Hey Guys!
I'm sorry this chapter is a little late, but when I got back to Sydney I wanted the 3 days I had before going back to school for myself, but I'm back to writing and tomorrow I'm back to school and I've got my end of course exams in about 5 weeks, so for the next 7 weeks or so my updating may be a little less frequent due to study and stuff like that, so I'm sorry if chapters for all my stories become unpredictable or rare because I really enjoy writing all of this, but my course work is very important which I'm sorry to say, but all of us have lives and sometime they get in the way! I hope you enjoy this chapter because it's an interesting one and we're almost at the reveal for what the beast chasing Jade and Deucalion is because I have finally decided on what creature it actually is, so there should be some hints in the chapter. I'm trying to get this ark done at chapter 30, but the y that it's going it may not be possible, but I'm not sure and the other thing I'm not sure about is continuing this story for another ark afterwards because while this story gets more base views more people seem to voice their enjoyment of my 2 other multi-chapter stories and if I stop this one I can focus on those 2, but it will all come down to how I feel and how busy I get, but be sure to say what you think in your review if you make one or a PM, but I hope all of you understand that what I decide will be based on both what you guys say and what I think myself, but who knows how that will go because I enjoy writing all 3 stories and I guess we will see where it all goes! Hope you enjoy the new chapter!

Jade could consciously feel the pure liquid of life flowing from the open gashes spanning from her upper stomach down to her groin in a curving fashion. She could feel her energy draining from her body and she could feel the pull of the darkness, but she had to fight against it. She grovelled on the ground before managing two final words out.

"Scott, help." She barely whispered as she collapsed flag on the ground and succumbed to her wounds, even questioning her own mortality, but as if her whispers were carried through the wind it was only a short amount of time before Scott was rushing in the door and to her side with Lydia and Isaac trotting are him shortly after and surrounding her. She could barely see them as they morphed into shadows and she could only hear segments of their loud speech.

"Scott why . . . not healing . . . ok?" She could hear the question lacing Isaac's voice barely, but just enough to determine that he was asking a question.

"Don't . . . very slowly . . . Perhaps too." She couldn't make out if it was Scott or Lydia who was speaking, but by this stage she started to feel like it was too late to be saved and she laid there in the mercy of the goddess as the crimson liquid pooled around her, she could taste the metallic liquid on the tip of her tongue and once again she fell into the consuming darkness into a deep, dark sleep.

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Kiara's head shot up from its resting position so she was looking evenly across the large, empty room. She had a taste on the edge of her tongue and it definitely wasn't natural, it was like it wasn't particularly something she had tasted, but maybe she had inhaled and that's when it all came back to her, she remembered she was just taking a peaceful walk after talking to Argent about beginning her training and she was trying to get a fresh breath when an assailant grabbed her from behind and slid a cloth over her mouth, she had fought back maybe scratching him or smashing him in the crotch. She remembered hearing the man wince as she wrestled with him for control, but he was just too strong and with every single breath she could feel the energy draining from her body and she could feel the drowsiness replace what had only moments before been energy filling her body with the ability to fight back, but she slowly felt herself collapse to the floor as the man kept s control over her. She looked down and found she was tied to a chair arms, legs and perhaps the first thing she should have noticed was that she had a large piece of duck tape over her mouth and that was when she heard a chuckle from the dark corner of the room and she tried to speak through the black industrial tape covering her mouth.

"Is anybody there?" She asked, but was heavily distorted by the tape to sound something a rather like ris ramgmhm mere? She studied the man as he began to step out of the darkness, but that was when she figured out that it wasn't a man, it was just a boy because he was too short to be 18 and he didn't have the build and as he emerged she saw his deep blue oceanic eyes, it was Liam. He walked over to her and carefully taking the tape off of her mouth, trying not to make her any angrier than she already probably was.

"Are you insane jackass? Why do you have me tapped and tied up and why'd you drug me? You don't have to drug me and tie me to a chair to stare at me for hours!" Liam laughed a little because Kiara was overreacting.

"Kiara I think you're overreacting and assuming really weird things because I definitely didn't drug you to stare at you, I did it because Chris asked me to help him with the first stage of your training. He said to kidnap you and then to tie you to a chair and leave. He said that generally no one stays with them while they get out of the rope, but he thought it might give you some more . . . encouragement." Kiara still looked absolutely furious at Liam and he was really, really glad that she was tied up because if she wasn't Liam would have had his balls ripped off in almost half a second.

"I understand that you had to, but I'm still going to have to kill you when I get out of here and trust me it won't be pretty. So what am I supposed to do?"

"Well, you're supposed to escape!" That only seemed to make Kiara even angrier.

"WITH WHAT?" Liam was starting to get afraid. He was worried that she would just burst out of the holds and explode in ager and rip his throat out and devour his midsection for breakfast, he even whimpered a little.

"With this." Liam put an arrowhead in her hands. "Apparently it takes a couple of hours to get out, but when you do I'll be waiting for you." An awfully creepy smirk grew across her face. "What's that creepy smile for?" The smirk only grew bigger as seconds ticked by.

"It means that I'll have someone to hurt when I get out of here." That statement generally frightened Liam because he believed that she would indeed maul him when she got out, so perhaps he shouldn't be there when she did get out. Liam decided against running from Kiara and slid down the wall opposite the angry girl, rested his head against the wall and began to fall asleep which was an awful, awful idea.

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Scott, Isaac and most of the pack were sitting in the living room of Scott's house waiting to see if Jade would be okay because when they first found her she seemed to be conscious, but then her condition seemed to deteriorate after a few minutes because they had no idea how long she had been like that and if the amount of blood on the floor was any indication it never looked particularly promising for Jade because there was pool at the bottom of the stairs, but one of the few things they did know was that the beast that had chased Deucalion and Jade all the way along was probably the thing that did this to the member of the pack, but they wouldn't know for sure until Jade woke up, if she ever did. By this time Deucalion had also made his way to the house where he went to see Jade and then went into the 'waiting room' where every other member of the pack was waiting except Scott and Kira. Derek and Lydia thought this might be the time to question Deucalion once again about the creature that was chasing them. Lydia moved to sit beside Deucalion with a pen and a note pad, drawing the attention of the alpha werewolf and he did not seem enthused.

"Lydia, what are you doing with a pen and pad because I don't feel like answering any questions right now." He slid back into his seat trying to avoid the questions of the prying red head.

"Deucalion, what did this to her was probably the creature that was chasing the two of you when Braeden when she first found you in the woods, we just need to know if you've told us all you know. Can you tell us anything about it?" Deucalion sighed once more because he knew there was no chance he was going to avoid answering the girl's questions.

"Well it looked black, but that could have been the darkness an I'm pretty sure when I got a glimpse of it with some light it had a red coat, but it has never seemed to have caught us, even when it could have been pretty easy to catch us because it has poisonous darts to shoot at us and I'm sorry, but that's all I know about it." Lydia patted him on the shoulder after finishing scribbling down his description, she got up and returned her own seat before nodding to Derek, but as she did Kira and Scott walked into the room with Jade supported on their shoulders. She looked weak, but alive like they had only got to her just in time and it became a much happier atmosphere.

"Jade!" Malia moved quickly over to give the weak wolf a hug before anyone else. They all slowly got up from their spots around the living room and slowly moved over to say hello to her, but not in big groups because they didn't want to overwhelm her.

"She's still healing, so don't hug her too tightly, but she insisted on coming to see you instead of you coming to her." They all sat or stood near Jade when he slowly took a seat on the couch wincing in pain.

"Jade we were wondering if you . . . if you could tell us about what you saw." Derek said very directly, but Scott seemed to want to protect her.

"Derek, this can wait until later, so stop." He moved to stop Derek, but Jade just held onto him and shook her head because she didn't want to be kept in the dark about the project. She moved her hand to her head in a thinking fashion before answering the question.

"I don't remember much from before it slit my chest open, all I remember was looking down and seeing these claws before they ripped down my body. I'm sorry I couldn't help you with anything else." Derek smiled before backing off a little on the topic trying not to make Jade dwell on the experience.

"So how was everyone else's night? Obviously not as eventful as mine, but anyone do anything interesting?" Kira's heartbeat slightly jumped and she raised her hand a little and everyone looked over at her, but she wasn't raising her hand to the group, she was raising her hand to get something to eat, but when she turned around she saw everyone staring at her.

"I didn't do anything interesting, I spent the night with Scott's mum, so don't look at me for any stories of shenanigans." Saying that word just made everybody stare at her a little more and when she figured out what she had said wrong, she buried her head in Scott's lap and began to laugh a little.

"I think everyone else should go home because Kira and I can take care of Jade and there's no point of everyone else being uncomfortable for the night, so you should all head home, but before you do, has anyone seen Liam?" Everyone shook their heads and Scott's face changed to show a little bit of worry, but that was natural since he was Scott's first own Beta. "Just tell me if you see him or at least tell him I'm looking for him to talk." Everyone nodded looking exhausted before heading out of the house and back to their own places to have a good night's rest, but that one question once again lingered in his head, where as Liam and what was he doing?

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Liam was comfortable leaning against the wall, deep in his sleep, but it had been a few hours since Kiara had woken up tied to a chair in the same room as Liam and she almost wanted to rip out Liam's throat, but she knew it was part of the training and there wasn't much she could do about it since she decided to be trained, but that didn't mean she couldn't still get revenge on Liam and she could feel how close she was to breaking out, she could feel the tape starting to fall apart rather quickly. Once she had broken her bonds, she slowly walked over to the phone on the desk to finish her timing before very quietly moving over to her sleeping boyfriend propped against the wall before lifting him up by his throat. She could hear him gasping for air a little.

"Hey Liam! How you going? And if you were wondering this is payback for what you did." She slowly let Liam drop to the ground to catch his breath before giving him a short kiss.

"What did I do that as so wrong? I followed orders, but you still look angry." Kiara shrugged once more.

"Well consider standing in a room while you're tapped to a chair and once again refrain from asking if I'm okay, but you would be right assuming I'm not quite myself right now, so until I get back to the apartment you're going to keep this one." A Liam looked to see what she meant; she lifted up a long wheel of the black industrial tape. "Revenge is a dish best served cold Liam, wouldn't you agree?" He slowly nodded as he let Kiara place the tape over his mouth, efficiently silencing him.

When they got to the apartment she keyed in the door to find Chris having a drink and when he turned to look at the door he saw Liam with industrial tape over his mouth and Kiara knew exactly what he was going to ask.

"Just don't ask Chris because it would ruin the fun." She smiled at her mentor and handed over the phone with the timer on it and Chris looked surprised. "Is something wrong Chris?" He shook his head, looked up at her and smiled at her.

"I think it's time for you to release your . . . pet, but I don't think we should put it down." That comment seemed to make Liam worried, but he knew that Chris was just egging him on because he knew exactly what Kiara was going to do when she got out of the chair and Chris didn't want to be there when she did, so he let Liam stay with her and it was about that moment when he got a message from Scott asking if he had Liam anywhere and the only response he had to the message was.

He's a little tied up right now, literally. It was only a few more moments before he got another message from Scott.

Well tell Liam that we've been looking for him and we hope he's okay. Chris looked over to where Liam was sitting next to Kiara with the tape still across his mouth.

"So how did I go?" It was a question from Kiara and he had looked at the timer which w suite impressive. Not as good as Allison's, but good nether the less well.

"You went really well Kiara and I thought I would let you know that you were almost with Allison with how long it took you, but don't you think it's time to you know . . . release him because Scott's looking for him and I don't think he will appreciate us keeping his beta hostage." Kiara slowly agreed and began to rip off the tape from Liam's mouth, taking extra care to make it as painful as possible.

"Ow, that hurt!" Kiara laughed a little and gave Liam a little slap on the cheek.

"It was supposed to hurt, that was the point plus you deserved it anyways." Liam didn't know what to say because he wasn't sure there was much he could say.

"Well I could have taken it off or gotten away whenever I wanted."

"I know you could have, but you know why you didn't? Because you didn't want to make me anymore angry and that makes me happy because it shows that you love me." She gave him a lingering kiss before pulling away from him and moving towards her room. "Go see Scott; he seems anxious because he doesn't know where you've been." He smiled at her before closing the door behind him and heading off to see his anxious and possibly angry alpha, but it was Scott, did he get angry at good people?

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"You did what to Kiara?" Scott said in complete confusion when he was talking to Liam to in the living room.

"I drugged her, kidnapped her and tied her up." Scott's eyes only widened at what Liam was saying, possibly in disapproval. "Hey don't look at me with those eyes. That's what you did to me when you first bit me and anyways I was doing it to help Chris with training her." Scott's eyes sort of relaxed realising that he was kind of being a hypocrite and that he had done it to help with her training.

"Well I'm glad you helped her, but I would be expecting some kind of random punishment coming your way from her because while she may be a little timid, I would bet that's another lesson Chris is teaching her." Liam awkwardly smiled remembering back to when he was duck taped up, but if that wasn't the revenge, what was Kiara up to?

"So did you figure out what the thing that attacked Jade is yet?" Scott and Kira shared a quick look with each other because they spent a short amount of time scanning through the bestiary and had found something, but they weren't sure if it was something worth sharing yet.

"Well we have an idea, but we need to look it over a little more before we say anything because as soon as we say we have an idea to anyone else they will want to act on our theory, but we aren't even 50% sure ourselves so please just don't say we have a theory before we look it over a little." Liam shook his head at the true alpha who looked quite tired and looked like her was beginning to collapse on the equally tired Kitsune beside him.

"Well it looks like you guys are tired, so I think I'll go home and have a nice sleep. You guys should get one to." As Liam moved to the door Scott said something that made him laugh a little. It was something a little inappropriate which he didn't hear come from the alphas mouth very often at all.

"You must have brass pair of balls to do that to Kiara and I don't think you should get to comfortable sleeping because if she is still angry you're most vulnerable in your sleep to her attacks." He shut the door behind him and as soon as he left Scott laughed a little. "He's going to find it hard to sleep after that." Kira gave him a little shove as a smile spread across her face as they grabbed each other's hands and began to move up the stair to get a long, deserved sleep.

AUTHORS NOTES

Hey Guys!
I hope you really enjoyed the chapter because I'm getting ready to reveal the creature next chapter and I believe it's an interesting one, maybe a little unbelievable (even for the supernatural town of Beacon Hills), but I hope you enjoy the point I've taken on the creature and how it will all go down with the pack and by the way I might be thinking of bringing in Parrish to the story, but it depends where I get with the plot and the little sub-plots, but we will see! I really appreciate all of the support I get for every chapter and I thank you all for future support because it really makes writing a lot easier! I hope you enjoyed the new chapter because there's more where it came from!