Hey guys! I apologise if this chapter isn't as good, because well, I have received a bit of writer's block because of school. Anyways, here is the chapter.
Chapter Eleven: Do You Honestly Have No Idea You Are?
"You mean you don't remember?" Klaus asked, incredulous.
The penguin stared at Klaus, before sticking his tongue out and shaking his head vigorously. Kol rolled his eyes surprised by the action.
"Remember what? There's nothing to remember!" Elijah blurted out, tongue still sticking out.
Klaus growled in annoyance at his brother's now mentally challenging state. Rebekah placed a paw on Klaus' shoulder, advising to let her try and step back.. The wolf sighed, backing off. She bent down to Elijah, staring at him with scrutinizing eyes, narrowing them.
"Do you remember is what your name?" Rebekah asked.
"Elena? Eleanor? Ernest? I forgot. I got it a few minutes ago, but now... IT IS GONE!" Elijah shouted, suddenly standing up waving his hands like a magician, staring at them with wide eyes.
"No, no. It'sssss not gone. Your name'ssss Eee-yoh." Kol laughed, eyes twinkling.
The penguin nodded in understanding, hitting his head harder to ensure he remembered that his name was 'Eee-yoh'. Kol looked at these actions with amused and astounded eyes, laughing away. Rebekah and Klaus glared at Kol's trickery. The wolf grumbling about how Kol was not 'helping his situation'.
"So, Eee-yoh, what do you propose to do now?" Rebekah asked, eyes still fixed on now amnesiac Elijah.
"I- I don't know. There isn't anything for miles. And there aren't any Hawaiian shirts. So it's a no go for me," Elijah sighed, taking off the bathrobe.
"Well, Hawaiian shirt or no Hawaiian shirt, we are going." Klaus said, getting up and marching to the gate of Shane's house.
The snake and kangaroo followed closely by, not wanting to be caught (again) by enemies that knew about their weakness. However, the penguin looked uneasy, looking around sideways, rubbing his flippers together, hopping on his feet.
"Eee-yoh! Oi! Follow us! Geez, you are as dumb as a horse!" Rebekah shouted, glaring at the anxious penguin.
"Hey! Horses are not dumb!" Klaus protested, and his sister scoffed at him, staring him down. Klaus whimpered, backing down and trying to open the gate.
"Well- well- I am anxious because-" Elijah stuttered.
"OUT WITH IT!" Kol hissed, eyes glaring at the penguin.
"Well, I am... I am actually afraid of dark stuff. It's weird for a penguin, I know, but then again, animals are afraid of other animals, right?" Elijah trembled, feathers shrunk up, making him look smaller.
Kol tutted disapprovingly like an old grandma, pushing up a spectacle-like object up his nose so he looked more stern. Elijah (now Eee-yoh) sighed deeply and hung his head in shame, patting at his stomach absently.
"Oh, sweetie. How could you let this happen to you?" Kol croaked, sounding like an old lady. Elijah stare at Kol with suspicious eyes, before being pushed forward to join them on their impossible trek to a 'familiar house" as Klaus had put it.
"Where are we going exactly?" Rebekah asked, narrowing her eyes and scrutinizing Klaus.
"From Shane's balcony I can see the Salvatore's Boarding House-" klaus started.
"WHAT?! We are going to ask help from Demon? Hell no." Kol protested, staying still.
Elijah shrunk at the mention of a demon, for he was afraid that the demon would eat him. He refused to move anymore, staying motionless with Kol. Klaus sniggered at their expression.
"Eee-yoh, Demon is actually Damon. His group of friends are... Troublesome and infuriating at times, but they are our only hope." Klaus admitted, scratching the ground.
"Do we really have to?" Elijah struggled out, hiding behind a tree stump. Klaus sighed. His brother had changed. He was now very cowardly and timid, very different from the leader-like Elijah he used to know and look up to. Rebekah nodded, seemingly understanding and noticing that too.
"Sssstop being ssssso timid! You will get courage eventually, but if you don't take the first sssstep, you will remain like thissss... Forever!" Kol scared, eyes twinkling with evil.
"AH! Don't- Don't scare me like that! I'll- I'll tell my mom!" Elijah threatened half-heartedly, timid that the forever part would happen.
"Your mom'ssss dead. Like a few yearsssss ago. Hehehehehe..." Kol continued, going closer, until his face touched the penguin's petrified face, licking it with the forked tongue.
"Don't scare him too much. We need to bring him along, Kol," Rebekah sighed, towing the frightened penguin with her.
Klaus backed up and pushed the wooden gate with his hind legs, breaking bits of it and crawling out to the other side. Rebekah ducked, towing the penguin with her, who complained about shrapnel in his flippers. Kol slithered over the wall, smugly smirking at that them. Klaus led the way, but eventually stopped after a few feet.
"What is it?" Rebekah asked, staring out.
"A swamp. It would be impossible to get through without sinking. I'm guessing Shane liked to be near weird sticky animals," Klaus concluded, sticking a paw in and evaluating the slush.
"Not to mention... CROCODILE!" Elijah screamed when he ducked, nearly missing the lunging snout by a hair.
The crocodile slithered out of the water, snapping its jaws, lunging at the siblings, piggy eyes glaring at its evasive prey. Elijah was trembling so much the ground below him shook, Klaus whimpered constantly and Rebekah hid behind her brothers. Kol narrowed his eyes, before lunging forward and constricting the crocodile tightly. He wrapped around so tightly that the crocodile's eyes bulged out, laughing when the crocodile was struggling for air. Well, he was laughing. For a moment at least.
In one final moment, when Kol was almost succeeding in killing the crocodile, the blasted thing chose to roll round and round, eventually dropping them in the swamp. Rebekah screamed, Klaus growled and trotted to the place that his brother fell in. Elijah, still trembling and murmuring prayers, edged slowly to the place, looking tentatively over the edge.
"AHHHHHH! Get away from me!" Elijah screamed, when the fight (or rolling) came up and put of the waters of the swamp again, inevitably forcing Elijah to join the rolling. He started being pummeled mercilessly, and in tears almost immediately.
Eventually, Kol strangled the irritating crocodile, but Elijah stopped crying, rising up and walking towards the now dead crocodile, lifting it and dropping it back into the water.
"Eee-yoh! What happened to you!" Kol blurted, afraid he had lost his only chance to make fun of one easily.
"I have been called many names, but I do not appreciate Eee-yoh, brother," Elijah warned, dusting his flippers.
Aww man. Writer's block makes me suck. On other brighter news, The Originals are returning next week. I AM SO EXCITEDDD. THE SUFFERING IS OVER! and, please review and I will see you next week. Have a good day :D!