The Dark Ritual » Scott McCall [1]

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25 ~ battle in the dreams

3rd Person

Scott, Stiles, Allison, Lydia, and Isaac were in Deaton's Animal Clinic, three tubs in center of it, filled with ice cold water, as he explained to them on how they were going to find the Nemeton. "Scott. You, Stiles, and Allison will serve as surrogate sacrifices for your parents. It means that you three will be dead before I bring you back. Your deaths will supercharge the Nemeton but it will also attract other supernatural creatures to Beacon Hills."

"Well it can't be worse than what we already dealt with before." Stiles pointed out. Deaton shook his head. "You'd be surprised at what you've yet to see."

"But I must warn you guys. What you're about to do will take a personal toll on the three of you. You guys will have this permanent darkness around your heart." He added.

"Like a tattoo..." Scott spoke up, grabbing his arm, staring at the tattoo on his bicep.

"Before we do this I have to ask. Did you guys bring any personal belongings of your parents." Deaton asked. The three of them nodded, pulling out the items. "What do you guys have?"

Stiles held a sheriff's badge. "This is my dad's badge. Amelia crushed it at the school but I managed to hammer it out."

"It doesn't have to be perfect. It only has to be sentimental." Deaton said. "Is that a real bullet?" Isaac asked, staring at the bullet in Allison's hands. "Yeah, a silver bullet." She corrected. "It's my dad's, it's a tradition for hunters to craft a silver bullet when they finish their training as a testament to the code."

"What about you Scott?" Deaton asked. Scott pulled out a Timex watch and held it in one of his hands. "My mom got it from my dad on her first day at the hospital. She always told me that this was the only thing that worked in their marriage."

The three teenagers stood by a tub filled with ice cold water and mistletoe as Deaton began to tell them the process of what they're going to do. "Each of you will be held underwater until you guys are essentially dead. The person that will hold you down must also be able to pull you up, meaning that the two of you must have some sort of a emotional attachment."

"Talia's not here though..." Scott said, sadness in his voice. "I'll help you. I've been your boss for a couple years now so we're close anyway." Deaton told him.

Scott McCall

"We know what's wrong with Talia!" All of us looked up to see Jennifer and Amelia running into the clinic with Talia's spell book in one of their hands.

They flipped to the page that read The Dark Ritual, "You said that Talia's eyes and hair was slowly changing color." Jennifer told me and I nodded my head. "When the ritual is performed it creates an evil side of the person that casts it. That evil side is almost an identical version of the person with slight differences."

"So you're saying that Talia's other half took over her? How?" I asked. "The evil side usually stays inside the person's mind until..." She looked down.

"Until what..." I questioned, leaning forward. "Until it feels threaten. Amelia told me that at the hospital when they fought she could see tears in Talia's eyes--"

"She also apologized to me and had a look of regret when she confronted me after kidnapping my mom." I added.

"Yeah, the only reason the evil side comes out is when it feels the original self of the person is coming back." Jennifer said. "So they swapped places. While Talia is trapped in her own mind the evil side of her is in control."