Chapter 20 - Demon Wolf

November 5 2003.

"As you might have heard, after a week of investigation, it was discovered that Mr. Rouk is the victims of the gruesome animal attack last week."

Inside of one of the classroom at the Beacon Hills Highschool, a female teacher was talking to the students.

"That's why from now on, I will be your new homeroom teacher. And we're starting this class with an attendance."

She added as she walks to the desk and brought out the student list.

"Drake Hale?"

After calling some of the students, Drake's name were called. However, no one answered her.

"Where is Drake Hale? Does any of you know?"

She asked the students, who only shook their heads.

"What about you Derek? Do you know where your brother is?"

"No ma'am."

Derek answered as he looks at his brother's chair, which was vacant.

"Cassandra, do you know where Paige is?"

After continuing the attendance, the teacher asked once again.

"Sorry ma'am but I haven't seen her since yesterday."

Cassandra answered before she lowers her head, seemingly worried.

But the truth is that, Cassandra is acting like this because she knew that her cousin is hiding something from her.

"It's okay... I guess we'll just mark them as an absentee."

Misunderstanding the action of her student, the teacher said with a smile before starting the class.

•••

After school, at the Hale house, inside of one of the underground rooms.

"When are you going to tell the truth to your girlfriend?"

Peter's voice sounded inside of the room as he asked his nephew, Derek.

"Drake had already confessed to his last year, so why haven't you done it too?"

He asked once again after hearing no response from the young man.

"It's because I'm scared."

Drake finally opened his mouth but he paused before he continues.

"I always thought that I could do anything I wanted to... However, I was wrong.

Everytime I tried to tell her the truth, I would found myself shaking from the fear of being rejected."

He stopped once again to take a deep breath and then he added.

"I have the constant fear of her being afraid and distant... the fear of her fearing me."

And with one last breath, Derek end his confession with.

"I-i just couldn't do it."

Staring at the pathetic display that Derek is showing, Peter began to think of a solution.

After a few minutes of thinking, Peter suggested an idea that shocked Derek.

"If you can't tell her, then just turn her."

"What?!"

"Turn her, if she accepts to be a werewolf like us then she will also accept you."

Peter sounded confident as he tells Derek his idea.

"It's not like it's that bad being a female werewolf other than their unhealthy mood swings, uncontrollably high anger, and the full moon..."

While listing the things that would likely happen, Peter's confidence got less and less as more things were said.

"Okay forget about that. You don't have to worry about anything, just do the things that I will tell you and everything will be fine."

"But... I don't think that Drake would bite her, I mean, he hasn't really been that interested in making more beta than he already has... I really hope that I can have his confidence and courage when he confessed to Paige."

Hearing that Peter's confidence came back at his last sentence, Derek countered him with a disappointed tone.

"Derek, Drake is Drake and you are you. You are something more than he is, although he is a born alpha, if my guess is right, you are something unique too."

Seeing that his favorite nephew is comparing himself with Drake, his less liked nephew, Peter tried to encourage him.

"Let's just give this a try."

Hearing the silent response of Derek, Peter decided that it is enough and so he said.

"All you have to do is to bring her to the school, tomorrow night, while I will bring the alpha that will bite her."

And after discussing with each other for a few more hours, although reluctant, Derek agreed to do Peter's plan.

•••

November 6 2003.

Three days after Derek and Peter left the underground basement they hid at, Chris finally found it.

He and hunters returned to that place again and this time to inspect it carefully.

When they entered the underground basement, Chris and the other hunters saw the big tree.

Not knowing what it is, Chris turned to ask the older man besides him.

"Gerard, what is this?"

After inspecting the tree for a while, Gerard only said one word.

"Nemeton."

•••

Meanwhile, as Gerard continue to inspect the nemeton, at the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic, Deucalion, Talia, and a bald African American man named Alan Deaton, or more known as Dr. Deaton, is currently talking.

"While I admire your willingness to extend an olive branch, I have to tell you, it might not be welcome."

Alan told to Deucalion, who was thinking of talking to Gerard to stop the incoming war between the werewolves and the hunters.

"And I'm not sure that Gerard is the one to accept it."

Talia added to Alan's statement with a thoughtful look.

"It's true. The Argents have a matriarchal leadership."

Deucalion agreed with both of his friends.

"Actually, I was speaking about the fact that he's a complete psychopath."

Talia cleared up the misunderstanding before adding.

"The man cuts people in half with a broadsword."

"Do the two of you really have so little faith in people?"

Deucalion asked with a look of disbelief before asking again.

"You think Gerard isn't worried about the deaths on his own side?"

"Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog?"

Alan then suddenly mentioned a random story.

"... I have a feeling I'm about to hear it."

Deucalion answered with a reluctant look.

"When the scorpion asked the frog to carry him across the river, the frog said.

"How do I know you won't sting me?"

The scorpion then replied.

"Why would I do that? Then we'd both drown."

So the frog agreed. Halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog. When the frog asked him why he did it, since now they would both die, the scorpion replied with...

"It's my nature.""

Ignoring the fact that his alpha friend didn't want to hear the story, Alan still told him the whole story.

"Your faith in humanity may not matter if you underestimate Gerard's nature."

He then finished it by giving the story's moral lesson.

"Make sure you meet him on neutral ground. And do not walk in there alone."

Talia stared at her two friends before she released a sigh and gave in.

"I'm an alpha, I never walk alone."

Deucalion reassured with a smile as his eyes glowed red.

•••

November 7 2003, 11:40 AM.

At the same abandoned distillery building that Drake and Paige visited a few days ago, a pack of werewolf and a group of hunters can be seen looking at each other with hostility.

"Well, what are we here for? Stare at each other 'till death?"

Gerard said as he went in front of the group of the hunters.

"No, we're here to talk about how to stop this unnecessary war."

Deucalion replies as he too step forward to be in front of his betas.

"Unnecessary? Do you mean that the life of our friends is unnecessary?"

"No it is not, but any further fights would only result to more deaths, that's what I call unnecessary.

We had already lost some of our brothers, so it's better to stop now while we still can, don't you think so?"

"Is that a threat I heard?"

Deucalion tried to reason with Gerard as well as clear up the misunderstanding that the two groups have, but Gerard kept provoking him every chance he got.

However unlike Gerard, his men listened to Deucalion's words and began to whisper with each other.

"So it's all a misunderstanding?"

"They already said sorry and we also wanted peace so isn't that enough?"

"Yes you're kinda right."

"Maybe we should agree with him?"

When Gerard heard their whispers, he didn't liked how their conversation is going.

Gerard then started to walk in circles between the two groups as he went to explain how the distillery works.

"Volatile is exactly the state I was hoping to avoid."

Deucalion said after Gerard's explanation.

"Ooh. Then this is going to come as quite a big disappointment."

Gerard playfully said as he rotates the wheel of the tanks of the distillery.

The tank then released a great amount of wolfsbane fog that incapacitated both his own hunters and the werewolves inside the building.

"What have you done?!"

Deucalion yelled as he noticed his betas and the hunters losing strength as they cough.

"Your own people...!"

Deucalion cried out when he saw that Gerard brought out a bat with werewolf claws attached to it.

"They wanted peace too... Look what you did to them."

Gerard gave one last comment before he started to hit and struck his men and Deucalion's betas with the bat.

Blood splattered everywhere as Gerard continue to kill everyone.

Deucalion didn't waste time and watch the carnage that's happening in front of him and instead he started to crawl away from the building.

However, not long after he got out, Gerard followed behind him with a flash-bang arrows at both hands.

"Don't... Don't do this. I had a vision, a vision of peace!!"

Still weakened because of the wolfsbane, Deucalion plead one last time.

"A little shortsighted... wouldn't you say?"

Gerard joked before stabbing him in the eyes with the arrows.

"Ahhhhh!!"

After that Gerard stood up and walked out of the place as if nothing happened.

Leaving behind the alpha werewolf as the sole survivor.

•••

A few hours later.

At the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic, inside of the exam room.

"I'm sorry. The eyes will heal physically, but... your sight is…"

Alan said to Deucalion as he removed the bondages on his eyes.

After removing all the bandage, Allan picked up a mirror for Deucalion to allow him to see himself even when his vision is so blurry.

"Leave... Leave me alone."

Deucalion said after looking at his damaged eyes.

Talia and Allan looked at each other before they heeded to Deucalion's demand.

"Marco, I said... leave me alone."

Deucalion spoke once again when he noticed that one of his beta is still with him.

"You are alone!"

Marco yelled at him as he suddenly attacked his alpha.

Deucalion's eyes glowed in red as he gripped the wrist of Marco's hand that tried to stab him.

Marco is shocked to see that Deucalion stopped his attack.

However, his shock is nothing compared to Deucalion as his eyesight improved a bit when his eyes glowed.

He turned his crimson red eyes to Marco before he started to slash and tear him up with his claws.

After killing his beta, Deucalion felt himself getting stronger and faster, even his eyesight got a little bit clearer.

And then as if not contended, Deucalion sniffed the scents of his other beta and started to hunt them.

The hunt did not last long and by the end of the night, Deucalion's betas have all died.

Even his own emissary were killed, all by himself.

After that he left the Beacon Hills without saying any word to his friend, Talia Hale.

This is how Deucalion, the man of vision, died, as well as how the blind alpha is born.

The apex predator of apex predators, the alpha of the alphas.

The demon wolf.