Chapter Three:
Scott, Isaac, and Stiles walk inside his house. Allison has already left. It's been a long night. The bite wound between the flesh of Scott's shoulder and neck has healed, but it's still painful. The werespider venom has damaged his nervous system. He's hypersensitive. The trio can perfectly hear Melissa, Stiles' dad, and Agent McCall arguing in the dining room. Agent McCall enters the living room to see Scott and his friends. He's angry. Scott rolls his eyes. Melissa and John come inside to see them all.
"Curfew was two hours ago." Agent McCall says.
"I know." Scott sighs deeply.
"I set this curfew for a reason. That doesn't mean you can still hang around with your little friends. You will come home everyday after school and stay here! Do I make myself clear?!"
"I don't need to listen to you. You stopped being my father a long time ago." Scott growls.
"I am still your father and you will obey me! Do not disappoint me!" Agent McCall sharpens.
"Disappoint you?! You?! Really! Why don't you just leave! My life is none of your concern anymore. Aren't you suppose to be kissing your boss' ass right now?!" Scott's eyes flash when his father slaps him across the face hard enough. A deep and animalistic growl rumbles through Scott's chest. His body is heating up with anger. Before Isaac and/or Stiles can get a hold of him, Scott launches himself at his father. He slams his father into the wall, making it crack. Agent McCall watches in fear as Scott traps him by places his hands on both sides of his head. Scott's eyes are no longer human. His eyes are just demonic and full of rage. He can't control the deep growls emitting from his throat as he bares his sharp teeth. His nails sharpen into claws. Scott is incredibly pissed off.
"Scott back down." Melissa gets close. Stiles and Isaac are already at Scott's side. Agent McCall is two seconds away from soiling and pissing in his underwear.
"What the hell are you?" His voice trembles.
"I'm an alpha." Scott's voice is incredibly deep. He backs off, returning to his normal form. His dad just stares at him with wide eyes. "There are some things you don't understand. I can't explain it." Suddenly, John's phone rings with the Copacabana ringtone. That's a good way to distract everyone.
"Hello?" John says.
"There's been another murder." Someone says over the line and Isaac and Scott are already listening. John's face is tense. "We have four bodies at the Spear residence. It's gruesome, sheriff. It's bad. It's really bad." John hangs up the phone.
"There's been another murder. Four bodies were just found a couple of blocks from here." He says. Scott, Isaac, and Stiles already know who committed the murders. Scott swears that when he sees that werespider, he will rip his head off. John looks to Scott's father. "We need to go."
(….)
Dr. Deaton's Office
Dr. Deaton is packing up and ready to go. Forcing the back door open is Selena. She has Caleb in her arms. He's still seizing. Alan looks to see her coming. He and Selena make eye contact. "I'm so sorry. I need help. He's dying." Selena cries and sobs her heart out as she lies her baby brother gently on the examination table. Alan looks down at Caleb. He really is dying. He can't breathe as he foams from the mouth and chokes up blood. "I know that you're an emissary to the pack. We are not the enemy. My twin brother, Dante, is. Please, just help him. I'll give you anything. Money, my blood, anything." That reminds Dr. Deaton because he can smell the delectable blood. Selena is distraught sobbing her eyes out. Alan uses a flashlight to check Caleb's pupils. Caleb's eyes are milky and the blood vessels have all been popped. Selena tries to calm down as Deaton questions her.
"How long ago did this start happening to him?" He asks her.
"About an hour or so." Selena replies. "I found a silver dagger washed in clematis plunged a half an inch from his heart. I could also smell lupitine seeping off of him."
"Lupitine?" Alan already knows what lupitine can do. It can kill werewolves faster than wolfsbane. The doctor goes into one of his cabinets to grab some moonstone and moonseed. Moonseed is a powerful serum that can be used as morphine for supernatural creatures. Some supernatural creatures even use it when drinking alcohol to get themselves drunk. But an over dosage could kill them. Deaton takes a syringe and absorbs some moonseed. All he needs is three Ccs to kill the pain before moving on to get the clematis and the lupitine out of his system. "I need you to hold him down." Selena does what she's told and holds her baby brother still while the doctor injects the moonseed into Caleb's veins. She lets him go when it's done. The moonseed works fast, making Caleb stop seizing.
"Thank you so much."
"The job's not finished. We need to push the lupitine and clematis out of his receptors."
"Moonstone? Haven't seen a moonstone in centuries."
"My mother collected them. She was a healer and an emissary. Everyone came to her if they needed help." Dr. Deaton comes over to place the moonstone in Caleb's left hand. Alan puts his hand over his and begins chanting in some unknown language. There's a blue glow coming from the moonstone as it dissolves and pushes through Caleb's skin. The blue glow travels throughout his body. That's when he gasps loudly, releasing a large amount of black smoke from his mouth and eyes. Selena steps back as the black smoke fades to nothing. She's impressed.
Caleb is now unconscious as the blue glow dies down. Selena goes over. "Caleb." She says his name softly, but there's no response. His heartbeat is still silent from before. "Caleb, wake up." But he's not waking up. Alan checks his pulse. It's very weak. "He needs blood." Selena says.
"I'll call Scott and see if we can get some blood bags. He needs to rest." Dr. Deaton says. "How did you know I was an emissary? We never met."
"I've been here plenty of times before. My twin brother is after something very powerful that is hidden in this town. He needs my blood in order to get it. Dante has been killing people, but he's also kidnapping people as well. And I know why." Selena stares down at her brother before making eye contact with Alan. "I could tell you the truth, but it'll put you and the wolves in danger. Dante will not hesitate to kill you all. He's impulsive and vicious. He'll slaughter this entire town if he has to." She sighs before saying. "I know everything about you, your sister, and the wolves. I was also watching the alpha pack as well. I could've helped, but I didn't want to blow my cover and expose my species."
"The werespiders." Dr. Deaton understands.
"My species is very secretive. Our existence must be kept a secret. My kind is led by a council of twelve powerful elders, who are more dangerous than Dante, Caleb, and I put together."
"So why didn't you go to them for help?" Alan asks.
"I couldn't risk it. I know the council would kill Dante if I did. They would probably kill my baby brother and I as well. I made a promise to my mother. My mother begged me to forgive Dante before she died. She doesn't want him dead because we are the only family we got." Selena says. "Truth be told, Dante deserves to die. He killed our other siblings, our mother, and blames us, because he killed our abusive, psychopathic father due to his love for us." Selena confesses. "And now, he wants to give life to our father again. But if he does, the world will end. The apocalypse will happen."
(….)
BHHS: The Library
Two Days Later
The library isn't crowded. Some students from Beacon Hills are studying and checking out books quietly. Scott, Allison, Lydia, Ethan, Wes, Lisabeth, Corey, Stiles, and Isaac are sitting a table. Stiles places a file folder filled with every single detail on the werespider species on the table. He opens it and spreads the papers all around, revealing pictures of spiders, people dressed in dark cloaks, and strange symbols. There are some disturbing images of people getting torn apart and their blood drank like fine wine by the dark hooded figures. The werespiders are an occult and strange species. Scott and the others are a little freaked out about them, mainly due to their fear of spiders.
"Creepy." Ethan takes a detailed photo of a wolf spider in his hands and stares at it. He glances at Peter's Betas. He hates the sight of them because they were partially created with Aiden's powers. He misses his twin brother. Peter is a dead man.
"I couldn't find anything about the werespiders in the bestiary." Allison says.
"Luckily, we did." Stiles says, nodding over to Corey. "It's like this. Around 8000 BC, a man named Dorian De Anundr was born into a family of servants and slaves. His family was ridiculed, bullied, and abused by the higher class. Dorian wanted to protect his family, so he traveled the world to find a witch named Camelia. Camelia was very powerful and well known for her use of black magic. Dorian was able to strike a deal with her. She would give him true immortality in exchange for protecting her own bloodline. Camelia channeled her black magic by using the essence of a clematis flower, the power of the blood moon, virgin blood, a spider, and bark carved from the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
"The same tree that Adam and Eve ate from?" Allison's confused about the possibility as Stiles nod with confirmation before he continues.
"Dorian wanted to choose a form that would put fear in his enemies. He chose a spider. And on that same night, he completed his transition and wiped out an entire village in his new form. Camelia vanished soon after. Dorian returned home to turn his entire family into werespiders, including the love of his life, Francesca. They slaughtered the same family who treated them as lower forms of life. Soon, Francesca gave birth to nine children...But something happened. Dorian found out that Francesca was doing the boom-boom-boom with another man. He killed and ate them both until their was nothing left, but bones. Then he left and disappeared."
"So, you're saying this guy is still out there?" Lisabeth says.
"I really hate spiders." Lydia says, chewing on her gum. "They are annoying little bugs."
"The werespiders are very secretive. Before Dorian left, he created a council and took in poor families and people who needed shelter and food. He created laws for all werespider to abide by. And if these laws are broken by a fellow werespider, they would be killed by the elders...Dorian's children." Corey let's them know, which is why they are unknown creatures. "The species was worshipped by many monarchs. There's a legend stating that they helped build Kom Ombo in Egypt, which is also known as the City of Gold. However, the werespiders have been in many wars with werewolves. Werewolves are said to be their main rival, mainly because of their blood. Their blood is said to be the fountain of youth. It would grant you immortality." Corey says.
"No wonder why they smell so good." Wes mutters.
"But the werespiders are dangerous due to their massive strength and their highly toxic venom. Their venom can be used to turn humans into werespiders without any risks. Their venom can harm all supernatural creatures except witches. Not only can their fangs possess venom, but their claws as well. It's like when Jackson was a Kanima. This can be used for defense against attacks.
"Spider venom that can kill werewolves. Never heard of that one." Ethan says. "I'll help, but I'm only here to protect Danny. That's all."
"But we need your help. They're eating people. We don't have a choice. Lydia." He calls for her name and she glances right at him. "I need you to throw a party tomorrow night; past curfew."
"Sure." Lydia grins. Having a party would be fun. This just gives her another reason to go shopping.
"I'll help." Allison folds her arms.
"So will I." Isaac says.
"I want to see what they're really made of." Corey's extremely confident.
"It could be fun to kick some spider ass." Wes is too playful as he grins.
"The chick who broke my leg said her brother and her are 3000 years old. They won't die that easily." Lisabeth says while looking at a picture of a dark hooded figure holding a spider in their hand. "When I was near her, my blood boiled. I wanted to drain her and never stop. You can make up a plan all you want, but when you smell that scent again, you won't think of anything else, but to sink your fangs into their throats." She's not lying. "It will be our deadliest flaw."
She's right. Scott looks at a picture of a well designed drawn crest with small spiders crawling on the sides of the beautiful drawing. That's when he remembered that Dante and Selena were wearing black onyx rings with the same design. "We don't need anymore people getting hurt or killed over this. I don't want any of you getting hurt over this." Everyone agrees. Ethan doesn't want Danny to get hurt. He knows Danny won't pass up on the party. He'll just have to keep a watchful eye on him.
"There's only weakness that we found useful." Corey says.
"And what weakness is that?" Scott asks.
"Clematis. It was said to be poisonous to them." Corey says.
(….)
Sixth Period
Coach Finstock's Class
Western Civilization Class
Stiles and Scott are sitting next to each other in the back row. They're just taking notes while whispering at each other while the teacher gives the lesson. They're both scared because they've learned that the werespiders have the power to transform into giant spiders, which is nightmarish and plain creepy. Lydia is sitting in the second row. She's minding her own business while taking down notes.
"Dude, we have to smart about this. I don't want you and the others to get hurt." Scott whispers.
"Scott your lack of faith in us is a little insulting." Stiles' whispers back.
"If this Dante guy has kidnapped people from the murders then we need to find them."
"Lydia could help." Stiles lets him know. Lydia would be very useful.
Scott looks out the classroom window. Dante is standing outside, staring at him with a wicked smile! Stiles looks and yelps like a little girl. A strike of pain flushed with heat his their chest. All of sudden, Dante is sitting in front of Scott! His werespider speed and velocity is too great to be seen by anyone. Nobody else even recognizes his presence. Lydia looks back to see him. She's frightened with widened eyes. Scott and Stiles are amazed by this creature's unnatural speed. No one didn't even notice his speed or presence!
"Hello alpha." Dante chuckles softly. Scott tries to control himself because Dante's scent is almost impossible to resist. Thoughts of sinking his fangs into his throat and ripping it out plagues his mind. Dante uses his power to suppress his scent. That's helpful. Scott places his hand on his left pocket where his cell phone is. Dante has already sensed it. "Go ahead. Call your little pack and they will all be dead soon after. Don't worry. I'm not here for a fight."
"Then what are you here for?" Scott questions him.
"I am here to make you an offer." Dante responds.
"What kind of offer?" Stiles is intrigued. He has a plan.
"Hello to you too, little hunter. You smell quite fantastic by the way. You smell pure like a virgin. That's what I love about the humans today. They smell sweeter than before. Centuries ago, humans smelled distinct, musky, and aged. It was drinking a aged brandy. I bet you taste delicious."
"Get to the point, eight legs." Stiles is such a smartass. Dante grins at the insult.
"I like you." He growls with his eyes flashing red. "You see, I have been imprisoned for over five hundred years thanks to my twin sister, my uncle, and my brother's werewolf lover. And now, I am here to claim what's mine. I've been looking for something and now, I've found it. The only problem is I can't claim it until I have my sister's blood which is the key." This confuses Scott and Stiles both. "If you help me find my sister and help me obtain the object I am looking for, I will leave this god forsaking little town alone forever. This I promise you. I'm a man of my word."
"What is this object you want?" Scott becomes more interested.
"Now you see that's when we have a problem. Don't worry about what it is. Just help me find my sister and this will all be over soon. It holds sentimental value. It's very important to me. I have been searching for it for nearly 3000 years and I had to sacrifice a whole lot to find it."
"I see you made yourself a new friend, Mr. McCall. Maybe you two can get to know each other by running laps all night. What is your name by the way? You look way older to be a student." Coach says.
"My name is not important. I was just having a lovely conversation with my friend." Dante replies.
"If you're not from this school then you need to leave." Coach tells him. Dante snickers and stands up. He slowly approaches the door. That's when one of the girls in class screams. She moves out of desk as a large black spider drops from the ground. Suddenly, spiders begin entering the classroom. One large, hairy spider moves slowly up Lydia's back. She can already feel it. The spider crawls onto her left shoulder and she wails. The others cover their ears as she knocks the spider away. Everyone's freaking out. Scott and Stiles looks. Dante is gone! Coach steps on a few spiders. Dante is a real douche.
(….)
Dr. Deaton's Office
Alan and his sister are entering through the back, where Selena is hovering over Caleb's lifeless body. She hasn't slept. She's worried about her baby brother. Caleb has been hooked up to a heart monitor. He's still in a come. Selena gives her brother a kiss on the forehead. Alan has a small box in his hands. His sister stops when she sees them. Ms. Bianca Morell can already smell the werespiders scent. It's not overwhelming, but it still smells incredibly scrumptious.
"Who is this?" Bianca asks.
"I'm helping them. Selena this is my sister, Bianca. Bianca this is Selena. She came to me last night because her brother is seriously ill. They're werespiders." The doctor sits the box down. Selena turns to see them. Alan checks on
"These are the werespiders! And you're helping them?!"
"We are not the bad guys. Our brother, Dante, is." Selena and Ms. Morell stare at one another. Bianca huffs and goes over to check out Caleb. Selena can smell something in the air. It burns her nostrils as her nose wiggles. She knows what that smell is. "You have clematis." She says to Deaton.
"I had it shipped to me a day ago. If your brother is as powerful as you say he is then we are going to need something to give us an advantage." Dr. Deaton says removing the beautiful clematis flowers out of the box. Selena steps away because the smell is unbearable. Caleb's body trembles into another violent seizure. But something's different. His cries turn into demonic sounding snarls and growls. He's shifting into his human-spider hybrid form. The bones in his body breaks and his flesh begin to tear. Selena is scared. Bianca steps away, rushing in fear. Alan is not sure what's happening as well. The heart monitor is going crazy. Something's going terrible wrong.
"Oh my God. Caleb. Caleb." Selena goes over to hold her brother down with one hand on his chest. She punches him with vicious force, knocking him out. That seems to do it as Caleb reverts back to his human form. The animals are going crazy. "SHUT UP!" Selena roars and the animals obey. Caleb's vitals return to normal as his sister tries to get a hold of herself because of the clematis.
"What the hell was that?" Bianca questions them.
"He was reacting to the clematis." Alan realizes.
"It's potent to our kind." Selena says with the sclera of her eyes turning black while her irises turn red. She breathes in and out slowly, returning her werespider eyes into her natural color. She hopes her brother's going to be okay. She's protective and loving as she stays by him. Selena has always been like that ever since he was a child when their father would abuse him.
(….)
951 BC
Carpathian Mountains
Selena, Caleb, Dante, and their other siblings are playing while their mother works in the garden. Their father is gone at the moment. Their other siblings, Akil, Omari, Thalia, Karin, Nyssa, Henric, Elov, and Ric, are wrestling each other and playing tag. They are all between the ages of 13-18 years old. Elisaveta chuckles as she watches her children. The sun is shining so bright as the summer breeze sets in. Dante catches their five year old baby brother, Caleb, who is just giggling as his big brother tickles him. "Jag fangade dig, du lilla jordekorre." Dante laughs, saying he caught him.
That's when their father, Sek, arrive. He's wearing a black hooded cape with a sharp sword and dagger holstered on the right side of his hips. There's a bow with a large pouch filled with fifteen arrows sitting on his back. Sek is devilishly handsome with chocolate bronze skin, short dark hair, and a perfectly chiseled body. As he gets off the horse, the children stop playing because they know how he is. Sek is tall. He's around 6'4 to 6'6 tall. Dante is a spitting image of him except he's a few inches shorter.
Elisaveta sighs deeply as she comes over to him with her basket of raw vegetables, giving him a kiss. Sek is staring at his human son, Caleb. Caleb hides behind Selena. The other siblings walk away to get some chores done. The hate in their father's eyes is too much to bear. His hatred is mostly directed on his youngest son. Elisaveta gulps. She's terrified of her own husband. Dante looks down at his feet. He has no reason to be scared. He's his father's favorite. He never gets the beatings.
"Vad är det GÖRA AV sin bur?!" Sek barely speaks Swedish. He mostly speaks the language of their species. He sees Caleb as nothing, but an animal out of its cage.
Sek dashes forward, pushing Selena away with incredible speed and power. Caleb screams with tears as his father pulls on his long hair. He cries: "MAMA!" Elisaveta doesn't know what to do. She fears her husband. Selena cries as she pleads with her father to let her baby brother go. She goes after him and tries to take him away. But she's not as strong as her father. Sek punches her in the face with his ruthless strength. Dante is frozen. Caleb sobs and cries. He's just a little boy. Sek ignores Selena, who is still pleading with a bloody nose. He takes his youngest son into an underground tunnel, where his family transforms into spiders during the full moon. He puts Caleb in one of the cages, locking the door behind him. He doesn't care how much Caleb cries. Caleb is nothing, but a waste of trash to him.
Sek exits the underground tunnel to find his oldest daughter, Selena, shedding tears from his eyes. He storms up to her and slaps her before pulling her into the house by her hair. He grabs his whip by the door. It's a horse whip with small, sharp metal objects on all five tips. The tips have been dipped with clematis. Everyone stays out of the house as he yanks her dress open to reveal the skin on Selena's back. Sek begins whipping Selena. The metal tips begin to shred and burn her skin. Blood pours out of the slashes as he keeps going. Selena screams for help, but no help comes. Her father just keeps beating her and beating her to the point, she can't heal. Her screams turn into wails. Sek is not holding back. He just keeps beating her, taking his hatred out on her.
(….)
Present
Selena holds back her tears, remembering that awful day. Her father not good at all. His heart only lied in darkness. Every ounce of happiness was taken away from her family because of him. Because of him, they are monsters. Selena and the others were happy when he was dead, but now her family is extinct because of Dante. Caleb, her uncle, and him are the only family she has left. Selena has to stop Dante and the only way she can do this is by finding the people that he kidnapped and coming up with a plan to put him the dirt again. She's going to make sure that asshole never comes back.
