Battle High: Not your ordinary High School

Battle fifty-one

Lilly's weakness

Cloud blinked as he watched Lilly run away. It took him a few seconds to realize what had happened and he shot out into the forest after her. "Lilly! What the hell!"

Artemis stayed behind to keep on the others as Cloud raced after Lilly through the forest.

Lilly turned to look behind her when she saw Cloud following her and she tried to keep up the gap between them. She was more than half way away from the cave when she jumped a log and a root of tree. But what she hadn't expected to run into was a rushing river; she thought she could jump it.

Lilly jumped only to find herself landing in the water and being dragged through the waters of the river, that was one thing they hadn't taught her. How to swim in a rushing river and stay calm or how to swim in any environment of water at all. She could only see the water around her and felt water going into her mouth as she tried to stay above the water and call for help.

Cloud, having known this forest for a long time, knew to stop before the river. "Lilly! Where'd you go?," he called.

He looked around and found her in the water. "How the hell?"

Cloud jumped in and swam to her. "Why?"

Lilly tried her best to keep her head above the water as she was dragged off.

'Why?..why did they keep us weak in so many areas..this must be why so many never returned from their missions..they died from their major weakness..and mine is water..,' Lilly thought.

Lilly soon found herself losing the strength to fight against the water and was taken under the water. Cloud dived under and quickly pulled her back up. He pulled her to the edge of the water, helping her get back on the land.

"So I see yours is water," he said quietly as he shook the water out of his hair. Lilly shook her head slowly as she coughed up water and looked at him before she turned her head away from him and hit the ground.

"...He..has to die...that man...was my own father..," she hissed loud enough for Cloud to hear. Cloud blinked. "Excuse me?"

Was she serious? But wasn't she one of the creations? Did she actually have parents like Kirai had? "Your what?"

Lilly was silent for another moment before she answered him.

"..I told you before..I was 'kidnapped' but that was the story that given to me when they blocked my memories after they took me away. It didn't take me long to get them back on my own after I had been there a year...my father..the damned captain made a part of their little project and treated me as such!..He changed my DNA to be enough to be 'created'..I'm technically like you Cloud...a clone of a shadow..that bastard..he will die..," she told him with venom in her voice.

Cloud nodded, now feeling his own hatred towards that man. "Uh, yeah he's gonna die," he said angrily, helping Lilly to her feet. He took her hand and dragged her back to the cave. "Come on, we gotta get Artemis to find him," he said quietly and with anger. Lilly tried to get free from his grip as he dragged her back. "No..you can't come..this is my fight he is my target not yours," she said trying her best to get free.

Lilly could remember the tests that had been to her when they had changed her DNA completely and was considered a clone from that day on. She wasn't who she used to be as a child and had to face that fact, she couldn't be returned to normal ever. Cloud held her still and looked her straight in the eye. "I'm not going to kill him, but you are not going alone," he told her. The look in his eyes told her he meant business.

Lilly looked at him in surprise. "...fine...you can come..but you will not like what you see when we arrive," she told him sadly. Lilly diverted her eyes from him as she sighed heavily and felt tears fall down her face as she remembered something from that day that had left her with a burden she never revealed to anyone. Cloud tilted his head. "What do you mean?"

He saw her tears and wiped away the stray ones. "Lilly..whats wrong?," he asked her quietly. "You can tell me."

Lilly looked at him and couldn't find the words to explain. She threw herself into his arms crying, she could remember the look on her mother's face the day she was ordered to kill her and the family. She even remembered the day she had tried to kill her father the first time and found herself on the ground dying only to be saved quickly from the government scientists. But what really bothered her the most, was the fact she had found out that she was to be used only a tool to kill anyone who got in their way..and had overheard the day that she was supposed to kill Cloud and received that order days later.

Cloud hugged her, so very confused. "..are you okay?," he asked her in a whisper, almost like he was afraid of breaking her with the question. Lilly shook her head.

She had trouble getting her thoughts together when she remembered her orders to kill Cloud, they had told her to not fall in love, but she hadn't been able to stop herself from that. She had fallen in love with him and couldn't bring herself to tell him her last orders.

"...M-my last orders..," was all she was able to utter out. Cloud knew how annoying and troubling orders could be. He'd only had one in his whole life and he already realized why everyone hated them so much.

"What were they gonna make you do?"

Lilly was able to gather her thoughts when she had at least told him that much,"...to...to kill you..," she said through tears and cried louder. She held onto him tightly, she refused to let go of him when she told him what her lest orders were.

Lilly could feel her legs growing weak from the fact she had been told to kill him, from telling what she had to do, and from being dragged down the river. Cloud stared at a tree in front of him, not believing what she'd just told him. How could they do that? How long ago was that? Did they still want her to? Why would they have wanted him killed?

Cloud didn't say anything.

Lilly forced herself to bring her head up and look at him. "C-Cloud?," she asked through her tears. She reached her hand to his face and waited for an answer from him. She was getting afraid of his next reaction. Cloud shook his head, still staring at that same tree. So many different questions were running through his head. He sighed and shivered with anger as he did so.

"You better kill him really hard."

Lilly nodded when she heard him say those words to her. She dreamed of the day she could kill him, and was glad it would happen sooner than she had hoped, she was ready. "Cloud..calm down..calm down and lets get you to focus on one subject," said Lilly.

She blushed a little when she said that. Lilly took her arms and wrapped her arms around his neck as she reached up and kissed him softly on his lips. Cloud seemed to get pulled back into reality when she kissed him. He looked her in the eyes. "I was serious," he told her. "You'd better torture that bastard," he said before returning his lips to hers. Lilly smiled at him, "I will, you can count on it," she said to him and she returned her lips to his.

Artemis was waiting and sighed, "Where the hell is he?," he asked them. Kirai shrugged. "I dunno."

Prism smirked. "Maybe they're like making out or something," she said, completely joking.

Primrose obtained an evil smile. "Or maybe Lilly drowned so now Cloud's out there just crying," she said sweetly. Artemis gave Primrose a look, "Hey, don't say that, she can help us," scolded Artemis.

Lilly broke the kiss and looked at Cloud with a slight blush, "S-should we head back?," she asked. Primrose pouted at Artemis. "Its not like she likes mee," she said innocently. "We hate each other anyway so who cares?"

"Hmm...," Cloud thought for a second. "We could."

Artemis patted her on the head, "Either way that wasn't nice to say...Sora doesn't like you and she put up with you...sort of," Artemis told her with a smile.

Lilly looked at him,"...But do you want to?," she asked him. Primrose gave him a blank look. "Yeah, sure she does. At least I didn't throw Lilly into some water," she grumbled with a glare to Sora.

Cloud gave her a small smile. "I never said that."