Chapter 7 – Unleashed, Savion POV.
The past few days has been hell, I've gotten complete radio silence from everyone. Except for the twins, they would check in on me after school, telling me how their day went. Other than that I was mostly on my own, forced to wallow in my own thoughts. I had heard in one of their conversations that the betas have 'escaped' from the vault. So Derek and his pack had successfully broken them out.
"Sav?" Ennis knocked on the door of my bedroom.
"Yeah?"
"Can I come in?"
I stayed silent for a moment before finally mumbling a "yeah". Ennis entered my room and sat on the computer chair and wheeled himself to my desk. He picked up a book and flicked through it before setting down and facing me. I stared at him and he stared at me back.
"You can't keep doing this." He finally said.
"Doing what?" My brow rose.
"Shutting us out."
I scoffed. "So I can't shut out the pack that shoved an arrow in me that was almost the cause of my death?" I nodded sarcastically.
"Look, we didn't know he was going to do that." He explained. I felt my jaw clench. "We didn't know you were a part of the warning; we thought it would only be the betas."
I rolled my eyes. "Save it." I shook my head. "I know that's not what you came here to say so spit it out."
Ennis hesitated for a moment before sighing. "We need you to come with us to pay someone a visit."
"Who?"
"Derek Hale."
My mouth and throat immediately felt dry and I could feel my heart rate going up. I breathed deeply through my nose and nodded. Ennis stood up slowly and made his way out of my room, shutting the door behind him. I wanted to turn, to kill Deucalion. Instead I got the feeling of darkness again.
I stood up and picked out clothes to change in to. I flicked the lights open in the bathroom and shut the door. I took off the boxers I was wearing before and my singlet. I quickly got changed into a white low-cut singlet and dark jeans. I looked in the mirror and brushed through my knotted hair. I noticed faint, dark veins starting to appear on my chest; crawling up my neck.
I took off my shirt and saw that there's a huge dark spot under my left breast. Right above where the arrow had hit me. I placed a hand on it, I could feel my heart beating, but it felt ice cold. I tried to control my breathing, attempting to cool myself down. Kind of like when I'm about to phase. I shut my eyes tightly and took deep breaths every five seconds. I opened my eyes to see the veins still there, the ones closer to the dark spot becoming darker.
"Savion! Are you ready?" Kali called out.
"Oh, uh- yeah! I'll be right out!" I quickly threw on my singlet and grabbed my jacket and decided on a black scarf. I quickly put them on before walking out of my room.
Deucalion faced me and had a satisfied smile on his face; I rolled my eyes at him and grabbed my keys before walking out. I waited for the rest to get into the other car before pulling out. I drove to Derek's place, constantly checking whether the veins have reached my face yet. They were getting darker by the minute and some has reached my jaw, I parted my hair and placed them on either side of my face, letting them brush against my cheeks acting as a curtain.
I got out of my car just as Ennis, Kali and Deucalion pulled in. They all got out and Ennis took off to find a way to sneak into the loft. I was about to follow him when Deucalion grabbed my arm, I gasped as the veins burned.
"Why don't you help me find the way through the door, Savion?" Kali and I looked at each other, I nodded at her and she quickly took off to the direction Ennis ran to. I turned and stood slightly in front of Deucalion, his arm hand on my elbow. We started making our way to Derek's loft. As we got closer I could smell blood. I slid the heavy door open, effortlessly and found Derek on his hands and knees with a steam pipe shoved through him by Kali, and Ennis pinning down…
"Cora?" I breathed. I stood at the doorway in shock; I thought she had burned down in that Hale house fire.
Deucalion pushed past me and made his way inside. "Everybody done? Because just listening to that was exhausting." Derek groaned and struggled to breathe as Kali slightly twists the pole in him. I was frozen in my spot as I watched my pack attack the people I grew up with. Deucalion stopped right in front of Derek and folded his walking stick before crouching down to come face-to-face with him.
"So.." Derek raised his head to look at him then at me and then back at Deucalion. "Let's chat." Deucalion smiled. "I take that you and Savion have already been reunited."
Derek raised his head and glared at him. Deucalion motioned for me to come closer; I stood behind him, my eyes never leaving Derek.
"Sorry about this, Derek." Deucalion started. "I asked Kali to be gentle."
"This is me being gentle." Kali flashed a smug smile and looked at me before twisting the pole again.
Derek groaned in pain and I took a step forward, about to take him up in my arms but Deucalion raised his hand, signalling for me to stay in my place. I straightened my body and took a step back, planting my feet on the ground. I bit the inside of my cheeks, trying to hold in my tears or anything that might come out of me.
"Le-let her go." Derek stuttered, talking about Cora. Cora struggled against Ennis' grip on her neck.
"Please." I whispered. Deucalion thought for a moment and signalled for Ennis to let Cora go. She got on her feet and ran straight to Derek's side.
"No." Derek shook his head at his sister. But she kept running. I ran towards Cora and caught her in my arms; she let herself crumble and buried her face on the crook of my neck. I patted her hair gently, hoping to comfort the young girl. I breathed in and placed a kiss on the top of her head, just like how Aunty Talia would back when we were younger.
"See? We're not unreasonable." Deucalion smirked.
"What do you want?" Derek was trying to keep himself together, despite the pain of the pole shoved right through him and having Deucalion dangle me right in his face. "You wanna kill me?"
"You really think I'm that boring?" Deucalion looked offended. "Don't throw me in with the sociopaths like your uncle." He pursed his lips. "I'm a man with far more vision that simple murder. In fact," he reached up to take his glasses off; revealing his blood red eyes. "I'm here to show you just how much vision a blind man can have. His eyes glowed red, quite like alpha's eyes but the way his eyes glow was brighter, no dark linings… just a glowing, blood red.
Blood started dripping from Derek's mouth as Kali twisted the steam pipe in him more. Cora wriggled out of my arms.
"You're killing him!" She yelled, obviously wanting to fight Kali off of her older brother. I grabbed her arm to hold her back.
Kali raised up a finger. "Not yet, little sister." She smirked. "But I could!" I pulled Cora back into my arms and held her as she sobbed. "Who knows if its five minutes or five hours before it's too late to take this thing out." She leaned on Derek's back and turned to Deucalion. "But just to be on the safe side, Deuc you might want to get to the point."
"Now you see the one problem with being in an Alpha pack," Deucalion's lips pressed in a tight line. "Everybody wants to make the decisions. Me? I'm more about discovering new talents… Like you."
"I'm not interested." Derek could barely get his words out, he was shaking.
"You haven't even heard my pitch." Deucalion pouted.
"You want me," Derek panted for air. "To kill my own pack." It wasn't a question, it was a statement.
"No." Deucalion said in a tone as if Derek had just said something silly. "I want you to kill one of them. Do that and I won't have to ask you to kill the others, you'll do it on your own." He smiled. "I did it, Ennis did, Kali did… Tell him what it's like Kali. To kill one of your own."
"Hmm, liberating." She said as if it was the most pleasurable thing she's ever experienced.
Cora looked up at me as if to ask if I did it. I shook my head and gave her a tight smile.
"The only one that didn't do it was Savion," He gestured to me. "But of course she did have to give something up." Deucalion laughed. Derek's breathes were becoming quick and shallow. "Listen to me Derek, do you really want to stay beholden to a couple of maladjusted teenagers bound to become a liability? Believe me… they will become a liability." He nodded. "In fact… a feeling one of them is getting himself into trouble right now."
I watched as more of Derek's blood dripped down the pipe and onto the floor, he was struggling to keep his eyes open. I started feeling nauseous and my heartbeat was pounding in my ear.
"See, the reason I'm always in new talents is simple. We all know a pack is strongest due to its individual parts, the stronger the individual parts the greater the whole." He stood up and opened his hand, letting his walking stick assemble itself whole. He sighed and began again.
"When I lost my sight, one of my betas assumed I wasn't fit for my role anymore. He tried to take it from me," He disassembled the middle part of his stick and folded it again. "Killing him taught me something about Alphas I didn't know they could do, his power was added to mine. I became stronger, faster, and more powerful than I'd ever been. I tested this new ability to subsume the power of your own by killing another one," He folded another part of his stick, "In fact, I killed them all." He folded the rest of his stick as if to represent all his betas he had killed. "I took the individual parts and became a greater individual whole." He let his stick reassemble again, to represent him as a whole.
He waved me over to him and I dropped my arms around Cora and walked towards Deucalion. He motioned to Derek, I swallowed hard and grabbed the back of his head and tilted it up. Deucalion crouched down and felt his face.
"You're right Kali; he does look like his mother." He murmured. He stood up and walked towards the window. I kept a hand on his cheek for a moment hoping it was long enough to have taken some of his pain away before standing up. "You'll get to know me Derek, like she did."
"I know you." Derek lifted his head up a little, glaring at Deucalion. " I know what you are." More blood dripped from his lips. "You're a fanatic." He spat.
Deucalion placed his stick on the table and turned back to Derek. "Know me." He scoffed. "You've never seen anything like me." He walked over to me and slowly unwrapped my scarf from my neck revealing the black veins. He brushed my hair back and revealed the spreading veins on my face. He stepped away from us again. "I am the alpha of alphas." He began. I could almost feel the darkness crawl all over me. "I am the apex of apex predators." I blinked and caught sight of my glowing red eyes on the window. "I am death, destroyer of worlds." I shut my eyes tightly as the darkness swallowed me whole.
"I AM THE DEMON WOLF!" Deucalion roared. I fell to the floor right in front of Derek.
I heard Kali take the pipe out of Derek's body and it clank on the floor as she dropped it neck to him. Derek drew in a deep breath and reached for my hand.
"S-s-sav." He whispered. His other hand reached for my face tracing the veins with his fingers. "L-look at me." I kept my eyes shut and shook my head.
"Yes, Savion. Why don't you let him look into your eyes, show him exactly what you are." Deucalion muttered.
I lifted my face up reluctantly and slowly opened my eyes. Derek stared at me in horror, struggling to get up and move closer to me.
"No, no.." Derek trailed off. He looked at me as if he knew exactly what I was, what the whole thing meant.
"I'm-I'm so sorry." I pushed myself off the ground and stormed out.
I heard Deucalion chuckle and murmur, "Don't you just hate it when that happens?"
I drove aimlessly, tears streaming down my face. I could still feel the darkness in me, I haven't shifted back. I gripped the stirring wheel and noticed that the veins were crawling there too. Somehow I found myself at the animal clinic.
"Deaton?" I called out as I walked in.
"Back here." I kept my head down as I walked in. "How can I help you, Savion?"
"What am I?" I asked and showed him exactly what I was talking about. "I-I know I'm not just an alpha." He looked at me, trying to hide his fear. He reached for my face and wiped away the tears on my cheeks.
"You are, you're just an alpha. A true alpha of your century." He murmured. "You just happen to have been caught up in the wrong mess."
"W-what are you saying?" I shook my head, not picking up what he's getting at.
"You're sired." Deaton stated. "To the demon wolf." My head ached at the words.
"What do you mean?"
"You are aware of what true alphas really are?" He asked.
I nodded. "We're able to rise to the alpha position on our powers because we were born to lead and to protect."
Deaton nodded approvingly. "You're also somewhat more powerful than an alpha that stole his powers from another." My brows furrowed in confusion and Deaton noticed that. "What's an alpha pack without a powerful true alpha?" Deaton paused to let me think it through for a moment. "Deucalion wanted a true alpha in his alpha pack to make it stronger, almost invincible. But a true alpha is born to lead and will not stand down to anyone… unless you have a weakness."
"Derek." My voice was barely a whisper. Derek was my weakness all those years ago. With his life on the line, I stood down and gave my allegiance to the pack.
"But your word wasn't enough; Deucalion needed to make sure that you do everything he says with blind obedience." He paused. "He must've done something to you when you joined the pack."
I looked back to the day they had chased us to the distillery. I nodded. "He- He clawed at my heart, letting me bleed out… then he bit me."
"And now you feel as if you owe your life to him, you wouldn't have healed without that bite. You would have died. " Deaton explained. "That bite in exchange for your allegiance."
Author's Note:
Yo dats some crazy as shit going on though. haha. Let me know what you all think please! :)
Kisses.
