Awakened (Teen Wolf) Book 3

Chapter 34 - Seriously?

I made it to the loft just in time to see Derek thrown to the ground by Stiles. Argent pulled out his gun and held it, pointing it at his head. I remained mostly out of sight, just so I could see everything that was happening.

“Argent, don’t do this.” The Sheriff said with his hand out.

“Why not? I’ve done it before.” Derek rose to his feet. Stiles was the only ones who had noticed my presence, our eyes connected for a split second before he looked back at Argent. Chris, Allison, Derek and Stilinski were all focussing on the Nogitsune, they had no idea I was there. “Werewolves, Berserkers, I could easily add a Nogitsune to the list.” He continued.

She Sheriff pulled out his gun and pointed it at Argent. “You’re not going to shoot my son.”

“You said it yourself, Sheriff. That’s not your son.”

“Put it down.”

“Dad… he’s going to shoot me.” Stiles said in a frightened voice as his eyes watered.

“Put it down.” The Sheriff repeated. “Now! You listen to me. Put the gun down now!”

“Pull the trigger.” Stiles said to Argent. “Shoot me!” he was yelling above the Sheriff as he kept yelling “Put it down!”

Allison and Derek stood back watching as the room started to get darker and the sun set.

“Stop it! This is exactly what he wants!” Allison yelled above them and they stopped.

“Not exactly. I was kind of hoping Scott would be here, but I’m glad you all have your guns out. You’re not here to kill me.” He said as he turned around and faced the window as four Oni came through the glass in a mist of black fog. “You’re here to protect me.”

Stiles stepped back behind the four in the room as they turned their guns on the Oni and the Ninja’s pulled out their swords. Derek and Allison moved to the other side of Stiles so he was surrounded by them as the Oni circled. The Sheriff and Argent begun shooting at two of them and Allison pulled out her knife and Derek his claws.

The room soon became a fast moving black mist filled with bullet fire, the clash of blades and Derek’s roars. I stood by watching in the doorway as Stiles calmly walked through the fights around him. He made it to the bottom of the stairs, looked back and then walked up them, grabbing my hand and leading me out. I looked back and saw Derek on the ground. He finally saw me and I managed a smile and a slight wave as I left.

“Why did you want to meet me?” I asked him as we made it out of the loft and continued walking until we were concealed by trees in the forest.

“A Nix is a type of creature of Chaos. Not the same as a Nogitsune, I feed off of it… you live for it. A Nix is a type of spiritual being, you of course are not completely as you’re half werewolf, but none the less we have a lot in common. Maybe their miserable ending is both of our happy endings. And I know you’ve been looking for me.”

“Who are you?” I asked out of curiosity.

“I’m an evil spirit, a nogitsune that feeds off chaos, strife and pain. I was summoned here by a girl who had lost the man she loved, he had been burnt to death. She was a Kitsune. I believe you know her.”

“Kira…?” I asked a little confused.

“No, her mother. The man, the soldier, was stationed at an internment camp at Oak Creek and she was one of the prisoners. He died fighting for her and her people and was about to be buried with the rest of them… those that had died in the riot, when she used her power to summon my spirit to get revenge. But it didn’t turn out the way she had hoped. I possessed her dead lover’s burnt, bandaged and dead corpse and reeked more chaos than she had intended. She, with the help of a werewolf named Sutomi, killed me and trapped my spirit in the form of a fly in the Nemeton. It was yours and your friend’s sacrifices that brought me back, but I needed a Kitsune’s power to fully regenerate which I received at the power substation through my control of William Barrow. My flies brought out his urge to kill. Stiles was the unfortunate soul that was hit with Kira’s electricity. He should have stuck to wooden bats, not metal.” He said. “Now Kira’s mother, Noshiko, is trying to once again kill me with her Oni, assassins that she controls through her tails and stories… her power.”