The past few weeks had been tough on both wolves and vampires. The wolves were walking double time in keeping the vampires out and protecting their turf while the vampires had close one to many times under Tasha's command. She was far to free and care free in taking care of the trainees under her out of harm's way. Apart from that, Keisha was back in action as her back was completely healed now. The wolves also thrived through the experience they were getting from fighting the vampires everyday. It was stressful but they were benefitting from it positively as they sharpened their skills in taking vampires down and handling certain types of situations.
All the students had finally struck a balance between their school and wolf life. It took a while lot of time but they'd finally accomplished it. Every chance they got to do any assignments or projects given to them, they'd take it and if any lingered by the time they'd get to the forest, they would do it together allowing them to finish it quicker and get more wolf time. They famous four also had a big decision to make about the video of Amanda they'd made, should they post it or keep it to themselves? It was a big decision but fuelled by anger and hatred from the boys, they decided to post it with Connor editting it and making it even funnier. With everything put in motion Will and the gang finalised and perfected their plan to disgrace Amanda tomorrow.
William arrived school earlier than usual with thirty minutes to go before school started, Connor sent a message to everyone in school calling for a general assembly in the theatre. Teachers wondered who gave out the instructions and followed to get to the bottom of this. The lights were turned off and a light beamed down on the stage. As the place became quiet, William walked up the stage with a microphone in his hand.
"My fellow students, we are gathered here today to honour two very important people in our midst, would the the principal of this establishment and Amanda come to the stage" William announced.
The principal and Amanda obviously confused and shocked nervously stepped on stage.
"You probably know Amanda as miss perfect and our Principal as a holy and self righteous person that upholds the good values and morals our society embraces"
This words of praise made the principal and Amanda more at ease as they received their titles with high spirits.
"But what I'm about to show you would surprise you. Roll the tape!" William commanded and soon a tape played on the screen behind them.
Connor and Keisha did some extra digging into Amanda's life and found out how she got into the cheerleading squad.
The tape played and it showed the principal receiving bribe from Amanda's parents. Her mother gave him some sweet mulla to wet his snout into convincing the coach into picking Amanda and extra support from her parents to the school. He was really tempted to take it and when she added more money that would be his salary for the whole year in one go he had no other choice than to accept it. With his own share of the money taken, he gave the coach of the cheerleading squad her fair share and that was how she got in.
This made the whole crowd gasp as the righteous person that they looked up to was a fraud and easily swayed by money. A look of disappointment was on the face of all the teachers both at the principal and the coach.
"That's not a folks. Not only did Amanda bribe her way to the squad but has been a hypocrite this entire time. Play tape 2!" William with a joyful tone to his voice.
The tape played and a title appeared with the words of 'Snot Queen'. Music began to play showing Amanda picking her nose repeatedly and then it split into four before spinning into one full screen once more and showed the video of her coughing out mucus in a disgusting manner and spitting it out of her window.
"Ewwwwww!" The crowd chorused.
Then it showed her not only digging her nose but eating the booger that came out of it.
"That ain't all folks. Check out your girl and her man" William said as a video of her talking to the pictures of Taylor, a striker for the school team on her wall and then it displayed a pillow that had his picture on it in her arms as she talked to it like a real person.
"I guess it's time for some pillow talk" William commented with the crowd bursting out into laughter.
Amanda was embarrassed and tried to stop them from watching the video.
"Stop laughing, stop laughing...." She cried repeatedly.
"And that ain't even the best part, check out her make out session" William said with the video showing her making out with the pillow that had Taylor's face on it.
The crowd was in laughter as both teachers, students and even their corrupt principal laughed at her. With this, she turned her attention to William the cause of all this and charged towards him in an attempt to attack but thanks to his fast reflexes and side stepped the attack and revealing her other secret. She wasn't a natural blonde as he effortlessly pulled the wig of her head.
"And that's it folks, Amanda unwigged" William said as he presented her to the public. People quickly brought out their phones and bean to snap her. She covered her face and tried to run away calling her minions to try and help her but instead they stood in her way.
"We're tired of serving you and you treating us like trash. I'm sorry but we are far above you now" one said before pulling of the black cap that covered her real hair.
It revealed unhealthy, brown, frail and brittle hair that covered her head in patches. This had truly damaged her reputation bringing it to zero and the disgrace brought upon her today was nowhere close to what she did to William. It not only shames her but her family too as crooks and liars.
"Thank you ladies and gentlemen, and have a nice day" William gave his closing remarks as he went off stage.
He went backstage to meet Keisha who hugged and kissed him. Brian and Connor also congratulated him on his success on finishing of Amanda for life. It was a historic day. They school board also wanted the clip of the principal and coach receiving bribe so that they could carry out their own investigation on the issue. It was all smiles all around or was it.
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On their way to the forest, they didn't know that Amanda had planned for William and his friends. She had paid off Connor's bullies who already had a personal vendetta against him so things were really personal. They setup behind school to take them down by swarming them. The group of four walked out of school when a boy followed after them and told them that a group of boys wanted to thank them personally for what they did against Amanda behind the school. The setting was far too suspicious and they all knew that it was a trap of some sort so they dropped their bags by a tree in the school premises and walked to the back of school. There was a strong smell of cigarettes, alcohol, weed and other hard drugs. They saw what seemed to be the leader of the bullies George, sitting down on the stair case.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the pathetic foursome, always together" George said in a calm and airy tone.
"Ahh, yes and if it isn't the brainless monkey that bullies others cause of his insecurity" William replied sharply.
George laughed before uttering his next words.
"I see that your mouth is as quick as ever to reply but that won't happen again after what I'm going to do to you" George said as he stood up to his feet cracking his knuckles.
William was about to reply but was cut short as seven guys appeared around them and one handed a bat over to George. These guys were obviously prepared to beat the crap out of them this afternoon.
"I see" William said as he threw his jacket on the floor and made two fists.
"You couldn't come at us head on so you paid a boy to lure us out here. And you actually thought that your plan of surrounding us with more men would work, well I hate to inform you but you have another thing coming" William said with obvious anger and annoyance on his face.
The others also geared up to take on the boys that surrounded them. Brian was obviously ticked off and was ready to shed some blood. Connor was trying to sneak away but Keisha dragged him back by the collar and slapped the crap out of him.
"Connor it's either you fight and put an end to this bullying issue of yours or you allow yourself to turn into a punching bag. Your choice" Keisha said angrily. It was known to all that she was ticked off by Connor's cowardice.
He just stood there silent as the while event unfolded. William bolted towards George but was hit in the face by one of the boys. Before he could recover, he has hit in the back by George's bat. This totally pissed him off, William was about to go wolf but a tap on the back from Keisha seemed to do the trick and William put his mind back on facing George and his dog. Brian on the other hand went right up to the two heftiest guys to give them the full force of his frustration. Keisha in the other hand was working that freshly healed back in an acrobatic fashion doing a whole lot of leg attacks to the nuts. Connor just stood there and watched as two guys walked closer to him to give him his fair share of the beating.
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Back at the forest, no one could help but wonder where Brian, Keisha, William and Connor were. None of them was picking their phones or reading their texts. Eric assured them that they'll be here soon so they went out on patrol. Miranda, Brent and Kent held down the vampire entrance as always. Mary and Ethan had to cover not only their turf but for the missing four as well. On their run, they found wolf prints. They weren't much but four footprints were more than enough to show that new wolves were feeding off their land. They were more than capable of holding their own against them and scare them away. To make matters worse, Miranda, Kent and Brent found some vampire tracks and sounded the alarm. The pack was now facing threats from to different angles, first were intruding wolves and now vampires. Mary and Ethan howled in response to the vampire call to tell them about the wolves. Eric had to make a tough choice, with Keisha, William, Brian and Connor away, they didn't have enough men to spare in chasing down the wolves. Rather than telling them to pull away. He sent Linda to give Mary and Ethan support while he went ahead to join the trio in taking down the vampires that they'd found.
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William was stuck up in his fight against George and his boy as he tried his best from being hit in the head by the bat and had to deal with extra hands from his goon. Brian was effortlessly dealing with the two boys handed to him. Stacking his normal physical strength with a little wolf strength helped him over power them and be on the receiving end of a flurry of attacks. Keisha had successfully stopped her two goons from continuing their family's generation with her nut breaking kicks. She saw how Connor was getting his ass whooped and felt pity for him, she wanted to go and help him but decided to let him handle it by himself, she then went to help her boyfriend deal with his own opponents.
"Why are you guys....beating me like this. I'll do...whatever you want, give you lunch money,.....do you assignments for a year just please leave me alone" Connor pleaded with the bullies.
"Can you believe this guy? He really thinks that his stupid offers would help him out" one said before giving a laugh as they kicked Connor mercilessly.
"Yes, all that he's offered is nothing compared to the money that we were paid to handle them. Let's hurry up and knock him out so that we can beat up the others and take William to be beaten even more" The other replied.
Hearing what they were going to do to his friends made him angry and the fact that they were paid to take care of them and beat William almost half dead made him want to kill them all.
Connor propelled by rage caught one of the bullies leg and threw him into the dumpster not to far away.
"You will not harm any of my FRIENDS!" Connor exclaimed like a beast panting heavily.
Brian, William and Keisha knew that this was a totally different Connor. Brian quickly punched his two opponents in the temple knocking them out. Connor walked up to the first bully and gave him a strong knock out causing him to blackout immediately. The bully on the ground after being thrown into the dumpster was now frightened by Connor's appearance. Connor used LL wolf strength and stepped on his leg instantly breaking his bones. The bully squealed in pain as Connor advanced towards George. Keisha once again ended his goons generation with another kick to the nuts which left him wailing on the floor, William then snatched the bat from George's hand and threw him at Connor.
"Please I didn't mean to do this, it was all Amanda, she paid us to do it please spare me" George begged Connor but he was too far gone.
"Amanda has nothing to do with this, this is about all those months of constant torture from you and and the threat to hurt my friends, today, it all comes to an end" Connor replied with a dark stone cold voice.
He pulled George up before punching his nose with a left hook, breaking it. Blood ran out from his nose and Connor wasn't done yet, he used his knee and struck his gut making him cough out blood and Connor finally punched him in the jaw dazing all the life out of him.
Connor calmed down and turned back to his calm and collected self as he realised that violence was the answer to some problems.
With the gang taken care off they walked back to the tree they dumped their bags at and got them and Keisha got out her phone to see her mom's texts and calls. Seeing that her mom was worried, she informed the others and they quickly moved to the forest.
Mary and Ethan were hot on the enemy wolf trails and found them feeding on a deer. Their presence was obviously not welcome as the other wolves instantly started to growl. Ethan and Mary prepared to engage them in combat and got into fighting positions. They were outnumbered two to four but they had experience on their side.
"Stand down immediately or face the fury of the Hamsterly pack" Ethan announced.
"You think we would be scared by just the two of you against the four of us?" A wolf that seemed to be the boss of the four replied arrogantly and full of pride.
"We may just be two but we are far more experienced than what you think" Mary replied confidently.
"I guess we have to test that theory. Let's go guys" The leader said as they charged at Ethan and Mary.
Ethan and Mary also ran to engage them with the two groups clashing with deadly intent. Ethan lashed out viciously with tooth and claw at the two wolves that came in to fight him. Mary was holding her own well against the two enemy wolves.
With both of them engaged in combat with wolves, elsewhere, their counterparts were chasing a couple of vampires who had planned a trap to get rid of some competition. They walked right into the trap with vampires springing out of bushes and grappling around or even biting the wolves. The four of them were surprised and out muscled as it was now eight to four, how could they possibly hold up against them and to make matters worse, it was Armin and Rex. The two were famous wolf killers and now that they had the number advantage, they could easily kill atleast one or two.
Keisha, William, Brian and Connor arrived the Gatwick house, they threw their bags on the ground and headed straight into the dense forest. Knowing that there was obviously trouble, William howled to get load of what was going on in the woods and get a simple briefing on what was going on. Once he howled, the others heard but the group battling the vampires needed their mouth to clamp down on the vampires that swarmed on them and Mary and Ethan were not chanced at all. With no reply, William and the others stopped with no direction on where to go but they could sense the impending danger around them. After Ethan swapped a wolf away, he gave a howl before being rushed from the side by another wolf. The howl fell upon the wolves ears giving both information to the four and giving Linda they exact location so that she could help them. The four of them, Brian, Keisha, William and Connor immediately knew that they'd have to act fast or risk losing everyone.