Battle high: not your average high school

After Battle thirty-seven

Cloud's new problem

Cloud looked at her for a while, his gaze finally softening when he put together that it really was Artemis in there, it wasn't just because he was a girl now and it had made him moody. He let his knife drop next to the one that had been thrown at him and cautiously walked closer to Harmony, knowing he'd probably get hit once he was over there, and not caring one bit.

Harmony glared at him and tried to hit him the best she could with whatever strength she could find in herself. She ended up just hitting him lightly on the chest and crying more, "no...you meanie.."

Cloud gently took her hands and pulled her forward, wrapping his arms around her and holding her tightly despite any weak attempts she made at trying to push him away. A few tears escaped his eyes despite his internal rejection of the action. Harmony tried to get away but ended up to stop trying to get free and cried.

"Y-you were such a meanie for this..," she cried to him.

"I didn't know," Cloud said quietly. "I didn't mean to be." He had just been really oblivious and too focused on his own emotions to notice anyone else's. Harmony hit him one last time before letting her tears and emotions to just take over herself. Since being emotional was stressful already for Harmony she started to feel light headed. Cloud could tell that she was way past not being okay, so he didn't ask if she was. Instead he finally let himself smile over the fact that Artemis had actually admitted it, despite the fact that he was still crying a little. "I'm sorry," he said quietly, remembering that there was a crying girl-boy in his arms.

Harmony felt herself lean her head on him and her eyes went hollow not a few minutes afterwards, she stopped moving. The world around her went black in moments after she had stopped moving and when her eyes went hollow. Harmony was unconscious. Cloud looked down at her when she hadn't moved for a while, and almost had a heart attack upon seeing her like that. "What..the..fuckk?"

He shook her by the shoulders a little bit, like that would help. "Artemis?"

Harmony didn't open her eyes when Cloud shook her by the shoulders.

"Why did the yelling stop? Did something bad happen to them or something?," asked Alex curiously. Cloud started to get very worried. Why wasn't she moving? She was alright, right? She's breathing so that means she's alive, right?

Prism shrugged. "Maybe they're so angry that now they're whispering. Or having a super cuddle session. I dunno. Maybe we should go check on them?"

Alex nodded, "Let's go, because I have a bad feeling about this.. something about the quiet doesn't feel right to me," said Alex as he started to heard towards them. Prism followed him, wondering what could have possibly happened that would've stopped THAT argument. It had seemed quite intense.

"Alright what the hell," Cloud said a bit louder in his slight fear. What happened?! Did she fall asleep or something?!

Alex agreed, "Whatever happened it couldn't have been good because by now we would have heard someone getting their ass kicked remember?," said Alex.

Harmony still didn't wake up. She could hear him slightly but she couldn't wake up or move. "True," Prism responded, becoming increasingly worried and thus speeding up a little until she just decided to run. When she finally found Cloud he was staring at Harmony with a very troubled expression.

"What happened?"

Cloud looked over at his sister and sighed with relief. "I don't even.. she just.."

Alex came up from behind Prism to find Cloud looking at Harmony who was apparently not awake at the moment. He walked over to them and got a closer look, he looked at her with curiousness before he finally snapped his fingers together.

"Well duh this happened to her," said Alex. Both Cloud and Prism looked at Alex with matching looks of confusion and fear. They were about as identical as two fraternal twins could get. "What?" they asked in unison.

Alex sighed and looked at them.

"Think about it. Girls have a lot of emotions always running through them and which makes them very unpredictable at times and those emotions take a lot out of a girl in general depending on her mood. And guys they never tap into those emotions very often they lock them away a lot to not show weakness and to always be on their toes. But girls are always in touch with them so it's makes them stronger."

"And since being a girl for one whole night and with being in touch with emotions Artemis has never been in touch with this close before, it's a lot of stress to handle. It stressed his whole body and mind out," explained Alex.

"Ohhhhh," they both said, nodding in understanding and looking at Harmony.

"So.. he's just unconscious," Cloud stated, feeling stupid for having freaking out so much. "He's not dead."

"Wow, did you seriously think that?" Prism asked with a laugh. "Dumbass."

"Hey! He went from yelling and crying his eyes out to nothing in like two seconds, a guy worries, alright?!"

Alex face palmed how he had gotten stuck with living with these two idiots he would never know. But he had to admit it was fun to have someone make him feel smart for once in his life this time around.

"Anyways let's get back to the house and get her to a softer place to rest. And later we can go find Sora and Kirai," said Alex. Cloud sighed as he picked Harmony up. "You mean myyy bed," he grumbled.

Prism shook her head. "Oh shut up. Both of us just heard you scream that you like her, stop pretending you aren't looking forward to that."

This effectively shut Cloud up, although he did intentionally step on Prism's foot while they were walking. Alex sighed, "Either way she has to get some rest before Sora and Kirai get home so we can explain to Sora what happened and maybe find out why she freaked out," Alex explained to them as he remembered they had no idea why she had left the house.

"Oh yeah..," Cloud said with another sigh. "So many things to do. And we still have to hide Artemis from Primrose cause I really don't think she'll believe that sister thing.."

"You forget that she's a fourteen year old girl who owns a pink dagger and pouts over not getting lollipops. Honestly she'll probably forget that Artemis is gone four seconds after you tell her," Prism told him. Alex laughed when Prism mentioned the dagger and lollipops; he tried to contain his laughter but just had to agree with Prism about Primrose.

"W-well anyways she'll buy it if I change the story and say she's my sister, since she looked nothing like Artemis much unless I say I found we were cousins to make it more believable," suggested Alex.

"Yeah, him being your sister sounds better," Cloud agreed. "Plus she's capable of sleeping till forever; she might sleep through the whole damn thing."

"Alright then, Harmony is my sister then this time," said Alex with a slight shake of his head. He looked back at them for a moment to make sure they weren't falling behind as they walked back home.

Lilly was on the porch of the house staring into the distance as she waited for them to return home, she had woken up an hour ago wondering where they had gone.

"Ohhhh fuck," Cloud said, breaking the silence as they neared the house. "Lilly.."

Prism looked at him. "I was just thinking that too.."

Cloud sighed and stared at the ground for a second. "For now it never happened, okay?" He hated doing exactly what he didn't want to, but he couldn't exactly sort everything out with Artemis unconscious. Lilly laid on her paws again as she waited, when she finally saw them she sat back up and got to her paws and ran over to them. She slowed her pace when she saw Cloud carrying Harmony, she stopped in her tracks and gave him a glance before turning around and heading back inside on her own.

Lilly walked to the fireplace and laid back down and closed her eyes again.

"I think she's mad," said Alex.

"Well yeah, I'm carrying some fucking girl she's never see before." Cloud walked a little faster so he could get inside and explain this. "I hope she can be talked out of anger while being a wolf.."

"I would doubt that, from what I've heard from Sora about Lilly and getting pissed off it will be awhile before she's calm and out of wolf again," Alex commented blankly.

"Of course." Cloud slowed down again, now dreading the confrontation. "Why does she always have to be a goddamned wolf when something pisses her off?"

"Because maybe it's better for her chew out animals then maybe your throat and she probably knows that too," said Alex calmly. He placed a hand on Cloud's shoulder, "Don't worry I'll explain it."

Cloud sighed, already plotting out how to deal with all of this. "Thanks," he said quietly. That was one thing he didn't have to worry about. At least, not yet. "So long as she doesn't eat your head and chew out your throat you'll be fine and if she doesn't drop you like a hot potato either then you'll live too," said Alex.

Lilly's ear flicked a bit when she heard them enter the house but she didn't move. Prism laughed at that last part. "That's riiighhht, you have quite a choice to make darling," she said with a smirk at Cloud.

"Yeah yeah," he grumbled, walking past them and hurrying to lay Harmony down on a bed he randomly claimed so he could see how much trouble he would be in with Lilly. Lilly stayed still in her spot. When she heard them come back inside the house she opened her eyes and then got to her paws again and walked towards the kitchen back door and laid down.

Sora shook her head as she woke up in the tree house and she looked around, she saw Kirai not far away. She crawled over to him and started to poke him. Cloud exited the room and looked around the living room. He hadn't actually seen Lilly when he walked in. "Lilly?"

Kirai's eyes opened upon him hearing her move. He hadn't actually gotten to sleep. "Hey." He poked her back.

Lilly placed a paw over her head to cover her ears to ignore him now, she was mad and wasn't in the mood anymore.

Sora looked at him and smiled a bit as she poked him again. "Get up sleepy head," she said to him and gave him a kiss.

Cloud looked over to Prism. "Did you see her?"

She shrugged. "Nope. But coming from a girl's point of view, you really don't need to talk to her right now. It's also a very good idea to go in there and sleep in the same bed as her."

"Then where else am I gonna sleep?"

Prism pointed to the couch.

Cloud sighed heavily. "Again, of course."

"I've been up," Kirai said sleepily. "Did you know that it's hard to fall asleep in a random tree house of a stranger?" he asked, looking at her with a small smile.

Alex looked at her and back to Cloud with a shake of his head he headed towards the kitchen, "I'm getting some juice, you two are enough for the night," said Alex.

Sora looked at him, "The tree house is abandoned I just take care of it sometimes," Sora said to him with a smile. "So what do we do now?"

"Heyyy." Prism pouted at him.

"We can't be thaaaat annoying," Cloud said sarcastically, looking at his sister. Prism slapped his arm. "Go to bed."

"Psh. Love you too." Cloud flopped onto the couch and closed his eyes, only for them to snap open when he made an extremely frustrating realization.

"My knife is lying in the fucking street."

"We go home?" Kirai suggested hopefully. He didn't like being here, even if it was abandoned. He'd much rather be in a real house. Alex laughed when he heard Cloud remember his knife but made sure to not spill the juice with his laughing. Lilly growled and then got to her paws and started toward the living room and towards the front door.

Sora was silent for a second before she responded to his question. "Then let's go," she said slightly calmly.