Cherry and Mo of course showered separately away from Atticus because of boys and girls differences. Cherry appeared to be singing in the shower though as she had her eyes closed and thought she was alone.
"I didn't know you sang in the shower." Mo said.
"GAH!" Cherry yelped.
"Hi." Mo blinked.
"I thought these were private!" Cherry grabbed her curtain as she saw Mo in another shower.
"They are." Mo said.
Cherry muttered.
"Well, now I see how Maestro Forte says you have a lovely singing voice since you don't let any of us hear you sing." Mo said before squeezing conditioner into her hands and scrubbed it into her hair.
"I guess so..." Cherry sighed as her singing had been revealed.
"You should sing more often." Mo said.
"Don't count on it." Cherry muttered before she tilted her head back and smiled as she loved the warm water through the suds of her shampoo.
"Too bad because your singing along with you dream-bending powers, you'd be the most talented person in the universe." Mo said.
"You're just trying to make me feel good about myself." Cherry smirked at her foster cousin.
"No, I'm serious," Mo said. "Heck, you might even outshine Atticus."
"Oh, I don't know about all of that..." Cherry replied.
After showering, Cherry read a newspaper to help herself fall asleep, though the headline caught her attention. 'WHO IS THE BATWOMAN?'
"Must be his new sidekick." Mo said after she dried off and looked at the paper.
"He shouldn't be solving this on his own..." Cherry said as she read the newspaper. "Bruce trusts me just as well as he does Robin or Alfred."
"He is who he is." Mo said.
Cherry kept reading until she began to yawn and went to get some sleep. Mo smiled as Cherry could now sleep in peace and soon went to bed after her. The rest of the night was peaceful with nothing ruining it. Atticus snorted slightly as he seemed to do exercises in his sleep as he was dreaming of meeting Superman again since it had been a while since their last meeting. And for Patch he was dreaming of meeting Krypto again as well as Thunderbolt. Mo smiled as she dreamt about Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Cherry, of course, dreamt about Batman and she smiled since her dream was in the dark and mysterious city of Gotham.
And so the rest of the days were great and each day, they got better at their powers. The next morning came. Cherry, Atticus, and Mo smiled as they were quite popular with the other students and were just like one of the gang to all of them in a very special way.
"Hey, guys." Mo greeted.
"Hey, Mo, great job on your first time in the Danger Room." Kitty congratulated.
"Thanks, Kitty." Mo smiled.
"And Atticus, you were amazing when took out those robots." Sam said.
"Thanks." Atticus said.
"But not as amazing as Cherry." Bobby said.
"Who? Me?" Cherry looked around and gave a small smile.
"Yeah." Bobby smiled back.
Cherry smiled bashfully as she was even popular with the future X-Men, and where she was starting to outshine Atticus. Atticus felt happy for his best friend, he hadn't seen her this happy since he made up for missing her birthday and taking her to Halloween Town, and where now, everything seemed perfect.
There was mail for Cherry, Atticus, and Mo. Cherry had invites to visit Monster High which intrigued her very much while Atticus and Mo had letters from the family and one of Mo's letters came with a crayon drawing of her with Junior and the dogs which made her smile. And where it seemed like nothing could ruin this for them.
"Monster High?" Atticus asked.
"Yeah!" Cherry beamed. "Let's go!"
"Uh, we can't right now, but soon." Atticus promised.
"Okay." Cherry pouted.
Atticus gently ruffled up her hair with a chuckle.
"Well, at least nothing bad is happening." Cherry shrugged.
"Yeah, which is weird." Mo said until they Patch and panicked since he wasn't a student and had to hide him.
"Uh, say, guys, let's meet in the Dining Hall!" Atticus smiled nervously.
"Agreed." Mo and Cherry smiled nervously.
The other students looked concerned, but shrugged and decided to meet their new friends in the dining hall. Patch was starting to explore the mansion.
"Patch!" Atticus whispered loudly before going after his dog.
"Oh, great, he's loose." Cherry complained.
"You sounded just like Pleakley." Mo smiled.
"Aw, jeez." Cherry muttered.
Patch smiled as he looked all around the various sights. He soon smelled food by the kitchen.
"Here, doggy... Here, boy..." Cherry weakly called, showing she had no idea how to handle canines. She soon went wide-eyed after seeing where Patch was heading. She looked around before heading off to the kitchen.
"Ooh..." Patch smiled as he nearly drooled as he found food, glorious food.
Cherry nervously came into the kitchen and went after the young Dalmatian, and she soon found him at the turkey. "Patch!"
"Oh, boy, you are too good to wait for Thanksgiving..." Patch licked his muzzle.
"Patch, please don't." Cherry begged.
Patch soon leaned over while drooling on the turkey and began to eat it.
"Of course." Cherry sighed.
Patch licked his muzzle as he suddenly felt sleepy, though he saw other meats which looked amazing.
"No, no, no!" Cherry panicked.
Patch was soon lifted up by a psychic power. Cherry looked nervous and looked all around. Who did that? She soon saw Jean in the kitchen.
Jean walked over as she soon carried the dog in her arms before looking right at Cherry. "Does this pup belong to you?"
"No, uh, actually, he's Atticus's dog." Cherry replied.
Patch nodded in agreement, telling Jean that he was in fact Atticus's pet.
"Try to be careful next time." Jean handed Patch to Cherry.
"Thanks," Cherry replied before looking down to Patch. "You dumb dog, why did you eat a whole turkey?!"
"It's in my nature." Patch shrugged.
"Oh, man, I hope no one blames me for this..." Cherry sighed.
"I'm sure they won't, besides, it was an accident." Jean smiled calmly.
"Yeah," Patch yawned. "An accident."
Cherry sighed and soon left the room with Patch, though he was heavier due to eating. "Atticus better be close by." She groaned.
Atticus sat in one classroom with a book.
Cherry came up to him and dropped Patch with a pant right on top of the book. "He's your problem."
"Patch, what did you do?" Atticus sighed.
"I might've had a small swallow of some turkey." Patch smiled nervously.
"He ate the whole thing." Cherry said.
"Patch!" Atticus gasped.
"I'm really sorry!" Patch replied. "I was just so hungry!"
"I guess that's my fault for not feeding you." Atticus sighed.
"Atticus, I'm really sorry." Patch frowned, hoping he wasn't mad with him.
"It's okay," Atticus said. "I know you didn't mean to eat it."
Patch looked sheepish. Atticus sighed, but he hugged his dog and pet him.
Patch smiled as he enjoyed him. "Whatcha readin'?" He then asked.
"A book that Clark gave me," Atticus replied. "It's basically like a handbook for improving powers."
"Oh, cool." Patch smiled as he checked out the book with Atticus.
"Yeah, I know." Atticus smiled.
"You gonna see him again?" Patch asked.
"I hope soon," Atticus replied. "I loved our quest for peace."
"I know." Patch smiled.
Atticus smiled back as he chuckled at the part about keeping his hero guise secret and it showed a picture of Clark putting on his work glasses.
"Ooh, it says here that you can do more with your strength." Patch smiled.
"Shouldn't be surprised." Atticus said before highlighting the section and looking into it.
"I wonder if we could meet the actual Atlas one day and I'm meaning the one that has to hold up the earth/sky/heavens." Patch said.
"You mean the god Atlas and not like my old friend from the circus?" Atticus asked.
"Yeah, him." Patch nodded in excitement.
"Oh, that reminds me, I found this book for you." Cherry walked by again and dropped down a book in Atticus's lap.
"Ooh." Atticus smiled as he picked it up to see it was a book titled 'Percy Jackson'.
"Don't say I never did anything for you." Cherry said while walking off.
Atticus took a glance at the book which was of a dyslexic teenage boy being told that he was the son of Poseidon and that his name is short for Perseus and had a mortal mother named Sally. One of the first stories was known as The Lightning Thief.
"Nice." Patch smiled.
Cherry soon went to her room to get a free writing notebook and then went into one classroom to do some short stories, and where everything seemed peaceful. Mo looked out the window with a hum as a pair of twin shooting stars seemed to fly out in the atmosphere as she thought about her birth parents again.
'I wonder if they're looking down from Heaven?' The former street urchin thought to herself.
Patch came by and then saw the girl. "Mo?"
"Oh, hi, Patch." Mo looked back with a weary smile.
"Mo, you okay?" Patch asked.
"Oh, I was just thinking..." Mo sighed before looking out the window again.
"About your parents?" Patch asked.
"Yeah..." Mo replied. "My real parents... I wonder if they're proud of me or even thinking of me."
"I'm sure they're smiling down from People Heaven." Patch comforted.
"You're probably right." Mo said.
Patch smiled and nuzzled against her for comfort. Mo smiled back down and gently pet him. Atticus was happy that his pet was able to help his girlfriend.
"You ever think about being a therapy dog?" Mo giggled down to the Dalmatian.
"Maybe." Patch smiled.
"I think you should." Mo chuckled.
Patch smiled back, but soon yawned and decided to get some rest.
"Oh, I hope Professor Xavier doesn't find out or get mad about you." Atticus sighed nervously to his pet.
"I doubt he will." Patch said.
"Stay out of trouble." Atticus scratched behind his ears.
Patch chuckled before falling asleep. Atticus smiled as he had his pet with him now. He then decided to read the Percy Jackson book to occupy his time until later.
While that was going on, Cherry was thinking of the time when Mo told her that she might even outshine Atticus. She took out her notebook as she began to sketch a little comic story based off of it. And where she would make this a reality.
"Hmm..." The perky goth hummed to herself. "How can I make my dreams really come true?" She then remembered she was a dream-bender; she could make her dreams real. "Wait, I can make my dreams real!" she beamed.
Kimba came out of Cherry's thoughts and by her side.
"Kimba, let's alternate reality." Cherry smirked.
"As you wish." Kimba bowed.
Cherry hugged Kimba before a glowing violet diamond came out. She picked it up and it was said to be the Daydream Crystal and it could make any dreams into reality by the wielder and alternate reality into whatever he or she wants to be true or not.
"Hmm..." Cherry smirked.
Kimba looked a little concerned as Cherry held the gemstone before she glowed into a violet aura by its power. The next day was going to be a day no one would ever forget. When everyone went to sleep, Cherry began to use the crystal for her own bidding and things would be like dreams come true for her, and she would even have a new look.
A white streak seemed to come into her hair as an affect from the gem's power, and where she was now wearing a dress. Everyone else slept through the night, but in the morning, things would be changing. A purple spirit from the Netherworld seemed to smirk at Cherry for finding the Daydream Crystal and laughed wickedly before using her powers to make Cherry's dreams into a reality.
