Preparations

A/N: I'm not sure as I'm writing this whether I'm going to get done when I said I would or not. ^^"

To the story!

Ulrich sat on his bed and waited for the others to get to their room. He knew that at least Odd would come here eventually before the sun set. He needed to make sure that someone was prepared to fight William. He'd been given his freedom from William that morning, but he wasn't going to waste that by running away with his tail in between his legs. He was going to fight with every last ounce of his being. This had all started due to him and he was going to end it no matter what. No one was going to get hurt on his account.

"Jeremie, do you think that William's got Ulrich scared?" he heard Odd ask from somewhere nearby, behind the door.

"I think there's something going on between those two that we're not being told and we need to know it now, so when we do find Ulrich we need to ask," Jeremie stated as the door began to open.

Ulrich felt the urge to slam himself against the door and hold it shut until the two went away, but he needed to face them.

"Ulrich!" Odd exclaimed after he'd fully opened the door.

"Where've you been?" Jeremie asked, stepping up beside Odd, clear suspicion written on his face.

Ulrich motioned for the two to sit down and once they'd all gotten situated with the door shut he began to explain the events that had transpired the night before and what William and his mother had told him. "According to my mom I shouldn't transform at all right now so I can't really be of any help. My dad is one of the top pack leaders and I think there's a pack of adults around here close by that could get here and help out, not to mention that Leona is here."

"Yeah, we can find her while you call your dad and then call Jeremie's phone when you get done talking to him and we'll figure out somewhere to meet up. We need to try and get some more people on our side. I think that if we tell Yumi that she might be willing to talk to some of the other creatures and get them to help us stop William and his pack," Jeremie stated as he stood.

"I'll be asking my dad if he knows of any way that I could still fight. I've got a score to settle with William and the other werewolves are going to be hard to fight even if you're a Hunter. You don't have any formal training as a Hunter, Jeremie, so you probably won't be much help in a battle. I was thinking we could try to gather up walkie-talkies so that we can all communicate during the battle because the werewolves will be communicating by howling. If I can't fight then I can stay back with you and protect you while I translate the howls for you guys so you know what they're saying," Ulrich told them quickly, standing up with Odd.

"That'll work," Jeremie agreed, nodding and then leaving the room.

"He's in a bad mood today, Ulrich. Don't take it personally," Odd muttered as he followed Jeremie out the door.

-Leona-

She sat in a tree and looked up at the sky. She knew that there was something going on here and that's why she was sent here. Not to see Ulrich. If she'd been sent here to see Ulrich, then he would've known that she was coming and not acted the way that he did. He really did seem to shudder away from being surprised ever since what his dad did to him.

Leona hated herself for that. Ulrich knew that she knew that it was going to happen. He'd held a grudge against her ever since. She couldn't help but wonder as she sat in the tree what would have happened if she'd told Ulrich and his mother what his dad had been planning. Would Ulrich be a werewolf right now? She doubted it. Then the killing of innocent students might not be going on.

"Leona!" someone yelled to her, making her nearly fall from the tree.

She turned around to see that William boy waving in her direction. Turning her head away from him, she continued to look up at the clouds, ignoring his existence.

"Leona, I know you think that you're better than me and all that, but would you be willing to help me?" he asked, looking up toward her with a pleading smile.

"Why should I help you when all you wish to do is hurt Ulrich? I don't understand you. You pretend like you want Ulrich in your pack and then you go and tell him he can leave? I was watching last night as you both were fighting and he wasn't giving it his all or else you wouldn't have won and you know that," she told him, not bothering to even look in his direction.

"It's all part of my master strategy, Leona. You see, if I let him go then he might actually start to think that I'm a decent person and that I've got a point. Don't you see? We have to hide out here at Kadic because our parents are afraid that actual Hunters are going to try and kill us if we're anywhere else. Werewolves and all the other races are discriminated against and I'm sick and tired of it," William told her, placing his hands on his hips.

"I understand, but you're going about it the wrong way. You're just going to end up getting yourself killed and I'm not going to shed a single tear when you do. I thought that Ulrich might have finished you off that night that you attacked Aelita, but you're lucky that he's nice and you took advantage of that. You're no longer the boy that I knew when we were kids, William. And I refuse to be that impressionable little girl that you made me out to be," she stated, jumping from the tree. "If you think for even one second that I'm going to kill a human just to prove a point then you don't know me at all. I'd rather skin myself alive then kill someone."

William bit back a nasty remark as she walked off.

-Ulrich-

"There's nothing that I can do, Odd, so I'll stick around with Jeremie. I'll call Leona since you haven't found her and we all can meet up in Jer's room. We've still got until sundown and that's in more than six hours, so we definitely have time," Ulrich told Odd over the phone after he'd gotten done talking to his dad. "I need to stop by Delmas's office and tell him that some of the adult werewolves are going to be coming and so he needs to lower the school's defenses against them."

"Done," Odd stated as Ulrich heard a door close.

"You were in Delmas's office?" Ulrich asked, walking toward the door.

"Yeah, Yumi and Aelita wanted Jer and I there to help explain. Anyway, tell Leona that we're all meeting in Jeremie's room."

"Yup, see ya," Ulrich said before hanging up and then dialing Leona's number. When she picked up he said, "Hey, meet me in Jeremie's room, okay? We've got something important to talk about."

A/N: o.o …. That is the fastest that I've ever written a chapter EVER. =D Half an hour. XD Or somewhere close to that. XD I'm proud of myself. =3 I'm going to make an effort to try and update every other day at least. At most I'll update once a week.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: After this story is finished I'll be going on a short hiatus from multi-chaptered stories to try and get the creative juices flowing again. =3 I'll be doing one-shots (which you should check out 'Rain' and 'Shattered' when you get the chance) during that time and they'll come out at random intervals. =3

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~MoonlitxAngel