Chapter II: The West Hunters

In honor of the season finale and the mid-autumn festival, I present chapter two. I hope those who celebrate the moon festival have a great one and eat a lot of expensive moon cakes because those bastards only come once a year but they're so good. Expect little to almost no updates until the week is over. I have to deal with monks and blessing and grave cleaning and all that fun stuff. OH WHICH REMINDS ME! The Monkey King (Sun WuKong) festival is coming up and I'm going to celebrate by begin watching Journey to the West 1996 edition because I'm cool and it's the best thing ever made. Had to reload it cause I made a booboo.

She couldn't help but smile at his comment, "My name is Laurel and I have to get going before I'm late to class."

Laurel turned around before she could move he grabbed her arm lightly afraid to bruise the girl, "Don't you want to know my name, Laurel?"

"Would it matter if I did or not?"

It was his turn to smile and he released her arm, "My name is Peter Hale."

"It's nice to meet you Peter. I'll see you around." She waved and scurried off towards her class Bobby gave her a look and threw his hands in the air the moment she walked in. He pointed at his wrist wondering where the girl went off to. Laurel gave him an apologetic look and shuffled over to him, "Sorry I got held up." Bobby moved his backpack from the seat he was saving for her and she sat down next to him. "Am I late?"

"No and you're lucky because here he comes."

Their teacher Mr. Baca was their honor biology teacher; he was probably in his late 30's with light brown hair and wore a pair of glasses over his brown eyes. He sets down his folders and looked through his student list, "I'm going to call out your names and just say something when you hear your name." He went through his list and nothing really happened except for the part where he called out 'Peter Hale' Laurel looked up towards the boy she met earlier this morning. "Class this is my student aide, Peter Hale. If you need help ask Peter first. Alright so opened your books and read the first chapter. Miss West if you could read the first paragraph and then Mr. Finstock and so on so forth."

Peter gave her a smirk and Laurel waved at him, Bobby looked over to the older boy who sat across the classroom. She flipped her book to the first chapter and read to herself, "Biology is the study of life. Before people could understand life they believe in creation. Creation was where they thought one life could only be given through another, as an example when they left meat in a jar a few weeks later that meat became flies and bees. As the population evolved they discovered that the meat was left out but the lid was not on so flies laid their eggs. At first the thought of life being produce by life and not death was looked down upon, however now we learned this is the first truth of life."

"Nicely done Miss West. If I can stop right there real quick, so back in the 1700's we didn't understand that life was only produce from life. We thought that life could only happen if something died in its place. Of course it was false but since back then religion was a big part of life it made since to them. Mr. Finstock next paragraph please."

After they were finished with reading the first chapter they were allowed to work on the worksheet with their lab partners. Bobby looked like the worksheet just asked him the meaning of life, "Bobby that was your chapter you read."

"Was it? Laurel I can barely remember what I ate this morning let alone something I had no interest in." He stopped doing any more work altogether and stared at Laurel, "So care to tell me why that guy has been staring at you the whole time since you walked in?"

She looked up cautiously at the teacher aides and averted her eyes as soon as they made contact, "First of all, I have no idea how you made it into honor's bio and second of all he was leaning against my locker and we spoke briefly but I ran off to class with my tail between my legs."

"You talked to a guy?"

"Oh my god, I talked to a guy."

"You talked to a guy. Why do I find that absolutely unbelievable? I can't even fathom what that would even look it."

Laurel punched him in the arm while they were busying talking and answering their question, she didn't notice that Peter moved and sat in front of her. He turned back to look at her he had this charming smile on his face, Laurel peered up at him slowly and shy smile crept up on to her lips. "So I was surprise to see you were in honor's biology. I have to admit very impress."

"I guess I just full of surprises. You're quite a ladies man; every girl in the class has been staring at you the whole period. I forgot to ask you what grade you were in earlier."

"I'm just amazing." He looked over at Bobby who happened to be confused with what was going around him. "It's my last year in high school. I just took this class for an easy A and extra credits. I'm Peter by the way."

"Bobby. Elly," Bobby only called Laurel Elly if he really wanted her attention; he gave her this serious expression which she ignored.

"Elly?" Peter repeated a little amused while Laurel tried to laugh it off.

"It's a nickname I got growing up. My older sister called me Laurelly and I called her Noella, we wanted to be princesses."

"Of course and you should be. Well I'm going to get back to my work before Baca goes off on me. Until next time Laurel." Laurel watched as he rose from his seat and marched back to his chair with pride. Most of the girls in class ran over to him and tried to get him to try and get him to help them with their work.

"What the hell was that?" Bobby asked her breaking him from the spell she was in, she shook her head a little trying to regain her normal self. "You just talked to him normally and you didn't even stutter, what the hell is going on with you?"

"Bobby, I have no idea." Her eyes wandered off to the boy who had every girl in the class rushing towards him, Laurel turned back to her assignment and finished it off as fast as she could so she could help Bobby with his work. She heard Bobby let out a stressed sighed, the rest of school went by rather slowly for Laurel; she got compliments on how nice she looked today. She hated the attention so much, every time someone would walk up to her she wanted to lie down and pretend to be dead. Luckily she had Bobby next to her or she would have just ran out of school screaming on top of her lungs, social anxiety was a bitch. Noel was in the car waiting for her sister to get there, "How was school?"

"Ah… I met people and I talked to people that I normally don't talk to." Her sister was either impressed or irritated that her little sister was so vague. Laurel just stared at the window trying to ignore any more questions her sister could have.

When they pulled up to the house there was another car parked alongside their lawn. Noel gripped her stirring wheel tightly before parking her car in the driveway. She burst out of the car and stormed into the living room, Laurel followed her sister timidly. She could hear her sister chatting with two other men in the room as well as her father. "Laurel! Come in here!" Her father called out to her and she trotted into the room where the older man from earlier sat and a younger man next to him. "You remember Gerard from earlier this morning. Let me introduce you to his son Chris, Chris this is my daughter Noel and Laurel."

"It's a pleasure." He stood up and shook both of their hands before sitting down. Noel looked around a little uncomfortable with the two men in her home.

"Daddy, I want to know why Gerard and his son are here." After Noel asked their father looked down at his hands and clicked his tongue. He let out a stressed breath and ran his hand into his hair, "Daddy?"

"You guys should have a sit." Nick scooted down the couch and made enough to nuzzle the girls in, "You know we hunt. What you don't know is what we truly hunt and trust me honey it's nothing but nightmares once I tell you. The Argents and our family the Wests are werewolf hunters. Do you know why our last name is West? It's because we were the hunters of the west and soon they just called us West."

"You're joking." Noel looked around from her father to Gerard and to Chris but none of them had a smile on. "Oh god you guys are insane."

"On the contrary, Noel, we are very much sane. Those people who walk around oblivious to the facts of beasts are insane. We are protecting them from the boogeyman under their beds. Your father has asked us for help to train you two girls to be strong leaders and fearless hunters." Gerard coughed into a napkin after he was done explaining, "Your training well be every weekend and two hours after school every day until we see fit. That is an order."

"Girls, you guys are from a long legacy of hunters. You are the future and one day I cannot protect you from the beast that lies in the world." Their father smiled at the girls with a forlorn look, "Your training starts now. I'm sorry girls but this is our family fate and no one must know about this."

Laurel and Noel sat across from each other in a ware house, their hands and legs were bound to the arms and legs of the chairs. It's been over an hour since they were tied up, they grunted as they tried to free themselves from the bounds. Chris stood off to the side to monitor the girls and had a pocket watch he kept checking. Even for Noel's athletic build she could not even get a small tear in the silver duct tape, for Noel this was a new hell. They struggled and struggled but it wasn't helping them in one bit, the only good it was doing was draining them of their energy. "Word of advice girls, go backwards instead of forward."

Laurel was the first one to get it; she has always been the smartest sibling growing up. She focused all her energy forward before throwing herself backwards. She repeated the process until the chair tipped backwards and broke; Laurel managed to rip one arm free and unbound the other one. She ran over to help Noel but was stopped by Chris. He pulled her back and tossed her on the ground away from her sister. "Laurel, Noel needs to do this on her own, don't worry."

"It's alright Relly, your big sister got this. " Noel followed her sister's suit and swung herself back, Laurel watched as the chair fell backwards and smashed on the ground. Noel was quick to untie herself, she marched over to Chris and threw a punch at him. He caught her fist in his hand and just smiled at the girls.

"Congratulations girls, next time you'll be in two different rooms. Tomorrow we'll work on your aiming and how to put together a gun, for now I need you guys to give me 150 push-ups and 80 sit ups. I'll be watching." The girls got on to the floors after much arguing with Chris and started their push-ups, after the first 20 they could feel their arms burn life fire. Sweat was dripping off of their after 40 more and by the time they got to 100 they were shaking and about to pass out. The sit-ups went rather smoothly compared to the push-ups; it was needless to say they hated what their father signed them up for.

The moment the girls got home Noel dove straight for a hot bubble bath to soothe her aching muscles meanwhile Laurel just went straight to her room and collapsed onto her comfy bed. Whatever their father had planned for them was going to end up killing them. Laurel reached out for her backpack and pulled out her textbook with what little strength she had left. As much as her father wanted them to study and be a hunter she still had high school to deal with.

The next day at school Laurel could barely move her arms and Bobby noticed, he punched her in the arm lightly and she cried out trying to push him over. "What the hell happen to you?" She just rolled her eyes and shoved her books towards him to hold, she was a little more snappy than she should be so Bobby took her books without much fight.

They walked over to her locker and a certain senior was there again, he smiled at Laurel who just returned it but very weakly. "What's wrong? Did the coach have you do drills or something? You look like you're about to pass out."

"I'm just…" She paused looking for the right words to say without giving out too much details, "..exhausted, my father has us on a training regimen and let's say it blows big time." She opened her locker and took out some extra pens, and slammed it shut. "I'll see you in bio-"

"Or I could walk you there. Since we're both heading there." Peter walked besides her and Bobby was on the other side. "So what does your dad having you do?"

"Uh, 150 push-ups and 80 sit ups. It might not sound like a lot for you but its hell for me since I don't exercise that much."

"And I'm still here, hi." Bobby butted in and Peter chuckled at the boy's attempt to get her attention. He had to be nice to the weird little boy since he was her best friend and two he was soon to be his teammate when Basketball season starts up. How this boy passed try out no one knows. "So I didn't do the reading-"

"Of course you didn't so I took notes for you." Laurel rolled her eyes, it was bad she knew what he would do and wouldn't do for school. School wasn't his forte but sports were and Bobby is lucky to even have that. "You owe me"

"Big time!" Bobby chimed in as they walked into their first period.

Thank you for reading see you next time. Oh you guys give me baby names, two girls possibly three and two boys.