chapter fifteen || she screamed

"Are we really bringing him?" Stiles asks pointing towards Peter.

"Are we really bringing him?" Derek repeats shifting his head towards Liam.

"We're bringing everyone that we can. And considering Scott and Kira were taken the night before a full moon, we should probably get going," Peter tells them.

"What's that mean?"

"If Kate took Scott back to the same temple that she took Derek, how do we know she's not planning to do the same thing to him?"

"What, she wants to make him younger?" Liam asks.

"Or take him back to when he wasn't a werewolf."

"A werewolf can't steal a true Alpha's power," Peter tells them. "But maybe a Nagual jaguar, with the power of Tezcatlipoca behind her... Maybe she can. So, if everyone is sufficiently freaked out, I say we get going."

Stiles shakes his head. "We can't, not without Ariel and Lydia."

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"Hey," Ariel says from behimd Lydia.

"What are you doing here?!" Lydia yells. "You can't be here leave!" She says pushing her away.

"I was worried about you! You sounded weird on the phone, I just wanted to make sure you were okay."

"I'm fine, now leave!"

"Wait, do you hear that?" Ariel asks her best friend walking towards the school.

"Footsteps," Lydia whispers.

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"What's she doing at the school anyway?" Derek asks the teenagers.

"We got Kira's sword, but we need something with a stronger scent. Lydia went to get a jacket out of her locker," Malia tells her cousin.

"Nothing from Ariel!" Stiles says, sttessfully running a hand through his hair.

"If they has a car, they can catch up to us. We'll call her from the road."

"No, what if something happened? What if Ariel's in trouble?"

"Fine, you stay, you find her. We're gonna go on without you," Peter tells the panicking Stiles.

"I could call Mason," Liam offers. "He has a study group at school. Maybe he could look for her?"

Stiles sighs. "All right. Fine. I need to be back there with Derek and Liam. I've got some experience dealing with out-of-control teen wolves. You'll be okay riding with Peter?" Stiles asks Malia.

"He is my father," she tells him. "Maybe we could do some bonding."

Stiles shakes his head. "No, no bonding. Play the radio, play it loud."

"Remember," Peter speaks up. "Remember, what we're dealing with. It's not just Kate, it's Berserkers. You might see human eyes behind those skulls. Do not assume that there's any humanity left," he tells the group in front of him. "Oh," he says noticing Liam shift uncomfortably. "This little one is terrified of them, aren't you? Don't worry, my friend. It is that fear that will keep you alive. A reminder to everyone. You do not fight Berserkers to survive, you fight to kill."

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"Yeah, her car's here," Mason tells Liam through the phone. "You want me to look around the school and see if I can find her?"

"Yeah, definitely. Call me as soon as you find her."

"Lydia? No wonder she's not answering," Masons says to himself picking up her crushed phone. "What the hell?"

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"Mason!" Ariel yells as she spots the freshman on the floor. "Are you okay?" She asks, kneeling in front of him.

"My head..."

"Yeah, it's probably gonna hurt a lot," Lydia tells him.

"There was this guy. Huge, really huge. He had a, a skull on his face," Mason describes The Beserker to the girls infront of him.

"Yeah, I know. We saw it, too."

"My phone's gone."

"Ours too, I think that's the point."

Ariel looks at her best friend. "What? You don't think they want us contacting anyone?"

"What's he gonna do to us?" Mason asks.

"I don't know, but it definitely doesn't want us to leave."

"Lydia, why do you keep saying "it"?"

A Berserker growls from behind the trio, they all gasp as they turn to look at it.

"What is that thing?" Mason aks the girls in horror.

"Not human," Lydia whispers.

"RUN!"

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An ear piercing scream escapes Ariel's lips as a Berserker corners her. The Berserker wraps its large muscled hand around her neck lifting her feet off the ground, and completely cutting off her air supply.

A gunshot echos through the hall, making the Berserker quickly let go of Ariel and turn around to face the culprit. Ariel slumps to the floor breathing heavily as Sheriff Stilinski comes out from the shadows and shoots the Berserker repeatedly with his gun.

Ariel takes advantage of the distraction and crawls away. The Berserker, however, stands perfectly still completely unaffected by the bullets. A single click and then multiple more ring through the hall.

Sheriff Stilinski has run out of bullets.

The Berserker turns towards Ariel again. It slowly and tauntingly walks towards her. The Berserker wraps its large hand around Ariel's small neck once again.

"They're coming for you," The Berserker's deep, grumbled voice says before a sickening crack rings through the hall.

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Lydia stands in the middle of the hall completely frozen. A feeling from deep within her throat bubbles up like the carbonation in a bottle of Coca-Cola.

Lydia opens her mouth and let's put one loud, long piercing scream. "Ariel!"

the last chapter got 9 votes instead of 10 but idc i really wanted to post this.

the epilogue will be up tomorrow.