Battle high: not your average high school

After Battle ten

Following weird child

Alex looked at her calmly and hugged her when he had the chance. "She's spent her life chasing him and was too afraid to say it until now and she's given him the world many times then he could count and I remember getting to meet her once when I was woken up once," he looked at her.

"The night I met her was the night she was chosen to be a part of Cloud's team. My god the only thing she could talk about that whole night was him and how she had fallen for him. She talked about every little detail she noticed about him but was too afraid to tell him. I bet even now she's still shy to even tell him that. But soon after that I was sent back to sleep," he sighed.

"Listen I don't know what came over me that day, to be honest it was something that drew me towards you and I couldn't help it. But look at her! Look at the girl who has chased after you and made sure she took every hit for you and you're lucky to have her! Have you honestly started to forget about her entirely? If you have..then end it with her," said Artemis. He shook his head at Cloud and then turned and headed back to Primrose, "Let's go find my sister"

Prism's glare softened into something more sad. "See, like what the fuck Cloud..," she said in a more quiet tone. "I don't understand him sometimes.. and he should know that Artemis won't leave Primrose for him anyway, so honestly I don't even know why he's trying," she told Alex with a sigh.

Cloud didn't say anything as he processed Artemis's words. That was all true. And it wasn't that he didn't love Lilly, it was just.. Well. He didn't really know.

It was then that Cloud noticed the deep gash in his hand. He looked down at the injury and tilted his head. "Fuck.."

Primrose looked up and nodded at Artemis. "Everything okay..?"

"I know..but think about it..maybe hes the one still blind to everything still yet again," said Alex as he looked at her sadly. "Maybe he's forgotten about her now? I mean she does everything she can to keep him alive and even so they both fight either way to protect others too...but I wonder if the case is that he is forgetting about her," wondered Alex.

Lilly shifted a bit in her sleep and moved to sleep on her side a bit but didn't wake up.

"Everything is fine no worries just being a spazz," said Artemis with a smile and placed a hand on her head. "Now let's find Sora before she gets too far away again," teased Artemis. "I guess you're right.. he's too busy lusting after Artemis or whatever the fuck he's thinking about to realize how much she loves him still." Prism sighed. "And he says I'm the idiot.."

Cloud sighed and went over to where Sora had abandoned the bandages to fix his hand. He looked at Artemis and Primrose.

"She's aaalways running away," Primrose pointed out. "I wonder if she ever gets tired of running."

Cloud sighed. What was he even doing? This whole thing was pointless. No way he'd give up Primrose. Not after he'd just lost her, not for anything. "Maybe he could see Lilly the way before if she ever went back to her old self again?," asked Alex. "I mean he said he was tackled and pinned by her right? So what if that happens again?"

"I doubt she does especially since this running may make her shoot things in the process," laughed Artemis as he picked her up and spun her around for a second. "And besides it only means she's just getting over her anger more, the more she runs," he explained. "Hey that's actually a good idea.. and maybe if we get Lilly pissed enough she'll yell at him enough to knock some sense into his nonexistent brain," Prism theorized. "Shouldn't be too hard to get her mad.. it's pretty easy actually," she said with a small laugh.

Primrose giggled when she was spun. "Well I'd get tired of it. But that's probably because I'm lazy," she said with a small smile.

Cloud stared at his bandaged hand, thinking. He should probably just get over this. But he'd been trying that, so hard, and that wasn't proving to be effective.

..Crap. This was his fighting hand. Of course. "Is it that easy?..Well I know today its easy but I'm afraid if we try today she wouldn't just kill him but us too," Alex said with a scared voice. He thought about the fire they would get if they tried to mess with Lilly today and not another day.

Artemis smiled at her and then picked her up onto his back, "Then maybe you should be carried instead," he teased as he started to walk. Lilly started to open her eyes and yawned a bit through half open eyes and looked around confused. "Then we wait until tomorrow," Prism said, smiling a little at his frightened tone. "Don't worry I'll protect you from evil Lilly," she teased, poking him in the arm.

"Yaay!" Primrose cheered with another giggle. She messed with Artemis's hair lightly. "Your hair is soft."

Cloud noticed Lilly stirring and went to go sit next to her, but he didn't say anything. It wouldn't do anything anyway; she was all wolfed-out. She wouldn't remember anything once she was a human again. Alex laughed when he poked her and hugged her, "Thank you for protecting me from evil Lilly," he said to her with a smile.

Artemis laughed when she said that to him and shook his head a bit, "I had no idea my hair was so soft," he said with a chuckle.

Lilly let out another yawn when Cloud sat down, she laid her head on his lap and closed her eyes again and leaned against him like a pillow. Prism hugged him back and then smiled when she got an idea. She stood on her tiptoes enough to kiss his cheek with a giggle. "Anytime," she laughed.

"Well now you do," Primrose said, patting him on the head lightly and then looking up, finding she could reach the trees and pulling a leaf off of a branch. She inspected it before placing it in Artemis's hair innocently.

Cloud sighed and pet Lilly lightly. "Today sucks," he whispered. Alex blushed slightly when she kissed him on the cheek and he quickly tried to look away from her.

Artemis laughed, "You didn't put a leaf on me did you?," he asked jokingly as he tried to look up at her from behind him. "If you did I'm gonna tickle you."

Lilly remained asleep when Cloud spoke. Prism giggled at him and poked him in the chest. "Heeyy."

"Noooo," Primrose said, grabbing another from a branch and laying it next to the other. "I put twwooo leaves on you," she said with a smile.

"Nuuu don't tickle mee!"

Alex blushed and glanced at her,"Whhaattt?"

Artemis laughed, "Well then that you get tickled later then anyways," he said with a smile. "No you're getting tickled anyways," he said happily. "Why you all blushy?" Prism asked with a smile. "Aand you won't look at me."

Primrose poked his head. "Noooo," she argued. "N-no reason," he said to her as he turned and looked at her and tried his best not to lock eyes with her.

Artemis smiled,"Yeessss," he said to her. "If there wasn't a reason then you would," Prism pointed out.

Primrose ruffled Artemis's hair, making the leaves flutter to the ground. "See now they're gone. No tickling."

Alex sighed with a blush still clear across his face and then looked at her, "Happy," he asked her. Artemis shook his head, "Nope you're still getting tickled my dear," he told her with a laugh. Sora reached the edge of the first river and stopped running; she stared into the water and splashed it.

"Stupid Cloud doesn't know anything..if he would just open his fucking eyes he would see that he isn't always right!," Sora shouted as she shot another arrow. She heard a quick cry of pain and then ran over to see who it was and found that it was a child that she had seen before somewhere near Kirai's real mother's home. Prism giggled at his blush and shook her head. "Nope. Not yet."

"Nyooo!" Primrose protested. "I don't wanna be tickled," she told him, lightly tugging on a few strands of his hair for emphasis. Alex pouted a bit, "what why nooott?"

"Nope you're getting tickled later on," teased Artemis and smiled. "Cause."

Prism mentally encouraged herself a little before she reached up and barely kissed him, on the lips this time.

She leaned her head on his shoulder, the uninjured one, and laughed. She really just did that didn't she? "Now I am."

"So meaan," Primrose pouted down at him and poked him multiple times.

"What the heck?!"

A small boy clenched the arrow that was sticking out of his arm. Where had that come from?! He was just looking for his sister's teddy bear that she'd dropped a few days ago and now he gets shot with an arrow?! Terrifying!

He flinched when he started to pull it out. "Oww.."

Alex blushed more but smiled slightly and held her.

"I'm glad you're happy now," he told her.

"Yes I know~," Artemis laughed.

Sora took a few steps forward and jumped into a tree quickly and shot another down next to him, "Why are you in this forest?!," she shouted down at him. Prism smiled as well but didn't look up at him. She sincerely hoped that she hadn't just done something really stupid. She'd never done this kind of thing, all the cuteness.

Primrose was about to remind him yet again of how mean he was when she heard Sora shout in the distance. "Did you hear that?"

"I-I was just looking for my sister's toy! She was here and she dropped it and now she's too scared to come back!" And now he knew very well why! Strangers shooting arrows, no wonder she dropped the damn bear! This place was way too scary to remember to hold onto anything. Alex smiled at her he lifted her face to look at him.

"So was that trying to say something?," he asked with a smile.

"Yeah..wonder whats going on?"

"Well then get the hell out of here unless you wanna fight. And what idiot lets their little sister run around in the forest with a stupid stuffed bear alone?!,"Sora snapped back at him as she let another arrow fly next to him.

"You're lucky I'm missing you on purpose!"

Prism tried to hide her eyes behind her hair but it wasn't working very well. "M-maybe.."

Primrose blinked. "Well. Sora probably encountered someone she doesn't know and is now unleashing her anger at Cloud on them," she guessed.

The boy immediately took the strange girl's advice and ran full speed back home. The hell was this all about?! His arm was hurting like fuck now. How was he supposed to explain this to his dad? Alex smiled at her, he leaned down a but and kissed her on her lips this on his own without Sora's help.

"Well damn it not again," complained Artemis as he started to head in that direction.

Sora stood up on the branch and watched him run, "And don't even think about coming back here!," Sora shouted at him as he ran off. "Or next time you can guarantee I'll get my brothers and several others to keep you out!"

Prism was frozen with shock, but then smiled and happily kissed him back, unfortunately having to pull back a little because she was giggling so much.

"Again? This has happened before?" Primrose had to hold onto his shoulders when they switched direction abruptly, to avoid falling. Alex looked at her when she pulled away from all her giggling,"someone is giggles today," he said with a smile.

"Yeah..a few years back but it didn't end with a happy side," he said with a sigh. Sora was curious where the boy was headed, so she decided to follow him and raced behind him from the trees and wondered where he could be possibly going. "Heehee.. sorry. Im just happy," Prism said, smiling up at him. It was not unusual, for her at least, how she had gone from raging to so happy she was actually being girly. She did that a lot.

"Most things don't when Sora discovers something," Primrose said matter-of-factly.

Oh so now she was following him?!

This was just ridiculous. He was just being a good brother; wanting to make his darling sister happy... or rather he needed to find the damn wad of cotton and fabric so she would shut up.

And in return he got an arrow to the arm and now she was going after him.