Steven Universe: The Diamond Legacy

Milestone

The moment you've all been waiting for.

Nora fuses for the first time!

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*edited 2/17/21*

It's hard to believe Gem City was once just a small village in the middle of the open countryside. Looking past the quaint houses of Historic Little Homeworld, I always tried to imagine the open fields surrounding it instead of the cloud-piercing towers and multilayered city districts rising to the stratosphere. The district remained with its roots instead of growing with the rest of the architecture, the result of a successful campaign to preserve the original settlement, down to its name.

Though even after thirty years of retaining its heritage, Little Homeworld still needed upkeep. Once every few years the buildings underwent refurbishing, brushing up the houses, replacing old sheet slate, it was all part of preserving the historic district that marked the beginning of Era 3 Gem habitation on Earth.

Aunt Bismuth is the head of the restoration project, forging new slate panels for the houses and overseeing the construction work done by four eager Bismuths from a Demantoid's colony who loved doing what they were created for; Thorin, Gimli, Ivaldi, and Sindri. ( Nicknames I'd given them to avoid confusion. I asked the Bismuths it was okay, and when I explained where their names came from, they instantly said yes.) I knew them since I was little and I'd often spent my childhood days sitting on Peridot's balcony watching them work.

Just as I did now, I went to Little Homeworld to help Chalcedony translate old Gem tablets, she'd lived here for thirty years (after Dad left Beach City) In a cobalt house with a shimmering roof. Skyla was staying with her, and after a few hours of an archeologist's work, I decided to drop by Peridot and Lapis's place.

"Pretty cool to watch huh?" Lapis stood next to me.

I nodded. "Yeah, it's like watching pieces of a puzzle come together. I always thought Gem architecture was a giant puzzle, every odd shape had a match you had to put together. When I'm watching them build, I can see where the pieces fit together."

"You should go and help them out." Lapis suggested. "Nah I don't wanna bother them." I said. "Aunt Bismuth's guiding them anyway."

"I was just joking." Lapis smirked.

"Oh I didn't know that." I stood up, eyes narrowing on a haltered piece of slate hanging from the crane. "That slate is loose." I said to her jumping off the balcony and floating down. "It's gonna fall!"

Lapis flew after. "Nora wait don't go near it!"

I ran across the street hollering at the Bismuths working. "The slate is  gonna fall get out of the way!!" The Bismuths turned their heads, their equipment rattled by my shout.

My pupils shrunk. "Oh no." The shockwave of my screams snapped the already strained tethers and the slate plummeted, about to slam on Peridot below who'd been helping with the work using her knowledge and her metal-molding powers.

"PERIDOT LOOK OUT!"

It was stupid!! I could've been crushed!!! Yet in that moment I raised my arm and summoned my shield, making it big enough to cover us both when it crashed onto the weapon.