We got there before Stiles and Scott. Isaac let us in since he had a key. The house was a little messy with everything that's been happening. Isaac and I began picking things up and putting them away, shaking out the blankets and folding them into neat piles. I yelped in fright when someone spoke behind us "That's nice of you," I put my hand to my racing heart as I stared at Mr. McCall standing in the doorway.
I reached out and whacked Isaac "A little warning next time mister wolf ears," I hissed before looking back at Mr. McCall "Hi, yeah we were just waiting for Scott and decided to help Melissa out," I told him. Isaac nodded to him before scooping up some cups and taking them to the kitchen. I followed him and Mr. McCall followed us.
"Your all a very tight-knit group, aren't you?" He asked us.
"Uh, yeah I guess," Isaac told him shrugging as he placed them in the dishwasher.
Mr. McCall turned toward me "You're Arielle right? You were with Stiles when the power went out at the hospital,"
"Yepp that's me," I confirmed.
"And you are…..Isaac's girlfriend?"
We looked at each other and laughed "Siblings," I told him. He looked between us a few times.
"I'm adopted," Isaac blurted out "I mean she's adopted too. We were both adopted. We were adopted separately," He finished. I held back a giggle. Mr. Mcall looked confused.
"But you're living with Melissa?" We both shared a blank look.
"Oh, it was just while my parents were getting everything official. Melissa offered to be a sort of foster mom so he wasn't placed in a different town. He couldn't stay with us while they were doing the inspections," I blurted out, when McCall wasn't looking Isaac sent me a thumbs up.
"And Scott is dating Kira, the girl who was kidnapped by Barrow?"
"Uh, yes?" I agreed, I haven't been with them too much but that sounded right.
He looked like he was going to ask another question so I was relieved when Scott, Stiles, and some girl in gray came in. Scott looked at us all together "Free period," He said before Mr. McCall could ask why none of us were at school "We're doing group study,"
"Who's she?" Mr. McCall asked nodding at the girl.
Stiles' arm flailed and then went around her "She's my, uh, girlfriend," He blurted out. This caused me to grin, it was so Stiles.
She looked so affronted "You're not my type," Isaac started to laugh silently and Stiles looked like he was extremely annoyed.
"Well, obviously we have a lot to talk about. We should maybe take this upstairs,"
She looked over at Isaac "He's my type," Stiles stood there blinking in frustration.
"Okay. Isaac, you can come too," Stiles told him.
"Uh…" Isaac said not knowing what to do stood up and started to follow them awkwardly and mouthed 'help' to me.
"And we all know you're my type Arielle, so you can come!" Stiles said grabbing me with his other hand. I couldn't help but laugh covering my mouth as I watched Mr. McCall look at us all in disbelief. I was dragged along still laughing to Scott's room.
Stiles and Isaac stood over the girl, who Stiles told us was Meredith. He had met her briefly in Eichen House. I decided to sit in the computer chair and spin myself around while they handled this.
"Lydia? You mean the red-haired girl," Meredith said finally.
Stiles pumped his fist "Yes! Yes! Good. Progress. Now, all you got to do is tell us where she is,"
"Okay," She said agreeably "If she tells me,"
"If she tells you?" Isaac asked, "Can you ask her?"
She looked so proud of herself "I already did,"
"Perfect. Perfect. What did she say?" I paused my spinning to try and focus on her answer.
"She said she doesn't want to be found,"
Stiles pursed his lips and bumped his fist together "That's good too. Okay," He turned to Isaac and pulled him into the bathroom where Isaac was trying to convince Stiles to torture her, even emotionally. Stiles was getting more exasperated. Isaac made a good point about being a banshee. I went to sit next to her. She looked at me with a squeak and then looked back down.
The boys came out and I whacked Isaac when he wasn't being helpful.
"Isn't anyone going to get that?" She asked nicely.
"Get what?"
"The phone,"
"What phone?" Isaac nudged him and pointed at his cell phone. Go, Isaac!
"Oh, the phone. My phone?" He pretended to answer "Hello. Yes, she's actually sitting right here. It's for you," He told her handing her the phone.
"They say Coup de foudre,"
"Coup de what? What is that Spanish?" Stiles questioned looking at me.
"No it's French," I told him but didn't know how that was supposed to mean a location.
"It is French," Scott said from the doorway "I know where she is!" The guys cheered and started to go down the stairs.
"Um, guys?" I called out and they all poked their heads back in "We still have a guest," I said nodding toward Meredith.
Luckily Melissa had just gotten home and while she was confused she agreed to watch Meredith.
"Sorry in advance," Stiles called back.
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I decided to ride with Allison when she came to meet us. I could have taken my car but I wanted to apologize to her.
"I'm sorry for what I said," I told her "And that I hurt you"
She was silent for a second before licking her lips "You've forgiven me for much worse things, I think you and I will be fine," She shot me a tentative smile and then focused back on the drive only stopping to pick up Kira from her parent's house.
Getting there we ran out to meet the guys. We all looked at each other trying to settle our nerves "We've done this before, guys," Scott started with his speech. I wanted to roll my eyes but we did need some encouragement "A couple of weeks ago we were standing around just like this and we saved Malia, remember? That was a total stranger. This is Lydia,"
"I'm here to save my best friend," Allison told us.
"And I came to save mine," Scott said while staring at Stiles and smiling at him.
I leaned over and whacked him again when Isaac added "I just didn't feel like doing any homework," He rubbed the back of his head and glared at me as we walked into the courtyard where Kira's mom was standing waiting for us, looking very badass. I hoped I looked that good if I ever hit 900.
"Kira, turn around and go home. Take your friends with you,"
"I can't," She explained "When I looked at the game I realized who I was actually playing. You," I don't know what game she is talking about but they were definitely having a moment.
Allison drew her bow "Call them off,"
"You think you could take him alive? You think you can save him?"
"What if we can?" Kira pleaded.
"I tried something like it 70 years ago. Your friend is gone,"
"Are you sure? Or if Stiles doesn't have to die. Maybe Rhys didn't have to die either?"
Her mom smirked proudly at her daughter as the Oni beside her got into attack positions "I see I'm no longer the Fox now, Kira. You are. But the Nogitsune is still my demon to bury," She warned. The Oni dissolved into smoke. Isaac and I turned around to see if we could find out where they went, but we couldn't see anything. We turned back when her mom gasped. She looked down at her hand. Kira called out to her in concern.
"What is that? What does that mean?" Isaac asked us.
"It means there's been a change in ownership," Dark Stiles chuckled from behind us "Now they belong to me," They attacked us swords swinging.
"Guys I hate our plan," I called out narrowly missing the blade of a sword and kicking it back. Kira was doing amazing things with her katana, taking on two Oni at a time. Isaac got slashed in the stomach as I flipped one over myself, another was about to stab him but Allison caught it with her bow throwing him back. One got too close and sliced the palm of my hand. I threw myself at it getting it down on the ground as I looked for any vulnerabilities. Then I heard Isaac grunt in pain. I looked up to see him get cut one after another. I tried to get up to help, but the Oni saw I was distracted kicking me off of it. I hit the ground hard but flipped myself up in enough time to see Allison let an arrow fly. The ground shook as the Oni she hit disappeared. Everyone paused and looked where it used to be.
Which is why we missed it.
The Oni ran his sword through her.
We watched in horror as it pulled it back out easily. A look of surprise crossed her face, everyone was frozen in shock. Then Scott was there easing her down.
I snapped out of it when I heard someone cry out for me. Scott was yelling. I could hear Allison telling him it was okay. The Oni was still fighting around us. Allison going down made Isaac fight harder since he was trying to get to her. I ran to where he held her tight in his arms, hand over her wound. I knocked the Oni out of my way as she was telling him he was her first love. "Can you heal her?" Sobbed Scott.
I trembled as I looked at the blood coming out of her mouth. I could do this. I put my hands on her urging my powers to go faster. It was working I could feel myself taking on the wound. I was so sure she would live.
Until I felt my throat get cut.
My hands left her to grab my throat. I could hear Chris and Derek yelling behind us. I felt a tear run down my face. I wasn't even going to be able to see Derek before I died. I could hear Lydia scream for Allison.
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Waking up was hard. I couldn't feel much, and that wasn't giving me much of an incentive to stay awake.
"Arielle?" Someone was calling me. I tried to answer without opening my eyes but my throat hurt. I blinked my eyes open. Everything was blurry. I could see the outline of a person "Come on Arielle," The voice called again. Melissa? I tried to groan but even that hurt. Breathing itself hurt. I felt something over my face, my hand rose on its own to remove it. I didn't get very far, I was too tired to make my hands close over it.
The blob I figured was Melissa pulled it off for me. It got a little harder to breathe. My eyesight was blurry for a few more minutes until I was able to focus on her. She had red eyes and she looked nervous. I tried to ask what was going on but no sound was coming out.
"Arielle I want you to stay calm alright? Your throat was cut. Only on one side so it made it much easier, it missed your carotid. St-Stiles brought you in and he was able to use some of your tears to jump-start your healing, You also had a blood transfusion" She paused. She was nervous, she had stuttered at the word Stiles. I felt panic as I slowly looked around to find him leaning on a closed door. He waived airly. She cleared her throat "I didn't have much to help you out besides that, I know you heal fast so I used medical glue to hold the cut itself together. I'm guessing you're going to have a lot of bruising," She ran her hands through my hair.
"I appreciate what you've done, Melissa," Dark Stiles told her, he took my hand and pulled me up on wobbly legs despite her protest "I almost hate what I have to do next," He smiled "But, not really," She scrambled through the door, the Oni materialized around us. Dark Stiles started to follow her slowly, dragging me with him. The Oni cut down anyone with who they crossed paths. They went so far as to step into rooms to slice at people as they went by. I heard Melissa call out to Mr. McCall. He was in front of her gun drawn, she pulled him into the elevator and slammed her hand on the close button. The Oni slipped his blade in before the doors closed catching her on the inside of her thigh. Dark Stiles laughed as they shut, unbothered he didn't catch her. As he pulled me along we walked by a spilled tray on a table, ones with needles. I grabbed what I could in one hand. Turning my head down to read them as he wasn't paying attention. I dropped two that were just antibiotics. The last one was a tranquilizer. He opened the door to the stairs.
I groaned like I was in pain, I mean I was but I needed his attention "What?" He snapped. I tried to speak but still couldn't get anything other than a hiss of air out, I touched my neck "Yeah well you deserve it for not listening to me," I let tears well up in my eyes. Come on! He reached out to touch the area gently "I told you to stop getting in these life-and-death situations. I just need to kill all of your friends to finish my game. I have too," He told me as if it made perfect sense. I let the tears fall. He closed his eyes in frustration "Wha-" and then choked. I slammed the needle into his throat injecting him with the tranquilizer. I didn't know if it would work, and I knew it would only be a short time if what everyone had said with the kanima venom was anything to go by. I copied his wave from earlier and then shoved him down the flight of stairs.
I wanted to find Melissa but I didn't have much time. I'm pretty sure Dark Stiles is going to kill me if he gets his hands on me. I walked as fast as I could to the next set of elevators and got down into the lobby. People were hauling injured people left and right, but I couldn't stop to help anyone. Stiles was dying, and I had to get to everyone else. I could feel the pain in my throat easing slightly but when I tried to speak it was more of the same.
Grabbing a rock, I broke into the first car that I came across. I didn't care as I sat on broken glass. I hotwired it, something I learned from Allison. My heart hurt, I didn't know if I had done enough to save her. I was going to find out though. I went to Eichen house but didn't see anyone left, I drove by Scott's no one was there. I would try the school next and then the police station.
I almost drove out of the school's parking lot when I saw 2 forms running up some stairs. It must be the twins. I haphazardly parked and got out of my car and tried to trace their steps.
"I brought two," I could hear Derek just ahead.
"I've heard of an Alpha pack, Derek, but not a pack of former Alphas. It's a little sad, isn't it?" Dark Stiles asked.
"I might not be an Alpha anymore, but I can still fight like one," He snarled. The twins snarled behind him.
I stepped up in the square and matched my glare to Dark Stiles' who was sitting on the stairs nonchalantly "Arielle, so nice of you to join us, that trick you pulled..not so nice. I can appreciate that though," he smirked.
Derek was now in front of me he looked scared to touch me so I leaned forward and caught his lips in a kiss. He crushed me to him and then pulled away eyes wet. His hands unwrapped from where they had sunk into my hair trailing down to my jaw. Slowly he brought it up so he could look at my neck, he gently caressed where the glue was "I thought you were dead," He told me.
I smiled at him and mouthed "I love you,"
"This is so rude of them isn't it guys?" Dark Stiles shook his head while looking at the twins in annoyance "Alright, let's get back to you getting killed," He whirled his finger and pointed at us, the Oni attacked.
It was a blur. We all only had our bodies as weapons whereas they had swords which was in no way fair. Two bore down on Derek, katanas nearly at his face. I tackled one off of him. He called out to Aiden "You have to get on the box. Someone get on the box!"
I was confused by why a box mattered but I was going with it. It's not like I could have everyone pause and get me up to speed.
'I hate ninjas,' He snarled flipping over one of them and snapping its neck. It went down but we all knew it would get up in a few seconds. I performed a great Hurricanrana that I would brag about to my possible future children.
I landed in a crouch as Ethan cried out "We can't do this, we can't beat them,"
"Take the box. We'll hold them off!" Aiden yelled back. I was too far away to grab it so I kept fighting. My heart stuttered in my chest when I saw an Oni about to run Derek through, then something lodged in its chest. I snapped the current Oni's neck that I was fighting and focused behind him, Chris! Isaac did a beautiful flip into the mix. We all paused when the Oni ripped the arrow out of himself and then exploded.
"What was that?" Ethan gasped tiredly.
"Silver," Argent replied.
"Isaac, the box. Get the triskele box to Scott!" Derek yelled to Isaac.
He ran for it leaning down and scooping it up then stumbled as he saw me "Ari!" He called excitedly.
I smiled back and then kicked the Oni away from me, I motioned for him to go. I was going to keep fighting but I saw Dark Stiles slip into another entrance. I booked it for him. I got there to see him following Lydia and Stiles threateningly. I felt bad but I jumped over Kira's body to get to him.
"This was my game." Dark Stiles told Stiles and Lydia "You think you can beat me at my game?" He went for them. I tackled him and he smacked me down hard. My head hit the lockers, and my ears were ringing but I got back up. He continued without sparing me a second glance. "Divine move? Divine move. You think you have any moves at all? You can kill the Oni. But me? Me? I'm a thousand years old," He screamed. I took the chance with his anger and went around him to block off his way to Lydia and Stiles. At least I could try to stop him. He wasn't even fazed "You can't kill me!"
Where the hell was Isaac?
Lydia's voice stopped him in his tracks "But we can change you,"
"What?" He asked quietly.
"You forgot about the scroll," Stiles told him smugly.
"The Shugendo scroll," Lydia said just as smug
Dark Stiles trembled angrily "Change the host,"
"You can't be a fox and a wolf," Stiles explained.
Dark Stiles looked like he was going to kill us with his bare hands. Scott came up from behind him grabbed him firmly and bit him on the arm. He screamed. It looked like he had a hard enough time before, but then he was run through with Kira's katana. As she pulled it back out of him, he shook and fell to his knees. We all watched as a bug flew out of his mouth and went down the hallway. Isaac was there and caught it in the wooden box everyone had been shouting about. We focused back on Dark Stiles when he started making choking noises, his face cracked like porcelain which had me scurrying back to Lydia and Stiles. Then he turned to dust.
Stiles collapsed.
We all ran to him "is he okay?" Asked Scott frantically.
Lydia nodded "I think he just fainted," she told us after she checked his pulse. I tapped Isaac and pointed at myself and back the way he came. He nodded and grabbed my hand and ran for the square where we fought the Oni. I paused when I saw Derek holding Aiden to him. Chris had his arm around Ethan guiding him over to his brother.
I ran down the steps to them. You could see Aiden crying and coughing up blood. He didn't have to look at his brother to know he was there "Does it hurt you as much as it hurts me?" He mumbled through the blood
"Yeah," Ethan whispered back then sobbed.
I got to him as Aiden was telling him "It's okay," I pulled them both back to lean on me, they didn't even sense that I was there. Aiden gave a weak chuckle and Derek looked at me pleadingly "Lydia never believed I was one of the good guys anyway," making Ethan laugh and cry.
I was trying to heal him like I was doing with Ally, except this time nothing was here to stop me. Except myself. I was very weak. I bit my lip and looked at Derek scared I wouldn't pull this off when I got an idea. I grabbed Ethan by the back of his neck and had him look at me. He tried to pull away but I shook my head and reached down to place his hand under mine on the front of Aiden's wound. Then I prayed to whoever was listening that this twin bond would help me get the energy I needed. I was tapped into both of their emotions. It was so unbearable I almost wanted to pull away, but I couldn't. I felt Aiden breathe out and still. Ethen started sobbing.
We both felt his chest rise underneath us. He didn't open his eyes but he was breathing. I could feel sweat drip down my forehead at the level of concentration I had. I only let go when Derek kissed my forehead. I let myself collapse back knowing he would catch me.
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A/N Well That's it for season three. Man, you guys are brutal, on the poll the choice with the most votes was to kill Allison the same way. On a separate poll though, there were equal votes on who Arielle should hook up with which were Peter, Derek, and Stiles. So that is what you got. I put a new pole up just in case I do a write-up of the 4th season. What do you guys think?