Chapter 2

A wave of relief washed over me as I saw Riley standing on the fire escape. She jumped down and threw her old duffle bag to the side. The man threw me to the side and I landing in a pile of trash. So gross. I looked back up as the man laughed.
"You girly? What on earth are you gonna do?" Riley rolled her eyes at the man's statement. It's true I also had no idea what she was going to do. I highly doubted that she knew how to throw a punch and even if she did Riley was not the strongest person. Like at all, she had trouble carrying her textbooks to school and had always been a bit too far on the skinny scale to be considered a healthy weight. This was mainly due to mal nutrition, she walked a lot and sometimes forgot to eat. A bad habit of hers.
"Can we hurry this up, I'm starving and would rather be at home" She said yawning and placing her hands inside her pockets
"Suit yourself princess" the man lunged at Riley and she dodged. A simple step back words and he missed, again he tried to advance and she leaned to the left and then the right and then another step back. Again and again my attacker would advance and again and again Riley would dodge. As she neared the edge of the ally she pulled her hand out of her pocket, placed it on the man's shoulder and kicked off the ground doing a flip over the man's head. He stumbled forward a bit and a low chuckled emanated from Ri's lips. He seemed pretty mad at her and turned coming at her faster as she started to dodge again. I had stood up by know and looked around to see my board close to me. I picked it up and as Riley passed me stepped forward swinging the wooden plank into the attackers face. He fell back with a groan and I dropped the board.
"By Odin's Beard! I am so sorry are you ok" I asked offering a hand. Riley stopped my hand and turned me around to face her.
"He attacked you first why are you apologising?" Riley asked
"Cause I didn't mean to hit him?!"
"Kind of looked like you did!"
"Well I did but…. It was impulse ok!" I yelled at her.
"You stupid bit-" before the man could finished the ally was filled with flashing lights and the sound of sirens.
"Arty quick scream like a girl" Ri instructed.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *cough* *cough*. . . *cough*" Riley shook her head as I had my small coughing fit. Two police man had walked past us and picked up the guy. We answered a few questions before grabbing our gear and heading home.
"Wow! That sure was lucky! I mean if the police hadn't come I don't know how long we would have been trapped there" I said throwing my skateboard down as we entered our apartment.
"Artimis? I rang the police. I was stalling him there" Riley stated placing her duffle bag down on the kitchen counter.
"Wait, what? Does that mean if you weren't stalling you would have punched him or something?" I looked at her stunned
"Oh hell no! have you seen this chicken arms? I wouldn't of even left a bruise on him. I'm going to bed" she said yawning and trudging to her room
"You haven't eaten yet" I pointed out. She stopped in her tracks, turned around, grabbed an apple off the counter and went to her room. I rolled my eyes as I myself headed to my own room. I was too energized to sleep so I decided to go to the roof and do some practice. You see I don't like to brag or anything but I'm pretty damn good with a sword. I do kendo and practice like 20% of the time or something like that. As I grabbed my bamboo sword I looked myself over in the mirror. I was sporting my usual deadpool tea, with baggy pants and orange converses. My red hair was half done up and my bright sky blue eyes shone against my pale freckled skin. I had lots of freckles, it was one of my favourite feature. I smiled at my reflection before exiting my room. Before heading up to the roof I grabbed an old milkshake out of the fridge and went on my way. It tasted a bit funky but I payed it no mind. As I got to the roof I started to unroll the safty mat thing that we had up there. Me and Ri would use the roof to practice both kendo and gymnastics so having this up here just kept us from hurting ourselves. As I finished laying it out and turned around four disfigured things stood before me. Frozen. I blinked a few times.
"Nope she defiantly noticed us" one spoke. I was taken aback and frowned
"Damn it I knew that shake tasted funkier then the apple of eden" I cursed
"Wait what?" the shortest, uh, thing asked
"The apple of eden. A christen story of how Eve ate a forbidden apple cursin-" the tallest began
"No one cares don!" another one snarled.
"Look it's cool and all that I'm hallucinating giant uh?"
"Turtles" the shortest one interjected.
"Nice, any way I want to practice so can you like, skedaddle … please?"
"Wait you aren't scared of us?" one asked stepping into the light. He was indeed a turtle with a shell blue eye mask and katana strapped to his back
"Listen blue dude I'm not one to be scared of my own imagination" I said crossing my arms
"Oh we aren't yo-" The angry sounding one slapped the short one over the mouth to stop him from continuing.
"Ok well, us, as your imaginative turtle mutant friends will be leaving now. Uh have fun with practice?" blue dude said looking taken aback and at a loss at what to do
"Cool always good to have new friends. Cya later" I waved as they started to leave. The shortest one who was wearing an orange eye mask and had nunchucks stoped and turned around, his baby blue eyes gleaming at me. He had the most adorable freckles across his snout.
"We're friends?"
"Of course, why would I not be your friend" I was practically glomped at this point and was finding it hard to breath as he swung me around. Just as suddenly as he hugged me he released me and turned his head.
"Sorry dudette gotta run. Cya round" He smiled running across the roof before jumping the gap. Well I was known for my imagination sure but the funky shake seemed to make my hallucinations even stronger that what they would be normally. I ended up skipping practice out of fear more crazy creatures would pop onto the roof.

The next day was dull. Extremely dull. As in going to school then heading to kendo then home. I couldn't even skate! I was sitting upside down on the couch looking at the blank tv screen as Riley sat at the kitchen table. My thoughts returned to my hallucinations from last night, it wasn't the first time I've hallucinated things. I have a very vivid imagination but still something about last night seemed off and I couldn't put my figure on why. After a while of staring into nothingness something hit my head. I jolted up and staring straight at Ri who would have appeared threw some paper at me.
"Do you have a blue pen?" she asked. I assumed for the like fifth time. I fumbled with my pockets pulling out a pen and a slip of paper from my pocket. I threw the pen at my roommate who did not manage to catch it and looked intriguingly at the unknown paper. Unfolding it I saw numbers scrolled across it in a child like fashion. It looked like a phone number but I have no idea where I got it from. Grabbing my phone I decided to see who, if anyone, would reply if I sent a text.

A/N hey, I just wanted to explain that Artemis is in denial, like heavy denial, it's just easier for her to deal with things this way. I also didnt want to do the typical thing of having the boys rescue her from trouble. Any comments or suggested you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks~