[08] It's called the Kanima
Kelsey's POV
The game started and everyone is cheering on their teams. The Cyclones are loosing to the Beavers! How the holy hell did that happen? If it wasn't for Eddie Abramowitz, we'd be winning. I think Scott could take him, but Gerard is sitting in the crowd so he can't do anything with his wolf powers. Damn that evil bald hunter.
During the game, I notice Allison getting Gerard's keys from his jacket that she has wrapped around her. This is where Sties comes in, Allison passes the keys to Stiles who then leaves the game. Okay, everything is going to plan.
"Kelsey." A boy calls from behind. It's Matt.
I smile as I turn round to face Matt. "Oh hey." Wait, why is he wearing a lacrosse jersey with his name on? He plays lacrosse? Well damn, who knew cute nerds could be into sports. "Would you mind if I took some pictures of you? It's for art, I'm doing portraits for my final project." Matt asks holding his camera in his hands.
Hmm, weird. "Uh sure." I look into the camera and smile as the flash goes off a couple of times. "Thanks, I'll send you them if you want."
"Okay, so do you need my email or phone number for that?"
"Phone number is fine. Here." Matt says as he passes his phone to me. I put in my digits before giving his phone back. If these photos come out good, maybe I'll put it in a frame for mom or something. "Thanks, see you later." Matt smiles before waking away. That was defiantly weird. Oh well, at least he's starting on his art project, unlike me.
As I'm about to sit down, I revive a text:
From: Erica
Meet me inside the school, we need to talk xx
Oh god, that sounds serious. I hope I haven't done anything wrong. Maybe it's about the other day when I accidentally smudged chocolate into her skirt, it could be when I set her favourite pink sparkly pencil on fire in chemistry the other day. Or maybe it's when I accidentally dropped her iPod in the sink, god in such a klutz. I hope she doesn't hold a grudge. Instead of replying to the text, I decide to just meet her there.
A few minutes later, I enter the school. "Erica." I call, looking down the dark empty corridor. I hate being in the school at night, it reminds me of when we got trapped by Derek's psychotic uncle. "Hey." Erica smiles before guesting me to follow her. Okay, maybe she's not mad at me. Maybe she just wants to talk about boys or something.
A few minutes later, we make out entrance in the pool room. Why did we come here? "Kelsey, it's nice of you to join us." Derek's voice says. As I walk in more, I notice Stiles is here to. What's he doing here? "What's going on?" I ask confused.
"What did you see at the mechanics garage?" Derek asked as he picked up a basketball from the ground. Erica went to stand next to Derek, as it went next to Stiles.
"Uh, serval alarming EPA violations that I'm seriously considering reporting."
Derek looked at Stiles disappointed with his answer, before digging his claws into the basketball. Which now looks like a deflated balloon. "Holy god." Stiles let out.
"Let's try that again, what did you seen." Derek asked, before turning to me.
"The thing was...like a lizard, I guess." I mention looking at Stiles, who gave me a 'what-are-you-looking-at-me-for' look. "Alright, alright. It's skin was dark, kind of patterned, I think I actually saw scales. Is that enough?"
Derek just stood there looking at us.
"Ugh, um alright, eyes. They were yellowish and uh, slitted. It has a lot of teeth, oh and it had a tail too. Are we good?" Stiles finished. Derek and Erica began looking above us, they're faces looked mortally terrified. "What?" Stiles asked. "Wait, have you seen it? You have this look on your faces like you know exactly what we're talking about." He continued.
I follow Derek and Erica's eyes to see what they were staring at, which is when I regretted it. We're going to die. It's going to kill us. The lizard thing began moving, which is not a good thing. Stiles turned around slowly, before grabbing my arm and backing away from it.
Derek let out a growl as he bent down to try and scare it. But instead of scarring it away, the creature returned the growl before jumping down and knocking Erica into the wall. "Erica!" I shout, but she doesn't get up.
Derek pushed Stiles and I, moving us behind him. "Run!" Derek yelled.
When Derek turned round, the creature slashed the back of Derek's neck. "Derek, your neck." I cried. He moved his hand to the cut on the back of his neck before he started to loose his balance. That thing paralysed Derek. How is this thing stronger than Derek. This can't be right, what the hell is it?
Stiles and I moved towards Derek's weak body as he was about to fall to the ground. We each grabbed Derek's arms and wrapped them around our necks as be tried to hurry away.
"Call Scott!" Derek and I yelled.
Stiles began rushing through his pockets as he looked for his phone. Come on Stiles. Hurry! Stiles dropped the phone on the floor and bent down to pick it up, which is when Derek and I fell into the pool, making a big splash as we hit the water. "Stiles!" I shouted before the water covered my head.
Derek and I were sinking to the bottom of the pool. I tried to pull Derek up, but he was too heavy. I can't let him drown. I quickly gripped onto Derek's shirt so I wouldn't loose him, before pushing him up. I heard Stiles dive in the water as he grabbed both Derek and I up from the water.
***
What does this thing want with us. I'm tried of holding Derek up, he's too heavy. But I can't let him go, if I do he'll drown. I just want to get out of here. My fingers have already gone wrinkly, my clothes are soaked, my phone probably dropped out and broke when Derek dragged me in here. Thank god I put on my waterproof mascara, otherwise I would've looked a complete and utter piece of shit.
"Call Scott, you need him to get here now." Derek tells us.
"Derek the phone is on the floor, which is outside of the pool where the fricking homicidal lizard is creeping around." I say looking around for the creature, which is no where to be seen. "Well, you need to get me out of here before I drown."
"You're worried about drowning?" Stiles questioned. "Did you not notice the thing out there with multiple rows of razor sharp teeth?"
"Did you notice that I'm paralyzed from the neck down in eight feet of water?" Derek yelled back. Well, he does have a point.
"Actually, it's only seven feet of water," Stiles announced, causing myself and Derek to glare at him. "Stiles, not helping," I say as I spot the creature come into sight. Great it's coming closer to the pool. "It's back."
The spineless baby dinosaur lingers around the pool, like it's waiting for something. It leans forwards, putting one of its claws in the water. It hissed before immediately jumping it's self away from the water like when someone burns themselves while cooking. It's like I can't swim, and it's afraid of water.
"Did you see that? I don't think it can swim."
***
It's gone passed two hours and Stiles and I are still holding Derek in the water. I can barely hold myself let alone Derek. "We need to get him out of here." Stiles breathed. "No shit Sherlock." I respond annoyed. God, I just want to go home, make myself a hot chocolate, with lots of cream and those cute mini marshmallows on top. Wrap myself up like a burrito, while having a Harry Potter movie marathon and cuddling up to my teddy bear, Tobias.
"We need Scott." Derek tells us again. Stiles began looking in the direction of his phone. "I can get it." He tell me.
"I can't hold Derek by my self." I cried. "It's just for a couple of seconds." He replied. Is he serious, Derek's death will be in my hands. "Oh no you don't." Derek tells Stiles.
"Will you just trust me for five seconds?" Stiles yelled at the alpha. "I've kinda been the one keeping you alive."
Derek glares at Stiles. "Yeah and when the paralysis wears off, who's going to be able to fight him, me or you two?" Derek replied. Well, I know Stiles and I defiantly can't fight him, so I guess Derek it's right. Again. "Oh so that's why we've been holding you up for the past two hours?"
"Stiles, surely it won't stay any longer, can't we just wait for it to leave. Derek's right, we can't fight it." I say but Stiles ignores me.
"You don't trust me, I don't trust you. You need me to survive, which is why you are not going to let me go." Stiles sighed, looking at both of us for a second, before letting Derek out of his grip and putting all his weight on me. Great, just great. Stiles manages to get out of the pool while I slowing sink deeper into the water along with Derek.
Gagging for air, I desperately try to pull my body to surface but the weight of Derek is only pulling me down. The only thing I can do is let Derek go. My eyes start clouding up, I feel myself start to cry as I loosen my grip.
I'm sorry Derek.
I rush to the top as I quickly gasp for air before looking down at Derek. Derek tried to push his arms and legs but he could find no leverage, for all he knew he was pushing himself further down. Tiny bubbles leave Derek's mouth as his muscles relax, he was oddly calm for a moment.
No, no, no! He can't die, he's Derek fricking Hale for gods sake. He's a survivor. I won't let him die.
I aggressively claw at the water as I swim towards Derek's helpless body. I grab his waist and use every bit of my strength to pull him up.
I knew I reached the surface again when the cold air hit my face. "Derek, I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." I cry. Derek turns his head to face me and lightly smiles.
"I-It's fine, y-you had to." Derek says between breaths. Thank god he's alive.
Derek and I turned to face Stiles as he slowly swam towards us. "He hung up."
"I'm going to kill him if we make it out alive!" I yell. Dammit Scott! How much longer do I have to stay in this fricking pool! Stiles grabbed the other side Derek as I tightened my grip. "I don't think I can hold you up any longer." Stiles panted.
"We need to hold onto something." I added.
"Kelsey, the handles." Stiles said looking over to the diving area. Slowly, Stiles and I tried our best to swim over it the diving board. We finally it to the diving area, and reach out hands out to the handles but it was too slippery to hold, which is when all three of our heads started to sink under the water.
After what seemed like seconds, we were being pulled out the swimming pool. Oh great, the teenaged mutant ninja turtle has decided to eat us now.
We are gently put on the ground and I notice Derek has started to move again. Well I guess that's a good thing but I could've at least done that earlier. That's when I see my brother in full wolf mode. Both Scott and ninja turtle growl at each other before throwing punches.
Scott is thrown by the creature into a giant mirror hung on the wall, which then shatters into pieces. Scott quickly got up, holding a part of the broken mirror and held it up as the lizard come towards him.
The creature looked at the mirror to see it's reflection. It then let's out a hiss before slivering up the wall towards the ceiling and out the skylight, making the glass break as it exited. What the hell was that all about?
***
Well it turns out, the bestiary wasn't an old tatty leather bound book, it was in fact just a recipe book. But Scott did find the flash drive, which was off Gerald's key ring. So we are now looking on the laptop screen to find out what this creature this, but it's not much help because it's all in a different language.
"Is that even a language?" Stiles asked. "I think it's in Latin." I say, looking at the text on the screen. "Of course this things in a freaking dead language, beautiful. Just freaking beautiful." Stiles rambled.
"How the hell are we supposed to figure out what this thing even is?" Scott moaned, as he continued to click on more pages that were no use of helping us anymore than the other pages.
"It's called the Kanima," Derek's voices says from behind. I turn my head to see Derek sat going next to Erica who is alive and well.
I smile in her direction which she returns. "You knew this whole time." Stiles looks at Derek annoyed.
"Only when it was scared at its own reflection." Derek replied. "It doesn't know what it is?" I asked. How can it be confused and scared about what it is? "Or who." Derek adds.
"Anything else we should know?"
"I only know bits and pieces, stories, rumors." Derek replied. "But it's like us?" Scott questioned.
"A shape shifter, yes," Derek started. "But...but it's not right...like a-"
"An abomination." Stiles spoke causing Derek to nod his head before turning round to leave.
"Wait, that clearly isn't the last time we're going to be seeing that thing. It's already killed people. As much as it pains me to say this, if we want to get rid of it, we need to work together," My brother started, making Derek and Erica stop in their tracks and turn back round.
"Maybe even tell the Argents." What? Is he messing with us. I don't trust the Argents. Well, except Allison...maybe.
"You trust them?" Derek snapped.
"Nobody trusts anyone! That's the problem. While we're here, arguing about whose on what side, there's something scarier, stronger and faster than any of us and it's killing people! And we still don't know anything about it!" Whoa, someone's on their man period, if that's even a thing. I don't think men bleed out of that area...unless it's being ripped off or something. Oh well, it's a thing now. I declare men have periods, and if not, women shall rip off their penis's.........okay I'm thinking a little too violently and totally off topic......I need help......
Derek stood there, glaring at my brother. "I know one thing; when I find it, I'm going to kill it."
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