A Hale of a Teacher

Chapter Eighteen

Tori's POV
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It was the end of the day and we were all heading to the Hale House so that Emerick could meet Derek... as an alpha and not a teacher.

"Claire, slow down... what?" I questioned.

"Its Emerick! He's some sort of creature too!" Claire practically shrieked.

"Yeah, its called a girlfriend stealer," Isaac murmured grouchily.

I laughed and gave Isaac a quick kiss on the cheek - which required me standing on my toes because of how tall he was and how short I was, "Isaac, shut up, I love you and you only."

"I know..." He mumbled still unhappy with Emerick.

"First of all; I'm not trying to steal either of your girlfriends... and yeah, I'm actually a bake-danuki." Emerick said with a crooked smile.

"A bok-A-dan-ooky?" Stiles said, slowly sounding out each part of the word, "What the hell is a bok-A-dan-ooky?"

"For some weird reason everone says that," Emerick chuckled, "A bake-danuki is a Japanese racoon spirit. Its direct translation is Monster Raccoon Dog."

"Oh, You're a raccoon, thats stupid. Can you even do anything cool?" Stiles remarked.

Claire elbowed Stiles in the ribs, "Stop being rude."

"Ow," Stiles yelped, rubbing his ribcage in pain, "I liked it better when you didn't have super strength and couldn't hurt me." He joked.

"We both know you love me," Claire laughed.

"Not to ruin the moment," Isaac said, "but what can you do?"

Emerick smiled, "Well, Bake-Danuki are masters of disguise. We are super good at shape shifting and extremely mischievous. We're tricksters... But unlike kitsune, We temp people to make them look stupid, not to kill or hurt them." He said, giving a cross look at both Claire and I.

Claire shrugged, "Not our fault that we're possessed by fox spirits."

"Wait can you shapeshift into anything or just like nature stuff," I questioned ignoring Claire's very true remark.

"Anything and everything. Its kind of a bake-danuki's main power. Kitsunes shapeshift only into nature related stuff right?"

"Yeah," I nodded.

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Derek laughed, "A Raccoon? What do you do eat trash?"

"No no.. you've got it wrong... He is trash." Stiles laughed.

Isaac joined in, laughing, and high-fived him, "Good one!"

We had just told Derek about Emerick and he obviously wasn't impressed.

Emerick frowned and casually walked behind Stiles and Isaac, then shapshifted into a large tarantula. And by large I mean around 5 feet in diameter.

"Ummm..." Claire pointed.

"AHHHHH WHAT THE HELL!" Stiles and Isaac screamed.

Derek chuckled, "You? I like you."

Emerick shifted back, "Scared of spiders?" He laughed.

"No..." Isaac mumbled sheepishly.

"Thats not a spider that's a fricking monster!" Stiles shouted.

"You're a monster," Emerick retorted.

Stiles frowned, "No, you're a monster."

"No you're a monster."

"No, you-"

"HEY," I interrupted, "We're all monsters."

"Alright, but now it's time for training," Derek smiled.

"Ugh, do we have to," Claire complained.

"They're the only ones learning," I added pointing to Stiles and Isaac.

"I will be teaching you soon, but the full moon is among us and it hardly effects your kind," Derek said nonchalantly. "All of you call your parents and tell them you will be staying at a hotel for a class project."

"We get to go to hotel?" Stiles exclaimed happily.

"No, stupid. Thats the cover. You guys get to stay at my house," Derek said.

"Oh. Yay." Stiles said sarcastically.

"Stop complaining and get ready for the most pain you have ever felt, the full moon will be up soon."

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Derek had locked them all up in chains.

"NO NOT THE SPIKY HEAD THING!" Stiles shouted.

Derek put the 'spiky head thing' onto Stiles and then onto Isaac.

"Who's the losers now?" Emerick laughed.

"I will eat you, Raccoon Boy." Isaac snarled, blood running down his face where the spikes had gone into his head.

I looked away and glanced out the window. I observed up the night sky. The full moon was just barely rising over the mountains and its light was making the whole forest gleam yellow-white.

Derek shook the chains and made sure they were secure, "Soon you're going to shift, and when you do, you most likely won't be able to control it. The first couple full moons, its going to be like this. As soon as you learn to control it, you won't need the chains and stuff anymore."

"I think we can control ourselves," Stiles said.

"Oh you just wait... And the worst part is you probably won't remember anything you did in wolf form." Derek said.

"Haha, sucks for you," Emerick laughed.

"Emerick, that means that if they get loose, you're dead," I pointed out with a slight smile.

"Oh. Right."