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The door flew open and everyone stood to their feet as if the floor was like lava.

It was just two men with rifle guns in their tight grasp while their faces remained stoic as stone. Their cold eyes stared down everyone without any emotion and Lucy glanced at Stiles who merely shrugged. Isaac wasn't sure what the two men wanted, but he made sure to be ready by snarling his teeth at them out of warning.

"No need to do that," Severo's scratchy voice echoed around the bathroom. He sauntered inside with a toothpick in the corner of his mouth, his smirk crooked like the evil hunter he was. Signaling the men to lower their guns, he nodded towards the four teenagers. "We're granting you all your freedom."

Stiles raised an eyebrow. "What's the catch?"

"Nothing."

"What about my brother?" Lucy growled at the adult with her hands curled into tight fists. "What about him, Lydia and Kira? Are they're leaving too?"

"They are all waiting outside," he gestured his hand towards the door. The two men stood to the sides now with the path free. "You are all free to go as well."

"He's not lying," Isaac finally confirmed everyone's suspicion as well as his. Although, he never relaxed as Severo could easily change his mood and attack all of them. Hearing his steady heartbeat, Isaac stared at Stiles whose face was still not convinced. "Trust me. He's telling the truth. Let's just go."

Isaac was the first to lead them out and Lucy followed closely behind him. Stiles soon began to walk with Malia leaving the room while observing Severo's posture. The group followed the two men down the red-dark hallways that were dimly lit from the small lamps that hung on the sides. Lucy hoped they were leaving this hellhole, but more importantly: she hoped to see Scott, Lydia and Kira again. She really hoped none of the girls were badly injured, but her brother was a different story. She just hoped he was severely damaged from all the electrocutions because the way Malia said they were killing him made her heart feel like someone punched it.

She just hoped.

"You guys are alive!" Lucy screamed with joy as she rushed to give Lydia and Kira bear-like hugs. After Allison dying, Lucy didn't want to lose another person she knew in any way possible. She just wanted to avoid death period and seeing the two alive calmed her down. As she pulled away from Kira, she asked, "Where's Scott?"

"Still inside," Kira answered her.

"Why is he still in there?" Isaac turned his head to face the old building. Raising one hand above his forehead to provide some shade from the blazing sun, she turned his attention back to the girls.

Lydia crossed her arms as she leaned against the Jeep. "Araya is probably talking to him. She wanted to know what kind of Alpha he really is."

"By electrocuting him?" Lucy hissed as she glared at the guards standing outside. Taking a deep breath, she leaned against the Jeep. "As long as he's breathing, walking properly and not missing a single body part: then I'm fine."

"I think your wish has been granted," Malia nodded forwards and Lucy shifted her eyes to see Scott outside. He was talking to Araya for a brief moment before walking away like a free man released from prison. Lucy quickly pushed off the Jeep and gave her brother a tight hug.

"Sometimes I wonder how mom puts up with this," Lucy murmured near his ear and Scott shared a small chuckled while rubbing her arm. Stiles stepped closer to them and wanted to know what they're going to do next.

"So what now?"

"She thinks she knows where we can find Derek," Scott told the group with a tired voice.

"We came here to find Derek," Isaac grunted from behind with his hands stuffed into his jeans. "What makes her think we know where he is?"

Malia tilted her head. "She gonna tell us where at least?"

"Uh, actually," Scott scratched the back of his head. "She's giving us a guide."

"What kind of guide?" Lucy curiously questioned her brother before being interrupted by a loud motorcycle driving towards them. The driver was where a dark helmet with the sunlight reflecting away, but Lucy could easily tell it was a woman underneath the headgear as her hair flowed with the wind. Coming to a stop, she placed one foot on the ground while effortlessly taking the helmet off and revealed her identity.

Stiles tapped Scott's chest. "You know her?"

"Braeden," Scott answered as he eyed her.

"Who's Braeden?" Kira asked from her spot.

Lydia smiled. "She's a mercenary."

"And the person who saved my life," Isaac added as Braeden acknowledged the beta werewolf with a short nod. She then turned her attention back to Scott.

"Right now," the mercenary spoke with a sharp tone. "I'm the only one who's gonna take you to la iglesia."

Lydia's eyes furrowed in confusion. "The Church?"

"What's The Church?" Stiles asked Braeden.

"It's not a place you'll find God."

"Well isn't that just reassuring," Lucy muttered to the side, but stared at her brother. "So road trip?"

It was a road trip.

It seemed like miles of endless desert.

Braeden was in front of the Jeep as she led the way to the Church, her leather jacket easily seen from everyone in the car. Isaac had opted to sit in the back while the girls all set behind Scott and Stiles. Lucy was sitting beside Lydia, the redhead staring outside the window with a blank expression. No one really talked throughout the journey, which didn't surprised Lucy at all.

At lot of pain and suffering had happened in a short amount of time that was too hard to forget. Add with trying to find a missing Derek, her brother almost getting killed by Mexican hunters and now finding Kate: it was just too much. Even in such deep thought, Lucy still felt Malia shifting her way to the front and broke the silence.

"Okay, I'll ask," she took a pause before staring at Scott. "Who's Kate Argent?"

Kira meekly raised her hand. "Uh, I'd like to know too."

"Well," Stiles glanced back to the girls. "We were at her funeral so I'd like to know how she got out of the casket that was buried six feet underground."

"She was never in it," Scott remembered as the funeral of Kate ran through his head. Lucy and Lydia were staying quiet, as none of them liked Kate, especially Lucy. That woman almost tried to kill her brother and she had no remorse or empathy whatsoever about it. Lucy felt Lydia move her arm and the girls shared a silent glance before Lydia sighed.

"She was Allison's aunt," the banshee shared to them and paused for a moment. "And a total sociopath."

Lucy bluntly added, "A sadistic sociopath."

Kira sensed that the topic of Kate was really uncomfortable with her friends. She even glanced around to see Isaac staring out from the back, not evening bothering to participate on the subject. However, his shoulders were tensed and his hands were curled into fists. Turning around, whoever this Kate person was: she definitely affected her friends in a bad way.

"You don't have to talk about it now if you don't want to," Kira understood completely, her sympathy oozing with each word coming out of her mouth. Malia, on the other hand, completely disagreed.

"Um, yes, he does," she barked at Kira. Lucy resisted pulling the girl from her arm back to her seat, but she remembered Malia was a coyote for almost ten years. She had no idea who this Kate person was, she had no idea what that vile woman caused in her town. She had no idea that she was the one that killed off almost an entire family and she didn't even care about the repercussions.

Lucy blurted out, "Tell them. It's best if they know who she is and what she has done."

"Yeah, she's right," Scott agreed and looked behind. "You guys should know. You need to know."

As Scott glanced at Lydia and Lucy, the girls simply nodded to signal their approval of this. The alpha then stared at Stiles who soon began.

"All right," he sat up as if it were a business conference. "Kate was the one who set the fire that killed most of Derek's family."

Scott added, "Some of them survived, like Cora and Peter."

"A very angry Peter," Lydia snorted.

"He's still an asshole," Isaac shared from the back and Scott shrugged, but he agreed with him.

"Yeah, and he was the one who bit and turned me," Scott revealed to Kira and Malia. Lucy saw that Kira's eyes raised at this new information, as she finally knew how Scott became a werewolf.

Lydia still stared at Stiles' chair. "And the one who finally caught up to Kate and killed her."

"And we saw her buried," Stiles recalled, but Scott shook his head.

"No," he interrupted. "We saw a casket, remember? She wasn't in it. The Calaveras heard that Kate had been killed by an Alpha's claws. They wanted to make sure she was really dead," he stopped for a moment and tried to picture what might had happened. "Her body was healing. More and more, as she got closer to a full moon…she was coming back, so they switched out the bodies and took her. If a hunter is bit, they have to take their own life before they changed."

Kira felt sick. "Why?"

"It's a code," Scott simply explained. "The Calaveras, they treated the code like law. They make it their responsibility to enforce it."

Malia let everything sink in. "Good for her. I wouldn't do it either."

"Would you kill half a dozen people to get out?" Scott challenged Malia with a somewhat harsh tone. "Because that's what she did."

There was a pregnant pause throughout the car for a moment. Now that Kira and Malia knew who was the infamous Kate Argent, they had a sense of how dangerous this journey might be. Kate wasn't one to let your guard down or simply ignore because she was a sinister woman.

A cruel woman.

Kira leaned forward. "So Kate's a werewolf now?"

"I don't know," Scott honestly responded. "You know, there's a saying, sometimes the shape you take reflects the person you are."

"That's why Jackson, a friend of ours I guess, wasn't really a werewolf at first," Lucy tried to help out Kira understand what Scott meant. "He was a Kanima, some mythical lizard who wanted vengeance, but after he found himself again," she glanced at Lydia who heavily gazed at her hands. "He became a werewolf. Sometimes you might not become a werewolf if your personality is different."

Lydia stared up with pursed lips. "What kind of shape is a sociopathic bitch?"

There was a sudden crash that had rocked the Jeep. Everyone had held onto each other as Stiles tried to control his car from flipping over. Bringing to a halt, Lucy had quickly gotten out with her heart pumping loudly as she was scared of what just happened. The sun was blazing hot and there was some sweat beads running down her face, but she took out a napkin to tap them away.

She soon saw Isaac come towards her. "What the hell was that?"

"What happened?" Braeden asked them as she marched closer to the Jeep.

"I don't know," Stiles screamed over his shoulder as he examined his Jeep. "It felt like we hit something."

"Scott," she yelled his name with urgency. "We need to get there by night. It's too dangerous otherwise."

Scott stared at everyone as he had a decision to make. He didn't want to leave his friends and sister alone with a damaged car in the middle of nowhere. It was already hot as it is and during the night, like Braeden said, it's far too dangerous to stay outside.

As if Stiles knew what he was thinking, he ordered, "Go."

"Not without you guys."

"Dude," Stiles marched forward and grabbed his shoulder. "Someone needs to find Derek. We'll figure something out. We always do, just go."

"Don't worry about us, Scott," Lucy came forward and stood beside Stiles. "Right now Derek needs your help and you're the only one who can do that. We have no time to argue this, okay?"

"Okay," Scott sighed in agreement and Lucy nodded at him while giving him a short hug. Before he had left, Lucy heard Kira call after him and privately talked to her brother. It was a short conversation and Lucy made sure she wasn't too close to them, as it felt rude. Kira soon gave Scott a long hug, her arms wrapped around his neck as if her life depended on it.

"Scott!" Braeden called out with annoyance. "The sun's going down!"

He soon pulled away from her and rushed to Braeden's motorcycle. Watching the bike ride away into the distance, Lucy held her hand above her head and turned around to see the car.

She pursed her lips. "Something is not right."

"What do you mean?" Isaac asked her as he stood beside her.

"I don't know," she mumbled underneath her breath. Kira soon stood on Lucy's left and also observed the car with her eyes. "It's just…it didn't feel like we hit something. I think something hit us."

Malia, who was knelt beside a wheel, searched inside and her eyes widen as her hand reached out. "Stiles!"

Everyone's head turned to Malia as she took out an object.

"I don't think we hit something," Malia breathed out as she held a large item that resembled like a tooth. Stiles snatched it from her and brought it to the light. "I think something hit us."

Lucy muttered. "Holy shit."

The only sounds being made were the tools and metals clanging together from Stiles' Jeep.

He was on top of the car, his hands digging under the cover of the vehicle with his fingertips becoming dark from the oil inside. His toolbox sat close to the edge of the car, but Lydia stood beside it to make sure it didn't fall.

That and to hurry up Stiles.

"Maybe we should just walk," she suggested over her shoulder and Isaac snickered.

"I second that," the werewolf agreed as he kicked a small pebble across the desert road. "The sun's going down and it's going to get cold!"

Stiles pointed his tool at them. "Hey! I will never abandon this jeep, you two understand me? Ever and Isaac: go whine somewhere else because frankly, I don't give a damn if you're cold," he huffed and lowered his head down. Stiles then muttered, "Maybe you should have packed your small blanket with you."

Lucy pulled him away. "Isaac, come on, give him a break."

"But we're going to die out here," he complained to her and Lucy gave him a look. "Why couldn't Lydia bring her own car?"

"You know very well her engine is getting fixed," she answered while she crossed her arms. The wind was picking up as each minute passed by. Even though she didn't want to admit it, the situation they were in was completely dangerous. Something attacked them on purpose and the object that Malia found was nothing normal. Lucy noticed Isaac's whole body become stiff. "Isaac, what's wrong?"

"Work faster, Stiles," Malia loudly called out while she stared out in the open. "There is something out here with us. Do you feel that Isaac?"

"It's definitely something," he noted as he stepped closer towards the coyote. "But it smells off and I can't pinpoint it at all."

The two kept their guard up and observed the desert road with their careful eyes. It was like this for a few hours, the werewolf and werecoyote standing guard while Stiles continued to work on his Jeep. With the sun now set, darkness covered the sky and Lucy glanced up to see the bright small stars shinning against the pure darkness. However, the temperature had fallen drastically and it felt quite cool to her even though she wore a denim jacket.

Kira came back with her large sword in her grasp and stood beside Malia. "Anything guys?"

"It's too hard to see," Malia shrugged as she crossed her arms. "We should've brought another flashlight."

"Hold on a second," Kira told her and began to walk towards the headlights. Lucy watched her friend align the sword against the light that reflected off the smooth metal. This method allowed Kira to create another 'flashlight' so that the two can see well. As she adjusted the light, Kira almost dropped her sword as she spotted something. "Did you see that?"

Lucy's eyes widen as she spotted a monster hiding behind a bolder. It seemed like a different creature that did not seemed human at all, but as soon as Lucy blinked the monster was gone. Lucy then heard Malia's roar and watched her chase after the creature into the darkness. Isaac's growls were loud that the ground shook a bit and soon followed Malia.

"Malia and Isaac, wait!" Kira shouted as she followed the two into the desert.

Stiles' head went up in horror. "Hey, Malia!"

Lydia pointed the flashlight at him and growled, "Let Kira go! You fix the jeep!"

"Stiles," Lucy grunted at him. "Focus and fix the jeep. The sooner you get this done, the sooner we get out of here alive!"

"But-"

"Focus!" Lydia yelled at him with fear as her grip tightened around the flashlight. Lucy immediately rushed inside the car and fished through her bag to find a small gun. Pulling the safety trigger off and filling it up with bullets, she closed the door and marched her way towards the front. She was the only defense available for Stiles right now, but she didn't let that faze her.

She had been through worse.

Her eyes scanned the darkness like a hawk, but it was difficult to see even with the headlights glowing behind her. The wind howled between her ears and it blew around her hair. Her heartbeat pumped loudly as the gun was held even tighter from her side. Kira, Malia nor Isaac had returned yet and she began to wonder if something had happened to them.

"Please come back safe," she muttered between her teeth. Staring intently into the open, her ears caught a soft noise from a distance. It sounded like the bushes were being rattled and Lucy raised her gun towards the intended target. Stalking closer towards the danger, she swallowed the large thump in her throat.

"It's us!" Isaac screamed with his hands raised. Lucy loudly sighed as she lowered the gun and rushed towards him. Soon Kira and Malia appeared, but Lucy noticed something off about Malia.

"What's wrong with her?"

"She was attacked by the monster," Kira quickly told her and Lucy tried to observe the wound, but Malia waved her off.

"It's fine," she told Lucy and the brunette gave her a look as if Malia grew another head. "What?"

"Malia, you were slashed!"

"And I'm healing," she stated as if it were normal. The car's engine roared into the night and Stiles screamed with satisfaction. Malia then began to walk towards the car, but spoke over her shoulder. "I'm fine, trust me."

Kira could only shrug, but follow Malia to the car. Lucy then stared at Isaac and the werewolf rubbed her arm.

"Come on," he gestured to the alive Jeep. "Let's get out of here."

"Are you okay?" She worried for him and Isaac nodded. "What the hell was that? Did you see anything?"

"Nothing," he merely answered with sadness. "I only found Malia and brought her back to Kira."

"Okay, let's get out of here."

"You!" He scolded Malia as if she were a small child. "You please don't do that ever again!"

Malia seemed confused. "Do what?"

"I…I thought you just took off," he glanced at the road for a brief second. "I thought you were running."

"I was running."

Stiles sighed. "No, I mean, I thought you were leaving."

"I wouldn't leave without you," Malia truthfully admitted to Stiles and Lucy stared with surprise. She knew the bond between her and Stiles was strong since he met her at the Eichen House. "I would never leave without you."

She then glanced at the people sitting behind you. "Them I would leave."

Lucy raised her eyebrows about this blunt statement and she gave Stiles another look. "Gee, glad to know where her priorities stand with the team."

Stiles merely apologized. "Yeah, it's progress."

"Focus on the road, Stiles," Lucy huffed at him as she stared out the window. Stiles obliged and silence fell among the group in minutes. No one talked as Stiles drove fast to the Church where Scott and Braeden were hopefully there, alive. Surprisingly, the travel was short since they were in a hurry and reached their destination in minutes.

From her seat, Lucy spotted Braeden and Scott appear from the abandon church with another person in his arms. Thinking it was Derek, everyone rushed to get out of the car and approach the three with some relief. Lucy brushed away her hair that was blown from the wind and she slowed down her pace as her mouth flew in shock.

She couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"That's impossible," Isaac mumbled as his blue eyes landed at his former alpha.

"Is that him?" Malia asked Stiles. "Is that Derek?

Stiles kept his gaze in front. "Uh, sort of."

Derek Hale was young again.

Chapter two is done!

Thank you all again and your patience with this chapter. My life is busy, so uploading the chapters will take time. However, I can't wait for the next episode tomorrow ^_^! I saw the Teen Wolf trailer for Season 4 on the MTV YouTube channel and it looks AWESOME! Go look if you haven't because you will not be disappointed. Here's the question (or questions) for the chapter:

Any of you guys fans of the World Cup? If so, what's your favorite team? If not a fan of the World Cup: what do you all think of it? Hate it? Love it? Want it to end?

Personally I was rooting for Mexico since my family is Mexican, but they're out T_T However: USA is still in and I'm feeling we're gonna win because 'MURICA! (We'll see Tuesday). Reviews, alerts and favorites are greatly appreciated! Until next time…

-WhatTheCensoredXD