AN: chapter 9 – Sue's gets involved! Hope it's not disappointing. Also time there's a time jump, I kind of wanted to get to the point with this story by this stage that drag it out- Enjoy!
Posted: 27/6/11
Now Go!
It was nearly 3 weeks since Santana and Rachel spoke about her visions, Rachel had been blunt, showing less emotion than normal, and to any who noticed, she was miserable but she didn't let it get in the way of her leadership skills.
She stood in the garden staring up at the moon; it would be full again in a couple of days, meaning they left in a couple of days. She felt that it seemed to be fate that she, a werewolf (apparently of such importance) would die on a full moon. The rest of her pack approached from the house, all in their armour.
Santana stood on her right, Sarah on her left. Ever since she'd met Santana, that's how it had always been. Santana on her right and a Puckerman on her left. Rachel had always been the leader, even when she was a child, before she knew she was a wolf, she always got her way round her fathers.
"Four days" Santana broke the silence, bringing Rachel out of her thoughts
"Yep and we leave in 3 to set up, prepare"
"How far are we going?"
"Town limits, its wooded there and secluded, my visions tell me that's where they'll enter, they're not telling me much else" on that subject anyway "we need to get the lay of the land to try and give us an edge"
"What about Quinn?"
"I'm telling her as we leave" they were quite again, waiting for the last few members of the pack to join them outside "You should tell Britt"
"I know, I will tomorrow"
"You've been saying that every day for a week now"
"I know but I mean it this time, we've got another glee assignment so she's coming over tomorrow, I'll tell her then"
"We'll I'm going to Quinn's tomorrow after school, for the glee assignment too, but I won't be telling her"
"Rach you-" she was cut off before she could make another suggestion
"Let's go" On Rachel's command they all shifted and then they were off. They went to the closest wooded area to train; this would be their last outside training before the battle. Rachel had bought more meat to reward their hard work again and try to lighten the situation ever so slightly. Only she and Santana knew what she had seen in her most recent visions (which had stayed the same for the past 3 weeks).
The next morning at breakfast, Blaine and Kurt had left early to get breakfast on the way to school (Blaine and Sarah had recently been enrolled at McKinley) Sarah, Puck and Tina were in the front room ready to leave when Rachel was; she was in the kitchen washing up the cereal bowls. Santana approached with her finished bowl
"Here, I'll take that"
"Thanks" Santana was surprisingly quiet
"What's up?" Rachel turned her head to her friend concerned "Nervous?"
"I guess so, I don't know how she'll react you know? Anyway you've been avoiding talking to me, how are your visions?"
"More certain that that's the outcome" Tina, Puck and Sarah were listening in from the front room; they were desperate to find out what was wrong with their leader.
"Are you sure you're not just subconsciously willing yourself to see that as the outcome?"
"Maybe but I still believe it's the best we can hope for"
"Rachel, the past three weeks you've been depressed, we're are all worried about you. You need to stop talking like this; you're not going to die"
The three eavesdroppers in the front room simultaneously gasped and quickly made their way to the kitchen
"It's the best we can hope for!"
"Will you stop with that attitude; you're so frustrating!"
By now Puck, Tina and Sarah were in the kitchen. "Rach is it true?" Sarah spoke timidly. Rachel just nodded "It can't be there has to be another outcome"
"Of course there are other results! But this is the best, I can't let any of you die, I just can't, your my family and I love you all"
"Rachel your our leader and like you just pointed out, we're your family, you should have opened up to us" Tina added.
Rachel felt guilty and she started to well up, Puck walked over and embraced her in a big brother hug.
"We'll find a way Rach" he said kissing her the top of her head, the others joined in the hug surrounding her "We care too much about you to not fight this"
They pulled away
"But that's what this is, a fight, a battle. Those werewolves and other creatures are on their way and I won't let any of you get hurt by them when you've all got so much ahead of you"
"I don't"
"Why say that Sarah?"
"I'm the only one who hasn't found my mate and-"
"Meaning you're yet to find them" Rachel interrupted but spoke softly
"But you have Quinn or at least you would if you'd just tell her" Sarah spoke with a slight bossy tone mixed with a pissed off one.
"Don't bother Sarah, I've already tried" Santana interrupted
Rachel left the room shaking her head, not saying a word. She didn't want to talk now, it hurt too much.
Over at the Fabray household, two vampires were sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast, they really like cereal lately, rather than blood for breakfast.
"Where were you last night?" Sam broke the silence
"Why would you assume I wasn't here" Quinn replied
Sam pulled a face "I passed your room last night, you left the door open again, you weren't there and your window was open"
"Oh" was her only response as she ate another spoonful of whatever cereal she had chosen that morning.
"You wouldn't have been visiting a certain Rachel Berry, would you?" he said wiggling his eye brows, she slapped his upper arm "Ouch!"
"No! I just needed to fly, it helps me clear some thoughts from my head, it's so peaceful up there"
"You know it's dangerous, it wasn't even overcast last night, what if you'd been seen"
"Relax, no one saw me, besides I found out… there's werewolves in town"
"Are they a threat?"
"Are who a threat?" Brittany asked as she joined them in the kitchen, getting a bowl out of a cupboard.
"Werewolves" Sam answered
"Werewolves?" Brittany exclaimed
"Calm down, they're not a threat" Quinn answered quickly "they seem preoccupied… I could sense they are really powerful though"
"Doesn't that make them a threat?"
"Not really, not unless they find us and like i said they're distracted. Besides I know our races are arch enemies but there's kind of a silent truce at the moment- we don't tear each other to shreds unless we come face to face" she shrugged, then they were silent again. Brittany looked up from her bowl to see Quinn was staring into space
"What is it?" she broke Quinn from her trance
"It's just, they seem familiar, I just can't think"
They ended the conversation there and left for school.
The three vampires were greeted by none other than Karofsky and Azimio at their lockers, just like on their first day only this time it wasn't first thing in the morning, it was the beginning of lunch.
"Good morning triplets" Quinn rolled her eyes and turned to face the bully, the comment wasn't even insulting, they were like siblings and they were all blonde and the insult was very unimaginative. "I seem to recall I never did give you your welcome slushie" Azimio stood to the side his friend ready with two more cups one in each hand.
Karofsky pulled his arm back then forced it forward, Quinn watched in slow motion and the red icy drink stated to fly from the cup towards her, until out of nowhere a hand snatched the cup from the big ape's hand and in a circular motion, the cup recollected the released slushie mid-air. Not a drop was spilled. Everyone was astonished at the speed and precision in which Rachel had moved the cup.
Karofsky stepped back scared, maybe it was the speed of Rachel's reflexes or the angry look in her eyes, but he was genuinely terrified. Meanwhile Puck and Santana sauntered up behind and then past Azimio on each side of him, casually taking a cup from each of his hands.
Quinn was shocked and relived, but there was something on the tip of her tongue that would explain how Rachel was able to react so fast.
Rachel backed Karofsky up against the lockers on the opposite side of the corridor to where three shocked blondes still stood, holding the cup of slushie and boring her eyes into him.
"I thought, I Thought!" she got louder and more pissed off when she repeated, emphasising her anger by shaking her finger (it sounded childish but she made it intimidating "I told you they were off limits! Did you hear me say that?" She snapped. Karofsky nodded to confirm he heard her; he was shaking, actually shaking! "Well you couldn't have heard me very well… maybe a nice, icy cold slushy will refresh your senses" Without further warning she stepped back and flung the contents of the cup in his face.
Azimio tried to make a run for it, but Puck grabbed him by the back of his letterman jacket casing him to fall in a circular motion landing on his front. Santana and Puck then poured the contents of their cups teasingly slow onto the dazed boys head. The ice caused him to snap back to life and after 2 failed attempts to stand; he and Karofsky final made a humiliated run for it, leaving a lot of spectators in hysterics at the display.
The celebrations were short lived.
"Berry, Lopez, Puckerman, My Office Now!" Coach Sylvester's voice rang down the corridor. Puck hugged Tina and the three said a "see you later" to the blondes, before reluctantly making their way to the coach's office. Rachel looked at her companions before sighing and knocking on the door.
"Come in" was heard from inside the room, so they entered.
"Sit" she commanded
Rachel took the middle seat with Santana on her right and Puck on her left (just like it always was). The coach wore her glasses on the end of her nose looking through the papers on her desk.
Santana couldn't stand the uneasy silence so she broke it "Okay, I'm just going to go right ahead and say it: They started it!"
Sue removed her glasses placing them down on her desk and looked at the three in front of her. "Calm down Lopez, I merely wanted to inquire, how your training was going" They knew Sue was a werewolf but she had no idea she knew about their plans)
"Erm… it's going fine" Rachel was unsure of what else to say.
"What equipment do you have?"
"We have three piece werewolf armour, the kind that fits our human form too"
"So it's enchanted, good. I have these; I had them made a long time ago, for a certain 12 wolves" She handed them 12 hand sized boxes, each box contained a pair of gloves with metal clams on the end of each finger "When you shift they protect the pads of your paws and the metal claws reinforce your natural ones"
"Wow" Rachel tried one on and secured the fastening around her wrist the glove automatically changed to fit her hand perfectly "Thank you"
"As you can see they are enchanted too"
"You had 12 pairs made then, were these intended for the prophecy fulfillers?"
"Of course"
Rachel removed the glove shaking her head
"You still won't believe will you?"
"No, because it can't be possible, I don't feel deserving of the title for a start, maybe I did for a moment a few weeks ago, but now, I feel nothing"
"Rachel, do you even know the full prophecy?" Rachel shook her head accompanied by Santana and Puck. Sue let out a big sigh "ok each supernatural race has a prophecy and technically they all surround the same story, and they are all true. The werewolves' is perhaps the most important because it is the catalyst for all the others. It says a leader will rise, a "king of the werewolves" and they will bring peace between to rivalling species. They will have eleven followers and these eleven will be the new elder council, the original elders were elected when the species were evolved enough, that was about 450 years ago, our species has come a long way since then. The "king's" mate will be destined to fulfil the leadership prophecy of their species, even if they don't know it yet" she took a breath after her summary and looked at the three faces opposite, two were impressed at the older woman knowledge, but the one in the middle looked a little shocked and confused
"There's no way its' me, I can't do that, that means my mate won't be someone I love, it will be like an arranged mar-"
"Hold on Berry" sue then changed her tone to a softer one "I have no doubt in my mind, as a member of the, now former, werewolf elder council that you are the true leader and you will fulfil the prophecy" she switched her tone back to her 'normal' one "As for your mate, there was some namby pamby crap about true love… I normally start to feel sick around that point"
Rachel sat there brow furrowed processing what she'd just been told. None of the three sat in front of her knew Sue's history.
"So if we're a group of twelve are we unstoppable" Santana asked hoping that if they could find a final member Rachel's visions would change
"There were theories that when the twelve fight together they may individually be stronger and faster, I'm not entirely sure"
"And are the eleven specific wolves or just ones the King chooses" Puck inquired
"The eleven, are the first eleven that offer their lives (basically) to the king and have the king accept them"
"Then we're one short" Rachel finished
"You may wish to visit a certain Spanish teacher and glee club director"
"Mr Schue? How did we not already know, I'm getting really bad at being able to tell"
"Maybe you've been distracted lately but I doubt you could sense William, or I, you didn't know I was one until I told you. William and I have been put under protection making it difficult to sense us"
"He's a werewolf elder too?" Puck asked
"Not exactly, he was my body guard when the elder council were still in cahoots. That stopped about thirty years ago… The next thing I tell you is important and confidential. Understand?" the three franticly nodded
"The werewolf and vampire elder councils were discussing a treaty. There's already a silent understanding that unless we come face to face we don't destroy one another, meaning we don't seek each other out, so about thirty years ago we sensed the werewolf King had been born"
"But I'm just over eighty" Rachel interrupted
"That means you weren't ready until thirty years ago, you weren't chosen until then" Sue explained
"That could have been when we were ambushed by those outcast vampires in Florida" Santana pointed out "Rae you saved us, and you showed leadership, maybe it gave you a kick start"
"Anyway" Sue continued "We sensed the werewolf king was born and when we sensed you we could sense that your mate would be a vampire, so our two elder councils decided to meet; to set up a treaty and attempted to prepare what we could to assist you. But shortly after our first few meetings the vampire elders disappeared. We were sure, and still are sure, that they were murdered. We don't know who was responsible but it must have been someone who disagreed with what we hoped to accomplish" She sighed and lent back in her chair "You've got a tough road ahead of you kiddo"
"Why are you in Ohio then, as a cheerleading coach?"
"We had to go into hiding, myself and William chose America, and then chose hear hoping to find the king, we weren't wrong"
"Wait so I have to find my mate who's a vampire, bring our races together knowing there are going to be many who disagree with us and will want to murder us, rule the werewolves-"
"And vampires" Sue added "with your Queen"
"Okay rule the two races and that's all assuming I don't die in 3 days"
Sue went for a softer tone again "Rachel, sometime our visions just show us our fears, are you alone when you die in these visions?" she just nodded "It might just be a symbol, maybe you're just desperate to find your mate; you're desperate to not be alone"
Rachel let these thoughts sink in for a moment before quietly rambling out "I can't believe, it's someone I'm supposed to fall in love with when I thought I loved Quinn, I was sure it was Quinn"
"Are you blind?"
Rachel sat up straight, slightly startled "What?"
"You'd think when they sound similar, it would be so obvious" Sue said seemingly to no one.
"What?" the girl in the middle repeated
"Queen Quinn?"There was silence and Rachel furrowed her brow (again)
"But Quinn's human isn't she?"
"Ugh, just get out, maybe its right to say love is blind, or in your case it just blinds you. Go on, I'm sure you have various people to talk to, I'd start with William; let him know I release him of his duty to me. If you're absent, which I recommend so you can use the time more wisely, I will make sure your absences are excused…Now go!"
Any thoughts?
Was Sue disappointing? Or was it predictable?
Thanks for the reviews, adding it to favourites or alerting!
