The Lost Hunter ⚜ Teen Wolf [Crossover Fanfiction]

Chapter 29 ⚜ The Divine Move

Lydia POV

I'm sitting in the same hallway where Noshiko exorcised the nogitsune in the 40s. I hear the screaming of the people who died there.

The nogitsune asks me if I can hear it. "It's louder than usual, isn't it? Well, that's because a lot of bad things happened down here." He hides a little smile. He asks me what the voices are saying and if they're telling her that Stiles is dying because he is.

I keep shuffling down the corridor, hurrying away from him without being able to really run. I ask him what he needs me for.

"You think I can tell you something?" The nogitsune laughs as I reach the gate at the end of the hall. "Oh, I know you can." He appears right behind me and tells me that I won't have to tell him anything. "You'll be screaming." I take a breath and scream.

I walk further down corridors at Oak Creek and end up at another locked gate. I tell myself that my friends will find me. The nogitsune sits down on the top of the stairs and says that he's wondering what my friends are doing right now, what useless lead they're chasing.

"Are they really spending every minute looking for you?" he asks me. "Or are they waiting for nightfall?"

I turn around and ask the nogitsune what he wants. "More."

"More what?"

The nogitsune explains that trickster stories are all about food. The coyote, the raven, the fox. "They're all hungry." It walks down the steps and says that it's the same.

"I just crave something a little different. I eat what you feel." I turn away, and the nogitsune presses up against my ear. "And I'm insatiable."

I stare at the nogitsune and realize that he's nervous. He knows that my friends are coming and they're going to kill him. He leans in and tells me that that's why he's keeping me so close.

⚜ The Lost Hunter ⚜

Narrator POV

Everyone arrives at Oak Creek. Scott tries to give them a pep talk about how they've done something like this before. They saved Malia, who was a total stranger.

Allison says "I'm here to save my best friend"

"I'm here to save mine," Scott says with a glance at Stiles. Isaac shrugs. "I just didn't feel like doing any homework." They head in.

Noshiko tells her daughter to go home and take her friends with her. "I can't. When I looked at the game, I realized who I was actually playing. You."

Stiles and Scott run into the compound, and Scott hears my heartbeat.

Allison aims an arrow at Noshiko and orders her to call the Oni off. Noshiko asks if they think they can save the nogitsune. She tried that 70 years ago and it didn't work.

Kira thinks her mother is afraid to learn that maybe it is possible to save Stiles, which means it would have been possible to save Rhys. "I see I am no longer the fox now, Kira. You are. But the nogitsune is still my demon to bury." The Oni disappear.

⚜ The Lost Hunter ⚜

Lydia POV

The nogitsune locks himself and me inside a cell. I announce that my friends are here and I don't even need to scream to know that they're going to kill him. "Good. Cause that's exactly why I brought you.

I needed to know when they'd be close enough. When my own death was closing in." He produces Noshiko's last Tails.

The Oni appear inside the cell with us. I run to hide against the wall, and the nogitsune breaks the Tails, taking control of the Oni.