Prologue Part 1

In New Orleans, specifically the French Quarter, the sky is dark and cloudy. The wind is howling and the air is hot. New Orleans, once a place full of life and energy is now a ghostly plane with unseen dark shadows lurking around each corner.

However, not all is yet lost, there is still light at the end of the tunnel. The Mikaelson sisters, Hope and Octavia, are their families last salvation in this war that has cost them everything, including a sister. In the final battle, the sisters must sacrifice even more to win the war.

"Come on, we can make it. We're almost there." Hope Mikaelson tells her younger sister, Octavia as she leans on her. Bloody and injured, the Mikaelson sisters, make their way into the Abattoir. The sisters climb the stairs together and make it to their secret spell room in the wall up into the attic.

"Hope…" Octavia mumbles tired, holding her shoulder and limping to the couch to sit. Hope turns to look at her baby sister, "O, I've got the ingredients. They'll be here soon we need to do this now."

Octavia shakes her head, "Hope this is insane, even if we could pull off this asinine plan, it wouldn't work. Not with just the two of us. We need the power of three, the trinity. Tabitha is dead! Who are we kidding? We're next!"

Hope sits down next to Octavia and grabs her face with both hands to look at her. "Breathe." Octavia breathes. "I know your scared, because I'm scared too. But, O, this will work. I've been re-reading Aunt Freya's spell book. If we substitute an ingredient with a great sacrifice the spell will work."

Hope stands and walks to the book and Octavia does the same. Octavia frowns in confusion. "Great sacrifice…what?" Octavia sees the athame on the table and backs away slowly nodding her head back and forth. "No. No. No! Hope are you…you're not gonna sacrifice yourself!"

Hope slowly approaches Octavia telling her that this is the only way to defeat them and get their family back. "Octavia it has to be you that goes back." Octavia stares at Hope in shock.

"No. Hope it should be you. You're the oldest, the strongest out of both of us, with Tabitha's powers.." Octavia doesn't get to finish her rant as Hope interrupts her.

"…Tabitha's powers and mine will transfer to you. O, your powers are emotional based, mine and Tabitha's are physical based. It would take too long to hone your powers. They would cripple me."

Octavia and Hope look at each other with tears in their eyes knowing Hope was right. For the spell to send Octavia back in time, Hope would need to die.

'Once the spell is complete the portal will automatically open." Hope states just as the Abattoir starts to shake and the flames spark bright.

"I can feel them. They're almost here." Octavia tells her sister as Hope grabs the athame to stab herself and remove her heart.

Octavia and Hope are crying holding hands. "My sister." Octavia says crying as she hugs Hope. Hope pulls back and holds Octavia's face in her hands as she did a few minutes earlier. "My sister."

Hope and Octavia kneel before the pentagram. Octavia cries as she sees her big sister holding the athame above her about to stab herself.

"You have limited time to remove my heart and complete the spell. It's 2047, we don't know how far back you'll go, but you are our family's last chance." Hope says as she wipes the tears from her eyes.

Hope then recites the spell as Octavia dips her finger into the bowl with the ingredients and marks her forehead with the sisters' trinity symbol.

"Charat kata ase, charat vo lekh,

fitteya vo zalat mra yothnhare

azhat esazhalat finne ezat fini

zalat sho leshitof."

"Hear these words, hear the rhyme

Heed the hope within my mind

Send me back to where I'll find

What I wish in place and time."

As Hope finishes reciting the spell, she looks at Octavia one more time.

"May we meet again."

Hope then stabs herself in the heart. Octavia cries as she sees the life leave her sister's body and her own body glow showing the transference of powers into Octavia. Octavia crawls over to Hope's body and removes her heart.

Octavia moves to the center of the pentagram with Hope's heart in hand and again recites the spell. As Hope's heart disintegrates into ash, a bright white hole begins to appear behind Octavia.

"Find them! I want them alive!" Octavia's eyes grow large as she hears the voices on the ground and second floors of the Abattoir. Octavia hurries to the table and grabs the grimoire. Just as she enters the time portal, the door to the attic burst open.

"No!..." Octavia stares into the eyes at the person who just entered the room. The person who killed her sister, her family.

Octavia then looks to Hope's lifeless body on the attic floor one last time, "May we meet again." She is then blinded by the white light.

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