I woke up in this fogged-covered clearing I see a large stump in the middle of the woods.
" What the fuck?" I asked as I see the stump let a low glow of red before I feel thrown back into the husk of my old home. I get up as the fog surrounds the foyer. I see the figure that has plagued my dreams move about with the heat that saved me from my wounds.
" I'm starting to get tired of this." I growled as I see the glowing eyes that remind me of a fiery typhoon.
" Time is not on your side. You must help your friends." It growled as I see flames and embers hit the air.
" Remain cautious and when the time comes, defend your home." It growled before releasing a roar that forced the heat to surround me and blasted me.
" Fuck, that was intense!" I screamed as I came to, the heat lingered before I cooled down. I was in a chair. I see Stiles, Allison, and Scott rise from the tubs.
" I saw it. I know where it is." Scott exclaimed before I scrambled up and got Stiles a towel.
" We passed it. There's-there's a stump... this huge tree- well, it's not huge anymore, it was cut down- but it's still big, though! Very big!" Stiles says as I felt myself pause for a moment. I saw that same fucking stump when I went unconscious.
" It was the night we were looking for the body." Scott said as Stiles was shivering. I held him tight.
" Yeah, the same night you were bitten by Peter." Stiles replied as he looked at Scott then looked at me with shock.
" I was there, too, in the car with my mother. We almost hit someone." Allison says as Lydia wraps her up in the towel.
" It was me- you almost hit me." He told her with shock and then he looked at Deaton.
" We can find it." Scott said as the atmosphere died quickly Stiles looked concerned.
"...What?" Allison asked as Isaac spoke up.
" You guys were out a long time." He told us. I remember passing out and waking up.
" How long is a long time?" Stiles asked as he stopped shaking.
" Sixteen hours." Deaton told us. I was unconscious for sixteen hours! Stiles was under for sixteen!
" We've been in the water for sixteen hours?" Scott yelled in shock.
" And the full moon rises in less than four." He told his friend before looking at me with concern.
" Raven? Are you ok?" Deaton asked as I was confused.
" I'm alright, just stress probably." I say as I shrugged. Stiles looked at me then at Deaton.
" What happened?" Stiles asked as Deaton looked at him before looking at me.
" After you three went under, Raven passed out and didn't wake till you did." He told them. I felt their eyes on me with worry as Stiles looked panicked.
" What?" Stiles asked before looking deep into my eyes and checking me over. He was in freezing water for sixteen hours and was concerned for me.
" I'm alright Sti. I promise." I told him as I take his hands into mine.
" I don't want you getting hurt. Not again." He told me as I smiled.
" I won't. You can't keep me down." I say as I rub my thumb on the back of his hand.
" You sure?" He asked as I made my eyes glow with a fiery blaze of hope.
" I love you enough to keep fighting. I will always fight for our friends. For my family. For this town. Most importantly for you." I told him as he smiled brightly.
" God I love you." He told me before kissing me with desperation and longing. I pulled away as my phone goes off. I check to see a text from Derek.
" My brother needs me." I say as Stiles holds my cheeks in his wet hands.
" Make it out of this alive." Stiles told me as I nodded. There was a fire in his eyes that spoke volumes to me.
" I'll always make it back to you. You would have to slaughter my hope to stop me." I say as he nods. He pulled me into a deep kiss that made my soul flare with a fire to keep him alive. I parted from him.
" You sure you are going to be ok?" Lydia asked as I was about to leave. I turned to her as flashes of my dream hit me.
" I think so. I'm not sure exactly why I passed out. Why? What is going on in your thoughts?" I asked as she looked to displace her thoughts.
" I swore this heat filled the room and when I asked everyone else as you weren't waking up if they felt it. They told me no." She said taking my hand.
" We will figure this out, but first to find Noah, Melissa, and Chris." I told her before she hugged me. I parted from her and proceeded to leave the building and run home. The storm overhead was brutal, but I made it home.
" What's going on?" I asked after I ran up the stairs to see Cora awake.
" Thank god you are fucking ok!" I screamed as I ran to her and embraced her. She held me tight before we parted. I turned to Derek and hugged him.
" How did you?" I asked as we parted. His eyes began to glow. I was shocked. His eyes glowed the familiar cold steel blue of a beta whose soul was darkened by the killing of an innocent.
" How?" I asked him.
" I gave up the Alpha Spark to save her. I had no choice." He said as his eyes went to their shade of green. I hugged him again.
" I'm proud of you brother." I say with a smile as I pulled away. The opening of the loft door made us four Hales turn to see Lydia and Ethan.
" We know about the lunar eclipse, so don't think Kali's gonna sit around waiting for it to level the playing field. She's coming, and my brother's coming with her." Ethan calmly explained to all of us.
" Good enough for me. Derek? Raven? Do you now see the dire circumstance of getting your asses out of here?" Peter said as I sat on the window sill with my arms crossed.
" You want us to run? To flee like cowards? Tails between our legs like morons?" I asked my uncle as I felt the urge to fight.
" No, I want you to stay and get slaughtered by an Alpha with a psychotic foot fetish." He replied sarcastically.
" Of course I want you to run, sprint, gallop, leap your way the hell out of this town!" He continued his rant.
" If you want to fight and die for something, that's fine with me. But do it for something meaningful." Cora told me before looking at Derek. I had a meaningful purpose to fight. This was my home. I'm not letting some bitch with an attitude run me out of the one place that has truly let me thrive. The one place that has broken me out of my shell.
" How do you know we are gonna lose?" Derek asked her as I stood up and stood next to my brother.
" We don't." Peter told us before I see him looking at my best friend.
" But, I'll bet she has an idea. Don't you, Lydia?" Peter asked her. I see her look about and fear grows around her.
" What are you feeling?" I asked as she looked at all of us.
" I don't know anything." She said as she had her arms crossed in a way that I knew, it had something to hide.
" But you feel something, don't you?" Peter coursed her as she looked up.
" I feel like...I'm standing in a graveyard." She told us all. The fear radiated off her like a tornado.
" You can go. I'll stay." I told my brother. He looked at me with worry. I made my eyes flare with the Alpha Spark that bloomed within my soul.
" She may have a foot fetish. But I have something she doesn't. The will to keep standing for what is right." I told him as he stared deep into my eyes. My resolve was unshaken by all that was counting down to chaos and death.
" I can handle a bitch." I told him before he hugged me tight.
" Don't die on me." He whispered in my ear. I parted from him and put up my fist.
" I'm a Hale. Hard to Kill. Hard to Keep Down." I replied as he bumped his fist with mine. I watched as Derek, Cora, and Peter left. I see Cora giving me a hope-filled gaze before leaving. I stood with Lydia and Ethan in my loft.
" If it comes down to it. I'll die for the right cause." I told Lydia as I see her fear. I pulled her into a deep hug.
" I know you got this." She replied before we parted. The waiting game soon seized as Kali and Aiden came into the room. She kicks the alarm off the beam.
" You are going to have to compensate for that." I told her with a blank stare.
" Where is he?" Kali said as I grinned at her with hate in my eyes.
" I think he said he was heading out to do some shopping, run a few errands... The usual...Werewolf afternoon." Lydia replied as Kali slowly walked up. Aiden behind her.
" Who do you think you're talking to?" Kali asked her as I see Lydia stand firm.
" Someone in desperate need of a pedicure. I'd be happy to give you a referral!" Lydia promptly said with annoyance.
" I see the sister stayed for a chat." Kali said with a smirk.
" Just keeping the balance. You have walked down a dark path, Kali. It might have led you to your death. How many people suffered at your claws to make you the augmented Alpha I see? Ten? Twenty? A Hundred?" I asked her. She growled at me before I see Aiden growling at Kali. The tables have turned. She turns to him.
" Oh, really?" Kali asked incredulously.
" Did someone take their assignment too seriously?" She asked as she circled the Alpha twin that defied her. The seeds of malice have sown their way into the room as the storm above got worse.
" She's not the problem." Aiden told her before I see her stand in front of her.
" Maybe the problem is where your loyalties lie." Kali said with anger in her voice. I felt different as the buzz of all that was happening began to circle the room.
" Oh, God... Is this about to get really violent?" Lydia asked with fear.
" I had that same thought." I replied to her.
" Probably." Ethan replied to us before the skylight was slightly shattered as I see Jennifer come through it. Oh Fuck! She got up as Ethan held my best friend.
" Stay down." I told her before letting my claws out and my eyes flaring their ruby red.
" So... Who wants to go first?" Jennifer asked in an arrogant tone. Kali went after her with no hesitation. Trying to land a fatal strike to put the Darach down, but she was failing at each attempt. Jennifer took the chance when Kali got close to landing a hit that sent her flying across the room.
" Fuck." I growled as I see Aiden at a half shift go next. He tried the same fatal strike combo on her and was promptly tossed like a rag doll. Ethan left Lydia's side to go fuse with his brother as I went to Lydia's side. As they tried to fuse, Jennifer stopped them before forcibly parting them. They were both flung to opposite sides of the room.
" Jesus Christ." Lydia gasped as Kali got up to face Jennifer again. Moving stride after stride to land a hit, only to fail. Kali stood looking tired as Jennifer was in the middle of the glass on the floor.
" That's right, Kali... Look at me. Look at my face." Jennifer said with human disdain in her voice. The pain fused with the malice.
" Do you know what it takes to be able to look like this? To be able to look normal?" Jennifer continued as her stance kept firm. Kali didn't move. She never left her place as the once good druid stood before she turned into the deadly snake that became of this town.
" I don't care." Kali said in a way that made me feel for her. She made it sound like it was all her fault. If she never hurt her, she wouldn't have become this thing. The power hunger serpent before her.
" It takes power. Power like this." Jennifer sneered before her hands went out to the side and the glass began to float as the storm above got more violent.
" I-" Kali stammers as the glass shards surround Jennifer. I hold Lydia's hand as her fear was overwhelming my senses.
" I should've." Kali growled as I see her shaking with anger and fear. The glass shards aimed with pointed and serrated ends right for the Alpha.
" I SHOULD'VE RIPPED YOUR HEAD OFF!" Kali screamed as Jennifer screamed out. The shards all fired into her body to cut off Kali's scream. She fell to the ground as the shards deeply embedded into her. Jennifer turned to both Lydia and me as I felt my friend's fear rising even more. I see Ethan and Aiden had fused, grabbing Jennifer's attention. They went to swipe at her but as they turned Jennifer grabbed their necks and broke it. They fall to the ground as the blood left their mouth.
" What's the line Coach likes to say? The bigger they are...?" Jennifer asked us as she looked at us. I stood in front of Lydia at full shift.
" Leave her out of this." I growled as she came up quickly and hit me hard enough to toss me across the room. I let out a hasted breath as blood fell out of my nose. I looked up to see Jennifer had Lydia cornered.
" What do you want from me?" Lydia asked as her heart was beating like crazy.
" I want you to do what you do best, Lydia." She told her with a sinister grin.
" I want you to scream." She told her before violently shifting to her slashed-up state. Lydia screamed as I covered my ears. I got up and went to Lydia's side.
" You know that blood will be shed tonight and it might be your own." I said as I looked up at the enemy.
" Sure you killed the one who tried to murder you. However, you do realize that Scott will overpower you and Deucalion might kill you." I told Jennifer as she growled at me. Derek and Cora came through the door not long after. Cora came by my side after I wiped my nose of blood. Derek looking about the carnage.
" You did this for me?" Derek asked with skepticism in his voice.
" For us. For anyone who's ever been their victim." Jennifer replied as I was angry at all that has happened for the past fucking month.
" Stop talking to me like a politician! Stop trying to convince me of your cause!" Derek yelled at her.
" Fine. I'll convince you of someone else's- Scott's. You can save his mother, Stiles' father." She said with a shrug causing my brother to stay where he was.
" How?" Derek asked her.
" I need a guardian... And that's a role that can either be filled by the three parents I was forced to take, or by you." She demanded as she sounded desperate at this point.
" I can't help you. I'm not even an Alpha anymore." He replied as I listened close.
" All I need is for you to help me get Deucalion in the right place at the right time." Jennifer pleaded as she stepped towards him. I wanted to shut her up, but Derek gave me a look.
" You just killed three of them on your own. What do you need me for?" Derek says as he puts his gaze on her again.
" You haven't seen him at his strongest- I have. And, if he's got Scott with him, I don't stand a chance unless I have you." She said with a coy tone that made me feel sick.
" Derek, don't trust her." Cora screamed out.
" She's just going to kill them when she's finished." I said standing up.
" I have the eclipse in my favor. But, the moon's only gonna be in the earth's umbral shadow for fifteen minutes. That's the extent of my window. There's no decision to struggle with- help me kill him, and the other's live. Just help me." Jennifer demanded of my brother. He looked at me and then at the bodies. I watched as he gave me an apologetic look before leaving with her.
" Holy fuck." I said as I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.
" This ends here and now." I said as I forced my claws out.
" Get her somewhere safe." I told Cora as I pulled Lydia into a tight hug.
" Stay safe. I'm going to help them. If I have to die helping them. I don't mind." I told her before parting from her and she gave me a nod. I walked to the door that lead to the balcony and looked back. I will save everyone. I know I can do this. I opened the door and walked out. I let myself fully shift and let out a roar. I jumped down the side of the building and proceeded to run. I felt like I was running for a while before I was sent a video by Scott. I hit play and watched it.
" You see this symbol? It's a symbol of revenge. You talk about balance, about saving people... We know what you really want. And now, you know where to find us." He told the camera before I saw the spiral. I know where that was!
" Of course!" I screamed out before running towards the distillery. As I reach the outer part of the forest, I see the Eclipse has started. I feel my power dispel as I reach the forest line.
" Human." I told myself as I sprint to the entrance of the distillery. The moonlight's amber shade lit up the inside. I see the Darach slamming Deucalion's head into the ground with brutal force.
" Jennifer! He doesn't know." Derek screamed out. This caused Jennifer to stop and look at him. I went behind a few boxes. Scott seeing me, I gave the hush sign.
" Know what?" She demanded. Her voice echoed and distorted.
" What you really look like. He knows the cost of bringing Kali into his pack, but he's never seen the price you paid." Derek said as Jennifer looked back at the blind Alpha. Was he stalling for the eclipse to end so we could take her down?
" No. No, he hasn't." She replied before putting her hands on Deucalion's face and closing her eyes. The Alpha let out a pain filled scream. She pulled them off when he stopped screaming.
" Turn to me." Jennifer demanded as her voice remained distorted.
" TURN TO ME!" She screamed as she made the distillery shake violently. He looked at her with labored breath as she changed to her disguised self. She tried to give him a death blow before she stumbles. Derek caught her.
" What is this?" She asked as I came out of hiding.
" Healing him made you weak, just like healing Cora did to me. You won't have your strength for at least a few minutes." He told her as she looked at him with desperation on her face.
" Then you do it. Kill him!" She begged and Derek told her no.
" What?" She asked confused.
" Like our mother used to say- I'm a predator... I don't have to be a killer." Derek said as he looked at me and then back at her before grabbing her neck to choke her.
" Let them go!" He demanded as he continued to choke her. She got up and began to slam my brother.
" Let him go!" I screamed as I ran at her but she tossed me towards Scott. I got up with his help to see Jennifer turn away from my brother to go for Deucalion. I walked over with a light limp and stood with him. She grabs both of us and proceeds to slam us into a metal vat. Thoughts of Cora slashing me when I tried to save her from killing this bitch in the first place flashed in my head before she tossed me aside to focus on my brother. I looked to see the moonlight had turned back to its normal silver sheen.
" Bad move lady." I growled as I felt my power flood back into my body as I felt my eyes glowing. The familiar heat that had been coursing through my veins for the past few weeks came through.
" Your fifteen minutes are up." Derek told her as his eyes glowed their blue tone. He threw her off of him quickly, and with Scott, by our side, we tried to attack her. Jennifer smirked as she threw up a circle of mountain ash to keep her safe. We all quickly stopped at the ash line. Fuck!
" Like I told you, Derek- either you or the parents. Well, I guess I'll just have to take them, now." Jennifer said as her anger floods off of her. I growled at her with the rage that had set itself in my veins.
" In a few minutes, they'll be dead, and I won't need a lunar eclipse, even to kill a Demon Wolf!" She spat at us with venom and disdain that her plan didn't work.
" How about you drop dead." I growled as I see Scott going up to the line with his hands up.
" You've tried this before, Scott." Jennifer mocked as Scott's determined look said it all.
" I don't remember you having much success." She continued to mock my friend as he pressed into the barrier.
" Well, then you don't know him like I do." I told her as I glared at her. I know Scott can do this. I believe in him. As he continued to press into it. I can see the barrier's surface on all sides glowing like electricity. Scott pressed into it deeper as the light began pulsing through him, his eyes glowing the fierce gold I had known for a long time as he had one hand going a bit further into the shell.
" Come on Scott, you can do this." I told him. I see the smile fading from Jennifer's face as Scott continues to press through. I see his eyes glistening as they evolve from the once-innocent golden glow of a beta to a searing red of an Alpha. Scott takes one big step inside before taking another step inside the barrier. The line shatters with a blast like gunfire. Jennifer scrambles on the ground.
"...How did you do that?" She asked him as her fear was wafting off like a hurricane.
" I'm an Alpha now." Scott said as I can see him accepting his new role.
" Whatever you're doing to cause this storm? Make it stop. Or I'll kill you myself. I don't care what it does to the color of my eyes." Scott told her as I heard Deucalion getting up behind us.
" It won't change the color of mine…" Deucalion growled as he walked past us.
" So allow me." He growled before slicing open Jennifer's throat. She grabbed it gasping for air as she changed to the slashed up state. The storm then settled after he sliced her throat open. We backed up and Scott called Stiles.
" You going to be ok?" I asked my brother, he smiled and nodded.
" Thank you for trying to save my ass." He said as I smirked.
" Like I always do." I told him with a smirk.
" Hey, are you okay?" Scott asked as I listened in on the conversation.
" Yeah, we're okay. We're all okay. How about you? You okay?" Stiles asked him. I smiled and nodded to Scott.
" Sort of." Scott replied with a strain on it.
" You think you can come get us?" Stiles asked as I heard laughter in the background.
" Yeah, of course." Scott said with a slight smile.
" Great! Okay. Um, uh... Bring a ladder. Hey is Raven there?" Stiles told him.
" Here she is." Scott said before handing me the phone. I quickly snagged it.
" Stiles?" I asked as his voice piqued on the other end.
" You ok? Are you hurt?" He asked as I smiled.
" No, I'm ok. Just a few scrapes that have healed." I replied as I heard him sigh but pick up again.
" Thank god! I'll see you soon! I love you." Stiles says as my heart soared.
" Love you more." I told him before hanging up and giving Scott back his phone. We all turned our attention to Deucalion, who was sitting in a corner not talking.
" Our mother told me you were a man of vision once. We're letting you go because we hope you can be that man again." Derek said with his arms crossed. Deucalion then looked at Scott.
" But, if you're not, then having your eyesight back won't matter... Because you'll never see us coming." Scott informed him before he turned his eyes to me.
" Tread lightly where you go, see the errors of a broken path, and pave a new one of peace and understanding." I advised him. We then left him behind. Derek let us climb into his Jeep so we could rescue everyone. Scott lead us to the Nemeton. We lifted everyone out of the hole. After I pulled Noah and Stiles out, I gave my boyfriend the biggest kiss I could muster. He held me tight before we parted. I stood before Noah, who looked disheveled and tired.
" So she's a werewolf?" Noah asked as I nodded. Stiles pulled me in for a side hug.
" Yeah, she's one of the greatest. " Stiles replied as I grinned widely.
" It's going to take some getting used to." Noah replied as I put my head up high.
" I'm the same person as I was before, just keeping my family's affliction a secret." I replied with a slight shrug.
" I understand." Noah said as Derek came up with a smile.
" Don't worry, your son is in good hands. If anything, she is capable of keeping him out of trouble." Derek said as Noah smiled.
" Never doubted it for a second." He replied as Stiles picked me up and spun me about. I laughed loudly as he put me down. The next day was a fresh start for no more murders. I woke up, showered, and got dressed in a black racerback with a silver rose decal and I slipped myself in a pair of tight leather pants before putting on my combat boots. I put on my black lipstick and grabbed my black leather jacket. I put my hair in a long braid before walking into the living room to see Derek and Cora with a duffel bag.
" Taking her back to South America?" I asked as he nodded. Cora came over and gave me a hug. We parted as I smiled.
" Take care sis." I told her as I gave her a pat on the shoulder.
" Be the Alpha I can respect." She remarked before I see her go to the door.
" I'll be back in a week. The workers are coming later today to fix the skylight." Derek said as I walked up to him and gave him a hug.
" I'll be seeing you. I can handle you being gone for a bit." I told him as he nods with a rare smile plastered on his face. I watched him leave. I got a text from Stiles that he was gonna be my ride to school. I grabbed my bag and headed downstairs. I smiled as I see him in his Jeep. A small bump on the fender. I get in and give him a kiss.
" God I missed you!" I said as he smiled. He gave me a cup of hot coffee and I smiled even wider.
" And this is one of the billion reasons I love you." I told him with a deep smile.
" You are the reason I love you." He told me with a grin. We head to school and meet up with Scott. He smiles as he sees us. What I didn't know, was the next events were already set in stone and we would be faced with one of the greatest threats before us.