The pressure on Scott kept increasing as he fought all three doctors while trying to protect the injured Stiles and Hayden, who was trembling in fear.
Suddenly, he was grabbed on each side by a doctor, then the third one began punching him in the stomach.
"Thum! Thum!"
"Arghh..." Scott groaned in pain as it felt like his insides were being shattered. Then the Dread Doctor began punching him in the face, making his vision blurrier with each punch.
Just as the doctor wanted to punch him again, his body froze as he was entangled by what looked like a shadow.
Scott’s vision was blurry and he could barely see what it was, but that gave him hope to escape. He then used all the strength in his body and broke free from the two doctors who were holding him.
Just as the doctors were about to attack, the one who was immobilized by the shadow flew straight for them, making them abort.
"Who are you?" Scott glanced at the shadow with wariness, then the corner of his eyes only now noticed that Stiles was nowhere to be seen. "Could it be?!"
"That’s right, buddy." A chuckle came from the shadow, then Stiles’s figure came into sight, only a little different.
His eyes were red but somewhat different from the ones that Alpha has, and on his back, he had two green wings.
Even his ears became pointier, as if he became an elf.
Just as he was about to have a chat with Scott, the Dread Doctors suddenly moved again, and just as he thought they would attack, they turned around and walked away.
"Why...?" Scott was even more confused by their behavior.
"They must be afraid of me." Stiles puffed his chest confidently as he felt the massive strength running through his body.
This feeling was exasperating, he now knew how Scott and the others felt, and it was awesome.
"I don’t know..." Scott gave him a weird look, then gazed at him carefully. "What’s with the wings?"
"I..." Stiles glanced back in confusion, then a piece of information came to mind as if it was engraved into his very own DNA.
"Popobawa, that’s the shapeshifter I became," Stiles said the name instinctively, even though he didn’t know much either.
Then he frowned as he remembered the dream he had. He wasn’t even sure it was really a dream. But he had a bad feeling about it and didn’t want to think about it anymore.
"Popo-what?" Scott couldn’t even pronounce the name and had an incredulous look in his eyes.
"What are you?! And what the hell were those guys?!" Hayden felt like exploding as she was ignored and wanted nothing more than to punch the two of them.
Scott felt a massive headache as he didn’t know how to explain it. Just as he was about to try to make something up, he sensed a familiar smell.
When he looked back, he saw Derek rushing to the side. "What happened?" Derek looked around, ready to fight, but he didn’t see anyone.
"The Dread Doctors almost took Hayden away," Stiles responded, and only now did Derek realize how different he looked.
"We will talk about this later, what will we do with her?" Stiles knew he was curious but shifted the attention to Hayden.
Now all three of them were looking at her, which made her nervous as the courage she had disappeared.
The terrifying look that Stiles had made things even worse.
••••
While they were contemplating how to handle the situation with Hayden, Lucas was at the final location of the energy node.
The wind brushed against his skin, and it made his clothes flutter constantly. He was now above a giant canyon, looking down at the desert with a calm expression.
His eyes seemed in a daze as if something else was in his mind, then a shattering sound was heard in his mind, and a smile appeared on his face. "Good job, Stiles..."
"Now, the last one...I have to succeed!" Lucas concentrated on the wind around him. The nodes formed a triangle, and this was the last one, the wind itself at this location was a huge source of the energy that made the sacred land.
On the ground, Allison, Lydia, and Malia were standing there anxiously, hoping that he would succeed.
He told them the consequences of what would happen if he failed, he even tried to make them leave at the last minute, but all of them refused.
Lucas took one last look at them, then he spread his arms wide open as if hugging the world itself. In that moment, the desert trembled, and the winds got rougher as if trying to cut him down.
A massive influx of energy entered his body, and his skin already started cracking as the previous energy he had started clashing with the one he was receiving.