XII.

Trapping Void

"As the younger kids would say Mr.Yukimura, you've aged like fine wine."

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IN THE SCHOOL, THE YUKIMURA'S PLUS SCOTT AND ZELLA WERE KNOW GOING IN DEPTH ON THE HISTORY OF THE NOGITSUNE OTHERWISE KNOWN AS VOID.

"If that's you, then you'd have to be like 90 years old." Scott stated, as he was now intrigued on the story. As Scott had stated that specific sentence it made Zella laugh, which caused Scott to look at her with confusion.

Noshiko knew why Zella was laughing, and she wasn't mad by it, she just knew she had to correct Scott because he interpreted the whole situation wrong and had no idea how kitsunes aged.

"Closer to 900," Noshiko spoke up to say, and looked at her daughter.

Kira was taken aback by what her mother just said and tried to compartmentalize it. "Okay, sure. Why not?" then looked at her father and asked, "Dad, how old are you?"

"43, but I've been told I look mid-thirties," Ken said.

"As the younger kids would say Mr.Yukimura, you've aged like fine wine." Zella said as she tried to make the conversation go a little bit more smoother than it was.

And it sure did, it brought a smile to Ken's face.

Kira then handed her mother the katana that she had brought with her, that Scott got from Malia when she and Stiles discovered it in the Eichen House basement buried with the old nogitsune's body.

Noshiko then held the blade satchel and removed the hilt of where the katana was supposed to be and let the shattered pieces of it fall onto the desk in front of her.

"The blade was shattered the last time it was used." Noshiko continued on to say.

"When was that?" Kira asked.

Noshiko then turned around to face her daughter, "1943, against a nogitsune."

"All this, it's all happened before, hasn't it?" Scott asked, knowing the potential answer he was about to receive.

"Yes, that's why I asked the kitsune ancestors to create Zella." Noshiko stated as she looked Scott dead in the eye.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Ken said.

"Where did it come from?" Kira asked, wanting to know more.

"It was an internment camp during World War II. In Oak Creek. Not too far from here." Noshiko explained.

Which caused Kira and Scott to look at each other and turn to Mr. Yukimura, "Hold on, you told Allison and Isaac that there was no internment camp at Oak Creek." Scott stated remembering the information Allison had to Scott the night of Isaac getting electrocuted outside the hospital.

"Allison's family has a certain history of violence. I didn't know if she could be trusted.There was a camp, yes. But all the records were erased." Ken explained to Scott and his daughter.

"More like they covered up the massacre that happened," Zella stated, already knowing the story.

Ken reached into his desk pulling out photos and information, "When I was a grad student, my passion project, actually more like an obsession, was trying to dig up the truth on Oak Creek. It's how I met your mother, Kira." Ken explained.

Kira looked at the pictures that were not covered up or destroyed then faced her mother, "So, where did the nogitsune come from?" Kira asked her mother suspiciously.

"Isn't it obvious yet?" Noshiko said.

"From the same person who had the idea to create me, your mother." Zella stated.

Noshiko then began to explain how everything started in the beginning before the massacre, while fixing the katana's blade.

"Kira, I need your help on this. There isn't much time. And this is something that needs to be done in the daylight." Noshiko pleaded with her daughter.

"Why can't you ask Zella for help?" Kira questioned seeing as Zella already knew everything, and could probably do a better job than her.

"Not with this task little fox, this job is for you and you only." Zella explained.

"Not until my mother tells us everything," Kira said as she crossed her arm over her torso.

"Tell them, Noshiko. Tell them what they need to know." Ken told his wife.

"Wolves and foxes tend not to get along, not just in fables and stories." Noshiko spat out.

"But allies, however unlikely, should be welcomed. Especially in times of war." Ken told the group.

"What he is essentially trying to say is you guys need all you can get if you want to save Stiles, because I am a solution all by myself, but I'm trying to give you time because he's your friend but when the time comes, I will not hesitate to kill him." Zella said truthfully, but she was lucky Scott wasn't listening to her heartbeat at the time because he would've noticed it spiked in her statement.

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Since the police station blew up, from when Void Stiles planted a bomb there Chris, Derek and Zella were allowed to go home while the investigation on Silverfinger was pending. But Chris and Derek were called back for further questioning then also obtained some of their belongings while they were there.

Deputy Parrish was holding up a stun baton that was Chris's, inspecting it. "Sorry, but I can't let you walk out with this. It's way above the legal voltage limit."

"I only use it for hunting." Chris explained to the young deputy, while Derek looked at him hearing his statement.

"Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure you could use it to jump–start a 747." Parrish carried on saying back to the slightly older man in his presence.

Chris had enough and wanted to get out of the police station, "This property belongs to me and the charges were dropped. Although, I'm not exactly sure who's responsible for that." Chris said, looking at Derek.

"Your friend Isabella did," Parrish stated.

"Who?" Derek questioned not being familiar with the name.

"Oh right, sorry, I totally forgot she told me not to call her that, instead I should call her Zel- Zeel–"

"Zella?" Derek stated, being familiar with the name or at least the sound of it.

"Yeah, that's it, don't tell her I called her by that other name though, I don't want her to kill me, because the threat she gave me a week ago seemed a little too real." Parrish pleaded with the green eyed man.

"Yeah, whatever," Derek replied not even understanding why the deputy called Zella 'Isabella' but didn't really care once he saw Stiles' dad – Noah – walk in.

"I'll take care of this, Parrish," Noah said as he entered the room.

"Sheriff, I'm not kidding. This thing's a few watts from being a lightsaber." Parrish informed Noah.

"I said I'll take care of it." Noah stated as he grabbed the stun baton from the young deputy.

In the Sheriff's office, Noah, Chris and Derek were talking.

"The specialist I saw in LA told me the thing that every doctor says when he's trying to avoid a lawsuit. "We can't say for sure." And then I spoke with Melissa, these are brain scans. My wife's and Stiles', I knew they were similar but those are the same. Exactly the same." Noah stated, explaining everything he found out to the two men standing in his office.

"If Zella were here, she'd say it's part of the nogitsune's game, that he's playing a trick, because that's not even remotely possible." Derek said, looking at the brain scans.

"So the trickster is still playing tricks." Chris huffed out.

"But why this trick?" Derek questioned not finding a connection.

"When I was in the army, an officer told me "If you want to defeat your enemy, you don't take away their courage. You take away their hope." Noah said as he finally started to see what the nogitsune was playing at.

"You don't look like a man who gives up hope easily." Chris stated, looking at the man.

"But Stiles might, If this thing inside of him, if it's using his mother's disease as some sort of psychological trick, then this isn't just a fight for his body. It's also a fight for his mind. Right? " Noah countered, as he asked the two men to see if they knew anything.

"You know, he's left people severely injured." Chris stated.

"And others severely dead," Derek added on.

"That's why I need the two of you. I need people who are experienced in this kind of thing. I need you to help me stop him." Noah said as he asked the men who knew about the supernatural for help.

"And by stop him, you mean trap him." Chris corrected.

And the three men in the sheriff's office formed an alliance, but a certain entity knew something was going to happen after all she was linked to Void, so when he thought about something she did too.

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As Noshiko was explaining her story or as Kira would say, "We don't want to hear your Casablanca story. We wanna know how to save Stiles."

"I'm trying to tell you." Noshiko told her daughter.

"You're trying to stall. When the sun goes down, the oni are gonna come after him again, aren't they?" Scott confronted and questioned Noshiko.

"Look Scott this has gotten out of hand, Stiles has already been involved in many deaths, and while I don't blame him because I know Void is in his body using it as a host, he has to be stopped." Zella told the young boy.

"Look I know what you said, but he's still my best friend. And I'm going to do whatever it takes to help free him, without harming him." Scott said as he turned around to face Zella.

"Your friend is gone Scott,." Ken spoke up to say.

"I don't think you know that for sure. You have control of the oni now, can you call them off?" Scott asked.

"It's not his fault." Kira stated, looking at her mother.

"Stiles may be your best friend, he might be like a brother to you, but he is nogitsune now. He is Void."

"Can you call them off?" Scott questioned Noshiko raising his voice.

"Scott, I get your upset that we're here to kill your friend, but you have to understand while we sit here and talk and you try to figure out a plan, Void is out there stirring up all kinds of pain and suffering. And I know I could've gotten rid of him a long time ago, but I now know what it feels like to protect a friend but how long can you protect him while he is slipping away even further." Zella told Scott to get him to listen.

"All I want is to save my best friend and I'll do whatever it takes to do it." Scott said to everyone in the room.

"Well I hope you do save him, but since I know this whole story and gave some of my input I'm going to head out, cause some people are planning a take down behind my back."

And before anyone could say anything Zella disappeared into a cloud of darkness.

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"This is everything non-lethal I could find." Allison said as he walked into her father's office with the Sheriff, Derek and her father.

"Take all of it," Chris stated.

"What's the plan here?" Noah questioned.

Everyone in the office failed to see a cloud of darkness appear behind them in the room and take the form of a 5'5 woman.

"He's right, what is the plan?" Zella asked as she leaned against the wall. Which happened to jump scare everyone in the room.

"I thought you were at the school?" Derek asked.

"And I thought you were at the police station, seems like we're both places we were not supposed to be." Zella accused.

"We're setting a trap to catch Stiles," Allsion said to the green–eyed woman.

Derek glared at the female teenager as if he were saying 'you weren't supposed to tell her that.'

"Well, well, well looky here looks like you forgot to invite me to the party, Derek." Zella said as the last part of her sentence was said so sharply you could've swore it stabbed Derek in the chest.

"It's not like we couldn't use her help, I mean she is our best shot in taking Void down." Chris offered as a suggestion.

"I think that's a great idea, a little help can go a long way." Zella said, still glaring at Derek.

"Hold on, who is she?" Noah asked, seeing as everyone knew the woman in the room except him.

"She is the woman who is going to kill your son, if we don't get the nogitsune out of Stiles," Derek said through his teeth as he was also glaring back at Zella.

"Wait a minute, why are you going to kill my son?" Noah asked the woman.

"It's what I was made to do, but luckily for you I am slowing down my process for the sake of friendship." Don't take it personally." Zella said to the Sheriff.

Noah didn't have anything to say, he just shook his head and looked at Chris to continue on with the plan.

"Our best shot right now is for Derek to try to pick up Stiles' scent at Eichen House. Especially if he went through something stressful there." Chris explained.

"Should all five of us be going to the same place?" Noah asked.

"Where else has Stiles been showing up?" Chris asked.

"The school, the hospital," Zella stated as she was looking at the pictures on the wall in Chris's office.

"Okay, hold on, we did this already. He disappeared, we started looking for him. Then walked right into a trap at the hospital." Derek pointed out.

"Finally, you're starting to learn. He's getting to you with the same move." Zella said as she recalled everything they had already done.

"So, what do we do? Wait for him to come to us?" Allison asked.

"We can't. Not if the oni find him when the sun goes down." Derek said.

"Scott's working on them right now, with Kira." Noah informed the group.

"Yeah, I just left there and let me just say they are being very..... eventful with the whole thing." Zella pointed out.

"Can't you control the oni, Zell get them to back off I mean you are their leader." Derek asked.

"It doesn't work like that Der, as long as Noshiko has her foxtails she's in control of them till her time is up." Zella said.

"This is our problem, we're all trying to outfox the fox." Chris noted.

"Listen, I'll understand if anyone wants to back out." Noah told everyone in the room.

" I'm not going to be the first wolf to run from a fox," Derek said, grabbing some non-lethal weapons.

"I've been meaning to say "hi" to Void anyways but now I'm going to make it a little bit more welcoming," Zella said with an evil gleam in her eye that only Derek caught.

"Apparently I'm carrying the lightsaber." Chris said as he also packed his weapons.

"Dad, you Derek and Zella hit Eichen House. Sheriff, it's you and me in the hospital. We all meet in the school." Allison told everyone.

But before everyone left Allison turned to Zella, "Aren't you gonna grab a weapon?" she asked.

Zella smirked and shadows started to take form in her hand creating a very long sword. "Honey, I am the weapon." Zella said.

"I swear there can't be anything weirder than that in this town." Noah announced not having seen anything like that before.

"Trust me sheriff, you'd be surprised," Chris told the man.

And while Noah and Allison exited the room, Chris took his gun out.

As Derek saw he stated, "Making sure you have a few lethal options just in case?"

"Oh come on Der, let the man have his gun, you have your werewolfiness and I have... well a lot." Zella said as she patted his chest.

"I like to prepare for the worst," was all Chris said.

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While Allison and Noah were checking the hospital to find Stiles, Allison had a little breakdown in the elevator and was comforted by Noah.

But then Noah got an alert on his phone.

"What's that?" Allison asked.

"Someone's breaking into my house. After Stiles started sleep walking, I had some security precautions put in. Motion sensors. Cameras," Noah explained while he went onto the app on his phone to see what was going on.

"Is that his room?" Allison asked as she was looking at the phone screen.

And they both saw Void wave at the camera while sitting on Stiles' bed.

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