910 A.D. - The New World

Klaus was walking through the valley, thinking about the life he would have if his family never left Europe. They had came to what they called the new world to run away from the disease that was taking their old home. His mother, Esther, contacted with a local witch, Ayana, that told them about a save heaven, where she could grow old with her family.

After arriving at the new land, Esther and her husband, Mikael were welcomed with flowers and tributes. The locals believed that were sent, for, somehow fulfill a destiny. They were happy. The couple would never have to run away again.
"Welcome, Esther. I'm Ayana. I'm here to help you."
"I believe we are going to be great friends." Esther said with a smile on her face.

Esther was a very lovely woman. She had long, curly and platin blonde hair. Also had beautiful gray eyes, full of wisdom. She came from a great family of witches, hunted in Europe. Mikael won her hand in a tournament, organized by their ancestors, and they had a quick wedding.

Many years after they came to this new land, they growed a beautiful family. Esther gave birth to six beautiful children there; only one girl. Finn was the oldest and her sweethart. They spent the days together; Finn always helped his mother. The second one was Elijah. His personality remembered a lot of Esther's mother... He had glow and truth in his eyes. After Elijah, came Niklaus.

Niklaus growed up as a very sweet boy. He was really smart, always taking care of his brothers, specially the small ones. Rebekah came just after. Niklaus loved her so much, treated her like his own daughter. Rebekah was still very young when Kol came. And after a few years, Esther gave birth to one more son, Henrik.

Although the time passed, Esther's children were still kids in many, many ways.

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Mikael knew that the new land they were living wasn't entirely save. The men on the village were descendents of an old clan, cursed by fate. At nights, full moon nights, they walked out of their houses to hunt, in the woods, as wolves. They suffered a hudge painful transformation that made them, unconsciously predators, with no compassion or mercy.

The Mikael family were no different from the others without the wolf gene. On those nights they locked themselves up and waited until the sunrise, when the wolves walked with two legs again.

Niklaus was looking at that water, glowing into his eyes, as he was lost in thoughts.

"C'mon Nik, it's time." His lovely sister called him. She had a serious look in her eyes, knowing what it was about to come. Hiding, again, with constantly fear of being attacked by the creatures of the moon; werewolves, as they were called. Klaus felt his hand shake. Their father, Mikael, never liked the wolves. He was tired of living on the run, being vulnerable. He always fought with Esther on those nights and their children were forced to witness their father's rage.

Klaus got up, looked at the lake once more and left with his dearly sister.

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"This is madness! Why do we do this?! It's time we take control!" Screamed Mikael. The neighbors could hear their fights along with the howls. Mikael came from a long family of warriors. He fought in many battles and crusades during his lifetime. But in this new land he was nothing. He was no more than an old-man that was powerless in front of the enemy.

But the wolves weren't evil. They could not help themselves at night, but they warned people about their condition. No one was forced to stay or like them. But Mikael was to proud and selfish to leave. Why would he? He hadn't done anything wrong. They were the abomination there, not him.

"How does it feel?" Klaus asked Ivar, a wolf friend.
"It feels different in the beggining. But the transformation is just pure pain." He looked at Klaus, seriously. Ivar was one of the leaders of the Wolf Clan. The witch Ayana was a friend of his and also the one that informed him about a family that was suffering in a very far place from there; a family with a very powerful witch. And, as kind as he was, Ivar told Ayana to ask them to live in a save place with their clan.

Klaus looked at his side and there was Mikael, passing through them, with a hate face, looking directly to Ivar. Ivar couldn't help but smile a little.
"Your father doesn't like me..." Klaus smiled too. Ivar was a very different man, when comparing to his father. He had black hair and a deep voice. He was a very strong man too. He had also fought battles in times that were no longer talked.
"Please, tell me more about the curse." Klaus asked him.
"Shh." The man looked at Klaus with a very serious look. "You know we don't talk about this things anymore." Ivar turned around and started to walk away.
"Please, Ivar. I'm just intrigued." But the man didn't answered. Klaus, seeing that he was left alone, started to walk around the village.

He saw his brother Elijah, looking at something he could not tell at first.
"What are you looking at, brother?" He asked. Elijah smiled, but didn't turned his eyes around. Then, searching for what his brother was admiring, Klaus found Rebekah sitting next to the fire, talking with one of the locals, Johan. A really young boy, aspirant to be a warrior. Klaus smiled along with Elijah.

"Do you think we are too flexible with our little sister, brother?" Klaus asked, with an ironic tone. Elijah smiled a little.
"I doubt that Johan sees her. But we shouln't be careless. Even so, he's harmless."
"I'm worried." Klaus said, serious.
"Don't be. You'll take care of her Nik, you always did." They smiled at each other.

"So, for what are preparing yourself?" Rebekah said, with a sweet tone in her voice, trying to make herself noticed by the only boy that didn't care. He looked at her, fast, to make sure she was really talking to him. Rebekah felt her heart accelerate and her hands get really cold.
"For battles." He smiled a little. A beautiful smile, he had.
"What kinds of battles?" Seeing that the girl wouldn't stop talking, Johan finally decided to gave her some of his attention. She changed expression immediately when Johan turned around to talk to her.
"I wanna be like them." He said, whispering, fearing that they would be overheard. "I wanna be a wolf." Rebekah felt her skin get even colder.
"Aren't you afraid? Of the pain?" Rebekah didn't know much about the wolf curse. People didn't talk about that very much, especially the women. But she did know that the process was painful. At those nights, she could her the screams and noises that made everybody scared.
"Yes, but it is part of the process." Rebekah couldn't understand very much about what he was saying.
"But you are one already, aren't you?" She started to whisper too. People could her hear or worse, if her father could see her talking to Johan.
"No." Johan answered fast. He looked around to see if anybody was close to them and aproached himself. Rebekah smiled. "You have to kill somebody to activate the curse."
"You have to kill someone?!" Rebekah raised her voice. Johan putted his hand in her mouth quickly.
"You can't tell this anyone." He looked at her, seriously. "Did you understand me, Rebekah? You can't tell." He waited a moment, until the girl calmed down and then he let his hand go. She gulped, a little afraid, but she remained quiet. Johan kept looking at her.
"You can't kill someone." She whispered, scared of his plans. She couldn't understand why he wanted to be a wolf so badly.
"This is why you couldn't know." He looked up and then, in a fast thought, he turned to her, grabbed her shoulders and looked into her eyes, "Rebekah, I'm asking you, I'm begging you, not to tell this." She looked at him, serious, not knowing what to do. His strong arms were around her and although nobody could see them, she felt embarrassed. He kept looking at her, with his dark brown eyes and she couldn't say anything. "For me, Rebekah, for me.", he finally said. Rebekah remained quiet. She wasn't sure about what she was going to do. She was scared, yes, but she could not betray Johan. She liked him too much to do it. After what he had told her, she didn't know anything anymore. Who knows that they could do to Johan if she told everyone about his plans... Seeing that he was grabbing too hard, he let his hands go and held her hand for a second. He passed his hand through her hair and the girl smiled.
"I swear." She whispered. "I won't tell anybody." He smiled again.
"Thank you, Rebekah." Then, in a glow of hapiness, Johan kissed Rebekah's hand and walked with her until her house.

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Rebekah was watching Johan walking away from her window, smiling, when suddenly she heard a voice.
"We need to talk." She turned around.
"What do you want, Nik?" She had a sad tone. She knew that Klaus didn't like to see her hanging out with the locals. He feared that Mikael could find out and do something with her.
"I'm scared for you, sister." Rebekah rolled her eyes, knowing what it was about to come, "You are stepping in dangerous ground here. If you are not careful-"
"I know what I'm doing Nik." She looked at him, seriously.
"If our father finds out-"
"He won't." She got up and looked at him, in the eyes. "How would he? You wouldn't tell him, would you?" Klaus didn't answered. "We are in this together, remember? Taking care of one another. Always and forever." She smiled at him. He didn't say a word. "I'll be careful."

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"What are you doing?" Kol asked his older brother, Klaus.
"I'm practicing." Kol had this glow of admiration on his face, looking at his brother, as he was handling a sword.
"Can you teach me?" Klaus smiled and looked at Kol from head to toe.
"Maybe it's time for you to learn. Your almost nineteen, it's time for you to be a man." They smiled at each other. They laughed and went by the river to practice.

They stayed all the afternoon fighting. Distracted, they didn't noticed the time. As they were together, they saw a shadow appeared not far from where they were. It was their mother, Esther.
"Thank God I found you! It's late, I'm worried." The both brothers looked at her, worried too. Not because they lost the track of the hour, but because they knew what they would have to face at their house.

Klaus, Kol and Esther walked until their home in silence. Kol couldn't stop shaking and Esther never looked up. She opened the door slowly and Rebekah appeared near by the door.
"Where have you been?! Father is furious." She helped her mother picking the sword and tried not to make any noise, so her father wouldn't hear them.

But the effort was useless. As soon as he heard voices, Mikael came out of his bedroom and looked at both of the boys and saw a cut in Kol's arm.
"What is this?" He simply asked, with a such soft tone that scared everybody. Nobody answered. "What is this?!" He asked again, almost screaming, nervous that nobody answered him.
"It... It was a cut father. I cut myself while I was handling a sword." He looked at Kol, seriously.
"And why would you handle a sword?" He asked, intrigued, looking at Kol's eyes.
"It- It was my idea father", Klaus said and Mikael's expression changed immediately. He walked until where Klaus was stading, and he looked at him, confused, "I thought it was a good time to teach him... He is old enough and..." Klaus did not finished.
"You did what?!" Mikael screamed at him.
"I'm sorry father, I thought-"
"You DON'T think, boy." He raised his voice, "You are a reckless child, who doesn't know a thing about the world! And now you think you can decide about your brother's life? I am the one who decide things here. You are nothing. Try to think about that." He said it looking at Klaus' eyes. The boy hold his tears back, because crying was also a motive for his father fight with him. Mikael left the room, leaving everybody in silence.

"We should go to bed." Esther simply said. Klaus showed a furious look at her. She left the room, confused, as always, and went to find her husband. Klaus was left alone with Rebekah and Kol, in the living room.

"Don't cry brother.", Rebekah cleaned his tears and kissed his forehead. Kol was crying too, for his brother, seeing that he was left with no defense against their father. They hugged each other.

"What happened here?" Elijah opened the front door, with a intrigued look, seeing his brothers crying with Nik. They didn't say anything. Elijah thought about it for a second and realized what that is was about. As the oldest around the grabbed his brothers, trying to pretect them with a hug, knowing that, in theory, it was useless, but somehow made them feel save. They had each other and that was the most valuable thing they could estimate.

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"C'mon Henrik, let's eat." Esther called her youngest son inside. He was playing with the other kids around, while it was day. Esther smiled at him, while Finn helped her with the food.
"Mother, when will I become a warrior?" She smiled at him.
"When you have my size and my strength." Finn joked and smiled at Henrik.
"Will you teach me, Finn? How to fight..."
"It won't be needed." It was Mikael's voice. He entered the room and Esther froze, looking at him, worried, "If everything that your mother and I are planning... We will never have to fight again." He smiled. Finn looked at his mother, worried as well, because he knew that whatever their plan was, Esther wasn't happy about it.

They all remained quit, while Henrik finished his meal.
"Where's Rebekah?" Mikael asked.
"Oh, she was going for a walk, near the river..." Esther said, fast.
"I do not like this girl walking around alone. It is not prudent. Finn, go look for her. Tell her to come help her mother." Finn left fast, leaving Henrik with their parents.

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"Father told me to call you." Finn said, after finding Rebekah going across the river.
"I can't now. Tell him you couldn't find me." She kept walking.
"Where are you going, Bekah?" She could not tell Finn; she could not trust him.

"I... I'll meet Elijah there, he is going to show me the florest." She lied. Finn said nothing. Even though he didn't believe her story, he left her and went to his house again. As walking back he saw Elijah, talking with Klaus, near by. He stopped and turned around to follow Rebekah to see what she was doing.

He ran a little, and found her waiting in a glade, alone. He waited behind a tree to see what she was waiting for. Or who.

Then a shadow in the woods revealed himself. "You came.", the shadow said. And then, in a fast instinct, the shadow kissed Finn's sister and embraced her. Finn couldn't recognize who was the shadow but he kept looking to see if that would make him remember of someone that he saw Rebekah talking to.
"I sorry I'm late, I had to help my father." The shadow said.
"It's okay. I'm happy that you're here now." The girl smiled.

Finn ran out of the woods back to the village. Without knowing what to do he walked until he thought about something that would help him to make a wise decision. Then, as walking near them, he saw Klaus and Elijah again, together, but this time they were looking at this very peculiar girl who was picking flowers with another woman.

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"I misjudge you, Rebekah." Johan looked at her, sweetly, "I am sorry." She smiled, kissed him again.
"It's fine. I misjudge you too when you told me about the curse but... I understand now." She looked at him, serious. He passed his hand through her hair and then her cheeks, then he moved his hand slowly until her waste.
"I... I must go now." She said, smiling. She wanted him; she wanted him like never before. But she couldn't.
"Please, don't." She smiled again, kissed him one more time.
"I'm sorry, but I have to." She started to walk away and their hands remained together, until the distance between them was too long for his fingers keep touching hers. She kept smiling and looking at him the whole time, with every part of her body against her path. He stood there, looking at her until she completely disapeared between the trees.

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"There she is." Elijah said. Klaus looked at her, the girl his brother told him so much about, and she was truly beautiful. She had dark brown hair as her eyes, beautiful glowing skin and a very soft personality. She walked as she was levitating; so smooth that you could hardly hear her steps.
"What's her name?" Klaus asked his brother.
"Tatia."