AN: I'm back in the country and back into the swing of things. So I wrote this whilst I was away... And by that, I mean the prologue, this is going to be a short sweet multi-chapter fic and I'm already working on chapter 2 as chapter 1 is complete. Please let me know what you think of this and the next chapter will most likely be up on Tuesday, perhaps earlier...
This is my own take off of a youtube video I saw a few months ago and I fell in love with the concept, I hope you like my own little spin on it! :)
IMPORTANT - EVERYBODY TATIA IS CHARLOTTE IN THIS FIC, this was written before the name Tatia came to pass and I personally like it better so please just bear this in mind. THANKS!
Let me know what you thought in a review! Xx
"Elijah, there is only one way that we can destroy Klaus once and for all, you have to tell me his weakness, please, I beg of you. It is the only way." Elena pleaded to one of the original brothers, having very little idea on just what she would find.
"It is only legend, Elena. And it is once that I certainly am not familiar with myself, I only know the basics of it myself." Explained Elijah, he wanted to help, truly he did but he at the same time had sworn an oath to his brother long ago, ignoring the fact that he had broken it already several times in the past but the most recent doppelganger need not hear that little important detail.
"Anything will help." Elena encouraged and Elijah felt himself staring into her eyes which reminded him only of another time in another place, one that he did not think of often as he liked to shield that part of his past but now at the same time, he also knew that this may be the only final shot that they had and it would certainly weaken his older brother to the point of almost death and it would be that one crucial moment that they would need and they sure as hell would not get another chance, at least not for a few hundred years, if that.
And by that, he meant if they were extremely lucky.
So far, luck had been extremely far strained and it had been more than a good thousand years since he had last seen or heard of her...
Despite her doppelgangers... And this of course made him question the curse that Niklaus was under.
He still had not had the ability to break it as of yet, although he had come fairly close.
The Salvatore brothers were deeming as a fair distraction but it would not last long for secretly Elijah had changed sides as he proposed a deal to Elena a fortnight ago, of which she had accepted without a second thought but there was thing that he couldn't ensure, her survival.
Most called it folklore but he called it history.
And Elijah knew better as he was the most moral in the family, he knew trouble when he smelt it and it wasn't far off at all, that much, he did know.
But what he didn't realise was just how close it actually was.
"It's a story," began Elijah, "An old story that even I am unsure of the truth that is behind it."
"How did it begin?" asked Elena with curiosity, this was better than nothing and after all, they needed as much information as they could get.
"A shaman in a hunting village was a keeper of great prophecy's and some say that it occurred after a shooting star incident that night and others say that it came to her in a dream but nevertheless the prophecy remained the same." He told her, but his eyes glazed over before he could continue as he felt himself transport back in time.
A young girl opened the wooden creaking door of the new home that she would now live in; they had travelled for weeks before settling in a forest away from another main village.
Her parents had decided that they would stay close to the village next door but far away to avoid the townspeople gossip as that was another reason as to why they had left their old village for the young girl's mother was not an ordinary woman.
She was a witch.
But the others did not take too kindly to her for she had powers that were considered to be strange which was why they had decided to travel and visit long extended family that had not been forgotten.
It was a scolding hot day with little breeze running through the shack that she now stayed in but if you were outside, you could feel the cool wind on your features and if there was one thing that the young girl loved, it was nature.
She ran outside, ignoring the protests of her mother, demanding that her clothes be in pristine condition when she arrived back home, but the girl did not hear her as she ran for the surrounding wilderness of the forest around them, enjoying the bliss of being free and unaware of the future fate that she would have.
Elena cleared her throat and Elijah blinked his eyes a few times, reacquainting himself with his current surroundings.
"So this prophecy... Do you know what it is?" Elena asked
Elijah stood up and walked over to a nearby bookcase and carefully extracted to what looked to be leather bound journal of some sort with thick paper and perfect calligraphy writing that she wished she could do herself.
Elijah sat back down in his arm-chair and undid the clasps on the journal.
"This is not an ordinary book." Elijah stated, his voice sounded weaker than before but she did not question it, "Enlighten me," he cleared his own throat and handed her the book, "Can you read that?" he asked her
Her eyes took in the pages with great detail, the dark blackness of the ink against the yellowing paper, she ran her fingers over the paper but as far as she was concerned, she was confused, she had no idea what any of the words on the pages meant, it looked to be a completely foreign language to her but the pages were quite beautiful and looked as if they were meant to be in a museum of some sorts, like medieval times but she internally laughed at that thought.
She shook her head slightly, her eyebrows knitting themselves together as her lips formed a frown.
"I don't understand what any of this says, at all." Elena said disappointed, this was meant to be their last shot at bringing Klaus down, what the heck did her reading skills have to do with it? She couldn't help but think confused.
"That is what I feared." Commented Elijah, more thinking aloud rather than telling her bluntly but he supposed that they both of them worked either way.
"What do I have to do with this?" Elena asked confused, this was meant to be about some old story that would help bring down Klaus, right?
"It was a prophecy about two star-crossed lovers and lifetime after lifetime they we're reborn to find their one true love." Elijah began but Elena interrupted to translate into her own modern day words and to clarify that they were indeed on the same page, figuratively speaking.
"So hold on, Klaus had a lover?" she asked even more confused than before-hand
"Yes." He answered simply; there was really no other way to put it
"And by the last part, I'm assuming that they are each other's true love...?"
"Yes." He repeated
Her mind was deciphering was the middle of this line meant, it felt like a riddle to her almost.
"What does it mean by lifetime after lifetime, they we're reborn? How would that work?" she asked, running a hand through her hair as she tried to work it out herself but it just humanly wasn't possible, what he was suggesting.
Then again, she was talking to an original vampire that was more than a thousand years old so she then supposed that anything at this point in time could really be possible.
Thus, it was bringing her back to square one all over again.
"The rest of the prophecy will explain it." He assured her and she nodded for him to continue, "Lifetime after lifetime they we're reborn to find their one true love until they lose each other into death again."
"Wow, obviously, she is the one that has to pay the price every time." She said emotionally bewildered and she couldn't help but wonder if she would do the same thing for Stefan.
"No." Answered Elijah
"No?" she repeated
"How do you think he made the transition into a vampire?" Elijah pointed out and Elena gasped, her eyes widened on their own accord
There really was more to the story than she ever imagined.
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