Landon and the Argents stood in front of the machine that contained Jordan, "Is he okay?" Landon asked quite concerned.
"Talk to him." Chris encouraged him, "This part is for you, Landon." This earned him a curious expression, "You're the one who can reach him."
Landon was still skeptical, but he does get closer to the machine, "Jordan?"
"No." A voice told him, that wasn't a voice that either of them recognized.
Landon cleared his throat, "Okay." He responded strongly, "Who am I talking to?"
"Cerberus. Garmr." The voice answered, "Black Shuck. I've had many names."
"How about Jordan Parrish?" Gerard questioned, but this doesn't warrant him a response.
"Do you know who I am?" Landon tried.
"The Reaper." The voice answered.
"What about Jordan Parrish?" Landon tried, "Why is it you and not him?" He continued questioning, stepping closer to the machine, "What happened to Parrish?"
"Jordan Parrish died." The voice answered abruptly. Landon took a horrified step back, "There is no Jordan Parrish."
Kira's aggression in the game doesn't even let up as she continued to knock out other players, despite a certain issue, "That girl is damn serious about charity." Finstock praised from the sidelines.
Scott ran to Kira's side as the whistle blew for a brief time out, "Kira, maybe you should ease up on the other players."
"I'm trying to win." Kira reminded him.
"But you didn't even have the ball."
This appeared to cause a change in Kira, "Stay out of my way." Kira told him, in a voice that wasn't her own.
Liam walked up to Scott after witnessing the exchange as Kira walked away, "Go with the backup plan?"
"Go with the backup plan."
The whistle blew again and the game was back in play as the players line in their ready positions, "Down... Set..." Another whistle was blown, but before Kira could make a move to ram into any more of his teammates, Brett knocked her down.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Brett teased at her.
Kira took the bait very well, getting up from the ground in retaliation and knocking Brett in the head using her stick.
Once more a whistle was blown and a referee came out onto the field, "You!" He called out to Kira, "You're done. Get off the field!"
"That was perfect." Liam praised Brett, while Scott followed Kira off the field, "Thanks, dude."
Not only does Scott try to follow Kira off the field, but he could hear muttering annoyed in Japanese as she headed towards the school. Lori, Brett's sister, then pointed to herself and then Kira.
Scott nodded his head and Lori followed the Kitsune.
Micah worked on his part in disabling the TV vans cameras. He had torn out one of the van's cable cords and had just finished ripping out the second one. As he leaped into the air to get to the third one, he was grabbed in midair and thrown to the ground, "Bitch." He muttered.
He looked up to see his mother, The Desert Wolf standing over him, "I prefer "Mom.""
Kira stormed through the double doors of the school with Lori hot on her trail. Lori tried to calm Kira, by asking her if she was okay in Japanese.
This halted Kira who questioned her back in Japanese and mocked Lori for her accent. Lori could sense Kira's anger as Kira threw down her lacrosse gloves.
However, Lori wasn't ready for the lacrosse stick to the face she received, getting thrown into a door. In retaliation, Lori punched Kira, who didn't appear to be harm by the assault.
Instead, she swung her lacrosse stick again at Lori's head. Luckily, Lori could dodge the swing, making Kira lose her footing.
Lori then grabbed the lacrosse stick, but Kira doesn't let go and the two try to push the other back. Lori managed to overpower Kira and slammed her into a wall. This doesn't prompt Kira in releasing the stick as she pushed against the wall, but Lori maintained her footing and swings both Kira and the stick into some lockers and onto the floor.
From the floor Kira glared angrily, "Okay Kira, maybe we could just talk this out?" Lori questioned nerved at the glare.
Kira stood up from the floor and kicked Lori right into the Girls' locker room.
Micah stood in his place from the ground, "To be honest, I'm up for killing you right now." He shared, "But I've got other priorities."
"I can see that." She noted, "Got something against the local news?" She questioned him, "Somebody did a broadcast you didn't appreciate?"
"Somebody's about to." Micah admitted, "And since I know you will not kill me until there's a full moon, get out of my way." He ordered, "People are going to die."
His mother gave a halfhearted laugh, "People die every day, sweetheart."
"Stop calling me that." He grunted, "You don't get to call me sweetheart."
She shrugged her shoulder, "All right." With a crossing of her arms, she offered, "What if there's a compromise?" Micah stared at her, still on guard, "What if you come with me? We can try to solve our little predicament and maybe I start by calling you "son.""
Micah shook his head and took a step closer to his mother, "I'm going to kill you."
The threat doesn't seem to bother the Desert Wolf, who gave him nothing but an approving smile, "You're definitely my child."
At the hospital, Melissa was on the phone with the Sheriff, "I thought we'd exhausted all the possibilities?" She questioned him.
At the game, "According to Landon, Valack said there's got to be another."
Melissa looked at the phone with disbelief, "Specifically another genetic Chimera?" She whispered, "Someone with two sets of DNA?"
"Someone we overlooked." He answered looking out in the crowd, "Someone with blood on a size 10 shoe."
Corey and Mason had checked 25 pairs of shoes on the Devenford Prep bus and marked all the players off the list without finding a bloody size ten.
The sound of the bus creaking caught their attention as a Devenford Player boarded the bus. Corey automatically grabbed Mason, touching the bus seat making them invisible.
The player looked around the bus and sees nothing and grabbed what he needed. Once the player was gone, Corey removed his hand from the seat and they are both visible again.
"We should go," Mason told Corey.
"Yeah." Corey, but realized just how close he and Mason are standing to each other.
Mason cupped Corey's face and the two immediately started kissing. However, during the kiss, Corey suddenly pulled away, "What's wrong?" Mason questioned.
"Nothing." Corey answered unable to look Mason in the eye, "I'm okay." He told him very nervously, "Come on."
Beacon Hills was losing the game. Liam ended getting slammed onto the ground by a Devenford player just before the player made the score 1-5.
From her place, in the stands, Hayden looked alarmed as Scott rushed to Liam's aid. Using her enhanced hearing she listened on their conversation, "We're getting crushed." Liam told Scott on the field.
"It's okay." Scott assured him, "All we need to do is give the others enough time." Liam gave him a tired look, "Like I said. No one's getting hurt." He looked the arm Liam was holding, "Except for us."
However, the sound of Kira and Lori fighting from within the school caught Scott's attention.
Kira slammed Lori into one of the metal fences in the locker room, "Kira..." Lori tried as she used a lacrosse stick of her own and pushed Kira off her.
This was enough for Lori to get her footing back as Kira pulled apart her stick, throwing the net to the side.
Lori took a swing with her stick and Kira blocked it with her own. She went for a swing to Kira's head, but Kira ducks, causing Lori to lose balance and letting Kira roundhouse kick her into a fence.
Kira then pushed her stick against Lori, who managed to use her stick and block the attack. Just like in the hallway, the two try to overpower each other to a point where Kira' eyes gave off their orange glow and Lori's eyes flashed yellow with her fangs retracting.
With a roar, she pushed Kira back, but Kira doesn't falter much and brought her stick down on Lori, splitting her lacrosse stick into two.
Lori was shocked momentarily but moved when Kira made an attempt to jab her with the end of her lacrosse stick.
Kira's stick gets stuck in the fences as she tried to pull it out. She managed to do and swung at Lori, who was able to block her attack with the two pieces of her stick.
Lori managed to hold down Kira's stick with one piece of her lacrosse stick and used the other to swipe it against her face, knocking Kira off balance.
The two girls eye each other carefully, but Kira then snapped her own stick into two copying, Lori. Kira gave her a little smirk and Lori stood ready.
The two then start fighting with both pieces for their sticks, blocking each other's attack.
Lori went in for a kick, but Kira jumped back causing the girl to fall to the ground. Not giving Lori a chance to recover, Kira swung down a piece of her stick, while Lori managed to fight off the attack with a part of her own.
Kira then moved to slam both her sticks into the ground, but Lori managed to do a backward roll, right back onto her feet. She used on foot to hold the sticks and went for a punch. However, Kira blocked it and punched Lori instead.
Kira grabbed a hold of Lori and forced her back right into a desk, that the two rolled over and onto the ground. They continued rolling through the door into the hallway.
Kira gained the upper hand and slammed Lori into the ground, now bearing down on her.
Lori moved back on the ground as Kira stalked her way closer to her. However, Kira seemed to halt suddenly and began shaking. She fell to the ground and Lori looked in surprise to see Allison Argent, wearing a boot, standing right behind Kira armed with a taser.
"Friend of yours?" Lori questioned her as Allison helped her to feet.
"She hasn't been herself lately," Allison answered her. "Which why we need to move because I just made the mistake of giving a thunder kitsune electricity." Allison urged her.
Before they could take a step, the sound of a low growl came from behind them and they see Kira with her eyes glowing.
Kira lunged to attack them but stopped when the voice of Scott called out to her, "Stop. Kira!"
Kira turned to see Scott on the end of the hallway and gave him a snarl. Forgetting about Allison and Lori, she charged at him and grabbed him by his uniform, throwing him to the ground.
Scott ended up sliding near Lori and Allison's feet as they help him get to his feet, while Kira made her way toward them with not only lightening now enveloping her body, but as her fox spirit aura becoming visible.
Scott pushed Lori and Allison behind him as he lets out a loud growl, "Kira!"
This seemed to work as Kira regained control causing the aura to disappear, "Oh, my God." She gasped, looking between Allison, Scott, and Lori, "What did I do?"
"We need more time," Liam told Brett, as they walked off the field. "You got to stop scoring."
"You don't think I've been trying?" Brett questioned at him, "You guys suck. You suck so bad, it's impossible to lose against you."
"So, what are we supposed to do?" Liam questioned him.
"Try not sucking," Brett told just before hurrying over to his team.
Liam took off his helmet completely defeated when Hayden approached him by the bench, "Hey." She told him.
"Hey." He replied unsure what to say.
"I'm with you." She told him.
"What?"
"I'm with you." She repeated with a small smile, "All of you."
"Why?" Liam asked unsure what to think.
"Because you're right about Scott." Hayden told him, "Whatever happens next... I want to be with you."
Out on the field on their defensive end, Stiles noticed that the TV vans were still running, "Something's wrong." Stiles told Liam, "I don't think Micah got all the vans."
They watched as a team member made a goal as the crowd cheered and applauded the effort, "Then we'll give him more time."
Stiles raised an eyebrow at him, "How the hell are we going to do that?"
"We'll even the score."
"I stand by my previous statement."
Liam gave an eye roll and a confident smirk, "Just get me the ball."
This whistle blows and Stiles and Liam settled in their starting positions, "Set."
The Desert Wolf and Micah were still at their stand still, "You really think you're going to make a difference, don't you?" She questioned her son, "Who are you trying to save out here?" She gave a curious look over, "A bunch of random people?" In the background, the crowd cheered as the players were now moving forward in the game, "Your little high school friends?"
Out on the field, Liam managed to score back to back as he made an incredible run down the field, dodging players and scoring, pushing the score to 3-5. At some point as the teams went back on the sidelines, Stiles took off her helmet, looking around alarmed.
"What are you talking about?" Landon questioned him, "How is Parrish dead?"
"He's a body" The Hellhound answered, "A means to an end. I am beyond life and death. I am infinite." He raved, "I have no use for your Deputy."
"But we do." Landon told him, "We need him."
"Your Deputy won't kill the Beast."
"Neither will you." Landon seethed now angry, "I'm a harbinger of death too. I know people are going to die." He reminded him, "And if you do not let Parrish in, he will die too." This doesn't seem to move the Hellhound, "You'll die!" He screamed, face now up against the window, "You have a chance with Parrish." He tried, "You need him."
"Landon," Chris spoke up, "Tell him to remember."
Landon looked back at the Argent confused, "What?"
"Tell him to remember the moment Parrish died," Gerard spoke.
Landon turned back to the Hellhound, "When did he die?"
"When I was born." Came the answer. The Hellhound flashed back into a memory.
Jordan Parrish is in his army uniform as he tries to disable an I.E.D. it doesn't work and the bombs explodes and through the smoke he can see images of Scott, Allison Argent and Stiles going into the ice bath during their surrogate sacrifices.
As the smoke clears, Jordan walks, in trance in the desert with some of his clothes burnt off.
In another flash, Jordan is placing another body around the Nemeton in a ring of fire, surrounded by multiple bodies.
The Hellhound began roaring causing the machine to shake. While roaring, he shoved the door open and began falling out. Landon rushed to catch him.
"Are you all right?" Landon questioned him.
"I know who I am." Jordan told him as he recovered from being in the machine, "I know what I have to do. I have to leave."
Stiles has wandered behind the bleachers only to find her other self waiting for her, "No, no. No," Stiles hissed at her, "I did exactly what you wanted. You shouldn't be here." She doesn't say anything, just continued staring at her. "Will you say something!?"
"Are you going to let me in?"
Stiles gave it 'are you insane' expression, "Now where would you get a crazy idea like that?"
"You came looking for me." She answered knowingly, "You came looking for me because you know something bad is about to happen." She challenged, "Almost like you can feel it in your bones."
"How do I know you're not the reason for the bad feeling?" Stiles challenged her.
"Because I want to protect this town," She answered.
Stiles was instantly confused at the answer, "I don't understand."
"I'm a part of you, Stiles." She explained, "I've always been a part of you. From trapping the Kanima at the club to protecting the others from us when we were possessed. I've always been there, you were just too scared to see it because of what happened with the dark druid. You saw what could happen if you went down the wrong path. I know the possession didn't help either."
Stiles' eyes widened at the declaration, "I don't think you asking me those stupid riddles helped either."
"It seemed to be only way to get your attention." Herself responded, seeing Stiles casting an eye uncertainty, "You know you're nothing like her. Nothing like it, right?"
"Of course, I know that," Stiles answered, "I've known it for awhile now…"
"Then why do you still choose not to test your true power, your Spark." She questioned herself, "What you really can do?" Stiles doesn't give her answer, 'If you can't accept your true potential, then there's no way you can protect the people you care about." She took a step towards her, "I meant what I said, I want to protect this town as much as you do. Together we can do so," She held out a hand. "All you have to do is let me in."
Still, at the vans facing with his mother, Micah retracted his fangs and had his eyes glowing. His mother was unimpressed by the gesture, "You want to do this now?" She questioned in a calm manner, "Fine." However, she doesn't focus on her sight on Micah anymore, but instead focused on someone who stood behind him, "It's the human, isn't it?" She questioned, "The one with a scowling face."
Micah turned to see Stiles making a displeased face and mouthing something before she reached out to grab something. He turned back to face his mother, only to find that she had disappeared.
Pushing his mother to the back burner, he leaped on top of the TV van and finished destroying the last transmitter.
Regrettably, one of the transmitters has been repaired, "We're back up." A TV engineer informed the reporter.
"Perfect." Kathleen commented, watching the game, "This thing's a nail-biter. Let's roll tape."
As she keyed in her microphone, a feedback-filled all the speakers on the field, "Should've stayed in rehab." Finstock groaned, covering his ears.
As the squeal subsided, it was replaced by a growl.
Eyes aglow, Liam took off running off the field and towards the row of buses. As he does so he ended up running right past Stiles, "Liam." Stiles called out to him, only to be ignored, "Liam, don't!"
At the sound of Stiles' warning, Liam leaped into the air just as the Beast flew over the bus.
Students, screaming, began filling the hallways of the school so quickly that Scott, Lori, Allison and Kira barely have time to move right into an empty classroom
Just as Scott closed the door, they could see the shadow of the Beast running past the room. When they opened the door again, the room opposite has large claw marks across the door.
"What was that?" Allison questioned in a worried tone.
NEXT TIME ON TNH: La Bête du Gévaudan (January 14th)
Liam grunted in protest, "I'm okay." He claimed, "I'm fine." However, he noticed that Hayden was making an expression that told him otherwise, "What? Is it bad?"
"No," Hayden answered with a clear sign of unsureness.
"Very," Stiles commented, eyeing the wounds.
Hayden turned to Stiles for help, "What do you guys usually do when this happens?"
"Oh, I used to pass out." Stiles shared almost feeling faint, "And I think I still might revert to doing that."
"Stiles!" Hayden shrieked in a panic, no way was Hayden going to help Liam, if the one person who knew everything collapsed on her, "Hello, healing powers remember?"
Stiles stood over Liam, hands outreached over his body, "God I hope this works," She mumbled as she began focusing on channeling power to her hands. As she does so, she could feel a comforting sensation run through her arms to her hands.
Hayden watched in awe as Stiles' eyes go completely white as a green aura began to emit from the hovering hands. She looked down to see Liam's wounds began to close slowly and his breathing began to slow down.
Scott braced for impact, only to hear a dull thud as the Beast claws hits against a blue aura acting as a barrier. However, Scott could tell this was different as he could see a trail of it floating through the library. He followed to where it led to Stiles, knees first on the floor, eyes completely white, with her hands out as the blue aura emitted from her hands.
While it does help, it doesn't stop the Beast from trying to attack Scott as it continued swiping its claws at the barrier. As Scott tried to figure a way out, Liam leapt from behind and drove his fist into the Beast head's, knocking it into the check-out section, giving Scott a chance to get back on his feet.
As the Beast tried to recover from the assault, Derek and Micah came running through into library as Derek, now armed with Braeden's shotgun, began shooting at it several times.
The Beast roared in retaliation, but instead of attacking, it stared at them before running through the middle section of the library and jumped out the window with a faded roar into the night.
Everyone stood in silence as Liam helped support Scott in standing. They stood in the middle on the library in wonder at the mess that had been made, "How did you do that?" Scott questioned Stiles.
Stiles shook her head at him, "You didn't seriously think you were gonna have a chance against that thing, did you?" She chided at him, not answering his question.
