(A/N: Okay, so I got this idea from "Shake it Up" on Disney Channel *love that show~*. I hope you guys like it… I'm still debating on whether or not I should make a full story out of it, so you guys must help me and vote on it on my page. If I did it would get changed a bit, but not much...~ Thnx, now ENJOY~~)

(Mood… Laughter… You've been warned~ TIME: B.T.B *before the books*)

10 year old Artemis had simply been walking down the hall of the manor, towards his study, when she attacked.

"Hey Artemis!" Juliet greeted, patting him on the shoulder suddenly, making him jump.

Artemis paused and turned to look at his bodyguard's younger sister. "Juliet, what's so important that you have to scare me like that?"

Juliet laughed. "Not much, it's just fun," she told him, smiling and giving him a wink.

Artemis rolled his eyes. "For YOU maybe it is."

Artemis began walking again, hoping the girl would leave him alone…

No such luck. Juliet followed him down the hall,

"So, watcha up to?" she asked him, prancing in front of him and then walking backwards in front of him.

"Watcha is not a word," Artemis pointed out, not answering the question.

Juliet rolled her eyes. "NERD," she told him plainly. "You never did answer my question."

"I'm heading to my study, why?" Artemis persisted.

Juliet shrugged. "Well, you're always there, it's just so…" she stopped in front of him, making him stop to. Artemis sighed in frustration as she thought.

"Routine… BORING," she finally decided. Then she began to walk backwards again before Artemis could go around her. "I mean, come on, you're in there SO much! It's MAY make you smart, but it's also making you weak at the same time. I bet I could flip you right now and there would be nothing you could do to stop me."

Artemis was about to argue when, suddenly, Juliet did just that, pinning him to the ground in a second.

"See?" she said, smug that she had proved her point. "YOU just got beat up by a girl."

Artemis scowled. "YOU don't count; any other kid wouldn't stand a chance."

Juliet snorted. "In a chess competition."

Artemis was about to argue again when Juliet suddenly flipped him over onto his back and held one of his arms behind his back.

"Beat you again!" she sang happily.

"Butler!" Artemis shouted.

Suddenly, the weight was off of his back. He heard a slight thud as Juliet was pinned against the wall.

"You okay?" Butler asked his young charge as Juliet struggled uselessly in his grip. Then she sighed, finally giving up.

Artemis stood and brushed himself off. He glared at Juliet as he answered Butler. "Yes, I'm fine."

Butler nodded and then turned his gaze to his sister who smiled sheepishly at him. "What have I told you about picking on him?" he asked her, his voice stern.

Juliet sighed. "Ta not ta," she answered, imitating Mater off of Cars.

"Ta isn't a word either…" Artemis grumbled under his breath. Juliet stuck out her tongue at him.

"And what have I told YOU about antagonizing her with your grammar OCD?" Butler questioned Artemis.

"It's not an OCD!" he protested.

Butler raised one eyebrow and Artemis stared right back at him. He didn't flinch, determined to win.

"Answer the question," Butler instructed him in a hard tone.

"To not antagonize her," Artemis said sullenly, giving in.

Butler nodded. "EXACTLY, now, if I let you go," he started, looking back at his little sister, "will you promise not to attack him again?"

"It wasn't an attack… it was me proving a point…" Juliet grumbled.

Butler scowled at her; her was starting to get a bit tired of them both not answering his questions right away.

"I promise," Juliet answered then, realizing his mood.

Butler nodded and let go, his mouth a firm line.

"Wimp…" Juliet breathed, glancing at Artemis.

"I am not!" Artemis shouted back, instantly defensive.

"You couldn't do a push up if you tried! Jogging to the car would make you break out into a sweat," Juliet said back.

Artemis scowled. "PROVE it!"

Juliet smirked, pointing down the steps. "Run down the steps, outside and back in under 2 minutes."

Artemis's eyes widened a bit. He'd been hoping she wouldn't prove it…

Juliet laughed and Butler stepped in, defending his charge.

"ATTACK includes verbal abuse," Butler told her sternly.

Juliet rolled her eyes. "I'm right you know," she said plainly.

Artemis scowled at her around Butler and Juliet leaned around him, too. She jabbed her thumb in her big brother's direction.

"If HE wasn't here for you all the time SO many people would have beaten you up already," Juliet told him.

"NOT true!" Artemis shouted back.

"OH YEAH, well we should just call up some kids and see what happens," Juliet challenged, knowing Artemis wouldn't say no.

She was right, before her brother can speak, Artemis did.

"FINE, do it, I dare you!" he snapped.

Juliet grinned. "OH, believe me, I will," she told him before heading off down the stairs. Artemis scowled and headed the rest of the way to his study, slamming the door behind him, leaving Butler alone in the hallway.

Butler sighed, shaking his head. What had Artemis gotten himself into?

… … … … … … … … …

Artemis was sitting in his study 3 hours later when Juliet walked in, grinning from ear to ear.

Artemis sighed and turned around in his chair to look at her as she shut the door behind her. "YES?" he asked. "What do you want?"

He was afraid of the answer… For the first hour after his "deal" with Juliet, he'd REALLY thought about his agreement to her challenge… He completely regretted it…

"I rounded up some kids, friends of mine and there little siblings," she told him smugly.

"And they wish to fight me?" Artemis asked her, wincing mentally at the statement.

Juliet nodded, laughing. "MAN you look pale," she joked. "OF COURSE they want to fight you; it's every kid's dream to have an excuse to beat up a nerd."

Artemis scowled. "Does the MAJOR or BUTLER know about this? Them being here, that is?" Artemis persisted, trying to find a way out of going down there.

Juliet grinned. "I don't care about Butler, he was there during the conversation, he should see it coming."

Artemis raised one eyebrow, his arms folded across his chest now. "Aren't you forgetting someone?"

This time, Juliet scowled. "What the Major doesn't know won't kill him…"

"Heart attacks are the leading cause of death you know," Artemis pointed out, smirking.

Juliet threw her hands up in the air. "He just WON'T know okay! He's in South America with your father right now for heaven's sake!"

Artemis rolled his eyes. "DISTANCE won't stop the Major from finding out about our doings, correction, YOUR doings," Artemis told her, smirking because he knew he was right.

Juliet took a step closer to him. "THIS is why kids want to beat you up," she snapped.

Artemis scowled, rising from his chair. "FINE, I'll fight them!" he shouted at her.

Juliet grinned and Artemis continued to scowl. She was probably the only person who REALLY got under his skin…

"This way," Juliet sang, turning around like her mood did.

Artemis grumbled incoherently under his breath and reluctantly followed her.

"You know," Juliet started as they headed down the stairs, "it's going to be really hard to fight anyone in those clothes."

"MY BAD, I don't usually dress for COMBAT every morning like SOME people," Artemis snapped at her, she was getting on his last nerves…

"Hm… sucks for you, because it's too late to change," Juliet sang again as she opened the doors to Butler's large training room…

Six kids looked up (4 girls, 2 boys), when they walked in. Juliet greeted them by name and the girls smiled at her, waving at Artemis. The boys, on the other hand, looked eager to start.

Their ages ranged from his age to about Juliet's age.

He was gonna die. He knew he couldn't fight if his life depended on it, but Juliet always knew how to make him say exactly what she wanted him to, and what he didn't want to.

"Artemis, meet your competition," Juliet told him, smiling as she gestured to the people she had gathered.

The boys snickered. Yep, dead meat.

Artemis merely forced a smile at them… Then, Juliet waved the first one up, a girl his age…

"And… go!" Juliet shouted. The girl charged him and tackled him to the ground. Artemis pushed him off of her, for she was surprisingly light, but then he didn't know really what to do… EVEN THOUGH he'd seen Butler fight people so many times… there was no way he could imitate him…

He could try though…

Artemis threw a punch at the girl and she dodged it, prancing on her feet. MAN were little girls agile…

Unlike himself…

The girl suddenly dove between his feet. Once behind him, she yanked hard on both of his legs, making him fall. She then quickly sat down on him.

Juliet came over snickering. "We have a winner!" she sang, raising the girl's hand who was only smiling.

"Next!" Juliet shouted as the girl went back over by the others and Artemis stood up.

"Isn't one enough?" Artemis complained.

Juliet beamed at him as another kid got up. "When I said 'SO many kids would have beaten you up by now' I meant it, so 'kids' still means plural," she told him.

Artemis groaned.

The next kid who came over was another girl, just a bit bigger than him.

"GO!" Juliet shouted.

Artemis was pinned in a second.

The next one was also a girl. This time, Artemis managed to stay on his feet for a minute before getting shoved to the ground and sat on again. What was in with girls and sitting on boys?

The four girls all beat him… The first boy was Artemis's age, but he was WAY buffer than him… Artemis groaned as Juliet waited to give the start signal…

"BEGIN!" Juliet sang, prancing out of the way as the boy charged Artemis.

Artemis quickly ducked, covering his head and the boy flew over him. He scrambled to his feet and tried to run away, but the boy was faster and… well… he tripped.

The boy pinned him.

By the time the last boy was up, Artemis was sweating bullets, his hair all messed up, clothes disheveled the works… He panted as he planned on simply surrendering right away to this one, for he appeared to be Juliet's age and looked as though he was on a football team…

Of course, Artemis wasn't only thinking about surrendering, he was also thinking about how Butler hadn't shown up yet…

As if the heavens had heard his pathetic plea, right before Juliet could shout "ATTACK" Butler stormed in.

"WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON HERE?" he thundered, rushing over to Artemis, glaring daggers at the boy in front of him who instantly scrambled over to his friends.

Artemis fell back onto his butt the second Butler stood over him, he was tired. He put his head in his hands as Butler shouted at his sister.

"WELL?" he shouted.

"Artemis agreed to bet earlier, I was just going through with it," Juliet told him, stepping back a bit as Butler continued to glare at her.

Butler scowled, then turned his fury to the helpless, defenseless kids. "OUT!" he shouted, pointing towards the door. All the kids quickly scrambled to their feet and did as told.

"I won…" Juliet breathed, just having to get it in. Artemis lifted up his head and glared up at her from between Butler's legs.

"NOT NOW," Butler growled at her. When the last kid was out, he started again.

"WHY ON EARTH DID YOU GO THROUGH WITH THIS?" Butler yelled at her, his expression furious.

Juliet opened her mouth to speak and Butler cut her off.

"You should have KNOWN that I DIDN'T want you to GO THROUGH with it!" he snapped, calming down just a fraction. "I DIDN'T even LIKE you BARELY pinning him to the ground! WHAT on EARTH would make you think I would even POSSIBLY approve of THIS?"

Juliet didn't answer, casting her gaze to the floor. Butler softened up… When it came to Juliet, he could never stay mad at her long…

… but the Major could… and Butler knew he'd find out eventually.

Butler sighed and turned around to face Artemis. He knelt down in front of his charge and began to examine him.

"Are you feeling alright?" he asked him, concerned.

Artemis shrugged, wincing a bit. "I'm sort of sore… and definitely tired…"

Butler scowled a bit. "Well, you'll probably be a bit sore tomorrow… and you may have a few bruises… but nothing major…"

Butler cast a glare over his shoulder at his sister. Then, he stood up and helped Artemis to his feet.

"Come on, let's get you cleaned up," he told the boy gently and they headed out of the room.

Right before they left, Butler cast a glance back at his sister. "WE will talk about this later," he mouthed to her, and then shut the door.

(A/N: Hope you liked it~ FINALLY had a full idea! REMEMBER PLEASE vote on the new poll on my page as to if you want a full story for this one or not~ THANKS! REVIEW~~~~)