Author's Note R.I.P. Cory Monteith, who portrayed Finn Hudson on Glee since it began in 2009 till 2013. An anmazing singer and an amazing actor, it's tragic that he lost his life at the age of 31 and he will be sincerely missed by his fans and loved ones.

My thoughts and prays are with the people who knew him best: his family, friends, his fiance Lea Michele and his co-stars on Glee

I know this isn't a Glee Fanfic, but I wanted to show my respect (I was a huge fan of the show and I loved how the show was a musical and also something that related to teenagers and young adults)

Hope you enjoy this chapter :)

Chapter Twenty

Scarlett

I pulled the arrow into the bow and prepared to shoot the target that was at the end of the clearing, focusing on the bull's-eye. The early morning sun was filling the forest clearing with an orange glow and the autumn breeze bit at my skin, but I ignored it and kept my focus.

Allison had agreed to train me in self defence and this was something that I needed, I didn't want to feel like I needed to be rescue… I wanted to fight back. My father nearly killed me, I was never going to be put in that situation again and I needed to be stronger.

Alison had taught me basic defence and I was starting to get some good combat moves learnt and now it was fighting with weapons.

After two hours of fighting with a dagger and learning how to disarm and defend myself against Allison's crazy-kick-arse moves, which made me feel like I was going to collapse but I powered through and disarmed Allison several times.

Now the bow.

I tried not to imagine myself as Susan from The Chronicles of Narnia, but holding the bow felt right in my hands and it made me feel confident.

TWANG!

The arrow soared through the air and hit the target, but it was nowhere near the middle and I groaned in frustration.

"That was good," Allison encouraged, but I shook my head.

"I can't concentrate!" I muttered bitterly, but Allison walked over and took the bow and quiver away from me with a reassuring smile.

"You nearly died last night and your Uncle is missing," Allison said and I crossed my arms over my chest, feeling like I could keep the sickening feeling away if I could hold myself together. Mason had been missing and Derek had not been able to find him, which meant that the worst possible situations were going around in my head. Where was he?

If Harrison had hurt him, I would kill him! I wasn't going to lose anymore family.

I shook my head, gritting my teeth and taking the bow and quiver from Allison and lining the arrow into the bow.

I was going to show those hunters, alpha and every supernatural monster that wanted to hurt me what I was truly made of. Scarlett Gilbert was not going to be the victim anymore!

TWANG!

My face broke into a grin as my arrow soared into the middle of the target, but I still had twelve arrows to go and I sure as hell was going to make sure that the others were going to join the first.

We trained well into the afternoon, till the point where I was exhausted and covered in sweat that I particularly threw myself onto the camp bed set up in Lydia's bedroom and closed my eyes… I was totally ready for sleep.

"GOD, YOU SMELL!" Lydia said loudly and I blearily opened one eye to see Lydia frowning at me, but I ignored the insult. I'd had worst and I was too worn out to think of a sarcastic comeback, so I just shrugged and closed my eyes again.

"What do you want?" I asked quietly, still keeping my eyes closed and not really interested in what she had to say.

"Danny's awake."

And just like that, my eyes flew open and I sat bolt up right. My tiredness gone, I stared at Lydia with wide eyes and feeling slightly shocked that no one had mentioned this earlier.

"Is he okay?"

"He's fine," Lydia said simply, shrugging and looking completely uninterested "Boyd is on his way to see him now."

Boyd? That reminded me, I needed to see what was going on between him and my best friend and find out if Danny and Boyd's relationship was more than a bromance.

I stood up and went to walk out the door, but Lydia grabbed my arm and rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"Take a shower first," Lydia sighed in annoyance "I'm not having you leaving this house and having the whole town think my family live like hobos!"

If I didn't know Lydia better, I would have thought she was incredibly shallow and not paid the blindest bit of attention to her. However, Lydia was really smart and a really deep person and I knew she had a point.

I kind of stunk.

I grabbed my shower stuff and a clean change of clothes and headed to the bathroom, locking the door behind me.

Before I could do anything else, my phone rang and I saw Derek's number glowing on the screen.

"Hey, stranger" I said with a grin, sitting on the side of the bath.

"How was training?" Derek asked and I could tell he was smirking.

"Long," I sighed and I heard him chuckling "I'm all sweating and I stink, I was actually going to get in the shower?"

"Oh, there's an idea," Derek said in his flirtatious voice that was sexy in a husky manly way "want me to join you? I can be over in ten minutes if I run fast, less if I use my wolf speed."

I rolled my eyes and laughed silently, knowing that he was actually being serious. Okay, trying not to imagine Derek in the shower was difficult and I'm proud to say I managed it. I did smirk as I decided that teasing Derek would be much better.

"I think I'm good here," I said with a grin when I heard him sigh with disappointment "but thanks for the offer"

"God, you're such a tease" Derek sighed, but I could tell he was grinning.

"I'm hard to get," I corrected firmly and he laughed.

"Yeah, you are" Derek said deeply and it made me blush at how sexy he sounded "and you're worth the chase, Scar… that's why I love you."

"Love you too," I said softly, but was interrupted by a loud knocking on the door.

"WILL YOU QUIT THE PHONE SEX?" Lydia called through the door "WE'RE MEANT TO BE LEAVING SOON, HURRY UP!"

After Derek and I hastily said our goodbyes, I stepped into the shower and let the warm water wash over me and feeling relived that in all this drama things were starting to look up.

Isaac

I stopped when I saw the pack huddled around the front porch and stared in horror when I saw the thing that was hung on the wall in front of eyes.

Jackson's head was suspended on the wall, his eyes blank and unseeing. His severed neck bloody and dripping a pool of red liquid on the floor.

I felt like I was going to be sick and looked at each of my pack members, who either looked tearful, sickened or furious.

Someone on the door caught my eye and I saw written in what could only be Jackson's blood the words: Bellum adventu

"What does that mean?" Erica asked, her usual confidence replaced by fear.

"War is coming." Derek explained grimly and I knew what that really meant.

The Hunters were after blood and so were the Alphas, which meant we're screwed.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading and you're more than welcome to leave a review, it's always great to hear what you guys think.

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