Alright STOP. Collaborate & Listen
Featuring ASHDU4 & Fireworks8725
Chapter 1: Becoming, written by Fireworks8725
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"Your mother won't like you being away so late!" Annie chided her friend.
"I don't much care! I heard Niklaus in the village saying he would be out here tonight!" Beth said gleefully, dodging branches that would have collided with her face.
"She doesn't much like him either! You will be in so much trouble!" Annie continued, tripping over rocks trying to keep up with Beth in the dense forest.
"She doesn't much like either of my loves. Elijah is a gentlemen and she only hates him because I love him so!" Beth concluded.
"Oh yes how could I forget your duplicity! What would you do if you needed to choose between them?"
"Oh do be quiet, will you! I want to surprise him!" Beth said.
"He doesn't even know we are alive! What exactly do you expect to find?"
They stopped dead in their tracks. In front of them was a field of men they recognized from the village, however they seemed to be in a great deal of pain, rolling around on the floor.
"I think we have come too far…" Annie whispered now, hoping they wouldn't notice her.
Unfortunately, Beth then noticed Niklaus nearby, looking on to the field as they were.
"Nik!" She waved, blushing, although in the dark no one could see it.
Niklaus's eyes popped out of his skull as the men took notice of him and the small boy beside him, his brother Henrik.
Before the girls had any time to react, one of the men sprung up at Niklaus and swiped at him as his form changed from man to wolf. Niklaus started to run but Henrik was mesmerized by the transformation, and suffered as a consequence. Niklaus yelled out in agony, pulled at the motionless Henrik and ran back to town with him.
Beth and Annie had slumped to the floor and hid in a bush. The wept together at what they had just seen.
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The next day, tired and dirty from the forest they trudged to Ayana's home in the village and explained what they had seen.
Ayana had always been there for the girls, someone to talk to when their strict mothers became closed off. She knew of Beth's infatuation with the Mikaelson boys and was the one who had told her to voyage into the forest that night.
Ayana was stressed and looked very upset about something.
"I have been talking to Esther, and she has told me some things that have left me very shaken, girls. Do you trust me?"
The girls both nodded.
"You must never tell anyone else what you have seen in the forest this day. You must also never tell what I am about to tell you."
Ayana told them that the Mikaelsons' were to become vampires as a result of what happed to Henrik. She told them exactly the process that Esther would be using, and exactly what the new vampires' weaknesses would be. She armed the girls with vervain, an herb from the base of the white oak tree, and a jar of splintered wood from the bark.
Beth was deep in thoughts. Ayana wanted them to be prepared to protect themselves from Klaus and even Elijah, a mild mannered man. She knew right away, she did not want to fight them; she wanted to join them. Annie sensed this right away and feared what might happen next.
They did not let on to Ayana that their intentions were not her own, but chose to lay low for a few days until the new vampires adjusted to being reborn.
Only a short week later, they noticed many townsmen going missing. They realized that the hunger had finally overtaken the family.
Beth told Annie that she had a plan to be with the Mikaelsons forever. A shiver ran down her spine as she listened to her plan.
"Are you with me, or not?" Beth asked. "Because, with or without you, I am sneaking into their house tonight, and stealing their blood. Like Ayana said, if you die with vampire blood in your system, you shall become as they are."
"So Beth, you intend to die on this night? What of your mother? And your young suitor?"
"I long not for this life any longer. I know where I belong. In or out Annie?" She said seriously.
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Annie slipped feet first into the hutch window. She crouched down to the side as Beth followed. Beth held a vial and a knife. She was shaking.
"I thought you wanted to do this!" Annie whispered.
"I did!" Beth quaked.
Annie snatched the knife and vial and scurried over to the first man asleep before her. Bottles of ale surrounded his form, so surely he would not wake right away.
His face was young, she recognized him as Kol, the second youngest of the boys. She lingered on his features, considering that he would forever have this innocent face, no matter how many years he would walk the Earth. She halted only a moment longer, holding her breath before diving the blade onto his wrist.
The blood spilled out as easily as a humans would, and she worried for a moment that he was not a vampire. His eyes shot open though and the façade of an innocent sleeping boy was shattered. He lunged at her with his fangs bared and she was sure at this moment that she would die. However, Beth, covered in blood, came then with a vial filled with yet more blood and handed it to her. She wasted no time in drinking it down. She then felt teeth upon her neck, and then all she saw was black.
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