CHAPTER 6:

My neck is throbbing with pain as I come to, heavily gasping for air. My eyes flutter open, and I look around as I shoot up. I'm in some unfamiliar room that I've never seen before.

"Oh, wonderful," A snide voice says. "She's awake."

I look and see the bartender, her fiery hair bouncing off of her shoulders as she approaches me with an obnoxious smirk.

"Wh-who are you?" I whimper, scrambling up against the wall beside the rock solid surface beneath me.

"My name is Sage." she smiles cruelly.

"What do you want with m-me?" I say softly.

"Well, that's just it, isn't it?" she smiles smugly. "You have no idea,"

"Enough,"

Another voice enters the premise, and a man with light brown hair and milky skin wanders into the small room. Sage immediately backs away from the man, who walks over to me.

"Slater, I was just-"

"I said enough," he barks, and suddenly, his hand is at my throat.

"So, you're one of us, huh?" He asks, smiling.

"Wait, are you-?" I ask softly.

"A Pureblood?" His eyebrow arches as he nods. "We all are."

Just when I'm about to ask him what he means, he suddenly throws me over his shoulder and speeds away with me into the unknown.

"Damn it!" Damon hissed, still staring at the spot where Elena was taken. How could he have been so stupid to leave her alone? No, how could she have been so stupid to disobey him?

It was that wolf.

The Tyler kid.

"Damon, calm down!" Stefan was suddenly as his side, holding him. Damon knew that Stefan suspected him to go and rip that wolf's throat out.

"Calm down?" Damon hissed as he shot his brother a hostile look. "What happened to you watching her?"

"She told me that she wouldn't leave the apartment, I swear, Damon-" Stefan explained hastily. Damon snapped his arm away from Stefan.

"And how the hell did she end up with that wolf Tyler?" Damon snapped as he glanced at the wolf. "I'm gonna kill that-"

"Damon, don't!" Caroline called angrily, and suddenly, Damon was thrown against a wall.

"Oh, don't tell me." Damon grunted as he rolled over on the ground. "You're siding with them."

Caroline shook her head. "I'm siding with what is right, and killing Tyler isn't right. It won't fix what just happened," she said sadly, and Damon saw regret in her blue eyes.

"Well, maybe I can rough the idiot up a bit for letting her out of the apartment-"

"I swear to God, if you hurt a hair on his head, then-"

"Then what?" Damon snapped as he went to stand in front of the blonde. "Then what, huh? You gonna poke my eyes out with your nails?"

"Damon, stop it!" Stefan called, "We need to figure out how to find Elena,"

"We will. Once I deal with that little mongrel." Damon made to move over to Tyler, who, even a distance away, flinched in fear. In a flash, Caroline stood in front of Tyler protectively.

What the hell had happened to the Caroline who didn't give a flying crap about a werewolf's fate? What happened to that Caroline?

She left when Elena came into their lives.

"Fine," Damon snapped. "How exactly do you suggest on finding her, Stefan?"

I'm immediately set down in front of a group of about five other people that I've never even met. They all look well under forty, thirty even.

"Well, since we've found another, let's get down to business," Sage sighs as she walks past me and in front of the group of strangers.

"Katerina?"

I look up, and the entire group of people are staring down at me with wide eyes.

A woman with short brown hair steps forward slowly, her green eyes possibly the widest of all.

"I'm Elena," I shake my head.

The woman frowns. "But, you look just like her-"

Oh, my god.

Katherine.

"You know Katherine?" I ask the woman, who nods.

"I wish I didn't." she says coldly.

"How is that Possible?" she says as she steps forward.

"She's a Shadow," Another stranger steps from the crowd. He's a dark-skinned boy.

"Harper," he says. "A Shadow is an exact replica of a living person." Harper says. "Katherine Pierce must possess the Originator Ability, the ability to create a clone or copy of oneself through blood. You're her Shadow, or her duplication."

"Wait, so Katherine intended to create me?" I gasp.

"Not all Originators intend to create Shadows." Slater says as he steps forward.

"Why does Katherine possess this Originator ability thing?" I ask, looking around to anyone for answers.

"Because she is a Pureblood, and we are all Purebloods," Sage says as she waves her hands toward the group behind her. "And with Purebloods, comes Power."

"And not just Power, as in healing, strength, sharing memories, etc." Slater says as he moves to stand beside Sage. "But actual Special Abilities. However, not all Purebloods possess Abilities. There's no logical explanation why some possess them and some do not. Being a Pureblood is already pretty uncommon, let alone one with an Ability. "

I frown in confusion at what they're telling me.

"You're confused," A petite raven-haired young girl steps forward. "Expected."

How-?

"One of the gifts that we Purebloods can inherit, is the ability to read minds, as I have," she smiles. "I'm Anna,"

"And I have the Ability to see Ghosts. A Medium, you might call it," Harper says.

"And your Ability is being the Shadow of Katherine Pierce," The woman with short brown hair says. "I'm Rose. I am a Precognitoner, or I have the Ability to see into the future. I'm only allowed to do so through dreams, however," she sighs.

"What does all of this have to do with me?" I ask, getting frustrated with all of the overwhelming information.

"Being a Pureblood, as we've said, means having immense Power. More than an normal vampire at even 300 to 500 years old. Over time, Purebloods have formed Covens, and one in particular, Us." Slater says. "You, Elena, are a Pureblood, and we want you to join our Coven."

"Why?" I ask.

"He just said so," Anna snaps.

"Anna," Slater raises his hand toward her in an effort to calm her down. Slater turns back to me.

"The Original Senate," Sage says. "Is the strongest Pureblood Coven in the world. They've lived for nearly two-thousand years,"

"They were placed under the Suppression Spell to stall their transition." Anna snorts. "Look where that got them."

"The Original Senate contains of five Purebloods. Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, and Rebekah." Rose says. "They want us to join their Coven."

"Why?" I ask nervously.

"There was a curse placed on the vampires and werewolves ages ago, dating back to the era that the Original Senate were born in." Harper says. "The curse was the cu sânge pur. "Pure Blood" in Romanian. It was a curse that caused the entirety of the Pureblood vampire and werewolf races. And the Original Senate wants to break it.."

"Why do they want to break it?" I ask. "I mean, if the more Purebloods are born, the more Power there is?"

"Because if they break the cu sânge pur, then the Pureblood species will be forever limited to the already existing ones, and no more Purebloods of either species can be created. Therefore, their Power will be more valuable. Our kind will be more rare, and therefore more desirable. However, they aren't planning on sparing us."

"What do you mean?" I wonder, frowning.

"The Originals have taken to hiring Hunters, who find and capture Pureblood vampires and werewolves. That's why there are many Pureblood vampire and werewolf packs. They're banding together to gain strength in hopes of resisting the Hunters."

"And why would our kind resist them?" I ask. "Don't Purebloods want an exclusive number?"

"Because once they gather enough Purebloods of each kind, they will be able to break the curse." Rose explains warily.

"And how do they break the curse?" I ask. Something tells me that it's not good.

"Through Sacrifice." Anna says. "They will sacrifice every and all Pureblood vampire and werewolf."

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