Part 001
Everyone thinks that the Amazons were a myth. A society of all-powerful women? Yeah right!
Well, that's what MEN think, anyway.
My name is Artemis. This is my story.
Artemis paced in front of the royal tent. It was Initiation Day. The other girls should have been here by now!
Right on cue, three girls emerged from the forest, looking both excited and scared.
"Hi," one of them, Lily, said. "You're being initiated too? What's your name?"
"Artemis," she replied. "You're Lily, right?" Lily nodded. "Then you two…" She looked at the other two girls. "Are Jessica and Mina."
"Yeah! Like, what school do you go to?" Jessica asked, in the perfect version of a British Valley-Girl. "We go to Hogwarts.
"I also go to Hogwarts," Artemis replied. "That how I know…"
"Girls," a woman said, stepping out from the tent. "It's time."
They stepped into the royal tent and saw a VERY well-endowed woman wearing nothing but a gorgeous crown-circlet and numerous jewels, sitting upon massive cushions.
"Hello, my name is Queen Karytha," she said luxuriously. "Today is the day of your initiation into the Amazon warrior clan. You have to pass through a maze. You must prepare yourselves for the physical and mental challenge ahead. Lianna will escort you to the preparation tent. I wish you all the best of luck."
Later, in the preparation tent, Lianna told the girls to get undressed, and then left the tent. As Artemis calmly started to undress, Lily squawked, "WHAT?!"
"It's tradition, Lily," Artemis told her, taking her shirt off.
"What if someone sees us?!"
"We're all girls here, Lily. We all have the same things…even if some of us are a bit more blessed than others."
"Hahaha," Lily said sarcastically. "Very funny."
"Just strip, Lily," Artemis replied impatiently. "It's not that bad once you get used to it."
Long story short, they got through the maze fine (Jessica with a little more difficulty, but she passed nonetheless). Lily, actually, enjoyed the freedoms of having no restrictive cloth on her body.
"See, Lily," Artemis said. "You get used to going nude after a while."
(On the train)
"LILY, THESE CLOTHES ARE SO CONSTRICTING!" Artemis squealed in displeasure, tugging at her shirt collar.
"For goodness sake's, Artemis, you've worn clothes before!"
"Yeah, but it's annoying after being nude for three months straight!"
Just then, the compartment door opened, revealing three hot guys and one…not so hot guy. AKA…The Marauders.
"Did I hear someone say 'nude'?" a boy with devilishly silver eyes asked.
"Get your head out of the gutter, Sirius!" James scolded, hitting him upside the head.
"What?! You were thinking the same thing!" he said indignantly.
"Yes, but you said it aloud…"
"Why are you guys here?" Lily said wearily.
"Yeah, and who the hell are you?" said Artemis. "Oh yeah…never mind. I know who you are. You're those Marauder geeks."
"Excuse you," Sirius said, raising an offended eyebrow. "We are not geeks."
"I beg to differ," Artemis replied coolly. Just then, Mina bounced up to Remus, holding out a hand.
"Hi! I'm Mina!" she said perkily. Remus cautiously took her hand.
"I-I'm Remus," he said in a soft voice.
"I know!" she replied brightly.
Jessica, meanwhile, was sitting in the corner smacking her gum noisily and reading a magazine. Artemis, already peeved as it is, whipped around at her.
"Jessica, stop smacking your stupid gum," she snapped.
"But it's grape!" Jessica whined.
"Do I care?"
"Huh. Rawr. Fine," she said, putting her magazine back up.
"Sassy one, aren't you?" Sirius said with an amused smirk.
"Go away," Artemis said coldly. As Sirius gaped confounded at her, James was also staring adoringly at Lily.
"Take a picture, Potter," she said in the same cold voice as Artemis. "It'll last longer."
"You just told me to go away," Sirius said disbelievingly.
"Yeah. So why aren't you gone?"
"No girl…except for my mom…has ever told me to go away!"
"New experiences are good experiences…now go away."
"Make me!"
"You really want me to take up that offer?"
"Yeah, as if you can," Sirius said in an arrogant tone. Artemis's blood boiled.
"Fine. I will!" she snarled, getting up and grabbing him by the scruff of his neck. With a triumphant smirk, she drop-kicked him out of the compartment.
"Uh, mates…I don't think we're welcome here anymore," James said to Peter and Remus, looking at Sirius on the ground.
"And as if you were welcome in the first place?" Lily said, annoyed.