𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊'𝚜 𝙿𝙾𝚅

"Hey, you okay?" I hear Stiles speak from the driver seat of the Jeep and I lift my head from the back with Isaac to see that he's talking to my brother in the passenger side.

"Yeah. Yeah, you don't have to worry about me" Scott assures him.

"All right, I'm gonna say it" Isaac blurts out, looking directly at Stiles "You look like you're dying. You're pale, thin, and you look like you're getting worse"

"Shut up, Lahey" I hiss at him with a glare.

"We're all sitting here thinking it" The brunette haired boy retorts "When we find the other you, is he gonna look like he's getting better?"

"What happens if he gets hurt?" Scott questions and I frown at the implication of something happening to Stiles.

"What do you mean, like if he dies, do I die? I don't care. Just so long as no one else dies because of me" Stiles declares and that statement alone makes me feel sick to my stomach.

"Stiles, we're not letting you die" I protest in disbelief.

"I remember everything I did, Nat. I remember wrapping my hands around your throat. I remember squeezing the life out of you" Stiles stresses, looking at me in the rearview mirror with sad guilty eyes.

"That wasn't you" I argue, my frown deepening.

"Yeah, but I remember it" He argues back "You guys gotta promise me. You can't let anyone else get hurt because of me"

My brother shares a concerned look with Isaac and I before both boys nod at Stiles, but I stay completely still.

"Nat, promise me" Stiles pleads and the emotion in his voice breaks my heart.

"Nothing is going to happen to any of you. Not on my watch" I declare.

"Natalia" Stiles presses.

"I promise you that no one is going to die tonight" I retort, stopping any further conversation with a firm glare.

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"We've done this before, guys. A couple of weeks ago, we were standing around, just like this, and we saved Malia. Remember?" Scott gives his pep talk as we stand at the gates of Camp Oak Creek "That was a total stranger. This is Lydia"

"I'm here to save my best friend" Allison declares.

"I came to save mine" Scott returns, glancing at the pale Stiles.

"I just didn't feel like doing any homework" Isaac admits.

"Me neither" I shrug, playfully bumping into the Lahey boy who grins at me.

The six of us share one last look before focusing on the task ahead, storming through the gates and right through the camp. Scott and Stiles split from us, looking for Lydia while the rest of us come head to head with Kira's mother and her Oni.

"Kira, turn around and go home. Take your friends with you" Noshiko warns her daughter.

"I can't. When I looked at the game, I realised who I was actually playing...you" Kira tells her mother.

"Call them off" Allison demands, drawing her bow and arrow.

"You think you could take him alive? You think you can save him?" Noshiko questions us as if we're being ridiculous.

"What if we can?" Kira counters.

"I tried something like it seventy years ago. Your friend is gone" Noshiko tells us.

"Are you sure? Or if Stiles doesn't have to die, maybe Rhys didn't have to die, either?" Kira states boldly and I catch the glimpse of heartbreak in her mothers eyes, a glimpse of something terrible that I hope i'll never know.

"I see I'm no longer the Fox now, Kira. You are" Noshiko says with a smile but it quickly falters "But, the Nogitsune is still my demon to bury"

The Oni disappear into thin air and Noshiko face twists in pain before she lifts her closed fist. The woman opens her palm and inside it lays a firefly, the light fading into dust in her hand.

"Mom? What is that? What does that mean?" Kira asks her mother in confusion.

"It means there's been a change in ownership..." Stiles' voice speaks from behind us and we spin around to see Void smirking at us, the Oni behind him "Now, they belong to me"

The Oni pull out their blades on the offence and we retaliate, Allison and Kira drawing their weapons while Isaac and I's eyes glow brightly in the night. They make the first move, charging at us and we do not hesitate to charge right back.

I collide win an Oni, dodging a swipe of their blade and grabbing their head roughly.

"Phasmatos incendere ad pulvox" I mutter in rage and the figure bursts into nothing.

I feel very much triumphant until I look up and see the Oni has rematerialised beside Void.

"You are fucking kidding me" I groan in frustration, turning when I feel another behind me "Phasmatos incendia!"

The Oni lifts its blade to strike me but before it can, it is completely engulfed in flames and dissolves into smoke. Turning my head I see the Oni has once again materialised beside Void, making my anger rise tenfold.

"Okay, that's it. Lecutio!" I snap, spinning around and summoning a large cloud of pure electricity between my hands before throwing it at two Oni, knocking them both away from Isaac who shoots me a grateful look.

I continue with the tactics of electrocuting, burning and trying to kill the Oni with my magic, but time and time again they materialise again after disappearing.

"Why aren't they dying?!" I holler in anger.

"How do we stop them?" Isaac adds.

"You can't!" Noshiko declares, looking around in horror.

Being far too distracted with the others, I don't even sense the Oni behind me until its too late.

"Natalia!" Allison screams at me in warning.

I spin around as the Oni strikes me, throwing my hands up to hit him with a spell and I feel the rough edge of the blade slicing through my side, causing me to cry out in pain. A pink blast of electricity escapes my palms and deep fries the little shit, but i'm left holding my bloody side.

I spot Isaac who is being torn to shreds by three Oni and my heart drops, racing forward. I manage to blast two of them away with a fire spell and grab onto the almost limp Isaac in horror. A pain strikes my arm, causing me to grimace but I continue to drag Isaac away.

Two more strikes slice at my shoulder then my leg before I lay Isaac against a barrel and spin around with violent pink irises burning with rage. I lift a hand to turn this asshole to smoke when an arrow hits his chest and he pauses, dropping his katana.

I watch in complete awe as the wound glows a bright firefly yellow and the Oni bursts into a flash of light, disappearing and not materialising again.

"Alli, you did it!" I laugh in relief, turning my head to look at her beaming at me in joy.

Everything after her breathtaking smile rolls in slow motion and my heart shatters in my chest as an Oni appears, their blade going right through the Argent girl's chest and is pulled right back out.

"NO!" I scream in agony, racing towards her.

Allison collapses to the floor as I catch her body and I crumple to the concrete with her, tears streaming down my face in pure shock.

"Alli" I sob, my chest feeling as wounded as her own.

"Allison!" Scott's voice rings in my ears and he drops to his knees beside me.

I let my brother take his dying first love from my arms and I drag myself to my feet, stumbling back away from them.

"Did you find her? Is she okay? Is Lydia safe?" Allison croaks and my back hits a hard chest.

"She's okay. Yeah" Scott assures her and I turn to see a wobbly Isaac looking down at me "I can't- I can't take your pain..."

"It's because it doesn't hurt" Allison replies and Isaac pulls me into his arms as I cry, burying my face in his chest as I grab fistfuls of his ripped shirt.

"No" Scott breathes out.

"It's okay" She tells him.

"Allison..." My brother cries and it stomps all over my shattered heart.

"It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's perfect. I'm in the arms of my first love. The first person I ever loved. The person I'll always love" Allison coaxes him to accept there's nothing he can do to save her "I love you, Scott...Scott McCall"

"Don't! Please, don't. Allison, don't, please..." Scott sobs in pain.

"You have to tell my dad. You have to tell my dad. Tell him-" Allison pleads but her voice dies out and with her voice, a piece of me dies too.

"No!" Scott cries out.