{1} Tempest {Sweet Pea}

XXI

"You guys. Yes, you. Come with me." A angry, sounding Principal Weatherbee says and Storm looked at Sweet Pea.

He shakes his head, clearly having no idea what was going on, and she looks to Fangs who also was shaking heads.

There was a snake painted over the Riverdale High school seal and she'd begin to growl at Reggie, who was the one who had really done it.

"Effective immediately. No gang behavior of any kind will be tolerated in my school. As of this moment, no more Serpent Jackets." Principal Weatherbee says.

"What?" Sweet Pea snapped immediately at him and Storm shakes her head.

"Principal Weatherbee, you brought me back here with the promise that all Serpents would be treated fairly. I think that the real graffiti artist is the one who ought to be punished. They... we did nothing wrong." Storm said.

"No more Serpent Jackets. All tattoos are gonna be covered. Possessing any gang paraphernalia whatsoever will lead to your immediate suspension."

Principal Weatherbee said coldly, his tone leaving no room for argument to his words whatsoever.

Storm sighed as she walked away with the others, and they met up in the Whyte Wyrm later.

"I can't believe you guys don't even see it." Jughead exclaimed sharply to all of them, as Sweet Pea plays Mortal Kombat, and Storm was sitting down, strangely quiet as she fiddled with the serpent necklace that she was wearin' all day around her neck. "Weatherbee is profiling us. Telling us what to wear and what's next? Brain implants are controlling what we think?" Jughead exclaimed.

"Jughead, you sound like a conspiracy nut. A school closed down." Toni says.

"A crappy school." Sweet Pea added as he continued to play the arcade game, and Storm sighed.

"And now we're at a better one, with a computer lab and textbooks." Toni was saying.

"And toilets that flush." Sweet Pea points out and Storm had to laugh at that, even though it was likely very true and she caught Sweet Pea smiling slightly before he focused again.

"Getting transferred over schools to Riverdale High is the best thing, that could have ever happened to us." Toni says.

"Maybe ever." Sweet Pea chimed in again and Storm laughs at the Mortal Kombat and his choppy comments.

"So if I have to take off my jacket 8:30 to 3, Monday to Friday, hey, I'm down with that." Toni said and Jughead walked out of the bar with a furious look on his face.

Storm found her garage door locked when she came home, and she bangs on the door when she realizes that for the first time, she had left them in the garage.

"Hey! Archie!" She shouted, seeing him in the room, but he couldn't hear her and she sighed, pulling out her phone and dialing a number.

"Hey, you got room for one more in your trailer tonight?" She asked and a yawn came from the other end, as she smiled. "I'll bring food." She said as then the line went dead.

The next day, Storm was shocked to find that Jughead was still wearing his jacket and she saw that Reggie and his Bulldogs had spotted him. "Shit." She said and stood up immediately.

Reggie grabbed at Jughead and the fight was on. Storm tackled Reggie as he swung hard at Jughead, but missed and hit her instead.

Then Principal Weatherbee had them all in his office and Storm was holding an ice pack to her left jaw, then, there was another one on her right eye.

"You all get a week's detention for fighting." Weatherbee was saying as Storm winced hard, at the sentence of the detention.

"Your jaw okay?" Sweet Pea asked after school and she just nodded at him and put the ice packs away.

"I'm fine. I'm just glad Jughead didn't get hit. Then FP would've been on my case for sure." She said and Sweet Pea shakes his head.

"No way. FP, he loves you, like he loves his own kids. There's a reason that he let you take the Gauntlet. He respects you. As a fighter, a mediator, a leader." Sweet Pea said and he looks at the scar on her cheek, that was just below her left eye. "Is that from me?" He asked and she looked up at him.

"You mean this? From the Gauntlet you mean?" She asked and she points at the one he was looking at, and he'd nod. "Yeah. But I've had worse." She says.

"I'd better get back, but talk to you later?" Sweet Pea says and she nodded quickly at him.

"You know it. The pool table's always open." She says with mock salute, and she walked into the garage.