Amara's outfit:

Chapter Seventy-Two
🌒 Damnatio Memoriae 🌘

"This is from the relay station's security camera." Parrish said before handing Scott his phone making Amara look over Scott's shoulder. Both of their eyes widens as they watch a beast like creature bust out of the building and run after Hayden and Liam in the woods.

"That looked big." Scott said and Parrish nodded, "And too fast for anyone to get a good look at it." He said and Amara nodded slightly. "That's not fun." She mumbled before noticing the look on Scott's face, "You know what it is don't you?" She asked. "The last Chimera." He says as he looks back at the building.

Parrish leads the two inside the relay station, and they walk down the steps until they get to the ground floor where Makena was. They glanced around at all the power cables that were ripped apart and showering sparks onto the floor, and equipment and cabinets of all kinds smashed or knocked over.

"Hey, I found something." Makena said before leading them to the puddle of blood and water on the floor near the wall where the technician was killed the previous night and crouched next to it. She crouched down next to it while pulling out her small UV light from her utility belt.

She turned it on and shined it over the bloody puddle, revealing dark shadows of modified mercury before nodded slightly and glancing back at them. "It's mercury. Mercury means Chimera." Makena said and Parrish furrowed his brows, "But what was it doing here? Why come here and kill some random communications tech?" Parrish asked and Amara shrugged as Makena stood up.

"It might just like killing for the fun if it. Maybe it's just what it does." Amara said and Parrish's eyes widen slightly, "...That's terrifying." He mumbled. "Guys, how many bodies do you actually see when you dream about the Nemeton?" Scott asked and Parrish and Amara looked at each other before sighing.

"Everyone."

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Amara stood in front of Scott's own version of a crime board with a cocked eyebrows as he turned to her. "What do you think?" Scott asked and Amara pursed her lips and patted his shoulder, "I would suggest sticking with the vet plan." She said and he sighed.

"Also, you have a string attached to your sleeve." She said making him look down to see red yarn from the board stuck to his jacket. He pulled his arm back and the sound of papers falling made him close his eyes and sigh while Amara looked at him in amusement.

About half of the stuff on the board had fallen off making him sigh in frustration and pull the yarn off before looking over at Amara. "I'll help you pick it up." She said before they both crouched down and started picking the papers and push pins up.

Amara glanced up at Scott and squinted slightly before smaking the side of his head. "What was that for?" Scott asked as he rubbed the side of his head, "For what happened with Stiles and the whole killing thing. I'd punch you but I dont want to feel it." Amara said and he sighed and nodded. "Okay, I deserved that." He said and she nodded, "Yeah, you do." She said before sighing and shaking her head.

"Why did you just automatically believe Theo? I mean- after everyone who seemed good only for them to try to kill us... Why would you just trust him like that?" Amara asked and Scott sighed softly and shook his head. "I don't know... Maybe I was just hoping not everyone is trying to kill us." He said and she sighed and shrugged slightly,

"You need to realize that in this world, when you're a True Alpha theres always gonna be people trying to kill you. You have to be careful with who you trust, you've had plenty of examples." Amara said and Scott nodded slightly.

"And you can follow your 'no kill' yourself all you want, but you can't expect others to. People like Stiles, Lydia and Mason, they don't have the ability that people like us have. Sometimes, they might have to get blood on their hands to save their lives." Amara said as she handed Scott the stuff she picked up as he nodded slightly.

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Amara and Stiles walk into Scott's making Scott look up from cleaning his wound, "You still haven't healed?" Stiles asked. "Sometimes it just takes longer." Scott said and Amara raised her eyebrows, "Isn't that what you said when you weren't letting yourself heal when we thought Derek fell to his death?" Amara asked.

"What are you doing here?" Scott asked, looking at Stiles, "Uh... you heard about the guy who got killed out at the communication towers, right? I think I may have figured something out.." Stiles said and Scott looked at him shocked. "What, you want my help?" Scott asked and Stiles looked at him awkwardly for a moment while Amara leaned against the door frame.

"Yeah, well... You said you can find the clues that I can't. Here, take a look." Stiles said and held his phone out to show the video, "This is when the technician first arrived. You see him going in? Then, Deputy Clark goes in. Then, something really big and really fast comes charging out, and now comes Clark. Eventually, the technician's body is carried out by paramedics." Stiles explained and Scott just looked confused.

"Okay... What am I missing?"

"Only two people go in." Amara said and Stiles nodded, "And three people come out. I checked all the footage- not a single person enters that building before the technician the entire day. So, where does that something really big and really fast come from?" Stiles asked making Scott's eyes widen in realization.

"There's another way in."

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"Okay... You see that?" Stiles asked as the three of them look at the puddle of blood at the relay station. "I see blood." Scott said and Stiles shined the flashlight over to the wall, "Look where it leads to." Stiles said and that's when the blood went behind a fallen over metal cabinet.

Scott goes over to push the cabinet away to get a better look but struggles due to still being hurt. Stiles moved over to the opposite side while Amara crouched down next to Scott making him look at Stiles in shock for a moment. Stiles nods at him slightly before they all work together to lift it up.

Turning around they find metal grate which has been forcefully ripped open, and which seems to lead to a sublevel via a ladder. Amara sighed and she looked down, "I'm guessing we have to go down there?" She asked and Scott and Stiles glanced at each other before nodding making her sigh again, "Yay..." She trailed off.

The three of them found themselves in the tunnels underneath the telecommunication towers, which probably connects to the tunnels under the water treatment plant. Stiles shines a blacklight across the floor to find a bunch of dark shadows from mercury making them slowly start to follow it.

They walk up to a hole in the wall and stop as they see a message on the ground that seems to have been written in mercury. "DAMNATIO MEMORIAE"

"What is that?" Scott asks and Amara tilted her head slightly, "Latin." She said as Scott pulls out his phone and holds it up. "Hold up that light- I'm gonna get a picture of it." Scott says but frowns when the flashlight dips low enough that he can no longer see the message. "Stiles, hold the light still-"

Suddenly, Stiles groan as he falls to the floor making Scott and Amara turn to see a very alive Tracy, partially transformed with her claws and fangs out, has paralyzed him with her Kanima venom. "Why am I seeing dead people?" Amara muttered and Tracy hissed and snarls as she lunges for Amara, who quickly dodges while Josh runs up to Scott.

Tracy swiped at Amara making Amara move to the side, grabbing Tracy's wrist. She twisted Tracy's arm around her back before kicking her legs out from under her making Tracy fall to the ground. Tracy just hiss before jumping up, swiping at Amara but she just moved back while slipping her outer shirt off.

Tracy ran ar Amara but Amara just wrapped her shirt around around Tracy's neck before yanking her back into the wall. Amara smirked as Tracy fell to the ground while Amara put the shirt back on while glancing over to see Scott grab Josh by the shirt. Josh brought his hand up but before he could so anything his arm suddenly locked up.

Soon enough his whole body stared locking up before he fell to the ground, revealing Amara standing there with Kanima venom on her finger. "Sucks doesn't it?" Stiles asked as Josh fell down next to him.

Scott and Amara looked at each other for a moment before slowly turning to the wall. Scott growled while Amara just glared and suddenly Corey appeared right where the were looking.

"Okay!" Someone yelled making them look over to see Theo. Amara growled under her breath and went to walk over to him but Scott grabbed her arm. "Maybe they're not ready to take on an two Alphas. Especially ones that can smell." Theo said, giving Corey an unimpressed look.

"He's got fangs! And she has fangs and fire powers!"

"What did you do?" Scott asked looking at the Chimeras in shock, "I found some new friends. I don't take rejection well." Theo said making Amara raised her eyebrows. "You are the most pathetically sad person I have ever met." She said with an annoyed but bored tone in her voice.

Theo smirked at her for a moment as he walked through the hole and looked down at Stiles, "Hey, Theo!" Stiles said sarcastically. "Stiles." Theo said and then looked down at the words on the ground before stopping his food, breaking the concrete making the words go away.

"You're going to leave here thinking that you need to worry about me... But you're wrong. We're actually back on the same side." Theo said making Amara raise her eyebrows, "Am I in some alternate reality or something? I can't recall a time where we were on the same side." She said but he just ignored her and pointed up.

"Because that thing? That's what we need to worry about. Your pack, and mine. We're gonna go back to school and pretend like we're normal teenagers, but at night, we're going to be fighting for our lives."

"What is it?" Stiles asked, "It's not a Chimera." Theo said and Scott slightly shook his head. "But it's just a kid underneath- someone like us." Scott said and Theo shook his head, "Not anymore more." He said and turned to leave.

As Theo and his pack walked away, Amara walked over to Stiles and helped him lean against the wall and sits next to him, Scott sitting on the other side of Stiles. "He knew what it meant, and I can't remember the words..." Scott said as he glanced back at the ground Theo broke and Amara sighed.

"Damnatio memoriae. It means condemnation of memory." Amara said making them look at her shocked and she just shrugged, "Lydia taught me Latin during the summer. But- I think it also means that whatever the Dread Doctors created, whatever this last Chimera really is? It's not something new. It's something old- really old." She explained making Scott's eyes widen.

"So, they didn't create a new creature..." Scott trailed off as Stiles nodded slightly, "They resurrected one." He said and Amara nodded.

"We need help. If Theo's got his own pack now, then we need ours. We have to get the others back." Scott said as he drew a small circle into the dust on the ground while Stiles scoffed and looked at him crazy. "The others? You mean Kira, who's currently battling a homicidal Fox spirit inside of her? Malia, who isn't even speaking to any of us? Lydia, who's stuck in Eichen House? And Liam, who almost killed you?" He asked and Scott smiled softly.

"Also known as our best friends." Scott said and Stiles looked over at Amara who nodded. "Okay. How?" Stiles asked as he looked back over at Scott, "One by one." He said then give Stiles an expectant expression. After a moment, Stiles realizes what Scott wants him to do and gives him a look, "You're not seriously going to make me do it...?"

"You're part of the pack, right?"

"Okay." Stiles sighed, knowing that Scott is right once again, and uses all of his newfound mobility to stretch out his arm so he can finish the McCall Pack symbol by drawing a bigger circle around the smaller one Scott drew. Once it's done, Stiles looks at Scott, who looks pleased while Amara smiled softly.

"Okay. We need to find Kira." Scott says as he rises to his feet before pulling Stiles up to his, putting Stiles' arm around his shoulder. Amara stood up and put Stiles's other arm around her shoulders before they started walking out. After a moment, Stiles groans softly, "I still hate that tattoo. I can't believe Amara got a matching on" He said making Scott and Amara both laugh.

"I know."