John does not hold back

by vamer

unordinary

What if...Author: YonderBacchus64Published: 2023

What if... John acted as a God-Tier instead of a cripple? Well the answer isn't in the description, its for me to know and for you to find out! Read the story if you want to know (: If you do end up reading thank you very much. All of the characters belong to uru-chan the GOAT. Go read her webtoon, it's amazing. ️Strong Language ️

Prologue

"Did you really think by rallying a bunch of people you would be able to take me down?" John asked with a smirk on his face.

After she didn't respond he grabbed her by her scalp and screamed at her. "Answer me!"

"Have you seen yourself!? You're always looking for a reason to hurt people. You're a tyrant and a hypocrite! You deserve none of the power you have now!" She said with tears forming in her eyes.

"I wish I never met you! I should have never helped you!" She said as her voice cracked at the end as tears started to fall down her face.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" John yelled at Claire one last time raising his hand to punch her before she said the killing blow to John.

"Monster".

3 Months Later

John had just got back from readjustment facility or what he likes to call it "hell".

After what he went through with he-who-must-not-be-named, he became very depressed and didn't do much. He would just stay in his room all day and only leave (which was only once or twice a day) to go shower or eat, and even then, John would bring his food into his room to eat.

William got worried about his sons behavior and became worried about what he went through at the readjustment facility considering it has been weeks since John has done much if anything. He decided to write a book and gave it to his son to maybe help him go through this rough time in his life. It was called "unOrdinary".

William knocked on Johns door and after 5 seconds he opened up to see John just laying down on his bed facing the wall to avoid looking at his Dad. "Hey John, I just got a copy back from my editor. Its a book I've been working on. Read it whenever you get a chance son." And with that he left Johns room to go and make dinner.

John got up from his bed a couple minutes later and saw the book his father was talking about. He picked it up and read the title. 'unOrdinary' He opens up book and cringes at the first thing he reads. 'Dedicated to my son. How embarrassing.'

John spent all day reading it basically pulling himself into a trance. After he finishes reading it he begins to think about it. 'A world full of cripples with just one person who uses his ability for good.' He begins to ponder about what his dad was trying to tell him. After a bit of thinking he comes up with the message, use your powers for good things not petty things. 'Dad, I can't be someone like that though.'

He flinches as he remembers Claire's last word to him before he knocked her out. "Monster." John decided to come out of his room to go and eat dinner with his father.

"Hey Dad, what's for dinner?" I ask him as I rub my eyes to cure my drowsiness. He flinches as he hears me talk but responds happily as always. "I'm making pasta with chicken."

As they were eating in peace John ask, "Hey Dad what made you want to write that book?" William is happy to have a conversation with his son after a long time, so he takes no time in responding after he gulps water to help the food go down easier. "Well son, when you're born a cripple life is always unfair and I wondered what life would be like if everyone was born a cripple you know?"

John thinks for a second before saying, "Yea that makes sense, I did have first hand experience dealing with that for most of my life. But why did you dedicate the book to me?"

William seemed to think about it for a moment so he can say the right words to John. He then said something that helped John in ways he thought it never would. "Well son, you see that hero is meant to be you."

John instantly responds without even a second thought basically yelling. "Dad?! Me the hero?! Have you seen what I've done with my powers!? All I ever do is hurt people! I'm a tyrant, a hypocrite! A... monster." His voice cracked at the end as he said that.

William got up from his chair and looked him dead in the eyes. "Son, you are not a monster. You are just a human that makes mistakes, just like everyone else in this world."

John was on the edge of tears before hugging his dad. He cried into his shoulder. "I love you dad" John said into his Dads shoulder. "I love you too son."

John ask his dad how he will ever be able to be like the hero and use his powers for good. William told his son that his ability will forever be apart of him so he should get used to what he was gifted.

After having that heart-to-heart conversation he decided that he would better himself. He exercised everyday to keep himself in shape (gotta maintain that 8 pack), spent more time with his Dad, meditated to try to keep his composure, and even heightened his ability.

1 year, 4 Months later August 25th, XXXX

"Dad the letter came in from Wellston!" John said with enthusiasm and hope. Once John and William were seated on the couch he decided to open the letter (much more like ripping it open).

"Dear John Doe,

After careful consideration we have decided to accept you. You have passed your entry exam and have potential with your ability and level. I would like for you to be in Wellston by 8/30/XXXX for your first day of school. There are things we would like to discuss with you, so once you are on school grounds, come to my office.

Sincerely, Headmaster Vaughn."

After they both read it at lightning speed they were both so joyful. He looked at his Dad before saying something. "Thank you Dad. For everything. For not giving up on me." William looked at him in the eyes before hugging him. "I love you son. Always remember I'll be here for you always. Now lets start packing so we don't need to do it later!"

After John packed considering that he only had 5 days to get there he spent his last days in New Bostin with his father. John reminisced one last time before going to Wellston to turn over a new leaf.

His Dad had already set everything up house wise. It had furniture and was all tidy and set up for when he landed.

3 Days Later August 28th, XXXX

"Come on, you're gonna be late for your flight!" William had to drag John out of bed (literally) before he was late for his flight. They made it 10 minutes before the plane ascended. William gave John the basic speech that every parent says before they leave home to go somewhere far from home.

"Call me once a week blah blah blah. Make sure you bru-" John interrupted his Dad mid speech since he already knows what to do and what not to do. "Dad I know, I'll be fine I promise. I'll call you when I land, I promise."

And with that he embraced his Dad one last time before boarding the plane.

The intercom in the plane beeped before a female voice started talking. "This plane leaves to Wellston in approximately 5 minutes. Get comfortable and enjoy your fly." (never been on a plane have no idea what they actually say)

And with what John heard, he plugged in his ear buds, put on some music to tranquil himself and decided to sleep on the way to Wellston.

Hope you guys enjoyed this prologue (: This is my first time writing a fan fiction so just be nas to be. Any tips is always greatly appreciated!

Chapter 1

August 29th, XXXX

After John landed he called his Dad to tell him everything went swell and asked him where the house that his dad rented out for him at Wellston.

Once he arrived he entered and instantly was amazed. "Wow, this is perfect. Got my own furniture all set up and ready to go. Even got my own punching bag!" Once he got settled down and unpacked just a tad bit he checked his watch to see the time.

'Dang, it's only 3 P.M. I could go finish unpacking orrrrrrrr, procrastinate and go for a run and familiarize myself with Wellston.' John decided the better idea would be to just go for a run and explore Wellstone while he was at it. He just wore something basic. Cargo shorts and a plain blue t-shirt.

After about an hour of running he found a very familiar place that he went to often, Woaba Boba. He decided to take a break and enter to get himself a mango tea boba.

"Hello what can I get for you today?" a girl asked John that was wearing an apron with green hair and dark green eyes. "I will have the mango boba please" John said while keeping eye contact with her. Shortly after the door opened again and saw three people enter. There were two males and one female all wearing school uniform. One male had red hair and the other was a mix of orange and black hair. The girl had decently long pink hair with a ribbon to keep it held up.

They entered and sat the at the booth in front of John and were just talking about random stuff until they were talking about something that that interested John a lot.

"Did you hear about all of these EMBER sightings? They're getting closer to Wellston with every murder." The red head looked at the pinkette while she was saying this with a very confused face.

"What the hell is EMBER?" the red head asked now curiously. Before the pinkette could respond the mix haired boy responded. "Dude that's the organization that's been killing these superheroes."

The pinkette decided to elaborate on what he had said. "Yea ever since that book unOrdinary has been released and later ban by the authorities, superheroes started appearing out of nowhere to help people out. I think it's pretty admiring to say the least" she said with a smile on her face.

"Remi you can't be serious. Those superheroes are crazy risking their lives for random people they don't even know. It is basically a death sentence with all of these murders happening."

John started thinking about what they were saying while trying to not act like he was eavesdropping. 'EMBER huh? Murdering these said superheroes who just want to help out. This Remi girl must be pretty passionate about superheroes.'

As he was thinking about what they said he continued to listen to their conversation yet again. "Blyke all they want to do it help people in need. There is no reason why they need to be murder-" the orange and black hair kid jumped in before she finished her sentence.

"They don't need to do any of that though. We have the authorities for shit like that Remi. Those people are risking their lives for no reason at all while they can make a difference doing something else." Blyke nodded his head in agreement.

John was just very intrigued listening to this conversation. He understood both sides but would have to agree with this "Remi" girl. After all, these superheroes are doing what the authorities aren't doing. Helping people. John kept on thinking what EMBER was trying to accomplish by only targeting superheroes and letting themselves be known.

Even though those three people were still talking about EMBER and a bunch of random shit, John didn't have time to continue listening and didn't care much to be quite honest. He still needed to unpack and go to sleep at a decent time considering his first day of school is tomorrow.

John left the store and subconsciously checked his watch to see it was 5 P.M. He came to a conclusion that he would be able to unpack and get ready for his first day of school tomorrow and get a decent amount of sleep.

On his way home he decided to stop by at U-Mart to get something to eat before heading back home. As he exited with ham, cheese, bread, and salami he heard some commotion. John decided to check it out since he thought there wouldn't be much trouble.

As he turned the corner he saw two grown men mugging a girl. One had purple hair with red eyes and another with red hair and blue eyes. They were both wearing a hoodie and black mask to keep themselves hidden. The girl was wearing a blue shirt and ripped jeans. She had light blue colored hair and dark green eyes.

The girl was pleading and basically screaming for anyone to help save her from these people. She got her prayers answered when John came from behind and spoke with a demanding and authoritative voice.

"What are you doing? Let go of her. Now." He still hadn't activated his ability yet but could sense their auras activated, therefore coming to the conclusion that they were in fact mugging her and were using force.

The man with purple hair turned around and snickered at John. "Or what? What is a stupid little kid gonna do huh?" John didn't want to have to use violence to stop this fight but it looked like he would have no choice.

He asked one more time with his ability activated this time. "Let. Her. Go. No-." As John was telling him to stop he rushed at him with some type of speed ability. John copied it instantaneously, parried the jab and punched him straight in the gut sending him back a couple feet away.

His friend noticed that he was struggling with this kid. "Once we deal with you, you're not gonna be able to walk for weeks." John decided to try to taunt them so they could attack him. "You guys think you're tough shit, but you're not. I can probably beat you with my eyes closed." He smiled as he said that mainly because what he said was true and was clearly working.

They both rushed him at the same time. He copied the other mans ability which was some sort of projectile which was very weak. Must have been a mid-tier at most. He shot the projectile behind him giving him more speed and momentum before punching the purple haired man in the face knocking him out cold.

The green haired man saw what just happened to his friend and was furious yet nervous. John was predator at this point looking at his prey slowly walking towards him. "St- step back o-or I'll sho- shoot her." John saw that he was scared. He could hear it in the mans voice.

After stopping less than 10 feet away he used the speed he had acquired and was behind him now. He tapped his shoulder before saying. "Bo." And just like that, he was also knocked out.

Once the girl saw that she was saved she thanked his profusely asking if she can give him anything to compensate for what he did. He kept reassuring her that he didn't need anything and that she should be heading home considering it would be night time some.

As he was walking home he thought about what just occurred. He felt like a good person, like he could change. He felt like a... superhero. He knew that he shouldn't become a superhero which is why he hasn't become one, but the idea was at least intriguing for him to say the least.

He didn't have much time to think about it. Before he knew it he was in front of his house unlocking the door. 'Sweet, it's nice and cold in here. It's 6:30, perfect. I should have enough time to unpack and make my sandwich. Wait, where is the bag with the stuff.' After that fight he forgot to pick up his bag with his food.

'You idiot! Now you have nothing to eat until tomorrow. Nice going, John.' He facepalmed and scolded himself for a little bit while he finished unpacking. 'Hm, only 7:15. Still got time to watch tv for a bit before I have to go to bed.' After watching some random show that was on Adult Swim, he decided to take a cold shower and go to bed.

August 30th, 7:00 A.M.

After hearing his alarm beep one too many times John slapped it to shut it up and got up to do his daily routine.

After going out for his daily run, he passed by U-Mart this time not forgetting what he bought and headed home. After he finished showering he made himself breakfast. Just some over-easy eggs and bacon with some chocolate-chip waffles he put in the toaster. He put on his school uniform and the optional grey vest. Before leaving he contemplated if he should put on hair gel but ended up not putting any on.

'School starts at 9. Ughhhhh so early.' He checked his watch and saw it was 8:20. John had no idea how long it would take for him to get to school but today he would find out today. After about a 30 minute walk, John made it 10 minutes before school. At the front gate there was a man waiting for him. He looked to see a man with beige hair and glasses leaning against the gate.

This person walks up to John a bit confused who he is. "Who might you be?" John not knowing who this is assumes this must be a staff member of the school. "Hi sir, I am a new student John. John Doe." After a second he figured out who John is. "Oh you are the new student. I'm Keene nice to meet you. I am the head of security here at Wellston." He extends his hand and John gives it a firm handshake.

Keen ask him to follow him to the headmasters office which he obliged. People in the halls start gossiping about who this new kid could be and whether he was strong or weak. John just ignored it and walked to the main office. Keene knocked and the headmaster said to come in.

Once John walked in the Headmaster asked him to take a seat. Once John sat down the Headmaster introduced himself. "I am Headmaster Vaughn, nice to meet you John." John very confused about how nice Vaughn was decided to reciprocate it. "It's nice to meet you too Headmaster Vaughn."

After a moment Vaughn decides to speak up. "John before we talk about the school itself I would like to know what happened at your old school will not happen here as well." John tenses up a bit hearing what Vaughn says. He tries to respond as calm as possible. "I will assure that does not occur during my time here, sir."

After Vaughn got reassurance he decided to give John his schedule and bid him a good first day of school. However, before John left the room Vaughn asked him one more question. "John, will you become a royal while attending?" John didn't give it a second thought before responding. "No I do not think I will sir, unless the situation becomes dire." Vaughn was a little confused about what he meant at the end but let John go.

Once John left the room Keene came back in. "Do you know why I let John enter the school even with his past history, Keene?" Keene was actually very intrigued when going over his file and was very confused.

"No sir, would you care to explain?" Vaughn got up from his chair at looked through the window down at the courtyard. "You see, John is a late bloomer. He sees society in a different perspective." Keene did not know that John was a late bloomer, but still didn't get why this mattered much.

"And sir why does that matter?" Vaughn turned around to look at Keene. "He knows what it's like to be at the bottom and at the top. He can empathize with both High-tiers and Low-tiers." Vaughn was always against the hierarchy but was never able to stop it.

"I hope that John can help people see both sides and achieve peace here, Keene." Keene started to understand what Vaughn was saying but still was a bit worried. "I can see Rei in him Keene, you do know who that is right?" Keene wasn't around for Rei's King term, but heard what he did.

"Yes I do remember Rei and what he did sir. It was quite remarkable to be honest. But how can you be so sure that John will do something like that and not become rampant like at his old school?"

"That will not happen Keene. I will make sure of it if it comes down to that." After Keene finished up his talk he went back to his office to do basic security work.

*RING* *RING* *RING*
'Dang it, first day and I'm already gonna be late.' John got to his first class 5 minutes later and knocked on the door which the teacher prompted him to come him.

"Everyone I know it's a bit late in the year, but we have a new student joining us today. Please introduce yourself." John was a little bit nervous but went on with it.

"Hello, I'm John. Looking forward to meeting you all and I hope we can get along." Although that was pretty awkward, John didn't really have a speech prepared so he went for something short and sweet.

"You can take a seat right behind Seraphina, please raise your hand." John scans the room and spots her. Magenta hair with ocean like eyes. 'She's pretty cute' was Johns first thought but quickly brushed that thought off.

1 Hour Later

After being in that boring class for an hour he decided to start packing for his next class. 'So math class is next. What a drag.' As he was in his thoughts someone walked up to him. She had turquoise colored hair with emerald eyes. "Hey, John was it?" John gets a little flustered by the sudden conversation. "Ummmm, yeah that's me, John. You are?"

"I'm Elaine, welcome to Wellston! How's your first day been so far?" John ponders for a moment. "It's been good so far." Elaine smiles as he says that. "What school did you transfer from?" John gets stiff as he remembers what he did back at New Bostin but decided lying will only make it worse.

"I came from New Bostin. It's pretty far from here." After that he notices her smile turn into a somewhat evil grin. "So John, what kind of ability do you have."

After Elaine says that, the whole class becomes silent and every student stares into right at him. 'Already getting this question? First period hasn't even ended yet. I guess it makes sense considering this is the best school in the region. I was just hopeful that education would be more present here than abilities.' After he zoned out for a second he responds to Elaine.

"Well it depends. What type of ability do you have Elaine?" She gets confused by this question but answers anyways. "I can heal injuries you see." She proceeds to scratch herself to bleed a little bit and heal it up with her ability.

"Well then, that is my ability. I can heal as well." John doesn't want to tell everyone his ability and put himself on blast. Elaine is a little surprised that they have the same ability, but think its cool.

"What level are you John?" That's a good question even he didn't know. Last time he checked was before he got expelled. Last time it was 7.0 so it couldn't have increased by much considering he rarely trained with his ability.

"Well to be honest I don't even know. A couple months ago I was a 7.0, but I haven't got it tested since then." Elaine turns pale as she hears my level. Actually everyone looking at John say that so casually scares them, but he can only heal so it's ok. Right?

"Oh w- wow, you're stronger than our King right now. He's a 6.3."

'Well shit, this is exactly what I didn't want. The last thing I want to do is be King, I can't rule the school. I'm not fit for it. I'm gonna have to try and avoid this guy as much as possible.'

"Elaine, if you don't mind me asking, what does this King look like?" Elaine almost turns as red as a tomato thinking about him.

"We- well, his name is Arlo. He has blond wavy hair, blue eyes. He's also tall and wears earrings." John catches on that she's blushing and smiling as she's talking about Arlo. 'Must have a crush or something like that.'

As he's going to say something he gets interrupted by the bell.

*RING* RING* *RING*

"Well, I have to go to math class. It was nice to meet you Elaine." He walks out of the room and starts walking to math class.

As Johns walking he bumps into someone practically made of steel. He looks up to see who it was and sees the person Elaine was talking about.

'Great just great, the one person I didn't want to see, let alone bump into.'

"Sorry about that." As John is walking away his collar gets pulled by some kid with spiky blue hair and reddish-orange eyes. "Just where do you think you're going?! You just bumped into the king!"

'Oh I see. This guy is Arlo's lap dog.' John looks pretty annoyed considering he is going to be late for his next class. "Look dude, I said sorry what more do you want from me? Now if you don't mind, this is my first day and don't want to be late to class. Good day to you sir."

As he is about to respond Arlo intervenes. "Is all of this necessary? It's his first day of school, just let him go Holden."

Reluctantly, Holden lets go of his grip on John and continues walking by. 'Interesting kid. I know its his first day, but even after Holden said I was king, there was no fear in his eyes or posture at all.'

*RING* *RING* *RING*

'Oh great, I'm gonna be late to class, again.' Just as he sees his class door two kids run up to him. "Hey new kid!" John turns around to look at them.

One guy has spiky green hair while the other one has grey hair. "So, rumor has it that you're a 7.0. Is this true?"

'Wow, that spread fast like wild fire.' The spiky green haired boy talks to his friend. "Gavin, I think it's bullshit. What do you think?"

As they both activate their ability they smirk. "I think it's a load of bullshit as well. How about we teach him a bit about the hierarchy and how it works around here."

Johns fight or flight kicks in, but decides that if he wants to come out of this situation without a scratch he's going to need to fight back.

"Suit yourself." John powers up and copy's both of their abilities. 'Looks like strength increase for the green haired kid and some type of stone skin for the grey haired kid named Gavin.

Both of them rush John at the same time. The green haired kid goes for a punch to the face, but John parries it and punches him back with his own strength enhancement and Gavin's ability. He goes flying back into the lockers, leaving a dent.

Gavin ends up getting a hit on John, roundhouse kicking him. Due to Johns skin it doesn't phase him much and rushes Gavin.

John throws a fake right so he can throw a left hook straight to his chin knocking Gavin out without much trouble. 'Well shit. Now I need to take these two kids into the Infirmary. Stupid kids'.

He picks them both up using their arms to wrap around Johns shoulder to carry them easier. After about 5 minutes finds the Infirmary and opens the door to find a grumpy man.

He looks at the blue haired man and told him that these two need to be patched up. "Who are you? I've never seen you before?" Considering this is Johns first time in the Infirmary, it makes total sense.

"I'm John, a new student here." He sets the students down on the bed and explains to Doc what happened to them. He seemed pretty upset when I walked in with two kids around my shoulders. "Sorry Doc, I didn't mean to do this much damage to them."

Doc mumbles something under his breath that John wasn't able to hear that well. 'Is he always like this or did I catch him at a bad time?'

"Just go to class, here's your note." Doc hands John the note and walks to class. To say it was embarrassing when he walked in late on his first day was an understatement.

Time Skip To Lunch

Just before the school bell ring for lunch to begin he heard two people talking again and they sounded familiar. "Today they're serving that infamous triple chocolate cake. Don't tell anyone just make sure you're there early to get a slice."

He turns around to see the same red head named Blyke talking to the same orange-black haired kid from yesterday when he was at Woaba Boba. 'Hm, so they go here too. Maybe I can befriend them. Might as well give it a shot. Start with small talk first and next time I see them try actually talking to them.'

John walked up to them trying to jump into their conversation. "Did you say there's gonna be chocolate cake at lunch?" Both Blyke and his friend look at me a bit startled.

"Um, yeah but there's only a limited amount and it usually runs out fast, so you'd have to go there now" Blyke says turning around to see who was talking to him considering he didn't recognize the voice.

"Oh ok thanks. I'm gonna go get some. I'll see you on the flip side. Thank you!" John says as he's dashing towards the cafeteria.

He walks in and sees the long line to get this infamous cake. While in line he hears two people bickering about the cake sense they couldn't make it in time.

"Give me the cake now! I called it!" The pinkette screamed at the king. Arlo just smirked at her while looking down at her. "Come on Remi, we both know that just because "you called it" doesn't mean you get it. First come first serve."

Remi powers up ready to fight Arlo for this slice of cake. As they are fighting for that slice of cake and Arlo teasingly running out of the cafeteria to start a chase, John ends up getting the final slice of cake.

'I hope it taste as good as it looks because if this does then I am going to have myself a treat here.' John thinks to himself practically drooling.

As John is about to sit down he hears someone talking to him. John turns around to see the magenta haired girl again. "I want that cake of yours. Give it to me."

John clearly upset about what this girl said takes no time to defend himself. "Listen, I don't care if you're Queen, King, Ace or whatever, but this cake is mine. I got to it first. Back off."

As John talks back to this girl everyone stops what they're doing and just become silent except for whispers which were pretty loud.

"Did he really just talk back to the Queen?"

"I'm gonna pray for this guy for a speedy recovery."

"Isn't that the new student that was rumored to be a 7.0 at least?"

"I think he was lying about that, there's no way he's stronger than the defense king."

She activates her ability and John does the same. She pressures him to walk to him and just as she is about to be given the cake by force John drops it.

"Oops."

Seraphina's face went from total shock to anger within a second. She rushes him trying to finish this fight quickly. Just as she's about to connect a punch to the face a black barrier appears with lighting giving off reflective damage with an electric shock.

As she retracts her fist in excruciating pain she rewinds it back to normal as if that never even happened.

"What is the King doing intervening?"

"Idiot that's not the King that's the new kid. Can't you see the barrier is black?"

"Yeah and he has Jacks ability, lightning."

"Just what is this new kids ability?"

John just smirks knowing that she was arrogant enough to attack him head on without a plan.

"Can we stop this ruckus? Everyone is starting to leave the cafeteria in a panic because of us." Seraphina doesn't even give him a chance to continue talking before hitting his barrier again.

'*Sigh* I guess not. All I wanted was to eat some chocolate cake.' John drops the barrier and makes mini shields with lighting on his fist preparing to go on the offense.

Just as he is about to rush her everything turns grey for him. He can't move, or that's what she thought. He copies her ability just before he gets hit and side-steps it.

"Can you just chill for a second and talk this through please? I don't want to fight you if I don't have to. There's no one around anyways for you to impress. Let's just stop this."

She finally decides to deactivate her ability to " talk it through." John deactivated his ability after and just did what he said they were gonna do. Just talk.

"Hey, what was up with that outburst? It was just a piece of cake. I could've shared if you asked. I never caught your name by the way, what is it?"

She just responds with no reaction at all. "Seraphina." John chuckles a bit. "Why are you so tense right now. It's just us. Nice to meet you though, Seraphina."

After an awkward amount of silence John tries to start a conversation yet again. "So Seraphina, what do you do for fun?"

"What I think is fun is not fun to everyone I know." John tries to think of what the hell she could find fun that no one else, but alas comes up with nothing.

"Well, what is it? Maybe it is fun and people are just stupid." Her response is definitely not one that he would ever except.

"Studying, reading books, doing extra work. All the boring stuff." After listening to what she says he wonders why she's forcing herself to live like this.

"If you don't mind me asking, why do you do that to yourself?" Seraphina gets a little confused at what he's getting at.

"What do you mean "do that to yourself? I like doing those things." John can't relate to being that grade a perfect student, but can tell this is very forced.

"Are you doing all of that because you like doing it or is it because you're trying to impress everyone?" Seraphina thinks about it for no more than 5 seconds. "That's none of your concern thank you very much" she says with some venom in her voice.

John tenses up ready to fight expecting her to power up and try to attack him, but she doesn't. "You know, you don't need to live up to people and their expectations. At the end of the day, you're the one that has to live with yourself. Go do stuff you genuinely enjoy."

Just as Seraphina is about to respond she gets interrupted.

*RING* *RING* *RING*

John hasn't made any friends, let alone actually gone out to the mall or do something fun at Wellston yet so he decided to ask her. "Hey Seraphina, how about after school we meet at the gates and go out somewhere, do something fun."

She decides to try to get herself out of this. "I can't, I need to study for the reading test. Maybe next time." John however continues to press on. "Oh come on Seraphina, that test is next week, you have all the time in the world for it. Here's my number. I'll meet you at the gates afterschool."

She decided to give in and accept Johns invitation. "Fine, but I'll text you when I'm ready, and we're meeting at the girls dorms. If we're going out I want to change into something comfortable and look pretty."

John gladly accepts that invitation as an excuse to see how good she can look outside school. "Ok cool, I'll head to my house and change as well then. I'll pick you up in like an hour then when school ends. Sound good?"

She nods somewhat excited hoping to see if John looks just as good if not better off school grounds. He waves Seraphina goodbye and heads back to class.

Hope you guys enjoyed the first actual chapter. It was a bit longer than the prologue you can say hehe. 4926 words excluding this A/N. Decided to leave you on a little cliff hanger just because I'm that nas (: Again any feedback is appreciated. Thank you for reading this chapter!

Chapter 2

Time Skip to After School

*RING* *RING* *RING*

Johns first day of school was pretty good to say the least. Didn't get into much trouble, other than the fight right outside class. Also that fight with Seraphina, but that worked itself out, John may have a new friend at the end of the day.

'I'm finally free. School goes by so slow whenever you're doing nothing. Time to start heading home to get ready to meet Seraphina' John thinks to himself as he is just about to leave his class.

Unluckily for him, just as Johns about to school to start getting ready, he walks into a huge fight between the people that were talking about the cake.

"What the fuck Isen, that fucking hurt!" Blyke screams. "I lend you my pen for the last class of the day and you break it!" Isen screams back.

Just as Blyke is going to charge a red Kamehameha to shoot at Isen, John decided to intervene before this becomes a bloodbath. "Do me a favor please and take this fight outside."

Both Blyke and Isen looks at who said that and see John with his hands in his pocket. "Bhahahahaha" both Isen and Blyke laugh. "Look buddy this is none of your concern. Just leave."

"Actually it is. I was walking this way before you two idiots started fighting blocking my path. So please do me a favor and take this fight outside."

Blyke already agitated decided the best idea was to trash talk John. "You have no idea who you're talking to. Don't make me whoop your ass" John chuckles at that.

"I can take both of you guys on at once if I wanted to." Both Isen and Blyke decide to take on this challenge to show this new kid who's boss.

They all power down and make their way to the East Courtyard. Although school ended there were still people around and decided to watch the fight through the windows.

"Ok, whenever you're ready just come at me." Isen whispers something to Blyke and he nods.

Isen activates his ability and rushes John while Blyke stays behind shooting at John.

John copy's both Blyke and Isens ability. Isen tries jab John to his chest due to his lock on but John dodged it with ease. John grabs his arm and shoots one of Blykes beams through his elbow, making that arm practically useless.

As John shoots the beam through Isens elbow, a beam starts heading to John. He didn't have enough time to fully dodge it and it ended up scraping his shoulder. 'Well great, now I'm going to be extra late to the girls dorm because of this cut. Seraphina will not be happy about that. Can't mess around with these two, they aren't rookies.'

John retaliates punching Isen in the face making him retreat back to Blyke. As Blyke charges another beam for John, he shoots his right bicep interrupting the charge.

"It's not too late for you two to yield" John says with a smirk. Due to their ego, they decide that they can still win this.

"Blyke he used your beam on me. He also has super speed and strength. This guy is not going to be easy to beat, but we still can do this."

While they're talking John charges ten beams, five on each hand. He shoots the homing beam at both Blyke and Isens pressure points.

They try to dodge it, but the home and speed is too fast and it goes through their knees and elbows. The remaining 6 beams go up in the air to stop causing any more damage to them.

John slowly walks up to both of them on their knees. "Do you yield or do you want to continue?"

Blyke and Isen, both defeated decide to yield. "We yield" they both say in unison. "It was a good fight you two. Here let me help you two to the Infirmary.

John grabs their arms and puts it around his shoulder and walks to the Infirmary. While on the way there he hears people whisper about the fight. Although many people weren't there, it would most likely spread like wild fire tomorrow.

"Wow this new kid is not someone to be messed with."

"I can't believe that he beat both Isen and Blyke that easily."

"All he has is a little scratch."

"Do you think he could beat Arlo in a fight and become King?"

John enters the Infirmary and sees a not so happy Doc on his desk. "What the hell did you do this time John?" Doc ask with his eyes glowing.

"We challenged him to a fight and we got our asses kicked Doc." Isen says as John lays him down on the bed.

Doc is basically screaming at them at this point. "YOU DID WHAT?! NOW I NEED TO STAY HERE FOR ANOTHER TWO HOURS BECAUSE OF YOU TWO."

While Doc is screaming at Blyke and Isen, John thinks this is the perfect time for him to escape before he needs to stay for a little cut on his shoulder.

Once John gets home, he tries to get ready as fast as possible so he isn't late and make a bad impression on Seraphina.

'Ok if I don't want to be more late than I already am I need to shower fast and clean this cut before I get an infection. I'll just put on a grey shirt and some black pants.

Back At The Girls Dorms

'I really need to go shopping, I barely have any clothes.' As Seraphina is rummaging trying to find something that will look cute on her she gets a message on her phone from an unsaved number

Unknown number: I'm gnna be a lil late, got in a fight with Isen and Blyke :p

Seraphina: How long until you're here? I don't got all day you know

John: Like 45 more minutes max

Seraphina: Ok

'I knew this was a bad idea, he's gonna be late. I could be studying right now, but instead I'm wasting my time going out to "have fun."

Seraphina finally finds something that'll look good on her. She spots short ripped jeans, a blue and white striped shirt, and a black tank top under that. After putting it on she looks at the mirror in her room.

'Hm, I don't look half bad I suppose. Let me ask Elaine how I look.'

"Elaine, how do I look with this on?" Elaine pauses what she was watching on Netflix to see what Seraphina was wearing.

"Oh wow, you look really cute Seraphina. If you don't mind me asking, where are you going?"

That's a good question even she doesn't know. "Thank you Elaine and I don't actually even know to be honest. John basically forced me to go out with him today."

Elaine starts teasing Seraphina once she brought up John. "So that's why you asked me how you looked. I'm sure John will think you look good too~" Seraphina starts blushing a little bit but tries to hide it.

"It's not like that Elaine, I just asked because I don't want to look bad I promise."

"Yea sure Seraphina I totally believe you~Is it going to just be you two or are other people coming?"

"He never specified, but I think it's just us. Why does that matter?"

Elaine chuckles at how oblivious she is. "He basically asked you out on a date."

Seraphina turns her head away from Elaine, trying to hide that she's blushing profusely.

"N-no it's not like that Elaine. We're just going out to get to know each other."

Elaine can obviously tell that she's lying due to her stutter but decides to stop teasing her.

"Yeah yeah, whatever you say. Tell me how it goes when you get back ok. I want details."

'She's pretty excited for the one not going out today. Must be a girl thing.'

Now that Seraphina has stopped blushing she turns to look back at Elaine.

"Ok I will tell you how it goes. I promise."

As she is just about to head back to her room to wait for John she feels a vibration on her phone.

John: I'm outside :D

Seraphina: Be out there now.

John: K

"He's here Elaine. I'll be going now Elaine. Text me if you need anything."

Seraphina leaves the dorm and heads outside to see John with his back against the gate with his hands in his pockets.

'He looks cute. I can tell he works out just by looking at his arms.'

Seraphina walks up to John oblivious to the fact that she's here.

"So where are we going?" Seraphina ask John making him a little bit startled. "Hello to you too. There's this place I want to go to before we go to the mall. They sell amazing boba tea there. You'll li-"

As John is finishing his sentence, John looks at her in astonishment. 'Who would've thought she could look this good.'

Seraphina gets a little confused why he stopped talking mid sentence while he was looking at her.

"Um, is there something wrong? Do I have something on my face or something?"

John blushes a little bit looking at Seraphina, but acts like its nothing. "No its not that, you just look good that's all."

"Thanks I guess" Seraphina said acting calm and collected.

'He said I look good? I mean I was trying to get his attention, but I didn't think he would straight up say it. Glad it worked.'

"So how far is this place?" Seraphina ask as they start walking together. "Not long we'll be there in like 10 minutes max. It's somewhat close to the mall too so after we can go to the mall and play some games at the arcade."

Seraphina has never actually ever gone to an arcade. She has no idea what type of games there are in the arcade. "I've never been to an arcade before. What type of games do they have?"

John is flabbergasted that she has never gone to an arcade. "It's old retro games like Pac-Man, Street Fighter, pinball, old games like those." Seraphina is a little intrigued to play since she's never actually played games before but would never admit it to John.

After about 5 more minutes filled with silence they make it to Woaba Boba.

"Well this is it." Seraphina sees the store. It has a "Woaba Boba" sign with two drinks next to the wording. 'Looks like a pretty friendly place to be at.'

John opens the door and let's her walk in first. After all, it's just manners.

After she walks in, she sits down at a booth and John sits across from her. "I recommend the mango boba, but the strawberry one is also really good."

John starts to try to stir up another conversation and just has he's about to speak up she beats him to it.

"Hey John, can I ask you something?" John happy that she started the conversation responds with a smile.

"Yea of course Seraphina, what is it?" John ask thinking of everything that she can ask.

"Why'd you do this?" John now becomes very confused. "Do what?"

Just as Seraphina is about to respond the waitress comes. "Hello, welcome to Woaba Boba. What can I get you two today?"

Without letting Seraphina answer John says "We'll take two mango bobas please" John says answering for both of them.

"Ok, I'll get you two that right away." As the waitress walks away Seraphina continues the interrupted conversation.

"Ask to meet up after school even though what I classified as fun was not what you would enjoy at all?" To say Seraphina was confused about this whole situation was an understatement.

"Well Seraphina, I could tell that you overwork yourself and it's good to take a break every now and then. I'm going to take a bold guess that you've been like this your whole life correct?"

John couldn't have been more spot on when he said that last statement.

Seraphina sighs in defeat. "Yeah I have, it's how I was raised." John tries to cheer her up since he can tell that she's a little down now.

"It's ok Seraphina. You can still change and do whatever you want. Remember, live for yourself, not for other people."

Seraphina opens her mouth to say something, but the waitress comes with the drinks. "Here we go, two mango bobas. Enjoy!" the waitress says as she walks away.

Once Seraphina takes a sip she's astonished how good this is. "You know, this isn't half bad."

John smiles at that. "I told you so. They make the best drinks in the whole town for sure."

John stirs away from that conversation and wants to tease her a little bit to see how flustered John can make her. "You know, if you loosen your hair instead of keeping it in a ponytail, you'd look even better."

As John says that, Seraphina starts feeling warmth towards her ears and cheeks. "What's that supposed to mean? That I look bad with a ponytail?" Seraphina ask with a little bit of aggression.

John leans back and scratches the back of his neck. "I didn't say that, you look good right now. I'm just saying without the ponytail you'd look better."

John looks at Seraphina and sees that she's red all over her face and ears. 'Mission accomplished.'

Seraphina now flustered has no idea what to say, nonetheless she opens her mouth to respond. "Has anyone ever told you that you're annoying?"

John puts his hand on his heart. "Oh wow, that was just mean. That hurt me so much" John says basically laughing now. After John says that he sees her smile.

"Did you just smile?" Seraphina's smile quickly disappears after he says that. "No you didn't. Must be seeing things."

After that he pays for the bill and heads out of Woaba Boba. John finishes his drink shorty after. "So Seraphina, now that we're done with our drinks lets go to the mall."

Seraphina takes her last sip of her boba. "I need to study for these test. You're going to have to go alone. Maybe next time."

However, John does not give up that easily. "Seraphina it's only 5, you have time to study when you get back. Plus the test aren't for another week at least."

After a little bit more of convincing Seraphina gives in. "Ok fine, but we're going shopping first. I need to buy some clothes. Then after we can go to this stupid arcade."

"Hey! The arcade is not stupid. You'll enjoy it when we get there! I guarantee it!" John says defensively.

Shorty after they reach the mall Seraphina goes into her first store. They mow through stores with Seraphina not really finding anything interesting worth buying.

On her 5th store she finally finds something that might look good on her. "Hey John, what do you think about this shirt?"

John turns around to see the shirt she's holding. The shirt's pink with red hearts everywhere. She is also holding black leggings in her other hand. "I think the shirt is nice. Go try it on with the leggings.

Once she enters the changing booth she undresses and just as she's about to try these clothes she remembers something that John said.

"You know, if you loosen your hair instead of keeping it in a ponytail, you'd look even better."

Seraphina removes her hair band, letting her hair drop past her shoulder and up to her chest. She tries on the new clothes. "So John, what do you think?"

John looks up at her and is amazed. 'Wow she's pretty. That looks amazing on her, especially with those leggings. She even let her hair go.'

John turns a little bit red looking at her but tries to keep his cool. "It looks really good on you Seraphina. I see you even loosened your hair like. So yeah, you look good. You should buy it."

Just as Seraphina is about to go back to change into her clothes and buy what she has on she eyes a bikini. 'Time to see how flustered I can make John. A little bit of revenge for what he did at Woaba Boba'

"Ok I'll buy this I just want to try one more thing." Seraphina starts walking to the bikini and picks it up and heads back to the booth. John notices her pick it up and go back to the booth.

'She's just gonna check how she looks with it using the mirror. There is no way she's coming outside with that on.'

Just as John is in his thoughts he hears Seraphina in the booth. "Hey John, can you come in for a second?"

John went from very calm to very nervous when she asked for him to come in. "Isn't that an invasion of privacy?" John ask as an excuse to not go in there since he knows that she's wearing that bikini.

"No, I'm asking you to come in. Now will you please come in? I need to ask you something." John defeated, twist the doorknob ready to see what awaits on the other side.

Once he enters, John sees exactly what he thought he was going to see. Instantly after John sees Seraphina wearing it, he becomes more red than a tomato. "So, how does it look?" Seraphina ask during a 360 to give John a full view. The bikini is red and pink striped which shows Seraphina's whole body.

John mumbles the first thing that he thought. "Holy shit, she looks hot." Hoping that she didn't hear that, he responds quickly.

"I-it looks g-good on you Seraphina." John starts scolding himself. 'Nice one John, you sounded so calm and smooth.' As he is scolding himself Seraphina starts smiling at herself.

'That was a lot easier than I expected. He even said that I look hot. I'm so flattered. It's good to know how easy it can be to make him flustered.' "I'll buy it then. I'm going to change back now."

As Seraphina says she's going to change, John leaves as fast as possible to collect himself after what just happened.

Shortly after, Seraphina exits with the clothes she tried on and heads to the register to buy it all.

'Ok John act normal, no need to make it awkward. She was just in a bikini, nothing crazy.' Once they exit the store John heads to the arcade. "Alright Seraphina it's time to head to the arcade let's go."

Seraphina happy with all the shopping, follows John to the arcade. "This is your first time at an arcade right?" Seraphina nods giving John the yes to continue speaking.

"Then I'll give you a brief explanation. You exchange money for gold tokens. Some games require more tokens than some, and some are two player games where we can go head to head. There will be older games here that you've probably never even seen or heard of like Galaga or Pac-Man."

With that being said, John puts a 50$ in the machine got more than a handful of tokens, and split them between the two.

"You are so screwed, I've been playing these type of games for years." Seraphina always wanting to win, makes a bet with John.

"Lets make a bet then. Whoever loses the most in the games we play, has to pay for Woaba Boba for a week straight." John gladly accepts this deal without a second thought due to him being cocky in his skills.

"Deal" John says as he shakes Seraphina's hand. "Oh and Seraphina one more thing. No abilities." Seraphina nods. "So John, what game should we start with?" They walk into where all the games are and spots the most iconic game and thinks its a good start for them.

"With Pac-Man." And with that, they started going head to head in every game. John won in Pac-Man and in Donkey Kong. Seraphina beat him in Galaga and Space Invaders.

They went onto pinball and did the ones with the coolest designs in their eyes. Seraphina lost the first game of pinball but won the second.

After this they went onto the final games which were the ones that required either the most skill or the least amount of skill. Fighting games. John fatalitied her in Mortal Kombat, but lost the second game.

Now they each had two tokens which were enough for one final game, which he decided would be Street Fighter II. John picked Ryu and Seraphina picked Chun-Li.

"We're tied up 4 to 4. Whoever loses this next fight has to pay for boba for a whole week straight. Are you ready to do your part of the deal?" John ask with a smirk on his face. Seraphina almost laughs at that. "We'll see about that one."

John narrowly beats Seraphina in round one using the strategy of button mashing. Seraphina beats John in the second round using a simple combo that John couldn't get out of.

"Well this is it Seraphina, the final round. May the best man win." With that being said, the final round started.

It was going good for Seraphina at the beginning, but john pulled it back. Now both of them had barely any health left. John decides to take the offense for the final hit. Just as john is about to press the kick button to win, he freezes.

With that one second, Seraphina upper cuts, declaring her the winner of the bet. "Hey! You cheated! You used your ability and I said no abilities! We even shook on it" John says a little upset.

"You said no abilities after we shook our hands, I didn't cheat. I used my kit that was all. Now you have to hold your part of the bet."

Although John is salty about losing like that, he doesn't continue arguing about it. "Ugh fine you win. I'll pay for boba every time we go for the whole week."

Seraphina smiles and playfully punches his arm. "You're such a good sport you know that?" And with that they left the mall it being dark now.

On their way back to the dorms, John puts his arm around her shoulder pulling her in. "So Sera, what did you think about today?" Seraphina startled by the touch eases into it until she hears what John called her.

"What did you call me?" she ask a little bit down out of nowhere. "I called you Sera. Seraphina is a long name to say so I simplified it. Of course if you don't like it I can still call you Seraphina."

Seraphina now with teary eyes tries to avoid Johns gaze. "No it's fine, it's just... no ones called me that in a long time." Seraphina starts thinking about Leilah and how she ran away leaving her all alone with mother. John notices somethings wrong with her so he stops walking and puts his hand under her chin to make eye contact.

"Hey, is something wrong? Are you okay Sera?" John ask now worried due to the sudden change in her demeanor. After she doesn't respond and a tear drops John pulls her into a hug.

Sera starts crying into his shoulder. John lets her cry while making circles in her back to make her more comfortable until she gains her composure back. After about a minute she lets go of John.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me" she says as her voice cracks. "Hey it's ok to cry. You're only human." He wipes a stray tear off her face with his thumb.

"So is it ok if I call you Sera? I don't want that to happen every time I say it." Sera smiles, gazing at John. "Yeah it's ok to call me Sera."

After that, there was silence the whole way back to the dorms. It was peaceful, comfortable silence. Once he got to the girls he walked her to the entrance. "Well, this is my stop, it's already getting a bit late. Have a good night Sera."

As John starts walking away, he feels Sera tug at his sleeve. "Hey, do you want to maybe... come in for a little bit, maybe watch a movie?" John looks at his watch and sees that it's almost 10, but can't refuse those puppy eyes.

John smiles looking at her. "Ok, only for a little bit. No promises that I can stay for the whole movie." She smiles and takes him to her dorm. There on the couch is Elaine eating and watching a show.

Elaine turns around because she hears the door fidgeting. She looks at the door to see Sera walk in with John following behind her. 'So it must've gone well considering that John is still with her, let alone in here. She never invites people here ever.'

"Elaine I'll be in my room to watch a movie with John. Just text me if you need anything." Sera tells Elaine. 'I got the hint Seraphina don't worry, I won't interrupt you two I promise.'

Sera closes the door once John enters and sets her bags down in a corner of the room. "So Sera, you got a movie in mind?" John ask as he takes off his shoes and lays down on the bed.

"Yeah I got a movie we can watch. It's called La La Land. Ever heard of it?" John shakes his head. "Is it like a romantic movie or something?"

"Yeah something like that you can say. You'll like it I promise." As Sera takes off her shoes as well she notices John looking at her.

"What are you looking at?" Sera ask teasing him. John blushes a little bit but confesses without any guilt. "I was looking at you duh. You're the only interesting thing in the room."

Sera smiles and lays down next to John wondering if she should snuggle with him. Once they start watching the movie Sera starts getting cold so starts slowly edging her way to John for warmth. John notices this however.

"You know if you're cold you can come closer to me, I don't mind." She then puts her head on his chest and entwines their legs. Seras head rises and falls with every inhale and exhale John does.

About halfway during the movie John notices that Sera fell asleep. 'She fell asleep on me while watching the movie. How cute.' After a little bit he also falls asleep.

After about an hour John wakes up to see Seras head on his chest with his arms around her and her legs in-between his. He checks the time on his phone and sees it's already midnight. 'It's already 12. I need to start heading home before I fall asleep here again.'

He slowly gets out of situation he was in with Sera and doesn't wake her up. He looks at her peacefully sleep one more time before leaving the room. Elaine still up, sees John walk out of her room.

"So, did you two have fun in there~" Elaine ask trying to tease John. "All we did was watch a movie and halfway she fell asleep so I finished watching the movie and left" John responds unable to stop the smile go across his face.

Elaine notices the smile on Johns face so continues. "Well you two were in there alone for a couple hours. You must have had some fun in there~" John blushes remembering that they were cuddling just now.

"No no, we're just friends Elaine, that's all we are. We just met today anyways remember?" When he went out with Sera today and came to her room to watch that movie, it felt like they had known each other for months with how comfortable they were with one another.

Elaine doesn't press on with the teasing considering she already had her fun watching him turn red. "Well, maybe if you guys get to know each other longer you two can become more than friends" Elaine says while winking at John.

'That does sound nice, maybe that can happen in the near future' John thinks to himself as he smiles yet again.

"Well, it was fun talking to you Elaine, but I should be heading home. It's already 12:15 A.M." John leaves and waves at Elaine just before leaving.

As John was walking to his house he was thinking about what happened today. 'I'm glad that I meant Sera today. I haven't had that much fun with someone since I was friends with... Claire.'

Just at the mention of her name he became both upset and sad. Subconsciously, John puts his hands into a fist, digging his nails into his palm.

Then, he thinks about what his Dad told him and about what happened today. 'I am not a monster, I am just a human that makes mistakes. I've changed, I am a better person now.'

His fist slowly retracts and calms down again. 'The past doesn't define you John. You've changed for the better.' With that he smiles and continues his walk to his house with his mind at peace.

One John gets home, he makes himself some cereal and milk, showers and goes to sleep ready for the second day of school.

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John woke up beside Sera with her head laying on his chest, me holding her, and our legs entwined. He looks at her smiling and his sudden movements wakes up Sera.

"Mmmmmmmmm, go back to sleep. It's too early to be up." John smiles at that and snuggles closer to her. Sera opens her eyes to look at John. "You're so cute you know that?"

Just as John is about to respond Seras lips connect with Johns silencing him. He eases into it and just as he starts getting into it he wakes up from his dream.

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'Well that was a nice dream to say the least. Nice one though John waking up just as it starts getting good.' He checks his phone and sees it's only 3 A.M. and goes back to sleep with a smile on his face and that dream fresh in his mind.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! It was a pretty long one to say the least. 5061 words excluding this A/N. I hope you guys enjoy the Jera fluff. Still debating whether or not I should change this to mature and add Lemon which is the main reason why that dream segment was short. Hope you guys have a great day!

Chapter 6

John didn't really know what to do in this case. Although he had a feeling that she somewhat felt the same, he wouldn't expect her to reciprocate it this much. He had no control over the situation and didn't mind one bit.

He eased into the kiss, getting on top of her. Sera wrapped her legs around Johns waist, pulling him closer to eliminate any space between them. Sera took no time in putting her tongue in his mouth and started playing with his tongue.

She could still taste the mango juice from when he drank some at dinner and was enjoying every second of this. John was still in shock about the whole situation, but thought that what was going on was nice so why stop it.

Once their lips split apart to get a breather, Sera took no time in attacking Johns neck. She started slowly kissing and sucking on his neck, leaving marks for them to admire later. John just moaned, feeling every bit of her lips and saliva on his neck leave a mark.

After Sera did a number on his neck, she took no time taking his mouth again, this time much more aggressive. She started pulling his hair while they were playing tongue twisters. She heard the groan through his mouth, making her smile internally.

This time, John took the lead. He split up the kiss, attacking her neck. He slid his hands down her body and onto her hips for better grip on her. He started biting and sucking on her neck. "John~" To him, that was music to his ears and he didn't want to stop. She started pulling his hair, stopping him for one second before continuing to suck on her neck.

"Let me help you out there~" Sera said, tilting her head back to give him more access. As she said that, John stopped like he was a deer in headlights.

"Here, let me help you." He stopped whatever he was doing like if it was a switch that had turned off and stood there. 'I don't deserve Sera. I can't do this, not until I tell her everything. I need to be honest with her, just not yet.' He let go of Sera, and was just laying down on her.

Sera noticed the sudden change, it was pretty easy to tell considering he was just all over her neck and was now just laying down on her. Sera didn't want do stop what they were doing, but knew something important must've happened for him to randomly stop.

John was hiding his face on her soft chest, softly holding onto Seras arm. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and played with his hair slowly.

Sera didn't really know to approach this whole situation, so she was glad when John brought it up for her. "Sorry, I was just thinking about something and I wasn't in the mood anymore. I'll make it up later, I promise."

Although she was upset that her lust wasn't being answered to, she would rather wait for him to be at 100 percent. "I'll hold you to that promise. From what I just experienced, it seems like it will be worth the wait." Sera could feel his little smile on her chest, making her smile.

"Oh and by the way John, I like you too if you didn't pick up the memo" she told John sarcastically. Although he wanted her all to himself, he needed to restrain himself. Until he was completely honest with her, he couldn't have her.

'Will you still feel that way when I tell you everything that I've done? It doesn't matter how much I change does it? It'll always come back haunting me. Not until I come to terms with it, but can I ever do that?'

John started thinking about everything that he did back at New Bostin, but quickly shook the thoughts off. He has started changing into a better person, from everything that he had done with his Dad, making new friends, (especially Sera) and even becoming a superhero.

Although he still had those negative thoughts, he would do everything in his power to stop them. To change his whole attitude. John had everything he could ever want and wasn't going to throw away this second chance.

He was going to take it all slow, take as much time as he needed to help better himself. Not only for himself, but for everyone else he'd met. "John" she asked, gaining Johns attention. "Hm" he hummed, which Sera had felt, making her heart warm up.

"So, does this mean that we're dating now?" John was dreading this question not knowing how she would react, but nonetheless John persevered. "I would love to Sera really, but-" Sera felt like her heart had just been ripped out of her.

"Please John, no but. Just end it right before you said that" Sera said with tears already forming in her eyes, waiting to drop. "Sera please just let me finish. I already feel bad enough as it is considering what we had just started and abruptly finished."

Sera was now more upset than anything, thinking she had just got played. "So was this your plan, John? Get me to confess to you and have you use me as your sex doll? Ready to call whenever you were feeling horny?" John could hear her voice cracking indicating that she was on the verge of crying. John shook his head quickly, looking up to meet her eyes that had tears formed, ready to fall.

"No Sera, you misunderstood. I like you, Sera. I just can't be with you... not right now. I'm not going to ask you to wait for me because I don't know how long until I feel like I can make you mine, but I really don't have any interest as using you for only sexual needs."

Sera was not only sexually frustrated now, but frustrated in general. John wasn't making any sense to her right now and she needed answers. "There's nothing stopping you from making me yours, John. The only thing stopping this is you. I want whatever we have going right now to work out, so if it'll take some time then that's fine by me. Just please, make it happen fast, you can't just leave me horny like this anymore."

John slightly chuckled at that, putting his back on Seras chest. "Thanks for understanding, Sera. Hope this doesn't make anything awkward. We can still do the same stuff and maybe a little more if you catch my drift."

Sera smiled at that, hoping next time her needs will be answered, but wanted to know what exactly he was thinking. "Oh? Do you have something in mind?" John just hummed, letting Sera continue. "Want to tell me what you're thinking of?"

"Nah, I'd rather have it be a surprise. Your reaction would be priceless and you'd end up enjoying yourself more than tonight if you didn't know" John said rubbing his finger on one of the hickeys he had left. "And if I don't like surprises?"

Who the hell doesn't like surprises? It's what makes everything excited in the moment. Still, he answered her question, making her more eager for what he was talking about. "It won't matter if you don't like surprises, this one will be an exception."

Sera really needed to know whatever he had in mind. "You know, if you did it right now it would be a surprise considering I wouldn't know what to expect."

John responded by kissing her neck, getting her hopes up. Just as Sera was getting ready to get back into it, John stopped. "That would be true maybe, but I'd prefer to catch you off guard." Whatever he had in mind better be enough for her next time or God help John.

"You're such a tease you know that? I was really excited for a second, just for you to shoot me down" Sera told John, fake pouting. "It'll all be worth it in the end I guarantee it."

"How long do I have to wait though? You can't just leave me like this expecting to not crave more" Sera said, playfully smacking his head.

John shrugs, sparing all the details, "I'm not telling you anything, Sera. It could be tomorrow or next week. It's a surprise for a reason. Why can't you just wait?" Johns question was meant to be rhetorical, but she answered.

"It's not that I can't wait, John. It's that I don't want to wait. After what just happened, how can you expect me to be patient?" John really didn't know how to respond, but Sera went on.

"Short answer: I can't. Maybe you didn't feel the same way I did when we were making out, but I didn't want to stop at all." This time, John did know what to say.

"Well then you'd be pleased knowing I felt the same way. Trust me, I had no intention of stopping at a-" Sera interrupted him with another question he really didn't want to answer. "Then why did you stop? If you felt the same way I did when we were kissing, why did you abruptly end it?"

John couldn't tell her yet. What if Sera thought he was a monster? Sera would tell everyone else and then he would have no one but his Dad. He needed to come up with something fast before she became suspicious.

"You said something and it just reminded me of an old friend, got me a little bummed out that's all." It was a half-lie. "Oh, was it what I said while you were making out with my neck?" Sera asked to make sure she didn't say that again next time and ruin his mood.

John just hummed, happy that she didn't press the topic further. John checked his alarm for the time and saw it was already 11 and they had school tomorrow. John would have to wake up extra early too since he needed to walk Sera to her dorm.

"You really should start bringing a bag with clothes whenever you come over. Most of the time you end up sleeping over and now we have to wake up earlier just to head to your dorm because you don't have a uniform here." Sera nodded in agreement, before yawning.

John got off of Sera to set his alarm on. "Don't turn off my alarm if you wake up before me. We already missed a day, can't be missing another day. Vaughn will kill us if we miss another day."

Sera was dead tired, but felt like she was missing something before she went to sleep. "You're not going to kiss me goodnight?" John smiled before scooting to her. He held her by her waist, pulling her closer.

What was meant to be one kiss turned into a mini make out session, which Sera didn't mind at all. "Was that enough?" John asked, knowing she would get a smart ass answer.

"It'll have to do for tonight I guess." With that, Sera turned around, letting John spoon her and wrap his arm around her waist to pull her as close as possible.

John had opened his eyes and was back in New Bostin, more specifically their turf wars fighting ground. He was surrounded by his old classmates that he had beat to a pulp. There was Claire again, standing in the middle of the massacre.

"Look what you've done, John. All you've done since you've got your ability is hurt people. You're a tyrant, a hypocrite, a monster. You even hurt your new friends." As Claire said that, everything turned black. He was in some sort of abyss.

There was Isen, Blyke, and Remi bloodied up. John lifted his hands to his face and saw his hands filled with their blood. Sera was on her knees crying. John couldn't move, he was frozen in place. Her clothes were bloodied and she had cuts everywhere.

Sera got off her knees and started walking towards John. He was powerless here, just wishing this nightmare to end. Sera was now a foot or two away from John and she looked him dead in the eyes.

"What did you do to my friends? I trusted you, John. I used to actually like you, but now I know your true colors. I wish I had never met you. I wish I never ever even liked you. You're just a monster." And just like that, everyone was gone, leaving John alone in the darkness able to move again.

He sat on the floor and hunched forward bringing his legs into him. He was just crying, with monster echoing in his head over and over again. He heard both Claire and Sera saying it over and over again.

John jolted up from his sleep sweaty from head to toe. He had accidentally woke Sera, completely forgetting she was sleeping with him.

Sera turned around to see John. He was backing away from her, not wanting to be near her after the nightmare he had just had. Johns hand was shaking which worried Sera.

She tried to hold his hand to calm him, but he took his hand away before she could touch me. "St-stay away, Sera. I'm dangerous and I don't want to hurt you." Sera knew something was up the second she woke up, but now she knew something was wrong.

"Relax, John. You'd never hurt me or anyone else. Just breath in, breath out." John did as Sera told him, and his faster breathing had calmed down. He was still a bit shaken about the whole situation, but was calming down.

This time, Sera grabbed and squeezed his hand, comforting him. "Do you want to talk about it?" Sera asked with her gentle voice and touch. John wasn't too sure if he should tell her, but decided to tell her. He would have to tell her what happened in his past, and this could be a good start.

"I had a dream, no a nightmare where I... I beat you and everyone else up. Isen, Blyke and Remi were all on the floor with blood everywhere." Johns voice started shaking, making Sera squeeze his hand more trying to comfort and encourage him to continue.

"You were crying and I was just... I couldn't move. You just walked up to me crying and I just couldn't see you like that. You said that you wish you never met me and wished that you never liked me and-"

Sera hugged John before he could finish, and John froze. His brain was telling him to push her back before you get too attached and hurt her, while Johns heart was telling him to stay and let Sera comfort her. He chose his heart, and just hugged her.

He cried and cried onto her back profusely saying sorry over and over again. Sera didn't know what to do, so she just kept on hugging him. After letting it all out, he let go of Sera, ashamed to look her in the eyes after showing how weak he could be.

Sera put her hand under his chin to force eye contact, "John look at me" Sera told John as he was closing his eyes. John still didn't open his eyes, so she tried to soften her voice more. "Please John, look at me."

John opened his red puffy eyes to see Seras worried face. "John, you would NEVER EVER hurt me or anyone else. I don't know what happened that made you think that you would, but you would never harm us. And I would never regret liking you or meeting you. Without you, my life would be bland and bitter. You showed me there's more to life than just studying and school."

What Sera said had reassured John that he wouldn't do that. John hugged Sera again, this time a lot tighter. She hugged him back not intending to let go until they needed to wake up for school. "Thank you, Sera" was all John said and was all Sera needed to hear.

They both fell went back sleep in peace due to each others touch. John didn't have another dream for the rest of the night, and ended up having a restful sleep. It was interrupted by his stupid alarm sadly, waking both of them up. John saw that it was only seven and didn't want to do his daily routine today.

"It's only seven, Sera. We can stay here like this for a little longer" John said as Sera crawled herself to lay down on him. "Mhmmmm" was all Sera had to say. He kissed her head and closed his eyes for another hour.

John woke up at and looked over to his alarm to see it was already nine meaning school had just started. It didn't hurt to be a little late to class sometimes. He gently touched Sera to wake her up.

"We overslept, it's already nine. School just started, but if we're fast enough, we can make it to school before second period starts." Sera just hummed in discontent not wanting to wake up and have John walk farther than arms reach.

He got up and Sera started groaning, but he knew she would be happy when she started to smell the eggs and bacon. John went to the bathroom to freshen up. He brushed his teeth and splashed some hot water on his face to wake him up. He put on his uniform as always, (with the optional vest) while Sera was still laying down on his bed hugging a pillow to substitute Johns warmth.

"Breakfast is ready!" John yelled. Like a puppy would put their head up when they heard something, Sera poked her head out from under the covers, got out off the bed and put on one of Johns hoodie because she was freezing.

John was finishing up his breakfast with Sera, when she asked if he wanted to go to the mall. If the trip was like last time with her spending hours just for clothes he would say no. Luckily enough for him, it was something else.

"I want to get some sore of highlights on my hair, it feels bland. Since I'm changing I should get a different appearance as well." If there's one thing John knew about girls it was that whenever they did something to their hair, it was a phase.

"Do you have a color in mind?" John asked now fully curious. Sera nodded, "I was scrolling through colors and found one that was called chartreuse." This gave Sera a confused expression of what color that was, so she simplified it for him.

"It's basically a mix of green and yellow. I think it would look good on me" Sera said as she put a piece of bacon of her mouth. "I mean maybe, but your hair already looks fine right now. Why change it?"

Sera facepalmed as she downed the bacon with some chocolate milk. "I just said it dummy. I'm changing so I might as well change with it." That had officially confirmed Johns suspicions. She was going through a phase and she wasn't going to back down on her decision, not like he had intentions to try to convince her.

"Well, there's really only one way to find out if it'll look good on you." Sera nodded and put on her shoes and started walking to Wellston. As John was walking to Wellston, his phone had buzzed. He pulled it out to see a text from Isen.

Isen: Have you seen the news?

John: No?

Isen: You didn't tell us you were a superhero. We have a lot to talk about. Just check the article out whenever you can.

Isen: https/hero.

John clicked on the link to see him. The article had a photo of him with his Joker mask at the top of the article with the flame ability he had copied from Sianna. John started running towards Wellston so he could read it in private and discuss it. Both Sera and John had entered Wellston and walked into her room within five minutes.

While Sera was putting on her school uniform, John was laying down on her bed and read the article out loud for Sera to hear.

The Beginning Reign of The Joker

Last night in Lovun, there was a new sighting of a hero. According to the people, he was called Joker. He had a mask covering his whole head, some hoodie with orange sleeves, and seemed to be a male by his body shape and voice.

His ability seemed to be some type of fire ability, but others speculate there's more to it than meets the eye. This is all speculation, but supposedly the smoke in the video was caused by a second ability he had.

If this is true, this could possibly be the strongest vigilante around. Fire and some sort of smoke ability as a combo can be very deadly. We highly advise that if you are a vigilante, you stop while you still can.

Now we will go into the interview that we took from the man that took the video. "So sir, you said that he saved you from this girl named Sianna." She took out a photo showing him for confirmation that was the suspect.

"So sir, can you tell me about this incident?" the news reporter asked the timid man. He was wearing a red plain t-shirt and had blue spiky hair. "We-well, a couple buddies and I were going to go and try to fight the girl Sianna. She kept on terrorizing us and taking money from us every week and if we don't comply we get beaten up."

"How long had this been going on?"

"I would say about three months maybe. We tried to contact the authorities, but they never came."

The news reporter was shocked that they had ignored such a dire situation, but came to the conclusion that they had more important cases do deal with.

"So when we got to Elm Street, we tried to ambush here. She just surrounded us with fire and it was closing on us. This is when Joker came."

"Could you describe him as best as you can?" the reporter asked, ready to take notes on his description. "He was definitely a male, looked to be six foot, white, and that was all you could tell. His whole body except for his hands were being covered by his clothes."

The reporter wrote everything down that she could, letting him continue. "I didn't even know Joker was here until we were free. He used some sort of smoke that was carbon dioxide to kill the fire. We ran out with the opening and I took out my phone to start recording."

"How would you describe his fighting style?" the reporter asked, more curious than anything else now. "He was smart. He had engulfed her in some sort of thick smoke. It didn't weaken her fire, but it made him impossible to see. I assume he just kept hitting and avoiding her. When he came out he had no scratches and his clothes didn't seem to be burned whatsoever. The phone couldn't record much of the fight until it was basically over."

The reporter wrote that down, continuing the interview. "You said one of your friends had talked to him. Describe his tone and voice please."

"His voice made him out to be young, no older than 20. His tone seemed gentle and caring which was refreshing after what we've been through. We even got confirmation that he was a hero. We got saved by a superhero, that was so cool."

The writer finished her notes before ending the interview. "Okay, well that concludes the interview. Anything else you would like to say?" The man nodded before saying one final thing.

"My daughter, Emma says thank you very much."

With that interview ending, he smiled reading the last part. 'You're welcome, Emma. A promise is a promise.' Sera had some of her own thoughts after he finished, "Who's Emma?"

"Really? The first thing you ask is who this girl is after hearing how badass I was? Are you jealous~" John said, commencing the teasing. "N-no, I was just curious who this girl could be th-that's all."

John laughed that she was jealous over a little kid. "She was some little girl I met on the subway to Lovun. She was the one who told me about her Dad. She led me to her Mom and she told me where when the fight was at."

Sera got all fussed up over nothing, but still had more questions. "Why'd you name yourself Joker? Why not something cooler?" John was very offended that she would say that about his cool name.

"I'll have you know that Joker is a badass name so don't even start. And to answer your question the reason I named myself Joker is because I could be your benefit and carry you to victory or I could be your biggest downfall." Sera was actually surprised the name had some type of meaning behind it.

"Look at you coming up with names that have meaning behind it. Also, I didn't think you'd be a smart one in fighting. Usually most high-tiers just rely on their ability with no strategy, but you were the opposite according to this person." If Sera was trying to offend John, she was doing an amazing job at it.

"Ouch, that hurt. As being a late bloomer, I always had to come up with strategies to make it out with only a broken nose. When I did get my ability and figured out the specifics I needed to learn as many abilities as I could. I would spend hours every day studying books about abilities and auras and saw videos for examples. I would even read books about the brain and how it functions to understand how to use some mental abilities."

Sera had newfound respect for John and his dedication for his ability when it finally manifested. "Wow, look at you with all this training. You should have made a training montage and put some Rocky III music over it. Then you'd be the coolest kid in the region."

John knew he wouldn't win this sarcastic war and moved on. "Are you almost ready? It shouldn't take this long to do your hair?" Sera replied with her smart tone. "Hey! You can't rush perfection." The second that final word came out of her mouth, she remembered everything that she went through with her Mother, especially when Leilah ran away.

Flashback

"Seraphina, do not become a failure like your sister. She is a disgrace to our family!" Narisa told Sera who was on the verge of tears. "Mom! Leilah never did anything wrong. She was just sca-"

Narisa slapped her daughter in the face before she was able to finish her sentence, silencing her. "Don't you ever say her name in this house again! She has forever tarnished our families career. Now go to your room and finish your report now!"

Seraphina walked up the stairs and the second she got to her room, she fell face first onto her bed and started crying. 'Leilah, why did you leave me here with mother. Was it something I did too?' For the rest of her time home, she was raised more harsh due to her sister running away.

She would be given an abundance of homework for classes above her grade level to ensure she was the smartest and would have to train her ability every single day. "Seraphina, you are not like the others. You were born gifted and will rise above your peers. You will always be on top because you are perfect."

Eventually, that was engraved into her brain, always being perfect. Getting perfect scores on test, being stronger than everyone else, looking better than everyone. No matter what the situation was, Seraphina needed to be better than everyone.

Flashback End

She came back to present with Johns voice. "You know, we're already going to miss second period. I know you just put on your uniform, but like can we just stay here or go out instead?"

Sera smiled knowing that her situation had gotten a lot better and it was all because of him. "Fine, let me go change... again." Sera got some clothes and started undressing for what felt like the 10th time.

"You know, the bathroom is literally five steps max. You didn't need to change in front of me." Sera was already getting used to John seeing her like this, so didn't care much anymore.

"It's not like you've never seen me like this before. We literally slept together last night. I was like this and you weren't just looking either." Sera brought up a fair point, but it was still weird to John to see her voluntarily strip in front of him.

"Doesn't make it any less weird though. It's like you do it on purpose sometimes to try to arouse me." Sera smiled, taking the chance to tease him. "What if I do purposefully do it for that reason? What are you going to do about it?"

If John wasn't flustered enough while she was half naked in front of him, he sure as hell was now. Still, he went on and played her game. "Then your surprise would only benefit from that" John said crossing his legs to hide whatever the hell was going on down there.

"Is that so? Maybe I should do it more often then" Sera said as she finally put on a pair of jeans after delaying it to tease John. Although he was happy that she was getting dressed so they could go out, the other part of him just wanted her right here and now.

Sera put on blue ripped jeans and a black crop top, just barely showing her belly button. With that, they left and John had no idea where the hell he was going. "So Sera, I assume you know where you want to go right?"

"The mall obviously. I'm changing my hair, remember? Then after we could go shopping" as John heard mall he knew it was going to be a drag, then he heard shopping and wanted to run from Sera right there.

"Can we just get your hair done and leave to Woaba Boba or something? I really do not want to go shopping." Sera shook her head, "Nope, we're going shopping no matter what. I won't take long I promise."

John knew that wouldn't be the case as much as he wished it were true, but moved on from it. "Ok if you say so." John and Sera had entered the mall and went straight to the hair salon. John had to hold onto her hand to keep up with her.

She entered the salon and went to talk to the receptionist. "Hello, I had an appointment for my highlights today at five but wanted to know if possible, can I change it to as early as possible."

"What is your name?" she asked the young lady in front of her. "Sera" she said, making John smile as she heard that. "Ok Sera, we can actually move your appointment to right now if that's okay with you."

Sera nodded and thanked her. "Just take a seat on one of these chairs when you're ready and she'll be with you shortly. For now you can browse through all the different colors we have." Sera walked with John right behind her.

She looked through the different colors one more time in case she saw a color she had liked more than chartreuse, but ended up picking that one. She sat down on chair and eagerly waited. All she could think about was how she would look with her new highlights.

However, Sera started having second thoughts while she was waiting. 'What if it looks bad? What if people make fun of me? What if John thinks it looks bad? Would he find me less attractive?' She now was second guessing herself, so she asked John what he thought.

"John be honest with me, do you think it'll look good on me?" John nodded his head instantly without a second thought. "Yeah Sera, I think actually you're going to look even better than how you look right now!"

That was all Sera needed to hear for her to push through her negative thoughts. The lady came and started the process. It took about four hours for her to finish up, which made John bored out of his mind.

Sera just had her eyes closed during the whole process to trick her brain that time was passing by faster than it was. Once she was finished, Sera had been handed a mirror to see the final result. "Well, what do you think" the lady asked Sera.

"It's perfect" Sera told the lady, grateful that she did an amazing job. She thought about how she was always forced to be perfect back at her Mothers house. Now though, she was free. She had broke the handcuffs that she never thought she had.

She was finally free to be herself and do whatever she wanted, all because a certain raven haired man changed her perspective. "So, what do you think?" she asked John, but after no response she noticed that his eyes were closed. This little fucker was sleeping while she was getting her hair done. Sera was going to take advantage of this.

She took pictures of him sleeping and her sitting next to him with a peace sign. These were going to be the first photos she took with her new hair and wouldn't want it any other way.

She woke him up by gently touching his shoulder. "Oh shit, I fell asleep didn't I?" John asked as he wiped the leftover saliva off his face. "You sure did but forget about that. What do you think?"

John looked her up and down and he was a little confused what he was supposed to give his opinion on. He then remembered where he was at and looked at her hair. It had the green-yellowish highlights that Sera had talked about.

"To be honest Sera..." the way John worded it, Sera was worried he wasn't going to like her new hair, but John had thrown a curve ball. "It looks amazing, Sera. It gives you more personality and to be honest you look better."

She gave him a big hug, making both of them smile. At the end of the day, the only opinion that truly mattered to her at the moment was Johns. "Well, that took a lot longer than I expected. It's already three. What now?"

John asked Sera and she gave him the most evil grin knowing exactly where this was going. "Well, since we're at the mall, we might as well go shopping for a little bit." John sighed and started walking with her to shop after shop.

Sera only ended up buying a shirt and a pair of shorts. She also bought some pj's to leave at Johns house so she can put it on whenever she slept over. Just as they were about to leave the store, John had found something that had actually interested him. "Wait Sera, look at this shirt." It was a pink shirt with a bunny in the middle. It looked like a kid had drawn it. The top of the shirt said LA and the bottom said ME. "La Mé, It must be French or something."

She laughed thinking he was joking, but when she found it he was dead serious, she burst his bubble. "You're kidding right? It says Lame." Even though Sera had dissed the shirt, he went to try it on. He came back on with the shirt on and Sera couldn't lie, it didn't look half bad.

John ended up buying the shirt and eyed an ability gauge as he left the store. Ability Gauge: Measures from 1-10. Score of 5 gets a prize. $10.

"Hey Sera, wanna get a free prize? We'd actually get two free prizes if I payed as well." Sera already knew her level and didn't want to waste money for a little prize. "Not really, John. I'd rather just spend that money on other stuff." Just as she said that, Sera eyed a nail salon. "How about we go to the nail salon, it's time I start paint my nails. My hands feel bland now that I changed my hair."

John sighed and followed Sera inside the nail salon. "I'll make it up to you later, I promise. Sera told him. "What do you have in mind?" John asked, hoping to get the answer he wanted to hear. "It's a surprise" Sera winked at him, giving him some of his own medicine. John liked the sound of that, but didn't have think too much about it.

She knew there was no way she could get an appointment, so she bought some of her own nail polish. "What color do you think I should get?" Sera asked John, "I feel like black suits you best, but I think red would look good on you too." Sera decided to buy black since that was her favorite color.

They left the salon and when they left the mall the sun was setting. "I completely forgot that today was Friday. My first weekend of many more to come." Sera nodded before John continued. "Well, it's going to turn night soon. Let's start heading back to Wellston."

Sera gave him a confused look, "Can I not sleep over again?" At this point, Sera had lived at Johns house and he didn't mind her company one bit. "You don't even need to ask anymore, Sera. Let's start heading towards my house. Don't forget to tell Elaine, don't want her to be worried."

With that, Sera texted Elaine that she was spending the night at Johns again, and had no idea what the hell she was going to do when she told him she would make it up, but she would figure something out.

Hope you enjoyed basically this back to back chapter. Decided to end this chapter without a cliff hanger like the last one. Hope you all had a good day and as always, I'll catch you on the flip side. Oh and thank you for all the reads! We're nearing 1k and I plan to do a one chapter spin off that has nothing to do with the story. I'll let you guys vote from the ideas I suggest.

6400 word excluding A/N (:

Chapter 7

Sera was walking by Johns side with her bags of clothes. It was silent and the moon was starting to come down. She pondered what to do when she got to Johns house.

'I could just straight up jump on him when we go to his room, but that would be no fun. I want to tease him. Start off slow and make him want more. I'm going to make him earn me if he wants me.' John started talking, distracting Sera from her thoughts.

"So Sera, I assume when you get home you're going to paint your nails?" Sera completely forgot about the nail polish, I guess her pouncing on John would have to wait until she paints her nails. "You know it! I've always wanted to do it, but never got around to it."

That's right, John had completely forgot that she wasn't always the fun Sera he knows now. John was kind of surprised that she was able to keep up a persona like that without snapping. 'Well, not everyone throws temper tantrums like you.'

"Great, you have something to do. While you do that I'll just be playing with my fingers enjoying myself." Sera laughed at his stupid sarcasm. "You don't have to do that, I'm sure that you watching me paint my nails for an hour will be entertaining enough for you" Sera shot back with her own sarcastic joke.

John playfully punched her arm and Sera dramatized it like if her arm had just been broken. "Ouchhhhhh, that hurt soooooo much. Catch me before I faint." Sera fell onto John and he didn't catch her, instead he let her fall face first onto the pavement.

John just watched her fall and heard a thud. He started dying of laughter as he heard a thud. She got up and the first thing Sera did was throw a punch to Johns stomach without her ability active. He walked backwards, all the wind out of him.

Sera just stuck her tongue out at him with her now laughing and John in pain. "You didn't need to punch me so hard you know, it's your fault that you put your faith in me!"

"You're so lucky that I can rewind the bruises and dirt on my clothes because if not there would be more than one thrown at you and they would be a lot harder." John knew that Sera could be scary, but had no idea she could be this harsh.

"Honestly, it would be worth it in the end. Watching you slowly fall to the floor, especially face first made this whole mall trip worth it." Sera just huffed, speeding her walk to John house. He basically had to jog to keep up with her.

They had finally made it to Johns house just as it became dark out. Sera was still upset about the whole ordeal and gave him a glare that could kill someone. She put her bags down near the front door and sat down on the couch with the nail polish in hand.

John was just playing video games to kill time. Sera looked up to see what he was playing that was making him yell at a screen. The only thing she could tell was that it was definitely a multiplayer game. "What are you playing that's making you scream this loud? I'm trying to finish up here in peace."

John relaxed as his game finished. "It's these little fuckers, Sera. They talk so much shit over the mic and get all sweaty when I kill them once." Sera had a thought of a little nine year old telling John off, making her laugh.

"You mean to tell me, you're getting all worked up over little kids?" John nodded casually leaning back playing again. "DarkDonut, you're so ass bro. Can you get a kill already?" Sera could hear the kid talking smack because the volume on the tv was so high. She could tell that the kid that was talking shit must've been seven at most due to his squeaky voice.

"That's it, I'm getting the mic. I can't with these kids anymore." Sera looked at John to see his pissed off face before he got up and went to his room to presumably get his mic. 'Oh boy, this is going to be fun to listen to' Sera thought as she finished painting her left hand.

John came back with some stupidly overpriced mic. He muted the tv, only leaving Sera able to hear what John says. He sat back down on the couch, this time leaning forward and plugged it in. "Hey XxMelonxX you're dogshit at this game bro. All you needed to do was take the damn flag to our base. I literally passed it to you, but here we are getting shit on right now because of you."

There was silence before John spoke again. "I don't care. I'm number two on the leaderboard. I literally have more kills than you and you're talking shit. I hope that your ability never manifest you brat." John was dropping bombs on this kid with no remorse whatsoever.

"Yeah cry you little bitch, while you're at it go to your mommy and tell her what happened. She'll probably bitch slap you and tell you how much of a disappointment you are. Talk to me again when you're not a squeaker." John let it all out with no regrets and unplugged his mic, unmuting the tv.

John, you're kind of toxic bro. Eat a snickers, you're not you when you're hungry.

Sera felt bad for the little kid at first, but quickly started laughing as she thought about what she had just heard. "Damn John, I didn't think you could be so ruthless to a kid like that." John wasn't even paying attention to what she said, he was too concentrated on the game. His pride was on the line for the rest of the game and if he sold the game, he would never hear the end of it.

After John finished making a comeback and won the game of capture the flag, he asked Sera what she had said. "You got no chill when it comes to games huh?" John nodded looking at her. "You wouldn't get it, but it's for the kids own good." Sera raised an eyebrow in confusion, letting him continue.

"Well, the gaming world is ruthless as you could tell. So you have to teach them young that this will happen every time he plays. He will never forget what just happened and will be more respectful to people now. When the time comes, he'll be the one doing what I just did." John was now smiling looking at Sera.

She was very skeptical of his methods, but didn't question it. "If you say so. I should be done after you finish one more game." John queued into another game. While he waited, he changed the look on his Spartan and made it fully black.

While Sera was finishing up her nails, she finally figured out how she could catch John off guard. It was actually quiet simple now that she thought about it. Just do it while he's playing. The only problem was that there was a chance that he would ignore her and finish his match.

'Who am I kidding? He would stop playing in a heart beat if I did something.' Sera smiled, thinking of the outcomes when she would make her move on John.

She had finally finished and she looked pleased. Her hands looked a lot nicer and Sera did a good job for it being her first time. It was now time to execute her not-so-thought-out plan.

She silently walked behind John while he was distracted. She put his arms around his neck, hands resting on his chest and started kissing his neck. At first John had no idea what the hell was going on. One moment he was sniping people in the head and the next Sera had snuck up behind him and started kissing him.

He noticed that she had finished up with her nails and her hands looked a lot nicer like this. The next thing he processed was Sera's lips kissing his neck. Her lips felt soft and could start feeling her teeth as she started nibbling, leaving more marks.

He turned off the TV and Xbox, getting his priorities straight. He got up from the couch and started walking to her, while Sera had a evil grin. He picked her up by her thighs and pushed up against a wall. They made eye contact and all they could see in each others eyes was hunger.

John took no time and connected their lips. Sera started licking his lips begging for access, which he obliged. They started playing tongue twisters while Sera started sliding her hand under his uniform, slowly rising up to his chest.

Sera separated their lips for a breather, while John didn't stop. He went straight for her neck and started sucking on her bruises that he had previously left on her.

All Sera could do was whisper a moan in John's ear and grab his hair with her other hand. "Take me to your room~" she told John as she started biting on his ear. Just as John was about to carry her to his bed, his phone started ringing.

"Don't you dare pick it up right now." John gave her a long firm kiss before slowly letting go of Sera to get her back on her feet. "I have to, it could be important and if it's not when we get to my room we're going to have a lot of fun."

Sera was pouting and sexually frustrated for the second time now back to back. John took out his phone and saw Remi was calling him. John picked up and put it on speaker for Sera to hear. "Heya Remi, what's up?" John asked Remi, really hoping that he could go back to finish what he was doing with Sera.

"Rei is awake, head to the hospital as soon as possible." Sera gave him a look that was understanding but still pissed off nonetheless. "Ok Remi, I'll be there in 15." John hung up the phone and went to get changed out of his school uniform.

John could sense Sera stare at him with daggers in her eyes as he went to his room to change to something more comfortable. He walked out with some black shorts and a grey shirt. "You know, this is the second time now that you've left me like this." John looked at her in confusion giving her the go to continue.

"I'm horny, John. This is the second time you've started something and not finished it. You can't keep doing this to me." John knew that he would have to make it up to her, so he made a compromise.

"How about when we get back to from the hospital, I'll do a little more than just kissing." Seras heart started racing, hoping that what she was thinking, John was going to do. "Let's see it then. Now come on, we need to be going already."

John gave Sera another long kiss before leaving the house to head to the hospital. Sera kind of felt selfish that her thoughts weren't on Rei and were on what John was going to do once they got back, but how could she not have her mind on that. She's been waiting for him to do something like that ever since she slept with John for the first time.

'It's about time that he finally tries to do something other than kiss me. I'm way too excited for this, but at the same time I feel like I should be. I've been wanting him to do something ever since I tried to do it myself.'

Johns thoughts were the complete opposite of Sera's. He was thinking about what he was going to ask Rei when he got there. Johns main question was why. Why did he become a superhero? Why was he doing it alone, knowing they were dropping like flies. And why in the hell was he hiding it from everyone. He knew it was supposed to be a secret, but telling your sister could have been the least he could've done.

All of Johns questions would be answered very shortly as they had entered the hospital. John walked up to the receptionist and signed the form. "Your friend is in room 223. Third door on the right" John thanked her and they were off to room 223. John opened the door to see Blyke and Isen sitting down, Rei sitting up on the bed, and Remi standing up next to him.

"Look who finally made it" Rei said in a sarcastic tone. "Wow, that's what you tell your savior? If it wasn't for me you'd be six feet under right now" John replies, joking around hoping to see if Rei was a light hearted person or not.

Rei scratched the back of his neck, "Yeah, thanks for that. Rem told be what happened while I was out. I owe you my life, literally." John just shook his head, "You don't owe me anything. It was just human decency that's all."

John forgot that Sera was next to him and poorly introduced her to Rei. "This is Seraphina" John said as he nudged her with his shoulder, to introduce herself.

"Hey, I'm Seraphina. I like to do stupid stuff with this guy next to me." Sera then pointed to the raven-haired person next to him. "Hey, what we do is not stupid! It's fun and you can't change my mind" John said crossing his arms over his chest, turning his head to avoid looking at Sera.

"So I assume that this is your boyfriend?" Rei asked bluntly. Sera didn't really know how to answer that question and was grateful when John had answered it for her. "We're talking for now. Maybe if she would stop bullying me, I could fall for her faster. It's like she tries to make it hard for me to like her" John replied jokingly, receiving a soft kick to his leg.

"And this is exactly what I mean." Now everyone in the room was laughing and the atmosphere was happy. Remi just noticed that her nails were painted and she had gotten highlights in her hair. "Seraphina, did you get a whole makeover without me?" Remi said as she pointed to her hair.

Blyke and Isen noticed the change in Seras appearance as Remi mentioned it to everyone. "Yeah I did, but I had John to drag around. I felt like my hair was bland and had planned to get some highlights the day before. The nails were more impulsive when I saw the nail salon, but it looks nice."

They all nodded in agreement, but John had to make a smart ass joke. "You give off that emo vibe now." John thought what he said was so funny, he started laughing at his own joke. Sera gave him that look and just like that, his face was neutral.

"So Rei, mind if I ask you a couple questions?" John asked as he felt everyone tense up remembering why they were all here. "Go for it, you and Remi both must have a lot of questions."

Remi was the first to ask a question, well more like scold him. "You idiot, you could have died if it wasn't for John. How could you be so careless?" Remi asked with tears already forming in her eyes.

"I had to help people out, Remi. I couldn't stand seeing people go through that abuse every day. I needed to bring attention to what was going on to lower tiers and try to help however I could."

John was the next to ask the question. "Why did you start to become a vigilante?" Rei looked up at him in confusion. "I just said I did it to he-" John didn't let Rei finish that sentence.

"I heard that loud and clear. I believe that you do want to help people out, but what started motivating you to think this way?" The way John asked, Rei could tell he knew what the answer was and just wanted some confirmation. "Ever heard of the book unOrdinary?"

Remi rubbed her eyes to remove the tears, sneaking a smile ready to see her brothers reaction to finding out he's talking to the authors son. "Yeah I heard of it, after all, what kind of son would I be if I never read my Dads book?"

Reis expression as John said that was priceless. His mouth dropped and instantly started fan girling over John. "No way! It's my favorite book! I've read it countless times. I read it every time before going out." Remi was now confused because he thought that he had thrown the book away.

"I thought you threw it away when Mom asked you." Remi now was full on smiling, thinking that she could finally read the book. "Nah, I threw away some random book and she thought it was unOrdinary."

"When can I come over and read it? I've been wanting to read it for a while now." That was a good question even he didn't know. "It depends when they let me leave the hospital." John cleared his throat to get their attention again. "I thought so, usually that's the book that gets people on the path of becoming a superhero. My next question is, why did you do it alone?"

"Actually, I don't do it alone. I usually go out with my friend, but he was doing something that day. I still ended up going alone and here we are now." Remi slapped the back of his head, now knowing all of this could've been avoided if he would have just stayed at his dorm in his university.

"So you mean to tell me, you went out alone putting yourself in danger instead of getting a good nights rest?" John asked him, receiving a nod. Remi was ready to continue to scold him before John continued. "You seem to be pretty dedicated to this whole thing. Mind if I join you?"

Sera jolted up out of her chair while Remi, Blyke and Isen looked at him with concern. "John, a word please." Sera grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out of the room.

Once they left the room, Sera started speaking before John could try to reason with her. "You are not becoming a vigilante with Rei. It's too dangerous." John just sighed as he saw the worry and fear in her eyes.

"Sera please, I'll be fine. I wont be alone either, I'll have Rei and his friend to help me if I get caught in a situation." John put a hand on her shoulder trying to ease her, but it didn't help much. "What if you run into someone too powerful for the three of you to handle?" Sera spoke, trying to reason with him.

"That won't happen, I'll be sure of it." Just as John started walking, she grabbed his hand again, regaining his attention. "John please, I don't want to have to see you all bloodied up on a hospital bed." Sera was on the verge of tears and he took notice in this. "Sera... that's not going to happen, I promise."

John pulled her into a hug and she hugged him like if this was his last day on Earth. "You better not, then I'll have no one else to annoy" Sera said, sniffling and wiping her tears using Johns shirt. He pat her back to comfort her while she was crying.

"I'll make sure I'm always here, ready to annoy whenever you want." He pulled her out of the hug before wiping a tear on her face. Sera gave him a sad smile and John gently kissed her forehead, finally putting her at ease. "Ready to go back in the room?" Sera nodded and walked in behind John.

Sera decided to stay standing, next to John. John put his arm around her to pull her closer to him. "Sorry about that, Rei. But yeah, I'd like to join you and your friend if you don't mind."

Remi trying to interject this conversation as soon as possible. "Rei, you aren't doing this anymore. You almost got killed once again. I'm not going to lose you, I... can't." Blyke got up from his chair and hugged Remi.

She started crying into his chest while Blyke made circles on her shoulder. Rei just saw her sister crying and felt powerless, not being able to do anything. She let go of Blyke and Rei spoke up. "I was alone, Remi. Now with John and my friend that's not going to happen. I'm going to be okay." Isen made a joke, trying to lighten up the mood.

"Yeah you should be pretty good now, John'll save your ass many times. Start getting used to it."

It did it's job and everyone seemed to loosen up a bit. "John, what even is your ability?" Rei still had no idea how strong John was.

"It's called Aura Manipulation. I can basically copy abilities and amplify their capabilities. I can hold four at a time too for strong combinations. For example, I can use your lightning and make it seem a lot stronger."

Rei felt like with John they could take on anyone and his broken ability. "I don't even want to know how complicated it must be to use that ability. I'm just glad to be working with you and not against you."

John laugh echoed through the room, making them all smile. He still had one more question for Rei which kind of felt self explanatory the more he thought about it.

"Why'd you hide this whole situation from everyone? It makes sense so that you hide it so you could protect the people around you that may try to join you, but from sister? Do you know how much it would have affected her if she found out you died because you were a superhero? The guilt she would live with for the rest of her life?"

The way John had said it made him feel really bad. Rei knew he was right, but was scared that Remi would do something stupid and try to become a vigilante like him and he couldn't bear to see her injured. "I was scared... scared that she would try to do what I'm doing. I can't see her injured like me or I'll think I failed as her big brother to protect her."

For the first time in a long time, Remi had noticed that Rei was sad. He was always happy and had a positive attitude. Right now, Rei seemed both sad and unconfident in what he was saying. "Rei... you would never be able to fail as my big bro. You're the reason I am the way I am today. I'm always positive no matter what and upbeat because of you."

Something in Rei broke a little, and for the first time in a while, he let a tear fall. Remi just hugged him while Rei started sobbing onto her shoulder. Everyone was just watching, with smiles on their face watching the siblings bond.

Once Rei stopped crying, he let go of Remi and wiped his tears before nervously laughing. "How embarrassing, crying in front of people I just met."

They all just shook their head saying it was okay, "Always better to let it all out than to bottle it all up." Rei just nodded his head before checking the time. It was already ten and visiting hours end in 30 minutes.

"Well, it's getting late. You should all start heading back to your dorms." John looked at the three of them before smiling ready to mock them. "Yeah guys, start heading to your dorms while Sera and I will head to my house."

As soon as John said that, he knew he had thrown himself under the bus. This plan was going to backfire so hard on John he had sensed it. "Is that so? Sera is sleeping over at your house~" Rei started the teasing, with Remi joining in.

"Make sure you keep it down, don't want to wake up your neighbors~" Sera smiled mentally, but on the outside she acted embarrassed. "She's just sleeping over guys, it's not that deep-" John was interrupted by Isen as usual making a stupid joke.

"That's what Sera said." Blyke slapped his mouth from saying anything else that would give him a beating later. Now Sera was smiling mainly because she knew that he was above average last time she checked. "Anywho, we should get going. We'll leave you two to it" Blyke said, dragging Isen out.

John and Sera bid farewell to Rei and that left Remi with Rei. "You like him don't you?" Remi really thought it wasn't obvious, but it was definitely clear if Rei could pick up on it that fast.

"Maybe I do like him, so what?" Rei just smiled, laying back down on his bed. "Nothing, he seems to care about you, and that's all I would ask from my sisters boyfriend."

If Rei wasn't injured, she would've zapped him right there and then. "Yeah yeah, whatever. I'm going to head out now, later big bro!"

With that, Rei was alone again and peacefully fell asleep on the bed with Remi and her friends fresh in his mind.

On the way back, Sera started having thoughts on what John was going to do. 'Was he going to take it slow and tease me or just be straight up. Is he even going to do anything? He seems pretty exhausted.'

John and Sera had made in inside Johns house and the second he closed the door and took off their shoes, he picked Sera up again. This time he would be much more aggressive. He pushed her against a wall again and instantly started making out with her, putting his tongue into her mouth without a second thought.

He was grabbing her bottom thighs and he heard a suppressed moan go through his mouth, making him want to grab it even harder. Sera directed her hands under his shirt and to his back and started scratching him, leaving marks.

John stopped kissing her and started groaning. She could feel his hot breath against her neck and the next thing she knew, he was biting her neck yet again. "Take me to your room~" Sera said seductively. He took no time in walking to his room while Sera was kissing his neck.

His door was already open, making it easier for him to enter. He entered and tackled Sera onto his bed, with him on top. Sera connected lips with John again for another round of tongue twisters.

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While Sera was distracted with Johns mouth, he had unbuttoned her jeans. He stopped kissing her and slowly took off her jeans with his mouth. He was in for a treat when he saw the wet spot in the middle of her pink underwear. "Someone seems to be enjoying themselves~" John said in a teasing voice. "I've waited too long for this" was Sera said before taking off her shirt, revealing her matching bra and silky smooth body.

John started kissing Seras neck slowly while she moaned his name over and over. John started slowly kissing lower and lower until he reached the top of her tits. He grabbed one and slowly caressed it while he went back to her neck, kissing it. With his other hand, he slid it under her panties, and slowly started rubbing her pussy.

"John~" was all she could say. John teased her further though, "John what?" Sera bit her lip and pulled his hair making him groan. "Jo-John, please" was all Sera could say before she moaned louder.

"Please what" he said with a smile across his face as he started rubbing it faster and faster, making her pull his hair harder. "Mmpfh~" was all Sera was able to say as whatever she wanted to say also turned into a moan.

He let go of her breast and put his hand on her face. He started making out with Sera, occasionally hearing her moan through his mouth. She bit his lip soft, making John groan. John pulled his hand out of her underwear, putting it in his mouth to taste the wetness.

He took off his shirt, leaving him to his shorts. Sera started rubbing his cock with her hand and felt it rock hard like when she had jerked him off that one night. "Sera~" was all John could muffle out before sliding his hand back down to her pussy, rubbing her clit. She tried to keep her composure to tease John back, but the occasional moan escaped her mouth.

"Sera what" she said as she started rubbing him faster and faster. Sera couldn't take it anymore and took off his shorts to see a large bulge in his boxers. 'I own that' Sera thought to herself as she looked at it, biting her lip.

While Sera was wrapping her legs around him again to eliminate any space, John had secretly stuck two fingers inside and she started moaning uncontrollably. It felt so much better than when she had done it herself. "John don't stop~" was all she was able to say before the rest turned into a loud moan.

While John was fingering her, he sucked the top of her tit, leaving more hickeys that only she and him would be able to see whenever they please. She placed one of her hands behind his back and started scratching him. "Fuck~" was all he could say as he felt her nails dig into his back. He loved the feeling of it and didn't want her to stop any time soon.

John couldn't take her rubbing against his dick and knew he was going to bust sooner than later. "Sera I'm going to-" was all he was able to say before she slid her hand under his boxers and started jerking him off, speeding up the process ten fold.

"SERA~" was all John was able to say before cumming into Seras hand. She took her hand out of his underwear, and put his load into his mouth. It also tasted better than last time she tried it too.

Once he was satisfied, John noticed that his Queen was not. "Seems like someone hasn't reached their climax yet." Sera didn't even care, she was finally satisfied and was willing to stop. "So? I had my fun, trust me~" she said, licking the last of his cum.

John let his hand respond for him. He still only used two fingers, but was going a lot faster. She was so wet you could hear her pussy splash every time John retracted his fingers and put them back in.

"Fuck John~" was all John needed to hear before continuing. Her legs started shaking and he knew she was close. He slid his hand under her braw, and started twisting her nipple. This was Seras breaking point and she had her orgasm.

John took his hand out of her and looked directly into her eyes as he put those two fingers into his mouth. "You sure know how to please a women~" she said as she finally relaxed, laying down on John with her hand on what was now hers.

"And you sure know how to please a man~" He looked at Sera as he slowly caressed her boob. "Goodnight, Sera" he said as he let go of her tit and put his arm around her, pulling her as close as possible. "Night John" she said as she left her hand exactly where it was. "Oh and one more thing Sera. This was not my surprise."

Sera smiled and kissed him, before falling into a slumber. Soon after, John would join Sera into the peaceful sleep.

Hope you enjoyed part one of the back to back chapter. It was definitely one of my shorter ones. The next couple ones will definitely be longer (: Oh and, thank you again for the insane support. Never thought this book would get this far to be honest! 5387 words excluding A/N

Chapter 8

Johns Saturday was starting off pretty nice if you had asked him. He woke up with Sera in his arms, starting off the day right. They had a nice and slow make out session as they looked at each other, smiling because of their presence. Sera got upset when John got up to make breakfast as usual, leaving her alone.

Sera got up when it was ready, putting on her pj's for warmth. They both really didn't have that much energy today and were planning on staying in the house all day doing who knows what. "So John, you know we haven't finished our Marvel movie marathon yet." He knew exactly what she was getting at and wanted.

"That is true Sera. It's only one and we would have a lot of time to watch some movies." John had the biggest smile on his face knowing exactly what was about to go down when they went back to his room. "Why don't you finish eating your breakfast and meet me in your room~"

John was downing his breakfast and chugging his orange juice for nothing. His phone started ringing from an unknown number. John reluctantly picked it up thinking about Sera laying down on his bed.

"Hello?" John said a bit confused at who could be calling him. "Hey, John! It's me, Rei! Can we meet up today in an hour to talk about that hero stuff?" John sighed, knowing that he's going to put Sera and her offer on hold. "Yeah, just tell me where and I'll be there."

"Okay, it's this café here, I'll send you the address. My friend'll be there too! See you in an hour!" John hung up and saved Rei in his contacts. He walked into his room and there Sera was, laying on her side. "Look who finally showed up~" Sera said as seductively as ever. "I've been waiting for you~"

If this was any other time, John would have jumped on Sera and done exactly what Sera was asking for. Unluckily for both of them, It wasn't any other time. He just walked to his bed and gave her a peck on the lips. "Sorry, Sera. This is going to have to be put on-" She didn't let him finish that sentence that she was dreading to hear.

"John Doe, you are not going anywhere. You are coming to lay down with me and please me right now" Sera said as she took off her shirt, throwing it at Johns back. She had no idea how bad John wanted to push her against the bed and do god knows what.

John turned around to see Sera now without her pj's, spreading her legs for him to see her glory. John drooled as he saw the beautiful sight, but needed to show up. "Fuck, Sera. Don't make this any harder for me than it already is." John looked into her eyes and saw lust. He knew she wanted him so bad, and he felt the same way.

John walked up to Sera after putting on his clothes and for a second, she thought he would actually stay and she would have some fun. John just kissed her forehead innocently. Sera started pouting and put a blanket over herself. "Fine then, at least tell me where you're going."

"I'm going to meet up with Rei to talk about this vigilante thing." Her heart sank as he said that. Although she didn't approve of it, Sera knew there was no convincing him. "John, please be careful." John gave her a long firm kiss, "I will, Sera. You have my word."

As John was about to leave his room, Sera told John one more thing to tease him. "Oh and, since you're leaving me I'm going to have to do it myself~" Johns heart skipped a beat as she said that.

"Leave some for when I get back" John said as he gave her a peace sign and closed the door behind him. John really had no idea what they were going to talk about when he got there.

All he knew was that he was going to meet up with Rei and his friend to talk about the situation. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't nervous on the way to the café. 'Should I really be doing this? I said it was going to be just one night.'

The closer he was to the meetup spot, the more anxious he was. By the time he noticed, he made it to the front. He entered and the door bell rang. He took a sit at the booth and waited for Rei.

"So who are we meeting again?" Kuyo still had no idea who he was going to see with Rei. "The person that saved my life."

That didn't give Kuyo much to work with but was grateful for this guy. "Can you at least tell me what his name is?" Kuyo said as they were about five minutes from the meetup spot. "His name is John. He wanted to be a superhero like us."

Kuyo started to like this John guy more and more. "Is that so? The three of us helping people out makes this seem much safer, especially with this killer on the loose trying to eliminate people like us."

"That's who he saved me from actually. The person that I was fighting whos' supposedly called Volcan was fighting me when he came. He was able to fight her off and take me to the hospital."

He was impressed that this guy was able to fight off this infamous superhero killer. "He seems pretty strong, what's his ability and level?" Rei didn't know what his level was, but knew his ability.

"It's definitely the coolest one I've ever heard of. He could copy any four abilities and basically amp them, making them stronger." He liked the sound of having someone like that on their team. "So basically he'll have lightning and Conjure: Blades at all times?"

Rei nodded his head before continuing, "So basically there will be two of us, but stronger. He'll also have those two extra abilities he copies. It should make our job a lot easier now."

Kuyo nodded and then there they were, at the front. "Ready?" Rei asked him, giving him a nod. They entered and the door bell rang. John looked at the door and saw Rei and a ponytailed man.

He waved them over and they sat down across him. "I'm John, nice to meet you" John said as he extended his hand. "I'm Kuyo." They shook hands and Rei started up the conversation.

"So John, where you from?" Rei wanted to get to know John before they started working together, but that question made John gulp. "New Bostin" he said as calmly as possible. "Oh wow, that's pretty far from here. Why'd you come over here?"

John knew that it was personal, but he felt like if he was going to tell his friends and Sera, he should do a test trial on Rei and his friend to see what reaction he would get. "Well, I was expelled from New Bostin High for excessive violence."

Rei and Kuyo both tensed up, knowing that he could whoop their ass whenever he wanted. John noticed this and tried to explain what happened in more detail. "I was a late bloomer you see. I used to get bullied every single day in school and when I finally got my ability near the end of 8th grade, I became drunk in power. I would beat people up every day if they looked at me. One day my best friend betrayed me."

Johns voice cracked as tears were starting to build. "Hey, you don't need to finish if you don't want to." John insisted on finishing the story however. "She brought up our whole class together to try to finish my reign as king. I beat them all up to a pulp. My friend called the authorities on me and sent me to three months of readjustment classes."

Rei and Kuyo never liked the authorities, so they knew that something bad must've happened to him when he spent three months in those classes. "When I was there, they would... replay the memories of me beating my friends and everyone up every single day. My "instructor" would even get physical with me if I didn't comply. I spent three months handcuffed."

A tear fell down his face before he finished his traumatic story. "After that, my Dad wrote unOrdinary to help me out and the rest is history."

Kuyo was the first to speak up, "These fucking authorities. Always doing whatever they want people. How could they even do that to a kid." Rei was more sad for John than pissed off. "I'm sorry that you had to go through that."

"It's alright, I deserved it-" Kuyo interrupted him before John could finish that sentence, "No one deserves that, John. People make mistakes and that's okay. You don't deserve to be tortured for that." John didn't even get to say anything before Rei spoke up again.

"What they did to you was cruel and you never should have gone through that. I'm sorry that happened to you." John didn't really know what to say. He never expected them to understand what he went through. He had expected for them to call him a monster, but here they still were empathizing with him.

"Thank you both, really. Enough about me though, what about you two?" Rei told John about him first, "Well, I'm from Lancaster. It's a couple towns over. I eventually came to Wellston as a 3.2 and Kuyo over here was my roommate." This is where Kuyo jumps in, "Yeah, we first met when he was moving boxes to my room. He helped me out and then we became friends."

"Our friendship was a bit bumpy though. He was hellbent on the hierarchy while I was the complete opposite. I wanted everyone to be treated equally and he didn't like that much." Kuyo cringed at his old self. How could he have been so selfish. "Yup, and one day my friend slapped cake out of his lunch and he whooped my ass, officially making him stronger than me."

Rei laughed, remembering the look on his face when he got beat by someone who he thought was weaker than him. "Yeah, then he slowly starting changing my ideology. In his third year he dethroned the King and started changing the whole system."

"Changed the system how? Because right now it seems to be the classic hierarchy I've known for my whole life." Rei knew Arlo wouldn't have kept the system he had, but still had a sliver of hope he would. "Well basically when I became King, I got rid of the barrier separating all tiers. At first it was complete chaos, but eventually everything settled down and low-tiers got along with everyone. Shame it's back to the same."

John would've never guessed that Wellston was once a safe haven. Everywhere he would go, there'd always be some sort of fight and he'd have to break it up. "How'd you do it?" John asked Rei, sparking some hope in him.

"Well, I basically just got rid of ranking. Everyone was on equal footing, able to talk to whoever they want and join whatever clubs they wanted with no fear of getting bet up. I asked Vaughn if I could hold a meeting with all students, which really helped spread the message. I even had the Queen help out too which was nice. The Jack was Kuyo, so he was already helping out whenever he saw a situation."

John was intrigued by his methods and genuinely thought that it could have worked longer if Arlo hadn't ruined the whole system he had. "Interesting way, I wish it was still like that. Arlo loves the hierarchy too much to keep the sys-"

Rei interrupted John, "Then why don't you become King? You could adopt my system and make it even better. Teach the freshmen next year and whoever your successor will be that this is the right way for people to be treated."

John shook his head as Rei said that. "I can't do that and you know exactly the reason why I can't. I have my second chance and don't want to ruin it again."

This time, Kuyo spoke up to John, trying to convince him otherwise. "John, you don't seem to be that brat all those years ago. You seemed to regret what you did and that's a good start. Why not give it a try? I can tell that you genuinely want to help people out and getting rid of the hierarchy is the best way to help out in your school."

John knew that Kuyo had a good point, but could he trust himself? What if he turns into a tyrant again? What if he beats everyone up again for no reason? What if Sera leaves him because of that? "I can't do that, Kuyo. As much as I would love to do it I can't."

Rei didn't stop though, he was persistent on this and knew that if he continued, John would give it at least a second thought. "Maybe you don't see it John, but you aren't like that anymore. I could tell that you wish you never did that, that you would do anything to fix it. You can't fix your past mistakes, but you can better yourself. Make up for it by doing what you couldn't before. The best revenge is proving people wrong and succeeding in the impossible."

Something in John broke a little as he said that. The way Rei said it and what he said really moved him. 'Maybe Rei is right. Maybe just maybe, I could help the people at Wellston. I couldn't do it at New Bostin, but I can do it here. I've matured enough to not make the same mistake twice.'

"I'll give it a shot. I'll dethrone Arlo on Tuesday and inherit your system." Rei shook his head, making John confused. "No John, I don't want you to inherit my system. I want you to make it better. I want you to next year think that what I did was garbage compared to how it is now."

John just nodded while Kuyo gave John a small smile. "You really do remind me of Rei you know that? Both of your ideologies are the exact same, and I could tell that your energy is like him too even if you aren't showing it right now."

"It's because he's actually my brother" John said jokingly. "You, Rei and Remi really are all the same. Now it's time to get down to business." The cheery vibe was turned serious in a split second.

Just as they were about to start talking about superhero business, the waiter finally showed up. "Sorry for the delay, we've had a huge increase in customers lately. What can I get you three?"

"Kuyo over here will take a coffee and I'll take a water." The waiter looked over at John, "I'll take a water as well." He wrote down the order and went on his way to get the drinks. "So back to what I was about to say. When are we starting?"

Rei shrugged while John gave Kuyo the answer he wanted to actually hear. "Why not start today? I don't see why we wouldn't be able to stop today."

"Are you okay with this, Rei? I know that you just got released from the hospital today and might be rusty" Rei nodded enthusiastically to reassure them. "So what's your superhero name? Mine is X-Static and Kuyo is Blade Master. Yours is..."

This was Johns que and they probably already knew who he was because of the news and they just haven't connected the dots yet. "I go by Joker."

There it was, their mouths dropped and they knew exactly who this person was. "You're the Joker that was on the news yesterday?" John nodded and they were ecstatic.

"News sure spreads around here fast huh? Yup that was me though. Surprised that you didn't put two and two together when you both found out what my ability was."

Now that they thought about it more, it was pretty obvious. "Now I really want to go out today" Rei told them both. "Then it's settled. Today at ten we'll meet up at the subway and head to Branish. Heard there's someone that's been running that whole town by themselves. Goes by the name of Waldo."

"Here are you drinks" the waiter passes the drink around and puts the check on the table. "So, what do you know about Waldo?" John asked as he took a sip of the ice-cold water. "Well, his ability his shockwave and his recorded level is 2.8."

John was a little bit confused why they would need to take someone that weak out, let alone why the people in the town didn't gang up on this person. "Mind telling me why they haven't just beat him up. He's an above average mid-tier at best."

Kuyo forgot that he was a inexperienced in this and didn't know much about any of this. "They have a vial that-" John knew exactly what he was talking about now. When he finished fighting Sianna he saw one on the ground and put it in his pocket. He wasn't able to check the contents inside though because when he fought Volcan, it had fell out of his pocket. He put two and two together.

"Can amplify their ability level" John said, finishing his sentence. Kuyo was actually surprised that he knew what it was and the content inside. "So now I think you know how he's been able to terrorize Branish."

"Do we know how much it actually amplifies or an estimated guess?" They really didn't have an exact number, but could make a rough estimate. "It seems like it increases their ability level by 1.5 times at most" Rei guesstimated.

"So basically, it's like my amplify. Wait... it's my amplify." John had a thought, but just a thought which haunted him. 'No, there's no way she's alive. It's impossible.' The thought that her mother could be helping EMBER, or be held against her own will made his stomach twist.

"John hello? Are you there?" John snapped out of his thoughts as Reis hand waved in front of his face. "I was just thinking about the vial." They both raised their eyebrow in confusion because it felt pretty straight forward to them.

"My mom... she disappeared when I was a little kid and she left without a trace. My father is a cripple so the only person that I could've got my ability from was my mother. It just seems to line up so perfectly and... I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking it all."

The more they thought about what John said, the more they thought about how disgusting and dirty the authorities are. Kuyo spoke up, "John, I don't think you're far off. You're probably the only person with an ability like that, if not at least the only person in the U.S. If your theory is true and the authorities are using your mother as a guinea pig, that disgust me."

"I would rather have my Mom be dead than see her with tubes and needles in her like she's not a human." The more John spoke, the more that thought got stuck in their head.

Rei had to try to reassure John that it would work itself out. "Don't worry, John. It's going to be oka-" John slammed his fist on the table, silencing Rei. "Don't worry? It's going to be okay? My Mom could be getting tortured right now and you're telling me not to worry!? How can I not worry, Rei? I haven't seen my Mother since I was three and the first time I might actually have a lead I find out it's that she could be held against her will or even be working with EMBER! So don't you dare tell me to not worry."

The table was silent until Kuyo spoke up. "John, I know what you must be feeling right now-" John was not in the mood now and started getting more and more pissed off "Do you really though? Do you know what it's like to lose your Mother at a young age and have little to no guidance as you grow up. Get bullied every day and then randomly get your ability? Then beat people up when you're at the top then get mentally and physically tortured?!"

While John was having a tantrum, Kuyo kept his cool the whole time to not aggravate John further. "Let me finish, John. You must feel pissed off and upset, which you have every right to. I promise you we will get to the bottom of where the vial comes from and find out if this is actually due to your Mothers ability. Because if this is true, we can finally expose the authorities and find a lead to save your mother."

John had calmed down and was apologizing profusely for acting up. "We completely understand. If I had found out that Remi was in a situation like that I would be screaming at everyone."

"So our first lead is that the vial could possibly be from my Mom. We aren't even sure if she's the cause of the vial, but if she is then what? We can't really interrogate anyone that we-" Rei came up with an idea that could possibly work.

"You're wrong, John. There is one person that may have the information we need to start our investigation." John was now eager to find out who this is and go talk to get answers. "Who might this be? I'll leave right now and have a nice talk with them."

"Volcan." John instantly knew that Rei was right about that. If anyone was going to know where the source of this was, it would be her. "It makes sense, but do you have hard evidence that she would be the one that would be a good start?" John asked them both.

Rei and Kuyo both nodded, letting Kuyo take the lead here. "We were taking someone out and when we asked her where she bought the drugs from, she said Volcan."

That was all the confirmation that they needed. Now all they needed to do was actually get her attention. "So, how do we find her?" Rei asked. John gave him a smile, "We don't find her, Rei. All we do is take out her buyers and eventually she'll try to eliminate us. And when she does find us, I'll make sure that she won't be able to run away until she answers my questions."

"Don't be too cocky. We know that you're strong, but I don't think you'd be able to take her out that easily. She has fought and killed many superheroes alre-"

John didn't let Kuyo finish his sentence, "She's never fought me before. On our encounter I was fighting to disorient her long enough so I can run with Rei to the hospital. Plus, I had terrible abilities during the fight. When I fight her with both of your abilities, it'll be cake for me. If Rei wasn't there she probably would be in the hospital right now in a coma, especially if I knew that it's possible that she could be the source of my Moms suffering."

Rei had a smile on his face, "I can tell that you're fully confident in your capabilities. We're still going to help you out when the time comes, but just know that we fully believe that you can take her on alone."

John smiled and leaned back while sipping on his water. "You never told me what your ability was, Kuyo." If he was going to be working with Rei and Kuyo, he needed to know their ability and study if he hadn't learned it yet. "It's Conjure: Blades, it's pretty self explanatory."

"Perfect, something I know how to use. Don't need to take out the book and study a new ability I've never seen before." Kuyo nodded before continuing, "So how often are we doing this? Once you make it to college you have off days, but I know in Wellston you don't have those except for the holidays."

"Does Monday, Wednesday, Friday and work for you two?" John asked the two adults in front of him. "Fits my schedule perfectly fine. What about you Kuyo?" Rei asked the ponytailed man. He gave a Rei and John a firm nod.

"Ok perfect, anything else you want to discuss? It's already six and if we're going out today at nine I'd like to relax for a little bit before we go out."

"Yeah just one more thing actually" Rei said with that mischievous smile. "How are you and Seraphina~" There was the question John had sensed when he saw that smile on Rei. He decided to play with Rei for a little bit.

"We fucked last night actually." His smile faded instantly at his bluntness and Kuyo could tell John was messing around, but didn't want to ruin it. "Oh wow. I was just joking but I'm glad that you had your fun last night."

John could've gone longer, but if he had he would get to his house later. "I was just kidding, Rei. We just slept together that was all." Reis mischievous smile was back now as those words exited Johns mouth.

"Is that so? Did you at least do something before you went to sleep with her?" John couldn't just say what he did with her because that would just be weird, so he made it seem a lot more innocent than what it actually was. "We just hugged for a while until she fell asleep in my arms."

It was a half lie. They did more than hug, but she did end up falling asleep in his arms. "Why aren't you two dating again?"

"It's because she doesn't know yet. Once I tell her I'll leave the choice to her if she still wants to be with me." Rei was dumbfounded about what he could've been talking about until he remembered the New Bostin situation. "John, I think she'd have the same reaction as Kuyo and I. She'll feel bad for what happened to you and try to help you move on. The longer you hide this from her, the more upset she'll get later on when you tell her."

John was so frustrated about this whole situation and didn't know what to do. He knew Rei was right, but that didn't give him the courage to tell her what happened in his past. "I know, I'm just scared that she'll reject me and leave me when she finds out."

John had every reason to believe that. After all, he lost his only friends because of what happened, so who is he to think that she'll stay when she finds out how much of a monster he used to be. "Seraphina isn't going to do that for one important reason." John looked at him and thought of any reason he could be thinking of. He didn't get to figure it out in time before Rei could tell him.

"She'll notice that you've change. You aren't that same John that you were back in New Bostin. She would be happy that you told her. I'm telling you, once she finds out your burden will be gone and you can finally get with her. It seems to me that you like her a lot."

He couldn't have been more spot on, he liked her a lot. He wouldn't say that he loved her but it was definitely a possibility in the future if he actually ended up with her. "I'll tell her tomorrow. She's probably going to sleep over again and I wouldn't want to ruin the mood she's been lately."

Rei smiled, "Go get her tiger." With that, John put the money for the bill and walked out of the café and back to his house.

He couldn't stop thinking about what they were talking about, mainly about his Mom. 'Is it actually true? Am I just giving myself false hope or is she actually alive? Is she waiting to be saved by Dad or me?'

He didn't know what to think. All he knew was that they soon would find out the source of the capsule, whether it was because of his Mom or something else. His next thought was how he was going to tell Sera.

John knew that their bond was inseparable, but that's also what he thought about Claire. Then something hit him like a truck. John wasn't the one that got betrayed, it was Claire that got betrayed. 'All those times she tried to talk to me, I rediculed her. I would push her and even slapped her once. She did that in hopes that I would come to my senses and become the John she knew. You're so stupid!'

John started going off on himself for being a stupid little kid, but figuring this out still didn't change anything. He was able to take blame now yes, but that doesn't change what he did and what happened to him in those classes. It sure as hell didn't tell him how he was going to tell Sera.

The closer he got to his house, the more guilt he felt. He knew that starting tomorrow, Sera might be gone forever. He didn't want to take advantage of her today and just go all out though. He knew the risk of telling her, but it was always better to be honest.

John felt so overwhelmed. With this whole vial theory he came up with, to having to tell Sera his history tomorrow. He just wanted to relax today, but promised that he would start his vigilante days today.

He finally it home and made his way to the front door and unlocked the door. He closed it behind him and locked the door. He looked down on his watch and saw it was only 6:30. 'I have time to lay down on my bed. He took off his shoes, put it next to his door and walked to his room.

When he opened the door, there Sera was, napping on his bed. He took off his shirt and jeans, and just cuddled with her. He hugged her and felt her warmth for what could be the last time. Instinctively, Sera moved her head and was laying her head on Johns chest. He moved the hair that was covering her face and smiled looking at her peaceful face.

He set an alarm for eight and took a power nap with Sera for what could possibly be the last time.

Hope you enjoyed this back to back for the 1k special (: It was a little exhausting writing back to back all in one day, so I'll be back on Monday! Hope you guys have an amazing day!

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Chapter 9

Johns nap didn't last long at all. He was napping for about 30 minutes before he woke up on his own. He still had about an hour before he needed to start getting ready, so he turned off his alarm to avoid waking Sera up and started passing time with his phone.

He was just playing Slappy Pig to distract himself for the time being. With so much happening, he needed something like that.

John was still thinking about what Rei proposed. He was still scared to take that title and rule Wellston. The main issue wasn't that he didn't know how to rule. The problem was that he was scared.

Scared that he would go back to his old ways, beating people up over gossip. He didn't like the pressure and attention he was getting during his time as King. On the contrary, he was probably getting all of that attention because there was always something bad to say about him.

He was unsure if it would happen all over again. Would he really go back to his New Bostin ways? Beating people up for little to no reason? He had a foundation down, but could that even matter in the long run?

He knew where to start from his talk with Rei and Kuyo, but would that even help him out? John didn't know if he had it in him to help everyone out. Did he even have that leadership skill to change peoples point of views?

John was sure that he would end up lashing out over the stress eventually, but remembered a certain girl laying down on him. He looked down and saw her face peacefully napping on him. She calmed him down in so many ways he didn't even know was possible. With her by his side, he was always calm.

There was also that problem, John telling her about his past. He wasn't even sure if she would stick by his side after John tells her everything he did. He couldn't imagine having to spend the rest of Wellston without her.

How much it would hurt to look at her as he's walking in the halls and just see disgust and hatred in her eyes. It would leave a hole in his chest for years to come. He couldn't lose her, he needed her. It was like she brought out the good in him.

John did start getting better after he read unOrdinary, but he still mostly kept to himself. With her, he felt comfortable enough to tell her anything and never feel judged. Like Sera always had his back no matter what.

He does have the trio, but would they feel the same way once I told them? Losing Sera in it of itself is a killing blow, but losing his other friends would be the nail in the coffin. He would be all alone again and he hated that feeling.

Like it was him versus everyone else. All John could do is pray that she would understand and not leave him after. The only thing he knew was that he would have to tell her the full truth and leave no gaps. It would be better to be fully honest and have her leave than have him feel guilt every time he sees Sera.

Then there was this whole vigilante thing on his mind too. He was officially going to dedicate himself to this and was scared. He knew he was capable of protecting himself which is why he wasn't worried about himself.

John was scared that he wouldn't be able to help Kuyo, Rei or whoever he was helping out. The guilt he would have to live with if he had to tell Remi that he couldn't save her brother.

Or if he saw Kuyo die in front of him and the distraught look on Reis face. It would haunt him for the rest of his days on planet Earth. He would do his very best to make sure that no matter what, he would put everyone else in front of him.

If John wanted to redeem himself for all the shitty things he's done with his ability, he would start now and help people with it, like what the hero in unOrdinary did.

He knew that the second he put the mask on, he would need to be ready to make any sacrifice necessary to save people. John knew the risk of it all, but he needed this.

The thing that was haunting him the most was his theory. The fact that his long lost Mother could be held captured or even working with EMBER made his stomach have butterflies.

He had hoped that he would just forget about his Mom eventually, but now that was completely off the table. John didn't want to believe his theory, but it felt like everything had lined up so perfectly for it to be true.

She's been gone since John was a toddler and never made contact with her ever since. Then years late John finds a vial that can do what his ability can.

His ability obviously didn't come from William because he's a cripple. The only person he could have got it from was his Mother. The next thing was what the drug does to the user.

It supposedly amplifies their ability by approximately 1.5 times. It's exactly what he could do with his ability for starters. Considering he got his ability from her, the only other person that could have been able to do that other than John was his Mother.

'Which narrows it down to one of two things. She is helping EMBER eliminate superheroes or she's being captive.' John didn't like any of those options he came up with, but that second one sent chills down his spine.

The fact that they could capture someone that could possibly be as strong as him if not stronger scares him. It made him doubt himself and if he could truly protect himself or anyone in general.

Then he came up with something, but it was a big what if. What if she wasn't actually captured, but was forced to go with them because they threatened her with something that she couldn't refuse.

'It could be quite possible EMBER threatened to hurt Dad and I if she didn't go.' That helped him calm down a little bit, but just a little bit. This was all just speculation though, she could actually have left Dad and I after she found out I was a cripple at the time.

That thought made him clench his fist. 'If she really did voluntarily join EMBER and left us alone, I would want to know why.' He needed to know why she would do that.

John was just getting ahead of himself, he wasn't even sure if she was the cause of this vial. For all he knew, his Mom was long gone and EMBER just figured out how to make it. John hoped that he wasn't giving himself false hope of seeing his Mom again, but couldn't help it.

He really did hope that she was the cause, and could trace it out. Save her from that hell hole and finally be able to live a happy life with his Mom and Dad.

Now that John thought about his Mother, he never knew what she looked like. She could've had blue hair and green eyes and he would've never guessed it. After all, William never really talked about her often, let alone show a picture of what she looked like.

John started thinking about all the happy scenarios he could have with the family finally reunited, but was cut short as Sera randomly jumped, gaining Johns full attention.

She lifted her head off of John and looked at his concerned eyes. "Did you have a bad dream?" Sera nodded, recalling the events vividly.

John got on his side and wrapped one of his arms around her waist to pull her closer and put his hand under her chin to make eye contact. "Wanna talk about it?"

Sera could tell from his soft voice that he was trying to comfort her. She just nodded and after a moment, she spoke up.

"I was all alone in my pitch black room and then you came in..." Sera paused mid sentence. John took his hand from below her chin and held her hand, squeezing it to comfort her.

Sera went on as John comforted her, "I ran up to you to try to hug you, but when I did you..." Sera paused again with tears forming in her eyes.

John let go of her waist and started caressing Seras face while still holding her hand, giving her the courage to continue. "You pushed me away and said so many things like 'I wish I never met you' and 'I hope you kill yourself' and I just."

Sera hugged John and started sobbing on him. He felt her warm tears drop off of Seras face and onto his chest.

All he could do was wrap his arms around Seraphina and give her the hug she desperately needed. John hated seeing Sera like this, he felt so powerless and just couldn't do anything but wait for her to finish.

After what felt like hours for John which was only a minute or two max, she stopped crying on John. He let go of one of his arms and wiped away the tears off her face."I'm so sor-"

John didn't let Sera say another word, "Don't you dare say sorry, Sera. It's completely okay to have nightmares. I would never ever say those things to you. You mean too much to me for me to ever say something like that and I mean it."

Sera gave John a sad smile as he kissed her forehead, "Thank you, John. I'll try to be less of a burden." John looked into her red eyes that showed so much sadness, "You aren't a burden Sera, I promise."

She moved as close as possible to him before putting her head in the crook of his neck to get more comfortable and wrapped her hands around his stomach. John couldn't see her face, but could feel the small smile across her face.

John wrapped his arms around Sera and they just stayed like this. It was peaceful, it felt like heaven to them. Sera loved Johns warmth and how he would wrap his arms around her waist. It made her feel safe from everything out in the world and that was all she could ask for.

John loved everything about this. Her body felt so smooth to him and her skin felt so soft. Seras delicate touch whenever she touched him anywhere made him at ease.

He wished that they could stay like this. John contemplated staying here with Sera. Just hugging her until they fell asleep in each others arms, but remembered he HAD to meet up with Rei and Kuyo.

"Sera" John said, ready to burst her bubble. "What?" John felt her hot breath on his neck making him want to stay even more. It really was hard to resist Sera and this time was no different. "I'm going to meet up with Rei and Kuyo tonight at nine."

She knew exactly where this was going and took she took it upon her self to try to convince him to stay. Sera started kissing his neck slow and started going up to his ear. John had to bite inside his mouth to suppress the moan as she started biting his ear. "Sera please~" John said as a little moan came out.

"Please what~" Sera said as she stopped nibbling his ear to continue kissing his neck. "Save it for later please." That was not what she wanted to hear, but continued to kiss his neck and started sucking on it.

Instinctively John slightly pulled her hair as she continued to tease him. "Fuck~" was all he was able to say. He couldn't take it anymore and sat up to try to shake her off.

Sera followed him and was now sitting on him, still sucking on his neck. Both of her hands were on his chest and she was grinding him. "Sera~" was all John was able to say as she continued her motion. The only way to stop this was for him to become dominant, so he did just that.

He flipped her and was now hovering above her. John was so tempted to continue what they were doing as they were less than an inch from each others face, but controlled himself. "Looks like I got through to someone~" she said as she pointed at something.

If John wasn't close to giving in, he sure as hell was now. "Maybe you did~" John gave her a long kiss using his tongue, and retracted it shortly after. "Or maybe, I just did this to make you think you had me."

He got off of Sera and went to his closet to get his vigilante clothes out of the closet. He turned around and there Sera was, giving him the cold shoulder. She was facing the wall and was covering herself beside her head with the blanket.

"I'll be back soon, I promise." No response, so he continued on, "Are you going to be awake when I get back?" Still no response, so this time he said something that would hopefully get her attention. "You know, when I get back, I can use my hands in way you haven't seen or felt before."

This seemed to get her attention as she turned around and gave the most seductive look someone can give. She looked at John as she bit her lip. Her eyes told John everything he needed to know. She then stopped being horny just for a second as she remembered what he was doing tonight.

"Be safe, please." John gave her a forehead kiss to reassure her, "I will. I'll try not to keep you waiting that long." Sera pulled him by his collar shirt for one long affectionate kiss and bid him farewell.

On his walk to the subway to meet at Branish with his duffel bag again, he started thinking about the situation he was going to be in. Tonight would be the rebirth of Joker and he planned to stay for a long time.

John didn't really have an end goal for what he was doing. He just wanted to help out as many people as he could and eventually figure out if the vial is related to his Mother.

Scratch that, John did have a goal in mind. Exterminate EMBER and expose the authorities for all their wrong doings, including the readjustment facility. If John could do any of those two, he would think his job as a vigilante would be a huge success.

The problem is, both of those are near impossible to do. There is no hard proof that the authorities are even connected to EMBER, but it pretty obvious.

Also, EMBER is a huge organization which is... backed by the authorities. Remove the authorities and you kill two birds with one stone. That was a lot easier said than done though.

It would be easier to eliminate EMBER and find proof that they're working together. All he needed to do was continue to do these quest and eventually Volcan would find them.

All John needed to do now was wait, but that wasn't his strongest suit. He was now eager more than ever to run into Volcan and get some answers about the drug and their roots.

His phone buzzed and saw a message from Rei.

Rei: Meet me at Maiden Street

John: Got it

He had reached the subway in no time and took a seat right where the Emma girl approached him, hoping to see her again. Sadly, she nor the Mom was there which was a bit disappointing.

John started reminiscing about his first time going out. The adrenaline he felt as he fought that Sianna chick and how good he felt when he saved those civilians. He was more thankful than ever to be out that night and be able to save Remis brother.

He could tell that Rei was a nice person and just wanted to help people. After all, if he didn't care he wouldn't have done what he did back at Wellston.

John had some hope in himself, that he could do what Rei did back at Wellston. All he ever wanted to do was help people, but was corrupted by his power. Now he has more control over himself and his ability.

He started thinking about what he was going to do when he became King at Wellston and had hoped that Arlo didn't take it to heart. John knew he was hellbent on the hierarchy, but had hope that maybe he was like Sera.

Arlo just needed that little push to see that the hierarchy was hot trash and you shouldn't need to be treated by your tier level. Maybe then, he would be a likeable person and they could become friends. At the end of the day, John didn't want any bad blood with anyone.

The first thing John needed to do when he was elected as King was to host a meeting like what Rei did. He would first break the news to everyone and hope for no bad reactions. Obviously there's going to be specific people that want to interject this, but John would try to convince otherwise.

The subway had stopped at Branish, interrupting his plan when he becomes declared as new King. He got off and went in an alleyway that was secluded to change. He put on his hoodie with the orange sleeves that he had to sew back together, the flexible pants and the Joker mask.

He put it on and started heading to Maiden Street. He had no ability so it made him a little late compared to everyone else.

He texted Rei when he got to the street because he didn't see any of them.

John: Where r u

Rei: On roof, take my ability

John felt the ability activated and used it to scale the wall and made it to the roof. "What is this outfit bro? You look homeless right now." Rei teased John because compared to his and Kuyos outfits, his looked terrible.

"I didn't really put much thought into it. This was supposed to be a one night thing, my bad." Kuyo threw him a bag that seemed to be heavy enough to have clothes inside. "We suspected your outfit would be terrible, so Rei got one for you already. It's like the one you were wearing in the video. Go try it on and tell me if it fits."

John went back to ground level and into the alleyway closest to this street. He undressed himself and opened the bag to see the outfit. It looked like the one Rei had but there were some differences.

The sleeves were spray painted orange like Kuyo had said and was fully black. Other than that, everything was the same. It had the utility belt and the same type of mask to cover his face. He put it on and it fit perfect on him.

He jumped and did a 40 yard dash to see if it was fit for combat and it was perfect.

(Credit to Em on Amino! She drew this! Link to the whole post will be at the end of chapter)

John made his way back with his new found suit that was oh-so-kindly gifted to him. "Well, how do I look?" John asked both of them knowing that he was looking sick. "You look more professional for sure." Kuyo didn't give John the answer he wanted to hear, but Rei did, "Badass is the only word to describe it! You're officially one of us!"

Now that was the answer John was looking for and he was smiling, even though the masked covered it up. "So, where is this Waldo guy at?" John asked, still having no data on this dude and his location.

"I went out yesterday and I found someone that told me. She told me what I usually hear. Someone that used to be weak suddenly became super strong and has been terrorizing this place sense."

John gave a snarky answer, "That's super crazy Kuyo, but this doesn't tell me where he's at." Rei silently chuckled waiting for Kuyo to react. Surprisingly, he gave back a sarcastic answer.

"Oops I just forgot. Ah man, guess we're going looking." John was now laughing as Kuyo just gave a small smile. "He's in the tallest building. It's so cliché. You take over a town and decide to take over the biggest and tallest building. I could've figured it out myself.

John knew exactly what building he was talking about. It was literally right across from them, rather convenient meet up spot if you asked them. "So what's the plan? We going guns blazing or stealthy?"

Kuyo tossed John an ear piece for communication before explaining. "Rei and I will go into the building and fight Waldo. YOU will be on standby ready to take action if anything urgent happens."

This was not how John planned his first day as a vigilante to start. He was hoping to kick some ass and save some people, not be fodder. "So basically I'm going to be sitting on my ass doing nothing?"

Rei shook his head, he forgot that this was basically his first time and was a newbie in this whole thing. "You'd be surprised at how many of these people have hostages ready to kill. Especially with all these heroes around, they need something to hold them back from fighting them in the first place."

John sighed because he knew that he had a good point and would have a chance of no action tonight. He would've got some action if he stayed with Sera, but that was water under the bridge now.

"Ok got it, code names are X-Static and Blade Master correct?" They both nodded before activating their abilities for John to have in case he needed to fight.

Rei and Kuyo started making their way towards this building. "So, what's the plan? Actually let me guess. There is no plan is there?" Kuyo had been doing this with Rei for so long he knew the routine by now.

"Wow, how'd you know? It's like you know my style of not giving a fuck and going in abilities drawn." Kuyo just shrugged, "I'm a good guesser, that' all there is to it. And before you say anything yes, we will try to talk to their body guards before they start ignoring us and fight."

Rei laughed and made their way to the front building before making sure their communication was working. "Blade Master to Joker, do you copy?"

"Copy" John told Kuyo through the ear piece. "Ready, X-Static?"

"Ready as I'll ever be." They entered the building to see three people standing by the elevator. One of them had was orange-haired that was an afro with red eyes. There was a light blue-haired man with blue eyes and had a comb over hair. The third person was a girl purple-hair that was straight and reached just past her shoulders and yellow eyes.

The orange-haired man spoke up first, "Who the hell are you two and why are you here?" Rei tried to bluff his way out of this to avoid a fight.

"We're here to see Waldo and we have some business to deal with." The orange-man spoke up again, "I don't think he was expecting visitors. Leave. Now."

Kuyo stood his ground, still not activating his ability. "We need to ta-" Kuyo was interrupted as the afro haired man tried to punch him. He seemed to be able to turn his hands into solid rock.

He tried to hit his face but missed as Kuyo activated his ability and stepped back. Rei activated his ability and was about to shoot some lightning at the guy, but the blue-haired man was able to shoot a projectile out of his hand, forcing him to dodge it.

Kuyo threw a kunai at the blue-haired man, the main issue. It struck his left shoulder, disabling his left arm for the rest of fight. The purple-haired girl finally activated her ability and entangled Kuyo with her long hair.

The guy with the rock hands struck Kuyo in the gut while he was unable to move. Rei hit that girl with lightning, knocking her unconscious. Now all that was left was a injured person shooting projectiles with his hand a stone handed man.

Kuyo activated his blade and fought his one versus one with the orange-haired man while Rei electrocuted the blue-haired man, knocking him unconscious as well.

"You're just going to let me fight this guy?" The orange-haired man was confused why he didn't just shock him like everyone else and go fight Waldo. "We fight with honor you see. It wouldn't be fair to do a one versus two now would it?"

With that, he rushed Kuyo hoping to end this fight as fast as possible. He tried to punch him in the face, but he deflected it with his katana that was glowing bright blue.

He stepped back, giving Kuyo the chance to rush him. He rushed him and by the time the afro man noticed, there was a blade inches from his neck. "Do you yield?"

He deactivated his ability, "I yield." Kuyo took his blade away from him and deactivated his ability as well. As they were about to leave, he gave them a word of advice for sparing him from being injured like the other two.

"Before you go, he's holding people hostage at the end of this street. Head west the towards the last building before you go onto Gentle street. Go inside and head into the basement and there will be people guarding them."

They gave him a nod before entering the elevator to head to the top floor. "X-Static to Joker." John was excited as they said his name, hoping that he would be able to do something.

"Copy."

"Head west of your location, right where Maiden Street ends and turns into Gentle Street. Once you make it there, go into the last building and inside the basement there will be hostages. Rescue them as soon as possible."

"Copy" John said as he eagerly got up from his sitting position and made his way west of Gentle Street. He made it there within a flash due to Rei and Kuyos speed.

John made it to the end of the street and saw the shady building. He entered it and sneakily made his way to the basement and overheard a conversation that piqued his interest.

"Waldo should be getting more of those amplify drugs next week."

"She seems shady but if he's been buying from her for months then she must be reliable."

"She's scary too. She's always wearing all black and those golden eyes look through you."

"I agree with you there. I wonder what type of ability she has. It must be pretty strong though if even Waldo tenses up with the drugs on standby."

"Whatever it is it's best not to mess with her at all."

"I agree with you there."

Then they started having an argument on which the best sandwich was best at Subway, which was weird. He got bored quickly and knew they weren't going to continue talking about Volcan, so he kicked the door in.

"Sup fuckers!" John said as he was ready to shock everyone but the people tied to a rope. They didn't even get a chance to respond as John zapped them both, knocking them out.

'Wow, that was easy. Too easy. I kind of wished that I had gone easier, then maybe I'd have some fun.' John started walking to the people that were tied, but they seemed scared of John. "St-stay away, please. We don't want you to save us"

John was surprised by their reaction, but quickly realized it was because of the way Waldo had been treating them lately.

"Don't worry, I'm just here to help. Waldo is being taken care of right now as we speak. You're going to be safe now, I promise."

John activated Kuyos ability and made a shuriken to cut the zip-ties. They flinched preparing for the worst, but then felt their hands loosen up.

"Th-thank you sir." John nodded before talking to Rei and Kuyo on the status. "Joker to Blade Master and X-Static, hostages are free."

"Copy" Kuyo said.

"What is your status?" John had no idea if they were fighting Waldo yet or of they were about to fight, but was going to stay here to make sure these people don't wake up until Waldo is taken care of.

"Entering Waldos office shortly, this elevator is slow and this building is tall. It's kind of annoying in here. They didn't even put music, it's just silent."

"How could they! You must be bored with Blade Master."

"I can hear you, you know." John had completely forgot that they were all using the same ear piece channel. "Oops, you didn't hear anything actually. Ah you're cutting out gonna have to reset my ear piece bye!"

"He's an amazing liar wouldn't you agree, Kuyo?" He just face palmed and Rei let out a laugh that was echoing through the elevator.

It had finally stopped and they reached the top floor where Waldo was waiting for them. It opened up and there he was standing in front of his desk, his back towards them.

"So who's going to take him?" Rei asked him. They usually would take turns taking the 'big bad guy' down unless they needed help. "I'll take him if you don't mind." Rei nodded and let Kuyo do his thing.

"Heya Waldo, you're reign as a tyrant is ov-" Waldo activated his ability and sent a purple colored shockwave back. Kuyo activated his ability and dragged his katana through the ground to stop himself from hitting the wall.

Waldo sent another shockwave towards Kuyo intending to send him back to the wall, but Kuyo side-stepped it and threw a kunai at his achilles heel, making him drop to the floor before getting back up.

He sent another shockwave towards Kuyo out of rage, but he easily avoided this one as well. He sent another kunai towards his shoulder, but this time Waldo was ready. He sent another shockwave to reflect it.

He went right past Kuyos stomach, scratching him. He sent another kunai towards him and Waldo reflected it again. He had him right where he wanted him.

He rushed him and stabbed his shoulder with his katana. Waldo screamed in pain and sent another kunai at his other achilles, making him unable to move. "Rei, knock him out please and check for any leftover amps." Rei sent a lightning bolt, rendering him unconscious.

"Blade Master to Joker, Waldo is taken care of."

"Copy. So do we take him to the authorities?"

"Correct."

"Got it."

Rei found some unused amps and smashed them to the ground, making them useless. "X-Static to Joker meet back where we first met at."

"On the way."

John looked back at the people one more time to give them the good news before his departure. "I must go, but Waldo was taken care of and is on the way to the authorities."

"Thank you..." someone said waiting for them to tell her his superhero name. "Call me Joker. Do whatever you want with those two by the way." With that, he left the basement to meet back up on that roof on Maiden street.

He made it and saw Kuyo and Rei sitting on the pavement, leaning against the brick wall. He sat next to them to join them in their break. "So that's it for the day I assume?" They both just nodded and enjoyed the view of the beautiful crescent moon.

Johns eyes closed but just for a second before he jolted up to keep himself awake. Both Rei and Kuyo were wide awake however just looking at the gorgeous night sky. "I'm going to head back now guys. I'm glad that we were able to help these people out. I'll see you guys on Monday. If you need anything don't be scared to call. Oh and activate your abilities please."

"It was nice working with you, John. See you on Monday" Rei told John as he activated his ability for John. "Yeah, glad to have an extra powerful teammate to help these people out." Kuyo activated his ability and John thanked both of them before hopping off the roof and towards Wellston.

It would be faster if he just ran so that is exactly what he did. John went to the alley and changed back to his casual clothes. He made it home within fifteen minutes thanks to their abilities and was exhausted.

He made it inside and went straight to his room to hit the hay. He completely forgot that Sera was still here until she was laying down on his bed looking straight at him.

"Hey you~"

Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I started working on an outline for a new story. I might post the prologue for the 2k special, but this story will be the main one! If you want to know more about it, continue reading. If not, have a good day! And thanks for the continued support! Number one on webtoon is crazy!!

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John continued his reign as king and eventually just stopped caring about the safe house as a whole. He stopped caring about it soon after it was made. John kept to himself, graduating and never ended up becoming friends with anyone. He spent his summer at his dads and was able to make amends with Claire and Adrion. His Dad helped him get through this hard part of his life. After his summer he goes back to Wellston to go into Wellston University, the top in the region. Only problem is the rest of the royals (including Elaine and Isen) had the same idea to go there and run into each other quite often. /c/unordinary/page/user/em-left/MQE6_N6pcQfrz57R6z1BY5Gmkjn534GXDb

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Chapter 10

"Hey you~" Sera said looking up and down at her prize. John really had little to no energy for anything, all he wanted to do was sleep. The only thing on his mind was sleep sleep and sleep.

He took off his clothes and threw it at a corner in his room. He had to practically drag himself to his bed and just fell face first on it.

John decided to scoot towards Sera and bury his head in her neck and wrap his arms around her waist, giving it a singular kiss. He took her cinnamon scent in and just stayed there without saying another word.

Sera took the hint that he was exhausted and just let him be. Although she was upset that he didn't do what he was going to say before his departure, she didn't mind moments like this.

She just played with Johns hair to ease him until he fell asleep in her arms. She noticed that he had eventually fell asleep, but she was not tired.

Sera had already taken a nap and woke up pretty late, so sleeping wasn't an option. Sera was just on her phone and went to her gallery to check out what photos she had.

She skimmed through it and saw the pictures she took of John sleeping at the hair salon. She took that opportunity as a reminder to take a photo of John right now, and did just that. She couldn't put on the flash in fear of waking him up, but she had enough moonlight going through the blinds to take the picture.

Sera took a couple photos and took a look at them. 'He looks so cute. I wish that we could always be like this.' The only thing she was thinking of right now was how nice it would be to actually make their relationship official.

Yeah they were messing around, but they still were single. She loved messing around with John, but if they were together it would feel different. Like he was hers and only hers. John could still technically get with someone else if he pleased to do so and Sera wouldn't be able to say anything.

She was just hoping that whatever was stopping him would pass away sooner rather than later. Sera never felt something like this and now that she knew this feeling, she loved it. It felt good knowing that someone cares for you so much and they would be willing to do just about anything for you.

Seraphina was pretty surprised that she would actually get feelings this strong, especially in such a short amount of time. Her Mother had already planned someone for her to date and end up marrying. She never really questioned her Mother and her choices.

Just the thought of her getting with someone else other than John as of right now felt so so wrong. It would make her feel like she was betraying him. At the end of the day, she never had any feelings to that guy or any guy in general, she just always listened to her mother and never asked any questions.

Now if she had told Sera that now, she would probably outrage thinking of John. At the end of the day, important decisions like that shouldn't be arranged. Ever.

The most crazy part to Sera was that John actually got through to her. Usually when anyone asked her to go out or do anything other than academics stuff, she would say no.

She remembered the time Arlo asked her out on a date. 'It makes me cringe thinking about that. I would never date someone like him. The way he said it was worse. It was something along the lines of King and Queen usually get together or something like that.'

With John though, she didn't say no. More like she couldn't say no, but that was besides the point. It just felt so natural when we went out for the first time.

From when they went to Woaba Boba to get their first drink together or when they went to the mall. It just felt... different. She was pulled by his energy like a magnet.

It was when she cried in front of him when she realized that he was different from everyone else. Maybe it was because he had called her Sera again which let her get attached to him faster.

Either way, Sera knew that she saw John as a friend when she started crying in front of him. She never ever cried in front of anyone, it would show weakness and back then she always needed to be perfect, by any means necessary.

Then they got paired together for that project which really just got them together. 'Shit, the project is due on Tuesday and we haven't touched ever since I first slept over.' Sera started panicking mentally before looking back down at John in her arms.

She didn't have a single care for that project at the moment. She continued thinking how fast they were able to get close to one another. One day they were going out as friends and the next day she was sleeping over at his house, sleeping with him.

'I think that was when I finally knew I liked John more than just as a friend.' Yeah at first it was just a sexual feeling at first. She craved his touch and always wanted him to do more than just hug.

She wanted a lot more than that, and she did get that when she woke up from her dream. She was content with keeping it as friends that just mess around and he seemed to feel the same way too the way he said her name in his sleep.

'I think it was when I talked to Elaine that I really started realizing what I was feeling towards him.' Although she had no idea what she was feeling, Elaine did.

It was so bluntly obvious that Elaine had liked Arlo, he was just oblivious as always unless he made the first move. She knew what type of feeling Sera was describing and just had to give her the nudge she needed to declare her feelings.

It didn't help when she found out that he went out as a vigilante either. Her reaction really showed that she cared about John a lot more than she should have.

Here she was now with John sleeping in her arms, feeling his breath with every inhale and exhale he took on her neck. That feeling just made her think of stuff that was very unholy.

She wanted more than anything to be able to tell people 'Meet my boyfriend, John.' Sera couldn't though, not until he figured out whatever was stopping him. All Seraphina could do is wait and pray everyday that the next one would be the one he finally ask her.

Sera wakes up every day anticipating John saying "Will you be my girlfriend?" Just the thought of him asking her gets her blushing from ears to neck. She would wait however long she needed to wait to be hers.

Sera grew drowsy once it hit about 2 am. John had been asleep for only about two hours and she was about to join him. She gave him a light kiss on his forehead, "Goodnight, John" she whispered to herself more than to him. With that she embraced John and went to sleep.

Elsewhere

"Valerie!" her co-worker basically screamed as she opened the door. Valerie dropped the files from her hand on her desk and looked up. She raised her eyebrow in confusion as she continued.

"Erm, sorry. Was I interrupting you?" Valerie shook her head as she looked up to meet her eyes. "It must have been important for you to come in without knocking" Valerie said chuckling a little.

She nodded and realized that she just opened the door on one of the CEOs. She took a shit and was very grateful for no punishment. "Sorry, it's just that Waldo, one of our best buyers was taken out today."

Valeries little smile from that chuckle disappeared within seconds as she heard the news. She knew that it was a superhero but the question really was which one. Which one had rose that she needed to kill now.

Then it clicked, the X-Static and Joker duo. She was so close to finishing him off until he came. The needle in her thigh that was now going to be an annoyance. He wasn't like every other superhero.

He was way more powerful than everyone else she's fought. This guy had not one but two abilities for crying out loud. This was all just assumptions though, maybe it wasn't him that took Waldo out. "Did anyone talk to Waldo when he came to us?"

She nodded, "He said he fought someone that was able to make light blue colored weapons like a katana and a kunai to beat him. Someone accompanied him as well. He had some type of lightning ability to shock him to become unconscious."

Valerie knew exactly who he was describing; X-Static and Blade Master. Two very known vigilantes. She was relieved to know that this Joker one wasn't who Waldo described because then she'd have no idea how to take him out.

"So they're still causing trouble? Who would've thought that after X-Static was almost killed he would still be doing this. I really had hoped that he would've stopped and convinced his friend as well." Valerie sighed and was more annoyed than frustrated.

Valerie was so close to killing him while he was vulnerable. Now she's going to have to come up with a plan if she wants to take both of them on at once. "What's your plan going to be? Do you want back up when ready?"

Avalon was quite worried that she could possibly lose a one versus two. After all, Valerie has only taken out superheroes in a one on one fight.

She just shrugged, not really knowing if she would need assistance. "For now, I'll just wait and take out other vigilantes that are solo. When we get more information on how they fight together I'll get back to you if I need assistance or not."

Avalon nodded and was on her way towards the door before Valerie spoke up one more time. "By the way, how has the investigation on the writer of unOrdinary gone?"

She stopped in front of the door and clenched the folder in her hand. "Not so good. We haven't found out much about him other than his son is in Wellston" Avalon was dreading her response.

Valerie sighed, "See if you can find anything about his son and get back to me. As for his Father, kill him on sight. You have my permission." Avalon nodded and left the room. 'Wellston huh? Might be time to pay my nephew a visit.'

Johns morning was pretty nice. He woke up in Seras arms, which was really refreshing. He just stayed there in silence. Johns peaceful mind was interrupted instantly because he remembered today was the day he would tell Sera.

He was dreading her response. Sure he got good reactions from Rei and Kuyo, but they aren't like Sera. John didn't have that connection with those two like her. 'We've been spending so much time together and she's never seen "the bad side" of me.'

John never wanted her to see that side of him. The angry and brutal side of him. All Sera has seen is the funny and kind side of him. He doesn't want Sera to see that.

It would ruin the picture she has of John in her head. He doesn't want her to see him as a monster. 'No! You aren't a monster. You are just a human that makes mistakes. Remember what Dad said!'

That seemed to clear his mind, but just for an instant. This time it was because Sera was moving around. She turned to her side, facing the wall.

John was now free from her grasp, but he didn't really want that. Instead, he slowly moved over and spooned Sera.

There was something about Seras touch that always made John want more. He didn't want to be obsessed with her, but it was pretty hard sometimes.

The weekend he's had with Sera was really refreshing. It felt nice to not really have to worry about anything other than his first night as a vigilante. Even then, there Sera was with open arms to help him go to sleep easier.

John stayed like this for just an extra hour before he got up to do a jog. He needed something to clear his mind from how he's going to sell Sera.

He went on a run for about an hour and just felt the cold breeze against his skin. It was peaceful just running around Wellston with the bright sun out. He went to the park and ran a couple laps around.

The dogs barking and the rustling trees really made him at peace. His mind was fully clear of everything and that was nice. By the time he knew it, he had ran five laps around the park and it was already 12.

John stopped by Denny's to get Sera and him breakfast. He really wasn't in the mood to cook today whatsoever.

As John was getting closer and closer to his house, he got more and more nervous. No matter what happened today, he would need to tell Sera.

All he could do is hope that she would take it good. There would be no twist and turns, just the truth and only the truth.

With his newfound courage, he opened the door and surprisingly Sera was on the couch, wearing her pink pj's. As John opened the door, Sera jumped up and gave him a big hug, dropping the bag with the food.

"Where were you!? I was worried that something
happened!" John reciprocated the hug and ran his hand through her hair slow. "I woke up a bit early so I went for a run and got us breakfast on the way back."

Sera let go and picks up the bag and places it on the dining room table. She gets her chocolate chip pancakes with bacon and scrambled eggs. "Thank you for the food, but who says that you could leave me all alone. I except hugs once we're done eating!"

John giggled and nodded. They dug into their food and Sera just kept looking and smiling at him. She seemed so happy this morning. He gave her a smile back, but it felt so guilty.

It felt wrong seeing her this happy, knowing that shit could possibly hit the fan soon.

They finished eating and drank their chocolate milk with it. "So, what do you wanna do? You gotta go back to your dorm tomorrow so you can't stay too late."

Sera really didn't want to go back tonight, but she really had no choice. It would suck to not have Johns hugs to keep her warm, but a pillow should work.

The more and more she thought about having to leave today, the more down she got. She got up and sat on the couch, patting the spot next to her.

"I'll get the blankets and movies." John knew exactly what she wanted. After all, she did ask for more hugs once they finished eating.

John came back with five more marvel movies and two big blankets. They were pretty fluffy and looked nice. White and blue really did compliment each other.

John put the movie in the Blu-ray and sat next to Sera. Once the movie started, John reclined the sofa and Sera instinctively climbed onto him.

Sera was just laying down on him and slid her hand under his shirt. John felt as her hand slowly went higher and higher to his chest.

It was a tease of some sorts, but it was a nice one. It was more of a romantic one then 'come get on top of me right now.'

He wrapped his arms around her and just enjoyed the movie.

Sera was starting to get a bit frustrated at this point. She was hoping that John would've tried to do something, but he hasn't done anything.

'All he's done is hug me. I was expecting a little more as the movie went on, but we're already 30 minutes in and nothing. Time to be a little more direct.'

Sera nonchalantly started making her way to his neck. She still saw the leftover marks and that made her want him even more.

She finally made it and started kissing it. Although John thought it felt good, he felt like he was using her.

For all he knew, the feeling she could have right now could be gone in an instant. As much as he wanted to stop and be rational, he couldn't.

He gave into her lips and let it be her way. John bit the inside of his mouth and started grabbing her back. Sera knew she was doing a good job.

She made her way up to his face and connected lips. At first it started slow and was like some sort of melody. She licked the bottom of his lips, granting her access.

The second she went in, Sera started twirling her tongue around his. John slid his hand under her shirt and caressed her body.

The way her curves felt as his thumb passed through them was perfect. John separated their lips while Sera took off his shirt.

Sera sat on top of him, leaning into him. She started making circles on his crotch using her body. She felt something growing below her. All that did was spark something in-between her legs.

John wanted more than anything to continue with what they were doing. To rip her clothes off and carry her to his bed.

To reenact what they did on Friday and add a little twist. He had to force himself to do nothing more than kiss her.

It was hard, but he fought it and took his hands out of her shirt and put it on her back, bringing them chest to chest.

Sera was biting and sucking his chest while John just stood there. She grew more and more frustrated due to his actions and took it upon herself once again.

Her shirt was taken off in one swift motion and he grabbed his hands to place it on her waist. She reconnected their lips once again. She put both her hands behind him and started scratching his back.

She heard his muffled moan. He craved the feeling. It was perfect between pain and pleasure. Sera took note of this as they continued playing with each others tongues.

John really had no idea what to do in this case. He was still split between 'just do it, she wants you' and 'she's going to want to stop when you tell her, stop taking advantage.'

He couldn't take it anymore and John stopped kissing her. He had to tell her if he wanted to continue what they were doing.

Somehow, John spoke words instead of the moan Sera so desperately wanted to hear. "Sera, there's something I need to tell you about us."

Sera hummed into his neck and continued to kiss his neck. She was hoping more than anything now would be the time he finally ask her the question she's been begging to hear.

John sat up, Sera following his motions. He finally found the courage to tell her what has been eating at him for all the time.

"Please, Sera. Stop for a second, this is important." Now she was worried. What could he possibly need to tell her that could get him this serious.

She pressed her hands against his chest softly and looked him dead in the eyes awaiting what he was going to say. "It's about my past."

Sera simply shrugged it off without a second thought. "I don't care about your past John. Whatever happened back then obviously isn't you."

John really wished that he could just leave it like that, but she needed to know the full story. 'It would be better for her to know and leave me than lie to her for my whole life.'

With that thought now stuck in his head, he finally blurted it out. "It's not that simple, Sera. I did some bad stuff in my past and I think it's time I come clean."

Yup, she was right. He was going to talk about something serious. It worried her that this funny idiot could ever harm a fly without a good reason to.

She knew this was going to be hard for him to talk about because of his attitude. The only thing she could do was comfort him during this.

Sera locked fingers with one of his hands, keeping the other pressed against his chest lightly. John gave her a faint smile and started from the beginning. "Well, back in New Bostin I was a cripple."

'I already knew that he was a late bloomer, so maybe it has something to do with that.' She knew late bloomers were usually chaotic and she might of had an idea where this was heading.

John continued, "Well, one day my friend Claire helped me out after I got beat up in middle school." He hated saying that name so much. All it did was bring back bad memories he wished he could forget.

"Her, Adrion and I would get bullied every single day. We'd always try to fight them off, but we always got our asses handed to us."

Sera wanted nothing more than to go beat whoever dared to touch her John while he was vulnerable. She didn't get to dwell on it long because John had continued.

"My friends ability is Clairvoyance which lets her see into the future. It randomly activated one day and it showed me using some type of projectile ability. She told me the news and when I tried outside there was nothing."

John wished that they could go back to those days and just redo everything. Then again, without that whole situation he wouldn't have met Sera and wouldn't be the person he is today. 'A curse that turned into a blessing.'

"One day we were getting beat up as always and then my ability triggered. I shot something out of my hand. Albeit it was very weak and we still got beat up, it was the best day of my life. I was no longer a cripple and could finally defend my friends and I. How wrong I was."

She was now more confused as he continued. "We eventually figured out that it was a copy ability and we got confirmation when I fought my friend Adrion. She would give me books about every ability to study them so I can understand it and copy it. We'd even watch videos on how they fight so I could learn."

Sera started picking up on something. 'He has no problem with saying Adrion, but when he refers to this Claire girl he says she or her. It's like he can't say the name.'

"We practiced all summer and when we entered high school we could finally put all of our hard work to the test. If I was to guess I'd say I was a elite-tier during my freshmen year. Although I was able to fight and defend Adrion and her, I wasn't strong enough for the King title yet."

'There it is again, he can't say her name. What happened between Claire and John that he hasn't got to yet?'

"Again during summer she had a vision that drastically changed my capabilities. She brought up the idea of copying their ability and amping it. I had to study aura channels and learn to control it. I tested it on Adrion and it worked. I came back and challenge Ziran for the King title and won. That's where... things went downhill."

Sera removed the hand on his chest and locked both of their hands and squeezed them both to try to comfort him. She was going to do everything in her power to make him feel cared for like John does for her.

"Everyone started talking trash about me. How I was a cripple in their eyes still and how I was an asshole. I started lashing out at everyone that said anything. I would beat them up and have them forced to the Infirmary."

Sera never backed down from his eyes and all she saw was sorrow, guilt and regret. She pecked him and shortly after he continued.

"I started ignoring everyone. My friends and even my Dad couldn't get through to me. I would beat anyone up that got in my way and that included my friends. One day Adrion told me he overheard her talking to the King about how she's been using me from the start."

Johns eyes started tearing up. Sera squeezed the life out of his hands to try to encourage him to continue.

"Sh- Claire had a vision of me climbing to the top and she used me. When she couldn't control me she decided to go to Zirian to try dethroning me."

John let one tear fall before quickly wiping it away. He didn't want anyone to see him like this, especially Sera, but this needed to be done.

"I beat him up and a couple days later I saw a note she wrote. It was to meet up at the turf wars and it had a heart. I was hoping maybe she would confess because at the time I had liked her too. How naive and wrong I was."

John vividly remembers that day. He was telling himself over and over how he was going to tell Claire without it being cringey.

After it fell silent for a moment, Sera spoke up.
"Hey, you don't need to finish." Her voice was so soft and he almost stopped. John thought about it for a moment but he went on. He needed to finish telling her. He had to.

"I saw her with what seemed to be our whole class behind her. We screamed and they activated their abilities ready to fight. I brutally beat them up and then..."

It grew silent once again. John looked down to avoid eye contact. Sera let go of one of his hands and put one under his chin to force him to look at her. "I'm right here. Whenever you're ready just continue."

John collected himself thanks to Sera and continued. "After I beat everyone up Claire and I started yelling again. She said I was a tyrant because of the way I ruled. A hypocrite for doing what I had despised so much as a cripple and a... a monster."

That word still haunted him to this day and sometimes he still believed he still was that. He would have to be reminded by his Dad at first. Now Johns reminded by his actions with Sera and this whole superhero thing.

John let go of Seras hand and pulled her into a hug. He pulled her as close as possible and just silently sobbed on her back.

Sera felt the warm tears fall down her back and slowly go down. All she was able to do was hug him back to try putting him at ease.

They stayed like this for a moment, but only a moment. He now needed to talk about the worst part of this whole situation. The classes that were also known as 'hell.'

John stopped crying but still held onto her. "Adrion called the authorities on me and I was sent to three months of readjustment facility classes."

If there's one thing Sera knew about the authorities after talking with John, it would be that they were pretty cruel. After all, they're working with EMBER. 'Whatever he's about to tell me isn't going to be fun to listen to.'

He gulped before spilling the beans. "For three months straight I was handcuffed to a chair. He would replay memories of me beating everyone. Every. Single. Day. I would have to relive the Claire moment for three months straight and if I didn't comply he would get physical with me."

Johns voice cracked and was on the verge of tears again. All Sera could do was whisper into his ear about how much of a good person he is and how much he means to her.

That seemed to calm him down enough to wrap this nightmare up. "After I was released, I was depressed. I would never leave my room unless it was to eat or shower. I never even talked to my Dad until he wrote unOrdinary for me."

It all made sense. The whole reason John had the book, the reason he is like he is now. The whole reason he even became a vigilante. It was all to redeem himself, wasn't it? Sera really didn't have time to ponder on it because right now John needed him.

Her voice was so soft it could put him to sleep easily. "John, I'm so sorry you had to go through this." He didn't know what to say. He was expecting her to think he was a monster. This wasn't what he had in mind at all.

"What you went through was torture and no one should ever have to go through that no matter what they did. I just want you to know that you aren't that person that I grew to like. You've changed for the better and I hope that you could realize that one day."

John let go and looked at her. She gave him a smile small and that was his breaking point. He let it all out. He cried and cried.

He was basically ugly crying at this point while Sera was pulling him into a hug. She felt the tears nonstop drop onto her chest. Sera continued to reassure him that he means so much to her while hugging him as tight as possible.

Sera started to get teary eyed seeing him like this. She loved the goofy John that made stupid jokes and did fun stuff. She loved the confident John that goes out of his way to protect innocent people.

Right now he looked like none of those and she hates that. She had to stop herself from crying because right now she needed to be strong. For John.

She stopped feeling the tears and looked down to see his face. His eyes were red and there were marks from the stray tears. John looked at Sera and gave her a sad smile.

"Thank you Sera. It's really hard to talk about my past... I just wish I could run away from it and never have to remember it ever again." He was basically holding onto her for dear life.

John went on, "I was always scared to talk about my past because it shows how much of a monster I-"

Sera didn't dare let him finish that sentence. "John, you are NOT a monster. I don't care what anyone says about you. You never were and never will be a monster. Mistakes is what makes us human and I don't want you to ever think because you made some mistakes it makes you a monster."

Those are the words he's been wanting to hear for years now. Yeah his Dad told him, but there's bias in that. With Sera, she could've easily changed her mind and agreed.

She didn't though. 'She genuinely thought that I wasn't a monster. Even back then she thought I wasn't.'

She was like the missing puzzle piece to gain confidence. To feel like an actual human. He still had doubts in the back of his mind sometimes, but now that voice was now gone.

It was replaced with her voice repeating those words over and over again. The burden was finally gone and he was able to look at Seraphina with a happy smile.

"Thank you. I can't make any words to show you how grateful I am for you." This was finally Seras chance. She had it given to her on a silver platter and wasn't going to say no.

"Then why don't you show me?" John was pretty oblivious when it came to stuff like this, so he had no idea what the hell she was going on about. "What does my Princess want me to do?"

Sera smiled as he called her his Princess, "Take me out on a date. Some place romantic." John gave her one long passionate kiss.

"Ok let's go then. I'll go shower and put something on. Just wait here and I'll walk you to your dorm."

With that, Sera got off of John and he went to the bathroom to shower. After all, if his first date was going to be with his Princess, the Prince must be fresh.

Hope you enjoyed this! More fluff yay (: This was supposed to be out two days ago but stupid school had to intervene. 2k reads is crazy!! Thank you for the continued support. It's crazy so... two options for 2k special

Double Chapter (two chapters one day)

Prologue to new story and a chapter. This story will still be the focus and I'll just update that one when I have extra time. If you want to know what it's about continue reading. If not have a good day!!!

After John brutally beat the safe house once, he stopped caring. He had already lost his best friend and didn't really have the energy to give a fuck about anything. After his third and fourth year finished at Wellston, he spent the summer at New Bostin with his Dad. During the summer, he made amends with Claire and Adrion. After that, he went back to Wellston to go into the top university... Wellston University. Unbeknownst to him, the rest of the royals also decided going to the best university was a good idea.

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Wow! I missed the double chapter 2k special. We're at 2.9k reads and by the time you read this , we will probably be at 3k reads. To show my gratitude for your insane support, I did the prologue! The double chapter 2k special should be out by Wedesday! Consider the prologue as the 3k special 3. This story will still be the priority!

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After John brutally beat the safe house once, he stopped caring.

He had already lost his best friend and didn't really have the energy to care about anything. After his third and fourth year finished at Wellston, he spent the summer at New Bostin with his Dad.

During the summer, he made amends with Claire and Adrion. After that, he went back to Wellston to go into the top university... Wellston University.

Unbeknownst to him, the rest of the royals also decided going to the best university was a good idea.

Hope you give that story a chance like this one! Have a good day everyone!!

Chapter 11

Remi had a pretty boring Sunday thus far. All she did was stay in her room all day and just scroll through Instagram on her phone or just watch some YouTube. She started to grow drowsy just because she wasn't doing anything.

Just as she put her phone down on her nightstand to presumably take a little nap, she got a text. The pinkette groaned and checked who it was. It was Blyke and just like that, she had so much newfound energy.

Blyke: Remi, are you doing anything today

Remi typed faster than the phone could even react.

Remi: Nope, do you wanna go out?

Remi waited for what felt like hours to her as the three speech bubbles jumped in unison. Maybe just maybe, she could finally go out on that date she's been imagining.

Blyke: Yeah we could drop by the amusement park today. I'll ask Isen too

Remi: Ok! See you in thirty

'Nope nope nope. Isen you are not coming if that's the last thing I do.' The pinkette called Isen, hoping to have got to him before Blyke. Isen thankfully picked up, "Hey Remi wh-" she interrupted him because she had to make this quick before Blyke called him.

"Blyke and I are going to a theme park today. If he ask you to go tell him you can't!" Isen didn't even need to ask why, after all, he was the first one to notice that they had a thing for each other. Remi was a menace when she was serious or angry, so he would never even dare to oppose what she said.

"I got you, Remi. Did he ask you on a date or just ask to hang out?" Isen heard the sigh from the other side of the phone. "He just asked to hang out. I can still be hopeful though. It will be just us, going out. It's close enough to a date to me."

It really was close enough. Just as Isen was about to say something, Blyke called him. "Well, he's calling me! Gotta go!" Remi heard the three beeps signaling the call ended and now just had to wait for Blyke to text her again.

After about five more minutes, she got a text from Blyke again. She instantly opened it.

Blyke: Isen can't go so it'll just be us

Remi: Fine by me. See you soon!

The pinkette was more excited than she's been in months. After what happened with Rei, it really made her worried about his stupid decisions. Sure, John being there helped her become at ease more, but who's to say that he won't do something stupid later on without John or his friend helping him.

This was her chance to possibly confess to Blyke and get her mind off of Rei and his whole superhero decision. She opened her closet and went with something basic. Some short jeans and a white shirt with short pink sleeves.

She got dressed pretty quickly. It was convenient to go to sleep without pj's because she didn't even need to get undressed. Saved her some time to get prepped for this date? 'Yeah, it's a date. He just doesn't know it.'

She looked in the mirror and was satisfied with the way that she looked. There was just one thing she wanted to try. She put her hair in a ponytail/bun that didn't go past her neck. Now all she needed was a bow.

She looked between the different bows to put in her hair and ended up picking the same blue on as always. How could she pick any other bow? This one means a lot to her.

It was her brother, Rei that gave it to her before he left to Wellston. Now it meant so much more knowing that she could easily lose her brother at any point in time. Remi smiled and put the bow in her hair.

She went to the bathroom to freshen up before he came to her dorm. She splashed some cold water on her face, removing any grease. The pinkette brushed her teeth to make sure her breath smelled nice too. She checked herself out one more time. 'Damn if I'm not the hottest girl in all of Wellston.'

She just waited on the couch thinking of the millions of possibilities this 'date' could go for her. 'The happy ending being we kiss and get together. The sad ending is... let's just not think about it and hope for the best actually.'

Soon after, she heard the door. Someone was knocking on her door and she knew exactly who it was. The pinkette got up and approached the door, opening it. There the red-head was in all of his glory.

He was wearing a plain white t-shirt with the number six and cargo pants. Remi had the biggest smile on her face as she looked at him. 'He looks good' was the first thing she thought of as she saw him.

"Well, ready to get going Rems?" Blyke asked the tiny pinkette in front of him. "Yup! Let's get going. I'm glad we're leaving early because now when we get there we'll have enough time to do as much as possible!"

Remi seemed to be much more ecstatic then Blyke, which was a given. She was always the more upbeat and happy person. "That is true. Now let's start heading. The longer we stay, the more time we're wasting!"

They both walked out of the dormitories and made it outside. There they saw a certain raven-haired boy leaning against the wall. He seemed to be wearing something more formal than what they were.

There John was, wearing a black polo shirt with jeans. Remi and Blyke made their way to him. "John, you look nice."

This seemed to get Blykes attention as Remi said it. It wasn't that he was jealous he was just... he was totally jelly. "Where are you even going?" Blyke asked, trying to butt himself into this conversation before Remi continues to compliment John.

John looked at them with the cutest smile he's ever given. "I'm going on a date!" He seemed so much happier than they were too. Whoever he was going out with must be someone he really is interested in.

Remi knew exactly who he was talking about while Blyke was dumb, still confused. "So you finally asked Seraphina out?" There it was, now Blyke connected the dots. It made so much more sense when he used his brain for more than one second.

"Well actually, she kinda asked me out on the date. We had a talk and she asked me to take her some place romantic. Now here I am, all dressed up waiting for her." That was unexpected. Usually, Seraphina is really passive with showing her feelings.

Here John was though, ready to go on a date with the Goddess herself. Remi would've never thought that she would go on a date anytime soon, but she was happy. "Anyways, where are you two going? Did Blyke finally ask you out?"

Just like that, they both were flustered at his bluntness. Somehow, Blyke was almost as red as his hair and Remi was just frozen in place, face fully red. John smiled, "So I was right! Is that why you put your hair in a ponytail, Remi?"

Remi wanted to say something, anything, but she couldn't. She was way too embarrassed to say anything. Although she did wish what John said was true, it wasn't. Not quite yet. Blyke spoke up for them both, albeit was a mess. "N-no we-we're just going t-to the theme park." The red-head wanted to sound confident, but the second the words came out, he sounded all but confident.

John broke into a laugh as Blyke tried to form that sentence. "So let me get this straight. You two are going out alone to a theme park and it's not a date? I call lies! I'm happy for you two." Remi was even more flustered and her heart was beating faster than lightning.

Blyke again tried to say something, sounding a bit more confident than last time. "You got it all wr-wrong. Remi doesn't like me, right?" This was Remis cue to say anything, but she didn't. She just looked at him and shrugged, still red.

The red-head was so oblivious, more oblivious than John. "Dude, just go to Remi to the theme park and call it a date. It sounds better anyways. Have fun you two!" Just like that, they both hit the dash, too embarrassed by what just occurred.

They both speed walked until they were out of view from John. Both Blyke and Remi were too nervous to speak up, especially after what just happened. Somehow, words escaped Remis mouth. "So, that was a mess wasn't it" she said half jokingly, chuckling a little.

Blyke nodded in agreement, "It really was. John was out of his mind when he said that. You don't like me, do you?" Well, Remi had two choices and she didn't like either or. She could either just straight up tell Blyke or she could give a half-ass answer.

She ended up going with the second option. All Remi did was shrug. Blyke was now confused. 'What does that even mean?' It's not that he didn't feel the same way, in fact it was the opposite.

He really liked Remi. He can't quite remember when he started feeling that way, but eventually he did. Blyke was just too scared to admit it and possibly get rejected.

However, now he thought that he could have a chance. A shrug isn't a no, but it's not a yes. The only thing the red-head could do is not make it awkward between the two of them "Anyways, do you just want to get the wrist band? It'll save us from those annoying tickets."

That did seem nice. After all, that'll save her money in the long run. "Fine by me. We're going to be there for a while anyways." The rest of the walk was filled with silence. Mainly because of the tension after what John said.

After about five minutes they started hearing the carnival music. They were even able to see the Ferris wheel spinning around. "Well, here we are! Let's go to the booth and get the wristbands" Remi said, acting like there was nothing weird going on between them.

They made their way to the booth and there a girl was, with bright orange hair and green eyes. "Hello, how may I help you?" she asked the young teenagers.

"Can we get two wristbands please?" Blyke pulled out his wallet and payed for both him and Remi. "Hey! I didn't say you could pay for me!" Remi told Blyke as she softly punched his arm, trying to protest. "Should I make your payments separate then?" she asked them both.

Blyke shook his head, "Ignore her, I'll be paying for both of our wristbands please." She took the money from his hand and got the white wristbands with the red stripes.

Blyke took the change and put the bands on their wrist. "Well, where do you wanna start?" Blyke asked, looking at all the rollercoasters and attractions.

Remi looked at them all and one stood out the most to her. "Look at that one! It seems to be a pretty big drop! Why don't we start there?" Remi pointed to the one she was talking about. "Are you sure you're down for that? You might not be tall enough~"

The red-head tried his best to tease the pinkette in front of him. Remi however, had a comeback. "Is that a chicken I hear~" she asked teasing him back. "No! I'm not a chicken. Matter fact, let's go right now."

Blyke grabbed her hand and started running towards the ride she was talking about. Remi, now a flustered girl, had to run to keep up with him. She wanted any excuse to continue to hold his hand.

Sadly, they made it there within ten seconds and let go of her hand. "Well, the line doesn't seem that long. We should be on within five minutes." Remi nodded, facing away from Blyke, trying to hide that she was red.

After a couple minutes of chatting and walking forward, they made it. "You just barely reach the height requirement" Blyke said, even though Remi was six inches above the requirement. "Shut up! The exit is still there for babies like you. It's not to late to leave."

Blyke shot back, "You mean it's not too late for you to leave" emphasizing the you. Remi laughed and walked up to the platform.

It was a simple ride. Get on, put on the over-the-shoulder harness and slowly escalate to the top. Then boom! You drop down super fast. Rinse and repeat and the rides over.

Sounds very simple, but for Remi it was a bit more than that. She's always been afraid of heights, but for some reason she picked this ride. It was already too late to back out. The pinkette would never hear the end of it from Blyke if she backed out.

Remi inhaled and sat down. She put the harness on to prevent her from you know... falling off and dying. Blyke sat next to her and noticed her concerned look.

He could tell that going on this ride was making her uneasy, so he did the only logical thing. After he put on his own harness, the red-head locked hands with the pinkette.

"Nervous?" Blyke asked Remi in the softest voice possible. She just nodded as they started slowly going higher and higher from the ground. Remi squeezed his hand tighter, anxious for the drop.

Blyke looked at her and gave a smile. She smiled back and they dropped fast. Remi let go of Blykes hand and started screaming like everyone else and gripped the handles on the harnesses.

They went a little higher from where they were and dropped again. This happened two more times and after the final drop, they slowly descended to the ground. Remi let out a breath she didn't know she was holding when her feet felt the ground.

The harness automatically got off and both Blyke and Remi got off and started walking towards the exit. Once they were out, Blyke started teasing Remi yet again. "I didn't know that you were afraid of heights. I mean it makes sense, smaller people must be terrified of things like that."

Remi sent a nice shock to Blyke, not enough to hurt but just enough to get him to shut up. "I still went on it! If anything, that shows how I'm more brave than you will ever be!"

"First off ouch" Blyke said while Remi gave him a look. "That did not hurt. I specifically made it so it's a little shock. Stop being a baby!" Blyke didn't argue back, that ouch was an exaggeration after all.

"Second of all, that was pretty cool of you. I'll give credit where credit is due. Knowing that you were afraid of heights and still going on it was pretty brave. You have some newfound respect from me."

Remi slightly chuckled at what she was going to say. "I was more afraid of what you would tell me if I chickened out than if I were to die."

Blyke let out a laugh, passing onto Remi. They both were happy in each others company. Like it was just them enjoying the day like it was no ones business.

Blyke looked into her beautiful amber eyes. Time lost its meaning as they stared at each other.

They could've been looking at each other for seconds, minute, even hours. All they were thinking of was how nice it would be to kiss the other.

Blyke put a hand on her face and started leaning closer and closer to Remi. She had no idea what was going on, but didn't bother to stop it.

Instead, she leaned in slowly too. They were nose to nose until a kid ran, pushing Blyke. Just like that, their moment was gone and they were now all flustered like they were when talking to John.

"So um..." the pinkette said, trying to form any sentence. Blyke finished it for her, "Why don't we go on that one?" he said, pointing at a roller coaster called 'Catch Up!'

Remi nodded, anything was better than continuing this awkward moment.

They went on ride after ride. They even ended up playing a couple rigged games.

"Why don't we see who can drop the most cups? Whoever wins owes the other five bucks" Remi proposed to Blyke.

He thought the pinkette was joking and started laughing. It died down as Blyke looked down at her annoyed face.

"Oh... you're serious. Remi, my ability literally has to do with aiming. I basically have aimbot. It would be like stealing candy from a baby."

Remi huffed and crossed her arms, "If you're so confident, then why don't we increase the bet to $20?"

"Sounds like easy money for me, you're on!" They walked up to the game spot and each paid with a five dollar bill.

'Sounds like $15 profit to me' Blyke thought as he got the four baseballs. The cups were five, four, three, two and one from the bottom to the top.

He was already coming up with a strategy. 'The weak spots are always the middle. Hit it there and the top ones topple. Then use the remaining baseballs to get the ones at the bottom.'

Remi was waiting for Blyke to start throwing. "Aren't you gonna go?" He shook his head, "What kind of gentleman would I be if I didn't let the lady go first?"

"Suit yourself." Remi wasn't nervous at all, she knew she had this in the bag.

She threw the first ball right in the middle, knocking down five cups. Remi looked at Blyke with the most evil grin. "Don't get too excited yet, still got ten more to go."

Second ball went flying out of her hands, missing all them. Blyke put a hand over his mouth, imitating a yawn. "You're gonna have to do better than that if you wanna win."

Remi completely ignored this nuisance next to her and went at it again. The only way she was going to knock them all down was if she hit the far right, leaving the far left alone for her last pitch.

It was risky not going for the middle and being safe, but with her ego on the line, she had to take any risk necessary to try to win.

The ball escaped her hands once again. It hit it right on target. Just like that, she was back in the game. All she needed to do was knock down the last five cups to ensure a tie at least.

The pinkette inhaled a breath and threw the final baseball. She took the inner pitcher out of her and threw it with as much dexterity as she could.

It knocked three down, leaving two cups left. "Hah! Try beating that Blyke." Remi thought she had secured this win, but she was so so wrong.

Blyke cracked his fingers like if he was a pro. He even stretched his arms, like seriously, who even does that? "Watch and learn."

Blyke casually threw the ball right in the middle, knocking five cups like Remi. Her face showed no fear and now Blyke was the one with the evil grin.

The red-head threw the next ball and knocked over five more cups. Now she was worried. Not only did Blyke have to knock only five more cups to win, but he had two chances at it.

"Looks like someone's gonna lose~" he said, looking to his left to see a very anxious Remi. Just like that, he was a deer in headlights.

The last thing he wanted to do was see an upset Remi, especially if he caused it. Who cares if he won? It didn't matter to him if he won or lost.

Sure he could beat her right now and still have one extra ball to boast about even more, but that didn't matter.

If him losing and her teasing about it for weeks made her happy, then so be it. There was just one problem, he had to make it look realistic.

Remi isn't dumb and would know if he purposefully lost. Then he came up with an idea. "I bet that I can still beat you with my eyes closed."

Just like putting bait on a fishing hook, she took it. "Then do it! I'd like to see you try" she said with a smile that melted Blykes heart.

He knew where the remaining targets were. If he aimed at the far left, he would easily miss. "I'm going to cover your eyes though. Don't want you to be cheating!"

"Only if you can reach." That seemed to get Remi pissed off. In a cute way of course, a 5'5 girl isn't really intimidating.

She covered his eyes and fell into her touch. Although he wished that her hands were elsewhere, her touch was really soft and he enjoyed it.

"Go already! I want to see you miss!" Remi exclaimed, impatient as always. Blyke threw the ball and completely missed. "I told you that you were gonna miss! Shouldn't have took that risk because now you can't win."

Blyke needed to keep the act if he wanted to look convincing. He gave her a smile, "I still have one more shot at it! Don't be to sure of yourself."

Now here comes the hard part. Missing the goal, but hitting just enough to still lose. The best way was to hit the top two that were being supported by the bottom three.

If he accidentally hit more than two cups, she would be down for the rest of the night. He loosened up his shoulders, "Ready to lose, Remi?"

Remi stuck her tongue out at him, "Give it your best shot!" Blyke just ignored her and looked back to the target. 'Sorry Rems, maybe next time.'

Blyke threw his last ball and it felt like everything slowed down. To him, it felt like the ball was in slow motion. His eyes widened as its path was on its way to hitting all the cups.

By some miracle, it curved at the last second and hit the top two cups. He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding.

Remi jumped and punched the air in excitement. The red-head was happy that he lost. Her reaction made it worth it in the end. "SEE! I told you I was going to win! Suck it loser! Pay up!"

Blyke had to play the part and act all upset. He put on a fake frown and angrily pulled out his wallet. "You just got lucky! You won't win again." He hastily pulled out the $20 and handed it to her.

Remi playfully punched his arm, "Ah come on, Blyke. Don't be such a sore loser." Blyke must've been a pretty good actor if she was able to buy this. 'I should enroll into the Drama Club.'

The red-head checked his watch and saw it was already getting late. "Hey, Rem." This seemed to get her attention as she looked up to meet his golden eyes.

"Hm?" the pinkette said, walking a bit closer to him. They were basically face to face at this point. "It's getting late and we got school tomorrow. The view on the Ferris wheel at night is beautiful." Blyke smiled accidentally, making Remi confused. 'Not as beautiful as you.'

She nodded, "That does seem nice. With all the lights and the moonlight right now, it would be a nice view. Let's start heading that way before the line gets too long."

They started walking and Blyke put his arm around Remis shoulder, pulling her closer. It felt so natural to Blyke that he didn't even notice what he did.

Remi was loving this moment and just went with it. She leaned her head into him and continued their walk to the Ferris wheel.

The walk wasn't far which sucked for both of them, but they both had the same idea. Once they got to the short line, they separated and leaned against the railings.

They didn't say a single word. It wasn't because they were nervous, but because they were enjoying their company. They just stared into the night sky and walked forward when the line moved up. Eventually, they were next and sat down next to each other.

Both Blyke and Remi didn't say a word and just enjoyed the Ferris wheel ride. Blyke wanted to do something, anything. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her in closer.

She rested her head on his shoulder and enjoyed the nights view. They were almost at the top, meaning he only had seven minutes to make a move. He thought about what to do and made his move.

"Hey Remi, there's something I've been wanting to tell you." She perked her head up and met his golden eyes with her amber ones.

Blyke looked at her beautiful eyes and put a hand on her face, caressing it with his thumb. "Remi, since they day I've met you, I was attracted to you. Whether it was because you're beautiful or because you'd always cheer me up."

Remi knew exactly where he was going with this and loved it. "After today, I've noticed how much you really mean to me." There was a pause as he said that. Remi grabbed his free hand, continuing to keep eye contact.

"Remi, I like you." Remi was already blushing profusely, but now it was even worse. Her whole body felt hot and could see Blyke was getting there. Remi grabbed his face with both of his hands and kissed him.

Blyke had no idea what the hell was going on, but liked this. She disconnected their lips and transitioned himself to sit on his lap. Blyke didn't even get to say anything before she reclaimed his lips. 'I've waited too long to do this' Remi thought as she started making out with him.

The pinkette was so hasty that Blyke didn't even notice that her tongue had entered his mouth. She could still taste the orange juice he drank from when they had eat earlier. He just went with the flow since he was very unexperienced with this.

Blyke slid his hands down to hold her waist. If there is one thing he knew about stuff like this, it was to always put your hands on the girls waist. 'Thanks so much romantic movies.'

This whole situation felt perfect to them. With the beautiful moonlight shining against them and the night stars, it was something they'd never forget. Blyke stopped the make out, leaving a line of their saliva between them.

Remi pressed her hands against his chest. "Blyke, I've liked you for some time now too. I don't know when I started, but it's been some time now. I've been so nervous to tell you because I didn't want to lose what we had."

Blyke caught onto her wording. "Had?" Blyke sure was dumb and Remi just got 100% confirmation. "Yes you idiot, had. We're going to be going forward now, as more than friends." The red-head mentally facepalmed, now getting it.

Blykes heart rate started getting higher and higher. Now he would need to ask Remi the infamous question. It wasn't that he was scared that she didn't feel the same way. He got confirmation that she liked him, it was just scary to say those words out loud to your crush.

His palms got sweaty and asked her. "Remi, will you be my girlfriend?" The excited pinkette kissed him, "Of course I will." Just like that, some weight left his shoulders.

They hugged each other, just taking this moment in. They started at the night sky, happy knowing that this couldn't have gone any better.

The Ferris wheel finally made its way to the bottom and made their way to the exit. They would never forget where their new relationship started and would forever be grateful for this amusement park and this ride.

Blyke locked hands with Remi and made their way to the exit to the park. They were more than ecstatic that they were now a happy couple.

Just as Remi saw the exit, she saw a booth. Ability Gauge: Measures from 1-10. Score of 5 gets a prize. $10.

"Hey Blyke, why don't we check out the booth?" Blyke read the sign and knew you wouldn't get your moneys worth. "It's not worth it, we already know you're a high-tier."

Remi sighed, continuing to protest. "Yeah, so we can get a free prize and we can check your level too! Maybe you got a power increase." That was something Blyke could get around. The happy couple made their way to the front to get their ability level tested.

There a girl was, with short red hair and blue eyes. "Hello, would you two like to get your ability level tested?" They both nodded and Blyke took out his wallet, pulling out a $20.

Blyke handed the girl the money and she continued on. "Just place your hand on this machine and we can test your level."

Since Blyke was weaker, he went first. He placed his hand on this machine and it scanned his hand. It was complete and she had the results. "Wow! You're a 4.5! That is very powerful young man. Now the girl."

Blyke stepped aside, happy he gained a .3 increase in power. Remi placed her hand on the machine and it beeped. "You're very powerful young girl! You're a 5.4! Here take this." The lady took out a bear and Remi instantly noticed there was a circuit inside.

"Have a nice night" Remi said, gritting her teeth. Blyke noticed there was something wrong and grabbed her hand, pulling her to the side.

Once they were far enough from her to hear them, Blyke spoke up. "What the heck was that about? You didn't need to be aggressive with her." Remi ignored her boyfriend and ripped the teddy bear apart.

That confirmed Blykes suspicions. 'I'm dating a psychotic girl that kills teddy bears.' He continued to look at the now ripped teddy bear and noticed a circuit inside of her hand.

Blyke now knew what made her so aggravated. 'So glad I'm not dating a teddy bear killer.' Remi started stomping back to the booth, but Blyke had seen one too many spy movies to know how this works.

He grabbed her arm, stopping her. "Don't confront her in front of everyone here. You'll just make everyone panic and it'll make us look bad instead of her. When she leaves, we'll follow her."

Remi wanted nothing more than to go zap all those circuits and confront her, but knew Blyke was right. "Fine" she said, crossing her arms.

They waited thirty minutes, looking at her with an Eagles eye, awaiting her departure. She finally got up and started walking away with one box which was presumably filled with more teddy bears. They followed her, a bit far away to avoid suspicion.

Once they turned a corner and saw there was no one around, they ambushed her. Remi activated her ability and suddenly was facing the girl while Blyke was behind her in case she tried to run away.

"Why was there a tracker in my teddy bear?!"

Hope you enjoyed part one of the double chapter... Read the A/N for the full story on why this was late. Have a good day guys! Oh and like the last 1k words were randomly deleted so I had to rewrite this.

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Chapter 12

John had finally got out of the shower. He wanted to smell nice on his first date. He had brought his clothes into the bathroom so he could just get dressed inside.

After he put on his black polo t-shirt and some jeans, he eyed something that interested him. 'I think it's time.' John didn't want to overdue his hair gel, so he put a decent amount.

He checked himself out and he sure did look good. He walked out and Sera heard the door click open. She turned around and saw John... with gel.

"What the hell is that on your hair?" she pointed it out, like it was a bad thing. He grew a frown as he made his way to his room to get his shoes. "Ah, come on Sera. This look will grow on you, trust me!"

She didn't even respond. Sera was kind of upset that he would do such an atrocity to his amazing black hair, but maybe it would grow on her. Seraphina went into the guest bedroom with all of her clothes and just got a pair of shorts and a plain blue shirt she had bought while at the mall.

John came out with the full fit on. The half gel style was already growing on her. Here her mans was looking all good. The black polo matched with his hair and the jeans matched perfectly. "Well, how do I look?" he asked after she just kept looking at him back and forth.

Sera bit her pointer finger as seductively as possible, "If we were doing anything but going on a date, I'd call whatever we had off and push you onto your bed." John smiled at her very nice and romantic compliment. "You know, every compliment doesn't need to be like that. You could've said that I just looked good."

She continued teasing him, "Do you not like it when I say that~ Your jeans aren't really proving your point~" Sera pointed her seductive eyes at his crotch. The way she was so easily able to get John like this made her feel like she had power over everything when it came to John.

The raven-haired boy couldn't do anything but just stay there. 'Think about your math teacher. Think about your math teacher!' No matter how many times he kept repeating that, Sera wasn't able to leave his mind.

All he could think about was all the ways the magenta-haired girl in front of him could do god knows what to make him happy. 'Not now, John. Wait until we get back, then you can do whatever you want.'

By now she knew that he couldn't do anything and started slowly walking up to him. He was just frozen as she inched closer to John.

He was standing in place, anticipating her next move. She was less than an inch from his face. She gave him a evil grin and pushed him against the wall. Usually, John was the adamant one, taking the lead while Sera went with it, but right now it was the complete opposite.

It wasn't that he didn't enjoy this whole situation, it was just new to him. Sera was playing with her food now, seeing how far she can get with John. He put his hands on her waist and pulled her closer.

Now they were face to face and John was going for a kiss but missed. Sera had moved her head to the side and gave him a smile. "Who said you could have me right now? You always save dessert for the end don't you?"

Sera was really pushing his buttons and was reaching his limit at this point. "What if I want to eat dessert first?"

The seductive girl in front of him responded with a neck kiss and pulled away. "Sorry, but that's not how it works. If this date goes well then you could have this dessert."

She held his hand and started sliding it down. 'Stop it John before you call this whole date off and just full send it with her.' He stopped his hand right at her stomach and slid his hand under her shirt.

"Seems like someone's pretty excited. This is a two way street at the end of the day" John responded with his own tease. She just gave him a smile, "We'll see about that."

Sera backed off and John took this chance. He pinned her against the wall with both of her hands above her head. "Don't forget, I'm the one with all the power here." Just like that, Sera grew hunger for John.

There was just something about submitting to him that was so... hot? She couldn't think of the right word right now, all on her mind was this hot man in front of her. John bit his bottom lip as he eyed her up and down.

Instead of Sera, he just let her be free without a single word or action. Now they were both horny and were so close to just calling the date off and pouncing on each other.

John held himself back. If they wanted to actually date, he wanted to do more than just have fun with her. He wanted to grow a bond that was inseparable and everlasting. "Alright Sera, let's start heading to your dorm."

The raven-haired boy heard a groan and turned around to see her arms crossed and pouting. "What's wrong?"

Sera huffed, "Is it selfish that now I don't want to go anywhere and just go to your room?" John locked hands with her and she met his champagne colored eyes.

"Not at all, Sera. Once we get there you'll be glad that we ended up going. Just go put on your shoes and we'll start going."

She had to practically drag her feet towards the door instead of Johns room. She put on her shoes and John opened the door for her. The magenta-haired girl was still looking annoyed as they were walking towards Wellston.

John held her hand and his touch seemed to make her a bit more happy as she gave a little smile. They made it to the front gate and John let go, giving him for what felt like the millionth pout.

"The more you wait, the longer I'm not going to hold your hand. Just go get dressed, I'll wait outside." Sera gave the ravenette a confused look, "Why not just come inside with me?"

The answer was pretty simple to him but not to her it seemed. "I don't want any gossip that we could be dating." Sera still kept her expression, "It's true though, is it not?"

John gulped. They still hadn't made it official and didn't really know how to answer it. He went with what he thought was the safest route, "It isn't though."

This seemed to tick her off, doing the exact opposite of what John wanted. "Whatever." She walked away from John while he stood there, scolding himself.

Sera basically stomped all the way to her dorm. 'So what that we aren't dating yet! We do everything couples do just without the label!'

She took her key out and swung the door open, hitting the wall. Elaine jolted off her bed and creaked open the door in worry. There was no one in the living room and Seras door was closed.

Elaine cautiously approached the door and knocked. She entered and saw Sera laying down on her bed, looking up at the oh-so-interesting-ceiling. "Um, Seraphina is every-"

Seraphina didn't let her finish that sentence, "Before you ask, no. I was supposed to go on a date with John, but now I'm mad at him."

Elaine sat on the edge of the bed, ready for any reason to try to kill John. "What did he do?! Did he hit you?! I'll go kick his ass rig-" Sera interrupted her again, "No he didn't touch me, Elaine. He just said something stupid and now I'm standing him up."

Now she was confused of what the ravenette could've said to upset the magenta-haired girl in front of her. From what she's known so far about the two, he cares about her too much to do this intentionally.

This still didn't answer her question and had to ask to find out what ticked her off. "What did he say? Maybe it was a misunderstanding."

Sera sat up and leaned against her bed frame. "We were just outside the entrance to the girls dorms and he stopped following me. I asked him why and he said that he doesn't want any rumors or gossip spreading that we're dating."

She grabbed her bed sheets as she continued. "I told him it was basically true and he said and I quote "It isn't though." Like what the hell does that even mean."

It was exactly what Elaine had feared, she was overreacting. Elaine had to say this as fast as possible before Seraphina had interrupted her again.

"I don't think he meant it like that. He isn't even fully wrong, you aren't dating yet, but who's to say that after today he won't ask you to be his girlfriend?" she blurted out all at once.

The magenta-haired girl looked up and gave a smile. Maybe she was overthinking this whole thing. The ravenette wouldn't say anything to try to hurt her feelings.

Maybe today would finally be the day she would hear the question she's been dying to hear. 'Sera, will you be my girlfriend?'

She got off her bed and went to her closet. "Thank you, Elaine. I'm going to go change. Can you leave for a second please?"

Elaine obliged and exited the room. Just as she closed the door, Elaine heard a knock at the front door. She didn't even check who it was, obviously it was going to be John.

The aqua-haired girl opens the door to see John. "You seem well dressed." John gave a little smile, "Thanks. Do you know where Sera is? I've been waiting like ten minutes and I'm starting to get a little bit worried."

Right on cue, Sera opened the door. Elaine stepped aside to let John come in and there Sera was. She was wearing a red dress that vaguely showed her left leg. The black high heels with the strap around her ankle really complimented her look.

The heels made her just below John, which was exactly what she wanted. She had a black purse around her right shoulder which presumably had everything important inside.

John didn't even know what to say. There she was, this gorgeous woman in front of him waiting for him to say something. John didn't want to look stupid, so he said something rather than nothing.

"Wow. You look... amazing." Sera gave out a little giggle and a soft smile at him. John was just frozen in shock. 'How did I get a girl like that.'

Sera walked past him and towards the door. "I'm probably going to stay at Johns" she said as she grabbed his hand, leaving the dorm.

Who was she kidding, she was obviously going to stay at his place. "Scratch that, I'm definitely staying at his place, I'll see you at school tomorrow!"

John got pulled and was barely even able to say bye before leaving. "Someone's pretty excited."

How could Sera not be excited right now? This was going to be her first date and it was going to be with him of all people. Maybe today would finally be the day they would make this relationship official.

"Just a little" Sera told John, not wanting to hear the teasing that came out of his mouth. The heels were echoing in the silent hall as Sera walked down the stairs with John.

The ravenette opened the door for his Princess and followed behind her. There were a couple students eyeing them and presumably started whispering about them.

They couldn't hear anything and just acted like they weren't there in the first place. "You haven't even told me where we're going yet." Sera was going in blind and for all she knew, she could've overdressed for the occasion.

"It's a surprise" John blandly told her. "I already told you I don't like surprises" she said matter-of-factly. John grew a smile, recalling events.

"Friday said otherwise~" Just like someone flipped a switch, she turned red all over. Sera was now a mess as she vividly remembered that night that she oh-so-enjoyed. "Th-that was different th-though."

John chuckled lightly at how easy it was to make her all flustered. She heard him and softly punched his chest. "Who says this is different?"

Just like that, Seras heart started thumping at insane speeds. If she wasn't fully red, she sure was now. It wasn't that she was nervous, it was that he said it so casually in front of her.

"Do-don't joke around l-like that John!" Sera was now in denial that something like Friday could happen again, let alone get the same feeling. "Who said I was joking? Don't even worry about that right now, let's just have fun today and see where it takes us."

Sera tried her best to clear her mind while they walked to this unknown destination and talked the whole way there. Suddenly, John stopped in front of this restaurant.

"Ta da! Welcome to Flemings! It's the best steak house in Wellston!" She looked up at the sign and could tell the food here would be at least decent. "It looks nice!"

John opened the door for his... future girlfriend? She said thank you and followed behind her. John walked up to the person at the front desk for their appointment. "I'm here for our appointment for John Doe."

She looked through the computer and found it. "Ah, John for 2:00" she came around and prompted us to follow her. Both John and Sera sat down across from each other at the round two-person table. John pulled the chair for Sera like a gentleman. After all, his Dad raised him to treat a girl right.

John already knew what he wanted, so he never opened his menu up. Sera however was the complete opposite. She was going through the whole menu like a maniac trying to find what interested her.

She came up a dish that piqued her interest. Since she was at a steak house, she settled on a... steak obviously. There it was, a 12 ounce T-Bone Steak. Her mouth watered just thinking about how good it's going to taste.

"So, whatcha gonna get?" John said before taking a sip from his ice-cold water. Sera closed her menu and put it to the side, stacking it with Johns to save some space. "A T-Bone Steak. You?"

The magenta-haired girl noticed that he hadn't touched his menu at all, so he must've known way before they arrived. She couldn't change her order to his, even if it was better.

The amount of teasing she would hear would be endless. She could imagine it, 'I get it, my taste in food is much better than yours. Just copy everything I do and maybe one day you'll be a sliver as cool as me.'

She was not up for listening to that. "Funny you ask. I'm getting the same thing you're getting. It's like we're soulmates." Seraphina praised that she wouldn't get any form of teasing. That's what she thought until...

"It's like you knew what I was going to get and just knew it was the best option. Get your own style jeez. I get it, I'm the coolest person you know." There it was, the teasing. She wanted nothing more than to shut him up and get rid of that smirk.

She was going to make sure that once they got home, she'd make him shut up. All Sera could do is play along with it. "What if you're the one copying me, huh? What if I'm-"

Seraphina was interrupted as the waitress came. "Hello, are we ready to order?" They both nodded and John ordered first. "I'll take a 12-ounce T-Bone Steak medium-rare please."

She wrote that down, "And for the young woman?" Sera contemplated on medium-well or well-done. Sera went with the most infamous way, "I'll also take the T-Bone Steak wel-"

John was not going to have her chew the whole time, so he ordered it for her. "She'll take it medium rare as well."

Sera couldn't even argue in time as she noticed what John said to little to late. "Ok, I'll take these please. The food will be here soon." The waitress took the menus and went into the kitchen presumably. Sera kicked John in the leg under the table, almost spilling the water on the table.

John let out a groan of pain that turned Sera on way too much. "What the heck was that for?! I just did you a favor!" She gave him a stare that said everything that she was thinking. "I'll go tell the lady right now."

The ravenette got up from his chair, but Sera stopped him. "Just sit back down, it's too late already anyways." He slowly sat back down and looked at her ocean-blue eyes.

There was something about the way she looked today that made him want to devour her. After all, she was going to be his dessert if this date went according to plan.

He reached his hand over and played with her fingers while making eye contact. "Has anyone told you how beautiful you look?"

Seraphina gave a smile that melted his heart, "Only you, but it would be nice if I heard it again." Both of them were a flustered mess, but John went on.

"You are the most gorgeous woman I've ever met." Just like that, Sera wanted to sit on him and do who knows what, but that could wait. Looking at his champagne-eyes as he said that made her more flustered than should be possible.

As John said that, he cringed. How could he say something like that to her and not feel embarrassed. He quickly changed the subject to not make this awkward.

They talked about what they liked, what they didn't like and their hobbies. It was nice when it was just them two, getting to know each other more.

Both of them loved talking and listening to their partner. John cracked a few stupid jokes here and there that made her giggle, which was music to his ears.

In the span of 20 minutes, they learned so much about each other. They tried to steer away from their past to keep this cheery atmosphere.

They were having so much fun talking with one another that when the food came, it felt like they had just order. "Two T-Bone Steaks."

She gave both John and Sera the steak and were ready to dig in. They put their napkin on their lap and got their utensils.

"If you don't like the steak, I'll just ask them to cook it up a little more." Sera nodded and cut a piece. She looked at the steak and saw the juice coming out of it. If she was being honest, Seraphina didn't like how red it was, but was too hungry and curious to see if it really did taste good.

She chewed on it and John could've sworn he saw hearts in her eyes. John smiled, "So how does it taste?" She took no time to respond, putting a hand over her mouth to speak while the piece was in her mouth.

"I love it. I'm never getting it any other way." John was happy that it didn't backfire and enjoyed the dish in front of him. Believe it or not, steak and mash potatoes makes a good combo, according to John and Sera at least.

Their plates were clean and really made their moneys worth. Their waitress came back with the check, placed it down and picked up the plates. John got it just before Sera could reach it. 'Damn you and your short arms.'

"Not this time, Sera. It's our first date, I'm paying." She didn't even argue because she was pondering on his words.

Sure it was their first date, but they weren't together. Would he finally ask her today? Would he ask her right now? So many questions went through the magenta-haired girls mind that she didn't even notice that John was talking to her.

"Sera, hello?" He waved his hand in front of her face, getting her attention. "Are you okay? You looked really puzzled." Sera nodded. It's not like she could just tell him 'By the way, when are you going to ask me to be your girlfriend?'

That was not an option and she knew it, so she had to lie. "You're a bad liar, your face says it all. We'll talk about it when we get home."

Well, there goes the whole 'not telling him.' She got up and followed John. He opened the door for her again and started heading back to Johns house.

"It's only 3:30. Do you want to go somewhere else or just spend the rest of the day at my house?" Sera liked both answers, but staying with John doing who knows what sounds a lot nicer. "Let's just stay, I have no energy to do anything else anyways."

John replied with a joke that got her heart rate stupid fast. "We'll see about that one." Just like that, she started thinking about everything and anything that he could do.

Whether it was because she was thinking about what happened Friday night or because she was thinking about what could happen tonight, she wasn't sure. She would just play the night out and see where it goes.

There was just one problem, John hadn't forgot about what happened after they eat lunch. Sera wrapped her arm around his waist and moved towards him.

She rested her head on his side and just walked in silence. They just had small talk every now and then until they made it to their destination.

John walked up the steps and opened the door. Sera walked in behind him and closed the door. They took off their shoes and John dropped the keys on the kitchen counter, moving to the couch. Sera noticed that he was eyeing her and sat down next to him.

They stayed in silence. John reclined his couch and Sera started laying down on him, waiting for him to bring up the conversation of what she was thinking about.

Lo and behold, John spoke up. "So, what were you thinking about that got you distracted? Everything seemed to be going good and then you randomly zoned out."

Sera didn't really know how to answer the answer the question. She just decided to be blunt about it. "John, when are you going to ask me to be your girlfriend?"

That escalated so quickly, John didn't even know what to say. He was nervous to ask her and didn't really know how to even ask her. The only thing he could do is just be blunt. "I've never asked someone that before and I'm nervous to be honest."

Sera looked up at him and cupped one of his cheeks. She gave him a precious smile that comforted him. "You don't really need to be nervous. It's just us two after all. Unless you want me to ask you~"

Just like that, John some new found courage. He would never hear the end of it from his Dad if he found out that his first girlfriend was because he got asked. John sat up and Sera followed his movements, sitting on him.

He put his hands on her waist and Sera pressed her hands against his chest. The ravenette was thinking of the best and most romantic way to ask her.

He didn't have much time to think as the magenta-haired girl spoke up. "So John, will-" John didn't let her finish as he finally figured out how to ask her.

"Sera, we've been spending so much time together lately and it's been some of the best moments of my life so far. There was something about you that was different from everyone else." Seras heart started pounding as he continued. She was anticipating every word and was enjoying every moment.

She could feel the ravenettes heart beat since her hands were on his chest. 'He sure is nervous about this.' John went on before he lost the courage to continue. "There was something special about you that made me fall for you. Whether it was because you're beautiful or because you make me feel happy, you were the yin to my yang."

'John sure knows how to make a girl fall for him.' She thought what he said was pretty cute and knew the question she so desperately wanted to hear was coming up. She was happy and eager waiting for John to ask her.

The raven-haired boy on the other hand was a complete mess. His hands started to sweat and his hear rate must have been over 120 beats per minute. The only thing that was pushing him to continue was that he knew Sera would say yes.

"Sera, will you be-" John didn't get to say anything as she put both of her hands on his cheeks and gave him a kiss. Just like that, John loosened up and fell into the kiss. It was like heaven to them both. They really were each others yin and yang.

John was prepared for the make out, but Sera moved away, resting her forehead on his. "Yes! Yes hundred times yes!" Both Sera and John closed their eyes and had the biggest smile possible. They just stayed there in silence for five seconds which felt like forever to them.

It was official now, John Doe and Seraphina Hayes were now dating. Both of them could now proudly say they were now dating the other and that was all they could've ever asked for. "So, do you want to you know... change and watch a movie?" John asked Sera, restraining himself from kissing her soft lips.

"I would change, but I don't want to you to get up." Well, that was Johns cue. He put his hands under her thighs, gave it a nice squeeze, got up and carried Sera to his room. She was like a happy little girl when she got ice-cream.

John basically threw her on the bed and got on top of her. "You know, this isn't going to help me change." Sera started kissing his neck as he replied, fighting back the moan. "What if I don't want you to change? What if I just want to take the dress off?"

Just like that, Seras heart started thumping. She liked exactly where this was going and had no plans to stop it. In fact, she was going to play along with it, just like he wanted. She wrapped her legs around his waist, pulling him closer.

Since she was wearing a dress, John could clearly see her red underwear when she wrapped her legs around his waist. Anything logical was gone when he saw the wet spot on her underwear like when he saw it for the first time. Except this time he knew what that meant.

John started kissing her while slowly sliding his hand to her inner thigh. Sera wanted nothing more than to rip his clothes off and kiss him everywhere, but couldn't do that just yet. John stuck her tongue deep into her mouth and could feel her saliva collide with his.

There was something about this moment that made it different from every other time they kissed. It felt more real to Seraphina. It was like he was all hers. There was no one else that could rile him up like her.

Maybe it was because they had just came back from their date and he looked so hot. That could have been part of the reason, but the main reason was clear as day. John and Seraphina were dating. It felt more like they did it because they liked each other now instead of them doing it because they were horny and just found each other attractive.

Warning: If you're not going to read the Lemon, just skip to the end and read the last paragraph! Important for next chapter

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Just as John reached her underwear, ready to rub it until she couldn't take it anymore, Sera stopped kissing him and grabbed his arm. They looked at each other and saw lust and eager. "Shouldn't I take off this dress? Make myself easier access for you~"

John wanted to disregard what she said and just continue, but knew in the long run this would be nice. John got off her and they both sat on the edge of the bed. John hastily took of his shirt and jeans, throwing it in the corner.

Sera needed help taking off the dress as she couldn't reach the zipper. Before she even asked, John basically ripped the zipper as he undressed her. Sera took off her dress and joined John in throwing the dress in the corner.

The ravenette noticed that she was wearing an underwear, but there was no bra to match with it. Not liked it matter as that was coming off anyways. John slapped her butt, giving off a hot moan. "Someone's excited" she said as she started to lay down on the bed, spreading her legs. "Aren't you going to eat the dessert you've been waiting for?"

John got on top of her and she rewrapped her legs around his waist. John took no time and started sucking on her breast while gripping the other. Sera was so caught off guard and she loved that. She dug her nails into his back and moaned his name. Sera heard a muffled moan as he continued to suck on her tit.

She couldn't reach his throbbing erection, but could see it flinch. She started drooling as she saw it, begging it to enter her mouth. The magenta-haired girl could feel his tongue lick her nipple and she couldn't take it anymore. She pushed his head down towards her womanhood and he obliged.

He started kissing her smooth body and made his way down slowly, teasing her beyond control. She started moaning as he cupped both breast and started to slowly caress them both. Sera just uncontrollably moaned over and over again, grabbing his hair.

"Baby~" That was the first time John called her something other than Sera or Seraphina, and she loved that. She continued to dig her hands into his hair until he finally reached her pussy. John let go of her tits, placing his hands on her thighs to spread her legs. He grabbed her underwear with his teeth and started pulling it down, nice and slow.

"You're such a fucking tease." From what John knew, Sera never cursed so he knew he was doing something very right. He reached for the other side of her underwear and pulled it again with his teeth.

Once it was off, Sera spread her legs by herself and he looked at his prize. There Seras vagina was, all wet, begging for John to do something, anything. "This is the best dessert I could've ever asked for." Sera opened her mouth for a response, but the loudest moan she's ever made came out.

She could feel his tongue lick her opening nice and slow while he rubbed her clit. All John could hear were her moans of pleasure while she grabbed his dark hair. Seras eyes rolled back, feeling like she was in heaven.

Just as Sera thought this couldn't get better, it did. John started aggressively licking her clit and stuck two fingers in her wet and tight pussy. John could feel her cunt wrap around his wet fingers. "John~ Don't stop~"

Seraphina could feel his smile as he continued to eat her out. Her legs started to lose all the strength and started shaking. She knew that she was going to have an orgasm soon and wanted it all over Johns face.

The magenta-haired girl pushed the ravenettes face closer to her vagina, begging for him to continue until she reaches her climax. John continued to finger and eat her out until she finally reached her climax. "Baby I'm going to~"

Sera couldn't finish her sentence as it turned into a moan that could be heard from the neighbors. She pushed Johns face into herself again as she came, legs shaking uncontrollably. John felt her white cum come out as he licked all of it off of her. It tasted sweet and he liked that.

John looked up to meet her face, showing nothing but pleasure and sweat from her movements. As much as Sera wanted to suck him off and return the favor, she couldn't. She didn't have the energy and would have to leave him with blue balls, just for a little bit.

The ravenette moved next to, laying down on her chest. "I'm glad you enjoyed yourself~ That meal was much better than the steak, especially that reward at the end for doing a good job~"

Sera looked down at him, seeing that he was still hard as a rock. "Sorry I couldn't return the favor, maybe when you wake up you'll be rewarded~" John smiled and kissed her neck again, "I enjoyed myself, Baby. I just hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did."

The magenta-haired girl moved his hand to cup her left breast, "Oh trust me, I enjoyed myself." John smiled and grabbed her breast one more time before taking a nap, holding her breast. Sera fell asleep easily since she had no energy left.

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John woke up due to his phone buzzing. He looked at his phone and saw the contact was Blyke. John looked at Sera peacefully sleeping and got up.

He exited the room in his boxers, freezing and picked up the phone. "Hey Blyke, how-" Blyke seemed to be in a rush as he spoke, interrupting John.

"Come to my location now! I'm sending it to you! We found something and could be in trouble soon!" Before John could say anything, Blyke hung up, leaving John confused. Nonetheless, he could tell the situation was dire and went to get dressed.

This is part two and wow. This was supposed to release on Wednesday and it's Monday... I could come up with excuses but there really wasn't. I just did school work and enjoyed last week. Played board games with friends and family and of course saw the playoffs. Sorry about that... I'll make sure this doesn't happen again. I don't like making promises and not doing it.

I freaking hit 4k before this was out... I'll save the special for 5k to not overwork myself! I will add another chapter to that other story in a couple days!

Another note, we're number 1 in unordinary, 2 in ember, and 4 in johndoe. What the heck is this insane support! Thank you so so much for reading and actually enjoying this story.

Have a good day!

5757 words excluding A/N
Published January 31

Chapter 13: Spectres First Encounter

John didn't know what to wear and didn't really have time to think about it. He rushed to his closet and picked out his vigilante costume.

It was obvious that he needed to pick this outfit out. From what he had heard on the phone, it seemed that he was going to need to fight people off.

Although he didn't want to fight on an off day, he knew he had no choice. His friends needed help and who was he to leave them be?

The ravenette was searching through his closet for his duffel bag. John tossed a bunch of clothes and boxes to the side, awakening Sera. She didn't want to open her eyes as the light wouldn't be a nice greeting, so she just called out his name.

"John?" Her deeper voice caught John off guard, but was too distracted with getting dressed to overthink about it.

"Hey, I'm going to meet up with Blyke and Remi. I'll be back soon I promise."

She knew something was off from the way he spoke super fast to the amount of noise he was making. He's always been considerate of the noises he makes when she was asleep, so this was weird. Also, it's not like he forgot what had just happened a few hours prior to this moment. He usually had just stayed in bed with me.

Curiosity got the best of her and the magenta haired girl slowly opened her eyes, trying to block the light with her hands that was blinding her. The moment she saw what John was wearing, her heart dropped and jolted up.

Here John was, putting on his vigilante suit.

They had already talked about when he was going to do his stupid suicide missions and today was not one of those days.

Sera started to ponder about why he was wearing his costume and was in a rush. She tried to connect some dots while he was quickly putting on the fit. He was wearing his suit, he was in a rush like if something important was going on. He even brought up Blyke and Remi.

Her heart sank, 'They can't be in trouble. They're both easily capable of defending themselves... right?'

One was a hot head and the other one was naïve yet brave. This could go horribly wrong easily which is why they must have called John.

It all was starting to make sense and she didn't have much time to process it all as John kissed her forehead saying everything would be okay. Just before John left the house, Sera activated her ability for John to copy. She knew he needed to get there fast and her ability could help immensely.

She noticed that John had left his phone so there would be no way to contact him if anything went wrong, making her even more anxious. There was no way she would be able to sleep thinking about all these possibilities.

Sera was never a super religious person, but did believe in god. This was going to be one of those times where she prayed for nothing but the best.

If John of all people is in a rush, they could be in danger. 'Please... be safe.'

John remembered the location Blyke had sent him since it was situated near a well known place. It was just around the corner from the amusement park. It was only about 10 minutes away if walking, but John wasn't walking.

He was sprinting with time manipulation to give him extra speed. He could make it there in three minutes tops.

As he ran past people, bumping into a few of them, he started to ponder more on what could have made Blyke panic call John.

'He did say we could be in trouble soon, but for what? What did you guys get yourself into? All I said was that you two should go on a date and here you are causing problems.'

There were a couple ideas in his head which gave his stomach butterflies. The first and scariest one was EMBER. Although he was able to fend this killer off, Blyke and Remi were a different case.

Both of them weren't as skilled in fighting like John. From what he recalled with his fight with Blyke, he wasn't very good with his beams. It seemed like he couldn't shoot many and they weren't as fast as they could be.

As for Remi, she is the Jack, but that doesn't change much. Presumably, Rei is stronger than his younger sister, meaning that this girl could take Remi down. This mysterious girl has been killing superheroes for months and was most definitely more experienced in fighting.

There was a second option though. Blyke did say that he had found something. They could have found someone with the amps he had seen in use before.

If they ran into someone with an amp that could be too strong for them, both Blyke and Remi could be in serious trouble.

Them finding a lead to his Mother wasn't out of the window either. Although it was leaning towards EMBER having control of his Mom, her being controlled or working with another company wasn't out of the equation.

There were so many reasons why Blyke could've called him, but he couldn't pinpoint an answer. He just had to hope that it wasn't anything super serious.

John knew he was getting close to Blykes location as he saw the Ferris wheel and the carnival lights. He slowed down to not miss the location and tried to use his passive to figure out their exact location.

He made the corner to his location, but couldn't see them. The ravenette faintly felt Remis aura and darted towards that location.

When he felt the aura getting stronger, he knew it was in this alleyway deserted from the sidewalk. This would be a horrible place for a ambush and would need to make whatever was going on as fast as possible before they end up getting cornered.

The raven-haired boy turned into the corner, looking at Blyke and Remi interrogating a girl on the floor. John put the mask to cover his face and walked towards Blyke and Remi while eying a bloody third girl.

"Well well well, what do we have here?" Remi and Blyke turned around ready to fight whoever was in their way until they saw who it was.

"Hey Jo-" Blyke got lightly electrocuted to make him shut up. Remi couldn't have Blyke dropping Johns name like that in front of a stranger, especially her.

Remi had remembered what Johns vigilante name was as Rei now informed her when he was going out and told her their super cool hero names. "Hey Joker, glad you could make it. We may have someone here that could be of interest. You see, this girl named Leith was giving out trackers in teddy bears. Specifically, us high-tiers."

Johns first thought was EMBER doing even more antics to eliminate superheroes, but that didn't make much sense. These vigilantes were here to help lower tiers, like if they were trying to remove the hierarchy.

Them killing random higher tiers for no reason would tarnish the hierarchy, so he knew it wasn't EMBER. 'Of course there's got to be another psychotic organization.'

Remi went on, "After a couple of threats we figured out some things. Their called Spectre and she didn't want to say more. Luckily for us..."

The pinkette pointed at Leith a bit blooded up. "Our red-headed friend over here did a couple things to make her speak. They made a drug that completely disables a users ability, but only target us higher tiers. Hence, why this guy over here didn't get a teddy bear with a tracker."

Remi tried really hard not to drop any names as doing that would be stupid.

John tried to take in everything Remi was saying.

First, there was another deadly company trying to hurt people. They were called Spectre, but they were different from EMBER.

In fact, they had completely different ideals from EMBER. To him, it sounded like they wanted to remove all high-tiers.

They wanted to make them a cripple for the rest of their life, and no one deserved to live like that and he knew that first hand.

Being a cripple was one of the worst experiences in his life and neither he or anyone else deserves to live like that.

It was also apparent that they weren't trying to kill their targets like EMBER, they were just trying to remove their ability.

"Very interesting. So Leith..." John walked up to her and squat down to meet her eye level. "Is there anything else we should know before we take you in?"

Although Johns glowing champagne eyes were intimidating, she smirked at John. There was something about her smirk that felt evil. John loosened up, ready for whatever she was preparing to say.

"Actually there is." She didn't need to say anything else as Remi, Blyke and John felt something mess with their aura.

They all froze for a second. This feeling felt weird and very unwelcomed. As fast as it came, it went. Both Blyke and Remi had their ability active, yet John couldn't feel it.

"What the fuck did you just do?" Leith looked back up at John and started laughing like a maniac. John turned around and saw that Blyke and Remi's hands were shaking. Johns hands even shook, but was nowhere near as bad as them.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't do anything as you can see." John grew more and more impatient, ready to electrocute Leith until she grew unconscious.

"I'm going to ask you-" The ravenette didn't finish as he heard vans screech. He turned around and saw two white mini vans.

John turned around to met her sinister smile, "We're not done with you." He shocked Leith and turned around to see Blyke and Remi face at least six people.

Slowly, John started to feel their aura again. It was like his level had been decreased, but his body was fighting it, allowing him to slowly go back to his natural level. "Hey, how are your abilities? Your aura seems a bit off."

They both shrugged, "We'll find out right now won't we? I assume they're not here to just talk." Remi did bring up a good point as they rushed them.

All the people seemed to be fairly weak. Most of them just had a shitty speed or strength enhancement.

Remi and Blyke both smirked at each other, knowing this would be a peace of cake. Blyke sent a beam to one of the masked men's legs, but instead of penetrating them, it just sent him back.

Just like that, both Blyke and Remi knew something was wrong with their ability. The red-heads beam easily went through people unless they had good defense.

He knew that these people in front of him were mid-tiers at most, so he used some common sense. There was that feeling he had just before they came and his ability was weaker than usual. He had even started shaking, even if it was for a couple seconds.

The only conclusion that he could come up with was that Spectre somehow had tampered with their ability, making them weaker.

"Remi! I don't know what they did, but we're significantly weaker! Stick with me!" Just as Blyke said this, Remi sent a strike of lightning towards them, hoping to hit them all.

Not only did the width decrease only allowing her to hit one person, it only stunned them. 'It's like my level from middle school.'

Remi and Blyke went side to side while John scaled the wall to go around. All of his abilities were dropped, making him only stuck with Blyke and Remi which wasn't that strong as they were in a weakened state before copying their abilities.

There was someone behind shooting a blue laser while two people rushed Blyke and Remi, being cover for the guy in the back.

"I'll take the guy in the back, just cover me!" Remi nodded and protected her boyfriend as best as she could.

While Blyke was trying to snipe the person in the back, Remi had her own problems. Luckily for the pinkette, she knew that these were poor fighters as they were rushing.

Remi shocked them, keeping them in a stun lock. Since she had to split her power into both of her hands, they were able to slowly push closer and closer.

"Blyke, hurry up! I can't hold them for long!" Blyke and this guy kept on trading shot after shot. He always hit him, but it didn't do anything to stop him.

The red-head did something that was risky, yet very rewarding if it worked. He had kept his shots to the body, arms and legs, but never the head.

'If I hit a clean shot to the head, it should knock him out, but not kill him. If it kills him, then I'll have bigger problems on my hand, but what's life without a little risk right?'

Blyke charged a beam and shot it towards the persons head. It hit him straight on the forehead and knocked him out clean, sending him down to the pavement head first.

The second Blyke saw him fall, he assisted Remi. The people inched closer and closer Remi and just before they were face to face, Blyke started shooting beam after beam to them, stopping them in their tracks.

Remi focused all the electricity onto one person, knocking him out while Blyke took care of the other. They both high-fived each other, "We can do this if we work together."

Both faced the vans again to see three more people. "You know, you guys aren't the best strategist. If you would've all rushed us at once, we would be toast."

This seemed to rile them up as they rushed them again, thinking it would work this time. "This time they're all coming, be ready."

These three seemed to decently stronger than the other three as they were able to push through Remi's lightning like it was nothing.

Blyke kept shooting beam after beam at them, yet they pushed through it. This was their final stand. They needed to push through as much as they could if they wanted to make it out alive.

The pinkette focused all of her strength on one of them, leaving an opening. They landed a clean punch to Remi, giving out residual damage to him as Remi's body had some electricity.

A certain red-head noticed this and stopped everything, targeting the guy that hurt the pinkette. This also gave this purple-haired man an opening as he kicked Blyke, sending him back.

'John, where the fuck are you!?' Blyke closed his eyes and covered his face using his arms to protect himself from the strike, but it never came.

He slowly opened his eyes to see John fighting the three of them at once. Blyke got up and went to check on his girlfriend.

"Hey, are you okay?" Remi got up slowly with the help of Blyke and steadied herself slowly, using him.

"As good as I'll ever be" she cheerfully said.

It seemed like they both forgot that they were in a middle of a fight as they both smiled and leaned in for a kiss. John ended up taking care of these three newbies and faced the new couple, feeling awkward.

John decided to ruin this moment by clearing his throat to interrupt their oh-so-romantic-moment. "Hey I don't mean to be that guy, but we were just in a fight. Luckily for you guys, I finished them. Now lets-"

John froze as he felt another aura. There was a hidden seventh person coming from behind them with a needle that had some kind of aura inside.

"Look out!" They didn't have enough time to turn around before disaster struck. John had to do something and do it within one second.

John could've done a million things in this situation. He could've shot the guy, shot the syringe, punched him, electrocuted him and so much more.

What he ended up doing however, was the worst one of them all. The spontaneous ravenette pushed both of them out the way, taking the injection in the neck.

After that, John sent some electricity towards the guy and knocked him out. Both Remi and Blyke saw a syringe that was empty and grew panic.

"John! Are you okay?!" Remi basically screamed even though he was less than five meters away. John just nodded, putting his hand over where the injection was just inserted.

He had no idea what that substance could do, but thought nothing of it. Nothing has happened to him yet and it seemed to be more harmless than the needle itself.

"Just come pick up this guy and head back to my house. When he wakes up, we're asking him a lot of questions."

Blyke nodded and picked up the guy that John was pointing to, hanging him over his shoulder.

They were all thinking about what had just happened, especially Remi. 'What do they want from us and why are they doing this to us?'

She knew that EMBER was pretty scary, but was also reassured that she wouldn't be targeted from them as she wasn't a superhero.

Now here Spectre was, attacking any high-tier. It wasn't only her that could be targeted, it could be all of her friends. Even Blyke could be a target since he was here to witness everything, whether he was a high-tier or now.

Blyke on the other hand felt weak and useless. Here John was, able to take care of all three of those people, even if he was in a weakened state while he was barely even able to take one person down.

He had to watch as his girlfriend got punched right in the face, unable to protect her. If John hadn't made it in time, who knows where they would be. Maybe it was finally time to train again and possibly become a vigilante with John.

John on the other hand could barely operate. His whole body felt weaker and started slowing down. 'Why do I feel so tired? I was fine less than five minutes ago.' Johns steps started becoming slower and slower until he closed his eyes, falling backwards.

While Remi was still in her thought, she noticed a certain black-haired boy stop walking. She was confused and then saw him slowly fall. "John!" Remi just barely made it in time, catching the ravenette before he hit the floor.

"Blyke! Call Seraphina right now!"

What's this? Me? Uploading a chapter? Nooooo. This must be a dream. Ok on a serious note, thank you guys for being so patient. Over a month of inactivity... that's just... sad. Honestly I felt a bit burnt out and thought I was gonna take a week long break and here I am a month later.. I'll do my best to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Another note, we hit 10k reads! Thank you guys so much for the insane support so far. When I first started writing this story 2 months ago, I never thought it would be where it's at right now. To get 10k reads in the first place is an accomplishment and this fast is just insane. Thank you guys so so much and I'll make sure this 10k special is a bit more than special! Thank you all so so much!

Oh and don't expect chapters shorter like this, just thought this was a perfect way to end it. Unless you guys want shorter chapters of course.

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Released March 3rd

Chapter 14: A Rude Awakening

Blyke dropped the man to the ground and took out his phone while Remi dragged John to the nearest wall and got him to sit up straight, making sure that he was still breathing.

He shakily scrolled through his contacts hastily to the S and found the only saved contact that had started with that letter. The red-head called Seraphina and let it ring.

*BZZZ* *BZZZ* *BZZZ* *BZZZ* *BZZZ*

Seraphina's phone vibrated on the nightstand, but no one had answered the call. She was sound asleep, hugging a pillow.

"Remi! She's not answering!" This was the worst situation they could possibly be in at the moment.

Seraphina didn't answer, John is currently unconscious and they're carrying around a mysterious man.

The pinkettes gears in her head were turning as she was trying to think of something else. "Call Rei! Hurry!"

There was just one issue with that, not only did Blyke not have his number, Remi's phone had died, meaning there was no way to contact him. "You know his number by memory, right!?"

If she was being honest, she didn't fully memorize it, but had a vague idea of what it was. Not like she had the choice to not try as her friend was unconscious, leaning against a wall.

She nodded and Blyke threw the phone to her, staying next to the now kidnapped man. She found the keypad to dial and put in Rei's number, hoping her memory hadn't done her wrong.

*BZZZ* *BZZZ* *BZZZ*

"Hel-" Rei couldn't even get a word out as Remi interrupted him. She had no time to waste and needed to explain the situation before it went from bad to worse.

"Come to 36th street, right next to the amusement park! Hurry!" Rei knew the situation was dire, so he was going to ask questions later.

The mint-haired boy hung up, grabbed his keys and stormed outside his apartment, forgetting to lock his door.

Rei ran downstairs and unlocked his white tesla, model three to be exact. He had found it unironic that a electric based ability had a electric car, but he digressed.

He entered the car and put the address into the GPS, seeing it would only take 10 minutes to get there, eight if he was fast.

While Rei was hauling ass, Remi and Blyke were both worried about John. They knew how strong he was, but this situation was different from everything else.

Sure he had ended up beating these people, but here he was now, knocked out himself. What made it worse was that John was in a situation like this because they both weren't careful of their surroundings.

Remi was hoping John would be fine, but something hit her like a truck. Leith had mentioned to them that Spectre had somehow been able to make a drug that disables someone's ability.

Her heart sank as she put two and two together. The drug that John had got injected with was most likely the disabler.

How could she live with herself knowing that John had lost his ability, this amazing talent all because of her. John forever being a cripple again just because she celebrated too early.

Now, no one would be able to protect her brother when he would need it most. John going with Rei had made the situation a bit more relaxing to her.

John was the safety net and now that was gone. Rei could easily get killed anytime he goes out, even with his friend.

It didn't even end there. In fact, the part that she was dreading the most was telling Seraphina what happened. Seeing Seraphina's distraught face as she tells the magenta-haired girl that John became a cripple all because of her.

Just because she wanted to kiss Blyke, her boyfriend was a cripple for life. She knew that her and John were close, but who was to say that now it would stay the same.

Sera could very well see John in a different spotlight and have a changed view of him now. It was very unlikely, but was still something she was forced to think about now.

Oh and of course, how could she forget the most important one of them all. John. How different his life would be now as a cripple.

He was a late bloomer, but that didn't mean much. She's seen how lower tiers in Wellston get treated and it's disgusting. Remi would always try to break up any fight, but couldn't monitor every single fight.

For all she knew, John could be a target for people to bully now. No matter how much he trains to defend himself, there will always be people like Zeke that will show no mercy and hunt you like prey.

Wellston was a cruel place, but the world as a whole was even worse. There was discrimination and that was obvious. The lower tiers got the worse jobs and got paid less while it was the complete opposite for the high-tiers.

John now didn't have a chance of getting a nice job and settling down and it was all her fault. For the rest of her life, she would be guilty of taking his ability away.

Remi had no idea when it started, but she started crying. Blyke heard a sniffle, and like a dog when they hear a noise, he turned his face to see Remi hugging herself, crying next to John.

The red-head got up from the pavement and slowly walked towards Remi, trying not to disturb her. When Blyke sat down next to her, all he could hear was her repeating the same words over and over again.

"All my fault. All my fault. All my fault." Blyke had to comfort her in some way, so he put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her in closer. Remi slightly jumped and looked up to see Blyke's golden eyes filled with concern and worry.

She rested her head on his shoulder and continued to cry like it was her last day on Earth. Blyke had somewhat of an idea of why she would be like this and to be quite frank, he felt the same way.

Thinking that John had most likely lost his ability all because of him was stuck in his mind and it seemed it wanted to linger for some time. Still, he needed to be strong for Remi. He could cry all wants later, but right now he needed to hold it back until he's alone.

They both stayed silent in the cold night, just hearing cars occasionally pass by and hear Remi sniffle her congested nose, trying to breathe. There were now no stars out and the moonlight went through the dark clouds, ready for rainfall.

This all felt surreal to them. Both of them thought that they were basically invincible from the world. Blyke and Remi had always been confident in their ability to defend themselves when necessary as they were above average level wise.

It was always 'Yeah that happened, but it'll never happen to me.' The first time either felt something like this was back when Rei was in the hospital.

For the first time in their life, they felt vulnerable. Like at any moment, your life could be taken away. That gave them a quick reality check, but it didn't do much. That could never happen to them as they weren't vigilantes, so that was a different situation.

However, now this was a concern for them. Spectre was not someone to be messed with. They targeted anyone that was a at least a high-tier , which included Remi and probably Blyke too as he was there when they were fighting.

Both an elite-tier and a high-tier got outclassed by a couple mid-tiers. That would be absurd if you had told someone, but it was nothing but the truth and that scared them.

Knowing that at any moment, your life could now be easily taken away whether you were strong or not, was terrifying to the couple. Now, they'd have to be on their feet, ready to fight whenever it was necessary .

There was no time to think more about this fucked situation as they heard a honk and saw Rei exit his car.

"Hey what did you-" His heart dropped as he saw the situation. John was unconscious, Remi was crying on Blyke and there was a random person also knocked out.

Rei would ask questions later. Right now, he needed to get John and presumably this other person to someplace safe. Anywhere but the cold street was better.

The mint-haired boy carried John and placed him in the backseat while Blyke had put the other man into the passenger seat. The red-head was sitting in the middle while John was to his right and Remi was to his left.

Remi put her head on his shoulder, trying to gain some comfort while Rei placed Johns head to rest against car door. Now that they were all in the car, it was time to start asking questions.

"Excuse my language, but what the fuck is going on?" Rei basically screamed as he took the car out of park and onto drive.

Remi lightly jerked and continued crying again, remembering that this was all her fault.

Rei looked at the rear view mirror to see his little sister that was always upbeat and happy, weeping on Blyke's shoulder.

That made his heart skip a beat and he knew that something was very wrong, but he needed to keep his composure. What Rei hated the most was seeing his little sister like this.

"Sorry, I'm just worried. I have two unconscious people in my car, John being one of them, which makes this a whole lot worse." Rei spoke softly this time, hoping that would help with Remi's situation.

Blyke had to explain it to him or no one would. He closed his eyes and took a deep breathe in hoping it would at least ease him for a little bit.

"Remi and I went to the amusement park just to relax before we go back to school tomorrow. As we were leaving, we saw an ability gauge for 10 dollars and only a high-tier got a prize. Remi and I went to get tested and when she got her teddy bear, she noticed there was a tracker in it. After, we followed the girl named Leith into an alleyway and asked her some questions. We found out that there's this organization called Spectre that has a drug that can completely remove abilities-"

Rei had to interrupt him right there. There was no way that someone could just disable your ability at anytime, that was impossible. "What! You're telling me that this 'Spectre' can just take someone's ability away!?"

Whatever he said about keeping his composure for Remi was thrown out the window as he yelled yet again. Again, Remi jumped as he raised his voice, really telling Rei that she was startled.

"That's exactly what I'm telling you. After we found out, John came in case of an ambush. After he asked a couple questions, something happened to us which I can't really explain. Both Remi and I just had a weird feeling and then suddenly our power was cut in half."

Rei had to cut in again as this whole situation seemed to be fake. It had to be fake, all of this was impossible. This time though, he kept his composure. "How is any of this even remotely possible? This sounds like something from a movie."

Blyke just shrugged before continuing. "Remi and I were struggling against three mid-tiers, but we ended up beating them. Three more came at us and they seemed to be high mid-tiers or low elite-tiers, meaning we were screwed. Luckily, John came from behind and destroyed all three of them. For some odd reason, he was either not affected by this feeling in the first place or it deteriorated a lot faster for him."

"That does make sense. Since John can control his aura channels, it's possible that maybe his body went into overdrive and just fought off that weird feeling. Hence, why you guys couldn't remove that feeling, but he could."

It was all just a theory, but it did make some sense when Blyke thought about it. Still, he went on with his story, knowing it's going to get a whole lot worse.

"After that, Remi and I decided to have a moment-" Rei looked back at the rear view mirror, giving Blyke a death stare.

"If you ever and I mean ever hurt Remi in anyway, I will have your head on a spear hanging in my room."

Blyke gulped, making his Adam's apple go up and down. "I-I'll make su-sure she's treated g-good!"

Rei squinted his eyes one more time before full on laughing. "Ah come on man, I'm just messing with you. No need to tense up on me. For real though, treat her with respect or you will never see the light of day again. Got it?"

Blyke gave a dead chuckle and nodded, agreeing to what Rei had said. "So just before I was about to kiss her, someone came from behind with a drug. John noticed this before both of us and pushed us to the side, taking the injection. A couple minutes later and he's out cold."

The mint-haired boy gulped, thinking of the worst possibility. "You don't think- that wouldn't happen to him... right?"

That was the question all three of them were dreading to know. Did John really lose his ability? Was Spectre just lying about this to strike fear? They would find out when he woke up which they had no exact idea when that would be.

The trio wasn't quite sure, but it leaned more towards it being true. Spectre would have no reason to lie about this.

Hell, they even got experience of their ability level being dropped by at least half. That wasn't just a coincidence, they've already shown that Spectre has the capability of messing with someone's ability.

As much as it pained for Blyke to say it out loud, he had to. "It's a possibility, Rei. He most likely is a cripple now."

It went silent, like they were in a dark, empty abyss. Not even the other cars passing by made a noise. They didn't know what to say, they couldn't say anything. There was something about calling John a cripple that didn't settle right with them.

Rei didn't know how to respond to what Blyke said, if he even should respond to what he had just said. He knew how strong John as a teenager was. Hell, without John, he would be six feet under right now and really was thankful.

Still, nothing would change between John and everyone here. At the end of the day, he was still John, just without an ability. They would still be friends and continue to grow close to one another and do everything in their power to protect him.

The rest of the car ride was silent. They each were having different thoughts as they got closer to John's house. John had given Rei his address after they met up in case of an emergency.

Remi was trembling as she saw John's front porch. She finally had made it and when she entered the house, she would have to tell Seraphina everything.

That everything went wrong just because she decided to stalk this girl. All because she didn't mind her own business about the circuit in the teddy bear and take it into her own hands, John lost his ability.

All she needed to do was report it to the security and it would've been handled, but no. Remi wanted to be a superhero and solve this oh-so-mysterious case with Blyke, putting not only her but Blyke at risk as well.

How greedy did she have to be to not only risk Blyke's life, but to decide that kissing him in the middle of an alleyway where they had just fought people was a good idea.

It was all her fault and she kept repeating that in her head over and over again. Since Rei was carrying John and Blyke was carrying the random guy, Remi had to knock on the door.

Seraphina was still asleep so she had to bang on the door until she awoke. After a few moments and no answer, she sighed and made her way to the window, knocking on it a lot harder.

The very sleep magenta-haired girl showed signs of life as she slowly opened her eyes. She had completely forgot that she was naked as she woke up sweaty all over and her hair a mess since she had forgot to take her extensions off, making it a whole lost worse.

She gazed her sensitive eyes at where the source of the sound was, the window. Sera quickly sat up, covering herself up with the comforter in case the person outside could see them.

Seraphina quickly activated her ability and paused time for everyone and got dressed, ready to stomp outside and scream at the people for trying to prank her and wake her slumber.

Quickly, she ran to the guest room with all her clothes and put on her bra and panties, not caring that the bra was blue and the underwear was red. She roamed to the closet and put on one of John's jackets that she had stolen and some leggings. Seraphina also took off her extensions, not wanting to make them more of a mess then what they currently were.

Freezing was her middle name right now and she needed as much warmth as possible. Sera deactivated her ability and made her way to the door. Instead of instantly opening the door like what happens in horror movies, she looked through the peephole and saw John... on Rei's shoulder.

Seraphina twisted the lock and flung the door open so fast that Rei almost got hit face first. Luckily, Rei was vigilant and stepped back just in time, barely balancing himself again.

The mint-haired boy didn't even notice that John wasn't on his shoulder anymore until he walked in with the other two and saw the ravenette laying down on the couch and Seraphina clinging onto John's arm. Blyke put the other guy sitting up against the wall, deciding that carrying him was a hassle.

The magenta-haired girl had so many questions and was feeling so many different emotions. Here her boyfriend was, knocked out cold.

She felt anger in both herself and the trio in front of him. All she needed to do was go with him and he wouldn't be out like this. There were no apparent injuries on him, but he must've been out cold for a reason.

They had one job and Sera had put their faith, hoping that John would come back safe and sound. Now she knew that they couldn't be trusted to protect her boyfriend and wanted nothing more than to just scream at them and then kick them out of, yet she restrained herself.

She was hoping that they had a very good reason to bringing back her boyfriend unconscious because if not, hell was breaking lose and she would care less.

There was also confusion. There weren't any visible wounds on his body, meaning it must have been something internal that was messing with him.

After further examination, she noticed that there was an injection mark on his neck. The only explanation was that he was drugged, hence why he wasn't physically hurt yet still had torpor.

Whoever did this to him was not going to have a fun time when she saw them. No one will ever hurt her boyfriend and get away with it.

However, Seraphina felt worry more than anything else. She knew how strong John was. Hell, she struggled against him and could easily lose to John if he had fought back in the Cafeteria.

This is a whole feat to get him like this. The only explanation was that he must've been caught off guard. What she didn't get though was how he was caught off guard.

John was with both Blyke and Remi as back up. Unless all three of them were eating shit, this shouldn't have happened to the ravenette.

Even if they all were distracted, one of them would've noticed if something was off. The other two seemed fairly uninjured other than a couple bruises on their face which could be healed later in school.

Seraphina had no definitive answers, so the only reasonable thing to do was ask questions and ask questions she did. "What. The. Fuck. Happened."

The magenta-haired girl froze their whole bodies except for their face. She crossed her arms and repeatedly tapped her foot on the ground, impatient and anxious for answers about her boyfriend's condition.

Both Remi and Blyke stiffened up at the Goddess' presence. She could really scary when she wanted to and right now was one of those times. Rei on the other hand was as relaxed as possible, still not really getting the whole picture of what happened.

Remi looked down at the floor and shut her eyes, feeling guilt as she faced Seraphina. It was all her fault and didn't want to dawn Seraphina on the horrible news. Their relationship would never be the same again and she hated herself for that.

Blyke didn't really know what to tell Seraphina. Well, that was a lie. The red-head knew what to tell her, he just didn't want to tell Seraphina. He didn't want an ass whooping or see how she takes it.

If Blyke was being honest, he was more scared about what she would do to him once he told her what had happened to John and why it had happened.

Still, he was dreading her reaction as much as Remi was, if not more. There was no way to sugarcoat this, so he just blurt it out, praying he could see another day.

"I'm wai-" Sera cut herself off as she saw Blyke close his eyes, take a deep breath and open his eyes, making direct eye contact with her. She noticed that Remi hadn't said anything since she walked in which was irregular for the happy-beat girl. She hadn't even bat an eye to her since she walked in, which really worried her.

Seraphina let Blyke speak and what he said made her heart drop. "John most likely lost his ability" Blyke said, sighing loud enough for everyone to hear.

Just like that, Sera had lost any energy she had and deactivated her ability, dropping next to John on her knees.

There was no way that John lost his ability. Her eyes grew watery as she looked at John's handsome face, slowly and very softly caressing his cheek. She didn't know how to respond to what Blyke was saying and if she was being honest, she was denying this whole situation.

Out of everyone in the world, Blyke was telling her that her John had lost his ability for some reason she still didn't know. It seemed like some elaborate joke and she was waiting for someone, anyone to burst into laughter and tell her this was all a scheme.

Seraphina was now bursting into tears, using John's chest to cover her face as she cried. There had to be a way to get his ability back. There was still hope that maybe, just maybe he could pull out of this and wake up, still holding his ability.

The trio didn't know what to say, if they should do anything to comfort the girl. Remi let her emotions get the best of her and she ran up to her, hugging Sera, letting the pinkettes tears fall down the magenta-haired girl's back.

"I'm hic so sorry Seraphina. It's hic all my hic fault. Forgive me please hic." Every sound around Seraphina seemed like she was underwater, it was all barely audible. She couldn't concentrate on anything anyone was saying.

The only thing on Sera's mind was hope. Hope that John didn't actually lose his ability. Hope that he would wake up with that smile that brightened her day. Hope that he'd be able to continue his expeditions with Rei.

Even though that was stupid and dangerous, it showed her that John was willing to help people and need and she admired that about him. The fact that he always put people in front of him. The self-sacrificing idiot.

Seraphina tried her best to get her composure back, knowing John wouldn't want to see her like this. She was such a mess right now.

Her hair was all over the place and there were dried streaks of her tears on her face. She sniffled, trying to breath through her congested nose and wiped the leftover tears on her face. She noticed that Remi had clung onto her and decided to embrace her, making comforting circles on her back as she continued to cry and sniffle.

Rei looked at his little sister and felt so powerless. There was nothing that he could to do comfort her right now and would just have to wait until he had the chance to talk to her and do everything as the big brother to care for Remi.

"Wh-what happened?" It came out to nothing but a whisper, showing how defeated Sera felt. Blyke had to take the initiative again as he saw his girlfriend was still crying.

Blyke took a deep breath for what felt like the millionth time and told Sera everything. From how there was a new organization called Spectre to how their power level was briefly lowered by at least half. Then he paused, knowing the next point would explain why and how John lost his ability.

"After John saved Remi and I..." He paused again, gaining the magenta-haired girls attention. She had the biggest frown on her face and somehow, Blyke was about to turn the frown into god knows what.

Blyke knew he needed to tell the truth and not sugarcoat it as he would have even more guilt then what he currently has. "Remi and I decided to kiss and then someone came from behind and tried to inject one of us with the ability disabler, but John pushed us out the way and he took the injection."

The red-head had never spoke so fast in his life, hoping Seraphina would miss a couple important details. Unluckily for the red-head, Sera had caught everything he said.

She left go of Remi and slowly got up, keeping her head down. She reactivated her ability and froze all of Blyke yet his face again. Slowly, she walked up to him and looked him dead in the eyes, now freezing his eyes to force eye contact.

Blyke somehow felt a shiver down his spine even though he was froze. He was in deep shit and there was no way he was making it out of it alive. "So you mean to tell me that John.." she stopped her rant and pointed at John while staring through Blyke's soul.

"Is without an ability because YOU couldn't keep yourself in check?!" Sera screamed at Blyke, knowing that he couldn't answer as he was still frozen.

Seraphina turned around and looked down to Remi, "As for YOU, how DARE you be selfish with not only asking John for help at this time of night, but to then let this happen to him!"

She couldn't care less of what they were feeling right now. Both Blyke and Remi needed to hear this and realize they fucked up hard. "You are so lucky that it's late because if not, I'd make sure that you'd be in the infirmary all day tomorrow. Now do me a favor and get the fuck out now before I do something I'll regret!"

Sera let go of her freeze on Blyke and awaited for him to leave. When he didn't, she grew more impatient. She activated her ability yet again, ready to force him to leave.

Rei knew how bad an altercation would be with Seraphina, so he needed to stop this now before it went from bad to worse. "Seraphina!"

She turned her head and looked over at Rei, "Don't you dare get involved with this unless you'd like to join them." She spoke cold and emotionless, ready for anything and everything.

Still, the mint-haired boy kept his cool and tried to reason with her. "It was an accident! Can't you tell by how Remi and Blyke are! Stop with this bullshit and just relax for a second! We don't even know if he lost his ability! They could've been bluffing for all we know!"

The magenta-haired girl looked over to the couch and saw Remi was sitting up against the couch in a ball, hiding her head, rocking back and forth trying to comfort herself.

She needed to stop letting the emotions get the best of her or she really was going to do something she would regret for the rest of her life. She sighed and deactivated her ability, sitting next to Remi.

Blyke stood frozen, too scared to move. 'Note to self: NEVER piss Seraphina off or you will die.' Rei sighed, thankful that he stopped her from creating chaos.

Seraphina wrapped one of her arms around Remi's shoulder, pulling the pinkette to her to do her best to comfort her.

She could hear Remi whisper that she was sorry and that it was all her fault over and over again. Seraphina really didn't know what to do, so she stayed there in silence.

There were so many thoughts running through Sera's mind and she didn't know where to start. As if EMBER wasn't enough, there was now Spectre, ready to attack anyone that's a high-tier, including her.

This whole day had felt like a dream. It had started off so good. John and her had gone on their first date ever and it was everything she had wanted. They enjoyed each others company that whole day.

When they had got back home, they had even enjoyed themselves a bit. Fast forward a couple hours later and here the day was, ending in the worst way possible.

John was now most likely without an ability and for the first time in her life, she felt powerless. As a God-tier, she always felt invincible and now with John by her side, she felt she could take on the whole world.

Sera held John's hand, trying to get some comfort out of this whole shitty situation. It didn't do much, but it was better then nothing.

Remi on the other hand was devastated. That was the only word that could perfectly describe what she was feeling. Devastated that one of her friends had become a cripple all because she wanted a moment.

If she could turn back time and take the drug, she would. Sadly, that wasn't her ability and even if it was, not even Seraphina would be able to do such a feat.

There would be no way to redeem herself for what happened to John and would just have to hope that one day both John and Seraphina could learn to forgive her for being so selfish.

Blyke was sitting on the floor, fiddling with his shirt the whole time to try and think of anything else or do anything else to distract himself. John getting injected was playing in his mind over and over again and he hated it.

John had been nothing but good to him and this was how he repaid him, causing his ability loss. He felt as guilty as Remi, if not more.

Even if John found it in himself to forgive him, Blyke would never be able to forgive himself for what he had done to John. It was unforgivable in his eyes and knew if he had lost his ability because of John, he would never be able to forgive John.

Rei looked at his watch and noticed that it was starting to get late. He felt a bit too drowsy and felt that driving back would be a bit too risky. He decided to try and spark up a quick conversation, "It's starting to get late. Mind if we just crash tonight?"

Seraphina continued to stare at the floor and just lightly nodded her head. Rei looked at the door and completely had forgot that they had this guy here, still unconscious. The mint-haired boy went to John and looked for the zip-ties in his utility belt.

Rei remembered that he had given John some in case they needed to detain someone. He searched through the belt and found some. They all noticed that Rei was looking for somethin on John, but didn't seem to care.

They didn't have the energy and were too down. Rei got the zip-ties, stuffing them into his pocket. The mint-haired boy picked up a chair and sat the man on it, tying the guys hands and feet together to the seat, giving him no chance to escape.

Slowly and cautiously, Rei walked over to his distraught sister and picked her up bridal style, carrying her to the guest bedroom. "I'll sleep here next to John. Blyke, take the room."

He barely heard Sera whisper, but acknowledged what she said. While Blyke mad his way to the bedroom, Sera went and found a spare comforter and pillow, not caring about sleeping on the floor.

Seraphina placed the pillow on the floor, laying down on the floor next to John to try and feel safe. She held his hand and looked at him one more time before drifting to sleep, praying that tomorrow would be better than today.

Yay! New chapter! Hope you guys enjoyed it! 10k Special is in progress as we speak! I'll try my best to write as much as I can for that. 10k words is a lot, but I'm dedicated to getting it out! Have a good day and as always, stay safe!

5649 Words Excluding A/N

Released March 18

The Decision (?)

Hey, it's me! You're probably (definitely) reading this while thinking "Where have you been? Update when? You're still alive? Your story is ass. Your story is fire" etc etc and they're all very valid questions/statements.

I took a massive break from What If (writing in general) because I got burnt out. After my break when I wanted to continue I noticed many flaws in this story so I just stopped updating What If.

We all know where this is leading so I'll just get straight to the point. Should I continue the story as is or should I start fresh. Keep the same plot/idea going forward just rewriting other things. I saw I rushed a lot of plot points while rereading What If.

Still, if you guys don't want me to restart then I'm also fine with that and will do my best to make best of what I got currently.

As always, have an amazing day and be good people!

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