Glass shattering, concrete breaking, metal compressed, sounds of teeth and claws ripping through flesh, all the sounds of a fierce battle at hand.
The damage of Parrish and Le Bete's quarrel was enough to be compared to the aftermath of bomb drop. Parrish was thrown across the street and into a parked 18 wheeler. It didn't phase him for he ran at Le Bete giving him a punch to the jaw, making it fall back into a store front.
As the battle continued, the group had split off trying to seek refuge from the melee. Lydia, Scott and Stiles were running through a walkway, until Le Bete crashed through the glass.
It shook off its daze and went back into battle, the trio continued to take off running. Sheriff and Argent took refuge in a near by office building.
Derek tried desperately to find the girl whilst trying to keep himself safe. Dust and smoke coated the area like a fog. Derek used his hearing trying to pin point who was around him, trying to find the one heartbeat he wanted to hear, but with multiple heartbeats each in their own rhythm he couldn't find the girl's.
He was interrupted when Parrish crashed through a wall, but this time he didn't come out. La Bete's footsteps could be heard and with every step it took, shook the ground, Derek hid behind a wall. La Bete looked down the alley and saw nothing. Covered in scratches and bite marks and weak, La Bete shook his head trying to keep focused before taking his leave. Once he was far enough, Derek left his post and rushed into the dismantled kitchen of a bakery.
He looked around for Parrish until he found him buried under debris. He rushed towards his aid and started to take the ruble of Parrish, once he was unburied he was back to his normal mental state. He was dazed and a bit confused, but didn't seem to knock Derek off from his mission at hand.
"You ready?" he asked.
The girl ran up to a wall and ran down an alley not sure if she was away from danger or it danger was coming towards her, she continued to run through the labyrinth of alleys in unfamiliar territory, in a land she knew not of. She started to slow down a bit until she stopped dead in her tracks. A pair of eyes were staring at her through shadows, the girl looked on in horror as whatever danger she was trying to elude had found her.
Argent and Sheriff were going through the office building trying to find their way out of the building.
"I'm surprised the power is on." Sheriff said.
"It has to be the backup generator."
"Which needs power, to turn off if its automated, and if not that means someone has to be here powering the place."
The sound of glass shattering was heard, the two rushed to the balcony to see what had made their entrance, only to see the girl making small cries.
They managed to find their way down to the ground floor where they saw the girl curled up in a ball in a corner. Sheriff knelt down and noticed a huge bite mark on the girl's leg that he knew for a fact was not there before.
"What happened?" Sheriff said concerned.
The girl didn't answer, but for some reason started to feel like his feelings towards Theo were on point.
"Was it that damn dog?" Sheriff raised his voice.
As if that was a cue, a hound although not the two faced dog Sheriff was expected busted through the glass shattering it. Sheriff wasted no time whisking the girl away from there and up a staircase where they took a moment to collect themselves.
"That was not a dog." Sheriff stated.
He turned to the girl where he noticed something was complete off.
"What's wrong with you face?" he asked.
Once they were away from area, Sheriff was mending the girl's wound.
"Looking pretty rough here." He said.
"Nothing new." The girl said.
"You're lucky it didn't tear your leg off."
"Wouldn't be the first time."
That comment did run smoothly for Sheriff since he knew that this isn't the first time she's been attacked by a K-9, though the first one is what caused Scott to feel indebted to her.
"That dog, the rottweiler, you said someone let it out?"
"Yes."
"Did this person, the owner, did they always do that let it run wild or was it just with you?"
"It was a mean dog, a very mean dog, he'd use it to terrify anyone. There was one time it manage to get out and it nearly killed another dog, I think it may have been a smaller dog. The muskers told them if they have another incident like that again they're going to call animal control and it will be put down. He let it off on me because I looked at him, but something tells me that wasn't the case."
"What?"
"I believe they were paid to do so."
"Why would you say that?"
"Because for a good amount of times leading up to the attack he kept on giving me looks like dirty ones and I even saw Anders talking to him he was looking around making sure no one was looking, but I was, and I saw he gave him money."
"Whose Anders?" Sheriff asked as this clearly struck a nerve.
"He was the one who was suppose to look after me, he did a real crappy job. I mostly did all the work."
"What would he call you?"
"A lot of names, but not my own."
Sheriff jaw tightened, there was no reason for this girl for anyone to have gone through such abuse and there is no certifiable reason for anyone to abuse anyone period.
"Are your eyes hurting?" the girl interrupted.
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Your eyes? Are they hurting?"
"No."
"You." She asked Argent.
"No." he replied.
"What about your heads, slight headache."
"A little."
"Lawkeeper."
"This whole thing has given me a headache."
"I need an honest answer."
"A little, but nothing crazy."
"What about your ears?"
"What about them?"
"Do any of your have a persistent ringing in your ears maybe ever since you've been in this building?"
"I-" Sheriff stops then looks at Argent who gives him a look that the girl may be on to something.
"Then let me ask you one final question, do you both feel your hairs standing on end like electricity is flowing through it like you may have gotten shocked?"
Not asking anymore question, the three were later going down corridors. Feeling that it was best to get out of the building, Sheriff carried the girl, Argent led the way.
They got out of the building and were met with chaos of the aftermath of war. The two men exchanged looks before preceding halfway through the courtyard Sheriff gave a warning.
"Argent." He called.
Argent stopped then looked toward Sheriff, he gave a questionable look, but noticed something that answered his question. The girl had a firm grip on Sheriff as it she was the one giving the warning.
Argent didn't question he looked around and started to fall back. Sheriff followed suit, all seemed well when the girl's grip started to become a lot hard and her breathing changed. He started to pick up the pace a bit, until the girl let out a scream.
Her screams could be heard by Scott who turned into the direction of the building. A hound was coming in fast on the right, Sheriff ran down the courtyard.
He made it through the doors just in time before the hound could grab them with its powerful jaws.
Inside the building hoping to be safe, Argent and Sheriff exchanged looks knowing that they'd have to find another way out.
They were later going down the hall, this time the girl was on her feet, but stayed close to the men, they then started to slow down when the lights starts to persistently flickering like strop lights at a club.
Then all of a sudden the flickering stopped and a ding sound was heard. They looked down the hall and elevators doors opened. Argent goes to check the elevator and sees that its all clear. Sheriff goes in, but notices the girl hasn't moved from her post.
"Come on, we got to go." He said.
The girl started to feel like something was close, but didn't know what. She slowly and cautiously went to the corner of hall, but stopped.
"What are you doing?" Argent asked.
Then girl went and grabbed at someone and pinned them to the wall, turns out that someone was Donavon.
"Okay sorry sorry." He apologized.
The girl released him.
"Damn can't you be nice for one second." He said.
"You were sneaking up on us, you should know better not to do that."
Donavan looked behind the girl and let out a scream. The turned and found the Dread Doctors coming from a corridor. Donavan took off running, while the girl went to her right dodging being stabbed from a blade. The girl elbows the blade breaking it, she then grabs the broken blade and stabs it into the Doctor's back. The Pathologists goes to grab her, but she turns and elbows them in face, before flipped over them taking their arm, rolling through the legs and slamming them onto the ground.
She then started to run at the other one before jumping up on them her legs clenched around their neck. The girl falls back and swings herself to the right she realigns her hold on their neck then swings herself back up with her legs wrapped on the shoulder before elbowing them at the top of their head then uses all of her strengthen and takes them down to the ground.
"Come on!" Sheriff shouted.
One Doctor gets up and pulls out a blade. This is the cue the girl uses to makes her way towards the elevator, the doctor starts to trail her. The girl gets down and slides into the elevators as the doctor throws the blade just missing Sheriff as the vibrations of the metal could be heard. The door closes and the elevator starts to move.
"You like playing too close to the chest don't you?" Argent said.
"Kind of have to."
Then all of sudden the elevator stopped and the lights went off.
"Oh boy." Sheriff said.
At the same time Lydia made her way into the lobby of the building and saw something that made her blood turn cold.
Jennifer stood there in her Darach form just casually walking in like nothing was a mess.
"Didn't I tell you to run." She said.
A loud growl was heard from behind, that made the hairs on Lydia's neck stand on end.
In the elevator Sheriff tried to pry the doors open, while Argent just leans on the wall with his arms cross.
"Even if you got those doors open, we wouldn't be able to do anything. We're stuck in between floors." Argent stated.
"Well then do have any ideas how to get out here?" Sheriff asked, "Because we can't stay here."
Sheriff groaned when he couldn't get the door and ripped himself away from the door. He ran his hand through his hair in frustration. He sighed unsure how this issue would be solved. He looks down to find the girl crouching down looking up at him. She wasn't scared, but strangely calm.
"Its okay." He tells her, "Everything's going to be alright. We'll be getting out of here soon."
The girl sighed and made an expression that called bullshit on his lie for that what it was a lie. Sheriff knew this and knew that she knew and that the jig was up.
"I'm not afraid if that's what you're wondering." The girl clarified, "But I will not enable a lie just to keep it alive."
"Be careful with this one Sheriff." Argent playfully warned, "She can get away with murder if she wanted."
Sheriff looks at the girl who nonchalantly puts her hood up.
All of a sudden the elevator jerks downward as if something had landed on top of it. They looked among themselves feeling uncomfortable.
"We got to get out of here." Sheriff pressed.
Metal began to creak then loud clangs started to go off as if going around the elevator itself. The girl focused on the noises with sharp precision.
"Its okay." Argent said, "Its just the elevator settling nothing to worry about."
Sheriff began to pull on the door, with the help from Argent they were able to open the elevator door slightly, there was very little room and they were stuck in between floors. The two looked as each silently daring each other to crawl through, but neither of them budged.
The two looked at the girl who simply glared at them.
"I'd dare me too, but I ain't stupid." She said.
Then all of a sudden the doors slammed shut and power turned back on, and the elevator began to ascend.
Sheriff sighed in relief.
All seemed well that is until something punched the elevator doors opens, causing the elevator to violently shakes and stop. A Berserker tried to get it, but was stuck in between floors of the small opening that the elevator provided. It swung its arm around trying to get to the meat, but had fallen short, it tried to grab at the girl who was up against the corner while Argent and Sheriff were crowded up against the other corner of the small cabin.
Sheriff went to try to get the girl, but the Berserker slashed at his arm causing Sheriff to fall back. The Berserker began to wriggle its way in more and more into the elevator, with its hand now practically within an inch away from the girl with its claws practically touching the girl's face.
With every movement the Berserker did the weight of the elevator began to fluctuate. Just when it seemed that it was about to grab the girl, the Elevators safe locks gave away causing the elevator to descends a few floors cutting the Berserker in half splattering blood all over the elevator and on to our heroes.
When the elevator came to a stop and the danger was averted, the heroes looked to themselves and each other finding themselves covered in blood. They then looked in front of them where the half of the Berserker laid.
"Like I said I'd dare me too, but I ain't stupid." The girl said rather calmly.
And with no further thought, Argent pushed the emergency exit cover off and looked around so see if danger was close. Once everything was clear, Argent climbed through the opening and helped the girl onto the top. Sheriff then climbed through they looked around trying to see how they could escape the elevator shaft.
The girl tapped on Argents shoulder and pointed to something. He turned and saw a ladder that lead up the elevator shaft.
"We could climb up to the roof or perhaps another door and open it ourselves." The girl suggested.
"Not a bad idea." Sheriff said, "But I'd be afraid of what lies behind those doors."
"Then to the roof."
"Let's get to a safe distance first, then we'll figure out what to do next." Argent said.
Sheriff not a fan of the idea treading through blindly to uncharted territory without much of plan, but knew that staying there wasn't doing anything, and he sure as hell knew he was not going to be staying in an elevator where half of a Berserker was lying in, "How far up to you think it goes?"
"We're about to find out."
At the same time a hound slide across the courtyard dead. Tired, exhausted and in pain, Scott took a few breaths before gathering himself and heading inside of the building. He went through the halls and found Isaac and Liam standing at the elevators where he was met with a gruesome sight.
Blood on the walls and half of a Berserker stained the sight.
"I'm not a detective or anything, but I would have to say he had to split." Liam said.
Scott and Isaac glared at him in disapproval.
They opened the doors of the elevator and looked up and down.
"You think that what ever it was trying to get went somewhere else." Isaac asked.
"Question is where?"
Back at the shaft the three had done there fair share of climbing.
"How we doing Sheriff?" Argent asked.
"Fine, shoulder's hurting, but I'm good." Sheriff replied, "How's she doing?"
"I'm surprised that leg isn't giving her a hard time."
"I still think she should have been between us."
"You're right, but I'm sure we can both agree she's a woman of action and waits for nothing."
"Is it wrong that I don't know her and yet I'm worried about her."
"No, because I am too."
"Any idea who she is?"
"No, but something tells me she's not human."
"What makes you say that?"
A rumbling noise was heard, the girl stopped climbing then looked down as did Sheriff and Argent they saw an elevator coming up. They started to climb up the ladder faster, but their concerns were rendered to ash, when the elevator came to a stop.
Sheriff sighed in a relief he laid he head on the cold metal railing. Argent felt the same he looked up and nodded at the girl who nodded back to show she was fine that was until the door she was in front of started to make noises. She turned to the door and saw dents being made from the other side.
Was this going to be another fight, no one knew? The crevasse of the door began to bend and break as it started to be pulled apart. Once the doors open an unexpected sight unveiled itself.
With a grunt and all of his strength, Derek pried the doors open.
The girl sighed in relief, "Derek."
He gave her a small smile.
Argent and Sheriff climbed up and were happy at the sight.
"Are you a sight for sore eyes?" Sheriff said.
"Had a rough day, what about you?" Derek fired back.
First argent went through the broken doors followed by Sheriff. Once the two men reach the safety of a stable tile floor Derek turned to the girl and went to reach for her. The girl was about to take his hand, but stopped midway.
"What is it what's wrong?" Derek said in a near panic.
The girl pulled her hand back and looked around sensing something was not right.
"Alright come, what ever it is we can fight it together, but right now I need you to take my hand."
"Look out!" The girl shouted.
Berserker jumped down in the narrow edge of the door and stabbed Derek in the shoulder, the girl jumps on the Berserker making the two fall backwards falling down nearly two stories down to the elevator.
The girl groans in pain before going on her stomach, she starts to cough up blood, knowing that there was possible internal bleeding that didn't stop her. When the Berserker went to kick her, she blocked it with her arms before pushing it away. The Berserker charged at her but she rolled out of the way making it hit the wall. She ran to the Ladder and went to climb, but it grabbed her by the ankle and pulled her down slamming her on the elevator. It goes to stab her, but she dodged it. She kicked the Berserker in the face. She rolls on her stomach and noticed something that could be of great help.
She rushes to one of the elevator cables and disconnects the latch. She then rolls to the other came dodged the Berserker in the process and disconnects the other cable. The elevator jerks down. She goes to reach for the other cable, but is grabbed by her leg and slammed into a wall, the Berserker grabs her by her neck and picked her up off her feet.
The Berserker cocks its arm back ready to strike a blow, but the girl had other ideas. Not exactly a respectable move, but the only move at hand. The girl spits blood in the Berserker's face impairing it for a moment just enough for the girl to get out of the Berserker's grip. She grabs it by its head and pulls it as she jumps on a wall walking on it to jump on its neck giving it a few punches before using all of her body weight flipping herself and the Berserker over.
The Berserker incapacitated the girl rushed to the other cable and unlocked the latch. Then turned to the other cable.
Last one. She thought.
She goes to run to it, but is grabbed by the arm. She throws a punch and tried to get way, but the Berserker still had his grab on her, she punches it again. She reaches for the latch, just a few inches short. She then elbows it in the face just right making it lose its grips. She trips to the ground and crawls to the cable, she unlatches the latch.
The elevator starts to fall and the girl rushes to grabs onto the cable, but falls short. The elevator falls down the shaft and the Berserker falls down with it.
The girl falling down, all of a sudden an out reached hand grabs hers. The girl shocked by this looks up to see who her saviors was as it was none other than Scott McCall himself.
She sighs in relief as he pulls her up to safety into his arms. Isaac and Liam help keep the doors open. Scott could feel the girl go limp as she was just as exhausted if not more than he was.
Scott carried the girl in his arms, he couldn't quite put his finger on it, but he could feel that she was slowly fading. He didn't like that he wish it wasn't so, but he saw a huge difference between the time he first saw her to now. He started to sense that maybe it wasn't a good idea to wake her up, that if she was still in a coma she wouldn't be suffering, if he would've known that he may have just left her to wake up on her own like the woman said, but how could he she was suffering a lot there than now, though he wouldn't ever wish this upon anyone not even his worst enemy.
All of a sudden Scott stopped in his tracks when he saw a shadow fly across the wall in the corridor, Derek get in front of him though not for his protection, but for the girl's.
It was Theo who came from the corridor along with Tracy and Donavon. Small relief fell on the group.
"I see Donavon decided to join us." Argent mocked, "You pulled a dick move on that girl."
"What you do?" Tracey asked him.
"Left her with the Dread Doctors."
"Oh yeah what you do-" Donavan makes a move towards Argent, but is pushed back by Theo.
"You left her with the Dread Doctors?" Theo said in an uncharacteristic tone of someone with concern.
"Well not that she needed him, but it sure as hell would have been hell of a lot better with his help, I mean between that and the Berserker, yeah it would've been a lot helpful." Sheriff said.
The girl's head snapped up, then tried to get out of Scott's arms, who quickly put her down.
Without a single word the girl went passed the so called Chimeras and into another lobby of the building, when she went on her knees and threw up.
Either her injuries have grown worse or it wouldn't be long for her end to come, but now wasn't the time to start thinking about life now. A growl was heard not to far from her, she looks up and sees a hound in front her trailing her like she was prey.
The girl got up to her feet no once did her eye leave the hound, and if looks could kill the hound would have been dead with the glare that the girl had.
The hound charged at her and the girl with her quick thinking and minding her surroundings, slides through under the hounds and through the crevasse of a near by scaffold. Using the scaffold as a shield as the hound tried to bite and scratch at her through it.
Using the wall for support the girl leaned back on it and used her legs to push the scaffold down making it fall on top of the hound incapacitating it for a short time. The girl took off running, but with the sound and metal breaking she knew there wasn't enough time, she pulls out her knife just as the hound pounces on her just as she severs the aorta killing it instantly.
She shoves the dead hound off her and gets up to her feet, just as she does she senses that the danger has not gone away. She turns her head and sees the Dread Doctors ready for round two.
By this point everyone had regrouped when the commotion was heard, but did not dare take another step.
The Surgeon goes in for grab the girl, but in a swift movement that no one saw coming took out the ripper blade that he threw from earlier and stabbed him in the stomach slicing it through the whatever flesh it may have had.
It took steps back in surprise of what had just transpired, the girl charged at him jumping up and slicing his shoulder to his ribs nearly cutting him in half.
The geneticist goes at her, but she slashes at face before elbowing him in the face shattering its eye. The pathologist grabs her by the neck and gives her an electric shock, but out of complete miracle or just luck the girl did not get shock or even feel the effects of it, she simply turns to them and was not happy. She twists the Pathologist arm and breaks there elbow before throwing into a nearby column.
The Geneticist not learning their lesson, they go to take a swing at her, but the girl ducks down. She then takes her knife and stabs it into his Achilles heel before slicing up towards the femoral artery, before kneeing them in the face.
She then takes the sword and throws it to the Pathologists stabbing them in the heart killing them.
The girl stood in front of the dead Pathologist as everyone looked on, how can someone who is beaten and obviously about to break be able to keep going, if they only knew who this girl really was.
Exhausted and having enough started to hear something behind her, her demeanor changed in an instant. She turns to find the Geneticist crawling away, usually when a threat is retreating is a good thing the threat had been dealt with and defeated, but it almost seemed that it wasn't enough for the maiden.
She as if this was something that was done everyday simply walks up to the with pose with dedication, grabs them by the head and takes her knife and in one swift movement with no hesitation, not sign of regret slits their throat killing them and drops them like they were nothing.
She looks up at the group specifically Argent.
"I'm going home." The girl said.
She didn't yell didn't scream just clearly showed that she was done and wanted nothing else to do with this situation at hand.
The girl drops the knife and turns to go out the near by exit where she was followed by Tracey and Donavon.
As they were walking down the stairs to leave they find that there is a light drizzle and as they made their way to leave, they are met with the Surgeon who still managed to cling onto whatever life it had left in them.
The girl walks up to them as they fell on their knees. They took out a revolver and pointed it at her.
The girl looked on unphased and unimpressed, she goes up to them and rip their helmet off met with a grotesque face. She looks at the helmet and throw it down, most definitely unimpressed.
"You're not like the others." Marcel stated.
"Oh yeah."
"You're not of this world. Different"
"Yeah well I've been working on it."
"Name. Name."
"Sorry Heretic I have no name."
Marcel put there head back in complete disarray, "How? How could this be?"
"My father never gave me one." She stated, "My mother gave me to the dogs and then went on to have another child while I was fighting for my life after all these years. I don't have a name for I was not given one, not at birth. I do however have many names that I have acquired over the years. The Beast, demon, monster, the devil, the Devil's daughter, the trickster, the champion of Fate, Michael's favorite, Death's right hand, the Dragon's wife, the righter of wrongs, the Child Warrior, The Saint, Old Soul, Old Hunter, The Forsaken One, The Nameless solider, Slave to the cause, The Bastard that has lost all hope. Yeah all those names, but the one name that I have the one name the one name that means more to me than any of those names is the name I gave myself, I gave myself my own name and I will not sign it away!"
"You're the Devil."
"If I was and this was Hell then we're here together."
She drops the gun and goes to take her leave as she does Marcel goes for the gun and tries to shoot her, but when he pulls the trigger the gun, he somehow ends up killing himself instead.
The shot was heard from inside, Scott rushes outside to be met with a gruesome sight.
A gaping hole marks the center of Marcel's forehead, oozing thick black blood down between his eyes. Scott stares, mesmerized as it trickles down to small puddle pooling out beneath his head. Pale glassy eyes are sightless and wide open, focused somewhere far beyond the sky, and his chest is unmoving beneath his suit. His fingers are curled limp around the gun, both ends of the barrel smoking with pale purple vapor. The end by the trigger is a warped mess of melted shrapnel. It takes a second for Scott to realize that the gun backfired, and there's a wolfsbane bullet lodged somewhere in Marcel's brain.
Scott moved away from Marcel and went to the direction of where the girl and the others went. Knowing how injured the girl was she couldn't have gone far.
Argent and Sheriff looked at the body, while Sheriff was still trying to wrap his head around everything, Argent was coming to terms that the maiden is just like she has said though he couldn't help, but be intrigued.
Scott went through the woods not caring about anything else, but finding the girl and he did he found her sitting on a rock by the creek with her hand under her chin as if she was thinking.
He went up to her and saw that she was pale as a ghost and the bags under her eyes looked as if she had not slept for day which he knew it was a lie try six months and you still wouldn't believe.
"My feet hurt." She stated.
"Is that all?"
"It's a long list. How can I be numb and yet feel pain at the same time, something's not right."
Close by Argent looked on at this sight.
"You saw what she did right?" Parrish asked.
"I think we all did."
"That was pretty monstrous don't you think? Most people would've let them live."
"And let the chance of round two, not this one."
"The way she did, like she's-"
"Done it before, more than once."
"She we be concerned, take her in."
"For what? Surviving? Doing what everyone else would do in situation where Death is watching, yeah you do that."
He then saw Plague Doctor sit next to the girl as if she was an old friend.
"Look at that for six months she never said anything, wanted nothing to do with me or Isaac, she meets this girl and they are practically inseparable."
"Who is she?"
Argent didn't say anything, he simply cleared his throat, "Come on let's get you some clothes."
"She's not looking too good." Isaac pressed.
"Yeah we know believe me." Stiles pressed back.
"How she still alive."
"I don't know."
"This woman, this girl, she's not human."
"Isaac now's not the time to lose it okay."
"You saw what she did or did you not see it?"
"We all did and like I said now's not the time to lose it."
"Okay what do we do, I feel like we're harboring a fugitive here."
"Oh yeah why don't you tell that to Scott, trust me he won't budge."
"Does he know her?"
"Kind of."
"Kind of?"
"A long story."
"Then spell it out."
"And I will." Stiles scratches his head, "After I do this."
He walks up to the girl who sits quietly and tiredly.
"I have a question to ask." Stiles said.
"Is it appropriate?" she asked.
"I think so."
"Is it stupid?"
"No, maybe."
The girl moved a bit as if to make herself comfortable before turning her attention to Stiles, "Shoot."
"What?"
"You question what is it?"
"My question? Oh my question yeah uh, what was…yes um you like stories right? Because Liam and Malia said you told them a story."
"The Devil the Green Jacket, yes."
"A Grimm tale, right?"
"Yes my favorite."
"Okay um have you heard well I'm sure you've heard of Sleeping Beauty."
"Which one?"
"What?"
"Which one, which version?"
"There's more versions?" Liam chimmed.
"Yes, you didn't think that the Disney was the only one did you?" the girl said.
"Whats the difference?"
"Well in Basile's version there is an act of somnophilia."
"Somnophilia?" Isaac asked.
"She was taken advantage of while she was sleeping."
"Oh my God." Sheriff said uncomfortable with how the conversation was going.
"In the Brother's Grimm version, she had two children as he mother in law want to eat-"
"Okay okay, the Disney version, let's go with the Disney version." Stiles quickly intervened, "Um so you say all of this so unbalanced right, someone meddled. So we all know about sleeping beauty she was cursed by an evil witch or fairy, she ends up pricking her finger on a spindle and she goes to sleep for a hundred only to be awakened by a prince by true loves kiss."
"Which does not exist. That is why they call it fairy tales which I do not believe in bedtime stories."
"Well let's say this bedtime story was altered."
"Altered?"
"Let say sleeping beauty did wake up, but not by a prince, by someone who wasn't."
"Wasn't?"
"Like the person who did wake her loved her truly, but he wasn't a prince, what would the repercussions be."
"So not a prince, but a mere commoner woke her up, someone of not of any royal blood, correct?"
"Yeah."
"Interesting."
"I mean this is totally off subject and it doesn't quite explain everything just trying to find an example to understand-"
"But it does help. To answer your question the curse would be broken, least not fully, yes she is awake, but the curse still has a hold on her just like it as a hold on everyone else, are those who went to sleep with her are they awake too?"
"No."
"Then no the curse is not broken. The repercussion would be her going mad or getting sick, or dying. She not quite alive, just hollow, pretty soon she will be gone."
"Gone?"
"Like Pas Tu La, not all there."
Derek's heart sunk, she was the sleeping beauty, his sleepy beauty and she was going to die all because of a non prince, Scott.
"How can we fix this, I mean how can it be fixed?"
"Well there are a few options like for example find a prince, have him fall for her and give her the true loves kiss and the curse is broken, a far fetched solution, but that's one of them."
"What are the others?"
"Put her back to sleep, I mean if you did, her suffering ends for the most part, Death does not touch her and she will not be living alone in this world. But honestly I truly feel, like you should kill her."
That option did not sit well with everyone.
"Put her back to sleep doesn't really end her suffering, finding a prince no prince would go out of their way to help another man's prize, I mean thinking about it no one likes how you say sloppy seconds. Killing her, granting her peace in that way maybe the only option for her, I mean she didn't ask to be woken up and she didn't asked to be cursed either, poor girl was put in a situation she didn't ask to be in."
"What if that wasn't good enough, what if I didn't like anyone of them and I didn't want to do any of them." Scott asked.
"Then there only leave all, but one option."
"What?"
"Kill the meddler."
Scott put his head back.
"I mean the non prince did no wrong yes, but it wasn't for him to do, it wasn't meant for him. She wasn't meant for him. Yes his intentions were good, his hopes genuine, but his expectations naive. Though he had good intentions he is the cause of her suffering the cause her impending Death. If he truly loved her, then he would not have done what he did, if he still truly loves her, then he should kill himself fall upon his own sword. Though this is all a hypothetical situation least in literature, however with the situation at hand unless we can convince the meddler to take back what he did, we would have to put him down."
Scott began to think that that was his only option. He did tell the woman he was willing to take whatever consequence that came with this action just so she wouldn't have to, and if that meant he had to die, then so be it.
Sheriff took him by the arms and led him away from the group where Stiles, Derek, and Lydia followed.
"Alright I've had enough." Sheriff said sternly, "This whole time I've been running around fighting monsters and everything else that came with it. Last time I checked this girl was a coma, now she's up and about and the one thing that bugging me is that she's not looking too good and the one thing that scares me about this girl is that this girl has this strong will that is reminding me way too much about that movie with that guy in the white mask walking around with a butcher knife. Other than that, I need to know what the hell is going on."
"I woke her up." Scott admitted.
"What?"
"I woke her up."
"How'd you do that?"
"Mugwort."
"Mug what?"
"Mugwort, its an herb that allows the user to perform astro-projection." Derek informed, "Its highly dangerous and should be avoided at all cost."
"So like flat lined."
"Not exactly." Stiles replied, "More like soul surfing."
"So you….ate it?" Sheriff question Scott.
"No I drank it." Scott answered.
"It was better than smoking it." Stiles added.
Sheriff ran his hand through his hair still trying to have a grasp on this, "Okay how can a plant-"
"Herb." Scott corrected.
"An herb was used to wake her up, I know you mentioned astro projection, but how."
"It seems like I've been able to do it, but with the Mugwort I was about to have a grasp on it and it managed to migrate into her dreams like I've already have and I somehow managed to wake her up, I didn't think I would but I did it."
"Okay what does that have to do with any of this, she keep saying meddler, are you telling me you're the meddler."
Scott put his head down.
"No."
Scott looked up at him disappointed.
"Scott you didn't cause this kiddo."
"I did."
"No you didn't."
"Yes I did, she warned me."
"Who the girl?"
"The woman."
"What woman?"
"After I took drank the tea, I was met with a woman a different woman who warned me to leave it alone, then I ended up being taken to an older woman it may have been her mother maybe he grandmother, who told me the same thing, leave it be, she had to wake up on her own, she had a lesson she has to learn and if I woke her up I'm stripping her of that lesson. They warned me that if I went through with this that natural order would have to intervene just to get everything back to the way it was."
"You were warned." Derek said through gritted teeth.
"Yes."
"And you still went through with it." Derek grabs Scott by his shirt, but the group intervenes.
"Knock it off Derek." Sheriff ordered.
The commotion was heard and some of the others went to off into that direction as so did Doctor, leaving the girl in Theo's presence.
Theo didn't seem too curious about what was going on, though his curiosity was on someone else. The girl was staring off into space until all of a sudden she snapped back into reality and stood up on the rock with pose. She then turned her attention to her right where something had caught her sight. Theo took noticed of this and went up to her. She then pointed in the direction where her attention laid, Theo was taken back by what he was faced with before the girl turned her gaze towards him and he turned to her as if wanted confirmation on what they were seeing.
And just like that no exchange of words or anything, the girl hopped off the rock and with Theo in tow, took into the direction of what they were headed.
Derek could be heard cursing and calling Scott every name in the book.
"Fuck you Scott!" he shouted, "Maybe I should rip you throat out with my teeth if that means this whole thing get back to normal, then I will, but you know what I'm taking her away from you."
Derek went back to where the girl once was only to find her and Theo missing. Everyone joined him and were in shock.
"Where did she go?" Derek said trying to keep in control, "Better yet where did that bastard go?"
"Look." Isaac pointed.
They looked at the mud and saw little bare footprints and another with shoes heading up the creek.
"Where are they-" Derek looked up and saw something that took him aback, "What's that?"
"Power plant." Isaac answered.
An electric power plant was lighting up the mountain, funny thing was it wasn't supposed to be lite up. As far as everyone knew the power was down and yet the plant was still functioning.
"Is it supposed to be lite up like a Christmas tree?"
"Unless you want a meltdown."
"Why would they go up there?" Cora asked.
Sometime had passed and Theo and the girl had reached their destination, the power plant.
Theo didn't asked for the reason why they were heading here, he just followed her feeling as if she knew where she was going and what to do.
Workers who did not meet the fate of oblivion were scrambling to keep everything in order. Not noticing the two outsiders.
The girl taking advantage of this starts to make her way to the main building with Theo close behind.
They wandered into the building as they managed to jump on a moving cart before jumping off and headed into the main control room.
People could be seen arguing trying to figure out what was going on as other were tracking which counties still had power and which had gone dark.
"What the normal tension for that area?" Someone had asked.
"If no wind is involved normal tension for the sag can be up to 15,000 pound/wire." The girl answered.
"We got an expert here." A coordinator asked.
"She's right." Theo defended, "My dad used to work as a groundsmen, he's prep the wires in case a storm was coming. He took pride in his job."
The workers started to notice the shape that the girl was in.
"Hey Darlin' you alright." The supervisor asked.
"Been a hell of a night." She replied, "May I have a list of counties that have gone dark and what others have not?"
"Yeah sure here."
The girl looked through the lists, "How soon before we lose power?"
"Won't be long trying to keep that from happening."
"And say we did what repercussions will we face?"
"Burn coal natural gases."
"And have we gone to that."
"We're burning through them like crazy."
"So right now the main question is how do we avoid a full meltdown?"
"If we were to go partial we would have somewhat control over it, but its like something's sucking all the energy out before we can think of something quick."
"Meddler." The girl said.
"Excuse me."
"How do we reverse it, there has to be some kind of counter measure. Last thing we want is Chernobyl to happen again."
People scratched the back of their heads looking down.
"What?" Theo questioned.
Without question the answer was already presented, "That's where we're headed." The girl said.
"Yeah."
The girl stopped and thought, then it came to her, "What about a black start? That's the word correct, black start a method to reset power?"
"Yes."
"What method can we use?"
"Method?" Theo asked.
"There's more than one, depending on the situation, hydroelectric dams, diesel generators, open cycle gas turbines, compressed air storage, along with other methods." The girl answered.
"We got diesel generators problem is some of my guys aren't responding." The supervisor said, "I sent them out no to long ago."
Theo and the girl exchanged looks knowing fully well what might have happened.
"I can't afford to send anyone else out there, I need people here."
"What about a hydroelectric dam." Theo pronounced.
"That's on the other side of town, been trying to reach the executive there, but no answer."
"What about the gas turbines?" the girl asked.
"To power that up we need diesel."
"Do we have that here."
"Not much, but it's a start."
"How soon can we hope on that route?"
"We can jump on it now."
"Hey bud are we really going to be taken orders from this girl." An executive asked, "We need approval for that."
"Listen Harold so far none of your ideas have worked and this girl has been giving us ideas that can help."
"Look at her she looks like hell."
"And yet she has this under control." Theo defended, "What about you buddy?"
"Listen Harold, I'm in charge here got it. Boss man is manning instructions through a telephone while stuck in an elevator and he put me in charge. So I say we do what this girl says, she's the only one make any sense around here."
"Alright Bud fine."
All of a sudden the plant went dark. Theo and the girl exchanged looks. Commotion can be heard from outside and sparks from nearby control panels started to go off. The plant began to quake and shake.
Next thing the two knew they ran outside and felt the very ground beneath them quake. They held on to each other for support.
The sound of steel toes boots can be heard running across the concrete ground. Panic screams and bodies bumping into each other trying to escape the chaos. Pretty soon the sound of galloping hooves and neighing of horses could be heard, followed by the unmistakable sound of a gun going off.
Then the unforgiving sound of bones being crushed, and flesh being torn along with the screams of agony and death.
Ghost riders and hounds have descended onto the plant grounds. The pair heard growling just a few feet away from them and turns to find a hounds locking on to them.
"The hell is that?" Theo questioned.
"That's a hound." The girl replied.
"The hell they've feeding that thing."
"That's a creature of magic and death, the Knots special tool."
The hound let out a roar giving the two the signal to run. The two ran back to the plant through its darkened, tight and narrow halls while being pursued by this unyielding creature.
They ran down a cat walk and down a flight of stairs as the hound jumped down right behind them.
Theo and the girl rushed into a supply room where a water tank had ruptured, water spilling make the floor ankle deep in it.
Theo slammed the door knowing fully well it wasn't going to hold. He threw down a nearby rack and took the girl to the back of the room. The hound rammed the door trying to gain entrance to the room. Dents could be seen being made on the steel enforced door. Theo jumps on a nearby table and climbs on a piping systems on the ceiling.
"Come on!" he beckons.
The girl follows suit she jumps onto the table, but just a hair too late when the hound finally gain access into the room making a big splash.
It growled and started to slowly menacingly make its way to the girl as if she was nothing, but its prey. The girl had her back against the wall, where it just so happened to a fuse box on it. The girl fed up the situation ripped opened door and ripped out a wire with all of her might and threw it into the water. Electricity went into the water all right, but not enough to electrocute the creature.
The hound growled and opened its mouth wide ready to pound.
"Hey!" someone shouted gaining the hound's attention.
It turned around and saw Donavan standing crouched down with his hands hovering over the surface of the water.
"Eat this!"
He slammed his hands into the water making an electrical current go through the water and shocking the creature. The girl jumped up grabbing a hold of the piping system to keep her feet from the water.
The hound screamed as it was being electrocuted. Its body being reduced to ash and the unmistakable smell of burnt flesh could be smelt. An eerie mist of blue came from its body giving off a glow of light before it disintegrated into nothing.
The girl used her arms to shimmy herself across the pipes trying to keep above the water. Once she reached the end of the system she was helped down by Donavan as Theo hopped down from his refuge.
The two gave nods though the ax between them was not buried just yet.
The three walked through the darken halls with only the emergency lights flashing. They walked with caution unsure what danger laid around the corner.
Eyes open and on their toes they heard footsteps, they were heavy and shook the hall. The three began to back up into a corridor when they were grabbed and taken behind a wall on each side. Theo had his mouth covered by Argent who had his finger on his lips telling him to be quit while Sheriff nearly had Donavon in a chokehold covering his mouth as Isaac and Ethan held him down so he wouldn't make any noise. Scott and Stiles back were up against the wall peering to see if the threat was gone.
The girl was in Derek arms who dared not let her out of his grasp. The girl had her hands on his arm not to fight or try to get out of his vise grip, but as if to keep her stable in the present. She knew she was in good hands. The heavy footsteps got closer and when it did it turned out it was Le Bete once again staking the halls. He leaned into the corridor to see what was going on, but with the injuries that he had sustained from Parrish from their earlier bout his peripheral vision was still compromised. Sensing nothing was there he then took his leave.
Once the heave footsteps faded away to where it was no longer traced. The group lets out signs of relief.
"Are you alright?" Derek asked in a near whisper into the girl's neck.
"Yes, are you?" She asked him.
"I am now."
"You think he's gone?" Tracy asked.
"Come on lets get out of here." Argent suggested.
The group got out from their hiding places and went the main corridor where it would lead to the main control room. Sheriff grabbed a hold of Theo with a scolding finger about to give him hell, but bit his tongue knowing that this was not the time.
"We need to get the power back up." The girl pressed.
"And how do we do that?" Donavan asked.
"Apparently the only way we can do that is a gas turbine cycle." Theo answered.
"Black start. You guys are trying to do a black start."
"I guess."
"Okay what method were you guys going for? I mean we would have to go to the islands and get them back up one by one, but we need the location of those islands."
"They've tried the diesel generators, but the people they've sent out may have been obliterated." The girl added.
"Did they mention any other methods like a hydroelectric dam or a compressed air storage?"
"When did you become an expert in energy resources." Mason asked.
"My grandfather used to run one, he'd often tell me what they would do and sometimes he'd take me with him."
"I'm surprised with the amount of times I took you in you could've have a career in energy." Sheriff expressed.
"Wasn't my calling." Donavan spat before turning to the girl.
"We need to get the engine up." The girl said.
"Engine what engine?" Sheriff questioned.
"I thought it was a turbine." Theo asked confusedly.
"An open cycle gas turbine." Donavan corrected.
The girl pointed at Donavan confirming that that was the name.
"You need a key two keys to power it up, but it need diesel in order for that to happen. Even if you have that you have to have a key code for security purposes, usually two grid operators have access to that, but without them we can do a black start."
"Where would the keys be located?" The girl asked.
"Conveniently with the grid operators who will reside in the control room for the turbine."
"So when the operators aren't in the room the keys are there?"
"In a security box in which you need a code to get them. Each box has its own code in which every three months it has to updated."
"Then let's go."
"Go where?"
"The control room, we just came from there, we just need head back there."
"I think that was just the control room to control rest of the plant." Theo explained, "The control room he's talking about in a total different one where the turbine would be located below it from a window."
"Exactly." Donavan confirmed.
"Okay so let's find it."
"If I remember correctly there was a map back in the control room for the entire plant." Theo mentioned.
"Then let's go." Sheriff said.
The group vigilantly went on their way to the main control room, they rounded corners trying to keep out of sight for any threats that might be close. Scott all of a sudden stopped and felt as if something was behind him. He turned around and saw that nothing was there, he felt as if his sense may be short circuiting. He turns back to the direction that his pack went only to find the girl just standing there as if waiting for him.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
The girl didn't reply she only went into the left corridor, Scott was a bit taken back, but ended up following her.
They pack went into the control room where Theo and the girl were before.
"Looks like the generator kicked it." Argent said.
"Yeah, but not for long they were aiming for a partial blackout, so that they could save time." Theo exclaimed.
The girl stopped and noticed something was missing. She looked among the small platoon and saw that someone was missing, Scott.
She stepped back into the halls thinking that Scott may be just running a bit behind and as if on cue the generator went dead causing the automatic door to close behind her, separating her from the group.
Derek rushed to the door looking through the little window. He tried opening the door, but his strength wasn't succeeding.
"Stay there." He ordered.
But the looked at him not understanding him, she gestured that she couldn't hear him.
"Shit." Derek said under his breath.
Theo went to try himself, but he didn't have much luck.
"Now she locked out. Where's Scott." Stiles asked.
Donavon finds a walkie talkie he goes up to the door a shows the girl. The girl gestures him to wait. She then goes out of view for a moment then comes back with one of her own.
Donavon turns on his and gestures four fingers. Taking the instructions the girl turns her walkie talkie to channel 4.
"Can you hear me?" he asked speaking through it.
"I can." She answers.
"Not the best situation, but okay. Looks like you're going to have to do it."
"How do I do that I don't even know where that is?"
"We'll talk you through where you need to go and when you get the main control from for the turbine I'll talk you through what you need to do. By the way is Scott with you."
"No, that's why I went out here I thought he fell behind. Not exactly the best situation to be on your own."
"Well if you do see his ass, tell him to help you."
The girl nodded.
Donavon went to the map and started to read off of it.
"All right Houdini. I need you to go down the hall on your left. When you reach the end of it your going to be faced with three corridors on all sides. You want to go to the one on your right."
"Got it."
The girl followed the directions.
"How long do I need to take this hall?"
"When you face with a steel door, once you reached that I need you to go to the left of it."
"Okay I see now I'm turning left and-"
The girl stopped dead in her tracks when she saw a Ghost Rider standing there. It doesn't make a move or anyting just stands there watching her."
"You still there?" Donavon asked over the walkie talkie.
"Yeah just a dead body." The girl lied.
"Okay well I need to go keep going straight until you see a sign that shows a staircase."
"Okay." She girl said as she moved slowly passed the ghost rider who only moved its head.
"Once you reach that you're going to climb the staircase until you reach the top floor, there you will find the main control room."
"Got it."
Stiles paced back and forth sick to his stomach. Scott was missing and the fair maiden was on their own navigating blind.
He notices a floor vent big enough for someone to crawl through.
The girl ran up the staircase and down the hall where the main control room was located. Once she was in she saw Scott laying on the floor unconscious.
"Scott?" She ran to his aid trying to wake him.
"You there?"
"Yes, and so's Scott, but he's unresponsive."
All of a sudden a loud crash could be heard as the ceiling came in. A loud groan could be heard, as Stiles rose to his feet. The girl gave him a look that showed she was not liking the situation.
"Hi." He says clearly embarrassed about his entrance.
The girl shook her head reluctantly accepting the situation, "I need your help." She says.
"Yeah with what?" he goes around one of the control consoles and sees his best friend unresponsive and dread befall his entire body in an instant. He rushed to his friend trying to get him to wake up.
The girl saw one of the safe that's contained the key she needed. She went up to it and saw that it had the key pad. Not being a fool and tired of the whole situation she grabed the safe with all of her strength that she had and threw it down with all of her might breaking it to a point where the hinges snapped. She ripped opened the door and took out a key. She spotted the other safe on the other side and did the same thing retrieving the key from it.
"I have the keys what do I do next and we found Scott." The girl confirmed.
"We?"
"Style fell through the ceiling."
"WHAT?!" Sheriff could be heard over the conversation.
"That matters not what do I do now?"
"You and Stiles need to turn the keys, that will activate the turbine and give power back to this place." Donavan explained.
Stiles left his friend's side and took one key from the girl. He went to key slot to find that it had a key pad next to it to release the key cover. He was about to say something until the girl with her bare hands smashed the cover breaking it. She did the same on the one on her side. She inserted the key into it, and Stiles followed suit.
"Type in code 4-1-8-9 and at the exact same time not a second late not a second early turn the keys counter clockwise."
They typed in the code and counted before turning the keys at the same time waiting for something to happened. Nothing did. Then all of a sudden the plant back to quack and shook, light flashed and alarms sounded.
"Is that supposed to happen?" Tracy asked
Then loud banging could be heard from the other side of the door and dents were being made with each bang.
All of a sudden the glass broke sending Stiles and the girl to the ground. They rushed to Scott who still remained on the floor and attempted to move him only for Stiles to notice something off. The girl looked up and saw this too, only she saw herself staring back at them.
"Whose that?" she asked.
"You." Stiles answered.
"Me?"
"You don't know what you look like?"
"I never look in the mirror."
The doppelganger stands there quietly without moving a muscle then all of a sudden from behind a doppelganger that looked exactly like Scott stood by the doppelganger girl.
"You should give yourself more credit than you do." Doppelganger said.
"It speaks." She girl said.
"Yes, I do speak. Poor Scott." It mocked, "Always trying to be the hero yet still the helpless boy inside."
The girl rose to her feet and started to make her way towards them.
"It wouldn't matter anyways it will all come crashing down."
"That depends only problem is, you not the devil of this story you're just practice."
"Is that so? Usually no one ever stands up to me so easily, though you're not like the others."
"Well been working on it to no avail. That and the only reason why I'm not going to snap you in two is because this isn't my fight. Neither of you are my demons. Looks like the Devil will have to lose another one tonight."
The girl rushes to Scott's side.
"Scott I need you to do something right now. I know you can hear me, I just need you to listen me. Whatever your feeling, whatever fear you have, all of the issues and all the memories, I need for you to use them. Use them. Make them work for you. Their your fears, your demons, I want you to bring them all forward and use them like a weapon. You control them just like you control your own nature control them. This is your story you're the protagonist, you're the writer of your own story. If you can be your own anchor then you sure as hell can be your own hero. Make the story go where you want to go. Be the hero you need."
As she says this Scott is trapped in a mind prison much like Stiles was in an all white room playing chess on the nemeton with the Doppelganger hearing the maiden's voice and with that Scott took every nightmare everything that he had in him and started to make it boil over. He swings his arm across the chess broad making the pieces fall to the floor and starts to beat the Doppelganger.
"No." the Doppelganger moaned, "No!"
Scott's eyes snapped open his alpha eyes and let out an ear piercing roar that rang through the plant.
The doppelganger starts to violently shake and the girl got up to her feet and went up to Doppelganger Scott who tried to intimidate her, but the girl grabbed him by the chest and in one swift motion ripped him in half revealing him to be the Anuki-tan.
"What better form to take than your own." The girl said.
Stiles covered his eyes, but the girl did not even thought it was looking right at her with its glowing blue piercing eyes, the girl did not turn to stone. It went right up to her tower over her, but it could trace no fear from her.
"You're too close." The girl warned.
The Anuki-tan did not take the warning.
"I'm really getting tired of people getting in my face, you outta get out of it before I rearrange yours."
The Anuki-tan did not take the girl seriously and in a blink of an eye the girl struck it with a head butt. The Anuki-tan flailed back and was met with a sucker punch to the face. It turned into a Berserker, and went for a punch, but caught its arm and twisted brought herself towards it elbowing it right in the chin.
She then grabs its arm again twisting it towards it back it then takes the form of a dread doctor shifting itself towards the girl with needle in hand attempting to stab her with it. The girl counteracts the attack grabbing it by the wrist while punching it in the stomach taking the needle from it hands and stabbing it into its neck.
While still having its arm in her grasp she ducks down and rolls under its leg giving her the momentum she need to flip it over making it land onto the floor with a loud thud. In the process of this it took the form of a ghost rider, taking out its gun and shot at the girl, which missed her.
She took its wrist and twisted it enough to snap it. It managed to take the form of an Oni using its katana to strike, but the girl caught the blade when it tried to do a head strike, the break the tip of the blade and uses it to stab it in the chest before punching it in the face making it go back to its original form.
Tired and weak and out witted, the Anuki-tan wobbled and shook as it proved to be no match for the girl. The girl ran at it jumping on to a console and performing a kick flip in mid air kicking it in the head. The girl lands on her feet. The Anuki-tan began to throw a punch, but the girl dodged it each time before grabbing it by the arms and head butted it. She then grabbing it by its head and started kneeing it in the face a few times before swigging it behind her with its head still in her hands as she brought it onto her shoulder keeping a strong and forceful grip on it.
It struggled and fought trying to get realized, but it only made the girl's grip grow tighter.
"What a little bitch!" the girl mocked before snapping its neck.
Doing this caused a force of energy to surged through the room and through out the plant. The girl's eyes flashed causing the turbine to kick in and power was restored back to the plant and through the city. Scott jerked awake indicating that he had won his war.
The girl seeing that the power was back on left the room.
Back at the control room Donavon slowly walked up to the door and looked through the window, but quickly jumps back letting out a scream.
"Shit!" he shouts, he goes up to the door and the girl looks at him.
"Did it work?" she asks.
"Yeah." He chuckles.
"Everyone okay?"
"Yeah." He looks back, "Theo's got a gun!" he laughs, "Oh my God."
"He was waving around, it's going to go off." Hayden warned.
All of a sudden the girl is yanked back by an oni. The Oni takes her away, but the girl fights to get out of its grip which she succeeds. The Oni takes its katana out, but it doesn't seems to make the girl back down, the girl gets into a fighting stance, but her gaze goes to whats behind it. Taking notice of this it turns around and sees a Berserker towers over it. Before the Oni could react the Berserker takes out its bone blade and stabs it right through the Oni's head killing it in an instant.
The girl stands there and looks at the girl before the body turns into shadows. She looks up at the Berserker. Will it turn into a fight? What is this Berserker going to do? Nothing it just stands there and looks at her just like the Ghost rider did, but something more than that happens.
The plant comes back to life, and Derek busts through the door, the group splits up. Not the best idea, but without knowing where exactly the maiden went they had no choice. Some found Scott who was using Stiles as a crutch.
"You guys okay?" Liam asked.
"Yeah, I mean besides nearly turned to stone by the Anuki-tan, I'd say we're good." Stiles stated.
"Wait what?"
"Yeah we saw the Anuki-tan and our girl beat him. More like beat the shit out of him and killed him."
"You're kidding?"
"No." Scott pressed, "Its true she best it."
"And she didn't turn to stone."
"No." Stiles added, "She looked at it in the eye and nothing happened, she just flat out took it down, even it was shocked."
"Is she okay?" Scott asked.
"About that."
Argent followed bloodied foot prints that led him to the woods. He heard a small voice in the distance and followed it.
He found the girl as if she was talking to someone he couldn't see.
"Hey." He said.
The girl got up to her feet and stood there.
"Are you all right?" he asked.
The girl nodded.
"Who were you talking to?"
She didn't answer, but he did get his answer when the Berserker who as if trying to be the girl's equal rose to its feet towering over the girl, but doing no harm to her.
Argent was shocked of this and didn't know how this situation would turn out, would it turn into a fight or something else. Not wanting to find out he tells the girl to come to him, but states that there is nothing to worry about. He presses for her to come forward which she does.
They start to walk away, with the Berserker following close behind.
"He's following us." The girl said.
"Just don't look at him." He warned.
They walked a few feet before the ground gave way for some unforeseen reason. They fell into what looked like an under ground bunker used for training excersices.
"Are you okay?" Argent asked.
"Yes, are you?"
"I am."
They got up to their feet.
"Was this someone's house?"
"I guess we're near the military base. Actually this is what they would use for training tactics back before they shipped out after WWII, looks like we're in one of their training bunkers."
"For fighting the Germans or whomever."
"You're right. I wouldn't be surprised that these passages led to Oak Creek. Believe it or not Beacon Hills used to have a massive amount of Asian American resident. After Pearl Harbor a lot of residents were relocated to Oak Creek not far from Eichen House which was used to help treat people from Oak Creek."
"Concentration camp."
"Interment camp."
"Same damn thing, but no one wants to talk about it because it's the truth and you know it."
"Yes I do."
"What happened after? The camp I mean was it liberated?"
"No."
"Then what?"
Argent stopped and drew his gun and looked around.
"Stay close." He warned.
A harsh an malicious laugh was heard from all areas of the room.
"Don't stop on my account." A voice no one wanted to hear, "Tell her what happened."
Argent looked behind him and shined his light showing the Nogisune in all its glory laughing.
"Let's just say that's where I was born, I came and I fed on their pain, their fear, delicious chaos all around."
Argent stood in front of the girl.
"You may have the tall one, but leave the little one for me." It said.
A hound tackled Argent to the around making the gun go off. The Nogisune chased after the girl while Argent tried to fend off the hound. He kicked it off and went after the two while the hound pursued him.
Not knowing the layout of this place or where to go stopped and hid.
The Nogisune wasn't far behind. He looked around to see where she was. He looked up and down corridors until he heard a noise. He turned and walked down a corridor that led to a staircase.
"You think you can hide from me?" he teased.
He climbed down the stairs once to find that it was barred up. He climbed up back up the staircase.
"Where are you?"
He heard sniffling, turned and found the girl as a dead end crying hitting the wall. She turned to him.
"Please don't hurt me." She begged, "Please don't hurt me, I just want to go home."
He chuckled thinking he won.
He got closer and closer thinking he had one, but he was mistaken.
"Gotcha."
She sucked punches him and they runs passed him. He chases after her pulling her hair she turns back and dead in the face making him fall down the stairs with enough force to break open the bar door.
"This is why I hate long hair." She states.
The girl takes off the Nogisune lets out a scream of frustration.
The girl runs through the passage way and finds Argent injured leaning against the wall.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
"That thing got me." He said.
She looks at his shoulder.
"Yeah been there, they got bad teeth, but I have worse." She says which earns her a smile.
"Let's get out of here. He's not happy and I don't us to find out how mad he is." She was about to help him up until they heard growling from behind.
At the end of the hall there laid the hound creeping. Without hesitation the girl picked up Argent's shot gun, cocked it and pointed it at the hound.
The hound grew closer and closer. The girl then points the gun to the right where old propane tanks stand, Argent takes notice of this, but doesn't say anything.
"It was a pleasure to have met you sir." The girl said, "And it was an honor to fight with you."
"The Pleasure was all mine." Argent replied.
The Hound went in for an attack, but the girl pulled the trigger causing an explosion when it hit the tank.
The explosion was heard and the others rushed to the source of it, but Lydia stayed behind sense something was a mess and went in an entirely different direction.
They got to the bunkers and tried to dig, but were interrupted when Berserker came and snapped at them as if telling them to get back which they did. It started to dig until another Berserker started to rise from the ground and with it Argent was pulled out covered in dirt and shoulder bleeding.
He laid on the ground trying to catch his breath.
"What happened?" Sheriff asked.
The Berserkers frantically dig as if trying to look for something.
"They're looking for her." Argent said.
Though they wouldn't find her for someone else had. The girl was coming to as she was being dragged to somewhere else.
The Darach stood above her taking out a knife. Without saying anything they tried to stab her, but Lydia let out a scream pushing the Darach back.
The scream went unnoticed when a loud roar was heard across the land. The other heard it to along with heavy running footsteps. Liam turned as saw a Berserker running at them, Isaac pushed him out of the way and another Berserker tackled it to the ground. A fight among Berserkers broke out and no one knew why.
Lydia and the girl on the other hand were being pursuer by whatever made the roar. They reached a quarry and went into a nearby office. They hid there, but it seamed that the beast knew they were there as it rammed and tried to get them out.
"We need to split up." The girl suggested.
"How about no."
"How about we face the music and stop this chivy stuff. We're out gunned, out matched, and this thing this whatever it is has been pursuing us maybe even me since the cemetery. Now then we're going to split up, I'm going to go out and distract it, you wait til you count to ten and then you go the other way."
"No please no." Lydia cried, "He tried so hard, he worked so hard."
"Scott is just going to have to live without me in his life, he's done it before he can do it again. I have told him. Maybe this is how the story ends or whatever story that Style boy was talking about. I don't know what the plan was or who the hell made it but this is our plan and this is what we're going to do. I am not going to let that thing beat us both. We did out duty, we did what we needed to do. We did the best we could and this is where we'll leave it. It was a pleasure to have met you Bella."
The girl creeps out fo the office and runs until she near the woods.
"Hey!" she shouts for the beast's attention she gets it and it pursues her through the wood.
Lydia does what she was told and counts to ten and when she reached the number she took off from her refuge and ran the other where.
The girls until she reaches water she touched the water.
"Please work." she prays.
As if her prayers were heard the water turned to ice.
"Yes." She cheers as she runs on the ice.
The beast catches up to her and pounces on her all going black.