Forest Element ~Teen Wolf FanFic~

Chapter 6

"Mum, my lamps dead. Have we got any more bulbs? Mum?" Kira calls from the other side of the house. Groaning I get up and look at my clock, after midnight, sighing my feet touch the cold timber floors and I freeze as I get sucked into vision.

Stiles fiddles with his phone and manages to turn the torch on. Turning on his side he faces the light to his leg, blood covers his foot and pyjama bottoms. His legs been snagged in a trap made for bears and animals. He screams in pain a another sound erupts from across the basement.

"Who's there?" He asks and holds the light up. "I know your there I can hear you." He says again as a tear rolls down his face. He stops the light on a figure hiding behind a object. "Who are you?" He asks and the figure drops a piece of chalk from his hand, Stiles looks at the chalk laying on the ground before looking up again, the person gone but a backwards five was drawn in the wall in chalk.

The symbol for self. "Self" Stiles says and all of a sudden a breeze erupted and leaves blew towards the symbol as it went up in smoke and disappeared.

I fell back onto my bed breathing hard and staring at nothing. What does it all mean? The symbol disappearing? The man with Stiles? One thing is for sure, Stiles is missing and it's the coldest night of the year.

Jumping up I changed into jeans, a long sleeved shirt an jumper. Putting on my boots I moved to the door but my gut was telling me different. Move to the window a voice said. My gut was telling me to do the same thing and so I did. Jumping out the window I ran to the woods, the weather was cold, colder than I thought.

Running harder I followed my gut while my head was screaming to go to the cops. Follow your instincts Sukoshi kitsune. I froze as I felt my heart stop, "Dean?" I called out, nobody else ever called me that. "Dean!?" I screamed.

Turning in a circle I only saw woods and trees, however something was different. I moved closer and saw farther ahead the trees and plants were healthier, more alive, while the side I was on was less vibrant and more dead. Walking forward slowly I crossed the line.

I felt a tingle of warmth, comfort, in this half of the forest. I felt the nature welcome me and the grass, it reached for me. "Foxfire." I said to myself as I remembered the fire of light I let off when the Oni attacked.

Shaking my head I couldn't help but laugh. With that laugh everything brightened and I felt myself lighten for the first time in a year. Focus Carly, I told myself and started running again. How could leaves get into a basement? I thought to myself as I found the Nemeton. "Why do I always come back to you? Your a bloody tree stump!" I scream and kicked the stump.

Sleepwalking, the voice said. I raised my head and thought, what if I didn't vision Stiles? What if I went inside his head? But that's impossible I can't get inside his head that's not my power, how is the Nemeton connected to Stiles?

So if Stiles is still sleepwalking the leaves in the basement could be a clue. He's in the woods, and the wind was blowing east the whole night. He's east. Running east I continued thinking, what's east in the woods that can convince a sleepwalking person he's in a basement?

Coyote den. The police raided a coyote den that Stiles and Scott found that contained the remains of a girl Malia, who was also found, when she was in a car crash nine years ago.

I ran and ran so fast everything started blurring together. I was still in the vibrant side of the forest when I found it. Not wasting time I ran in and my eyes started to water from the smell. Coughing, I found him shivering on the ground. "Stiles!?" I scream and start dragging him out causing him to scream. I managed to get him outside and shake him awake.