Being Human

73. Bismuth

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 Steven was in his room playing a difficult video game on his TV while Y/n and the Gems cheer him on.

"Oh my goodness!" Pearl says.

"Go for it, bro!" Amethyst cheers.

"This is your last chance." Garnet warns him.

"You got this Steven." Y/n says.

Steven begins sweating. "No... No...! Jump... Jump...!" He says but Steven's character dies in-game.

"Aww!..." Steven and the Gems all sigh.

"Unlucky Steven." Y/n says.

"Dying a bunch in video games is emotionally exhausting." Steven sighs but a sound gets his attention. "Huh?"

Everyone turns and looks towards Lion, who is playing and chewing on one of Steven's shirts.

"Lion!" Steven cries as he runs down the stairs and tries to pull the shirt away from Lion's mouth.

"Drop it!" Steven tells him as he successfully pulls the shirt from Lion and falls backward on the ground.

"Lion, you can't chew this up. "Steven says as he looks at his shirt, reading 'Thunder Bird - Always Remember'.  "How else am I going to remember the time I rode the Thunder Bird at Funland?"

Steven walks back to his room and puts the shirt on his dresser, next to his Thunder Bird badge and Thunder Bird photo frame.

Steven then sits back down at his game console. "Okay, I'm sure this time..."

Steven turns and sees Lion, who has climbed onto the dresser and grabs Steven's shirt again.

"He really likes that shirt huh?" Y/n says lazily.

"Lion! Don't even think about it!" Steven warns him as he gets up.

Lion attempts to head for the door, but Steven jumps in to block his path. He then grabs the shirt and pulls it away from Lion again.

"Since you can't play nice, I'm gonna have to put this where you can't get it." Steven says teasingly. "In ya mane!"

Lion grumbles and begrudgingly lays down.

"Thank you, boo." Steven says then dives into Lion's mane.

Steven pops up from the pink grass savannah and walks towards the lone small island, holding Rose's possessions and a few of his own belongings. He then climbs onto the tree on the island and hangs his shirt on one of the branches.

'There we go. Now it'll be safe forever, hanging in this perfectly stable magic tree.' Steven thinks to himself.

Suddenly, the tree branch Steven snaps apart, causing him to fall onto a bubbled gem inside the dimension. He then accidentally pops the bubble, freeing the gemstone inside. Steven screams with his mouth closed as he is bounced away from the island.

Back in the beach house Y/n is playing the video game as Garnet and Pearl and Amethyst cheer him on. Lion is also seen chewing on another one of Steven's shirts.