"Steven! Duck!" She said as the monsters tiny blade came right at Stevens face.
"Where?" He laughed as Connie bounced of his shield and punctured the monster, causing it to disappear in a big ball of smoke before a red and yellow gem appeared through the fog.
"Very good!" Pearl stood up and clapped her hands. "Okay enough warming up! Let's head out!" She pointed into the forest where they were meeting a new ship that had landed near by to cause trouble.
Connie was now 16 now, making Steven 18, they were both highly skilled in their fighting duo, but of course now they had both developed slight feelings for each other, but: as cliche as it seems, are to shy to admit to it.
Connie had fallen asleep on Stevens back while they were walking, but Steven didn't seem to mind, Connie said she was getting very tired from school, Steven didn't really know why that would be but tried to help her out in anyway he could.
"Huh? S-Steven?" Connie slowly opened her eyes to a face full of soft fuzzy brown hair and shook out her head.
"Hey! Your awake! Pearl went of to scout for more monsters so... It's just you and me." He scratched his head and smiled. "Oh do you want to get down?" He offered but she just shook her head and rested her it on his shoulder.
"I'm good right here." She hugged him with her legs causing them both to blush a little bit, which wasn't unusual.
All the sudden Steven fell to the ground and Connie came crashing off of his back.
"CONNIE QUICKLY!" He yelled as he bounded up and pulled out to shield towards the giant beast before them. By this point Steven just assumed they were coming from the ship, because they all looked generally the same.
"Quickly lets fuse!" Connie ran in front of him and held his hands. But to Stevens horror Connie was quickly clawed away from Stevens grasp and he could just barley see her smash into a tree and cough up a small pool of blood.
"CONNIE!" He ran towards her grabbed her sword from her blood stained hands and stabbed the monster square in the chest with tears in his eyes and screaming for her the whole time.
"NO CONNIE!" He scooped her up and flew (AN/ the floating jump thing but he mastered it) to the warp pad.
"GARNET! AMETHYST!" He fell to his knees in tears with Connie in his arms as they came running towards him.
"Oh my lord!" Garnet threw off her glasses and covered her mouth in reaction to Connie's fatal stomach wound.
"Come on!," Amethyst pleaded,"we need to get her to the hospital! Steven take lion!" He nodded and beckoned him.
