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EDIT: Steven bomb 4 is finally over...Not I want to do a Peridot arc of my own...This gives me ideas...Lots of ideas...Well that's one way to get me back to writing this story!
Steven went through the door, leaving the three gems shocked into silence at the counter.
"Steven...When did you learn to do that..?" Pearl asked, half brimming with joy that he was learning about his mother, even by just walking into her room, and half scared to death about how the boy learned this, who the boy learned this from actually.
But Pearl knew the answer. It had to be that gem, something to do with her, just the gem itself was just...odd, it showed no signs of life, no pulse or heat radiated from it, nothing. It was like...It just, well died. Pearl frowned, the boy stuttered.
What could he say? There wasn't much he could do here, if he admitted it he'd be in big trouble, if he didn't he'd still be in big trouble. Suddenly the door behind him glowed a bright rose colored pink and opened up in its usual rose pattern.
"I taught him. I was listening in to your conversation." Said a cool calm voice. Steven turned around to face Moonstone and then saw a bright glow in the corner of his eye, he turned and glanced just for a moment at the hurling spear, a bright white, not fully formed and heading straight for Moonstone!
"Moonstone!" Steven cried, jumping in front of her, summoning his shield and letting out a breath he didn't realize he was holding. Moonstone has shut her eyes tightly, her hands protectively shielding her face, and one of the strings on the bag holding the sword came loose, leaving the blade dangling from the bag and touching the floor ever so slightly. Moonstone tightly gripped the blade, a thin drizzle of blood running down the blade. Moonstone opened her eyes wide and wiped the blood off leaving a red streak and she yanked it from the bag, tossing it into the air and grabbing the hilt, leaving the sword right side up with a red streak at the very top.
The sword glowed a strange pink hue the moment her fingers clamped around the hilt of the blade, the sword enveloped her in the same aura soon after and she charged towards Pearl.
"Moonstone!" Steven cried again, but the gem didn't hear him. She slipped underneath Pearls legs and went straight for her back, but a purple whip wrapped around the gems petite body and tightened, knocking the breath out of her, she wheezed, falling onto her knees and clamping her hands over her mouth. A thin trickle of blood fell onto her hands, she quickly wiped the blood from her chin and whipped around to face Amethyst, the gem cut the whip in half, just loosening the whip enough for her to breathe. She took in gulps of air at a time, stepping close to the wall for support.
A thin duel sided blade whipped through the air, a yellow glow emitted from it and a orange bow sat in the center, the transparent blade flew before Moonstones eyes making her halt completely and she followed the blade with her eyes, and it smashed into the wall, creating a small explosion of dust and debris, and the occasional yellow particle.
Everyone turned their attention to the gasping gem outside of the fight range. "Moonstone stop!" Yelled the attacker, when the dust cleared Moonstone rubbed her eyes.
"Ciritine..." She mumbled, and dropped her blade, her face shielded by a shadow and she fell against the wall, gasping in breaths, leaning her back against the thick painted concrete wall.
Ciritine walked into the center of the fight, giving each gem a disappointed glare. She picked up her bow, retracted the blade, sticking it in her hair, and fixing the bobby pins, all in a single motion.
"What is wrong with you guys!" She yelled, her face with pure anger, even towards Moonstone who winced under her cold glare.
"She hurt you. And she was about to hurt the boy." Moonstone insisted causing Pearl to blush and anger spread across her features.
"I would never hurt Steven!" Pearl cried, "I was wondering how he learned to open his mothers door!"
"When a gem asks things like that in the tone you used it means they're looking for a fight." Moonstone insisted, drawing back her stance into a fighting position, her hilt of the blade rolling across her palm, and the sword just barely balancing. She gripped it tighter, before relaxing and letting it baleen more as she noticed the bright hue dimming. She sighed, after a moment or two, and shoved the sword back into the bag, tightening the strings and letting it dangle on her shoulder.
"No! Haven't you heard of scolding! I-its what parents do!" Pearl cried, she was on the verge of tears. "I-I-I would never-" Pearl stopped as Garnet threw her hand in front of Pearl, forcing her to back down.
"An unknown gem just showed up, got poofed saving Pearl, and Steven has just shown a new ability by means we don't know, now there are two gems inside our home who we don't know, and Steven acting odd lately, can you see the reason for hostility?" Garnet asked in her monotone voice, Moonstone slowly nodded, sitting down and taking off her shoes.
"I'm sorry." Moonstone and Ciritine muttered in unison.
Steven stiffened. They did know. He could have guessed, I mean he had lived with them for years.
"Hey...Steven...He's been acting weird right?" Ciritine asked. Garnet nodded nonchalantly. Ciritine turned to Steven. "I'll talk to you later." She whispered, then turned and headed out the door with Moonstone.
Steven closed the door, "Hey you said...You wanted to explore Earth right?" Steven asked, Ciritine nodded. Steven grinned. "I know just the thing!" Steven pulled out his phone, tapping on the cool touch screen and waiting for it to load, it buffered for a moment before showing a video of an odd dog with what seemed to be a helicopter blade on top?
'What on Earth..." Moonstone thought whilst snatching the device from the boys hand. The video pulled up, she waited for it to start, several disclaimers popped up. The video played showing several cliche fight scenes and explosions, a typical movie for someone like Steven, but Moonstone didn't exactly see the appeal, meanwhile Ciritine was starry eyed and completely enveloped in the children's movie. Moonstone smirked, of course Ciritine would love this stuff, Moonstone sighed, if Ciritine liked it then Moonstone knew better than to argue. So she'd have to follow along and get Ciritine tons of popcorn and junk foods for the theater, not that she minded, she had easily mastered materializing things from her gem. So she guessed she had unlimited money, but tried not to think about it much like every other gem.
"CAN WE GO SEE IT?!" Ciritine shouted making Moonstones ears ring for a moment.
"Are you trying to make me deaf?!" Moonstone cried. Ciritine shrugged, wearing an ear-to-ear grin.
Steven grinned, if he couldn't go with Connie this was the next best thing, but he certainly wished he would, he missed his friend. Connie was his best friend and he promised himself that he'd not forget about her...But...
"Well?" Ciritine asked, hand son her hips, "Are we gonna go?"
Before he knew what was happening they were all riding Lion and he was convincing the pink lion to go through the portal it had just created.
"Lion c'mon! We need to go to the movies! And don't bring me somewhere other than the movies!" Steven commanded, giving the lion a light slap on the back before doubling over in awe as the Lion fell on its back adorably, Steven rubbed its belly playfully in an attempt for the Lion to play with him.
"Aw... So no 'movies?'" Ciritine asked, trying out the word. Steven shrugged.
"Depends on what Lion wants to do- ah!" Steven cried when Lion rolled over on top of him. "Lion!" Came the muffled cry from underneath the animal. Moonstone giggled.
The pale gem nudged her foot against the Lion who growled in response, Moonstone scowled.
"Lion! Move!" Moonstone yelled, picking up the Lion by its scruff and tossing it off Steven. She sighed, Lion growled in return, biting the back of her dress and hauling her on top of it, and doing the same with Steven and Ciritine. It created a portal and jumped through in one swift motion.
"Oh no." Steven murmured as he realized where he was. It wasn't like last time with the armory instead he was brung too the kindergarten.
Moonstone gasped, Ciritine clutched her partners arm tightly, stepping in front of her and taking her bow out of her hair and letting the two thin blades extend from the ruffles. She twirled it with her fingers and protectively guarded her friend. "Why did you bring us here?" She yelled in a demanding voice, similar to the one she had when she and Steven had met. Ciritine had an odd yellow glow to her eyes, contrasting the normal pale yellow that always hid her emotions in a calm way, except for the few times her eyes lit up when she was excited.
Moonstone tightened her grip of Ciritines hand and stepped up next to her, drawing her blade from the sword bag on her back and Steven witnessed the bag gleam away into tiny sparkles, Moonstone visibly winced as her hold on both her friends hand and the hilt tightened dangerously. Moonstone turned her gaze over to a nearby hole and peered inside, raising an eyebrow at this, and continuing down the line.
"Where are all the quartz?" Moonstone eventually asked, pulling Ciritine along with her, she eventually let go of her hand, however still stayed in eyesight of Ciritine, knowing how bad she'd freak out if Moonstone left her side for a extended amount of time.
"O-oh well.." Steven glanced around, as if making sure the gems weren't around."I'm not sure actually the only one I know of that's still around is Amethyst, but the rest I assumed got k-killed in the war.." Steven hung his head over the word 'kill'. He didn't like the word, not one bit, but he knew it was plausible.
"Oh." Moonstone said, but kept quiet to anything else she may have been thinking to say. Ciritine shot a worried glance at her and sighed.
"C-can we just go already...It's eerie and cold here." Ciritine said with a light shiver. The lion however was nowhere to be seen.
"We might have to walk..." Steven said in a low voice that was laced with dread. Once they left the kindergarten safely, a certain green gem was about to begin the experiments. It was only a matter of time before everything would repeat itself now, and the boy would have accomplished nothing, both to the green gem and the half-human's ignorance.
The three gems all made their way along the paths, making sure to keep hidden from people to avoid questions. Moonstone hopped along the wires connecting the telephone poles and had a surprising amount of agility, she didn't slip up except once when a car roared by and she hid behind one. She jumped from wire to wire, spinning a bit and seemed to be having a blast, she turned on her heels and bounced along the wires, building up stamina on one jump as the wire bent low to the ground, several telephone poles stretching to maintain the hold, and Moonstone took a jump as high as she could, spinning in the air and missing another wire, landing beside Ciritine.
"Having fun?" Ciritine asked with a smirk earning a playful shove from the purple gem. Steven chuckled at how sisterly they acted, he almost envied how close they were, but he had the gems so he was fine. Wasn't he?
If he was honest he was never as close to them as Ciritine and Moonstone were to each other.
With that thought he saw the "Beach City" sign come into view, as well as the city lights, and nearby a familiar looking pink fluffy lion lounging around in the sand.
The three warped to the theater and asked for tickets, earning a weary look from the lady standing behind the booth. Moonstone and Ciritine gave her matching innocent smiles and handed her the money, stepping inside the the noisy theater, tickets in hand.