✓ | battle wounds, scott m.

chapter thirty nine.

Ella stood at the vending machine, trying to get a Reese's, but it got stuck. Ella groaned before reaching up and beginning to shake it, but the lights flickering caught her attention. Ella raised a brow, moving away from the vending machine and into the hallway, spotting Stiles completely dressed and craning his neck to the side. Ella walked up to her brother, "They're letting you go? They're letting us go?" Ella noticed that Stiles didn't look like himself. Not at all. Ella didn't flinch back, though. In fact, she stepped closer with a dark look in her eyes. Then her eyes flashed their electric blue and slowly faded, Stiles' lips growing into a grin. Ella's eyes narrowed as Stiles placed a hand on her cheek, raising his other hand up and taking the electricity from the light that was above them before applying it to Ella's face.

Ella kneeled before him, head rolling around as her eyes slowly closed. "Give in. ." Stiles spoke in a husked and raspy voice, "Give in to the nogitsune." Her eyes reopened, the same dark look that Stiles had in his eyes now in Ella's as well. "I give in." Ella then stood up, walking to stand beside Stiles as if she was. . possessed. The elevator door dinged, doors opening to reveal Noshiko dressed in all black and standing as if she was high authority. "You know me," she said, the twins nodding, "Then you remember that I won't be deterred by your choice of host. Even if it's an innocent boy and girl."

"Are you threatening us?" Stiles asked in the same husky and raspy voice. Noshiko smiled as two Oni appeared beside her, "Now I'm threatening you." "We're not really afraid of your little fireflies," Ella narrowed her eyes and shook her head. The twins began to walk away, but Noshiko then spoke again. "If the oni can't defeat you, I know someone who will." Ella and Stiles shared a look, shaking their head before continuing to walk to the exit.

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At the sound of footsteps, Ella and Stiles looked over their shoulders to see the three werewolves they were hoping to attract. They turned around fully, Stiles holding the emitter. "Hey, guys," Ella whispered. "Okay, I know what you guys are thinking, but it's us," Stiles said as both he and Ella raised their hands up in surrender and caution, "I swear to God, it's us." Ethan and Aiden growled from behind Scott, blue eyes glowing as they growled and launched towards the twins. They took the emitter out of Stiles' hand and threw it, Ethan lifting up Stiles and Aiden lifting up Ella. "Wait, stop! I said, stop!" Scott shouted. Aiden turned to growl at Scott, Scott roaring back which made Ethan back down. "It's us, Scott," Ella said, taking Scott's hand into her own.

"I swear it's us," Ella whispered, Scott giving in to her and pulling her into a tight hug. "I don't know where we've been the last two days or what we've been doing, but this is us. I promise," Stiles promised. "You know what happened at the hospital?" Ethan asked the twins. "We know more than that," Stiles replied as he and Ella walked over to the side and crouched down, Stiles lifting up a blue print.

"You see this? It's a blueprint of the hospital's electrical wiring. You see all these markings in red? That's Stiles' handwriting," Ella said, pointing at the red writing. "I know I did this. I caused the accident. And everything in this bag, it's all stuff that could be part of something bigger," Stiles said as he lifted the map to reveal the bag of tools. Ethan and Aiden then leaned down and Ethan picked up a tiny saw blade from the bag, "What the hell have you two been up to?"

"I think something worse," Stiles said, "A lot worse." Ethan and Aiden nodded at each other then lifted the bag and placed it on the table to the side, taking out everything in it; including chains, duct tape, rope, metal strip wire, etc. Ella and Stiles stood at the other side of the table, watching them. "What the hell were you doing? Building a Terminator?" Ethan asked. Ella laughed, "Thank you for that." "Guys, this is a map," Scott said as he picked up a paper and laid it out. "Isn't that the cross country trail?" Ethan said as he pointed out a marked trail. "That's the Tate car. Where Malia Tate's family died," Scott said.

"You mean that's where her father put the steel-jawed traps," Stiles said. Ella looked up from the map and up at her friends and boyfriend, "We have to get the runners out of there."

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Ella ran to catch up with Kira, finally catching up and tackling her to the ground. Kira looked at Ella with wide eyes, "Ella?" Ella nodded and Kira instantly took her into a hug, Ella being surprised at first but then slowly wrapping her arms around Kira. Kira then pulled away, "Where the hell have you been?" Ella replied in a shaky voice, "I don't know, and I'm being honest, but it is me. This is me." Kira nodded and hugged Ella again before pulling away again, "Oh my god, did you see how fast I was running?" Ella nodded, "Yeah, I saw it. But we need to stop the others." Kira looked confused, "Why?" "Ella! Ella!" Stiles shouted as he, Ethan, Aiden, and Scott halted in front of them. Stiles waved his hands around, "Stop, stop, stop! Everyone stop!"

Ella stood next to Coach and Aiden was beside Stiles, Stiles glancing down at the ground and looked at the leaves before he leaned down and raked them away with his hands. He stops, a clanking noise going through the air, meaning he had found something. Stiles made his way in front of Ella, finding the end to the chain and glancing around due to his belief that there was something more. "Congratulations, Stilinski," Coach clapped loudly, "You found a length of chain." Coach began to walk towards the team, Ella immediately going in front of him with her hands up, "Coach." "Can somebody now please tell me what the hell's going on?" Coach asked loudly.

"Coach, listen," as Ella took a step back, Scott shouted her name and her body was instantly being pulled to the side and into Stiles's arms. Nothing had happened to her, but to coach. Ella looked to Coach to see an arrow in his stomach, blood quickly beginning to show on his sweater. "Oh, crap," he groaned before he fell to the ground and fainted.

Stiles and Ella bent down and put their hands atop of coach's wound, getting their hands extremely bloody. Coach then jerked awake, groaning and yelling in pain. "AHHH!" Coach shouted, "Get it out of me! Get it out of me. Get it out of me." Stiles shook his head, "Coach, you're not gonna die." "I'm gonna die!" Coach screamed. "It will hurt less if you stop moving, Coach," Aiden said as he tried to hold him down. "Get that thing out of me!" Coach shouted. "Stay still, Coach. An ambulance is coming," Stiles said. "Get it out! I'm gonna die!" Coach kept yelling.

Aiden stood and waved his hands around at the other people, "Get back! Get back! Give him some room! Get back!" Ella turned to Scott and nodded, Scott nodding back at his girlfriend and enclosing his hand on Coach's, black veins popping out as Scott took Coach's pain. "I think he just passed out." Ella and Stiles then raised their hands off of Coach's stomach, both of them shook their heads whilst looking at their bloody hands. "We could have killed him," Stiles looked at his twin. "I could have killed him, right?" Ella shook her head, "I helped."

Stiles shook his head as he placed his bloody hand on Ella's cheek, yet Ella did not mind it one bit as long as it was her brother, "But it was mainly me." Stiles removed his hand from Ella's face, leaving behind blood on her cheek as they both looked up at Scott. "What if it was his head or his throat?" "But it wasn't," Scott shook his head, "And he's going to be all right." "I think I just heard an ambulance coming," Aiden nodded. The twins shared a look, "And our dad."

Everyone then stood as the ambulance arrived, Scott helped Ella up and lifting his shirt a bit to wipe her cheek off. Ella smiled thankfully, nodding as he placed his hands on Ella's cheeks and pulled her in for a passionate kiss. As they pulled away, Ella couldn't contain the smile that appeared on her face as she shook her head, "What was that for?" "I haven't seen you for two days," Scott breathed out as the paramedics got Coach onto a gurney and rolled him into the vehicle. Ella heard her name being called and she sighed, looking down at her hands then up at Scott, "Neither has my father." Stiles and Ella stopped a paramedic to ask for a couple of wet wipes and he gave some to the twins, the two wiping their hands off before walking up to their father.

Noah Stilinski didn't say anything, he only took his two children into a hug, close to tears. When the family pulled away, Noah immediately asked where they had gone. "We don't know," Ella shook her head, blue eyes glaring off such an innocent look that it could make the toughest villain surrender. "But I promise you, dad, this is us," Stiles added on, looking at their father and raising his hands up the slightest. Noah nodded, "I believe you."