Angels and Wolves
Chapter 10
Fusedtwilight: As a holiday treat to you all I made this chapter extra long. A lot happens in this chapter, including a fight between Gabe and Ash. Is he ready to face the archdemon who killed his parents?
Ethan P.O.V
"Ethan! Ethan!" Danny said urgently.
"What?" I mumbled.
"It's Gabe...he's...floating."
"Of course he I," I continued to mumble...wait what?
I opened my eyes to see Gabe was floating above the bed. His mouth was open and a drop of drool fell out and landed right on my forehead.
"Gabe!" I said in disgust, wiping my face.
Gabe's eyes flew open and he fell and landed on top of me.
"Ethan? What the hell?" he asked.
"You were floating above the bed!" Danny said.
"Floating?" Gabe asked.
"Yeah, like Superman," I said.
"So thats why I always woke up falling on the bed," Gabe muttered.
"We need to get ready for school guys," Danny said.
"Yeah I will go see if my parents are...wait...oh shit my parents! I hope to God they didn't-"
Just the there was a knock on the door.
"Gabe, I made breakfast. You and Danny and Ethan hurry up and get ready and come down...we need to have a talk why the three of you were cuddling on your bed."
The three of us were frozen in shock.
"Shit!" the three of us said.
"Why didn't you hear them come home!" Gabe hissed at me.
"I was kind of sleeping!" I hissed back.
"I thought werewolves were hard to sneak up on!"
"The last few weeks have been tiring and we were up late last night so I was a bit dead to the world!"
The three of us staid up late. Gabe had a lot of things to talk about.
About how he died, about what it was like to find out he wasn't human and adopted. His fears and anxieties, how despite having all these powers he felt so useless, how he felt like he was more trouble then he was worth.
It had been about three in the morning when we finally went to bed.
I am normally a light sleeper, but like I said the last few weeks have been tiring for all of us.
"Guys relax!" Danny said calmly. "We were going to be found out eventually. It was just a matter of time. Let's just get this over with. Kind of like a bandage okay. Quick and painless."
Quick and painless, yeah right.
After the three of us took our showers we went downstairs where Gabes parents had cooked us breakfast.
To say things were awkward was an understatement.
You didn't have to be a werewolf to know his parents were angry and confused.
Gabe was poking at his eggs and hardly eating.
"So, I think you three have some explaining to do," Gabes mom said finally breaking the silence.
"Danny and Ethan just wanted to sleep over," Gabe said a little to quickly.
She turned around from the stove to look at him hard. "Then why couldn't they just use the guest room?"
Gabe closed and opened his mouth trying to figure out what to say.
"The three of you were cuddling Gabe. You know we are okay with who you are but-"
Gabes dad placed his hand on hers.
"Son, we understand you are young and kids your age do...crazy things. But were worried about you. Ever since your kidnapping you have been different."
"I'm just going through some things is all," Gabe muttered.
"Don't lie to us Gabriel!" his mom said. "Something is going on! I am a lawyer I can spot these things a mile away." she turned to look at Danny. "Danny please you have been friends with Gabe since he was a child. Tell me what is going on!"
"Were in a relationship," Danny said calmly.
Gabe and I looked at him incredulously.
He shrugged at us. "We've been caught red handed guys."
"In a relationship? The three of you?" Gabes dad asked looking shocked.
"It happened after he was kidnapped. Ethan and I just kind of found ourselves falling for Gabe and he us. That's why Gabe has been acting odd. He has been afraid you guys would find out and hate him for it," Danny explained.
Gabes mom quickly walked around the table and wrapped her arms around Gabe.
"I could never hate you! Your my little angel!"
"You got that right," I said and Danny and Gabe shot me looks of warning.
Gabes mom pulled back to look at him. "Gabriel I admit I am shocked and a little disturbed. You know your father and I love you no matter what!"
"Thanks mom," Gabe said.
His dad stood up. "I think we all need to have a talk. But seeing how that will be a long conversation lets save it for another night. Ethan I expect you to be here for that conversation."
"Yes sir," I said.
"And you two Danny."
Danny nodded.
"And your parents," Gabes mom said.
"Wait what?" Danny asked.
"I have known your mom for years. I am not going to keep this secret from her. If you three are going to be...together we need to discuss this as a family."
"Good idea. You boys have to understand it is one thing to be gay, but to be in such a relationship will cause you all many difficulties. We will talk about this together as a family."
"Yaaaaaaay," Danny grumbled.
"Well it can't get any worse," Gabe said.
"You know your probably going to regret saying that," I told him.
Gabe P.O.V
"I am so fucking regretting what I said earlier!" I yelled.
Kira, Alison and I were locked in Coachs office.
Danny, Ethan and I had been practicing lacrosse. I was not on the team but thanks to my angel relexs and speed I was able to give him a better challenge then Danny. After having some fun in the showers Ethan had staid behind the grab his things while Danny and I went ahead.
But I realized I had left my book bag in the locker room and went back to grab it where I found Alison and Kira fighting Isaac.
Apparently he had attacked the twins, knocking them out with a taser gun he stole from Alison and was going to kill them via a Molotov Cocktail when Kira and Alison showed up to stop him, I arrived in time as the twins awoke and with their eyes glowing a sinister red began to advance on Isaac.
I tried calling Ethans name but the look in his eyes...it was like he was not really there.
So while the twins fought Isaac we were trying to figure out what the hell to do.
Kira filled me in, apparently the nogitsune stole her moms last tail (which somehow was turned into a knife) and using its power ripped open Stiles stomach to unleash a swarm of fly's which it was using to posses the twins and Isaac and God knows who else.
Alison also told me They found Stiles unconscious and Deaton used kanima venom (apparently Jackson left a lot lying around during his lizard days) to immobilize it while Scott and the others tried to figure out what to do.
Apparently they even resorted to calling Peter for help.
"I should have known, Isaac spent the night at my place and after we woke up a fly flew in his mouth," Alison said.
"I thought I saw a fly go into Ethans hands when he was washing his face."
I activated my aura vision. I looked at both Kira and Alison, Kira had her glowing kitsune shaped aura but neither one of them were showing anything strange or out of the ordinary.
But as I looked out the window at the gory scene of the twins beating the crap out of Isaac I saw a darkness. It pulsed like some living creature, some kind of parasite. And in that darkness I saw a single fly.
"I can see the fly's inside them," I said.
"We need to stop them before they kill Isaac," Alison said. "The twins are alphas their attacks wont heal as they would from a beta!"
"We have to stop them from killing each other!" Kira said showing equal concern for the twins.
"No offense but I am with Kira. They kill Isaac first cause he is an easy target then they will turn on one another," I said.
Alison gave me a hard look.
"He's a beta they're alphas!" I said defensively.
"It's too bad they didn't lose their power when Jenifer broke their necks," she said.
"Look there is three of them and three of us. I figure an angel-hybrid a thunder kitsune and a huntress should be more then enough to take them on."
"How do we stop them from killing us though?" Kira asked.
I raised my hands and they glowed with white light.
"Knock them around until they don't get up."
The girls nodded to one another. Kira raised her sword and Alison readied her bow.
We unlocked the door and ran out.
Kira and I faced the twins while Alison went after Isaac.
Kira took on Ethan while I fought Aiden. I dodged a couple of swipes and used my right hand to block his next swing and brought up my right hand to punch him in the stomach.
Aiden actually let out a bark of pain and backed away from me, holding his stomach. I knew I was stronger then a normal human. But I had never tested the limits of my new strength.
It seemed to fluctuate, one minute I was capable of lifting the amount of weight someone my size and age could lift. The next I was lifting more then twice my weight without even realizing it.
I n this moment I was grateful the twins had been teaching me how to fight. Though I never dreamed I would be fighting them.
Truth be told I was more glad I was fighting Aiden then Ethan. I could not stand the thought of having to hurt him.
Aiden on the other hand.
"Alison!" I heard Kira yell.
I glanced to the side to see Alison's bow had locked up and Kira tossed her sword to Alison to use. Ethan lunged at Kira but she brought her foot up and kicked him in the gut causing him to fall back.
Kira and Alison went back to back and I realized to late I should have been paying more attention to Aiden because he lounged forward. On instinct I raised my right arm and cried out as he bit into my forearm.
Blood began to fall from my arm as his teeth mercilessly penetrated straight to the bone.
I raised my left hand and blasted him with some angel fire. He flew back and I looked at my arm. The damage was bad but already it was healing.
Aiden stood back up, the red of his eyes matched the red of my blood now smeared on his lips perfectly.
Just as he sprung to attack again he froze. His whole body began to convulse and he fell to his knees. He suddenly began to spew a stream of blood fluid.
When he finished I could see the rage vanish from his eyes and knew he was back in control.
He looked confused and shaken but okay.
I looked into the puddle and saw a fly floating amongst the muck.
I raised my good arm and fired a blast of angel fire at the fly, disintegrating it in a puff.
"It was your blood...It tasted wonderful but...I could feel it burning the darkness," Aiden said.
His eyes focused on my arm that was still healing. The red began to creep into his eyes and I saw his tongue tracing his lips for leftover remains.
"Help me with Isaac and Ethan," I said firmly.
I turned to go help the girls but found Isaac and Ethan were already on their knees. Black goo was slowly leaking from their mouth and nose.
"Alison?" Isaac asked looking confused.
She knelt next to him and I quickly made my way to Ethan.
"Are you okay?" I asked him.
"I can still feel it inside me," he whispered.
I looked into his aura and saw that the fly was still inside him, only now the darkness was shriveled up. As if it had somehow become disconnected from what ever was powering it.
"Maybe they were able to save Stiles and it separated the nogitsune from his control over them," Kira said.
"I'll call Scott and find out. We need to get the fly's out of them," Alison said.
"Gabe, your blood freed Aiden from them. Maybe if you let them feed from you it can help them as well."
I felt something grab my bad arm. I hissed in pain as Aiden gripped it possessively and began to lick at the still healing wound.
I slapped him in the face so hard his face flew to the side and hit a locker.
He glared at me and I raised my hand. I let it glow threateningly with angel fire.
"Do that again and I fly blast you." I turned to look at Kira. "I am not comfortable opening a vein for them. Lets see what Deaton can do for them," I said.
"Guys what is taking so-" Danny trailed off as he walked in and saw the scene before him.
"What the hell is going on hear?" he asked.
Kira and I rushed to Scotts house.
Deaton had arrived to get the fly's out of Isaac and Ethan and told us that Scott used his werewolf powers to merge his and Lydia's mind to Stiles in the hopes that they could get inside Stiles head and help him break free from the nogitsunes control.
Stiles had healed from the wound to his gut but Peter did not think Stiles would survive a bite from an alpha so he suggested the mind meld thing.
Good news, it worked and upon freeing himself all the people Stiles had been controlling were freed from the nogitsunes control.
Oh and apparently Stiles coughed up a bunch of bandage wrappings and what looked like the nogitsune somehow crawled out and just as they were about to kill it Scott realized it wasn't the nogitsune...but Stiles.
That's right, somehow the nogitsune vomited a new Stiles and the old one disappeared...taking Lydia with him.
Before we could proceed we had to make sure this was the real Stiles and I offered to use my aura thing to find out but Scott had already called Kira's mom to use the oni.
Stiles wanted to know for himself if he was finally free from the nogitsune and didn't want to waste time waiting for me.
Kira and I ran inside in time to see her mom standing with two oni by her side.
"Mom wait!" Kira said.
But it was too late. The one oni did his creepy glowing eye thing and we all let out a sigh of relief when it branded Stiles with the Kanji.
The oni vanished and Scott helped Stiles sit on his couch.
"He is free from the nogitsune," Kira's mom said.
I looked at Stiles with my aura sight and frowned.
"What is it Gabe?" Scott asked seeing my expression.
"Stiles aura...he's clean...but...his aura is losing its vibrancy."
"After everything I have been through I think I am going to be a little dull," he said.
"No...it's like watching a light-bulb losing power. It doesn't feel right," I explained.
"We need to find Lydia. I don't know why it took her but it can't be fore anything good," Stiles said.
"The sun is almost up. The oni wont be able to look for it until tonight," Kira's mom said.
"We'll look during the day. We'll find her," Scott said.
Kira walked over and began to speak to the guys. Kira's mom walked over to me.
"Kira told me you are an angel?" she asked, looking at me with curiosity.
"Only a quarter. I am what is called a elioud. One of my parents was a nephilim. Still trying to learn more about that whole situation," I said.
"Kira also tells me you have your own great evil to face," she said.
"Yes. Apparently the devil hates creatures like me and wants me dead. Don't suppose you know anything that might help?" I asked.
"In Buddhist lore there are beings called Tennin who are sometimes depicted as having wings. I have never met one myself. But I have heard tales of their beauty and their wisdom. I am also aware in Roman myth there are creatures called genii who were guardian spirits. Depicted as winged humans. Even the Valkyries of Norse myth were sometimes imaged as having wings. Maybe there are others like you out there. And if they have remained hidden this long then maybe so can you."
I looked down at my hands.
"I am supposed to have all these powers and yet I feel useless most of the time."
"Give it time. Kira is only seventeen and she is showing more potential then I did when I was a hundred."
I got curious and used my aura vision. Her aura was fox shaped but it was differently colored then Kiras.
"Your older then Kira. But your not that much stronger then her. I thought your kind gets stronger the older they get."
"We do. If we live to be a thousand years old we become true spirits. It's why the nogitsune came to me. I wanted a powerful spirit and nothing is more dangerous then a kitsune who is a thousand years old."
"I have to ask...the whole tails being knives thing. Whats up with that?" I asked her.
She smiled, but there was a tinge of sadness to it. "The older a kitsune becomes the more tails they gain. Our tails hold our power and there was a time when we would be hunted and our tails were mercilessly removed by those who desired to use our power for their own purposes. So to keep our power safe we created the hoshi no tama. The star sphere to contain our power and keep our tails safe. The knives are my hoshi no tama."
"I get it. So you would put your power in these hoshi no tama and hide it for safe keeping."
She nodded. "My last tail is my oldest and strongest. It is why the nogitsune was able to summon his swarm."
"If he is so strong why did he need it at all?" I asked.
"As long as he is bound in mortal flesh his power does have limits."
"Then why keeps using a vessel? Why make a copy of Stiles to inhabit?"
"I believe there are many answers to this question. None pleasant. Remember, a trickster always has more then one purpose for every action it takes. But I believe part of the reason is to further cause emotional trauma. Could you fight a creature that had the face of someone you loved?"
"I could. But it would mess with my head."
"And the nogitsune would use that to his advantage."
"If the nogitsune breaks your last tail...what will happen to you?" I asked.
"Then all my nine-hundred years of power will be lost. I will be greatly weakened."
"But you could just live another nine-hundred right?" I asked.
She shook her head. "I am afraid not. We kitsune are long lived but not immortal. We heal fast but can still die. The life-span of a normal kitsune is low do to our tendency to get into trouble. I would live for another hundred years but I would die. I will not be able to transcend and become a spirit."
"Can I ask one more question?"
"Of course."
"Your oni didn't scan me when they marked me. Why?"
She frowned. "What do you mean?"
"I mean when we let them scan us they didn't both doing the glowy eye thing to me. Just straight away marked me."
"Perhaps the oni sensed something about you. Something that told them you were not under the nogitsunes control."
I thought back to Aiden's reaction when he bit me. How my blood freed him from the nogitsunes control.
"Oh I am such an idiot!" I said.
Stiles, Kira and Scott stopped talking to look at me.
"My blood! It got the fly out of Aiden! What if it has a similar effect on the nogitsune!"
Kira looked to her mom. "Could it?"
Her mom looked perplexed. "I have no idea. To my knowledge a nogitsune has never encountered a elioud before. But I suppose it makes sense. If Gabriel here really is of angelic descent then it makes sense his blood would be harmful to creatures like the nogitsune."
"What if we used it on the nogitsune? Maybe use it to weaken him or something. Hell maybe it will kill him," I said feeling hopeful.
"It's worth a shot," Stiles said.
"What about Ash? What are we going to do about him?" Kira asked.
"One problem at a time," I said.
Lydia P.O.V
The voices were so loud.
Usually they were just whispers. But now it was as if they were screaming into my ear.
And it was not something helpful they were telling me, like how to escape.
They were screaming, begging for help, for mercy, for life.
I was listening to the cries of the dead.
"You hear them don't you?"
I looked down the tunnel to see Stiles...no the nogitsune grinning at me.
"A lot of people died here Lydia. I was there, I killed them," he said with a sick smile.
I stood up, I tried to walk but it was as if my movement drew the attention of the voices. The more they noticed me the more they screamed at me.
"Are they telling you Stiles is dying Lydia? Because he is you know. In order to make a new host I have to leech the life from the old. Soon Stiles will be dead and I won't have to listen to his frazzled brain ever again."
I turned around to face him. I couldn't find a way out but I wasn't going to let this monster mess with me.
"I won't tell you anything."
"You won't have to speak to me, you'll be screaming," he replied.
"It's what they do after all."
I turned around to see Ash standing behind me.
"Poor pitiful creatures you banshees are. Your similar to Gabe Lydia. Banshee's are born human. But if they experience a near death experience their power is activated. And they are doomed to spend the rest of their lives listening to the whispers of the dead. Many of them go insane. In a town like Beacon I wonder how long before your mind is shattered."
"Monster!"
"Evil!"
"Demon!"
Hellspawn!"
"They have a lot to say about you," I said glaring at him.
"Oh I am sure they do." his eyes moved from me to the nogitsune. "Why did you bring her here?"
"She is useful to my plan. It requires timing and she will give me a heads up," it said.
"What are you planning?" Ash asked him.
The nogitsune smiled. "Noshiko still has something I want. I just have to wait for her to come and give it to me."
"I'll never help you!" I hissed at the nogitsune.
"You won't have a choice." he looked to Ash. "Where is the container?"
"Safe. Someplace they will never find," Ash said.
"Why not just destroy it?" the nogitsune asked.
"A little reminder to give you motivation not to fuck up. Because if you fail me, I will put you back inside it. Right after I rip you out of that body," Ash said with a sinister smile.
Ethan P.O.V
Aiden and I were running through the woods trying to catch Lydia's scent.
So far we had found nothing.
"As soon as we find her we should leave," Aiden said.
I turned to look at him. "What?"
"You, me, Lydia, Danny and Gabe. The five of us should leave this damn town."
"We can't just leave!" I said.
"Why not? With the nemeton calling to other monsters this town is a death trap. Especially to Gabe. Pretty soon this place is going to be overrun with more then just werewolves and how many of them are going to go after him?"
"Have you forgotten how many enemies we have made?" I asked.
He placed his hand on my shoulder.
"We're still alphas. Lydia is a banshee and can warn us if someone comes after us. Danny is a computer wiz and could make us new identities and Gabe could be a force to be reckoned with. I remember fighting him Ethan. When he punched me I thought my ribs were about to break. But I could tell he was holding back."
"He's not a violent person," I said.
"So imagine the damage he could do if he decided too. Remember what he did to the Order? All he needs is some more training and we could be invincible!"
"We can't just leave Scott," I argued.
"Why not? We have done more then enough for him."
"He forgave us! He could have run us out if he wanted but he allowed us to stay!"
"And I am grateful but this is not a fight we can win."
"They won't just leave their friends and families behind Aiden. If you really want Lydia to love you then you have to stop acting like a cold-hearted alpha."
"Thats all I know how to be!" he growled.
Just then I heard a sound that sent a cold chill of fear running through me.
"You hear that?" Aiden asked.
A round being chambered into a gun.
Suddenly there was a hail of bullets. We both ran but I cried out as I felt several hit me.
Maybe Aiden had been right. Maybe we should leave.
Maybe it was too late.
Stiles P.O.V
I hugged my dad tight.
"Thank God your alright," he said.
He looked to Scott. "Is it all over?" he asked.
Scott and I told him what had happened.
Dad looked perplexed. I think he was able to handle Lydia being captured better then the idea of two f me running around.
I liked the idea less then him.
"Why would it even need a banshee?" dad asked.
"Maybe he needs her to find a dead body. It's what she does," I said.
"I think the nogitsune cares more about making dead bodies then finding them," Scott said.
"It can't want it's old body. We still haven't removed it from Eichen yet the forensics are still going over the place. Noshiko told me the whole story about what happened last time."
And just like that I remembered.
My first day at Eichen a woman had been speaking on the phone, telling someone she had to tell the whole story.
Oliver said her name was Meredith and she was a little odd.
When I went to use the phone I found it was not working.
At the time I didn't think much of it. But now I began to wonder.
"Meredith," I said.
"Who?" Dad asked.
"At Eichen there was a woman called Meredith." I looked to Scott. "I saw her talking on the phone one time. But when I went to use it it wasn't working. She was talking to someone only she could hear."
"Lots of people at Eichen talk to people only they can hear," dad said.
"Yeah but Lydia can hear things normal people can't," Scott said with a look of understanding.
Dad had his new deputy Parrish call up to Eicheen house to learn more about Meredith.
He found out her name was Meredith Walker and she was in the Closed Unit because she would not stop screaming.
I knew then my gut instinct had been right. Meredith was not just some woman who heard voices.
She was a banshee just like Lydia.
Gabe P.O.V
Danny and I sat in class.
Coach was on the phone yelling about his hospital bill.
"A ten-thousand dollar bill! I had a freaking arrow in my stomach!" he yelled into the phone.
"I hate this. We should be trying to find Lydia," I said to Danny.
"There is nothing we can do. Unless you developed an angel power to track people down we are better and safer in school," he said calmly.
"Safer? I seem to recall a janitor was killed here, Kira was attacked by a werecoyote, need I go on?" I asked.
"Alright class!" Coach said ending his call. "Today were going to talk about the unfairness of the US Healthcare system!"
"Um Coach," Danny said. "We have a visitor."
He turned to look at the back of the class and we all turned to see what he was looking at.
There was a woman, a bit too old to be in high school. She had pale skin and curly auburn colored hair.
She looked up at u all, she had a slightly crazed look.
"Who the hell is that?" Coach asked confused.
"My name is Meredith," she mumbled.
Coach began to walk to the back of the class, some of the students-Danny and myself included- stood up and began to crowd around Meredith.
It's not every day some strange woman just shows up at school. I mean murders are more common then that here...not sure that is a good thing.
When coach began speaking to her it was as if he was speaking to someone who was slow.
"Sweetie, can you tell me what Insane Asylum you escaped from?" he asked.
"Coach Insane Asylum isn't the proper term," Danny said.
"Right gotcha," Coach said. "What Nut House did you escape from?" he asked Meredith.
I rolled my eyes. Stiles had more tact then coach.
"Eichen House," Meredith answered quietly, not bothered by Coach's blunt behavior.
Everyone gasped and backed away as if she was a bomb about to go off.
Danny and I shared a look.
I looked at Meredith but I let my aura vision activate.
Her aura was messed up.
She was not possessed or evil. But her colors were muddy and sickly looking.
It was like someone added too much water to a can of paint.
But yet I saw despite her flaws she was a good person. She had a strong desire to help.
But whats more I saw her aura was similar to Lydia's.
"Danny...she's a banshee," I whispered to him.
I could hear Kira talking to Scott, letting him know Meredith was here.
Coach looked disturbed by the fact she was from Eichen but I had to give him credit for not freaking out like some of the other students did.
"Why are you so far from there?" he asked gently. As if he was afraid the wrong question might set her off.
She looked right at me and Danny when next she spoke and I knew she was talking to us now.
"I came here to help." she suddenly placed her hands on her head and closed her eyes."I keep hearing screams!"
"Why are they screaming?" Coach asked.
"They only scream when someone is about to die," Meredith explained.
Coach looked fearful when he asked the next question. "How many are screaming?"
"All of them," she said.
I could hear the other students whispering. All of them freaked out.
I walked over to Meredith.
"Gabe!" Coach hissed trying to grab my wrist to keep me from her.
I knelt down so I could look at her in the eyes.
"You have pretty eyes," she said with a smile.
"Thank you."
She leaned in a little and she smiled more, showing her teeth. Her aura got just a little brighter.
"You smell like warm milk and hay."
"Do the voices tell you who is going to die?" I asked.
Her aura dimmed. The smile vanished and she looked sad.
"The voices tell me he is coming."
"Who is coming?"
"He is coming Gabriel Welkin."
"How do you know my name?" I asked her.
"He is coming for you."
"Who? Ash?" I whispered not wanting the others to overhear.
She shook her head. "He will be here soon. He is coming."
"Who is coming?" I asked more urgently.
She continued to shake her head and her aura began to shift turning dark and vividly bright and sharp.
I realized she was overloading. And if I didn't stop she would snap and we needed her to be cognate if she was going to help us. So I stopped questioning her and simply placed my hand on hers.
She stopped shaking her hand and looked at me.
"It's okay Meredith. Thank you very much for coming to our school. It must have been a long walk."
She nodded. "I like walking. It helps me clear my mind."
"I like to swim," I said with a smile.
"Alright sweetie, let's go to my office and talk okay," Coach said.
"I want Gabe to come...he's nice," she said.
Coach looked at me and I nodded.
"Alright everyone stay here and write about the stupid healthcare system okay," he said.
I nodded to Danny and Kira and the three of us left. I held Meredith's hand the entire way.
I felt protective of her, I could tell she was a good person who had been through a lot of bad things.
I hoped to God this didn't happen to all banshees. The idea of Lydia winding up in Eichen because of the voices she heard made me feel sick.
I wasn't sure if I could help Meredith, but I was going to make sure she staid safe.
Ethan P.O.V
I helped Aiden walk as we tried to escape our attackers.
Whoever it was they were professionals.
I couldn't smell them. But I could hear them, sometimes I would see movement out of the corner of my eye but when I would look no one was there.
There was no way to guess who it was, we had made too many enemies. Some human, others supernatural. Anyone of them had the skill to hunt us like this.
With the death of Deaucalion, Kali and Ennis it was not surprising someone decided to come after us now.
Just wish they had picked a better time.
I could feel the wolfsbane burning through my body. I could feel my body trying to fight it off but failing.
"Ethan!"
Derek came running to us.
He helped me carry Aiden.
"What happened?" he asked.
"We were attacked and-
The tree next to us exploded under a rain of bullets. "Run!" Derek yelled.
We continued to run, Aiden and I struggled but Derek would push us to give us the energy we needed.
He led us to an old coyote den. The scent was a few weeks old now and I could faintly smell Scott and Stiles. This must be where that Malia girl had been hiding.
"Do you know who is after you?" Derek asked us.
"We pissed off a lot of people, it was only a matter of time before they came for us," Aiden said with a pained gasp.
"Stay here, you should be safe. I am going to go get help," Derek said and left us in the den.
We listened closely once the sound of Derek's footfalls could no longer be heard there was nothing save for the sound of birds and squirrels.
I looked to Aiden who I could tell was in pain.
For as long as I could remember we have always been able to feel one another pain. But it was even worse when we both suffered because not only did I have to feel my own torment but I could feel his.
"Remember that idea you had about leaving town?" I asked him.
"Yeah?"
"I think it might be a good idea," I grinned.
He let out a pain filled laugh.
"You decide it is a good idea after we get shot. Typical."
Gabe P.O.V
I got a text from Scott telling me he was here.
I left Meredith in Coach's office to go meet him and Stiles. Kira was trying to convince Coach not to hand Meredith over to the orderlies who were coming over to take her back to Eichen.
The two of them came through the front doors and I walked up to them.
"Thank God you guys are here." I looked over at Stiles who looked paler then usual. "Dude you look like shit."
"I feel fine," he said.
I noticed Scott give him a look and I knew he knew something about Stile's condition. I used my aura vision and saw his aura had gotten a lot dimmer and judging from the sharp grays I saw he was in a lot of pain.
But one thing at a time. Meredith first, Stiles pain filled dying aura later.
"Guys she is a banshee, I looked at her aura and it is similar to Lydia's. Not in a batshit crazy way but you know what I mean," I said.
"Where is she?" Scott asked.
"Left her in Coach's office. But the orderlies will be here soon!"
"Then lets go get her," Stiles said.
We hurried back to Coach's office in time to see Coach being chastised by a some guy dressed in in a grayish green scrubs. I was surprised to see the look on Coach's face.
He looked like a kid being yelled at by an old school bully.
I had forgotten there were two doors in his office and at some pint after I left she had slipped out the other door.
"We need to find her now before he does!" I hissed.
I got a bad vibe from this guy. When I looked him over with my aura vision I did not like what I saw.
This guy had a darkness. Not from the nogitsune, this was a darkness that was all his own. He was a lot more then some asshole or a bully.
I was going to make sure he got no where near Meredith.
Hell if I had my way he wouldn't be anywhere near anyone.
Because it wasn't just darkness I saw...it was evil.
Lydia P.O.V
I continued to walk through the tunnels looking for a way out.
The voices continued to scream.
They were so afraid, they had to get away! It was right behind them.
I walked down some stairs, seeing an iron door I tried to open it but it would not budge.
Ash and the nogitsune had let me walk away not caring if I left.
They knew I was trapped, but I would rather be wondering alone then stay with a nogitsune using a copy body of one of my best friends and an archdemon who posed as a school teacher.
"Poor little Lydia. All alone again. Your friends are off chasing useless leads or dealing with bigger problems. How did you go from being the most popular girl in school to the crazy girl who thinks she can run with wolves?"
I closed my eyes and tried to ignore him. If he thinks he can screw with my head he has no idea who he is dealing with.
"Don't listen!"
"Evil!"
"Liar!"
"Deceiver!"
"Trickster!"
The voices hissed at me.
As if I didn't already know all that.
"I know what your doing," I said. I turned around to face him. He stood at the top of the stairs. Damn him for looking like Stiles, even though I knew Stiles was not inside this shell a part of me felt some kind of comfort seeing him.
Derek once asked why a powerful spirit would chose someone like Stiles. But was it not obvious? A trickster never goes for the obvious, and what better person then Stiles?
He was smart, dependable, harmless.
A perfect target, because so many of us care for him. Even though he talks a lot and can be irritating and he can be such a smart ass he was precious to some many people.
The nogitsune was wise in his choice because using Stiles against us was the perfect plan.
"Your trying to get in my head. Trying to make me doubt. But I know what you are. Trickster!"
He began to slowly make his way down the steps. His movements were so like Stiles. But there was a dark edge to it.
"My existence is all about hunger Lydia. The fox, the raven the coyote. They're all the same. They hunger. They crave the same thing. But I am hungry for something else. I hunger for what you feel."
He stopped until he was merely inches from my face, I leaned back as far as I could until I could feel the gate groan in protest from my weight. I stared into his eyes. The warmth and light I normally saw were gone. Replaced with nothing but a void.
"And I am insatiable!" he hissed.
"I am starting to wonder if maybe you picked up your hosts fascination for this creature."
The nogitsune slowly turned to look up the stairs at Ash who was looking down at us with a bored expression.
"Back so soon?"
"Had to collect something."
Ash moved to the side and I gasped as a pair of bodies floated towards us.
It was Gabe's parents. Gina and Luke.
"Why are they here?" the nogitsune asked.
"You have your bait and I have mine."
Ash waved his hand and th iron door suddenly opened and I fell back. I sat up and began to crawl away as Gina and Luke levitated into the room with me.
Ash walked down the steps. He waved his hand again and they fell none to gently to the floor. They did not wake but they did groan.
"I stopped by Gabe's home today. Told his parents we needed to have an important talk about their son. To think they value a being who is not even their child by blood."
"They love him, though I doubt a monster like you would know anything about that," I said.
"HOW DARE YOU!" he roared.
Suddenly the temperature in the room dropped by a hundred degrees. The voices were screaming louder then ever, as if they could sense his rage.
He began to walk over to me.
I let out a cry of terror. Because in that moment I felt such...evil. Such malevolence. Never before I have felt something like this. Not even at the motel we had staid at.
"I WAS ONCE AN ANGEL! I FLY ON THE SOLAR WINGS OF CREATION! I WALKED ON WORLDS LARGER AND MORE GRAND THEN THIS SHIT BALL!"
His fave began to melt like wax. His fingers lengthened and his nails turned into nasty looking black talons.
His pant legs ripped as his legs readjusted and his shoes soon tore as well as his feet lengthened.
"I LOVED MY FATHER! BUT HE CHOSE YOU! YOU PITIFUL UNGREATFUL HYPOCRYTICAL BAGS OF PUSS!"
He towered over me, once I thought him rather good looking. But not the mask of humanity was slowly slipping away as the demon revealed itself.
"YOUR ALL SO DAMNED EASY TO CORRUPT! WE BARELY HAVE TO LIFT A FINGER ANYMORE! YET HE STILL CHOSES YOU! HE STILL CASTS HIS FAVOR ON YOU! HE-"
"No that I don't enjoy seeing you flip out but maybe you should back it down."
The nogitsune spoke calmly. But there was a look in his eyes. A look that told me he was afraid as well.
The nogitsune may be powerful, but Ash is stronger then him. Stronger enough the nogitsune would rather he not lose his temper.
Ash took a deep breath and then slowly resumed his human form.
"Sorry about that. They're putting a lot of pressure on me back home. But it does not matter. When Gabe and learns I have his parents he will lose his mind with worry. It will make it that much easier when I take him down."
He turned around and walked out of the room. The nogitsune watched him wearily.
Gabe's parents began to waken.
"I'll let you handle our guests."
He left the room, closing the door behind him.
I crawled over to Gabe's parents. Wiping my tears.
I normally didn't pray.
But I hope Ash was right when he said God loved us. Because we could really use a miricle right now.
Gabe P.O.V
We had found Meredith.
She had been in the music room plucking the strings of a piano.
Brunski, the orderly with the dark aura had been about to taser her. But Coach in a moment of pure bad assery turned the tables on the asshole, explaining our schools anti-bullying policy.
It was epic!
So Scott, Stiles, and I left the school and took Meredith to Scott's house.
I texted Danny to have him put my book bag in my locker.
On our way to Scott's we tried asking Meredith where Lydia was, but Meredith had no idea who that was.
Things got a little awkward when we got to Scott's house because his dad was there with Isaac. Judging from the look on Isaac's face Scott's dad had been asking him a lot of questions. Scott had tried to explain we had a free period and that we came here to study.
But of course he saw Meredith and asked about her.
Stiles tried using the girlfriend excuse until Meredith said Stiles was not her type. But apparently Isaac was.
So much for that excuse.
So to keep any more awkward situations Isaac, Stiles and I took Meredith up to Scott's room while he staid behind to talk with his dad.
We waited patiently for Scott to come up. I could hear him talking thanks to my hearing. And judging from the look in Isaac's face he could hear as well.
"Well that wasn't awkward," I said as I sat Meredith down on Scott's bed.
"Why were you even here?" Stiles asked Isaac.
"I thought Scott would be here with you. I came to see if there was anything I could do to help find Lydia but instead I found his dad here and he began to practically interrogate me!" Isaac said defensively.
"Oh, Lydia! You mean the red haired girl," Meredith said.
All three of us looked at her in surprise.
"She doesn't want to be found," she said.
Scott's father began to tell him a story of how one night during a drunken fight with his wife he had shoved Scott who fell down the stairs and was unconscious for twenty seconds.
"What do you mean?" Stiles asked.
But Meredith refused to speak.
"I think we should try scaring her," Isaac said, his voice cold.
"Don't be a dick!" I said instantly coming to her defense.
"She knows something but she isn't telling us!" he said. "We're running out of time, we need to find Lydia."
"Oh wow suddenly you care. I seem to recall you trying to kill her once!" I said hotly.
His eyes flashed yellow but I didn't back down.
"Look, she is a banshee. She's like Lydia okay! If we get her to listen to one of those voices maybe one of them will help us," Stiles said.
Stiles walked closer to Stiles. Meredith shrunk back a little as he got closer.
"Meredith. We need your help. Our friend is in trouble. Please help us find her. I know she doesn't want to be found but she is in a lot of danger."
Downstairs Scott was angrily telling his dad about all the times he had been hurt in the house. He says he doesn't need his fathers apology. I could hear him leave his father alone speaking as he left.
"See you at graduation or whenever you decide to show up again."
"Your phone is ringing," Meredith said to Stiles.
Stiles looked confused. He pulled out his cell, the screen was blank.
Meredith extended her hand and he gave it to her she put it to her ear.
"Hello?" she listened for a few seconds. She looked at the three of us. "Coup de foudre," she said.
Stiles eyes widened in realization.
"I know where she is!"
Scott walked in looking aggravated.
"Scott, she's at Oak Creek!" Stiles said.
"What? Are you sure?" Scott asked.
"Yes, I'm sure," Stiles said.
"I'll call Alison and let her know," Isaac said.
"And I need to go home and get ready. I'll meet back up with you later," I said.
I left Scott's house and ran home, I have been preparing for this ever since I found out I had demons coming after me. I had been secretly gathering these things and keeping them in a wodden box under my bed.
I didn't live to far from Scott's. I ran through a few back yards and hopped over a few fences to cut the time.
I moved swiftly and effortlessly, leaping over wooden fences with the agility of a frog and landing with the grace of a cat. I didn't tire or slow down. My body did not have the same limits it once had and I could push myself harder and further.
I hoped mom and dad were not home. I wanted to sneak in and get some new cloths.
I wasn't going to miss this. If the nogitsune was there then chances were that Ash was as well and I was not going to let my friends fight both of those monsters without me.
Was I ready to fight such a creature? A being that had existed since the early days of mankind?
Probably not.
Hell I might die.
Permanently this time.
But I wasn't going to run. I wasn't going to hide.
I won't apologize for existing, I can't help being born. And I won't let anyone persecute me, even if it is the Devil himself.
I groaned when I saw mom and dads cars in the driveway. Maybe I could sneak in the back?
I frowned when I saw the front door was open.
I walked up the steps and listened. I heard no one inside save the tv.
A cold feeling of dread began to build in my stomach.
Something was terribly wrong.
I pushed the door open and peered inside.
I saw nothing.
I walked inside and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Just then my phone beeped, letting me know I got a text.
When I saw it was a picture from my dad I clicked on it and almost dropped the phone.
The picture showed my parents, they were with Lydia, they sat huddled on the ground looking terrified.
Then I got a text from dads cell.
Come to Oak Creek or they all will die.
My whole body began to shake.
I dropped my phone, the screen began to fade in and out. The image on the tv became distorted and the lights began to flicker to life.
I felt a strange pressure begin to build around my shoulder blades. I could feel something moving just beneath my skin.
But none of this mattered to me. I felt such a powerful sense of rage flowing through me.
Those monsters had my parents!
Ever since I got dragged into this madness I had feared my parents would be caught in the crossfire!
Now my worst nightmare was realized.
I picked my cell phone off the ground and typed a reply.
You're both fucking dead!
Lydia P.O.V
"Wow he's pissed," the nogitsune said.
"Good," Ash said crushing Luke's phone. "I want him angry. Maybe then I will get a challenge. He has only been a elioud for several weeks. He hasn't even realized his full potential-he let out a disappointed sigh- oh well. It was fun while it lasted."
"What will you do once he is dead?" the nogitsune asked.
"Return to the pit," Ash said not looking to thrilled by the idea.
"Don't you dare harm my son!" Luke snarled as he held a sobbing Gina.
Ash didn't even look at Luke. As if he was not worth his notice.
"He is not your son. Had you been a proper man you would have spawned your own brat. Instead you were offered a mutant. You should have tossed him in the trash where his kind belongs. Then you wouldn't be in this mess."
"They'll be here soon. But Noshiko will get here before we do," the nogitsune said.
"That's the plan. And while the others are fighting for their lives I will swoop in and rip Gabriel's heart from his chest." he smiled at Luke and Gina. "I let you keep that. Something to remember your precious half-breed by."
"Don't you touch my baby you monster!" Gina yelled.
"I'm not going to touch him, I'm going to annihilate him."
Derek P.O.V
Cora helped argent and I bring the twins to my loft.
Cora was none to happy to help them, she was more then happy to leave them to die.
I had her go get the wolfsbane and lighter I would need to help cure them of the poison in the bullets.
"Any idea who attacked them?" Argent asked.
I handed him a shotgun shell I had found in the woods when I rescued the twins.
"Do they belong to Araya?" he asked.
I shook my head. "I don't think so, the markings are not hers."
He examined the rim and a look of pure shock. I could hear his heart beat just a little faster.
"That's impossible!"
"What is it?" I asked.
Just then his phone began to ring.
He quickly answered it, his eyes never once left the shell.
"Hello."
"Dad. We know where Lydia is!" Alison said.
"What?"
"She's at Oak Creek. And Ash is there, he kidnapped Gabe's parents. I'm on my way to meet up with everyone now."
"Alison wait for me okay, I'll be right there!"
"There's no time, it's almost nightfall. Just meet me there okay. I love you."
She ended the call and Argent left.
I wanted to go with him, but I had to help the twins.
I just hope Stiles is okay. I haven't had the time to see him, between being possessed by the nogitsune and almost killing Argent and looking for Lydia and saving the twins there hasn't been a chance to see him.
But when things calm down I will make sure we talk.
After everything he has been through I am sure there is going to be some fallout.
Gabe P.O.V
We drove to Oake Creek.
No one spoke, I sat in the back with Isaac, holding the box that contained several rosaries, vials of mountains ash mixed with several other herbs said to repel demons, a bible, a book with drawings of symbols designed to bind demons (Thank you King Solomon) another book I had written down dozens of different lines designed to exorcise evil spirits, a few flasks filled with holy water freshly blessed today and a couple of cans of spray paint to quickly draw any binding symbols.
I also had a couple of syringes filled with my blood attached to the inside of my jacket, curtsy of Deaton. We would find out tonight if my blood worked against demon creatures.
I wore a pair of black combats boots with a pair of blue jeans, a white t-shirt with a large tribal like cross and a blue pleather jacket.
I had one knife strapped to my left leg and a knife holster attacked to my belt that held several blades and a silver cross hung around my neck.
I wasn't sure how much of this shit would work on the nogitsune what with him being a Japanese spirit and all. But the mountain ash mix would be useful against him and if I could energize it like I did the night the oni attacked us at Scott's house I might be able to keep him contained.
But the nogitsune was not my problem. I had to get to my parents and Lydia. But to do that I had to get through Ash.
"Alright, if no one else is going to say it I will," Isaac suddenly said, breaking the silence. He looked to Stiles. "You look skinnier and paler then usual. The nogitsune however is getting stronger. What if killing it kills Stiles?"
"I don't care," Stiles replied flatly. "I remember now everything it made me do. All the people I hurt." I saw him look at Scott. "Everyone."
"It wasn't you Stiles, it was controlling you."
"It doesn't matter. I want you all to promise me you won't let anyone else get hurt because of me. I won't let that...thing control me again. I won't."
I placed my hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry dude. We're going to make that fox wish he had staid buried."
"Your quit hopeful," Isaac said, ever the pessimist.
I smiled at him. "I'm an angel bitch. God's on my side."
"Your a bisexual angel half-breed and lats time I checked God wasn't doing you or us any favors."
I gave him a blank look. "Why Alison went for you over Scott I'll never know."
Lydia P.O.V
The three of us stood in the center of the room with the nogitsune.
Ash was somewhere else and the fox was looking up at the ceiling with a nervous expression.
"I know why your nervous," I taunted him. "You know the oni are close."
"That's why I am keeping you close," he shot back.
"Lydia, what is going on?" Gina asked.
"Just be strong. Help is on the way," I said soothingly.
"I wouldn't bet on that," the nogitsune responded.
"Death."
"Death."
"Death."
"Someone is about to die."
The voices continued to whisper. There voices were becoming more and more frantic.
Someone was about to die.
And I really hoped it was the nogitsune.
Alison P.O.V
Kira and I met up with the guys at Oak Creek.
We walked up to the gates of the old interment camp.
Kira had her sword, I had my bow, Gabe had his box and knives, Scott and Isaac were ready to wolf out on a moments notice and even Stiles had brought his aluminum bat.
We did look pretty bad ass.
Too bad the twins and the Hales (minus Peter) didn't come with. They would fit in nicely.
Scott turned to look at all of us.
"This is just like when we saved Malia guys. Only this isn't a stranger. This is Lydia, a friend- he looked to me- and family. I know we can do this. We have all been through a lot. But we have faced bad odds before and come out on top."
"Good thing I decided to skip doing my homework today," Isaac said.
He shrunk a little under the looks we were giving him.
"Just trying to defuse the tension," he mumbled.
I swear if we live through this I was going to help him work on his humor.
"Kira!"
We all turned to see Noshiko with two oni flanking her.
"Go home now!"
"I realized when I saw the Go game I realized I was actually playing you," Kira said.
Noshiko smiled, as if pleased by her daughters defiance.
"Go, we'll take care of this," I said to Scott.
Stiles and Gabe left with him to go look for Lydia and Gabe's parents.
I draw my bow and aim it at the oni.
If me theory is right and I hope to God it is then the oni are not as unstoppable as Silverfinger thought. How ironic that silver is not harmful to werewolves but it is to oni?
"Call them off," I told her.
"You think you can save him?" Noshiko asks us mockingly. "You think you can take him alive? I tried that seventy years ago. Your friend is gone!"
"You just don't want to admit that is Stiles doesn't have to die then Rhys didn't have to die!" Kira countered.
"I am no longer the fox Kira, you are. But I still have my demons to bury."
The oni vanish in a puff of black smoke and I curse, wishing I had planted an arrow in one of them while I had the chance.
Gabe P.O.V
Scott had caught Lydia's scent in the tunnels and we ran as he tracked her.
Stiles was breathing hard as he tried to keep up.
"Gabe there is something you need to know," Scott said.
"Probably should have told me earlier," I grumbled.
"When Derek and I fought Ash he mentioned your father. Your real father."
I stopped running.
"What?"
"The last time Ash was on earth it was to kill your father."
I felt like someone had punched me in the gut. So my real father was...dead.
"And my mother?" I asked dreading the answer.
"He didn't mention her," Scott said.
I took a deep breath. "Well, I still got a mother and father and I would rather not lose them."
"There is more. He knows your grandfather. Says he killed your dad because of some grudge against your grandfather. He didn't give us a name but he said he is high up in the hierarchy of heaven."
"Is it Michael?" I asked hopefully.
Scott laughed. "That's what I asked."
Just then we heard a growling sound from down the tunnel.
"What was that?" Stiles asked.
"Remember when I said Derek and I fought Ash?" Scott asked.
"Yes," I said.
"Well we didn't really fight him. We fought his pet. Muffin."
"Muffin?" Stiles and I asked.
A creature stepped into our view from the darkness of the tunnel. It was like someone bred a wolf and a dragon. It had bat like wings and a long serpent tail and more teeth then I was comfortable looking at.
It slowly stalked towards us.
"Get behind me guys," I said.
I slowly put my box down and opened it up, never once taking my eyes off the beast.
I reached inside and grabbed a spray can and after shaking it I pulled the cap off and began to spray onto the floor, my eyes traveled from the floor to the creature as it slowly creapt forward.
"Gabe what are you doing?" Scott asked.
"Trust me," I said.
Once I finished I stood up and began to walk away with Scott and Stiles in tow.
"Come and get us you piece of shit! I've seen hellhounds more scary then you!" I yelled.
"Have you ever actually seen a hellhound?" Stiles asked.
"Only on Supernatural," I said.
The beast let out a terrible growl and began to run at us. I summoned my angel fire, ready to use it in case this didn't work.
Scott and Stiles tried pulling me back but I would not budge.
Pleas God let this work!
The beast jumped and flew through the air. The three of us screamed and then as if it hit an invisible force-field the creature suddenly let out a pained yell and fell to the ground.
It began to struggle against the force that bound it, shaking it's whole body as if it was trying to shake off invisible chains.
"It worked!" I yelled triumphantly.
"What is that?" Scott asked.
"It's from the Key of Solomon. He was the king of Israel, son of David and magician and exorcist who according to legend used his magic to summon angels, demons and even djinn to do his bidding and build his temples and palace."
Muffin continued to struggle against the power of the seal.
"Could it work on a archdemon?" Stiles asked.
"Not sure. But first things first. We need to get past Muffin."
I raised my hand and I summoned a stream of angel fire. The creature let out a shriek of pain as it burned to ash.
Stiles and Scott looked shocked.
"One down, two more to go," I said coldly.
"Dude, when did you become a badass?" Stiles asked.
"The moment they took my parents."
"Wait, what is that?" Stiles asked.
He pointed to the ashes of Muffin (stupid name for a demon pet) and Scott reached down and grabbed a wooden container.
"It's Derek's! They must have put it in Muffin!"
"You'd think it would be a good hiding place," Stiles said.
"Yeah, well I bet they didn't count on me frying the damn thing," I said.
I grabbed the box and we continued down the tunnel.
Lydia P.O.V
"They're coming!"
"Coming!"
"Oni!"
"Death!"
"One will die!"
I held Gina's hand as Luke held her.
"They are coming for you now!" I mocked him.
He just grinned. "Good." he pulled out a knife. At first I thought he was going to use it on us but instead he turned it sideways. "I brought you here so I would know when they were close enough to kill me."
Gina and Luke let out terrified screams as five oni suddenly appeared, swords drawn.
Thee nogitsune broke the knife and a bluish green flame burst from the knife.
The oni lowered their swords and bowed their heads.
"Thanks a bunch Lydia, I couldn't have done it without you," the nogitsune said with a sly smile.
"No," I whispered.
The oni gathered around him and they and it vanished in a puff of smoke.
"No, no, no, no, no!"
"Death!"
"One will die."
"One will die."
"One will die!"
What do they mean? I thought they had meant the nogitsune! Who else could it be?
"Lydia!"
Stiles, Gabe and Scott came running into the room.
Why are they here? Didn't they get my message?
Gabe ran to his parents hugging them.
"Get away from him Gabe! He's a monster!" Luke said pushing Gabe and Gina behind him, glaring at Stiles.
"No dad, he's not the bad guy he has an evil...twin," Gabe explained.
"Gabriel what is going on?! First your teacher shows up and then were in this place and then there were these men appearing out of the shadows!"
Gabe went on to calm his parents down.
"Why are you here? Didn't you get my message!" I asked Scott and Stiles.
"One shall die."
"One shall die."
"One shall die."
"Who else is with you?" I asked frantically.
"Kira, Isaac and Alison why?" Scott asked.
"We have to get out of here now!"
We ran out with Gabe and his parents behind us, they were keeping their distance from Stiles.
As we ran down the tunnel we passed a smoldering heap of ash that we had to jump over. It smelled horrible.
Stiles began to slow down, his breathing labored. He leaned against the wall and slid down.
"Stiles!" Scott said bending down.
I knelt next to him and felt his forehead. He was freezing. Scott touched Stiles wrist and almost immediately he began to absorb Stiles pain.
"My God what are you doing?" Luke asked.
"He's absorbing his pain dad," Gabe said.
"Absorbing his pain? How?"
"It's a werewolf thing."
"Werewolf!" Gina and Luke said.
"You guys go, I will look after Stiles," I said.
"Mom dad you stay here and help her with Stiles okay, I'll be back."
"Gabe wait!" Gina tried reaching for him but Scott and he were already running down the tunnel.
Luke knelt next to Stiles and gingerly felt his wrist, tracking his pulse while I tried to keep him awake.
Alison P.O.V
Noshiko looked like the wind had been knocked out of her.
She raised her hand and we saw she was holding a firefly, it's light flickered several times before it disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"It means there has been a change of ownership."
The nogitsune appeared surrounded by the oni, only instead of killing him they surrounded him the same way they had Noshiko.
"They belong to me now."
The oni raised their swords and attacked.
Kira raised her sword and blocked the attack of one oni while Isaac took on two.
I fired arrow after arrow, all of which were either dodged or blocked with the oni swords.
Looks like I was going to find out if my theory about silver was about to be put to the test.
Gabe P.O.V
Scott and I ran out of the tunnels and skidded to a halt.
Ash was there waiting for us.
"You incinerated my Muffin," he said coldly.
"Scott, go. I got this!" I said.
"Gabe-"
"Just go!" I snapped.
Scott ran past Ash who didn't even spare him a look.
We stood there facing one another.
"See you came prepared," he said glancing at the box.
"Well when I found out I got some angel in me I did a lot of research Ash. Or should I say Astaroth."
"Points to you Gabe, you've been doing your research," he said.
I lowered the box and opened it up. I reached in and pulled out a few roseries and wrapped them around my arms. I opened a flask and took a drink but did not swallow.
I stood up and found Ash standing right in front of me.
"Boo!" he yelled.
I spat the water out onto his face. The second it touched his skin it was like cold water hitting a hot pan.
He yelled in pain and stumbled back clutching his face.
"You prick!" he yelled.
I focused on my power. On that invisible warmth I could sense flowing beneath my skin. I unblocked my power, the eclipse I imagined to keep it in check I wiped away and let the light shine. I did not hold back, I did not hesitate.
Training was over, I could not afford to be soft or give anything but my best.
This thing wants me dead, it has attacked my friends and kidnapped my family.
I will send it back to hell.
I could feel the power rise in me, I have been trying so hard to keep it in check, to keep the aroma of my power from effecting my supernatural friends.
But now just letting loose, letting it all go felt so good. Like taking a breath of fresh air after holding your breath for so long or using a muscle you had not used in a long time.
My senses sharpened. I could hear the sounds of fighting in the distance and the sounds of Lydia talking to Stiles down in the tunnels. I could smell roasted demon Muffin coming from down the tunnel and blood that had a tinge of wolf to it.
The world became sharper, the darkness above melted away and I marveled as the stars began to blink into existence I saw past the atmosphere into the infinite space.
I opened my mouth and took a deep breath and licked my lips. I felt like a snake, tasting the air. The bitter taste of anger and fear left a unpleasant taste in my mouth.
I looked at Ash and tried not to flinch. I saw his aura and it was worse then Brunski's.
I took a deep breath and took comfort in this strength inside me. I walked over to Ash, brought my fist back and bunch him in the face. I could feel the rosaries heat up every time they connected with him. Burn lines appeared on his face every time I struck him.
He caught my right hand as I moved to hit him again. "That's enough of that shit!"
He backhanded me and I flew back against a wall. I hit the floor and shook my head.
"Your a feisty one, perhaps I will get a good fight after all."
I stood up and faced him. I was going to toss some angel fire at him and fry him like I did his pet but he was gone.
Vanished.
I looked for him, walking around with my hands held up at the ready.
"Behind you!"
He wrapped an arm around me and twisted my left arm behind my back. His hold on my was like a Boa's. Strangling the life from me.
"Don't worry, you can't die from loss of air. So chocking you is out of the question," he hissed in my ear.
I trued to pry him off me, but he was to strong.
"Though if I rip your head off, that is another story!"
He applied a little more pressure to my neck and I could feel my bones groan in protest.
I reached into my jacket and grabbed the syringe.
"By the way I have to say, Gina looks a lot like your real mother. The look of absolute fear on her face when I told her I was going to rip your heart out reminded me of your mother when she realized I killed your father."
I brought the syringe down onto his leg and injected him with my blood.
He screamed in pain and let me go.
I crawled away from him, gasping for air and stood up.
The leg I had stabbed was smoking. Black blood oozed from his legs, burning the ground like acid.
"You filthy swine! How dare you taint me with your dirty blood!" he roared.
"That was for my father!" I spat.
I raised my hands and a stream of angel fire shot out.
He screamed as the flames engulfed his body.
I smiled, a sense of victory rushed through me.
But then I frowned as the fire died down and the burn marks that now covered him began to heal.
"You use angel fire on me? I was an angel once boy! I was not born from the pit! I was born from light and will!"
He raised his hands and the windows from a nearby building exploded. The glass hovered in the air and when he pointed his fingers at me they aimed their pointy ends at me.
He waved his arms and they all went flying at me. I raised my arms and looked away, I heard the sound of glass hitting something hard, but I felt no pain.
I opened my eyes and saw that a pair of wooden boards floating in the air, having shielded me from the glass.
So I'm telekinetic now? Bitchen!
"Oh that is some serious beginners luck bullshit!" Ash yelled.
"Then your going to love this!" I said.
I opened my jacket and unsnapped the knives from their holster.
I willed them and the syringes to float and surprisingly they did. I willed the boards to fly at Ash and an instant later the knives and syringe.
Ash destroyed the boards with a mere swipe of his arm, but he had not been expecting the knives.
Two of them his him in the chest and the other two hit him int the eyes, blinding him.
One syringe hit him in the neck and the other on his left arm.
He cried out in pain and as smoke began to rise from his body I summoned a ball of angel fire and threw it at him, there was an explosion and he was tossed back and I turned and ran.
I couldn't kill him, I somehow knew that. I knew I could wear him down, I could hurt him. But it wouldn't kill him. Just piss him off. And with his anger his true strength would rise.
So I turned and ran. I decided to go and help the others with the oni.
I could hear Ash roaring my name, promising all kinds of pain and brutal deaths.
Alison P.O.V
"Call them off!" Isaac yelled to Noshiko as he fought the oni.
"I can't!" Noshiko yelled back.
One of the oni slashed him across his chest and blood flew through the air.
Isaac fell to his knees and the oni raised it's sword for a killing blow.
I raised my bow and focused.
I let the arrow fly and it hit it right in the chest.
A green light shined from the wound, the oni dropped it's sword and clutched at my arrow.
The ground began to shake and the light began to glow brighter.
It let out a pain filled shriek of pain and there was a flash of green light and it vanished.
I smiled triumphantly. I looked at Isaac who was looking at me with amazement.
Then his look turned to one of terror. I sensed movement from behind me and turned.
But it was too late.
The oni ran my through the chest with his sword.
It was over.
I dropped my bow, already feeling to weak to hold it.
I swore I could hear Lydia screaming my name from somewhere.
Was she alive? What about Gabe's parents?
The oni pulled the sword out, the pain should have been sharp bu I felt nothing and I began to fall.
But someone caught me, I knew right away it was Scott. I recognized the feel of his hands.
The oni all disappeared.
I saw Kira run to her mom, Isaac looked at the two of us with a look of pure devastation.
"Scott...Lydia...is she okay?" I asked.
"She's fine. They all are."
He placed his hand on my, trying to absorb the pain. But nothing happened.
"Why isn't this working?" he asked with frustration.
"Because it doesn't hurt," I told him gently.
I could feel myself growing weaker. I could feel death coming for me.
But what a way to go.
"It's alright. I get to die in the arms of my first love, the first person I ever loved, the person I do love," I whispered.
Tears began to run down his face.
"I love you," I said.
I had to tell him! I had to tell him about the silver!
"You have to tell my dad...you...have to...tell him?"
"Tell him what? Alison! Alison!"
I closed my eyes.
Dying isn't really so bad. Especially if it to protect someone you love.
"Well down young huntress."
I opened my eyes.
I was standing besides Scott and my own corpse.
And I was not alone.
Gabe P.O.V
I arrived in time to see Scott holding Alison.
Her aura was gone.
She was gone.
She was dead.
But that can't be right.
Because she is standing besides Scott with a stranger.
But he was not a stranger, I have seen him before. It was the guy I saw when the first oni attacked, when it was fighting the twins I saw a man standing in the distance.
Just as I remembered him. He had pale skin with curly black hair and amber eyes. He wore a black pair of jeans with yellow trim and a black shirt with the theta symbol on it.
"Well done young huntress," he said to her.
"Am I...dead?" she asked.
"Obviously. But know your death was not in vain. Your friend is safe and your victory will help your friends win their battle with the nogitsune."
He turned his head to look at me.
"Though I confess I thought we would be joined by another."
She turned to see who he was looking at. When she saw me and realized I could see them she smiled sadly.
"It's okay Gabe. Do ma a favor. Kick that fox's ass for me."
"Alison," I whispered.
"Are you ready?" the man asked.
"Do I have to go?" Alison ask.
Her gaze landed on her father who had just arrived, I could see his aura. It had the same overwhelming sorrow as everyone else.
"You can stay here. But it will be as a spirit. You would be less then a voice in the wind, you would join the lost souls who inhabit this place. Trapped with them in their fear and pain."
He was right, there were others. Every where I looked now there were people silently watching us, all of them Asian, though there were some people dressed in American Uniforms.
"No, I don't want that," Alison said looking to the others.
"Worry not for them child. The day will come when they are able to move on. They chose to remain."
"I chose to go," she said.
I watched as four wings grew from his back. They shined with a beautiful light despite their obsidian color. Something glittered in them and at first I thought it was stars, but upon closer inspection I realized it was eyes.
Eyes of all colors. Blues and green and hazel and black and gray and some that didn't even look human.
Some were open and some half-lidded. And among that vast ocular expanse I saw many familiar eyes.
Scott, Stiles, Isaac, Aiden, Ethan, Lydia, Danny, Derek, Cora, Deaton, my parents, Coach, Meredith, Jackson, it was as if the eye of every person I knew stared back at me from those terrible and mighty wings.
The man opened his arms wide. "It's time to go home Alison," he said warmly.
She walked up to him and he wrapped his arms around her.
His wings began to wrap around them, like a warm blanket.
Before they closed he looked at me.
"Behind you," he said.
Just as they vanished I turned around.
Ash, severely deformed, his eyes still healing and very enraged lifted me up off the ground.
"Don't worry, he'll be right back to collect you!" he snarled.
The light inside began to grow. I could feel it grow with the rage that was blossoming in me like some beautiful but thorny flower.
Alison was dead.
She was brave, even in her finally moments and she died to help Lydia and my parents.
She died a hero.
But the pain I saw in the aura of the others, especially in her father, Scott and Isaac only served to fuel my rage.
And I embraced it. I let it run it's course.
The pressure I felt in my shoulder blades when I found out my parents had been kidnapped returned. But this time I felt the things beneath my skin erupt from my back as I let out a terrible scream.
My whole body blazed with light and Ash's whole body began to smoke but he did not let go of me.
"I told you that won't work!" he roared.
My wings stretched, they shined like a lighthouse into the darkness.
The spirits of the nogitsune's former victims let out cries of joy as my light touched them.
It was as if my light gave them strength, like a plant that had been denied water too long they became stronger, soaking in the rays of my power.
It was as if they remembered who they were, as if the memory of their gruesome deaths no longer held sway over them and I watched as one by one, like some great rapture they turned into light, and vanished to what ever afterlife awaited them, finally free from the shackles that bond them to this world.
"Go to hell!" I snarled at Ash.
I grabbed his face and tug my thumbs into his eyes.
A bright white light engulfed us, the last thing I heard was him screaming in pain.
His physical body broke apart like dry mud.
But his true self, the demon that wore the body of a man remained.
It floated away from me, a vile darkness like some living black hole.
But in the darkness I saw a creature that was once an angel.
His fingers were long like the legs of a spider and the nails were black talons. His toes were like his fingers and his feet were double jointed. He was naked but had no genitals. His wings were white but they were not the same as mine, no they were like the white of a padded room in a mental hospital, sterile and lifeless.
His face was too long and distorted, and yet as I looked at him I could not help but thing that before his fall he was truly beautiful.
"This is not over!" he hissed and vanished.
He was right. I may have destroyed his body but that did not matter to a monster like him. If I truly wanted to stop him then I had to strike against his spirit.
But he was too powerful. I knew this, now free of the mortal flesh that he inhabited I could sense his power and an overwhelming sense of despair filled me.
I could not hope to defeat him. I was not ready...hell I might never be ready. He would simply make a new body for himself and he would come after me again.
No wonder the nephillim and elioud were defeated. Their angelic blood gave them an advantage but even they were mortal. When they died that was the end of them.
But for a creature like the archdemon death was only an inconvenience.
I turned around to look at the others. Scott was still cradling Alison's body. But everyone was looking at me with awe.
I could see in their auras-whose light was a beautiful sight compared to Astaroth's darkness- that they thought I had won, they took my victory over the archdemon as a sign.
If I could beat the archdemon then maybe there was hope for defeating the nogitsune.
I did not have the heart to tell them the chances of beating the nogitsune were more infinitely better then the odds of beating the archdemon.
"Gabriel."
I turned around to see Lydia was carrying Stiles with help from my dad.
My parents stared at me in shock, their auras were a mass of different colors, not all of them good.
Mom had told me dad and her would always love me.
But would me being an angel help encourage those words?
God I hope so.
Fusedtwilight: Not only does his parents know about his relationship with Danny and Ethan but now they know what he is! How much can they take! And I wasn't going to kill Alison but I decided to stick to cannon because I am OCD about that. And can any of you figure out which angel of death it was that took Alison? Next chapter ends the nogitsune arch. Gabe explains things to his parents and Ash makes a final stand against Gabe. And next chapter we finally find out who Gabe's grandfather is. Which angel do you guys think it is?