A/N: I'd like to just say thanks for the reviews as always and also that the finale was pretty amazing. I really enjoyed it and can't wait for the new season so now fanfics will have to do for me since PLL is ending soon and TVD doesn't start back until October. Anyways here's chapter twenty-one!

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: ROYAL BATTLES

As Melissa's piercing screams continued to echo throughout the corridors of the hospital wing the group was in, arrows and bullets were flying in through the now broken windows. Danny rushed over to protect Lydia who was the only other human besides Stiles and Allison. Scott's instinct to protect both his mother and Allison kicked in and he shielded them from the oncoming onslaught of bullets and arrowheads with explosive tips.

Several explosions were rocking this particular wing of the hospital. Glass was shattered and several patients and their visitors were screaming out and running around in peril unsure of what to do. Derek attempted to calm them all down and keep them safe, but like anyone would be they were inconsolable from the warfare that was erupting around them.

Stiles couldn't move from his hospital bed, but Jackson remained next to him guarding him from taking any more damage to his body. Jackson had now completely shifted into the Kanima for everyone and anyone to see, but protecting Stiles was way more important than keeping his identity a secret. He had to protect the one he loved.

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Gerard and his fellow hunters continued their onslaught well up to ten minutes when they finally decided to go inside the hospital and check on the pack themselves. Bullet holes riddled the walls and there were arrows stuck all over the hospital. Ashes and black spots from the explosions were smeared all around from some of the human casualties from within the hospital. No one was safe from this completely uncalled for and unneeded bloodshed the hunters had erupted upon the innocent patients at the hospital.

The hunters continued to make their way through the damaged wing when they were met with a death glare from Danny who was still trying to protect a shaken Lydia. She told him to not do anything he would regret, but in the heat of the moment Danny rushed towards the hunters resulting in an arrow being lodged into the right side of chest and him being shocked and knocked to the ground by the electric currents zooming through his body.

As Lydia screamed out in horror, the hunters continued to make their way through the wing where they next encountered Scott who was hovering around Melissa and Allison on instinct. He was trying to protect them in the same way Danny was protecting Lydia. They were humans and they didn't deserve to be hurt for being innocent bystanders.

Melissa was cowering in the corner of the operating room they were standing in, but Allison who hated to feel weak was attempting to do something, but there still wasn't much she could do. Scott lunged and was able to take down one of the hunters and incapacitate him by clawing his ankles and rendering him unconscious with the hard fall to the ground. He too received arrows in his chest as Melissa and Allison rushed to his side.

The hunters continued on their way and next faced Derek. Derek was their toughest challenge yet. He actually killed two of the hunters with his Alpha abilities and claws and littered blood all over the remaining three hunters with Gerard. Gerard called out to take him down and three arrows ripped into his chest finally subduing the angry Alpha werewolf.

Now they were close to their actual target with just two men dead and one down. Jackson heard them coming and prepped himself into a battle stance while hiding Stiles from plain sight in the bathroom and locking the door from the outside the best he could with wood and claws.

Gerard had the hunters fire blindly with their guns into the room which Jackson had been counting on so he was able to dodge all of their bullets and play dead on the floors of the broken down hospital room. Gerard fell for the ploy and sent one of his hunters to get the body. The hunter did as instructed but his heart was pierced with claws as he walked down towards Jackson and now only two hunters were left in the wing. Gerard's obvious anger erupted as he commanded the last two to stop Jackson permanently.

The hunters rushed to help out their dying friend, but it was useless. The hunter died and Jackson threw his body towards one of the others who let his guard down at seeing his downed friend letting Jackson's inner Kanima take over and slash into his sides before releasing his body out the window where he hit the ground a good five stories below. The other hunter was now basically scared shitless and started to cower away, but Jackson's inner Kanima wasn't going to let him get away that easily.

He had hurt too many innocent people, he would have to pay for what he had done. He pierced the man's heart from behind and threw his body onto the old man that had once controlled him. The final battle was close at hand, and Gerard had no one left in his corner or so they thought.