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Chapter Eighty-Eight
⚔ The Wolves Of War ⚔
Scott, hiding behind a stone support column, looks around the corner for a brief moment to find Malia ducked behind a nearby dumpster, though he's forced to move back to avoid being hit by gunfire, which just broke the cement covering the corner he was just standing behind.
Deucalion is desperately trying to crawl away to safety, and Peter has just rushed from behind another support column to behind a steel barrel in hopes of it holding up better against the Hunters' ammunition.
Malia, still ducked down as far as she can against the front of a dumpster, tries to hold the metal container still so Lydia, who is covering her ears to minimize the trauma to her enhanced sense of hearing, remains safe. Scott, who is just barely avoiding being hit where he is, frantically calls out for his girlfriend, "Malia!"
A Hunter with an assault rifle has just found Scott's hiding spot and is about to shoot him, much to Scott's panic, until suddenly, Stiles' Jeep speeds through the road in front of the shipyard and forcefully hits the Hunter so hard he flies backward. Scott, stunned, looks at Stiles, who gives him a relieved-yet-exasperated look.
"You didn't think you were doing this without me, did ya?" Stiles asked but before Scott can process his best friend's arrival, Derek appeared next to the Jeep and smirks at him. "Without us?" Derek asked making Scott's asked widen, not waiting for a response, Derek immediately lets out his fangs, claws, and glowing blue eyes before roaring and launching himself into the fray, allowing him to easily take down two Hunters in midair.
A hunter ran up to Malia and Lydia making Malia growl at him but before she could do anything the man's eyes rolled back. He fell to the ground to reveal Aurora who gave the two girls a look. "You really should have called." Aurora said before walking past them.
She walked up to a hunter grabbing the barrel of a gun a hunter before hitting him with the butt and up it making him instantly fall to the ground.
Since the intervention has tilted the fight in their favor, Malia gets out of her hiding spot and rushes toward a Hunter, shoving him hard against the chain-link fence behind him. Without pausing, Malia, using her newly-taught sightless acuity, senses a Hunter behind her and pirouettes before slashing him across the chest several times with her claws. Finally, Malia runs backward to kick the first Hunter in the head, easily knocking him out.
Two men ran up to Aurora, aiming their guns at her making her give them a bored look. Her necklace glowed before she flicked her hand out making the guns fly out of the men's hands. "Dolorem Inferens Somno." Aurora said, holding her hand up toward one of the men making him cry out in pain before passing out.
"Cruciatus." Aurora said and the other man grabbed his head, crying out in pain. Aurora stepped forward before grabbing his head, slamming it against a crate, letting his body fall to the ground.
Monroe watches as her hunters go down left and right making her realize they're outmatched. She quickly ran toward her SUV with the rest of the Hunters who are conscious and not badly injured before they drive away.
Everyone met up with each other where Scott was crouched down next to Deucalion. Deucalion's breaths become more and more shallow as he gently thrusts his hand on top of Scott's, a trickle of blood dripping from his mouth. Scott, knowing deep down that Deucalion won't survive, looks devastated as he makes eye contact and listens to what he has to say.
"Gerard... What he f-f-fears most... He can't... beat you..." He said weakly as he slowly runs out of air and time, though he chuckles as if almost in amusement when he realizes how this war ends, smiling in spite of himself. "...And he knows it." Before Deucalion can say more, his eyes go glassy, his breathing stops, and his hand slips out of Scott's own, confirming his death.
Scott, with tears in his eyes, exhales in disappointment as the others gather closely around him. Malia, just as upset by Deucalion's death, shakes her head in disbelief. "It's really started, hasn't it?" She asked and Stiles frowns, "What's started?" He asked and Scott stands to his feet, though he doesn't immediately take his eyes off of Deucalion's body.
"It's an all-out war." Scott said before turning to look at the rest of his friends, finally remembering that Derek has re-joined them for the first time in over a year. Noticing Scott's line of sight, Lydia, Malia, and Peter all turn to look at him as well as Scott walks forward and hugs Derek tightly.
They pulled away and Derek patting Scott's shoulder before Peter rolled his eyes. "As much as I enjoy the impromptu family reunion, what are you doing here?" Peter asked, "I found a pack slaughtered in Brazil. There were two words written in blood on the wall- Beacon Hills." Derek explained.
Scott glanced at Deucalion's body for a moment before turning back to look at him with a surprised look on his face. "You came back for Beacon Hills?" He asked making Derek smile at him, "No, I came back for you." He said making Scott look at him gratefully with a smile before suddenly, the police radio in Stiles' Jeep starts to chirp and beep.
After a moment, Gerard's voice is heard through the speakers, and the pack follows Scott and Stiles to the Jeep. Scott gets into the passenger seat while Stiles gets into the driver's seat while the others circle around the open windows to hear what Gerard has to say. Ever the literary scholar, Gerard recites an modified excerpt from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.
"Blood and destruction / And dreadful objects so familiar / All pity choked with custom of fell deeds / And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge / With Ate by his side come hot from hell / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice...Do you know the rest, Scott? Do you know your Shakespeare?"
Scott looks up at Aurora, who is standing outside of the passenger door of the Jeep with Derek and Malia and who nods to indicate thats she knows the answer. Scott picks up the radio microphone and hands it to her, who finishes the quote, "Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war..." She quoted, knowing the play by heart.
"War, indeed. I see you're back in town, Aurora. I'm sure with a certain old flame of yours." Gerard said making Aurora and Derek glance at each other. "You must all be feeling rather nostalgic. Are you pleased with the little family reunion I've gathered around you, Scott?" Gerard said and Scott can't help but roll his eyes, albeit with a grim expression on his face, before he responds over the radio, "Yeah, why don't you come join us, and I can thank you in person."
"I even have a few visitors for you... from London. Even someone like Jackson Whittemore couldn't resist coming back to Beacon Hills." Gerard says making Lydia's eyes widen, "Say "Hello," Jackson!" Gerard said followed by yells of pain.
"Do it again, old man! Come a little closer-- I'm gonna shove that thing so far up your ass!"
"He's lost none of his charm, has he? You can find him here with us at the armory, Scott. He's lost none of his charm, has he? You can find him here with us at the armory, Scott. Your deputy Hellhound met some friends of his while responding to a call from Eichen House. Your father was on his way back from San Francisco with the goal of entering the fight... But he didn't get far. You might want to tell your mother to skip her shift at the hospital tonight. Liam and his friends are there now. Optimistic of them, but woefully ill-advised."
"This is how you wage war, Scott. A strategic positioning of your army against theirs. Which is why you will come to me. You will try to save as many as you can, and you might even save a few. But, your limited resources will be spread thin, and ultimately, you will fail." Scott, overwhelmed by what he's hearing, grimaces and sighs as he squeezes his eyes closed for a moment, clutching the radio so tightly that he nearly crushes it.
"The dogs of war, Scott... They're coming for you."
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Lydia flipped the animal clinic sign on the door from "OPEN" to "CLOSED" before joining Scott, Malia, Derek, Aurora, and Stiles in the exam room. They are gathered around the metal exam table as Stiles and Derek begin to explain how they are involved in the situation.
"So, literally day one of my internship, and up comes this slide about this guy they've been chasing in the woods of North Carolina with an accomplice." Stiles started and Malia furrow her brows in confusion as she looked at Derek. "I thought you guys were in South America." She said and Fallon nodded.
"He was but the bodies of the wolves he told you about? They blamed Derek making him wanted for murder... again." Aurora said, side glancing at Derek who roll his eyes at her while Stiles nodded. "So, I learn that the FBI has cornered this feral, mass-murdering unsub-" Stiles said but before he could continue, Derek cut him off.
"We found a group of Hunters gathering in a meeting place. I was trying to get information." Derek said and Stiles rolls his eyes before finishing his thought. "Yeah, well, the FBI found it, too, and they were planning a SWAT assault to take him down, dead or alive." Stiles looks over to see Lydia smirking, clearly humoring Stiles, while both Scott and Malia are looking at them with wide eyes. Aurora just looked a mix of bored and amused.
"And, as we all know, though, with Derek, it's preferably dead." Stiles said making Aurora chuckle while Derek shrugged slightly, "Preferably." Derek said and Stiles ignores him in favor of moving on with the story.
"So, I convinced them to take me on the field op." Stiles said Scott and Malia are still looking at them with shock and confusion, while Lydia's expression is both incredulous and impressed by what she's hearing, "You convinced the FBI to bring an intern onto an extremely dangerous field operation?" Lydia asked and Aurora huffed slightly.
"I'm surprised he didn't convince them he could lead it." Aurora said and Stiles' expression is one of complete sincerity when he responds to this comment, "I tried- didn't work." Stiles shakes his head slightly before getting to the point.
"Anyway, long story short, I basically had to, you know, save his life." Stiles said making Derek look at Stiles with a mixture of exasperation and offense at what he is implying. "That's not how it happened." He said and Stiles shrugged slightly, "Yeah, I may have left out a detail, but that's the gist of it." Stiles said defensively as he looks over at the others.
Lydia is nodding skeptically, while Scott and Malia look impressed. "That's the essential essence of it." Stiles said and Derek raised his eyebrows, "You couldn't walk." Derek said and Stiles scoffed. "I was limping." Stiles said, "You couldn't walk- and I know that because I was carrying you." Derek said.
"They shot my toe! You wanna see it?"
Stiles says as he looks at Derek as though he is hurt by the interpretation of their story. Derek rolls his eyes and looks at Aurora, Lydia, Scott and Malia with an expression that seems to say, 'You see what I had to deal with?'.
"My toe was caught in the crossfire! It was obliterated!" Stiles said making Aurora looks at him kn exasperation, "Okay forget your stupid toe." She said. Stiles looked at Aurora, clearly upset with the lack of concern regarding his injuries, and mutters quietly, "Obliterated."
Stiles looks over at Scott, who sighs and tries to redirect the conversation back to the task at hand, "Guys, it's not just the Hunters- we've got another problem." He said and Lydia nodded, "It's called the Anuk-ite." Lydia said making Stiles and Derek look confused, "What's the Anuk-ite?" Stiles asked.
"It can get into your head, it can make you see things." Scott says, and Stiles nods slowly, "What does it look like?" He asked. "It used to look like two ordinary people... But, somehow, they merged." Aurora said and Stiles looks very unsettled by what he's hearing, "All we know is it's made of two faces- one human, the other supernatural."
"It's a shapeshifter, just like us. But it knows what you're afraid of- what you fear most." Scott explained and Malia nodded, "And now it can kill you just by looking at you." She said and Stiles raised his eyebrows. "Okay, so you're telling me that we've gotta go up against this thing blind and face our deepest fear?" Stiles asked and they nodded. "What do you fear most?" Scott asked looking at Stiles, "Blindness." Stiles said and Aurora raised her eyebrows in amusement.
"Becoming blind?" She asked and Stiles nodded, "Yeah, terrified of it. Always have been." He said and when they all look at him blankly, Stiles continued on. "This just seems to be a situation of unfortunate overlap." He said and Scott turned to the others.
"Lydia, you and Stiles need to find Argent. Get to the armory and rescue Jackson." Scott said and Lydia nodded, "I don't think we have time to wait for him. I've gotten through those doors once anyway, I can do it again." She said and Stiles looks at them incredulously, interjects before they can continue. "Can we slow it down just for one second to make sure I'm grasping this? So, we're talking about actually doing this? We're gonna do exactly what Gerard wants us to? Is that right?"
"Stopping this thing can stop Gerard an and the Hunters?" Derek asked and Scott sighed, "Not all of them are Hunters." He said making Derek raise his eyebrows at him. "No, he's right. Most of them are ordinary people acting out of fear." Aurora backed Scott up and he sighed, "Monroe's not gonna change... But I think that we can reach the others. Most of them, actually."
"The Anuk-ite is causing them to come from a place of fear."
"Well, fear's pretty motivating, especially when it leads to anger." Derek shrugged. "And I think that if we can take out the fear, we can take out the fight in them, too. They're afraid of us, but they don't have to be. They just have to change their minds."
"We have to change their minds." Aurora corrected, "Okay. We can face the Anuk-ite. We can try to fight it blind. We can try to face our fears. But, we still need to know how to catch it." Malia said. "Yeah, we'll figure that out. We always do." Scott said making Derek smile at him, "Well, It's nice to see someone hasn't lost their optimism." He said and Scott smiled weakly at him, "Not yet." He said.
Stiles, who stares off into the distance for a moment, bitterly interjects, "I have." Stiles said making Lydia and Aurora both shoot Stiles another exasperated look before Lydia turned to Scott. "We will buy you time, Scott. Who knows? Maybe Jackson has the answer." Lydia said and Aurora nodded, "Maybe Argent will come back with one." She said and Scott looked at her, Derek and Malia.
"You three, you're with me. And we need Peter- anyone who can help stop this thing, or slow it down." Scott looks over at Malia, and the two share an affectionate expression, "Where are we headed?" Malia asked. "The high school." Scott said and Derek raised his eyebrows, "That's where we're gonna find this thing?" He asked and Scott shook his head.
"No. It'll find us."
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Scott, Malia, Aurora and Derek arrived at the high school and are horrified to find that Peter has been petrified into stone. Malia, overwhelmed, pauses for a moment, "He's not dead. He can't be." Malia said before Aurora held her hand up to Peter for a moment. "He's alive, but it won't last." Aurora said, but they were suddenly distracted by the sound of footsteps approaching them, "And we're not alone."
Scott and Malia share a worried look before Scott looks Peter up and down. When Scott's eyes widen in realization, Malia looks at him with a confused expression, "Scott?" Scott continues to think for a moment before he finally speaks. "I think I know how to catch it."
Two Hunters armed with assault rifles are running down the hallway while Scott, Malia, Aurora and Derek hide in the nearby stairwell. Once the Hunters are out of earshot, they begin to quietly plan their next move. "We can't just hide. Peter's not going to last like that." Malia said.
"Well, neither will we if that thing finds us, too."
"We've got to wait for Stiles." Scott said making Malia sigh impatiently, "I'm not waiting here." She said and before anyone can react, Malia leaps down the steps into the entrance hall, forcing them to follow after her. When they finally catch up to her, Scott grabs her gently by the wrist to stop her, "Whoa, hey, Malia, hold on!"
Hearing something behind them the four of them turn around to find Monroe holding a handgun aimed at Scott's chest before shooting. The bullet hit him in the chest making him fall to the ground and Malia eyes widened before she quickly rushed over to him. "Scott-" She started to say but he cut her off, "No, I'm okay! Don't let her go." He said.
Just as Monroe turns to leave, Malia partially transforms with her glowing blue eyes, fangs, and claws, and roars in fury at her before running after Monroe, who immediately ran off. Meanwhile, Derek and Aurora pulled Scott up slightly making Scott groan.
He pressed his hand against his bleeding wound and is alarmed when he sees that his blood is tinged with the yellow wolfsbane serum. Derek and Aurora immediately recognizing it and remembering what Kate said in about putting it in a bullet, looks at Scott with worry. "No, you're not okay. It's yellow wolfsbane. It's gonna kill you." Derek said making Scott's eyes widen in shock and horror.
"What?!?"
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Derek has Scott's arm around his shoulder as he half-carries him into the nearby science lab to treat his wounds while Aurora keeps and eye out for any hunters. Derek gently seats Scott on one of the stools before beginning to rifle through the nearby cabinet while Scott, already weak from the poison, starts to object. "Guys, just go! Help Malia, please." Scott said but continued to search the cabinet.
"I'm not worried about her. We've gotta get rid of this. There's only one way to get rid of wolfsbane-" Derek finds a small, hand-held blowtorch in the cabinet and hits the trigger to make sure it works, causing a small blue flame to come out, "You burn it out."
Aurora walked over and placed a gently grabbed Scott's shoulder, "I'll go help Malia. You let Derek help you with this, okay? We can't win with without you." Aurora said and Scott sighed before nodding. Aurora looked at Derek who stared at her for a moment, "Be careful." He said and she smirked at him.
"I've last this long, I can last a little longer."
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Aurora ran down the hallways of the highschool trying to find Malia while casually keeping an eye out for and hunters and keeping high alert for the Anuk-ite.
She turned the corner to see Derek completely made of stone making her eyes widen. "Derek!" She yelled running over to him, she gently grabbed his face before sighing in relief when she could feel that he was still alive. All of the sudden a strong sense of fear rushed through her making her take a deep breath before closing her eyes.
"Aurora." A familiar voice said making Aurora suck in a deep breath, "Aurora, look at me." They said. "You're not real." Aurora said, "Look at me and see just how real I am." Jennifer said as she stepped closer.
Aurora sighed softly, knowing that the Anuk-ite wouldn't leave unless she looked. But she knew better than to give up that easily. "Cruciatus." She whispered before opening her eyes when she heard Jennifer scream out in pain. The screams slowly turned from Jennifer's to something close to a creature like screech.
Aurora took a deep breath slowly opened her eyes before noticing the Anuk-ite's bright purple eyes behind Derek. A second later her body slowly started to turn to stone.
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"We've got two here." A hunter spoke into a radio as him and his buddy looked at Derek and Aurora, "I don't know if they're dead... but they definitely looks vulnerable." He spoke, smirking over at his buddy.
"One in the head, and one in the heart." Monroe spoke through the radio, "Copy" the hunter said and nodded to his friend. They lifted their guns up, one pointing at Derek, the other pointing at Aurora.
Just before the Hunters can shoot Derek and Aurora, they burst out of their stone covering in a burst of dust. The hunters looked at them wide eyes before Aurora quickly held her hand up. "Somnos." She said making the man's eyes roll back before he fell to the ground. Derek hit the gun out of his hand and punch him in the face making him fall to the ground.
Aurora turned to Derek while taking a deep breath before smirking slightly. She went to say something but got cut short when Derek grabbed her waist before pulling her into a kiss. She instantly kissed back and their lips moved in sync for a moment before they slowly pulled back.
They stared at each other for a moment before Aurora smiled softly, grabbing his face and pulling him back into a kiss.
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Malia made her way into the library, where Stiles, Lydia, Aurora and Derek have gathered around Scott, who is laying weakly on the main staircase. When Malia sees what happened to him, she immediately rushes to his side as Stiles stood up to give her space.
"Scott?" She asked worriedly, glanced at the others before returning her attention to Scott, "He's not healing? Scott, what happened to your eyes?" Malia asked and Scott looked at her apologetically.
"I had to. I'm sorry." He said and Aurora looks at him in concern, "Scott, you have to heal. If your eyes stay like this much longer, the damage is gonna be permanent and I can't heal eyesight." Aurora said. Stiles looked at Scott worriedly as Malia squeezes Scott's shoulder reassuringly, "Come on, Scott, concentrate."
"I'm trying... It's not working. I can't focus." Scott said panickedly and Malia cradles Scott's face in her hands as she tries to help him heal. "Hey! Hey, look at me! Yes, you can! Just concentrate!" She said and between the pain of his eye's injuries and the pressure of the need to focus in order to heal them, Scott begins hyperventilating.
"I can't-I can't-I can't do it." He said and Malia nodded softly, "Yes, you can. Scott, please, just look at me." She said.
Aurora's rested her chin on Derek's shoulder while Lydia and Stiles grabbed each others hands before realization crossed over Lydia's features. "Malia?" She said making Malia looks back at her, Scott's face still held in her hands. "Kiss him." She said, looking away from Stiles to Malia, who looks at Lydia as though she's lost her mind, "What?"
"Kiss him."
Malia turns back to Scott, licking her lips anxiously as she looks how badly his eyes are injured before leaning forward and gently kissing him on the lips. Scott reaches up with his left hand and places it gently on where she has her own hand holding his jaw.
After a long moment, she pulls away, and Scott carefully opens his eyes to reveal that they are healing in a burst of Alpha-red light. Malia and the others let out a sigh of relief before Scott, looking at Malia with adoration, leans forward and kisses her again.
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"I'm back!" Aurora called out as she and Derek walked into the house. Almost instantly they could hear the sound of running making Aurora smile as the twins ran into the livingroom. "Derek!" The twins both yelled, running past their mother as Derek smiled at them while crouching down.
Aurora looked at her kids in offense before turning around as Leah walked over. "My kids just curved me." Aurora said making Leah chuckled as they looked at Derek and the twins.
"I didn't know you were bring home a stray. I would have made some food." Leah said making Derek give her a look as be stood up while Aurora smiles when the twins hugged her legs. "Nice to see you too, Leah." Derek said and Leah smiled at him before glancing between Derek and Aurora.
"So, you two gonna get back togeather?" Leah asked making Derek and Aurora look at each other, "Because if so, keep it quiet. I need to start a bet with the twins." Leah said making Aurora give her a look. "No. No more making bets with my children about my love life." Aurora said and Leah raised her eyebrows.
"What? Sorry, I couldn't hear what you said." Leah said and Aurora rolled her eyes and went to say something but Leah spoke up again. "Oh, well would you look at that. It's time to get dinner started." Leah said before walking away, "You are so annoying." Aurora said and Leah just turned around and playfully blew a kiss.
Derek and Aurora looked at each other for a moment before Aurora smile softly and grabbed his hand, pulling him over to where the twins went.
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"They ran that night. Gerard put guns in people's hands, but a lot less than they thought were actually willing to use them. More people know our secret now, but more of them are on our side. They weren't afraid of us anymore. Now we have allies who used to be enemies. We have protectors. We have friends willing to fight for us." Scott explains to Alec who looks despondent and confused. "Kay, Alec... The people who are hunting you? They've got a leader. Her name is Monroe, and she's got a lot of followers."
"Like, what? Hundreds?" Alec asked and Scott looks at Alec with a serious expression, "Thousands- all over the world."
"So what are we doing here?"
"We're meeting up with some people who can help us. Some of them are always with us, others come when we need them. But, tonight... We need everyone we can get." Scott says and Alec is suddenly distracted by the arrival of the Jeep pulling up to them and watches as Stiles and Lydia get out of it to join them.
Next is Derek pulled up in his camaro and he and Aurora got out aa Malia pulled up in her Toyota with Liam. Malia makes eye contact with Scott and gives him an affectionate smile while Alec looks back at Scott with a questioning expression, "Are they all... different?"
"Some of them are." Scott looks back at Malia, who smirks playfully. "Some can do things you'd never believe. And others might only be human-" Scott said as he looked at Stiles, who smiled at him. "But they make up for it by being really smart." Scott, looking at Lydia, who nods back at him.
"Or really good in a fight." Scott said looking over at Aurora who smiled at him and gave him a slight nod. "Who are they?" Scott smiles at Alec at the thought of the answer before turning to giving Derek a look who smiled at him. "My friends. My pack. And you can be with us, if you want. But you're going to have to fight." Scott said.
"Against Monroe?"
"And everyone that follows her." Scott said and Alec looked at Scott with fear in his eyes. "She said she'd find me. That she'd hunt me down and kill me. She didn't care how old I was. She said I was a monster." Alec said and Scott smiled softly. "You're not a monster. You're a Werewolf." He says, his eyes glowing bright red, "Like me." Scott looks over at Liam, who smiles proudly in response, before beckoning Alec to follow him.
Scott walks over to the others to make his introduction, and Derek smiled as he walked over to Aurora. He wrapped his arm over her shoulders before leaning down to kiss her before they walked over to the others
Scott puts his arms around Stiles' shoulders while Lydia walked up to them. Alec, now excited to meet everyone, quickly rushes over. They smiled at each other as Malia joins them at Scott's side, and Liam was the first one to approach Alec to talk to him as all eight of them walk into the proverbial sunset.