chapter fifteen, THE RISE OF THE PHOENIX

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Noah Hall

The truck starts to slow and I look between the others in confusion. I look out the window and realized,
  we arrive at the church before my mom could elaborate to any of us on what she meant. We all quickly get out and check with each other that we're alright.

"I can't believe I did it" Liam laughs as we get out. "For a minute I thought I was going to tear you two apart" he says to Stiles and Derek.

"And you wouldn't have torn her up?" Stiles spits. "Hell no, you saw her eyes. Fuck that." Liam says and shakes his head. I slightly laugh and turn to my mom.

"After this is over, we will have that talk mom." I say and hug her tightly. "I'm proud of you, you got through the first part." She whispers. "First part?" I ask and we pull away.

"The Phoenix has many transformations leading to its final destination, the full moon was only the first part, you need to use your power to finish it." She explains.

"What power? I really don't understand." I state. She holds my shoulders and looks me in the eyes. "You are no longer a beta Noah, you're no longer a werewolf." She says.

I furrow my brows and I look down at my hands. "But why?" I ask and look back up at her. "I'll explain it to you after we save Scott and Kira, right after I give you a hug and tell you it's all over." She says. I nod and smile.

I turn back to the others and Derek looks at Liam and I "do you two think you can stay in control inside?" He asks. I nod and so does Liam.

"We might actually be able to do this" Stiles says with a small grin. Derek turns around and all of our faces drop when he's suddenly picked up.

A berserker stands before us and we all try and help Derek.

My mom and I flare out our claws and lunge towards it. This time feel different, my claws don't feel like my claws, my body doesn't feel like my body, and I feel a boost of energy racing through me.

I jump into the air and reach my hand up, smash my palm into the berserkers chest and it flies backwards throwing a charge of air into everyone face. I land on my feet and lift my head up.

I turn to the others and their all silent. I reach my hand out for Derek and help him up.
  "I don't know what that was, but we need more of it." Stiles says with a thumbs up. I smile and nod.

I turn my head when the smell of blood rushes to my sense. I look at Derek and see him holding his side.
  He falls back to the ground and the others rush towards him.

"Derek?" I whisper and help him hold his side. "I'm okay." He breaths and leans against a broken wall.

"How bad is it?" Peter asks from behind me. I can see the worried look on his face and it seems genuine.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, I swear. Go get Scott." He begs. Braeden sits by his side and I slowly get up.
"Just find him. I'll be right behind you. I swear. Go!" He explains loudly.

"I'll stay with them." My mom states, I nod and squeeze her hand before letting go and standing next to Liam.

We all pause hesitantly and look at Derek one last time before going inside. Peter runs in first and we all follow.

Right before I enter I look back at my mom and she gives me a warm smile, I can smell her perfume on my jacket from our hug, it's comforting knowing apart of her will be with me during whatever is going to happen down there.

We all walk in and Stiles turns his flashlight on.
   We slowly make our way down to the coves and stay close to each other. As we walk down a set of stairs that seem to last forever, I feel Liam hold my hand. Our fingers link and I give him a reassuring smile.

"Careful where you step" Peter warns as we walk. "Do you guys smell that?" Liam asks. "It smells like death." I state and squint my nose.

Once we reach the coves we all start to run through what seems to me a maze of tunnels, each of us follow Peter and suddenly he stops making us run into each other. "Stop, stop, stop" he says.
  Liam smashes into my back and I smash into Malias.

I glare at Peter and he holds his hands out in front of him. "We gotta figure out where we are." He breaths. "Then we have figure out how to find Scott and Kira." He explains.
  We all nod in agreement.

Stiles phone starts to ring and he looks down at it confused "how do I even have service?" He mumbles. He answers it and walks towards the wall.
  Peter rolls his eyes and places his hands on his hips.

"Hi dad?" He says and covers his ear. "Okay dad, I know you're angry" he states. I can hear his dad screaming through the phone and I'm not even trying to listen.

"When I get back you can ground me." He groans. He looks back at us and sighs.

"Dad I need a favor. Go to the school and find Lydia and Mason. Neither of them are answering. I don't know what I'm doing dad, I'm just trying to save my friends." Stiles breaths and places his hand in his hair.

"Dad it's probably one of the berserkers, at the school, you want want to take some extra firepower" Stiles explains.

He hangs up and turns back to us. "What's the plan Peter, you seem to know more about this than any of us?" Stiles says.

"Duck!" Malia screams and grabs Liam and I. I see a berserker running towards us and we all sprint down the tunnel.

We all scream as we run and try and get further away from the sprinting beast. "What the hell?" Liam screeches in a high pitched voice.

We run into the large room and Malia stops. We all hide behind pillars and Malia turns to Stiles. She throws him Kira's sword and nods. "Go find them." She tells him.

Stiles runs and disappears down another tunnel. We all turn and look at the berserker who's heading right for us.

"Noah, it might be time to let happen whatever your mom was telling you about. Whatever you did on that roof" Liam states.

"I don't know what to do. I don't even know what I am." I sob. "Just get really, really angry Noah." Peter explains.

Malia ducks behind a pillar and I nod. The berserker heads right for me and I close my eyes tightly. I slowly open my eyes after a moment when I don't feel anything.

When my eyes open I'm standing above the berserker, my feet are above the ground and a bright purple light surrounds me. I squint my eyes as I look before me and I sigh in relief. The berserker hits the aura around me and falls backwards, almost like it hit a shield.

The purple hue starts to fade and I drop to the floor, I feel a rush of power go towards my hands, just like it did on the roof and I smash my hand into its chest like I did outside.

The berserker falls to the ground and Peter and Malia help me attack it. Liam comes up behind me and slashes it's chest.

I look down at my hands and see purple streams of, almost what looks like lighting running around my fingers.

I lift my hands and place them on the berserker, the berserker starts to shake and I grin. This is working, whatever I'm doing. It's working.
   "You're doing it Noah!" Liam yells.

I smile and suddenly my hands stop glowing, I feel a sharp pain in my side and look down. I see the berserkers sharp fist in my gut and I walk backwards pulling it out of me as I do.

I groan in pain and they continue to try and keep it down. The berserker stands up and throws Malia into a pillar, it quickly turns and does the same to Liam, throwing him next to me.

I reach my bloody hand out to him, and he takes it. "You okay?" I ask quickly he nods and looks down at my side. "I'm fine, it's healing quickly" I state.

More quickly than usual actually. I've never felt this good before.

I spirit towards it again hoping whatever my hands did before do again but nothing comes out, my eyes widen and I look up in fear. The berserker hits me again and I fly backwards.

I stand up and groan. I hold my side in pain as the others go to hit it again. Peter pulls it's sharp fist from its hand and gives it to Malia. "Smash it right in the face" He yells.

I stand up and help them hold the berserker down. Malia lifts her hand in the air and starts to move the sharp object towards its face.

"Stop!" I hear behind me. We all turn and see Stiles with Kira. "Its Scott. It's Scott." He yells.
  I furrow my brows and turn to the berserker.
I look behind it's mask, really look, and see Scott's familiar eyes. The eyes of my childhood best friend.

Scott reaches for Liam and throws him against the wall. He holds his hands around his neck and Liam gaps for air as he tries to push Scott off of himself.

"No!" I scream.

"Scott" Liam breaths through a shaky breath. "Please, it's me. It's Liam" he gags.
   Scott smashes him against the wall again and Liam grunts. He raises his clawed fist up in the air and Liam's face drops. "Scott, Scott Listen, listen" Liam begs.

"You're not a monster!" Liam cries, I watch as tears fall down his cheek. I feel helpless as my feet are frozen still. "You're a werewolf! Like me." Liam adds.

His words hits me, he repeated the same ones Scott told him, the night of his first full moon. Scott lowers his fist and he slowly lowers Liam. I sigh in relief and when Scott steps away from him I sprint to Liam. I hold him closely to me and wrap my arms around his head. "You're okay?" I breath.

He nods and holds me back. "I'm ok."
   I pull away from him and stand between him and Scott. We all watch intensely as Scott falls to the ground. His eyes start to glow red and his skull mask starts to crack.

I squint my eyes as a bright light comes from between the cracks of the mask. He pulls the wardrobe that's on him, off of him and grunts in pain as he moves. He growls loudly and slowly turns his head to Peter. I feel anger radiating off of Scott, anger I didn't know Scott had.

"You!" He groans. Malia looks behind her and at Peter, then slowly steps away from him. I see a grin pull on his lips and I glare at him.

What did he do now?

"The only one who knew as much as Argent about the berserkers. About the Nagual. You taught Kate. You helped her." Scott claims with a loud growl.

"I knew it." I mumble. Peter lightly laughs and shakes his head. "All for power." Scott scoffs. "For my family's power." Peter corrects. "To be rightfully inherited by me." He bellows.

"Not to be usurped by some idiot teenage boy." Peter growls. "So incorruptible he won't shed the blood of his enemies even when justified."
  I roll my eyes and shake my head. I knew his wanting to save Scott and Kira was too good to be true. He's a liar. A murderer. And that will never change.

"You don't deserve your power." Peter growls. His eyes starts to glow and his face transforms. Malia lunges towards him but Peter throws her into the wall. She slowly falls down it and groans in pain.

"I'm sorry sweetheart, we'll talk about this later" he says to her. Liam and Scott flare their claws and rush towards him.

Stiles rushes over to Malia and helps her up.

Kira holds her sword out and follows Liam and Scott. I watch as he hits them over and over again. My anger is rising as I watch them get hurt until they can barley continue.

I sigh and look down at my hands. I can feel my werewolf side still in me, I know I can change, but there's another part of me I've never felt before. I part that's telling me to choose it instead.

Peter lifts a large price of wood up in the air and throws it at Liam. I quickly rush in front of him and the purple force field shows up again protecting him and I from it.

I lift my hand up and push it outwards, a gust of wind blows Peter to the ground. I growl and run towards Peter and I feel my eyes glow, the same bright purple light leaves my hand and rushes towards Peter.

The light circles flow around him and he looks at me with angry eyes. "You don't even know what you are." He yells.

"Don't worry, I'll figure it out. Till then" I start and make him kneel before me "take a seat." I growl.

Scott and Liam run towards him as I hold him onto the ground then punch him again and again until he begins to get weaker.

I raise my other hand and push the same energy towards him making him lift his head up to me.

"You were never an Alpha Peter, but you were always a monster." Scott says deeply. Peter clenches his jaw angrily and Scott lifts his fist towards him. Scott knocks him out and he falls to the ground.

We all catch our breaths and Scott looks over at me. "I knew something's been different about you lately." He says. "Is that an alpha thing?" I ask. He shrugs and he holds Kira to his side. "Maybe just a best friend thing." He says. I smile at him and nod "I'm glad you two are okay." I state.

"Who won the game?" Kira asks softly. We all laugh and Liam shakes his head. "We can't win a game without you guys, so next time let's not get kidnapped" Stiles says and pats Scott's back.

I freeze when I hear gunshots above us. "Derek." I yell. We all run through the tunnels and up the stairs we came in from.

We get outside and stop when we see multiple people with guns going after berserkers. I turn my head and see Derek lying on his side. Tears start to form in my eyes when I listen closely to his heart but hear nothing.

I slowly step forward and everyone turns to see what I'm looking at. A tear falls down my cheek and I growl and we all rush to help them.

A berserker rushes towards Malia and I and we both duck. I turn around and kick its back, once it goes forward Malia slashes it's face.

I quickly turn around and see my mom fighting Kate.
  Kate turns to us and smiles. I furrow my brows and take a step forward.

The entire world freezes as I watch Kate lift her claws in the air and lunge them towards my mothers chest. My mom tries to grab her arm but a berserker pushes her hands away.

My eyes widen and I start to run, like the world moving slowly, it feels like I am too. I scream stop as I run but she doesn't.

Kates claws dive into my mothers chest and when she pulls her fist out blood pours from her chest. I stop and my mom falls to the ground.

My knees cave and I suddenly feel the sand scratch my knees. Tears fall my from eyes and all I can do is scream. Pain releases from me the moment my mouth opens.

As I scream a surge of power flows through me and goes out of my hands. As if a bomb went off the purple hue reaches the entire area pushing away each berserker and even Kate.

Once they've each fallen, I see Argent run towards Kate and shoot her with a bullet. The bullet smells like wolfsbane so I know it must of hurt like a bitch when it went into her back.

I quickly get up and run towards my mom. I lift her up and put her on my lap. "Mom!" I cry. "You're okay." I yell. "Mom!"

I see her look up at me and she coughs, the blood from her cough falls onto my lap. "Please, please, please" I beg.

I look down at her neck and see blood continue to pool from her. I look into her eyes and tears fall from them. "I'm so sorry Noah. I'm so sorry" she whispers.

"Don't talk, let yourself heal." I cry. "Pleas heal. Please." I beg. "You were supposed to help me. Tell me what's wrong with me."

"Nothing is wrong with you." She smiles, blood covering her teeth. "Look at you, my beautiful baby girl." She reaches her hands up and she touches my temples, she rubs small circles on them and I smile as tears pour from my puffy eyes.

"You have to talk to Derek, he'll explain it all." She says. "He's dead mom" I cry and move a few sweaty strands of hair off of her face.

"Look" she says and looks behind me. I turn my head and see a black wolf making it way towards us. It's eyes start to glow and when I see blue I know it's him.

I snap my head back to where Derek was and he's gone. I smile back at the wolf and it runs towards Kate. He jumps on top of her and bites her face. Her screams are the only sounds being heard.

Kate slowly crawls away and Derek transforms back into a human. My eyes widen as his naked body stands before us. How is this even possible?

"You were dead?" Kate breaths. "No. I was evolving" he says strongly. "Something you'll never do." He adds.

A berserker runs towards him and worry washes over me. He reaches his hands out and places them on the sides of its head. He smashes him to pieces and everyone watches in awe.

Kate stands up and Argent shoots her again. She looks up at her brother in disbelief and runs away,

I look back down at my mom and see her glowing yellow eyes slowly fade back to normal. "Mom?" I whisper.

She doesn't respond, as I watch her slowly fade away, slow tears leave my eyes. This is the end. I wasn't able to save her, I ruined her life.

I hear her last breath leave her lungs and I silently sob as I hold her closer to my body. "Mom I'm so sorry" I whisper to her. "I should've been here with you." I cry.

"I'm so sorry."

I feel a hand on my shoulder and I look up to see Araya, I furrow my brows and she nods "we will take care of her. Your mother was an honest woman. We will not leave her here" she whispers.

Her kindness confuses me as the last time we spoke she almost killed me. But I know she's right, my mom is an honest person, a true wolf.

I nod and slowly let go of her. I stand up and wipe my hands on my pants. I quickly turn my head so I don't have to see her being lifted away.

I look at the others and their all looking at me. I look down and silently cry. I sigh in relief when I see them all walk towards me. Scott and Stiles hug me tightly and I cry in their arms.

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As I lay my head against the inside of the truck, Liam lifts a blanket over my lap. I give him a small smile but keep my eyes forward.

The sun starts to rise and we all stand up when Argent walks back towards us.

I make my way towards Scott and the others with Liam by my side and we listen to him.

"There's enough yellow wolfsbane to keep Peter out for the trip back. But be careful." He says with a nod.
"You're really going with them?" Scott asks.

I furrow my brows and look between the two. "You're leaving?" I ask.

"I made a deal with the Calaveras weeks ago." He explains. "They'll leave you alone." He adds.
  "All of you."

"But only if I help them catch Kate."
    "What if you can't?" Kira asks. "I'll find her, someone has to." He answers.

Scott shakes his hand and I pull him in for a hug. Argent nods at the others and turns around. Him and the Calaveras leave and we all watch them disappear up the hill.

"Okay...I have a lot of questions" Stiles says from behind us. I turn to him and nod.

I turn to Derek and him and Braeden walk towards us. "You're mother told me to give you this Noah." He says and hands me a large book with a leather cover. "What is it?" I ask.

"It's the answer to yours and Stiles questions." He states. "Read it with caution Noah, what you find in there, you might not like. But you have to know it doesn't change you. Not who you are at least." He explains.

"This feels like a goodbye Derek" I say.
   He looks at Scott and I and nods. "How long?" Scott asks.

"Until I know it's safe." Derek answers. Derek hugs me tightly and I hug him back. "I'm sorry about Monica, Noah" he whispers. I nod and we pull away.

He waves at us and leaves with Braden.

"Home?" Liam asks. Scott nods and pats his back
"Home!"

We get in the van and Stiles starts it. As we drive away I look out the window and watch as the church gets further and further away.

I look down at my lap at the book Derek gave me and sigh. I place my hand on it and close my eyes. My hand feels the leather, the rough scratch's on it. My mom should have been the one to give me this.

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I wave Stiles goodbye and walk into my house. I close the door behind me and set my things down.

I look around the house and sigh. The cold air and the dark corners of my house have never felt so scary until now.

Once my last deep breath is out a sob escapes my throat. I slide down the door and tears start to pour from my eyes.

I look down at my hands and my clothes and see her blood. I still smell her perfume and can see her eyes stop glowing.

How could I have done this to her?

I pull my legs into my chest and put my head on my knees. I cry until nothing is left, until the pain doesn't physically hurt anymore.

I look down at the leather book and furrow my brows. I reach for it and open it. I wipe the last few tears on my cheeks away and prepare for whatever I'm about to read.

'The Rise of The Phoenix' the opening page reads.

A/N:

That's the end of season 4!!! Thank you to everyone who has been reading and voting on my book, it means so much to me, I'm not sure if I'll post chapters everyday like I did for this season but I will try my hardest!! <3

Hope you're having an amazing day
- B.