"ROARHH!"
Lucas ignored the Alpha and took a few steps forward, analyzing the creature closely.
He then turned towards Steven and pointed at the shapeshifter. "Do you have any idea what it is?"
Steven shook his head immediately as even he didn’t have the slightest idea.
"Hmm.." Lucas then glanced at the tense Alpha and spoke, "Is this the reason why you kidnapped the scientist?"
"Help.." Before he could get an answer, a begging voice was heard from Robert Muller, the scientist.
He lifted his head and looked at Lucas with hope in his eyes. "Don’t believe him! He’s a murderer!"
"Is that so?" A pleasant smile appeared on Lucas’ face, one that sent chills down the Alpha’s spine, in the past when people heard his name they would shiver in fear, but Lucas seemed happy.
Reed, the Alpha, suddenly felt his body sink as a tremendous pressure weighed on him. He didn’t forget that Lucas forged his legend with the bodies of a pack of Alphas.
"Don’t believe him! I’m just trying to save my brother!" Although he felt ashamed, Reed put a begging expression on his face.
"You monster!" Robert shouted as he couldn’t believe what he saw, but this allowed him to notice that Reed was afraid of the young man that just came, and hope rekindled in his eyes.
Frankly, Lucas didn’t believe that the Alpha was innocent, and he didn’t come here just for the scientist, he had to make his trip worth it.
"What’s wrong with him?" Lucas glanced at Robert and pointed at the man tied up who was still trying to break out.
Robert fell silent for a few seconds, his face struggled visibly but he finally sighed and chose to give the truth.
"He was experimented on, his DNA was genetically modified."
"You don’t seem surprised by all of this." Lucas gazed thoughtfully at him, but the biggest thing that bothered him was that someone created that thing on the table.
Robert clearly didn’t want to talk about this, but Lucas was his only chance of getting out of there alive. "I worked on a project for the government, it was named Phoenix, and...we experimented on shapeshifters."
His face looked disturbed when he talked about the last thing.
"Oh?" Lucas finally heard something interesting, although he always felt that the government, or at least the people on top, should know about the supernatural world, now he was sure.
"So you did this to my brother?!" Reed’s face burned with fury.
"No!" Robert shouted as he shook his head, then his face hesitated, not knowing if he should really tell them the next part.
"You have someone in mind." Lucas studied his expression as he said that, in fact, he had someone in mind too.
"It’s only a rumor...I heard that there is a group of people called Dread Doctors, but it’s only a vague rumor amongst us scientists who are aware of the supernatural side."
Lucas’ smile vanished as his guess was actually spot on, contrary to Robert, he knew that the Dread Doctors were real.
The real problem was that if this was really them, it meant that they were moving slowly towards Beacon Hills.
"Bullshit!" Reed suddenly shouted, and lunged towards Robert, ready to rip him to pieces.
Just as his hand was about to reach Robert’s throat, Lucas suddenly appeared next to him and grabbed his hand.
Lucas glanced at him as if he was an annoying fly, since he found the scientist, the kidnapper didn’t have any purpose anymore.
"Your brotherly love is honestly touching."
"R-really?" Reed’s agitated move slowly faded and he looked just like a helpless puppy at Lucas.
Lucas smiled and nodded, "Too bad you have to die."
"What?!" Reed’s eyes widened, then an unimaginable pain came from his stomach. When he looked down he saw Lucas’ hand deep in his chest, he could feel his heart being gripped.
"Shhh..." Lucas then ripped apart his heart from his chest and brought the bloody finger close to his mouth.
The scene looked terrifying especially with the still-beating heart in his hand.
"Thud!" Reed fell to the ground and his eyes still remained on Lucas, but they lost their vitality in them.
Lucas brought the heart close to his eyes and smiled, then he glanced at the stunned scientist. "A fine specimen, wouldn’t you agree?"
’Fuckkk!’ The old scientist cursed inwardly as he felt his situation got worse, not better. His body trembled under Lucas’ gaze, he must have been cursed.
Feeling that Lucas was still waiting for an answer, he nervously nodded. "Y-yes!"
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