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Steven BLUE-niverse chapters 35-40 these following chapters are extremely important and change the feeling of the series from now on

Chapter 35 double birthday

It was night, Steven took his phone from under his pillow where he hid it and checked the time, 23:58, perfect, in 2 minutes he'll jump down the stairs and to where his birthday crown and cape waited for him. He checked the phone one more time then made his move, not even checking to see if blue had woken up before him, or if he was being too loud. He dashed down the stairs and saw the Cape and crown waiting for him untouched, he looked around before he took them, maybe she'd be waiting for him and jump out to get them before he would.

As he wrapped the Cape around himself and put on the crown he heard clapping, he quickly put on the light to see who was making that sound, it was blue diamond! She was in the corner this whole time, pearl was there too, holding a cookie cat on a plate for him. "Happy birthday Steven", blue softly said, both he and his mother shared the same birthday and always played a game to see who'd first get the king costume as soon as the day started, this time she let him win.

"I beat you!", Steven joked, sticking his tounge out, "yes, but this time I let you win, its a big day for you , you're now 12!", blue quietly congratulated him. "it is also a important day for you my diamond", pearl spoke up, gesturing the cookie cat she held to blue, "you are now 20 thousand years old". "Well pearl thanks for making Me feel so old!", blue replied, feeling quite awkward and wanting to change the subject, "how about we go and wake your father up? He must know that you're the first birthday king today!".

Since it Was very early Connie wasn't invited at first, she'd be invited when it's blue's turn for a party, as they share the same birthday Greg came up with the idea that they get half a day each and whoever puts the crown on first will have their party first. "Congratulations birthday King!", Greg said, leading Steven to his makeshift throne he had prepared outside the house.

lapis and pearl where wearing small birthday hats, and Greg wore a clown costume. "So what are they doing?", lapis asked pearl, playing with her hat, "it's a human tradition, celebrating how many years old they are, Steven is 12 today and my diamond is now 20 thousand years old", pearl explained, lapis looked back at blue, who was singing to steven with greg and giving him presents, "I honestly thought she was older", lapis said as she watched her diamond closely.

Steven quickly opened his first present, it was from his mother, it was a long blue Cape she had made for him from her old clothes. "I remember hearing you wanted to dress like me so I made this for you, it's from an old cloak of mine", she quietly told him. "Woahhhh", Steven exclaimed, quickly jumping off the throne and taking off his birthday Cape to put it on. "I am blue diamond!", he laughed, pulling out his scythe and jumping in the air. pearl applauded him while lapis nervously saluted. "Guys! Come on! I'm not the real blue diamond! well not yet!", he said, making his scythe dissappear and putting his birthday Cape back on and putting the cloak back in its box.

"My turn now Steven", lapis said, walking up to him, she was holding a box, this shocked blue and pearl, neither of them knew she'd also be bringing him a present. Lapis bowed down to him and offered him the box high above her head, "this is for you, my diamond, i got it when I overheard your parents speaking about presents so forgive me if it seems a bit... rushed", lapis said, trying to sound as posh as possible but also fighting the urge to laugh at how pathetic she sounded and the funny face steven was giving her.

"Oh wow lapis! You don't need to do all that for me!", Steven said, taking the present and slightly gesturing to her to stop bowing. they both looked at eachother and laughed when she got up, "my diamond was I too posh?", she joked, "yes lapis lazuli! Blue diamond is very mad!", Steven joked back. He opened the present, so many ideas rushing through his mind to what she could've possibly got him, as he pulled open the small box he was met with a water gun and a little card with a shockingly good drawing of them together on it.

"I definitely didn't steal the water blaster from two kids", lapis nervously said, avoiding eyecontact, "it's for your powers! You can infinitely fill it with water!", Steven cheered at this and took out the gun, filling it with water with his powers and shooting Greg right in the face, making all his clown makeup melt right off him. "awww come on! This took me so long!", Greg huffed, storming off to the van to redo the clown makeup hed put so much effort in.

"There's another thing there in the box too Steven", lapis said, getting his attention and making him pull out the card, as he opened it he was met with more drawings lapis did of them both and a small drawing of pearl.

on the card was written:

"Hello there Steven,

I'm sorry I am not very sure what this party is for but I'm writing on this paper to tell you how thankful i am for you and my diamond's gems for freeing me and being my friend

From, your friend lapis lazuli"

Steven looked up from the card then back at lapis, "you did all of this for me?", he asked her, amazed, "yes", she quickly replied, "thank you so much!", he jumped off the makeshift throne and hugged her tightly, catching her off guard. "It's my turn now lapis," pearl quietly said, tapping on her shoulder, lapis turned around embarrassed and quickly walked away to go and sit down. As this was happening blue checked Greg's phone for the time, it was 06:00, still way too early to invite Connie here.

Pearl bowed before giving Steven her two presents she had prepared for him, she first gave him something that wasn't in a box and just wrapped up, Steven recognised the shape immediately and ripped off the wrapping excitedly. " WOAH!? DID YOU ASK MUM FOR THIS?", pearl had gifted him a small gem tablet, with this he could read some diamond reports and look at gem life, the week before she had spent hours putting locks on it incase he accidentally used it to message yellow diamond or interfere with his mother's work. "She asked me to let her give you this for a long time! And with my Cape and this screen I'd say you're officially a diamond in training!", blue told him. Steven looked through all the many tabs and special gem apps with wonder, thanks to his mother's diplomatic powers he was able to know all languages so could understand the tablet quite quickly.

"Hey! Schtu-ball!!", Greg called, running from the van with his clown makeup freshly redone, as Steven watched him he fought the urge to shoot him with the water gun again or "blaster" as lapis called it. "It's now My turn!", Greg said, pushing pearl out the way and jumping in the middle while Steven laughed at him.

"Steven I baked you a pie!", Greg exclaimed taking out a large pie he was hiding from behind his back, "I must tell the truth and that pie does look good", pearl whispered to lapis, "I think Greg looks good, blue diamond agrees!", lapis joked, making them both giggle as blue stared them down.

"I sure hope nothing happens to it!", Greg said, taking dramatically big steps closer to steven to give him the pie until...

"WHOOPS", Greg very, definitely not on purpose, fell and smashed the pie, right onto his face, "woah are you ok!?", blue cried, about to run to greg but then he stood up and looked back at blue, pie covering his face and laughing hysterically as chunks of the now ruined pie and makeup dripped off his face , Steven also joined in laughing and blue just stood there, confused.

Blue stayed still looking at greg in the clown costume in shock, until pearl awkwardly walked up to her and told her, "My diamond, it is nearly 12:00, your turn", blue looked back at her confused at first then quickly went back to her normal state, "oh right, right!", she studdered, Greg laughed at her more, wiping the remaining pie chunks and clown makeup off his face, "I really freaked you out there didn't I blue-blue?", he said, walking up to her as she looked him up and down, "what about the poor pie!?", she asked him, a hint of sadness in her voice, "because its funny!", Steven yelled to her, he was still sitting on his throne looking all cute and goofy.

Greg checked the time, 10:00, still a bit too early for connie, "I'll call her just before it's blue-blue's turn alright?", Greg told steven. "call who?", Steven asked, Greg looked at him like he was stupid, "your girlfriend, connie", replied. "SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!", Steven yelled, turning bright red, "you sure? I think I saw a lot of proof she is!", lapis said, making pearl burst into laugher, the loudest she had ever been.

"Are you guys sure they're lovers?", blue asked cluelessly, making everyone giggle more, "call Connie over and ask her", pearl joked to blue who immediately took it seriously and used Steven's phone he didn't even know she had to call her while he begged her not too. "Hello Steven?", Connie said over the phone, as soon as she heard Connie's voice blue became too nervous to say anything and froze making Greg have to take the phone from her and speak with Connie himself. "Hey Connie, I'm just wondering if you'll like to come to Steven's birthday party", Greg said, winking at steven who was very embarrassed. "Oh! Of course I'd love to! I'll be there right away!", Connie said, quickly hanging up the phone to get ready for the party, Greg gave the phone back to steven right after. "I thought you guys would say worse things", Steven said, looking down at the phone and breathing a sigh of relief.

Connie quickly ran to their home and saw the party outside, "oh no was I late?", she asked as she saw them all eating cake and cookie cats, "not really" Steven said, mouth full of cake "it's actually still early", he picked up the phone to check the time "it's only- OH MY GOSH! MUM ITS YOUR TURN IN TWO MINUTES!", he yelled quickly jumping off the throne and giving his mother the Cape and crown as Connie watched, confused. "What do you mean it's her turn?", Connie asked him, "oh well me and her have the same birthday so we share it! We get half the day each and double parties!", Steven proudly told her, thinking this was something very unique and cool, he put his diamond cloak back on, "today I'm 12 and today mum is 20,000!".

Everyone quickly changed the birthday balloons and cake as blue sat on the throne with her eyes closed, "I did get both of you presents actually", Connie quietly said to Steven, handing him one of two boxes she had brought with her, "I'll open it tomorrow when it's no longer mum's party", Steven promised her.

"Alright blue-blue you can open your eyes now!", Greg said, as she opened her eyes she was met with everyone yelling "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" As loud as they could and balloons shaped like the number 20 everywhere. "We could only find stuff for 20th birthdays", Greg confessed, a bit embarrassed. "But we did Make this very accurate cake!",Steven said, showing her a large cake they had made with a ridiculous amount of candles all over it. "Oh cool", blue quietly said, a bit uncomfortable with all the attention on her.

"Who will be first to give the presents?", greg asked everyone, using a fake microphone and doing a TV presenter voice. "I'll go first!", Connie confidently said, walking towards blue, holding a box in front of her. "She brought that for her just in case", Steven whispered to his dad as she made her way to blue diamond. "Hello, m-miss blue diamond", Connie, studdered, giving her the present, "it's really not much but I think you will like it!", Connie said, as blue opened the present.

Connie gave blue diamond one of her drawing pads, it was filled with all sorts of drawings of her, mostly in anime style and with impressive amounts of detail. Blue spent a while looking at each drawing and praising Connie until Greg jumped up from behind her throne and clapped her ears, yelling, "BORING! DONT WASTE OUR TIME", making blue become all dizzy and discombobulated.

Now it was Steven's turn, pearl never gave blue presents as to blue her job was a present (she'd have to tell pearl this every birthday when she did give her something). He had prepared a card for her, like lapis did for him and 3 special presents, two where old things he and his father found in the storage unit and the other was something he recently bought for her. Steven took a deep breath and walked to blue while holding the three presents, he was being very careful and panicking that he might drop them, he even had a special order the presents would go in when he gave her them, the new gift first then the two older ones.

"Alright mum, here you go", Steven nervously said, giving blue the first gift, the newest one. The first gift was a pair of oversized heart shaped sunglasses, in the same box came a card he had written for her. "I saw that singer lady you love wears those glasses so I got you them", he excitedly said, watching her put them on and try to read the card through them. "You mean THE lana del rey? I'm so proud you know her!", blue said, the happiest she'd been during this whole party but was quickly upset by pearl mumbling, "why can't she go a day without talking about that talentless clod", while Greg laughed and agreed with her.

"Lapis it's your turn now!" Pearl called to lapis who immediately became nervous, "WAIT NO! I STILL HAVE THESE 2 PRESENTS"! Steven yelled back to them, making lapis have a quick sigh of relief but continue panicking on the inside as she had brought nothing for her diamond. "I know you'll like this one", Steven said to blue, handing her his 2nd (or 3rd if you count the card) present to blue. His present was an old photo of her and greg together from before he was born, with greg looking up to her with a hotdog in his mouth and her awkwardly smiling back at him.

"Wow, I forgot this photo existed", blue said, "back then I was much more okay with barbaric human food, now I gag looking at such things as...hot dogs", she put the photo on the table next to her and cringed thinking about her hatred for meat. Now Steven was kinda scared, did she not like that present? Then she might not like the last one he had for her. "I also have this", Steven said, much more nervous than last time and shaking as he gave her the last gift.

His last gift was an old white coat he had found in a chest at the very back of the storage unit, when blue saw it she couldn't help but gasp. "where did you find this?!", she asked Steven, "it was just at the back of the storage place", he replied, as this was happening Greg looked back at them, shocked and angered and wispered something to pearl who nodded back to him, lapis looked at them and was confused, waiting for answers, this white coat seemed to be something important to blue but something Greg didn't like and hid?

"OK NOW YOU'RE TAKING FOREVER!" Greg yelled at them, "lapis your turn now!", he called, making her stand up and lightly pushing the very nervous lapis to blue.

"I-...I don't have anything my diamond", lapis confessed, looking to the ground in embarrassment. "Oh that's fine! Your loyalty Is a present to me anyway!", blue said, trying to reassure lapis but someone wasn't having it. "What!?", pearl loudly and angrily said, standing up from her chair, "my diamond she KNEW of this day yet didn't give you a present but gave STEVEN one", lapis looked back at pearl, upset and suprised to how she was acting, they where having fun just a moment ago!

"Why did you not get our diamond a gift but get Steven one? AND ICLUDING A CARD!", pearl questioned her, confronting lapis and now standing next to her, in front of blue, "i-", "YOU HAVE NO REAL REASON DONT YOU!", lapis tried to explain but pearl kept yelling over her, not giving her a chance to even say one word. "I-", "APOLOGISE TO YOUR DIAMOND", "I don't-", "YOURE A BAD UNLOYAL AND LAZY GEM!". This continued and blue just watched, feeling powerless and weak but also annoyed. "I'M DONE! IM NOT PLAYING THIS STUPID CHILD'S GAME ANYMORE!", lapis yelled, flying away back to the home, not only did Blue feel powerless but now like a child.

"Well My diamond she truly is annoying isn't she?", pearl asked blue, turning around any giving her a confident smile, but blue didn't answer, she threw off her crown, Cape and glasses and stormed away with tears in her eyes as Connie and steven frantically followed after her.

Chapter 36 baby blue

Lapis and pearl continued screaming at eachother, barely giving blue's disappearance or steven and connie running away after her a second thought. During this, Greg went to grab the white coat Steven had gifted blue, it was now thrown on the ground, "this should have never been found", he said to himself, as he planned on how he could get rid of it before blue saw.

Blue continued walking away from them and bot looking back, she couldn't take it anymore. Her mind was wondering, "why is everyone so upset" "do I make them upset?" "Is this all my fault" "it is my fault" "I need to stop playing these childish games as pearl said" "or being childish" "I am childish" "I am a child!", those thoughts distracted her from everything else. she looked at her hands, they looked smaller than usual, "child's hands", she thought as she looked at them.

Steven and Connie tried to chase after blue but couldn't see her anywhere, they went to durgy, their home, even the ocean but no sign, Steven's last idea to where she would be is just wondering about beach city so him and Connie quickly ran to see if she'd be anywhere around there.

At the big donut, the two workers, lars and sadie waited for customers, it had been quite a quiet day with barely anyone buying anything so they mostly spent the day like how they usually did, bickering with one another. As they quietly argued with eachother the door opened and a little girl with blue skin and white hair stepped in.

The little girl waddled her way over to the counter, struggling to walk with her oversized dress, she was so small could be barely seen by the two workers. "can I have the usual please", the little girl said, her voice sounded very upset, like she was about to burst into tears at any moment. "The usual?" Lars asked, looking down to this scared girl, "I work here everyday and I've never seen your ugly face here before!" He laughed. His words really upset this already sad seeming girl, her droopy blue eyes opened as wide as possible, "oh shut it lars!", she yelled, this now got sadie's attention and she turned to look at this strange girl who someone knew lars' name.

"You just think you can say these things to your own customers! Well you can't! If you continue like this everyone around you will grow up leaving you all alone!", the girl continued yelling, until she saw her reflection and fell to the floor. "WHY AM I SO LITTLE!?", she screamed, pointing at herself in the reflection, sadie quickly ran to this girl to see what was wrong and sat her on a chair. "Could you please tell us what's wrong?", sadie said, trying to comfort this odd child, "this isn't supposed to happen! I'm not supposed to be so young!", she girl yelled, starting to cry, as she cried a giant blue diamond on her chest hidden by her long clothes began to glow, making her age go from at least 10 to about 6.

"I gotta reverse this! I NEED STEVEN TO HELP ME!!", she said through tears as she shrank down some more, sadie looked closer at this girl, she started to notice that she resembled a certain boy who always visits her shop, she even had the same diamond pupils and curly hair as him. "steven who..?", she asked, very sure she'd know the answer, "STEVEN DIAMOND UNIVERSE!", the girl cried, her yelling was heard by steven and Connie who where nearby who quickly ran to the big donut.

"Mum!?", Steven called, bursting open the door and being met with sadie trying to help blue diamond who had now turned into a toddler. "What the!?", Connie exclaimed, looking at blue, "she's turned into a kid....", Connie took some steps back out of shock. As Steven and blue looked at eachother Blue quickly jumped off the chair and ran past them, leaving the big donut while screaming, "STOP LOOKING AT ME!!", Steven and Connie quickly chased after her, calling for her to stop and try to explain what was happening to her body.

As Steven and Connie chased after blue, she tripped and fell to the ground, being covered by her now giant robes. "Mum!", Steven cried, running to her side. "so what do you think happened to her?", Connie asked him as she approached steven who was looking down at the small blue diamond, now completely covered by her long robes. "I don't know, we have to ask her", Steven said, moving the robes. As he moved the hood over he revealed that blue diamond had now completely turned into a baby. The baby blue looked up at him, then to connie, then to her small arms and started crying, her power quickly affected Steven, which then caused it to affect Connie. Eventhough her power was strong they still where able to carry the screaming blue baby and take her back to the others, as they got closer durgy appeared and they rode on her to Greg and the others.

During this, Greg and the gems where getting rid of all the things they had set up for the birthday parties. Lapis was quiet and waiting for blue to come back, she made sure to keep all the other presents with her in case pearl or greg accidentally threw them away while greg was about to throw blue's coat out into the sea, "These things she makes us do are so funny sometimes", pearl said to Greg but was quickly interrupted by Connie and steven on durgy, holding a crying baby blue diamond.

Greg looked back, terrified, thinking blue had saw him try to destroy her coat but was met with his son frantically handing him a blue baby. "DAD WHAT'S GOING ON!? MUM TURNED INTO A BABY!?", Steven cried, pearl took the baby blue from Greg's shaking arms, "my diamond's age can change based off her mental state", she explained, as baby blue stopped crying and looked up at pearl with her diamond eyes, "if she feels like a child, is scared or feels like she's being treated as a one she becomes one", she let the baby blue hold onto her finger, "i remember she was a toddler for 3 weeks straight once, i had to brush her hair", pearl smiled remembering that moment with her diamond and how close they can be.

"So how do we turn her back!?", lapis said, running to look at baby blue who laughed at her and tried to grab at her hair. "Gems were never babies, are diamonds different!?", she looked at pearl, desperate for answers. "she seems to have calmed down now. she'll be ok soon if she keeps like this, albeit very embarrassed" pearl said. But baby blue's mood soon changed again as she saw Greg holding her coat, she quickly began to cry and squirm out of Pearl's hands and try to grab Greg. "She wants so see greg", lapis said taking blue out Pearl's hands and bringing her to Greg, much to Pearl's protest

As lapis brought her closer, Blue grabbed Greg's hand and got out of lapis' grip, she had aged again, this time slightly older, about 4 years old now, her hair had grew back to how it was before too. "gweg... don't throw my skin away...", blue said, trying to hold back tears, Greg looked at the now slightly older blue in shock and froze, blue saw this as the perfect opportunity and suddenly grabbed the coat and ran.

Steven and Connie couldn't help but just watch frozen as the slowly aging blue diamond ran to them with the white coat and put it on as greg yelled at them to stop her. "Help pwease", blue said, putting the hood of the white coat over her head as both pearl and greg ran to her, screaming for her to stop. "Mum what's going on!? Why don't they want your coat!?", Steven asked her, "and why did you turn into such a adorable baby!", Connie yelled. The young diamond looked back at greg and pearl who froze in their tracks, as the walked towards them she got taller and taller.

"Why did you hide this from me?", she questioned them, her voice was now her normal, deep voice. Greg was frozen in fear, lapis watched, she had so many questions but knew to stay out her diamond's way. "M-mum?", Steven asked her, touching her back lightly, blue turned around, she was now a slightly chubby teenager with freckles and curly hair, "My diamond", pearl said, walking towards blue and lightly touching her cheek, "you've returned to your true age, how you looked before pink's shattering", this immediately calmed blue down and she ran to the water to see her reflection.

"Good, you calmed her down, now we can get her coat", Greg wispered to pearl but she just ignored him and went to see the ecstatic blue diamond. "I can't believe it", blue said, as she looked at her reflection "all the grieving, its gone away, I now look how I actually am supposed to!". Steven ran to his mother to look at her again, he couldn't believe this is how she was supposed to look. "what!? You look more like a big sister than a mum!", Steven said, blue laughed at this but Greg wasn't laughing at all. "You have your coat and now you're so young!?", he said, sounding disgusted, "you've become a child! Now what are people going to say! Not only am I dating a space selkie but a space selkie that looks like a school girl!", Steven looked back at his father, "what is wrong with you!?", he yelled, "Not only do you steal her present but you hate how she actually looks!?".

Connie had been silent for most of this but finally decided she needed to speak up, "Can anyone tell me what the hell is happening right now!?", she said, loud enough the bring everyone's attention to her, blue stared at her then took a deep breath, "my powers went weird", she said, a bit embarrassed everyone saw what she looked like as a baby "and Greg didn't want me to have my skin in case I returned to the ocean to be a selkie", this just confused Connie more, "So you're like a mermaid!?", she couldn't help but keep asking even if blue seemed slightly uncomfortable.

Blue looked at greg, then to pearl, then to lapis, then to steven and finally to connie, "it's a long story", she said, trying to find the right words, "I never wanted to tell Steven, I thought I only would if he was a daughter, but it seems I must tell all of you", she continued, slowly taking off her coat and folding it, holding it infront of her. "Connie, Steven, ill talk with you both by the sea, does that sound OK?", they both agreed and followed after blue, leaving Greg angry, lapis confused and pearl scared.

Chapter 37 three or one?

The three of them looked out to the sea next to beach city. Steven was right next to his mother, sitting by the shore but Connie stayed slightly away, near the rocks and sand. "Did my present hurt dad?", Steven asked his mother, going to put his hand on the coat before blue very lightly smacked it away. "No", blue said, moving the coat away from steven and holding it on her lap closer to.

"I heard you call that present your skin", Connie said, walking towards blue, her slight fear to even ask blue more questions being heard in her tone, "and steven said he found it in his dad's storage unit, did Greg hide this from you?", she asked, blue looked back at her and sighed. "I understand why he'd hide it", she said, before becoming quiet and muttering "it is a common thing husbands of selkies do".

"Mum, you know you're quite bad at answering questions", Steven said, slightly joking and trying to lighten up the mood, "now you're just going to make Connie more confused". Blue looked back at Connie and apologised, "oh I'm so sorry forget me and my issues please miss maheswaran! How about you talk about yourself instead! We cant just have my misery ruining everyone's day!", Connie quickly took blue's invitation and sat next to her and steven to talk, it still shocked her how much blue had changed, now she looked only a couple years older than Connie herself.

"So I guess we can all talk about what we have been trying to do recently and take turns", blue said, in a much more happier voice and trying to change everyone's moods. "I'll go first!", Steven exitedly said, putting his hand up like he was in school. Steven stood up in front of Connie and blue for his "turn", not understanding what blue meant completely. "So, recently with dad and pearl I've been trying to learn how to dance!", he proudly said, doing some funny dances that made Connie and blue laugh.

"I'm suprised you can even dance In front of us", Connie said, "I've never even danced in front of anyone before", she continued, her voice becoming slightly sadder as she spoke one, "I've always wanted to but I'm just scared people will just stare at me". "I understand you", blue said, putting her hand on Connie's shoulder, "I was very similar to you with many things, I was so scared to do anything, singing, even showing my face in public!", this made Steven remember pearl showing him some old photos of his mother, she always wore her hood over her eyes, in public on homeworld it seemed. "but if you do those things in front of people you trust it can really help you with your confidence and get used to people", blue told her, Connie thought about blue's advice for a moment, "maybe I can dance with Steven?", she suggested, quickly getting Steven's attention, "he did just show us his recently learned awesome dance moves" she laughed.

Steven quickly pulled out his phone and gave it to blue to play any sort of fitting dance music while he prepared to dance with Connie, taking his shoes off and doing some exaggerated stretches. "Alright, just tell me when you're both ready and I'll play the music", blue said slightly walking above the nearby hill to give them more space to dance and so the music wouldn't be too loud and distracting to her. "and Connie if you feel uncomfortable Steven will definitely stop, right!", she called to steven from the hill who confidently replied "yes mum!".

Blue played some cringe romance music she found on Steven's phone, it was still very loud eventhough she was on the hill. The music and dancing was a bit embarrassing for the both of them at first, with them blushing and laughing at the music choice, especially steven who knew blue found this song on his special playlist he had made just for connie. Steven was quickly able to make Connie more confident with her dancing by laughing with her and complimenting her on her dancing and trying to copy some of her moves.

As blue watched them, pearl suddenly appeared and sat next to her diamond. "how are you?", she quietly asked blue. "just watching my future daughter in law", blue joked, winking at pearl who just cringed and looked at Connie with disgust. "You know Greg is very worried about you", pearl said, "everyone is, they all say I'm crazy", blue mumbled, "yellow says I need my mind fixed and Greg says I need love but it never works", blue quietly ranted to herself as she watched Steven and Connie dance together.

As Steven and Connie span around together, something started to happen to steven, the gem on his chest started to glow, very brightly and make quiet but noticable noise. It quickly caught blue's attention who immediately ran down there, trying to yell at them to stop as she feared this may trigger his powers, and maybe harm connie, but they didn't listen, they where too distracted with one another . so blue made no other choice and rushed inbetween them, going to literally slap them away from eachother. "STOP!", blue yelled, running to them, but it was too late, Steven started to glow, it also made Connie glow and quickly triggered blue's gem as well as she made contact with them as they all touched, a giant light lit up the entire beach as pearl watched in shock.

"My diamond!?", pearl called, as the light faded. her voice was still quiet but filled with fear and panic. she didn't know what to think, she didn't even know if she could go down there to see her diamond. she slightly looked down and saw smoke moving away, revealing only that only one person was visible, laying on the groun, they didnt look like any of the three of them. Pearl lightly gasped at this and ran away, deciding to not tell anyone of this and to just tell Greg and lapis they where just speaking about normal things and blue was not upset at all.

Chapter 38 what is a true fusion?

Bright blue eyes open, eyes belonging to the being who now lay on the beach where steven, Connie and blue once where. This new being slightly sits up and looks to their arm, their skin is dark, like connie's but blue patterns are across their arms and legs, patterns that resemble almost resmeble mehndi. "What the...why is my arm..like yours...ours..", the news being says, observing their new body in shock, starting to realise what they are.

The being stood up, "we...you..how-" "THIS CANT BE HAPPENING!...I fused!", they say, inside them are three confused minds. "You fused!?", "its a gem thing" "are we stuck together!?" "No don't worry", the fusion reassures themselves holding their hands to comfort the scared beings within them. Standing up, the fusion looks around for pearl, they had just saw her before this happened, "pearl must've ran away..", "what would she think of us now", they huff to themselves. The new fusion is scared but mostly curious, not only is this a fusion of two diamonds, but a fusion of a human too, the first in all of history, they go to the water by the shore, looking at their reflection.

The fusion mostly resembles blue diamond and Connie, with barely any sign of Steven being visible. the light blue dress Connie wore and blue's robes have mixed together to make a dress that almost resembles that of a indian lehenga, with Steven's star shirt working as a blouse for the lehenga, having a diamond shaped cut in the middle fully revealing only one blue diamond gem in their chest. Their eyes are the same diamond eyes that blue and steven shared, with their nose being from Connie. Their hair is mostly black besides one white streak, with side curls from blue.

"Woah! we look...awesome", "what are we even!?", "something that has never happened before" "how can we show anyone this?!" , there is a mix of panic and excitement among the fusion, with the part that is Steven feeling the most proud and wanting to show everyone. "we must show everyone this!" "What will they say!?" "How will our families react!?" Steven was quickly able to overpower the parts that are blue diamond and Connie and the fusion began to run home to show their family this new discovery, as they ran across the sand, getting used to their new body, the three of them felt so powerful, especially Connie who felt a new, never before felt level of confidence.

"I hope my diamond will be back soon", lapis said, looking out the window for blue while pearl and greg spoke to eachother. "She's probably bringing Connie back home, she'll be back soon, it's getting late", Greg said, quickly going back to speak with pearl who'd been great at keeping her secret from him and lapis. As lapis continued looking out the window, she saw a familiar looking shadow approaching the home, she quickly opened the door to salute and greet her diamond, only to be met by something no one could predict.

"So what do you think?", the fusion asked them, pearl was still speechless, she really had seen a fusion back at the beach! Greg was about to faint and only lapis could speak up. "You're truly something, I can't believe it! a diamond and a human!", she congratulated them, looking at the form of this fusion closely. "My diamond, Steven? You only have one gem? Is steven and blue still in there?", lapis asked, a small bit of worry in her voice, fearing she may have lost either her leader or a close friend, "don't worry we're both here!", the fusion confidently replied. "what would the name of this fusion be? You are two blue diamonds", lapis asked them, just calling them blue diamond would feel strange and be very confusing.

The fusion had already thought about this a lot, then a side of them spoke up with a great idea. "I had a lesson in school about this super big blue diamond called a hope diamond what about that?", lapis nodded, the other parts of the fusion also agreed, "well then, hope diamond, it is great to meet you", lapis said, bowing to the fusion and shaking their hand.

Pearl took some steps forward then flinched right back when hope diamond looked at her, those eyes, their face, it was just like blue but at the same time, so different. "my diamond, p-please unfuse this is, not like you, why are you...", she studdered, looking disgusted at the fusion. "Pearl, Steven just discovered this can't we at least have some fun?", hope replied, the look she gave pearl was the same look blue would give her enemies, a stare that sent shivers down Pearl's spine and quickly made her go completely silent.

"BLUE WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!", Greg yelled, finally having the guts to speak, "are you permanently stuck with Connie now!?". "No, its fusion, we can unfuse when we want, this is new for all of us, but I promise we aren't stuck!", hope diamond tried to explain but Greg was having none of it. "BLUE UNFUSE THEM NOW!", he screamed, "she's a diamond you don't tell her what to do!", lapis suddenly yelled back to Greg, shocking both him and pearl. As they all started to argue again, hope diamond walked out the house, they didn't want another repeat of the birthday incident that had happened only hours before.

"Well that went badly" "its the best it could've gone, I would've been quite shocked if I saw such a thing for the first time too" "at least we are together", they began talking to themselves again, wondering around beach city, catching the eyes of many locals, with their appearance and clothes. As they walked around they noticed a bright light and music coming from somewhere, it was a party, "maybe we can show them some of our fusion magic!", "are you sure?", they thought among themselves again, only this time one voice was silent.

As they stepped into the party, everyone's eyes went on them, at first hope liked this and danced around feeling very confident but that didn't last long, when they looked up they noticed everyone else wasn't dancing with them, just watching them The entire party had frozen to watch hope and it was scary. Hope stopped dancing and hid in the corner, "I can't dance with anyone watching how do you do it!? If only I was with you both but not like this", the beings inside the fusion started to speak among eachother, being too scared to look behind them in case people where still watching. Now that the small amount of confidence had weared off they felt more alone than ever.

"I can't do this!" "Come on we are a fusion! We are strong together!" "NO I CANT THEY'RE WATCHING". The fusion started to fight within themself until hope's body started to shine and split back into three people, Connie, blue and steven had finally unfused and lay on the ground as everyone danced around them.

Connie quickly got up and ran to steven to hug him, maybe now they could dance together as they weren't alone. "we should probably get out of here", Steven said, getting up from the ground, "yeah we should", connie replied, "what do you think Mrs universe?", as the two of them turned to face blue they froze, blue was still on the ground, she hadn't moved since they unfused and her eyes had gone completely blank and her whole body seemed to be shivering.

Steven and Connie started to panic, trying to wake up blue but couldn't, "MUM!? MUM!", Steven cried, trying to pick blue up but she was completely limp and very heavy. Steven grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her around trying anything to get her to move, he turned back to connie, about to cry and said, "what do we do!?", Connie was frozen, she looked down towards blue and reached into her pocket to call her mother, "I'll ask my mom! She's a doctor, her eyes almost look like she's having a seizure we should call 911!", connie told steven. Steven shook his head, "we can't she's a gem!", he cried, "they might take her away and do all sorts of experiments on her!", "well that's the only option I know of!", connie yelled back.

As the two began to argue a shadow started to loom over them, quickly silencing them, they looked up and where met by lapis, she was flying above them, holding pearl and greg, they'd followed hope diamond here. Lapis, dropped pearl and greg to the ground, they both immediately ran to blue, "I knew this would happen!", pearl said, "Greg! Please help me pick her up!", she called, holding the top of blue's body up, greg went to the other side and lifted up her legs. "lapis you must also help us fly her back home and get Steven and Connie home too!", pearl frantically called to them, Greg and pearl both began to drag blue out of the party as lapis summoned a water hand from the near by ocean to hold them both up while she grabbed Connie and steven with her hands and flew off with them, the water hand that contained the three of them following after.

Chapter 39 redemption and remorse

Blue was frantically carried into the home by pearl and greg and laid down on the couch. Steven even tried some more to wake her up by getting her coat but it didn't work, she just laid there lifeless, her eyes completely blank and mouth slightly open. "What happened to her!?", Connie pleaded pearl to tell her, "it is getting dark, you must leave soon, Connie maheswaran", was all pearl said, gesturing Connie to the door. "I can't leave! Look at her!", Connie cried, but her cries where no use, pearl and Greg had to drag her into his van and drive her home.

Steven tried to tell his father and pearl to be kind to connie but in the end he was powerless in this situation. He sat with lapis and watched blue, she didn't move at all, she looked dead, it terrified him. "Lapis, do you know what could be happening to her?", Steven asked, finally breaking the silence, lapis gave him a look of fear, already telling him she didn't know before she spoke, "i-i have never seen my diamond like this", she addmited, her voice sounding defeated.

"A fusion, not only of a diamond but a human and a gem human hybrid! Truly something new! But something wrong?, yes something that should've never happened", blue thought to herself, she floated in a completely dark world, she was alone, she had escaped her body and her mind was in some sort of new world. Blue's thoughts had distracted her so much she was able to unfuse and leave her own body to just think. Back before pink's shattering she was able to do this much easier but now, because of her weakened mental state when blue left her body she was usually left convulsing or asleep in the physical world. Blue looked through her memories, when she fused with Connie and steven she was reminded of something but something she can't properly remember, maybe, now that she was just with just her thoughts she could see that memory again.

Greg and pearl returned not long after, they where shocked Steven was not as mad at them as they thought he'd be for taking Connie away, instead he just spent all his time at blue's side. "Has she started shaking or drooling?", pearl asked Steven, as she walked up to blue and checked on her, her eyes still wide open and blank, she hadnt changed at all. "No, she's just been the same, do you know what this is?", Steven asked pearl, the way she looked at blue and checked her face made it look like she had done this many times and was used to it. "Yes, I know what this is", pearl replied, walking away from blue and sitting down on the ground next to steven.

"My diamond has left her body", pearl explained, as Steven moved along the ground to sit near her, "something must've made her think so much that she's left this world and gone back to her mind", Pearl's words fascinated steven, he knew his mum and all other diamonds had crazy powers but he wasn't expecting her to be able to make herself a ghost. "this time is much more peaceful compared to all the other times she has done this", pearl stopped for a moment and quickly looked a blue again and took a deep breath, "blue diamond can use this power for all sorts of reasons, but because of a certain event in her life, when she does it now it causes her to lose control of her body in this world, making her fall to the ground, she usually starts to shake and foam at the mouth when she does it".

Blue looked through more of her memories until she finally found it, a random event that quickly changed into something very special, something that happened 5750 years ago. Blue was visiting earth, at this time it was still pink's colony and she was making sure it was going well, the reports of rose quartz where just starting to spread and become a big fear among the gems so she came here to protect and help pink against them.

On this day, a high ranking gem, a sapphire had come to visit her, sapphire gems had a magnificent ability, they could see into the future and where very important to blue. The sapphire came with some Ruby guards and met blue, telling her she predicted rose quartz would attack, defeating all but one of her Ruby guards and then attacking her, but after sapphire would be attacked rose and other traitors would be caught immediately after.

"Alright guys, she'll be ok soon don't worry let's just play some music and leave her alone", Greg said, taking out his guitar and some CDs and lightly pulling steven to move away from blue. As he played music Steven covered his ears, the way his father was acting enraged him, how could he be so uncaring for his someone be always spoke about loving. Pearl didn't react to Greg, she just stayed by blue, waiting for her to wake up, "my diamond, what has bothered you now to do this!?", she thought to herself, becoming more and more scared for blue as each minute passed, she was never out for this long usually.

"Schtu-ball stop being so miserable!", Greg joked, as he played his guitar along to some very loud annoying music, Steven couldn't take it anymore, he finally snapped. "DAD STOP!", he yelled, as he yelled a blue aura of energy covered him and a large wave of energy went through the room, breaking the cd player and making Greg drop his guitar and fall to his knees, everyone turned to look at steven, his hair was wavy like his mother's and he was surrounded by pure blue power. "My Steven....", pearl studdered before quickly silencing herself, lapis watched in fear, this small and innocent looking boy still had the powers of blue diamond, Greg looked at his now broken cd player, "Jeez kid, you're just like your mother", he huffed, before storming upstairs to his bedroom, "DAD WAIT!", Steven called to his dad, his powers quickly waring off and everything returning to how it was.

The sapphire waited by her Ruby guards, she knew what would happen and accepted it, today would be the end of the rebellion and of rose quartz, well that's how it was supposed to go. Suddenly they appeared, the rose quartz and her renegade pearl, "WE ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS!", they announced, quickly jumping down and attacking, the Ruby guards where all easily defeated by rose, then the pearl went to attack the sapphire, and then it happened, the future was changed. One of the rubies was left, she somehow changed the entire prediction and ran to protect the sapphire and as she grabbed the sapphire, pulling her out the way, they both fused. Gems like Rubies or topazes could fuse with the same type to make larger ones of eachother but this was unlike anything else, two entirely different gems making one new never before seen being, and the confusion they caused allowed the rebels to escape, if that ruby listened to sapphire, none of this would've happened and pink wouldn't have died, blue clenched her fists and gritted her sharp teeth as she continued watching this memory.

The two quickly unfused after, blue diamond had witnessed this all herself, enraged she spoke, "the rebels have fled! Sapphire! This isn't the future you described to me!", the Sapphire tried to apologise but blue also had some words for the Ruby, "how dare you fuse with a member of My court! You will be broken for this!", as soon as blue commanded this punishment, the Sapphire grabbed the Ruby's hand and fled, never to be seen again.

Blue watched that part of the memory over and over, constanly repeating it she had changed so much since then, since pink died. She thought about that Ruby and sapphire a lot, it was that ruby who stopped the early end to this war along with the capture of rose quartz, it was her that caused the death of pink, but still the ruby was still doing her job of guarding the sapphire she understood why she did that, even if it did change the future and cause so much more suffering.

Blue put both her hands on her head, a feeling was taking over her, regret, she needed to find those two gems and apologise but knowing the crystal gems, they could've joined the rebels as they saw no choice, they probably became traitors thanks to HER. "It was my fault, I shouldn't have took everything that sapphire said as truth! If only I fought that rose myself instead of running away!" Blue thought, thinking about all the actions she couldve and can do "Why do I always run away from even the smallest conflicts! ever since I was on the f-"

Steven went back to sit by blue, now his dad was mad at him and he scared everyone with his powers. Lapis sat next to him, trying to keep him happy and talk with him. Pearl now stood over blue, she had now put the heart shaped sunglasses over blue's eyes that Steven gave her to cover up the fact her eyes where still white and open. "I have a theory of why blue diamond could be like this", lapis said, quickly becoming quieter when she noticed pearl listening in, "I think", she slightly slumped down to Steven's level to wisper in his ear, "she fainted from being so shocked by your fusion!", Steven nodded back, this was starting to become his theory as well, the timing just seemed so perfect for that to be the case.

just as he was about to say more he was interrupted by a odd sound, the best way to describe this sound was that it sounded like that of a camel snoring but underwater, it was coming from blue, she was starting to make odd breathing sounds and move a bit, her arms becoming very stiff and straight and pointing in the air as her face seemed to be cringing, her back also started to arch, pushing her stomach in the air and her head into the back of the couch. "What could you be thinking about in there, My diamond", Pearl wispered as she watched blue, greg quickly ran down the stairs to see what was happening and was horrified.

"The sapphire and Ruby must've met up with rose on earth and joined her, maybe they still live with her!", blue thought, remembering the crystal gems where in beach city "I must ask amethyst!", she slapped herself across the face "No! I must find them myself!", if she would be able to apologise to them she must do it alone, or else it may not feel sincere, but how could she even apologise for this? "I must check around beach city!", she looked up and saw a bright light above her, she reached up and jumped into it, closing her eyes.

When she opened her eyes she was met by her home's ceiling, she looked down confused and saw her body, laying on the couch, shaking intensely, while Steven was panicking, she had now left her body completely. "Oh no! I was just going to see if I could sense any other gems around her!", she thought, looking down at steven feeling the same regret she felt for those two gems for making him see her in such a state, "but I must do that later", she quickly jumped back to her body.

Blue finally opened her eyes and was met by steven nearly about to cry, pearl sighing from relief, Greg about to call an exorcist and lapis crying. "MUM! YOU'RE BACK!", Steven yelled, quickly jumping on blue and hugging her, "my diamond! You're okay!", lapis said, wiping away tears, "what happened?", she asked, pearl looked at lapis and was about to hush her, "yeah, blue-blue, what happened?", greg asked, moving lapis and pearl out the way "I haven't seen you do that in a while". Blue looked at greg, her expression showing fear, "I need to redeem myself", she said, her voice cracking.

Chapter 40 Mr universe and the crystal gems

Over these past days, mr universe had announced yet another tour across beach city and similar towns around them, this one would be much longer and last weeks, this really angered Steven who was taking care of his mother. Blue diamond still hadn't recovered from what happened, pearl was even confused and had never seen her act like this after she left her body before. She spent most her days crying and being paranoid, flinching at the smallest things and rocking back and forward.

"I'll be going soon schtu-ball! take care of your mother for me!", Greg called to steven as he was about to walk out the house and to his van, this time Steven wasn't just going to let Greg leave, he was going to follow after him. He waited for Greg to leave the house and then started his plan, "look after mum for me", he wispered to pearl who quickly obeyed him and went up to blue's room. Steven looked out the windows to see his dad getting in the van then very quietly stepped out of the house. As the van drove off, Steven chased after it, he had noticed sometimes when his father said he was doing concerts, there were no reports of him doing one at all, he must be going somewhere secret and hiding it from everyone and using these concerts to hide where he was really going.

The van drove to an odd looking hill that seemed quite abandoned, as Steven peaked behind a rock he noticed this hill was surrounded by a mental fence with keep out signs all over it too. Greg got out and jumped the fence, Steven walked a bit closer and hid behind the van to see what his father was doing, then he saw it. "Hey rose! I'm here!", Greg called, then the rose quartz herself stepped out, with that pearl from the kindergarten and another gem, a tall one with glasses, Steven wanted to scream, his father was speaking with the crystal gems!?

"So I've got the best idea for you guys, rose you're a great singer, pearl you seem like a keyboard type girl and garnet you'd be good on the guitar", Greg said to the gems, walking back to his van as they spoke, Steven panicked as his father got closer and quickly ran to a closer rock to hide, somehow his dad didn't see him. Greg took out some music equipment from his van and set it up over the fence, Steven watched in shock and horror, "dad is making music with the crystal gems!?", he thought, feeling himself start to become sick with the disgust he felt for his father speaking to that rose, he needed to tell his mother, but how would she react, he knew that wouldn't go well.

"Oh Mr universe you're so interesting", rose said, watching him set up some microphones after he gave the other gems a guitar and keyboard. The fact she even spoke with his father made Steven fill with rage, he could feel his energy building up, he wanted to kill all those traitors, he needed to avenge pink diamond! He clenched his fists and started to shake, should he confront his father, or wait after, he wasn't sure he could wait, he might throw up if he heard that rose speak again.

"Alright guys everyone ready!" Greg called to the gems as he stood infront of them, guitar in hand and now standing in front of a camera ready to record them all. "Of course we are!", rose playfully called back, holding the microphone to her mouth, ready to sing, "yes", the tall one, called garnet said, her voice very direct and monotone, "fine...", the pearl said, she seemed wore weary of Greg, acting a bit defensive near him. "Alright! Time for Mr universe and the crystal gems!", Greg announced, as the camera counted down to start the video.

As the music started, Steven quickly decided to get out of there, he just couldn't take it anymore. He ran away back to home as fast as he could, no one noticed him thankfully and they kept playing their loud music. Steven rushed back home and slammed the door behind him, scaring blue and lapis who where on the couch together. "My Steven what is wrong!?", pearl said, going up to check on him, "you look awful", he really did, he was shaking, sweating and fighting away tears. "I'll talk about it later", Steven studdered, going to his room. Steven spent about half an hour in his room, just screaming into his pillow, his anger for his father was indescribable.

As Steven tried to lay on his bed and calm himself down, the door opened, It was lapis lazuli. "Hey there Steven", she said, walking into his room and sitting on the edge of his bed, "you looked really upset, are you ok?", Steven looked at lapis and took a deep breath, he needed to prepare himself for what he was about to tell her, he needed to make sure he wouldn't cry. "My dad, that Greg guy you know he is...", Steven stopped himself and took another deep breath, lapis waited patiently for him to continue, "he is.....I SAW HIM WITH THE CRYSTAL GEMS", he broke, bursting into tears and triggering his powers, causing a dark blue aura to fill the room and cause lapis to cry.

"He is what!?", lapis exclaimed as the powers made her cry giant tears, "HE'S FRIENDS WITH THE ROSE QUARTZ!", Steven hysterically cried. Lapis tried to hug him to calm him down, "steven, this is something really crazy, we must not tell blue diamond of this", she said, looking at him in his eyes, "why?", Steven asked, through tears. Lapis felt a bit of fear come over her before she spoke, she must be very careful with her words here, "we will tell her later, she isn't in the right state now", she looked down to steven,"if we told her now, her rage will be unstoppable and uncontrollable".

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