Chapter 8

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Artemis…

"ARTEMIS! what are you doing back here? I thought you left for…"

Paula crock stopped and stared at artemis, and all her wet clothes. School was (partly) forgotten.

"what happened? Why are your clothes all wet? Wait… let me guess… you ran into someone who was carrying something like… oh I don't know…. A bowl of cereal?"

Artemis gaped at her mom. Paula smirked.

"mother knows all. Now go get changed, and leave your books here so I can dry them."

"ok."

Artemis left the room to go take a bath, as paula laid out the books to dry them with a hairdryer. Then paula noticed artemis was missing her agenda.

This was bad.

If someone took it, they would know where she lives, her number, her name. or maybe artemis dropped it as a distraction. Ahhh…..the joys of motherhood.

Wally

"hey wally!"

"sup man?"

"what are you holding?"

Wally had just walked into his school, half an hour late, holding a book.

"Wallace west. Come here immediately."

Wally gulped and tucked the book his pocket as ms. Gomez slapped a pink late slip onto his hand.

"go take this to the office. Now."

Wally walked to the office, thinking about the girl he met on the street.

When he finally reached the office, the secretary, mrs. Mead, an old lady with a scowl always on her face, looked up from her computer and made an even deeper scowl at wally.

"sit down and wait for the principal." she said sourly.

Wally sat down and pulled out the book, deciding to look through it.

He opened it, and on the first page, it said:

Property belongs to: artemis crock

If found please return to: apt. 14, 5th street, gotham city.

Or call: 715 507 7759 (sorry, but I don't know rhode islands area code)

Found her, wally thought smiling.

"mr. west, the principal can see you now." She said sourly.

And wally walked to his doom. I mean to the office.

Artemis ….. after school

Ring rrrriiiinnnnnggg

The bell rang signaling the end of school. Artemis groaned. Her mom wouldn't be happy about the late slip she got today. if she already didn't know. And to top it all off, she lost her agenda to that creepy stalker. Not that she really cares. But her agenda had most of her personal info. Now the stalker knows her number, where she lives, and most of all, her name.

Artemis got up noticing that almost everyone had left. She grabbed her back pack and started walking home.

Artemis was halfway home. She decided to go on the long way home sine today she wasn't busy. She kept walking until she heard an ice cream truck.

Oh crap.

Suddenly, kids started streaming out of seemingly nowhere towards her and the truck.

"ICE CREAM!" they yelled.

The crowd of kids around the truck was huge. They all were practically surrounding her.

"excuse me, move out of the way, hey move kid!" artemis growled at the many children surrounding her. When she finally got out of the crowd and onto the street, she heard a gunshot off in the distance. Artemis, having nothing to do, decided to investigate, and ran to the place where the noise came from.

Wally

Wally had just gotten out of school and was enjoying a walk outside. He was in gotham hoping to maybe see the girl he saw earlier today. he was just thinking about her when suddenly he heard a gunshot off in the distance.

"stupid criminals," wally muttered, "why don't they ever take a break?" wally sighed as he ran into an alley to change, when suddenly,

"OWWW!" "UGHHH!"

Wally remembered that voice!

"oww….. not another bruise!" the girl exclaimed. She looked around to find the culprit and saw wally.

"you again?" she asked, disgustedly, with one eyebrow raised.

"well, hello to you too!" wally grumbled.

"we really have got to stop meeting like this," she said groaning as she picked herself up.

"tell me about it."

"gladly, but don't have time." She said, starting to run.

"why?" he asked smirking, running next to her, "got a date with your boyfriend?" he asked, really hoping that she didn't have one.

"yes!" at this, wally's smile drooped a bit, " a date with one I don't have. No, I really have to go so, bye." She yelled behind her back as continued to run.

Wally smirked. She was trying to outrun him. Trying. He gaped at her in disbelief. He was the flash! Well, actually, kid flash, but whatever. He shook his head grinning, and running to catch up with her, then deciding to follow her without her knowing, and seeing where she went.

Artemis

Artemis was trying to outrun the creep that kept stalking her. She turned her head to see if he was still following her (he wasn't), satisfied, she slowed her run to a jog still following the sound.

Another gun shot.

She ran faster, finally reaching a bank.

"cliché much?" she asked herself.

Seeing masked men guarding the door, she decided to have some fun. She jogged over to them.

Wally…

Wally, still following her, realized she was jogging to a bank. One where a robbery was taking place. He groaned. Was she really doing this on purpose. He changed into his costume in a second, and was about to run over to save her, but he saw her stride on towards the men.

"hello." She said fake sweetly.

"sorry, bank's closed." The robber snarled at her.

" I needed to make a deposit. So could you move over please." he could see his eyes shining greedily behind the holes in his ski mask. At this, wally stared at her in disbelief. No one in gotham was stupid enough to walk up to a thug, whom was robbing a bank, and say you needed to make a deposit. He almost ran out again when he heard the thug speak again,

"or you could just give it to me, toots." Wally's face got red at his comment.

"or, I could punch your face into a bloody pulp," she said, still smiling. Wally grinned. Now this was getting interesting. No way she could beat him up. She looked too… unable to beat a thug up. Still, he was getting ready to run out there at any second.

"or, I could just shoot this gun into your heart." The guy said pulling a gun out of nowhere and pointing it directly at her face. Wally took a step out of the ally he was in.

Then, She looked at him, then sighed and said, "you'll be sorry." Suddenly, she kicked the gun out of his hand, punched his face and kicked the other thug in the chest. They both got up, both obviously mad and charged at her. Wally took off for her, but then skidded to a top seeing that both men laid unconscious on the ground. The girl bent down and peeled a mask off one of the thugs face. She pulled it on and ran inside the bank.

Wally just stood there in shock, gaping.

10 minutes later….

Artemis emerged from inside the bank. All the thugs were beat up, no one was hurt (except obviously the masked men) and no money was taken from the bank.

All in all, it had been pretty good. Great even.

If you didn't count the wound she received from being so careless.

She ran into an ally and peeled off the mask.

Wally could see her face again. Then she walked out, looking to see if anyone had seen her, and not seeing anyone, she started walking off again.