Losing my Mind

Chapter 23: Tattoo?

Stiles woke with a sharp pain in his leg, a piercing, burning sensation but it was worse than that, he whimpered but as soon as he looked over at Isaac he knew he had to hold himself together.

He lifted his right pant leg to see the burn mark had formed a black kind of liquid that moved around on his ankle, after several seconds of watching the liquid move it started morphing into something that looked like a tree and then it sank into his skin causing a searing pain to flow through his body, he cried out in agony and grabbed his ankle.

After several painful minutes the pain was replaced with a dull throb, Stiles let go of his ankle and looked to see a glowing red tree, the red glow faded to black and eventually it looked normal, to anyone it looked like a tattoo but in Stiles' gut he knew it was something much more sinister.

***

Stiles limped into class, late, he apologised to the teacher as the tree kept sending spikes of pain up his leg.

" Stiles!" Raven called pointing to a chair next to her, Brad and Damon.

Stiles looked over at the pack who looked mightily confused, he walked to them and sat next to Lydia, ignoring Raven totally.

" Stiles! " She repeated.

Still he ignored her, all three of them then moved to the seats next to Stiles and the pack.

" Stiles " Raven said looking straight at him.

" What?!" Stiles asked irritably.

"We wanted to ask, well more like offer you something" Raven said putting a hand on his shoulder.

"If it's anything like last time, I'll pass" Stiles said shrugging her hand off.

" It's not like that but that is still up for offer anytime, anyway it's about us" Raven said gesturing to him and herself.

As he was about to answer pain shot up from the tattoo and through his whole body, he cried out unexpectedly, doubling over.

It faded a bit, his breathing was heavy as his body throbbed painful, luckily not as painful as a few seconds ago but still painful enough to make him run out into the hallway.

He leaned against the lockers and dropped to the floor, putting his arms on his knees, head hanging between them, not touching at all.

He let out a shaky breath as tears started to flow and he let them, he didn't even try to stop them.

After a few minutes he made up his mind, he got up and walked to his locker.

As soon as he got everything he needed, he walked to his car and road home.

***

The first thing he did was tell his dad and Isaac, then he opened his laptop and started researching about the Oni, Kitsunes and Nogitsunes.

He found loads of information to give to Derek and printed it out, intending on giving it to him later.

Next he decided to look up anything about the tattoo and after about two hours of no luck, he came across a website named Celtic Magic, as soon as clicking on it the picture of a tree came up and he knew it was the exact same one.

He was about to start reading it but the screen went black, he started clicking the buttons, confused, but it didn't work, he let out a sigh of frustration and sat back in his seat staring at the blank screen.

A minute passed by and still nothing so he decided to get some food before trying to fix it.

He went downstairs, made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then came back up and sat down.

He took a huge bite of the sandwich, then put it down and looked back at his laptop.

His breathing caught in his throat as he stared at the screen, it was no longer off and on the screen stood a message from someone named; unknown.

You won't see me coming but when you do it'll be too late! You're not special! You're a nobody! And you deserve every bad thing that comes your way!

Stiles was taken aback by this message and its gruesome nature.

Who would say such a thing?

He closed the message and tried to go back to his research but it was gone, he typed in the sites name but no results came up.

He sat back officially creeped out and had also lost his appetite.

He switched the laptop off and tried to take his mind off it.

No one would actually try to kill me, right?

He closed his eyes for a second before he decided to go for a walk and relax his mind, he brought a bag for the information, deciding that after his walk he would drop by Derek's loft.