Chapter Zero – Where It Really Starts
Elena was running through a very thick forest. She had no Idea where she was going or what she was running from, she just had to run if she wanted to stay alive. Which kind of death would await her if she didn't, she wasn't sure.
She just ran and ran. Suddenly she saw a forest track, and decided that it would be easier to run over that. She took the trail and ran as fast as she could, which was faster than before. It twisted and turned, but it was quite easy for her to adapt.
Suddenly the trail made a sharp right turn and she ran into a clearing. Only then she realised it was a bright day, not a dark, full-moon night.
Something in her mind told her to run, but something else told her she was safe here. She decided to go with safe. Whatever was following her would catch up soon enough.
She sat down in the middle of the clearing and saw Stefan appearing at the side of the clearing she had come from. He had a horrible, devilish – no evil – grin on his face. He tried to step forward but couldn't.
Suddenly Damon was standing in the clearing, a bit to the right from Stefan. He could step forward. So the barrier isn't based on vampires. "You okay?" Damon asked. She nodded slightly as she glanced at Stefan. All vamped out and blood on his chin from whoever he just killed.
"Why can't Stefan enter? You can, so it's no vampire barrier."
"Only those who mean no harm to you and who you are willing to let in can come in this clearing Elena."
Elena smiled at that. Damon then disappeared. Stefan was beating at the barrier, which had no use at all, but was slightly amusing since it burned him like vervain would.
Then behind him Klaus appeared. Then Rebekah. Then also many, many others. Most she didn't know, some she had seen before.
Then they all simultaneously launched an attack on the barrier, and there was a huge crack. So immense that Elena shrieked and lied down covering her ears. When she looked up again everyone was slowly approaching her. They were going to kill her. All of them. They wanted her, for some reason.
She couldn't take it anymore and tried to only thing she could still think of.
As everyone launched an all-out attack on her she screamed for her life.
The attempt was muffled by Stefan's hand. She fought him with all her might and when she got in a few good blows, his hand slipped from her mouth.
"DAMON!"