Beacon Hills High | Night

[robinonadderall]

Stiles	So they had a plan! Not a very good plan because it involved a) finding the nogitsune b) biting him and c) trapping him in a box the non-boyfriend Derek was supposedly bringing to the school. But it was a plan nevertheless! So he headed to the school with Scott, Derek, Lydia and Kira, hoping the other Derek and the twins were already there or close to it. Stiles would have felt more confident about this plan if he didn't need Derek's support to walk. He didn't have much time, he could feel it. "Wait, wait. Scott, stop," Stiles said, wanting to say this before the went into the school. "I know what you're all thinking. That if this works it might kill me too. But even if it does you just--you have to go through with it. Stick with the plan, okay?"
Scott	Um, no, Scott McCall would not accept that as an answer. This is the guy who actively wanted to save Jackson, okay? He let Deucalion live, for fuck's sake. "The plan is to save you. That's the plan I'm going with."
Derek	And look at that, Derek actually agreed with him on this. "Maybe you should listen to your friend, Stiles," Derek said dryly. Because it was time to repress all his emotions before even more bad things happened to him!
Stiles	Well that earned Derek a glare. If Stiles could walk away he total would! As it was he'd probably just collapse on the ground. Stiles nodded at Scott to open the door to the school. At least it was supposed to be the school. Instead they found themselves in what looked to be a Japanese garden. And it was snowing. Oh look, the door shut behind them. "This wasn't part of the plan."
The nogitsune	There was movement from directly in front of them where another closed door was located. The bandaged version of the nogitsune approached, his movements jerky and uncoordinated. So if you were wondering what Stiles had been seeing these last few months, that was it. "Like I promised you, Stiles, we're going to kill all of them," the nogitsune said, his voice deep and scratchy. "One by one." Oh look! Some Oni! And they were circling around everybody. Shh, they wanted to be friends.
Derek	Well, if one of them is the Oni who is soooo into Derek, they'd be safe. Or just die slower. Odds were on the latter there. Derek growled, turning to hand Stiles off to Lydia so he could get his protecting on. Look at how manly it was. Just you look at it.
Scott	Scott was looking a bit wolfier now as well. So that was two alphas and a kitsune with a sword against...okay they would probably lose if this came to a fight. "What the hell is this--where are we?"
The nogitsune	The nogitsune was nice enough to answer. "Between life and death."
Lydia	"Bardo." Hey, she couldn't help with the fight but she could help with the useful information and with carrying Stiles.
The nogitsune	"But there are no peaceful deities here, Lydia." He really liked to hear himself talk. "You're dying, Stiles. And now everyone you care about is dying too."
Stiles	Whatever color Stiles had in his face drained out when he thought of the implications of that. "What-what do you mean?"
The nogitsune	"I've captured almost all the territories on the board, Stiles. The hospital. The sheriff station," he said. "And now the animal clinic." Yeah your dad was lying around dying somewhere, what are you going to do about it? "Do you know the ritual of seppuku, Stiles?"
Stiles	"No, and I don't want to." If he really thought about it he probably would have recognized it but now all he was thinking about was his dad lying around dead somewhere.
The nogitsune	"It's when a samurai disembowels himself on his sword to maintain his honor. But that's not the cut that kills him," he said. "The killing stroke is made by his kaishakunin, who beheads the samurai with his own katana." "Derek. Derek is your kaishakunin. I'm going to make your boyfriend kill you, Stiles. And you're going to let him," the nogitsune promised. "Because just like you, they're all going to die. Everyone touched by an Oni's blade, unless Derek kills you first."
Derek	"You really expect us to believe you're going to stop at that?" Derek demanded.
The nogitsune	"He's dying anyway, Derek," he pointed out. "You might as well put him out of his misery."
Derek	"The only thing here that's going to die is you." Big words from someone not holding any of the cards!
The nogitsune	"You've done it before, Derek," the nogitsune reminded him. "Stiles is dying, just like she was."
Stiles	Stiles looked over at Derek worriedly because that was a low blow. Don't worry, if Stiles survived this he would realize soon enough that he had been prodding at Derek's Paige issues himself unknowingly for the last few days. "Why are you doing this to me?"
The nogitsune	"To win the game." The nogitsune took a few steps back, knowing this would need to take some convincing. So he sent the Oni after them. To convince as best they could. With swords.
Kira	Hearing Scott let out a roar from her left, Kira assumed the time for talking was over. She lifted up her katana just in time to block a blow from one of the Oni. Yeah, talking time was definitely over.
Derek	Derek roared like he wasn't emotionally gutted or anything, slashing at anything unfriendly that got near either Stiles or Lydia. Because why not sublimate your feelings with violence?
Lydia	Don't worry, Lydia was getting herself and Stiles the hell out of the way. "This can't be real!"
Stiles	"Tell them that!" Stiles replied. He had to get this to stop, or else he was going to lose somebody else like he lost Allison.
Kira	Kira seemed to be handling herself pretty well, blocking blows from the Oni while trying to get in hits of her own with the help of her sweet kitsune reflexes. She hadn't been doing this for too long (had it only been less than a month?) so she did make a few missteps. Unfortunately one of those led to her sword getting knocked out of her hands. Almost immediately two Oni had their katanas pointed and her neck and chest respectively
Stiles	Oh hell no, Stiles was not losing another person. He pulled himself away from Lydia and stumbled forward until he could take Kira's katana in his hands. The sword was light, but Stiles was so weak that it was a struggle to lift it up to his stomach. But he managed.
Scott	Scott whirled around, taking his focus off of the Kira-Oni situation when he heard Lydia cry out behind him. "Stiles, don't!"
Derek	"Stiles!" Why did you have to make everything come crashing down for Derek, man? Uncool. He froze, Oni completely forgotten as he reached out for Stiles to stop him before he could kill himself.
Stiles	Stiles shook his head. "What if it saves you, what if it saves all of you?"
Lydia	"What if it's another trick?!" Lydia was not having this, Stiles!
The nogitsune	"No more tricks, Lydia," the nogitsune said. "End it, Derek. Let him fall on his own sword. Do for him what he cannot do for himself."
Derek	"Stiles," Derek begged. "Please. Don't." His voice broke on the last word there.
Stiles	Stiles couldn't look at Derek when he was like that, so instead he looked down at the katana, like that would help him move things along. Except when he looked closely, he could see something strange in the reflection of the steel. A poster. A poster that was better suited for a school hallway than a Japanese garden. He turned his head slightly and out of the corner of his eye he saw snow-covered school desks. He looked up at the nogitsune and lowered the katana.
The nogitsune	Sigh, Stiles. Just get on with it. "You have no moves left."
Stiles	"Yeah, I do. A divine move," he said before tossing the sword at Kira for her to catch. "Stop fighting the Oni."
Scott	Scott looked confused. "What?"
Stiles	"It's an illusion," he said. "It looks and feels real but it's not."
Scott	That sounded sort of crazy to Scott, but he had been in this with Stiles for too long not to trust him. He took the lead, pushing his way through the Oni in order to reach the nogitsune who was guarding the way out. The Oni slashed at him and it hurt (god, did it hurt) but he had experienced worse. He pushed on, trying to reach the exit before anybody else had to get hurt.
Kira	Kira followed Scott, crying out when the Oni took their turn slicing up her arms and legs with their katanas, but just endured it rather than fight back. She could have hung back with Stiles and Lydia but if Scott needed a hand taking down the nogitsune she wanted to be there to help. Even if it meant getting stabbed several times.
Scott	Help wouldn't be necessary. Scott built up speed when he got close enough to the nogitsune and used all of his strength and anger (there was a lot of it) to tackle him right through the door. ...only once he got through the door the nogitsune was gone and so was the snowy garden. They were just in the school hallway. "We're okay." He sounded really surprised by that.
The nogitsune	You just jinxed everything, Scott. Jinxed everything forever. Kira barely had the chance to look around at the surroundings before she was knocked on her ass by a swift punch from the nogitsune. The real Stiles body-snatching one. He quickly followed up that sucker punch with a similar beat down for Scott, slamming his face against the lockers until he dropped to the ground. Then he set his sights on Derek, Stiles and Lydia. "This was my game. You think you can beat me at my game?"
Derek	Derek snarled, rushing forward like could stop it despite no one having any real luck in the past. But, you know, desperation is a strong motivator. Too bad he just wasn't fast enough there.
The nogitsune	Oh, Derek. You at least got points for effort, but you still clotheslined for your efforts. Sorry about crushing your trachea. With the supernatural strong out of the way, the nogitsune set his sights on Stiles and Lydia, stalking them down the hallway and looking pretty pissed off. "Divine move? Divine move? You think you have any moves at all?" He was taking this personally, yes.
Stiles	Stiles had stepped forward to try to help Derek but he was pretty much forced to go where Lydia wanted him to at this point. And apparently she wanted to drag him down the hall as far away from the nogitsune as possible. He could see Scott struggling to get up in the background which meant they wouldn't have to keep the nogitsune's attention for long if everything went right. Please, let everything go right.
The nogitsune	The nogitsune didn't notice anything happening behind him. Mostly because he was really pissed off that Stiles tried to pull one over him. "You can kill the Oni, but me? Me?" he yelled. "I'm a thousand years old, you can't kill me!"
Lydia	"But we can change you!" Lydia snapped, stopping herself and Stiles abruptly.
The nogitsune	The nogitsune stopped in his tracks. "What?"
Stiles	"You forgot about the scroll," Stiles said.
The nogitsune	The nogitsune's eyes widened. "...change the host."
Stiles	Stiles smirked. "You can't be a fox and a wolf."
Scott	That distraction of Stiles and Lydia's gave Scott the chance to get his bearings and rush up to the nogitsune. Just in time to bite him right on the arm.
The nogitsune	The nogitsune's screams echoed through the hallway. And if that wasn't bad enough he soon found himself impaled with Kira's katana. He was brought down to his knees, making choking noises like he was trying to cough something up.
Derek	Yes, yes, that was awesome and all, but Derek's focus was on getting right back to Stiles as soon as he was able to breathe again. In case something else decides to happen. Jesus christ, this town sucked.
The nogitsune	Stiles was fine for the moment, though watching himself be stabbed with a sword was kind of traumatizing. The nogitsune kept gagging until finally a tiny little fly flew out of his mouth and started making its way down the hallway. And that was it for the Stiles suit. It froze like it was made of stone and then finally cracked and crumbled until it turned to dust.
Isaac	Isaac had missed out on this little adventure, too busy being the cavalry for Derek and the twins. Last he checked they were winning the fight against the Oni thanks to some silver arrows but he didn't know where they were at now because Derek had tasked him with the job of delivering the nemeton-made box to Scott. He did, however, get to see the fly go out of fake!Stiles' mouth and trapped it in the box before it could get outside. There. Day saved. You're welcome, Beacon Hills.
Stiles	When that happened the fact that this was over and they probably won settled over Stiles. This had been his life for almost two months now and he was convinced he wouldn't make it out alive. It was actually so overwhelming that he felt a little lightheaded. Next thing he knew his eyes were rolling to the back of his head and he was blacking out.
Derek	"Stiles!" Hey, cheer up, grumpy pup. At least he was still breathing. Derek stopped short, not certain what or even if he should do something.
Lydia	"It's okay I think he just passed out," Lydia said, pulling Scott's jacket off of him so she could fold it up and put it under Stiles' head like a pillow.
Stiles	He wasn't out for long either. His head lolled to the side and he made a groaning noise before slowly blinking his eyes open. "Oh god I fainted, didn't I?" Why did he find that embarrassing? Actually it was a relief to find that embarrassing. It was normal for him.
Scott	Scott laughed a little, feeling a weight being lifted off his chest. "You're okay?"
Stiles	Stiles nodded. "We're okay? Everybody's alright?"
Scott	"Yeah, everybody's fine," Scott assured him. "It's over."
Stiles	Stiles slumped against the floor again, relief flooding him. "Oh thank god."

[Done, done, donnnnnnnnnne! Thanks so much for hanging in there and huge, huge thanks to justlurkinghere for putting up with me bothering her about this for months. And also thanks to flickofawrist for putting up with my constant posting. This was taken from TW 3x23 "The Divine Move", NFI, NFB but OOC is encouraged and appreciated]