authors note: hey everyone! this is my third fan fiction and as promised the sequel to The Vampire Diaries: A New Entry! This story will revolve around the Mikaelson cousins and only children of Klaus and Elijah, Adam and Beth. The narrator of this story is still Natalie (For new readers, she is the main protagonist and narrator of the last story as well as Elijah's wife and Beth's mother) This chapter sets the scene introducing you to the life that the Mikaelson cousins live as well as establishing a mystery that will lead to shocking discoveries. I own nothing. It is strongly suggested for new readers to read and be familiar with my first story, The Vampire Diaries: A New Entry, to understand how Beth and Adam came to be as well as to know all the other characters that will be regulars in this story. And for old readers, welcome back! I hope you enjoy the beginning of this story as you did with my last! So as usual, everyone enjoy!

Chapter 1: The Wild Ones

It was a warm summer night down in the quarter of New Orleans. The streets were barren and all was quiet at the moment. It was a Friday night and all the teenagers and young adults of the quarter were gathered together in the most popular club of Louisiana, The Cajun Beat. This was seen as a hangout for numerous cliques of friends but the most important group of friends to frequent this club were a group of young werewolves, who went by their club name known as the wild ones.

It was a small group, consisting of only four members, there was Jay Hemlock, an original member of this pack as well as a relatively tall and lean young man who had blue eyes and light blonde hair. Roman Peters, an athlete who had messy brown hair and matching eyes who was also an original member who was given his name after the Roman Institute, a school for young witches, warlocks and other supernatural creatures to help them control and practice there powers and abilities which was founded and led by none other then the most powerful warlock found in the quarter today, my childhood best friend, Spike Roman. The latest addition to this group was a boy named Zane Lockwood, who had jet black hair, a slight tan skin tone as well as grey eyes who recently befriended this pack since he had just moved to New Orleans from Florida and finally the head of the group, their alpha, was my nephew, Adam Niklaus Mikaelson.

Adam has grown into a strong and fierce young man, not to mention the youngest alpha that New Orleans has seen in years, since he is only seventeen years old. Since Adam is the one and only son of the Original Hybrid, Klaus, he has been named a new hybrid of sorts since his father is both a werewolf and a vampire and not to mention his mother, my younger sister, used to be a hunter and the only living female member of the five when he was conceived before she transitioned into a vampire, like myself. He is the spitting image of Klaus in body shape and size and takes after his father when it comes to being wild and impulsive but he also dominates with looks of his mother, with having her beautiful green eyes as well as a shade of strawberry blonde hair, which he gets from both of his parents respectively.

The lights were dim as the music blasted and the colorful strobe lights were all that could be seen through the darkness of the club. Adam and his pack stood together as they looked out into the full crowd of people dancing.

"It really is packed tonight" Jay said as he sipped from his drink.

"Isn't it always?" Roman said.

"Yeah but there are a lot of new faces here tonight" Adam said as he finished his drink and fiddled with the glass in his hands.

"Who do you think he'll pick up tonight?" Jay said jokingly to Roman over the loud bass of the music.

"Who knows, I guess we will just have to wait and see" Roman said as he and Jay both laughed.

"You know I can hear you two" Adam said as he shot his two friends a look.

"That's the point" Jay said as he and Roman proceeded to walk away.

Adam shook his head as he watched his friends leave his sight, he then made his way through the crowd to get himself another drink.

"Hey there give me another Jack Daniel's please" Adam said as he slid the glass over to the bartender. The bartender just looked at him as Adam waited.

"Is something wrong?" Adam asked wondering why the bartender was staring at him.

"Yeah there is, you and your little friends are underage" the bartender said.

"Oh come on guy, your going to try and tell me that half the people that are here and that you serve aren't?" Adam said. The bartender said nothing as he continued to stare at him.

"Okay look…" Adam began again as this time he lifted the sleeve of his shirt and showed off the large black script "M" he had tattooed on his wrist. "Do you know what this stands for?" Adam asked. "If you don't know it stands for Mikaelson, and I think you know who the Mikaelson's are and I doubt that you would want any trouble from any of them especially me but more importantly my father…" Adam said as he looked at the bartender.

The bartender had nothing else to say, he simply poured Adam another drink and left it at that. Adam smirked at him as he took his drink and proceeded to walk away. As he did, Adam caught wind of someone from across the room, he saw her standing tall with her flowing dark brown chestnut colored hair with matching eyes and immediately recognized her as none other than my daughter, his best friend and cousin, Beth Mikaelson.

Adam pushed through the crowd as he got closer and put his hand on Beth's shoulder. "Hey, what are you doing here?" Adam said in her ear.

"I can ask you the same thing, your not starting trouble are you?" Beth asked as she could read Adam as a book considering they have been thick as thieves since they were born and more so since we moved to New Orleans.

"What would make you say that?" Adam said with a smile.

"No reason at all" Beth said sarcastically as she then looked around. "Where's the rest of your group?" Beth asked.

"Zane didn't come tonight and Roman and Jay are around here somewhere" Adam answered.

"You know that Aunt Carly doesn't like you coming here and drinking, acting as if you own the place, just because your the child of an Original doesn't make you better than everyone else" Beth said.

"It doesn't? Come on Beth don't give me that self righteous crap, your one to talk, your the daughter of Elijah and the story of how you came to be is even more interesting than my story. So come on, live a little…" Adam said as he grabbed Beth's hand and dragged her onto the dance floor. Beth rolled her eyes and dropped the subject as she thought maybe Adam was right, they were both children of the infamous and powerful Originals, maybe she should start enjoying all the perks that come along with that.

As Beth and Adam got onto the dance floor, someone knocked into Adam and this caused him to spill his recently acquired drink all over her dress.

"Hey watch it!" she shouted at him as she tried to break free of the crowd.

"Well maybe you should watch where your going!" Adam shouted behind her as she walked away from him and out of the club all together.

"See this is what I mean, some people…" Adam began. "Great now I'm going to have to get another drink" Adam said.

"Maybe this is a sign that we should be going" Beth said as she tried to reason with her hot-headed cousin. Just as Adam was about to answer, he heard someone scream loud enough that it could be heard over the music and by Beth and by people surrounding them.

"What was that?" Beth asked. Adam said nothing as he took Beth by the hand and tried to make his way out of the club with numerous others.

When they both finally got outside, Adam pushed his way through the circling crowd of people and saw what all the fuss was about. Laying there on the concrete was a mangled girl's body, but it wasn't just any girl, it was the one that Adam had just bumped into and spilled his drink on, each of her limbs were broken and there was a huge gash in her stomach as well as an open wound on her neck with also had bite marks on it and her body continued to bleed out in front of everyone on the floor.

Adam simply stood there frozen in shock that this girl he had just saw only moments ago, was now laying on the cold concrete dead and nearly ripped to pieces. Beth pushed her way through to get back to Adam's side and when she did, she gasped and covered her mouth with her hands, she too was in shock.

"Oh my God…" Beth whispered as she then placed her hand on her head as she felt a stabbing pain rush through it. She had been having very painful and sudden headaches as of late and the sight of this horror brought another one on. Beth nearly lost her balance and fell onto Adam's shoulder.

"Whoa, hey are you okay?" Adam asked.

"Yeah I'm fine, we should get out of here" Beth said as she struggled to stand tall on her own two feet. Just then Jay and Roman joined Adam and Beth and saw what everyone else did, they looked at each other and then at Adam as they got closer to him.

Jay leaned into Adam as he spoke quietly, "You don't think one of our kind did this, do you?"

"I have no idea, the full moon cycle hasn't started yet so I highly doubt it, this was probably a vampire judging by the wounds on her neck…" Adam said to Jay.

"Well either way, Klaus isn't going to be happy about this at all" Jay said as he and Roman helped Beth to their car.

Adam remained standing, staring at the girl's body for a few moments more as he thought about what Jay had just said. "Could a werewolf have done this? Highly unlikely, the cycle hasn't started and their scent would have been noticed, there aren't any hybrids around beside myself that can turn at will so that rules that out, all that leaves is vampires, but why? Things in the quarter have been so peaceful, there hasn't been a killing in ages, a random one no less…Jay is right my father will not be happy to hear about this as well as my explanation as to how I know about it and what I was doing here, great…" Adam thought to himself as he finally managed to take his eyes off the scene and proceeded to join Jay, Roman and Beth as he drove back to his home, The Mikaelson Estate.

authors note: reviews will be much appreciated. This chapter introduced Adam Niklaus Mikaelson, hot headed and arrogant only son of Klaus Mikaelson and Carly Lewis and he is new hybrid of sorts since he has werewolf, hunter and vampire blood in his system. It also introduced Beth Mikaelson, the human daughter of Elijah Mikaelson and the narrator, Natalie Lewis Mikaelson but she will also prove to be important since she is also the child of an Original as well as the daughter of the formal doppleganger. The wild ones is Adam's pack of werewolf friends, Jay Hemlock, Roman Peters, and Zane Lockwood who has yet to be introduced but will be very soon. This chapter ends with a random killing and sets the scene of a new mystery for the Mikaelson's, this killing can come to threaten Klaus' reign as king of New Orleans if it isn't handled. Klaus, Elijah, Carly and Natalie are making their appearances in the next chapter, and the whole family will discuss how they will go about this new threat. Major reveals and introductions of more characters important to the story are coming up! Keep reading to find out what comes next!

thanks so much for reading xo