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I know that some of you know Teen Wolf – some told me it was similar to my story, therefore I can only assume they know that tv show. Anyway, for those who don't know yet I've started a new fanfic on Teen Wolf. If you ever want to take a look... feel free. I hope you like it, it's called Keep going. But please, like, give it a shot... thanks :)
I'm sorry for the readers of Rumor has it who were disappointed by the ending – hopefully not a lot... I hope you guys enjoy this story better since it has more potential than the former.
Also I really consider making something from this fic. Like, the Readers, the chameleons, the silver cross, the snakes... all of this is just too much to do only a fic about it. Ha, I really feel like making something out of it. Tell me if I'm wrong but it would have some potential..
Shouts-out :
TWilkins : No you don't love badgers. Badgers are bad. Foxes are cool, though.
shadesofeden : Marvel is a cutie right ? xD
NickChance : Well, I don't know, adding the part with the christian louboutin shoes actually was useful to the story so I was happy to do that. I guess you know why, right ? ^^ (hint: the ring)
FA2015 : Nah, don't worry ! I'm just like waiting for you to update your story haha x) I hope you're not too busy... love xx
candykisses101 : Well it felt necessary to add some kind of history to that town ! I created some of the creatures/factions (the readers, the chameleons, the snakes, the silver cross hunters) otherwise I did researches for the kitsune. The werewolves and the normal shifters are not my creations. But I kinda like it to think that I create most of the factions in this story haha
LifeThroughSeaGreenEyes : I don't know I like 'vaycay' haha ! thank you for reviewing ! xx
CapitolEffie : Well there was this time when I was in england, in Eastbourne, I don't know if you know that town, it's on the coast near Brighton. Anyway, at night there were foxes... it was awesome ! Anyway I saw like two and from a distance so... but since I live like in the woods it's an exciting thing to finally have one in my garden ! I just hope neither of the fox or the badger eats my cat. No, no you were right about the diamond and glimmer's ring.. just wait and see..
London : Oh, you like kitsunes ? I really didn't invent anything of what I said, I made researches. Glad you like it !
Pikachu1132 : Cato's like nude for a long time in this chapter, you'll like it I think !
Raven Knightly : Okay... totally not trying to talk about the story on teen wolf that I just started -ok maybe a little- but it started the same way as peeto. I was like oh, lol those two would look great together. And then bam... xD wow sorry I made you flood your bathroom haha
scheiGuy : :ohstopityou: thank you a lot ! Voilà is correct though. How could I hate you for talking in french when I'm here talking in a language I don't know how to speak in at all -ok my phrase didn't have much sense lol
jGrcer : The question of whether peeta's brothers can read or not will be answered soon. Peeta will have more pov; don't worry ! as for this chapter he gets one :)
Chapter 8 : The hunters
Day 4 - First part : Peeta's P.O.V
Today, I'm supposed to meet Gale in town. I can't believe he asked me out on a date - though it kinda had to get along with the kiss, I guess.
I get ready.
Walking by my mother's room, I think about what we discussed yesterday. She was happy to have seen her old friend, Addie. But I was kinda embarrassed when she asked me what I thought about her kids and her husband. I have nothing against Daniel or even Clove, but it's Cato I have a problem with. He's different from them all, I can tell, but I don't know what to think about it. I mean, he might be different, but I don't think he might be dangerous. Oh boy, I really made a fool of myself the other day... He didn't deserve to be treated like this. I should probably apologise. I was really harsh to him, and if I was the new boy in town I wouldn't like people to treat me like shit. I really wouldn't.
But now I have to get ready for my date !
Once I'm totally ready, I wait for the bus, then I get out.
I wait at the Starbucks, where we are supposed to meet. Since he's not here, I order a coffee and take a seat. Five minutes go by... Ten... Twenty. I try to call him to see if something is wrong.
He doesn't pick up. Damn it, Gale, are you standing me up ?
I sigh. I wait another half an hour but he doesn't show up. Damn... Thanks. So much for the first date.
I make the decision to go to see Cato now. From where I am - also from anywhere in the town - I can see his mansion. It's so big and large, it dominates the whole town from uphill !
I take the bus once again, slightly disappointed by Gale's behaviour. He must still be playing with me...
The bus stops next to the Jason's restaurant, where I saw him for the first time.
I then walk uphill. Damn, he does that on foot everyday ? It's exhausting ! Or maybe it's just me being a lazy ass. Oh, that's probably just that.
When I'm finally there, I ring the bell. The door opens a few moments later, on Daniel. "Oh hi, Peeta !"
"Hello, Mr. Shriver. I hope I'm not disturbing..."
"No, of course not ! What can I help you with ?"
"Well, uh... I was hoping I could see Cato, is he here ?"
He nods. "Come in." I obey and he closes the door behind me. Wow, the mansion is even bigger on the inside. "Cato ?! You have a visitor !" he yells before telling me. "Please, have a seat, make yourself comfortable."
I obey once again and wait on the couch of the living room. I sit there for a few minutes before I finally hear footsteps in the stairs.
"Marvel, you know that you can go straight to my ro... Oh" he blurts out when he sees that it's me. So he's friends with Marvel, I see. For what I know he is the only one who welcomed him. Wait, am I jealous ?
"Hi." I salute shyly.
"Erm, hi..." he mutters.
"Were you expecting someone ? If yes... I can go."
He frowns. "No, no... I'm just surprised to see you here." he says as he steps toward me.
"Well, uh... I came to apologise."
He seems surprised. "What for ?"
"My behaviour the other day. I... Am sorry" those words sound bad coming from my mouth.
His face relaxes. "I wasn't mad at you, you know... I just thought you didn't want to talk to me anymore."
I pout. Not because I'm offended, but because I don't know what to say. He is right, I actually didn't want to talk to him. There was something about him that unnerved me, because he made me want him and not Gale."
I'm interrupted from my thoughts by some violents and repetitives knocks on the door.
Cato frowns and go to open the door. It's Marvel, that I know from high school.
"Cato, we have a problem." He then notices me behind Cato's shoulder. "Uh, am I interrupting something ?"
Cato turns to face me, he probably doesn't know what to answer. "No, no... I was leaving." I announce.
"You were ?" he asks, and Marvel looks at him like he's stupid.
"Yes, someone is waiting for me to do... Stuff." I ramble before getting out of the mansion. "Bye, guys."
"Uh, bye..." Cato answers.
I sigh and get back home. Wow, what a day. It's not even over yet that I want to go and curl under a cover. Great date, great encounter with Cato...
Day 4 - afternoon : Cato's P.O.V
Well, that was freaking awkward.
"What the hell is happening, Marvel ?"
"What is happening is that a bunch of hunters captured Finnick, Thresh and Rue. We have to help them, okay ?"
What ? "How-how did that happen ?" I ask.
"We were in the woods with the other shifters, when they came out of nowhere. We were animals, so they didn't see our faces, but it was pretty obvious we were shapeshifters..."
"Okay, erm... Did you tell Glimmer ?" I ask.
"I just called her, yeah. Cato, we have to go now !"
I sigh and follow him outside. We run to the forest. "So, it's the Silver Cross ? How can you be so sure ?"
"I don't freaking know ! They put them all in some kind of cabin."
"Do you even have a plan ?" I ask.
"Yeah, we fly there, then we knock those bastards out, and we get out all together."
"Sounds bad, don't you have a better one ?" I wince. It's true, though. They're hunters, they're most likely armed.
"We'll see, we don't really have a choice... If we don't do something in the next hour, they're gonna be slaughtered !" He's right. It's foolish to go with a plan like this one, but there's no other
We get rid of our clothes and put them under a tree, then shift into hawks.
He leads me to the cabin in the forest where the others shifters are supposed to be. We fly for ten minutes before getting there.
The only thing is... around the cabin, there are bodies. Six bodies, to be precise. But they're not the shifters. The hunters, probably. When we take back our human form, Marvel and I frown at each other. Something is definitely up here. The cabin is still locked... something must have happened.
I knock on the door. "Guys ? guys ? Are you here ?"
Moans come back from the other side of the door. "Hey, they are still alive !" Marvel yells.
"I know they are." I tell Marvel.
He comes next to me. "No, I'm talking about the hunters. Whoever came and caused this only knocked them out. We have to get them out of here, now !"
I look sideways. The nearest hunter has a keyring on his belt. I take it and try all the keys, before finally finding the right one. I open the door. Finnick, Thresh and Rue are restrained by chains. I rush to them and put the keys in their handcuffs. "Are you guys hurt ?" I ask.
"No, we're fine." Finnick says. "But we have to get out of here, now !" We all run the exit. "Wait, guys ! Finnick hold us back as we're about to shift in hawks again.
"What ?" Marvel asks.
"What happened here ?"
"We don't know." I say. "Someone, or something knocked them all out before we got here."
"Well, I think that we should take advantage of the situation to kill them all. Look, they're all unconscious !"
"Are you out of your mind ?" I step toward him.
"They tried to kill us !" he yells.
"Well, let's prove them that they don't have a reason to kill us by leaving them alive, then !" I yell back.
One hunter moans behind him and we all turn around. He has brown hair, grey eyes. He seems to have a hard time getting back up. "Let's kill him !" Finnick yells.
"Are you insane ?" Marvel says. "We're shifters, not murderers !"
The boy on the ground looks up at me with weakness.
Oh no, he thinks. I don't want to die, not now... I have to see Peeta...
What ? I knew that Peeta had something to do with the hunters ! "You know what ?" I say. "He's coming with us."
"Huh ?" Marvel blurts out. "Why ?"
"You need to trust me, Marvel." I say. He knows that I know that he trusts me already, so he just shrugs. Finnick, go grab him." I command.
"Also, guys... we might as well get some clothes..." Marvel remarks. Good idea... we're all naked.
Finnick ties the unknown boy's hands with a rope, then we steal some clothes from the hunters, however letting them their underwear. I start feeling uncomfortable with this...
"You're making a mistake." the boy warns us as we start moving.
"You shouldn't have captured my friends." Marvel snaps back.
"You don't understand-" he starts before Finnick punches him in the face.
"Finnick !" Thresh mutters. "Stop that !"
"Where are we headin to, though ?" Marvel asks.
"I know where the safest place is." I decide. My home. My parents will understand, and it's the closest house from here. "Follow me."
We take a shirt and tie it around his face so he can't see where we're heading.
"Keep him here." I say when the mansion is in sight. "I'll be right back."
I rush to the house. I see that the sun is going down, it's the end of the day. Addie and my dad, who almost finished moving the books from the basement, ask me what's happening and why I am in such weird clothes. I decide I have no choice but coming up with the truth, so I tell them what happened.
"What... so there are hunters, here too ?" Addie exclaims. "Oh god, we're not safe here."
"Wait Addie. They were only six ! And we have one of them."
"What ? You brought one of them here ?!" he exclaims.
"We blindfolded him." I tell him. "He won't know he's here if we put him in the basement."
"Good idea." Addie approves. "Damnit... we've only been here for three days and there are already hunters after us ?"
"That's the thing, Addie... I'm not sure they were really after us. Something was definitely up back there, and nothing turned out the way they wanted to."
"Okay, uh..." my dad starts. "Just bring him in."
It all crushes my plans to ask my dad about my mother being a chameleon, but I guess it will have to wait.
After gesturing to the other shifters to come here with the boy, we bring him in the basement. My father brings two chairs and some rope so we tie his forearms to the chair he's sitting on. "Where am I ?" he whimpers when I take the shirt off of his face.
"Leave me with him." I command.
"But, Cato..." Addie starts.
"I said leave me with him." I repeat, a bit too harshly, maybe. I look at everyone leaving the room. I'll apologize to Addie later.
When we're finally alone, he asks me again : "Where am I ?"
"You don't need to know." I answer as I sit in front of him.
He tries to break away from his shackles but doesn't succeed. "Why didn't you kill me ? You could have."
I frown. "You really think that we're that bad ?" Oh wow, Cato. That's really impressive. "I mean, I'm the one asking the questions. What's your name ?"
He looks at me with hatred. "Gale."
"Okay, Gale. Why did you kidnap my friends ?"
He chuckles. "You really think I'm gonna tell you ?"
I expected it. "Okay, well let's try something else. What is your connection with Peeta Mellark ?"
He instantly stops chuckling. "I-I don't see what it has to do with the situation..." I raise an eyebrow. "Don't hurt him." he begs.
"Tell me what I want to know and we won't." I say. He doesn't say anything. "Come on, tell me !" He's going to confess that Peeta is a reader and that he is helping the hunters. "TELL ME !"
"He's my boyfriend !" he cries. "Don't hurt him, I beg you !" "
What ? His... boyfriend ? Peeta is gay ? And in a relationship with a hunter ? I would never have expected this. Something in Gale's eyes make me think he's telling the truth. "What about his ability ? He helps you, is that right ?"
The boy frowns. What is he talking about ? Oh my god, I've been kidnapped in a basement, and my interrogator's question don't make any sense. What ? So, he doesn't know ? Maybe it's for the best.
"Then I'm going to repeat my first question. Why did you kidnap my friends ? You know who I will hurt if you don't tell me everything."
He stares at me in pure hatred before opening his mouth. "They were just a bait. We don't hunt your kind. You are the basic shapeshifters, you're harmless." Oh, if only he knew... "Well, what were you hunting ?"
He looks down. "The Snakes. You know them, right ?"
I nod. "Of course I know them, do you think I'm an idiot."
He shakes his head. "Well, uh... we know that they usually want to curse the other shifters to be the more powerful, so we decided to bait them with your friends... Against humans, they're as dangerous as a normal shifter, so we weren't a lot on this. It was supposed to be easy. But before we had the time to set up the trap for them, something came out of nowhere."
I raise an eyebrow. "Something ?" He now looks terrorized. It must be something that he fears a lot, even more than shapeshifters. "What is it ?"
He looks up at me and murmurs something that I find myself fearing, something that I scared of since I read about it in the books. Something that I slightly expected, even though it surprises me because I thought it wasn't possible.
"Dark magic."
AN :
So, erm... that's it for tonight. Hope you liked. Please review.
Also, I know I'm repeating myself but since I barely got reviewers I say it again. For the ones who like Teen Wolf... if you ever feel like reading my fic on Isaac/Stiles... it's only a click away. I know it might seem like an odd pairing, but Marvel/Cato Marvel/Peeta or even Cato/Peeta were odd, however in each one of my fics you liked them the way I wrote them. So yeah... please give it a shot. Thanks a lot !
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AllenCampbell
