"Hey, hey. C'mon wake up." I opened my eyes slowly, the entire world spinning and blurry. Pain ached in my side. I tried to clutch on to it to make the pain go away, but I couldn't move my hands. I turned to look at Luca, he was trying to break free. We were pinned up against a chicken wire fence, our hands in chains above us. Cords were coming out of a patch that was below my bra.
The world stopped spinning. I felt nauseous, I looked all around me once more. Luca and I were shirtless and had no shoes on. I tapped my foot in aggravation, I was livid at Araya, my own aunt, the one who practically raised me. As I tapped my foot I noticed I was standing in water, fully drenched, but Luca was totally dry, with no puddle.
A curtain in front of us dropped down to show everyone who was in the jail. Scott and Lydia were chained to metal chairs. Oh my god. We were about to become fried pescado at this rate… literally.
"Your hand goes here." Severo said, who was forcing the black haired girl's hand onto a knob. "So let me explain what's about to happen. This one, the fox, has an immunity to electricity. So she's going to turn the dial on the Alpha and the little girl in there," Severo pointed right at me, Scott and Luca began struggling even more, knowing that my life was at risk, "If she doesn't, I turn the dial on the banshee and the young man in there."
He was actually going to do this. The man, who helped me with my Spanish homework, who helped me with my science fair project, was actually going to electrocute me.
"No, I'm not doing this!" The girl said as she struggled away from the dial.
"Are you sure? These two have the power to heal, these two don't." What? Heal? Oh my god. I am seriously going to die tonight.
They kept rambling on, but I just kept saying my prayers. "We are going to ask some questions," Araya started. I was really considering punching her, "You answer them, nobody gets hurt. You don't answer, we turn on the dial.
"Kira, do what they say. Whatever they want. I can take it." Scott instructed, he seemed like a nice guy.
"Kira! That's her name…I don't think I can take it." I mumbled.
"Hey, look at me. If anything happens, I'm right here. Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere." Luca looked up at his hands and smirked. It forced a laugh out of me. I know that he will always be by my side. I can count on him, he is more than a best friend, he is my brother.
" don't know where Derek is. We want to find him as well. You know who took him." Araya continued.
"What? How would I know that?"Scott yelled, confused, but scared or his friends.
"That doesn't sound like an answer to me." Araya scolded, she is enjoying this. I swear, I'm am going to -
"We don't know. Why do you think we came here?" Lydia blurted, interrupting my thinking.
Araya sighed and then instructed, "Kira, turn the dial. Should we turn the dial on Lydia instead?"
"No! No,no."Scott yelled, "Do it Kira. Do it." Worry filled inside of me waiting for the pain.
"Let's start at one." Araya casually stated, as if this situation were perfectly okay. I saw the dial turn, heat ran through my wrists, then my feet, until it reached it's maximum. Electricity ran through every square inch of my body, pain following. I grabbed onto the fence behind me, though the fence burned my hands. My body was overwhelmed with pain.
Then more of a shock filled my body hurting even more than the first time. I couldn't help but yelp a little. I tried not to succumb to the ever living pain that raced through me. The pain became unbearable and I screamed, I screamed as loud as I could, I couldn't take it any more. Then it stopped, it all stopped, time, the pain. All of it.
xXx
The memory replayed in my mind over and over. Electricity, pain, darkness, repeat. When I woke up, I was sitting straight up, with cloth in my mouth and a hand covering it. I looked around to see where I was. I was in the back seat of my jeep, and Luca was sitting right next to me. Wait. If he is back with me, then who is driving.
My vision was to blurry to see anything. "So where are we going" Luca asked.
"I don't know, I'm just following Stiles." Lydia said from the front seat, "Paige are you ok? That was one of the loudest screams I have ever heard, other than mine."
"Um, yeah, I'm fine thanks. It just hurt so bad. Mine was worse than Scott's I was drenched in water,and um, I was standing in a puddle." I said, trying to remember what just happened, "Look there is something we need to tell you."
Then Stiles' jeep swerved to the side of the road, and we followed. We got out and everyone followed suit. They began inspecting the jeep with caution.
"What happened?" Another woman said. She had claw marks that ran down her neck
"I don't know. It felt like we hit something." Stiles whined.
"Scott we need to get there by night. It's too dangerous otherwise." The woman stated.
"Go." Stiles told.
"Not without you." Scott argued.
"Dude, someone needs to find Derek. We'll figure out something we always do, just go." Stiles retorted.
"I'm sorry who are you?" I questioned the woman.
"I'm Braedan. Does your Jeep still work?" Braedan asked me.
"Yeah, of course it does. I just got a tune up."
"Great, I'm taking these two with me, okay? Scott you'll ride with them." Braedan instructed.
I ran and jumped in the jeep and put the covers on the door to keep the sand out. Scott was talking with Kira when I started the engine. "We need to tell them." Luca inquired.
"I know, but when?" I asked.
"Scott's their leader. If we tell him, then he can decide if he trusts us or not." Luca said, I liked the idea, but was worried, too.
"Okay."
Scott hopped in. "Let's go."
xXx
"So Scott, we need to talk," I started, "So Paige and Xander aren't our real names."
"I know."
"How?" I wondered curiously.
"I heard your heartbeat when you told me."
"How could you hear our heart beats?" Luca interrogated.
"Because I'm a werewolf."
What!?" We both said.
"Yeah. So what are your actual names.?"
"I'm Alexa and this is my… brother Luca." I concluded. I thought that if we started a new life, I didn't want to have to explain our past as hunters.
"Do you guys actually know Araya?"
"Yes she's our aunt." Luca told him.
"But you guys don't know about the supernatural."
"No we never actually learned until now. But Araya always said that we would face bigger things when we got older. I never knew what." I abruptly stopped the Jeep seeing a cliff in front of us.
"La iglesia." Braedan stated.
"What happened here?" Scott asked.
"Earthquake. Leveled the town completely." I chimed in, I lived here almost all my life, I hope I'd know.
"Why is the church still standing?"
"The locals think it's what's underneath." Braedan informed him.
"What's underneath?"
"Demons." Luca said, probably thinking about his encounter with one.
xXx
The large grey building suddenly came into view. "Are we seriously doing this?" Luca asked tremulously.
"If you want to save and find Derek he is in here," Braedan said confidently, " if you want to back out now be my guest." I pulled Luca aside.
"Look you don't have to do this. I forced you into doing this when you didn't want to. I forced to come down here from Jackson. And I'm sorry. You know I love doing this, going out exploring, and I know you stay back, get the guns and stay with the computer and-" Luca cut me off and hugged me. I buried my head into his chest and tried to hold back the sobs.
"It's ok. Where you go, I go." He whispered.
"Thank you." I said. I looked up at him. He smiled back down at me. I loved him, with every piece of me.
"Come on!" Braedan yelled. We ran up to her and she kicked down boards that were guarding the door. "Can you catch Derek's scent?"
"Yeah, I already got it." He put a hand out in front of us.
"What?" Braedan asked.
"There is something else in here." He stated. It made my hair stand on end. Werewolves and banshees, everything you were told as a child are.
"Like what?" Braedan questioned.
"Not human."
"Ok, here's the plan. You two, stay here and watch for anything." Braeden told us.
"What do we do if something does come?" I said.
"You scream."
"Scream?"
"Yes, you will injure them."
"Excuse me? Injure them? I'm just going to scream."
"She doesn't know?" Braedan turned to Scott.
"Know what?" Luca asked.
"The entire town heard your scream. Three people are hospitalized. One dead. They were all supernatural."
"Oh my god. I killed someone?"
"I'll tell you the rest later. Right now we need to go." Braeden and Scott left.
"Luca, I killed someone. I murdered someone. I hurt innocent people."
Luca's POV:
She looked truly upset. She had such compassion that it hurt her to know that she hurt people. What she doesn't know was that one of the people injured was me.
"Hey, hey. It's ok." I told her. She ran over to me and just buried her head into me and cried. I tried to calm her as best I could. She was torn.
Suddenly, there was a gunshot. And another, and another. Alexa and I perked up and were ready. She opened the backpack she was carrying. She tossed me a 38 caliber and grabbed a Glock for herself. She put two daggers behind her belt and one in her boot. I grabbed two daggers for myself. Alexa unfolded her Oneida Kestrel bow and put on her quiver.
I grabbed another gun and put it in my back holster and the other under my arm. I got a shotgun and put two magazines in my back pocket.
"Ready?" Alexa asked.
"Yeah. Let's do this." A huge roar caused the building to shake.
"Oh my god. Hid behind that alter." Alexa commanded. I did as I was told and she ran behind one of the pews. A huge person- looking thing came up from the stair well. It was covered in bones and its face was covered in a skull. It had claws the size of my hand.
Alexa bean to shoot, so I did to. It didn't even look phased. We kept shooting and shooting until we ran out. Alexa got up with her daggers to face off against the beast.
"Lexa! No!" I yelled, I didn't want her to get hurt. The thing just pushed her up against a near pillar.
It began to approach me. I replaced one of the magazines in my pistol and shot at it. Round after round I could tell it only made it more mad. I saw him take out one of his daggers.
Alexa's POV:
When the thing threw me, all I felt was the wind being knocked out of me. I watched it go to Luca. He shot at it and it only growled in return, then all hell broke loose.
It took out a dagger and stabbed Luca in the stomach. I tried to get up and stop it, but it was too late. I felt like everything I had ever loved had just been ripped away from me. I felt like the murder of my parents had happened all over again. I watched Luca's body drop to the floor. His grey eyes pierced through my body. All I could do was scream. So I did.
I dropped down to my knees and cried. I waited for the thing to come over and kill me, too. But it didn't I looked around for it, and alI found was a skull atop of a pile of ashes, right in front of Luca.
I pulled my myself together and went over to him. I held his head in my lap and looked in his striking grey eyes.
I did the first thing that came to mind, I checked his pulse. A light and unsteady beat thrummed under my fingers.
"Oh my god. Luca, please, please stay with. Please don't go. I can't live without you. Please." I whispered and hugged him tighter.
"Alexa! What happened?" I heard Scott say behind me.
"Um," I wiped the tears from my eyes, "That beast thing, it stabbed Luca."
"Well, where is it now?" Braedan asked. I pointed to the skull.
"You killed it?!" Braedan remarked, stunned.
"I don't know. What about Luca?" I said.
"We have our hands already full with Derek." Braedan said.
"Scott!" I heard someone yell. Stiles and Malia entered the church.
"Oh my god."Stiles said.
"Is that Derek?" Malia asked.
"Sort of." Stiles said.
"Can someone please help me with Luca. He is dying." I said. Malia helped me get Luca to my Jeep.
AN: Sorry this took so long to update! This is a really sad and long chapter and I hope you like it!I will update for the next chapter very soon! Love-Z!
