Battle high: not your average high school

After Battle thirty-five

Cloud's mistake with Harmony

Cloud looked up quickly and saw the random guys, swiftly becoming rather nervous. He shook his head. "No, I didn't.. he's-she's not.. ah fuck," he mumbled the last part and dropped to his knees himself so he was eye level with Harmony. "Goddammit Artemis I am gonna kill you when you're a guy again," he grumbled. "Stop crying."

"Cloud, whisper-yelling is not going to make a difference," Prism told him quietly, glancing at the guys. The guys walked over to see what was going on to see Harmony still crying when Cloud tried to stop her from crying,

Harmony kept crying she not only loved this but was having way too much fun at the same time, "But your all mad...it's my fault...w-why w-was I attacked? y-your mad at me now for being a g-girl!,"she cried enjoying the trouble Cloud was in.

"Y-you don't care that I was almost taken away!"

"If I didn't care do you really think I would've came here?!" Cloud whispered, trying not to look at the guys who were now glaring at him. "Come on I know you're faking this and I'm about to get beaten up."

Prism smiled nervously at the strangers and gave them a small wave. "Heh heh.. hello there.. gentlemen.. they're having a bit of an emotional moment, nothing wrong.."

Harmony kept on crying and let the tears continue to fall down her face as she tried to wipe away the tears.

"But you yelled at me!"

The two guys looked at her and then walked forward and behind Cloud, one of them grabbed him by the back collar and lifted him off the ground, "What did you do to her?"

The other guy kneeled in front of Harmony and started to talk to her calmly. Cloud glared at the guy in front of him, only taller because he was now elevated off the ground. Artemis was going to DIE.

"I didn't do anything you infernal dumbass! Who the fuck are you anyway? You can't just come over here and start harassing me because of the way this situation looks! I don't know how chivalrous you think you're being right now but this whole thing is actually pretty fucking stupid!" he snapped, curling his fingers into a fist, and getting even more angry when they didn't squeeze around his knife.

"And god damn it Artemis give me my knife!"

Harmony cried more.

"Hey kid it must be your fault because all were seeing is this girl cry and you seem to be the one to cause her crying since every time you talk to her she cries more. Chivalry? We help anyone in trouble and so far you're the one making her cry..hell you may be the one who gave this sweet girl those cuts," said the first one.

"Who the hell is Artemis? There is no other guy here but us three," said the second one as he looked up from calming Harmony. Cloud stared at the guy in front of him with annoyance. "No. I was not the one who gave her those cuts. It was those dickheads over there who I literally just stopped from hurting her," he said, pointing over to the fallen guys who they'd just walked away from.

"He's...she... uggh. None of your goddamned business."

"Maybe you were the one who told them to do that?"

"Or maybe it's a trick?"

Harmony sat there and cried a bit more as she grabbed onto the second one's sleeve and tugged on it. He looked at her and tried to wipe away the tears still on her face gently. Harmony looked at him calmly with red eyes.

"Why would I even- ah fuck don't touch hii-her!" Cloud all but yelled at the second guy. He wasn't about to put up with that. These were strangers. Seemingly nice strangers, but they didn't know them nonetheless.

"This guy's my little brother and I can assure you guys that he had nothing to do with that. He's a blithering idiot and probably the largest asshole ever but he also cares about this chick too much for his own good," Prism said to the guys, hoping it would convince them that everything was fine and they could go. "If he did hurt her I'd kick his ass."

The first guy looked at Prism and nodded, he let go of Cloud and let him fall to the ground on his ass.

Harmony let the second guy finish cleaning the tears away and talked to her a bit more before he stopped, "There you go, all better," he said to her calmly. Harmony nodded slightly and then looked over at Cloud.

"Well I'll take your word for it, but if we ever see her crying again around town then we'll come back for your help not his," said the first guy. He tapped his friend on the shoulder and they both nodded and left. Cloud remained on the ground, glaring at Harmony the entire time. Only after the guys were long gone did he speak.

"What the ever loving FUCK was that?!" he said fiercely. He stuck out his hand again. "If I don't get my knife back in two seconds I'll give you something real to cry about!"

"Don't listen to him, he doesn't hit girls."

"I've hit you before! And he's not a girl! He is temporarily female-appearing and I refuse to accept the notion that he has been biologically altered, alright?!"

Harmony smiled at him, "It was something fun for me to do to torment you," she laughed at him.

"Go ahead, hit me and let's see who sleeps in the attic with all the scary monsters ,"she said. Harmony crossed her arms over her chest and gave him a look, yes Artemis was only a girl for who knows how long but Cloud wanted to have some fun with this.

"Hey Prism go check downtown for me please?," asked Harmony. Prism gave her a skeptical look but then glanced at Cloud, and upon recognizing the look on his face- pissed off beyond belief but hyper from all the excitement- nodded and started to head downtown. "Don't kill each other~"

Cloud stood up and glared down at Harmony. "Knife. Now."

Harmony rolled her eyes at him, she ended up having to reach to her leg for the knife since nowhere else would she be able to hold it, she lifted her pant leg up and grabbed the knife, "You big baby."

Harmony handed him the knife, but the moment her hand was in contact with Cloud's she took the chance to walk forward out of range of the knife.

Before Cloud even knew what happened, Harmony had her lips on his. Cloud squeezed the knife so hard it might've snapped in half if it had been made of anything even slightly less sturdy.

This was gonna happen AGAIN?

Just so he could pretend it never happened in the morning? No.

Cloud dropped the knife and quickly grabbed Harmony by the shoulders, pushing her back and holding her at arms length. He glared at her, but it wasn't as scary as it normally would've been. "Don't.. mess with me."

"Mess with you? Why would I do that? Just because I act like it didn't happen around the others doesn't mean it never happened," said Harmony as she looked at him with calm blue eyes.

"I can't ever get a moment alone with you so how can I ever do this to you?," she questioned him. Cloud stared at her for a second before he dropped his arms and sighed. "I don't know! But you're only doing this because you're a girl now, like three weeks ago you were all calm and shit when I said I liked you and didn't even fucking react and now here you are kissing me agaaaain."

"Not to mention the fact that you still didn't tell me why you did it the first time," he said more calmly. Harmony rolled her eyes, "Fine then," she said and turned around and started to walk off again. "I wasn't doing it because I'm a girl..but whatever and I was going to tell but maybe not anymore," she said. Harmony then jumped over a fence and ran off to find Sora and Kirai again.

Cloud stared at the spot where Harmony had stood for a while before he picked up his knife and walked to the fence that she'd jumped over. He carved an angry line into the post and then hopped over the obstruction, walking at a leisurely pace in the direction she had run off in.

"Congratulations Cloud, on being the biggest idiot to walk the planet," he told himself. He sighed heavily and looked around while he walked. "Can you tell me anyway?" he called out to the darkness. Maybe she'd hear it. Harmony walked ahead ignoring his comment and was furious herself about Cloud trying to question her motives. Even in her anger her blue flame revealed itself on its own again and she ended up glowing a bit from the flame.

"That poo face tried to question me..I'll hit him next time he tries that again," she growled. Cloud made a noise of annoyance and glared up at the sky when the full realization of what he'd just done finally hit him. "What the fuuuuuuuck was that," he said to the moon, which was about to start setting soon.

He got a little worried when he thought he saw a faint glowing ahead of him, but passed it off as a streetlight or something. "Pleeease? What if I explain myself?" he called out again.

Harmony still said nothing to him and growled under her breathe and made her pace a little faster and her flame grew brighter over time. She wasn't happy now and since she was still getting used to the real emotions of being a girl it was driving her insane now.

"Go to hell!"

"I already was anyway," Cloud responded with a bit of a laugh. "Murdering a shitload of people tends to qualify you for that."

He ignored the fact that the glowing had intensified and that streetlamps weren't blue, for his own sanity. "I'm gonna explain myself anyway okaay?"

"What the fuck ever, go ahead I won't care what you say you fucking asshole!," she shouted at him and jumped over another fence and ignoring Cloud following her. She was trying to get away from him at this point since he made her mad. Cloud twirled his knife in his hand nervously. He knew he was probably going the wrong way by this point but he didn't try and change directions. "Well that one night I said I liked you, you acted so casual about it, so I figured you obviously didn't feel the same way.. so when you went and did that I jumped to the conclusion that you were just messing with me.. considering that you had tortured me about four fucking seconds earlier," he told her.

He had tried not to curse in that explanation to show how serious he was being, but let's be honest. He can't keep that up for that long.

Harmony didn't answer as she kept on going and then went to go sit in a tree to try and find Kirai and Sora. The flame was still bright and didn't lose its brightness. Cloud felt a twinge of annoyance when she didn't even acknowledge him. "Hey! At least let me know if you even fucking heard that!" He turned and walked towards the light that was succeeding in making him very curious.

Harmony growled and then threw a branch at him making it sure it almost hit his head.

She then went back to looking around. Cloud stopped in his tracks when the branch flew past him. He stared at it and then in the direction it came from.

He smiled a little. "So I take it you heard?"

Harmony said nothing. She gave a small yawn and shook her head to stay awake. She was not going to speak to him at the moment. Cloud remained quiet and followed the glowing until he was in front of the tree that Harmony was sitting in. He looked up at her. "Hey. If I apologize will you talk to me?"

Harmony still said nothing to him and just looked down at him for a moment with a glare and yawned quickly. Cloud tilted his head a little and smiled weakly up at her. "I'm sorry?" he said hopefully, it sounding more like a question than he'd intended it to. Harmony shook her head at him. She wanted to say something now but she found herself falling asleep in the damned tree, she had not planned on this happening.

Cloud sighed when he realized she'd fallen asleep. He thought about climbing up and sitting next to her, but figured that that wasn't the wisest of plans. Instead he sat down against the tree and closed his eyes, hoping maybe to get a little extra sleep.

Harmony just leaned on the tree and stayed on the branch she was on and fell asleep calmly as the flame slowly died away. Harmony gave another yawn and just fell asleep finally.

Alex was walking around downtown looking for Sora and Kirai when he saw Prism, "You find them?"

Prism was relieved to see someone she knew. She'd been wandering around alone and it had been slightly creepy, it still being dark out. "Nope. I don't think they'd even be this far away from the house. Harmony made me come look down here so she could piss Cloud off," she said with a small sigh.

"Pissing Cloud off is fun..but we've been up all night trying to get everyone to sleep or behave now," sighed Alex. He thought about what Harmony could to do to torment Cloud even more now that she was girl for a while.