Scott and Kira had arrived back at the house and collapsed on the bed still feeling the embarrassment burning in their cheeks from the final conversation they had with Deaton. He knew exactly what was happening in that building every time he left and she was there and he even caught them out on it, he explained it to them with a smile on his face and chuckle in his throat. They were just staring up at the ceiling trying to get their heads around the rest of the events of the night and all that had been said. At least now they knew what was going around stalking Jade and Deucalion and wanted to hurt them but did it really? Did the Manticore or whatever it was really want to hurt Jade? It seemed like a stupid question to ask but in a town like Beacon Hills no question is ever to stupid to be asked, sure it sliced her entire torso up and left her with little chance of survival but what if it was like a werewolves shift? What if it couldn't control its own actions when it shifted on certain occasions or maybe it just didn't have control, it hadn't been too long before that Liam didn't have proper control over his abilities but Scott had helped him through that because he couldn't really afford to have a wild beta going around hacking up peoples bodies, so was it that impossible that is just didn't have the control it needed yet and instead of approaching, talking to or watching Jade it let its rage take over and attacked her. Since a Manticore had emotional problems a rather like the Kanima then was it too hard to believe that it had unresolved issues with Jade but on the opposite side of the same coin, was it hard to believe something would attack for the pure adrenaline and thrill of killing a person? Either could have been right because neither of them were that unrealistic. He turned his head to look at the beautiful black head who was beside him just staring at him like he was at her and she sighed just tucking her head into his warm chest where she felt safe from the outside world and safe from any threats and to where she felt comfortable and it wasn't long before he was passed out in Scott's arms from tiredness but sleep was managing to allude Scott because he had a big decision coming up. If the beast was a problem then they would have to kill it and that was always something Scott was heavily against but if he had no other choice then that was the choice that would be made but if there was any other way around it then he would take it any day of the week because he never thought that killing something or someone was the way to solve all your supernatural problems, maybe if they could figure out what the creatures emotional drive and issues were they could help the creature, fix it and maybe it could live a normal life full of control like the rest of them. He had his arm draped over the small frame of the girl he loved in his room, just laying there as if nothing else in the world could affect them and at this point in time that's what Scott felt because they had been through so much shit over the past couple of years and at some stages there is just this period of time where everything can seem normal but it never lasts for too long but Scott was hoping it would just last till the end of the night because he was hoping to get a good sleep and he wanted Kira to get a good sleep because it was something they hadn't had much time for recently and they were both useless to the pack if they couldn't focus.

Scott tried his hardest to fall asleep so he lowered his face into Kira's hair taking in a deep breath and he could smell her, she smelt of jasmine and vanilla, a very soothing scent lucky enough for Scott because he slowly lulled himself to sleep with the use of the scent of his mate. Just knowing she was safe right beside him with his arms and body protecting her from the rest of the world made it easier to sleep sometimes but every now and then he needed something a little stronger to get to sleep which he could usually get through her scent. He could feel what she had been feeling before she went to sleep and it helped because it was usually about him. Carefully he lifted one of his legs and brought up the sheet around the two of them so they wouldn't get cold which rarely happened because of him being a werewolf and her a Kitsune but sometimes she would get cold and she would just snuggle more into Scott's core to feel warm and sometimes she would even just bury her head in the crook of his neck. After about an hour of lying there contemplating about the events of the day and about Kira he slowly began to fade away to sleep, he could feel the weight of his eyelids slowly taking over and before he knew it he was long gone.

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Malia woke up; splintering her eyes and battering her eye lids with her head perched on Stile's smooth neck. The sun was filtering in from the window and she was making an effort not to wake him up when she reached for the phone he had bought her but to no success. He stirred as he reached over him and picked up the iPhone from the bench and brought to her chest making a quiet sign because after sending a quick text and seeing the response (or not) she just wanted to go back to sleep and forget ever being awake because she was still most certainly tired and would give anything to go back to sleep but she had this feeling in her stomach like she wasn't going to get to sleep if she didn't ask about the creature, so she quickly opened her phone and sent a text to Scott about the creature.

Sorry for the early message but do you know what that creature is now?

She placed her phone back down on the table and saw Stile's phone sitting right beside hers. She knew he didn't keep it locked and he was asleep again so she tried to pick it up without being detected and she pulled it over to her chest. She wasn't looking for anything in particular but she just wanted to see what type of stuff Stiles had on his phone. She went into his messages and saw Scott at the top which wasn't that odd so she clicked on it to see that the conversation only had a couple of texts every now and then but had mostly pictures of Kira, Allison, Scott and Stiles in there she saw a couple of her recently which led her to wonder how many photos he did have of her. She didn't think he would have that many because of the problem with the flash but she expected him to have at least a few but to her surprise when she opened his photos it was full of pictures of her and other photos but mostly her which was the important thing. She decided that there was anything else on his phone that she wanted to see so she leant over him once again and quietly put the phone down. She returned her arms to draping over Stiles and just nuzzled his neck with her nose and began to fall back into a deep sleep which she didn't particularly want to wake up from but knew that eventually she was have to wake up and hopefully she'd wake up at the same time as Stiles the next time but as she felt herself falling asleep again (even though it was 9 am) he phone beeped and Stiles popped up as if been completely shocked and lent up in the bed before passing the phone to Malia. She opened it up and it had a response from Scott.

Yeah we found out that it's a creature called a Manticore but we'll talk about it later as a group okay?

Okay she sent back but she turned to Stiles.

"Good morning." He didn't seem very alert but he had the peace of mind to respond to her.

"Good morning, what was that about?" She wasn't sure if she should have left it to Scott to tell Stiles what it was but what was the danger in telling him?

"It was just a message from Scott saying they've figured out what the creature is; they said it's called a Manticore. I've never heard of it and he said we would all talk about it later." He nodded and she assumed that meant he knew nothing about the Manticore either so she just pressed her lips to his and put her hands on either sides of his face.

"What was that for?" She smiled and kissed him once more before pulling away slightly to give her the ability to respond properly.

"It's for all the pictures you have on your phone of me." He thought for a second before making a tisk tisk tisk noise with his tongue.

"You shouldn't have gone through my phone Malia." She shrugged and kissed him once again closing the space between them.

"Well then maybe you should lock it because you seem like you have something to hide, especially those messages you sent to Allison, some of them were pretty explicit and I bet Scott would be interested to find out about them." Stiles just laughed.

"They were from Scott not me because they weren't allowed to be together at that time." He looked a little worried when he tried to explain awkward situations. She placed her hands on either side of his face again.

"I know, don't look so worried but at least we know what a dirty mind he has." Stiles smirked.

"I was mentally disturbed when I read through all the messages he sent to her on my phone and I saw one thing that has scarred my mind ever since I saw it." She looked at him with this pleading look.

"What was it? I didn't see anything that scarring." He just smiled and looked deeply at her.

"That's because I deleted it, it was a picture of . . ."

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Kiara was in the basement that came with the apartment with Chris, he was showing her all the weapons they had and told her to select a few, at least one ranged but he particularly wanted her to select one that she wanted to master and have as her main training weapon. She was walking around the room and she was looking at all of the ranged weapons none of them attracted her as one she really wanted to use but she chose the crossbow as the ranged weapon she wanted to learn to use but then she moved over to all the knives and other weapons and she saw a particularly glimmering set of knives in the corner. She didn't know why but she felt attracted to them, they were a pair of ancient Japanese ring daggers.

"Interesting choice." She heard Chris say from behind her. "Allison learnt how to use them well but since she chose the bow because she was a natural marksman she didn't bother to master the use of them but they are extremely deadly and one of the hardest weapons to master. Even for the training Allison did with them her hands got so raw and she was in pain but he never gave up until she knew how to at least use them with some proficiency." She picked them up and felt them in her palms they were heavy, sharp (no shit they were knives) but they had this aura about them. She swung the around with the utmost amount of control which made Chris peer at her with caution because nobody just knew how to use the ring daggers like that because they were very hard to learn. She had this feeling deep inside to throw them at something and at the end of the hallway she saw a target and with the utmost amount of grace and technique she hurled them down the hallway one by one and as they reached the end of the hallway one hit the head and the other hit the groin. She was dead certain they were going to hit in the middle but they didn't. That would have been way too easy and she didn't want this to be easy she wanted it to be challenging.

"Well although they didn't hit the exact right places that was pretty good technique for someone who has never been taught how to use them before." Maybe it was mean to be. It sounded corny and like a bad joke since she was talking about knives but she meant it because from the moment she saw them she had been enamoured by their beauty and she wasn't quite sure what it was about them but she just wanted to use them.

"Well I think I've found what I want to learn how to use properly." She turned to face Chris who was now pulling the knives out of the target and he had a grin on his face.

"I can teach you the crossbow but I think you should go to Mrs. Yukimura for training with the knives, I mean I can teach you the basics and how to use them like Allison did and then I think you should go to Kira's mum because she probably knows a lot more about it than I do and having someone with more experience train you is never a bad thing." She thought about it and for a second she couldn't wait to learn how to use them properly.

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Lydia was applying her latest round of makeup when she heard the doorbell go off. She rushed down the stairs and to the door which she opened quickly to see Isaac standing there. She greeted him and pulled him inside of the house before they settled down on the couch together and that was hen Isaac noticed she had put on fresh makeup on.

"Lydia did you really put on fresh makeup when you're not even going outside because no one will see what you look like when you're inside your own house so there's not that much point." She waited for him to understand why she had done it because he was right, no one else would see her makeup but he would and she always wanted to look her best for him even though she had been backing away from using her makeup recently. "You did it for me didn't you?" She nodded her head moving ever so slightly over to him and pressed her bright lips against his, completely opposing the colour of his pale skin. They were sitting there tied up in their own intimacy for about 10 minutes getting more and more into it when her phone went off in her pocket. She pulled away and answered her phone.

"Lydia speaking."

"Hey Lydia it's Scott, we all need to talk and plan ahead because we now know what is going around hurting people."

"Really what is it?"

"A Manticore she heard faintly in the background which she already knew was Kira, she sounded like she did when she had her head buried in a book and this was probably a good time to have her head in a book because going up against an enemy you know nothing about was never that fun. Even the Kanima had enough information on it for them to figure out how to save Jackson and if it was anywhere then it would be in the Beastiary.

"Well I'll have a look through the Beastiary in case there's something in there about the Manticore, but did Deaton say anything about it?"

"Not really, all he said was some stuff about the Argents possibly not knowing anything about it because it was a pretty rare creature because something amazingly bad has to happen for you to turn into that, he did say it was an emotional thing like Jackson but he said it would be a little more severe so if you find anything please tell us because I feel like we're blind on this and I have no idea what to do."

"Will do, see you later Scott." She hung up and immediately moved off of the couch to grab a paper copy of the Beastiary that she had made. She quickly scanned through it finding nothing of use but actually searching through the Beastiary would take ages to look through properly but that was time she didn't have at the moment so she chucked the book at the desk before laying down laying her strawberry blonde hair out on Isaac's lap as she just looked up at him, he smiled at her and she reciprocated the action before pushing herself off the couch and began to storm out of the door with Isaac hot on her heels.

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At this point everyone was on their way to Scott's house to figure out what to do with the immediate issue. Kira and Scott had found a plethora of online sources and one particular book to bury their heads in while they waited but they were finding nothing of use to them. Nothing was telling them how to turn it back so they just had to assume that it was the same as the Kanima and they just had to solve its emotional issues and then everything would go back to normal but Scott highly doubted that it would be as smooth as that because nothing was ever that easy.

"Scott come look at this." Kira called and he slowly paced across the room to the girl with her head buried deep in a book.

"What is it?"

"Read this." She pointed to a section in the book.

"The Manticore is a creature of emotional issues and often is resulted from being killed by a supernatural under awful circumstances." Scott looked up at her and shrugged a little. "What is it?"

"Remember what Jade said? How her family had been murdered when he met Deucalion? What if it has something to do with her past like her parents or a sibling?"

"Yeah I remember it but this says that it's practically a dead person who disappears as soon as the issue is dealt with."

"We've seen weirder and you shouldn't see the concept of seeing a dead person so foreign because you recently spoke to your dead ex girlfriend." He couldn't argue with her because she was right. They had seen weirder and he had recently spoken to Allison which people don't experience too often.

"So what are we going to do about this?" Scott thought for a second before placing a kiss on her forehead.

"We'll tell everyone about it and decide together and there's no point hiding it from Jade because we will need her if it is what we think it is. Did I mention how perfect you are?" She couldn't help but let his infectious grin leech onto her face and then she giggled a little.

"No."

"Well in any case I think you are the most beautiful, intelligent and helpful person I've ever met." She just stared up at him for a second.

"I love you to Scott." It was at that moment that they heard the knocks on the door and everyone began to file in, it as beginning and however this ended would change the dynamics of the group and especially the newcomers. Scott could see Kiara coming and she looked happy and then he looked up and saw Jade walking down the stairs. It amazed Scott how much their little pack had grown and all the new faces in the group but now was time to get down to business, what was their plan going to be?

AUTHORS NOTES

Hey Guys!
I hope you enjoyed the chapter and the one I uploaded on Friday. Just to make sure you guys know that was supposed to go up on Monday but it didn't work and I didn't notice until Friday so I posted it then and I hope you enjoyed that chapter but don't be expecting 2 chapters a week that often and especially not until Finals are over. I want to know what you guys are feeling about the story and the easiest way to know what you guys are thinking is via reviews. This story is slowly suffering away from a lowered audience base which is leading me to think that this story will probably end at 40 or 50 chapters but if you want it to go longer you guys are going to have to give me a reason to continue. I just want you guys to know that I do appreciate the continuous support because it does make it easier to take 2 hours out of my day to sit and write (which is great for me) but it's even better when I know you guys are enjoying it as well. Hope you enjoyed!

P.S If I have some spare time in the week I might work on some little one shots depending on how I feel