Ash's view

"Um… what's what?" I asked.

"That rock behind you." Barry said.

"What gem?" I asked, kicking a button causing the gem to disappear. "There's no gem."

"Barry never said gem. Ash are you hiding something from us?" Dawn asked. "You wouldn't do that to your friends, would

"No, what reason would I have to hide anything?" I asked, I could tell I was slightly sweating.

"Now it comes to mind, I think I saw a gem there." Misty said.

"Yeah, the rock was glowing!" Barry shouted.

"We can hear you perfectly fine, there is no need to shout." Gary said.

"That's ludicrous, rocks can't glow." I said.

"Wrong, Scheelite glows." Dawn said.

"In the dark and when black light is shone on it." I said.

"Ash, I want to know why you would hide all of, this!" May said pointing to all of the secret room.

"I found it all right now." I said hoping they would fall for my lie. "Frankly I would like to know why anyone would hide this kinda thing in a university no less.

"Okay then. Why would anyone hide this then?" Drew asked.

"Let's explore here!" May said happily.

"This is all I found though." I said.

"Okay, then I guess we should just go." Misty said.

"Yes, yes, let's go right now!" I shouted, before shoving them all out of the room.

"Ash, you're acting really weird, is there anything going on, something we don't know about?" Dawn asked, worried.

"I'm fine Dawn, say, we haven't played truth or dare in a while who's up for a round or two of that aye?" I asked.

"Sure!" They all said.

"Thank goodness they are all idiots." I whispered.

"Drew, I dare you to… lick the toilet seat!" Barry shouted.

"Here comes dysentery." Drew said before carrying out that task.

"Alright, May, I dare you to hold on to the chandelier for a whole minute." Drew said.

"You're on!" May said before jumping on the chandelier.

May started to find it hard to keep her grip on the chandelier half way through and wound up falling off of the light and there was an audible thump sound.

"Okay, Ash, I dare you too… kiss Dawn." May said gleefully.

"What?!" Dawn and I shouted.

We started to blabber about why we couldn't kiss each other and then in my head all I could say was screw it. I decided to go straight for it and let Dawn hate me later. I suddenly kissed Dawn and yet, she seemed like she was enjoying it, in fact, she was kissing me back!

"Well, do my eyes deceive me?" May asked slyly.

I pulled away blushing like a maniac.

"Looks like You two are in love? No?" Drew asked.

"Umm… I may… have a small crush… on Dawn." I said nervously.

"Small?" Gary asked.

"Yeah, fine I'm in love, so what?" I asked.

"So, this is big! People have been wondering for years when you two would finally hook up and now it seems you two may!" Misty said.

"And what put that idea in your heads?" I asked.

"Dawn has a massive crush on you Ash, like Empire state building big!" Barry shouted.

"What?" I asked, confused.

"You couldn't tell?" Gary asked.

"She doesn't have a crush on me… does she?" I asked.

"Oh no…" May said.

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL HIM!" Dawn shouted.

"I'm just gonna go…" I said, cautiously moving back to the door of my room.

I opened the door and entered my room, before propping a chair against the door and heading into the secret room. I went through a well-hidden corridor to a library that should be able to tell me what to do in this situation. I started to look for a book on what to do when you find out your crush has a crush on you and is trying to kill your friends. Thankfully, after searching for what felt like 18 hours, I found what I needed. I started reading through the book but it made literally no sense. It felt like reading a riddle that made no sense, there are plenty of those.

"Woah, what is this?" A voice shouted.

I knew that voice anywhere… Dawn.

"So you didn't kill them?" I asked.

"No. Now answer me, what is this?" Dawn asked, walking up to me and pointing everywhere.

"What, this giant… library?" I asked.

"This is in the secret room, there was a corridor leading to it." Dawn said. "How is it so big?"

"Inter dimensional warping." I said. "Causes a small area to become a hell of a lot bigger. Basically I kinda ripped of doctor who."

I noticed Dawn giggling slightly. I would say I would be happy, if it weren't for the fact I was wondering if she was going to attack me. She instead just gave me a big hug, so I decided to hug back. The warmth from it was something I wish I could have every day… may not every day. I wouldn't want a hug in summer, I'd melt. We parted and I decided to move on to the subject that I was wondering if I should have kept off of.

"So… you have a crush on me?" I asked.

"I didn't exactly hide it. Then again I didn't know you liked me." Dawn said.

"True. I guess we both were extremely oblivious then." I said.

"Yeah. So…" Dawn said.

"I guess, if you want, we could go out." I said.

"Yes! I'd love to. Besides, what's the worst that can happen?" Dawn asked.

"The worst that can happen." I muttered.

There was a brief silence between us.

"Dawn, I have to tell you something." I said.

"It's related to the gemstone, isn't it?" Dawn asked.

"Yes. I kinda… sorta… have powers." I said, nervously.

"Ash, what do you mean, are you saying you could say, make water levitate?" Dawn asked jokingly, but she looked into my eyes to see I meant it. "Oh… your serious."

"Don't think anything less of me please." I said.

I looked down to the floor. It is hard to not feel ashamed in my view.

"You kidding? That is amazing!" Dawn said. "I have a boyfriend who is a superhero!"

"Wait so you figured out now that I am Warlord?" I said.

"There is only one entity who has powers in Jubelife and that is Warlord so you being Warlord is a good guess in my opinion." Dawn said.

"And the gem caused it all." I said.

"What do you mean by that Ash?" Dawn asked.

"It gave me powers whenever I touched it. Ever found it weird that I started wearing gloves?" I asked

"Now you mention it, it does seem a bit weird that you wear gloves." Dawn said.

"It's a precaution since these gloves are laced with a material that absorbs energy from powers. It helps me keep in control of my abilities. I have the bracelets for similar reasons. Each of the orbs help me control a certain power like the blue orbs are for ice, water and galactic powers. Red for fire. Ect." I said.

"Cool. Think we should tell the others?" Dawn asked.

"No. let them figure out I have powers on their own. Soon they'll figure it out." I said.

"And what about us?" Dawn asked.

"They can know that." I said.

"Why did you tell me Ash?" Dawn asked.

"I told you because I trust you… with my life." I said.

As we walked out back into the Living room, we were greeted to see our friends justv staring at us.

"Anything happen?" May asked.

"Define happen." I said.

"You two choose to start dating." May said.

"Yep." Dawn said.

"Soon you two will be newly weds." Gary shouted.

"Shut… the hell… up." I said. "Or you'll be newly dead!"

Hours later

No person's view

Two figures walked up to each other in the dark. One of which was Ash. The other was in a word, fat. They stopped by the bus stop and handed each other somethings. A gear was given to the unknown man. An optical fibre was given to Ash. The two then walked away back into the shadows.