Author's Notes: I'm back, finally. Let's pick up where we left off last time. What happened to Akane and Natsuki that freaked the other werewolves out that much? Would the residents of Astrea Hill find out about the lycans? We're about to know in this chapter.

"speech"= normal speech.

[speech]= wolf speech.

oOo

The third-generation werewolves were taken aback, for the lack of a better world, by what they witnessed.

The blue wolf changed first. As we can still remember, they were fighting by the lake, so Natsuki decided to "bring out her beast". Firstly, her emerald eyes glowed brighter than it was; the some inexplicable force sucked the water toward the blue wolf. Interesting enough, the water froze at contact and within moments, the fifteenth (*) member of the Guild had became a large ice wolf, with two long built-in cannons on her shoulder.

[Cool!] the other member of the Guild exclaimed. [It's been a long time since you last became Duran.]

The black-and-red wolf also began transforming. Her furry surface mysteriously became metallic, her claws grew longer and bigger, and her veins became vents. When the transformation finished, Akane was a 4-foot-8 black mechanical wolf adorned with rad neon stripes, with various guns pointing at random direction, claws as large as M9 bayonets and heat sensors. The neon word "MAJI" (**) glowed red on her shoulder plate, where a bazooka was located.

[Holy shit! With all you firearms, you'd blow up the whole area for sure!] said Natsuki-Duran. [Not to mention you'll wake the whole school up!]

[The use your Magic Room and teleport us to somewhere else, idiot!] Akane-MAJI replied. [I'm sure we can always toss these carcasses aboard on our way.]

[Eh, majide? (***)] the Count Omicron widened her eyes.

[Majidayo (****)] was Viscount Sigma's answer.

Walls of thick ice slabs built up around the battlefield, preventing anyone inside from looking outside and vice versa. When the walls degenerated themselves seconds later, the werewolves found themselves at the arctic region.

Natsuki was an ice wolf, and Akane was a cyborg wolf powered by nuclear reactors built in her armor, so bot of them was not put back by the cold. But the mutts, they were shivering- the mutts' fur was not thick enough to shield them for the vicious of the Arctic weather. But they didn't turn their gaze away form the two strange wolves anyway. They would still attack, even if they were breathing out white puff of smoke

[We'll let you go if you agree to go back and tell Shirogane to leave me the fuck alone.] Akane admired their courage, so she decided to let them have a chance.

[No way, Ookami-san! We have accepted his money,so we have to bring you to him. Besides, if we can turn in the head of Count Omicron, we can have a nice bonus.] a mutt replied.

[Again, it's Viscount Sigma!] Akane growled angrily [You really think you can defeat us? Not even that Shirogane-ass can bring me down let alone you guys!]

[Enough talking, let's beat some sense into their skulls.] Natsuki-Duran was impatient. [Silver Cartridge, fire!]

From her silvery ice cannons, two bullets was launched, and they exploded into sharp shards of ice. The Silver Cartridge turned out to be effective mass-destructive weapon, as the shard pierced through many of the lower-class werewolves, killing them easily. The bodies of the dead werewolves turned to ashes.

[What a lucky time to test out Kuroda-sensei's new weapon!] said Akane-MAJI excitedly. From the back of the bulky mechanical armor a Gatling gun, with about 48 barrels, emerged. [Say hello to "Heavy Rotation"] Akane howled (which also meant she laughed maniacally) and began firing at random direction. Her fellow Guild-member dived for cover behind blocks of ice. In no time at all, she had wiped out all the mutts that were there, but Natsuki didn't come out until Akane had ran out of bullets.

[If we had used that back at your school, you'd have been on the wanted list of human's police and werewolves' gendarmes.] Natsuki said as she came out of her hiding place. [But that was cool. And a little insane.]

[Heh... let's go back now. I can't believe that Shirogane-mutt really sent his weaklings to find me.]

The ice wolf teleported them back to the exact spot they were at in the Hill, where they de-transformed. Because their regular clothes had been ripped off when they transformed, werewolves from the Guild always automatically had their Guild uniform on when they turned back to human form: grey suit, black shirt, grey tie and expensive leather shoes, with a silver pocket watch. Sometimes when they need to prove their status in the Guild they could also summon their long trench coats whose colors magically matched their hair with their symbols in the form of a single Greek uppercase character. This time Akane and Natsuki didn't need their coats, so they just went with the suits.

"Man, I'm depressed." Akane whined.

"Let's go for a drink!" Natsuki suggested. Even though they looked like 16 year old girl they were actually 36, according to "werewolf calendar". "What time is it?"

"4 in the morning." Akane looked at her watch then answered.

"Great! Takahashi's place's still open. Let's go."

Takahashi's place was a bar named "T23" located in the Shibuya district. Akane occasionally went to this place when she didn't want to get too drunk. The owner of the place was Takahashi Kai, also known as Baron Psi to the members of the Guild. The duo of first-blood werewolves entered, not through the main entrance like other people, but through the side entrance reserved (and existed) only to anyone who wasn't ordinary human beings... literally.

Inside it was not where near half-crowded. Few late drinkers were there. The bartender was glad to see customers at this ungodly hour on this ungodly day of the week.

"One scotch please."

"Bacon and eggs; half-cooked eggs, half-done bacon, with whole grain bread. Maybe I'll have some raw steak and Irish coffee as well." Akane said and yawned.

"But sir," said the bartender, he was among many people to mistake Akane for a young lad due to her ruffled two-tone hair. "It's not time for us to sell breakfast yet!"

An irritated Akane grabbed his collar: "Damn it, don't you hear that customers are always right? I. WANT. BREAKFAST! I don't give a damn if it's breakfast time or not. When I say breakfast I mean it for fuck's sake."

The poor terrified bartender quickly scuttled away to take care of the orders, and the whole bar was staring at them. Then somebody clapped: "It's rare to see the almost-always placid Viscount Sigma to have an outburst, eh?"

"G'morning, Tsubasa Nguyen." Natsuki said.

"Good day to you both." replied the newcomer.

Tsubasa Nguyen was a 26-human-year-old Vietnamese-Japanese second-blood werewolf. She was born in Vietnam but went to Japan when she was 14.

"I take it as read that you guys had some troubles with Shirogane-mutt earlier, eh?" Tsubasa smiled. "Because Aka-baka rarely loses her cool. In the early morning."

"Tsubasa, I need you to do me favor. Reach Keibuho and tell him to find out how Shirogane-mutt could reach my whereabouts. Oh, and tell him I'd be grateful if he can give me a list of teenage professional female Hunters."

"You seem to forget something," commented the older lycan.

"I don't. I will give you later when we meet again. 3 new Porsche, am I right?"

"OK, baby. You got me!" Tsubasa smiled before quickly left, highly motivated by her prize.

The orders finally came. Akane ate in silence, pondering what was about to come in the future forward. Then she paid her meal and took her car back to Astrea Hill, before the Sister could catch her sneaking in for a new school day...

Author's Note 2: to those who don't know...

(*) fifteenth: Natsuki is Count Omicron, and Omicron is the fifteenth character in the Greek alphabet

(**) Maji= seriousness (Japanese slang)- a personal trait of you-know-who.

(***) majide/majisuka= are you serious? (Japanese slang)

(****) majidayo= I am serious. (Japanese slang)