Ambitchous (Deputy Parrish)(DISCONTINUED)

Chapter 58

Stiles found the missing footage. It was a video of a huge creature running out of the crime scene.
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I knocked on Scott's door twice before entering, "Hey." 

"Hi." Scott said, finishing wrapping his wounds.

"Still not healing?" Stiles asked.

"Some days it just takes a little longer. What are you doing here?"

"Ah, you heard about the guy who got killed out at the communication towers, right? I think we may have figured something out."

Scott glanced between us, "What, you want my help?"

"Yeah, well you said you can find the clues that I can't. Here, take a look.... This is when the technician first arrived. You see him going in? Then Deputy Clark goes in. Then something really big and really fast comes charging out. Then Clark. Eventually, technician's body is carried out by paramedics." Stiles explained.

"Okay, what am I missing?"

"Two people go in. Three come out. I checked all the footage. Not a single person enters that building before the technician the entire day. So where does that something really big and really fast come from?" I asked.

"There's another way in." Scott realized.
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"You see that?" Scott asked.

"I see blood." I said bluntly as I stepped into a puddle of it.

Stiles pointed to a knocked over freezer, "Look where it leads to."

We all lifted the freezer up to reveal a hole, most likely made by the creature. We quietly jumped into it, trying not to draw attention to ourselves. Stiles led with a black light until we found a message.

"What is that?" Scott asked.

I thought about it for a second, "It looks like Latin."

"Hold the light. I'm gonna take a picture of it."

The light remained on the words for a while before the light flickered.

"Stiles, hold the light still." I demanded.

Stiles remained silent.

We turned to see that Tracy had cut him on the back of his neck, making him temporarily paralyzed. She went after Scott first.

"Scar, behind you!"

I dunked just as another chimera- Josh, I think his name was- charged at me. Scott held Tracy's hand out and I pushed Josh into it. Josh, being now paralyzed fell to the ground. I turned to the wall and growled. Corey instantly revealed himself.

"Okay. Maybe they're not ready to take on an inugami, especially one that can smell fear."

"She's got completely black eyes!" Corey defended.

"What did you do?" I asked Theo.

Theo shrugged, "I found some new friends. I don't take rejection well."

"Hey, Theo." Stiles said, still paralyzed on the ground.

"Stiles."

Theo stepped on the Latin words, breaking them, "You're going to leave here thinking that you need to worry about me but you're wrong. We're actually back on the same side because that thing... That's what we need to worry about. Your pack and mine. We're gonna go back to school and pretend like we're normal teenagers but at night, we're going to be fighting for our lives."

I raised an eyebrow, "What is it?"

"It's not a chimera."

"It's just a kid underneath. Someone like us." Scott said.

Theo shook his head, "Not anymore."
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We waited in the tunnels until Stiles' paralysis wore off.

"He knew what it meant, and I can't remember the words." Stiles mumbled.

"Damnatio Memoriae. It means the condemnation of memory. It also means that whatever the dread doctors created, whatever this last chimera really is, it's not something new. It's something old. Really old." I replied.

"So they didn't create a new creature."

"They resurrected one." Scott made the connection.

Scott drew the first circle of his tattoo and our pack's symbol into the dirt, "We need help. If Theo's got his own pack now then we need ours. We have to get the others back."

"The others? You mean Kira who's currently battling a homicidal fix spirit inside of her, Malia who isn't speaking to none of us, Lydia who's stuck in Eichen House, and Liam who almost killed you?"

"Also known as our best friends." I smiled.

"Okay, how?" Stiles asked.

"One by one."

I drew half of the outer circle and looked up at Stiles.

"You're not seriously going to make me do it?" Stiles stared blankly.

"You're part of the pack, right?"

"Okay." He sighed.

Stiles completed the second half of the outer circle and stood up.

"I still hate that tattoo."

I chuckled, "We know."