A/N: So like I said the prologue is just a set up chapter but if you think that the two could be combined (I did that originally) then I can do that. But please leave a review with what you think! I have other chapters already typed or potential scenarios as there are going to be a few filler chapters to connect the end of season 2 into season 3. It will also develop Steve and Ty's relationship as well.

I was walking home from Dawn's as she was too drunk to drive me home, and I definitely didn't want to bother my mother. The way home wasn't too long of a walk as I passed though Dustin's neighborhood. As I was walking I saw what looked to be Dustin and Steve 'The Hair' Harrington? I stopped and observed that Steve had a baseball bat with nails in it, and a flashlight. They hadn't noticed me as I stopped just out of their view. I crossed the street as it looked really suspicious of them and I wanted to know what they were doing.

As I walked my way to the back I could hear Steve faintly say "Get down here." I waited a few seconds as I turned the corner to see the storm cellar.
"Oh shit." I heard Dustin say then followed by a louder "Oh shit." I made my way down the stairs to see a big glob of green slimy stuff on the end of Steve's bat and the two of them crowded by a hole in the wall,
"What the fuck?" I asked as I made it known that I was there. The two of them turned around in alarm that there was now a third person. The two of them looked at each other before Steve looked to me,
"Do you always follow people into their storm cellars?" Steve asked, "Is that a Californian thing?" He shrugged,
"It's dark outside and the two of you looked suspicious. Must be an Indiana thing." I quipped as I looked into his eyes, I watched him smirk before Dustin got both of our attention.
"It's better off if you don't know." Dustin told me,
"I think it's better off if I do. If there is something going on in this town, I want Max to stay far away from it." I crossed my arms,
"It's not like you'll believe any of it." Dustin shook his head
"Try me." I shifted my weight as I waited.

I looked to Dustin and then to Steve as this sounded so fake but if it was fake then why would they go to such great lengths to make it look real? I honestly didn't know what to think but whatever they were doing, I wanted to tag along to see if this wasn't a big hoax.
"What's next?" I asked. I watched as Dustin became shocked,
"You believe me?" He asked, I shook my head no,
"It sounds like some story your working on for a novel." I watched his face fall, "But I want to help. Maybe I can be useful." I shrugged. The two of them turned around and whispered, I went to go look for a suitable weapon. I saw a shovel in the corner and went to go grab it. I wasn't the strongest but I had to find something to defend myself.
"Okay,you can come but you can't tell anyone." Dustin looked to me. I crossed my heart as I twirled the shovel.
"What are you going to do with that?" Steve asked,
"What anyone would do if they used a shovel for a weapon. Hit something with it or try to take its head off." I deadpanned,
"You're not a serial killer, right?" Dustin asked,
"If I was, you'd both be dead by now." I deadpanned, "So what's next?" I looked to them.

Well the next part was getting buckets of chopped up steak and rubber gloves. Dustin's plan was to lure Dart to the old junkyard and kill him there. I had never been to the junkyard but it had to be a good place with a lot of leverage. I wasn't thrilled about leaving a trail of chopped up steak along the old train tracks but I wanted to help, so I had to suck it up for now. I was walking behind the two of them as Dustin was asking advice from Steve. From my understanding, Dustin kept Dart to impress a girl.
"The key with girls is acting like you don't care." Steve looked to Dustin. I raised my eyebrows as I was intrigued on what Steve was going to say next,
"Even if you do?" Dustin asked,
"Yeah, it drives them nuts." Steve spoke and I couldn't help but stifle a laugh. Steve turned back to look at me, annoyed,
"Sorry, keep going." I raised my hand up as he turned back to Dustin,
"Then what?" He asked,
"You just wait until, uh..until you feel it." He nudged him,
"Feel what?" He asked,
"It's like before it's gonna storm. You know? You can't see it but you can feel it. It's like this uh, electricity." He explained. I followed behind amused as I couldn't believe that was Steve's tactics before Nancy was mentioned. I noticed his voice changed a little bit and to my guess, something had happened with Nancy.

When we reached the junkyard, we dumped our meat buckets in the middle. Lucas's yelling turned my attention to see him and Max. Why the hell was she here? Did she know about what was happening all along?
"Max? What are you doing here?" I asked her as she came down,
"Lucas said he could show me proof." She shrugged, "Why are you here?" She asked,
"To see if this isn't some hoax." I shrugged. Dustin dragged Lucas behind an old beat up car as Max, Steve and I were gathering materials to reinforce the bus. "Hey Dickheads. How come the only ones who will help me out is this random girl and Tyler?" I watched him point to Max and then I, "We lose light in forty minutes." He added,

"That random girl's name is Max." I looked to him,

"Max." He looked to the boys as he gestured to her.

As we finished reenforcing the bus, we all gathered on and waited for it to get dark. Lucas was on the roof and I had taken up most of one of the seats before Max wanted to sit down. I moved my feet to the floor so she had room to sit. Steve was playing with his lighter and Dustin was pacing.

"So have you fought one of these things before?" Max asked, Steve nodded his head as he continued playing with the lighter,

"And your totally one hundred percent sure it wasn't a bear?" She asked

"Shit. Don't be an idiot, okay? It wasn't a bear." Dustin snapped, "Why are you even here if you don't believe us? Just go home." He then turned away from her,

"Sheesh, someone's cranky. Past your bedtime?" Max said as she got up and went to go join Lucas on the roof.

"That's good. Just show her you don't care." Steve spoke up as he looked to Dustin,

"I don't." Dustin stated. I watched Steve wink at Dustin, "Why are you winking, Steve? Stop." Dustin asked as he continued to pace.

"I can't believe you gave him that advice." I shook my head as I put my feet back up,

"Well, it does work." He defended,

"That's not how you get a girl. I would know." I shrugged, "Whatever happened to being yourself?" I sighed as I had never heard anything like that before. I wouldn't really know as I only had one boyfriend, but I still couldn't believe that Steve did that stuff and got girls that way. The girls in Hawkins must have been easy or maybe it was the chase that they liked.

"That being yourself shit, no girl wants to hear about that." He shook his head,
"Maybe if you tried it-"

"Can both of you be quiet?" Dustin cut me off as I could tell as he was annoyed. I had a feeling that Max was the girl that Dustin liked but her being with Lucas made him upset. Then there was this inhuman screech, I got up to look out the window.

"Lucas, what's going on?" Dustin called,

"I've got eyes! Ten o'clock." He called down. I looked to where he said to look and it honestly looked like a dog and nothing like they described to me. Why were they going to kill a dog, of all animals? As the dog didn't take the bait, Steve had the stupid idea of being the bait. Max came down,

"He's insane." Max commented,

"And stupid." I added, after a moment past Lucas told Steve three o'clock. Dustin ran to open the door to the bus as there seemed to be more of those dogs. Steve hit one as it came after him before he started running back to the bus as we all crowded around it watching him run back.
"Are they bad or something?" Max asked as Steve grabbed a piece of scrap metal and put it over the hole in the door. Whatever was on the other side wanted to get in and was trying to push the metal away from where Steve was blocking the hole. There was a loud bang and something knocked the bus, Max grabbed my arm as she went to go away from the door as Steve started to beat the thing with his bad. I swallowed hard as I asked myself what the fuck did I get myself into. Dustin was trying to reach his other friends on his walkie talkie while the things continued to attack the bus.

There was another loud bang but this time it was coming from the roof. I watched as one of the things were coming closer as it was leaving little indents in the roof. I stood in front of Max to try to protect her as this monstrous thing came to the opening. Max let out a scream as I was just frozen. Steve pushed us over and got ready to attack before there was another screech. The thing looked off before jumping off the bus.

We all exited the bus looking around to see none of those things in sight. Dustin had thought Steve scared them off, but Steve said it was because they were going somewhere.

I was still trying to process that the story Dustin had told me was real. It sucked that the girl who could really defeat these monsters died. Apparently their friend Mike had a thing for her and was heartbroken over it. I wondered how many people in Hawkins were aware of what was happening, and how I was going to keep all of this from Dawn.

There was no other choice but to continue on and help Steve, Dustin, and Lucas with what was going on. If I went home now then I would be worried sick about Max and afraid of those demogorons. We were walking along the train tracks in the woods in hopes to figure out where the demogorons went.

Apparently 'Dart' ate Dustin's cat and he only kept the thing because it missed him. The two boys also had a rule of law and Lucas broke it by telling Max what was happening. Max got roped into their fight and I just stood off to the side watching with Steve,
"Should we stop them or something?" I looked over to him. He shook his head before one of those inhuman screeches caught our attention.
"Hey guys." Steve started as he walked towards the sound, "Guys." He yelled louder and got their attention. Dustin and Lucas started running after Steve as Max and I watched them,
"Why are you running towards the sound?" Max yelled,
"Doesn't matter. Let's go." I gestured her to follow as there was strength in numbers.
"And your not freaking out about this?" Max asked me,
"I am totally regretting seeing what Dustin and Steve were up to." I shook my head, "But we got ourselves into this so we better help or something." I sighed

We were looking out over a field as the screeches were heard in the distance. There was none of them in sight but when Lucas looked through his binoculars, he saw that the noises were coming towards the lab. Those things were going back home. So of course that meant going to the lab, where there were probably more of those demogorgons. Shit.