It's that time of year again. As you guys are aware this is final season of TW meaning it's also the final season of the TNH series. If you kept up with TW you know that alot of things in this season doesn't make sense due to the Wild Hunt. If you have any questions about how the characters remember the past, please feel free to ask.
It's been three years since this series has started and it's come along way. I want to thank everyone for their support and I appreciate you guys taking this journey and ending it with me as well.
I also want to add-in that there won't be a constant update schedule, but I will post the next update towards the end of each chapter.
Enjoy!
On a dark road, two teenagers are surrounded by crickets chirping, thunder rumbling in the distance, and leaves falling everywhere. To them it seemed, like a storm is about to occur and they needed to get off the road immediately, but something seems to catch one of the teenager's attention as he is kneeling beside a car.
Standing up beside him, Hayden Romero questions, "What?"
The boy, Liam Dunbar, replies, "Nothing."
Hayden sinks down to his level, "We should've taken my car." She tells him in a knowing tone, "Like I said. Several times."
"It's a new car," Liam argues, standing up.
"It was new to someone," Hayden agrees with a chuckle, getting up from the ground. "About twenty years ago."
Liam chuckles mockingly as he walks to the back of the car, causing Hayden to laugh at him even more. And while looking in the back, Liam notices something they need, isn't there.
"There's no jack," Liam shares with her.
Without saying a word, Hayden moves to the front of the car and lifts the front of the car without a problem due to her werewolf strength, "Get the spare." She instructs Liam, watching him walk to the back, only to turn around again, "No spare?"
"No spare," He confirms as Hayden lowers the car back down, "I know." He says looking rather disappointed, "Worst date ever."
"We've had worse," Hayden says in a reminiscing tone. "Remember the double date?"
A smirk tugs on Liam's face, "What about New Year's?"
"Christmas with your parents."
"The time your sister…"
"Please don't say it." Hayden interrupts him with a laugh.
Liam laughs as well, "At least we've had a date." He points out, "Stiles is still waiting on that date with Derek."
"How many years has it been now?"
"Two."
"Girl has some patience," Hayden says clearly impressed, she looks up to the sky noticing some green lights in the sky. Liam notices the confused expression on her face and looks up to see the light as well.
"Must be the Northern Lights," She offers, just before hearing a car approaching them. "Maybe they have a spare."
Hayden raises her hand to grab the attention of the driver, but the car keeps driving past them; only coming to a stop when they hit a fence.
The couple exchange looks of uncertainty, before making their way to the stopped car.
The whole solution is strange because as they neared, they can see that no one is the car, but the engine is still running. Not only that, but the windshield is smashed.
Liam carefully opens the driver's side door, but as he leans into the car he can clearly see Hayden standing on the other side, guarded. It takes a second for him to realize that the passenger's door is missing completely.
Wordlessly, he turns off the engine and looks up in the rearview mirror and sees somebody hiding in the back seat.
He turns to the back and sees a young boy, looking completely terrified, "Please, don't let them take me." He pants, almost on the verge of panic, "Don't let them take me too."
Sheriff Stilinski inspects claw marks in the hood of a delivery van. He turns away from the vehicle just as a paramedic finishes strapping a brace on one of the teen's arm, "What in the hell were you two thinking?"
Both teens, Stiles Stilinski and Scott McCall, turn around facing him. One wearing a slightly sheepish face while the other remains completely unashamed. The Sheriff focuses his attention on the one who remains unashamed, "We were just trying to help." Stiles explains, using the arm with the brace on it.
The Sheriff lets out a minor chuckle, knowing full well they are leaving something out. "Why don't you try and help me understand..." He tells them, before getting into their space and changing his voice into a whisper, "What the hell happened here?"
Stiles knows he is mainly wondering about the marks on the delivery van, "Right, well, we were trying to gently persuade him to pull over..." Stiles explains.
"Yeah..." Scott agrees.
By gentle, Stiles means that they attempted to get the guy to pull over by having Scott throw himself into the guy's windshield, while also going full red-eyed Alpha Werewolf on the hood of the speeding vehicle.
This, of course, freaks the driver out as he yells, "Demon!" resulting in him crashing the van causing Scott to use his claws to stay latched on the vehicle without getting thrown off.
The Sheriff gives the pair a no-nonsense appearance, "He was getting away." Stiles claims.
"He got away." The Sheriff reminds them.
"Right." Stiles agrees easily, "Because obviously, he's some sort of criminal mastermind, Dad."
"Uh-huh." The Sheriff replies, "You want to guess what the stolen merchandise is?" He questions eyeing them both, "Hmm?"
Scott sighs with minor dread, "Critical life-saving medical equipment?"
"No."
"Poison gas?" Stiles questions next with some minor hope.
"Nope."
"Filled with drugs?" Scott guesses next.
"Helium." The Sheriff tells them before they start giving outlandish guesses. He opens the back of the van as proof and shows them the helium tanks.
Later, as Scott drives Stiles' Jeep, Scott is already amused about the whole situation, "This could be a good thing." He tells Stiles as she is almost pouting in the passenger seat.
"That we saved helium?" Stiles challenges.
Scott laughs at the remark, "I mean, that... They don't need us anymore."
Stiles scoffs at the statement, "Okay, well, they need us." She tells him, "They just don't know it."
"We're all going off to college soon." Scott reminds her, "So Beacon Hills is gonna have to survive without us."
"Beacon Hills will burn to the ground without us," Stiles states as a matter of fact.
"Stiles..." Scott says it in a way that Stiles looks at him, "They don't need us."
However, when Stiles' cell phone begins vibrating her face lights up as she sees it's her father, "They need us!" She shouts victoriously.
The Sheriff has the boy, Alex, in the Sheriff's office at the station, "Alex, you know we're having trouble locating your parents." He explains to the child, "And since you can't remember anything, we have a method, an unusual method that might help you remember." He continues explaining, "But I need you to be okay with it." He tells Alex, just as Scott and Stiles walk into the room, "I also need you to know that it's probably gonna hurt."
"I don't care." Alex says, "I just want to find my mom and dad."
Scott takes a stand in front Alex, while Stiles and the Sheriff close the blinds in his office.
"You ready?" Scott questions him.
Alex nods his head while Scott lets his eyes go red and lets his claws out before sticking them in the back of Alex's neck.
Alex and his parents are riding in their car. The radio is playing music, but Alex's mother's voice gets his attention, "I told you we shouldn't have taken him to an R-rated movie." She tells her husband in a worried tone.
"I wasn't scared," Alex claims.
"Well, I was terrified." His father confesses, "Maybe we shouldn't take me to R-rated movies." He jokes with a laugh, "You weren't scared?" He questions his son, looking at him through the rearview mirror. Alex shakes his head, "Not even just a little?"
"Maybe a little," Alex admits.
A few seconds later, he hears both his parents gasp as the car suddenly halts. A roll of thunder surrounds the car just as the sound of a horse neighing fills the air. Looking between his parent's seat, Alex sees a man on horseback blocking the road in front of them.
The man dismounts, pulls out his pistol and walks toward the vehicle, "Will, drive!" Alex's mother cries out to her husband as the man gets closer. However, the car appears to not be working, "Get down!" She orders Alex. Alex does as he is told, but still manages to witness what is happening.
The Rider pulls the trigger and a barely visible wave of energy shoots from the gun and blows out the windshield.
The Rider then jumps on the hood and pulls Alex's father through the windshield. Suddenly the Rider is standing next to the passenger side of the car, rips off the door and grabs Alex's mother. She grabs the gear shift as she is ripped from the car, shifting the vehicle into gear before the Rider pulls her away.
Alex continues to stay in the car until it comes to a complete halt, but due to him being terrified he doesn't move until he sees Liam inside the car.
Scott breaks the connection, letting Stiles moves in front of Alex.
She kneels in front of him, letting her eyes go white as she places her hand on the back of his neck, "What did you see?" She questions him.
"I saw a guy on a horse," Scott answers, reeling from the process.
"Horse?"
"He had a gun."
"Okay, a guy with a gun." Sheriff Stilinski says, "That sounds like my department, not yours."
"What about his parents?" Stiles questions him, just as she finishes healing Alex's neck. "What happened to them?"
Scott tries to find an answer, "I don't know." He admits, "That's all I remember. But..." He inhales sharply, "I got this feeling."
"What kind of feeling?"
"They're coming back," Alex answers suddenly, causing Stiles and Scott to look at him. "They're coming for me."
Landon Martin examines the broken windshield. Alex's car is now in the Sheriff's Station impound lot. He gingerly touches the glass then moves around and sits in the driver's seat. He looks up in the rearview mirror and sighs. Thinking he's sensed something via his Reaper powers, Stiles eagerly jumps in the backseat, "What?" Stiles questions him.
"I have a sunspot on my forehead," Landon comments in a nonchalant manner as he continues examining himself in the mirror.
Stiles gives him a gaping look, "Can we please stay on topic here?"
Landon rolls his eyes at Stiles' reaction, "I'm not getting anything." He tells her as they get out of the car to Scott waiting for them.
No one is sure what else to do until the sounds of two howls echo through the lot. Turning to the direction of the howls, Scott, Landon, and Stiles see a black wolf and a gray coyote leaping over a stack of tires.
In midair, the two animals transform into Micah Tate and Derek Hale. Their eyes are both glowing blue as they both appear to be having some type of disagreement, "I don't think they're dead." Derek tells his cousin as Stiles and Landon hand them some clothes.
"They're dead." Micah answers with certainty, "Probably torn apart." He pulls a shirt over his head.
"Then why was there no blood?" Derek comments, pulling up a pants leg.
"They're not dead," Landon answers, siding with Derek. Micah gives him a challenging look, "If they were dead, I'd sense it." Landon reasons.
"If they were alive, we'd smell it." Micah points out as he puts on pants.
He looks to Scott for help, "Yeah, I'm not getting anything either." Scott agrees with them.
"Scott, what are you talkin' about?" Stiles questions him as if he lost his mind, "You were in his head for four minutes." She informs him, "I timed it."
"Well, having that type of connection isn't an exact science," Derek argues, trying to help Scott out. Stiles shoots him a look, but Derek just shrugs his shoulders.
"And he's a kid." Scott points out, "Maybe he's too freaked out to remember."
"Why does it matter if they're dead?" Micah wonders aloud, "Dead is dead."
"Okay, if it's just a robbery, we can't help them." Stiles explains to them, "And if it's something supernatural, my dad can't help them."
Everyone see that Stiles has a point, but it's Landon who gives her an accusatory stare, "It sounds like you want it to be supernatural."
Stiles shrugs her shoulders, "It's been, like, three months since anything's happened," She defends herself.
"Yeah, and once a week you drag me out of bed like I'm some sort of supernatural metal detector," Landon argues back arms crossed.
"Okay, it is way more often than that," Stiles tells him, earning herself a glare that dared her to push him further. She looks to Derek for help, "You can't tell me that you think this is just some series of impossible coincidences?"
"I'm just saying that maybe it wouldn't be so bad," He tells her, earning himself an offended Stiles. Stiles looks to the others for help, but no one even seems sure themselves.
She gives them a silent look, before returning to examine the car by sitting in the driver's seat. Derek sighs and signals the rest to head home, leaving him and Stiles alone in the lot.
He walks over to the driver's side of the car and stands by it, "You're starin' at a broken windshield." He tells her.
Stiles doesn't make eye contact, but instead continues facing forward, "There's something wrong with it."
"It's broken." He states the obvious, squatting down to her level, "And it wasn't a magic bullet." Stiles finally turns and looks at him, "It was a regular bullet. That blew out a regular windshield." He looks around the lot and points at a car with a spider web pattern of cracks on the windshield, "Just like that one," He moves to another, "And that one." He notices a third with the same pattern, "And that one."
He turns back to the windshield and sees that Stiles is looking back at the windshield. Only he sees that the windshield didn't have the same marks as the others. Instead, it is a jagged, gaping hole, "Magic bullet." Stiles mutters, hearing his thought process.
Sydney is trying to photograph Micah for the Beacon Hills High School yearbook, but someone keeps interrupting, "My bad, sorry," Stiles apologizes just as she walks through the frame as the flash goes off. Micah gives her an annoyed look, while Sydney doesn't seem to mind the interruption. "Go ahead, look pretty." Stiles urges at Micah, who gives shoots her another look before focusing on the camera.
He smiles big, picture ready, until Stiles once again steps into the frame, resulting in Sydney capturing another annoyed Micah picture facing Stiles, who is partially in the photo. "That was a good one," Sydney tells them.
A line of bored and disgruntled students is also waiting for their turn. Tired of Stiles' weird behavior, Micah gets up from the chair to let another student have a turn, "You ruined it." Micah complains as they walk over to a lunch table where Scott, Landon, and Derek are waiting for them.
"Why would I want to ruin your yearbook photo?" Stiles questions him in a complete innocent tone.
"Maybe because you haven't signed up for your own photo yet?" Derek answers, handing her a yearbook picture form.
Stiles squints her eyes at him, "Yes, I did." She says without looking at the form, "Aren't you supposed to be making sure no school fights happen around here?" She questions him in an annoyed tone, noting the deputy uniform he has on as she takes the sheet.
Derek gives a boosting smile, "It's blank." He informs her and Stiles goes over the form and sees that Derek is right, causing her to be confused, "And no one would dare start a fight with me around."
"Ah, yes." Stiles jokes brushing away the blank sheet, "Striking fear into the hearts of young students everywhere." Derek gives her a simple eye roll before leaving to patrol the school's grounds.
"Maybe you're sublimating the stress of graduating by avoiding key milestones." Scott offers to her, seeing Stiles' expression. Both Micah and Landon give Scott a questioning expression, "Psych paper." He explains to them.
"Oh." Micah comments, while Landon looks equally as impressed.
"Anyway," Stiles says, shifting the focus of the conversation. "The Deputy searched the car. No slugs, no exit hole. And the address Alex gave my dad, it's an abandoned house." She informs them with no one being interested in the information. "Come on!" She claims, looking at all them. "Missing parents, suspicious guy on horseback, magic bullet. Who's comin' with?" She expresses to her friends.
"I've got to retake my photos." Micah reminds her.
Stiles gives Landon a hopeful look, "Yeah, not interested." Landon answers bowing out as well.
So, Stiles turns to the last of the bunch. The one she knew who would go with her no matter what, "I cannot miss any more classes." Scott rejects the idea as he purposefully avoids looking her in the eye.
"Scott." Stiles comments with slight disappointment and a head shake, "Scott."
"I missed 38 classes last semester." Scott caves, finally making eye contact, "And Landon's mom is the only reason I'm still in school." He explains to her, "I can go after school."
She gives the Reaper, the Werecoyote, and the True Alpha Werewolf looks of disapproval, "You know what?" She expresses them, "Forget it. I'll take Liam." She looks around the courtyard until she spots Liam and Hayden kissing on a nearby bench. She sighs with slight disappointment, "Yeah, I'm not taking Liam." She decides.
Sydney approaches with a camera in hand, "Hey, can I get a candid?" She questions them.
"Uh, no," Stiles answers, trying to walk away just before Scott forces her between him and Landon.
"Yeah, sure," Scott tells her. Micah ends up sitting on top of the table, while Landon sits with his legs in between the bench, as Stiles sits legs forward with Scott doing the same pose as Landon.
Stiles pulls out the shard of glass from the car windshield, while Sydney sets up her camera, "If you can explain to me why this is blue, I'll let it go." She tells Scott, handing him a glass shard.
"Everyone smile," Sydney directs, just before snapping the photo. "Thanks." She tells them as she walks off to find more students.
Scott examines the shard of glass in hands, but in doing so he sees that it reflects blue in the sunlight.
All the girls in a physic class are watching the back of their teacher as he writes on the board, next to a perfectly illustrated drawing of a cat, "Schrodinger's Cat." The teacher starts off, turning to face his students. He notices the intense focus on most of his students, "Ah, I can see I impressed you all with my artistic abilities." He tells them.
Hayden laughs at the teacher's joke, causing Liam to look over at Mason, who notices that Corey is smiling at the joke.
It seems that all the ladies and Corey are listening to the teacher's every word, much to Liam and Mason's displeasure.
"Schrodinger puts his cat in a box with poisonous food." The teacher lectures, "Now, until he opens that box, the cat is, in theory, both alive and dead." He moves from the board and closer to the desks of the class, "But when he opens it, it's either "Hello, Mittens" or "Goodbye, Socks.""
Hayden lets out a soft giggle at the ridiculous names as Liam shakes his head.
"Putting aside the potential animal abuse here," The teacher says. "What does it have to do with physics?" Hands quickly go up, but the teacher points to one student. "Yes, Hayden."
"It illustrates the concept of quantum superposition." Hayden answers with certainty, "Light is both a particle and wave until it's observed."
"Excellent answer," He tells her, causing Hayden to smile even more and Liam to stare at his girlfriend more bothered than before. "Very impressive. Does observing something change its behavior? Or alter its outcome? That's the question of today's lab on page 117." He tells the class, "Break into groups of four."
Corey, Mason, Hayden, and Liam easily group up together, along with their class. For some odd and unnecessary reason, Mason has his compass app open and it is struggling, "Have any of you guys noticed that phones can't geolocate today?"
Corey pulls out his phone as well, but Liam leans over the table and sees that compass toggling on the "N", "Looks like it works." Liam tells his friend.
"Yeah, but that's not North," Mason argues, pointing in the direction to the back of the class. Liam furrows his brow and Mason points to the direction of the board, "That is."
"Mine is doing it too." Corey inputs, showing Mason his phone.
A thought comes to Mason's mind, "Mr. Douglas has a compass." He indicates at the metal cabinet that is close to the front of the room.
Corey chuckles softly at Mason's implication. He touches the pages of the physics book and goes invisible. Mason, Hayden, and Liam stay at their table as they watch the cabinet of the door open and close. It appears that none of their classmates notice the strange occurrence.
Corey reappears with the compass lying flat on the table. Mason opens the compass and it seems to be working fine, "What are you gonna do with it?" Hayden questions him.
"Follow it," He answers.
"Seriously?"
Corey questions him next, "Where do you think it goes?"
"I have no idea," Mason admits, "But we won't find out till we open the box."
Corey gives him a look of confusion, looking over to Liam and Hayden for help. Liam and Hayden don't offer him an answer until Hayden realizes that Corey missed what Mason is referencing, "Schrodinger's cat?"
"I…I still don't get that," Corey admits.
Knowing that something was strange about how the shard did reflect blue in the sunlight. Scott decides that he and Stiles go to one teacher who may be able to help. His Advance Placement Biology Teacher Mrs. Finch, "What about the muzzle flash of a gun?" Scott questions as she examines the glass herself, "Could that be blue or green?"
She notes the abnormal color change herself, "A muzzle flash is created by superheated gases leaving a gun." She explains to him, before handing the shard back to him, "Um, it's possible that the gas could include copper, barium, cesium. Those can burn blue and green."
"Can that tint the glass?"
She gives him a quizzical impression, "You think a gun did this?"
Stiles shrugs her shoulder, "Maybe."
Once, they leave the classroom and are alone in the hallway, "Thirty-nine?" Stiles questions Scott as the double doors leading outside the school.
However, the double doors open back up as Natalie Martin has a hold on Scott's backpack, while Derek has Stiles by her arm as they escort the teens back into the school, "Neither one of you are going anywhere," She chastises them. "Thirty-eight classes, Scott." She berates Scott, "I had to beg the superintendent."
"Scott is the sworn protector of Beacon Hills." Stiles pleads, "He can't not go."
"He can protect it at 3:30," Natalie tells her, pushing Scott to class, while Derek does the same for Stiles. Surprisingly, the two teens don't put up a fight and continue walking towards the opposite end of the hall.
"They're not going to wait till 3:30," Derek says to her as they watch Stiles and Scott walk off.
Natalie understands the implication of the sentence, "Do whatever you have to do."
Just before 3:00, Scott, Stiles, Derek, and Landon are watching a video on the Normandy landings in World History class, "Shattering the goal 90 minutes before H-hour."
Scott sits at his desk with his head propped up with the support of his hand beside him Stiles sits at her desk trying to hold back the fifth yawn since the movie started. Behind her, Derek sits up intrigued by the entire video, while behind Scott, Landon wears a bored expression on his face.
A man explains from the video, "Combat teams, each on a schedule, continued their unloading into assault boats. There would be little time between the first assault wave and the second."
Aside from Derek, the entire class is bored by the video despite the sound of crashing waves. However, at some point during the video Landon starts noticing the sounds of the video shifting subtly.
This peaks his interest as the sound shifts to a noise of a rain storm and a woman singing indistinctly.
The Sheriff returns to his office to find Alex missing, "Clark, where's the kid?" He questions the deputy as she walks by.
"He was in there a second ago." She replies.
He indicates his empty office, "This is a Sheriff's station." He tells her, "You, you don't lose a child in the sheriff's station." He calls out for his surrounding deputies, "Everybody stop what you're doin', let's find the kid."
It doesn't take long when one of the deputies find Alex in a holding cell, "Alex, what are you doin'?" The Sheriff questions the young child.
"Can you lock me in?"
"Well, you're not under arrest and you're a minor."
Beside him, Clark walks in, "Sir, we're required to call Child Protective Services." She tells him, reminding him of the protocol.
"Please don't," Alex begs him. The Sheriff is conflicted and inhales sharply, "Please let me stay." Alex begs again, "Please."
"We're leavin' him here." He decides informing Clark, "Post a guard outside the door."
The man on the T.V. continues talking, "Smashed up the enemy's gun batteries farther inland. Yet, so ingeniously..."
However, when the clock hits 3:30 the bell rings and immediately Stiles and Scott bolt from their seats. The rest of the class empties, but Landon stays seated as he can still hear the woman singing. When the singing stops he realizes that the classroom is empty and hurries on his way out.
As he moves towards the T.V., which moments before was showing the Allied forces landing in France, it turns to static, causing him to stop and hear the song again. He moves cautiously towards the T.V, trying to make out what she is saying, but then a lightning bolt strikes him, flinging him backward to the floor, causing him to close his eyes as the sound of thunder echoes through his ears.
"Landon!" Someone calls out to him. When he opens his eyes, Landon sees that he is standing by his desk unharmed. He looks to the door and sees Derek watching him, "You okay?"
Landon reflectively nods his head, despite him still being able to hear thunder coming from the distance.
Scott pulls up the jeep up to the address Alex gave them for his home. However, just based on the scenery outside the home it looks completely abandoned. Stiles and Scott cautiously walk up some stairs that lead up to the house. Once they get to the front door, the door automatically opens without either of them touching it, "That's not creepy at all." Stiles comments.
They exchange hesitant glances at each other but continue as they walk through the threshold of the house. The floorboards creak below their feet as they examine the house only to see that the entire first floor of the house is partially abandoned on the inside as well.
Scott and Stiles stand around curiously, "You wanna split up?" Scott questions her as he notices her looking up a staircase.
"Uh, absolutely not," Stiles tells him as she leads them to walk up to the second floor of the home. In doing so, they discover a hall with closed doors. One by one they start opening doors and only finding empty rooms.
"Maybe Alex got the address wrong," Scott suggests as he and Stiles continue walking through the hall opening and closing doors as they continue searching the house.
"Or he lied," Stiles answers ahead of him as she heads for the last closed door in the hall.
"Why would he lie?" Scott questions her as he finishes closing one more door.
"He didn't lie." Stiles answers and Scott sees that she is standing in the middle of a room. When Scott walks in he sees that it is a fully furnished bedroom. The exact opposite of the rest of the house.
"Why didn't the cops say anything about this?" Scott questions as Stiles moves around the room.
"They don't know it's here." She answers knowingly, "They can't come here without a warrant, and there's no owner of record to serve a warrant to." She explains, "So unless there's some kind of threat or imminent danger, they wouldn't come in."
From downstairs, Scott picks up a noise which Stiles easily picks up on Scott's alertness, "What?"
"I think I heard something," Scott answers as he leaves the room and goes to investigate. Stiles follows close behind but stops when she notices a picture of Alex that seems rather odd.
The boy has his arm around the empty air in one image. Another is in a frame that says "#1 Dad" but only shows Alex and space beside him.
This spark some curiosity, but it breaks she hears wind filling the room. Stiles turns her head to see that the sheets on the bed flow as if there has been a breeze in the room, despite the windows being closed.
Stiles isn't the only experiencing something strange in the home. Downstairs, Scott walks through the first floor of the house. Scott finds a dusty dining room table with two place settings. He looks away when he hears another sound, but when he looks back, the place settings are gone.
Back upstairs, Stiles investigates what could've caused the sheets to move. She gets on her knees as she looks under the bed, pulling back the sheets.
In doing so, on the other side of the bed, she sees hooves and hears a horse. Her eyes widened at the strange site, but when she moves to peer over the bed, she sees that she is in the room alone.
As Scott leaves the dining room, he hears the sound again. This time coming from the area that appears to have been the kitchen. Just as he heads go into the room, Liam and Mason suddenly appear from around a corner, causing the three of them to jump.
"What, what are you doing here?" Liam questions Scott as he sees the older wolf standing in the house.
"This is Alex's house." Scott answers casually, "What are you doing here?"
"This is where the compass led us." Mason answers.
"What compass?" Scott questions him. Mason holds up the compass that now has its needle spinning wildly in his hand.
Stiles has had enough of being in the room alone. She decides to flee and shuts the door, back towards the hall as a gust of wind fills the hallway. Stiles slowly moves away from the door but sees that leaves have now filled the hall.
She stills when she senses that someone is behind her. Turning cautiously, she sees a dark figure in a cowboy hat and long coat standing at the end of the hall.
"Why is it doing that?" Scott questions Mason.
Mason shrugs his shoulders, "I have no idea."
Liam pulls out his phone, showing his compass app doing the same thing, "They're all doing it."
As the figure steps closer, Stiles can see it holding a pistol aiming right at her.
"Wait." She tries to plea to the figure, but the figure doesn't listen as it starts firing towards Stiles repeatedly. Stiles falls back against the door and ducks for cover.
While the figure does continue shooting, it's bullets seem to miss Stiles and turn into a burst of energy as holes appear in the door.
Back downstairs, the compass Mason is holding abruptly shatters causing the two werewolves and Mason to jump.
Before anyone can question what happens, Scott hearing picks up a sound coming from upstairs.
Stiles is staring at the door, that once had holes in it. The figure has disappeared, but for some reason, Stiles remains captivated by the door. She doesn't fully break out of her shocked state until Scott places a hand on her shoulder, breaking her concentration, "What happened?" Scott questions when his friend looks away from the door.
"He was here. He shot at me." She says aloud, causing herself to suddenly breath fast, "It was one of the guys you saw in Alex's memory."
"The guy who took his parents?"
"No, no, no." Stiles answers, shaking her head, "They weren't just taken. They were, they were made to disappear." She tells him, "That's why there's no furniture, that's why they weren't in any of the photos." Stiles can tell that Scott wasn't understanding what she is trying to say. So, she opens the door to the room that the pair walked through together.
The room is just as empty as the rest of the house, "They were erased," Stiles tells him.
Finally, back at the school, Stiles and Landon are in the library while Stiles is flipping through a book, Mass Disappearances: Unexplained Mysteries by A. L. Harvey, "I keep feeling like it's familiar you know?" She explains to him, "Like I've heard it before."
She sees a multiple of true accounts of the ghost ship Mary Celeste, missing planes in the Bermuda Triangle, and the Roanoke settlement. The urban myth about a missing Inuit village on Lake Anjikuni, and one story that appears to be wholly made up about several infants disappearing from a Chinese hospital.
"Une pensée persistante que vous ne pouvez pas atteindre," Landon says randomly, getting a confused look from Stiles. "It's French. A lingering thought you can't reach."
Stiles takes the phrase in stride, "Okay, well, is there a French word for, feeling an overwhelming sense of urgency and impending doom?"
Landon chuckles at the question, "Moissonneuse." He answers, "It's French for Reaper."
"Okay, what, what does your Reaper intuition say this is?"
Landon takes the book, "That you don't have to figure it all out right this second." He answers, "Besides don't you have a first date to get ready for?"
"That can wait, but this kid can't." Stiles says with such emotions, "He's got no one. You know, and..." She pauses, "There's a reason why." She takes the book back away from him, "There's gotta be."
Landon examines Stiles flipping through the book before she slams it closed in frustration. This seems to spark a reaction as the sound of thunder rumbling in his ears catch his attention. Just like in class, it appears that Landon is the only one to hear it.
From the distance, he hears a woman singing a verse, "Killer on the road." Landon says in a monotone voice as he hears their voices continuing to sing in a haunting melody, "Give this man a ride, sweet family will die."
"Riders on the Storm?" Stiles questions him, breaking Landon out his trance.
"What?"
"That's the song," Stiles answers, giving him a worried overlook.
"Riders on the Storm?" He mutters to himself, trying to figure out the signifies of the song, "Riders on the Storm." He unknowingly triggers a memory.
"My parents attempted to turn a three-hour traffic jam into an educational experience just before Scott picked me up," Kira tells the others as they are making their way to the library for Senior Scribe.
"How so?" Stiles wonders.
"Mentioned a legend known as The Wild Hunt." Kira shares, "About the Ghost Riders. Riders who use storm clouds just like tonight and would appear." The catches Landon's attention, "Riding black horses with blood-red eyes. And wolves and hounds at their side, baying and snarling."
"What were they hunting?" Landon questions.
"Souls."
"That's it," Landon says aloud, snapping from the memory.
"What's it?" Stiles questions.
"The Ghost Riders." Landon answers as pieces start falling into place, "The Wild Hunt. They come by
storm, riding horses."
"And they take people." Stiles realizes, jumping out of her seat, "Landon, you're so smart, I could kiss you right now!" She tells him, moving into his space.
Landon takes a step back, "Do not kiss me."
"Not gonna, no." Stiles assures him with a small head shake, but ultimately gives into her overactive reaction and kisses him on the cheek before running away, "Did it anyway!"
Landon appears to be confused as he watches Stiles run away.
"Hey, guys. Wait up." Mason calls out to Liam and Hayden as they walk down the halls of the school. "I fixed it." He claims out his hand to show the broken compass, covered in tape, but still cracked.
"Uh, perfect!" Liam claims with feign enthusiasm, "Looks brand new."
Hayden laughs at Liam's obvious lie, "He's going to notice."
"Nah, he'll never notice." Mason counters easily, "We'll just put the compass back and figure out a way to help Scott."
"Or just put the compass back," Hayden offers.
Liam disagrees with her suggestion, "We can't just leave it all to Scott."
"Why not?" She questions him, "He's the Alpha."
"Not for long."
Hayden starts to laugh at the statement, "Who's going to take his place?"
"You don't think I can be the Alpha?"
"No, no. I wasn't saying that." She sighs, "It's just, magnetic anomalies and guys on horseback stealing people?"
"We can't stay out of it."
"What's going to happen when Scott graduates?" She questions him, "When there's no one here to figure things out?"
"I can be the… Um…" Liam clicks his tongue, "I can be the Alpha."
"He can be the Alpha." Mason defends his friend.
"Yeah." Hayden slightly agrees, until her face falls as she picks something up. Liam notices her reaction and just as easily picks up what she does.
Mason is the only one, being left out, "What is it?"
"It's blood," He answers, looking down the hall.
Scott is exiting the Lacrosse field when Stiles comes running up to him, "It's called the Wild Hunt." Stiles tells him in a pant of breath, "It's a myth. Only, apparently, it's real." She tells him, ignoring the confused expression Scott is throwing at her, "Like every other myth in this town that should just really remain a nightmare."
"The guy on the horse?"
"Yeah, they call them Ghost Riders." She tells him, Scott is ready to question her some more when she notices a lacrosse player wearing something that doesn't belong to him, "Hang on one second." She tells Scott, "Hey." She calls out the player, "That's my jersey." She says, pointing the number 24, "Where'd you get that?"
"Coach gave it to me at practice." The player answers and continues walking off.
"We had practice?" She questions Scott, "Why doesn't anyone tell me anything?"
"Why would the Ghost Riders want to take Alex's parents?" Scott questions, bringing back the topic of the Ghost Riders.
"Because that's what they do." She explains, "They take people, okay? They run around collecting souls. And once they take you, you're gone."
"But it's not just you," Scott states, remembering what they found at the abandoned home. "It's everything about you."
"Yeah, like how they took Alex's room."
Scott halts Stiles with one more question, "Does that mean Alex is next?"
Micah and Derek arrive at the school and find Landon, in the same classroom Landon first heard the song, staring off into the distance, with the book from the library in his hands. "Got your text," Derek says as he places a basket on a desk.
However, Landon doesn't acknowledge their presences, "You said you needed help?" Micah questions, but he sees that Landon has a distance look in his eye, "Oh, God. That kind of help." He comments realizing as Landon is in one of his states.
"Something terrible is going to happen," Landon says in a trance-like manner.
Micah and Derek look at each other worriedly, "Okay, what is it?"
"I don't know," Landon answers in a whisper, looking at them both. "That's why I need your help."
The trio had split up and searched the school.
"I can't find the source." Liam pants when they ran into each other, "It's like it's coming from everywhere."
Mason questions, "How is that possible?"
"Maybe it's coming from more than one place," Liam suggests.
"In more than one piece," Hayden adds in with a morbid expression.
"If it's in the air, could it be coming out of the vents?" Mason questions them.
They all looked up to the ceiling, where the air is flowing.
Back at the Sheriff's station alone in the holding cell, Alex hears the sound of wind and leaves rustling throughout the surrounding area.
Standing outside a door of the school, Liam, Hayden, and Mason seem to have found the source of the smell, but neither one of them move a muscle.
Liam decides to take matters into his own hands, "Stand back." He inhales sharply, backing up, and taking a run at the door.
Something provokes Mason into just trying the handle. The door opens with ease just as Liam runs right through the threshold. The sound of clattering and a groan is heard from the other side.
Hayden and Mason seem quite embarrassed of themselves, "It's open." Mason notices as he and Hayden walk into a room, unaware that someone is watching them.
They venture into the area until they come across a door. Mason and Hayden stop, while Liam walks over to the door, unsure and possibly frightened.
He looks back to Hayden and sees that she is thinking exactly what he is thinking. The source of the blood is on the other side of the door.
He cautiously turns the handle and opens it. When he does, the body of the delivery driver that Scott and Stiles had tried to stop, falls out.
The top of his head is covered in blood.
Debris begins to fall inside the holding cell and Alex tries to move for cover. Light appears to come from above him and he looks up in terror to see that the ceiling of the holding cell is cracking. The cell doors begin to shake as the ceiling rips away.
Papers, leaves, and the wind fill the room entirely.
By the time, Scott and Stiles have arrived at the Sheriff's Station, the holding cell is fully intact and empty. Stiles moves out the holding cell area and sees Deputy Clarke working at the front desk, "Where's the kid?" She asks Clarke hurriedly, "What happened to him?"
Clarke is confused by the questions, "What kid?"
"Alex. The kid from the car wreck?" This only seems to puzzle the deputy even more, "The kid whose parents went missing last night?"
"Who's Alex?"
Stiles tries to remain calm, "Clark, listen to me. He was here, okay?" Stiles tells her, "You met him." This doesn't change Clarke's behavior over the missing child and Scott sees Stiles is close to stressing out.
"Where's the Sheriff?" Scott questions.
"He got called out to the high school." She tells him, "They found a body." She looks back over to Stiles, "No one's been in lock-up all day." She explains to her and hands over a book, "Check for yourself."
Stiles flips through the log-book and sees that it's completely empty, "He's not on here." Stiles whispers, shutting the book, "They took him."
"I shouldn't have left him alone." Scott says with disbelief, "He knew they were coming for him." He and Stiles sit side by side on a bench, "What if they're coming back for everyone else who was on that road?"
"Then we already know who's next." Stiles tells him, eyes suddenly going white, "Liam and Hayden."
Back in the classroom, Micah and Derek are still trying to help Landon figure out what is about to happen, "When did you first have the premonition?" Micah questions him.
"I was with some student." Landon answers, "Apparently, she was interested in the Wild Hunt. The Riders, the horses." Landon sighs tiredly, "Souls getting swept up. Honestly, she seemed pretty desperate on figuring something out."
Derek's eyes fall on an entry about the Wild Hunt, "Those who see the Wild Hunt beware, for you are already lost." He reads aloud.
Scott and Stiles arrive at school, noticing that a ton of deputies and students in the hall, but none of them appearing to be Hayden or Liam, "I'll check the Quad." Scott tells her, "Let me know if you find them and see if your dad knows anything?"
"Yeah, okay." Stiles agrees, just as Scott heads in the opposite direction, "Hey, Scott, wait." Scott turns back and gives her a curious expression, "Um, I, I just, uh..." Stiles starts stuttering, "There's something I need to tell you..."
"Tell me later," Scott tells her with an assuring smile.
Stiles nods her head, "Yeah, all right." She breaks into a corner and directly into Ms. Martin, "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Ms. Martin claims as Stiles tries to run off again, "Slow it down."
"Sorry." Stiles apologizes, "Ms. Martin, sorry." Stiles doesn't notice that Ms. Martin is giving her a confused expression, "Hey, have you seen, uh, Liam and Hayden?" Stiles questions, "Actually, forget that. Have you seen my dad?"
"Who?"
"My dad." Stiles repeats, "He's here because of the body?"
Ms. Martin gives her a bewildered expression, "How do you know about the body?"
"Because my dad's the Sheriff." Stiles tells her as if she lost her mind, "Ms. Martin, are you okay?"
"Wait here." Ms. Martin tells her, before walking away. Stiles waits patiently until she spots Mason down the end of the hall by some lockers.
"Mason, Mason," She calls out to him as she runs up to him, "Hey, where's Liam? Liam?"
Mason doesn't get to answer as both Hayden and Liam walk up as well, "Oh thank God, you two have to listen to me right now." She tells them, "Alex is gone, just like his parents, okay?" She explains in a hurry, "The Ghost Riders took him, so you guys, you can't be alone. You got to stick with Scott or with me because I can see them." It's not until she finishes giving the rundown does she realize that they are looking at her completely confused, "Why the hell are you lookin' at me like that?"
No one answers her question and Hayden leans closely to Liam and whispers not so quietly, "Do we even know her?"
Liam looks at Stiles carefully, "I don't even know if she goes here." He answers, before talking to Stiles, "Do you go to this school?"
Stiles is about to call Hayden and Liam out on their sucky whisper conversation when Mason asks her one simple question, "What's your name?"
That's when it clicks that neither of them seems to recognize her. She says nothing, backing away from them as events from the day suddenly flood her mind;
One from earlier in the day, "Maybe because you haven't signed up for your own photo yet?" Derek answers, handing her a yearbook picture form.
Stiles squints her eyes at him, "Yes, I did." She says without looking at the form, "Aren't you supposed to be making sure no school fights happen around here?" She questions him in an annoyed tone, noting the deputy uniform he has on as she takes the sheet.
Derek gives a boosting smile, "It's blank."
Another later that same day, "Hey." Stiles calls out the lacrosse player, "That's my jersey." She says, pointing the number 24, "Where'd you get that?"
"Coach gave it to me at practice." The player answers and continues walking off.
"We had practice?" She questions Scott, "Why doesn't anyone tell me anything?"
Stiles is so caught up in her thoughts, she almost passes the Sheriff, who stops her from going any further, "Hey, you okay?"
"Oh, thank God." Stiles says with relief, hugging him instantly, "Thank God."
The Sheriff is confused by the behavior, but Stiles is unable to see due to the hug. "Okay."
"Everyone's forgetting." Stiles tells him as she breaks off the hug, "Everyone is forgetting everything..." She stutters off.
"Okay, okay, slow down," The Sheriff tells her, "Slow down." Stiles slowly nods her head, taking a deep breath, "We'll figure this out together." He assures her, giving her a look of concern, "Okay?" Stiles nods her head, still trying to control her breathing, "Now, why don't you tell me your name?"
Stiles' breath catches her throat, but she doesn't answer him and moves away slowly from him, trying to keep the panic she can feel stirring at bay.
She pulls out her phone and dials a number. She stresses out even more as the line rings until she hears someone pick up, "Scott?" She questions, but no one answers, "Hey. Scott, where are you?" She questions hurriedly, "Where are you right now?"
Scott's answer, "Who's this?" And Stiles drops her phone as the final piece of the strange occurrences comes to her mind;
"Alex. The kid from the car wreck?" Stiles questions Clarke at the station. This only seems to puzzle the deputy even more, "The kid whose parents went missing last night?"
"Who's Alex?" Clark questions.
Derek stares at the picture of the of the Wild Hunt in the book. He sees people dressed up in Western attire as they ride through a lightning filled sky on the back of horses, "Horses." He says to himself, triggering a memory.
"You know I didn't think that haunted houses were real until today," Stiles claims over the phone. "First, I see hooves of a horse under the bed, only to not see one in the actual room and then the next I get shot at by some figure dressed like a cowboy, but was just as a terrible shot as I am."
"She saw them." Derek realizes, "She saw the Wild Hunt." He slams his hand on the desk, surprising both Landon and Micah, "You were with Stiles." He tells the Reaper, "Where did Stiles go?"
However, Landon appears confused by Derek's question, "Who's Stiles?"
Derek looks to Micah for help, but it seems that the Werecoyote is just as confused as Landon as he gives Derek a shoulder shrug.
Without saying another word, Derek hurries out the classroom, leaving behind a confused Micah and Landon.
Stiles runs out of the school in a panic. She lifts a corner of her shirt and sees that her claw scars are gone. She takes a deep breath, "It's me." She realizes as the wind around her starts picking up speed just as it had done in earlier that day, "I'm next."
"Stiles!" A voice calls out to her. She turns to see Derek running towards her.
"Derek?" She says with surprise, "You know me." She says as he nods his head. She quickly embraces him, "Oh, thank God. I didn't want to handle another person not knowing me." She tells him.
"I know you." Derek assures her, "But I think everybody else is forgetting."
Stiles is about to agree with him when she stills at the sound of a horse neighing. She breaks the embrace and sees that a Ghost Rider is standing not too far away from them, "Hey, do you see him?" She whispers.
Derek looks around them, but doesn't see anything out of the ordinary, "See what?"
"The guy on the horse."
"Stiles, if you can see them, they're gonna..."
"No, I know, I know." Stiles tells him, "Okay. They're comin' for me." She takes a step away from him, "So, you need to go, okay?"
But unlike the others that let Stiles walk away, Derek grabs her by the hand, "I'm not leaving you!" He declares, pulling her close. "Let me help you."
Stiles gives him a broken smile, "All right."
"Let's get you out of here," Derek tells her as he takes hold of her hand and has them running through the parking lot.
However, Stiles pulls him back when she sees two more Riders appear in front them, "Wrong turn." She tells him and is ready to lead him in another direction when she realizes that three more Riders have appeared. She looks around them and sees that they are surrounded.
"Where are they?" Derek questions when he sees that Stiles hasn't moved them in another direction.
"They're everywhere." She answers watching the waiting circle of Ghost Riders. Beside her, she feels Derek tensing about the situation, feeling every emotion and hearing every thought that is going through his head, "I'm going to be erased." She says aloud, causing a look of panic on Derek's face, "Just like Alex, you're going to forget me."
Derek shakes his head at the idea, "Don't say that," He tells her, looking around them. "How would I ever forget someone like you?"
"Because that's what they do." Stiles tells him calmly, causing Derek to finally look at her, "Just try to find some way to remember me, okay?" She tells him in a broken voice, "Remember our bond. Remember how you still owe me a date." She clears her throat, "Remember how many times you saved my life." She tells him in a stronger tone.
Derek scoff out a laugh, "You're getting that date." He promises, gripping onto her hand, "You saved my life too." He whispers, "In more ways than you think." Derek looks around them trying to find a way to keep Stiles from whatever danger that he can't see.
"Look at me." Derek doesn't do so, "Look at me." Stiles directs him, as she places both hands on the side of his face, making them have eye contact. Her eyes suddenly glow purple, "You're gonna forget me."
Derek shakes his head adamantly, feeling his eyes going blue and his voice close to breaking, "I won't. No, I won't, I won't."
Stiles gives him a sympathetic look, "You will." She tells him in a soft whisper, "Just remember, remember I will always come back to you."
Derek wraps his arms around her tightly, pulling them into a farewell kiss just as a bright light flashes around them.
When the light has disappeared, Derek is alone in the parking lot chanting the word, "Remember."
The next day at the school, Scott, Micah, and Landon notice Derek walking through the halls of Beacon Hills High School in his normal clothes. "Derek?" Micah questions as the trio walked over to him, "What are you doing here?"
Scott is first to notice that he is wearing a dazed expression, "You okay?" Scott questions next.
Derek shakes his head, "I have this feeling that I was supposed to do something." He answers in a lost tone.
"Do what?" Landon questions with curiosity.
Derek frowns as he tries to remember what exactly was the thing he needed to do, "I can't remember."
NEXT TIME ON TNH: THE WILD HUNT (AUGUST 14TH)
"Erica?" He questions, but she doesn't respond to her name. Landon looks around the classroom curiously, but it seems no one seems to have noticed her, "Erica," He whispers, leaning over to her. "What are you doing here?"