Now for everyones favorite story building trope, BACKSTORY!
"Precursor gems?" Diamond sighed as he rubbed his face with his hands. "Of course you don't know about that, i thought you might know what those are and that's why you attacked me but that's clearly not the case." Amethyst shrugged. "I was made on earth Garnet and Pearl are the ones from home world." Diamond snorted looking over to Pearl who was watching television with Garnet while calling it unrealistic white Steven was reading off to the side. "Pearl, what do you know about precursor gems?" Pearl froze staring at everything and nothing shaking. "Pearl are you okay?" Pearl shook her head looking at Steven. "I'm fine Steven i just um." Diamond rolled his eyes. "So what horror stories have they told you?"
Pearl swallowed. "The precursors were monsters, mindless beast that sought to wipe out all of present gem kind, when gems began to die out the precursors became selfish saying they wouldn't make more, they tried to drive gem kind to extinction. However in time gem kind rose up and defeated them restoring all of gem kind to its former glory!" Diamond sneered at her his magic pulsing angrily. "So the earth saying is true, history is written by the victor." He angrily walked out the door.
"So he just left?" Steven nodded as Connie looked at him Greg off to the side listening "I don't get why though." Connie looked at him confused. "History is written by the winner?" Connie gasped and Greg froze. "Um Steven, you don't think Diamond is a precursor, do you?" Steven looked at her through his magic sight. "I don't get it them, why do the gems hate the precursors then?" "Because we didn't want to die." Everyone turned to see Diamond standing near them. "I wasn't spying i promise was just on my way back to the house and i saw you here." Diamond looked honestly abashed. "Anyway Steven i should probably explain how gems were originally made."
Pearl was wondering when the day had taken such a weird turn, on one side was Steven who kept changing color going from his usual pinkish complexion to pure white paling considerably every time he looked at one of them on the other was Diamond who couldn't look at her without distaste making itself plain to see. Eventually he got tired of it though and simple went over to the temple door knocking. "Amethyst can i have one of your whips?" The door opened and a whip came out a wrapped around Diamonds face. "Thanks." Diamond let his crystals grow over it absorbing the whip into his body before grabbing Steven. "Come on, you're gonna love this." They passed Garnet on their way out and Diamond smiled before exiting. "Where are they going?" Pearl shrugged. "I don't know."
Diamond drew a spear and a whip before slamming the two together making a bow. "Isn't that Opal's weapon?" Diamond nodded. "Pretty cool ability huh Precursors had a ton of different powers its where Gems get theres, it a gem has that power its a fact there was a Precursor before them who had it." Steven swallowed nervously thinking about the question he wanted to ask. "Why did Gems do that to the Precursors, what was the point?" Diamond sighed a weighted tired breath. "I don't know Steven why would an immortal race want to make more of itself, what good would it do when there was already a planet full of them?" Diamond shook his head. "Like i said though history is written by the victors, we created them p, we fought alongside them, we taught and protected them, but they betrayed us, they used us, i don't think i care anymore, but then they go and paint us out to be the monsters to be the selfish ones."
Diamond looked Steven in the eye genuine hurt and confusion on his face. "Is it selfish to want to live Steven?" He didn't have an answer for that. Diamond shook his head. "No time to feel depressed we're here to cheer you up!" Diamond pulled the bowstring back letting an arrow fly. "Dang it, hang on need to change the angle." He did it again before putting his hand on Steven's head. Steven looked on as the arrow flew the landscape passing underneath. "Its like flying!" Diamond smiled keeping his face neutral while he thought darkly. 'I can't tell him the truth, i only told him about the Precursors because my reaction was to extreme to not warrant an explanation. He can't know about Rose not now, but he has the right, its his mother after all.'
Diamond looked down as Steven feeling forlong pain a need to be there for him, he reminded him of 'her' even though the two seemed nothing alike. 'Zircon, i miss you.' Diamond made a choice that moment, and he liked it. He chuckled when Steven pouted with him taking his hand off his head but smiled. "Remember what we talked about in the dessert?" Steven nodded excitedly. "Maybe we should try then, i know a dance that could work but i have a question for you. How good is your shapeshifting?"
SCENE this ones saddly a little short just because i cant find a real segway into the next part of the story Steven and Diamond will have a fusion and it will be awesome, and i will name him TOPAZ.