• New Mexico

    They took another way back to California.

    It let them four days before the expiration of the rent of the minibus and better not exceed some small amount of money for thing like that.

    Either way was fine, they just choose to take a southern path because they could stop at New Mexico for Scott.

    OK, so he did say his maternal grandparents were Mexicans and New Mexico wasn't that close to Mexico but maybe, that little attention could please Scott. He earned some break and nice things after dealing with the supernatural when he didn't even have to. Especialy when he kept them on the ground, like an emissary.

    During the first twenty hours, they drove pass tons of states, just surveying casually the landscape with the teens chatting more lightly than the depart. Even nonchalantly to Deucalion, who's knowledge was entertaining.

    "Well, damn," Lydia muttered once.

    "What?"

    "You know all the things I bought during this trip?"

    "Yeah, with my money."

    "Right, I just received a text telling me that will took a week or so to be send to Beacon Hills. Like longer than the actual road trip."

    "Well, you did buy a lot..."

    "That just mean it'll be the same for me." Theo mumbled. 

    "Oh yeah, what address did you put? Now that... you know, you're emencipated."

    "Scott's address."

    "Mine?"

    "Yeah, I couldn't let those outfit go waste in some abandoned house, now, could I?"

    "A waste of my money, may I remind?"

    "You may, but you totally give us free pass so you don't have the right to complain. Or you have but it didn't have much weight."

    Derek just groaned and he just prove the girls he became their sort of big brother that overlook everything the little siblings (them) did like a spoiling man. Was he like that with his little sister? Or was he projecting all this intention to the sister he didn't have the time to take care of to them?

    "You know what I will really miss going back to Beacon? The ice cream from New York," Malia growled then.

    "There isn't any ice cream parlor at Beacon Hills?" Allison inquired.

    She wasn't the most fond of sweet, as her parents taught her to not be materialist. So she never paid attention to Beacon Hills' food shop.

    "Oh, there are," Lydia replied.

    "But it's Beacon Hills," Scott added.

    And Malia ended obviously. "Duh."

    Theo just smirked. From the time he lived in Beacon Hills, he wasn't allowed to have sweet, because of his parents. But unlike Allison, his parents didn't tell him it wouldn't be good to him, they just didn't care if he ever want something. So, when they died, he asked the Doctors to spoil him, they did but in their own way.

    "You have something to say?" Julia asked him at his smirk.

    It's not like he changed much after Las Vegas, but the group noticed that whenever he smirked, he's hidding something by not telling the entire truth.

    "About ice cream, not much. But I'm glad with my own purchase."

    "Well, I'm not sure Lori and Brett would be that happy about it."

    "How come? I have good taste."

    "In outfit, maybe. But in souvenir? Nuh uh," Lydia tsked.

    Theo grinned, pleased by this comment and they realized he's just being a little brat about the souvenir for the betas. Wasn't he always bratty with them?

    "Kira said she would pass at San Francisco the week before school year," Allison chimed happily after receiving a text.

    "That's good, I'll ask dad to make some place for her arrival."

    "Are you for real? You're going to house two girls in your two bedroom apartement?"

    Julia and Derek shared a look. If the former did rent a studio apartment just to give an address when she applied as substitue teacher, she moved out after the Alpha pack and Gerard Argent's event and now lived with Derek in his loft. Because a one room wasn't enough for two people, so a two bedroom would definitely not be enough for four.

    "Well, Kira did accomodated us during those three nights at NY."

    "I still think you were opportunists to use the Yukimura's kindness," Deucalion snorted.

    "Maybe... maybe we could find other way to house her. Where will you live, Theo?"

    "I'll find a way."

    "Find one for Kira too, would you?"

    Theo sighed dramatically. "Kira there, Kira here. Are you two for real?"

    "Well, you had to admit she's cute."

    "She's definitely an adorable person," Malia agreed easily.

    "Yeah, from an objectif eyes, she's pretty," Lydia admitted too.

    Scott got a lopside smile. "Yeah, she is."

    And Allison grinned, happy they aknowledged her friend's attractiveness.

    "I have a question : are you guys dating or what? You're head over toe to her."

    "You mean, if we're into polyamorous? We thought about that, but she already had a boyfriend."

    "And they do make a cute couple too."

    "And here you started stating that you want to adopt her," Lydia muttered.

    The conversation took an unexpected turn.

     

    "Alright, we may stop there for today," Deucalion stated eventually.

    "Finally, 36 hours without pause was horrible."

    "You mean, 30 hours with 6 hours of break, since you didn't stop complaining."

    "I was a coyote for seven years of my life! What did you expect me doing after taking human form?"

    "Obviously, a road trip wasn't the best choice."

    "OK, someone search for a place to stay and the other find us a place for dinner."

    Of course, the teens pulled out their phone and started searching on the net, as the generation Y they were.

    "What do you want to eat, Scott?" Allison asked her boyfriend.

    Usually, Scott would follow whatever the group chose, not being picky but the gentle and thoughtful person he's. But he had to admit that being in the state of New Mexico, he did want to eat what are the specialities of tex-mex.

    "There are a lot of place I want to try..."

    "Take your time, we got the night, here."

    So Scott chose them a restaurant that proposed the Mexicans dishes that had some nice review so they could all give their own impression. They enjoyed the meal and went to the motel where they booked three rooms. One double for Derek and his partner Jen, and two rooms with three beds for the girls and the men.

    They intended to stay just the night.

    None used the night to actually sleep.

    The motel is somehow run by pro-hunters, that when he heard the name of Derek Hale, he made a call to warn his presence. He disregarded the others people that accompany him, hence when Kate Argent showed up on their floor to make a surprise attack (more like a surprise death) she ran into Allison.

    The aunt and niece stood stunned in the corridor, not believing what they're seeing.

    "Kate?" Allison whispered with awe.

    "Allison," Kate answered back with a low voice.

    She nearly forgot her goal and the weapon she had in hand to chock her favorite child in her arms. The two smiled at each other, just happy of the unexpected reunion. Then, the guys' door opened and Scott walked out to say good night to his girlfriend.

    But he stopped right in the middle of his track when his eyes landed on Kate.

    "Kate?"

    "Scott."

    Kate was still smiling when she saw him but it quickly fell when a second figure appeared behind the teenager.

    "Is everything OK, Scott?" Deucalion asked as he's stood in the way.

    At first, nothing happened when Kate and him exchanged a look. But upon seeing the deadly weapon with her and her ressemblance to Gerard Argent, Deucalion flashed his red eyes and snarled. Surprisingly, Kate did the same before lifting her gun.

    The bullet didn't touch Deucalion as Allison jumped on her aunt which changed the trajectory and the shot lodged in the wall. Using her werewolf strentgh, Allison hauled the older woman with her, even if the said woman also got superhuman strength, they vanished at the end of the corridor at its audience's shock. It happened so fast that Deucalion didn't even know how to react when Scott apologized to him and went after his girlfriend and her murderous aunt that had supernatural green eyes and snarled like a wild animal.

    "What happened?" Theo inquired exiting the bathroom.

    The girls stepped out from their room too at the gun-fire and looked warily in the empty corridor.

    "A blond woman, naming Kate, appeared out of nowhere and shot at me."

    "You probably aren't her type," Malia scoffed.

    "Not only that, but she used to kill our kind. This was Kate Argent, Ally's crazy aunt that burned the Hale family in their House fire."

    "Which explained the gun and the bullet of blue wolfsbane," Deucalion commented while examining the bullet.

    "She's still using that? Didn't she fail to kill Derek with?" Lydia noted.

    "She actually didn't get the chance to shot at him as Scott and me freed him while Ally was distracting her. Was she distracting her again?"

    "Think so. I wonder how the conversation will go with two members of the long line hunter family all supernatural creature, now."

    "Oh yeah? So, she did turn after Derek bite her. And didn't kill herself."

    Deucalio snorted. "Doubt she will follow the code while she shot at every supernatural on sight. But being herself a werejaguar, it's kind of ironic."

    "Werejaguar?"

    "The green eyes is pattern of the nagual. When you reject a bite by an alpha, either you die rejecting the bite, or you turned into something else that reflect your soul."

    "So, Allison, a non-combatant werewolf, is facing her aunt, a feline that fight unfairly?" Lydia resumed.

    "And Scott, a human just followed them."

    "You're kidding. As much as I think Ally could protect herself, using the family card, Scott couldn't stand a chance."

    "Besides he sucks in self-defence, the guy's gonna die," Lydia stated.

    "So, we call Derek?" Malia proposed.

    Better safe than sorry. So much for staying the night.

    "Of course, neither of them took their phone."

    "Well, having their phone on them while they're going to sleep isn't really adviced."

    "They should have been asleep like we tell you to."

    "Yeah, but in this case, you'd be shot between your eyes."

    "I was there, I could have protected us," Julia reminded.

    "Good point. But now, we just lost them and have no way to find them."

    "But wait, how does she know I was there?"

    "She must hear your name."

    "Yeah, but how? It's not like we call each other with our full name."

    "The only person you gave your name was the desk guy to book the rooms."

    After a seance of torture, the guy, who happened to run the motel, admitted that he had some deal with Kate Argent and that if he ever hear this loathed name, he will contact her. Now, that's done, they had to call Kate's number.

    But nothing's so easy.

    The other person on the line was definitely not Kate and was also looking for her.

    "Kate, we got you the Hale you want, come at this address and do your part of the deal."

    They hung up after giving the address and it was thoughtless as they didn't even confirm it was Kate Argent calling. But Derek took the deal seriously because the name of the person they said they had : Hale.

    Last he checked, he was the last Hale in the America continent, so he wanted to know who's the Hale they're talking about, even if it could be a trap.

    "OK, now, we had another problem. Hale."

    "Derek, listen to me. We can't rush things. Give me some times and I'd tell you who's the Hale that is kept from those people."

    "And about the cheesy couple?"

    "I'll give all the answer, but I need time."

    Julia will use some her magic by controlling animal. Birds for instance. 

    Turned out the Hale was a girl, guarded by a family Hunters, the Calavera, and Kate was pulled into some temple, maybe Allison thought some belief could help them. They part in two groups : Deucalion, Theo and Malia went to retrieve the supposedly Hale girl with Kate's bullet of blue wolfsbane (maybe they could fool them with some hunter thing and Malia's light hair to be passed as Kate. Maybe. Deucalion's words against them as he saw how the hair of the huntress went dirty so it could be mistaken with Malia's), while Derek and Julia and Lydia went for Kate and Allison and Scott (since Julia knew how to handle werejaguar and what are their power, controlling Berserkers, she would be really helpful with her magic attached with Lydia's banshee telekinesis, while Derek could be useful as brawn). They kept their phone turned on and even brought those of Allison and Scott.

    The Calavera didn't appreciated to be played when they saw not Kate but three strangers and foreigners of the local beliefs.

    "La loba? The bone woman? You mean the werejaguar/nagual Kate Argent happened to be turned when she's was bitten?"

    "What's your link with her?"

    "Absolutly nothing. She took two of our friends with her, so we're also after her. But you also had someone we know."

    "So you're the Hale pack."

    "Ha. No. But we know the alpha."

    "Besides why do you keep an innocent with you? Isn't your code 'We hunt those who hunt us'? Did the girl do something to you?"

    "She's just a bait for us to catch Kate."

    "Yeah, but clearly, Kate didn't receive your message as you had her phone and she's on flight. So maybe, you could release her?"

    "What about you retreat from something that does not concern you and let us professional work on our thing?"

    Malia was raising a brow like she was agreeing. They had nothing to do with the Hale girl or not, maybe she wasn't even the person they're looking for. It may be a waste of time.

    "You're right. We're not concerned. We'll back off if you tell us who's the girl Hale girl."

    "Cora Hale."

    Deucalion recognized her as part of the Hale family, which is really shocking as the whole family passed away in the fire, set and conspired by Kate herself.

    "She managed to escape and flee to South America. But she heard the name of Derek Hale, from Kate Argent who was planning on killing him. Their path crossed and Kate promised to kill herself if she managed to got the Hale, every one of them."

    "And you agreed to help her even though you knew the Hale are innocents?"

    "Well, we're hunters and our goal is to lessen the extension of supernatural."

    "What about we tell you where to find Kate, so you deal with her and then you let the girl go?"

    They agreed on that. It couldn't be that tricky, right?"

    Except, when they arrived to the temple, there was a fight against the said Berserkers. And even with the darach's and the banshee's power, their friends coudn't do anything agains't them. Allison and Scott weren't on sight, but Kate was in the middle, gloating about her power and how she'll kill Derek, who wasn't on sight either.

    But the first group did their part of the deal, so the Calavera, but especially their head Araya (like every hunter family, it's a matriacal lead), had to accept their part by freeing Cora Hale.

    "Thank you, but who are you?"

    "Your brother's team."

    "So...Derek is alive?"

    "Last we check? Yes. Right now? Not so sure, since his sworn enemy Kate seems way to glad about the situation right now."

    So while the Calavera were struggling agains the three Berserker, Julia and Lydia finally noticed them and joined the group. They were worn out by the use of their power.

    "What's happening?" Deucalion demanded.

    "We came a bit late. Kate learned how to use her power and transformed Allison and Scott into Berserker, the ones we were fighting and then, they neutralized Derek and Kate transformed him into Berserker too."

    "So... those three Berserkers are... them?" Malia made sure.

    "Yes," Lydia hissed, because her voice is torned.

    "Oh, dear lord," Cora muttered.

    "I see you did your job," Julia noted while letting her healing factor work on her.

    "Yeah. How do we help them recover?"

    "The power of love, but not sure those hunters would let us."

    "And how do we use the power of love?"

    "You had to call them by their full name and it had to be triggering enough so they fight the rage of the Berserker and remove the mask."

    "I wish I could help," Malia swore.

    "Yeah, me too."

    Theo's sigh was so regretful it coud have convince them but the group just watch the two pathological children with a stern look.

    "You useless sociopaths," Lydia muttered.

    "I thought you were friend?" Cora was confused at the unuasual group.

    "We're more like team," Deucalion corrected her. "Sometime we could be friends when it doesn't involve deep feelings."

    Julia had to roll her eyes. "Anyway, you're Derek's sister, he wanted to see so much, you call him, while..."

    "I could call Allison, not that I had a problem with Scott..."

    "I got it, as fellow druid."

    It wasn't for sure.

    So, Cora, Julia and Lydia went back in the battlefield where the hunters were losing against the wild wolf-bear creatures. At least, Araya didn't lose her objectif and was fighting with la loba, her actual target. And seeing two badass huntress was amazing even if one's quite old. Deucalion, Theo and Malia thought they could, like, maybe help steady the three berserker or hunters, not sure but then another shot of gunfire target them from behind.

    And the shooter was a good one as Malia felt her cheek burn. She only got safe because her predator instinct. If only she was a coyote again.

    "I'm not sure being a coyote could save your life. You'd be an easier target," Deucalion recalled her.

    "I'd be used of how to fight," she growled while avoiding another bullet.

    A woman appeared behind a column and shot her again with a sadistic smile.

    "Do you know her?" Theo hissed.

    "No! I was a coyote for seven years! Who would go in the preserve just to look for me?!"

    "But I did, Malia. And I thought I have killed you the first time," the woman said with a smooth voice.

    "You're sure you don't know her?" Deucalion asked again.

    "Oh, you couldn't, Talia made sure of that."

    The old alpha raised a brow. "Talia, as in Talia Hale?"

    "Yes, this cunning woman who acted all nice with me for nine month when I was pregnant of you! But it was only so you could steal my power once born! Then, before I could even name you, she stole you from me and put you in foster care so I couldn't find you and kill you for stealing my power!"

    "Whoa, and here I thought you were the worst by killing off your whole pack. She's way eviler to want her daughter death so she could have her power back," Theo snarked.

    "Power does tend to make people greedy."

    "And mad! So you're the one who caused my mom and sister's death!"

    "Oh, sweetie, but I'm your mother. And don't worry, they must have die instantly when I shoot on the car, to bad you didn't do the same."

    "Wait, if you're her mother, who's her father?"

    "Henry Tate!" Malia snarled.

    "Peter Hale," the woman, former werecoyote, hissed with disgust.

    "Him again?" Theo scoffed.

    But he had to fight when he saw the woman shooting eargerly at Malia who was jumping on her, claiming vengence. With two werecoyote (with full power) on her (who lost a big part because of one of her assailant), the woman gave up on her weapon and used her human skill to beat them. And she was good at it even being an enhanced human. When Malia used her fist to throw punch, she made sure it woud be aimed at Theo and when Theo used his leg to kick her, she would retort with her gun. Theo was starting to feel drain with a murderous mother.

    "A little help, Deuc?" He shout at the man who didn't even budge.

    "Well, I had to admit I'm quite disappointed how all my training resulted to nothing, why did I spend so much time with you? I even broke your neck."

    "Yeah, yeah, but this is all words!"

    The mother chucked darkly. "And I'm the Desert Wolf."

    She made a move to strike Malia, but feeling protective, Theo took the hit and felt like the world just shook into piece. Women, seriously. But next he knew, Deucalion knocked the Desert Wolf off. Couldn't he have done it earlier? Was it a test to mesure how powerful they got under his tutelage?

    Furious that a pretend alpha (because he's without a pack and a wolf without a pack is an omega, red eyes or not) dared to even put her down, she get up and shot him. However the bullet was only a distraction (Deucalion avoided it easily), as she exited her claws. And even her direction was just a show, since she landed a loud hit on Malia. She was on her so fast that no one could do anything.

    But Theo's quite proud and didn't like to be ignored, so he bounced on her and hold her tightly on the floor.

    "You finally decided to attack."

    When he looked up, Deucalion made a show to roll his eyes, so much that Theo feared he became blind again. At least, this time, Julia would be less reluctant to heal him. Well, that is if she wasn't worn off after the battle.

    "What do we do to her?" He asked.

    "Since she's a professional assassin, I vote we put her down here and there."

    "I agree," Malia growled struggling to leaping on her.

    "Oh, you think you could? My will to gain my power back is stronger than your petty vengence!"

    "I show you what's petty!" She finally leaped on her, even if Theo was in the way.

    "Malia, stop!"

    This was starting to be ridiculous. He couldn't hold the Desert Wolf with one hand and remove Malia from the other. And Deucalion's just watching again...

    Oh, wait, he helped without him asking. The Desert Wolf was beaten up by her own weapon as Deucalion used the cross of her gun to stroke on the side of her head. Blood splattered because Deucalion wasn't the gentle kind and Theo finally withdrew from the top of the woman.

    "What do you suggest then?"

    "Well, we had the darach with us, right? We'll just ask Julia to do ritual so the remaining of the Desert Wolf power go to Malia, so she'll have her full power and we handle this killer to the normal police since she woud be as powerful than a human."

    "Well thought. How much did you use to think of that?"

    "Scott wouldn't stop pipping on that. I had to learn something or he's going to make those puppy eyes. I mean, I'm pretty sure the Doctors' experiments all done some fellony, so they kind of deserve their fate, but yeah, if we could help Malia control her power, it's win-win."

    "So, I coudl full shift back? Like him?" Malia spoke up.

    Who? They turned to the fight against the Berserker and the hunters. It ended probably at the same time than their fight and Allison and Scott recovered from their transformation into an enraged warrior while there was a huge brown wolf in front of Cora. Julia was talking with the matronne of Caravela family.

    Then the wolf shifted to Derek. A very naked Derek.

    "If you want to be nude so much," Deucaion sighed.

    Scott would have give one of his clothes but the transformation and the fight in Berserker torn pratically all his own clothes so Theo gave the Hale his jacket, so he could at least hide his genitalia.

    "I reckon we kill her," Araya Caravela voiced up.

    "I think I should agree, but somehow, this decision isn't mine," Julia said while looking at Allison.

    And the yound werewolf was torn.

    Like Kate totally brainwashed her and even manipulated her while she trusted her so much, but Kate remained her family and she's also the one she had left and didn't reject her being a lycanthope. Since Kate was also a supernatural.

    "This is your choice, Ally, but don't be too hard on yourself."

    She nodded at Scott's advice but then she turned to Derek, because he also deserve to have a voice, being Kate's victim of abuse.

    "She killed my family, our family," Derek said while wrapping his sister in his arm.

    Because they were the only left of this part of Hale family.

    "She's also my family," was the answer.

    "She was also victim of Gerard brainwash, I guess," Deucalion added. "And we all made mistakes."

    And this was what made Allison chose.

    In the end, it was Julia who did it all.

    She erased Kate's memory from all her knowledge about hunting and Argent. She let the bond she had with Allison and the fact that she's a werejaguar. Once Kate woke up, they had to explain her she's a supernatural and teach her how use her powers without abuse. Then, she performed an ancient ritual about transmission of power and Malia gained the extra spark from her biological (murderous) mother.

    Then, when the Caravela family was sure that the Loba won't be a threat again, she handled the Desert Wolf and called the human mercenary that was hunting her for some year now. Former US Marshall Braeden came and took the body of this cruel woman with so much joy that her smile was blinding them.

    At the end of the day, they napped some in the rooms they booked, but with Cora and Kate sharing the room of Julia. Derek had to take an extra. Cora also changed clothes with some of Lydia's because the one on her was starting to sting as she wore them from Sourth America to the States. And she was walking.

    They took the road before nightfall. And Kate was still unconscious.

    "We just put her on the floor," Cora suggested because the minibus only had nine places and they were ten, for the return journey to California.

    Derek was hesitant, the woman did some despicable thing but if he trust Jen (and he did), Kate will wake up as someone else, and it's better if she wake up not thinking badly on them. So, better made her sit on a seat. But then, someone had to sacrifice his seat.

    "No need. Now, I can full shift..." Malia stated with a winning smile.

    Except, she could have warn them she's going to full shift right now.

    So they were actually nine sitting while a coyote was having fun taking a nap on the floor.

    To end this trip on good note, they stopped at the Grand Canyon and gazed at the sunrise.

     

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