A/N: Maddy, Rhydian and Jana have run away, if that isn't clear. Please review!


Shannon woke up to the sound of Mr. Jeffries and Miss. Graham shouting for the students to get up. She groaned, wishing that she could just sleep in for once. Shannon rolled grumpily over, trying to position herself so she was comfy. Then she realised. Maddy wasn't there. Shannon sat up, her red hair a mess. It was a small tent -it would have been obvious if Maddy was there, despite the blurriness that came whenever Shannon's glasses were off. At first, she wondered if Maddy was merely late from coming back from the woods, since last night had been a full moon, but ruled that out, since she knew the moon had well sunk below the horizon by 6.30. Shannon snatched up her glasses, and immediately the blurriness was gone. There was nothing to suggest Maddy had come back in the middle of the night, either. And, She realised with a jolt, neither has Jana. Neither Maddy or Jana have come back. Instantly she knew something was very wrong. Shannon dressed hurriedly, grabbed her rucksack and practically ran out the tent, straight into Miss. Graham.

"Shannon?" the sports teacher asked.

"Yes, Miss?" Shannon replied, moulding her face into what she hoped was a convincing smile, and not complete and utter panic.

"Where's Maddy and Jana? I thought they would be up by now."

I thought they would be back by now. Shannon thought.

"They're just getting dressed." She said casually.

Miss Graham nodded and walked on. Shannon wiped the fake smile off her face, thinking. I need to find Tom, and I need to find him now. Shannon sprinted over to the boys tents, where Tom was already up and looking incredibly worried. He saw her and walked over.

"Have you seen Rhydian?" He asked, keeping his voice low. Mr. Jeffries had just passed by.

"No." Shannon replied, "and I haven't seen Maddy or Jana either. They can't have gone to the loo, since it would have been obvious if they had come in."

Tom's frown deepened.

"I'm grabbing my phone." He said, running back to the tent. He came out a few seconds later, with it in his hand. "Nothing." Tom said in response to Shannon's panicked look.

"They had their phones." She cursed herself for allowing her voice to break slightly, for the fear to creep in. "Why didn't they text?"

Tom looked over her shoulder and his eyes widened.

"Oh no. Oh no."

"What?" Shannon spun around. Jimi, Sam and Liam were walking out of their tent, a triumphant look on their faces and a phone in Jimi's hand. Something clicked in Shannon's brain, and she experienced the terrifying sensation of realising exactly why 3 of her friends were missing.

"Oh no…" she whispered and was about to walk over to Jimi when Tom grabbed her by the elbow.

"Don't." Tom said urgently, "You don't know if they actually have any evidence of Maddy being a Wolfblood. If you go over there it might just raise their suspicions. We don't even know if they have anything to do with Maddy, Rhydian and Jana's disappearances."

"Oh, and what's the chances of that?" Shannon retorted, feeling anger flow through her veins. "Liam's been on Maddy's case since Aern's Hollow." She yanked her elbow from Tom's grip and stalked off, her hands clenched into fists. The three boys saw her immediately, identical grins spreading over their faces. Jimi held the phone over his head tauntingly.

"You worried about your friends?" he asked as Sam smirked.

"What did you do?" Shannon said angrily, and it took all her energy not to shout.

"We know what they are." Said Liam, and there was an almost wary look on his face. "We know what your friends are, and we have proof."

"They're my friends!"

"They're werewolves." Liam's voice was filled with disgust. "That's why you stopped talking about your beast. You realised, didn't you?"

Shannon paused, momentarily dumbfounded by how much Liam had concluded.

"There not werewolves." She said at last. It was true, anyway.

"They're not humans, though. What else would you call someone who turned into a wolf every full moon?"

Shannon decided that she needed to try another tactic.

"Seriously, were you guys dropped on the head as babies?" she asked, glaring around at the three of them. Jimi shrugged, still grinning. "It's not even scientifically possible, let alone remotely plausible." She scoffed. "How're you going to look when you accuse your classmates of being non-human, let alone werewolves?"

Liam raised his voice.

"Stop defending them, Shannon! They're not human and they're not an animal, either! They're monsters!"

That does it! She thought angrily.

"No they're not!" Shannon shouted, completely beyond any point of reason now. "And they don't deserve to be treated as such! How would you like to be hunted down?!"

"Monsters, Shannon, and you know it!"

Shannon lunged for Liam, furious. Blood was pounding in her ears, it didn't matter about the amount of detentions she would get for it. He had no right to talk about Maddy, Rhydian or Jana like that!

"Enough!" Mr Jeffries wrenched Shannon away, and she fell backwards, landing in the leaves. Her rucksack went flying several metres away and ankle twisted painfully. Mr Jeffries stood in between her and an angry Liam. "What is this about?!" Neither of them said anything. Jimi stepped forwards instead, holding out a phone.

"No!" Shannon shouted, but the video was already playing and her ankle hurt too much to stand on at the moment. Mr Jeffries eyes widened.

"W-what?" he asked, and Shannon would have pitied him, had the situation not been so dire.

"Sir." She said cautiously, "Sir, I can explain-"

Liam butted in.

"They're werewolves, Sir. They're dangerous."

"I-I don't understand-"

"They're dangerous, Sir. One nearly tore Jimi's hand of, didn't it? They could attack a fellow student at any time!"

Poor Mr. Jeffries looked completely confused.

"They're not dangerous!" cried Shannon desperately. "They're not monsters! Please, Sir-!"

Jeffries turned around.

"I need to think." He said, sticking his head in his hands. "And I'm confiscating that phone. Yours too, Shannon."

"Sir!" Jimi and Shannon yelled out in unison.

"PHONE!" He yelled, and Shannon stood up, reluctantly taking her phone out of her pocket. Jimi did the same. Mr. Jeffries took them.

"Does Tom know about this?" He asked, his voice low. Jimi nodded, and Shannon cursed Liam, Sam and Jimi under all the swear-words imaginable.

"They're not dangerous! They're normal students! Please-" Shannon said, trying to be calm and failing miserably.

"I NEED TO THINK!" Mr. Jeffries screamed, and he looked positively demonic. Half the class turned to look as he strode off, demanding Tom to hand in his phone. The three boys ran back to their tent as Tom came up to Shannon.

"What happened?" he whispered. Shannon filled him in, feeling as though she had just swallowed a large bucket of very cold water. When she had finished, Tom looked how she felt. Shannon grabbed her rucksack from the ground, feeling its usual heavy weight in her hands.

"I'm going to kill that Liam-"

"Don't, Tom. I mean it." She gave a shaky laugh. "Mr. Jeffries has Jimi's phone, and the proof on it. If Jeffries doesn't share it, if he keeps the secret, then Liam's got nothing on Maddy, Rhydian or Jana. No doubt they've run, anyway. They'll be safe."

"If Jeffries keeps the secret, though… We need to find them. They can't be heading back to Stonybridge-"

"since there's too many humans." Shannon felt her usual detective instinct kicking in, but it did nothing to soothe her fear. "They might just end up hiding in the woods…"

"Nah." Tom said, shaking his head. "They know Liam is after them…" Shannon furrowed her eyebrows, thinking. Inspiration struck her.

"Jana!" she cried. "Jana's pack! Where's the safest, closest pack that we know of?" She asked, and could see understanding dawn in Tom's eyes.

"Jana is with them, so she'd know where it is…Didn't Rhydian say it was in the nor-" Tom was cut off suddenly by a series of pinging noises. Shannon felt her stomach drop to the ground and everything seemed very faint and far away. Oh no. Shannon thought. No, this can't be happening…

At the other side of the camp, Katrina retrieved her phone from her handbag and scrunched up her face.

"Werewolves?" She asked, her voice ringing out through the tents. "I thought Liam gave up on that theory months ago!"

Shannon was surprised how fast her heart could beat. "They must've videoed it on another phone, too." She said, looking at Tom.

"I think we'd better run." He said, and Shannon nodded. There was no question about it: they needed to get to Rhydian, Maddy and Jana as fast as possible.

Shannon hitched her rucksack over her shoulders, oblivious to the pain in her ankle, and ran into the north side of the woods, ignoring the shouts behind her.