"You did what?!"

"Duncan your blood pressure!" Scarlet had just finished telling her brother all about the night before.

Duncan was pacing around the kitchen in a fury,"You don't know what you've done do you?"

"I think I kinda do."

"Kinda?!"

"Duncan please! He would have trained me as his heir anyways and besides I-"

"You what Scarlet?!" His voice went from anger to worry,"Scarlet he's not exactly your normal dad. He'll push you till you're hurt, put you in situations you'd never want to be in, he'll…he'll change your life."

"Duncan he already changed my life when he became my father. Besides it's not like I've been living a completely human life." Duncan sighed before taking the time to sit on one of the kitchen stools."I get it," she started,"you're worried and probably for good reasons. He's a part of me though just like you are and I want to know who I am Duncan. I can't just be some hybrid who constantly hears the answer "You're you". If that's the case I want to find myself because you're not going to be able to fill in all those spots for me. Please Duncan, I already made the deal anyways and like I said he wrote his half when he decided to be with mom."

With another sigh he looked his sister in the eye before giving her a hug. He squeezed looking over her shoulder thinking,'Mom would just kill me.'

Reassuring him she said,"I'm gonna be fine."

"Somehow I know you will be." He stopped hugging her to give her the notification,"You know you still have to go to school tomorrow right?"

"I figured as much. Probably should have thought about that?"

"Uh huh."

All of a sudden the door busted open with Garnet and Isabella. Isabella spotted Scarlet and immediately ran up and hugged her,"Oh girl you had a worried there!"

"Mom!" Garnet pried her mother off,"she'll probably explain in...woah!" She'd noticed her physical changes of course,"I mean...have you been trying new brand of makeup?"

"Garnet."

"I know you don't wear makeup I'm sorry."

Isabella asked,"So what happened to you?"

"Well," she started,"to make a long story short I'm the new heir."

"What?!" The mother and daughter duo said in chorus.

"Wait so does this mean you'll be leaving or something?" Garnet asked with concern.

"No sweetie at least I hope not. It just means if something happens to her dad or worse she's ruler over the Kaiju."

"What?!"

Just then another burst came from the door;it was Kenny and Finn."Scarlet!" The dark haired boy wrapped his arms around her.

"What did we miss?" Asked Kenny shaking off his son.

Garnet answered,"Finn, Scarlet's an heiress!"

"A what now?"

"You know...she's basically princess of the Kaiju."

"Wow...that's kinda cool." At those words Duncan simply left the room,"Was it something I said?"

"It's fine Finn," said Scarlet,"He's just gonna go outside, fly around for a bit, and come back before dark."

"So are going to school tomorrow or is your dad going to come and take you away for training?" Garnet asked with a weird flying hand motion.

"Uh...yeah" Scarlet responded,"I'm going to school."

Kenny saw her face and decided to give a few encouraging words,"Don't worry kid you'll be fine. I mean look at your brother he handled it pretty well."

~

"I am not going to handle this well."

Patting her on the back Finn said,"Come on Scarlet! It's like dad said if your brother could do it so can you."

'I'm not my brother. Oh gosh wait a minute-'

"Oh no!" Exclaimed Garnet,"I know what you're thinking! You're wondering what Connor's going to think aren't you?" Scarlet just scratched her head aka the silent yes,"If he's a good guy then I think he'll understand whatever excuse you make up."

Those words rang true when Connor and Scarlet met in the hallway. Scarlet was at her locker when she looked to see him coming down towards her. At first she looked away almost ignoring him until he actually said,"Hey Scarlet! Where'd you go when you left the party? I was looking everywhere for you and what's with the get up? It's gotta be like seventy degrees in here."

She closed her locker,"Oh! I'm sorry it's just...there was a family emergency and I had to rush home. Something with my dad."

"Yeah he got really sick so I figure what better chance now to meet him." She shrugged and gave an awkward smile.

"I guess so. Well at least I know you weren't kidnapped or something."

A nervous chuckle came out,"Yeah…"

Then the bell rang,"I'll see you some other time ok?"

"Yeah, ok."

The rest of the day was actually somewhat the same. It was the only the third day of school so of course not too many people could necessarily care what she looked like. They were more concerned about getting through the first week. Other people though gave her "That Stare". It was the stare of fear, disgust, or unwanted curiosity and both half breeds got this almost daily. "That Stare" never bought anything good to either side, well at least not all the time;often time it bought the feels of shame and self hate. She'd never out rightly say it, but sometimes it gave Scarlet small self esteem fluctuations which she was sure Duncan also had. With the day almost over Scarlet thought she'd gotten away with her little stunt until…

"Hey!" It was Piper leaning on the lockers with a sucker in her mouth,"I don't mean to make you late for gym, but your friend Garnet's kind of in a situation."

"What kind of situation?"

Piper leaned her head for the signal of follow and the girls peeked around the corner where a group of girls were.

Scarlet asked,"Piper who are they?"

"You see the freckle faced carrot head? That's Dominic Fredberg. Behind her are Charlotte Gaireds and Rosetta Fawn. They're basically the Plastics of this school if you know what I mean."

The red headed lead said,"Uh who are you with an apple after lunch?"

Garnet swallowed what was in her mouth,"My name is Garnet and I was helping out a teacher during lunch period so I didn't get to eat."

The other two girls snickered and then the curly haired blonde, Charlotte, asked,"What kind of a name is Garnet?"

"And besides," stated the pale brownette, Rosetta,"we're the only ones allowed to eat anything after lunch period. Unless you got that from the vending machine I'm afraid it's gonna have to go."

Dominic snatched the apple out of Garnet's hand and before she knew it was over the trash."First and foremost that's mine! If I get in trouble so be it! It's none of your business!" Garnet was obviously annoyed.

Dominic gave a vicious smile,"Well then consider it a favor. This way you won't get in trouble either way."

The apple almost hit the contents of trash, but to the surprise of everyone it didn't. Scarlet had moved into action and caught it just for her friend. She simply gave the apple back to Garnet and she took another bite staring straight at the trio. "You know," started Scarlet,"it's rude to touch other people's property. It's considered an invasion of space. Especially since you took it from her hands like a preschooler."

"And who might you be?" Asked Rosetta with her nose up.

"The person who needs to get back to class just like you three and starting trouble in the hallway isn't exactly going to get anyone anywhere."

"Well I hope you know you don't have to stay here." Charlotte said matter-of-factly.

"If you mess with my friends I kinda do. Now my friend and I are going to go to class. I hope that's not a problem for you considering all students can do that. Oh and by the way I don't know what you think makes you a special snowflake, but you wanna know a secret? All snowflakes start out the same the difference is some melt and others fall into the wonderful land known as snow."

Scarlet started walking around the corner again and Garnet followed. The two could hear Dominic screaming behind them,"Don't you talk to me like that! My daddy's the school board leader! I can have you gone by-"

" !" A teacher had opened her door,"That is unacceptable behavior for the hallways and on the third day! Get to class young lady!"

The two girls just snickered as they continued to their classes. Garnet gave a friendly shove saying,"Thanks, I don't know what I'd do without you."

"It's nothing. Besides I just didn't wanna get in a fight. That never exactly turns out well."

"Well now maybe Duncan can cool down a bit knowing you did that."

"Wouldn't that be great?" They came to the point where they needed to split,"I'll see you on walk home?"

"No my dad's picking me up. It'll just be you and Finn."

~

"Oh my gosh Finn what happened?!" The two had met at the front of the school after the final bell rang. To Scarlet's surprise Finn had a large bruise on his cheek and battered hands.

"Oh nothing. You know just Zane Steele and his S.O.B's stuffing me a locker. He said something about if my friends mess with his girl then his friends would mess with me. Know anything about that?"

Scarlet sighed as they started walking and she told him the story. She ended with,"I'm sorry you got dragged into that."

"It's ok. Besides you were helping Garnet so I'm fine with taking one for the team."

"Yeah, but it still doesn't make it right."

"I know Scarlet, but guys like that you just don't give them any power. If you're mad that's fine, but doing something over the top won't make it better. It'll just fuel the fire. No pun intended."

"Gosh you almost sound like Duncan."

"Guess that means I'm smarter than the average human?"

"I wouldn't exactly say that but…"

They walked on until they made it by Scarlet's house and Finn walked the rest of the way to his home. Something felt off though. Scarlet nearly opened the door to her home, but she felt compelled to follow Finn. Deciding to listen to her instincts Scarlet went back and caught up with her friend. Together they walked all the way to the edge of town where Finn and his dad lived on a dead end street. As Finn took his key from his pocket he asked,"What made you decide to follow me home?"

"Let's just say I had a hunch."

All of a sudden a shadow came over the heads of the teens and then a large batch of liquid cane hurdling at them. Scarlet quickly tackled Finn just as he got the door open. The two fell inside as a loud bird like sound was heard. Looking back at the small concrete porch which they had just been on was now melting from the green liquid.

"Holy shit what was that?!" Finn said rather loudly.

"Finn get up and stay inside!"

"Scarlet what?!"

"Just trust me ok! Do not come out unless I say so! And call Duncan! Tell him I might be late getting home!"

"Ok! Right!" He stood up and ran into another room.

Scarlet jumped across the now liquid porch and looked up thinking,'Day one of training. Wonderful.'