First three part chapter! Hooray! ALSO HAPPY FIVE HOURS TO NEW YEARS (Or new years where you are) HERE'S A SEMI-EARLY CHAPTER!
The six shards all glowed, melding together and Steven gasped, why didn't any of this happen before? The gems shards formed a diamond shaped gemstone, with the string looping around like a necklace, around it a body formed, a purple pink beam eluding from it making Steven shield his eyes, and within seconds a figure was standing there, faster than before by a long shot. The gem had purple and brown hair with a pink hood, that slowly mixed with a pink as the shirt, just attached at the back, barely visible. It was long sleeved, and separate from the lower part making it a skirt, it was a warm violet, with a pink bag just handing down to the top rim of the skirt, and hanging from her shoulder, she wore white and purple alternating striped socks, and regular dark purple flats, and a pink sword bag with a gleaming silver sword falling out, there was also a pale purple gem hanging from her neck that changed tints and shades of purple frequently.
In a moment she grabbed the sword by the blade and tossed it, waiting a moment before catching the hilt and assuming a fighting stance. Her eyes were a pale silver, and were the polar opposite of Ciritines, they shone brightly, making it hard to tell if her eyes were really silver or just a very pale purple.
"Moonstone!" Ciritine cried, hugging the gem making her drop her blade. She smiled warmly, giving Steven a cold glare just before returning the hug. "I saw a gem shard on the beach and I went to search for the others and then I found him and saved his friend from getting poofed and then he gave me back the rest, which I by the way stole just so you'd be back and YAY!" She hugged Moonstone tighter, making her chuckle, she nodded.
"Alright, calm down." She looked to Steven who was awkwardly watching. "You." She pointed. "Where are we, and-"
"I'll fill you in." Steven said, but kept to himself a thought, he was not going to tell them anything about his transport in time, he glanced over to Ciritine.
"Well..." She murmured. Did Ciritine know something?
"Do you know something?" Moonstone said right on cue with Stevens thoughts.
"Basically you're on Earth, and you're in Beach city inside my mothers room." Steven began, receiving a wince from Moonstone. Probably the most emotion he'd gotten out of her. "And right now you really shouldn't go outside the temple." Steven said cautiously, in a hushed voice. "Also, centipeedle is a gem monster, I thought all gems knew about that Ciritine." Steven glanced over at Ciritine who flashed him an antagonizing look for a second.
"Not on Homeworld. We don't have gem monsters there." She replied, Moonstone shot her a confused stare.
"What are you talking ab-" Ciritine stepped on her foot causing Moonstone to let out a cry of pain.
"Later." Ciritine whispered softly.
"Oh so your from Homeworld?" Steven commented. Ciritine hastily nodded.
"Yep! Indubitably!" She shot a pleading look to Moonstone who jumped in.
"Y-yeah we're from Homeworld!" Moonstone cried, then added in a hushed whisper, "Since when do you even know what Indubitably means?" Ciritine shrugged in response.
"I dunno I heard it in-" Ciritine cut herself off quickly. "Homeworld!" She added.
"You're bad liars." Steven said with a chuckle.
"Hey I'm trying here!" Ciritine shouted back.
"She means we're not lying." Moonstone said with an antagonizing look. That shut the duo up quickly.
"So, will you actually tell me who you two are?" Steven asked, Ciritine and Moonstone glanced at each other before nodding.
"Another time, promise." Ciritine said. "First I want to explore Earth a bit more." She said, a longing look in her eyes. "I miss it.." She said softly, just soft enough that Steven didn't hear but a distant mumble. Moonstone gave her a nod.
"Ah, I never introduced myself, I'm Moonstone, sent to Earth as Ciritines partner." Moonstone greeted, extending a hand.
"So what are we gonna do? Just hide out here? I want to explore Beach City!" Ciritine after a good ten minutes of talking. Steven contemplated this, he could show her around Beach city...But he didn't want to risk the gems freaking out. Would he be able to hide them in Lion?
"I dunno, it's just that...If the gems see you they'll freak out." Steven said after a few moments of silence, Ciritine curled up on a cloud and began to sleep. "You sleep?" Steven asked, Ciritine slowly nodded.
"Yeah." She simply put, she didn't give much information, she just dozed off quietly. Moonstone laid down, but kept awake, sneaking glances at Steven every now and then.
Moonstone untied Ciritines hair and bunched up her bobby pins and bows, she retracted the blades and shoved them in her bag.
"How did you retract her weapon? Can't only Ciritine do that?" Steven asked curiously. Moonstone winced.
"Well...It's not really 'her' weapon per say, more like our species of gem don't necessarily have a weapon..." Moonstone said. "We're given an artificial one to protect ourselves made from pieces of our gem." She pointed to a thin white line over Ciritines gem, and the six white lines that covered hers in a cut pattern.
"Huh...Did it...grow back?" Steven asked, noting the white line instead of a chipped off piece like he would've expected. Moonstone nodded.
"Our gems are different, they can regenerate because their part of us, unlike your species of gem whose gemstone is a whole separate form, it's also why when we regenerate often our gems...I guess you could say power down, they no longer do anything, and often they're vulnerable, unlike yours where if you were to regenerate it would pulse signifying a sort of life coming from the gem." Moonstone explained. Steven nodded. "I used more of my gem when creating my weapon...I wanted to protect Ciritine." She said, softer this time.
"Why?" He asked after moments of silence.
"Why what?" Moonstone asked, shuffling in her spot on the cloudy floor, she fumbled with her hood, pulling on a loose thread.
"Why are you different, are you like kindergarten gems? Manufactured and that's how the species was made?" Steven asked, stars in his eyes, motivated to learn about this new culture.
Moonstone nodded, "Yes actually, we were made by homeworld, similar to kindergarten gems except...There's one difference that I don't feel comfortable sharing at this moment." Moonstone said. "I'd rather Ciritine be awake for that, and trust you more, I tsill know nothing about you." Moonstone added.
"Well, at least now I have some more information...Hey... Any chance you know a gem with time travel ability?" Steven asked. Moonstone cocked her head to the side.
"Maybe, why?" She asked, intrigued.
"STEVEN?" He heard Pearl yell just outside the temple door.
"Room! I want to go outside of the room, the real outside." Steven commanded, soon enough a silver door with five gems appeared an he walked through, "Stay put, don't let them see you." He told the duo.
And that's the end, fairly short chapter, but with plenty of content, I planned to make this a longer chapter, but I'd rather not spend too much time on one chapter, I prefer to only work on one for a few days before ending the chapter on a cliffhanger and leaving it at that.