Chapter One: Coming Home

Walking down the bustling street a woman smiled softly; letting the good memories of her time in the city over a hundred years ago wash over her.

"God, I've missed this place." She thought to herself but something felt wrong. Like something was missing. She continued wondering the streets, listening to the thought of the people around her trying to find the information she was looking for.

She walked in front of a group of especially rowdy people; she kept her head down and read their thoughts, instantly finding out that they were vampires. She tensed slightly when one of the group thought of a name she hadn't heard of in a while, Klaus. She kept walking, vaguely aware that they had now stopped their rowdiness and were watching her.

"Do you smell that Diego?" Asked an Asian rocker chick who was smirking.

"Oh yeah, looks like we to re-educating to do." The group let out vicious cheers before walking after the mysterious women.

"Crap, I knew I should have called it a night earlier." She thought to herself as she walked towards her car, which was less then ten feet away when she felt a strong handgrip, her arm and pull her in to the alley beside the car.

"Looky what we found!" Yelled out one of the older vampires.

"Quite the looker, aren't you witchy." Said Diego as he looked at the beautiful women in front of him. Her deep auburn hair stopped at the top of her butt in messy beach waves, but it was her golden brown eyes that struck him the most.

"Why thank you." She said with sarcasm lacing her voice with her head held high.

"What are you doing in the Quarter witch? You know the rules." She raised and inquisitive eyebrow at Diego.

"Rules? Since when do small fries like you lot make any rules around here?" She smirked at Diego's frown and the chores of displeased hisses going around.

"Marcel made it very clear that no witches are aloud in the Quarter nor are they aloud to do magic." Said Diego as he watched her carefully, there was something different about her, like she was stronger then she lets on.

"Hum, I'm glade to here tat our dear Marcelous is still alive and well, mind you I am a tad bit disappointed in his so called rules. He used to be such a kind and bright child." She said with a small soft smile before her eye hardened.

"Even if my dear Marcelous made these rules, they simply mean nothing to me given the fact that I'm not from this particular coven. Your rules simply don't apply to me." Everyone gave each other a confused look.

"Now you all have a choice, One; You tell me where I can find the Originals and I go off on my merry way or, Two; You don't tell which in that case I'll be forced to kill you all one by one until one of you do tell me what I'd like to know.

"What the hell are you playing at witch? You're not nearly as strong or as fast as us." The women smirked before lifting her palm towards of=ne of the older vampires, sending an invisible force towards him sending him in to the brick wall behind him.

"No way, that's impossible." Chocked out the restrained vampire. The rest of the group looked shocked or scared. No one said anything as the women walked towards the man against the wall.

"Is it?" She asked mockingly.

"You shouldn't be able to do magic here." Something clicked in her mind, she hadn't seen a single witch boasting about their little magic tricks they do for the tourists.

"Oh I feel someone trying very hard to stop me from using my magic. But as I've said I don't belong to this coven and your rules don't apply to me, beside I'm much stronger the your little witchling.

"Marcel will punish you." The women let out a laugh.

"I'm trembling. Now tell me, where are the Originals staying?" She asked while placing her hand on the vampire's chest./p

"Fuck you!" The women frowned.

"Shame, I hate doing this but it seems like you need a lesson. The loyalty you have is such a rare trait and is hard to come by these days." With that she pushed her hand violently into the vampires chest and pulled out his heart. His skin started to desiccate as he slid don to the ground. She turned around to face the now shocked group.

"Now tell me where they are! I don't like ending lives needlessly but I grow tiered of you shenanigans." One of the vampires was to charge at her when Diego shot out his arm, stopping him in his track.

"You charge her and you can kiss your life good bye." The women nodded her head, impressed with his logic.

"Smart man."

"You can find them at Orced Valley plantation, if you take Orced Valley drive all the way to the end you'll find the plantation there." The women relaxed her hard glare.

"Than you, I'm sorry about your friend." She turned around and walked to the mouth of the alley only to stop and look back at the group.

"Oh and do pass a message onto Marcelous for me." Diego glared at her.

"And what would it be?"

"Tell him that Annabelle says hello." She smiled as she got into her car and drove away leaving a group of very confused vampires.

"Let's head back to the compound. Bring Yannick's body, Marcel need to hear about this." Two younger nightwalkers went over to their fallen friend as the vampire, who tried to attack the strange woman, whom Diego assumed was named Annabelle, turned towards him.

"Yo man, why'd you stop me?"

"Didn't you sense something different in her Chad? She was no ordinary witch man." Diego turned to head towards the compound leaving the others to follow.

-Marcel's POV-

I was walking down to the courtyard with a spring in my step. Davina had a solid control over the witch's in the quarter, Klaus had just handed over Elijha to show he had no misguided plans here in New Orleans so they were down to one Original which made me feel better and there was no problems on the streets, life was good. Taking the last few steps of stairs I saw Diego and his group of nightwalkers walking into the compound.

"Marcel, we need to talk to you." Frowning at the tone in his voice I knew that it wasn't going to be an enjoyable conversation.

"Got to be a quiet night if you guys are back so early."

"There's a new cat in town man, and she a witch."

"Ok, did you tell her the rules in the Quarter?" I asked feeling uneasy about a new witch in town.

"We tried man." My phone started ringing, I pulled it out looking at the screen I answered right a way motioning to Diego to hold on a second.

"Hey D, I'm kind of in the middle of something, wait, slow down Davina. What do you men you couldn't stop her? Ok, ok, calm down I'll be there soon." I hung up taking a deep breath trying to control my frustration.

"You failed to mention that this new cat was doing magic."

"She wasn't at first, but when we tried to tell her how it is here in the Quarter she basically laughed in our faces. She said that the rules didn't apply to her since she isn't a witch from this coven. Yannick had enough and tried to physically over power her but she threw him into a brick wall and held him there with just the show of her palm." I shared a curious look with Thierry as he walked in.

"Go on."

"Since she was using, we knew Davina would stop her but it wasn't working. The witch said that she could feel Davina's power but she was stronger then her. She asked us where the Originals are staying and if we didn't tell her that she'd kill us one by one till we did. We didn't believe her and so Yannick called her bluff and she ripped out his heart." My eyebrow rose in disbelieve.

"The women, who's just a witch, which is a human with special abilities, ripped out the heart of a vampire?" I asked with a slight chuckle, it had to be a very bad joke, that was until two young guns walked in carrying Yannick's body; chest caved in and his heart on his torso.

"I don't think she's an ordinary witch man. Her scent changed right as she went to kill him, before she was just a bit defensive but then became, cold and you could almost feel the murderous intend coming from her." Nodding my head I rubbed a hand over my face thinking of a game plan.

"Ok, here's what your gonna do for me. Have those two take care of Yannick's body, call everyone back in for the night, tell them everything and describe what she looks like to them. I want all of you to stay away from her; she's the Original's problem now. I'll be back Davina needs to know what's up." I made to leave but saw the anxious look on his face.

"Is there something else you need to add?" Diego needed his head slowly, his lips set in a tight line.

"She wanted to us to pass along a message to you."

"To me?"

"Yeah, it was weird, when we mentioned you it almost seemed like she knew you from when you were a child and shit."

Ok, what did she want me know?" I asked curiously, I don't know of any witch's that would have this kind f power, at least none who were living.

"She says Annabelle say's hello." My eyes widened.

"You're absolutely sure that she said Annabelle?"

"Yeah." He said as the others all nodded their head, frowning I started pacing; this isn't possible she died, I was there when it happened, I carried her coffin the day of her funeral.

"What did she look like?"

"She was gorgeous, petite and not tall or short, curves in al the right places, has light golden tan colored skin, about butt length reddish brown hair and has strange eyes, their -"

"A golden color." I said slowly, resigned to the fact that no matter how impossible it sounded the description matched Annabelle to a T.

"How'd you know?" Asked Diego with a curious look on his face.

"You're right she did know me when I was a kid."

"So what? Does that cunt scare you or something?" Asked Asia causing me to stair at her in shock.

"First off, show her some respect she's like a mother to me, that makes her family. Secondly, I'm not afraid of her I'm fucking terrified of her. Anyone in their right mind would be."

"Why's that?" Asked Thierry.

"Her name is Annabelle Mikaelson, she's the second original hybrid. With her mix, she's more powerful and deadlier then Klaus could ever hope to be. If she's provoked she makes Klaus look like a little puppy."

"What's her mix then?"

"She's a vampire, werewolf, witch, soul reaper and human." Everyone stared at me with wide, fear filled and surprised eyes.

"And we're gonna be on her shit list very shortly." I said before downing a shot of tequila a compelled server gave me.

"How's that boss? I mean she just got here." Asked Diego as I turned to leave, looking back at the group I knew by the looks on their face they were starting to believe me.

"Because, Klaus just handed us Elijah, daggered in a coffin as a peace offering." I left snorting to myself as I heard a few gasps and murmurs of "Oh shit." Come from the crew.

"Oh shits right, let's just hope she doesn't catch on that we have him and where we're holding him until I get Davina to give him back." I thought to myself as I left to go see my favorite witch.