Chapter 5!
Safe and Sound.
Stiles walked away from the destruction he had just caused. He felt a little drained by using his powers. He walked over to a fallen tree that was still growing and sat on it's trunk.
"That was incredible, you have so much power, I envy you." The Demon said.
"Ya don't there's a lot of baggage that comes with it." Stiles said.
"It's worth the baggage to be able to do what you can." The Cryix said with a smile. "I definitely want to come back as a witch."
"Maybe you will." Stiles said looking up at the blue sky. "That took a lot out of me."
"You'll be okay, just rest a bit. I'll keep an eye out for you." The Demon said as Stiles closed his eyes and laid back on the tree's trunk.
"Get him!" A voice said as I lay on the tree trunk. I could hear voices from Various people as I lay here and do nothing.
"Tie him up!" A male voice said as I felt someone grab onto me.
"What if he teleports?"
Is that Brien and Caleb? I wonder as I feel someone push me off the trunk and onto the ground, someone is straddling my back.
"He'll take us with him."
What's going on why are they doing this? I wonder trying to open my eyes.
"Don't hurt him!" Is that Derek? Please help me, I try and say but nothing leaves my mouth.
"He's possessed by the Demon we have to get him back home the ropes will hold him." Caleb said as I feel the ropes along my skin. Scratchy twine rubbing against my arms, why can't I move?
"Why is he bleeding?" Brien said in a panic.
What, I'm bleeding? What happened? Where's the Cryix? I thought he said he'd keep an eye out while I slept?
"Your dreaming, Stiles." A sinister voice said from everywhere.
What who said that?
"You fell asleep on the trunk of the tree, your safe your just having a dream." The demon said.
I am?
"Yes, you should wake up now, I sense your friends are near by." The demon said softly.
I'm asleep, I have to wake up.
Stiles opened his eyes and jumped up in a panic looking around at his surroundings he was still in the forest the sun was still high in the sky and he was still on the tree's trunk.
"Well that was crazy." Stiles said beginning to relax. "How long was I asleep?"
"About an hour maybe a little more." The Cryix said, "You started to have a nightmare, again.
"Ya been happening a lot since you entered me." Stiles said looking at the ground, "Even my premonitions have become less frequent. Did that happen with Corwin?" Stiles asked.
"He had nightmares, like you do, he told me he use to get feelings, but he stopped getting them once we merged." The demon said in Stiles' head.
"It's your darkness it's blocking the light from getting through." Stiles said looking up at the sky.
"That must be it then. Your friends are hiding in that bush over there, they think I'm still controlling you. Their trying to come up with a plan. The sooner you convince them you're you the sooner I can become human." The Demon said banging around in Stiles head to get him moving.
"R-right." Stiles said getting up off the Tree's trunk and over to the direction the Demon had pointed.
"Hey guys, what are you up to?" Stiles said walking around the push catching his friends and coven off guard. Caleb jumped so did Madison and Isaac. Derek looked surprised Allison had her bow at the ready aimed at Stiles' chest. Scott jumped up and stood in front of Allison's arrow ready to protect his best friend. Lilith rolled her eyes as she held Brien's arm Erica stood up as Jackson stood in Allison's way as well.
"Don't shoot!" Scott and Jackson said in unison.
"H-hey guys, it's me. The Cryix doesn't have control over me. I can only hear his voice." Stiles said putting up his hands up in surrender.
Derek stood and ran through Scott and Jackson's barricade to Stiles, wrapping his arms around the thin boy's waist, nuzzling his nose into the young witches neck.
"Derek?" Stiles whispered surprised by the older wolf's actions.
"Don't ever leave me again!" Derek said continuing to hold him. Allison dropped her arrow and disarmed her bow.
"If your not being possessed, what were you doing then. Why were you attacking the forest?" Caleb asked watching Stiles and Derek.
"Um, that's hard to explain." Stiles said lifting his hands to hug Derek back.
"What did you mean when you had to help the Demon before yourself?" Derek said grabbing Stiles' arms and pulling him away to look at him. "Why did you leave without saying anything?"
"I needed time to forgive myself, for what I did to get you back. I knew the Demon wouldn't give me up until I find a way for him to become human. The Cryix feeds off of fear, and destruction, if I had stayed he would have fed off our negativity and would have gotten strong enough to take control of me." Stiles said looking around at his friends. "I missed you and our babies so much. But I knew that I would become stronger by leaving for a little while, I knew you would be fine for a few months." Stiles said caressing Derek's cheek with his hand. "That time away gave The Cryix and I time to come to terms with what we both want. We're not exactly friends but not exactly enemies either. I had to leave to get some answers that I couldn't find here. We met a woman who had the answers, a Seer. The Cryix and I found the answers we needed, in Maine." Stiles said as his friends gathered to hear his story.
"The Cryix is okay with being trapped in the Crystal rose, he will be frozen in time for however long it takes until Carina and Elijah are old enough to vanquish him." Stiles said before looking worried, "But I didn't find an answer as to how to get him in it without killing me." Stiles said looking at his shoes.
"I actually have a plan for that already." Brien said with a smile, reaching his arm up and around Stiles' shoulder. "We had a lot of time to think, so I used it wisely."
"Good, because I didn't." Stiles said as a joke.
"So how did you guy's know where I was going to be?" Stiles asked looking around at his friends for an answer.
"A spell that took a month to put together." Madison said rolling his eyes at the thought of having to look after that thing.
"How did you know it would work?"
"We had used it before with another matter at home." Caleb said as they all began to walk out of the forest and back to Stiles' jeep.
"I'm sorry I put you guys through that, it must not have been easy and I'm sorry." Stiles said looking guilty.
"Don't worry about it, all that matters is that you're back and not in pieces." Scott said giving his best friend a light pat on the back.
"How did you project yourself to me, Derek?" Stiles asked looking over to his boyfriend who had his arm around Stiles' waist.
"It was a spell Caleb found, it only works with a lost love and it only projected my conscience and not my body. So you weren't able to see or hear me. But somehow the Cryix could I have to thank him for relaying my messages to you." Derek said with a small smile. "I'm so happy your home." Derek said taking his hand and turning Stiles' face towards his so that he could kiss the young witches lips.
"Make out time!" The Cryix said with a laugh causing Stiles to break the connection.
Derek eyed him with a pout, "Why'd you stop me?"
"The Cryix is giving a commentary. It's kind of weird." Stiles said giving Derek a quick kiss on his scruffy cheek.
"Ha that's gonna suck when you have sex." Isaac said laughing beside Scott who was trying to to laugh.
""That is not going to happen while the Cryix is inside of my head!" Stiles blushed as Derek looked sad at the thought of not being closer to his boyfriend because of a voice he can't hear.
"Well that would be really awkward, or hilarious." Isaac said trying to hold in his laughter but failing at it.
Allison and Erica shook their head at the jokes causing Stiles' face to turn a bright red.
"I think you should punch him." Allison said as Erica started to walk faster up to Isaac.
"How would you feel if you had a voice commentary in your head every time you and Scott entered the bedroom?" Erica said with her threatening glare.
"It would be so hot, someone describing everything Scott would be doing to me or I to him. Is there a spell that can make that happen?" Isaac asked as Scott began to blush.
"Oh my god, ew. Stop talking, Isaac!" Erica said smacking him in the back of the head.
Allison rolled her eyes not looking towards Scott or Isaac as Lilith walked up to her.
"I can use fear to break them up if you'd like." She said with a grin.
"Thanks Lily, but it's okay. I just need to move on and make him jealous when I find someone else." She said looking up seeing Scott looking back at her.
"If you ever change your mind, let me know." Lilith said with a wink as she started to braid her long black hair.
Stiles where did you get that, what happened to your old jeep?" Scott asked looking at the new jeep sitting in the parking lot.
"This is my old jeep, I used magic to create the old one into a newer version. With energy and matter that's all around us all the time." Stiles said as his friends inspected his new jeep. It wasn't light blue anymore it was black.
"Why black?" Scott asked.
"I needed to be able to hide and black is good for that. But I guess I can put it back to blue now that I'm home." Stiles said placing his hand on the driver's side door the color vibrated from his hand like ripples in a pond. Black to navy to sky, to baby blue. The exact color it was before. The cover remained black same with the bumpers, the inside was a nice beige fabric and a hot pink and black stirring wheel cover.
"No need to blend in now. So who wants a ride?" Stiles asked taking his hand off his baby blue jeep.
Everyone raised their hand at the same time.
"Okay, it's a 5 seat vehicle not a clown car." Derek said as everyone else realized that as well.
Stiles placed his hand on his jeep again after a few seconds he lifted his hand and smiled. "Now it is."
Derek looked at the jeep it still looked like the same jeep until he opened the back door and looked in, from the out side it looked like a 5 seat jeep but now when he looked inside it looked like a large limo jeep with a dozen more seats.
"That is really cool." Isaac said getting into the back as Derek gaped at the inside.
"That's cheating!" Derek said looking back at Stiles.
"Maybe, but it's only a one time thing. I'm pretty sure that spell doesn't have a return spell." Stiles said as Derek glared at him.
"He's right, we would have had to walk or teleport but this is way cooler." Caleb said walking up to Stiles. "You are a natural, I had no idea you were so powerful with only 1 year practicing magic." Caleb said almost sounding like an insult then a complement.
"T-thanks." Stiles said hesitantly.
Derek eyed Caleb as he climbed into the jeep. Derek looked back at Stiles who looked to be thinking about what Caleb had just said.
"That was an insult, he's scared that you don't need the coven's power." The Cryix said inside Stiles' head. "He's jealous of you Stiles, You have everything he wants, hot boyfriend, more power then you know of, and a life to come back to, even after everything." The Cryix said. "If I were you, I'd watch my back around him, he might try and take what you have, if he hasn't tried already." The Demon cooed in his head.
Stiles looked up at Derek who looked concerned.
"You okay?" Derek asked.
"I am, let's go home. I want to see Eli and Cari." Stiles said hiding his mistrust.