COMPLETED [ B O O K T W O - S E A S O N S 3 A + 3 B ]
Four months since defeating the Kanima, Madison Stilinski had lived a normal summer filled with fun, trying her best not to think about Derek Hale. But when a pack of Alpha's roam to town...
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Snow continued to fall down upon us, and as it touched my skin, I realised it felt very, very real. Whatever this was, couldn't be though - right? Suddenly, stumbling in from a corner in the far distance stood a figure I recognised all too well.
The Nogitsune.
Only he didn't look like Stiles. Instead, he was wrapped in bandages like how I'd seen in my vision or hallucination of when Stiles had been 'kidnapped', and when I'd separated the two and he'd appeared. He continued to slowly stumble forward, and I realised he was moving toward us. Kira withdrew her sword, positioning it threateningly infront of us, and I moved infront of Stiles, nervously.
"Like I promised, Stiles." His voice echoed throughout the air. "We're going to kill all of them. One by one." The Nogitsune lifted his hand, mounting it into a fist and all of a sudden we heard a shriek and the oni appeared before us.
Four of them circled around us, the Nogitsune positioned at the centre and they begun to slowly move towards us.
"What the hell is this? Where are we?" Scott demanded.
"Between life and death." The Nogitsune responded.
"Bardo." Lydia recalled, what Kira had taught us when we'd first met her. So much had happened since then - it felt like that had been months ago yet it had only been a couple weeks.
"But there are no peaceful deities here, Lydia. You're dying, Stiles. All thanks to your sister." The creature spoke, and I guilty swallowed. "And now everyone you care about, is dying too."
Stiles furrowed his brows "What? What do you mean?"
"I've captured almost all the territories on the board, Stiles. The hospital, the Sheriff's Station, and now the animal clinic." He announces. If he has hurt my dad...if my dad was..."Do you know the ritual of seppuku, Stiles?"
"No, and I don't want to." My brother responds, stepping back a little, practically glued to my side.
"When a samurai disembowels himself with his own sword to maintain his honor, but that's not the cut that kills him. The killing stroke is made by his kaishakunin, who beheads the samurai with his own katana." He tells the story, before he turns and raises his hand up right in my direction. "Madison...Madison is your kaishakunin."
Was he trying to insinuate what I think he was? That I'd behead Stiles? My own brother?
"I'm going to make your twin sister kill you, Stiles. And you're going to let her. Because just like you, they're all going to die. Everyone touched by an Oni's blade. Unless," The Nogitsune explained, moving right up to Stiles and I raising his finger. "Madison kills you first."
