Well, it's finally here and finally happening. Updating for TNH: La Bête du Gévaudan are a go! Chapters would be added biweekly due to me having school, work, and volunteering.
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Thanks guys and I can't wait for you guys to see what is in store for you.

I also want to give a special thanks to toxikcherrys16 for being my beta reader as I rework the series.


In her patrol car, Deputy Clark could hear dispatch radio in through the channel, "Any available units, Beacon Hills telecom is requesting an 11-5 at the communication towers off Cypress Lane."

Seeing that she was actually close she reached for her radio and responded, "10-4, Dispatch. I'm in the area."

"Copy, Unit 5." The Dispatcher answered back, "A technician was sent over an hour ago and telecom hasn't heard back."

"Copy, I'm 10-76."

When she sets her radio down, someone made a groaning noise right next to her, "You're gonna drag me to work every night?"

Deputy shifted her attention for a moment at her complaining passenger, which just so happened to be her sister, "If I have to."

Hayden doesn't appear to be amused by the answer, "You can't keep an eye on me 24/7."

"You disappeared for three days." She recounted, "I'm keeping an eye on you for the rest of your natural born life."

Hayden slouched at her sister's determination, "I told you I was with Liam."

"Which doesn't improve your argument." Clark counters, "Maybe you think you can do your own thing now." She theorized, "I don't care. You still need me." She continued, "We look out for each other, remember?" Hayden remained silent, "For all I know, you could have been dead." Well, she was dead, but Clark didn't need to know that.

Arriving on the scene, Clark noticed the truck outside the building, "Stay here." She directed her sister.

Hayden watched her sister leave the cruiser and continued pouting.

Outside in the parking lot, Clark realized that the tech's truck was still running. Observing her surroundings, she removed the key and walked into the building.

Due to the darkness, she armed herself with her flashlight, "Hello?" She called out into the darkness, "Beacon County Sheriff's Department." She moved the light around but didn't see or hear anything out of place. However, she did notice a set of stairs and decided to walk down them, "Hello?"


Hayden was still waiting in the car, when the sound of a man's voice whispered, "Help me."

Quickly frightened by the sudden voice, she jumped out of the vehicle. Upon getting out of the vehicle (seeing that it was empty), she caught sight of Liam's reflection in the glass. Startled, once again, she swung her fist at him. Unlike the first time, Liam actually ducked.

"What are you doing here?" She demanded at him, once they both have recovered from each other's reaction.

"I sent you like 100 texts."

"I saw," Hayden told him.

Liam seemed stunned at the answer, "You saw?" He questioned her, obviously hurt at being ignored, "That's it? How could you not tell me that you're alive?"

"Maybe because you left me for dead." Hayden shot at him.

"You were dead," Liam answered carefully.

Hayden just eyed him, "Liam, you need to go."


When she finally got to the bottom of the stairs, Deputy Clark found the technician laying on the floor with a slashed neck and covered in blood.

She quickly rushed to his aide, "Still here." He gargled out. Deputy Clark no idea as to what he was talking about, but it appeared he was trying to say more. He doesn't get to say more as he took another shallow breath and dies.

Clark doesn't process this as the sound of a low growl filled the bottom floor of the building. Using her flashlight, she caught the silhouette of an enormous clawed hand rising from the shadows.

The claws pierced a steam pipe and a cloud engulfs a shadowed figure beyond with white eyes glowing in the mist. Clark drops her flashlight and began shooting. However, the creature ignored her completely and bounds past her.

Making its way to the surface, it threw a gate in the direction of Liam and Hayden. Both teens manage to duck, "What the hell is that?" Hayden questioned Liam.

"Run," Liam told her as he pulled her away from the creature that now had its sights set on them, but Hayden refused to move, thinking about her sister.

Clark managed to rush outside, "Hayden, run!"

The push from her sister was enough for her to run with Liam. The two teens continued running until the end up running through the woods with the creature close behind them, "What is that thing?" Hayden questioned.

"I don't know!" Liam answered as they continued running, as they closed in on a ravine.

"Jump." Hayden decided, seeing that they had no other way out.

"Are you kidding?" Liam questioned.

"We can make it," Hayden told him. She moved back and rushed forward, jumping across the ravine with ease. Liam was close behind her, but unlike Hayden, he was hanging on the edge of the cliff. Without hesitation, Hayden grabbed a hold on Liam's arm, "See, I told you."

The creature has managed to catch with them and leaps the ravine, coming at them from the other side, "Do you trust me?" Liam questioned suddenly.

"What?" Hayden answered confused, "No."

That doesn't stop Liam from pulling her down, causing them both to fall to the ravine bottom.


Liam woke up to a stinging sensation on his face, "What are you doing?" He groaned in pain, seeing Hayden standing over him.

"Making sure you're alive."

Liam noted that he was laying spread out on a rock and tried to move, "Oh, I can't move my legs." He then tried to sit up, "Argh, I think my back's broken."

"Will it heal?" Hayden asked him with some minor worry.

"Eventually." Liam answered, but still tried to move with no such luck, "I think."

"Good." She answered, just before walking away to leave him behind.

"Whoa!" Liam called out, seeing that she was leaving, "Where are you going?"

"To find my sister and make sure she's okay," Hayden answered automatically.

"You're going to just leave me here?"

"You pulled me off a cliff." Hayden shot back, "I'm lucky I healed."

Liam grunted in pain, "I saved your life."

Hayden crossed her arms, "This time."

This caught his attention, "Who saved it last time?"

"Theo."


The prison transport driver who was attacked while taking Donovan to jail was still being hospitalized. Tracy and Theo entered his room, "Tracy?" He questioned as his mind flashed back to the night of the attack the officer reached for his call button but Theo moved it out of reach.

"Looks like he remembers you." Theo told her, "I'll take care of it if you want me to. All you have to do is ask."

The driver watched the two in terror, while Tracy stared at him thoughtfully, "My dad defended someone on death row once." She told him, "You know how lethal injection works?" Using one of her Kanima claws she pierced the IV bag, "One of the drugs they use paralyzes your diaphragm." She watched as the man began to have trouble breathing, "Makes it impossible to breathe."

The man died within a few seconds and Tracy smiled slightly.


Jordan was showing Scott the video from the attack at the Beacon Hills Telecom site that they were currently at, "This is from the relay station's security camera." On the screen, they could clearly see a large creature exiting the building.

Scott stated the obvious, "That looked big."

"And too fast for anyone to get a good look at it." Jordan agreed with him, "But you already know what it is, don't you?"

"The last Chimera."

"You still got a black light?" Scott held up his light as Jordan led them both inside the building, "Mercury means Chimera." He remembered from previous investigations, "But what was it doing here? Why come here and kill some random communications tech?"

"Maybe it just likes to kill."

"Maybe it's what it does."

Scott then remembered Landon mentioning Parrish's dreams, "How many bodies do you actually see when you dream about the Nemeton?"

Jordan automatically looked uncomfortable, but answered, "Everyone."


Later in his room, Scott tried his hand at creating a "murder board" like Stiles. He had pictures of all the known chimera and some red yarn. While attempting to pin up a picture of the new chimera, a strand of yarn somehow managed to get attached to his sleeve. Without thinking, he pulled his sleeve free, but it pulled off much of his work.

Scott knew there was one person that he would have to go to for help.


Stiles had been asleep the Sheriff's hospital room when waking up with a start. Turning to check on the Sheriff, Stiles noticed his empty hospital bed. Not wanting to alert any of the staff, Stiles wandered calmly around the halls in search of him until reaching the morgue.

Through the morgue's window, Stiles saw the Sheriff staring at the sheet-covered body on Donovan. With a slight hesitation, Stiles entered the room. Only Stiles wasn't the only person who was hesitating.

Chris Argent stared at a safe with an opposed expression. With a moment, of silent contemplation he opened it and removed a large stalk of Yellow Wolfsbane, he had used shooting his sister Kate Argent.

Stiles and the Sheriff stood wordlessly over the body, "The story Theo told me in the library." The Sheriff spoke, "That's how it happened. Except it didn't happen to him."

"Yeah." Stiles whispered, "I even shifted…"

The Sheriff gaped at in shock, "Is this why you haven't been sleeping at home?" He questioned, Stiles made a silent head nod, "Stiles, I can't protect you if I don't know the truth." The Sheriff informed his child, "Did you actually feel you couldn't tell me?"

Stiles met the Sheriff's gaze, "I couldn't tell anyone."

"Did you think I wouldn't believe it was self-defense?"

"What if it wasn't?" Stiles countered with urgency.

"I mean right then." Theo corrects, "Right when it happened." Stiles stares at him dumbfounded, "What were you thinking the moment you knew he was dead and there was no saving him?" Theo whispers.

"One word..." Stiles shares with him, breaking eye contact him, "Good."

"What if I told you I wanted him dead?" Stiles continued questioning.

"I'd believe you." The Sheriff admitted, "I also believe that wanting someone dead and murdering them are two very different things."

"Yeah, but what if the judge didn't think so?"

"Then to hell with the judge." The Sheriff answered swiftly, shocking Stiles. "Stiles, it was self-defense, the only time you can shift is when you're in trouble." He pointed out. "I would destroy every shred of evidence to protect you if I had to." The Sheriff confessed, "I would burn the whole sheriff's station to the ground."

The Sheriff pushed Donovan's body back into the morgue locker.

"What about upholding the law?" Stiles questioned, remembering just how uncomfortable the Sheriff had been when they wanted to remove Tracy's body from the Sheriff Station's basement, "What about Kira?"

Getting off the elevator, Scott could hear the question Stiles has asked.

The Sheriff took a deep breath, "Kira was a mistake." He admitted with guilt.

Without a word, Scott got back onto the elevator and left the pair to talk on their own.

"I guess I'm learning how to bend." The Sheriff offered with a weak smile.

"So, what, it goes away?"

"Not for you." The Sheriff shared, "The problem now is how to bear this burden." He explained, "This kind of thing is not at all uncommon in law enforcement. A fatal mistake. A partner who dies. Or one who gets paralyzed." He hinted.

"Stiles, you carry that with you." He shared, "Sometimes it doesn't truly feel okay again until there's a kind of counterbalance."

"Like what?"

"Instead of taking a life, you save one." He offered, "Something like that can help, but maybe only for a moment." He acknowledged, "But the real conflict you're having now is between your head and your heart." Stiles gave a curious expression, "Your head." The Sheriff started, "Your head knows that the only crime you committed was surviving." He explained, "But your heart? Your heart still thinks it was murder." He concluded, "So I guess you, uh... You gotta get your heart to catch up to your head."

Even with the Sheriff's words, it doesn't give Stiles a sense of comfort. "I feel like it's more than guilt, you know," Stiles shared, unable to fully describe the emotion. "It's different..." Stiles shared with a show of hands, "Last time, I didn't have control of myself or the spark. This time, I did and I feel... I feel like I lost something." Stiles expressed, "You know, I feel like I can't get it back."

"You won't." He replied, "Not entirely. But you get a little bit by forgiving yourself." He recommended, "And since that's not always the easiest thing in the world to do, then maybe you start by forgiving someone else." He suggested, "Someone who needs it." Stiles has an idea of who the Sheriff was talking about, "Someone like Scott."


Outside Sinema, Theo was waiting for Josh, "How much did you take, Josh?"

"A lot." Josh answered, "And I don't feel a thing."

"You won't." Theo informed him, leaning off a vehicle, "Your body heals too fast."

"Yeah?" Josh answered in a 'no shit' tone, "Then maybe you should have left me dead."

"Or maybe you just need to feel something else." Theo offered, popping up the hood of the car, "Something better." He then handed Josh a pair of jumper cables and attached them to the battery. Josh's hands were immediately powered up with lightening. Josh growled with delight, "How does that feel?" Theo questioned him but looked over in a dark section of the parking lot where Liam was hiding.

The moment Scott had pulled up to the Tate Family farm on his bike, Micah had already been waiting for him, standing very close to the door, "You didn't have to come all the way out here." Micah told him as Scott got off his bike.

"You weren't answering your phone."

"I can't help you," Micah told in an instant. "Not right now."

Scott looked discouraged at the statement, "What if I told you you're the only one I have left?"

"You're not going to want my help," Micah repeated.

"Anything that happened between us..."

"I'm talking about something that's going to happen." Micah interrupted him, "Something I'm going to do." He stared at Scott, "And you're not going to like me much after I do it."

There was a moment of silence, "Is that why I hear two other heartbeats in there?" Scott questioned him instead, noticing that Micah's body language was getting more and more caged off, "And why yours is beating so fast?"

"Scott, go home," Micah told him, not answering the question. He opened his front door, "I can't help." He leaves Scott alone on the porch.


Micah leaned against the front door, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened his eyes, "Did you get anything out of him?"

On the floor inside the Tate home, Derek was wrestling with someone on the floor, "Not yet." Derek grunted out as the person tried to break out Derek's legs hold.

"You think you can make me talk?" The man questioned the two in a Russian accent, "I am Spetsnaz. Soviet Special Forces." He declared, "In battle, we kill our own wounded." This time he gagged as Derek tighten his legs around the man's neck, without trying to kill him, "You could tear out my fingernails, cut my lips with razors." He challenged them, "I'll still say nothing."

Derek was amused at the bluff, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but your section is out of work and broke, right?"

This seemed to still the Agent in his fight, but not with words, "You won't get a word out of me."

"What if we paid you $10,000?" Derek offered.

As soon as Derek handed him the money, Spetsnaz began sharing all the information that he knew, "The Desert Wolf was last seen close to the Canadian border." He revealed to them, "She won't travel by plane. She will stay away from surveillance cameras when she can."

"Then we still have some time." Micah theorized.

"There's another reason she won't fly." He told the werecoyote, "She's not traveling alone."

"What do you mean?" Derek questioned him.

"She has a hostage." Spetsnaz looked between the two, "An animal doctor."

"Deaton." Micah realized.


At school, Liam was sharing his new found knowledge with Mason, "I went to the club looking for Hayden, and there's Josh." Mason gave him a questioning expression, "Standing there. Completely alive. Just like Hayden."

"Because of Theo." Mason realized, "Theo brought them both back." Mason guessed connecting the dots, "That's what he's doing. He's, he's building a pack. His own pack of dead Chimeras."

"They both looked pretty alive to me," Liam commented.

"But they're not the same." Mason reminded him.

"There was something about Hayden." Liam admitted, "There's something wrong about her."

"Maybe that's what dying does to you." Mason suggested, "What if it, what if it like darkens your soul. What if they're all evil now?"

That theory was debunked the moment Corey walked into the school with a big smile on his face, "Hey, guys!" He greeted the two cheerfully, catching them off guard, "Are you volunteering for the library clean-up, too?"

"Yeah." Liam stammered out as Corey walked ahead of them. Mason and Liam follow him. Liam pushed Mason towards Corey awkwardly.

"So... You're alive," Mason stated to Corey, who was cleaning off a bookcase.

"Yeah," Corey answered in an everyday fashion.

"That must have been pretty difficult to explain to your parents."

"Not really." Corey answered with a shrug of his shoulders, "They didn't notice me much before that." He shared, "I think they're just glad 'cause they think they can sue the hospital now."

"They gotta be happy you're alive, though?"

Corey stopped his cleaning duty and looked at Mason, "Are you?"

"Me?" Mason questioned taken back, "Yeah, I'm... Alive is definitely better than dead." He answered, "You know, much better."

Corey gave him a playful smile, "You have no idea what to say to me, do you?"

Mason gave into defeat quickly, "Not really, no."

"Can I ask you a question then?"

"Yeah, sure."

"What are you doing Saturday night?"

To say Mason was shocked would be an understatement.


While getting a snack from the vending machine, Stiles received a disturbed sense as EMTs roll a gurney, with the Telecom worker, passed by.

Now, sitting in a chair right next to the Sheriff's bed, Stiles was typing away on a laptop, "Is that my laptop?" The Sheriff questioned groggily from the interruption of his sleep.

"Yep," Stiles answered without even stopping.

"Do you have my password?"

"I have all your passwords." Stiles answered with ease, "You know they just brought in another body from last night?"

The Sheriff made a groaning noise, "Yeah, I was hoping you wouldn't find out." He admitted, leaning over the bed, "Now give me my damn computer."

"Hang on, hang on." Stiles said, moving the laptop away from him while looking at a video, "I think there's some footage missing." Stiles shared watching the video over and over, "Or something missing in the footage."

"I think there's something missing in your head." The Sheriff countered back tiredly, leaning back onto the bed.

Stiles ignored the diss, "You need your rest."


In Eichen House, Landon woke up and raised from his bed. As the sound of tapping grabbed his attention, Landon found himself standing right across from the room, where he could see himself still lying on the bed asleep.

The tapping continued as Landon carefully walked his way down the hall and entered a room that was similar to where he witnessed his grandmother's trepanation as a child. However, the room was empty, but the tub was now filled with black goo and a figured raised from the muck.

It grabbed on the edges of the tub and jerked its way out of the tub onto the floor. Landon was immediately frightened when it began crawling his direction. He headed for the door, but the door slammed itself shut and locked him inside.

Turning his back toward to the door, Landon breathed nervously as figured continued crawling until it was in the middle of the room. It then appeared to take the shape of a person, while doing multiple body spasms and jerks.

Landon watched as the figure took the shape of Meredith, a Banshee, that shared the same abilities as Landon, "Don't be afraid." She whispered to him.

Landon showed her how unafraid he was by screaming.


Deputy Clark was filling out her incident report, "You're really turning this in?" One of her fellow deputies questioned in an obvious tone.

It hadn't been the first time, "I know what I saw." She told them.

"Deputies were attacked by an enormous animal of undetermined species…" They stopped reading and hand her back the report for her to finish filling out, "Yeah that makes things clear."

The report read, "Deputies were attacked by an enormous animal of undetermined species with possible pituitary gland disorder, at the Beacon Hills transmission tower. Beacon Hills Telecom requested an 11-5 at the transmission towers off Cypress Lane at 19:27. I was told a technician had been sent out over an hour ago that had not reported back. I proceeded to the towers with a ride along, my sister Hayden Clark. We arrived at the transmission towers at 27:25 (?), upon arrival, I found a telecom truck parked outside the towers its lights on and still running. I proceeded to the car to check for the driver, he was nowhere to be found. I turned off …The creature as 7 feet, 8 inches tall and 376 pounds.

Hayden was sitting impatiently at the Sheriff's office, "Are we leaving?" She questioned, once she noticed that she has finished filling out the report.

"Not yet." Clark told her, "Don't move."

However, when Clark was gone Hayden immediately sensed Theo in the building. As if on instinct, she headed to the jail cell where he was waiting, "You shouldn't be here." Hayden warned him.

"Why not?" Theo questioned with his usual coy smile, "My record's spotless." Hayden eyed him carefully, "Are you going to tell me what you saw last night?"

"It was exactly like the painting." She told him, "Exactly what you said."

"Have you told anyone else?"

"I didn't think you'd want me to."

"You're right."

"But I don't know why."

"And you don't have to." Theo promised her, "Look, that thing out there is going to kill a lot of people. But it's not going to kill us. Not if we're together."

Hayden's cell phone vibrated and Hayden could see that it was from her sister, "WHAT PART OF DON'T MOVE WAS UNCLEAR?"

Hayden closed her phone looking immediately bored, "Anything else you want to tell me?" Theo questioned her.

"Not really."

"Look, I don't want this to sound like a warning," Which was probably a lie, "And I definitely don't want it to sound like a threat." Definitely a lie, "But you can't hide anything from me, Hayden." He finished, "Remember that."