Chaos Is Spreading

"Put the lighter down Derek."

[ 3.22 ]

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NOSHIKO MADE HER WAY DOWN THE BASEMENT STEPS OF EICHEN HOUSE. She had come to see her deceased old lover, and while she was remembering everything that had happened for things to become like this she picked up the broken pieces of the wall that had been bashed in on the floor and placed them back together to see the backwards "5" carved into it.

"Why that kanji?" Void asked as he had appeared in the room behind the boiler.

Catching Noshiko off guard she became alert, "Why self?" Void asked, seemingly curious.

"To signify that he died as himself." Noshiko said, truthfully while looking back at Rhys' old mummified body.

"Because Rhys wasn't a monster. Not like you." Noshiko said as she got up from the ground and turned to face Void, holding at her last foxtail that was in the form of a small black knife.

Void noticed the object in her hand, "If I'm such a monster, why'd you let Zella call off the oni? What happened to the woman who called out for chaos, strife and pain to descend upon everyone and everything? What happened?" Void asked, walking closer to Noshiko.

"I don't want that anymore, besides if Zella called off the oni, it means she is far more powerful than I would have originally thought, because when she called off the oni, they were still in my possession. So if they obeyed her that means she was able to take some of your power wasn't she?" Noshiko asked, placing the pieces together.

Void didn't answer, instead he just answered the question he previously asked, "I do." was all he said, all he wanted was more strife, chaos and pain to be unleashed upon the world.

And he looked at the blade in Noshiko's hand and grabbed her wrist forcefully, "Did you bring this here thinking you could hide it from me?" Void asked, prying her hand open and taking the blade from himself.

"Bad idea," then Void stabbed himself in his lower abdomen and dragged it along to the side of his hip.

"What have you done?" Noshiko asked, frightened.

Void dropped the blade to the ground and dropped down to the floor. While on his knees he looked Noshiko in her eyes and said, "Chaos has come again." and flies of chaos were unleashed from his abdomen.

And after the flies all disappeared Noshiko finally looked back at the stop Void was in before but found he had disappeared.

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In an unknown location, Zella was sitting down planning a big move of her own. When all of a sudden she felt a marking go across her lower abdomen like she had been stabbed and the injury dragged along, so when she lifted her shirt she found no wound but then it hit her, Void had let his chaos spread.

Which meant people were going to be getting infected and start having rash thoughts and act on them. But the one person she thought of in that moment was Derek, she knew he had a hard past and if any of Void's chaos spread to him he wouldn't be thinking clearly.

So she tabled what she was planning and went to go find Derek, because even if she had said she was their enemy she didn't want anything to happen to Derek or anyone who was at the other end of his rage.

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Chris and Allison made it outside their apartment, while Chris was putting his keys into their door Allison wanted to ask her dad something, "Dad?" she asked Chris responded with a "hmm" "Were you really gonna pull the trigger on Stiles? Or even let Zella kill him?" she asked not knowing what she'd get back as a response.

Chris thought about her question for a moment, "To be honest, I'm not sure." was all Chris said as he finally opened the door to their apartment.

Entering her room, Allison found Isaac sitting on her bed seemingly all healed. She asked if he just walked out of the hospital and he just responded with  "all better". But it wasn't the Isaac she knew sitting on that bed with her, no, Void had worked his way in.

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Derek placed chess pieces on a chess board, in a very brooding mood. "What are you doing?" Peter asked as he had stopped by his nephew's loft.

As he walked closer to Derek he asked, "And more importantly, why aren't you healing?" While looking at the huge gash on Derek's left shoulder.

"It's from one of their swords. It'll heal." Derek said in a monotone voice.

"By playing chess?" Peter asked sarcastically.

"Back in his room, Stiles had a board with my name on one of the pieces. If this is a game to him, then I need to figure out the plays." Derek said as he placed the chess pieces on the board.

"Not so easy to do when it's a game without rules." Peter stated.

Catching Derek's attention he asked, "What does that mean?"

"You're dealing with the kind of spirit that's lived too long to play by human rules. It's a fox spirit that chose to become human. And supposedly that's something they can do only after about 100 years. If a kitsune is an annoying pain in the ass, then a nogitsune, which is a dark kitsune, is a freaking disaster."  Peter informed Derek.

As he was putting on his coat he said one last thing, "Besides chess is Stiles' game. It's not the game of a Japanese fox. Do yourself a favor and put something on that. Before it gets infected." Peter said, walking out of the loft.

And before he left he turned to tell Derek one more thing, "Also don't be mad at you friend. I believe her name's Zella? She's only doing what we're too afraid to do." and with that Peter Hale left the premises.

Derek watched his uncle leave, but didn't seem to notice the nogitsune's fly of chaos getting into his wounded shoulder.

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Lydia and Aiden were driving around in her car, when Aiden informed Lydia she had just made her fourth right, which means they were driving around in circles. Lydia blamed it on the new car and the GPS not working right just yet, but Aiden informed her that it wasn't on.

Lydia then swerved into a parking lot, with Aiden and came to a halt when they saw a body on the ground, both getting out of the car went to take a closer look and noticed it was Stiles.

While looking at Stiles, a chaos fly flew into Aiden's ear and took root.

Aiden then carried his unconscious body to Lydia's car and they drove to Scott's house.

Upon their arrival, Deaton was already in the house because he got a call from Scott saying they had Stiles and was bringing him over to his house.

Carrying him to sit on the couch, "Guys this is crazy he needs to be in a hospital." Melissa said to the group.

"Mom, remember what happened last time he went to the hospital?" Scott informeded his mom.

Deaton, seeing blood stained on the front of the Stiles shirt, lifted it up to get a look at the wound. "It doesn't look like he's bleeding. I think he might even be healing." he suggested looking at the wound.

"You mean like we heal?" Aiden asked

"That's good, right?" Scott asked.

"For him, yes. Us? I'm not so sure." Alan informed the group.

"Well if we aren't going to kill him, why aren't we at least tying him down with really big chains?" Aiden asked, crossing his arms over his body.

"I might have something more effective." Alan said, grabbing his bag, and pulling out a vial. He then walked over to Stiles' body while Aiden and Scott held him down and squeezed a clear liquid into his mouth.

While doing this, Void snapped his eyes open and tried to choke Aiden. "Get him off of me." Aiden said, prying Void's hands from around his throat. Void who was sadistically laughing stopped when he saw his hand seizing up.

Looking at Alan he said, "Kanima venom. Nice touch." while becoming paralyzed where he sat.

Aiden growled at him, "You know they say that twins get a feeling when the other ones in pain?  You didn't lose that talent, too, did you? Oh, I hope not. You're going to need it." Void said, taunting Aiden.

The group looked at each other, "Okay, I'll give you a little hint. Ethan's at the school." Void informed.

"Go," was all Scott said and Aiden ran out the house.

Void laughed watching Aiden leave for his brother, "Oh, I hope he gets there in time.. I like the twins, short tempers, homicidal compulsions. They're a lot more fun than you bakemono trying to save the world every day." Void said to the group.

"Doc, you brought something to paralyze his body. You got anything for his mouth?" Melissa asked, speaking up.

"Yes, I do." Deaton said, while ripping off a piece of duct tape and sticking it to Void Stiles' mouth.

Void shouted at them with the duct tape on his mouth, while looking at the group with hatred. Then started laughing.

Moving to the dining room, Scott asked "How much longer do you think we have?"

"I wish I knew, but if we don't figure out something soon, we're going to need to find a better place to keep him. Especially if Zella's after him. I think we're grossly underestimating the danger here. He might be paralyzed, but he still feels like he's got us right in the palm of his hand."

Which caused Scott to turn around and look at Void, but noticed he was already staring right back at him.

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Chris was on his way to the school to pick up his daughter, who took off looking for Isaac since he said he was going after the twins. But when he opened his front door Derek was standing there looking really sickly.

"Derek, you all right?" Chris asked.

Derek walked through his front door, "I need to show you something." was all he said walking down the hall of the Argent's apartment."

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Zella was trying to think of places Derek might go since she knew he would be one of the people affected by the nogitsune. So she thought over everything that happened in his life. Piecing everything together and thinking of a time when all the pain started for him. When Kate burned his family alive, but since she wasn't alive, who would he go after? And that's when it clicked for her, "Chris" Zella muttered. And now she was making her way over to the Argent's apartment to go save the both of them.

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Derek dumped his mother's claws onto Chris's desk in his office, "Do you know who these belonged to?" Derek asked.

Chris didn't answer the question, "these claws are all that was left of my mother after your psychotic sister burned her and the rest of my family alive." Derek informed the man next to him.

Derek eerily turned to look at Chris. And Chris sensing that something was off slowly reached for his gun holster behind him, but before he could Derek was already coming up to strike him, but at the last minute Chris weaved out of the way.

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At the house, Scott, Lydia and Deaton were thinking of ways to save Stiles, but could think of anything permanent, because while they had translated the scroll they didn't know if Stiles could handle the bite and become a werewolf. So Lydia suggested they call someone else for advice, next thing you know Peter Hale was standing behind their front door.

Walking in the house, Peter inspected the body of the Stiles Stilinski that he once knew. "He doesn't look like he would survive a slap across the face, much less the bite of a werewolf." Peter said now looking Void in the face.

"You don't think it would work?" Scott asked.

"This is more a war of the mind than the body. Why don't you just call Zella up and have her exterminate him." Peter said.

"That's not an option," Scott shot back at Peter.

"Well, there are better methods to winning this battle." Peter said.

Intriguing Deaton he stepped up, "What kind of methods?" He asked.

And Peter flicked out Scott's claws, "We're going to get into his head."

"I'll do it. I said I would. But only if you help. And only if Scott doesn't know about it." Lydia bargained with Peter.

As they both walked back into the room Deaton asked, "So, do we have a plan?"

"Scott is going to try and dig through pale and sickly Evil Stiles' mind to unearth pale and sickly real Stiles. Then guide him back from the depths of his own subconscious. But he's not going to do it alone." Peter informed everyone.

"What do you mean?" Scott asked.

Peter then looked at Lydia, "Somebody needs to go in with you." Void also turned to look at Lydia, from where he could see.

Peter then began to line Scott's claws up along Void's spinal cord, where the back of his neck was and Lydia's. "So what do we do if we find him?" Scott asked Peter.

"You're going to have to guide him out somehow. Try to give him back control of his mind, his body." Peter said.

"Could you elaborate on the "somehow"? It's not feeling very specific at the moment." Lydia asked.

"Improvise," was all Peter said.

"What if this is just another trick?" Scott asked.

"When are you people going to start trusting me?" Peter said.

"I meant him," Scott said looking at Void Stiles.

"Oh," Peter replied.

"Scott, we're running out of time." Deaton informed.

Nodding his head Scott concentrated while closing his eyes and opened them back up again with his alpha ones and plunged his claws into the back of Void and Lydia's necks entered his mind with Lydia.

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Waking up from being knocked out, Chris Argent tried to move but soon noticed he was being restrained to a chair. "Derek?" Chris asked. But Derek walked over to him and started pouring lighter fluid all over his body.

"Okay, listen. Listen to me. Whatever's gotten into your head, this isn't the way to deal with it." Chris pleaded.

"You burn my family, I burn yours. In fact, I'll burn the whole building down." Derek said, holding a lighter in front of Chris's face.

Chris spit at the lighter which caused the flame to go out. Which caused Derek to grab his jaw harshly then let go. "That was Kate. You know I had nothing to do with that. I'm not your enemy Derek, not anymore." Chris said as he watched Derek sway the lighter in his hand from side to side.

Zella then appeared in the room, "Put the lighter down Derek." Zella said, walking in front of him.

Ignoring her presence, Derek spoke to Chris, "yeah, you are, you and Allison. Which is why I'm not going to light this yet. I'm not." Derek said as he tried to put the lighter in Chris's face but his wrist was grabbed by Zella.

"Look, I know what happened Derek you know I know. Remember what we talked about that day in the loft. Think about it, don't do this, you don't need to carry anymore hostility with you or guilt. This wasn't his fault and you know that." Zella said, trying to reach out to Derek.

"I don't even understand why you're here, last I saw you, you said "From now on don't even bother considering Void your greatest enemy. I am." Then you left, you haven't spoken to me since, so why come now. What you couldn't handle being by yourself or something?" Derek accused.

"No, that's not it. I came for you, remember what I told you in the police station after the bombing, "As long as I'm here Derek, I'm always going to protect you." I meant every single word when I said that, even now, even when I said I'm your biggest threat. Because you are my friend, and friends don't leave each other behind when they need each other the most." Zella said, looking Derek in the eyes.

"Why shouldn't I kill him? How many werewolves do you think he's murdered? He's not my ally. He's not my ally. He's a hunter." Derek said.

"You're right, I am a hunter. Trained before I could even speak, and trained others. Do you know what the first lesson we teach is? We take our children, we bind them in a chair just like this. Then we wait for them to get out. Most of them, it takes hours. Others? Seconds." And with that being said Chris fell back in the chair and broke the back off freeing himself, and grabbing the gun attached to the underside of his desk.

Derek shifted but Zella held him back, "We don't want to hurt you Derek, don't make us hurt you, please." Zella pleaded, trying to get Derek to calm down.

And all of a sudden black goo started dripping out of Derek's nose and he passed out on the floor.

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Scott and Lydia entered Void's mind and while they were in dream's they finally broke free to see Stiles sitting with the nogitsune. After running for quite a while trying to get to Stiles Lydia asked since Stiles was in his pack, what do wolves do to signal to each other, which caused Scott to howl and catch Stiles attention.

After Stiles knocked the game pieces off the board, Scott and Lydia were pushed out of Stiles' head. When they came to Void started regurgitating old bandages from his mouth into a pile on the floor.

While everyone watched as a hand stuck out of the pile and a person began to come out, Scott and Peter reached to hold the mystery person down, but Scott soon noticed it was Stiles. But as soon as they came to that conclusion Deaton informed him that Void had taken off with Lydia.

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Another one bites of dust and another chapter done!

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