Hey everyone! It's me, Pepsicle. For those of you who don't know me, I'm a very nice guy, so talk to me whenever you want, but since you're here, read my story. I'm Into TAWoG a lot, but recently, I got into Steven Universe, and I realized that it is about a billion times better than everything else! So, I thought I would try my hand at a fic, and thus, this was born. I really hope you all like it! Review, don't review, I don't care as long as you read it.

Beach city was bustling with people, as usual. Deliveries were being made, people were going to their jobs, and kids were just enjoying the day, two in particular were a chubby little boy with big hair and a star t-shirt, and a girl with a dress on and long brown hair. They were running up a large hill together, the boy pulling the girl by her hand, they were laughing and playing together as they had every day that summer.

"Steven! Wait up!" The girl had yelled to the boy, he was now far ahead of her and she was rushing to keep up.

"C'mon Connie, we're almost there!" Steven said. He was giggling, Connie smiled to herself, she loved it when he laughed, it was so child-like, not like there wasn't anything else childlike about him, his personality was funny and crazy and he had pure intentions for everything he did.

"Steven, slow down!" Connie yelled again, she giggled to herself, Steven was so playful at times that she sometimes forgot he was a gaurdian of the world. Steven(alongside the Crystal gems) protected the earth with the power their gems gave them. Steven could make shields, which is one of the most important assets to the team, and he could heal anything, like Connie's eyes, which is why she was running up the hill with lensles glasses.

Finally, Steven slowed down and Connie caught up to him. She looked at his face, he was staring at the water below with a look of wonder, the waves were lapping up onto the rocky wall of the cliff.

"So Steven, are you ready to set up the picnic?" Connie asked him.

"Yeah." He replied with a smile. They walked over to a small little area that didn't have that many rocks on the ground, and laid down the blanket. Steven set the basket down onto the plaid sheet and sat down with it, Connie pulled out a couple of sandwiches and gave one to Seven.

"Anything interesting happen today?" Connie said as she took a bite.

"Well, Pearl yelled at Amethyst today, and they both got so mad, they pulled out their weapons, and then Garnett came in and was all like "Stop fighting, both of you." Steven said, making his voice deep and pushing his hair down over his eyes to imitate Garnett. Connie giggled.

"My day was pretty interesting to, my parents and I went down to the aquarium and looked at mantarays and cool stuff like that, and then we had this weird thing, I forgot the name, but it was basically fried scorpion on a stick." She said, Steven giggled.

"That sounds gross!" He exclaimed, he couldn't help but keep giggling. His laughter died down and the conversation had stopped, they were both left in a moment of quietness, then the sound of an explosion was heard in the distance. Connie gasped.

"What was that?" Connie asked, standing and looking in the direction the noise had come from.

"It's coming from the temple! Let's go!" Steven said, he pulled Connie in close to him and formed a bubble around them and they rolled down the hill, at the bottom, Steven popped the bubble and they started running to Steven's home, a giant magic temple in a giant mountain. Again, Steven was leading Connie by her hand, she was struggling to keep up.

"Steven, slow down! Whatever the thing is, don't you think the gems could handle it?" Connie asked.

"I wanna help! I need to be there!" Steven said. He had a look of concentration on his face, he was determined to help in the fight.

They arrived on the scene, Amethyst was buried in the sand, all but her head were under the ground, Garnett had her gloves out and was trying to attack the cause of the noise, and Pearl was attacking from the ground, Steven looked at the monster, it looked like an octopus, but it had about sixteen spear-shaped tentacles and it had two heads. It shot spikes from its back and hit Garnett, flinging her far into the air, and it hit Pearl with one of its tentacles, Garnett was falling out of the sky, fist raised toward the beast and punctured right through it, hitting its heart, But it didn't disappear.

"What? How is that possible? You got it right in the heart didn't you?" Pearl asked Garnett, who had just landed on the sand, ready to play defense.

"Yeah, i did." Garnett said, she made her gloves reappear, she then looked over at Steven and Connie, only just now noticing their presence. "Steven, take Connie into the temple, don't come out until we defeat the monster!" She said to the boy.

"But I wanna help!" He said.

"Just go inside, that's how you can help." Garnett said, a tentacle swung at her, she didn't notice it. Steven ran over to her and before she could do anything, he put a bubble around them and got hit by the swinging appendage. They flew and hot the side of the mountain, Garnett got up and helped Steven up.

"Garnett! Is Steven alright?" Pearl called over from the battle, she was pulling Amethyst up from the ground and deflecting spikes with her staff.

"Yeah, he's fine, try and find its weak point, I'll distract it, Garnett hopped over to the fight, leaving Steven and Connie to watch.

"So, what is that thing?" Connie asked.

"I don't know, but it's just like anything else we deal with. It looks kinda like an octopus to me." Steven said.

"You think so? But, an octopus only has eight arms, not sixteen, and last time I checked they only have one head." Connie said. Steven's eyes got wide. He gasped, getting a sudden realization.

"Oh my gosh, if it has sixteen arms and two heads which is double whatever an octopus had, what if it has two hearts?" Steven asked.

"You might be right! Tell the gems!" Connie said. Steven ran over to the fighters and stopped at the very edge, outside the range of battle.

"Guys!" Steven yelled.

"Steven! Get to the temple!" Pearl yelled.

"Yeah dude, it's dangerous out here." Amethyst added.

"Iknow how to beat it! If it has double body parts, what if it has two hearts?" Steven yelled back. He saw Garnett get a thinking face on, she hopped into the air and asked a command at pearl to toss her a staff. She caught it and threw it at the beast, hitting it on the opposite side. The monster yelled and blew up in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a tiny blue gem.

"Good thinking Steven!" Amethyst said, running up to him.

"Actually, it was Connie that made me think of it." Steven said, Connie blushed.

"It doesn't matter who thought of it, the point is we defeated the monster, good job team... and Connie." Garnett said, she smiled at Connie before she leapt up to the temple, followed by Pearl and Garnett.

"So, what next?" Connie asked.

"I think we left our picnic up on that hill, so, how about we go back to that?" Steven suggested. Connie nodded.

"I'll race you." Connie said, starting to run. Steven laughed as he chased after her.

I hope you liked it guys, review... I guess... please... follow me, my story, all that, and yeah, guess that's it. Peace.