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December 9, 2004, Beacon Hills Outskirts: Hale House
"What!"
Satomi's eyes widened hearing Talia's words as she couldn't believe what she was hearing.
Satomi knew how important Beacon Hills was to the Hale pack. It was their ancestral home, where their family lineage was deeply rooted, where their most significant supernatural events and relationships had unfolded. It was their heart, their connection to the past, and their responsibility to protect. Even when they tried to leave or live elsewhere, they always returned. And with the Nemeton tree revived and growing, spreading its energy, maybe the Hale Pack could grow stronger again. 'Many packs would die for a territory like this,' Satomi thought for a wolf a territory was like a necessity to survive.
Talia looks at Satomi's shock look as she shakes her head, 'I don't want to leave as well,' Talia knows how important the beacon hills were yet she needs to survive her pack still needs to survive, she closed her eyes as the faces of the members of her pack that died last night appeared on her mind then Laura crying face, Derek bleeding stomach, and finally her youngest daughter's horrified face.
"I can't let anymore people die," Talia said, opening her eyes and looking at Satomi with a bitter smile.
"We might be able to fight them, but at what cost?"
Satomi shook her head. Although Talia's decision was correct, she didn't dare imagine what would happen if the Hale pack moved away from Beacon Hills.
"Do you know how many people are going to fight when they find out you guys left this place alone? How many packs or even supernatural creatures are going to come here?" Satomi said, with a serious look, looking at Talia straight in the eyes, wanting to make her think about her decision twice.
"Maybe, if there isn't already one." Talia smiled at Satomi knowing fully well she can trust her friend.
"You'll accept us back when the time comes right?"
Satomi looks at Talia with her eyes shining with complicated emotions.
*sigh* "Do you even think your pack is gonna like your decision?"
"I'm not doing this because I'm scared, I'm doing this so every one of us can live." Talia said to Satomi as she turned towards the door. "And I'm the Alpha."
"You should think about it, I'll leave in a week." Talia said as she turns towards Satomi with a soft smile appearing on her lips, she knows her friend very well Satomi didn't want any burden but only just want to peaceably take care of her pack. 'Not greedy for achievement or strength,' Talia thought, knowing the best decision was let Satomi and her pack stay in the beacon in their stead.
Satomi sighed as she closed her eyes contemplating what to answer.
Talia with a soft smile shakes her head before walking towards the door and getting out as she closes the door gently.
"Tell me you're just joking, right." Peter said with crossed arms as his brows furrowed while standing beside the door waiting for Talia to come out.
Talia continues to walk towards her children's quarters already knowing Peter was there listening.
Peter saw Talia continue to walk as a frown forms on his face as he followed, knowing his sister might be serious this time.
"You know we can't leave here! This is our home, the territory of the Hale family from the past and to our future beacon hills is ours." Peter said hurriedly wanting to stop Talia.
Talia didn't talk as she continued to walk but a frown appeared on her face. 'I know that better than you,' she said to herself as Talia was the chosen alpha between the two siblings of their family. As she opens the door of Cora's room wanting to spend time with her children as she intends to close the door finishing her conversation with Peter.
Peter seeing this hurriedly stopped the door with his hands as he tried to push it open yet he still underestimated Talia's strength as the door didn't budge.
"Wait! Wait! At least listen to me as your brother not your pack member!" Peter hurriedly said otherwise Talia might start pushing back.
"Tsk." Talia clicked her tongue in irritation before sighing as she let go of the door as she walked towards her youngest daughter carrying Cora on her arms, as she smiled softly towards her twins.
Derek and Laura look at each other with confusion before their attention focuses on Peter who hurriedly gets in the room before closing the door.
Peter just took a single glance at them as his attention was on Talia wanting her to change her decision.
"Do you know what a pack without a territory to go back to is called by other packs?!" His tone was rising showing his irritation as Peter couldn't help but be angry, he felt his sister wasn't even listening to him.
Talia frowns at Peter's tone as she looks at him before sighing as she sees his desperate expression.
"No, what is it?" Talia asks to entertain her brother but her plain voice states she doesn't want to be bothered.
"Invaders a pack that will not be welcomed everywhere we go!" Peter shouted with anger as he thought to himself. 'I would not accept that!' as the power of the Hale family was always remembered for how they protect beacon hills and how they are still alive but now Talia wanted them to run because of humans.
Thinking of this Peter's anger spiked as his iris turned blue without knowing.
"And do you think other opinions matter to me? I'm just letting everyone survive." Talia said with a frown as she felt her brother was trying to challenge her status.
Derek who was listening, eyes widened, not caring about the wound on his stomach as sat up straight. "Wait are we leaving? Why?!" He shouted as he thought of his girlfriend.
While Laura eyes narrowed but she just kept looking at Talia for her answers knowing her mom wouldn't do it if needed.
"We can defeat them if they come back! We know how they come from the shadows and we'll be prepared." Peter said as he walks closer towards Talia.
"And then what? Who will die next? Who are you willing to sacrifice Peter?" Talia asked as her iris glows red warning Peter not to get closer.
When Peter saw Talia's eyes Peter couldn't help but stop and lower his head in submission. Yet he kept thinking how the Hale pack wouldn't be accepted anywhere as his anger grows making him find the courage to look up at Talia.
"Do you think the pack will agree with your decision, and you're the only one they're coming after!" Peter shouted with defiance towards Talia.
"Mom are those ninjas coming after you?" Laura stood up in shock, worried and concerned for her mother's well being.
Talia didn't talk as she put down Cora before looking at Peter.
"So what are you going on about?" Her voice was cold now devoid of emotions.
"You can leave, even take them with you," Peter said as he pointed towards her children. "But I'll stay here...but make me the alpha." He said like it was the normal thing to do.
(A/N: in this fanfic alpha can be passed down through the same blood but it's just discovered by old families like Hale's)
"What did you just say!" Laura shouted in anger towards Peter as she thought he wanted to kill her mother as her eyes glowed golden yellow.
"Huh...Get out." Talia scoffs at Peter knowing he always wanted to be the alpha when he wasn't chosen by their father as she turned towards Laura the person she groomed to be the alpha after her.
"But—" Peter wanted to quibble and explain it's the right thing to do but Talia has enough of his words.
"I said leave." Talia said turn towards him as her iris intensely glowed red as her claws popped out of her fingers.
Peter took a step back looking at Talia's claws before exhaling looking at Talia in the eyes as he turned walking towards the door as he gets out Talia's voice can be heard.
"Tell them we'll be leaving in a week and Peter, remember I'm the Alpha." Talia's voice is laced with coldness as her words are meant to be warning towards her brother and those who didn't agree with her decision.
Peter closed the door behind as he closed his eyes thinking of a plan before opening them as his blue iris glowed with determination. 'I wouldn't let that happen!' he thought.
Talia sighed hearing Peter's footsteps getting farther away as she turned towards her children wanting to explain her decision.
"You don't need to explain your decision mom we'll go wherever you go the only thing that matters is that we stick together," Laura said as she hit Derek in the shoulder.
"Ahh, we will follow you." Derek said as he caressed his shoulder nodding towards her mother. As he sighed in his heart knowing it's more important to leave with his mother than staying with his girlfriend.
Talia smiled softly as she sat beside Cora. Caressing her daughter's head.
"Mom, where will we go?" Cora asked with confusion.
"Wherever we want to." Talia said as she booped Cora on the nose before hugging Cora into her arms.
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NEXT DAY
Talia sighed seeing the close sign on the veterinarian clinic door, as she turned around and about to get in the car when she stopped as she heard someone inside moving.
Talia walks back to the clinic as she hurriedly knocks on the clinic door.
A minute later the door opened.
"I'm sorry but the clini—" Deaton appeared as he was about to send the visitor away when he looked up and finally saw it was Talia.
Talia smiled softly at Deaton, "aren't you going to let me in?"
Deaton sighed, before fully opening the door as he made way for Talia.
As Talia walks inside as she observes the surrounding seeing the messy items showing Deaton was moving and packing.
Deaton stopped back behind Talia as he close eyes with cross arms, "what are you doing here?" He asked, knowing her pack should be busy.
"I'm leaving." Talia said turning towards Deaton whose eyes snap open in surprise. Talia continued to explain not giving Deaton a chance to ask why.
"The Ninjas target was me, many people died because of me so I'm taking my children and the pack away." Talia looks at Deaton's eyes with emotions.
"I want you to come with us."
Deaton's eye widened, as he let his arms fall to his side in surprise. "Are you answering my confession?" He asked as he clenched his fist.
"Yes, please come with us." Talia said as she took his hand holding it tightly.
Deaton looked at her eyes with shock and delight before sighing.
"I'll come with you, but I need to find a trace of the ninjas first otherwise I might not find anything when I let it pass for too long." He said although he was happy in his heart but he knows what his priorities are, what he needs to do the most.
Talia frowned hearing this as her hold in his hand tightened. "Why are you so obsessed with that kid? Even if what you said was true there's a god behind the Nemeton it's too far away from us, right?"
Deaton sighed hearing this as he pulled her down to sit down on a chair.
"What do you know about Lycaon?" Deaton asked as he took a book from one of his bags that clearly shows that it was old.
"Lycaon and his sons were the first wolf of our kind, cursed by Zeus." Talia said as her brow furrowed thinking about the myth surrounding their wolf lineage.
"Yes, and they struggled in the wolf form until they met the druids who teach them to control their forms and to become human again." Deaton said finishing it for Talia as he flips the books page.
"Yes, and that's why some packs still have druid emissaries, like us," Talia nods at his words as she pointed at their relationship as she stood up walking beside Deaton looking at the book.
"Yes, but your guy's version was just a part of the story, Druids teach the Lycaon and his sons with clear goals." He finally flipped the page finding his goal.
On the page saw a drawing of druids kneeling in front of a woman with leaves like clothes and behind her was a giant Nemeton tree.
"People know the old druids make a Nemeton choosing an ancient tree in a grove making it a sacred meeting place." Deaton said as he pointed at the druids kneeling down.
"They make a root cellar in the ground below the tree where they painted it with a five-fold knot at the base of its root to indicate that it symbolized the world tree."
Deaton's eyes narrowed as he pointed at the woman.
"But the truth was that druids worship the god of nature itself and the nemeton tree was connected to the god, they created the root cellar because they would get the gods protection. And that god's name was Yggdrasil." Deaton said as he looked toward Talia wanting to let her know how serious the situation is.
Talia took a deep breath as she felt the world was getting more complicated than it was. "But I still don't get why you are so obsessed with the kid." She said but now her voice was soft as her eyes look towards the book with a light glint. 'I don't want anything to do with this,' she thought, knowing too much was never good.
Deaton sighed after hearing Talia's words. "Druid in the past got the gods blessing, giving them the ability to turn into animals," he said as he flips the page showing animals surrounding the woman.
"But now every Druid hasn't received anymore blessings making them think that Yggdrasil was not real." Deaton shakes his head, flipping the pages again. Showing a picture of Yggdrasil pointing towards a certain direction with old language letters on the page.
"The important thing was that Yggdrasil was the one that ordered the druids to teach the Lycaon and his sons."
With a flip of a page showed the animals transforming back to humans as they talk to wolves.
"Lycaon and his sons were grateful towards the druids, while the druids were happy for accomplishing their mission."
As the page flip again showing the druids and Lycaon and his son celebrating.
"But then something changed that same year, a war happened, disaster came from everywhere, earthquake, storms, tsunami it was like the apocalypse." Deaton said flipping a page with a serious look while Talia eyes widened as the page shows many people dying.
Then Deaton flips it again. "Then the druid notices something changed to Lycaon and his sons that survive their curse became a divine blessing." The page shows Lycaon sons growing claws and hair on their face.
But Talia's attention was on Lycaon, her breath became fast as she saw Lycaon in full wolf form yet standing in two feet.
Deaton knows what she was thinking so he holds her hand tightly as he flips the page again.
Showing the druids back In front of the Nemeton kneeling down, wanting to ask Yggdrasil what had happened but this time Yggdrasil didn't appear but letters were on the page.
Deaton index fingers pointed at the letters following it while explaining.
"The curse has changed because the person that cast the curse has disappeared." Before he flipped the change page again showing the druids going towards Lycaon and behind them was a glowing Nemeton.
"The old druids figured out those disasters were happening because of a war of gods, with Zeus dying or disappearing and they thought Yggdrasil didn't appear because she was injured in the war."
"The druids were afraid of the gods power yet their belief in Yggdrasil strengthened, as they followed Yggdrasil orders to invite the wolves to join their faction."
Flipping the page again, yet this time it showed druids standing while Lycaon and his sons were biting other people not caring about the druids.
"Lycaon and his sons weren't listening to the druids as they disdain gods so with the goal to get stronger and to fight gods Lycaon thought of a way to give humans their power." Deaton pointed towards Lycaon and his sons who were biting other humans.
"Power granting," Talia murmured as she looked at Lycaon's sons. "Are all of them Alpha?"
Deaton nodded at her question flipping the page.
"As the first of your kind they're all Alphas but one thing they didn't think of was they're different from other supernatural wolves."
The page shows the human they bitten transform into all kinds of creatures while some die.
"Although the curse changed it was still a divine power, meaning those who hadn't survived can't take the divine power of Zeus while those who survive become different from Lycaon and the others,"
Flipping the page it shows Druids going back to the nemeton kneeling. "The druids reported their failure but Yggdrasil never showed up." The next page showed the druids going after Lycaon and the others.
"The druids thought that Yggdrasil was disappointed at them failing their mission only accomplishing it then Yggdrasil will not abandon them."
"But Lycaon and his sons didn't stop, they spread their blessing, biting humans they saw."
Flipping the page, it showed some supernatural creatures surrounding Lycaon and his pack.
"Their actions alerted other supernatural creatures who were furious and scared of what Lycaon and the others were doing." The next page showed one of Lycaon's sons getting killed by other werewolf-like creatures.
"So that's why other wolf kind hated us," Talia said in shock finding out the truth.
"Yes, although not many know your wolf kind true lineage but they know your guys aren't normal as you guys make not just werewolves and those pure blood wolves hated you for spreading wolf kind just because of a bite." Deaton said as he shakes his head before flipping the page continuing the story.
"Many people were interested in them, from those who wanted to kill them so they couldn't spread their bite. And those who wanted their power," the page shows Lycaon and the others being chased.
"It only stops when they beg the druids to take them in," Deaton continued as the last page shows Lycaon and his sons with the druids kneeling In front of the Nemeton.
"Supernatural creatures stop attacking them, yet Yggdrasil never appeared again." Deaton sighed closing the book.
"The Druids didn't stop, thinking that they still haven't completed their mission, that's why there's a emissary on wolf pack but the times has passed only few pack had druids." Deaton shakes his head, knowing he was just lucky otherwise even he wouldn't believe Yggdrasil was real as he turned towards Talia.
"I'm not telling you this because of a lesson," Deaton holds Talia's both hands, looking at her in the eyes.
"I'm telling you this because the last time Yggdrasil showed up a war appeared that killed many people, I think it's better we know things when a war appeared rather than dying without knowing." Deaton said his voice is full of pleading so Talia can agree to find the kid.
Talia opened and closed her mouth not knowing what to say as she closed her eyes. "okay but let's find him together." 'since I'm leaving it's better to find the boy as well,' she thought knowing Deaton was right whatever was happening it's important as it connected to the gods.
Deaton smiled as he hugs on her waist while Talia froze in shock before hugging Deaton on the neck, as the scene began to blur.
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PRESENT TIME
Lucian felt someone shaking him, as he opened his eyes while yawning looking at Raizo.
Raizo felt Lucian's gaze. "We are here,"
Raizo pointed outside the car where Tokyo street was full of people.
"Let's go, I'm to hungry," Kim Yoo-ri said looking at Lucian on the rearview mirror before getting out of the car.
Lucian look at them before massaging his temple. 'What was that,' he thought of his dreams as it was to real like he was there witnessing it happened yet he just heard it as a story from Deaton. 'and to detailed,' he thought noticing even some things in his dream that Deaton didn't include in his story like his relationship with Talia.
'Do you remember what Noshiko said about the type of kitsune you are?' Cortana voice appeared in his mind seeing his memories.
Lucian closed his eyes, remember everything the Noshiko said about Jikan Kitsune. 'You are thinking that my dream was real and I'm seeing is the past?' Lucian asked Cortana as his expression became serious.
'Possibly or you are just thinking to much,' Cortana said shaking her head mentally towards Lucian. 'The only way to confirm is to find out if Deaton and Talia is in a relationship.'
Lucian sighed hearing this opening his eye, before hearing the knock on the car window seeing Kim Yoo-ri inviting him to get out.
'Let's figure it out, one step at a time.' Lucian told Cortana in his mind before getting out of the car, and closing the car door.
Lucian took a deep breath as he look around as he felt more comfortable that he ever was, looking at his two companion smiling softly.
"Let's go shall we,"
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