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"DUCK!"
We scrambled as one of the tails tried to swipe them of our feet. I tried to charge forward but was pulled back and was pushed further behind, "Go, get out of here-" Derek didn't even get to finish what he was saying necause stupid him he got knocked down by the other tail. The pack paused as the 10ft giant snake woman hissed and screamed. in her hands, she weild a spear and a sheild, her human upper torso covered in breast plates that looked like an armor,just like how she looked a few years ago. I should never got my hopes up. Gods, that's just some stupid thing to do. Mom, I need your guidance, let's hope for the better.
"DEREK!!" I ran to his side and he help him get on his feet. Derek pushed me away, "I told you to go away" and yeah, it felt like a rejection. Who am i kidding, it's a flat out rejection and I don't need that right now. I just got home and this isn't on the top of my list. I shook my head, nothing will come out of just gettin angry, i'm not my uncles. I'm better than that. I'm her son.
"What the hell is that?!!"
Should I answer her?
"Two tailed woman snake?"
Well that is Literal but-
"Not funny Mason!"
"Peter?!"
"Don't look at me! I'm as clueless as you are"
And of course they are not in the beastiary since no hunter saw, fought and lived to write about her, she's bros with Medusa... they have sorority, I think. the line of wolves were knocked of by the first tail, "Can I help now?" I half screamed watching them and they have the nerve to reject me. Then the other wrapped itself around Liam. He screamed hard an loud, and i don't need werewelf hearing to know his bones were being crushed. "Guys!-" Nobody is LISTENING!! Scott attacked but his claws couldn't even scratch the snake's armor or even the scales of it. "Great, Jackson's mom is out to get us" Boyd couldn't help but snark it out. I had to laugh, because damnit it's sarcastic. It was a surprise to everyone since this beta never really talked. "You, i like" Peter commented before he and Malia attacked the creature at the same time. Idiots, they all are. if the could only get it over there heads and out of their asses and then listen to me, we could have been watching a movie right now. they did manage to distract it and then angering it more. "Great job guys. You just made her angry" i sarcastically told them when Isaac fell near my feet. He looked up with his lazy stare and arched brow, "I don't see yoy doing anything" he ran back quickly before i could retaliate properly which i retort anyway "Because you're all idiots that won't let me help!!" I pretty much caught everyone's attention. Lydia pulled me to hide behind a large tree. Yes, if any of my siblings heard about this. "Don't do the tribute thing and be a bait" she hisses as she curls in herself and hide. Again this is stupid. Argh! I am going to end her and bring her back to Tartarus. The snake woman screech at them, the fangs and tongue making and appearance. And it's skeevy. I shuddered, right! Kill it, get the pack to safety and keep the secret a secret. Mom, a bit of guidance here, please? It used its other tail to pull Kira by her ankle and swang her to the side. I winced at the impact, that's gotta hurt. then i saw Allison fired a volley of arrows but the arrows didn't even made a dent. She's good, but nothing like Frank or Will's siblings, she can't par with the hunters either. I hear her cursed and watch her trekked to a different place in hopes of getting a good shot.
I tried to step out of the hiding place but Cora elbowed me, "Derek said to step away" and she just ran back in to fighting the snake lady. I scream in frustration, "I can help you know" but all i receive were hisses and growls. "Gods! Use your words" and then i got a lot of "NO" for answers. Lydia reasoned with me, saying this isn't anything we faced before and I rolled my eyes, with theses guys I don't but with my guys back at camp? Every damn time. I looked over the branch of the tree and winces. Almost all of them are knocked out or on the ground. "Mom," i pleaded. Ths is one of those moments that I can't think for myself. I'm sure dad will be okay about it, but i'm not sure of her. I gasped as I felt it. I knew it was her, she's with me. even though they're still getting things back, she's with me. I feel different and I just knew mom heard me. Oh my gods!! Holy- I jumped in place and made a whooped sound. okay, okay bad move. I ducked down. I will sacrifice the biggest steak i could find in dad's stash for you mom.
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This can't be real. a Dracanae?? That 3rd level monster from a game I played in 2nd grade? It can't be that real!! it wasn't the exact thing on the card but everything about it is the same. I shook my head, am i dreaming? Was I shot with wolfsbane? Am I dying?? Whqt about Stiles? Did he escape? If he did I just hope he won't plot revenge. He could just walk away. And Cora, should have left her back to the pack down south. The snake woman screamed and when her anger she squeezed on Liam harder. Scott growled and charged forward but before he could come near her, Liam fell on the ground.
"STILES" Lydia screamed, I turn to her then back to the monster. I must have been thrown too much I didn't notice him. We watch him stand there, he looked different. He's not the spaztic teen i somehow couldn't get out of my mind. He look fuller, he feels different too. Whatever happened to him after going away for six months, change him too much. I just hope it's for the better. I shook my head and readied myself to pull him away so i can keep him safe, then the snake woman hisses and moved back. That's when I saw it. A sword, a fucking sword that he holds well and glows.
"A graecus!!"
A what?
"Yeah, that's me, mom's greek and" his hand made a gesture of pointing somewhere "Dad's Polish, so technically I'm not really American. Just born here"
Her eyes narrowed and after a second, "YOU!!" She screamed and her tails lashed out, harming all of on its way. Everyone dove out of the way. "Yes, again. Me" should I be concern of how that sarcastic answer is turns me on? Focus Derek! "You killed me before" she accused Stiles. My mind numbs at what she said, Stiles killed before. And Stiles killed her? Scott moved forward, "Back up Scotty" Stiles didn't even look at him, and yet he knew who moved. "Stiles, just let us handle this-
"I said back up" his words were cold and hard that even my wolf cower a bit. He looked at us over his shoulder and his eyes hard gray. Not the usual deep whiskey brown that felt home and comfort. The way his eyes looked at us briefly was so disconcerting. As if we were specimen under a microscope whislt being judge at how poorly we work. And it hurt, this isn't our Stiles. He's not the stiles before the nogitsune, not the Stiles six months after that. Watch as Scott's eyes bled red but he took a step back, not knowing what to do or what to think, i think we made a concensus to let Stiles handle this. We'll just back him up. The snake woman hissed at us tauntingly, "Yes, let him handle this mongrels. You should know better" she caressed her wounded tail. Stiles swung his sword cockily, the double edge sword resting on his shoulder. "Yes, please boost my ego. Then go slither away missy hissy" he said, looking back at the giant snake, the woman should her fangs. "Yeah, I killed you when I was ten, what makes you thing I won't do it again" Suddenly Stiles jumped and escaped the tail. He stabbed the tail to the ground and scaled it up. The snake lady screamed in pain and used other tail hit him on the side. I tried to run to his side when a hand pulled me, i turn and saw Peter shaking his head. I felt weak yet, I still tried to struggle free from his hold. I can't stand here and watch him fight something loke this. God, he's only human. I should be the one fight and protecting him and not the other way around. I turn back to watch Stiles roll back to his feet and charged forward. That idiot is charging forward with out a weapon, "Stiles!" I screamed, and in a split second i just knew it, god damn it. I got him distracted. She charged at Stiles with her spear, even if i'm not an expert on weapons but i know range is an advantage.
Stiles grunted and it took a lot of me not to run out there and carry him away abd keep him safe. The wolf in me whined and paced and felt so helpless. "He won't last long," Scott said, "Let's finish her of while she's busy with Stiles" I felt my hackles rise, i didn't realize and i hardly care, apparently, that I had pulled him by the collar of his shirt "Are you baiting your own best friend!?" I snarled, the teeth should and i'm sure my eyes are red as his. We then heard Stiles battle cry and he was amazing. He dodge and ducked away from her attacks, but the he was swinged over by the shield, rolling on the forest floor. I held my breathe when he grunted, he was on his back. "Gods, did you take monster steriods?" he asked, slowly getting up. The snake woman laughed, crazily that Erica even mentioned it ravels against Peter's.
"If your mother blesses you, what makes you think my mother won't?"
"True" And they attacked.
Stiles was on his back again and the snake woman didn't stop. She dove towards stiles with her spear pointed at him and he doesn't have a way out. "STILES" and my feet were moving, trying to reach him before he dies. Because I don't want him to die. Not when I haven't said something to him, I have-
I stopped when I heard that sound when something penetrated a solid flesh with a weapon. I fell on my knees. I didn't make it, I- I couldn't save him. "Stile" I felt someone kneel beside me, trying to coax me out but I- Stiles just, and he "I could've save him." I looked up and faced Cora, i smiled at her "I could've-
"Snap out of it Der! Listen-