The Return Home

Chapter 6

We split up into two groups to find Malia. It was just us girls in my group other than Scott and Liam. So it was Scott, Liam, Allison, Lydia, Kira and myself, while the rest of the guys went looking for Malia in the opposite direction. We walked to the area where I saw her, then split up from there. Now it was just Lydia, Allison and myself. We walked and looked behind every single bush and tree trying to find her, but nothing. I looked behind a bush seeing nothing until I heard a low growl come from behind me. I slowly turned around to see a large coyote in an aggressive stance on top of a huge boulder. "Malia?" I asked. The coyote just continued to growl at me, and its eyes quickly glowed blue, then faded back to normal. I had a feeling in my gut that whoever turned her into a coyote is now controlling her, but she is doing everything in her power to fight back. "Malia, if you can hear me right now make your eyes glow again!" I said. She growled again bearing her teeth, but her eyes flashed blue. At that point I knew for sure that this coyote was Malia. "Malia, it's ok! Ok, Scott will help turn you back, you just need to come with me ok?" I asked. I slowly turned and took a single step, looking back at Malia. Her eyes glowed blue again, but this time they didn't go back to normal. "Malia, you can trust me! I'll get you to Scott ok! I promise!" I reassured her. She growled, aggressively. I could tell she didn't trust me. "I think I know why you don't trust me. You still have feelings for Stiles, don't you?" I asked. She growled again, bearing her sharp teeth. "Malia, I understand why you don't trust me ok, but right now you have to trust me. Malia, we're family now, you can trust me!" I said. She raised her head in confusion. "I'm one of Derek's sisters. Malia we're cousins, ok I wouldn't do anything to hurt you so please trust me!" I begged. Her eyes went back to normal, and she slowly hopped down from the boulder, walking towards me. She looked frightened. "Everything is gonna be ok!" I reassured her. I turned and we walked to where Allison and Lydia were still looking for Malia. "Guys, I found her!" I said. They turned towards us wide eyed seeing a calm coyote standing beside me. "I'll call Scott!" Allison said, quickly pulling her phone out of her pocket.

Within five minutes Scott, Liam and Kira showed up. "Guys, you might want to cover your ears." Scott said. Of course none of us listened to him as his face began transforming. His eyebrows contorted to where he looked almost angry, his ears grew to points, and his nails turned into claws. He crouched down, looking at the ground he began looking up, his teeth were sharper, and his eyes glowed a crimson red. This was the first time in seven years that I've seen a werewolf in their full form. I couldn't help but smile because this was normal to me. Suddenly a loud monstrous roar came from Scott. I slapped my hands to my ears to try and quiet the loud roar, but it was no use. I looked around at everyone. Kira, Allison, and Lydia just stood there as if they weren't being affected. Liam on the other hand, had his hands covering his ears, but his eyes were glowing yellow, he was a werewolf too, most likely Scott's beta. I decided to see if Scott's roar was affecting Malia, and it was. Her back was arched, and she began to transform back into a human. Once she was completely human again, Scott's roar came to an end. Luckily Kira had brought some extra clothes, because when Malia shifted back to human, she didn't have any clothes on. She threw the clothes on quickly, before everyone else showed up. Uncle Peter immediately ran to Malia, standing in front of her with his hands on her shoulders. "Are you ok?" He asked, sincerely. She nodded. Derek stood at my side. Scott walked up to Derek and I. "Derek, where's Stiles?" Scott asked. I quickly looked around not seeing him anywhere. "He said he needed to leave." Derek said. "I'm gonna go check on him. Allie stay here with your family, ok?" He said. I nodded. "Text me and tell me if he's ok!" I said. He nodded, and with that everyone left, leaving just Derek, Peter, Malia, and I.

"Who would do this to Malia?" I asked to no one specific. Everyone was quiet for moment. "We will figure it out! For now though I'm going to take you back to our place, for safety precautions." Derek explained. I nodded. We got to Derek's Camaro, Malia and I sat in the back seat, while Peter sat up front with Derek and the car ride to Derek's loft was fairly quiet. We walked through the giant steel door to the large opened loft. There wasn't much to it, just a sofa and coffee table on one end, and the other end had a queen size bed, with a large desk in front of the massive window. To the left corner closest to the door was a walkway to what I believed was the kitchen, and on that same wall, but closer to the massive window was a spiral staircase that most likely led to more bedrooms. Other than the little bit of furniture the loft had cement floors, a brick wall that had a gaping hole in it, and the best part was the sky lite that was about half the size of the room itself. "It definitely looks like werewolves live here!" I laughed. Derek chuckled. "Hey and one werecoyote!" Malia smiled. I returned her smile. I stood looking around the room for a moment before I heard footsteps coming from the spiral staircase. I looked over and saw Cora walking down the stairs. My excitement of seeing my sister became too much as I yelled her name and started running towards her as fast as I could she jumped and stared at me with wide eyes. "Allie?" She said quickly before I wrapped my arms around her. We hugged for a good long moment. Cora and I were always really close because there were only a few months separating our age. The older she got the more she looked like my adopted mother Talia. She had long dark brown hair, and brown eyes. We are actually roughly the same height, which is pretty tall for a couple teenage girls.