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Chapter Twenty-Seven
⊚ Fireflies ⊚

"You lost them?" Derek asked over the phone and Scott nodded slightly, "Yeah, we kind of had to." Scott said and Derek sighed. "Wasn't exactly the plan..." Derek said, "I know, which is why I think that we should stick together. Trust me- he's too strong, too fast, and way too angry for only two people to handle. We've got to do this together." Scott said.

"Look, I'm at the trails by the entrance to the preserve. Can you meet me here?"

"Yeah... Just got to drop something off first..." Scott said, lowering his phone as he looked over at where Amara was crouched in front of two little kids. Boyd had changed the two of them and probably would have killed them so now Amara was telling them random facts about fireflies to calm them down.

** "She tried killing you." Allison said after Amara had finished explaining what Victoria did. "Yeah... That's why Derek bit her. He told me that he wasnt really thinking, he was too worried about me." Amara said and Allison stared at her with glossy eyes.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Allison asked and Amara sighed softly before looking up at her, "I couldn't let that be the last memory that you had of her. It felt like hell when my last memories of my dad was him trying to kill all of us... I didn't want you to have to go through that." Amara said.

Before Allison could say something, someone walked up making them look over to see Scott and Derek. Derek who was carrying Erica's body. **

"Is it them?" Scott asked a little while later as he, Amara and Derek stopped, looking at a couple sets of footprints. "I guess we're not the only ones that decided to stick together." Amara said as she glanced around and Scott raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is that gonna make it easier or harder to catch them?" He asked and she sighed and shook her head slightly.

"I don't know." She said and Scott looked at Derek, "Derek... I saw Boyd try to rip two little kids apart. Are they gonna do that to everyone that they find?" He asked and Derek and Amara glanced at each other for a moment.

"Everyone and anyone."

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Somewhere within the woods, a girl named Caitlin stood around at a little camp area, calling out for her girlfriend. Hearing a low growl Caitlin begins to turn to see a transformed Cora stepping into the light, growling at her. But before Cora could do anything, Isaac jumps down making Cora look at him.

Isaac slowly looked up at her and smirked before running at her. Cora went to swipe at him but Isaac easily knocks her down and Cora looked up at them and growled loudly before getting back up. She grabbed him, tossing him back into a tree making him fall to the ground. He looked up at her as Scott jumped over him, kicking Cora to the ground.

A wolf slowly walked up where the three werewolves all stood, Cora growling at all of them. Cora turned as Derek stepped up and she growled at him making him roar back at her. She quickly turned around and ran off into the woods making Derek, Isaac and the wolf quickly run after her.

A little while later Scott, Amara, Isaac, Derek and Makena stood around the woods as Scott hung up a call with Stiles. Apparently Lydia found a freshly dead body at the pool. "This doesn't make any sense. The public pool is all the way on the other side of the woods. We haven't tracked them anywhere near there." Derek said making them look at him.

"Derek, they killed someone." Scott said and Derek shook his head slightly, "How are they moving so fast?" Derek asked. "Derek-" Scott went to say but Derek cut him off, "They can't be that fast on foot!" He said.

"They killed someone. Some totally innocent kid is dead... And it's our fault." Scott said and Derek sighed and shook his head, "It's my fault." He said. "We need help." Scott said and Derek glanced at Isaac and Makena, "We have Makena and Isaac now." He said and Scott shook his head.

"I mean real help!" Scott said making Isaac and Makena both look at Scott offended. "They're too fast for us, for all of us. They're too strong, too rabid..." Scott said and Derek shook his head slightly, "We'll catch 'em." He said and Isaac raised his eyebrows.

"What happens if we do? We just gonna hold them down until the sun comes up?." Isaac asked and Derek sighed, "Maybe it would be easier just to kill-" Derek started to say but Amara cut him off. "No. We already lost Erica. We're not killing Boyd, and we're especially not killing Cora, who we just got back after thinking she's been dead for over six years." Amara said and Isaac sighed.

"What if it's the only thing to do? If we can't even catch them, what else can we do?" He asked and Makena shrugged slightly, "Find someone who knows what they're doing." She said as he glanced over at Scott.

"Who?" Derek asked and Scott looked at him, "Someone who knows how to hunt Werewolves."

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Engine off, Derek and Makena sat in the front seat of Derek's car while Amara and Issac sat in the back as they watched Scott talk to Argent just a few yards away. "You think this is going to work?" Isaac asked and Derek shook his head, "No." He said and Isaac nodded slightly.

"Me either. So... your sister." Isaac started making Derek slowly turn an incredulous gaze on Isaac while Amara and Makena just chuckled. "Sorry. Bad timing. I'll ask later." Isaac said and Derek raised his eyebrows slightly making Isaac's eyes widen slightly, "Or never. I'm good with never."

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Back in the woods, Argent drops an equipment bag on the ground in front of Scott, Isaac, Derek, Amara and Makena before kneeling to examine the numerous prints in the dirt. "You've been tracking them by print?" He asked and Amara shrugged slightly, "Trying to." She said.

"Then you've been wasting your time. The only creature on earth that can visually track footprints is man. And if you're not trained like me you have no idea that this print is Boyd's and these-" Argent said as he pointed at a footprint, "Are Cora's." Isaac said confidently.

"No, they're yours. You trampled Cora's when you first walked over here." Argent said and Isaac lifts his foot to back up then doesn't seem to know where to step making Amara quietly chuckle. "Listen, I know the four of you..." Argent said looking at Scott, Derek, Amara and Isaac, "Are focusing half your energy on resisting your own urges under the full moon, but that puts you at a severe disadvantage to Boyd and Cora, who have fully given in. They put the pedal to the floor where you three are barely hitting the speed limit."

"So what do we do."

"Focus on your sense of smell. Actual wolves are known to track their prey by up to a hundred miles a day by scent. A trained hunter can use scent to track them. If the wind is with them, wolves can track a scent by a distance of two miles, which means we can draw them to us... Or into a trap. Full moon does give us one advantage. They'll have a higher heat signature, which makes them easier to spot with infrared." Argent said as he tossed Derek some night vision goggles.

"Thanks but I've got my own." Derek said flashing his red eyes as he handed the goggles to Makena. "Just remember we're not hunting wild animals. Underneath those impulses are two intelligent human beings. Don't think they can't rely on that human side. It's suppressed but it's there. Reminding them how to mask their own scent. How to cover their tracks. How to survive." Argent explained.

Stepping toward the edge of the cliffside, Argent and the others look out to the brilliant lights of the town. "When was the last time you saw your sister?" Argent asked looking at Derek, "Not in years. I thought she died in the fire." Derek said.

"You feel like you have a lock on her scent?" Argent asked and Derek shook his head and Argent looked at Amara, "How about you?" He asked and she sighed. "I got a little bit of it from earlier but it's not enough. I have more of it when I'm in wolf form" She said and Argent nodded slightly, "Scott, how confident are you in your skills?" He asked.

"Honestly? Most of the time I'm trying not to think about all of the things I can smell." Scott said and Argent sighed, "All right, our real problem is when they breach the woods and hit the residential areas. Once they're past the high school they're right in the middle of Beacon Hills." Argent explained. "They're not going to kill everything they see, are they?" Isaac asked and Argent shook his head.

"No. But there's an important difference to recognize. Wolves hunt for food. At a certain point they get full. Boyd and Cora are hunting for the pleasure of the kill. For some primal, apex predatory satisfaction that comes from ripping a warm body to bloody shreds. And who knows when that need is satiated."

"We can't kill them." Amara said and her mother glanced at her, "What if we can't catch them?" She asked and Argent thought for a second. "Then maybe we just need to contain them." He turns back to the city below them, thinking. "There's no one in the school at night, is there?" He asked and Derek raised his eyebrows slightly, "You want to trap them?" Derek asked and Argent nodded.

"If there's somewhere with a strong enough door. No windows or access to the outside." Argent said, "What about the boiler room? It's one big steel door." Isaac suggested making them look at him.

"You're sure the school's empty?" Argent asked and Makena shrugged slightly "Should be. After everything that happened with Peter, no teacher is going to want to stay after hours at night." She said.

A few minutes later, Argent grabbed something and stabbed it into the ground. "These are ultrasonic emitters- it's one of the tools we use to corral Werewolves, pushing them into a direction we want them to run." Argent said before turning it on.

"It gives off a high-pitched frequency that only they can hear." Argent said, smirking in amusement when he looked up to see Isaac, Scott and Derek covering their ears in pain and Makena covering her daughter's ears. "God, no kidding!" Isaac groaned.

A couple minutes later Argent was passing them all done if the emitters, "These are gonna drive them to the school?" Amara asked as she took one and Argent nodded, "And then, it's up to you to get them into the basement."

"Does anyone else want to rethink the plan where we just, uh... kill them?" Isaac asked and Makena pinched his arm making him hiss in pain slightly while rubbing his arm. "It's going to work. It'll work."

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Amara stabbed an emitter into a tree before walking up to the school, watching as Scott flipped off a bus, stabbing an emitter into the ground. "That was so overly dramatic." Amara said while rolling her eyes as she walked past him before throwing her second emitter into the ground by the school sign.

"I'm not that dramatic." Scott said as he walked up to her and she raised her eyebrows, "Yeah, okay." Amara said before walking away making him follow her. They met up with Isaac before walking over to the school doors and opening them to revival the dark and empty hallways. The three of them looked at each other and nodded before running back, Isaac ran off in one direction while Scott and Amara stopped by Argent.

"Do you see that?" Argent asked making them follow his line of sight to see a firefly, "Yeah. It's a firefly." Scott said and Argent shook his head slightly. "No, no, I know, it..." Argent trailed off making Scott raise his eyebrows, "What?" He asked. "It's, uh... it's very unusual. The, uh, Californian fireflies aren't bioluminescent." Argent said and Scott looked confused making Amara sigh.

"They don't glow." She said and Scott furrowed his brows slightly, "Does that mean something?" He asked and Amara shrugged slightly before they heard a distant howl.

Isaac stood outside the school before hearing growling coming from behind him making him sigh. "Oh great..." He mumbled as he turned around to find Boyd and Cora standing there, growling at him. Isaac got ready for a fight but Argent drove up, honking his horn at them. They ran towards the school making Derek, who was standing in the hallway with Makena, turn to the doors.

Boyd and Cora ran up and looked at them before suddenly jumping up to the roof. "They're not going through the school..." Amara said and Scott nodded slightly, "They're going over it." He said before they ran over to Derek and Makena. "The back doors- someone has to get them open." Argent said and Derek and Makena nodded before running into the school.

"Someone has to drive them inside." Amara said and Argent nodded, "I'll go." He said while holding up a stun baton. "No, I'm faster." Isaac said before running off.

A little while later Boyd and Cora ran through the halls of the school before Derek suddenly shot out, slamming his sister into the lockers. Boyd stopped and turned to them as Derek shoved Cora to the ground. Boyd roared at him and Argent and Makena turned the corner, Argent holding up his stun baton. Scott jumped down the stairs while Amara walked up next to her mother.

Derek and Scott stepped forward as Boyd and Cora growled at them, "Come and get us." Derek said before he and Scott ran off making Boyd and Cors follow them. Makena glanced at her daughter and nodded making Amara quickly follow the two blood thirsty werewolves.

Scott and Derek ran down the stairs to the basement before opening up the boiler room and running in while Boyd and Cora ran after them while Amara stopped at the door.

Boyd and Cora slowly walked down the stairs of the boiler room before all of the sudden Derek and Scott blasted them with a fire extinguisher. "Come on!" Amara yelled making them drop the fire extinguishers, running back over to the door. The second they got through Amara shut the door and locked it.

They waited for a minute as the werewolves banged on the door before it got quiet. "Did that actually work?" Scott asked and Derek nodded slightly, "It worked." He said making Scott sigh in relief. Amara paused while she slightly turned her head as she focused her hearing.

"What are you hearing?" Derek asked and Amara furrowed her brows slightly, "Heartbeats..." She said and he raised his eyebrows slightly. "Both of 'em?" He asked and Scott focused for a second, "Actually... three of them." He said making Derek's eyes widen slightly before reaching for the door making Amara grab his arm.

"What are you doing?" She asked incredulously and he looked at her, "Close the door behind me and keep it shut." He said and she raised her eyebrows. "Are you crazy? You go in there alone, you're gonna have to kill them, or they kill you." She said and he nodded slightly.

"That's why I'm going in alone." He said before unlocking the door and quickly running into the boiler room. Scott and Amara glanced at each other before closing the door and locking it again.

They listened into all the gowls and tearing of flesh until Isaac called out to them. "Amara! Scott! Guys! The sun's coming up!" He yelled and ran over to the stairs of the basement to see Scott and Amara run into the boiler room making him quickly run after them.

They ran down the stairs to find Boyd and Cora passed out on the ground and Derek on his knees covered in slash marks breathing heavily. "There's a teacher... I'll take care of her. Get them out of here." Derek said weakly making them glance at each other before Scott and Isaac moved to get Boyd while Amara went to Cora.

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In the dimly lit morgue, Amara, Scott and Stiles look over the body of Heather, Stiles' old childhood friend who went missing, in front of them. "So Boyd and Cora might not have killed anyone?" Scott asked and Stiles shook his head slightly, "You're going to wish they did." Stiles said making Scott furrow his brows.

"Why?"

"I'm not totally sure yet, but that other girl who was out in the woods, Emily? They're eventually going to find her. She's one of them. Emily, Heather, the guy Lydia found at the pool. All three were virgins. And all of them are going to have the same three injuries. Strangled. Throat slashed. Head bashed in. It's called the three-fold death." Stiles explained and realization crossed over Amara features while Scott thought for a moment.

"So if they're not random killings, what are they?" He asked and Amara sighed, "They're Sacrifices." She said making them look at her and Stiles nodded.

"Human sacrifices."