𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙄𝙓𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉
ミ★ ( seven deadly sins, act two ) ★彡

"WELL, WELL, WELL." Lucifer started as she walked through Derek's loft towards what seemed to be Stiles, who was stranding near the windows as the sky showed the sun was setting soon, giving the loft enough light to show Lucy that it wasn't really Stiles. "Long time no see, nogi."

The regular Stiles look dropped to one of the nogistune. "How'd you know it wasn't Stiles?" He asked her.

"I didn't." She answered him, continuing to walk towards him. "I'm just smart enough to not trust you right off the bat just because you say you're Stiles after what you did to me last time." She recalled being pinned to the wall by the sword and scowled.

The devil reached into her back pocket and pulled out a set of cuffs. "You want to handcuff me?" The nogitsune asked.

Lucifer rolled her eyes at how dumb he thought she was as she answered, "I, personally, want to do a lot more than just handcuff you, but Noah gave me these to put you in, hoping that there was still a shred of his son inside of you that can control what you do and say. But you and I both know that these won't hold you." She says throwing them behind her and then flashing her eyes black at him as Derek, Allison, Chris and Noah walk into the loft, completely geared up. "So, lets just get down to it."

The nogitsune smirked at the group behind her and then back at Lucy. "You brought company."

"I always did like to put on a good show." Lucy smirked. She then lunged at the nogitsune, who lunged at her also, the two beginning to fight each other hoping that one of them could pin the other down and immobilise them.

Lucy wanted to put him down so she could try and figure out a way to remove the nogitsune from Stiles and the nogitsune wanted to put her down to be able to finish sucking the emotions out of her completely so he could be at his complete potential.

"Should we get in there and help her?" Allison asked her father and Derek.

"Do you want to lose an eye?" Derek asked her back, pointing at the long black talons that had made an appearance on Lucy's fingers as she tried to grip them into Stiles' skin.

Allison rolled her eyes at the werewolf. "No, but I do want to save Stiles. She'll kill him if we don't interfere." She said, walking down the steps and aiming her taser gun at the nogitsune, firing at him, hoping to catch him off guard only for him to catch the probes that shot out of the gun, completely unaffected by the electricity currents all while continuing to defend himself against the devil next to him.

Lucy reached over and grabbed the wires and pulled them, yanking the gun away from them as she continued to try and hit the nogitsune, catching him slightly off guard before punching him in the mouth, giving Derek the opportunity to try and make a move on the nogitsune, but only getting his shoulder dislocated and head bashed into a coffee table and then thrown into a wall in the other direction, leaving him a winded mess on the ground.

Lucifer lunged at the nogitsune once more, complaining to herself wishing she hadn't of made him so strong as it wouldn't of been such a pain to get him down in the past and now.

The two rolled around giving each other hits and throwing each other into the walls until Lucy finally managed to pin him to the ground and use enough power to keep him there.

Chris, by that point had had enough of the back and forth and pointed his gun at the nogitsune, which in turn, made Noah point his gun at him.

The nogitsune turned his face back to the regular Stiles look and made himself look worried to try and trick Noah into protecting him. "Dad, he's going to shoot me. They're all going to kill me." He says shakily.

Lucy knocked his head on the ground. "Drop the act." She ordered while both Chris and Noah argued about who was going to drop their gun. She leaned down into his ear and whispered. "You think taking over the body of my best friend will earn you a soft spot with me; and you're right, it did, but just not in the way that you think, so I'd watch yourself."

The nogitsune smirked at her words before looking up at the scene in front of him and began to taunt Chris, all in an attempt to create more chaos. "Pull the trigger. Shoot me." He said and Chris' blank look at him didn't change, as he was contemplating actually doing it while Noah continued to yell at him to drop his gun. "Shoot me!"

"Shut up!" Lucy said to him, then looking up at the two fathers who kept their guns aimed. "Stop arguing, its what he wants you to do!"

"Strife." Allison realised, whispering the word to herself.

The sun began to set as the pink and orange lights soon turned to darkness as the two continued to argue and ignore the devil's warning.

"This is exactly what he wants, stop it!" Allison agreed to her.

The nogitsune smirked and used the moment of distraction to shove Lucy off of him and kick her to the side as he smirked at Allison. "Not exactly." He disagreed with the hunter, making the room silent. "I was kind of hoping Scott would be here, Lucy will just have to do." He said as the devil's glare that was directed at him intensified. "But I'm glad you all have your guns out. Because you're not here to kill me." He said turning around to face the windows again.

The oni soon appeared from bits of black smoke where the nogitsune was looking before, smirking to himself once again as everyone turned their attention onto the Japanese demons. "You're here to protect me." He said and moved behind the pack.

"I don't know if I've mentioned this..." Lucy looked at Derek with a look frustration on her face. "But I really hate Noshiko at the moment." She really wasn't happy that the woman had ignored her order to call the oni off as it was just another obstacle she had to get around to get her best friend back.

The oni unsheathed their swords and swung them around as a warning to try and get the pack to back off so they could get to the nogitsune uninterrupted but both Chris and Noah aimed their guns at them and began to fire.

Two of the oni disappeared and both Derek, Allison and Lucy went to protect the back of the nogitsune as they figured that's where they would try to attack while the other two stayed where they were to defend themselves against the gunfire coming from Chris and Noah.

Lucy never took her eyes off of the oni in front of her as she said to Allison, "I think this would be a good time to bring those daggers out." She said.

"Yeah, I think it is too." Allison said nervously, bringing out the Chinese ring daggers she had in her jacket pocket as the oni ran at them with their swords aimed high.

Meanwhile, Kira and Scott raced towards the loft on Scott's motorbike after they had gotten the text from Lucy that Stiles was there.

They had ran up towards the loft and got towards it, running in and having the pack all aim their weapons at them — with no oni or Stiles in sight.

"What happened?" Scott asked them.

"They disappeared." Allison said out of breath. "They literally just vanished."

"And so did Stiles." Noah said.

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Lucy and Derek stood in Derek's loft as the devil was cleaning the mess that was made from the fight. "So, I have to admit: not my favourite date I've ever been on." Derek joked as he was setting up the chess board in front of him.

Lucy looked over her shoulder at him. "It's the best we're going to get for now, unfortunately." She said to him. "But you have to admit that it was thrilling." She then looked over at what he was doing. "Do you really think setting up a chess board is more important than cleaning up your loft?" She asked.

Derek sighed as he continued. "Look, Stiles had our names on the pieces of the chess board. If this is a game to him, then we need to figure out the plays."

Lucy blew out a push of air and stood up off of the ground, brushing the dust off of her knees before walking over to the chess board, standing on the other side of the table. "You're forgetting that Japanese foxes don't play chess — that's Stiles' game, and it's not going to be easy one to play when it's a game without rules."

Derek looked up at her in surprise. "What does that mean?"

"The nogitsune is a spirit that's lived too long to play by human rules. It's a fox spirit that chose to become human after it was something that he learned to do after about a hundred years of his existence." Lucy explained to him. "Kitsunes were created to be an annoying pain in the ass, and a nogitsune — which is a dark kitsune — were created to be a fucking disaster. Which, now that I'm experiencing the affects of one, I regret ever creating them."

"Why did you create them?" Derek suddenly asked. "If I may ask. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." He backtracked, not wanting to overstep his boundaries with her.

Lucy smiled and shook her head. "It's okay. I want to tell you." She said and took a seat on the chair in front of her and Derek did the same. "I just hope that you don't look at me any differently."

"I couldn't possibly." Derek disagreed, she was his soulmate, and she was perfect to him — flaws and all.

"I did a lot of things just to spite my father for choosing his humans over me and sending me to Hell. I grew angry over time when I would see him treat my gifts so horribly; my father despised it when I had asked druids and witches to create the different supernatural species to make the world more interesting and diverse, as they were a gift to my mother — he hated it as they could pose a threat to his humans or ruin their purity. At this particular time, I felt I was being taunted at how his humans were being treated so well, and the rest supernatural species and I were being treated so horribly by both my family and the humans, when I was just doing what my father had asked me to do. So to get back at him, I had asked some dark druids to take power from me and to create something so horrible and dark that it continues to feed off of the strife, pain and chaos that it creates in a vicious cycle. They had told me that the Japanese had created a myth of a dark fox spirit and I agreed to let them take the idea from that and create the nogitsune."

Lucy turned her head from Derek to the window as she bitterly smiled. "They did what they were supposed to do; and they caused strife, pain and chaos to the humans— but my father decided to punish me further for my choice by having me tortured by my own brothers and sisters until I retracted the nogitsunes and brought them back to where they came from."

"Your own family tortured you?" Derek asked in shock and hurt, he couldn't believe that her family would do that to their own.

"To them, I am not their family after what I have done." Lucy told Derek. "And besides, when my father asks us to do something, we can't exactly say no, so I don't hold it against them — even if I did see that some of my siblings enjoyed it a little too much." Lucy noticed the pained look on Derek's face and decided to change the topic from those days.

"Over the years, I had many nogitsunes out in the world causing mischief but they were always destroyed by my siblings because they weren't exactly that strong, until a thousand years ago when I created this nogitsune that we are currently dealing with now. I had him created because I wanted one to last and not be destroyed so I can continue to get my revenge on my father unnoticed as it wouldn't exactly be me directly harming his humans. But he got power hungry and directed his hunger for strife, pain and chaos at me as I have been holding all those emotions in me for thousands of years."

Lucy scowled. "It backfired on me horribly when I realised that I wouldn't be able to take him down by myself as he was essentially made as my equal in power; and I had to grovel at my father's feet for him to help put him down. He agreed and sent some of my siblings to help put the nogitsune down and send him back to Hell where he wouldn't escape — but he was too powerful and it took us years and many fallen archangels to be able to catch him. When we did catch him, we were about to send him back to Hell when he was suddenly vanishing from our hands and we couldn't do anything to stop it because he was being summoned by Noshiko."

"And I'm assuming I know the rest of this story." Derek said, remembering what had happened in the story in 1943 with Noshiko at the internment camp.

"But unfortunately, you still only know half of the story." Lucy said, leaning her elbows on the table and putting her head in her hands. "My father and siblings blamed me for the nogitsune getting away, they said that I had planned for it to happen as a way to get into Heaven to somehow cause mayhem. But Heaven was the last thing on my mind. I paid the price for him getting away and I have the scars to prove it; I— they took my wings away, literally ripping them from my back as punishment. I was practically immobilised in pain as they were apart of me for so long — and it takes a while to heal from wounds made by a member of the divine — so I couldn't help when Noshiko was trying to kill the nogitsune." She finished explaining.

Derek felt sick as he thought about the things that has happened in her past and how there were most likely plenty more stories just like the one she had just told him that were yet to be said. He wanted to know her better, but there was a part of him that didn't want to know as it would cause him pain thinking about her in pain.

Lucy looked down, refusing to make eye contact as she could feel what felt like tears pricking her eyes thinking about it. "That's why it means a lot to me to try and get rid of him, because if I do this, then maybe I could get my wings back, and you and Stiles would be safe from my mistakes and my past. But it seems it's going to be a lot more difficult than I had planned." She said and stood up walking away from the table, and making sure to try and not let any tears fall or wipe them away before Derek could see them.

She hadn't cried since the day they took her wings and it felt strange to do it again, but she didn't want Derek to see her as weak.

Derek stood behind her, she could feel his breath on her neck from how close he was standing, but she refused to turn around as Derek gently grabbed onto her hand. "You shouldn't feel so guilty about mistakes that you made so long ago. Everyone makes mistakes and we can all see that you are trying to be better and help us all stay safe."

"But everything I touch gets ruined and I don't want that to happen to you or Stiles." She whispered.

"And it won't." Derek stressed. He then went to move but winced and made a small hissing sound which caused Lucy to snap around in worry.

"What's wrong?" She asked him.

"It's nothing." The werewolf brushed it off.

Lucy narrowed her eyes when she could smell the scent of blood and made him turn around to see the large slash wound on his shoulder. "You haven't healed yet." She pointed out. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's fine, it's just because it's from one of the oni's swords that it's taking a while to heal." Derek said, continuing to brush off the pain.

"Yeah, that doesn't mean you keep that you're in pain to yourself. That's just stupid." Lucy rolled her eyes. "Just let me heal it."

Derek shook his head, slightly taken aback that she has the ability to heal people. "No." He said. "It'll heal on its own, I don't want you to waste the ability on me."

"But I want to do it." She says softly. "I worry about you." Derek sighed and rested his forehead against hers at the sound of her confession — maybe she really did feel the soulmate bond, and maybe it was just in a different way that she couldn't understand yet.

"And I want you to not worry about me too much that you don't think about yourself." He said to her. "Because I worry about you a lot too."

Derek looked at her eyes and down to her mouth, before looking back to her eyes and seeing the emotion in the blue coloured iris' that he had been searching for this whole time.

Lucy looked down at Derek's plump lips and began to lean in slowly, as if she was so drawn to be close to him that she couldn't stop herself. The want to be near him and consumed by him was so strong.

Just as their lips were about to touch, the loft's front door slid open and Scott came running in, causing the two to jump apart from each other. "Lydia found Stiles!" He announced to them with a tone of shock.

"Dammit, Scott!" Lucy snapped at the werewolf. "We were in the middle of something!"

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