Beacon Hills, December 2013.
Reese glared at the wall in front of them as Kira's mother put some tea on the table.
"Here, it'll calm you." She said, handing one cup for each.
Reese gladly accepted while Stiles asked some stupid questions to Kira's mother. If she was being honest, she had missed Stiles, like a lot. And she had made it clear to him and so was he by the way.
"They're not safe here." Kira's father suddenly entered the room, looking at the couple carefully.
Noshiko sighed and spoke, "They're not safe anywhere."
As Reese zoned out, the rest talked about Allison's death which was clearly a sensitive subject for the brunette.
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All of them were in the jeep, direction the school. When Stiles tried to get out of the baby blue vehicule but instead stumbled on his feet, Reese immediately had to rush and helped him out.
The pit in Reese's stomach made her head pounding, meaning something bad was about to happen.
Kira was here, mostly because it was her mom's fault that a nogitsune was on earth. And we're not gonna lie, she had a little thing for the Hispanic boy.
Speaking of the wolf, Scott was here for his best friend.
Lydia to support Reese and to busy herself instead of replaying Allison's death in her head.
And Reese and Stiles were there because they were the people possessed.
The couple were holding each other hands tightly, watching the school carefully.
Before walking in, Stiles suddenly stopped everybody.
He took a wavy breath and said in a confident voice "Hold on, I know what you're all thinking. If this works it might kill me, too-"
"Or me." Reese interrupted, looking at Stiles but earn a death glare and a shake of head.
"No, you won't. I won't let that happen."
"But-" she tried to say but Stiles ignore her and continued his speech.
"But even if it does kill me, you have to go through with it. Stick with the plan, okay?"
Everybody went silent before Scott broke it.
"The plan is to save you." He breathed out, staring into Stiles' eyes and then to Reese's one. "Both of you."
Everyone looked at him oddly, but didn't question it anyway.
Not wasting another second, Scott pushed the door open to reveal a snowing Japanese garden.
"Well... that definitely wasn't a part of the plan." Reese muttered between her teeth, hugging herself as the wind slightly shook her dress. She even more cold than before.
There was a long moment who nobody dare saying a thing before the nogitsune, the bandage one, came and started to talk with a muffled voice.
"Like I promised, Stiles..." he began, darting his eyes between each members of the pack... "We're going to kill all of them." Before stopping at Reese who glared back at him with fury in her eyes. "One by one."
Many Onis came and started to circle them.
"What the hell is this? Where are we?" Scott asked, looking at the disgusting creature.
"Between life and death." He simply said. Reese swore she could hear his smirk behind all his bandages.
"Bardo." Reese whispered under her breath. Only hearing it, Stiles turned his head in her direction and saw the terror in her eyes which made him even more confused and even more scared for her.
"But there are no peaceful deities here, little raven." The bandage man replied, apparently able to hear what she had just said.
At this statement, Stiles, the real one, sneak an arm around her waist, making her closer to him to kind of protect her for the monster.
"You're dying, Stiles." The nogitsune whispered loudly. "And now everyone you is about to die, too."
"What do you mean?" Stiles shakily demanded, not noticing he had let go of Reese. But the only answer he received was a loud, creepy chuckle.
"Stiles?" Reese's weak voice croaked.
When he turned around, he found a Oni with a sword resting of Reese's stomach.
Just as the Valdove was about to move closer to help her, another Oni came next to him to stop him from moving any closer.
The nogitsune shook his head lightly. "See, I've captured,now, all of the territories on the board, Stiles. The hospital. The sheriff's station. The animal clinic, your Valraven..."
A silent fell between the group until he spoke again, explaining the ritual of Seppuku and the fact that Scott is his kaishakuni, Reese's vision blurs itself slowly.
"They're all gonna die. Everyone who was touched by an Oni's blade." The nogitsune's vicious voice rang. "Unless Scott kills you first."
Stiles took a quick look at his girlfriend and said, "Why? Why are you doing this?"
"To win the game." He simply replied.
And with this, a fight started. Lydia hid behind a rock as Stiles came closer to Reese and check her wound.
"Hey, hey. You're going to be fine, okay?" Stiles rassures her and him by the same occasion.
After a moment hiding, Stiles rapidly glanced at the katana that a Oni left on the side. "Stiles, don't." Reese muttered quietly, well aware what he was planning to do with the blade that was on the ground. "Hey, look at me." He actually looked at her. "This is not going to help us."
Choosing to not listen to her, he stood up and ran and took the blade between his hands and made it in his stomach level, ready to stab himself.
"Stiles, no!" Scott yelled, quickly being grasped by a Oni.
"Stiles, stop!" Reese tried to stand up but fail considerably.
"What if it saves you? What if it saves all of you?" Stiles mumbled, glancing at the katana in his stomach.
"What if it's just another trick?" Lydia said from beside Reese's body.
"No more tricks, Lydia." The nogitsune hurled. "End it, Scott. Do it, Scott! You have no moves left, Stiles."
When Stiles was about to stab himself, he threw the sword away and said,
"I do." Kira took her katana back. "A divine move." He breathed out, backing near Lydia and Reese, making Reese stands up, wincing while the creature groaned in frustration. "Stop fighting them. It's an illusion. You have to stop fighting them."
As Scott walked near the nogitsune, the Onis around them began to stab them but the pack continued to walked until they were all at the door.
When they realised they were in the hallway and that nobody was injured Scott said,
"We're okay, we're-" but was cut off by the one and only Void Stiles. Knocking him out, along with Kira and Lydia. Leaving Stiles and Reese alone to face to the nogitsune.
"It was my game... You think you can beat me at my game?" He tilted his head toward the couple. "Divine move. Divine move? You think you have any moves at all? You can kill the Oni. But me?" He began to quickly walk closer to them. "Me? Im a thousand years old. You can't kill me!"
"But we can change you." Reese yelled over his voice, groaning when a sudden pain made its way toward her stomach.
"What?"
"You forgot about the scroll." Stiles informed, holding the Valraven closer.
"The Shugendo Scroll." It was Reese's turn to tilted her head with a light smirk on the corner of her lips.
At this moment, Kira and Scott came behind Void. Scott bit him on the arms which earn a loud yell for the creature. While doing this, Kira planted her katana in his torso which resulted to a fly flying out of his mouth. At the last moment, Isaac came and locked the fly in the triskele box.
The nogitsune was gone.
But then, Stiles fell on the ground. Hard.
"Stiles?" Reese shouted. "No, no, no, no, please Stiles. No."
Everyone was looking, not knowing what to do. What just had happened ?
"Hey, it's okay. It's gonna be okay." She whispered while putting her hands above his torso and healed him.
As the green magic came out off her hand, Scott realised what she was going to do.
Giving her life for his.
"Reese. Stop." He warned.
"No, I can't." She said as tears pooled down her face. "I can't loose him too."
Stiles was slowly regaining his consciousness as a drop of blood slid down from her nose.
"Oh, god. I fainted, didn't I?" Stiles sighed from the ground.
"Kind of." Reese chuckled slightly, helping him up.
"Hey, you're bleeding." He said, wiping the blood away from her nose.
"Oh, it's okay." She smiled.
"Lydia?" Scott yelled as the strawberry blonde ran outside.
They all followed and saw Aiden, with a sword in his stomach, talking to his twin.
Before anyone could say anything, Reese ran toward them and took his hand.
"Okay, just breathe with me okay?" She said, earning a nod. "Okay, here we go."
The pack came closer and watched carefully what the Valraven was doing.
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Edited
I'm going to edit some of the chapters because either there is plot mistake or spelling mistakes so yeah. If u see any, tell me :)
Btw, last chapter next Wednesday !