Chapter 11 - Ghosts
A/N: Hi guys I'm back again, hope you enjoy :)
A girl with red hair stands at a bonfire surrounded by others, they are dancing and some are performing spells. The girl breaks away from the group and appears on the modern day streets of New Orleans dressed as a flapper girl.
A black man in a white suit takes a snake and throws it into a fire, he then begins chanting and the flames rise up. His eyes turn a slightly milky colour as he absorbs the power before materialising beside the girl on the street of New Orleans. Behind them a blonde woman walks over, her lips move but nothing comes out. She tries again, "Caroline. You're in danger, the witches"
*Mikaelson Compound*
Caroline jumps as she wakes, waking Klaus who was sleeping beside her. She climbs straight out of the bed and begins searching for her jeans and boots. "Caroline, what are you doing?" Klaus asks as he too gets out of bed and tries to stop her, "I need to check something out" She mumbles and pulls on a jacket, "It's to do with my mother"
"Then let me come with you" Klaus pleads as he pulls on some jeans and a Henley. Caroline nods and grabs his car keys, throwing them to him. "Fine. But you drive"
*Old Forbes Mansion*
They pull up in front of the clearing that leads to Caroline's old family home. She rushes toward the crypt and pulls her mother and father's coffin out only to find her father and not her mother. She lets out a cry, "She's gone. My mother's gone" Klaus checks the crypt too but doesn't find anything. Caroline looks up at him angry, "The only person who would need to use a witches' body for anything is another witch and Sophie is the only witch who knows about this place. I'm going to kill her"
*Mikaelson Compound*
When Klaus and Caroline get back to the compound he makes a call and has all the vampires gather in the courtyard. Thierry walks in escorted by a vampire, the others look at Klaus shocked. "I have issued Thierry with a pardon, I hope you'll be pleased to welcome him back into the fold. Onto other much more pressing matters" Klaus starts, he catches Caroline's hand, gives it a reassuring squeeze and presses a kiss to the knuckle. "Diego, I was thinking, that due to some unfortunate events, you could lead a witch rousting" Diego nods with a smile and leads several vampires out the door.
Caroline turns to Klaus, "You're sure this will help find her?" He nods and leads her into one of the rooms so that she can sit down. "I'm sure, now I think you need to rest. You are carrying our little wolf after all and the stress isn't good for either of you" Caroline pokes her tongue out at him jokingly "Whatever you say"
A little while later Klaus' phone rings interrupting them during their quiet time, "We've found two vampires. They went missing and now their inside a salt circle with a symbol carved on their foreheads. Everyone's coming back, they're too scared to be out when witches are hunting vampires" Klaus growls low in his throat, he tells Diego that he'll handle it himself.
*Warehouse*
Rebekah walks grumpily into the warehouse, she stumbles across a salt circle with two dead vampires inside it. Their foreheads also have the same symbol carved on them. "Oh bloody hell" Rebekah mutters and turns but then as her heightened hearing catches a heartbeat her eyes widen in realisation and she turns back around as the black man steps out of the shadows. "Mademoiselle Mikaelson, what a surprising pleasure"
"That's impossible" Rebekah whispers in shock and slight fear, she vamp speeds over to kill him but he reaches out and grabs her by the throat and begins chanting. She chokes as grey veins begin appearing on her face and neck and then she passes out in his hold.
Celeste comes into the warehouse as the man finishes performing a spell on Rebekah's body; that is lying dedicated in a salt circle, the symbol carved on her forehead. He stands with a smile, "Her power now flows through me, if any of the other Original vampires are to attack me before my task is complete then I can make them suffer" Celeste smirks and looks down smugly at Rebekah's body, no remorse in her eyes.
*Mikaelson Compound*
Caroline searches through Davina's drawings to see if she can find any clues as to why her mother's body is gone or why the Harvest has failed. "Caroline, what are you doing in here?" Elijah asks, stepping inside. She turns to him and smiles nervously, "I was just thinking, my mother's body is missing, but then Davina drew your mother and then the Harvest didn't work. What if it was all connected?"
Elijah picks up his phone and tries to call Rebekah, she doesn't answer four times before he gives up. "You're worried" Caroline says as she straightens a map on the dressing table Davina was using. "Bite into your wrist, if I use your blood I can find her" Elijah quickly bites into his wrist and drips the blood onto the map. Caroline starts chanting and the blood moves over to the dock warehouses. "I'm coming with you" Caroline insists as Elijah walks out into the hallway, "I'm not staying, you could need help" Elijah frowns and pauses, "You do not leave my sight. Not for a second"
Caroline and Elijah pull open the door to the warehouse and they spot Rebekah laid on the floor not too far in. Elijah rings Sophie as he goes to step into the circle but the salt stops him. Sophie answers, "What's up?"
"Rebekah is trapped inside some kind of boundary spell. Someone is channelling her. We have to get her out because she won't die, instead she'll be an endless power source" Elijah informs both Sophie and Caroline, "Umm, you need to find something more potent than the salt to upset the spell. Something like volcanic ash or rock salt-"
"Or witch blood" Caroline interrupts giving Elijah her wrist, he glances up at her, unsure but she nods and he bites in. Blood immediately rises to the surface and Caroline turns her wrist the other way up so that her blood drips down onto the salt. It bubbles and disintegrates meaning Elijah can get in, get Rebekah and flash both her and Caroline away.
*Warehouse*
Sophie is waiting for them as they arrive back, Rebekah beginning to wake up. Elijah takes her upstairs and Caroline stays with Sophie telling him she'll deal with her. Caroline smiles and quicker than Sophie can see she reaches her arm back and punches her in the face. Sophie falls to the ground with a cry clutching her broken nose, "Where the hell has my mom's body gone? It was there and now it's not. So where is it?"
Sophie shakes her head, "I don't know, someone's hijacked the power from the Harvest, four have risen but not the right four. There could be a chance your mother was a part of it" Caroline growls at Sophie, "Why the hell would my mother do that?" Sophie just looks up in fear, without an answer and Caroline lets out a frustrated yell.
*Lafayette Cemetery*
The man from before is stood outside a crypt in the cemetery performing a ritual on a special blade. He holds it in the air and lets the moonlight shine on it. He turns and hands it to Celeste who has stood watching what has been happening. "This blade now contains all the power harvested from the sacrificed vampires. It will do things worse than death, even to an Original. " Celeste smiles at him, and raises the knife, "Papa Tunde are you ready for the final offering?" He nods and gets to his knees, his back to her. "It is an honour" She steps behind him and slits his throat with the knife, he falls to the ground dead and she smirks as she feels his power absorbing into the knife.
Celeste then goes back inside the crypt where Elizabeth Forbes is slumped on the ground, her wrists in shackles and her ankles too. "I didn't expect to be brought back from the dead to be kept captive" She pants as Celeste places the knife on the makeshift stone table. Celeste steps closer and places her fingers at Elizabeth's temples, "No" She whimpers as Celeste enters her mind and uses her to try and search through Caroline's mind.
*Mikaelson Compound*
Caroline suddenly grips her head and falls to her knees yelling in pain. Images of her and Klaus flash through her mind, emotions and she sees a face in her mind. "Get out of my head" She screams and forces Celeste from her mind as Klaus rushes to her aid.
She falls into his arms shaking, "Eugh, it feels like I'm hungover. Stupid witches, with stupid vindictive plans" Klaus passes her a few painkillers which she quickly takes with a glass of water that Klaus hands her. "The headache should pass soon. I would gladly go out and kill Celeste now only it might not work in our favour" Caroline scoffs at Klaus' tactful way of not being discreet.
"The headache is the least of my worries. Celeste got into my head…she shouldn't be able to do that. Not without my blood at least. I have to address the Coven. They're mine now and I need to know what they know"
*Lafayette Cemetery*
"Leave my daughter alone" Elizabeth says weakly trying to pulls free of the chains. Celeste bursts into laughter, "Not when she is Klaus Mikaelson's weakness" Elizabeth looks over at Celeste in anger and frowns, "I'm not sure what your game is but I was a coven leader, you were merely an Elder. I have more power and authority than you ever will so stop now before you go too far into this madness and are punished by the ancestors when you return to the other side"
Celeste picks up the knife, hiding it in her pocket and then she uses magic to paralyze Elizabeth before leading two male witches in. They pick Elizabeth up and follow Celeste out to the altar. Celeste has them chain her there so that she is in full view of any who come past. "She will come to me Elizabeth, and when she does. I will use her to make Klaus Mikaelson suffer"
"She is the leader of this coven. The witches bow to her. If anybody is to suffer, it shall be you Celeste" Elizabeth says, her eyes looking around at the cemetery. Celeste chuckles, "Please. She is a mere child that will be crushed beneath my palm along with the rest of the Mikaelson family. As for the coven, their loyalty is to whomever offers them the highest price"
Caroline stumbles slightly into Lafayette Cemetery as the remnants of her mind intrusion fade away. Klaus puts an arm around her and they stop for a moment. "Caroline, love, you're still weak. You don't need to prove yourself to any of these witches-" He is interrupted by Caroline scoffing as she pulls away from him. "If I needed your opinion Nik, I would have asked for it" She continues walking into the cemetery