Alrightly. Chapter 3 it is... Hope you like it...
"Selene! I'm home!" Artemis called has she opened the door to the house and walked in, followed by Keiko.
Almost instantly, a three-year-old little wolf demoness came running down the hall way yelling 'Mommy!' repetitively. She had long, black hair with white ends and soft gold eyes. Two cute little black, white tipped wolf ears were perched atop her head and a black, white tipped tail wagged vigorously behind her.
Once close enough, the little wolf-girl jumped into Artemis' arms.
"Mommy! You're home!!!" The little girl, Selene, said joyously.
"Yes, I'm home." Artemis replied, hugging the small girl.
Selene was not really Artemis' child, but Artemis found her in an alley about a year and a half back abandoned, so the Neko decided to take the little wolf in and raise her as if Selene were her own daughter.
"You remember the parties we have with Keiko?" Artemis asked and Selene nodded happily with an 'ah huh'. "Well, she and some of our other friends are coming over for a party tonight. Are you up for it?"
"Yeah!!" Selene cheered trusting a fist into the air to show her excitement.
"I'll go call them." Keiko stated at walked to the phone.
A few minutes later Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, Botan, Hiei, and Raven walked through the door.
"Hey!" Artemis called as she watched them file in. She was sitting on the couch with Selene in her lap. Apparently Artemis had changed back into the clothes she normally wears (red tube top and baggy black pants).
The little wolf girl looked at them for a moment with a big smile before jumping up and tackling Kuwabara. She had learned a few weeks back that Kuwabara was easy to take down and didn't put up much of a fight, while Yusuke would pin her to the ground and start tickling her.
It wasn't long before Selene had the oaf on the floor and was standing on his back. She then jumped on Yusuke.
"Hey kiddo!" Yusuke said and messed her ebony hair. "Look who we brought!" He stated, picking her up and holding her out toward Hiei, who glared at Yusuke and the child.
"DADDY!!!!" Selene yelled, earning herself a glare from Raven, who was convinced Hiei was her property.
"Hn." Hiei replied.
Ever since Selene had first laid eyes on Hiei, she had called him daddy. No one really knew why, but she just wouldn't stop. Selene was really convinced that Hiei was her dad and nothing could reason with her. Hiei didn't know how much joy in would bring the little wolf if he would actually act like her father.
Artemis wondered how she was going to explain it when Hiei and Raven became mates and Raven became pregnant. Whoa… Raven, a mom… that's scary.
"Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" Selene said, bouncing up and down in Yusuke's grasp and stretching out her arms as if to get Hiei to hold her.
Yusuke and Kuwabara, who had gotten off the floor, snickered.
Raven held a slight growl. Because it was directed at Selene, Artemis' maternal instinct began to kick in, causing her to get pissed and give a warning growl from where she sat, her calico tail was fuzzed out ((Wolf: you know, like what a cat's tail does when the cat gets scared on angry)).
Not liking Artemis' threat, Raven growled louder, where everyone, no matter how good their hearing, could hear it. Artemis was not the kind to back down from a fight, so she stood, her long, fuzzy tail fidgeting angrily, and slurred a cat-like hiss in with her growl.
"Watch who you're messing with, Artemis." Raven hissed out.
"I could say the same to you, Ganko na yarou!" Artemis retorted, calico neko ears popping up on her head.
This time Hiei growled, but the odd thing was, Artemis didn't flinch she got even madder than before and growled again, showing long, sharp fangs that almost looked vampiric due to the length. She was protecting her child. It was simply a mother's instinct.
"You stay out of this!" Artemis commanded Hiei with malevolence she didn't know she had.
He looked a bit taken back by that, but quickly resumed protecting his intended by stepping in front of her.
The others looked on, to afraid to do anything.
Artemis saw Raven smirk from behind the fire youkai. That was it! She was going down, whether it be from insults or combat. Artemis wasn't in command anymore, this was pure Kaliska.
"So, you're not strong enough to protect yourself? You have to hide behind someone? Poor Raven afraid a neko could kick your ass…" 'Artemis' cooed with a sly look in her eye.
Raven's mood changed instantly and she bared her fangs. "You're dead." She stated.
"Bring it." The neko replied.
Raven pushed past Hiei and charged straight for Artemis, who was wearing a smug smirk. The shadow demon leapt on the neko, and then it was a web of claws and teeth.
Before anything too bad could happen, Yusuke put Selene, who was watching with interest, down and pried Artemis out of the mass and held her by the arms while Hiei did the same to Raven.
"Ladies, ladies, we came here to have a party, not to let you two kill each other." Yusuke said.
"Fine." Artemis replied angrily and jerked out of Yusuke's grasp. While Raven 'Hn'ed and Hiei let her go.
Right then was when Artemis was back and Kaliska slipped into the shadows of her mind.
"What were we talkin' 'bout?" She questioned, tilting one ear to the side, causing everyone to anime fall except Selene, who ran over and jumped in Artemis' arms. She had never lost her happy mood.
"Well then, what shall we do first?" Keiko asked with a sweat drop.
"Oh yeah! I get to pick, don't I… Well, how about…" She looked at the clock to see that it was still early. "How about a movie first?" She questioned.
"Yay! Movie!" Yelled Selene and jumped down, running to the couch and plopping down on it. That was the whole party to her.
The others understood. If they watched a movie, Selene would go to sleep and then the real party would start. So everyone moved to the couch and Artemis put in the movie 'Van Helsing'. It was about 3/4 of the way threw the movie when Selene nodded off and curled up into a ball. Artemis turned off the movie while Keiko and Botan took Selene to her room and tucked her in.
"Finally, time for the real party!" Yusuke yell. With Selene, it didn't matter if you yelled, she could sleep through anything.
"How about 'Truth or Dare'?" Botan asked, upon returning with Keiko.
"Or we could start with our own game of 'Who's line is it anyway?'" Kurama offered, knowing Artemis didn't much like truth or dare. ((Wolf: I got this idea from another fic, so it's not originally mine.))
"Alright. That sounds good." Keiko and Botan chimed in unison.
The group moved all the furniture away and pushed a coffee table to the side of the clear space, Kurama kneeling behind it. Artemis, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan were the ones that decided to play first and when to the four chairs they had gotten from the kitchen table all lined in a row to the side. The others took a seat on the couch to be the audience.
"Welcome to Who's Line is it anyway, the wacky game show where the points don't matter, that's right, they don't matter… just like Hiei and words." Kurama began. The last part caused every one, save Raven and Hiei, to laugh.
"We'll start with a game for all of you called 'Questions only'." Kurama announced, then Artemis and Yusuke took one side, Artemis going to the middle and Kuwabara and Botan taking the other, Botan going to the middle.
"Ok, Artemis is a person wanting a room at a hotel and Botan, you're the one at the front desk." Kurama explained. "Now, begin."
((Wolf: It is easier to read this style))
Artemis: Do you have any rooms?
Botan: What kind of room would you like?
Artemis: What do they cost?
Botan: Do you have a credit card?
Artemis: Do you take cash?
Botan couldn't come up with anything right off the bat and switched places with Kuwabara.
Kuwabara: How can you explain your room catching fire?
Artemis: What?
Kuwabara: What did you do?
Artemis: -looks around- Where'd the other guy go?
Kuwabara couldn't think of anything.
Botan: Can I help you?
Artemis: Where did you go?
Botan: Did you miss me?
Artemis: Should I have?
Botan: Did you want something?
Artemis finally couldn't think of anything to say and switched with Yusuke.
Yusuke: Got any rooms?
Botan: Where did you come from?
Yusuke: Do you have a room or not?
Botan took a minute, so Kurama took that time to set off the buzzer he had gotten meaning the end of the game.
"1000 points to Artemis!" Kurama called.
They played a few more games like let's make a date and the Irish drinking song before Yusuke took out the six packs of beer. Everyone, now high off air, because they were having a blast and laughing too much ((Wolf: except Hiei and Raven)), cheered and took a bottle for themselves.
Artemis chugged hers while Yusuke and Kuwabara cheered her on.
After about an hour of talking and joking and getting drunk, Botan spoke up with the game she wanted to play.
"How about we play truth or dare?! No party is complete without that game!" She squealed.
Artemis shrugged, happy that she got to play something else beforehand, and Keiko said she wanted to. All the guys were forced to and because they had to, they made Hiei and Raven play as well. So, everyone sat in a circle on the floor.
"Ok, who is going to go first?" Keiko asked.
"I will!" Botan called. "umm… Raven truth or dare?"
"… Dare."
Oooooo! Raven is a brave soul!! What kind of dare shall Baton inflict upon her… with the help of the little neko or one of the boys?! It shall be something big!!! It must be!! I feel I must make this bitchy demoness suffer… to my reviewers, put what you think they should dare her in your reviews!!! Anything!!! I'll consult with my sisters (Kanami and Samara from Dancing at the End of time, my other fic) and we shall decide the one we will use!!!!
Ja ne!!!!
-- Wolf of the Red Moon