Part IX

"How come you were able to come into our house? No one invited you."

"All part of me not being an actual vampire like your friends here, Jeremy."

"So what are you?" asked Bonnie.

"Half Other, half human."

"Other?"

"Isobel never mentioned any Others in her research Alaric?" smiled Damon from where he was sprawled out on the sofa.

"No, she didn't."

"The Others have had many names throughout the ages. Some thought of them as gods, nowadays you'd possibly think of them as angels. Really they are the 'children' of Zeus that wanted to meddle with his creations on Earth," explained Aibie, as she rooted through one of many unpacked boxes in the living room floor.

"So they're demigods?"

"Not quite, Bonnie. Demigods are half-god, half-something else. They are simply three creations Zeus made that aren't human, creature or god. One female and two males; each with the ability to create once. One male, Allegra, made the first lycanthropes whilst the other fell in love with a Seer and in order to live as a man and have a family Zeus took Juyr's first son, Marack, who became the creator of what you call witches. In those days there were witches who brewed potions and made proclamations and there were Shamans who could do that and more. Those Shamans were the first true Marackians. They are whom Bonnie and any other witch you have met are descendants of.

"Ah ha! I knew the CD stuff was in here somewhere. One of you boys want to give me a hand with getting this out and set up? Oh come on, quit being so suspicious. I enjoy music and if I could I would simply listen to it all day. Well as well as a little dancing and singing of course. Thank you Mr Saltzman, a proper gentleman. Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes.

"The female Zeus created is the Mother of vampires: Shashei. She created the vampires but decided she wanted more; she craved to be the strongest and the best amongst her brother and nephew. She wanted what her brother had and had seen how powerful Marack was. When the jealousy festered inside of her to the point that she thought only of that one goal, she came to Earth. Here she lured a powerful man into her bed and spent nine months on Earth pregnant, only to be greatly disappointed by the weakly child she had borne. She left me on my father's doorstep and returned to the Ether."

"The Ether?" asked Jeremy, entranced by the story.

"The Greek gods live on Olympus but it would be an affront for the Others to reside there also and so they make their home in the Ether. As the years have passed with them staying there they have lost the ability to take a corporeal form. They are like ghosts and so when the vampires attacked a pack of werewolves I was dispatched to slaughter them. If I didn't Shashei would make me watch as she allowed her children to feast upon my family for days. I did as I was told and returned to be with my family. But Allegra did not like how powerful I had become. His children came during the day and the night for nearly a week. They attacked our home; killing and ripping apart everything in sight. I fought them and killed many of them, but they outnumbered my strength greatly and I watched as my family died. It was then that Marack went to his children and the curse was made. In return for Shashei and Allegra accepting the curse, Marack was to have his children place me in stasis in a tomb until they had need of me again."


A/N: Please review. More to come tonight and tomorrow.

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