Ch.42

Life is never too easy or too hard for most, but being born the identical twin brother of Jackson Whittemore, it was both. As Ryan or Ren as I preferred to be called, I had all the money I could want adopted by lawyers with him. He got a Porsche and I got a black Dodge Charger, cheaper but more practical. We were both into sports and when we got into high school, I dated Lydia Martin.

Why? Well, she was attractive and knew my brother was more interested in guys while I was more interested in her. By the end of our freshman year neither of us were virgins and she had a key to my place. Our so called parents were always out of town so I'd bought a place of my own with the money they gave me from north buying a Porsche for my sixteenth birthday. She said I was trying to make her a more accessible late night booty call.

I rolled us over and slid her panties aside, entering her while we both groaned. I kissed her saying. "Late night, early morning, middle of the day, anytime Lydia. I love you."

She shivered and kissed me back as I moved and her legs wrapped around my waist. When we were close, I pulled out and sprayed it all over her breasts while using my fingers to send her bucking over the edge. I carried us to the shower and we had round three for the night. We relaxed in bed and she dozed off sayings she loved me too.

Around me she never had to pretend to be less than the smartest girl in school while being the most beautiful girl there as well. She was highly intelligent and I proved I was as well with grades equaling hers while maintaining my place as co-captain of the lacrosse team, the fastest swimmer on the school team and the fastest long distance runner on the track team. Even Jackson could barely keep up on the lacrosse team and that's because I was holding back a lot.

I had slayer skills even in a new body because it was apart of my soul that enhanced the bodies I was born into. Unfortunately the day before Sophomore year my fucking car broke down along the road to the Beacon Hills preserve. I was changing the blown tire when something big came out of nowhere and bit into my side. The next thing I know, I've killed dozens of people as a snake creature and Lydia was there with Derek and Scott McCall as they both clawed me.

The asshole that had controlled me had tried to get me to kill a pregnant woman and that was a line I wasn't going to cross so he'd done it and began turning himself. The fucker that bit me, Peter Hale, had killed him in an effort to try and control me as well which is why Derek, Scott and Lydia had saved me with Deaton's, Scott's veterinarian boss, help. I'd changed into a blue eyed werewolf and Kanima hybrid which if that wasn't weird enough, Lydia wasn't repulsed by.

She told me she still loved me and I kissed her before grabbing clothes they offered and leaving. I heard about Derek killing Peter and didn't give a damn since Peter had bit Lydia at the dance while trying to get me to join him because I was a killer like him. I'd carried Lydia to the hospital and stayed with her until the Argents came. I told them to fuck off and seeing as my claws dropped venom, and my tail appeared, they listened.

I stayed by Lydia's side and stopped her when she started to hallucinate. I told her to close her eyes and feel my arms around her. She did and I held her, washing her in the shower before we got out and dressed. I laid her into bed and told her she could open her eyes as long as she remembered that the wolf who bit her is dead and she was hallucinating them while waking her own powers as a Banshee.

She did so and when she saw whatever that freaked her out, I told her to close her eyes and hear my voice. I told her all about banshees, their powers, how best to utilize them with martial arts and what they can do if pushed. I told her how to quiet the other sounds with repetitive noise to hear the soon to be dead before telling her what it is I think Peter did with his bite.

She asked how I knew all that and I told her that I stole his bestiary from a hidden laptop at the Hale house. I told her that she needn't be afraid as the hallucinations may seem weird or bizarre, but I was with her always and I'd ensure she didn't accidentally hurt herself. I told her to do whatever it is she had to so that she could make it stop and we'd handle it together, even if it meant bringing that asshole back to life.

She nodded slowly and I kissed her, telling her that I loved her. She rolled her lips and said she loved me as well. She opened her eyes and hallucinated while I followed her, making sure she was warm and safe. We found a stopped ambulance after several days of wandering around and preparing things for Peter's revival.

When the police found her, she was fine and I wasn't far. I made sure not to get arrested for abducting her and simply went back to the hospital following her. I asked her how she was and she said she couldn't remember what she did. I told her everything she did and held her until visiting hours were over.

Things went back to normal for a while and I told Lydia every time I saw her hallucinating. Days later, I'd given Deaton a jar of my venom and he gave me the werewolf/Kanima need to know tutorial. I showed him my mastery of my tail and claws as well as my ability to shift into a werewolf partial shift at will and separately from my Kanima traits. When the next full moon came, I had full control after only a little bit of testing my will.

The next day I told Lydia I was safe even on a full moon. The rage and power was nothing compared to the concentration one needed to use real magic on the power scales I'd been used to before my last death. Hell, with two seeds of wonder in my painted world, it was a witch's paradise so I could practice magic if I wished as well. Still, I was content with the werewolf and Kanima power I had.

She was happy for me and it was time I helped her as well. We went out and to the old Japanese internment camp after school and k taught her how to scream and focus it into a weapon. I taught her how to channel it into moves and even began teaching her martial arts. From judo to jujitsu, I taught it all as fast as she could learn it.

I told her what I'd uncovered about her grandmother for her and taught her about mountain ash, mistletoe and all the other secrets Mewtwo had pried from Deaton's mind. I told her about druids, dark druids and gave her a fully translated copy of my bestiary. I showed her the files I pulled up on her grandmother and her old lover as well as the possible connection to Meredith Walker and the mental health facility in town. We learned together a day later that Jackson had gotten the bite and I gave him the full bestiary talk alongside what I'd become and what he'd likely become as well.

I told him how to break it if it was the case with him and assured him I was there for him if he needed me, no matter what. He thanked me and I sighed while Lydia told him about her Banshee status, Scott's werewolf status and half the zoo we call a school including Scott's boss being a Druid and the new principal being a werewolf hunter. He said he knew most of it already so I handed him a USB stick and told him it was the bestiary I took from Peter Hale and copied while everyone was dealing with his death and the Argents fallout.

I told him the signs and he mentioned the weird venom stuff alongside the scratch marks on his balcony. I grimaced and told him he was a Kanima then like myself. We went to the pool locker rooms which was empty and I brought out my tail. I told him he needn't be afraid before putting my hands to his.

I called him my brother and told him to let it all go, to let it fall away and feel that he was never alone. He shook violently and I held him in a hug as he fell. I held him up and lowered him to the floor. He slowly got up a werewolf/Kanima hybrid like myself.

I congratulated him and taught him how to control his tail along with shifting. I told him how to make his claws venomous and not before meeting up with Lydia at the trophy case. I calmed her and told her that it was just a hallucination. She sighed and leaned against me before saying Allison asked us out for a double date with her and Scott at an ice skating rink with Stiles for whatever reason.

I told her I'd pick her up at Allison's place and true to my words, I did. I ended up driving her and Allison to the skating rink where we met up with Scott and Stiles. I told them we were told there was fun to be had.

Stiles complained until I asked him if he'd seriously invited my girlfriend on a date then. He swallowed and said no so I smiled and patted his shoulder. "Then there's no issue."

I gave him a twenty and told him it was for Lydia's and my part he'd paid. He frowned and I grunted saying Scott wasn't the only one that could hear across the school. I added that unlike Scott or my brother who was like me, I could control myself despite what my eyes may indicate. I flashed my blue wolf eyes and he took the money.

Scott asked how I learned to control myself and I shrugged. "I'm a world class self taught black belt in every martial art you've ever heard of plus every other one on the planet. By the age of five I could walk on my fingers and at the age of ten I'd beaten more than fifty grown men in the age jumping division of the world martial arts tournament. There's no one with more control over their own body than me. Sadly that's barring supernatural assholes who used me to kill people."

I growled in frustration and Lydia took my arm saying we should go in. I calmed down and kissed her before sighing and agreeing. We changed and I gave Lydia my jacket when she started feeling cold. We skated a good deal and damned if it wasn't the one sport I couldn't do besides synchronized swimming.

I'd gotten over my disgust, but I stuck to speed and freestyle swimming only. I held her when she started to freak out and told her it was alright, that it was a hallucination. She calmed down and I told Stiles to piss off before taking her off the ice. Scott and Allison asked what was wrong so I told them it was just a hallucination of Peter she'd been having ever since he nearly killed her.

Allison asked if she was a werewolf and I shook my head, telling her. "Lydia's a banshee. She can sense death and those about to die or use her voice as a weapon. She's learning, but the hallucinations haven't faded yet like we're hoping they will."

Allison gave her a pitying look and Lydia huffed saying she'd get over it so it was fine, she just had weird times with scary shit that made her feel like screaming. We went to chill and get our pictures taken in the photo booth. I made sure to keep my eyes close when the flash came for each photo. She relaxed a lot and we had fun up until it was time to go.

I dropped Allison off and we went to Lydia's place where we spent the night in her bed. The next day Scott and Stiles tried to talk me into helping them stop Derek from turning people. I told them no because Derek likely had his reasons for making a pack that had nothing to do with the Argents. Stiles asked if I was in his pack and I told him hell no, because I was no beta no matter the color of my eyes.

I told them I had my pack in Lydia, my brother and my friends like Danny, Isaac and Boyd so I didn't care what color my eyes were, I was still an alpha, a leader, like my girlfriend who led a lot of academic teams. I told them to run along and fail to stop an alpha werewolf from recruiting a pack in his territory and see how hard he kicks their faces in. The next day Lydia was waiting in the councilor's office waiting chair where I joined her and told her that she was talking to a hallucination. I gripped her wounded hand lightly and she came out of it back to me.

I kissed her gloved hands and told her we'd get through this together. She agreed and when I saw the councilor, I told Lydia she's a Druid and can possibly help. Lydia nodded and I kissed her before flashing my wolf eyes at Marin, Deaton's sister. She was surprised and shocked when my eyes changed to a Kanima's.

I changed them back and told Lydia I'd be waiting for her until she's done. She snorted and I just shrugged, waiting. When she came out, she said she knew what Peter was trying to do. She asked for my venom and I gave it to her, knowing she was immune to it.

I told her to be careful before we went to prepare. I had a game tonight and ended up taking down Eddie Obamawits, the abomination. I dislocated my shoulder doing it and broke his left leg when he landed wrong. I cursed up a storm and took off my gear before brutally slamming my shoulder into the bench.

The crowd watching winced and I sighed in relief before the coach asked if I was still able to play. I nodded and put my gear on before saying I'd done it before repeatedly in martial arts so my gear weighing on it was the only real pain I'd felt. I went back out and scored while working with Jackson and McCall to take down half the other team the way the Abomination had tried to take down ours.

Soon they'd had to forfeit for lack of players so I changed and showered fast before grabbing my bags and leaving after coach told me it was a great game. I told him they played dirty by targeting our players so I just played as dirty as them is all. I told him to call it karma which he chuckled to. I gave the scoring credit to Jackson and Scott mostly while Danny protected us from losing very many points.

I got out in time to copy the bestiary one Gerard's USB stick on his key chain. I left it in the door where Stiles left it and headed meet Lydia in the parking lot. She was crying so I held her before driving us to her place in her car. The next week, I went to see Derek and the rest hiding out.

I told Isaac he was exonerated so he could come back before telling Derek that Lydia was a banshee so whatever issues he might have with her stops now. He agreed if I joined his pack and I grew my tail out with my venomous claws. "The answer is still no. Leave her and me alone. Make Scott join your little pack or bite someone else. I didn't join your uncle and I'm not joining you."

The next day I stopped Lydia from having a hallucination in class and held her, erasing the backwards sentence she wrote on the board and telling the coach we'd be prepared for the midterms. I asked for a hall pass to take her to the councilor's office and he nodded seriously, telling Lydia to get help. I got the hall pass and we spent the rest of the period in the hall where I held her until Marin let her in. I waited for her and got our stuff for chemistry, rejoining the class with her.

I wrote the chemical makeup of several cures while doing a musical chair lesson in class. Lydia and I'd both been assigned to separate tables since we were the smartest two in the class. When it was over, I ate a piece of rock candy and gave the other to my last lab partner, Erica. She ate it and asked me why I was interested in Lydia.

I made a claw come out and drip venom before asking her if she'd like to mind her business or spend the rest of the day paralyzed on the floor. She held her tongue and I told her that Lydia knows what I am and accepts all of me, lizard tail and all. I smiled telling her that just like she accepts me, I'd kill anyone that tries to hurt her. I put my claw away and got up as the class bell rang.

I put the notebook I'd wrote in away and spent the next day after school getting tickets for a rave. Lydia and I went to the party and had a great time. I'd even gotten tickets for Allison and Scott who both came only for Scott to nearly die at Allison's mother's hand. Derek bit her and saved Scott, condemning Victoria Argent to her fate of death via the Argent family code of honor.

That night Lydia had a nightmare and told me that it was happening on her birthday. I kissed her and told her I'd get her something for afterwards. A couple days later I got the lacrosse team and half the rave to Lydia's party. I held my cool as Jackson and the rest arrived.

Jackson was barely holding his cool as well under the full moon. I warned Jackson off the punch and left with Lydia to kidnap Derek and use him to revive Peter. I carried Derek for her, all the way to the Hale house where Peter was buried. Derek said we didn't know what we were doing and I told him what his uncle did to Lydia which would only stop when he was revived.

When it worked, I stood there with my tail out and claws dripping venom. When he rose up, I used my tail to grab him by the throat and my claws bore into him. He roared and fell down where I left him, I told Derek. "If he ever comes after Lydia or if the hallucinations don't stop, I'll kill him and burn his body to ashes so he can't come back again."

I put my tail back and put away my claws before helping Lydia up. I carried her home and she calmed down, free of Peter's thrall. A week later I played lacrosse while Gerard screwed with Scott. I made sure Isaac was on the field when we won.

When the game ended, the Argents made there move and tried to kill or capture all of us. In the end they captured Stiles and got away while Isaac and Scott were temporarily wounded. Gerard used Stiles as bait with Derek's two captured pack members, Boyd and Erica, to lure out Derek and Scott to get what he really wanted from Derek. I went with Isaac and told Lydia to go home and stay safe.

She said screw that and came with us so there was that. Scott and Derek met up with Gerard and the hostages. I told Isaac to wait and watch while Gerard had Allison weaken Derek with arrows. I told them to wait and watch so when Gerard's plan backfired as his hunters came in to kill them all, we moved.

I had Lydia scream while Isaac and I took out the hunters. Once they were knocked out, there weapons disappeared into my ring while we moved in. I made sure to save Erica and Boyd before offering them a place in my pack. I told them I could help them start fresh and get their drivers licenses, learn to control the shift and so much more.

I told them I could tell them the secrets of the druids, prepare them for any battle and protect them from any enemy we face together. Erica said I wasn't an alpha and I grabbed her by the throat before telling her. "Alpha is more a state of mind than the color of one's eyes, but if it helps, I'll be a red eyed wolf soon enough."

I released her and turned to Boyd. "I can teach you to become an alpha, even to fully shift into a wolf eventually. There's a lot about this world that Derek not few alphas know that I can enlighten you on."

I turned to Peter and Derek with Scott beside them. "And there's a lot of Peter's secrets that I know. Little white lies he tells, big lies and secrets his sister removed from him. I saw them all once I figured out how to access the genetic memory of my mutated DNA. Some things that the Hales would like kept secret, some things the remainder of them would like to know."

I turned back to Isaac, Boyd and Erica. "I don't offer you knowledge for free, but regardless I do offer you my protection. My Kanima form is nearly indestructible and can heal from almost any wound. While I can't fully shift anymore, my martial arts training and abilities more than make up for any vulnerabilities I may have. If the Argents come after you, I'd protect you, if the Hales or any other pack comes looking for a fight, I'd kill anyone I have to, to protect my pack and friends. I don't care what it does to my eyes or what consequences come, I never abandon those I care about."

Boyd had almost agreed, but Erica said she wanted out of all the mess they'd been dragged into. She said she'd find another pack out of town. I closed my eyes as Boyd said he'd promised to protect and watch out for her and she, him. I nodded, telling them to go and be safe.

I told Boyd to call me if someone tries to hurt them, alpha or hunter, and I'd come kick their teeth in. He smiled and gave me a half hug before leaving. I turned to Isaac. "What about you? Leaving or staying?"

He said he was staying and I asked if he'd like to join me. Derek growled and I smirked. "Growl at me like that again, I dare you. I Ma not be Deaton, but I can neuter you just as quick if I cut the whole package off."

He snorted and I pulled a sword off my back. I flicked the blade and told him it could cut through plated steel or titanium like butter. I pointed it at him and told him to go ahead and growl. He kept his mouth shut and Isaac said he'd stay with Derek for now. I nodded and clasped his arm, telling him. "If you need anything, just say the word and I'm there. Watch out for Peter, he killed his own niece and he'd kill you if he thought it would make him an alpha again. He may not act it, but he's as crazy as a bag of cats being pissed on by a werewolf."

Isaac nodded while Peter said that was a gross exaggeration. I looked to him and told him. "Maybe, but seeing as you have a hundred and seventeen million in bearer bonds, I'll tell you what Talia Hale took from your memory for half of it. Trust me, even a psychopath like yourself could appreciate the answer to that one."

I turned to Derek. "Even you would appreciate the answers I can provide if you're willing to pay."

Peter spoke in a growl. "Or we could just torture you for that information."

I chuckled. "Hardly."

I held out my arm and broke it in seventeen places without flinching. It healed once I stopped and I smirked. "Trust me, you can't inflict anywhere near the amount of pain necessary to get me to tell you anything without killing me and since I'd just be dead, the secrets would go with me."

Scott asked. "Aren't you rich already?"

I shrugged. "My foster parents are loaded and yes, I'll be even richer when I turn eighteen and inherit the life insurance money from my original parent's death. But everything worth having is worth paying for and I don't owe them anything except pain and suffering on Peter's part. Because of him I spent half my sophomore year as some asshole's fucking pet murderer."

I turned to Peter. "If you want answer you'll pay. If not, I've nothing for you unless I decided to start my next murder spree mutilating your body and putting it on display for ruining my life and sending my girlfriend over the deep end for a time."

He scowled and I turned to Chris Argent. "As for you and your daughter, don't worry about Gerard. The mountain ash and bite will have rid him of the cancer, but crippled him for now. I can tell you how to fix him, but then it doesn't really matter because I'm sure you can figure it out. Though if you want to trade all those guns and weapons for the full truth of what Gerard's done, what happened to your ancestors and all that fun stuff, I might be willing to trade for the all of the truth."

I told them to call me when they decide what it is they're willing to trade, but I wasn't lowering the price on Peter's answers. I took Lydia's arm and we left, stopping only to boot a waking hunter in the face before walking out. School soon came to an end for the summer and Jackson moved to the London townhouse. I turned eighteen and inherited the money from my dead parent's life insurance.

Still, Peter caved and I got the bonds before telling him and Derek about the Desert Wolf, Corrine. I told them how Peter met a sociopath to his psychopath and had a baby whom Talia gave up for adoption. I told Peter congratulations because he was a father to a Coyote shifter daughter whom the desert wolf hunted down and if the police records are to be believed, gun down while making it look like an accident.

I scratched my chin and told him her name was Malia Tate via adoption and the Tate's were the one to adopt her. I told him he could simply search the old newspaper clippings for the accident or ask the sheriff who was on call at the time and didn't find the car until two full hours after the incident so it was ruled an accident instead of multiple murders. Peter scowled. "But you know more don't you?"

I nodded. "Your youngest niece is alive in South America and while it's true I know more about werecoyotes, what happened and what could happen, you only paid for what Talia took, not what I know of Malia, the desert wolf and the rest of your family drama."

Derek asked. "How much?"

I raised an eyebrow. "For?"

He looked me over before sighing. "All of it. Everything you know that could be of use to us."

I tilted my head. "You can't meet my price so don't ask. But I'll give you something for your guaranteed help just once. If you swear on your life you'll do so, I'll tell you why Paige didn't turn and why some humans can't be turned without dying."

He frowned before nodding. "Alright, I swear."

I smiled and yawned. "Well, the answer is simple and complex. See, when a banshee or another creature that can't turn has children, the blood thins, but remains present. Dilute it a thousand more times and you have people who can't be turned, yet their bloodline is too weak to trigger unlike Lydia's. Paige had something else in her ancestry that wasn't a were creature and so she couldn't be turned. I'm sure a Druid with the proper background in genetics could help you pick those out that can, but then you're four for four with no deaths from the bite so far."

I grabbed the case and left them there, making the case vanish as soon as I was out of their sight. I hadn't seen them in three months after that and that was a month after everything went down. I'd achieved my true alpha status with Lydia's help over the summer.

It'd been hard and it damned near killed me, but after having learned to harmonize my human and wolf sides, I'd been able to fully shift into a wolf. After that it was simply applying that single minded focus and will towards the very limits for the right reasons which allowed me to break the barrier and prevent Lydia from hurting herself. She'd really pushed me and I'd called her crazy afterwards, but I loved her regardless. She'd been fine since she revived Peter, better than fine even.

She was actually cheery to see Allison again when she took her car to the airport to pick her up. I went to the woods and chased a coyote down, roaring at each of them until one of them flashed blue eyes. I gave chase and cornered it near the car where it became territorial. I roared in it's face, full throttle and forced her to change back.

I calmed Malia down and gave her clothes before telling her what really happened the night she turned into a coyote. I told her that none of it was her fault because the desert wolf, her biological mother, wanted to kill her to take back the power she lost with her birth. I held her and told her that the bites and everything on the dead bodies was the desert wolf tearing them up because she failed to find her when she survived and they didn't.

She said she was happier as a coyote because things were simpler and I told her that nothing is simple because eventually the desert wolf would return even if it means killing every coyote in beacon hills. I flicked her forehead and told her to hold still so I could give her the knowledge she needs to pass the tests and become a junior this year with me and my girlfriend. I used my claws for the first time and helped her memorize, understand and learn all I knew up to senior year before teaching her control and how to shift at will in her mind.

I released her and took away the pain she felt, all of it. I helped her up and got her to the Sheriff's station after she practiced, found her anchor and agreed to rejoin humanity. I told her about Peter Hale and what he was before she snorted saying both her parents were psychos. I chuckled and told her Peter was a psychopath while Corrine is a full blown sociopath.

I told her the difference before warning her that he might try and manipulate her. I told her Derek is an ok guy when he's not paranoid and a self absorbed asshole. I told her she had a female cousin her own age that was alive, but Peter killed the eldest female to become the alpha so their small family is smaller for it. I told her Derek killed Peter after he'd bit me and my girlfriend who is a banshee so she helped bring him back to life.

I shrugged saying I earned my alpha status the hard way, through sheer force of will. I told her I was part Kanima as well, but we'd get into that later. I gave her my number and address telling her I wanted her to join my pack, but even if she didn't I'd teach her everything she needed to know to survive. I told her that if she joins my pack, I'd help her bring down Corrine and take all of her power before she killed the bitch for what she did to her foster mother and sister.

Malia clenched her hands and I took one of them, telling her that I protect my pack and I do whatever is necessary to keep them safe. I told her it was up to her and I suggested she hear everyone's side before choosing what she wanted to do and who she wanted to be in a pack with. I told the sheriff I'd looked into the old case and found his conclusions bullshit so I spent some time searching for answers and found the truth. I told him Malia's full story minus the supernatural bits and told him about the bullet holes as well as the bullets he'd have found in the car if he'd bothered to bring it in.

I told him about Malia's biological parents, Peter Hale and Corrine, aka the desert wolf. I told him that it was likely the desert wolf who shot at them and ran them off the road before tearing them up to look like wild animals because she was well known for the same MO in her own wet work. I finished by telling him that Mr.Tate and Derek Hale should both be informed, but considering Talia Hale gave her up for adoption at birth, it was his decision really.

He asked if I wanted credit and I shook my head saying he could take the credit for everything so long as he ensures as few people as possible learn of her being alive because the desert wolf might return to finish the job, being just crazy enough to do it. He agreed and I stepped outside where I told Malia she needed time to master her body and power before anything else so she should go home to her stepfather or whatever and come see me after calling so I can teach her whenever we have free time.

She agreed reluctantly and I left the station while Stilinski got the credit for solving a big cold case. The next day I had to drive Lydia to school because her car was totaled by a deer running down the road at it. During class, I had to leave because the hospital called and I had to help a friend out. I ended up meeting Malissa McCall who apparently knew all about the supernatural.

I met Deucalion in the elevator and told him. "Whatever you're pack is planning with Isaac, it ends now. If I have to, I'll kill every member of your pack before I come for you, demon wolf."

His eyes glowed red and so did mine. He smiled. "Interesting. And where did you get eyes like those?"

I sighed. "The hard way, I earned them without having to kill anyone for them. I can also shift fully into a wolf or partial shift into a Kanima, so yes, I can drop and kill even you. Don't push me and I won't push you."

I left as soon as the door opened and went to find Isaac. I ended up in the next elevator with Ennis where I tore him up and pushed him out when the doors opened. Derek was there, only he really wasn't needed. I let Derek take Isaac and headed back to school where I found Braeden leaving a bruise on Allison and Lydia.

I stopped Braeden and told her to stay close. I showed her my eyes and she thought I was with them but I stopped her, shaking my head. "You're safe. Don't worry, they can't beat me and I keep my promises."

I released her and turned to Lydia and Allison. "Chris is here, he can take you both home."

Allison asked what it was about and I told her. "There's a pack of five alpha werewolves in town causing trouble. I dealt with one at the hospital when I protected Isaac from them. The two over there are twin alphas and two of the five."

They saw the twins and Chris came over. I told him to take them home. He said he'd gathered all the stuff I wanted to trade so I told him I'd be over to the hotel he's staying at tonight to make the trade. I went with Braeden to the locker room and she broke a broom handle for a weapon.

I told her to stay behind me and she'd be fine. Soon enough the twins came saying I shouldn't make promises I can't keep. I chuckled. "You're going to need the whole pack if you're planning to take me down."

Ennis, Kali and Deucalion came in a few minutes later and I smiled. "That's much more like it. So, who wants to die and who wants to live?"

My eyes glowed before a reptilian tail came out. My claws dripped venom and they seriously hesitated. The twins fused and I gutted them with my venomous claws. I chuckled as they fell apart paralyzed. "That's two dumbasses down, so, you two want to come together or are you going to fight, old man?"

He smiled. "There's no need, but by all means, impress me."

I yawned and dodged Kali's kick, breaking her leg, clawing her from cunt to belly button. She roared in agony and fell while I clashed with Ennis. I cut him up nice and bloody as he fell once more, paralyzed. I didn't even look as my tail caught Deucalion's spear like walking stick.

I turned to him with an easy smile. "It'll be an hour at least before these four get up. Should I kill them? Or do you want to really fight me demon wolf? Cause if you do, I'll kill you all here and be done with it."

He growled as his glasses broke, but took them off and calmly spoke. "What is it you want this time?"

I shrugged. "Nothing. I just promised this woman that I'd protect her from your people. I keep my word, always."

I tossed his stick back to him. "Cute toy by the way."

He smiled lightly and sighed. "You know, there's always room for those with potential like yourself in our pack."

I scoffed. "I have my own pack and unlike you, I haven't given in to blind hatred. We both know your eyes aren't a disability, you're just butt hurt Gerard betrayed your peace offering and your beta tried to take you out thinking you were weak."

I flicked his forehead with my tail gently. "You only gained insight into how assholes behave and modeled yourself after them to gain power by killing your own betas. A dumb truth, but you still lack understanding as to why it works that way or why it shouldn't be done. You don't even understand that the true strength of an alpha isn't limited at all."

I waved off Braeden. "Go, he won't stop you because he knows I'll stop him. You're safe now and you've an hour to mask your scent and get to wherever you were going."

She thanked me and I shrugged saying I just kept my word is all. I turned to Deucalion and sighed. "The true strength of an alpha is dependent on the emotions and sheer will they're willing to devote to a task. The simple boosts you and your pack have are easily matched and surpassed by any alpha pissed off enough to kill you or die trying and not caring if they do. The fact that no one has yet isn't a testament to your strength, but to their lack of a spine for fearing death."

I put away my tail and told him he was free to go all out with me and find out if I was lying, but I'd kill him or die trying the moment he does. He smiled. "You're quite the unique and knowledgeable young man."

I scoffed. "Knowledge is easy to find, just watch fools and do what they can't by being smarter, not stronger. Strength comes with intelligence once you master your body and mind."

He chuckled and I waved him off, telling him to do what he wants, but my friends and pack are off limits or I'd kill him and his pack to protect my own. I left and headed to meet with Chris at the apartment complex they were living in. I watched Allison and Lydia joined us in Chris's study. When they were situated, I told Chris everything Gerard did that pissed off Deucalion and got his own brother bit.

I told them about his betrayal and murder of the hunters with his special baseball bat covered in werewolf claws. Finally, I explained how he twisted Kate's mind and sent her to start the Hale fire. I sighed at the end. "Your father is a piece of work, but I can respect why Victoria ended her life when she turned."

I told them about La Bete and the true name of the beast before telling them how their ancestor killed the beast. I told Chris that from witnessed accounts, Marie-Jeanne Valet was the spitting image of Allison today. Finishing up, I stood saying. "The reason the Argents have the code that Victoria had is because they were hard and cold when needed and such personalities tend to create the most violent werewolves. Unlike most werewolves, Argents are trained to kill before they're ever put in the situation to be turned and the results tend towards creating powerful and bloodthirsty werewolves with a yin for killing the hunters that try to take them out as per the code, making it that much harder to stop them. Just like La Bete."

Lydia asked. "So who turned La Bete?"

I shook my head. "No one. There are four ways to make a werewolf. An alpha bite, an alpha claw that goes deep enough yet doesn't kill, an alpha having kids and drinking rainwater from the puddle of a werewolf's paw print that's fully shifted. La Bete was the last of the four, I was the first, Derek was the third way. The other is rarest of all because when an alpha gets you with it's claws, it tends to be fatal."

I turned to Chris. "By the way, Kate was turned when Peter ripped her throat out. The Calavera's took her body and put her to the code. She's still alive though and a were Jaguar having killed half a dozen people to escape."

I grunted at his frown. "You Argents always turn no matter how it's put to you. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say you were all descended from Lycaon and one of his sons or something. The irony would be too great to ignore if it's true."

I turned to Lydia. "Did you want a ride home or are you staying the night, love?"

She smiled. "Staying. Allison and I have so much to decide on her room colors."

I nodded and gave her a kiss before leaving with Chris to pick up my payment. All the major guns and weapons he owned besides his personal ones. He asked what I wanted with them and I shrugged. "Maybe I just don't want you to have them? Not really, I want them so they can't be used against me and those I care about mostly."

I waved to the arrow heads that were effectively flash bangs. "You can keep them. I'm just as deadly and accurate blind as I am with my eyes. Years of martial arts and training my senses after all."

He set them aside and I made the rest vanish before telling him that I'd tell him what the mask he had hidden in his office was and how to kill them for the sixteenth century flintlock he has in his collection. He was definitely interested and went to the casing of the warehouse where he pulled it out. He handed it to me and I told him about Kitsune, their tails, the types of kitsune and why the Nogitsune are hunted down.

I told him how kitsune summon Oni and that's what the mask belonged to. I told him that a silver bullet will weaken them, but a silver arrow will kill them if it stays in so he likely didn't die because sunrise came. I told him the only way for one to eject a Nogitsune out is to destroy the body with Oni or have a werewolf alpha bite the possessed person. I added that the Nogitsune always appeared in fly form once ejected so at best a werewolf can trap it in a jar while an Oni can destroy the fly body and send the Nogitsune back to the dimension it was called from.

He asked how I knew so much and I scoffed. "I copied your father's bestiary along with the Hales and read your father's mind using my claws before erasing the memory of me doing so from him. There's very little I don't know about this world because I've done the same to a Druid like Deaton and his sister, the School councilor."

I loaded up my car with weapons and everything before telling him. "Gerard keeps his bestiary on his keychain. It should've gone to Victoria when you married, but it's just another tradition Gerard broke in order to maintain power over the young hunters. The bestiary is in Archaic Latin, but Lydia could translate if you want. I could as well, but I'd charge you. I'm sure there's something hunter-ish I could take, like Gerard's came that's the melted piece of the pike your ancestor used to kill La Bete."

I hopped on my trunk. "By the by, if you're going to hunt and kill Oni who can teleport at night through shadows, you should think about getting an automatic repeating crossbow. Kill them quick and fast so they can't teleport and kill you with their katanas."

He grunted and I warned him that the alpha pack lives one floor above him at the hotel. I told him to be careful of getting into the alpha pack's business because while I don't fear them and I could kill them all, he and his daughter wouldn't survive if they attack as a pack while they're sleeping. That night Lydia invited me to a party of sorts with her and Allison so I went along.

I told them what Stiles and Scott were talking about and that they were hoping to get lucky tonight at the party. Lydia said I get lucky every night and I chuckled, telling her that it was only with her. She said she could share and I told her I don't swing that way with guys. I told her I'd react violently to another guy in my bed, unlike my brother.

She smiled. "Duh stupid, I was talking about me and Allison."

I raised an eyebrow and looked to Allison who blushed. I shrugged and we went back to my place instead of Allison's. I had my way with both of them and they with each other and me. Allison was tighter than I'd thought she'd be and she cried out when I entered her, saying she'd never felt so full.

I growled lightly and Lydia watched me rail her best friend. I burned through half a box of condoms before they couldn't continue anymore. They both slept soundly and fully fucked by my side. The next day I was with Lydia and Allison who were showing Scott, Stiles and Derek their bruises.

Derek told us of Erica and Boyd being taken and I frowned before asking why he didn't mention it to me before. He said I'd made it clear I wanted nothing to do with him so I shrugged and sighed. "The symbol is for Beacon Hills First National bank. It was closed down a few years ago because it was robbed. The vault is made of hecatolite. It's a rare mineral that scatters the moonlight."

Derek asked. "How do you-"

I waved him off. "Haven't we already established that I'm all knowing when it comes to the supernatural?"

I sighed. "Anyways, if Erica and Boyd have been in there all this time, it's likely that they haven't felt the full moon at all, diminishing their tolerance to it and making them more wolf like on the full moon itself. They'll be stronger, deranged and out for blood so they'll kill the first ones through if given a chance."

Derek asked if I'd help him get them back so I took out two knives and coated them in my venom before sheathing them and handing them to him. "One or two cuts apiece will paralyze them and allow you to take them out without harming them more or dying in the process."

He took them and I grunted. "Every half hour until sunrise you should cut them just to be safe. Though you should take Stiles with you in case they use mountain ash to seal you in."

Stiles said it was a bad idea and I told him to get over it. He asked how they'd use mountain ash and I shrugged. "They have a Druid emissary."

Lydia spoke up. "Marin, the school councilor."

I nodded. "Yeah, not exactly subtle if you know druids give wise council. Still, gotta hand it to her for playing to her strengths."

Derek asked why I hadn't told him before and I shrugged. "Because I don't owe you anything and we aren't friends. Your psychotic uncle turned me into a hybrid freak of nature and gave my girlfriend hallucinations to the point she thought it was driving her crazy. Add to that Isaac and Boyd were my friends before you turned them and dragged them into your little blood feud with the Argents and I don't owe you anything except maybe a broken jaw."

He backed off and I sighed. "I've given enough free answers for today and I've given you your help. I'll handle the alpha pack while you lot save them. I promised I'd come if they needed me and I'll keep that promise. I can't however control what a Druid does while I'm fighting five pissed off alphas at once."

Scott asked if I'd need backup and I shook my head. "No, my venom, martial arts and the fact that I'm an alpha who can fully shift into a wolf is more than enough advantage. They can't beat me, but it'll take time to bring Deucalion down as well. His way of absorbing power from the pack members he kills makes him a pain in the ass to fight, even one on one. I'll get you the time you need to bring Boyd and Erica back."

Stiles asked how I can take on a pack of alphas and I showed them my red eyes. "Because, I am an alpha, a true alpha. I rose up on sheer force of will and claimed my power and status without having to kill anyone for it."

I gave Lydia an exasperated look and she kissed me saying I was welcome. I growled low and told her she smelled of Allison. She gave a smug look and I told the others to figure out their plan and text me when they're ready so I could begin. I went about my day and told Allison what happened between Derek and her mother while telling her what her mother had been doing to Scott because she found out they'd been having sex.

She sighed and I went to my next class, economics. There I played coin toss and got a free one hundred on the quiz for tomorrow. I met Lydia and Allison in the library where we studied up and soon left school. Back at my place again, all three of us got distracted so I made them dinner in bed while they lounged about in the afterglow of great sex.

Lydia said we should have threesomes more often because I'm much calmer with more sex it seems and even more thoughtful. I growled lightly and groaned when my phone rang. I answered and sighed before telling Malia I'd be dressed if she came over. I hung up and told them about Malia, how I was helping her and trying to get her her to join my pack. I told them I didn't want to make werewolves like what happened to me and I don't want to offer people power like Derek so I was trying to build a pack without turning people.

Lydia asked if she was apart of my pack and I kissed her saying she was the only one in my pack at the moment unless Allison wanted to join us. I told her that she'd still be human, but trusted, protected and relied on in a fight. I told her I could teach her how to handle every weapon known to man and every martial art to boot. I cupped her sex and asked if she'd like to be a permanent addition to my pack.

Lydia rolled her eyes knowing I was playing the enticement cards I had. Allison moaned as my hand slid into her panties and brought her quickly to climax. She said yes and I kissed her lips saying no take backs. She blushed and Lydia told her I'd used pleasure to get my way.

She watched me dress saying I was the best at pleasure and she didn't mind because she knew she had my heart. I turned to her and smiled softly. "Always."

I brought her to orgasm next and licked the residue from my fingers before telling them to get dressed when they're done because Malia was coming over to learn how to control herself amongst other things I could teach her. A half hour later we were in my garage with Malia while I taught her to meditate and find her anchor. I helped her with my claws, teaching her all I knew about her kind and mine, how to achieve balance inside to return to full shifting.

When I finished, I stripped and fully shifted into a black wolf with red eyes. Lydia petted me and I laid down, watching Malia work through everything. I shifted back and dressed before she asked if we were going to mate now like I'd done with Allison and Lydia. I literally stumbled while Lydia called her adorable. True to form I was soon balls deep in the former virgin werecoyote while she was just as fierce as I was. Lydia and Allison watched, freshly fucked again themselves.

Malia scratched my back up as she climaxed repeatedly. I ran through condoms even faster and had to break out more boxes. By morning all three of them were semi naked and sleeping on me like it was a tradition. Malia said I was warm and Lydia said I was hers while Allison just said it felt right.

Malia was the first to wake, riding me to completion without a condom. She said it felt better that way and she feels much better while full. I growled low and woke the other two as Malia slid off. I made it clear I didn't want kids right now and it was a dangerous time for them to be pregnant.

Still, we had a group bath in a tub I didn't skimp on money having installed. Malia was washed out thanks to Lydia teaching her how and I dropped her off before driving the rest of us to school. Later that night it was time so I went alone and fought the alpha pack. I faced Deucalion and Marin outside the vault while Stiles and Derek were inside. I told Marin I couldn't allow her to put down the mountain ash.

I told them to leave or I'd kill them both here and now, no more threats or warnings. I flicked my tail and Kali landed on Ennis while Deucalion told her to do it. I moved and gutted him while she used the mountain ash to make a barrier around them both instead. I snorted. "Cute, but ultimately useless."

I pushed against the barrier with every ounce of will I had, roaring as it broke against my unending rage and resolve. I was still taxed, but I told her coldly. "Cheap tricks mean little when one is willing to die or do whatever's necessary to protect those they care about."

I turned to Deucalion on the ground and removed the spear like stick from my chest. I dropped it next to him and crouched down. "I could end you and your pack now to save me a lot of trouble, but I'm not a monster. I don't kill without a reason and I'm not so petty or weak to kill you for something you've not even done yet."

I turned to Marin. "Take them and leave Boyd, Isaac and my pack alone. Fuck with Derek and Scott all you like, I don't care. They aren't in my pack and I'm not friends with either of them."

I stopped Boyd and Cora, paralyzing them since Derek was too busy protecting Stiles and dropping the daggers I gave him. Once Boyd and Cora were stopped and knocked out, I carried them, telling Derek where Erica was by smell. He went to retrieve her, watching the other alphas wearily. I carried Boyd and Cora outside, busting the chains on the doors with a kick.

Scott was with Peter outside and took Cora while I laid Boyd in the seat of my car. I told them to put Cora in there as well because I'd have to keep giving them venom so they'd stay paralyzed through the night. By morning they were fine again so let them go and apologized for not being there for Boyd when he needed me most. That day I protected Isaac at school, paralyzing one of the twins and breaking the jaw of the other.

We heard a scream and went running, finding a dead body sacrificed and strapped to a tree. I grimaced and sheriff Stilinski asked me if I knew something once the other students were told to leave. I asked to have a closer look and he agreed, telling his deputies to let me through. I looked it over and asked him. "You've had three others like this?"

He nodded and I sighed. "Your killer is imitating the druids, or a darker aspect of their history from thousands of years ago. The first three would've been categorized as virgins while this one is under warriors. The killer is imitating the five fold knot sacrifice because they believe it'll give them power."

I looked over the body again, telling him. "There are five categories: virgins, Warriors, healers, scholars and guardians. Expect two more with a military background before the killer moves on to another category. What they choose will be random to their beliefs in what they need. The druids believed the Telluric currents or ley lines as they used to be called so if you get a map of them, I've no doubt this and the other murders or abductions will have taken place along them. Beyond that, I don't know why they used the three fold death in their sacrifices. I'm not a Druid and I don't believe in that mumbo jumbo. I'm a Buddhist, not a tree hugger."

Sheriff Stilinski thanked me and I nodded before asking what fell into each category. I shrugged and told him the various things that could be considered a warrior or guardian as well as philosophers being teachers or other druids. I told him even I could be considered a philosopher or a warrior with my martial arts background and my intellect. I wished them luck in their hunt before heading back to change clothes and shower before getting to class.

Scott, Stiles and Isaac bugged me about what I knew and I told them about dark druids since Isaac and Scott overheard me speaking. I kept Isaac out of trouble and made sure Allison didn't fall asleep in class. By the end of the day I'd helped the others piss of the twins. Aiden was suspended for riding his motorcycle in the school halls.

By the end of the day a teacher was missing in the music room. We contacted Deaton and found the chemistry teacher taken as well. I contacted the sheriff and told him of the two missing teachers with military backgrounds. I told him which teachers and that Mr.Harris wrote Darach, meaning dark oak, the Gaelic word for a dark Druid, on some test papers.

He sent his deputies and took statements while I told him that the dark Druid, whoever it was, would sacrifice them tonight under the moon in the storm for more power. I told him he had hours to figure out where that would happen and get his men to stop it before the dark Druid moves on to another category and more people die. He did his best and found both bodies by morning.

At that time Isaac had already come and joined my pack officially. He had his own room and I took him in from the storm without question. Lydia, Allison and Malia there in night gowns at the second floor, telling me to hurry up and square him away so I could come back to bed. I chuckled and showed Isaac to his room, telling him the first floor was free to roam, but he wasn't allowed on the second floor.

I told him I'd drive us to school in the morning so he should get comfortable and relax. He thanked me before asking about them. I told him they were in my pack and he could be as well if he wanted to, but I wouldn't be letting him into my bed. I told him Lydia is a banshee, Allison is a former hunter and Malia is a werecoyote.

He nodded and I headed up to bed to the delight of the three squealing females who enjoyed us. The soundproof room helped muffle our actions and I held Lydia as she screamed. When it was over, I told them someone was just murdered by the Darach. The next day after school, Boyd had joined the Hales in a scheme to kill Deucalion.

A few days later he'd invited Isaac, Malia and me with my pack to the table. We went and heard their plan which I chuckled to. "First off, Deucalion would never come alone, even if it was Scott asking for a one on one. He's an old alpha and with that age, comes experience. The last time he came alone to a meeting and trusted his enemies to be honorable, Gerard blinded him and butchered his own people to start a war."

I tapped the table and Cora asked. "So what's your brilliant plan, do nothing?"

I flashed my red eyes and growled before telling her. "Careful love, I'm an alpha and I am far more dangerous than your psychotic uncle or weak brother."

I turned to Derek and Boyd. "If you fight them, you fight the whole pack. I'd help, but honestly I have no dog in this fight unless Isaac or Malia wants to kill one of them to become an alpha the weakest way."

Peter asked. "Malia?"

His eyes darted to Malia and she scowled at him.