In the New Mexico desert, Kira was facing off the three Skinwalkers on her own. One with red war paint, another with black war paint around her eyes, and the last one wearing some animal skin.

The one with the red paint was the first to start the attack by attempting to jab Kira with the spear that she was equipped with. However, Kira was able to block the attack with the use of her sword, only for the one with the paint around her eyes to attack next.

This one attempted to slam her weapon down on Kira, but with a twirl of her sword Kira managed to block this attack as well and the counteract that Skinwalker had maneuvered.

Lastly, the Skinwalker with the animal fur tried to knock Kira off her feet with a spear of her own, but Kira managed to jump up in time avoiding the hit.

But the one on one attack was now over. This time all three Skinwalkers began attacking at the same time from different angles forcing Kira to remain on a constant defense.

From the side, Noshiko could only watch as the Skinwalker with animal skin, kicked up dirt in Kira's eye, blinding her, and the one with black war paint knocked her sword out of her hands.

It doesn't stop there as the Skinwalker with red paint then tossed her spear right into Kira's shoulder pinning her to the rocks.

Noshiko was immediately alarmed about the Skinwalkers next actions as they gathered around Kira.

Kira attempted to pull the spear out of her shoulder, but one of them used their weapon and her pinned back, forcing her to look at them.

"She's frightened." The one with the animal skin spoke.

"But she's not frightened of us." Said the one with the black war paint.

"Of herself." The one with red paint finished.

"Can you help her?" Noshiko wondered.

The three Skinwalkers examined Kira carefully, "We can try." Animal answered.

"If not, she stays." Finished War.

Kira doesn't understand, "What... What does that mean?"

Animal answered, "If we can't help you, you'll stay and become one of us. A Skinwalker." She explained to her.

"You'll walk with us under the sun through the dust," War told her.

"Forever." Red finished. She then pulled her spear out of Kira, letting Kira fall to the ground.

But Kira doesn't get up, shaken by the possibility of becoming one of them.


Stiles was outside Scott's house working on the jeep.

Inside, Liam was waiting when Scott came downstairs, "They're alive. I mean the Chimeras." Liam told him eagerly, "Some of them, not all of them."

"I know," Scott told him as he continued to moving to get ready for the trip.

"Oh, you do?" Liam asked with some defeat in his voice.

"Yeah. I... I'm sorry," Scott looked at him awkwardly, "I can't talk right now, Liam." Scott moved to head to the front door.

"It was Theo." Liam stammered out, "He's the one who brought them back, and now they're with him. Like they're his pack."

"I know."

"Hayden's one of them." Liam shared.

"She's okay?"

"She's alive." Liam shared with him, which earned him a look of approval, "I'm not sure she's totally okay, but she's definitely alive."

"That's good."

"Where are you guys going?" He wondered, sensing Scott's urgency to leave.

"To get Kira." Scott told him, "Her dad told us that her mom took her out to New Mexico, to this place called Shiprock. They're trying to figure out a way to help her, but it's dangerous." Scott shared, "So we're gonna go find her and bring her back."

"I'll come with you." Liam offered.

"Nah, you can't." Scott denied him.

"Let me help." Liam told him, "Let me do something." He begged him, "Just tell me what I can do."

Scott stared at him for a moment, "Don't do anything."


Stiles noticed Scott, alone, rushing out of his home and toward the jeep. Scott quickly got in and settled into the passenger seat, "So, what did he want?" Stiles pondered.

"To help." Scott shared.

Stiles eyed him carefully, "You gonna let him?"

"Eventually, I guess."

"Okay, but shouldn't he be a little higher on your priority list right now?" Stiles grilled him, "I mean since he's the only other actual werewolf, your only actual Beta."

Scott shook his head, "You didn't see how he came at me." Scott shared, as a flash of an outraged Liam came to his mind, "You didn't see the look in his eyes."

"Well, I've been with you on a full moon," Stiles reminded him, "I've seen that look. I'm familiar with that look." However, this doesn't seem to move Scott that the way it was supposed to, "If you want your pack back together, Scott, you can't leave out those who want to help."

Scott wanted to tell Stiles that there was no pack without her, but he doesn't as she cranked up the jeep and the engine roared loudly, "Success!" Stiles cheered happily, "Yes!"

Scott watched the enthusiasm, but as he threw his bag in the back of the jeep something caught his eye. When he focused on the backseat, it was loaded with bottles of anti-freeze. Scott gave Stiles a questioning eyebrow, "It's a minor leak." Stiles explained, "Very minor."

The tires screeched as they pulled onto the road. From behind, a steady stream of fluid poured onto the pavement from beneath the Jeep.


Theo and Tracy were in pursuit of La Bête du Gévaudan at the high school. During the chase, it burst through the double doors and entered the building. On alert, Theo and Tracy entered, but encountered nothing, but silence, "Did you see it?" Tracy questioned Theo.

Theo shook his head, "It was too fast."

"But it's here?"

"Yeah." Theo told taking the lead in front, "So keep your distance." He advised her, "We're not trying to catch it. Not yet." In the distance, there was the sound of growling.

Neither of the chimeras could detect where the location of the source it was coming from. Instead, they noticed a row of lockers with the words "Damnatio Memorie" across them.

"It's the same message, isn't it?" Tracy wondered, remembering seeing the words from in the tunnel. "What are they trying to tell it?"

"Trying to get it to remember who it was," Theo answered.

"But isn't it a teenager like us?" Tracy pointed out, "Isn't it a kid underneath?"

"They don't care about that." He answered with a grim tone, "The Doctors, they needed a body because they couldn't resurrect the Beast out of thin air. That kid underneath, whoever it is, just a side effect." He explained, "All the Doctors care about is the Beast."

Tracy looked unnerved at the information, "So what happens if it remembers?"

"I'm not sure." He admitted, "The thing probably doesn't even know it turns back to human during the day."

"I read that La Bête du Gévaudan killed 113 people." She offered to him, "Is that true?"

"No." Theo replied, "The Doctors told me it was closer to 500."

Another growl echoed as they continued down the hall. This time was closer than it was the first time. The low growling continued until they both stood outside a door where the sounds were coming from.

Tracy instinctively flicked her claws and opened the door to attack. Inside the room, stood the Pathologist waiting for them, "Leave." It ordered the two.

Theo brushed aside Tracy and walked into the room himself, but sees nothing there. Just them and the empty classroom, "Where is it?" He demanded to know.

"You already have your pack." Another voice told him. Tracy and Theo turned towards the door where the Surgeon stood.

"It wasn't enough." Theo complained to them, "Look at my eyes." He flashed them his yellow eyes, "They look red to you? I'm not an Alpha." He told him, "I'm not even a real werewolf."

If the doctors had the ability to show Theo just how much they cared about his predicament, Theo would've gotten some bored, could-careless expression.

However, they couldn't do that so they remained silent at Theo's complaints. The Beast, however, made an appearance by lurking through the darkness outside the school, creating a silhouette from the outside lights.

From the inside of the school, Tracy and Theo could see that it was holding something up. It appeared to in the shape of a severed head with The Beast holding it by the hair in its hand.

It released another growl, louder than the previous ones. This time it was so loud that both Tracy and Theo cover their ears, before getting thrown back into the hallways against the lockers.

When the roaring has stopped, The Beast and the doctors had disappeared.


In the desert, Red was tending to Kira's wounds, "This will speed the healing." She explained as she rubbed a green mixture onto the wound of Kira's shoulder.

"You could've just not thrown a spear at me." Kira offered to her, wincing.

"You had a sword." The Skinwalker reminded her, "You could have used it."

"I thought I did."

"You were afraid to use the sword." The Skinwalker recalled, "I showed you I wasn't afraid to use the spear." With that said, the Skinwalker left as Noshiko appeared.

Kira leaned up against the wall, "What happens now?" Kira questioned her mother.

"They're going to test you." She answered, "Tonight. It's not going to be easy."

Kira took that as a given, "Have they mentioned anything about fixing me?"

"They have their methods." Her mother answered, "It takes time."

"How much time? Days?"

Noshiko stared at her silently before answering, "Months or years."

"Are you kidding?" Kira balked at the answer.

"Don't think I take this lightly, Kira."

"Mom, years?" Kira repeated with disbelief.

"You're a Kitsune." Noshiko answered calmly, "You have centuries."

"What about my friends?" Kira counterclaimed, "What about Scott?"

"If this part of you becomes too powerful, it will consume you." Noshiko warned her, "Do you understand what that means?" She asked her daughter, "You won't even exist anymore."

"So this is it?" Kira questioned, now getting angry, "This is all I've got? I pass their test and then I can spend a couple months, or if I'm lucky, years, learning from a couple of crazy, half-naked women carrying spears and wearing animal pelts."

"You carry a sword and you wear a leather jacket." Noshiko pointed out, "We're not so different from them."

"What if they can't help me?" Kira questioned, slightly calm, but not any less worried, "Do I really become one of them?"

"If you become a Skinwalker and stay with them, it could keep you alive." Noshiko answered, "It could be the only thing that saves you."

Kira took this into consideration, "All the myths about Skinwalkers say they're evil."

Noshiko gave her a broke smile before saying, "They say the same thing about Kitsune."


Out on the road, Scott and Stiles rode in silence. Scott tried to act as if the silence between them wasn't bothering him, but it was. Lucky for him an icebreaker came into play as steam came from the engine, "I think the Jeep's overheating again." Scott noted.

Stiles nodded at the obvious sign, "Probably."

"Should we pull over and put more antifreeze in it?" He suggested.

Stiles made a tired noise, "No, we can just turn the heat on." With a turn of the knob, the heat blasted through the vent and began filling the jeep, "You find anything yet?"

Through the trip, Scott had occupied himself in reading more about Damnatio Memoriae, "They're mostly the same stuff you already knew." Scott admitted, "Damnatio Memoriae was a Roman practice, a government decree to destroy the images of the damned." He read from the book, "And they would scratch off their names from inscriptions, chisel their face off of statues. The Romans believed it was a punishment worse than death." Stiles listened to the findings but stayed focused on the road, "Being forgotten. Listen to this. "Damnatio Memoriae was later used on a serial killer in 1598, known as the Demon Tailor. He lured children into his shop in Paris where he would kill them and boil the flesh off their bones to eat. The courts believed the crimes so horrible, they ordered all the documents destroyed. To this day, no one knows his real name.""

"So the Dread Doctors resurrected a killer who was so bad, he had to literally be erased from history," Stiles concluded.

"A killer that became a werewolf." Scott pointed out. "Probably made him a better killer."

"That's great," Stiles replied feigning delight.


At Beacon Hills High School, the PA system was making an announcement, "Attention all students. Mr. O'Quinn's classes are canceled for today. If anyone knows his whereabouts, please let the office know immediately."

"That doesn't sound too ominous," Mason commented at the announcement. However, Liam wasn't listening to him as he was glaring at Hayden and Theo together. Liam clenched his fists, "You said Scott told you not to do anything." Mason voiced beside him.

"I know."

Mason doesn't miss the low growl coming from his friend, "Liam, you said you weren't gonna get involved."

"I know."

Mason snapped his finger in front of his friend's face, breaking Liam's focus on Hayden and Theo, "Liam, don't get involved."

Theo and Hayden walked away, leaving Liam seething.


Scott and Stiles sat another blanket of silence, this time Scott was the one doing the driving. "You still not talking to Micah?" Scott questioned, focusing on the road.

"Uh, he's not talking to me." Stiles answered from the passenger side, "Again, more my fault since I started the silent treatment towards him." Stiles admitted, "I tried reaching out, but haven't heard anything."

"I think I know why." Scott offered to get Stiles' attention, "I think he found his mother."

"His mother," Stiles repeated with disbelief, "As in The Desert Wolf?"

"Yeah."

"I knew he was still looking," Stiles told him. There's a minor irritation in her voice, "He erased her name off my board, but I just... I knew he never stopped."

"I was at his house," Scott revealed, "I'm pretty sure Derek, was there, too."

"Derek?" Stiles questioned with a minor outrage, "Did you see him or something?"

Scott could sense Stiles' irritation on the matter. He was starting to think that if Micah assumption had been true about Stiles and Derek, then the break-up wasn't a pleasant one.

"It was Braeden's motorcycle," Scott shared carefully, "I think he tried to cover his scent with the exhaust…" He stopped when noticed Stiles' face turned from outrage to something else that he couldn't read.

He waited for her to say something, but Stiles remained silent, "Do you want to talk about it?"

Stiles gave him a look, "No, I don't want to talk about it." Was the answer, and Stiles looked away from him, and out the window; getting lost in a memory.

*"Hey, Stiles." A familiar voice answers from the other side, "How's my favorite Spark?" The sound of Isaac's voice is enough for Stiles to start crying all over again, but Stiles doesn't and Isaac can sense something wrong, "What's wrong?"

"I've screwed up, Baby Beta." Stiles answers in a dead tone and Isaac didn't even bother to off Stiles for using the nickname, "I've really screwed up this time."

"What happened?"

There is a beat, "I killed someone." Comes the answer, "Scott and I got into a big fight about it and my Dad's in the hospital because Scott trusted the wrong person." Stiles finishes.

Isaac didn't speak for a couple of seconds, trying to process what has been said, "I'm going to need you to start from beginning." He says carefully, "Chris only told us he had to leave to help you guys with some of the crazy stuff going on."

Stiles explains everything from the Dread Doctors, the book, the repressed memories, Eichen House, the Chimeras… Donovan.

"Have you tried talking to Derek about it?" Isaac questions.

"I can't do that."

"Why?"

"I killed someone, Isaac. I killed an innocent kid using my spark and..." Stiles whispers, knowing full well that he'd still be able to hear, "It was different…"

"It was self-defense." He argues, "Derek will understand that."

Stiles makes a headshake, "If Scott didn't understand that it was self-defense, why would Derek believe me?"

"Because he loves you."

"No, he doesn't." Comes the automatic answer, resulting in a horrified Stiles, "I should go." Stiles breathes in a shaky breath, "I need to… I just need to go."

"Stiles, don't…"

But Stiles hangs up on him, tossing the phone onto the bed and turns to leave the room.

Only before crossing the doorframe, Stiles stares at the door and pulls it back; revealing Derek.

"Get out." She tells him in a broken tone, "Get out now!" However, Derek doesn't move but nor does he say anything, "Fine, don't say anything." She rushes out the room.

"What the hell do you think they're gonna do?" Stiles questioned still looking out the window.

Scott doesn't push the Derek issue, "Something that Micah doesn't want to tell us about, so probably something bad."

"Oh, my God." Stiles muttered as realization started to surface, "It's the chemo-signals, isn't it?" Stiles placed her head on the window.

"Aggression," Scott answered.

Stiles made an inner sigh, "How much?"

"I think he's gonna kill her." Scott shared, which seemed enough of a push to get Stiles to lean off the window. "He's gonna kill his mother."

The engine seemed to suddenly sputter as the jeep began to slow down, "What's happening?"

"Um…We're out of gas." Stiles told him, knowing the problem instantly. "It's out of gas."

However, Scott peered at the gas gauge that told him otherwise, "It says we have half a tank."

Stiles made a shoulder shrug, "Yeah, not necessarily."

"You didn't fix the gas gauge, didn't you?" Scott questioned.

Stiles made a look of guilt, "Again, not necessarily."

Scott gave a look of disbelief as he pulled off to the side of the road, just as the jeep stopped.


Mrs. Finch was teaching a class, "Co-dominance," She wrote on the board while lecturing, "A relationship among alleles where both alleles contribute to the phenotype of the heterozygote." She explained, turning forward to her students only to see some out-of-place faces, "Quite a mouthful, I know, but it's exactly what we'll be learning in today's lab." She told them, "Students in the first and third row, look behind you."

In the first row, Liam turned to find Hayden directly behind him.

In the third row, Corey turned to find a young woman behind him. He turned back to get his supplies, but when he turned back he sees that Mason has occupied the space.

"These are your partners." Mrs. Finch finished.


In math class, Mrs. Flemming noticed that she was missing a couple of students, "Has anyone seen Stiles or Scott McCall?" She questioned to her attending class, "Can't be the only one who thinks it's slightly coincidental they're both sick on the same day?"

She reviewed over her roll and noticed that one other student was missing, "And Landon Martin wasn't in class today either."

"He won't be in for a while," Theo told her, sitting at his desk. This caused the entire class to stare at him, "Medical issues."

Mrs. Flemming marked her roll-sheet, "At least, Isaac transferred out." She commented, before facing the board.

From his spot in the classroom, sensing that someone was watching, Theo looked up to see Micah staring at him.

They stared at each other briefly before Micah continued his way.


In Landon's mind, he walked up to Valack's old cell, "Do you know how he did it?" Meredith questioned, appearing by Landon's side.

"He put the recorder in the cup to amplify my voice."

"It didn't just amplify your voice." Meredith explained to him, "It gave it direction." She pushed the button on the recorder and Landon's voice screamed through the speaker, causing the glass cell to shatter.

"Valack used your scream as a tool by focusing it." She explained to him, "If you're going to use it as a weapon, you need to learn to do the same."


"Remember that in co-dominance, neither allele is recessive." Mrs. Finch explained to her class, "The phenotypes of both alleles are expressed." She focused on one of her students, "Corey, in human blood, what is a good example of co-dominance?"

"Type AB." He answered with confidence.

"Very good. So today you're going to solve a little mystery." She explained to her class, "Two couples had babies on the same day in the same hospital. Were the babies switched? Open your packets and read the instructions."

Liam doesn't say a word to Hayden as he began opening his packet, "Gonna talk to me?" Hayden questioned him.

"I'm reading the instructions."

"You know what I mean."

"You mean how you're hanging out with a total psycho that tried to get me to kill Scott and then did it himself?" Liam questioned in a strained tone, "Yeah, okay, let's... Let's talk about that."

"That total psycho brought me back to life." Hayden reminded him, "Remember that? I'm not dying again."

"You don't have to..."

"Why?" Hayden questioned roughly, "Because Scott's gonna save us? He doesn't even know what's coming."

"What do you mean?" Liam asked, "What's coming?"

Mrs. Finch interrupted their conversation, "Seems to be a lot of discussion over here." She told the pair, "Can't imagine you've already solved the mystery, have you?"

"No."

She gave them a raised eyebrow, "Get to it."


In the locker room, Corey walked up to Mason with a smile on his face, "You want to go out again?"

"Yeah." Mason answered quickly before taking back his answer, "No." This wiped the smile off Corey's face, "No way."

"Why not?"

"You actually have to ask "why not?""

"You like me." Corey argued, "Go out with me."

"But you're still with Theo." Mason counter-argued, "You... You're with the bad guys."

"There are no bad guys."

"There are definitely bad guys." Mason corrected him, "Some of the bad guys are called Dread Doctors. You don't get a name like Dread Doctors and not get classified as the bad guys." Mason argued, "That's what none of you get."

Corey doesn't agree, "There aren't gonna be any good guys or bad guys." He argued, "It's either gonna be dead or alive. I want to be alive. Don't you?"

Mason looked nervous, "Not if I'm left standing with the bad guys."

"How about with me?" Corey asked him, "Stay alive with me." He then leaned into Mason's space and gave him a gentle kiss. One which Mason had no problem returning.

"Fine." Mason caved, "But I'm not going out with you again." Only Mason contradicted, what he says, by him and Corey kissing again.

"We're gonna be okay." Corey assured him, "I know you probably don't believe it, but Theo is looking for the same thing."

"You mean the last Chimera."

Corey shook his head, "That's not what he's calling it."

"What is he calling it then?"

"The Beast."


"You've already healed." Noshiko noted at the spear wound on Kira's shoulder, "Kira, you're going to be fine."

Kira doesn't give a second thought about her wound, "Would you really leave me here?" She questioned her mother, "With them?"

"If it's the only thing that saves your life, then yes."

"What if I can't pass their test?" Kira questioned, "What if I fail?"

Noshiko grabbed Kira's sword and handed it to her, "Don't fail."

With a brief look back, Kira walked off into the desert to face the Skinwalkers as a cloud of dust came from the air.


Stiles and Scott found a gas station. Unfortunately, it was closed, but Scott chose to break the chain as Stiles slipped a twenty through the doors to pay for what they take.

For the first time since they been up on the road, Stiles started the conversation first, "There was a pin." Stiles shared, not looking at Scott, "There was one little metal pin attached to the scaffolding."

Looking around, Stiles hopes that there was something that could at least slow Donovan down. Almost as if an answer to a prayer, Stiles noticed a pin with a ring just above him and an idea formed. Just slow him down. Slow him down, then call the others.

"He was still trying to attack me." Stiles shared.

"He was trying to kill you." Scott corrected.

"Yes," Stiles admitted, "I stepped in front of him and used the spark to pull the pin out. And all these metal braces came down."

Stiles' eyes flash and the pin is pulled out on its own as several metal bars are released on top of Donovan.

"And one of them just," Stiles struggled to say, "Just went right through him and he fell to the main floor of the library."

As multiple bars fall, one bar impales Donovan, causing his body to shift from the weight, over the railing onto the main floor of the library.

Scott watched his friend sadly, "Why didn't you think you could tell me?"

Stiles looked at him, "Because I broke your sacred rule." Stiles answered, "And I knew there was no going back after the way you were looking at me that night." Stiles owned up, "You stood there with a wrench in your hand, you're looking at me like I bashed you in the head with it." Tears formed in Stiles' eyes as Stiles moved to place the gauge back on the pump.

"I know the difference," Scott spoke, stilling Stiles.

"What?"

"I know what self-defense is."

Stiles just gave him a gloomy look, before they loaded back up into the jeep ending the conversation.

*A big thank you to toxikcherrys16 for helping me with the flashback with Isaac and Derek. If it wasn't for her the scene never would've happened