld?" Pearl asked. "We don't know it just looks like a ship.", explained Amethyst. They got on the Warp Pad and began to warp back home. On the Warp Pad Steven asked Garnet, "Did you get the town to evacuate?". Garnet replied, "No, we didn't want to start a panic if it was just a false alarm. It didn't seem like it would land for another hour". They warped back into the house and ran outside to see what it was.
They looked up and saw that it was about to crash into earth. It looked like a sphere with dents all over covered in fire. "That's impossible! How could it have gained that much speed!" Garnet said. They began to run down the steps. Steven looked back at it and said, "It sort of looks like the Ruby's ship but more damaged." The sphere finally went passed the temple and crashed into Beach City. Garnet yelled, "Quickly Gems we have to attend to the people of the City.".
They started running towards the plume of smoke that seemed to be in the front of Beach City. They all split up to check on everyone in the City but eventually met back up in the middle of town. Garnet said, "No one seems to be harmed.". Steven sighed, "Are we gonna check up on what that thing was?". Pearl replied, "Steven and Connie we want you to stay behind us just in case." Connie and Steven looked at each other and nodded in agreement. They looked ahead and saw the ship still in flames but dying down. They heard a noise and a door started to open on the sphere and a figure stepped out.