Jules never realized how stubborn of a person Mrs. Finch was. Even after being exposed she was persistent in not contacting her daughter. "I won't do that." Liam sighs at this and rubs his head. "Just call her and tell her not to go anywhere near the school. Tell her that there's someone or something hunting for someone like her."
"You have to stop talking about this." Seeing Liam's lack of success, Scott steps toward them. "If she shows up, at least you'll know what happened to your family—what happened to your daughter." Her eyes fill with tears once again as she shakes her head in denial, causing Liam who look saddened by the situation to help her. "I'll do it for you."
Mrs. Finch gives him a questioning look, and when he gulps and nods in confirmation, Mrs. Finch shakily opens the flip phone and scrolls through the contacts until her daughter's number comes up. She then hands the phone to Liam, squeezing his wrist for comfort before standing to her feet to pace around. Liam looks down at the open phone in his hand and is shocked when he sees the contact name.
Quinn
"That's her name? That's your daughter's name?" Liam asks her.
"Quinn. My daughter's name is Quinn."
***
The sun had gone down, and the group still waiting around in the classroom. Jules had been walking back and forth to distract herself until she suddenly froze. Brett looked up at her due to her lack of movement. "Jules? What is it?" Her eyes held worry in them as she looked back at the group. "Something's here with us. Something bad." She said as fear ran through her back.
Suddenly they heard the doors to the main entrance open loudly as a strong gust a wind blew dead leaves through the halls. Scott and Liam share an anxious look as Mrs. Finch walks toward them. "That's her, isn't it?" She asks them as the look out through the small window on the door.
"Well, what are you planning on doing?" Liam, frowns with concern and shushes her as they move closer to the door.
Mrs. Finch clearly had a bad feeling about what they planned to do. "You-you're not going to try to hurt her, are you? That's my daughter." She questions. "We're gonna do what we have to do." Brett answers her making her worry even more.
"What exactly does that mean?"
"Just stay back." Scott tells her as she backs up toward the chalkboard. Scott turned back to them just to make sure they were ready for what they were about to see "Ready." Liam tells him as he turns to look at Jules and Brett who only nod their heads while keeping their gazes stuck on the door.
Mrs. Finch, still terrified that they were going to hurt Quinn was thinking of anything she could to stop them when she realized that Liam had left the tampered chalkboard eraser er daughter, anxiously backs up until her back hits the chalkboard.
Just as it seems that Quinn is on her way to the classroom suddenly, Mrs. Finch forcefully waves the chalkboard eraser toward the the group tossing the powdered purple wolfsbane in their faces and causing them—except Jules— to fall to the floor in a coughing fit
Scott's eyes blaze red to fight the effects of the wolfsbane as he watches Mrs. Finch run out of the room into the entrance hall. Liam's eyes are squeezed shut as he continues to cough and gag along with Brett who was smacking his chest with his hand as he coughed.
"I got her." Jules said as she tries to run out to follow Mrs.Finch. "No, I'll find her. Go find Quinn." Scott tells her as he begins to get up.
"Whoa, whoa—we need to face her together." Liam protests. "I can't leave her. Go!"
"Wh-wh-what if she finds "Aaron" first? How are we supposed to fight both of them?" Scott, knowing how terrified Liam is about the threat they're facing, looks at him with a reassuring expression. "Liam, look, man... It's okay to be afraid. Just don't let it stop you, You've got this. Go!"
Liam looks to his side as Jules gives him a smile, reassuring him that she'd be with him every step of the way.
Liam runs leading the way as he, Jules and Brett make it inside the library. They slowly enter seeing 'Quinn' standing in front of the large windows with her back turned to them. The fear she induced on them seemed to affect them all as Jules starts to breath heavier. The sound of her breathing causes "Quinn" to turn around to face them. Liam slowly walks toward her, murmuring to himself under his breath to help calm him down as he once again begins bouncing on the balls of his feet to psych himself out as Jules and Brett follow from behind.
"Stay afraid... Stay afraid..." Jules hears Liam whispering to himself as "Aaron" walks the the library doors. Jules and Brett run attacking Aaron as Liam jumps from table to table trying to get to Quinn. Jules starts off by grabbing Aaron and throwing him to the wall.
Trying to get up Brett grabs him and knees him in the stomach, pushing him back towards Jules who used her claws, embedding them into Aaron's back as he scream along with Quinn who can feel his pain.
When Liam reaches the last table, he uses all of his momentum to leap into the air in order to hit "Quinn" who ends up punching him in the gut with such force that he flies all the way back to the entrance of the library, ultimately knocking into Brett and Jules who had the upper hand until now.
"Aaron" and "Quinn" then turn their attention back onto each other, once again intently staring at each other for a long moment before taking a step toward one another. "Quinn" raises her left hand and raises it so that it is cupping the side of "Aaron's" neck, while "Aaron" clasps her hip with his right hand. When the two began kissing, the Anuk-ite's spiders begin scurrying in and out of each others' mouths. After several moments, the two pull away from each other, each of them with a smirk on their faces as they continue to grip each other's forearm.
"Aaron" squeezes her arm hard enough that his hand quivered, and though she initially plays it cool, she ultimately head-butts him in the face, revealing that their merging involves one half dominating the other. "Aaron," now furious at the discomfort the blow caused, throws a right cross, which "Quinn" blocked, followed by a right hook to the gut that knocked the wind out of her. She ducks to avoid his second right cross and returns it to him by hitting him right in the jaw. They finally grab each other in a choke-hold, with "Quinn" shoving them into a nearby bookcase. It looked as though "Quinn" had the upper-hand due to her cutting off "Aaron's" airway, but at the last moment, he gathered all the strength he had and used it to snap his other half's neck, killing her instantly.
"Aaron" then kneels behind "Quinn's" body and places his left hand on her face, absorbing all of the rest of the spiders within her. His eyes blaze the purple almost resembling Jules', and as soon as the spiders flood back into Aaron's mouth, he stands to his feet and starts doubling over in pain as the merging of the Anuk-ite's two halves begins in a cloud of purple and red smoke and light.
The trio had still been recovering from the fight uses the nearby check-out desk to pull himself to his feet. He briefly sees the transformation underway before "Aaron" stumbles further away from him in the library. They all watched panting for breath and clearly terrified as "Aaron's" body morphs into a very tall and thin humanoid being with what looks like irritated read flayed skin, a sealed mouth, and hollow eye sockets with swirling purple light illuminating the sclera of his eyes.
The Anuk-ite, sensing their presence, skulks through the aisles of bookshelves toward them. The trio bracing for another fight, start to shift again, all their eyes blazing their signature colors when suddenly, someone appears behind him and yanks them backward before they can move any further.
Lydia groans and stands to her feet before pulling Liam up while Brett helped Jules to her feet. "We have to run!" She tells them as she rushes them out of the library and into the school, only for Liam to follow her, clearly confused her plan.
"What are you doing? Quinn and Aaron merged. We have to stop them!" Liam tells her. " You can't!" She objects as they run last an adjacent hall where Gabe and two other hunters where waiting for them.
"You can't look at it. If you do, it'll kill you!" Gabe, having heard what Lydia has said, backs up and hides behind the nearby stairwell without a sound. His two cohorts, who are in position several meters in front of him, don't hear him move, and they aim their weapons at the intersection of hallways when they catch the sound of footsteps approaching.
Sure enough, the Anuk-ite slowly walks toward them, its fear-inducing power causing them to grip their shotguns so tightly that they start to tremble severely. At first, only the glowing of its purple irises can be seen, but when it comes out of the shadows, the sight of the Anuk-ite's eyes, which have now taken the shape of a hazy, swirling pair of purple lights, causes both men to be petrified into stone exactly where they stand. They fall first face into the floor and Gabe begins hyperventilating from fear. He holds his breath as the Anuk-Ite walks by and once to clear he runs off, leaving the bodies of his fellow hunters in the quiet halls.
***
Sometime later, the group reconvenes in the hallway, where Lydia kneeled onto the floor to touch the statues that used to be human Hunters. All four of them looking overwhelmed by the turn of events.
"How do we fight something we can't look at?" Jules asks the group. "I have no idea." Lydia answers him. Suddenly, Scott and Malia appear behind them. "We have to learn to fight without our eyes." Scott says as Malia looks at Scott incredulously when she realizes where he's going with this. "Fight without seeing? That means..." Malia starts turning to Lydia as she sighs.
"Deucalion."