Dragonstone Pov
Amethysts room
We were venturing through amethysts room filled with junk as I was walking at the back of the line and Pearl and Amethyst were arguing
Pearl: covering her nose "How can you live like this?!"
Amethyst: "It was find till you guys started whining." She said while makijg mouthing gestures with her hand
Pearl: "Whining?! The whole temple reeks!"
Steven: "I found it!" Picks up a silver object
Pearl: "What manner of magical alloy is this?" Steven unwrapped it revealing it o be a mouldy burrito
Garnet: "It's a Burrito."
Dragonstone: sighs "A very. Very old burrito."
Amethyst: takes it from Steven "It's the tuna burrito from Aqua-Mexican!"
Steven: "That place closed like 5 years ago." He said in disgust before amethyst bit it, Steven shuddered "Huh?" Walks over to a pile "What's this? It kind of looks like you guys and my mom."
Pearl: speaks excitedly "Oh, Steven, that is us!"
Steven: Pearl picked up the picture "Really?"
Garnet: "The hard part was getting the shark to pose. And Dragonstone to show show his face."
Steven: points at the portrait "Why is everyone dressed like old-timey people?"
Pearl: "They are old-timey people." Puts the portrait down
Steven: "W-wait. But that would mean...how old are you guys?"
Pearl: "Much older than any human." She said while they all stood together
Steven: excitedly "Does that mean you'll live forever?"
Dragonstone: "We don't age, but we can still get hurt and die, some of us harder than others." Points at Amethyst who turned pale grey before falling over "Luckily, that won't kill her. But she will feel everything."
Steven: "I jut can't believe you guys are like a bazillion years old!" He threw his arms up "How do you find a cake big enough for all those candles?"
Garnet: "We don't really celebrate birthdays" Dragonstone shook his head
Steven: gasps in shock "Why not?!
Garnet: shrugs "It's not our way." Dragonstone nods his head
Steven: "Well, I can't just ignore this tramesty of unjustice! I pledge that you will have your birthdays! With all the candy, cake, and ice cream you've been denied!" Amethyst throws up
Timeskip—same day
On the beach
Steven has us all on the beach sitting on chairs with balloons tied to them as he put amethyst on a thrown and put a crown on her head
Amethyst: "And the birthday queen is...Amethyst! I hope you like it. Dad made me this outfit and it brings me special birthday luck every year!" He turns on a toy mic and starts singing a birthday song but he was cut off by lion playing with a birthday had behind him "Hey! It goes like this." Puts on lions party hat as the animal starts trying to take it off
Pearl: "Um, Steven...I know you put a lot of effort into...putting faces on things, but could it be we're just a tad...mature for this ritual?"
Dragonstone: sighs "Also, why'd you put these head covering on my horns? And why are they cylindrical pyramids? I thought hats were meant to stop rain and sunlight from harming your fragile human bodies." Amethyst poked pearls nose with her party hat as they gem chased her
Steven: "Wait!" He ran up to amethyst and gave her a bath "here!"
Amethyst: he eyes lit up "Aww! I'll use it all the time!" She was about to hit Pear with it
Steven: gasps "No! It's for the piñata!" He points up before Amethyst is blindfolded and swings at the piñata Steven is holding "The piñata is an artist from ancient aqua Mexico" amethyst nearly hit him as he runs screaming and give it to Dragonstone who gets hit in the face by amethyst who missed the piñata
Amethyst: hits him "Am I" hits again "Getting" hits him again in the face "Close?" Dragonstone sighed
Dragonstone: "Try going further back and aiming higher, Amethyst." Amethyst pulled her blindfold up slightly and hit the piñata sending it flying into the ocean
Amethyst: chuckles and tosses the bat aside "What next Steven?" She turns to the boy who's hiding behind Dragonstone
Steven: "Well, you were supposed to get delicious candy when you broke it open-..."
Amethyst: gasps "Wait. You had candy and you didn't give it to us?" She said with a sad face
Steven: "There will be more sweet treats at pearls party. I promise"
On top of a hill overlooking beach city
We were now sitting on a blanket in the grass, I still had two birthday hats on my horns as Amethyst did the same making me sigh and roll my eyes as we looked at Steven in front of us who had a oversized shirt on and a rainbow head wear as well as white face coverings and a red nose
Steven: "Happy birthday!" Squeezes nose "Honk!"
Amethyst: "Steven, that is a brave look."
Steven: "No, it's funny."
Pearl: "How?" Steven stammered
Steven: "uh...oh, geez, I breaking character. Wait, wait,wait! I wrote some jokes!" Pulls put a paper from his pocket "Why did Pearl throw butte out the window?"
Dragonstone: "Pearl threw butter from a window? Why? Was it dangerous?"
Steven: "To see a butterfly!"
Pearl: "I never did that. Steven, are you telling lies?" She said with a hurt voice
Steven: "N-no! Oh! I know. Pear, do you like pie?"
Pearl: nods, smiling "I do like pie."
Steven: "Well, you're in luck! I baked you a pie!" Pulls a pie from the basket and walks over to Pearl "I sure hope nothing happens to it!"
Pearl: smiling "Yes, me too." Steven trips
Steven: "wh-whoops!" Pearl moved quickly to him
Pearl: catches him "Whoa, Steven! I've got you! Be careful. You almost fell right on that..." Steven suddenly slapped the pie on his face as Pearl gasped
Steven: "See, Pearl? It's funny!" He laughs while Pearl whispers to Garnet
Garnet: "Pearl says she's all partied out and she's ready to go home."
Beach city
We were in an urban Neighbourhood area in the city and garnet was in the birthday suit while Steven revealed tiny cars to them with strange whistles he called kazoos.
Steven: "It's kazoo racers! You get in the car, you play a kazoo..." he plays the kazoo "What more would you want?" He offers the kazoos to them "Dad used to do this for me every year."
Pearl: whispers "I think this I why ageing makes humans die."
Dragonstone: "I wish I could die right now." Sighs and whispers to Garnet "Tell him something before it's my turn."
Garnet: steps forward "Steven, thank you for the birthday parties, but I don't think we'll need anymore."
Steven: "Why not?"
Garnet: "Our age is only an illusion. And Pearl's pretty sure this ritual is more for human children." Takes off the crown
Pearl: "Nothing against children!"
Steven: "Children? Everyone gets to have birthdays! Seriously. Give it a try! You're never too old!" He pushes the gap car to Garnet
Garnet: "We're just too big."
Steven: "You're not too big. Y-y-you just get in and then, uh..."
Amethyst: "I can fit!" They looked at Amethyst who turned into a human baby as she drove around
Steven: "What if birthdays are just for little kids. What if, I'm too old." Amethyst drove up beside him
Amethyst: "No way! You can still fit!" She picked Steven and and threw him down into the car "Oh, wait, you are too old." She dove off laughing before driving into Dragonstone who was looking down at her
Dragonstone: "That wasn't very nice."
Amethyst: gulps "uh...googoogaga?" Dragonstone picked her up and went back to the temple with her and the other gems "Hey! Put me down!"
Dragonstone: "Act like a baby, get treated like one." I said sternly
Timeskip-later that day
Beach house
I was sitting on the couch in the beach house while Amethyst laid her head on my lap and i laid back on the couch with my hand over her head as she looked content and had a smile on her face
Pearl: she came from her room and scoffed "I really wish you wouldn't allow that! She isn't an animal." Amethyst turned into a cat out of spite "Ugh! You're impossible!"
Dragonstone: "I don't see the problem." I tilt my head
Amethyst: "Someone's jealous~" she laughed and got up rubbing her cat form against Dragonstone's body "Meow~"
Pearl: she grunts in frustration "That's so uncalled for and inappropriate!"
Dragonstone: "Could you two not find a problem with every single thing for once?" I narrow my eyes
Pearl: "I just feel that you are too soft of Amethyst."
Amethyst: "Well I feel that you are jealous! It's not my fault Dragonstone is closer to me!"
Pearl: "It's only because you think that just because you two were so close in the past that you can throw it in my face!" Dragonstone stood up and walked to the door
Amethyst: "Thanks a lot Pearl!"
Pearl: "Me!?" They kept arguing while Dragonstone went outside and leaned on the porch balcony letting out a sigh before looked to the side to see lion running up before dropping Steven by me
Dragonstone: "Steven!" Pearl, Amethyst hd Garnet come outside and knelt down to him
Pearl: covers her mouth "What's wrong with him?!"
Amethyst: she held Steven up "His fine! Just really, really, really, really old."
Pearl: "Gems can't die from ageing, but his half human" her eyes teared up
Amethyst: "Can't we fix him?"
Steven: speaks weakly "My birthday suit might help." They looked at Garnet who pulled off the crown and cloak before they put it on Steven as lion laid by him
Amethyst: "Goof as new, right?"
Steven: "Thanks, guys. But I guess this birthday suits all out of birthday magic." Sits up "We had a good run." He started getting older
Garnet: breathing heavily "More birthdays. Now." She grabbed the three of them as they all started doing birthday activities as Garnet and Amethyst tried doing kazoo racers but it failed and Steven aged more
Steven: "Kids stuff." Amethyst shape shifted into a piñata but Steven kept aging
Garnet: "It's not working!"
Amethyst: "Pearl! Get over here!"
Pearl: "I cant!"
Dragonstone! "for Steven!" I carried her in front of Steven before placing her down as she was crying as she walked forward and hit the pie in her face while breaking down
Amethyst: "Are you trying to kill him faster!?" Pearl looked at amethyst with watery eyes before she hugged amethyst and sobbed before Garnet pushed through and picked Steven up before shaking him
Dragonstone: "Garnet!" I stopped her as she put him down
Garnet: "I thought violence would be the answer." They kept arguing while Dragonstone knelt down to Steven with a smile
Dragonstone: "Hey, Steven. Don't worry, everything's gonna be okay"
Steven: "Would you guys please just..." he turned into an adult version of himself "Try to control yourselves!" He then became awkward as they looked at him "Oh, oh no, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have yelled." He then became an adult again "But I can't stand to see you freaking out like this!"
Pearl: "Whaaaa..." garnet came forward
Garnet: "Steven, your changing!"
Dragonstone: "Your age is changing with your emotions! It must be your gem!"
Amethyst: "Steven! Stop feeling old!"
Steven: "But I wasted your time." He became a teen again "We all have such little time..." he became old
All four: "Steven!"
Pearl: "You have to feel like yourself, sweet and considerate, and only occasionally obnoxious." Steven became a teen again
Steven: "You really think I'm all those things?"
Garnet: "Yes!"
Amethyst: "Why else would you throw us all those parties?!"
Steven: "My gosh! You're right!" He aged down again to his normal age "I am pretty great." Pearl and Amethyst embraced him while Garnet put a hand on his shoulder and Dragonstone ruffled his hair
Dragonstone: "you had me...us, worried." I smiled softly
Garnet: "We'll work on the rest later." Steven looked down at his legs which were still adult as he danced around and laughed while the gems watched