OᑭEᑎ ᗯOᑌᑎᗪ ◎ ℍ𝕠𝕡𝕖 𝕄𝕚𝕜𝕒𝕖𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 ◎

Chapter 10

I laid in my bed asleep when I heard an all too familiar voice. "Scott." I woke up and looked around. I sighed and fell back. A few hours later, it was morning. I sat up and headed downstairs for breakfast. I grabbed an apple and walked away. "Scott." It was the voice again. I looked around confused. "Scott? Are you okay?" Raf asked walking to me. "What?" I asked. "You look like you saw a ghost." He said. "Uh...no. I'm good." I replied shaking my head. "Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure you said something in Japanese." Landon said walking up next to me. "I did what?" I asked. "You said something Japanese." He said. "What did it sound like?" I asked. "Nogi-something." Landon said. My eyes went wide. "Nogitsune." I said nearly collapsing to the floor. "Hello....Scott. Remember me? Thought Stiles rid himself of me didn't you?" It said. "Well...Scott I'm very much alive." It said as a figure exited the shadows. "And I'm going to kill you." Nogitsune said as he grabbed my throat. I closed my eyes unintentionally and collapsed to the floor unconscious.

Hope POV

"HOPE!" I heard someone scream. I turned around in Alaric's office to see Raf and Landon carrying an unconscious Scott. "What the hell happened?" I asked walking to Scott. "No idea he said something in Japanese and collapsed to the floor unconscious." Raf said setting Scott on the sofa in the office. "What did say? What could you make out?" Alaric asked after asking Josie, Lizzie, Kaleb, and MG to report to his office. "He said something...uh...Nogitsune! That's what he said. He said that before he knocked out." Landon said looking at Scott. I looked at Alaric as Josie and Lizzie walked in. "You better have a good explanation on why you called us in here, dad." Lizzie said. "I do. He's on the sofa unconscious." Alaric said grabbing three books from a shelf. "What happened to him?" Josie asked. "He spoke of an ancient Japanese demon fox spirit called the Nogitsune and he went unconscious." Alaric said pushing an open book to us. There was an image of a black demon with a mischievous smile. "Nogitsune are fox spirits that are tricksters. They feed off their victims pain, They are master manipulators, intelligent, and mischievous. Legend has it that once a Nogitsune reaches 1000 years of age it gains the ability to possess someone. My guess is...Scott has had some sort of encounter with a Nogitsune in Beacon Hills." Alaric said. "We need to get it out of him before we lose him for good." Alaric said. "How do we do that? It's not like we can get inside Scott's mind." MG said. "Yes we can. Simple spell." I said. "Everyone gather around me and hold on. You too, Alaric. We'll need your help in this one. If the Nogitsune is as powerful as you say it is...it'll take everyone to pull it out of him." I said sitting on the floor in front of Scott's unconscious body. I grabbed his shoulder and everyone put a hand on me. "Tumultus mentis." I said before all of us crashed to the floor.

SCOTT'S MEMORIES

We all stood inside Scott's mind. I stood in his house and heard water running. "Someone's here." MG said. "Probably our boy." Raf said. "If it's our Scott. He'll have a Triskele tattoo on his back and two bands on his left bicep." I said. We walked up the stairs and entered his room. He exited the bathroom in shorts and shirtless. "Not our Scott." Alaric said. "This is a memory." Lizzie said. He put a shirt on and ran a hand through his hair before grabbing a lacrosse stick. There was a thud outside. His head snapped up and he dropped the lacrosse stick. He stood up and grabbed a baseball bat. "Paranoid much?" Kaleb asked. I rolled my eyes. Scott went outside with the bat raised. A kid appeared hanging upside down on his roof. Scott screamed and so did the kid. "Stiles?! What the hell are you doing?!" Scott screamed. "You weren't answering your phone!!" The kid yelled back. "I thought you were a predator!" Scott replied. "A pred- Oh my god." Stiles said rolling his eyes as he dropped to the ground. "What are you doing here?" Scott asked lowering the bat. "My dad got a call from a jogger in the woods. The jogger found a body." Stiles said. "A dead body?" Scott asked. "No, a body of water. Yes dumbass! A dead body!" Stiles replied sarcastically shaking his head. There were a few snickers. "So why are you telling me?" Scott asked. "Well my dad went into the woods and found the body. And there still searching for it." Stiles said a grin growing on his face. "Wait wait. If they already found the body....then why are they still looking for it?" Scott asked. "That's the best part!" Stiles said excited. "They only found half! We're going." Stiles said. Scott groaned. "Morbid." Lizzie said.