[Teen Wolf : A Chimera Rising—Chapter 76]

[Double Update cause I don't think I'll have time to write tommorow, still trying to find a place to stay :) ]

“ Oh?” Markus muttered, amusement clear in his voice.

“ Tell me where Markus is or I swear to God I'll put this arrow through your eye!” Allison commanded, winds picking up around him in a show of pure magic—her awakened gift seemingly having strengthened.

“ Hah! You almost sound concerned for him.” Markus muttered under his mask, his voice distorted in a show of cruel amusement.

“ What are you talking about?” Allison questioned, frowning at the implication that she didn't care for the man had been her first friend.

“ Well, from what I hear from him, his life has gone downhill ever since he met you.” Markus muttered, half lie and half truth from what he actually felt.

“ W-what?” Allison asked, her voice shaking and wavering, even the strength she put into pulling her arrow slagged as the wind on it dissipated.

“ Oh yes, he's told me all about you people while under my ‘care’” Markus started.“ About how you betrayed him, throwing him into the dogs before hunting him like one.”

“ N-no, that's not true!” Allison shouted, conflicts of emotions surging through her.

“ Of how you pretended to be his friend, getting close to him and then just like that you stole everything from him.” He stated happily, staring straight at her.“ How you took his life away from him.”

“ I-it w-wasn't l-like that! H-he got himself dealt with a demon! I-i w-was just trying to h-help him!” Allison shouted, her eyes tearing.

“ By hunting him down?” Markus asked.“ Chasing him out of the only home he ever knew?”

“ I-i didn't mean to!”

“ And yet you did!” Markus shouted back.

“ N-no!”

“ Oh and Allison.” Markus called to her, preparing to deliver one last piece of information just so she could stew away inside.

Markus almost felt bad for her, he wondered whether he was going to far as it really seemed as if she had thought she was helping somehow.

But he had lost too much, pushed to a corner before he could properly defend himself to forgive her just like that.

Her misery would pave way for him to do much more, the hunters and especially Scott were the doors while Allison was the key to both their suffering and somehow he felt great pleasure in that.

“ Stop it, that's enough!” Chris shouted, seeing the state her daughter had been brought too.

He hadn't even known that the boy, Markus had meant that much to her as he'd only met him once before he had been flagged as an asset to obtain information out of Scott about the Alpha.

“ No, it's not and you're just as much of a catalyst to this as she is after all, if not for all of you I would have never obtained such a great specimen of human biology for me to finally create the perfect chimera!” Markus muttered, sounding almost insane intentionally.

“ After all, you pushed that boy to me.”

“ He was a Warlock, we did what we had to do to protect humans from demons!” Chris defiantly said.

“ But you see.” He muttered, turning towards Allison.“ Markus was never a Warlock.”

“ W-wh-at?” Allison muttered, shock and disbelief in her voice.“ N-no! I-i saw it m-myself! The m-mark of t-the warlock!”

“ No, common misconception for the magically unlearned actually but there are two types beings that fall under that mark.” Markus muttered, stringing up a carefully constructed lie that he had fortified after obtaining information from the Tome Of Blessings, giving him the perfect lie.

“ The Warlocks, those who make deals with demonic creatures.” Markus told them, glancing at Peter who was still struggling with a snort.“ Then there are The Champion's, those blessed by the Gods.”

Quickly that information settled on their faces, horror dawning on Allison at the prospect that she had probably mistaken Markus for something he was not, and in doing so damning him.

Then there was the skeptic disbelief on Chris's face.“ That's impossible! The Gods disappeared a Millenia ago!”

“ Oh but that's where you're wrong, after all I'm a Warlock myself and when I found a Champion in this day and age I was quite shocked, but that doesn't matter anymore.” He muttered, walking in circles with a laidback pose.

“ And why is that?” Scott questioned, finally speaking up.

“ Because I took his Blessed status, I devoured his power for myself and became so much more!” Markus muttered feverently, spreading his arms out as magic bloomed with him at the centre.

All around him the elements seemed to bloom.

Fire sparking in a ball of blue flames, Earth gouging out from the earth, water materializing from the water particles around them, wind picking up in a ball of controlled cyclones.

Chris seeing the display took a step back, quickly followed by Scott and Allison.

Seeing their expressions Markus knew that he had sold his lie, the impact of his power being unrefutable to his words.

“ T-then what is that you want from us?” Scott asked, fear clear in his eyes as he watched my magical showing come to a sudden end.

“ I'm a persuer of knowledge above all but I also do love making deals and collecting, and I've already made one deal today, so what's one more....” Markus muttered, his eyes drifting to the air where a screen hovered infront of him.

[—Ding! You've through contractual magic obtained the following!

—Bane Of Monster's[S][Unlocked]

—5 Slave Commands for Allison Argent.

—[-]—

At the Markus' words his observers looked on to him on confusion.

Markus ignored them though, instead his eyes drifted to Scott and Derek.

“ Now tell me, who between you wants to become an Alpha?” Markus asked, a grin on his face as he waved his hand towards Peter who immediately froze, maniac panic flooding him.

Chris hearing what he said frowned, they had been mercilessly destroyed by Peter in their altercation before the masked man appeared, the thought of another Alpha appearing did not bore well for him.

Especially thinking of what he'd do when his daughters monster boyfriend obtained that kind of power.

Scott and Derek on the other hand immediately looked on to each other, greed in their eyes even as Derek wavered from the pain.

Allison on the other hand was unresponsive to his words, staring blankly in space with her bow having dropped after Markus told her of ‘his’ fate and words to them.

Markus seeing this though grinned, his plans were going just as he expected.