I recently put my impala into one of my families many storage units, so I got my brother's Camaro. He gave it to me for our 23rd birthday, while I got him some weights,
a punching bag, and bunch of his favorite protein bars. I got into the Camaro and went to check on that teacher I saved from Boyd and Cora. I was in her classroom
waiting. I saw her enter, her heart rate was high. When she turned around, she screamed and grabbed a teaching stick. "What do you want? You gonna threaten me?
Tell me that no one's gonna believe me? Try to scare me? Kill me?" She asked, I could tell by her body language she was terrified. "I was gonna see if you were okay."
I relied taking a step forward. "Physically or emotionally? Although I guess that presupposes I was emotionally okay before any of this. And according to my therapist,
I... It's been debatable for a long time." She said nervous. "I think you're gonna be okay." I said stepping closer to her. "Obviously, you've never taught high school. In
20 minutes, I have to start two dozen teenagers on the crucible, and I honestly have no idea what I'm gonna say." The teacher said a bit scared. "Well, why don't you
start by telling them that it's an allegory for McCarthyism?" I said with a smirk on my face. "Is that a subtle way of suggesting that I shouldn't say anything? Because I
won't. Who are you?" She asked me as I began to walk out the door. "I'm Akira." I replied. "Jennifer." She replied. I walked out of the school. I got into the car and I
went to get Talia from the sheriff's station. "Hello John" I said before hugging him. "Where's Talia" I asked him. "This little one yours" I heard a voice from behind me.
That voice, I know that voice. I turned around and saw a very familiar face. My best friend from New York was here. "Jordan" I said with joy in my voice. I hugged him,
Jordan Parrish was a person who I became friends with when Laura and I were in New York for about six years. "Mommy" Talia said getting out of his grip and getting
into mine. She looks like she's seven, her aging will be normal from now on. "It was nice seeing you Jordan" I said as I was heading out the door. Talia got into the
passenger seat of the car. Once we got to the loft, Talia got into my arms, once inside I saw Derek coming downstairs, and Cora doing pull ups. Talia got out of my grip
and ran to my twin. She held his leg, I was irritated that Cora didn't know better, she shouldn't be up and about. "Stop. You're not done healing." I said as I saw her
5'4" body struggling. "Yeah? Well, I'm done lying around." Cora replied after getting down from the pipe. "Then sit." I growled. She got down to do pushups. "Are you
two gonna help me go after them?" She asked, I was a bit more irritated. I used my foot to kick her off of her work out. She got up and tried to fight me. I used my
arms to block her. "Come on, fight back! I came back for this?" She yelled at me. "I can't believe I got my ass thrown in a vault for three months for you two. All those
rumors I heard. A pair of powerful new Alphas, two of the Hales, was building a pack. Do you know how long I waited to hear something like that? Do you have any
idea how it felt to find out you were alive?" Cora growled at me. "I'm sorry to disappoint you." I said with a straight face. "Mommy who's that" I looked over to see
Talia behind Derek's leg. "Mom?" Cora repeated Talia's line. Derek picked up Talia in his arms. "Cora, that's my daughter, Talia Claudia Hale, Baby that you're Aunt
Cora" I said introducing the two. I saw the light go off. "What's that?" Talia asked. "Trouble." I growled. Derek kept Talia into his grip. "Talia don't leave Derek, no
matter what" I said making my eyes glow. She rapidly nodded her head. I saw the door open, Ennis was there with his eyes glowing, fangs bared, and claws exposed.
I saw Cora growl and run at him. "No, wait. Wait!" I yelled at her, but the stubborn part of my sister dulled down my order. Ennis hit her in the face and held her down
with his hand. "Ready for a rematch?" He asked. I growled, I saw Kali enter the room, I got my claws out, I attacked her. She spun in the air and hit my face. I heard
air hissing, I tried to get up. I soon feel something pierce my chest. The pole that Cora was doing pull ups with was impaled through my body. I roared out in pain, I felt
Cora's fear radiate from her body. Blood began pooling down the impalement. "Mommy" I looked at Talia struggling in Derek's arms. "Tal, stay with your uncle" I said
with pain in my voice. "Everybody done? 'Cause just listening to that was exhausting. So... Let's chat." I looked up to see the blind alpha himself Deucalion. "Sorry
about this, Akira. I asked Kali to be gentle, but..." He said getting a chair. "This is me being gentle." Kali said twisting the pole. I groaned as blood kept sliding down
the pole. "Let... let her go." I growled in pain. Ennis let Cora go "See? We're not unreasonable." Deucalion said moving his hands. "What do you want? You want to kill
me?" I said with disbelief. "You really think I'm that boring? Don't throw me in with sociopaths like your Uncle. I'm a man with far more vision than simple murder. In
fact...I'm here to show you just how much vision a blind man can have." He said taking off his glasses. "You're killing her" a small voice yelled. I looked to see my
daughter struggling. "Talia, don't, I don't want you getting hurt" I said trying to put a brave face on. "Not yet, little girl. But I could. Who knows if its five minutes or five
hours before it's too late to take this thing out? But just to be on the safe side, Duke, you might want to get to the point." Kali said twisting the pole more and more.
"So you named your daughter after your mother" Deucalion said interested. "Go near her I will rip your throat out" I growled. "Now you see the one problem with
being in an Alpha pack. Everybody wants to make the decisions. Me? I'm more about discovering new talents... Like you." He looking at me then smirked at my
daughter in my brother's arms. I let out a warning growl. "Not interested." I groaned as blood began dropping out of my nose. "But you haven't even heard my pitch."
He said making it look like I was giving up a major deal. "You want me to... Kill my own pack." I said but coughed. "No. 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. I did it. Ennis did. Kali did. Tell her what it's like, Kali, to kill one of your own." Deucalion asked her.
"Mm... Liberating." She smiled. I heard Talia whimper, but Derek kept her in his arms. "Listen to me, Akira. Do you really want to stay beholden to a couple of
maladjusted teenagers bound to become a liability? And believe me, they will become a liability. In fact... I have a feeling one of them is getting himself into trouble
right now." Deucalion said with a smirk on his face. "If I find out that one of your alphas messed with any of my pack, you won't like the result" I growled. "See, the
reason I'm always invested in new talent is simple. We all know a pack is strongest due to its individual parts. The stronger the individual parts, the greater the whole.
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. 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. In fact, Derek, I killed them all. I took the individual parts and became a greater individual whole." Duecalion told his little story. "Don't care"
I growled as blood poured out of my mouth. "You're right, Kali. She looks like her mother. You'll get to know me, You and Derek. Like she did." He said moving a piece of
my long black hair out of my face. "I know you. I know what you are. You're a fanatic." I growled as black blood pooled into the giant puddle of dark red blood. "Know
me? You've never seen anything like me. I am the Alpha of alphas. I am the apex of apex predators! I am death, destroyer of worlds! I am the demon-wolf!" He
growled, I felt the pole come out of my chest. "Hate it when that happens." He said before having Kali get him out of our loft. I felt to my side, I saw the door close,
Cora, Derek and Talia came to my side. "Mommy" She whimpered. "I'm ok, it's okay" I said stuttering thought the pain. Derek picked me up and laid me down on the
couch. I saw Cora and Talia watching me. Cora picked up my baby girl, Talia nuzzled into her neck and began crying. "Cora come here" I said as the wound began to
heal. Cora had my daughter in her arms. "i was happy to find out that you were alive, After dragging out Peter from the fire, I tried to find you, I couldn't" I said as a
tear came down my face. Cora and Talia never left my side, and Derek was looking out the window, now this is truly is a pack looking out for an injured wolf. Later
during the night, I got up and Cora and Talia were asleep. "Der, you know how were twins, and the Alpha Pack Twins can fuse, maybe we can fuse" I smirked at him.
He nodded and tried. It took us like four hours, but we did it. Our fusion had a muscular body, broad chest, and long hair. Fused we stood at around 6'8'.