Battle High: Not your ordinary High School

Battle thirty-seven

New agents

Kirai followed her slowly. "...What? Where are you going?"

He saw that she was heading outside and sped up. "Sora we can't leave, those guys are still out there."

The agent pushed a button and the noise designed for only Artemis to hear emitted from the device. "The noise has been activated, sir," he told Cloud.

"Good. Now keep an eye out for anyone."

Sora stopped and faced him for a moment, she wasn't herself, and the sound had control over her. It was how the government kept her in check if she ever set a foot out of place. "If I do not complete my assignment I will be severely punished, "she said to him in a plain hollow voice.

Artemis heard the sound and flinched slightly when it came into his head, but he kept walking, unlike Sora, he had more control on how he could ignore the sound. But still found it hard to ignore, 'No...I-it cant be this..I-f she hears hers..I'm screwed!'

Kirai stared at her, scared and worried. "Uhh. O-okay? But um, if you do, "complete your assignment, "you'll most likely be caught? So, um, don't?," he stuttered. Kirai involuntarily backed up.

"No reactions yet, sir."

Cloud gritted his teeth in frustration, "Where the hell are they?," he angrily asked aloud. He pushed the button on the headset and irritatedly ordered, "Turn it up!"

Sora gave him a look the in two seconds flat she had him pinned to the wall with his hands behind his back and her other hand held his head to the wall, "You, you're the child I met after I returned, your family was my target...now where are they?," she growled.

Artemis made sure to the corner unseen as a crowd of people passed by and he got to the entrance and quickly opened it and closed it once he was inside. He fell to his knees when the signal went up and cried out in pain, his echoes bounced off the walls as he tried to fight it off. Kirai held his breath and stared at Sora with fear-filled eyes, "I-I-I don't know! Sora let me go!," he pleaded.

What did she mean?

His family was her target? What?

He heard Artemis's cries and thanked whatever religious figure there was. "Artemis!," Kirai wasn't sure he was able to help, but it was better than being alone. Sora growled as she held him to the wall still and tightened her grip.

Artemis heard Kirai's voice and forced himself to his feet and walked into the room. Once Artemis saw what was going on, he had made himself go to the computer and go into her stats.

He turned to Kirai for a moment, "Kirai..I need to force her into that state of you will die at her hands," and with that Artemis sent his own signal to her. Sora's eyes went hollow once his signal reached her, her grip on him loosened and she swayed for moment and fell to the ground unconscious.

Kirai stayed still and looked down at Sora. He started breathing again but remained against the wall.

"What just happened?"

He looked over at Artemis. "She said my family was her target...what does that mean?"

"H-her last mission when we were still at the government..nngh..was to kill your original family a-and to make sure not one person survived. But that day before she had refused their orders..so they threw her at me telling me to tell her otherwise or they would destroy her..s-so I actually erased that from her that night and we escaped that night..," said Artemis in a pained voice.

Kirai looked down at the floor. So were they still alive?

Then he noticed the pain in Artemis's voice.

"..Are you okay? And what made her do that?"

Artemis looked at Kirai,"..Its a special signal that was made for us both to keep us check if we ever stepped out of line..it would send it to us alone and cause us pain..nnggh...t-they only used i-it to track us o- ause us pain!...Get to the computer and flick that sil-ver swi-ch,"said Artemis as he fell to his knees. Kirai looked around and ran to the computer, searching for whatever switch it was. Where was it? Can't be that hard to find a damn switch!

"Whatthefuckwhere- oh." It was right next to his hand. He flicked it and looked back at Artemis. "What's this switch do? Are you alive?"

Artemis stood back up once the switch was one, "I made to block out that sound..I haven't be able to find anything to make it into 3 items yet. Nothing that we have is silver...wait..Kirai that chain on your pocket is that silver?," asked Artemis. Kirai looked at him as if to say "What the hell are you talking about?," then realized that he was indeed wearing pants with chains on the pockets. In complete horror that he was wearing such a thing, Kirai broke the chain off and looked at it closely. "Uhh... I can't be sure but I think it is."

Artemis took the chain and looked at it for a moment, "Yeah its silver...and enough to make I can get her out of that state..or there is always that disney movie method," Artemis said to him.

Kirai laughed and looked down, "No no, you can, uh, you can use the computer," he said nervously. Artemis didn't know about what had happened during training. Not like the "disney method" would reveal that, but Kirai was allowed to be paranoid. Artemis shrugged, "Whatever you say lover boy," Artemis told him with a sly smirk, he used the computer again and turned off his own sound.

"Now why not go spend time with her while I mess with this," said Artemis as he turned back around and went to work.

Sora sat up and glanced around, she had no clue what just happened, "Huh?"

Kirai looked over at Sora and waved at her, still blushing a little from Artemis's comment. "Haro."

"The signal has been interrupted, sir."

"What? How?," Cloud asked through gritted teeth.

"It appears something is intercepting it."

Cloud punched the wall next to him. "Damn that smart bastard!," he looked down at the city and growled into the microphone, "Keep looking."

Sora waved up at him, and she jumped to her feet and tackled him to the ground and snuggled him warmly, "Hey! Have your moment somewhere where I don't have to see it!," growled Artemis.

Sora looked up at him and pouted. Kirai laughed at him and looked at Sora, smiling. "Artemis does not approve."

He got up to his feet and pulled Sora up with him. "But that's okay cause it makes it more fun."

Artemis didn't' turn back around, "No I do not approve, now go have your lovey time elsewhere!," he said.

Sora looked at Artemis then back to Kirai, "Then where should we go?"

Kirai looked around at all the tunnels and shrugged. "I dunno. What other rooms are there in this place?" He wandered around and stood at the entrance to a tunnel he'd never been down.

"Where's this go?"

"I don't know, lets check it out," said Sora as she was already pulling him down the tunnel. She giggled as she realized she had been pulling him along and soon just went back and hugged him as they walked down.

Kirai smiled down at her. "You're being extra lovey and cute, any reason why?," he asked, looking down the tunnel to try and see what it led to.

"How are you going to find them?" Prism asked her twin, who was pacing the room.

"If I knew they'd be here by now," Cloud answered with annoyance in his voice. "You think of something for once."

She glared at him. "I did. I brought you back to life."

Sora giggles, "No reason," she said to him innocently.

Artemis was still at work on the items as he tried to make them all with the same sound to protect them all, but made sure its appearance did not change. Kirai shook his head with a smile and patted her head gently. "Silly girl."

He looked down the tunnel again and saw nothing but darkness. "Does this thing even lead to anything?"

"Yeah well that's nice, but we need something else," Cloud defended.

Prism stood up suddenly. "The school!"

Her brother looked at her skeptically. "We've already got agents there."

"What if they're not at the school, but near it?"

Sora giggles and stuck her tongue out at him, "Look, theres a room ahead," said Sora pointing.

Artemis heaved a sigh when had actually finished the chains, he tested them and they all worked, now he had to go find them first.

"Where could they be?" he asked himself. Kirai followed her pointing. "Oh hey. It was so dark a minute ago.."

Cloud stared at Prism silently.

"..what?"

"I'm thinking."

"Well think while staring at the wall." Prism sat down again.

"Isn't there a forest near the school?," Cloud asked, resuming his pacing.

Prism nodded.

"Interesting."

Sora shrugged and when they entered it was an old room, it was actually the first room that was used to keep Sora in when she was still in the government influence.

"...I don't like this room," she said icily.

Artemis went down the same tunnel and gave a sigh when he heard where they were, "..Should've locked this one," he mumbled.

Another government agent who had been taken at a young age was also with Cloud and Prism, she tapped her foot on the wall.

"Why not just send me out? I'm more skilled than the rest of those idiots..you know what I'm capable of," she growled. Her long black hair flowed over her shoulders and she moved her bangs from her face and her chocolate brown eyes gave him a cold stare. Kirai looked down at Sora. "Why?" He looked around. There wasn't anything special about it, just a room. "Did something happen in here?"

Cloud didn't look at her. "We need you in case something else comes up. You're too valuable."

"What about the other one?," Prism suggested.

Cloud looked over at Prism, confused. "Which other one?"

"The new one. She just got out of training when I took you in. I don't know her name but I'm sure you can get her on this mission."

Sora just shook her head, "..I don't want to be in here," she said, "This is where I had to leave her while she rehabilitated from her government days," said Artemis.

She growled deeply and hit the wall, "Fine..but how am I valuable? Are you going to use me as a decoy or something?," she asked in an icy tone. She took out the small dagger in her pocket and messed with it for a minute.

Artemis looked at Kirai, he was surprised that he did at least did not remember what the room was used for and patted her head. Kirai glanced at Artemis for a second and then looked around once more. "How come I can't remember anything?"

Cloud shrugged. "Maybe. Its just best to have you around in case they get anyone else on their little team."

He spoke into the headset, "Who's the newest one?"

There was a crackle on the other end, "Primrose, sir."

"Get her over here. Now."