Ariel cleared her throat. "It happened like 400 years ago when I was 15."

Scully opened her mouth to say something, but Mulder silenced her with a nudge. Ariel hesitated, and then continued.

A teenage girl hummed to herself as she walked down an alley. The light from the full moon created a false sense of security in the shortcut home. A growl cut through the normal sounds of a London night.

"You didn't know someone was following you?" Mulder said.

Ariel considered, and then shook her head. "The only thing I heard was a cat going through the trash."

Scully quirked an eyebrow, and the girl's eyes fell to the floor. "Go on, Ariel," Mulder said.

She spun in search of the sound. A wolf leaped out of the shadows and pinned her down. It sunk its teeth into her shoulder, and she shrieked in pain. The creature ran away, as though it was afraid of the sound. She rolled onto her stomach and touched the wound on her upper back. Warm, sticky blood covered her hand. Without a second thought, she ran home.

The next day a neighbor, Emilia, came to check on Ariel. She looked unusually tired, had known about the bite without being told, apologized for it, and explained what her friend had become. Within a few days, she met the rest of the wolf pack, a total of four others.

Silence rang through the hallway after Ariel completed her tale. She rocked back and forth on her heels, waiting for the verdict.

Scully was the first to say something. "That…couldn't have happened," she said. Her skepticism surprised no one.

"Why not?" Mulder said. All the details added up, and he believed the story to be true.

Scully, on the other hand, found a flaw. "If you were born in England, why don't you have an accent?"

Ariel's cheeks turned slightly pink as she answered. "I've spent so much time here that I've lost it. I've been here since the Blitz."

Scully was about to press this, but Mulder talked over her.

"So, Brianna, what's your story?" he said. Brianna had been leaning on the wall next to Ariel, watching the argument.

"Er-" But before she could get farther than that, Meta Knight cut her off.

"Someone's coming," he said. Scully and Mulder turned, expecting a teacher. They found themselves face-to-face with a man in a black coat and sunglasses.

He was also pointing a gun at the group.

Mulder and Scully immediately reached for their guns, but the man fired a shot. The bullet missed Scully's shoulder and hit the wall opposite, and she flinched away from the spot.

"Hand over the alien and those girls, and we won't have to hurt you," the man said.

"I don't think we're going to hand over the only evidence of aliens we have," Mulder said.

The man's lips twitched. "Then you all have to die." With that, he fired three shots.

Meta Knight pulled his sword out , jumped forward, and deflected all three bullets. They spiraled into the wall.

"Run! I'll hold him off!" Meta Knight said. Mulder was about to protest, but Scully grabbed his arm and pulled.

"Mulder, we have to evacuate the school!" she said. "Someone could get hurt." Mulder looked at Meta Knight, then ran with Scully and the girls down a hallway.

Ariel and Brianna led the way, as they knew the school the best. In the middle of a deserted hallway, they froze.

"Guys, we have to keep going," Mulder said. "They might get past Meta Knight."

"We know that." Brianna said. She and Ariel were examining some rolled-up wrestling mats. They looked at each other for a moment and grinned.

Meta Knight ran into a empty hallway in the school, stopped, and leaned against a wall as a group of men ran by. When Mulder, Scully, and the girls ran off, half a dozen men had stepped out from around the corner and started firing. Meta Knight let out a sigh, and relaxed a little. That is, until he felt something poke him in the back. He nearly let out a yell as he swiveled, poised to strike. However, he relaxed when he saw Scully's head poking out of one of the mats.

"What are you doing…in a wrestling mat?" Meta Knight said. He looked up and realized that there were heads poking out from other wrestling mats. Mulder was behind Scully, and Ariel and Brianna were peeking from their mats on the opposite wall.

"Hiding," Scully said.

"I think there's another mat in the wrestling room, Meta Knight, if you want," Brianna said with a smile. Meta Knight stared at her, and then shook his head.

"Or you could share with Brianna," Ariel added.

"We can't hide here all day," Meta Knight protested. "We have to evacuate the school."

Brianna smiled. "Aw, he cares!"

"You're right, Meta Knight," Mulder said, since he saw a tint of red flash in Meta Knight's eyes. He examined the walls. "Go over there and pull the fire alarm, Meta Knight."

"Unless you're too short," Brianna said.

Meta Knight glared at Brianna before obeying, and within seconds, a flashing light along with a siren filled the hallways. All over the school, students emptied out of their classrooms and filed outside. The four wormed out from inside the mats and made their way outside. Brianna and Ariel blended in with their classmates, and Scully, Mulder, and Meta Knight made it into their car and drove off.