The cloaked figure starred down at the confused boy. "Did you have a pleasant sleep we've been waiting all night for you to wake up."
"We?" Matt asked confused he then heard growls and snarls and looked around to see a hoard of supernatural creatures of all kinds from vampires to werewolves to things he couldn't recognize.
"What is this place?" Matt asked jumping to his feet as he realized he was sitting on a pile of bones.
"It's my home of course. What do you think my friends and I made it out of the remains of the dead bodies in the cemetery?"
"That's seriously fucked up!" Matt shouted.
The Cloaked figure just let out a light chuckle. "Tell me Matt how far would you go to get your sister back?"
"What are you talking about I'd do anything to have her back!" Matt shouted not understanding what he was getting at.
The Cloaked Man stood up from his throne. "Come follow me boy I have something I want to show you." Matt followed the cloaked man through the army of monsters scared they would tear him apart at any second but he feared this man even more there was something about him that didn't even seem normal like out of all these monsters he was the most dangerous one.
Suddenly before they approached a long hallway the man stopped and tilted his head back. "Oh you can leave the broken rib you snuck into your pocket on the ground weapons won't do you any good."
The shocked Matt did as he was told reaching into his right pocket and throwing a broken rib to the bone covered floor. He then followed the man through the cave passages. "Where are we I don't recognize this place."
"I suppose you wouldn't this place is an underground system of tunnels linked to the sewers and, and caves surrounding the town. It's the perfect place to hide a army when you think about it and to think the Council spent so much time looking for monsters when they merely need to look beneath their feet." He let out another chuckle. "The stupidity of humans never ceases to amaze me. I'm almost ashamed that such inferior creatures caught and killed her… almost."
They continued to walk down the caverns and throughout each aisle Matt noticed something there were insect like egg sacks attached to the walls and ceiling. It looked like people were inside of them but he couldn't make out who they were. "What are those things? They look like egg sacks from insects."
"Well for the time being let's just say they are the key ingredients to my plans though it's my most important plan."
"What is your plan? You seem fixated on killing Jeremy and this town?"
"Yes well those out comes will just be icing on the cake if I succeed."
"Succeed? At what?"
"Agree to help me and you'll find out but first. Let me introduce you to someone." They made a quick right turn and Matt gasped in horror.
"Elena!" He screamed at the sight of a naked woman half absorbed into a wall of flesh and restrained by tentacle like tree roots . "Let her go you bastard!"
"My dear boy this isn't Elena allow me to introduce you to Katherine Pierce or rather Katerina Petrova. She's the one responsible for ruining your life, and the life of the woman you love."
"What! How did you find her?" Matt asked not believing his eyes.
"I didn't have to look too far just the nearest bar. After that it was simply a matter of having my friends drag her down here. Tell me what do you think of her cage? I made it myself by using magic to combine vampire genetic material with those of plants I've created the perfect hell for her. You see the plant keeps the prey alive slowly feeding off its blood till it dies trapping it in a horrific dream like state until there's nothing left. However she's a vampire so her body repairs any damage instantly ironic isn't it? She spent half a millennium struggling to stay alive leaving in constant fear of death. Well now those days are behind her I bet now she wishes she never became a vampire."
Just then Matt saw tears coming from her eyes. "Please Daddy don't hit me anymore I promise I'll be a good girl just let me see her let see her! At least kill me let me die you son of a bitch!"
"Who is she talking to?" Matt asked unnerved by the insane Katherine's ramblings.
"To her father I imagine she constantly relives the night her child went missing and the beating her father gave her afterwards for shaming her family. Ironic I have much to be grateful to her for and much to hate her for."
"What does that mean?"
"It matters not what does matter is that I can give you that which you want most boy your sister."
Matt took a step back. "How I asked Bonnie about stuff like this she said it was impossible for a normal witch."
"Ah yes but as you can see I am no normal warlock I would think that what I have shown you is proof of that and if you do as I say and… I'll reunite you with your sister."
"Fine what do you want from me?"
Bonnies House…
Bonnie was laying in her bed crying she hadn't left her house since Jeremy had dumped her earlier on. She then heard a knock on her door she ran out of her bedroom down the stairs and opened. "Jeremy!" She shouted. "Oh it's you… Matt."
"Hey Bonnie I heard you and Jeremy broke up I came here to make sure you were okay can I come in?"
Back in the Lair...
The Cloaked man watched one of the egg sacks with great interest he clenched his fist as he watched the figure inside rapidly age into a skeleton. A short man with a hunch back and German accent approached him. "I am sorry Master we try and we try to create the perfect host body but I am afraid that the specimens that are born without the accelerating age problem are deformed beyond all hope of living out side their pods and those that aren't deformed age to fast even with the vampire's blood. If we don't find a new power source soon I fear this will all have been for naught."
"There must be something we are missing Igor regardless I am not giving up. Some how some way my Princess will get the happy ending she has been deprived of all these centuries."