Battle high: not your average high school

After Battle thirty-four

Artemis's new trick

Sora was about to reach out to Kirai when she ended up taking her hand back making herself flinch.

Artemis looked at them for a moment and sighed, "I supposed Harmony it is then...and my only problem is how the fuck am I going to enroll you guys into school if I don't look my age anymore...unless Sora enrolls you all since she looks closer to her age and could enroll us," said Harmony with a moment. she gave it some thought before nodding, "When Sora gets back its time to start getting your clothes set for tomorrow because before we go to the school, were going shopping," she sighed.

Kirai tilted his head slightly at Sora. He hadn't done anything, had he? "What's wrong?" he asked quietly. Was she scared of him or something?

Cloud sighed. Prism and shopping was never a good mix. The one time they'd gone to get clothes, she'd bounced off the walls. He could see the hyperness in her eyes now.

"You will be good or I will hurt you," he threatened.

Prism waved off his threat. "Shush. Anyway how are you going to keep Primrose from seeing you?"

Sora shuffled her foot for a moment, "I can't go back to her..him..that..that thing back there if I go back I'll pin that thing to the floor," she explained.

Harmony rolled her eyes. She had to think of something so Primrose would never find out who he..er who she was. Then Harmony had an idea and looked at everyone with sly smirk.

"I can always say Artemis had to leave for a while and that I was a long lost sister-thats blood related- that he found and called up to leave in charge until he got back," said Harmony with a smile.

Kirai looked around. "Well..then... where are we gonna go? It's like four in the morning."

Cloud didn't think that would work very well. "..alright but you'd better tell her that while she's tired or not paying attention or something.. I think she's smart enough to be skeptical of that."

"And how do we explain why Sora's practically petrified of you?"

"Tree house?," Sora suggested, she really did not want to return home yet to go back and see Artemis as a girl.

"Well I know that much..shes just got to be woken up super early tomorrow since she won't be fully awake in the morning," said Harmony with a slight smile.

"Hell I don't even know why she's petrified of me."

Kirai sighed. "As long as you'll let me fall asleep there that's fine with me," he said, failing to contain a yawn. Kicking a wall in a closet really tires a guy out.

"We should probably go ask Kirai.. but I don't feel like getting up."

Prism rolled her eyes. "You never feel like getting up. Either way I think seeing your brother turn into a girl is scary by itself."

Cloud looked at her and tilted his head. "You do realize that you are the female version of me, correct?"

"..Shut up, I've lived with this."

Sora nodded and started to walk away to go to the park and find a tree house to go sleep in for the rest of the night without seeing that nightmare again either.

"Someone go find them both and bring their asses back here now before I take a knife and make sure one of you end up in a hole to lions and the other at the bottom of the damned ocean," growled Harmony.

Kirai trudged after her, wishing none of this had happened. He probably wouldn't be able to go back to the house for a while now, or at least until Artemis was fixed.

"Looks like your personality didn't change," Cloud whispered. Prism laughed.

"If she ran away do you really think she's going to come back? Plus it's like four a.m., they're not gonna go getting into trouble at this time. Kirai's too tired," he said more audibly.

Sora found a tree house and jumped into the door and inside of the tree house and laid down in the corner.

"Unless you want cake then be nice," Harmony said slyly.

"Yeah but still, somehow Sora will find a way to get in trouble..fine if you two fraidy cats won't go, then I will," said Harmony as she started to head out the door.

"I trust that this is not the tree house of a stranger?" Kirai asked sarcastically, way too tired to care about what would happen if someone found them sleeping in their tree house. He climbed up slowly and leaned against the wall, sliding gracefully down it into a sitting position and closed his eyes.

"Why is it always cake? What if I don't like cake, hm?" Cloud asked, tilting his head at Harmony.

"Good, have fun."

Sora gave him a slight glance before slipping into sleep and curling up on the floor in her corner.

"Because it's not the lie," she said to him.

Harmony sighed and started to walk out the front door and into the night as she went to go and find Sora and Kirai. She just hoped she wouldn't run into trouble herself that night or would she might be at a disadvantage. Cloud was about to respond but she had already walked outside. He looked at Prism when he realized something. "I wonder if this thing lessened hi- her fighting skills at all.."

"And it's dark out and she's a girl and she's alone," Prism pointed out. "Maybe we shouldn't have let him go.. I mean her.."

Harmony just cursed under her breath as she walked around in the dark trying to find Kirai and Sora.

"Where the fuck could they be..and those two idiots didn't even want to help me out to find them..those poo faces," Harmony said to herself. She turned a corner and was about to decide to head down the next corner when she got pinned to a wall by the throat. She quickly wrapped her small hands around her attacker's wrist to try and get free, "F-u-ck."

Cloud and Prism looked at each other for a while, both of their faces showing increasingly worried expressions before Cloud decided to speak up.

"He's gonna get raped isn't she."

"Something like that-" Prism said as she rushed to go find her sword. "Go I'll catch up!"

Cloud obeyed his sister and ran outside, dropping his knife and having to go pick it up again. Which way would she have gone?!

Harmony opened her eyes the best she could but she couldn't see their face. But she could hear them, there had to be at least two but they kept on tightening their grip on her throat cutting off her air supply more every time. She was trying to struggle free and to try and reach back for her knife that she had kept from Alex at the store. When she able to reach it she brought it up while they weren't looking ad stabbed it into their wrist and they dropped her quickly.

Harmony fell back coughing and holding her neck gasping for air.

She glared up at them as they started towards her again; she got to her feet ready to fight. Cloud was still in the spot he had frozen in when Prism arrived next to him.

She slapped him on the head. "Hey asswipe, how about you go save him BEFORE hell freezes over?"

"Well where the fuck did he go?!" her brother asked, looking around.

"I don't know, but going in the opposite direction is still better than standing around doing nothing!" Prism said with another roll of her eyes as she pulled him along, running straight ahead. Harmony was having trouble fighting since her clothes were too big for her and was already bleeding in several areas but she never stopped fighting.

"These assholes are not taking me anywhere," growled Harmony as she wiped blood from the corner her mouth.

"God you're an idiot, someone probably already got her!" Prism yelled at him, full on running now.

"He might be a girl but he can still fight for himself, it's not like they'll take him down that easy!" Cloud argued stopping and dragging his sister to the right when he thought he heard something.

"Is that him over there?" he asked more quietly, not wanting to draw attention if it wasn't who they were looking for.

Prism squinted to try and see better, but to no avail. "I can't tell, but if it is her then she's in trouble.."

"No shit."

Harmony growled at them as they came at her from both sides and she quickly jumped p before they grabbed her. But as she landed not that far from them one swiped their leg under her and knocked her down and quickly rushed her but she kicked them up and over her.

Harmony was fast as she rolled to the side and got to her feet and quickly blocked their attack but lost her footing and was sent into a wall. "Even if it isn't him I don't want whoever that is to die," Cloud said, quickly running over to them.

"Oh so we've gone from murdering to being a fucking superhero?!" Prism asked, dashing to catch up with her brother, and wasting no time in landing a kick to the back of one of the attacker's heads.

He fell to the floor unconscious in a matter of seconds.

Prism was quite sure that she'd pulled a muscle with that stunt.

"Smooth," Cloud laughed as he caught the other attacker off guard with a punch to the stomach, followed by him pulling out a knife and smiling at the larger man in front of him. Harmony didn't see who came from the sky but she took advantage of the distraction and swiped her foot under the man's feet and knocked him to his back and jumped over him and took the knife from him and cut the man dead in his neck.

"Teach you not to mess with me ever again you ass holes."

Cloud was surprised at his knife being taken away from him but didn't mind so much when he saw it was Harmony. "Oh it is him."

"I'm pretty sure I ripped my leg in half," Prism said with a pout. "I'm not as flexible as I made myself out to be."

"Smooth move. I'm not carrying you." Cloud looked at Harmony. "Gimme me knife," he said, holding his hand out.

"Nope, you're not getting it back until we back home where I can look at her leg carefully," said Harmony as she walked away with his knife in her hand. She started to hop the fences. Cloud glared at Harmony, walking after her and looking very unamused. "Artemisss..."

Prism smiled and shook her head. "That isn't her name."

"Well Harmony sure as hell isn't! Get your girly ass over here and give me back my knife!" he yelled, not even bothering to try and jump fences like she was. Harmony stopped walking and waited a minute to turn around and face him again.

'I've always wondered how this works on guys..but I'll try it,' thought Harmony with a smirk to herself. Then she turned around and faced Cloud.

Harmony gave him an innocent look in her eyes; she tilted her head to the left just slightly and made her eyes look up at Cloud sadly. She had her hands small little fists held carefully and sweetly just slightly under her chin, one over the other. She frowned slightly to make it work more and turned her body just slightly to give it the sad look, her body turned just enough to the left and her feet with one in front of the other.

And to make it more believable, she let fake tears run down her face to act like she was crying, "W-why are you yelling at me? W-what did I-I do?," Harmony started crying.

'This is fun,' she thought to herself. Cloud looked at her, very confused and impressed at how fast she had started crying. But he wasn't falling for that. This was still Artemis to him. "No. Stop that. Give it back," he said blankly, but less harshly than before.

Prism wondered how long he could keep it up. Harmony kept trying, she really let the tears fall down her face and tried an even better trick, "You let me come out here alone...and I almost got taken away..and now you're mad at me," She cried.

Harmony let herself drop to her knees and cry still, it wasn't long at that point that some other guys where coming back from the store heard her.

"Hey kid! What did you do to her?!,"one of them shouted.