Red Ribbon ✦ 1

Chapter 7

Next Day at Malia's House...

Malia sat on her bed staring at the history book while Stiles looked around her room. There were less stuffed animals and little girl toys.

"You sure changed up you're room. Last time I was in here there were toys all over the place."

"Well the little girl look wasn't gonna work anymore. Wait this is the first time you've been here how do you know what my room use to look like?"

"Um, when you were still a coyote Scott and I snuck in here to see if we could catch your scent."

"Any luck?"

"No all he got was the scent of your dog."

"Yea he won't go near me anymore. Do you think he knows I'm a coyote?"

"Yep, probably smells it. Anyway how's history?"

"Glad I wasn't alive during World War 2."

"Hilarious but you're improving on your grades and classes so congrats on that."

"Yea well screw this."

Malia closes the book and gets off her bed. She grabs the laptop on her desk and sits back down on her bed gesturing for Stiles to join her. He reluctantly sits down and moves the book out of the way.

"So last night I was doing some research on Nogitsunes." she says as she starts typing on her laptop,

"So you have time to look up Japanese folklore but not do your homework."

"No I did my homework I just had some extra time on my hands and I was curious about you."

"Curious...about me?"

"Yea and when you were possessed."

Stiles stared at her but the fact that she did something kind of like homework on her own did surprise him.

"Okay what did you find?" he finally asked,

"Well you know about Kitsune tails and how Kira's mom had these knives to represent her tails and she gets one like ever hundred years."

"Yea, apparently I stole her oldest tail to gain control of the Oni. Where is this going?" he asks,

"Well a Nogitsune is still a Kitsune just a dark version of it. This means they also have tails but from what I found out it works differently for them."

"Different how exactly?"

"A Kitsune usually has some sort of object to represent their tails. A Nogitsune though possesses people so the person it possesses represents one of its tails. The older it is the more people it can possess therefore the more tails it has."

"So you're saying I'm one of its tails."

"Yes and since it was like what a thousand years old it has a lot of tails. Besides it has lots of power and usually his power is equally split with each tail."

"Meaning I still have all that power."

"Yup so technically you're still supernatural."

Stiles gets off the bed and starts pacing around the room. Malia just watches him without saying another word but looking worried. After about a minute of pacing around Stiles notices Malia's worried glance.

"Anything else you wanna add?" he asks in a calm voice,

"Stiles if your one of the Nogitsunes tails then you're still apart of him. We have no idea what that means."

"It means my reign of terror isn't over."

Malia looked at him scared before he spoke again.

"Sorry just processing possible outcomes which will probably end in me killing everyone in this town."

Stiles stepped back and started to breathe heavily. Malia got off the bed and went up to him.

"I'm...I'm sorry...I...I was just joking."

Malia nodded her head forgetting what he had been saying cuz at the moment it didn't matter.