Sofya thought about making a run for it when she heard the wolf howls, she was certain that Vincent wasn't the McCall Pack's only local ally and the howls weren't the product of Beau Geste effect. Scott McCall had a tendency of gaining allies even when the odds were against him and with his reputation to defy the odds...

The vampire was really considering stealing the white oak stake Lucien kept at his office before the attack occurred and disappear, that rare weapon was the cause of all this, after all. She planned all this so that she could acquire it without dealing with Lucien so that she could avenge her family.

The Castle promised her that he would kill Niklaus Mikaelson when he turned her five centuries ago and he repeated the promise once again a little over two decades ago when she helped him capture Mikael (without Marcel's knowledge) after the Father of all Vampires was done scaring his children and stepson and was leaving New Orleans.

He took the white oak stake Mikael had on him but has never used it, he kept it in one of his safes in his office at the 'land development' head office and didn't even bother to lure Klaus in to kill him but Sofya was going to remedy that. She wasn't going to waste another two decades while she had a weapon that could kill the man who killed her family at hand.

The more she thought about that monster the more she considered heading for the white oak stake instead of looking for Scott McCall... Scott McCall, who just about to pass by her in his human form, looking deep in thought, distracted.

The Voronova was faced with a split-second decision, her vengeful mind telling her to leave him alone and go for the white oak stake while her mercenary mind told her to capture the boy, deliver him straight to Lucien but make sure that he's not too restrained or drugged with wolfsbane so that he gets a chance to kill the Castle when he least expects it, a single bite was all that was needed, after all.

She knew the McCall Pack looked out for each other so if their alpha went missing they would look for him, just like with their trip to Mexico, and she would leave a trail for them to follow, that way if he doesn't kill Lucien his pack will. That was a brilliant idea in her mind, eliminating her vampire sire would ensure she gets away with stealing his while oak stake.

No one else knew about the rare weapon that was possibly the only one in existence but the two of them, oh, and Mikael who the Castle kept dead and locked up somewhere. That thought made Sofya's decision easier so when Scott passed by her she quickly struck him with the purpose of knocking him out but the tribrid's reflexes saved him from the blow to the head as he moved out of the way.

He knew exactly who attacked him, Sofya Voronova; the woman who contacted Neo Mokoena to get the Desert Wolf's assassination contracts to them so that they would target Lucien Castle and his Kingmaker Company for some reason. The files Neo had on Sofya estimated her to be over five decades old and a very dangerous mercenary.

With that in mind Scott knew that he couldn't just go down with one hit even if she was said to be one of the best, oh no, not when she planned to use his pack like her own personal mercenary group. They got Neo arrested with evidence that was sure to put her away for a very long time for her part in the ploy, Sofya had to get her due too and she was, in time, for now...

Having pretended to be lost in thought the True Alpha knew that the vampire had her guard down, expecting an easy knock out, hence immediately after he escaped the blow he retaliated with a hard knee to her upper abdomen that got a surprised and pained groan, blowing the wind out of her undead and magically functional lungs, forcing her to bend inwards.

The McCall followed that up with a hard forearm to the back, knocking Sofya down but once down she retaliated with a quick low kick to the boy's feet, knocking him down to join her and though pained by the two blows he delivered the woman pushed through the pain and used her super speed to get on top of him to straddle him and delivered fist after fist to his unprotected face and chest.

He was young but not stupid, and self-preservation instincts kicked in, so he acted quickly after the first blows and protected himself with his forearms while she rained down fist after fist at him, that is until he suddenly opened the block to redirect the Voronova's blows to lean forward and deliver a headbutt that momentarily stunned her.

Scott resisted the urge to bite Sofya and instead protracted his claws and buried them into her sides, eliciting a short scream of pain from the woman, and threw her off himself. But just when the McCall was about to go on the attack Diego, a vampire and member of Marcel's inner circle, tackled him down before Thierry appeared with a syringe full of purple wolfsbane and injected the alpha with it while Diego held him down.

Scott didn't restrain himself this time, he allowed his fangs to protract and bit Thierry's forearm in retaliation, getting a horrified scream from the vampire, before Sofya quickly knocked him out with a hard blow to the head to speed up the process and spare herself from being bit as well.

"No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Thierry screamed, looking at his forearm in horror.

He knew what a bite from a werewolf meant for a vampire, he knew what it meant for him, he was as good as dead. Lucien was still at work on finding the means to cure a werewolf bite but wasn't anywhere near...

"Ugh!" The Vanchure suddenly cried out.

"What? What is it, T?" Diego asked his best friend, attending to him while Sofya took an unconscious Scott to her car.

"It-Ow!" Was all Thierry could get out before he felt his whole body burn.

No, it wasn't burning; it felt more like it was being torn apart from the inside out. It first began at the bite wound followed by the arm and then spread like wildfire to the rest of his body and all he could do was cry out and writhe while he tried to claw his skin off to get some release, however, he was stopped.

Diego stopped his fellow vampire from clawing his own skin off by getting a hold of his hands but he kept on screaming and writhing in pain, his screams were actually increasing in level with each second and his body was beginning to spasm. Sofya decided to put Thierry out of his misery by knocking him out as well though that didn't stop the spasms which were rapidly increasing.

"This shouldn't be happening." Diego said, troubled and scared, looking to the older vampire for an explanation. "He shouldn't be reacting this quickly to the bite."

"What's that?" The Voronova asked instead of giving answers, seeing a black substance come out of the unconscious and spasming Thierry's mouth, then nose and eyes followed by his ears before he vomited a river of black ooze that forced him awake to endure the excruciating pain.

The plan was for Malia to lead the attack on the main research base with Jordan and the Crescent Wolf Pack, drawing attention to them to allow Chris, Corey, Hayden and Vincent to sneak into the facility to rescue the captives and deliver them to Melissa at a secure place and that's exactly how it was going to go.

Scott's team now Malia's laid out the original plan to the former alphas and their closest former betas at Mary Dumas' cabin at the Bayou after Marin called the Alphette to bring everyone with her there to discuss how things would go about with the new development. Afterwards they all discussed how to proceed with the new developments.

They decided to keep the original plan with Malia leading the attack on the main research base with Jordan, Vincent and seventy-five percent of Crescent Wolf Pack members, including Jackson, and Chris leading Hayden, Corey and twenty-five percent of Crescent members, including Eve, with their mission to rescue all the captives and deliver them to Melissa at a secure place.

However, the Paxon Pack and Sophie were to protect Melissa and the secure place and later the rescued captives, Marin and the Guerrera Pack were to surround the Abattoir until Raven1 grants them entry and protect Scott once he makes his move and the Phiri Pack, fifth pack of the New Beacon Pack, were to hunt down everyone involved in the kidnappings of Lucien's test subjects.

Raven6 and Chris acquired the names of those people and made a list, from those who did the actual physical kidnapping to those that supplied the information, played middlemen and middlewomen, set things up and everything in between, the New Beacon Pack was now going to put that list to good use, but it wasn't the only list they had.

With five of the nine New Beacon Pack already out with missions, the last four packs, Bhediya Pack, Ōkami Pack, Volk Pack and Ikooko Pack, were to ensure that everything ran smoothly and those at the party didn't find out about what was going on in the city.

The Bhediya Pack decided to prevent any calls from leaving or entering the Faction Party from the moment their new Alphette issues the order to begin the attack and rescue by jamming broadcast signal around the perimeter of Marcel's house and take out anyone who leaves or approaches the house, and did the same with the main research base.

The Ōkami Pack and Volk Pack decided to be more active and patrol the city with the purpose of attracting attention to them to make sure the main research base personnel doesn't get backup. The Ikooko Pack's mission was to clean out their new alpha's New Orleans properties of any unwanted guests and individuals.

Later on, when all was said and done, the New Beacon Pack would make an anonymous tip off to the local police and hospitals and have one of the ravens direct the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to the secure place and research base to wrap everything up.

Of course that would be after Vincent and Sophie hide everything supernatural with a spell or two and ask the rescued former captives to keep quiet about the New Beacon Pack's involvement in the rescue or their supernatural nature when giving statements, they had a feeling no one was going to disagree with that considering exposure wasn't ideal for anyone.

The general public was going to be led to think there was an internal conflict between Lucien and his associates ignited by their activities being exposed and distrust and suspicion of who sold them out.

With the plans made time for their execution came and Alphette Malia Tate led the drive out of the Bayou and into the city of New Orleans, planning to give Scott a piece of her mind after the 'Introduction of the New Beacon Pack'. But she had a call to make before the mega mission truly starts.

"The attack is about to start." Derek informed his team after a phone call from Malia.

"Of course, it is. We just heard Malia tell you that loud and clear, nephew." Responded Peter, hiding just how proud he was of his daughter taking lead of everything.

"Don't be an ass, Peter. Some of us don't have super hearing, you know." Lydia commented.

"Oh, please. Your hearing is on another level, sweetheart."

"And you'll find out the same can be said with my scream if you don't shut up and let Derek say what he has to say." The Martin threatened the Hale that forced her dormant banshee powers awake, and her threat didn't fall on deaf ears.

"Thanks, Lydia." Derek said, a smile on his face before he went to business. "You were right, Deaton. The McCall Pack has recruited, well, kind of. The McCall Pack is now a member of the biggest gathering of werewolves and werewolf packs in existence.

All New Orleans/Bayou werewolf packs have officially submitted to Scott and made him the Alpha of the New Beacon Pack, a new pack consisting of nine werewolf packs, two of which are of direct and main royal bloodline, the Crescent Wolf Pack and Paxon Pack, and one of which was thought to be extinct, the Guerrera Pack.

Scott named the new pack immediately after the Ritual before leaving for his part of the mission. Malia is leading the New Beacon Pack to the city and everything will start in fifteen minutes."

Silence reigned once the Hale was done, even those with super hearing and listened in on the phone call between the cousins couldn't find their words after their team leader repeated what they heard, and there was just something about hearing the report in person being directed to them.

"Did you say the Ritual?" Alan Deaton was the first to speak.

"Yes. Malia said something about a unification ritual." Derek answered.

"According to her, Scott challenged the Alpha of the Crescent Wolf Pack with a condition that if he won the alpha had to submit to him on behalf of his pack." Peter decided to explain from what he overheard. "We all know our little Scott's reputation of defying the odds. He won the challenge with the whole local werewolf community as witness.

The Crescent Wolf Pack decided to honour the agreement between their defeated alpha and Scott but do one better, have all their fellow dated packs submit to him as well in their equally dated, but effective, Pack Unification Ritual so that they could upgrade and have a capable alpha, who happens to be my beta, as their leader."

Another silence reigned after a Hale was done talking, but this time they all had their eyes on the resurrected former Beast Alpha, giving him a look that made him uncomfortable.

"What?" He questioned to get them to stop staring at him.

"Am I the only one who detected pride in Peter Hale's voice and chemo-signals just now?" Cora inquired, arms crossed across her chest, head tilted to the side a little.

"Nope/No." Liam, Derek, Mason, Lydia and Alan replied in unison, and Peter didn't have a comeback to that, though he couldn't help but envy the Pack's new ability to shift into wolves.

"It's time." Derek said after fifteen minutes, and indeed it was time.

"Are you sure it's him?" Lucien asked Sofya who had just informed him of their bonus worth news.

"Thierry was there, Lucien." The woman replied, accepting an offered glass of red wine. "I left him outside with Diego."

"Ask Marcel to tell you where to put him until it's time to bring him out." The man said, his mood lighting up.

"Not until you pay me and add the bonus for his capture." The woman responded. "You know my account number."

Lucien was in too much of a good mood to argue so he simply took out his phone and made to make the transaction but the was a problem with the network so he promised to sent it a bit later, assuming the problem was with his network provider.

"You better." Replied Sofya, holding herself back from making a big deal about getting paid what she was owed like she usually would so as not to bring suspicion onto herself, but there was something she couldn't keep to herself. "There's one more thing, Scott bit Thierry."

"What?!" Marcel's voice startled the two older vampires and earned him some attention from the guests but he didn't care, he wanted to know what happened to his right-hand and one of his closest friends.

"Scott bit Thierry, and things are looking bad." The Voronova repeated.

She told the Co-Kings of New Orleans what happened and not a moment after she was done the Gerard was out the door, heading to the cars to check on Thierry. He found Diego taking him out of the car and when Diego turned with the Vanchure Marcel was horrified at what he saw. Black ooze was coming out of every orifice Thierry had and he kept groaning even unconscious.

"Oh my..." Was all Lucien could say at the mess Thierry was; he found the effects of an evolved alpha werewolf's bite to be far worse than those from traditional werewolves.

The effects were faster, more brutal on the body and probably the mind as well though they couldn't see that. The Castle knew there was no chance of saving Thierry but he wanted his people, his scientists working on werewolf bite effects to examine the bitten vampire's body so he convinced Marcel to let his people take him to his research base to try to 'save' him.

One of Lucien's vampire's took Thierry to the base while Sofya and Diego directed Marcel and Lucien to the woman's car to show them the tied up and 'unconscious' Scott. The Gerard was a bit surprised by the teenage boy that was revealed to have nothing but bad intentions towards his faction; he was around the age of the Harvest Witches.

The man was conflicted but the fact remained, the boy was determined to bring down the Vampire Faction, he had already taken out two of his vampires and Thierry was about to become the third. He couldn't risk losing any more of his people.

"This is why I started Kingmaker and gathered the best scientists in the world to work on breaking the limits, to protect us from people like this boy." Lucien said, observing the 'werewolf' although at a distance. "We have to get back to the party, Marcel. Tell Sofya and Diego where to put the beast for the time being, we have guests to attend."

While they returned to the party and Josephine allowed Scott's entrance in the house the vampire that was delivering Thierry to the main research base was taken out and dealt with by the New Beacon Pack.

The moment the Regent granted the 'werewolf' Diego and Sofya caught entry and they brought him into Marcel's house she knew something was wrong and the Ancestors told her as much. She wasn't the only one who sensed that, so did the Harvest Witches; Abigail, Cassie, Davina Claire and Monique Deveraux.

The young witches were the most favoured by the Ancestors, after their regent, so they were a bit more aware of the anomaly inside the building than the other witches and they were curious, well, some more than others, but they couldn't slip away from the party because they were told to stick close to Josephine who pulled Lucien to the side after a few minutes.

"The Ancestors want that thing dead." The Regent told the vampire, not beating around the bush.

"What thing?"

"The thing you brought here and asked me to let in." The woman replied. "It has to die."

"Kill it now or it'll kill you." Monique added, her eyes a bit unfocused.

While the Castle wouldn't have paid the witches any attention at the mention of their ancestors he did, however, pay attention to the girl's warning, there was just something about the way she delivered it that told the man not to ignore what she said. After seeing what a single bite from Scott could do, he didn't want to risk his life because of ignorance.

"It would be wise to let us help you kill it and keep the body." Josephine said once she saw that he took the warning seriously.

"Ah, there it is. You witches never do anything for free, do you?" Lucien responded, turning away from them. "Forget it. I was already planning to kill the boy, and I will. You should stick to killing the girls."

Oh, if only the Ancestors allowed her to kill the vampire the Regent would have already killed him a thousand times over. Abigail, Cassie, Davina and Monique, however, were uncomfortable with the reminder of what their faction did to them and wondered why Lucien addressed the anomaly as "the boy".

Kieran watched as Lucien walked away from the five most important witches in the Witch Faction, appearing to be a bit on edge. The priest wondered if the vampire was worried about the wolf howls or if he was finally aware of the investigations, he couldn't wait for the investigations to conclude so that his faction could start anew without corrupt people, he hated working with politicians and opportunists.

"Hey, Diego. Have you seen Thierry? I haven't seen him and I've tried to call him but..." Katie quietly asked Diego but upon looking at him she saw that something was wrong. "What's wrong? Is he OK?"

The vampire directed the witch to follow him and they went to a different room where he proceeded to inform her about what happened.

"No." She refused to believe him, shaking her head before he was even done.

"Vampire3 took him to Lucien's labs to see if they can save his..."

"No! He can't die!" Katie interrupted Diego who looked at her with pity in his eyes. "Don't look at me like that, Diego."

"You didn't see him, Katie. And maybe that's for the best. As much as I want to believe that Lucien's scientists will be able to save him I can't fool myself. That werewolf bastard gave Thierry a death sentence." Said the man, having had to take a shower and change clothes before joining the party because of the black ooze Thierry's body kept on ejecting.

He had a nightwalker, a vampire forced to only come out during the night due to lack of sun protection jewellery, to take his car to get cleaned of the black ooze.

"Then I hope you gave him one as well." Was all the angry and saddened witch would say, trying her best not to cry.

"Just wait until the main event of the night." A vindictive Diego responded.

Scott knew the moment his new betas arrived and surrounded the Abattoir, and he knew that Malia had started the attack and rescue but couldn't help but feel a little helpless with being locked in a dungeon and not right there with everyone. He was usually at the heart of the battles but this time he had a separate battle to face.

The True Alpha took the time to think about the structure and hierarchy of his new pack to distract himself from thinking about what could go wrong. The New Beacon Pack consisted of nine packs; McCall Pack, Crescent Wolf Pack, Paxon Pack, Guerrera Pack, Phiri Pack, Bhediya Pack, Ōkami Pack, Volk Pack and Ikooko Pack.

If he took himself out of the equation each pack had a leader of its own but only Malia was an alpha. With that in mind, every single one of the packs already had an existing structure and hierarchy before they officially united and during the Ritual the McCall noticed that a hierarchy also existed between the packs.

They had a certain order they followed and he too followed it when naming the packs. All this made things easier and Scott was convinced it would be wise to leave everything that has been established as it was and have the former alphas continue leading their individual packs and give Malia full authority to lead their pack, the McCall Pack.

He, as the Alpha of the New Beacon Pack, would lead the pack as a whole through the former alphas and her. As the only alpha aside from him and leader of the leading pack, the McCall Pack, Malia would be his second-in-command and Jackson his third-in-command because of his previous position and the Crescent Wolf Pack's current rank.

To not overwhelm himself, Malia or Jackson the True Alpha decided to create a council consisting of all pack leaders... Pack leaders... It didn't feel right to address the former alphas as betas and pack leaders so Scott thought about making them honorary alphas with only Malia as a real alpha, and to avoid confusion he would use his true alpha status as his official title and rank.

With that out of the way, the McCall continued to think about the council he wanted to create to help him govern the new super pack. Since there were nine packs it would consist of the nine alphas who led those packs and the True Alpha, meaning the council would have ten members; one True Alpha, one Alphette and eight honorary alphas.

All that was left was naming the council and making it a reality. The...

'It's time, True Alpha.' Raven1 interrupted Scott's thoughts. 'Everything has been going according to plan. Derek's team has already taken control of the research base in Toulouse and will be calling the authorities in a few hours. The ravens have already called the authorities to the bases and holding facilities they were taking care of.

Marcel is on his way to get you for the main event of the party and Sofya and Diego are accompanying him. I'll possess the Regent once you enter the party to lift the barrier spell and allow Marin and the Guerrera Pack entry.'

'What is the Guerrera Pack doing here, Raven1? Wasn't Marin supposed to bring Jackson with her? What's happening with Malia's team and my mom?' Scott questioned, having not realized that hours have passed since his capture.

'There was a change of plans with the new developments.' The raven replied, before giving a brief summary of those changes just as a clearly upset Marcel, who just gave his jacket to Diego, appeared to collect the True Alpha.

"Are you sure about freeing the vampires as well?" Oliver asked Malia after they secured the main research base for themselves, looking at vampires that appeared to have been experimented on as well.

For the main and most important research base of all of Lucien's Kingmaker experiments and tests the facility was poorly guarded and defended, and totally unprepared for a surprise attack. The guards appeared to be too shocked for them to react like one would expect and that made the New Beacon Pack's work all the more easier.

Already fuelled and empowered by their two decades old anger and frustration, amplified by the full moon and benefits of the new symbiotic pack bond, the Crescent Wolf Pack tore the unprepared Kingmaker guards and occasionally retaliating personnel apart. Jordan, Malia and Vincent didn't have to do much but witness the massacre and occasionally take out those that slipped by.

The ones that lost control were quickly brought back under control by Malia's alpha roar or a controlled flame from Jordan before they continued the mission. The Kingmaker main research base defence did not stand a chance against the New Beacon Pack and surrendered once they realized that but the majority was already dead by then.

Some of the research personnel were smart enough to stay out of the fight and locked themselves in a secure lab, they were still in there, but those that weren't were either killed or captured during the fight/massacre.

The ones who were captured were forced to help free their former test subjects and care for those in need of medical attention. They were divided between helping at the main research base and Melissa's secure place.

While freeing the captives the New Beacon Pack discovered that though the majority were werewolves there were humans and vampires. The Crescent Wolf Pack didn't have a problem with leaving the captive vampires as they were but Malia gave an order to help them as well and she didn't like Oliver questioning her, especially during a mission.

She could have understood that during a discussion he was a part of before a mission to have something clarified but once the mission started... The Tate didn't grace Oliver with an answer, instead she went to the locked secure lab to get the research personnel to come out and join their fellow doctors and scientists in helping out before they reap what they sowed.

Oliver didn't like being ignored, more so with his fellow pack mates as witness, so he went after her and made to turn her around to face him but his hand never reached the girl's should. Malia heard the beta coming behind her and waited until he was close with his arm extended then caught and gave it a good twist in the same breath she turned around.

"Ouch! Ouch, ouch, ouch!" The evolved traditional werewolf cried out in pain as the Alphette held on to his arm and continued to twist it, bringing the man to his knees.

"If you ever try to touch me again I'll rip your arm off your shoulder and beat you with it, do you understand?" The werecoyote questioned, twisting the arm even further.

"Yes! Yes, ye-Ow, yes, yes!" Answered the man, nodding his head in quick succession to emphasize that he understood when he felt his arm about to pop out of its socket.

"Are you sure about that?" Malia inquired, still not letting go of the arm.

"Yes! I'm sure! I-Ow understand!" Oliver screamed, his eyes beginning to water.

"Good." Replied the girl, right before she delivered a hard knee to his face, breaking his nose and releasing his arm in the process, but she wasn't done.

While the man groaned and hit the floor the Alphette leaned down and covertly slashed the back of his neck and injected her paralyzing venom before pulling away and looked at the audience they gained.

"What are you looking at?" She questioned, causing everyone to get moving, impressed and with a lesson learned, before she turned her attention back to Oliver who found moving difficult with each passing second. "I might smell different but I'm not an easy target you can use to climb up the hierarchy and neither is anyone in my pack.

You're not going to get anywhere if you keep this up, in fact, you'll be demoted and someone else will be given your position as Jackson's second-in-command, like that nice lady Eve. Take some time to think about that."

With that said Malia left the paralyzed man to do nothing but think about what she said and take her advice or retaliate, she didn't really care, and she had people to get out of hiding.