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Chapter Seven

Daisy ran through the parking lot, storming through the gym entrance and leaning against the wall to catch her breath. She heard voices coming from the pool area and walked quietly in that direction, slowing her breathing as best as possible.

It was Stiles, he was talking to Erica, the new, really hot, Erica and some other man, but their backs were to the dancer so she saw Stiles talking animatedly. He looked scared, almost.

"-saw scales." His voice echoed through the room, reaching her ears as she hid behind a pillar. "Is that enough? Okay, because I have someone I really need to talk to."

Apparently the man made a face because Stiles groaned. "Mph. Uh, alright, fine. Eyes. Eyes are, uh, yellowish. And slit-y. Has a lot of teeth. Oh, and it's got a tail."

The man in front of Stiles looked up, and Daisy followed his gaze and gasped, covering her mouth with both of her hands, body suddenly shaking. On the ledge above Stiles, was the thing that he had just been describing. Erica's head whipped toward Daisy and she looked at her in surprise, eyes asking what she was doing here. She turned and looked at the thing again.

Daisy couldn't breathe, it started moving closer to the group. She wanted to scream but she just couldn't get enough air in her lungs to make a noise. She wasn't paying attention to what Stiles was saying, but he turned around too, and jumped to stand next to the man.

The thing let out a screech and jumped down. The man crouched and let out a, no joke, a growl and the reptile swiped at Erica. Without meaning to, the dancer let out a cry of the blondes name, running a few steps into the light. Stiles whipped around to face her, fear in his eyes.

The man pushed Stiles' back. "Run!" He shouted. While he was turned, the monster took a swipe at him, catching him on the neck. Daisy took this opportunity to run over to Stiles and the man as quick as she could, legs shaking.

"Derek, your neck." Stiles said loudly, and Daisy stared at him. Was this the Derek that he had warned her about? The teen turned to face the dancer, grabbing her arms and shaking her. "Why are you here? You could get killed, get out of here!"

But then Derek started to fall, and Stiles moved on his own, catching him, cursing at the sudden weight in his arms. Daisy moved to help, pulling Derek's arm over her shoulder, just as Stiles was doing.

The oldest was wobbling, like he could barely get one foot in front of another. "Where is he? Do you see him?" He asked Stiles, "Call Scott!"

The teen in the red jumpsuit reached into his pocket to grab his phone, and it fell onto the concrete. As he leaned down to pick it up, all of Derek's weight was shifted to Daisy and they both wobbled forward falling into the water.

Daisy kept her grip on Derek's arm, trying to kick up. She never learned how to swim, so she was freaking out. Her lungs burned when she realized she hadn't taken a breath before falling into the water. Holy shit. They were gonna die.

And then Stiles jumped in, grabbing Daisy's hand and Derek's arm, pulling them both up. The dancer took a deep, shuddering breath, panting out her words. "What.. the hell... is going on?!"

No one answered her. Instead the boys were looking for the monster. Stiles was struggling to keep Derek up, and Daisy was kicking at the water as best as she could to keep herself afloat, but still had to rely on Stiles to not drown.

She heard the thing scream again and almost started crying.

"Can you get me outta here before I drown?" Derek asked. Stiles scoffed. "You're worried about drowning?" He retorted.

Daisy let out a shaking whoosh of air. "I am, I- I never learned h-how to sw-swim." Her teeth were chattering, half from the cold, half from the knowledge of her impending death.

"We have bigger problems. Did you notice the thing over there with rows of razor sharp teeth?"

"Did you notice I'm paralyzed from the neck down in eight feet of water!?"

"Oh, my God!" Daisy exclaimed. "Shut up! Someone just tell me what's going on!" She cried out. "Please!" The last word came out as a desperate sob.

Stiles looked at her. "Okay, okay, I'll tell you as soon as we get out of here. I swear." He looked around again, spitting out water, "I don't see it." He tried to paddle to the edge.

"W-wait no no s-STOP!" Daisy pulled at his moving arm when she saw the shadow of that thing. It looked way bigger up close, like the size of a human. It crawled, hissing.

"What's it waiting for?" Stiles asked.

They watched as it stuck a hand into the water, and drew it back, hissing, as it was electrocuted. It scrambled back.

"Wait.. Did-did you see that? I don't think it can swim." Stiles nodded his head to the scene.

The reptilian continued to lurk around the side of the pool, claws clicking with each step it took.

"Hah ug-h okay, okay," Stiles groaned. "I don't think I can do this much longer." Daisy practically whimpered at that. They were seriously gonna die.

"No, no, no, no! Don't even think about it!" Derek suddenly shouted.

"Can you just trust me this once?" Stiles replied, and the dancer realized he was looking at the phone near the edge of the pool.

"Oh, God, Stiles no, please..." Daisy choked out, hardening her hold on Derek.

"I'm keeping you alive, have you noticed that?" Stiles said to Derek.

"Yeah? And when the paralysis wears off, who's gonna be able to fight that thing off, you or me?" The elder retorted, "You need me to survive, so you're NOT letting me go."

But he did anyway.

At least Daisy got a chance to take a large breath before going under.

Her eyes burned from the chlorine as she watched Derek sink further and futher into the water. She kicked until she could touch his shirt, and pulled him up, close to her.

The water made him feel lighter than a feather, and she tried to push herself to the surface, but she just couldn't. Air bubbles fell out of her lips as she cursed. She is so gonna haunt Stiles when she dies.

Her arms started to shake with the strain of trying to pull Derek to the surface. Daisy felt her eyes burn with tears as she squeezed them shut. Using all of her strength, she pushed Derek up, so he was on the surface, and pushed herself down.

Her lungs burned, begging her to take a breath. She hit the bottom of the pool with a thud, her head smacking against the tiles. Her vision started to go black at the corners. She could, just barely, make out Stiles' form move to the middle of the pool and Derek's body somewhere close to him. At least they would be safe.

Without thinking, her oxygen deprived mind forced her to take a lung full of water, and she knew it was over. A black square floated down next to her, and then she saw a red figure shoot down through the water, grab her shirt, and pull her up.

When she reached the surface she was half conscious, she wasn't registering anything besides Stiles' arm around her waist, him moving, and then suddenly flying through the air and hitting the concrete floor.

The impact cleared her fogged mind almost instantly, and she pushed herself up on her elbows, coughing up the water from her lungs. She couldn't breathe yet, and all the coughing just made her throat raw, so it hurt to even try to breathe.

She heard a growl, and looked up to see Scott in front of them on the diving board, crouched down. He was growling, hair was sprouting from his cheeks and she could see a hint of fang from his open mouth and- holy shit what IS he?!

The dancer pushed herself up so she was sitting properly and scrambled back until she hit the wall.

The reptile wrapped its tail around Scott's ankle and threw him into the mirror. It shattered around him. Scott picked up a piece of glass as a weapon, Daisy could see his yellow eyes and whimpered.

The reptile moved closer to Scott, until it saw its reflection in the mirror and got spooked. It jumped up to the ledge and then the roof, until it was out of the school building.

Scott let out a breath and stood, still wolfed out and stormed up to the dancer cowering against the wall, grabbing her by the neck and pulling her into a standing position. Immediately, Daisy's fingers went up to claw at Scott's hands, pulling as hard as she could.

His hands around her neck only reminded her of her step-father, and she practically burst into tears at the memory. Her leg kicked back to hit the wall, as if she was pushing herself up in order to not be strangled.

Scott growled. "What the hell are you?!" He exclaimed. "You show up and then suddenly all-all this starts happening!" Stiles, who was leaning against the diving board next to Derek, pushed himself up and tried to insert himself between the two teens.

"Scott! Let her go, she's normal!" Stiles grabbed his best friends arm firmly, tugging.

"P-please- nh- stop! I'm...I'm sorry!" Daisy sobbed, not knowing what she was sorry for. It was an instinct she had developed in childhood. If someone, he, has a hand around your neck, plead for forgiveness no matter what you did or didn't do.

"He's right, Scott. She's human." Daisy heard Derek's voice come in, and Scott's grip loosened slightly, until his entire hand was retracted. The dancer didnt realize it, but it was his hand keeping her up on the wall. Her legs, shaking and weak, collapsed under her as she tried to keep herself up.

Stiles knelt down next to her, taking a hold of her shoulders. The dancer had her hands resting over her throat, her cheeks, red and splotchy from crying, were practically covered by dark strands of wet hair. Her entire body was shaking uncontrollably and she just want to know what was going on.

Stiles helped her walk to the front of the school, made her take her soaked sweater off and gave her his red track suit jacket, which didnt absorb as much water. She was still shaking, just not as bad, and kept her distance from Scott as he leaned over the hood of his car, looking at his laptop.

"Is that even a language?" Stiles asked from next to him, his arm still around Daisy's waist to keep her upright. "How are we gonna figure out what this thing is?"

"It's called a Kanima." Came the sudden voice and the dancer flinched.

"You knew the whole time?" Stiles exclaimed.

"No. Not until it was confused by its own reflection." Derek's eyes flicked to the small dancer, who was practically hiding behind Stiles.

"It doesn't know what it is?" Scott asked.

"Or who," added Derek.

"What else do you know?" Stiles asked, shifting his weight.

"Just stories." The older answered. "Rumors."

"But it-it's like us?" Scott questioned.

"A shapeshifter, yes. But it's- it's not right. It's like a..." Derek licked his lips, thinking.

"An abomination." Stiles supplied from above Daisy, and Derek nodded.

They moved to leave, but Scott stopped them. "We need to work togetheron this," the teen said "Maybe even tell the Argents."

Allison?

"You trust them?!" Derek exclaimed.

"Nobody. Trusts. Anyone. That's the problem," Scott exploded. "While we're here, arguing about who's on what side, there's something scarier, stronger, and faster than any of us and it's killing people! And we still don't even know anything about it!"

"I know one thing," Derek said, turning, "When I find it, I'm gonna kill it."

Daisy's brow furrowed. "What a drama queen.." She whispered under her breath, staring at the eldest's retreating back. The girl flinched when she felt both the boy's eyes on her. She turned and looked at them both straight on.

"You are going to tell me everything. Now. And you're also taking me home." Daisy moved to the side of the car, waiting at the passenger side door, eyes narrowed.

It took the boys a second until they followed her commands, Stiles slipping into the back seat, and Scott starting the engine of the car, starting his story.

"It was the night before school started, and we decided to go look for a body..."

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