Chapter 12: Let's go to the Movies
"I just still can't believe it," Pearl said with a hand under her chin. The three alien Gems were currently warping back to the Temple after another successful mission. But for Pearl, she was still concerned about Isaac. Yesterday, the Gem was regenerated by Isaac after two weeks of remaining in her gemstone. After Steven and Isaac went to bed, Garnet explained to Pearl what happened to the blonde man. Needless to say, she was both shocked and worried. "Hellfire? Isaac actually was able to use that power?"
"Yeah, it was pretty fucking awesome!" Amethyst exclaimed with a big grin.
Pearl, however, wasn't so enthused. "But what are the consequences of someone so inexperienced like Isaac using such a destructive and dangerous power? When Onyx first used it, she annihilated every Homeworld Gem without miles of her. Of course, that was after the Diamonds..."
"But Isaac isn't like Onyx. He's half-human. He's still learning his powers and its a slow progress," Garnet said.
Pearl sighed and looked away. "You say that, but... every time he around, it's like she's still with us," she said depressingly with a hand on her cheek. It was the same thing with Steven. It was like Rose was still around with him.
"Yo! We're almost there," Amethyst said as they were almost to the house. "I wonder what kind of trouble those two are getting into."
"Whooaaa," Steven said with his irises turning into fireworks shapes. At the house, Steven's human friend Connie was showing Steven and Isaac the trailer for the new movie coming out called Dogcopter 3 on her phone. It was the third installment in the movie franchise based on the books, Dogcopter. It is about a dog, who is part-helicopter, that defeats robots to save the world. "I can see why this is your favorite film franchise."
Connie adjusted her glasses. "That's right! In a world where humanity is pushed to the brink, it turns out that the one who is most human is a dog!" She proclaimed. "-copter."
"A dogcopter that know where to put his missile," Isaac joked while standing behind the counter. On the counter were Steven and his backpack and some snacks that they were taking to the movie.
Connie chuckled and blushed with a mischievous smirk. "Yeah. I just hope it stays faithful to the book," she said.
"I'm sure they're not." Isaac and the two kids then saw the warp pad activates. As Connie stared at the column of light with wide eyes, Isaac said, "They're back early." They walked towards the warp pad as the Gems appeared. All do different poses.
Garnet was still posing when she said, "Greetings."
Pearl opened her eyes and saw Isaac, before looking down at Steven and noticed that Connie was there with them. "Oh! Well, hello, Connie! What a surprise to see you!"
"We're gonna watch a movie about a wacky, flying dog! Show 'em, Connie!" Steven exclaimed with excitement
"I mean, it's about, much more than that," Connie said, restarting the trailer and then held up the phone to the Gems.
"It's pretty wacky to me," Isaac said with a lopsided smile.
As the screen of the phone showed Dogcopter barking, Amethyst chuckled. "Oh-ho-ho, that's easy!" She told the kids before shapeshifting into Dogcopter. She started her propeller and flew upwards.
"Whoooaaa?!" Connie yelled as she watched the purple Gem hover in the air.
"Who needs to go see movies when you've got, magiiiiic!" Amethyst then shapeshifted her head into a boombox and started played upbeat tempo music. Garnet nods her head to the beat, as Pearl looked annoyed at Amethyst's showing off. Groaning in annoyance.
"Aw, stop showin' off, Amethyst," Isaac said with a smirk. "Besides, don't you promise that this movie's going to be even better than any magic, Connie?"
"I did not say that."
"And check this out!" Steven turned around and walked over to counter. He turned to the Gems and gestured to the snacks they were preparing to take. "We got our own snacks."
Connie turned to explain the reason to Garnet and Pearl. My parents say I'm not allowed to buy snacks at the theater, So, we're not buying anything at the theater."
Amethyst shapeshifted her head back to normal and flew past Connie, Garnet, and Pearl. "Nom! Noms!" She yelled eagerly and approached Steven, who shielded the snacks with his arms. "Feeeed me!"
"Hands off, Amethyst!" Steven yelled. "These are for me, Connie, and Isaac to share at the movie!"
"Speaking of which, how are we getting to the theater?" Connie asked the young boy. "It's... kinda far." Isaac and Steven stuffed all of the snacks into their Cheeseburger and Taco Backpack.
"Yeah, and I don't have a car to take us there," said the blonde man.
"Don't worry, I've got it covered," Steven said with confidence and a funny look. "Today, we're gonna travel in style!"
"Introducing the finest in luxury transportation... Lion!" Steven yelled, introducing a bewildered Connie to the giant pink lion that was sitting on the sand with his back facing them. Lion looked over his shoulder at her and the two hybrids before yawning and lied down. "Aw, you little goofball." He walked over to Lion and pressed his face into his mane.
Connie was hiding behind Isaac's legs, slightly frightened by Lion. "You have a pet lion?!" She asked.
Steven lifted his face out of Lion's mane to look at her. "Lion is sorta like a pet," he told her. "He does his own thing most of the time, though."
The three heard some crunking and chomping sounds. Isaac and the kids looked around Lion and saw that he was chomping down on something as sparkling with feathers falling out of his mouth. They then looked down and saw that he was eating an half-eaten Crystal Basilisk that was by his paws.
"I'm afraid to ask where he got that from," said Isaac.
"Wow, Steven and Isaac. Everything in your lives is so awesome and magical," Connie said, before picking up a stick of the ground. "The most exciting thing in my life is tennis practice." She got into a tennis stance and swung the stick from her left to her right. "Forehand!" She then swung the stick from her right and back to her left. "Backhand!" For her final move, she brought the stick to the center of her body, bringing it up and then slamming it down. "Overhead death strike!"
"Whoa! Tennis is rad!" Steven said.
Connie picked up the stick again. "Well, I made up that last one."
Lion snarled, getting the three's attention. "I think we should get going," said Isaac. He and the child climbed onto the pink lion. The two kids sat in front of him, with Steven in front of Connie, Connie sandwiched between the hybrids, and the blonde young man sat in the back. "Alright, let's go!" Isaac pointed forward.
However, Lion just continued to stands there. Not moving with an expectant-looking Steven, Connie, and Isaac.
"We're off!" Isaac shouted, slapping Lion's butt. "Let's go!"
"Let me try," Steven said, before rubbing Lion's mane. "Uhh... Lion, I want you to take us to the movie." The group waited for a few seconds, but Lion was still not moving. "Okay, you're not listening to me."
"I thought you were his owner or something," Isaac said.
Steven looked at Connie and his older friend before chuckling nervously. "Well, Lion isn't trained very well. But I'm not trained very well either, so we're a—"
Lion's eyes widened and he roared, rearing up on his hind-legs. This took everyone on his back by surprise, before they hung on tightly as he charged forward. But as soon as the surprise was over, the three started laughing. Haning onto Lion as he ran through Beach City.
However, Lion changed direction and started to run towards the ocean.
"Uh, Steven, what's going on?" Isaac asked, worried about what the lion was going to do.
"Waaait, Lion! Don't go in the oceeeeeaaaaan!" Steven yelled before he and Connie screamed as Lion jumped high into the air. Going straight for the deep part of the ocean. Isaac closed his eyes and turned his head away as he waited for the impact of the water.
But it didn't happen. Instead, Lion landed on the ocean and was standing upright as if he were still on land, not sinking at all. Isaac opened his eyes and looked down at the water. Amazed by Lion's ability. Steven and Connie were seeing this too, and the young boy looked to his pet with wonder. "You can walk on water," he asked as Connie adjusted her glasses, and Isaac was panting to calm his beating heart. "Why don't you tell me you can do these things you dooooo?!" Lion started running again.
Isaac kept his grip on Lion's mane, as he, Steven and Connie appeared to be amazed and happy. Looking up with wonder at some seagulls that flew alongside them. Isaac reached out to touch one, but the birds broke away and went off in a different direction.
A boat with a few people onboard came into view in front of them. As Lion ran past it, they were close up to the side of the boat. Steven, as friendly as ever, waved at the shocked sailors on the boat and greeted them, "Hey-o!"
"How's it hanging!?" Isaac also greeted, making both Steven and Connie begin to laugh. Isaac then looked down as gasped in wonder upon seeing the shadow of two whales on the water under them. Lion ran over both of the reflections as the blonde stared at them with astonishment.
But as they were getting further away from the beach, Connie looked at Steven and Steven looked back at her. "Uh... are you sure he knows where he's going," she asked him, snapping Isaac out of it.
"Maybe it's... a short cut?" Steven responded, unsurely.
Lion jumped up and his eyes begin to glow white. He let out a mighty roar, shooting out across the water a pink ring with a smaller circle inside of it. The rings then formed a big pink edged white portal.
"Oh man," Isaac said as Steven and Connie screamed, while Lion continued running right towards the portal. "This is gonna-"
Lion went in through the portal and it shut behind him. A fish jumped out of the water and then dived back in.
"SUUUUUUCCCKKKK!" Isaac yelled as Steven and Connie continue to scream. They were traveling through what could only be described as a stargate from 2001: a Space Odyssey. Starry blue and white lights pasted them as the four of them goes through the portal. Steven is hanging onto Lion's mane, while Connie has her arms wrapped around Steven's waist. Isaac was keeping the both of them in front of him and on Lion's back as the air and forced against them would have taken them off the animal.
"Has he ever done this?" Connie asked.
"No. This is new!" Steven replied.
"Where's he taking us?" Isaac asked the big question.
"I don't know," Steven said, as their portal adventure came to an end. The portal opened up again and they go through it, causing the portal to quickly close again. Lion skidded across a body of water with his eyes glowing white, rotating around to face forward.
Isaac and the kids groaned from the experience before Lion sat down. Causing the three passengers to fall off of him and into the shallow water.
"Dick," Isaac groaned as he combed his hair with his hand to drain the water out of it. Steven raised his head and sighed, before shaking his head like a wet dog. Connie raised her head slightly and pushed her wet hair out of her face. Isaac stood up and looked down at the two. "Are you okay?"
"That was really cool," Connie commented.
Isaac smiled at her optimism and looked around at where they were. They were in a large cave with a raised circular platform surrounded by the shallow water that covered the floor of the cave. On that platform, Lion roars quietly, causing both Steven and Connie to look in his direction with Isaac. He turned around and began walking to the center of the platform.
Steven and Isaac climbed the stairs to the platform after him. "Lion! Wait! Where are you going?!" Steven asked. But when he reached the top, he gasped while Connie was looking around in wonder, causing her to walk right into Steven since she wasn't paying attention to where she is going.
"Oof! Whoa! Is this one of those magic Gem places that you've told me about," asked Connie.
"I've...never seen a place like this," Isaac replied, walking towards the center of the platform with the kids behind him. There was nothing noticeable about the cave or the platform. That changed when Steven stepped on the center of it. Isaac looked down with wide eyes as the platform began to glow bright white. The glowing white lights head to a circle in the very center next to Lion. The light became a beam that shoots a few feet upwards.
"Yep. Magic gem place," Steven said.
They all watched as a hand shaped structure raised out of the now faded beam of light. The pedestal appeared in the shape of a hand with Rose Quartz's symbol and thorn design on the palm.
Steven, Connie, and Isaac both run over to the hand structure. "Lion, normally I'm all about this stuff, but this is not the movies," Steven told the animal. Isaac and Connie started to study the structure intently, crouching down to be at eye level with it.
Lion roared quietly.
"What does that mean, Lion?" Steven yelled incredulously, throwing his hands up into the air before placing them on his head briefly. He then threw them forward in exasperation. "What does that even mean?"
"Steven, use your head for a minute," Isaac said, placing a hand on the structure and began to run his hand down it. Feeling the smoothness of the surface. "What if he brought you here for a reason?"
"Well, maybe, but if we don't hurry, we're gonna miss the commercials," Steven complained and began to count on his fingers. Connie stood up, placing a finger on her cheek in a thinking manner. "and then we might miss the previews, and we still have to find the perfect seats..." She then picked up one of Steven's hand a placed it on the structure. "...near the front but not too close..."
He stopped when after his hand was placed on the structure, it began to glow. Making Isaac, Steven, and Connie gasp. The platform has begun to glow white now as the young girl looked around at the glowing platform. "Hey, I think it likes you!" She said loudly.
Steven tried to pull his hand off the pedestal, but to his surprise, he couldn't. "Ah! AAAH! My hand's stuck! It won't come off!" He grunted as he continued to try and pull it off.
"Hang on! "Isaac placed both of his hands on Steven's arms and tried to help him yank it off the structure. Trying to not use his full strength to do it. Steven has starting to look scared and Isaac was started to get concerned. Connie then came over and all three pulled back really hard, grunting while sweat was visible on her face. Isaac still trying to avoid using his super strength, fearing that he'll rip Steven's hand off it.
They stopped and Isaac looked at Steven's hand. It didn't even budge an inch or looked like it was sticking on with some kind of adhesive or restraint. It must have been magic. "Damn, that's really stuck on good," he whispered in frustration.
"I guess we'll have to chop it off," Connie suggested.
"What?!" Steven incredulously asked.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a pink pillar raised up from the platform a few feet away. Reveal a white case that opened to reveal many swords in a straight line. As Isaac stared with stars in his eyes, Connies puts both of her arms close to her body in an excited gesture. "Hey, swords!"
"Awesome!" Isaac yelled with a big grin on his face, before running over to look at the weapons.
"NO!" Steven suddenly shouted, causing Lion and Connie to look at him. Before Isaac could reach the swords, a pink circle appeared above the swords, pushing them back down into the platform and out of sight.
"What the?!" Isaac gasped. When he reached where the swords once were, he reached down and tried to somehow pull them back up. He turned around and looked at Steven. "How'd you do that?"
"I don't know," he said
"Well, can you bring them back," Isaac pleaded as he walked back over to the kids and Lion.
"Um, okay." Steven began flexing his arm and grunting, trying to make something happen on the platform. However, nothing happened. He soon stopped flexing his arm and opened one eye. "Anything?"
Isaac sighed. "No."
Connie placed a hand on Steven's shoulder, looking to her right before looking back at Steven. "Here." She jabbed him sharply on the shoulder with one finger.
Steven flinched and moved away from Connie slightly. Still restrained by the pedestal. "Ow! What are you—" Connie grabbed Steven's ear and pulled him towards her. "Hey!" After she let go of him, Steven turned to face her. "What are you doing?"
Connie looked at his side and pointed a finger out. "Maybe if I do... this!" She poked Steven sharply in the side.
This made Steven laugh and bent hunched over the structure. "Wait, I'm ticklish," he begged. Connie just smiled and started poking Steven in the side and on the back repeatedly, causing him to laugh some more. "Wait. Stop. Stop. I'm gonna pee!" He reached his free hand out towards Connie to stop her.
Suddenly, many suits of armor raised out of the ground and form a circle around the platform. Each suit of armor had a different style to them, from different regions of the world, and had a pink square floating above it.
The three looked around at the armor in amazement. "Whoa, look at all this armor!" Connie exclaimed.
Steven looked at Isaac, causing the blonde to look at him. "Press my nose! Press my nose!"
Isaac shrugged and pushed a finger against Steven's nose. "Boop!" This made the pink squares push the suits of armor back into the platform. Then three laser light cannons raised out of the platform. "Are those light cannons," Isaac asked with a look of slight surprise.
"Next!" Connie grabbed the corners of Steven's mouth and pulled them. This made a bunch of axes rise out of the platform.
"Axes!" The two kids exclaimed.
Connie did something else to Steven, and a statue of a woman with her arms outstretched and three sizable flails hanging on each arm raised out of the platform. She had about twelve spikes on each ball with around sixteen chain links.
"Spikey chain balls!"
"Flails," Isaac corrected them.
Then the next to raise up was, to their confusion, a giant penny. No, seriously, it was just a large 1 cent penny.
"A giant penny," Isaac asked with a raised eyebrow.
Connie took her hand off Steven's shoulder and put a finger on her cheek in a thinking manner. "Does that means it's worth more than a regular penny," she asked
"Well, that would make 'cents'." Steven joked with a wide smile. The two kids laughed together, while Isaac looked at them with annoyance. Lion shared that as he lied down on his side.
"This is so great, but..." Connie's exited expression started to change. She began to look sad and worried. "I get the feeling, though, I'm not really supposed to be here."
Isaac nodded and patted her on the shoulder. "I know what you mean. I know that I'm a Gem, but sometimes it feels like...It's like I don't belong here, or anywhere. Not even with the Crystal Gems. You even had that feeling," he asked, looking down at her. "Like you don't belong anywhere?"
"But I want you here, Isaac! I want you both here! I mean, I don't want you here," Steven said, gesturing around the cave. "I guess Lion wants us here. But I want us to be at the movies! And I want to see lots of explosions."
Connie began to look a bit reassured.
Suddenly, the structure and platform stop glowing. This made the structure to let go of Steven's hand. He stumbled back into Connie, who caught and steadied him. Isaac's gemstone began to glow, making them gasp.
The hand structure sank back into the platform. There was a sudden whirring noise blaring as a wide, glowing white circle appeared on the platform and something new raised out of it. It was a robot that resembled a Polynesian tiki that had three cannons protruding from its cylindrical body and had glowing white eyes. Numerous opaque crystal shards protrude from its top.
The circle disappeared and the robot turns to face the three humans. Isaac stood in front of Steven and Connie, who both gasped as raised triangles begin to rise all over the platform.
Isaac, Steven, and Connie now are facing back to back. "Should we be worried about this," asked the girl.
"Yes!" Isaac summoned his katana. "My gem's glowing!"
"Wait! Look!" Steven said, pointed to where Lion was lying down. The pink lion simply yawned and laid his head down. "Lion doesn't seem to be worried."
"Yeah, but can he detect danger like me?" Isaac replied before the raised triangles began to glow white. The robot began to glow yellow in its various openings and a crackling sound can be heard. The robot from a ball of electricity and fired it at the humans. "Run!"
Isaac, Steven, and Connie scattered in opposite directions, as the electricity ball exploded behind where they were just standing. Isaac hid behind one of the triangles as the robot turned it's lower half and started glowing blue in various places.
As the robot was about to fire at Steven, Isaac ran out of cover and jumped high into the air. With his sword raised high over his head, he brings it down on the robot's right side. However, it didn't make a dent in the machine, and the sword simply batted it away. When it regained balance, the robot fired an ice beam at him, but Isaac ducked behind another triangle.
Isaac looked out from behind the triangle and saw the robot going towards Steven and Connie. "Isaac! What do we do?!" Connie yelled.
The robot moved its lower half again and this time began to glow orange. Steven and Connie looked up at it with looks of intense fear.
"Kids!" Isaac yelled, looking scared for their well being. He ran forward and tackled the two kids out of the way of the robot when it shot fire. When it prepared to fire again, Isaac grunted, grabbed the kids and jumped out of the way. However, he was knocked to the ground.
Steven stood up and helped Connie up, while Isaac got on his knees. The robot appeared again in front of them, preparing to release another fireball. Both kids held hands and closed their eyes, before the young man with them putting himself in front of them, holding them in his arms to shield the kids.
However, Steven formed his protective bubble around himself and the two with him. But when the fireball hit the bubble, the bubble exploded and the force sent Isaac, Steven, and Connie up into the air.
They landed hard onto the ground, surrounded by a ring of fire and groaned in pain. "My bubble," Steven grunted.
"Blamo," Isaac groan on his stomach. The back of his shirt had a giant hole on it, and his back was burnt from the attack.
Steven then gasped as he noticed Lion, who had just walked over. "Lion! Get us out of here! Lion, please!" He pleaded with the lion, who stared at him for a moment.
But Lion lied down on his stomach, allowing Steven to get on top of Lion and help Connie up, while Isaac got in the back with his sword still in hand. When Whirring and crackling noises could be heard, they saw that the robot was aiming another fireball at the group. Lion jumped off of the platform and into the water, bounding around the platform and roaring another portal which he jumped through.
When they came out the other side of the portal, Lion skidded across the road outside of the movie theater that they've been trying to get to the whole day. The lady working in the ticket booth looked surprised at the very beat-up looking Isaac, Steven, and Connie.
"What?" Steven looked at the theater and threw his arms out in anger. "Now you take us to the movies?!" Lion just closed his eyes and sat down, causing his passengers to fall off of his back.
When he landed on his burnt and the kids landed on him, Isaac yelled out in pain. So the kids quickly got off of him and pulled his arms to help him sit back up. "Are you okay, Isaac," Connie asked worriedly.
"No. Am I healing," Isaac asked and Steven looked at his burnt back. To his relief, it was healing.
"You're all good!" Steven said with a thumbs up. However, when Connie gingerly touched a burn on the side of her face, she hissed in pain. "Connie, here. I have something for that." Acting quickly, Steven took off his cheeseburger backpack and unzips it, pulling out a soda and handing it to Connie. "Sorry. They're not that cold."
Connie accepted the soda and pressed it against her cheek, looking sad but smiled weakly. "Thanks."
As Steven had a soda pressed against his cheek too, Isaac looked at the movie theater and stood. "Well, we're here. Shall we go in?" He offered with a smile.
But unlike Steven, Connie looked down sadly. "That's okay. L-Let's just forget about it," she said.
Isaac glanced at her with a surprised expression. "What? Why?" He asked.
Steven reached a hand towards Connie to comfort her but put his hand down with his an upset expression. "I-I'm sorry!," he said in shame before putting a hand on his head in frustration. "Ugh! I ruined everything, didn't I? I don't know why the two of you hang out with me. I mess stuff up all the time."
While the girl looked at him with surprise, Isaac sighed and said, "Oh, come on. You don't mess up...all the time."
"And I don't know why you hang out with me!" Connie exclaimed. "I'm so much more... less interesting than you two! And obviously you and Isaac have some sort of magical destiny." She stared down sadly and her voice became softer and more depressed. "Why would you even care about something like Dogcopter?"
The young boy was surprised by her statement. "Why?! Because it's Dogcopter!" He exclaimed, thrusting his body forward in excitement. "He's a dog and a helicopter and a cop!"
"What?" Isaac asked.
"He shoots missiles out of his butt, and he's gonna save the world!" Steven yelled, throwing up his hands and getting stars in his eyes, his signature look of excitement. "Dogcopter is very cool and important..." He looked down shyly. "...to me."
The girl looked at him for a moment before averting her eyes in shame. "Well, I'm no Dogcopter."
Suddenly, out of nowhere a fireball hits a car behind Connie and it exploded.
"What the-?" Isaac yelled, before hearing Lion snarl. He turned around and stood beside the giant lion. "Shit!"
The robot had followed them through Lion's portal and had gotten stuck in it. "It's the robot shooty thing!" Steven yelled as the robot began to glow in all different colors. He looked at Isaac for help. "How are we supposed to beat it, Isaac?" He then turned to Lion. "Lion, what do we do?"
Lion's eyes suddenly started glowing white. Then his mane started to glow as he leaned down until his head was near the ground and something stuck out of his forehead. This turned out to be the grip of a sword that had a slightly dark pink with a hint of red pommel resembling a rosebud with a rose quartz embedded in it. The guard and knuckle bow of the sword were pink with the guard having an image of a four-petaled white flower in the middle. The grip was dark pink, and the grip, guard, and knuckle bow were inscribed with a twirling thorn design.
With eyes widened, Isaac grabbed the sword and began to pull it out of Lion's head, as Steven and Connie watch in awe. "Steven...has this ever happened?" He asked unsurely.
"No, this is weird," Steven replied.
When Isaac finally pulled it out, he held it above his head. The sword's cupped hilt and broad blade with its tantō tip were reminiscent of a 17th-century military cutlass. The blade was bright pink and at the base of it, the rain guard was shaped like a pink rose with the two outer petals being dark pink.
"You have a sword in your head?!" Steven asked Lion incredulously. "Why don't you tell me you can do these things you do?!"
The robot began to move again and managed to get through the portal.
"It came through!" Connie yelled
The robot then started to rotate quickly and rapidly firing balls of many different elements all directions. Smashing them into various places. Even the surprised ticket booth lady had to duck down to avoid getting hit by an elemental ball.
The robot continued to fire at things, causing a sign from the movie theater to fall right in front of Isaac, Steven, Connie, and Lion. "You two stay behind me!" The blonde yelled, holding sword out in front of him.
"Watch out!" Connie yelled at him. Isaac held the sword in a tennis-like move that deflected an oncoming electricity ball. Sending it back inside of the robot. When the two kids saw this, they exchanged happy glances. It was just tennis!
the robot fire a fireball at Isaac.
"Forehand!" Connie yelled. Isaac swung the sword from left to right, deflecting the fireball
"Backhand!" Steven yelled, throwing a fist in the air. Isaac to swing the sword right to left, deflecting yet another iceball.
He grinned from the kids before getting ready for the final blow. "Overhead... death strike!" He roared, bringing the sword up and then swung it down. With his immense strength, Isaac sent the fireball launched at him flying right back into the robot.
The impact caused the robot to let out a whirring and clanging sound, before exploding in the air.
Connie and Steven stared at the destruction of the robot menace with awestruck faced. "Just like tennis practice," she whispered.
"Magical destiny practice," Steven then whispered.
Isaac lowered and sword to where it's tip touched the ground. "Maybe tennis doesn't suck."
Meanwhile, the ticket booth lady stood up again and peering out to see if it was safe. With nothing better to do, Isaac, Steven, Connie, and Lion standing in front of the booth. "Hi!" Steven said, looks happy and innocent as a flaming tire rolled by. Isaac was standing next to the two kids holding hands, with the sword that came out of Lion slung on his shoulder. And Lion himself was peaking at the side of the window.
After briefly scanning the fight scene, the lady smiled awkwardly. "Uh, hello."
"Two kids, one adult, and..." Isaac paused to look at Lion, as he is staring into the ticket booth and snorted on the glass, causing it to fog up briefly. "...one lion to see Dogcopter."
The ticket booth lady stared at Lion for a moment and then back at Isaac, before leaning in slightly. "Um, do you have a rewards card?"
"Whoa! Was that in the book?" Steven asked, looking at the screen in amazement with Connie as an explosion went off in the movie. The two kids, Isaac, and even Lion were sitting in the theater and wearing 3D glasses. Steven was eating popcorn and Connie was drinking a soda.
"Eh, they're taking some liberties," Connie said, before turning to Isaac, who had the pink sword that came out Lion's head at his side. "So what are you guys going to with that sword."
"I don't know," said Isaac, who picked up the sword and looked at it. It was an impressive and beautiful weapon, even though pink wasn't his color. "I think we may keep it..."
Suddenly, his sight and mind were assaulted with flashing and quick visions.
"Agh!" Isaac hissed in pain, grabbing his head and shutting his eyes and bending down.
"Isaac! Are you okay?" Steven concerningly asked and placed his hand on his friend's shoulder. Isaac took his hand off his head and looked at it for a moment.
He then looked at Steven and smiled. "Sorry. Actually, let's just give the sword back to Lion," he said with a forced smile. Steven and Connie shared a worried glance with each other but continued to enjoy the movie.
Isaac looked down at the sword. Frowning at it while being deep in thought.
They didn't feel like random visions...but memories.
AN: And that's another chapter for you all. It wasn't an epic chapter, but we see Rose's sword, and the effects it had on Isaac.
Thank you very much for reading. "Gem of War" will return. Please be sure to Favorite and Follow if you like the story, and also Review it. If you any questions or discussions you'd have for me, then please in a Review or a PM me.
Thank you for reading, may God bless you, and have a wonderful day.