"Look at that!" Steven pointed. The sun had only just risen over Beach City, giving it a nice, gentle amount of light. Kids were already pouring onto the board walk to get an early start at the games and theme park, but Steven chose to point to something much less impressive: some of the kids on the beach, who were much younger than him, had chosen to set up a small slip-n'-slide.

"Human children?" Garnet asked, looking down at Steven.

Pearl cocked her head to one side, smiling in fascination and deep in thought.

"It appears as though to be a form of enjoyment for those kids," she said. "Look at how far they go! Garnet, are you watching this?"

"Make way!" Amethyst yelled, running toward the children and their slide. The children scattered. Amethyst flopped and slid belly-first down the slide, finally stopping at the end. There was a loud 'pop' that elicited from from the rubber slide, and Steven heard the sound of air rushing out of the rubber chambers as Amethyst stood up and stepped away.

Steven winced. "Amethyst...come back..." He beckoned subtly for her to hurry.

"Ah, lighten up, Steven! What's the hur-"

"What is going on here?"

Amethyst turned around, and looked up to find Mr. Smiley towering over her with an expression of anger tattooed across his face.

"I set this up for the children!" Mr. Smiley reprimanded, face turning red with anger. "For children!"

Steven rushed over, quickly taking Amethyst's hand in his own and pulling her toward the other gems.

"Come on, Amethyst...Let's go..." Steven whispered. Amethyst glared back defiantly at Mr. Smiley.

"It was the most pathetic slide I've been on," she said with a challenging grin, "And I'm older than you."

For a moment, Steven could have sworn that he saw steam pouring out of Mr. Smiley's ears. Choosing then to leave, Amethyst firmly grasped Steven's hand and ran with him back to the other gems.

"You selfish hooligans!" he yelled after them. "Just try to get on any of the board walk attractions after this!"

Garnet shook her head, electing to walk back to the temple with Pearl rather than run back with Steven and Amethyst.

"Hey Steven?" Amethyst asked from the lower floor of the temple house. Steven lay face down on his bed at the top of the stairs.

"What?"

Amethyst rocked on her feet, mildly abashed. "The gems and I thought of something cool."

"Okay. What?"

"Well, remember the water slide from a few days ago?" Amethyst asked.

"I still feel bad for all those kids."

"That's just the thing...Why did you like it so much?"

Steven paused for a moment before answering.

"It reminded me of the time I spent with my dad during summer. Those days just stopped happening suddenly, and now I haven't been on a water slide in years."

"Well," Amethyst mischievously, "That changes today! Come on!" She ran up the stairs, and before Steven had any time to react, pulled him into her arms and held him over her head. Amethyst ran outside of the temple with Steven, carrying him to the top of the cliff that the temple was built into.

There was a loud rumble of water, not unlike a waterfall, that Steven noticed the entire way up the cliff. Looking down from the top of the cliff, Steven saw a rather steep water slide that had been carved and then built into the rock, and led down to the beach. A large pool of water sat in reserve at the top of the cliff for the slide, which was constantly refilled be a small, not quite subtle portal that one of the gems created near the bottom of the pool.

"WHOA!" Steven yelled, giggling. He splashed into the cold pool, sending drops everywhere.

Pearl winced when she was hit by the water.

"Um, Steven," she began. "Do you think that you could be a little more...?"

"How do you live in a room that is mostly made of water when you're inside the temple, and then can't stand it here?" Amethyst asked over the roar of the water.

As a treat to Steven (and as their own way of having fun), the gems had decided that they would create an object that humans called a 'water slide.'

Steven swam for a few moments with Amethyst, but then came to the surface of the water.

"Hey," Steven said to Pearl, who still sat at the pool's edge. "Where's Garnet?"

Pearl gave a small, playful smile. "That's something you have to find out."

"Huh?"

"Look out Steven! This waterfall-slide had hard current!" Amethyst yelled when she reached the surface of the pool. She shoved Steven in the direction where the slide began, and watched, giggling, as he was caught in the current.

"AHHHHH!" Steven yelled, flailing his arms as he raced down the surprisingly-smooth slide. He saw a blur of red and black for a moment, and saw a flash of light. But before he knew it, Steven was at the bottom of the slide.

As the current slowed down, Steven continued to shiver from the exhilaration of the ride. He laughed, floating on his back until he washed onto the sand of the beach a moment later. Looking up, Steven noticed that Garnet was standing above him, holding out a small paper for him to take.

"Souvenir photo," Garnet explained as she held the paper out to Steven. "Humans take them when they go on thrill rides."

The photo was blurry.

After a few more runs down the slide (Pearl even tried it once with Steven), people began to gather at the beach to watch the commotion. Amethyst splashed down into the water, resurfacing to see the children whose slide she ruined.

Amethyst looked sad for a moment, and slowly walked over.

"Do you wanna try?" she asked them, and watched each of their faces light up. "Let's go!" Now Amethyst was smiling as she led the new party up the hill. The crowd followed, and before it was taken down, the slide was the best attraction in Beach City, let alone the board walk.

We totally need some drabbles in this archive. If you guys have any ideas or anything you want to see, I'd love to know! Until then, I'll just go by whatever comes to my head.

I expect that this story will be one of those 'let's update it every week, maybe twice if it's a good week' stories, so thanks for the support =)