Once in a Blue Moon [TW/TVD Fanfic]

Cracking the Code

Chapter 9 - Cracking the Code

S3 Ep04 "Unleashed" Continued

Scene 14: A Bit of Blood Goes a Long Way

Earlier at the Hale House

3rd Person POV

A long metal pole was sticking out of Derek's abdomen causing dark red blood to pool around the wolf's fallen form.

"Sorry about this, Derek. I asked Kali to be gentle, but..." The leader of the Alpha Pack, Deucalion strolled through the open front door stopping a few feet away from the wolf.

The woman who was mentioned as Kali scoffed. "This is me being gentle." The wolf with the toe claws then grabbed Derek's sister, Cora lifting her up from the ground by her neck. The she-wolf groaned in pain causing her brother to yell out in protest.

"Let... Let her go." Kali then let Cora go allowing the younger girl to fall to her knees weak.

"See? We're not unreasonable." Deucalion said, albeit a bit mockinly.

"What do you want? You want to kill me?" Derek gasped out.

Deucalion dauntingly laughed when Derek asked that. "You really think I'm that boring? Don't throw me in with sociopaths like your Uncle. I'm a man with far more vision than simple murder. In fact... I'm here to show you just how much vision a blind man can have."

Kali then began twisting the metal pole deeper into the Alpha's stomach making him groan in pain.

"You're killing him!" Cora shrieked.

"Not yet, little sister. But I could." Derek couged up a bit of blood as he clutched his stomach. The pain struggled to subside as the evil female werewolf pushed the silver pole further into his gut.

"Who knows if it's five minutes or five hours before it's too late to take this thing out? But just to be on the safe side, Duke, you might want to get to the point."

Deucalion grunted in agreement as he began his speech. "Now you see the one problem with being in an Alpha pack. Everybody wants to make the decisions. Me? I'm more about discovering new talents... Like you."

"Not interested." The Alpha spat.

"But you haven't even heard my pitch." Deucalion whined.

Derek rolled his eyes the best he could. "You want me to... Kill my own pack."

"No. I want you to kill one of them. Do that, and I won't have to ask you to kill the others. You'll do it on your own. I did it. Ennis did. Kali did. Tell him what it's like, Kali, to kill one of your own."

Kali licked her lips in satisfaction. "Mm... Liberating."

"Listen to me, Derek. Do you really want to stay beholden to a couple of maladjusted teenagers bound to become a liability? And believe me, they will become a liability. In fact... I have a feeling one of them is getting himself into trouble right now."

Deucalion didn't even give Derek the time of day to digest the new information as he continued his whole spiel.

"See, the reason I'm always invested in new talent is simple. We all know a pack is strongest due to its individual parts. The stronger the individual parts, the greater the whole. When I lost my sight, one of my betas assumed I wasn't fit for my role anymore. He tried to take it from me. Killing him taught me something about alphas I didn't know they could do. His power was added to mine. I became stronger, faster, more powerful than I'd ever been. I tested this new ability to subsume the power of your own by killing another one. In fact, Derek, I killed them all. I took the individual parts and became a greater individual whole."