Hey everyone. How's Life? So everyone have a good June/July/August? I guess it's not over yet. Oh well. So life is a little hectic over here right now. Sometimes I feel like emailing my friend with the message 'SOS!' Well now I'm rambling on. Hope you enjoy

Who's The Girl?

Falcon woke up from her sleep and looked around confused. She could have sworn she had heard a noise. Glimmer, Dynamite, and Swan were still sleeping, though. This confused Falcon even more. If she had really heard a noise, wouldn't the others have heard it too?

Still, Falcon wondered if she really did hear something. So, she quietly slipped out of the girls' room and into the living area. There, standing next to the table, were Ninja and Crabby conversing quietly.

Falcon slowly walked up to them. "Hey." She whispered quietly. The two turned towards her.

"You heard something too?" Ninja asked his friend. Falcon nodded.

"We were planning on checking it out." Crabby said as bluntly as ever. Falcon nodded again as she headed for the corner of the room where they put their weapons and their masks. Crabby and Ninja followed, the three of them slipping on their masks and capes and grabbing their swords.

Then Falcon followed the two outside. 'Of course it would be Ninja and Crabby.' Falcon thought. 'Crabby has good senses thanks to his experiences in the orphanage (AN: a story for another time) and Ninja has extra good senses because of his time in the circus and his extra long time out in the forest. That's probably how I heard the noise, too. I had been in the forest so long that my senses were better than most humans. I also don't sleep as soundly as I did in the city.'

The three snuck out side. That's when they heard the talking and it was coming closer. Ninja and Falcon climbed the nearest trees while Crabby hid in a thick bush.

Then the voices stopped coming closer. Once the voices were stationary for a minute or two, the three members of the seven came out of their hiding places. Then they headed for where they heard the talking.

As they approached quietly, the talking turned into screaming and what sounded like someone falling to the ground. The vigilantes exchanged glances and hurried towards the sounds.

When they got there they found a girl in a fancy ball gown. Laying on the ground by her, were two guards.

Falcon and Ninja recognized the uniforms as those of the Queen's Secret Service. The girl was trying to cut some rope that was holding her wrists behind her back.

Finally the girl had her wrists free and was starting to look around.

Falcon shared a quick, frantic look with Ninja. 'There's no way some nosey girl is going to find my fortress of solitude that I've protected for four years.'

Ninja had the same look on his face. He signaled Crabby to move in. This was a situation they'd practiced over the years.

The next thing Falcon knew, the young girl was laying on the ground.

"Could you have hit her any harder?" Falcon asked Crabby sarcastically.

"Hey, it got the job done, didn't it?" Falcon rolled his eyes at his answer

"So what should we do with her?" Falcon asked. The sun was starting to rise, but it was still too dark to see anything distinguishing about the girl.

"I don't know. If the queen was trying to kill her, there are two possibilities why. One being she is an insane criminal and we should kill her because she would be our enemy, too. The other option is she's a rebel, like us, and she could be a great asset." Ninja said.

After much debate, the girl was tied up and brought into the Seven's hideout. Crabby stayed awake to watch her as Ninja and Falcon went back to their rooms for much needed sleep.

Falcon finally fell back asleep as she was thinking of how familiar the other girl was.

Falcon was the last one up, which was very unusual. She got dressed and put on her mask, thinking of the girl in the fancy dress. Then she stepped out into the living room where Ninja was sitting in front of the girl, while everyone else went about their normal routines. The girl was up and looking around, obviously wanting to be untied.

Falcon looked at the girl closely and was nearly shocked out of her skin.

It was all just as she remembered it. Silky blonde hair, a slender figure, and those piercing, gray eyes.

It was her old childhood friend Artemis. In other terms, Princess Olivia Grace Queen.

Well there you have it. I didn't really like this one that much. I'm sorry that it's way shorter than the last one. I've noticed that the chapters are usually longer when I type them right away instead of writing them out first. Well I'll keep trying. Hope you all liked it.

~WB