Chapter 47: Ch. 43 - LETHARIA VULPINA

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Chapter Forty-Three

🦊 Letharia Vulpina 🦊

Amara, Makena, Derek and Scott come running into the parking lot only for Derek and Makena throw their arms out in front of them making them stop. Looking down, there was a giant puddle of water and the broken wire sat in the middle of it. Basically creating a giant puddle of electrified death.

They looked back up to see Kira standing in the water, unfazed and grab the wire. They watch in shock and amazement as Kira covered the end of the wire with her fist, all the lights around them flickers as she absorbed the electricity. She opened her eyes, looking over at them with glowing orange eyes making Amara let out an impressed chuckle.

When she dropped the wire, that's when Derek, Makena and Amara noticed Isaac lying in the puddle making them instantly ran over to them, "Isaac?" Amara said as she grabbed him and listen for a second before looking at her mom and Derek alarmed. "He's not breathing... Scott! Scott, he's not breathing!"

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Walking out the elevator the first thing Melissa and Scott noticed was Amara and Allison sleep on the bench in front of Isaac's room. Amara leaning up against the wall with her arms around Allison.."Hey, guys." Scott said softly as he gently grabbed Amara's shoulder making her wake up, "Have you guys been here all night?" Scott asked and Allison nodded as she sat up. "Yeah... They won't let us see him because we're not family." Allison said and Amara nodded, "I tried time tell them that he doesn't have any but they wouldnt listen."

"He's got us." Melissa said making them look at her, "And I've got a key card." She said holding a card making Amara chuckle as she stood up. She swiped the card through the scanner making the doors open to reveal Isaac laying still in a hospital bed. "Be quick." Melissa said and they all nodded before walking into the room.

Allison's hand slipped into Amara's making them glance at each other before they walked over to Isaac. "I thought he'd be healing by now." Allison said and Scott and Amara nodded in agreement, "So did I." Scott said as he and Amara both gently grabbed Isaac's arm. "Is he in pain?" Allison asked and they both nodded.

Scott and Amara looked at each other before taking a deep breath and nodding. Black veins trailed from Isaac arms to their hands as they squeezed their eyed shut and groaned for a moment before pulling their hands away, "It won't heal him, but it helps with the pain. I could technically heal him but I think the hospital might find it suspicious that he's sudden healed." Amara said.

"Did Stiles really do this?" Allison asked and Scott shook his head, "Whatever's controlling him did it- whatever's inside him." He said, looking over at them. "Well, then how do we get whatever's inside of him the hell out of him?" Allison asked and Scott and Amara looked at each other.

"We're working on it."

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"Listen up! Anybody catches the slightest glimpse of Stilinski, you contact the first available teacher- got it? Got it? There's a card on my desk for Isaac Lahey, and every one of you losers is not only going to sign it, you're gonna write a personal message so profound and deep, it's gonna bring a tear to Coach's eye! Who's first? Ah, Danny! That's how you do it, buddy! Keep it PG." Coach said to the cross country/lacrosse team in the locker room.

"No Stiles, no demonic ninjas." Aiden said as he, Ethan, Scott and Amara stood behind a row of lockers, "Things are getting too quiet." Ethan said and Scott nodded, "Yeah, I know... Yeah, it's making me nervous, too."

Amara was about to say something but but stopped when she heard a loud beeping. "Do you guys hear that?" Ethan asked and they nodded, "It's an emitter. One of Argent's." Scott answered and Amara nodded in agreement. They all looked at each other confused for a second before walking out of the locker room. "It's coming from the basement." Amara said and they instantly started running down to the basement.

When they got down the stairs they looked around before freezing. At the end of the hall, Stiles turned around holding an emitter. "Okay, I know what you guys are thinking, but it's me. I swear to God, it's me." Stiles says, holding his hands up.

The twins suddenly growled and charged forward, pushing Stiles into the wall. "Wait! Stop!" Scott yelled as he and Amara ran over and pulled them off of him. "I said stop!" Scott yelled as he tossed Ethan into a couple lockers. Aiden growled at Scott making Amara push him back while flashing her red eyes making Aiden back off.

It was quiet as Scott and Amara both turned to Stiles warily, "It's me, Scott, Amara. I swear it's me. I don't know where I've been the last two days, or what I've been doing, but this is me. I promise." Stiles said looking back and forth between them. "You know what happened at the hospital?" Ethan asked.

"I know more than that." Stiles said then moved to a bag and pulled out some blueprints, "You see this? It's a blueprint of the hospital's electrical wiring. You see all these markings in red." Stiles said and Amara and Scott slowly crouched down to look at it. "That's my handwriting. I know I did this. I caused the accident." Stiles said making both Amara and Scott look at him, "And everything in this bag? It's all stuff that could be part of something bigger."

"What the hell have you been up to?" Ethan asked pulling out an electric saw, "I think it's something worse... A lot worse."

They set the bad a table and started pulling out various chains, ropes, tools, duck tape, wire. "What the hell were you doing? Building a Terminator?" Aiden asked looking at everything. "Thank you for that." Stiles said sarcastically. "Guys this is a map." Scott said, unfolding some paper.

"Isn't that the cross-country trail?" Ethan asked, tracing his finger along a red line, "That's the Tate car- where Malia Tate's family died." Scott said glancing up at everyone making Amara close her eyes and sigh, "You mean, that's where her father put the steel-jawed traps." Amara said slowly glancing at everyone.

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"Scott! Stop, stop, stop! Everyone, stop!" Stiles yelled as he, Amara, Aiden and Coach ran up to where Scott and Kira stood, the rest of the team not far behind them. Stiles looked down before digging around in the leaves, pulling up the end of a chain. He pulled it up until all he got was just the other end and Coach started clapping.

"Congratulations, Stilinski. You found a length of chain. Can somebody now please tell me what the hell's going on?" Coach asked as he walked a couple steps forward. Amara glanced around confused until she noticed a trip wire, "Coach!" She yelled right as he tripped it.

Suddenly an arrow lodged it's way into Coach's stomach making everyone gasp as he looked down. "Oh crap." He said before falling back making everyone instantly ran over to him. "Get it out of me! Get it out of me!" Coach yelled as Stiles had his hands pressing down on Coach's wound. "Coach-" Stiles started to say, "Get it out of me!" Coach yelled as Scott, Amara and Aiden tried to hold him down.

"Coach, we can't take it out until you get to the hospital." Amara tried to tell him but he kept freaking out, "Oh, my God, I'm gonna die! Get it out of me! I'm gonna die!" Coach said and Amara sighed, glancing over at Scott who looked at her as well. "Coach, you're not gonna die-"

"I'm gonna die!"

"It will hurt less if you stop moving, Coach-"

"Get that thing out of me! AHHHHHH!"

"Stay still, Coach. An ambulance is coming."

"Get it out! I'm gonna die!" Coach yelled and Amara sighed as she gently pushed him down, "Coach, you'll be fine." She said before looking at Scott who nodded slightly making her nod back then look at Aiden. "People need to move away." She said and he sat up, "Get back! Get back! Give him some room! Get back!"

Scott glanced at everyone before grabbing Coach's hand, groaning as he took away Coach's pain. As he did so, Coach's head fell to the side making the guys look at him wide eyes, "It's okay. He just passed out." Amara said making Scott and Aiden sigh in relief.

Amara glanced over at Stiles to see him staring down at his hands which was covered in Coach's blood. "Hey." She said while grabbing his shoulder making him look at her. "He's okay." She said and he shook his head slightly, "I could have killed him. I could have killed him, right? What if it was his head? Or his throat?" He said anxiously.

"But it wasn't- and he's going to be all right." Scott said and he just nodded slightly for a moment until Aiden spoke up. "I think I just heard an ambulance coming." He said making Stiles sighed, "And my dad."

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Amara stood in between Scott and Stiles as they watched Deputy Parrish step into a school bus, decked out in HDT gear. Apparently, Stiles might have pulled a William Barrow and put a bomb in a school bus. "Am I the only one whose the slightest bit concerned on where you got a bomb?" Amara asked, glancing over at Stiles who sighed, "I don't think I want to know." He said.

"It's not a bomb sir, but there is something in the box..." Parrish said over the radio before walking over to the front of the bus, pressing plaque that said "Sheriff Stilinski" on it. Realization slowly crossed Amara's features as she started to connect the dots.

"The bombs at the station."

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Scott, Stiles and Amara ran into the station to see it was a mess, pieces of wood, paper, glass and more littered the floor. Multiple officers hurt of not worse. Amara glanced around for her mother before her eyes widened, when she saw her mom and Argent helping Derek up.

"Holy shit." She said, quickly running over to them while Scott and Stiles went to someone else. "Derek!" She said as Argent grabbed onto Derek arm, "I'm okay." Derek said breathlessly and Amara's eyes widened when she noticed all the pieces of glass sticking out of Derek's back. "He saved my life." Argent said making Makena look over at him, "That's a first." She mumbled.

"Amara!" She heard someone yell making her look over to see Scott, Stiles and Kira rapidly waving her over. "Go, I got it here." Makena said making Amara nod before quickly running over to her friends. They ran out if the station and into the jeep, almost instantly Stiles took off driving. "It's an animal clinic?" Kira asked and Amara nodded, "Yeah. The place is lined with mountain ash, just like Scott's house. It will buy us some time." She said.

"But they can get through it?" Stiles asked and Scott nodded, "Eventually..." He said. "Nobody's got any better ideas?" Stiles asked and they just glanced at each other in silence making him nod, "Okay, sure. Animal clinic." He said.

They pulled up to the clinic and got out into the pouring rain and made a beeline for the back door but Scott stopped making everyone turn around. Slowly the oni appeared and started making their way toward the four of them. "Stiles! Get inside!" Scott said tossing him the keys before turning around, growling.

The oni charged forward, two of them at Scott and two at Amara. They sung their ninjatōs at Amara, who easily dodged them. She grabbed one of the Oni's arm before kicking the other one in the chest making it stumble back. She quickly wrapped the Oni's arm around her shoulder before flipping it right as Kira flipped another Oni.

"Hell yeah!" Amara said making Kira chuckle. One of the oni quickly charged at Amara, swinging it's ninjatō making her duck under it, when she stood up fully she spin around it before kicking it square in the back making it stumble away from her.

She groaned in pain, her hand flying to her stomach making her turn around ti see and Oni had stabbed it's sword right through Scott making Amara eyes widen. "Scott!" Kira yelled as Amara ripped the Oni away from him. Amara quickly ran over to Scott and wrapped his arm around her shoulder, "All right, come on! Get him inside! Get him inside!" Stiles called out as Amara and Kira helped Scott inside.

Amara helped Scott into the examination room before leaning him against a metal table. "This is gonna hurt... the both of us." Amara said, looking at Scott as she wrapped her hand around the sword and he nodded. She was about to pull it out but all of the sudden there was a loud thud making them glance back right as Kira fell to the ground.

"Stiles? What the hell?" Amara asked as she furrowed her brows while he walked up to them. Her eyes widened in realization before she quickly went to pull the sword out but Stiles grabbed her wrist. He pulled her hand away from the sword making her furrow her brows and wince slightly as he tightly gripped her hand.

All of the sudden Stiles grabbed the back of her head before slamming her head down on the metal table. Amara cried out in pain before Stiles pushed her away from the table making her fall to the ground, completely disoriented. Stiles walked over to Scott and gripped the end of the sword making Scott let out a breath of pain. But instead of pulling it out, he started twisting it around making Scott cry out and groan in pain, Amara doing the same as she felt Scott's pain. "Does it hurt? Hey, look at me."

"You should have done your reading, Scott. See, a Nogitsune feeds off chaos, strife, and pain. This morning, you took it from Isaac, then you took it from Coach, and then from a dying deputy. All that pain... You took it all." Stiles said, gripped the side if Scott's head, "Now, give it to me."

Amara groaned and moved off to the side slightly as she looked up at Scott and Stiles. Black veins trailed from Scott's face to Stiles hand making Stiles look like he was going through some sick form of pleasure. When it stopped he moved his hand and chuckled, "You really have to learn, Scott. You really have to learn not to trust a Fox. Mmm-mmm. Know why? 'Cause they're tricksters. They'll fool you. They'll fool everyone."

"Not everyone." Deaton said, walking up making Stiles quickly look over at him. When he did Deaton instantly stuck a syringe into Stiles neck making groan in pain as Deaton injected whatever was in the syringe. He breathed out in pain before slowly falling to the ground.

Deaton stood in front of Scott then quickly but carefully, ripped the sword out making both Scott and Amara groan in pain. "A little warning for me next time!" Amara said making Deaton glance at her apologetically, "What was that? Was that a cure? Is he okay?" Scott said, breathing heavily. "The Fox is poisoned... But, it's not dead. Not yet." Deaton said before moving to help Amara up.

"He hasn't been Stiles at all today, huh?" She asked and he sighed, "I'm afraid not."