**********Present Day*****************

A figure watched their master from the cover of the trees. Master called himself a 'hybrid'...Klaus, his name was. Grabbing the collar around his neck, the figure thought about the situation he was in. Master traveled with a boy a 'vampire', master said the boy was. When his master woke him up, master told the figure of his 'master plan'. He desired to make more of whatever he was, more hybrids, by finding a creature called a 'werewolf' and turning them. Insisting that he would explain more when he had time, Master told the figure to follow him but stay hidden; to follow them and make sure everything went as planned, and to make sure that they were not interrupted.

The Vampire had a brother that insisted on finding the Vampire. For that reason, master made the figure wear a cloak to cover his face, and magic necklace which would mask his smell and heartbeat. He eyed The Vampire warily, having an uneasy feeling about him. Having the vampire close to his master made fear build in the pit of his stomach, and the friendly smirk master directed to the vampire angered the figure.

"I can see recognition in Master's eyes. That makes one of us. Hell, the only thing I know about myself is my hair color." The figure thought to himself," I have to call myself something, do I not? Let's see, Adrian, no... Darien, no Ignacio, no...Vicente, no. All too normal, too human. I need to be called something scary, something that fits my personality… I got it, Trickster!"

Shaking his head, the newly deemed 'Trickster' pulled the hood over his ebony hair as he watched master stop in front of the so called 'werewolves'. Though, too far to hear the conversation, Trickster saw the vampire drop the man he had been carrying with a quick smile. A shiver of fear ran up Trickster's spine at the smile as he turned his head away from the shady vampire. He didn't like the fear he felt, he would much rather be installing the fear...or at least just pulling harmless pranks. As soon as this vampire went away, he could mess with people as much as he wanted, Master promised Trickster would be able to soon as long as he did what he was told.

A splashing sound was heard in the distance, breaking trickster out of his thoughts, and making him whip his head around. Whatever it was, it was too large of a sound to just be a normal forest animal. Deciding that master would be fine- he was unkillable after all-, Trickster went to do the job that master told him to do, and silently went to check out the sound.

Walking in the forest without making a sound was difficult indeed. Trickster prided himself for his silent abilities but there were so many objects to disrupt his observations. The trees seemed to be the easiest and safest way of travel, though there was still the risk of rustling the branches giving away his position. Teleporting to the top of the trees, Trickster made sure to leave the branches motionless as he hopped to different trees.

Stopping to rest on branch hidden behind the tree's foliage at the movement ahead, Trickster peaked through the leaves to see what made such a loud sound. Ahead of him were three people, one of which was soaked in the river. He watched the scene in curiosity, tilting his head in wonder as the dark haired man looked in his direction. No human would hear him, so what was the man? Vampire, werewolf, or other?

"What is it, Damon?" The older man beside this 'Damon' asked.

Damon...The name stirred something in Trickster, but what or why, he didn't know.

"Nothing, Rick." 'Damon' slowly answered before turning to the girl in the river, "Get out of the water, Elena."

The conversation went on without much interesting information till the three started walking in the direction of his master. When there seemed to be a safe distance between him and the three intruders, Trickster began hopping onto branches in pursuit. Every now and then during their conversing, Damon would glance in Tricksters direction Trickster, making him switch tactics to teleporting onto the trees so there would not be the risk of the man seeing him. As he followed, Trickster thought about this situation.

This Damon man clearly was not human but - since the other two acted so oblivious to everything- his companions were, so was this man the vampire's brother? Feeling something behind him, Trickster turned and saw the werewolf man from before - who he guessed was now a 'hybrid'- run under the branch Trickster was in, and stop in front of the trio. Fear rose in the pit of Trickster's stomach when he saw Damon being attacked by the hybrid, which caused him even more confusion than before.

"Damon!" The annoying voice of 'Elena' sounded in alarm.

Trickster didn't like the girl, something about her made him instinctively hate her; she was oblivious, clearly untrained – unlike Damon or even the human 'Rick' who walked with caution as he held a weird looking weapon- and only slowed the two males down. The trio chained the man to the tree and, to their surprise, he started to change. Turning, the three ran into the cover of the trees, which just so happened to be the tree that Trickster was perched on, till the stupid girl tripped and went face to face with a wolf. When Damon tricked the wolf into following him, instinct told Trickster to follow them and help Damon, but master's words rang in his mind. The man, Rick, urged the girl to get up and run.

"I'm the reason he's out here!" The girl yelled.

"I am the reason he is out here. I told him where we were, and I'm telling you to keep moving. Let's go!" 'Rick' insisted.

To Rick's protest, Elena took a step back -intending to turn around and follow Damon - and walked into a body which had not been there a second ago. Master told Trickster to make sure no one interrupts him and to make sure that he vampires do not see my face. But these people were not vampires and master did not order Trickster to kill, so as long as they did not see his face, he was fine to do as he pleased.

Before the irksome girl could think, he wrapped him arms around her, preventing her from moving. The girl wiggled in a vain attempt at getting free, as the male human raised his weapon – if Trickster remembered correctly, it was called a crossbow - and asked who Trickster was.

"You need to leave." Trickster warned the man, ignoring the previous question.

"No, I'm not leaving without Damon! Let me go." The girl hopelessly pleaded to him, making Trickster roll his eyes under his hood.

"Who are you, what do you want?" Rick questioned slowly as he raised the crossbow.

Trying to remember his own actual name before shaking his head, Trickster tried to reason with the humans, "The 'Damon' fellow will be fine. You going after him will do nothing but get everyone killed… Now, drop the weapon and leave."

"Let her go and we will." Rick looked to Elena as she was about to protest, "Elena, he's right. We will only get in the way, do more harm than good."

Letting go of the idiot girl and pushing her towards the other human, Trickster used his magic to teleport out of site and in the cover of the trees once again. The humans looked around in confusion before the male ushered the girl away. Giggles erupted from Trickster's chest silently at the look on their faces, he didn't have much power- Master Klaus said he would get more power that he apparently had once the collar was removed- but the use of it was totally worth it to see their faces.

Getting back to the matter at hand, Trickster ran silently in the direction he saw the wolf chase 'Damon' till he saw the Vampire talking to Damon. Both of them looked in his direction before Damon sped off to the humans while the vampire watched Damon till slowly following him.

Trickster watched the vampire watch Damon, his face showed an emotion...sadness almost, till he turned and ran back to Klaus. Questions ran through Trickster's head as he followed the vampire. No one but master was strong enough to kill him, so why did the vampire frightened him so much and why did he feel the need to follow Damon? When would this irksome vampire leave so that Trickster could come out of the shadows and have some actual fun?