"Aaaaaaaah!" Nino jolted awake to the sound of the scream. It took a while for him to figure out where it was coming from. Only to see his roommate in the throes of a night terror. Adrien was thrashing around in his bed snarling and bitting at invisible attackers with his fangs. Nino stared at Adrien for a minute until he registered the urgent knocking on the door.

He quickly opened the door to see his male classmates all staring at him, probably thinking they were trying to kill each other. "Ivan do you think you can wake him up? The rest of us are only going to get hurt." The gargoyle nodded as he lumbered over to Adrien.

"Nathaniel can you get Plagg. We're going to need him."

"Sure."

"The rest of you go back to bed. Hopefully this will be over soon." The rest of the boys shuffled back to their rooms trying to figure out how they were going to go back to sleep after hearing the screams.

Nino turned back to see that Ivan had successfully restrained Adrien but was having trouble waking him. Nino decided to join him hoping their combined efforts would get him to wake up. They had been at it for a few minutes when Plagg showed up. "What's wrong?" Plagg asked.

"He's having a night terror and we can't wake him up."

"Hmm. Tikki's so much better at this but... let him go Ivan."

"Sir?"

"It will be fine. Go back to your room."

"Yes, sir." Once Ivan left Plagg approached the thrashing vampire. Every time Adrien came close to hitting him Plagg smoothly dodged until he could grasp Adrien's head. Slowly a dark light pulsed from Plagg's hands and Adrien's eyes opened.

It took a minute before Adrien's awareness came back and he noticed the man that looked to be in his twenties in the room. "Kid you and me are going to have to talk. Meet me in my office 3:00pm on Friday. Got it?" Adrien nodded.

"Good. Now I'm going to get you one of Tikki's cookies and then your going back to sleep." Plagg stood up and swept out of the room.

Nino whistled. Adrien looked at him questioning. "Your getting one of Tikki's cookies. Tikki guards them religiously, guaranteed good dreams for one night." Plagg returned quickly, slightly rumpled with what looked like a chocolate chip cookie. He handed the cookie to Adrien with a "go back to sleep" and left. Adrien quickly ate the cookie and drifted off to sleep.

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The next morning Alya and Nino met each other in the cafeteria. Both noted the dark circles under each other's eyes and the lack of their roommate. "Tikki's cookies?" Alya asked.

"Tikki's cookies," Nino confirmed.

They sat down at a table for two and dug into their breakfast. Alya noticed an abandoned newspaper at another table and summoned it using her magic.

Hawkmoth Kills Again

Notorious vampire serial killer Hawkmoth has struck again. Phillip Mason, 34, was a promising business man who had made a name for himself in rising through the ranks of Horus Technology run by Ramses Kanté. He is currently the twentieth death contributed to Hawkmoth this year. This is the twenty first attack of Hawkmoth with the only surviving victim, Adrien Agreste, 17, having been turned. Hawkmoth has been deemed too dangerous for authorities to handle and hunters have been given authority to use any means necessary to find and eliminate Hawkmoth.

"Holy shit. Nino look at this," Alya said shoving the paper in Nino's face. Nino took the paper and began to read it.

"Well no wonder he was having nightmares. Being turned by a serial killer would mess anybody up."

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Walking down the halls to class Adrien couldn't help but overhear different conversations

"Adrien Agreste was turned by Hawkmoth."

"Isn't he in the half breed's class."

"Yeah."

"All of crazy ones end up in that class. First two interspecies relationships, then a half breed, and now a vamp who was turned by a serial killer?" The speaker paused shaking her head. "This school is going to the dogs."

Adrien shook his head. Some people didn't know when to shut up. He was almost at his classroom when he heard a conversation that wasn't a variation he was turned by Hawkmoth and in Miss Bustier's crazy class. "Did you hear that the hunters are in charge of catching Hawkmoth now and that they have open authority to do what they want?"

"Seriously? That's going to cause more harm than good."

"Well hopefully they would be here long we don't need any of their kind here."

Adrien walked the rest of the way to class with one question in his head. What is a hunter? When Adrien sat down in his seat he immediately turned to Nino. "Nino, what is a hunter?" The class was silent.

"Dude are you serious?" Adrien nodded.

"A hunter is a human that has like supernatural reflexes. They're stronger, faster, have an increased stamina, and typically have enhanced senses. How do you not know this? Even humans know about hunters."

"Fortress house remember? Never went outside alone, supposedly."

"Right well before the peace negotiations of 1798 between hunters and creatures, hunters would kill creatures indiscriminately and visa versa. There is still a lot of hatred and mistrust on both sides, but we work together now. The Creature Council recognizes threats that only hunters can handle and the hunters eliminate them. There hasn't been a need for them since World War II and Hitler, in France anyway, so it is a big deal for hunters to be called upon now," he said.

"I know hunters are used regularly in America but they are stricter with punishments for breaking the law. China also uses hunters a lot but the creatures that live in China are mostly dragons, elemental spirits, and nine tailed foxes. Which can be super destructive if you make them angry," Alya jumped in," but they also live under a communist dictatorship and have no form of creature government, so the political situation is quite different."

"Hey Alya. Marinette not up yet?" Alix asked as she walked over breaking up the conversation.

"Tikki told her to sleep and that she would be excused from morning classes."

"Man that sucks. The girls thought her nightmares were getting better."

"They were until yesterday. Something brought them back, my bet is Chloé."

"Well you girls weren't alone last night. Us boys now have our very own nightmare alarm," Nino jumped in, wrapping his arm around Adrien's shoulders. They turned to look at Adrien.

"Humf. Well his make sense, getting turned by Hawkmoth would give anyone nightmares, Marinette's are just weird," Alix said as she turned and went to her seat as Miss Bustier walked in.

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"The Werewolf Vampire Coalition of the Colonies of America formed in 1700 and did a great deal in the wake of the American Revolution. In fact it was a werewolf and vampire delegation that was sent to the Creature Council of France to ask for aid in the American Revolution. The Coalition also gave aid to the creatures in France during the French Revolution." Miss Bustier opened her mouth to continue but was interrupted by the door to the classroom banging open.

Marinette walked in looking like she wanted to be anywhere else. Her clothes were rumpled, her black hair was pulled back into a quick messy bun, her shoulders were slumped, and her head was lowered. She quickly walked over to Miss Bustier and handed her a note before taking her seat behind Adrien.

"As I was saying. Because of the success and aid the American Coalition of Vampires and Werewolves, ACVW, showed the French creatures. The Parisian werewolves and vampires decided to form their own, today it is known as the Association of Vampires and Werewolves of Paris, or AVWP. While these two organizations have made great strides in the way of Werewolf Vampire relations there is still a lot animosity between the two species." Adrien tuned out Miss Bustier, his thoughts on the girl behind him. He glanced behind him to see Marinette hunched over slowly pull out her pens and notebook.

"Why are you here I thought you had the morning off?" Adrien could here Alya whisper. Adrien was still focused on the girl's conversation when he saw Nino twitch, it wasn't just Nino; Alix, Kim, and Nathaniel were also listening to the girl's conversation.

"Plagg came in. He said that if one of his kids had to go to class after having a bad night so would I. I may have also made him promise to play a game of Go* during lunch if I went to class," Marinette whispered back. Adrien refocused on Miss Bustier's lesson which had moved on to the Association of Vampires and Werewolves in Paris petitioning the Creature Council of France to to set up a nationwide league for the two species.

"Miss Bustier?" Sabrina asked raising her hand.

"Yes Sabrina?"

"What was going on with the Federation of Hunters at this time?"

"Yes I guess you're all interested with recent events having played out like they have?" The class nodded. "At the beginning of the French Revolution and like so many wars before it was Creatures on one side and Hunters on the other. At this point in time almost all French Creatures were in abject poverty brought about by the strict laws the French monarchy placed on them. When Creatures rose up in rebellion, Hunters joined the army to kill the Creature rebels in mass. Needless to say this strategy didn't work. Once the war reached its ninth year both creatures and hunters realized that neither could gain the upper hand and decided that they didn't want to have anymore bloodshed between them. So ten Hunters met with ten Creatures and the Treaty of Bastille was born. Both sides agreed that they wanted no more bloodshed than necessary in either side. They also agreed that King Louis XVI was not a good king. After, in the spirit of this treaty the hunters fighting in the Kings army switched sides and a little over a year later King Louis was removed and later executed. Following the Treaty of Bastille the rest of the world quickly entered treaties between creatures and hunters. Following the end of the American Civil War, the Treaty of Gettysburg was signed in 1864 and became the last Creature-Hunter Treaty signed. Now this does not mean that every country has a creature-hunter treaty, Romania, Brazil, Norway, and China are all countries without treaties. Instead hunters are employed by the human governments as they see fit." The bell signaling the end of class rang. "Next week we are going to be looking at the Napoleonic Wars and the involvement of creature generals in the army."

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Go is a Chinese strategy game. It's sort of like the Chinese version of chess but with, you know, a completely different way of playing. There are usually two players, one is black and one is white, and they try to conquer the board. The winner is whoever has the most territory when there are no moves either player wants to make. Go is the oldest still played board game dating back 2,500 years.