Chapter 25 is here! Last chapter was Dina and Rupert's wedding. Not much else. This takes place a while later. I have no clue where this idea came from, but oh, well! I was hyper and bored at the same time when I wrote this, so it's random crap... On with the chapter!

Chapter 25: Skeptical Security

*Rupert's POV*

Now that Dina and I are married, our lives together will even more interesting. It is a little awkward to be married to a girl that's part demon, but I don't care, as long as that girl is Dina.

It's been about a week since the wedding. Dina doesn't use her magic much outside of the house, unless she really needs to. She does that to keep it as secret as possible. Right now, only our friends know. Even my dad doesn't know, and neither do any of the others' parents. Not even Joe knows.

Dina did use her powers to permanently absorb the powers from the Gems, so she can use any of them any time. After doing that, she sealed their powers so that no one else can use them without her permission. The Sapphire's power that I absorbed is the only exception.

"So what should we do today, Dina?" I asked when we woke up. She had learned a quicker way to communicate in the last week. She grabbed her notepad and used her power to almost instantly create a slightly glowing message on the paper with magic energy. I thought it was a cool ability, and it was a lot faster than writing the message out. It read: Maybe we could go digging with the others?

"Alright." I replied. "Let's get ready and go talk to the others."

We got out of the bed. Strangely, both of us were already in our normal clothes and pretty much ready to go.

"You did that with your magic, didn't you?" I asked. She nodded with a cheerful expression. "Alright, let's go." I said after combing my hair and letting Dina do the same. She put it back in her side ponytail like she normally does. Then we left.

We walked to Todd's house. We didn't want anyone to see a demonic portal opening in the sky, and we didn't teleport because we didn't want people being suspicious with two teens appearing out of nowhere in front of someone's house for no apparent reason.

I knocked on the door and waited for a response. To my surprise, Kira answered the door.

"Hi, Kira." I said.

"Oh, hi guys!" she said. She invited us in. "So what do you need?" she asked.

"We were just wondering if you guys wanted to go digging for a while." I explained.

"Sure!" she said. "Where do you want to go?"

"Um…" I started. "Maybe we could go to Rainbow Canyon or the Petrified Forest?" I turned to Dina. "What do you think?" she pulled out the notepad and handed it to Kira with a message already on it.

"That's new…" Kira said. "Using magic to write messages?" she read the note. "So you want to go to Treasure Lake?" she asked. "Didn't you have a lot of trouble there?"

Dina changed the message to Yeah, you're right… Maybe Petrified Forest is better.

"Okay." She replied. "I'll go get the others."

By the way, Jonathan, Jen, and Argis were wearing normal outfits instead of their demon warrior outfits. Jonathan wore black jean shorts, black high-top shoes, and a black T-shirt with "I *heart symbol* Tefflas" on it, which I thought was hilarious. Argis wore an all-black outfit, including a long-sleeve shirt to cover her legionator marks, which I thought would be a bad idea since it was the middle of summer. Jen, surprisingly, wore blue shorts, purple shoes, and a green shirt that was barely long enough to cover her chest. All three had their hair tied back in ponytails.

Once everyone was ready, we left to go to the Petrified Forest. The only problem was that it was closed. A staff member was standing at the entrance behind a barricade.

"Why is the dig site closed?" I asked.

"A while back, an explosion of some sort caused one of the trees to fall into the ocean." They explained. "They're checking to make sure the rest of the site is safe."

"They're still working on that?" I asked. "It's been over half of a year since we almost got blown up by it and they're still inspecting it?"

"Apparently." The staff member said. "Wait, you were there when it happened?" I nodded. "Wow, you're lucky to be alive."

"You're right." I said. "We are lucky to be alive. So when do you think it'll re-open?"

"Hopefully by next week." They said. "They're trying to find a piece that'll fit in the gap to fix it right now."

"I can help." Jen said.

"Sorry, but I don't see how you could be of any assistance, so I can't let you in." the staff member said.

"Dina's telekinesis might be useful…" I said.

"Telekinesis?" the staff member said. "There's no such thing. It's just a power that people put in movies and cartoons."

"It is not." I said. "She also has other abilities that I won't mention right now."

The staff member just laughed. "If she has powers, let her prove it."

"I have powers, too." I said. "I'll demonstrate." I created fireballs in my hands and electric arcs around my head.

"That's not going to do you any good here." She said. "Those are better in a fight."

"There may be a fight soon if you don't stop taunting us." I said.

"Rupert, calm down!" Jen shouted. She summoned her sword and put it in front of me.

"Now that's new." The staff member said. "Weapon summoning is an unusual ability."

"Rupert, stay back." Jen said. "Or I'll have to trap you in a demon force cage."

"You wouldn't." I said.

"Don't test me." she said. "You will be sorry."

"What the hell are you talking about?" the staff member said. "Please leave before I have to call security on you."

"We'll take them down if you do!" Jonathan said.

"Jonathan, don't even think about it." Argis said. "You don't want to use your thermokinesis around or on staff and security. Trust me on that."

"Thermokinesis?" the staff member said questioningly. "What's that?"

"I can manipulate the temperature of anything I touch. I can even melt, burn, or freeze anything I come into contact with." Jonathan said.

"There's no such thing." The staff member said. "Now if you are done being idiots…"

"Don't call us idiots!" Jonathan and I shouted.

"I'll call you what I want!" the staff member shouted.

That was the last straw for me. I charged an electric attack, but Jen created her demon force cage, disabling my attack and trapping me in a glowing green dome.

"I warned you." She said.

Jonathan was frustrated, but Argis' magic sword was the only thing stopping him from attacking the staff member.

"Look, I don't want to deal with people that won't listen to orders, so turn around and leave if you don't want people with guns taking you to jail." The staff member said.

"We'll just teleport back out if they do!" Jonathan said. "And I'll just melt the bars!"

"Calm down!" Kira shouted. "All of you just calm down!"

I looked over at Dina, who was now in her demon warrior outfit, wielding her golden katana. The mysterious claws were on her feet, and her left hand looked like a shotgun barrel.

"Dina!" I shouted. She looked at me with her golden eyes with an angry glare. The magic circle on her head glowed, and her legion marks appeared. The runes on her hand appeared, and she fired a burst of psychic energy at the staff member, stunning her for a moment. She then used the telekinesis to lift her into the air and throw her out of our way.

"What the hell?!" the staff member shouted. "You really do have telekinesis?!" then she noticed the changes to Dina, including the gun and the sword.

"What are you?!" the staff member shouted.

Dina used her powers to create a message in the ground in front of the staff member: I'm a demon warrior named Dina Johnson.

"Wait, Dina?!" she shouted. "The Caliosteo Cup Champion?!"

"Yeah, that's her." Jen shouted. "And if you fight us, you have five teens with crazy powers and five demon warriors to deal with, three of which are sisters, and one of which is the one with thermokinesis, and another is a girl that can negate supernatural powers."

"I still don't believe the thermokinesis thing, but I won't argue since Dina's left arm is a shotgun that's aimed at me." the staff member said. "Not to mention the claws on her feet and the sword…"

"I'll demonstrate the thermokinesis." Jonathan said. He walked over to the barricade and touched it, sending a red wave through it and melting it. "Is that enough proof for you?" he asked.

"What the-?" the staff member exclaimed.

"Now it's my turn to ask a question." I said. "Why are you so desperate to keep us out of there?"

"I had orders not to let anyone into the dig site." She said. "The orders came directly from Joe, so I followed his orders."

"You know, this whole issue could have been avoided if you would have just said that in the first place!" I shouted.

"Jeez, sorry!" she said. "Now can you please fix the barricade and let me go back to guarding the dig site?"

"Dina, can you do that?" I asked. She nodded, then transformed back to normal and used her magic to fix the melted barricade. Then we started to leave, but I suddenly thought of something.

"Um… can you do us a favor and not tell anyone about our powers?" I asked the staff member.

"As long as you don't try to hurt me again." She said.

"Deal." I replied.

With that, we visited Treasure Lake instead.

Like I said, that was just a bunch of random crap… it wouldn't let me put the heart symbol the way I wanted on Jonathan's shirt, so I was forced to do what I did... Oh, well! I just wanted to do something else for the story instead of ending it! Keep reading and reviewing!