10-Prepare for Battle

Courtney stood in front of her friend, the letter in her shaky hands, nervously reading out the words that Heather had written.

"Dear the Skank who chose the losers over moi! I must inform you that the academy that you blew off is in training. Not the kind of training that you were doing, training for war. That's right, Trackers and freaks are going to war, so w can end this once and for all. I told you, Courtney Black, you have not heard the last of me. And now, I will be the one to finish you off! You can tell your loser friends to start packing because they should know the trackers will win the battle and put the freaks back into their rightful place THE GRAVEYARD! Your powers are no match for ours. Yours sincerely Heather George P.S The real Courtney Black is not proud of you." Scoffs, gasps and whispers of horror crept over the once silent group of teenagers. Courtney sat down by Duncan and he placed his arm around her. She needed all the comforting she could get.

"What does she mean 'the real Courtney Black'?" Trent asked, pondering over the letter. Courtney wiped her eyes from the forming tears.

"She means my mom." She told him with a sniffle.

"You know that's not true." Duncan pulled her tighter to his body.

"Court, your mom is proud of you no matter what." Bridgette placed a friendly hand on her best friends arm, but Courtney jumped up from her spot and faced all of the group.

"MY MOTHER'S DEAD!" She yelled, tears falling form her eyes and down onto her clothes.

"Doesn't matter." Geoff said, "She's still proud of you." Courtney took a seat back by Duncan.

"I don't think she is," she told Geoff, "and I don't care if she isn't proud of me or not. This is my life I'll live it the way I want to." She gave a successful nod at her friends before an idea formed in her head. "And right now I'm gonna start training for a war." A smile broke through the sadness and tears, "Let's kick some tracker butt!"

At the back of Scarlatina, behind the palace, there was nothing but open fields. Grassy area covered for miles and miles. It was the perfect place for them to all start training. Izzy tagged along, wanting to kick some Tracker butt herself. The crazy girl was helping Courtney exercise her powers.

"Okay, Courtney, all you have to do is shoot the targets." Izzy pointed behind her to three floating targets she had set up. The brunette stared dumbfound at the targets.

"With what?" She asked, unsure of how she was supposed to hit the targets.

"YOUR POWERS!" Izzy yelled back as if it was obvious, which it was.

"What powers?" Courtney whined. The sorcerer didn't know her true potential when it came to her powers. Every time she tried to do something it ended in disaster.

"You're a sorcerer, you have AMAZING POWERS!"

"But I don't know how to use them." Courtney confessed.

"You'll find a way." Izzy smirked at Courtney before taking a seat on the floor with Trent. He'd been watching Courtney attempting to test out her powers for hours and was enjoying every minute of it. She was fun to watch, especially when the former CIT failed.

"Let's see what you can do." Courtney was talking to her upturned hands. She brought her palms up to face the targets and spun them around in a circle. Nothing happened. Izzy burst out laughing, rolling around on the floor she couldn;t control herself.

"You have to really concentrate." Trent encouraged.

"I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY THIS!" Courtney snapped. She hated people being sarky around her, especially when she was trying her best, and failing at that.

"I'm a werewolf, unless you want me to bite the targets, I'm not much use." Trent smirked back at the brunette. Izzy finally sat up, wiping tears from her eyes.

"Just picture what you want to happen." She explained to Courtney. Courtney turned back to the targets and focused her mind on it.

"Does that really work?" Trent whispered to Izzy.

"Nope, but I wanna see how she's gonna screw this up."

Courtney placed her palms in the air, facing the target she wanted to shoot down, and concentrated purely on what she wanted to happen. The next thing she knew water was shooting out of her hands and at the targets.

Duncan had been watching from across the field. Him and Gwen had been fighting against each other for practice. Gwen had won. Duncan was too busy watching his girlfriend attempt to attack a few floating targets. In the end he ran up up to her with his vampire running skills.

"BOO!" He screamed in her ear. Courtney jumped ff her feet and spun round to face Duncan. However, she still had running water coming from her hands, so her boyfriend got completely soaked. Duncan was facing the floor, but his eyes were looking up at Courtney.

"Oh, that's it." He told her, before tackling her fragile body to the ground.

The two were wrestling on the floor, trying to pin each other down for at least ten minutes before Duncan won.

"Get off me!" Courtney tried to yell, but she was laughing too much. Duncan, laughing himself, got up off the floor and held a hand out to his girlfriend.

"Why'd you soak me?" He asked. She grabbed his hand with a friendly smile, but it soon turned vicious as she pulled him back down to the floor.

"I'm practicing." She told him, but Duncan was too concerned about the fact he was back on the floor. He turned to Courtney with playfulness in his eyes.

"So, it's gonna be like that, is it?" He asked teasingly. Before they knew it, they were wrestling again. And, being watched from the sidelines by Trent and Izzy, who had somehow got them popcorn for the show.

A/N: Ending was kind of random and rushed because I'm tired!

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