The Tales Of The Mighty Siphoner

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Diaries or Originals. They belong to CW, Julie Plec. I don't own anything else used or referenced either, they belong to the real owners.

A/N: A reviewer asked what is the point of making an story almost identical to the original story with only minor tweeks.

I think the original story is one of the best stories I have read on , a total re-write could ruin it, there are just some smallthings Iwant to change.

In the original story the writer sometimes says Kai is 'Truly Immortal'

For my story I will use the real meaning of Truly Immortal - someone who can never ever die not matter what happens to them or is done to them.

The original version was written by baringan on . Link on Profile.

Prologue

Malachai 'Kai' Parker walked towards a massive building. The city that he is currently in is deserted, much like all the other cities he had ventured through. This would be his first time in the British museum, he had wanted to see if there were items worth salvaging from the museum. Old objects could sometimes be dangerous, in other words powerful. As he made his way towards his intended destination, a myriad of thoughts swirled within his mind.

Shadows of the past plagued him daily. Lesser men would've yielded to the guilt he felt, the betrayal he suffered and the despair of his existence. But for Kai, the demons of his past are but a welcomed companion - a faithful reminder of life outside of his purgatory.

Kai was one of eight children born to the head of the Gemini clan: a coven of magic users. Magi, sorcerers and hexa are but a few words that were used to describe these individuals. In the modern era, the term witch is the label most associated with these individuals. Since the dawn of creation, Nature, an omnipotent and mystical force has acted to maintain the balance of the omni-verse. Everything including birth, death and even time & space falls under its domain.

There were many types of magic each with it's own rules and limits. One type of magic allows the witches to do almost anything if they can figure out how to make their magic do it, this type of magic has always been called Wicca. Wicca witches act as servants of nature, and thus could be described as Nature's agents on the material plane, the magic they were born with allowing them to do things that otherwise would be impossible - this was the type of magic that Kai was born into.

Of course, the Gemini Coven is only one of many witch covens to exist; it is however one of the oldest remaining covens. To Kai's knowledge, there are only a handful of other covens that are older than the Geminis. The Gemini coven, as the title suggests, revolves around twins, believing incredible power could be harnessed from the merging of twins. As they see it, twins are but incomplete parts of one another - by uniting these fragments, power and balance would be restored. This is unique to the Gemini coven; their ancestors have fused the Gemini Merging spell into their very bloodline. As the spell blessed Gemini descendants with fertility, disposition for mystical twins, the ability for unification and ever increasig power; Nature demanded balance by cursing the Gemini coven with a unique type of witch known as Siphoners.

Siphoners are witches with no magic of their own and are unable to generate their own magic like other witches. What they do have is the unholy and unatural ability to absorb magic from other sources, they could siphon from almost anything including other magical beings. After absorbing magic, Siphoners can then perform spells like any other witches. Even then, the magic they absorbed would only remain within them for a day or two before it dissipates. As magic is an extention of a witches life force, Siphoners are often mistreated and even ostracised. Their existence seemingly brings shame to the prestige of the Gemini Coven so the existence of Siphoners is virtually unknown to those outside of the coven.

Kai was a siphoner and the eldest son of the leader of the Gemini coven and was talented in the usage of magic. His grandmother had believed him to be a prodigy when it comes to magic. At a young age, Kai was able to understand the mechanics behind most spells and could reverse engineer them through observation alone.

Kai would've seemed like the perfect candidate take over his father's position as leader of the Gemini coven, if only he wasn't born a Siphoner. Kai's twin sister, Josette, while born as a normal witch lacks Kai's prodigious skills in magic and unlike her brother, who finds interest in alls things magical, Josette herself has little interest in magic though she does possess a fair amount of magical knowledge.

His father, being disappointed with his eldest set of twins, continued to bore more children. This venture led to the birth of six more children – with only the last two being twins. A boy and a girl: Olivia and Lucas. The new hope of the coven.

Throughout Kai's early life, his grandmother basically raised him. She'd let him Siphon her magic and taught him many spells. Kai aimed to proved his father wrong and become a great witch, regardless of the fact that he can't generate his own magic. When Kai was 21, his grandmother had passed away, her final wish before joining the other side was for him to become a benevolent leader for the coven. And so, on her death bed he promised her he would.

Kai knew that his father would never allow him the chance of becoming the Gemini Coven leader. In his father's eyes, Kai was nothing but a disappointment - an abomination. In order to fulfil his grandmother's wishes, Kai opted to take drastic actions - he would take the position by force if he had to.

His plan was to kill his youngest siblings, Liv and Luke. And thus the coven would be forced to do the unification between him and Jo. He had no doubt that he would be victorious if it were between him and his dear sister.

While this plan may seem heartless, even psychotic, Kai had planned to restore his siblings back to life as soon as he became the head of the Gemini coven. His belief was that being the head of the coven would grant him not only his own source of magic, but also the power needed to bring his Grandmother back to life; the one person that unconditionally loved him. However, the plan didn't exactly go accordingly. He ended up killing half of his siblings, and not the ones that he was intending to kill.

His efforts were greatly hindered by his twin sister. By the end of the confrontation, while he failed to kill Liv and Luke, Jo had promised to do the Merging ritual with him the next day by channelling the power from the solar eclipse, a celestial event. Little did he know, it was a ruse by the coven to banish him into a prison world.

He had heard of the Prison World. A dimesion created from powerful magic. The Prison world was an exact replica of the real world on the day it was cast, minus all the living creatures. As such, Kai was trapped completely alone on a day of a solar eclipse. When the day ends, it would loop back and repeat itself.

At some point Kai gave into his despair, guilt and sadness - he tried to end his life. As it turns out, even that liberty was taken from him. Eventually he gave up on dying. Over the years he killed himself in many different way just for fun and scientific curiosity

'What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.' he thought.

Within the first year, Kai had managed to find the Ascendant, a mystical dial-like device. And according to the Gemini Codex, the Ascendant was one of two keys in order for him to get of the Prison World. The second thing he would need was a Bennett witch. With that knowledge, Kai was hopeful that he could one day escape and finish what he had started and fufill his promise to his deceased grandmother.

Besides thinking of new ways to die, Kai also spent his time researching new spells and learning to do many new things. Kai had learnt how to pilot a plane, and even a helicopter. Admittedly, he had crashed a few times first. The no dying thing certainly helps. He also learned how to use a variety of weapons, ranging from swords to rifles.

He had also endeavoured to learn martial arts. From archives he'd learned to specialise in Wing Chun and Krav Maga. He supplemented these styles with techniques from other fighting styles that he learned from other places he had visited.

He had found books which detailed the fighting stances, movements and even how to attack and defend for each fighting style, he would use lots of different equipment including fighting dummies to practise strikes. Thanks to how detailed the books were he eventually he managed to become a rather good fighter though without a true opponent his form and style was sometimes sloppy and undisciplined.

Kai also researched science, he would read and learn about all different types of scientific study, while growing up learnt the basic science normal kids at school are taught but he decided to study the more complex elements of science including complex theories, this included Physics, Chemisrty and Biology.

While magic could be seen as the antithesis of science, Kai viewed them as two sides of the same coin. He started to use his new knowledge of science to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of his spells, giving him the same results as before but with less magic being used.

'Knowledge is power, and right now, the knowledge of the entire world is up for grabs.' he often thought

His grandmother had always told him that with magic and life 'Knowledge is power.'

Over the years in the Prison World, Kai learned and mastered many things. He had tried to soak up as much magical knowledge as possible, this was helped by having an eidetic memory. He had started with the Gemini Coven library, including the forbidden area. There were plenty of objects, that were used to store magic, for him to siphon from. It took him three months to learn everything from his coven's library, after which he moved onto another coven.

He spent the first decade travelling around the world, raiding covens and learning from priceless unprotected spell books. He also collected dark objects whenever he could. For a Siphoner like himself, these cursed objects are a great reservoir of magic, since dark magic and objects usually contained more magic.

Somewhere along the way, in an ancient part of Rome, Kai uncovered a very rare crystal that was used by ancient witches. The crystal was referred to as the Solistian gem - it was unique because it could convert the energy from sunlight into magic, then stores it within. Ancient priest would channel the energy within these crystals in order to perform 'miracles'. The crystal Kai found was only the size of a small marble.

It could store about ten times the amount of magic an average witch could, but the downside was, it generates magic at half the speed. A magically sealed vault deep within the Vatican protected the crystal. But since Kai was a Siphoner he easily siphoned away the magical ward before he fashioned the crystal into a ring.

With the Solistian ring in his possession, Kai spent the next decade practicing and perfecting the spells and magic that he had accumulated within the last ten years. He even invented new spells of his own by extrapolating magical theories from various covens.

(Time Skip 21 years after being trapped inside Prison World)

His time inside the Prison world has proven fruitful. He has mastered many types of magic the many great covens the world has to offer: Egyptian, Greece, Nordic, Celtic, Anglo, Roman, Aztec and Chinese and many more. He had also learned about different types of magic like Wiccan, even though the name was almost identical the magic was very different to Wicca, he spent sometime learning the potion and creating Wicca versions of the same spells. Most of his spells were learned from ancient texts and were very powerful. He could now perform most spells nonverbally and effortlessly.

In a grand library within the city of Alexandria, Egypt, Kai had uncovered a manual detailing a useful ability. This ability allows the user to feel and sense the magical and non magical people around them and once mastered it allows for witches to hone in on other sources of magic. The ability is passive and requires only a miniscual amount of magic to perform, though it requires great control.

As Kai was eating some potato chips, he felt a magical disturbance on the other side of the world. While his sensing ability normally doesn't have that far a range, due to the absence of life in this world, even the smallest signs of life anywhere else is detectable.

Kai honed in on the magical signal, whoever it was must be a witch, at least he hoped. Kai nonverbally casted a teleportation spell. The spell allows for him to 'blink' to anywhere he wants to go but requires a large amount of magic. It'll require a full day for the ring to recover the magic he had just used. The upside is that the amount of magic needed for the teleportation spell is the same regardless of distance. He landed in Virginia, the magical signal felt so much more potent now, no doubt due to the proximity.

He immediately hotwired a vehicle and drove towards the signal. It's been a long time since he had a person to talk to.

(Mystic Falls)

Kai observed the couple from afar. Well the word couple might have been a bit of an exaggeration.

'They seem to bicker and fight a lot.' Kai thought, amused. He could sense that they weren't ordinary people. The fact that they're pulsating magic told him as much. From what he could tell, the man with dark hair is a vampire. While he's never seen one before, he had read about them. There are many ways to deal with one. A neck-snapping spell or a heart-liquefying spell should do the trick.

The vampire however wasn't what interests him, it's his companion, the woman he's with. He had a hunch: 'She's a witch!' He could slightly feel the Ascendant inside his backpack resonating with her. The wheels in his head processed at a million miles per second at that very moment after realising the connection. 'A Bennet witch! At long last!' He thought with glee. 'It's time to go home.'

A/N : One person in the comments asked me to explain how Kai learned to fight, since I wanted to add and reword somethings I decided to add that.

When the original writer wrote this he didn't explain how Kai knew and remembered so much at once that is why I gave him an eidetic memory.

P.S : The reason I had not posted any more chapters is quite simple - I simple have not been in the mood, I will start again when I am in the mood.