𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙍𝙏𝙔 𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙀𝙀
ミ★ ( seven deadly sins, act three ) ★彡

BRAEDEN, PETER, DEREK AND LUCY MET WITH STILES, MALIA AND LIAM IN A WAREHOUSE NOT TOO FAR OUT OF TOWN. Braeden got out of the van and walked towards the teenagers. "How'd you get a prisoner transport van?" Stiles asked the mercenary.

"I'm a U.S. Marshall." Braeden answered, the badge still dangling around her neck.

Stiles' eyebrows furrowed as he remarked, "Yeah, I always thought that was just a cover."

Lucy walked over towards them. "You convinced your dad to go?" She asked the human boy who nervously rubbed the back of his neck as a response, giving Lucy the answer she needed.

Derek walked over towards them, his arm going around his soulmates waist, pulling her towards him as he pointed at Liam, "Are we really bringing him?" He asked.

"Are we really bringing him?" Stiles retorted as he pointed at Peter.

Peter placed his hands up in surrender. "We're bringing everyone that we can. And considering Scott and Kira were taken the night before a full moon, we should probably get going." He finished with a whisper.

"What's that mean?" Malia asked.

"If Kate took Scott back to the same temple that she took Derek, how do we know she's not planning to do the same thing to him?" Peter rhetorically asked.

"What, she wants to make him younger?" Liam questioned.

Lucy scratched her head. "Yeah, I'm not really following with that train of thought either." She wasn't sure why Peter thought that Kate would want to turn Scott younger, what would she do with a younger Scott?

"She could possibly want to take him back to when he wasn't a werewolf." Derek suggested and Lucy made a noise of realisation at the fact that his suggestion made more sense than what she was originally thinking.

"A werewolf can't steal a true alpha's power, but maybe a Nagual jaguar, with the power of Tezcatlipoca behind her... maybe she can." Peter theorised. He then exhaled, "So, if everyone is sufficiently freaked out, I say we get going."

"We can't." Stiles said. "Not without Lydia." Stiles explained that she was at the school currently and she said she would meet them at the warehouse but then went to call her to tell her to hurry up as if they wanted to get to the temple before the moon was at its highest, they needed to leave ASAP.

"I love Lydia, but she has a habit of being fashionably late at the worst times." Lucy spoke. "What the hell is she doing at the school anyway?"

Malia looked at the devil and held up Kira's katana. "We got Kira's sword, but we need something with a stronger scent. Lydia went to her a jacket out of her locker." The coyote explained.

Stiles walked over to them and explained that he had gotten no response from the strawberry blonde banshee. "If she has a car, she can catch up to us." Braeden said.

Peter pointed at the mercenary. "That's a good point. We can call her from the road."

"No. What if something happened? What if she's in trouble?" Stiles argued.

"Fine. You stay, you find her. We're gonna go on without you." Peter said stubbornly and walked towards the van.

"I can call Mason." Liam suggested. "He has a study group at school. Maybe he could look for her."

"Derek, look; he's adorable and a smart thinker." Lucy cooed with a hand over her heart as she looked at the beta werewolf. She then looked at her soulmate, slapping him lightly on the chest. "And you didn't want him to come along. Shame on you."

Derek rolled his eyes at her as Stiles sighed. "Okay, fine."

Everyone moved towards their vehicles, Stiles going towards Malia to ask if she would be okay with Peter as he would have to help Derek, Lucy and Liam in the van when Liam starts to become out of control because of the moon.

"Remember what we're dealing with here." Peter spoke up as he put on his jacket. "It's not just Kate, it's berserkers. You might see human eyes behind those skulls. Do not assume that there's any humanity left."

Lucy rolled her eyes at his dramatics. "Okay, dad." She said sarcastically as she wasn't scared of them and she felt that Peter was purposely trying to scare the rest of them.

Liam looked down and Peter smelt the fear radiating off of the beta werewolf's body. "Oh. This little one is terrified of them, aren't you?" He taunted. "Don't worry, my friend. It is that fear that will keep you alive."

Lucy placed her hand on Liam's shoulder. "Don't mind him, he's lost a few screws in his head in his lifetimes." She joked.

"A reminder to everyone." Peter called out. "You do not fight berserkers to survive, you fight to kill."

Lucy then hummed dreamily. "I love it when you speak my language." She said and walked towards the van, getting into the back along with Stiles, Liam and Derek.

Liam then called Mason immediately and asked if he could see if Lydia was still at the school. "Yeah, her car's here." Mason responded. "You want me to look around the school and see if I can find her?"

"Yes, please, Mason." Lucy called out with a smile. "Call us as soon as you find her." Lucy liked Mason, she could tell he was a sweet boy and she felt like him and Liam were the most adorable little things, much to Derek's dismay.

"Oh, hi, Lucy!" Mason said back happily. "And will do." They then hung up the phone.

As they were on the road, Derek began to cuff Liam to the seats. Liam checked the strength of it and looked up to the former alpha who pulled out the triskelion. "I brought something to help you." He said to Liam and handed it to him. "This has been with my family for centuries. It's a very powerful, supernatural talisman."

Both Stiles and Lucy gave each other a look knowing that it was absolutely not a very powerful, supernatural talisman like Derek was claiming, but said nothing otherwise it might not help Liam at all.

"We use it to teach betas how to control themselves on a full moon." Derek explained.

Derek then looked at Stiles and Lucy who were still looking at each other strangely before making a face at them to say something to Liam.

Stiles cleared his throat as he said, "Yes, it's very powerful."

Lucy nodded. "So very powerful." She agreed.

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It was night time and they were still driving when the moon began to take its toll on Liam. His hands shooting up, the cuffs clanking against the steel seats, making everyone in the back jolt from the sound.

Derek looked at Liam's hand as it clenched around the triskelion, his claws completely out. "Whatever you were gonna teach me..." He began to say, having to stop to control his heavy breathing, looking up as his eyes glowed gold and completely covered in sweat. "I think you better start."

Derek waited until Liam's eyes were back to normal before he began to explain. "Okay, Liam, are you with me?" He asked. "We have a mantra that we use. You repeat it, you focus on the words. It's like meditating. You say the words until you feel control coming back to you."

Liam winced largely and Stiles and Lucy shared a look of concern as Liam grunted out, "Okay! Okay! What are the words?"

"Okay, look at the triskelion. See the symbol? I have a tattoo on my back, it's the same thing. Each spiral means something." Derek began to explain.

"It's a nice tattoo on a nice back." Lucy commented as Stiles said in realisation, "Alpha, beta, omega."

Derek and Stiles both gave the devil the side eye at her irrelevant comment before the former alpha looked back at Liam. "It represents the idea that we can always rise to one and fall back to another. Betas can become alphas."

"Alphas can become betas." Stiles added remembering Derek becoming a beta after he gave his power to Cora to save her life.

"Can alphas become omegas?" Liam asked and Derek nodded in response.

"All you have to do is say the three words, and with each one, you tell yourself you're getting calmer, more in control." Derek instructed. "Go ahead."

"Alpha, beta—"

"Slower." Derek ordered.

"Alpha... Beta... Omega..." Liam repeated slower before grunting loudly from struggling to hold back and repeating it once more.

"Good. Say it again." Derek praised beta werewolf. "Remember, every time you say the words you're getting calmer."

Liam cracked his neck before trying it again and saying the mantra, only this time as he said it; he said it with a growl causing Stiles to back himself away from the werewolf.

"It doesn't sound like he's getting calmer." Lucy commented in a sing-song voice with a hint of worry in her tone as she remembered that she was the only one who would be able to hold Liam down and she worried how she would be able to protect Derek and Stiles from Liam in such a tight space.

"Say it again." Derek ignored his girlfriend's comment and continued to focus on the teenage boy in front of him.

"Derek, I don't think the powerful talisman self-control is working." Stiles added as he continued to back himself into the corner of the van and as far away as he could from Liam.

Liam began to groan out, his heavy breaths becoming heavier as the sounds of growls were carried along with them. He then looked up, his eyes glowing and growling out completely.

"Liam, say it again!" Derek continued. Liam then roared at Derek, trying to linger forward but the cuffs held him back, causing the van to slightly tip to the side from the power, Braeden struggling to keep the van straight.

"Liam!" Stiles yelled out.

The van continued to swerve as Liam tested the durability of the cuffs before finally breaking one off. Lucy immediately lunged and pinned Liam back against the van while he growled in her face so he couldn't try and reach forward again.

"What's going on back there?" Braeden called out, struggling to see through the barrier and not wanting to take her eyes off of the road for too long in the dark.

"I think we're gonna need to go a little faster!" Stiles remarked as he noticed Lucy struggling to keep Liam's claws away from her face.

"Keep going!" Derek ordered Braeden as he joined in to help Lucy hold Liam down.

"Scott owes us big time for helping him out with his homemade supernatural time-bomb!" Lucy snapped. "I would much rather switch positions with him right now!"

When Scott mentioned that Liam was an I.E.D. and she couldn't believe his luck when she realised that he had given the freshman boy supernatural strength and emotions added to an already incredibly explosively angry boy.

Liam roared in her face for her comment, "Yeah, yeah, yeah! We get it!" She snapped at Liam as she continued to hold him down.

Liam tried to lunge again, managing to snap the other cuff off the seat. "Hold him down!" Stiles yelled as Liam roared once again.

"I'm trying!" Lucy snapped at her best friend. "You want to try?"

"Liam!" Derek yelled at him, trying to get him to snap out of it.

"We're almost there!" Braeden told them from the driver's seat.

"Keep focusing!" Derek yelled at him again, while Lucy smacked away Liam's claws when he managed to break free of her grip.

"Derek, I don't think alpha, beta, omega is resonating with him." Stiles observed from the back.

"You think!?" Lucy sarcastically remarked as she pushed Liam back again once more. "Do we know any other mantras before I smack him unconscious?"

It took Stiles a moment to think of once before he got up off of his seat and inches closer towards the three of them. "Yeah. I do." He said. "Liam, what three things cannot long beach hidden?"

Liam only growled once again as he struggled against Lucy and Derek. "Liam! Look at me!" Stiles barked. "What three things cannot long be hidden? What three things?"

Liam looked around as he visibly began to grow calmer than he was a moment ago. "The sun..." He said with a small growl. "The moon... The truth." He managed to say, his eyes returning to his normal ones.

"Good. Say it again." Stiles said as he watched the claws that were close to his face that Lucy was holding.

"The sun, the moon... the truth." Liam panted.

"Guys?" Braeden called back.

Derek looked at Liam, noticing he had calmed down and shifted back. "We're okay." He responded to the mercenary.

"The sun, the moon, the truth." Liam repeated once more, completely shifted back and calm.

Stiles patted Derek's arm, looking accomplished as Lucy and Derek slumped back against each other, completely out of breath. Lucy looked at Liam and pointed at him. "You owe me a coke for that."

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