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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍
𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯: 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮
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𝐤𝐚𝐢
I WATCH AS STILES changes again, his eyes changing between pitch black and pure silver, a malicious and bloodthirsty grin on his face, his teeth razor sharp and his nails black in colour and lengthened with a razor sharp point. I've never seen this side of him and neither had Kol by the look on his face. We don't know what to expect from this.
A chuckle that sends shivers down my spine leaves Stiles' mouth. "You don't know what you've gotten yourself into. You don't have manpower to stop us from getting free. You never have, and you never will. There is so much you don't know."
Confusion washes over me. "What are you talking about?"
"We haven't told you everything, Malachai. We're not just what we say we are. We are so much more."
"How many of you are there?"
"The Nogitsune and the Demon. The Angel and the Shifter. The Vampire and the Werewolves. The Witch and the Ghoul. The Wendigo and the Werecat. The Werehyena and the Oni. There are so many of us, and you can't stop us."
"How are there so many of you?! It's impossible!"
Stiles stands up and paces the small space, the chains dragging on the ground. "There is no origin point for all of us. We were bitten by each the Werecat and the Werehyena. They aren't like Werewolves. Oh no."
"What are the differences?"
"Werecats have many different stories depicting them. The Americas have the Werejaguar - like Kate Argent - whereas the Asian countries say that we are Weretigers. The Japanese have a name for us as well. It's bakeneko. In Africa they have legends that describe Werelions, Werepanthers or Wereleopards. In Europe their folklore usually depicts Werecats as people who transform into domestic cats. Some European Werecats became giant domestic cats or even panthers.
"Werehyenas, in the same way as Werecats, have different stories on how we are depicted. In Africa, we are referred to as bultungin which translates into 'I change myself into a hyena'. There is this thing in Ethiopia where it is believed that every blacksmith can change into a hyena, and that they rob graves at midnight. In the folklore of western Sudanic peoples, there is a hybrid creature. It is a human who is nightly transformed into a cannibalistic monster that terrorizes people, especially lovers. It is similar to a Werehyena, but not exactly correct with the terrorising and cannibalism - for most Werehyenas anyway. Arab folklore tells of how Werehyenas can mesmerise victims with their eyes or sometimes with their pheromones. That part is true, we must admit. A Persian medical treatise tells how to cure people known as kaftar, who are said to be 'half-man and half-hyena' and have the habit of slaughtering children. The Greeks used to believe that the bodies of Werewolves, if not destroyed, would haunt battlefields as vampiric hyenas which drank the blood of dying soldiers. That version of us is horribly disgusting and goes along with the cannibalistic thing."
