It held its hand out and touched the water before hissing and quickly pulling back. "Wait, did you see that? I dont think he can swim." Stiles said and Amara hummed slightly, "It hates water...?" She mumbled.
"I don't know how much longer I can do this." Stiles said in a breathless whisper. As the creature continues to circle the pool, Stiles glances to his phone on the wet tile nearby which Derek and Amara noticed. "No, no, no. Don't even think about it." Derek growled making Stiles sigh in frustration.
"Would you just trust me this once?" Stiles asked making Derek look at him like he was stupid, "No!" Derek said making Amara just sigh and roll her eyes at the two of them. "We're the only ones keeping you alive, okay? Did you noticed that?" Stiles argued.
"Yeah, and when the paralysis wears off, who is gonna be able to fight that thing- you or me?" Derek argued back making Amara groan in annoyance before wrapping both her arms around Derek. "Stiles, go. I got it." She said and he nodded before quickly swimming over to his phone.
He quickly grabbed his phone before the creature could get to him and he dialed Scott's number. It rang a couple times before Scott answered, "I cant talk right now." Scott quickly answered before hanging up making Stiles look at the phone and scoff in offence before swimming back over to Derek and Amara. "Please tell me you got him." Derek said and he shook his head making Amara sigh in annoyance.
After a little while it kept getting harder and harder to stay up, the three of them kept dipping under the surface. "I can't- I can't stay up. I need to hold on to something." Stiles said and Amara nodded in agreement as she glanced around, "The diving board, we can hold onto that." She said and Stiles nodded.
They both swim toward the diving board, pulling Derek along with the. But when Stiles reaches up to grab it, his fingers slip. They all go under, descending into the dark when two hands burst down through the surface. Both Derek and Stiles surge out of the water and land sprawling onto the tile floor, Amara following close behind.
"Thanks for finally joining us, you ass." Amara said as she saw Scott crouched on the diving board, now a full werewolf. He rises up with claws out and lets loose a loud roar, challenging the overgrown lizard creature as it approaches from the shadows.
But the thing is unbelievably fast and surprisingly strong. Scott leaps up to meet it in mid-air. Both crash to the tile floor, clawing and snarling at each other. The creature wraps a tail around Scott's leg and lifts him right off the floor with it. Scott hurtles back, tossed into a wall mirror causing the glass to shatter and fragments rain down.
The creature inches forward for the kill. Desperate, Scott grabs one of the larger mirror shards to use as a weapon. And then something strange happens. The creature pauses, focusing on its own reflection in the glass, almost as if confused by it.
Baring a fearsome set of double-rowed teeth, the creature hisses at itself and retreats back. It leaps onto the wall, crawling across it like a spider, the
creature darts out one of the high windows and disappears into the night.
With a breath of relief, Scott lets the mirror shard fall to the floor. Then turns back to see an exhausted Stiles and still weak Derek slowly pulling himself to his feet while Amara was already standing.
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Scott plugs the USB drive into his laptop on the hood of his mother's car while Stiles looks over his shoulder. A document pops up on the screen, pages and pages of strange black and white images amid thick paragraphs of almost illegible text.
"Is that even a language?" Stiles asked while Scott sighed, "How are we supposed to figure out what this thing is?" Scott asked and then Derek spoke up behind them. "It's called a Kanima." Derek said making them turn around to look at him and Erica.
"You knew the whole time?" Stiles asked incredulously, "No. Only when it was confused by its own reflection." Derek said making Amara nod slightly. "It doesn't know what it is." She said and Derek nodded, "Or who." He said. "What else do you know?" Stiles asked and Derek shrugged, "Just stories, rumors." He answered. "But it's like us?" Scott asked and Derek raised his eyebrows, "A shapeshifter? Yes. But it's-it's not right. It's like a..."
"An abomination." Stiles said and Derek nodded. He and Erica went to leave but Scott stopped him, "Derek? We need to work together on this. Maybe even tell the Argents." Scott said making Derek scoff. "You trust them?"
"Nobody trusts anyone! That's the problem! While we're here, arguing about who's on what side, there's something scarier, stronger, and faster than any of us, and it's killing people, and we still don't even know anything about it!" Scott said and Derek just shook his head.
"I know one thing- when I find it...I'm gonna kill it." Derek said before walking off.
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