Forbidden Truth

Chapter 104

Chapter 104
Everything was silent. The gun fire and the growling had stopped. The Caleveras quietly walked to the front of the van. A rabid growl broke the silence. Gun fire went off again. Calveras were being thrown and drug all over the place. Gunfire started again as Kate and the Berserker went back into action. People fell everywhere. Everyone was dying.
"They're not going down!" Parrish yelled. "Nothing's getting through that armor and I'm running out of ammo." I begged him not to come. He'd promise me that he wasn't going to come. But I guess promises don't mean anything now.
My body was numb and my face was wet with tears. I was too much in shock for it to fully hit me yet. I was barley breathing. Derek was dead. His heart wasn't beating. The heart that I had fallen asleep listening to so many time had been silenced. He had saved my life so many times. Why couldn't I have saved his this once? I should have died. If I had gone first Derek would still me alive. But I failed him.
Kate's growl pulled me out of my thoughts. This is her fault. Everything that's happened is her fault. She was the one that had caused me to leave Beacon Hills in the first place. She had altered the future so drastically. I understood my dream I had had now. The one where everyone was alive and happy and Derek and I were married and had a family. I could have had that. If it wasn't for her. Because of her so many people are dead. Because of her Derek is dead.
I stopped crying and looked up. I've never been afraid of Kate Argent and I'm not going to start now. My face went rigid. I slowly turned my head toward her. Pure rage boiled inside me. There was no one on this earth that I wanted dead more than her. I loved Peter compared to what I felt toward her. She had ruined my life. She had taken so much of what I loved away from me and laughed in my face. Now all I wanted to do was take everything she loved away. Lucky for me, she only loved one thing on this earth. Her own life.
I slipped my hand out of Derek's limp one and stood up without taking my eyes off of her. Kate was taking out hunters one by one as if it was the easiest thing she had ever done. I lifted my head and all the rage and angry I had ever felt and held back flared inside me. Everything had been so easy for her. But not now. I was going to give her the fight of her life and she was going to lose.
I inhaled sharply and gathered every single ounce of power that was inside me. The power I had never tapped into. Power I never dreamt that I had. All the power of those alphas. Every single last one of them and then my power. And I roared louder than I ever had before. Louder than I had at the Nogitsune. Louder than I had at the berserkers. I roared with every single one of those alpha's voices. They had given up and they were going to fight on my side now. They became a part of me. The gunfire stopped and Kate turned to me. I felt my claws dig into the dirt. I could see my eyes in her's. The bloody red caught her by surprised. I was done fighting it. I am an alpha. And it's time I show everyone who has the real power. She growled at me. I roared but I didn't sound like a werewolf at all. I sounded more like a rabid pride of lions. My teeth extended longer than they have before. My fangs went over my bottom lip and my claws were longer.
I roared and ran directly at her. She growled and ran at me. Kate would never back down. She knew my history. She knew I was a killer. She knew I was power hungry. But in the end, she's rather die fighting me than run from me. As much as I hated her, I respected her. She'd rather be brave and fight than a coward and run.
We collided full force but I was stronger and faster. My force sent her backward and I hit the ground not far from her. She sat up immediately. I sung my leg out immediately and slashed her face. She made a pained growl. I jumped into a crouch. She jumped up and swung at me but I caught her arm and crushed the bone. She screamed in pain.
I felt the berserker grabbed onto my shoulders. I let go of Kate and jumped around, slashing at the berserker with my feet. My claws cut through the bone of the skull and the berserker let me go. I landed on my feet as the berserker fell back.
Kate growled and ran at me. I swung around and slashed at her with my feet but she ducked and grabbed my leg. I roared and jumped on her.She hit the ground and let go of me. I slashed at her throat but she moved and I left deep cuts into her chest. She roared in pain. The smell of blood overwhelmed me and I let go of all control. Peter was right. I'll always have the blood lust. It's a part of me.
I roared and went for her throat. She put her arm in front of her neck just in time but I sunk my teeth into her arm. She screamed as I jerk and ripped and shredded her arm. I grabbed her throat with my right hand and dug my claws in the neck. She gasped but she made a gurgling sound. I felt a sharp pain in my stomach. Kate was digging her claws into me but I didn't care. Shes not going to stop me. I let go of her arm and dug my claws into her head and squeezed. She screamed in agony. If I had leaned anything from Kali it was to make sure you're victim is dead. I'm sure Kate won't be able to heal after I crushed her skull.
Gun fire started immediately. I growled and squeezed harder. Kate screamed and grabbed my wrists trying to get me off of her. I roared in her face. I felt the berserker grab onto me and yank me from Kate. I roared, furious. Its arms were clamped around my neck and I had no way of getting a clean shot to get it off... except for one thing. I jumped, bringing my knees to my chest. Then with all my force I shoved my legs down between its legs. The force sent the berserker over my head. It let go of me and fell forward. I landed on my stomach. I jumped up into a crouch and ran at the berserker who was already up. It turned around just as I collided with it full force. The berserker flew back.
I heard footsteps behind me. I turned and duck. Just as Kate slashed at me with her claws. I slashed across her body with my right. I slashed at her throat with my left, giving myself the momentum to spin around and slash across her face with the claws on my feet.
I brought my right arm over my head. She was too turned around to right herself at the moment. I'd slash her across her throat and it would be over. Just as I was about to come down I heard something that I thought I'd never hear again. An arrow releasing. I froze at the sound and one thought cross my mind. Alison. Then pain split me open and I scream in agony. Kate spun around and a wicked smiled spread across her face. I couldn't breath. I couldn't inhale. I looked down to see the sharp, metal tip of an arrow head sticking out of my chest. Kate grabbed me by the throat and dug her claws in. I gasped desperately which spread mind splitting pain through my body.
"Rule number one: always have a hunter on your side." She hissed. Then I realized what had happened. My father. She always had her guard dogs. Kate dug her claws in deeper and I gasped as her claws cut into my jugular and crushed my windpipe. I grabbed onto he arm but I was now bleed profusely from my neck and I was losing strength. Kate smiled at my pain and weakness. She could kill me now. I would be too weak soon.
"You're next Araya!" She yelled and looked over my shoulder. She squeezed harder and I made a small noise. "I'm coming to kill you next." She growled. I heard an electrical buzzing that I would always associate with Araya. "Come, La Loba. Leave the girl. Let me show you how the Calaveras die." Araya called. Kate tore her eyes from the hunter and looked down at me. She growled in my face. Digging her claws through my neck. Blood rose in my throat and trickled from my mouth. She wanted me dead first. And she knew if she let me go now, I'd heal and she would never have another chance before I killed her.
A howl sliced through the sound of battle and everything stopped. It wasn't the howl of a coyote or a werewolf. It was from a wolf. But wolves don't live in California. A black wolf came out of the rubble. Jumping down in front of us. Kate growled at it. The wolf stopped and its eyes glowed steel blue. It's not a wolf, I realized. The wolf ran at us but Kate was too shocked to move.
Kate growled at it, letting me go. I fell to the ground and grimaced from the pain. The wolf snarled and jumped on Kate. Both Kate and the wolf fell to the ground. Kate screamed and tried to fight the wolf off but it was too determined. Snarling and snapping mingled with her helpless, agonizing screams. Everything was utterly silent. The wolf backed off of her. Kate rolled over on her stomach and tried to crawl, grunting, away from the wolf.
Suddenly the wolf stood up on its hind legs. Hair disappeared leaving human skin and a tattoo I knew well. The tattoo we shared. I gasped.
"You were... You were dead." Kate said quietly complete shocked that Derek stood before her. He shook his head. "No. I was evolving. Something you'll never do." He said with a new found power.
A deep growl filled the silence. A berserker was running toward Derek. Instinctively I tried to get up but I whimpered. The arrow was still in my chest and I couldn't get it out. The berserker swung at Derek but missed. Derek grabbed the skull and squeezed. Golden lights ran across the skull as if it had been patch worked together. The Berseker's body exploded leaving it's skull in Derek's hands. Derek looked at it obviously a little shocked.
Kate scrambled to her feet. She backed away from the screen. It's over and she knew it. A gun fired and Kate was thrown backward. She sat up breathless. She focused on something in the rubble. "Chris?" She whispered. "Ah." She yelled as she got up and ran into the church.
Derek turned around and locked eyes. I didn't care that I was dying right bow. I listened to his heartbeat. Strong and comforting. Derek's alive.