• The Omega

    The Doctors chose to go back to Beacon Hills.

    Said that the Nemeton was awaken.

    The place is kept secret by the druids, those people who kept the world balanced by being emissary of werewolf pack. The Doctors despised them, they were nothing as useless guide that restrained the creatures' real power. But of course, nothing will be better than the Beast.

    Last time they were at Beacon Hills, the Nemeton was deep asleep, the rumor that he was awaken started to spread during autumn 2011. The doctors took only nine months to go back having to finish the experiments they had in progress there.

    Theo didn't mind. He got the chance to play more with the subjects, all failures, of course. But once he heard about the Nogitsune, said that he possessed a human without killing it, Theo wanted to have that thing into his pack. So he did research on his own about the vessel alive, meaning that he was strong enough to survive it. And the name did ring something in him, but he dismissed until he would be on place.

    What call him out was that the Doctors noticed a sort of protector of the town. And decided to wipe it when it happened to be an omega werewolf. At least, it wasn't that werewolf family.

    If the Doctors dismissed them like nothing, Theo actually hold some grudge toward the Hale. Like, werewolf bite could have give everything he wanted and faster than what he had with the Doctors. Sure, they made him a chimera, but he's just a cheap knot-off compared to the real wolf, especially the then alpha who could full shift. Of course, he could too, but it's because he's a chimera. Though, the Doctors didn't know he could. And he will use it against them for underrating him.

    But while he was doing research on Beacon Hills, he noticed that a lot of thing happened there. Murder spree for one, but everytime with different serial killer. A kanima was concerned once, then a Darach because an Alpha Pack was heading to there, finally a deadpool about to erase all supernatural. That made Theo smirked, he was nothing like a supernatural. Only upside being a chimera : not having the natural protection against supernatural creatures.

    And eventually a name came around for all those attack, Scott McCall.

    If Theo remembered one thing from Beacon Hills, it would be the Preserve and their owners, the bridge inside because it was the start of his Chimera life and this one kid always so kind to him, Scott.

    If everything happen like he wanted them to, he'll propose him into his inner circle. He got him a special place. Not really part of his pack who will the most powerful one, but as his friend, as his best friend.

    By the time the Doctors arrived to Beacon Hills, summer school already started. Theo considered applying, but dismissed it quicky. He would easily follow the class, being the Doctors witty goody-two-shoes.

    He asked the Doctors to give a house in the outskirt of the town and a 'mother'. He will just come up with a sad story about how his father died and after losing all funds, the Raeken got this only remnant at Beacon Hills, that they left behind after Tara's death.

    So during the month before school start, Theo go visit the place he will living.

    So in southern part of the preserve, there was this uninteresting Buddhist pack. Somewhere in the west, there's this Primal pack on the verge of detach, but on the northern side, there was this ranch with bear trap. And the one breakage car. He seemed to have heard about this story, it wasn't long after his departure with the Doctors.

    He shifted around this place, sensing a sort of connection here. There was a huge scratch under the car, maybe from a mountain lion, maybe from some supernatural creature, Theo didn't care, what interested him was the scent that compelled him, so he let his clothes there and shifted into his wolf form.

    As wolf, noted that he's a huge one, he went all four and ran into the woods like a free puppy. That is, until he met another territorial animal. The urinal smell was so strong, he immediately get it was a coyote. He was going to change path when a sound call him out.

    Not really him, just a coyote stranded in the bear-trap and calling for help.

    But he better not howl or it's going to bring the hunter. Theo decided to help them out, as fellow coyote. He took his human form back and broke the animal out. After checking the area, he lead them out safely and back to the crached car.

    "You OK, buddy?"

    He took the paw that was trapped and surprisingly enough the injury was healing pretty fast. He rubbed the blood away to check better but the wound wasn't anymore.

    "Wow, are you... don't tell me you're a shifter."

    The coyote just looked at him.

    "Right, you can't tell me anything. Maybe you could shift back."

    He couldn't. Or he was ignoring him when the animal walked to the car and looking for something. Theo chose to dress up because it was night time and chiller without his fur. The coyote eventually crawled back from the crashing car with a doll. A really ugly doll, but they seemed to be pretty attached so Theo said nothing.

    "Wait, do you mean it's your? So...you saw something you shouldn't."

    Referrencing to his nakedness. But the blue eyes creature just mouthed the doll.

    "Weird, you seemed to understand me but you couldn't shift back to human, do you mean you're actually really young and don't have your shifter power in control?"

    But that doesn't make sense. Full shifting was a step even adult born werewolf couldn't manage it easily. Unless the werecoyote here is a chimera, Theo didn't know what he had before him. Deciding he liked the challenge this mystery was giving him, he took it home.

    The werecoyote didn't complain but insisted to have this ugly and horrid doll with them. So Theo took it with the tip of his fingers and lead them to the Raeken house.

    The 'mother' was there of course and was startled to see him come in. She watched him inviting an animal in the house and leading it to upstair.

    "Do you need something?" Theo asked her coldly.

    She started, because having a teenager order her around was really disturbing. Especially when he's threatening her with three horrible people clad in steampunk style. Plus syringue, plus sword-cane, plus helmets. The helmets, though.

    "I just want to know if you need me to do something."

    "Nothing, just be present between 10pm to 6am. The rest, you do whatever the hell you want. But do not forget, you're have a son."

    "Of course."

    Theo ignored the crack in her voice, he had more important thing to do. Like bathing this canine. Hopefully, she didn't actually think she became one and abhor bath.

    She took it quite fine, especially the part when he washed the doll too. Still ugly, though.

    Then, he just started petting her. And talk to her. Like her supernatural blue eyes meant surely about some crime, like killing innocent, but she didn't seem to be a wild one. Well, not to him at least. Maybe because of their werecoyote part?

    He used his month of summer vacation like that.

     

    The day before, he was informed by the Doctos (more like he kept annoying the Doctors) about their target on Kira Yukimura, a thunder Kitsune, in Scott McCall pack. Albeit it's hardly a pack, having no alpha, the clique turned essentially around Scott. 

    Theo, intrigued by the proclaimed Scott's partner, chose to watch how the Doctors were going to attack her.

    Of course, forcing a lightning bolt into her eyeball since it's her power. Then, they're going to lure her into Eichen House so she disturbed the telluric current and the Doctors could steal the third eye of this annoying Gabriel Valack, who stole them a mask and wrote a book about them. If he thought he was destroying them, the Doctors saw it an eulogy and tool on the experiments and their modified memories.

    So, the first subject, Belasko was obviously a failure, but the power he got was interesting enough, Theo admitted. Too bad, Scott got a hand on those talons, but maybe Theo could steal it from this druid.

     

    Scott went looking for Kira as the thunder disturbed every cell in the town.

    And also because Stiles put the doubt in him. Ethan too, not being the helpful one.

    ("If you tell you girlfriend to have fun when she returned to hometown, of course she's going to think you two aren't exclusive. Dude.")

    So, Kira didn't have fun. That's good. As in she took their relationship seriously, of course, not that he's goating about her being sad during those summer vacation. What kind of boyfriend would he be?

    But people couldn't give him a rest? Just for the fricking Senior Scribs!

    Thank god, Ethan was there, but he was merely a distraction as this weird looking male creature empaled him with long claws. He didn't even know what he saw trying to do, but it's a failure, and now, Scott had those blue claws.

    "Well, Danny did well graduating earlier last year. And here, we thought we could have some peace," Ethan sighed.

    Scott thought about what Deaton told him. About Regression of the mean. Since the last six months have been good, the scale had to tip in the other way, meaning now. He shivered at the thought, what kind of blitzar will come?

    Like Lydia said, all the seniors were already there. They managed to set between the line but not sure if there still was blank space for their signature. Kira, being her cute self, questioned Lydia about their act not being vandalism and Lydia, being her mean girl, didn't really reassure her. She still signed, though.

    Scott and Ethan added their loved one's name too. Because, Allisson and Aiden would have been there too.

    A.A et A&E.S (24.04.2020)

     

    Theo smiled satisfiedly at Scott's back in AP Biology, so even there, they got similar interest. When Mrs Finch asked the class who thought they in the right classroom, Scott turned and they met eyes. Theo thought he recognized him, but then, he turned back and raised hand too, without showing sign he did.

    During his free period, his group did come to him, though.

    Scott was with this werewolf who was looking at him warily and this other guy that should have ring a bell, but Scott was the most interesting.

    "Theo?"

    He smiled. "Hey, Scott. How are you after all those years? I didn't think I could ever see again and in this context."

    The omega can't help but smile too. He checked the surroundings before leaning as if telling a secret.

    "So, you're also... a werewolf?"

    Well, it was a secret. It must be the werewolf, Theo should be careful around this one, he didn't catch his real scent, but he was close enough to notice his wolf.

    "Yeah, so you're really the one of the rumors?"

    Scott leaned back, started.

    "What rumors?" The other unnamed guy asked vividly.

    And Theo just couldn't catch his name.

    "Is that like, the omego that defeat his alpha, then the kanima, then the darach and the alpha pack, then a handful of professional assassins?"

    He did give him all the hint he was looking for. Was that on purpose or?

    "Stiles" Scott hissed, shocked by his friend.

    Right, Stiles, the annoying hyperactif. Who pinched his lips, caught in his act. So, it wasn't an act and he just talked in his excitement. In his paranoia.

    "Yeah, this one," Theo played along. "And it also said about a Nogitsune."

    And that landed. Stiles scrunched his brows while Scott and the other werewolf tensed. A delicate subject, noted. And to be play again against the human.

    "It's all in the past," Scott reconforted with his optimistic smile. "Here, this is Ethan, a friend of us. And like us." He added the last part lowly. "How come you're back?"

    If it was Stiles who asked, Theo could have take it wrongly, but Scott's the one who's always that kind and carrying, so he knew he was genuinely interested.

    "My, uh, dad passed away recently. And since we didn't have much left, we came back in our home town so I could graduate."

    He pulled this card because his father was always the one who signed the papers and all, if he get rid of this one, he could pretend easily a 'mother' with him, and who cares if it's a fake? Besides, death was a great subject to soften them. And plus his puppy eyes...

    "Oh, of course. We feel you. At least, you have us, now."

    Bingo.

    "You know, once we even called ourselves the Omega Pack, to contrast with the Alpha Pack they fight against, and Scott's the leader," the werewolf, Ethan, said playfully.

    Scott rolled his eyes. "All in the past. Now, I'm the only Omega left and we're more a clique than anyting."

    "Just with a bunch of supernatural teenagers," Stiles snarked. "Except me, of course."

    And that made Theo snorted, but he quickly hid it with a chuckle. What's so cool to be human?

    "Yeah," Scott agreed quite shyly.

    He was always the modest type.

    So, he bonded with Scott again. Easy peasy. But the werewolf Ethan did have some benefit to have smelled him (and suspected something), but he befriended him as easily. Like, he just had to got the Banshee and the Kitsune in his hands and lead them to Eichen.

    But oh, if the banshee wanted to bond with Tracy Stewart, why not?

    It could just speeded things up.

    Like he thought, Lydia Martin got interest in the book of the Dread Doctors.

    He was planning on the next move while cuddling with the werecoyote and he wondered how things were going with the Doctors and Tracy. So far, another subject, Donovan Donati was on the second stade of the experiment and four others were just chosen. Lucas Byrnes, Josh Diaz, Hayden Romero and Corey Bryant. Usually, the teenagers (even failures) took longer than adult to broke down, so he had to push Scott and the others to the right direction.

     

    The Banshee, Kitsune and werewolf discovered Tracy's work. Meanwhile, Scott and the human witnessed Donovan's threat, so they suspected him, but then he just let Tracy's name, even though she tried to free him out (to the Doctors' arms, but well). He was included to the group meeting.

    "Could she be in your pack?" Scott questioned Ethan.

    "No, Satomi stopped recuiting after me, because of the deadpool. I don't even think I smell anything on her,"

    "Maybe it's because of medication?" Stiles pinpointed before turning to Lydia. "You said she had night terrors, right?"

    "No, she wasn't taking any medication, that's why I asked help from Jordan Parrish. We had to give her actual proof that she wasn't running any risks."

    "Yeah, well, she is the running risk, now."

    No one releved the sarcasm, because it was actually true.

    "We should just open our sense, from now on," Theo said to the other werewolf.

    He didn't purposely distant Kira, but well, the girl was more half-blood deity than shifter. And thanks god, Ethan was on english class in front of the history class, where Tracy showed up. Probably drawn by fellow subject Hayden Romero. Theo pulled the fire alarm as last resort but Tracy managed to harm the other girl. Scott and Ethan rushed after Tracy to take to the animal clinic. Sensing his chance to acquire Belasko's talons without fighting, Theo rushed after them, forgetting Hayden for the moment.

    Stiles called his dad to tell him where Tracy was now but rushed to the hospital to check on Tracy's victims. While Lydia and Kira went to the Stewart House, got the book The Dread Doctors and rushed to the station following Lydia's feeling.

    Theo ducked perfectly while Tracy woke up and attacked the group and the vetenarian with her tail. He simulated his fall and got a hand on the talons, then supposedly stayed paralyzed. Frankly, he deserved an oscar. But the others were more worried about Tracy being able to get through the mountain ashes.

    Finally, Tracy was put down by the Doctors and Lydia nearly died from her injury. Even though Stiles was there first, he didn't do anything than stare dumbly in the station as Tracy was intending to kill his father (because in date with Tracy's next victim) and Lydia (because she was on the way). Thanks god Kira was there, but too bad the Doctors already experimented on her. Oops.

    He got bonus point with his knowledges learned after the Doctors.

    This night, it was Lucas Byrnes who got off of hands. He was mostly a failure without much difference with Tracy (he stung hi boyfriend -another subject!- with his scorpion's tail). Fortunately, he didn't go with Scott to the hospital to check on Corey Bryant, but that lead them to Sinema while Ethan was already there with his packmate. Hayden Romero was also in the place but they didn't react much to the Doctors presence, while Theo was playing behind the bar. He tried to entertain himself while waiting for the other, there's nothing wrong with that.

    After that, they finally come up with the name of Chimera, what they are.

    And when the group thought that's it for the night, Theo go check on Donovan and he was kind of high to see Stiles killed him. An accident maybe, but still... And he didn't even think about calling the police, so the darkness of his was still there. Now, he had to tidy up. And let the body to this half-naked man.

    Duh, what's that?

     

    The next day, Lydia is released from the hospital while the personal was on rampage about missing corpse. She looked at the book and noticed the name inside of the cover. Gabriel Valack.

    This night would be the night.

    Ethan couldn't go, because of pack meeting after all the events. Theo pretended to have to do something for his 'mother' and Stiles who got thing to hide, went with the group.

    Theo waited in the darkness of his room while looking at the coyote eating. The 'mother' was somewhere in the house, but he didn't care. If the Doctors got the third eyes, they will accelerate their experiments and find the perfect chimera, so he better striked hard and good. With the talons.

     

    Too late, four others were being experimented already. Bella O'Dyall, Zach Widley, Beth Brennan and Noah Patrick.

    Usually, the Doctors stopped at twelve experiments, because too much failures compromised the pool. What, he didn't know and he wasn't that interested. Now, the group got a view on the book, they all read it. Well, try to for the Kitsune as she had some problem with language. So while the other were reading, he proposed to find a way for Kira, and Ethan couldn't help since Satomi Pack rather didn't want to get involved.

    He got a record of Kira's mumbling in japanese.

     

    The thing that was annoying with the group reading Valack's tool was that except Kira (who couldn't read), they won't gain any memory with the doctors but reppressed memories. And the one that was bothering him was Scott, he nearly got plummeted with his sudden asthma attack. He had to find a fucking inhaler (that he didn't even had one first hand due to his parents' neglect) to save him. And he realized, he just realized that he was scared to lose Scott.

    Except, the Doctors saw Scott as obstacle.

    And with Kira's uncontrollable Kitsune, it would crush Scott.

    And with Stiles being attacked by Josh Diaz. Snidely, he hoped he would kill this one too (as it's a failure) so he could totally embrace his dark side the void fox innited. But sadly, the Doctors intervened and put Josh down, with a really bad wound. Maybe, he will assume him killing Donovan, then.

    But it will hurt Scott.

     

    Liam Dunbar, Scott and Ethan's sophomore teammate found another Chimera, Hayden Romero. He didn't know what Hayden was, but he did met Berserker, so supernatural wasn't that strange to him. Besides he was also at Sinema when the Doctors came. So, Scott wanted to help Hayden, and maybe use her to lure the Doctors.

    Theo, finding the idea very dangerous knowing how the Doctors could defeat him, deterred him at that and just told him to keep an eye on Josh's corpse, because the man in fire was dangerous too. He made some research before hand and come to the conclusion of a hellhound, but didn't have any idea about his human identity.

    And boo, the hellhound still got a clutch on the corpse but at least the group had the identity of him. Jordan Parrish.

    "He was on fire!"

    "That's why he was also immune to fire..."

    "So, we kind of resolve this mystery but there still are the Doctors and Hayden. If she's a failure, she would be next death!"

    "And Kira's arrested..."

    Everyone went silent. But then, they all went on panic to the station to stop Stiles' dad. Seriously, the two of them, they're making more problem than solving. Like father, like son. Apples do not fall far from the tree.

    Does that mean he could be as neglectful as his parents. No way, he took care of the werecoyote! He had to check on her.

    So, the corpse must be a warning to Scott. Because, Kira couldn't have kill Bella O'Dyall. Or maybe, she could with unbalanced Kitsune power. All in all, the Doctors did inject Hayden again, as she was promising. Pff.

     

    Kira had to go fix about her Kitsune power.

    Then, they learned Hayden's going missing. It's been five days. Theo's trying to make Scott take AP biology to distract him. It worked a little, but his mood was sour especially whenever he used his inhaler he didn't think he would ever need to use again.

    And Liam came with another name, Corey Bryant, thanks to his friend Mason. Lucas Byrnes' boyfriend who may have healed faster thanks to Scott, still got to heal fast.

    Scott didn't think about using him as bait, because he could barely fight, let alone try to trap them. But he kept his eyes on him, even if he didn't tell others. Because Stiles' human (and killed a chimera, something he hid it from everyone), Lydia wanted to find the Nemeton and the bodies (with the human tagging along like a clingy mop he's), (Kira's gone) and Ethan couldn't help even if he wanted to. And Theo, Scott's trying to leave him out of this, because he's kind, because he valued his life (without him knowing his job in this mess), because he's Scott.

    But Theo wanted to do something for him. Maybe got him Hayden.

    Even if she's failure.

    The Doctors wouldn't hear anything about letting her out. But they let him till the full moon. The supermoon. The perigee-syzygy. In two days.

    So, Theo got ahead and extracted some green serum. But like more than anyone would need. He took and took, till he couldn't hid with him, then, he broke into Hayden's cell and free her (the other, Zach Wydley, already being put down). The Doctors would know it's him so he couldn't hide her at the Raekens. He couldn't bring her to her home (and to her sister, the deputy Valerie Clarke) because her presence would sell him out and that her condition worsened as time flew. He only had the animal clinic, hopefully Scott would avoid this place till the Doctors did whatever they want with Corey (that wasn't a good thought, because Scott's trying to help him too). 

    He ran to the Raeken's house and get rid of the woman to the abandoned house so the Doctors will wipe her memories, then he lead the werecoyote to the clinic.

     

    But it wasn't enough, because there still are two others chimeras. Or one. Beth Brennan was put down this morning under Ethan's eyes, who couldn't do anything. Corey Bryant was next. Or maybe Noah Patrick.

    Scott went after Corey without telling him. Without telling anyone.

    And while Lydia's talking to Parrish (without knowing what kind of creature he is). Sheriff took Stiles and Theo apart. Because due to a certain prank call in Beacon Hills, they were only two students using the key card to the library, them. Theo sold Stiles out. He told everything he saw and Stiles was so shocked he couldn't defend himself, how could he? He may have history about lying to his dad, but he couldn't lie about that, especially when he already have murderous past.

    Of course, the Sheriff won't do anything. It's his son! Plus, there wasn't bodies, so what will he condamn him? But oh, the body Kira must have killed vanished too, but Kira still get handcuffed. We wonder why.

    Feeling disgusted by those hypocrites, Theo went to find Scott and tell him about his plan to defeat the Doctors thanks to Hayden's presence. So, he took him to the clinic, they were just in front of the door and Stiles was there too. The human thought he was going to sell him out to Scott too (what an egocentric) so he beat him.

    "Scott, he's working with the Dread Doctors!"

    Theo flinched. Because he didn't know what he did that betrayed him.

    "What, Stiles...?" Scott couldn't get it. He just came back from the Hospital, probably discovering Corey's body.

    But Stiles didn't care. Why should he? This selfish human only care about his image and well being than Scott's selfcare.

    "I saw him get this girl, Hayden, to the animal clinic!"

    He showed them the proof. Hayden Romero was there, sitting in this poor chair, in pain. Scott gasped and tried to take her pain, but the other kept his shouting.

    "Where did he find her? He knew all along! That why he didn't want us to use her as bait, he was spoiling our effort!"

    That did make sense. To anyone's mind (heck, just the group of them), he's the most suspicious. And oh, he's back in town and there are some new threats known as Dread Doctors that were already experimenting there once! Theo's the first suspect.

    But Scott, (bless him, bless him, but just give him a break), Scott looked at Theo for confirmation. Theo could lie (he's used to it, too, and he knew how to steady his heartbeat), but not to Scott's broken eyes.

    "I worked for them, yeah. But I'm changing side! I free Hayden because I knew how we could save her! There's still time, Scott! Just, just trust me and it'll be OK!"

    "How do you want us to trust you?! You knew all along who were the culprit and the victims! You did nothing and let them die! You probably help the Doctors to kill them!"

    That wasn't a lie. He did help them a lot by distracting the group's attention.

    "I- I couldn't let you go to the Doctors! You couldn't do anything against them! They're way too powerful! Scott, you're using an inhaler again because of them!"

    "Because you helped!"

    "Well, you killed one chimera, too! You were even trying to kill a second one!" Theo yelled back.

    Scott darted a horrified look to his best friend. Ex! He didn't deserved this title of friend!

    "It was! It was self-defence! Scott, Donovan, you remember him? He threatened dad's life! And he said that he will eat my legs so it will crushed dad! I just defended myself because he was coming to me!"

    "You still killed him! And you were going to do the same for this other kid, Josh!"

    "But I didn't! Those, those Doctors came before he could have harmed me! That's what I told my dad!"

    "Weren't you trying to help them? But you just go and kill every one of them!"

    "I- Scott, I! He worked for them! That means he helped them experimenting on Kira!"

    Low Blow. He didn't even know Kira by then. But that was the last straw for Scott.

    "How could you?"

    That shut them up. There was so much pain in his voice and eyes that Theo couldn't even retort something. Scott just felt so betrayed, so used, so hurt.

    He lost everything, his werewolf healing power, his girlfriend, his will to help others victims. All because Theo, his friend, was helping the enemies.

    He failed. Theo felt like failing Scott's friendship was worse than failing the Doctors.

    So he backed away. He took his sack (filled with green serum and Belasko's talons) and get out of the clinic with the werecoyote in toes. He was so fast that no one could stop him. Not like they would, Scott had to help Hayden.

    But without his help.

     

    Since he losted everything, he may as well just create what he wanted from what he got now.

    The Doctors chided him for freeing Hayden and for using the green serum, but otherwise, they didn't do anything else to him. They didn't took take back the house, neither the serum. Actually, it was like they let him go, like they will never have to see him again.

    He asked them why.

    They told him they created the perfect chimera. The beast was ressurrected.

    Uh oh, he may as well quickly put his plan in line.

    After the Doctors put down Hayden (and Theo had a thought for Scott, did he survive his stand-off against the Doctors?), Theo waited for Jordan Parrish (the hellhound) apparition. But then, he changed his mind. He didn't like audience, right? So he had to wait for him in the Preserve and joined the Nemeton from there.

    It was so easy.

    While he was choosing the Chimeras he will ressurrect, the full moon was its peak and a howl was heard.

     

    He took them to the Raekens. The house was empty, so plenty space for them. He just ressurrect five of them.

    Donovan Donati. Tracy Stewart. Josh Diaz. Corey Bryant. And Hayden Romero.

    (Just to make sure for the last one. The first because it would be useful if he ever want witness go down, or just obstacle. Tracy's kanima and Josh's electricity absoption could be useful. and Corey...he did have an interesting power, to be invisible. Like a chameleon, great spy. He just had to train them.)

    Donovan was a problematic one, he wouldn't stop talking back and didn't take a younger's order great. But once he threatened him to put him down again, he went silent.

    Tracy and Josh were the most obedient, or good at simulating. Corey was freaking out, and it was quite surprising as one ressurrect with being much darker. Hayden... she surprised him too, she asked to call her sister. Theo even allowed her to go back to her if she managed to control her power.

    So training started with the three part werewolves. By morning, they could all extracted their claws and fangs at will. And maintained their glowering eyes. He demanded Hayden to pass in the house before she settle with Valerie Clarke (not wanting her to forget to who she owned her life).

    The Sheriff's son went to his house to ask what happened to his father.

    Seeing his killer, Donovan went crazy. And seeing an oppotunity to get rid of an obstacle, Theo let Donovan do whatever he wanted to. He didn't hear anything the rest of the day while the rest tried to befriend with the werecoyote but she was specially snuggling to him and didn't left Theo's side.

    He later discovered that the Sheriff was dying due to the last failed chimera. Knowing what he was (and his contidion), Theo decided to go check on Hayden, needing her werejaguar power. She seemingly did a good job as she was heading to the Raekens door with a satisfied smile and smelling joy and her sister. Theo didn't give mucch thought but ask her to accompany him and use her inner sense to track Noah Patrick.

    On their way, Donovan was found dead. Again. Theo took pictures so he could sentenced the culprit. But let him died, since his shot wouldn't be enough for him (again) and Noah Patrick. When Hayden asked if they should call the police, he gave her a look but shrugged. She's the one to have a deputy relative.

    They went to the tunnels where Hayden's sense were leading her. She said Noah was dying. Theo considered but settle for waiting where they stood because he didn't want the Doctors to find out what he did of their precious green serum. Hayden used this moment to question him.

    "Why do I know all of that?"

    "You're part-werewolf and part-werejaguar. Noah's part-werewolf and part-Berserker. It's not your werewolf part that are connect but the other. Werejaguar are known to control and create Berserker in the mexican legends."

    "So, I could... control him?"

    "Mostly, I think you two shared a bond, since you're not the actual supernatural creature."

    "Is it possible that I could be...not a chimera?"

    Theo considered her.

    "Because you didn't feel as powerful you should feel?"

    "Because I died once."

    "I saved your life. It won't be in danger any soon."

    "I rather not be involved at all."

    "...Your sister?"

    Hayden sighed. "Yes, she...was overjoyed to find me again but she's worried and she won't let me out of her sight for a while. She want to take me to every shift."

    "Hum, that would be annoying. But, whatever, stay with her. I'll call you if I ever want you."

    "I'm not something you could control just because I own you my life."

    "Oh no? But if it wasn't me, you wouldn't be able to see your sister, you know? She would be devasted to learn your death, right? Is that what you want?"

    "You're threatening me?"

    "I'm recalling you why you're still here."

    She didn't say anything for a long moment, but then, she broke the eye contact.

    "He's died."

    "Lead me to where he is. Quick."

    Or they will met the hellhound.

     

    The others were quite surprise to find another chimera instead of Donovan. Theo didn't explain much, just that Noah shared something with Hayden, so if they want to look for one, they had to find the others.

    But Josh had addiction problem, his eel part. Theo couldn't stop sighing when he asked him to do something with the electric lane, at least it stopped his complain and he was now ecstatic, to the others' awe. But Tracy's annoyance too.

    Now Theo thought about it, the driver didn't actually dead, and with him the proof of the existence of Kanima venom. So he went on walk with her to commit murder.

    Corey's doing what he likes, being helpful. Which kind of confuse Theo, but since he didn't seem to want to play apart, Theo let him. He did propose to sue his parents and it made him even more happy. Theo felt nauseous to see so much joy whereas he was still moody about Scott.

     

    Then, the Beast was on his killing spree.

    Theo knew that he couldn't take it down, even with the talons, even with the five chimeras he got with him, so when he heard about the alpha (of the Alpha Pack), he just had to have him. With the four chimera living under his roof, they went on chasing an old and blind werewolf.

    They returned scathered (he wasn't with them, he trained them and told them how to use their power at their best so if they came home injured, that's because they're weak), but with the alpha.

    "Seriously, he's just one blind alpha."

    Apparently a re-blind alpha. Theo didn't see the difference, he's blind, isn't he? And still so knowing-all. So, maybe the rumor about the ressurrection of the Beast spread out.

    "You want me to teach how to steal its power?"

    "I guess you won't do it without something to gain. So, what do you want?"

    "The eyes of Scott McCall."

    That was the answer Theo feared. Scott got so much enemy! Theo heard about the Argents, they were hunters that hunted him during the Kanima periods, and they were also in town. Theo thought about putting him down with one of the Chimera he had in hand, maybe Noah (since he nearly got Stilinski senior), but they're wary. Besides one of them was the reason the old alpha was blind.

    Theo played with the bottle were the talons were abstractedly.

    "Then, maybe I should use this on you first."

    He ignored the four chimeras annoyed look. Like they did all those effort for nothing? Couldn't he just go and beat the alpha himself? The alpha went silent, registering what he said, then glances his cloudy red eyes on the coyote that walked silently to Theo's side.

    Deucalion wolfed out, with his red eyes totally clear now, and roared on the werecoyote.

    "What the heck? I thought I told you to hook him up with the wolfsbane IV drip!"

    "We did!" Josh defended themselves.

    "What about your venom?" Theo snarled at Tracy.

    But the girl was more looking at what's on his side. He jerked his head to Noah, so the chimera scratched the alpha to put him place, while Corey gasped and Josh stilled. To his side, instead of his familiar werecoyote, was a girl. A very naked girl.

    Theo gave her his clothes instinctively while helping her standing up.

    "You didn't know you could do that?" The alpha groaned, dizzy by Noah's blow an taking his human form back.

    "In case you didn't notice, we're not werewolf. And even less alpha."

    Deucalion snorted but stayed at his place, like a captif he should at the first place. Theo demanded Tracy to take care of the werecoyote, being the only girl. After making her take a shower, they came back downstair, very clothed.

    They went to the kitchen, because there's a back door, while the guys were watching their captif. They let Tracy stay with them, he didn't know anything about girl. Lydia was a queen bee and Kira a sweetie. Hayden's an independant sophomore and Tracy was shy before her transition, now she was this close up mystery. The girl was nervous and uncomfortable in her human form. She couldn't even look in his eyes. It wasn't embarrassement, it was just uneasiness to be on two legs again.

    "What's your name?"

    "Malia," Her voice rax after not talking for so long.

    "Why were you in this form?"

    She didn't answer and Theo glanced at Tracy. She was as uneased.

    Theo took the girl, Malia's chin and lifted it up so they could look a each other. Malia just stared in his eyes before her turned into light blue. Those of killer's.

    He didn't try to force anything out of her, again.

    In fact, he didn't have the time.

    With the Beast free, murder started. It was just his first kill but it caused enough panic because he showed all four and so huge! Hayden saw that too and she immediately reported it to Theo. Taking Scott with her. He send her an accusing look but she didn't even feel remorseful.

    They were all there, even Jordan Parrish.

    "Theo! You... you ressurrected them!" Scott greeted him.

    "Did I?" He said pettily. "You're sure I didn't take them in captif and threatened them?"

    "Well, that does look like that."

    Theo glared at the annoying thing that spoke up.

    "Oh yeah? And what about that?" He showed him the picture of Donovan's death (the second one) "are you going to tell me it's self defence too? This time it seems like his skull was split in half, what are you gonna say? I was just defending myself?"

    Scott shot an alarming look to his friend at the pictures, very detailing and with a lot of shots. Everyone else was shocked too, Lydia and Parrish seemed especially disgusted.

    "That was me! I tried to get rid of him, but he was just keeping gnawing at his leg!" Ethan said, pointing at Stiles' leg. That did smell blood.

    "So you beat him up?"

    "No, I just throw him off! But then, he kept going on and..."

    "And I discarded a row of log on him. It was supposed to just stop him! And we were in hurry to find a way to save my dad!"

    Theo scoffed, using the old man as excuse again.

    "Meanwhile I saved five people."

    The hard truth was difficult to swallow.

    "And he abducted me," a voice spoke up.

    They all turned to the lobby, where Deucalion was attached, still hooked up with the wolfsbane drip. Jordan exchanged a look with Lydia, but the girl didn't seem worried.

    "Oh, Deucalion..." Scott said softly.

    "Last I checked, he was the villain, so not really a big deal," Ethan mumbled.

    The chimeras shot him a look but got on all claws when the human spoke.

    "Well, but he did it with something in mind!"

    "Can't you read the atmosphere? You think in the good side, but everything you did was wrong. First, kill someone then withdrawing the information. Two, kill the same person and leave it for dead. And Last, you threatened the life of an innocent, here."

    He was referencing to Noah, who even though did poison the Sheriff, it was due to him being an uncontrollable chimera.

    "I wonder how the charge against you would be. Let's do it quickly since you're still underage, because once you got eighteen, you could be sentenced as an adult."

    "You're going to report him?" Scott asked.

    "You wouldn't? What about you, deputy? You locked yourself up after you learn you were the one who take the body, that was examplary. Now, that a criminal was close to you, why don't you stop him?"

    Lydia shared a panicked look with his fellow harbinger of death. Jordan looked torn while considering Stiles.

    "Well, if you don't, I'm just gonna call another deputy, right Hayden? I mean, you were the one who call your sister and reporting the death. And I would just have to give her the evidence the corpse went missing like the first time."

    Scott's group were appaled by his plan. It's like he planned everything and the look on his eyes, so much hate and evil pleasure to lock the Sheriff's son up.

    "You fear papa Stilinski would do something? Right, wouldn't give him a good image to have a killer son, right?"

    "It was self-defence, Theo."

    The way Scott called his name was painful to hear.

    "I bet both time it was. It could plead in his favor if he just denounce himself, don't you think? Quick, you're still underage."

    After the bother's gone with the deputy, Theo snickered smugly. But he felt his heart clenched at Scott's crestfallen expression. The others just looked even more warily at him.

    "And here I thought he was on your side. But Scott, I think it's only on your side."

    Theo glared annoyingly at Deucalion, but then he frowned and watched Scott with a betrayed look.

    "You planned this. You made him spy on us. He was on your side the whole time."

    Scott got a deer-caught-in-the-light look and his heatbeat picked up.

    "Ah, finally! I mean, there's no point simulating anymore," the alpha werewolf stood up, snatching the wolfsbane IV from him.

    The chimeras gathered close to each other, even Hayden who didn't know about abducting Deucalion, feeling being played. Theo was cursing himself internally and regretted for not having the talons with him. He extracted his claws, ready to fight an alpha werewolf even if he didn't stand a chance, but his hurt may be enough to fight back.

    "No, no, we're not here to fight, Theo!" Scott stopped him.

    Theo gave him a chance to explain.

    "It's true! He said- he said, he wanted to ally with us!" Hayden stammered.

    "He always wanted to help! When he saw me alive, he was relieved to see me, glad even!" Corey pleaded for him too.

    "I- It's true, I want to help, Theo. We could stop the last chimera, together."

    "Oh, now, you want my help?"

    "Well, since you get rid of the human, yes, we need your help, now," Ethan pointed out.

    "He wasn't necessary. He came between us."

    This conversation should have been private, but Theo didn't care much. It was his feeling to Scott they're talking about. How he genuinely want to help Scott, he even went as far as to disobey the Doctors, steal from them and act behind them. He freed Hayden with the intentin to help, he got the green serum ready. But Scott shoved him away because Stiles said he was working the Doctors, so he's a villain.

    "He- he was scared that you will sell him out."

    "And you did," Lydia said with a broken voice.

    "And I would do it again. Everytime if I had because he's a selfish bastard who only think about himself."

    "You're lucky the deputy's gone or he would have noted what you said."

    "Oh, because now one can't have free speech? Unlike Donovan, who's dead by the hands of the Sheriff's son, I didn't threatened anyone's life, let alone end one."

    Everytime he recalled the fact, Scott's gasping for air. He pulled out his inhaler to take a breath. Theo stopped him.

    "You don't need that, it's in your head! The effect on your reppressed memories passed a longtime ago!"

    Scott shook his head, trying to take a gulp. "They- they shocked me that time, when..."

    He shot a look to Hayden and the girl looked down bashfully. When he tried to defend her life, after they parted ways.

    "Maybe you need a pack to feel stronger," Deucalion said flatly.

    "I'm fine by myself."

    "What are you saying? We're here with you," Lydia reminded him.

    No one said anything to counter, because the chimeras ware waiting for Theo, and Theo wanted Scott to accept that he's indeed here for him. Scott, then, just let go of the inhaler and nodded.

     

    Later, after all the commotion passed, Malia joined them downstair.

    Theo almost forgot her, she was so discret during all the exchange!

    But Deucalion watched her carefully, with his eyes definitely healed. And Scott looked stunnely at her.

    "Theo, last time, there was a coyote with you..."

    "That was me," Malia said bluntly.

    "So, you're a werecoyote..."

    "Yeah."

    Scott looked unconfortable at her harshness and Theo took pity on him.

    "This is Malia, I found her in the northern part of the preserve."

    "Malia..." Scott repeated dumbfully. He exchanged a look with Lydia and Ethan. "And what's your name?"

    Malia felt uneasy again. She avoided all eye contact and closed off.

    "Do you have pack? Parents?"

    She shook her head, but hesitated for the second question.

    "Parents? A father, mother? Siblings?"

    That interrogation was making Theo uneasy too.

    "What's the point of those question? I thought you were here to stop the Beast."

    Scott tensed, because he didn't even know the last chimera got a name. But he was still watching Malia closely.

    "Does the name Hale means something to you?" Lydia asked for the last time.

    Malia frowned but denied. Never heard of. Theo neither. Wait, no, he did, that was the werewolf family! He frowned but didn't develop either.

    "So, about the...Beast?"

    "The Beast of Gévaudan, the one and only." Deucalion answered. "Vicious and fearsome, even among the werewolf. Said it was a French legends from eithteenth century. His killing was high that history couldn't take the exact number!"

    "Most than you, I take," Ethan commented.

    Deucalion smiled derisory. "Most than you and me combined."

    "The Doctors said it was close to 500," Theo supplied.

    They took a minute to register the number. Beacon Hills got 50K residents, but if the Beast wanted to slaughter the same number, the town wouldn't have much people left.

    "And that's the Doctors' plan all along?"

    Theo gritted his teeth. "Yes. It was their final objectif and they had to experiment on everyone, young, old, everyone."

    "And you're..."

    Theo looked into Scott's eyes.

    "I was their... first succesful chimera. I didn't reject the mercury they modified and injected us." At that, he shot a glance to his fellow (failures) chimeras.

    None of them maintained the eye contact.

    "So they just take you with them? For like...what? Ten years?"

    "Eight. They transplanted me my sister's heart when I was nine. They took me on different place to keep experimenting on others and comparing with me."

    "Did they find something?"

    "Not till here. And as you expected, they didn't tell me anything about it."

    "Maybe we should find what the difference between you?" Lydia mumbled.

    "Well, we know for sure it had be organ or tissue transplant," Ethan said.

    Every chimera started to tell them what's their genetic chimera was about. They came to one conclusion.

    "Theo sais that the Doctors give him his sister heart, right? The others only got tissue or organs from unknow giver. Maybe... maybe the Doctors figured the two sets of DNA must be similar, as in..."

    "Family?"

    "But how are we going to find it?"

    Lydia sighed and looked at Scott, because his mother already did it. Searching on the medical file of the patients. The first he got wasn't enough anymore. 

     

    Later, after everyone gave in to the research because they couldn't do much and it was midnight, Hayden had to go home or Valerie would just ground her for the rest of her life. Deucalion looked smugly at Theo once everyone is gone and he frowned when the man just sit on the couch.

    He considered kick him out, but it was too much effort for tonight. He still put montain ashes around everyone's room, just to be sure. Since there's only four rooms with the master one downstair, Theo went there after assuring the chimeras were asleep and safe againt the alpha.

    In the morning, he surprised Malia fighting him off.

    As he only came when the fight was ending, he didn't know what happened but he asked Malia about it. They may not be as close as when she was in coyote form, but their werecoyote part still hold bond.

    "I hate being human again," she growled and making her eyes flash blue.

    Theo understood this feeling, being human was so much trouble and feeling to take care. He wanted to be just in his wolf form too.

    "Yeah, me too. But till you got a hand on your power again, you had to deal being one, OK?" He dealed with her.

    She hesitated and Theo considered staying all day in the house with her instead of going to school like normal high schooler, but he promised Scott and...he kind of didn't want to upset him more (after reporting his friend). Fortunately, Malia nodded eventually and choose to ask Deucalion to help her control her power.

    "You sure?"

    "Well, he's the one that forced me to take this form back."

    Theo couldn't deny and because Deucalion was an actual werewolf, and alpha in addition, he was the best one to help her. But Theo couldn't sweep the unconfortable feeling about the man. He did deceive him.

    Once the others chimera were awaken and ready to go to school, Theo eventually let it go and went to BHHS with them. After locking the house with montain ashes, though.

    Hayden was late to the group meeting, Tracy said she was giving her deposition about Donovan's death, since she's the one who called the police. That info made Theo more happy than it should and he forgave her absence.

    And then, Scott's group came with news too.

    Kira returned.

    Bringing with her three people. Or maybe, it was the other way around. (25.04.2020)

    "Uh, Malia isn't with you?" Scott asked him.

    "No, she stayed at home. Controlling her coyote power. With Deucalion."

    If the first name intrigued the man among the unnamed people, the last shocked the three of them.

    "Deucalion?" But one of the woman took it badly.

    "I know he had some past with you guys, but he changed! Promise, I woudn't have let him free if it wasn't the case, right Derek?"

    The man, Derek, nodded stiffly. "Yeah, and I trust your judgement, Scott."

    "If Kira's back, does that mean the Kitsune is under control?"

    "Not really," Kira admitted awkwardly. "I, uh, kind of failed the Skinwalkers' test and was rescued by Derek's group who were passing."

    "...New Mexico?" Theo doubted the last bit of info.

    The Skinwalker were shifters that are known to live in the desert and were kind of imprevisible. So, it was kind of incredible that two werewolf and a woman (whatever the hell she was) found them because they were passing and managed to beat them.

    "Shiprock," Derek said "we were kind of on road trip."

    Theo let that go. "So, your thunder Kistune's still unstable. Do you still speak in japanese when it happen?"

    The half-blood Japanese-Korean nodded. "And my foxfire is still out of control if I try to use it...or if I just enter in some telluric current place."

    They all darted a look to the school, a place full of telluric current.

    "Well, I got something for that. Josh's power is to absorb and control electricity, if you ever lose control, he will help regain it."

    "What?" Josh squeaked.

    "So, you better stick together for today."

    "What?" Scott and Kira echoed the chimera.

    But they couldn't say much as the bell rang. Theo and his gang enter the ground of the school without looking back. Lydia followed and walked swiftly next to him.

    "You really thought about everything to be in his best side."

    "I don't know what you're saying. I ressurrect those whose power could be useful in the upcoming battle. It just happen Josh's electricity absorption matched with Kira's thunder kitsune." He made sure to use the right words as the werewolf and his gang could hear him.

    Lydia snorted. "Sure."

    Theo hated that he could be that transparent to someone as smart as Lydia.

     

    Hayden made her presence during lunch.

    "How was it?" Theo smiled brightly at her.

    The girlcast him an annoyed look.

    "Long. Since someone thought it would be great idea to send me the pictures..."

    "Which are evidence," Theo added like it was an important part.

    "Deputy Strauss confiscated it saying it could be evidence," Hayden kept on her speech without making a fuss about his interruption. "of course, Val wasn't autorized to be the one who questioned me even if she's the one I called."

    "Well, everyone knew that family isn't allowed to investigate a case were relatives are involved. Thanks god the sheriff still in the Hospital, otherwise he would had a heartattack knowing his son got arrested."

    Theo's gloat was momentarily cut by Kira's shock.

    "Stiles got arrested?"

    "Uh, yeah, he was, uh, guilty to put down an uncontrollable chimera, by self-defence."

    "Well, accidental murder is still murder." Theo shouldn't be that glad when Scott wasn't but he was. So sue him.

    "Then... then, me too," Kira rattled.

    "But there isn't any corpse. Weidly enough."

    "How weird would that be if one find them in the middle of the preserve?" Lydia drawled.

    "Weird enough that deputy Parrish, who's the one operating the station in the Sheriff's absence, had to lock himself again and maybe cause another havoc by waking the hellhound under him."

    The banshee shot him a dirty look, because he really thought about everything. Even the fact that Jordan was a hellhound.

    "And about the control of the Kitsune?"

    "Nothing to report."

    Tracy had to smile at Josh's uneasiness while Corey and Noah shared a look. Hayden just looked at the electricity control Chimera and thunder Kitsune while Lydia and Ethan were watching Scott.

    "But we got some advancement about he genetic chimera."

    Scott pulled out a list with others name than the first list. This time way shorter and with various extra information next to each name. One stood out for Corey.

    "What?"

    "Uh...I know one of them, Mason."

    Scott frowned, thinking about something.

    "You right, I know a Mason, too. Liam's friend."

    Hayden rolled her eyes, because she knew a Liam, too. Ethan shared a look with Scott, because the Liam they were talking was their young teammate.

    "OK, this is great, but how do we find out that Mason could be the one?" Lydia coughed. "Because he's not like you, right? He's more a vessel."

    "A host of a beast," Scott confirmed.

    "Like the Nogitsune, right?" Kira chimed in.

    His boyfriend affirmed by sharing a look with her.

    "Well, maybe we could ask Julia's help. I mean, she's the one who defeat the Nogitsune."

    "But she couldn't help you with your Kitsune."

    "Because... because she said half-blood deity shapeshifter are on another level than common shapeshifting."

    "Wasn't the Nogitsune a deity, too?"

    Well, Kira couldn't find an answer to that. Because it's true. And the Beast's a ressurrection rather than summoning like Noshiko Yukimura did for the Nogitsune. And it was made from science, rather than magic.

    "How do we defeat the Beast?"

    "Argent said he's taking care of that."

    "Wasn't Argents your enemy, too?"

    "Yeah, but Chris' an ally."

    "And he's...?"

    "...Argent."

    Theo blinked in bewildement. If Scott could work with former enemies like Deucalion and Argent, why was the annoying little shit of Stilinski was accusing him so roughly? And Scott believed him and... Right, he helped the Doctors experimented on his girlfriend that now couldn't control her power.

    That's way worse. No one touched Scott's beloved one.

    "Then, what do we do? Wait?"

    "Do you see anything else we could do? It's not like the Beast work on his slaughters at daylight, neither are the Doctors. And do you have news from...Argent?"

    Of course not.

    So, after school, while the lacrosse players were training, next to the soccer team, Theo's gang was helping Scott's group. More like working with them, because Theo kind of made it clear that they are first and foremost Scott McCall defence squad.

    Hayden scoffed when she heard it, because if she's in Theo's squad, she would defend her sister first. And Josh had to help Kira, while Lydia's trying to bond with Tracy again. And Corey had to seduce Mason, whatever that meant. So, Theo and Noah went home to find Malia and Deucalion ravaging the house.

    Malai was still growling and ready to attack the man with only fangs and face features of coyote out. She was still having trouble to display her claws but she also had super strentgh, so... No, she lost, probably for the umpteeth time.

    "Why are you sparring with her instead of teaching her to control her shift?" Theo growled.

    "She's the one who wanted to."

    "She got right reason," Noah shrugged.

    Deucalion kind of had a belligerant aura that made people wanting to fight him, even if they will lose. And he was called the visionnary.

    "I heard that Julia Baccari is in town again?"

    "Why? Scared?"

    The man scoffed. "I thought I killed her."

    "Seems you're not that powerful."

    "Or maybe the Nemeton is that powerful."

    "What about that?"

    "She's a former druid. And possibly a former darach too, if she's travelling with Derek, Hale." The last name was added to Malia's credit but the werecoyote just growled at him.

    "So, she will find the bodies," Noah commented.

    Damn, Theo didn't think about that. Maybe he should have burn the corpse that would have incriminated Kira. He still got time.

    He didn't, Julia rang at the Raekens.

    Theo wrinkled his nose when he noted that the montain ashes barrier was broken, because of the druid/darach/whatever she's.

    "Would you invite us inside?"

    "If you promise to not have any hostile mean. The house is already in an unpleasant state."

    Thanks to Deucalion.

    Julia Baccari aknowledged his request and the three people came in.

    "Derek, Julia and Cora," Deucalion greeted him like he was some educate person.

    He may been once. Now, Theo just see a con man that destroy everything in his path.

    The girl, Cora, growled at him and she reminded him of Malia. Derek immediately went looking for her and Julia just stared at Deucalion.

    "We may be in the same side now, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be any ill intention."

    "Certainly. But things could change as I noted you two go along well, now."

    Meanwhile Derek was teaching Malia some tips to control her coyote.

    Scott called him in the middle of the night to tell him that Beast striked again. But this time with 23 corpses. He was so upset that Theo wanted to do something. So, he walked to the crime scene with a bag where Jordan Parrish was watching the scene as crushed.

    He ressurrect the 23 victims with the green serum.

    It was like the Beast didn't do anything as the scene was empty of corpse but all the ex-victims just went home like it was nothing.

    In the morning, Lydia was staring at him like he was the monster instead of the beast.

    "This is insane, and you did it with just...a syringue gun?"

    While Scott's group was gazing at the empty syringue gun that he used the night before, the chimeras just aknowledged the tool that saved their life.

    "How many left?"

    Theo thougth about that. He didn't got much now that he used it on normal human (who need a larger shot than the chimera who got an enhanced metabolism, even if they were dead, too), but it could be enough just for one of their group if the members happen to be on the verge dying again (or just dead).

    "How many time would it work on? What's the longest...dead that you ressurrected?" Derek asked him blankly after he answered.

    He was thinking about something, but Theo didn't know what.

    "About two weeks, right? I mean, Tracy was the longest to be...uh," Lydia provided.

    Dead, without the group could have done something.

    Because she felt guity for not being able to help. Tracy, recovering probably a little of her human's feeling, smiled lightly at her to reassure her.

    "About that time, yeah, why?"

    None of the group said anything but their mind was clouded by some memories that nobody could talk right now.

    "I guess the body should be in great state, right?" Ethan croaked.

    "Not necessary. With the exception of the girls who were injected, most of the ressurrected were impaled," Theo shrugged.

    He was the only indifferent as even the guys who were referanced winced at how they died. Most of them recalled how they met the Surgeon's sword-cane of the arrow of the Doctors crossbow.

    "Maybe I'm not the best to say it, but we better not play with death like that," Julia spoke up "all of the victims got some second effect. And come back with darker mind."

    Theo glanced at Corey, who was probably the one who didn't fit in the description.

    "Not just the victim. Jordan was also broken by the situation."

    Well, he did have to watch 23 dead people come back to life.

    "But it didn't go against the supernatural, since the hellhound didn't show up."

    That's a fair point.

    "And if we had to spare the green serum for eventual future death, we had to find the way to stop the Beast, how?"

    "Argent said that the first time the Beast was heard was in 18th century, it was killed by the ancestor of the Argent Family, the maid of Gévaudan. Since the story was very dark, the hunter performed a Damnatio Memoriae to get rid of all the evidence about the Beast. The only weapon that could stop it was the spike forged by the ancestor."

    "And where do we got the spike?"

    "Well, Gerard know but wouldn't tell Chris, who then can't tell us."

    Or course it couldn't be that easy.

    "But he knew how to stop the Doctors."

    "There's a way?" Theo required.

    So what, he was eager to know how to deafeat them? He had the right to want the fall of his torturers.

    "Uh, yeah, they work by frequencies, right? So they could control electromagnetic force and all. We know that one of their weakness is the telluric current, but they could also be contolled through ultrasound. Gerard knew the frequencies to stop them, we had to figure out the same frequencies."

    Theo didn't seem convinced by that but then Corey confirmed them that Mason was the Beast.

    "I felt something when I kissed him."

    "Keep the detail for you."

    "So, how do we stop him? I guess you want to separate the Beast from the boy."

    "Of course, it was the goal all along."

    Well, Theo may not have been there when they said it.

    However, they still didn't have the anser to separate the two entities. And they must work fast because the Doctors want it to remember who it was.

    But who was it?

    To be actually honest, the beast wasn't Theo's goal.

    He got the talons firstly because, yes, he wanted some actual werewolf power, to be the strongest, to be the most powerful, so the Doctors could see even him could be a success. But then, he had Scott and just wanted his approval, something he can't have because the Doctors messed him up, because he's broken to Scott's vision. So he had at least put an end to the Doctors' machination and Scott wouldn't have the sad eyes it caused.

    This, he could.

    Using frequencies. And stopping the Doctors, his enemies.

    And also take all the gren serum, who was what keeping them alive and immortal for all those years. Because he knew that the green serum came from 'Der Soldat', a nazi werewolf that became a lowenmensh due to their experiments, and the blood got the super healing factor. So, if the creature inside the tank got seventy years, the Doctors were surely older than that, probably as old as the Beast, 250 years something.

    So, no green serum, no injection to keep their life any longer! It could be the end of the story, but Theo hold grudge and he wanted to actualy destroy the Doctors while they ruined eight years of his childhood.

    "Theo..." The Surgeon greeted him in their operating theater.

    They were injecting themselves of the green serum.

    "Eager to meet your model you had to be presentable?"

    "You had your pack, now, stop bothering us."

    "Oh, I would never be a bother to you, now that you got what you want."

    He set off the ultrasonic emitter and was proud to see that did stop the Doctors. So he walked to the tank where the soldier was kept and just extracted all the green serum under their eyes, just to annoy them and break all their effort. He would make them as hopeless he felt with them, he will break them.

    But he wasn't strong enough.

    The emitter he made wasn't enough to keep them parayzed.

    He felt a sting in his neck and blood started dripping from his nose and mouth. Except, it wasn't just blood, he was throwing up mercury. Because he was a failure. The syringue of green serum fell on the floor and the healing fluid spilled everywhere, but none touched him and he will die like a failure.

    His neck snapped on the side and the pain brought him back to reality.

    "Well, I didn't know that they could cast illusions too."

    Deucalion's voice was so misplaced in this situation that Theo groaned when he tried to shot a glance to the old alpha.

    "What are you doing here?"

    "What are you doing here?"

    "Not expecting to have my neck be broken by some old Alpha!"

    "Well, you failed fantastically."

    The verb made him flinched, which added more to his pain.

    "Is that there you took from the green serum?"

    He didn't even got the time to answer that he felt a sting on his sternum with much force than necessary. His broken neck healed instantly. He struggle to sit up and just watch the alpha staring at the soldier.

    "Who was it?"

    "Der soldat, a german werewolf soldier from WWII, the Doctors kept him captif from that time and used his blood to create the green serum that kept them alive from 250 years."

    "And you thought about emptying the tank of the curing substance so they won't have much to live with?"

    Theo didn't answer and Deucalion wasn't really waiting for him to speak. He just took the syringue and extract some more liquid.

    "Why don't you end the werewolf's life? It would solve the case."

    "But then, the green serum already out of him would be still usable."

    "That means the werewolf's powerful if they kept him with them."

    "Well, but now, they leave it behind."

    "Maybe, now that the Beast was ressurrected, they will just use the Beast's power."

    "I don't know and I don't care. If they don't think the soldier was useful to them, then I had nothing to defeat them. The ultrasonic emitter couldn't even stop them."

    I failed. The hallucinations the Doctors made him have just a moment earlier came back and he checked lowkily if he's dripping mercury.

    "...What about you stole the soldier's power? You could beat the Doctors with that and made another ultrasonic emitter."

    The younger man lifted his head suspiciously at the man's advice. Why was he trying to help him? And where did he get the talons? He was pretty sure he locked them in his room protected by mountain ashes. Who sneaked in?

    "Why are you telling me that? Is it some test again? Did Scott ask you to keep an eye on me and that's why you know I was there?"

    That thought made him worse. He's not only a failure, but even someone as nice as Scott didn't expected anything from him.

    "So depressive. I can't believe you were really working with the Doctors."

    "Well, you got a look for yourself, they got rid of me!"

    "So you give them the same."

    "What? I can't cast illusion, or control electricity, or phase, or..."

    "You can take someone else's power."

    The talons was shoved at him and he considered the thought. He could boost his power and he wouldn't even commit some sort of fellony since the soldier was already weak, besides they could the rest of green serum. No wasting, no hurt, just winning for him.

    That's why he didn't understand why Deucalion was helping him.

    "I'm gonna ask Scott about it."

    Deucalion smirked at that.

     

    The Raeken house sort of became the group and squad's headquarter as everyone seemed to be here h24. Oddly enough, it was even Derek that greeted him at the door (his!).

    "We got a problem. Deaton was hold captif."

    "Wasn't he on business trip?" Probably something about the Doctors. Theo felt a little ashame to steal the talons from him.

    "He was, and he met someone there that decide taking his as hostage would be fun. Ans that someone is the one I was tracking for a long time, now."

    Theo stared blanckly at this new person. He massaged his temple, tired.

    "This is Braeden, a mercenary that could work and fight against supernatural creature," Scott introduced the back woman.

    "Weakened," Deucalion added. 

    The woman, Braeden, glared at Deucalion's presence. This man got more enemy than him.

    "Derek's ex," Cora added.

    Braeden and Derek (and Julia) shot her a look. But Derek precised.

    "Ex-something."

    Theo didn't give a fuck. Why was Deaton's sequestrator so important?

    "The Desert Wolf, a professional assasin that's looking for Malia Hale."

    That picked Theo's interest. Every eyes landed on Malia, who frowned.

    "Why are you looking at me like that? That's not me, my name's Tate."

    Oh, now, she gave them her last name.

    "Well, but Malia's name isn't that expanded and why would she take Deaton's in hostage and heading to Beacon Hills?"

    Good question.

    "How would I know? I just shifted back to human a week ago because of some werewolf," Malia growled, still annoyed to Deucalion.

    See, a lot of enemy. All female, hmmm...

    "Anyway, we had to deal with her upcoming and the Beast. So we had to part in two groups."

    "You know what to do about the Beast?"

    "Yeah, Argent said since it's the maid of Gévaudan that killed the beast the first time, it had to be a girl for the second time. Mason's still unaware that he's the vessel, and things had to stay that way, so Lydia will be the girl."

    To the said girl's annoyance.

    "You just had to use the 'power of love' and call his name," Julia told her while rolling her eyes at the name attack.

    "But we can't attack him in the school, so we're using a lacrosse play to gather everyone and protect them with a small group, while the other defeat the Beast."

    It seemed so easy when he said it.

    "But that makes three group."

    "More like, two groups, which one with two subgroup."

    Details.

    However, Scott was the captain of the lacrosse team, so he fell on the subgroup that had the duty to protect BHHS. But Kira's a Thunder Kitune that could totally stop the Beast with the electricity, so she fell on the other subgroup. And since Kira's in this group, Josh had to be too. But Tracy, Noah and Hayden had to be in the subgroup to stop the Beast too, since their power are useful. Corey, the one that could use his love to Mason, was kind of useless in this subgroup, but he fell in the same grade than Lydia and had to be in this group too. But then, that made the first subgroup none of chimera to protect Scott.

    "I think with only Derek and Cora, two born werewolf in the school is enough. And Julia and her magic. Miss could create a ward, right?"

    Plus, if there's really a problem, Scott could relay on Ethan and Liam to operate the team and rush to stop the beast.

    "I'm not sure giving the lead to either Ethan or Liam is a good idea, the other team's captian is Brett and you know how they're kind of bond."

    Theo remembered the name Brett, but wasn't sure who that was, so he shrugged it off when Scott dismiss the bond that was noted.

    Theo? Theo, Deucalio, Braeden and Malia (of course) fell on the group that had to retrieve Deaton and stopped the Desert Wolf.

    "OK, chimera squad, remember? Everyone protect Scott, and Kira. But do not get too close when she's in her kitsune form, you could be fired like Jordan could burst-fire you. The other, I don't care."

    "No, Theo! Everyone protect everyone!"

    "They could protect themselves."

    "Not Lydia! Especially if she had to scream Mason's name."

    "Then, ask the hellhound to."

    "He's in trial with Stiles."

    "Who?"

    An unfazed look was shot at him.

    "Whatever, just don't die," he aimed that to his squad, but everyone nodded.

    Tonight would be the night.

    It didn't go the way it should go.

    When the Deaton group received a message from the Desert Wolf, it was written for Malia who had absolutly no idea what she did to the assassin. It gave them meeting to the Fort Jett. And since they didn't know the place, they had to prepare. Theo brought mountain ashes to lock the supernatural assassin within, according to Braeden.

    But he kind of miscalculated how fast the Desert Wolf could be.

    She launches on the mercenary and fired at Malia. Theo quickly locked her in the mountain ashes and went to attack her. But she was so murderous that she fight and shot like there was no tomorrow which was understandable.

    They were more numerous than her. Still, she dodged Braeden's bullet and thrown punchs and spinned her rifle and managed to land everytime. Theo received all the bullets, because Breaden didn't have the super healing and Malia was aimed more by the assassin's claws. Theo didn't get why she's fighting with a gun if she was already so strong physically.

    He regretted to not have steal the soldier's power.

    "Oh, I would be even more strong if you didn't steal it from me, Malia!"

    "I don't even know who you are!"

    "No, you don't, all thanks to Talia!"

    "As in Talia Hale?"

    Theo glanced at Deucalion, out of the mountain ashes and managed to save Deaton.

    "This sly woman played the doula for me, insisting I keep the baby inside me then stole it from me once born! I didn't even get the time to name her, I later learn that my power was bended of half after giving birth, how furious I was. I swear to myself to find the girl and kill her and take my power back. Talia thought that puting her into foster care would blur the trace, but I finally find her nine years later and you should have die in this car crash."

    The whole story was frightening enough without the need of killing her own blood. So Malia may be Malia Hale.

    "So you killed my family!" Malia roared.

    "Adopted family. And you were my target."

    "My mother and sister were innocent!"

    And Theo had a thought to the broken car where he got the doll because coyote Malia insisted. It must have belong to her sister.

    "Collateral damage. Now, I will finish what I planned seventeen year ago!"

    The Desert Wolf shot Braeden who was sneaking on her and fire another two bullets on Theo who was charging at her. But he managed to broke the gun, so she scratched him to let her go, Malia used this distraction to throw a punch, easily deck out.

    Even though Malia was supernaturally more powerful, the Desert Wolf's need to kill her daughter was more strong. She head butted the younger werecoyote and kicked her on the side multipe time. Theo crawled and grabbed one of her foot to stop the carnage.

    "I think we could use some help!"

    It was dirceted to the older werewolf, because his presence here wasn't to just watch the group to be slaughtered by a professional assassin.

    "But you're the one who locked me out."

    Theo cursed him because wasn't Deaton free, now? Couldn't the vetenarian undo the barrier? A roll caught his hearing and a bottle was send to him.

    "But that doesn't mean I can't give you some assistance."

    Finally! Theo took back his hands before the murderous werecoyote got the idea to step on it or kick him like she did to Malia. Once free of restraint, the woman got a clear hand to her daughter and beat her down. Just when she was giving her the final blow, Deaton stopped her.

    "Corinne, wait! You won't be able to take your power back if you don't do the ritual on a full moon!"

    And that wouldn't happen in another two weeks. While Corinne the Desert Wolf was hesitating, Theo threw the bottle of talons to Malia and tossed himself on the woman to distract her and let his patner the time to put on the talons.

    "Now, Malia!"

    Because he was weakened by all the bullets he had and he was surprised he could even move, while Corinne still got the harsh and force to fight. Malia stradled her and put the talons in her stomach. The strike surprised Corinne enough to paralyze her and then she shouted when she felt all her power being pull out from her to the talons.

    Right, Theo didn't have the time to talk to Scott, so he also totally forgot about the whereabout of the talons. Guess Deucalion had some way to sneak them back.

    He watched the blue eyes glowered brightly before settling to Malia' human eyes again. The Desert Wolf still fought, but Braeden got a hand on herself and hit her head to make her passed out. She then broke the mountain ashes and sighed relievedly.

    "Well, we won," Deaton said.

    Theo huffed an inredulous laugh before checking on Malia. She was fine, healed and totally in control of her power. He smiled and she returned the smile.

    They won.

    Now, what about the other group?

    They won too, but they got some serious damage.

    Like they thought, Kira got out of control and she managed to incapacipate all her ally except Josh who absorbed her electricity attack. She was aiming at the Beast, shifted within Mason's body, so they could definitely not let the Kitsune kill it. But once she weakened the Beast enough, the Doctors appeared and the electricity of the Thunder Kitsune was higher than their electromagnetic power and they died under the burden. Josh used this moment to stop Kira by bringing her human conscious back. Lydia stood up at this moment and screamed at the weakened Beast who still managed to attack in his delirious state.

    The Beast was separated from Mason, who Corey hold dearly, and then the hellhound appeared from nowhere and took the surgeon's sword-cane to empaled the Beast. So, they won, the Beast was stopped and destroyed, the Doctors too, but the chimeras were mauled, some more than others, like Hayden.

    Theo didn't have any green serum on him and by the time he went to retrieve one, Hayden may passed. He could eventually ressurrect her, but he didn't know if it will still work.

    "Or she could be turned into a real werewolf."

    The bite could save her, or kill her if she reject it. They coud also call Julia so she use her magic to heal her. But they didn't know if she will be there on time.

    "But there is no werewolf here, and all of them are omega!"

    "Not all," Deaton said.

    Every eyes turned to Deucalion, who was hesitating.

    "I could, but I had some past with killing my own."

    "But you will save her, if you give her the bite. Besides, Malia was also kind of your beta and you didn't slaughter her."

    Malia made a face at that but she didn't deny. She did share some bond with the alpha as he used his alpha roar to shift her back into human.

    "This is up to you, Hayden."

    "Well, I rather be alive."

    She chose the bite.

     

    Once the case solved, Braeden bid them goodbye while taking the Desert Wolf happily with her. She made sure to have them in contact if they ever need her services.

    The three corpses in the Nemeton where put onto the Doctors' count. Beth Brennan, Lucas Byrnes and Bella O'Dyall's death were solved using the syringue full of mercury, the crossbow and the sword-cane as murder weapon. Kira's name was cleaned out.

    And Stiles got a stained record. Much to Theo's joy.

    That saddened the Sheriff who healed from Noah's attack and took his lead to the station back, to Parrish and the other deputy's relief.

    Unbeknowst to Valerie Clarke, she nearly lost her sister again, who was now an actual werewolf. But she freed herself from her bond with Deucalion, wanting to be an Omega.

    Concerning her attacker, of more like the vessel of the Beast, Mason was informed what happened to him during the last days and Scott included Liam too for the revelation. Because the two of them did witness the attack of the berserkers last year, where they fight back along Lydia and the Sheriff. Liam wrinkled his nose when he learned that his rival Brett was a supernatural creature, but Mason was kind of appealed by the fact.

    Derek and Cora wanted to welcome Malia into the Hales even if they weren't sure who's daughter she belonged, but the werecoyote declined. She may have accidentally mauled her adopted mother and sister in the car crash, she still got a last family member.

    "Henry Tate? The man that wanted to hunt a coyote in the northern part of the preserve?"

    "Well, he got reported that a wild coyote mauled his family, who was me shifted on full moon, so he kind of got the right."

    "So, you're leaving me?"

    Malia turned to Theo and hugged him tightly.

    "I'm coming whenever you call me, you can even come and visit me, but I need to be next to my father who I owned him this after the incident I caused. I can't let him live miserably for the rest of his life while I'm still alive."

    Theo hugged her back because he wanted to get the same chance. He also caused the death of his family, maybe by accident, maybe not, it was all under the Doctors influence but he still felt guilty and he didn't have anything left to own his apology.

    And the rest of the Chimeras too were left behind. Tracy killed her father during a night terror, Josh and Corey didn't have good family ground, Noah lost them much like Tracy. Scott wanted to help them, but he couldn't ask his mother to adopt them all.

    Julia volunteered. After all, the Raekens house was still available and Theo got a hand on the Doctors' way to get the money they used. But Theo didn't want to be a Reaken anymore.

    He just wanted to be with Scott, if only he wanted that too. He just wanted the friendship the only person gave him when he was a child, still innocent.

    After an exchanger, Melissa McCall accepted his son's request, after all the family did have history to foster ophan. So, they opened their door to Theo, who changed his name to Theo McCall.

    Before the story ended there, Theo admitted what he felt while living with the Doctors and that his goal coming back to Beacon Hills was indeed gain power, at least to be as strong as an actual werewolf since chimera are more like cheap knock-off. And he told him about Deucalion's suggestion so he do not commit a murder to gain power.

    Using the talons like Malia did on her murderous biological mother the Desert Wolf. Theo could us the power of the experiment of the Doctors, the Soldier.

    "Seriously, Scott? You're gonna let him do it? What if it's a trick so he could use this power to, I don't know, conquer the world!" Sheriff's son spoke up.

    It was something to be considered, indeed, but Theo wouldn't do it if Scott tell him no. So, Theo just waited Scott's response.

    "It's OK, I trust Theo."

    And it was enough to bring a smile to him. He got what he want and with the lion-wolf power, he would be strong enough to protect Scott. He could even use the remaining of green serum for Melissa and the Hospital's patient, since she didn't want to use the Doctors' money.

    Theo's life could start now. (26.04.2020)