Risen

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The four of them walked down the stairs, to the basement of the school, Nova growling lowly as her back met with one of the walls,

"Someone turn that shit off" anger in her voice

The twins and Scott turned toward the left, seeing a figure standing at the end of the hall, an emitter in their hand. The figure turned around, revealing Stiles,

"Okay" he said, raising his hands "I know what you guys are thinking, but it's me. I swear to god, it's me"

Ethan and Aiden didn't listen, their eyes turning blue in color as their fangs and claws extended, threatening growls emitting from them. Without hesitation, the twins ran toward Stiles, Nova letting out a relieved breath when the emitter turned off, the object falling to the floor as one Ethan held Stiles in the air by his neck,

"Wait, stop!" Scott shouted, running toward them

Nova did the same, pulling one of the twins away and throwing him against a small set of lockers,

"I said, stop!" The true alpha ordered

Aiden turned around, growling at Scott, which only caused his eyes to turn red, his fangs extending as he let out a louder growl, which caused the other werewolf to back up and lower his gaze, submitting to the alpha. Their attention turned to Stiles,

"Scott, Nova, it's me" he said "I swear, it's me. I don't know where I've been the last two days or what I've been doing, but this is me. I promise"

"Do you know what happened at the hospital?" Ethan asked

"I know more than that" nodding slightly, walking to a bag, crouching down "you see this?" holding up folded paper "it's a blueprint of the hospitals electrical wiring" unfolding it and laying it out "you see all these markings in red? That's my handwriting" Scott crouching down next to him "I know I did this. I caused the accident. And everything in this bag, it's all stuff that could be part of something bigger"

". . What the hell have you been up to? " Ethan asked, pulling out an electrical saw

"I think something worse" he replied ". . a lot worse"

Nova looked around for a moment, spotting a table at the end of the hall, which caused her to walk over to it, grasping the edges and pulling it over to them, causing Scott to lift the bag and put it on top of the table. Ethan and Aiden opened the bag the rest of the way, setting the blueprint next to it, followed by duck tape, chains, rope, cord,

"What the hell were you doing?" Aiden asked "building a Terminator?"

"Thank you for that" Stiles said sarcastically

"This is a map" Nova informed, looking down at the paper in her hands

She laid it out on the table, looking at the red line drawn into it, following a trail,

"This is the cross country trail" following it with her finger "this is the Tate car" lightly tapping on the paper

"Where Malia Tate's family died" Scott added

"You mean that's where her father put the steel-jawed traps" Stiles said

". . We're running today" Nova said, looking at the boys

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Since she was faster than the werewolves, Nova ran all the way to the trail, easily joining the other students as if she was with them the entire time. Even though Coach knew she wasn't, because no one in the whole school at Nova's colored hair, but he let it slide since she was his favorite student. The redhead ran with ease, passing the other students without even losing her breath, passing Danny, even though he groaned slightly in annoyance. She removed her lighter from her pocket, flicking it open and sparking a flame, tossing it up and catching a fireball, throwing it toward Kira, purposely hitting the tree in front of her to get her attention. Catching up to her, she held out an arm to prevent her from going further, Aiden, Ethan, Scott and Stiles catching up,

"Stop!" Stiles exclaimed "everybody stop!"

The students stopped running, watching as Stiles looked at the ground, moving a few leaves out of the way before finding a chain. He hesitantly lifted the linked metal, pulling on it, which led to nothing, Coach clapping his hands,

"Congratulations, Stilinski" sarcasm in his voice "you found a length of chain" dropping his hands "could somebody now please tell me what the hell's going on?"

"Hey, coach!" Scott yelled

But it was too late, Coach's foot hit a tripwire, an arrow moving past them and landing in his torso, the other students gasping at the sight, Kira covering her mouth with her hands,

"Oh, crap" he muttered

He fell to the ground, the students gathering around him as Nova pulled her phone from her pocket, quickly dialing the authorities, coach's screams filling the air,

"Get it out of me!" He shouted "get it out of me! Get it out of me! Get it out of me! Oh, my god, I'm going to die! Get it out of me! I'm going to die!"

"Coach, you're not going to die" Stiles replied

"I'm going to die!" He screamed

Blood looked around his wound, Stiles adding pressure to it,

"Do not pull it out!" Nova ordered, crouching down next to him "Coach, listen to me" causing him to look toward her "that is the only thing slowing your blood down. The minute we pull it out, the more blood that flows. The more blood that flows, the greater the risk of actually dieing. So do us all a favor and shut up!"

"Get back!" Aiden shouted "give him some room! Get back!"

He waved the other students away, which caused them to do as instructed, Scott taking coach's hand, his veins turning black as he took his pain. Coach's eyes fluttered closed as his head fell to the side,

"He just passed out" Nova assured

Stiles removed his hands from the wound, looking at them as they were covered in blood while trembling,

"I could have killed him" he said "I could have killed him, right? What if it was his head or his throat?"

"But it wasn't" Scott replied "and he's going to be alright"

". . I think I just heard an ambulance coming" Aiden informed

"And my dad" Stiles said

Nova stood straight, running in the direction of the sirens, waving her hands and pointing to where Coach lay.

X

Coach was loaded into the ambulance, Nova stood by the jeep, watching as Sheriff Stilinski held onto his son, relieved that he was okay.

"Scott, you better come look at this" Ethan spoke up

The true alpha turned at the sound of the request, Nova doing the same, the two of them walking toward the back of the jeep where Ethan was looking through another bag, pulling out a roll of wrapping paper.

"This is the same wrapping paper we used for Coach's birthday present" Scott informed

"Wasn't that William Barrow's thing?" Ethan asked "a bomb made from nails and bolts all wrapped in a birthday present? Where did it go off?"

". . On a school bus" Nova replied