Chapter 17 - A Demonic Ninja Problem

Several minutes later, Teagan parked her car in front of the Argent's SUV and stepped out seeing Chris and Allison standing by the front of the car looking at the blueprints for Katashi's house, but didn't see Isaac at the moment.

Teagan opened her mouth, planning to ask where he was, until he walked around from the back of the car looking extremely nervous in a suit and tie . Her mouth dropped open in surprise at seeing how he was dressed. She couldn't stop herself from checking him out, her eyes roaming over his body as a bunch of dirty thoughts filled her mind.

Allison, seeing the look on her face, cleared her throat then bumped her shoulder against Teagan's, pulling her out of her thoughts and bringing her back to the present.

"Guys. This isn't going to work. I look ridiculous. I mean I look like I just stepped out of the last period of a Catholic prep school." Isaac complained, as he walked closer to them. His eyes went over to Teagan, seeing her for the first time and noticing the look she was giving him; he knew exactly what that look was.

He glanced down at suit he was wearing, then looked back at her with raised eyebrows as if to say, 'really?' He never knew a suit and tie was a turn on for her.

Seeing her gave him some confidence but as he remembered everything Chris told him earlier; the things he needed to memorize and remembered, he could feel his confidence slipping. He looked down at the sheet of paper in his hand as he said, "There is no way that I'm going be able to remember all this. I mean, what does this even mean? 'Revolving over and under barrels'?"

Teagan and the two Argents all looked at each other, the two teen girls trying not to laugh as Chris looked back at Isaac and said, "All you have to do is keep them talking long enough to allow us to get inside and find Katashi. He may not be there for the buy in person but he won't be far."

"You look great, babe." Teagan said, as she reached out to grab his hand.

He locked eyes with Teagan, for a moment forgetting the other two were there and tried to draw strength from her. She could always calm him and even now she was but he was still scared of failing. If he screwed up, just made one little mistake he would be putting them all in danger. That thought made him latch on to her hand, too scared to let go.

"I am sweating, all the way through my jacket. I didn't even know that I could sweat this much." He nervously rambled, as he squeezed her hand.

"Oh boy, he is really freaking out." Allison breathed out, stating the obvious as she glanced over at Teagan. She felt like he could do it, he just needed to believe in himself more and she knew no one could get through to him better than his girlfriend. If anyone was going to give him confidence to do it, it was Teagan.

"I got it. Give me a second." Teagan said over at Allison, as she pulled on Isaac's hand wanting him to follow her.

While Chris and Allison went back to look at the blueprints, Teagan and Isaac went to the back of the car; giving themselves some privacy. At first, Teagan didn't say a word, as she placed her hands on either side of his face, then raised up on her tip toes, pressing her lips against his for a gentle kiss.

He raised his eyebrows in surprise, then laid his hand on the back of her head, tangling his fingers in her hair as he deepened the kiss putting all of his jittery nerves into the kiss, until he had to pull back to rest his forehead against hers to catch his breath.

She removed her hands from his face, placing them on his chest, then ran her hands down grabbing the bottom of the dress shirt he was wearing before tucking it into the waistband of his black pants.

She pulled back a little, keeping her eyes locked on his as she softly said, "You can do this, Isaac. There is nothing that I believe in more than you. I know you are nervous but I have so much faith in you and I know you can do this. I know you will not fail."

She laid a hand on the side of his face again, as she added, "You're going to walk in there, not as a scared boy, but as a strong, confident man. Be the man I know you can be, be the man that I love with all my heart."

He wanted to believe her, he wanted to believe he could do this but the more he thought about it, the more he felt like he was going to fail.

He opened his mouth to argue but before he could say a word, she pressed her lips against his again, running her fingers through his hair as she put everything she had into that kiss, everything she was feeling, all the love and faith she has in him –all of that was in the kiss.

Teagan grinned against his lips when she felt him run a hand down her back, stopping when he got to her butt and gave it a squeeze.

She pulled back, smiling at him, as she asked, "How do you feel now?"

"I feel like I want to throw you in the back seat and just forget all about this plan." Isaac teased, then added, "I saw the way you were checking me out earlier. I have a feeling it won't take much to talk you into it."

Teagan chuckled as she turned around for a moment, grabbing a pair of sunglasses from the back of the car and then turned back around to face him. She placed the sunglasses on his face, covering his eyes, as she said, "We should probably hold off on the sex right now, but keep the suit for later."

"I can do that." Isaac said with a grin, as he reached into the car and grabbed the bag he would need. He had all the confidence in the world now to walk in there and make the plan happen.

"I'm going to guess that you're going in too." He stated, assuming she was going to help Allison and Chris. As she nodded her head, he leaned forward to give her a quick kiss then pulled back a little, to whisper, "Be careful."

"I will." Teagan promised, then continued, "I'll be with two very well trained hunters and not to mention someone keeps telling me that I'm a badass." She smiled at him, then said, "So I think I'll be okay."

"You are a badass." He assured her. "But I still need you to come back to me, safe and sound." He added, as he lightly caressed her cheek.

Teagan nodded her head, telling him that she will and gave him one last kiss, as she whispered, "I need you to do the same. Come back to me."

"It's you and me, always." He stated, speaking their mantra, giving them both that extra added confidence.

"It's you and me." She whispered back, giving him a smile.

He smiled back, then without another word turned and began to walked toward the building, planning to get the fake deal going so the other three could sneak in and find Katashi.

~()~

Avery walked out of the school after gathering her missed assignments for the day, she'd showed up just as school was letting out.

As she neared her car, fully intending to head home and crawl back into her bed after the painful encounter she'd had with Derek earlier that day, she saw the twins standing next to their bikes; faces twisted with anger nearing rage.

Smirking at them she opened her car door and tossed her bag into the back seat.

Seeing them watching her she laughed as she said, "What's wrong, boys? Engine trouble?"

Ethan angrily gritted his teeth at her as Aiden loudly mocked her laughter and said, "Yeah, keep laughing… but it's not gonna be so funny when Scott's dead, will it?"

Rolling her eyes Avery asked, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"The ninjas." Ethan spoke up.

"Ninjas?" Avery asked with raised eyebrows.

"Demonic ninjas." Aiden nodded.

She crossed her arms and stifled a laugh as they walked over to her and she repeated their own words back to them, "Demonic ninjas? Seriously… what the hell is that? Some kind of freaking twin delusion thing?"

Sighing heavily Ethan explained about how they'd been attacked at the party the night before and when the sun came up the ninjas were looking right at Scott.

"These ninjas as you call them… did they have shadowy black smoke around them and masks?" She asked, feeling her heart start to race.

Both of them immediately picking up on her change of attitude and racing heart as Aiden nodded, "With greenish-yellow eyes. And they're after Scott. He did something to our bikes to keep us from following him."

Sighing she pulled the hairband off her wrist as she pulled her long, light blonde hair up in a ponytail and said, "I'll look at them."

The brothers exchanged looks as she walked over and started to move the cover to the compartment where the engine was.

"Do you even know what you're doing?" Ethan asked, with a look of disbelief.

Raising her head she shot him a look as she narrowed her eyes and snapped, "Would I be wasting my time with this if I didn't know anything about motorcycles? No dumbass, I wouldn't."

He opened his mouth to say something but she cut him off, "Looks like he took the spark plugs… my guess is if we looked the other bike is the same."

With a sigh she shrugged, "It's a simple fix."

They followed her as she walked over to her car, realizing what they were doing she spun on her heels and asked, "What are you doing?"

"We're trying to save Scott." One of them answered.

"No you're not, you're trying to win your way into his pack and that's not going to happen. I can take care of this myself." She argued.

Crossing his arms over his chest Aiden pointed out, "You're not the least bit angry that he didn't even tell you he's the next target of these ninjas?"

He smirked as he saw a flash of anger in her light brown eyes and Ethan glanced over at his brother with a disapproving look.

"It doesn't matter if he did or didn't tell me. Either way, I'm going to go help him… not because I'm part of his pack but because I'm his friend." She said, pushing her anger to the side and trying to focus on what was important at the moment.

"Then we're coming with you." He said, as he reached for her passenger door but she snapped and slapped his hands away from her car, "Absolutely not!"

"I get that you don't like us, okay? You've made it abundantly clear, but these ninjas… they literally pulled swords out of their chests. You need us for backup." Ethan reasoned as his eyes pleaded for her to cooperate.

"What is it with you two and calling those things ninjas?" she asked, shaking her head back and forth.

"What would you call them?"

She didn't even pay attention to who'd asked the question as she shrugged, "Demons…"

"Demon ninjas." Both brothers responded at the same time.

Closing her eyes and sighing at them she asked, "Which one of you is Ethan?"

He raised his hand.

"Ah, good, okay… you're up front with me. You're evil counterpart, in the backseat." She directed as she opened her car door and got in.

Aiden looked at Ethan as he stifled a laugh and said, "You heard her, get in the back."

"Shut up." Aiden hissed as he opened the door and got into the backseat.

A while later she parked the car in front of her house and said, "I need to get a weapon… I had to take the ones out of my car in case it got impounded or something." She admitted.

Following her towards the door of her house, Ethan questioned, "Why would the police impound your car?"

"Street racing." She simply responded as she unlocked the door and pushed it open.

Hearing the door open her dad came into the front hallway coming to an abrupt stop as he saw his daughter heading towards the stairs with a pair of twins behind her that easily towered over her both in mass and height.

"Uhh…" He stuttered out, his voice almost cracking from shock.

"Hey dad." She greeted as she took another step up towards her room.

The twins looked at him, one offering a smile and the other looked beyond annoyed.

"Oh my god, Avery wait… just stop." Richard said as he dropped the file folder he'd had in his hands to the floor and started towards them.

Looking to the now scattered mess of papers she pushed past the boys to get off the stairs as she questioned, "What's wrong?"

"Can we talk… in the kitchen." He asked, looking past her and eyeing the brothers.

"I don't have time." Avery asserted, showing her irritation with every syllable.

"That may have sounded like a question, but I wasn't really asking. We need to talk." He said, cringing as he thought she'd start yelling at him for telling her what to do.

"Oh, I'm sorry, dad. You must have misunderstood my response, I do not have time." She smugly responded as she started to turn around but he said, "I think you do."

She looked at him shocked, not understanding what was so important that he couldn't wait until she was home later that night.

He stared between the twins and then back to his daughter with slightly widened eyes as he thought that her encounter with Derek earlier that morning had really set her off, and now she was bringing guys home in the middle of the day.

"If you don't come to the other room with me, I'm going to say it right in front of them." He finally said crossing his arms over his chest.

Matching his posture to an art and moving her neck with attitude as she spoke she said, "Go ahead, I don't really care."

The brothers exchanged looks wondering what was going on and both of them also aware that they only had until the sun started to set to get to Scott before the demons descended on him; no one had time for Avery's family problems.

"I know you've had a rough few months, Avery. But this…" He breathed motioning to the brothers on the stairs as he continued in an exasperated voice, "It's bad enough when you come stumbling home in the middle of the night with some guy but coming home in the middle of the day with two guys!"

She took a step back at his raised voice and started to snap at him but then when she realized what he was thinking she broke out into a fit of laughter, causing both the twins to crack a smile too.

"Oh my god… you thought?" Avery spoke in a broken sentence as she tried to control her laughing.

"This isn't funny." Richard asserted, growing angrier by the moment at her not taking the situation seriously.

"Yeah, it honestly is…" Avery said as she motioned to Ethan and said, "He's gay."

As Richard looked at the brother she'd pointed to Ethan gave him an amused smile.

Then pausing for dramatic effect she pointed to Aiden and added, "And this one I hate, I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole."

As her dad diverted his attention to Aiden, he raised his hand and gave a small wave.

Another fit of laughter hit her as she clarified farther, "This is totally not some kind of freaky sex thing… we just have a ninja problem we need to solve before dark."

"A what…" Richard breathed out under his breath as Avery turned and walked up the stairs, still shaking her head and laughing.

Ethan followed her, but Aiden lingered for a few moments longer as he said, "A demonic ninja problem."

Avery's dad's confused expression grew but he shook his head and said, "I'm… just going to be in my office…"

~()~

After showing Teagan the blueprints, filling her in on the whole plan and giving her weapons, the three made their way toward the building. Chris found a secret side door, one that most people would have never seen. He picked the lock, then went inside with Allison and Teagan following along behind him.

They could faintly hear Isaac talking to some of Katashi's henchmen at the front of the building. He was telling them the story of the gun, trying to stall and give them more time to find Katashi.

Chris glanced behind him at the two teenage girls, he moved his hands around, giving them different signals to explain what the plan was without them having to say a word. After the two girls nodded their heads in understanding, he turned and went down the hall checking that side of the building as the two girls continued in the same direction they started in. They quietly approached a room, seeing two gunned men guarding it. Allison took one guy, while Teagan went after the other one.

Teagan walked up behind him quickly ducking when he spun around to hit her. She stood back up, punching him in the side then kicked at the back of his knee, knocking him down. She gave him a punch across the face to knock him completely down to the floor, which also knocked him out cold.

She glanced over at Allison, seeing that she had knocked her guy out too and flashed her a smile, which she returned. Allison nodded her head to the side, telling Teagan to follow her but before Teagan could take a step she heard a noise coming from behind her and quickly turned around, not seeing anyone.

"Teagan." Allison quietly whispered, getting her attention. She nodded her head again in the direction they needed to go in, as she mouth the words, "Let's go."

Teagan nodded her head in agreement, planning to follow her friend until she heard it again, the noise from before. She shook her head, ignoring the whispery words in her head then walked out of the room, making her way out into the hallway.

Allison glanced over her shoulder once, seeing that Teagan was a few steps behind her before continuing on down the hall and heading for the room Katashi was in, which was where they were meeting back up with her father. She never turned around again, never noticing that Teagan had stopped again.

Teagan paused hearing a noise again, one she couldn't ignore. She titled her head to the side, listening to the faint voice, softly gasping when she realized it was Isaac; who was whispering out her name in a pained voice.

Worried that something had happened to him, she turned and ran back down the hall, her eyes frantically searched ever dark corner and room she came upon, as she looked for him.

After following his voice toward a room at the end of the hallway, she rushed inside it halting to a stop when she realized it was empty. She stood in the middle of the room, circling around with a confused look on her face as she tried to figure out what was going on.

She was about to leave the room, thinking maybe she stumbled into the wrong one but before she could do anything, she felt a small breeze on the back of her neck.

"Pathetic. So pathetic." She faintly heard through the silent room.

Teagan spun around; she recognized the voice, it was the voice she has heard numerous times in her head lately. She knew it was her mother speaking to her, it felt so real, she just knew the woman would be standing behind her but when she turned around, the room was still empty.

"Just one little cry from your werewolf lover and you come running, and it wasn't even real." Her mother's voice ranged throughout the room.

Teagan balled her fist in anger, as she snapped, "Why are you doing this?"

"To teach you a lesson." Lisa snapped back, then added, "To show you this world, will be the death of you. You cannot survive this world."

"What?" Teagan asked in confusion. She quickly spun around when she heard running footsteps enter the room, her eyes widened when one of the gunned men come into the room with her.

"Lost, little girl?" He asked, as he took a few more steps toward her, pointing a gun at her.

"I'm sorry, please don't hurt me." Teagan whimpered, as she held her hands up in surrender. When she saw the man release his finger from the trigger, she quickly grabbed a few smaller daggers from the wrist band on her left wrist, throwing one right after another at him. The first few missed him but the last one hit his hand, forcing him to drop his gun.

As he leaned down to pick up the gun, she ran over to him, lifting her knee to knee him in the chin. When he raised his head, she punched him, knocking him to the ground. When he reached out for the gun again, she kicked it away from him and then bent down to pick it up from the floor, pointing it at him, as she tried to catch her breath.

"Tuer ou être tué, Teagan." She heard her mother whispering in her head.

"No." Teagan whimpered, feeling her hands shake. She couldn't be a killer, she couldn't kill someone –even in self defense. No matter what her mother wanted, or what her mother said, she couldn't do it. She had to fight it, she had to be strong.

"Here's your chance, Teagan. This is your first step to getting your life back." Her mother said. "Tuer ou être tué, Teagan."

"No!" Teagan yelled.

"Yes! Do it! Do it, now!" Lisa screamed in her head.

Teagan yelled out in pain, the scream echoing in her head. She dropped the gun to place her hands over her ears as she dropped to the floor, crying out in pain as her mom continued to yell at her.

When the screaming stoped, she slowly removed her hands then raised her head; her breathing labored. The man she was fighting was back on his feet, the gun back in his hands and had it pointing at her again.

"Should have killed me when you had the chance, little girl." He snarled.

Teagan opened her mouth to say something, but before she could, he back handed her causing her to fall to the floor with a groan. She laid her hand against her jaw, where the blunt of the hit was. She moved her jaw back and forth, making sure it wasn't broken; which thankfully it wasn't.

She cried out in pain when he wrapped his hand around her hair, pulling her up to her feet and began to drag her out of the room. He continued to drag her down the hall, keeping a firm grip on her regardless of how many times she punch or clawed at his hands, trying to force him to let her go.

She faintly heard Chris telling Allison to take someone's gun away from a room nearby, the room the man was dragging her to. He placed the gun against the side of her head, as he pulled her into the room with the others. She saw Allison standing off to the side, and Chris standing in the middle of the room, he had a gun pointed at; she would guess the man they were looking for, Katashi.

"You've trained her well." Katashi said to Chris, referring to Allison. "But I think you will want to lower your gun." He added, as he looked over Chris' shoulders.

Chris and Allison looked over in the direction he was looking in and saw one of Katashi men holding Teagan at gun point. Chris turned back to look at Katashi, as he lowered his gun and said, "I just want to talk. Let her go."

"Guys?" They heard Isaac called out, as a couple of Katashi men brought him through another doorway on the other side of the room. "They have a werewolf too." He added, as the werewolf he mentioned had his claws against his neck.

Isaac didn't see Teagan standing with Allison or Chris, but he could tell she was in the room he heard her heart racing in fear. After hearing her whisper his name, so low only he heard it he cut his eyes to the side, feeling them widen when he saw a gun pointed at her head. He let out a low growl, feeling the werewolf beside him push his claws closer to his neck, his sharp nail grazing his skin causing a small nick.

Chris held up his hands, showing Katashi that he wasn't planning to hurt him as he took a few cautious steps toward him. He reached out to lay his gun on the table, as he said, "You've made your point. Now let them go."

Katashi nodded his head to his men, telling them to let the teen girl and werewolf go. Once Isaac was free, he stumbled over to Teagan, pulling her into his arms. He held her close, resting a hand on the back of her head as he breathed out a sigh of relief. He had never been as scared as he was in that moment when he saw a gun on her. All it would have taken was one pull of the trigger and he would have lost her forever.

He could faintly hear Chris talking to Katashi, reminding him of their past and showing him the shattered mask, but he wasn't paying attention to any of that. Instead he pulled back, laying his hands on either side of her face, as he checked over her. He saw a bruise forming on her jaw and felt his eyes flash in anger at the thought of someone hurting her.

She laid her hand on top of his, gripping at his hand, then nodded her head after he asked her if she okay. Honestly, she wasn't sure what she was, but knew now wasn't the time to think about what just happened. If she thought about it too much she was worried she would break down, and if she started, she wasn't sure if she would be able to stop. Too much was hitting her at once.

Isaac kept her by his side as the two walked over toward the others. Katashi explained what the dark creatures were, they were called Oni. He told them they were demons and were unstoppable.

"The Oni are a force of nature. You don't fight a tsunami. You endure it. And you hope that you're not destroyed in its path." Katashi explained.

"Then how do we endure it?" Allison questioned.

"One of you already has." Katashi said, as he made his way over to Teagan and Isaac, the latter tighten his grip on Teagan, unsure about what the older man was going to do.

Katashi reached up to turn Isaac's head to the side showing the mark behind his ear, as he continued, "This is Japanese kanji for 'self'. This means he is still himself. The Oni are looking for one who is no longer themselves."

"What do you mean no longer themselves?" Chris questioned.

"Possessed. By a dark spirit." Katashi answered. He explained that there were thirteen type of kitsune, but there was one, a dark kitsune. It was called void. Or nogitsune.

"Nogitsune draws its power from pain and tragedy, strife and chaos." He continued.

The more he talked, the more uneasy Teagan felt, causing her to cling on Isaac more, hoping his presence would make her feel safe, like it usually did but she was starting to think she would never feel safe again.

Katashi explained how years ago, he had planned to run from the Oni, until Chris fired a shot off, saving him from looking like a coward. He told Chris he owed him more than his life, he owed him his honor, but he was sorry he couldn't give them the answer they wanted.

Thinking the conversation was over Chris and Allison stood up, as Isaac began to turn toward the door, with Teagan closely by his side; wanting to get her out of there, until Katashi spoke up and stopped them.

"I will tell you one thing, however. If there is a nogitsune among you..." Katashi began to say. His eyes landed on Teagan, as he continued, "No matter who it is... Let the Oni destroy it." He moved his eyes to Allison, as he added, "Even if it is your own daughter."

Hearing Teagan softly gasp, Isaac pulled her closer to him, as he whispered in her ear, "Come on."

They didn't learn much, but they learned enough. Now he needed to get her home, find out if she was really okay and find out exactly what the hell happened. He was still on edge after coming so close to losing her and just needed some time alone with her.

In his opinion the rest could wait until tomorrow, now that they knew the Oni wasn't after them to hurt them, just to find the nogitsune and the rest of their problems could wait for the night. Right now he just needed her, that was it. Nothing else mattered.

~()~

"It's almost dark!" Aiden complained as Avery pulled onto Scott's street.

"Thank you captain obvious, have any other brilliant observations you'd like to enlighten me with?" She snapped as she started to pull to a stop.

"Why did you have to change clothes?" Aiden pushed as he sat in the direct center of her backseat.

Unhooking her seatbelt and looking over her shoulder she repeated what she'd already told him, "Would you like to try fighting demonic ninjas in a short dress and stiletto heels?"

Motioning down to the pair of jeans and boots she'd put on she said, "I'm going to be able to hold my own against them in clothes I can move around in."

Aiden opened his mouth with a comeback, but Ethan's attention was drawn to the house as a dark shadow fell over the street.

"Shut up, both of you!" He yelled as he jumped out of the car and headed towards the house, hearing the sounds of a fight Aiden jumped out leaving the back door wide open.

Avery raced towards the house after them as they both crashed through a large living room window. Landing in a crouch perfectly in sync, they both slowly raised their heads to see one of the dark masked figures closing in on Kira.

"Kira, get down!" Avery yelled as she jumped through the window frame, landing between the brothers as she pulled a gun from the waistband of her jeans and fired several shots at the figure, but it seemed entirely unfazed by the bullets.

"What the hell…" she breathed as the demon started towards her, she fired every shot until her clip was empty.

Realizing the gun was entirely useless she tossed it to the ground and looked beside her as Ethan and Aiden rose to their feet and glanced at her before they both charged the creature.

From across the room she saw Derek fighting with another demon, and Scott was taking on two by himself.

"What's the plan?" Avery shouted as she raced towards Kira when another demon started for her again.

"We need to get them outside!" Scott yelled back looking over in time to see Avery push Kira out of the way as she pulled the nunchaku nun-chucks from her jacket pocket and expertly swung them, slicing through the air and blocking the demon's sword as it swung at her.

Backing away from her approaching threat she backed right into someone, spinning around she was met by a pair of glowing blue eyes and a ravenous growl as Aiden looked up to the nun-chucks she'd swung and came within inches of hitting him with them.

They stared at each other, both of them clearly enraged with the other. Her eyes moved past him to the demon coming right up behind him with it's sword drawn. Her heart raced from the adrenaline of the fight as her mind raced, she had a split second decision, she could let the masked shadowed figure kill him or she could fight for him.

Finally rolling her eyes she darted past him towards the creature, at the same time he rushed past her. After knocking her target backwards into the coffee table, she glanced over her should to see Aiden send another masked figure across the room.

Then it dawned on her that while she'd been so absorbed in her hate for the former alpha and considering just watching him die, she'd forgotten about the demon she'd been backing away from; which left him with the same decision. Fight for her or let her be unsuspectingly snuck up on and killed.

"Mom, get the ash!" Scott shouted as he threw the one he'd been fighting out of the window, and then rushed to Derek's aid.

Melissa darted to where she had a small canister of mountain ash, the last ingredient of the alarm system Dr. Deaton helped install in their house.

She didn't have much time to focus on what anyone else was doing when Kira peered out from behind the kitchen island she was hiding behind when Avery had pushed her out of the way, and saw the shadowed figures approaching her friend, "Avery!" She shouted.

The blonde's gaze snapped from Scott's mom to where she now had two demons closing in on her, swinging the nun-chucks to block the blade strikes from their swords she backed up her back colliding with Aiden's but this time neither of them turned around as they were each keeping their eyes on their approaching targets.

Aiden let out a deep, guttural growl towards the one approaching him, as Avery blocked one sword hit after another, until the strong chain holding the nun-chucks together finally gave way from another powerful impact of their iron swords.

"Uh…" Avery breathed out, backing farther into Aiden's back as she admitted, "We've got a problem."

"What?" He asked, his voice muffled through his extended canine fangs as he glanced over his shoulder to see she'd been fighting not just one of the demon ninjas, but two of them.

Derek looked up across the room as he and Scott managed to toss the second demon from the house, just in time to see the two figures closing in on Avery.

He started to rush to her aid, but it soon became clear she might not need it. As Aiden reached behind him and grabbed Avery, flipping her in the in air as he spun them around, still back to back until he was facing off against the two and leaving her with the one he'd been fighting.

From both of the force of his toss and her quick thinking she managed to place both of her boots in the center of the demon's body and kick it with such force that it flew out of the still open door Derek had busted into the house through.

Pulling herself to her feet with a confident smirk Avery glanced over to where Derek was watching them.

Within moment's Aiden wrestled the other ninja from the house, and Scott threw out the fifth and final one.

"Mom, now! Do it now!" Scott yelled.

Not wasting a second, his mother ran to the front door and threw the canister down, completing a barrier of mountain ash around the house; locking not only the masked creatures out, but everyone else inside.

"All the baseboards are ashwood?" Derek asked as he and Scott now stood next to an open doorway.

"Yeah, it was Deaton's idea. Where the hell did you come from?" The teenager asked the older wolf.

"I've been following you." Derek admitted.

"For how long?"

"All day." Derek nonchalantly replied.

"It's a good thing we all showed up, there's no way you could have handled this yourself." Aiden argued as he stood next to Avery with his arms crossed over his chest, still coming down from the high of the fight.

With a brow arched in anger at the alpha she nodded "Yeah Scott, you definitely needed our help."

"Our help?" Ethan asked with a small laugh at her change in attitude.

With a heavy sigh and eye roll she motioned between herself and twins as she said, "Yes, our help."

Scott opened his mouth to say something but before he could his mom frantically called him into the other room.

"What's happening?" Avery asked, but he didn't respond as he raced off.

Sniffing the air Ethan admitted, "I smell blood…"

"It's Scott's dad." Kira informed them, coming out from her hiding place as she looked towards the door where a few of the demon figures were standing, unable to pass the barrier.

Slowly she walked forward and reached up towards the doorway, but gasped as she jerked her hand back from the shock she got.

Aiden walked over and leaned against the door frame as he asked, "It's Kira, right?"

Sighing and pulling her hair out of the ponytail Avery rubbed her scalp and looked to where Derek was watching her as she asked, "What do we do now?"

Shrugging he admitted, "Wait for the sun to come up."

"Aiden!" Ethan said as he saw his brother roughly grab onto Kira's arm.

"Watch!" He yelled back as he tried to put Kira's hand through the doorway, but again the mountain ash barrier shocked her back.

"See that?" Aiden asked his twin as Kira struggled to pull her arm away from him.

Ethan walked over with a confused expression as Avery followed behind and demanded, "Let go of her."

"She can't go through it either." Aiden said letting go of Kira and looking to Avery.

"She's a Kitsune, idiot. Use your eyes, you can see it all around her. The younger ones haven't learned how to conceal it." He explained as he leaned against the back of a chair.

"I knew it…" Avery breathed shaking her head as she continued to explain, "I couldn't see it, but I could feel this energy in the air around you… I just couldn't figure it out."

Kira stammered out, "That's why you kept following me around?"

The blonde nodded as she asked, "Why else would I have been following you?"

"Honestly…" Kira breathed as she tucked her dark hair behind her ear and quietly admitted, "to begin with I thought, you know… maybe you liked me. And then I thought you were with, Scott. I really didn't know what was going on with you."

Laughing Avery shook her head as she said, "No, and double no. I was just trying to figure out what was different about you…"

"I didn't even know." Kira assured her with a weak smile.

"So you don't know what kind you are?" Derek questioned the teen.

Kira shook her head back and forth.

After checking on his dad and seeing what bad shape he was in, Scott got a phone call from Allison explaining what she, Teagan, Isaac and her dad had found out.

That the demon warriors were actually called Oni, and they were looking for someone possessed by an evil spirit, known as a Nogistune. They weren't there to kill anyone innocent, but they would take out whoever stood in their way.

Avery walked closer to the doorway and stared at the masks of the Oni as they waited to be able to get back into the house. Derek talked with Ethan and Aiden, who claimed they were there to fight for Scott.

"I'm sure you are, I'm sure you'd kill for him." Derek said as he faced the brothers, "But are you willing to die for him?"

Turning around Avery sighed as she said, "Right now that honestly doesn't matter, because we are all on the same side… trying to save Scott and not get killed by these demons… and I don't know how much longer we have left."

Feeling the house rattle, they looked up to see the Oni were trying to break the barrier with the handles of their swords.

Joining back up with everyone else Scott asked, "What are they doing?"

"Testing for weaknesses." Ethan guessed taking a weary step forward.

With each incessant strike from their swords the house shook more as dishes fell from the cabinets and busted on the floor and picture frames fell off the walls.

Everyone looked around the house in horror, knowing they were minutes away from being in a fight for their lives again.

As one of them started to push their hands through the barrier, Avery rushed forward placing her hands against the other side and letting out a groan of pain as she fought back against the Oni and patched the weakness they'd found.

"What are you doing?" Aiden asked her stepping closer.

"Keeping… them… out." She hissed through the pain.

"Avery stop!" Derek ordered as he stepped closer intending to pull her away, it was obvious she was over exerting her abilities.

But both twins stepped behind her and in front of Derek as Ethan pointed out, "If she can keep those things out of here and away from all of us, let her."

"And if it kills her?" Derek asked, angrily at them as he pushed them to the sides and tried to grab her arm, but it was like the mountain ash was a part of her no matter how hard he tried to pull her away, she had a barrier around her too that he couldn't pierce.

"Avery, stop… it's okay. Let them in." Scott said remembering what Allison had told him on the phone.

"No." she growled through gritted teeth, feeling pain throughout her entire body as they tried to break through with their sword handles.

"They're not going to hurt us, as long as we stay out of their way." He reminded her.

"What… about Kira?" She asked, her sentence ended with a shriek of pain as two of the Oni used their swords at the same time to try and open another weakness.

"They're after a dark spirit and that's not her." He argued.

"We don't know that for sure." Avery argued, as a few droplets of blood started to drip from her nose.

"I do." Scott pleaded, seeing her growing weaker with each passing minute.

"But I don't." She said loudly as she slammed her palms against the barrier knocking the Oni back a few inches.

"I do, it's not her. Trust me." He said as he now stood beside her.

She looked over at him as more blood ran from her nose. This was something she wasn't used to, not only being in a pack, but wholeheartedly trusting someone else. Trusting anyone had never come easy to her, especially not in situations of life and death.

Taking a deep breath she slowly moved her hands from the doorway and took a weak, stumbling step backwards where Ethan steadied her for a moment before Derek led her over to a chair to sit down.

Wiping the blood from her face she looked up as the Oni walked in the house and Scott ordered everyone to stand down, before taking Kira's hand and letting the Oni check them both.

As she watched them be lowered to their knees a chill ran up her spine as she remembered having the exact same thing happen to her in the gas station bathroom.

Once the demons stepped back and disappeared both twins raced to Scott to check on him and Avery tried to stand up but Derek put a hand on her shoulder trying to keep her sitting down.

Shrugging away from his grip she stood up and said, "I'm fine…"

His eyebrows pushed together in confusion at seeing her normal light brown eyes were such a dark brown now they almost appeared to be black, "I'm fine." She repeated before disappearing into the hallway and coming back with a heavy blanket she'd found in the closet.

As she dropped to the floor beside Kira and began to wrap her up in it, she looked over to Ethan and Aiden as she remembered what Teagan had told her about the night Isaac was attacked, "You have to make him turn."

"What?" Aiden asked glancing over his shoulder to see her trying to comfort Kira.

"Make him turn." She repeated, not looking up.

"Kira, Kira! Stay awake… you need to stay with me." Avery demanded as she made sure the blanket was all tucked in around her new friend, and listened to the sounds of one of the brothers hitting Scott until he finally let out a growl and his eyes showed red as he scooted away from them.

~ A Teen Wolf fanfiction collaboration between Miss E Charlotte and Sage Londyn.~

A/N- I hope everyone liked the chapter, thank you for reading. ^_^