Later that night, I was soaking in my tub. Scented bubbles were so thick that it was imposable to see any part of me that wasn't sticking out of the bubbles. It was soothing and relaxing after my long day. I closed my eyes.

There was a banging on my bedroom door. I opened one eye, annoyed. Then I closed it again. Whoever it is can come back later. The banging continued, gaining power each time.

"GO AWAY!" I shouted at the closed bathroom door. There was a pause, and then the banging continued. "WHATEVER IT IS IT CAN WAIT TILL I'M DONE!"

I heard a sliding noise and footsteps going through my room.

"Skylar," the Dark Ace's voice called.

I inhaled a handful of bubbles. After I stopped coughing I shouted to him. "Dark Ace, get out of my room, right now."

"You're in the bathroom?"

"No, I'm invisible, now get out!"

I heard footsteps coming closer to the bathroom door. "Are you descent?"

I gaped at the closed door, he could not be serious! "Ace I'm going to tell you a fact that may be hard to grasp, but when people are in the bathroom at this hour they are not descent!"

"Skylar, if I open this door will I see anything I'm not suppose too," he said impatiently.

I looked down at the thick bubbles that coved any parts he shouldn't see. My face was getting hot. The fact that he couldn't see anything wasn't the point! The point was that under the bubbles I was bare and he was a guy. If it was Master Cyclonis or Ravess the story would be different, but it wasn't a girl on the other side of the door, it was a guy and I was a teenage girl. "It doesn't matter on whether or not you can see anything," I shouted at him.

"That would be a no I won't," I heard him mutter and the door opened.

I was shocked and slipped deeper into my bubble bath. My face was hotter than the water now. "What is so important that you couldn't wait till I was done!?"

He smirked slightly, then his face sobered, "do you know how to fight?"

"What?"

"Do you know how to fight? Sky Fu, weapons, anything like that?"

I looked at him for a moment, trying to figure out if he was serious. He was. "No, I don't."

He nodded thoughtfully. "Tomorrow morning and every morning after that before breakfast, I'm going to teach you how to fight."

I stared at him for a moment. "Is that the only reason you decide to enter my bathroom while I'm bathing?"

"No. I also wanted to say thank you."

"For what," I said raising an eyebrow.

"For becoming friends with Master Cyclonis, I've never seen two people understanding each other as well as you two did this afternoon." With that he shut the door. I heard footsteps walking out of the room and the door closing.

I sat there for several moments and then I pulled myself out. Wrapping myself in a soft- slightly fluffy purple towel, I walked out into the room. I pulled on my PJs, and went to bed. The last thing that went through my mind was: I know that they're evil but they're making it very hard to despise them!