Hurry alert the fan base and shippers! It's time for Opal. Also in case you were wondering: psammokinesis is the ability to manipulate sand.
Oh my gosh...50 reviews already?! How is...Why...I'm completely...Just..Wow. I'm at a loss of words honestly I just checked the reviews and there were 57 reviews!? (Note: This was written in advance just after Bubble Buddies was released) You guys really want this fanfiction, I'm proud of myself ^^
"NO~!" Amethyst cried when she saw that Pearl had one. Then she giggled, "Aha here it comes-" She was pelted with water balloons and fell to the ground laughing.
"Steven is this really necessary?" Pearl asked, rolling her eyes at the chuckling Amethyst.
"Yeah! Now the moves really matter!" Steven said, his hand slipping and a water balloon hitting Pearl, she winced as cold water spread and dripped down her hair and face. She shook her head, trying to dry it off.
"But it's checkers! Every move matters!" Pearl said.
"Sounds like someones being a sore loser." Amethyst taunted, Pearl grew red in the face.
"I'm not a sore loser, I just one the game!" Pearl said, she gestured the the board and all of Amethysts checkers on her side of it. Pearl knocked over the pieces she had arranged into a stacked tower. This caused Amethyst to laugh louder.
"Aha oh man." Amethyst said as she slapped her knee.
"Ugh your so immature this is why we never form Opal." Pearl groaned, Amethyst stopped laughing, she knew the real reason Pearl didn't want to fuse with her, but decided to keep it to herself.
"We don't form Opal because your uptite and egotistigoal- egotisticel- egotistic- know what whatever." Amethyst crossed her arms. huffing.
"We don't form Opal because your messy and immature!" Pearl retorted.
"Opal?" Steven butted in, pushing the two away and looking at them with wide starry eyes. "What is Opal?!" He cried, excited for the fusion to be back in the picture.
"Opal is an amalgam of our combined magical and physical attributes fused into a single entity." Pearl stated as she used psammokinesis to manipulate the sand, demonstrating a fusion dance. "Like so." Amethyst crushed the models in a puff of dust.
"Except I don't dance like that." She commented mockingly. Pearl groaned.
It was just as he'd remembered it being, Garnet says something about the heaven beetle, he gets a rock, and their at the sky temple thing. Steven hummed his fusion song, hoping he'd get eat by that bird again...Wait..No that was worded wrong.. Whatever.
He shook the thought from his head as he climbed up the stairs.
"Can you guys form Opal now~?" Steven asked, sighing, he had went over it in the house too while speaking to Garnet, he caught the slight curl in her lips showing that she enjoyed seeing Steven so excited about fusion.
"Steven we already went over this we only fuse in dire situations, does this look like a dire situation?" Pearl asked, as a goat came out of nowhere and bit her hand.
"Dire?" Amethyst and Steven repeated the word in unison. Pearl groaned. Steven grinned at the goat.
"I'll call him Steven Jr.!" Steven let stars take up most of the room in his eyes as he patted the goat, it let out a cry and skipped along the path. He followed after it grinning. Amethyst and Pearl shot each other concerned looks.
"All I wanna do~"
Steven and the rest of the gems, and the goat all headed up the large cliff, climbing was surprisingly difficult with a goat on his back.
"Is to see you turn into~"
Pearl "slipped" on a rock and sent crumbled pebbles down on top of Amethyst, earning a glare.
"A giant woman~"
Once reaching the top of the cliff they encountered a large lake, Pearl elegantly skipped along the rocks toward the shore when Amethyst popped out of the water, sending her crashing into the water.
"A..Giant...Woman..."
they encountered a bridge next, walking along it Amethyst bumped into Steven causing the bridge to wobble and shake, Steven steadied himself before wildly jumping on it as it swerved.
"Amethyst!" Pearl began to scold, which turned into a massive argument.
"Oh I know it will be great, and I just can't wait~"
They next hiked up a cliff...Yes...ANOTHER cliff and Steven continued singing,
"To see the person you are together~ If you give it a chance you could do a huge dance because you are...~"
They reached the tip of the cliff, and Steven was just about to finish as the goat wailed.
"A giant...Woman...~"
Steven reached the end of his song noticing how shortened it was, he frowned, he still hadn't gotten over the whole Malachite incident, and now fusion was back into his life again. And it terrified him.
(Quick authors note: It was originally supposed to end here, but I lengthened it because its only 800 words long, and left out way too much... End of authors note!)
Steven ran along the path towards the beetle palace. He wondered if he'd get eaten again. Then wondered when the last time he had a cookie cat was...Maybe this afternoon? His stomach rumbled which gave him enough confirmation that he wanted more, he was down to his last couple and wanted to savor them..And yet he couldn't stop himself from eating at least two or three a day.
Pearl stopped for a moment, noticing something glimmer inside the tiny beetle temple. She looked inside, it was..very nice for a beetle. She saw something glimmer on the tiny bed, and she picked it up, just barely fitting a finger in the window, she pressed it up against the wall, and after a while she got whatever it was to balance on her finger and slide out.
"Whoa! It's got little beetle bongos!" Steven said, nudging Pearl over so he could take a closer look, not noticing Pearl examining the glimmering object in her hand.
It was a simple purple gem shard, and very small, it looked as if it had been cleaned recently or at least shined, it caught the light perfectly inside the temple making it shine brightly. But where was the beetle? Surely...It couldn't have been taken by whoever had the gem shard...Right? Amethyst noticed Pearl was looking intently at something in her hands and walked over.
"Pearl?" She asked, waving a hand in her face. Pearl looked up at her with a half irritated look, but mostly just deep in thought, which, to be honest was normal for someone like Pearl. Amethyst laid a hand on her shoulder and crouched down to look at whatever Pearl was holding, sneaking glances at Steven who was wrapped up in the temple. "What is that?" Amethyst asked with pure curiosity, not the fake curiosity that bled through her words when she was questioned about one of Pearls belongings ending up in her room, often she just shrugged, but had that tone when she answered that clearly meant the exact opposite of, "I dunno." Pearl often took that as Amethyst took her stuff.
"I don't know." She replied, keeping her voice low so she wouldn't worry, even though she was seventy percent sure he wouldn't react, only give a fake face, but even then it was after a few moments as if he forgot to react to what Pearl said. And it was honestly..frightening. He'd changed so much, and she couldn't express how much this meant to her, she'd said it just as much as the others, and she was sure the others were turning it over in their heads too right now. She made a mental note to have a meeting in the temple while Steven was asleep to discuss this situation.
Steven glanced over at Pearl and Amethyst, Pearl had gotten up and was putting something in a purse that came from who knows where, she probably materialized it. Amethyst was going back over to slouch on the wall when they heard a defending cry.
"Steven Jr?" Steven called recognizing the goats wails. Steven quickly ran over to it when he saw a giant gem monster, looking suspiciously like a bird fly up into the air he cried as he ran into the conveniently placed shelter that sat next to the tiny temple. "Guys! This is the perfect time to form Opal! It's okay you can do it!" He cheered. "Please don't fight!" He added, the gems caught note of this addition and nodded, determined obviously if Steven told them this it must be urgent, obviously since he seemed to know what would happen if they did fight.
Pearl and Amethysts gems glowed as they bowed. Pearl began her stance, doing a simple ballet pose and beginning to come closer to Amethyst, leaping into the air until she felt Amethysts hand against hers, and was brought down by her.
Amethysts started out a little different than she'd planned, instead of mocking Pearl like she usually did she did a simple spin and a pose, she spun out of it, taking Pearls hand as she slowed down and bringing her to the ground, whilst stopping Amethyst from spiraling into the wall, they honestly did need to be serious or else Steven could get hurt.
They heard it in his voice.
Just as they simultaneously thought that Steven could get hurt, and how urgent he sounded, their bodies were engulfed in a bright light.
"Opal?" He gasped as the roof broke in and the two became Opal, she turned to Steven, blocking the birds giant beak and summoned her bow quickly, backing the boy up as the bird attacked again, Opal sent a arrow spiraling into its mouth, it exploded on impact, mainly caused by it overpowering and couldn't hold it anymore until it released it all in a simple movement. The bird recoiled before turning into mini versions of itself, Opal took Steven and jumped out, landing on what looked like a cliff that they had been on a half hour ago or so. "The heaven beetle!" Steven shouted, reminding Opal, she panicked where could it have gone? Steven also looked for Steven Jr, it had evaded the attack supposedly this time around and was munching happily on-
The heaven beetle! Steven ran over to it, nearly stopped by Opal, who noticed the bird again and shot it, disintegrating the gem monsters.
Steven pulled the heaven beetle out of the goats mouth and ran over to Opal, presenting it with a grin on his face, Opal smiled.
"A giant woman..." She sang lethargically with a hint of amusement. Stevens face fell.
He instantly was reminded of Malachite.
Poor Steven, he just can't catch a break huh? I meant for this to become a very light hearted episode, but I was thinking of how Steven is just talking about any fusion as a giant woman and...Yeah this came out of it. Hope you look forward to the next chapter!