"Aperi oculos tuos et vide die facta est nox est perpetua. Nunc ambulo inter vivos in perpetuum facti mortuus sopitos."(Open your eyes, and see that the day has become the endless night. Now walk amongst the living and become forever the sleeping dead)
Darkness surrounded me as I fall into the depths of this hollow ground. All my senses have fallen numb to the touch of the nothingness within me as I tried to find an escape. Where am I, am I even alive, whose shadow was staring at me in the picture frame? Where is Damon, did anyone hear me scream? Please say I am alive and not trapped in this damnation of darkness.
"Surge, et in amplexu noctis monstra. Et post te in hoc regno manere donec iuncta comes verum vestra."( Arise and be in embraced by the night's wonders. Take your place and reside in this realm till you are joined by your one true companion.)
My head is spinning in circles and my vision is blocked by darkness. What has happened, what is happening, where am I? Whose voice is that that speaks to me and says strange words of a foreign tongue? Here in this so-called realm I lie lost and confused by these strange events and what is about to come. My soul feels as if it is being ripped open and torn into pieces by vicious eyes and rough hands.
"Aperi oculos tuos et vide die facta est nox est perpetua. Nunc ambulo inter vivos in perpetuum facti mortuus sopitos."(Open your eyes, and see that the day has become the endless night. Now walk amongst the living and become forever the sleeping dead)
"Surge, et in amplexu noctis monstra. Et post te in hoc regno manere donec iuncta comes verum vestra."( Arise and be in embraced by the night's wonders. Take your place and reside in this realm till you are joined by your one true companion.)
Over and over it repeated as I was suffocated and drowned in a pool of darkness and madness. My heart silently fainted as my soul changed and turned to the evil that I had long-sense ran from. It consumed me and comforted me through this transition from heaven to hell. But something called me back into the light, back to heaven where I belonged.
"Alyson…Alyson…breathe Alyson…BREATHE…"
I opened my eyes finding myself lying upon Elena's bed and Damon on top of me giving me air. My heart was starting to beat again as everything rushed back to my head. I glanced up at everyone; Elena, Damon, and Jeremy were all standing around me like I was dying. I sat up and faced Damon as tears fell from his face and his hands grasped my waist. Elena was sitting beside him staring at me with concerned eyes, while Jeremy stood inside the door.
"Why is everyone staring?" I said trying to brush off the concernment and the lingering glances.
"Well let's see…You passed out and you were acting psycho crazy!" Jeremy smarted off.
"Shut up!" Elena yelled.
"It's true."
"Jeremy, drop it!"
"Whatever, Elena."
"Alyson, you fainted in the hallway and then started shouting words in Latin. We couldn't understand you, but Jeremy found you. He said that you seemed to be going mad!" she explained as she took my hand in hers. Damon continued to stare at me as tears flowed from his eyes. He was really worried now and I think he knew something more that he wasn't tell me or Elena.
"I don't remember anything, except that there was the reflection of a tall shadow staring at me from the picture from in the hallway. Then everything went black and that's all I can remember until I woke up."
"Maybe because you have amnesia, Miss MadHatter!"
"Jeremy, so help me if you don't shut up…" Elena spoke out.
"What? I was just trying to lighten the mood." Jeremy smirked at me as Damon's head still hung low.
"That isn't lightening the mood. This is a serious matter that we're dealing with. But all you can do is make everything seem …ugh!" she exclaimed angrily. Jeremy stood there in silence as he pouted and whined.
"How long was I out for?" I asked.
"About three hours…" Damon sighed as he dried his tears. Jeremy stood in the corner staring at the tree of us again as if he knew something to but wasn't going to share with us. I glared at him until he left us to ourselves. Elena shut the door as Damon pulled me closer to him as if I were a stuffed-teddy bear that he didn't want to give up.
"Now Damon, what do you know?" Elena asked as she sat beside me. Damon glanced up at her as he buried his head in my shoulder. His eyes were full of fear and torture as he slowly tried to grasp the air to speak. I held him close as he began to explain to us what was going on and what was about to come.
"When Catherine had you, Emily put a spell put upon the both of you to prevent anything bad from happening. Then there was another spell that was placed upon the both of you that Emily wished that she hadn't placed; it was called the Metamorphosis De Contact. I read about it in one of Catherine's journals. It was to transform you back into your original states, while breaking your souls and transforming you both into vicious killers like Catherine."
Damon sighed, "This was one of the most feared spells that Emily had, and it could be haltered to whatever mystical creature that was chosen. Emily changed the spell last minute and told me that you two were chosen for this purpose."
"So we're not vampires?"
"A part of both of you is still vampire." He replied
"Then what are we?"
"Emily made you both into fairies of light. That explains why both of you were glowing the other night when we two hugged. One must be with the other to create the light. Emily left her spell book behind in the library so it would be hidden from Catherine so if she were to discover the truth and reverse the spell. But Emily being smart placed a lock-bind spell upon the Metamorphosis Contact so that it would take a very powerful witch to break."
I looked deep into Damon's eyes and saw that he wasn't finished.
"There's more, isn't there?"
"Yes, the bad part is that there is a strong witch that has been found, but she doesn't even know about everything and that she's even a witch."
"Bonnie…" Elena exclaimed.
"You know her?" he turned to her.
"Yes, she's been my best friend forever, but lately she's been going through a rough time since her grandmother died. I haven't really talked to her much; in fact she really been ignoring me and a lot of her friends."
"Bonnie's a witch!" I shouted as shock took over. I had met Bonnie on the first day of school and I had noticed that she seemed a little different from the rest of the students I had met. She had a calming warm feeling to her, but when she was angry or upset it was like fire and brimstone. Bonnie never seemed to be the kind of character that you'd find to be an actually witch with mystical powers and incantations. But this was Mystic Falls, anything and everything could be suspected to be found here.
"So did you think she has something to do with me collapsing and speaking Latin, or do you think its something else, Damon?"
"I don't think that it could be Bonnie; I would have sensed a witch's presence from a far away distance. It was something that could travel in the dark and be able to be unsuspected. But I don't know of such a creature that exists." Damon pondered as he pulled me to my feet and wrapped his arms around me tighter.
"Than what was it that attacked Alyson and wanted to take here?" Elena asked as she turned out the lights.
"We have to get back into the manor; it's the only place that would have answers to some our questions and why this is all happening." I yawned.
"But how will we get in if Stefan's there? He'll know that we're coming for something and he'll attack!" Elena silently shouted as she climbed into bed.
"Hey Lucy I remember your name…"
My phone went off and I glanced down at the name. I knew who that ringtone belonged to; Stefan Salvatore himself. Damon saw the phone lighting up with his brother's name as he tightened his grasp on me. He wasn't pleased that he was annoying me at this hour of night and that he would even think to call me while I was with him.
"Hello?"
What did he want?
"Aly, can I talk to you?"
"Why?"
"I just need to talk to you…"
"Stefan, I don't wanna talk to you."
"Please, Aly…"
"Stefan, can't you just leave me alone?"
"This is important. I really have to talk to you…"
The tone in his voice was calm and soothing, like he was a completely different person. Maybe something had changed in him, or was this a game to just get me away from Damon so he could molest me again? But my heart told me something different that my head had continually being hiding; Stefan was my brother and that he would never mean to harm me physically or mentally.
"Alright, where do you wanna talk?" *sighing*
"I'm outside on the porch of Elena's house. We can talk there."
"Okay, bye."
"Are you seriously going to out there and talk to me egotistically insane brother who tried to molest and rape you?" Damon expressed angrily.
"Damon if you had heard his voice, you would know that something was different about him. You, his own brother would have notice that he was somehow different." I said grabbing my hoodie and putting on my boots.
"I'm going to have to agree with Damon for once, Alyson. You don't know what Stefan might do to you when you're alone with him." Elena yawned as she sat up in her bed.
"I promise if anything goes wrong I'll scream or I'll do something drastic. Damon, please trust me and let me do this. We two cannot always be fighting over me and we could use your brother's help. So please let me go out there and do this." I exclaimed kissing him on the lips and then on the cheek. He shook his head as he sat down on the padded window-ceil glancing down belong, looking for Stefan. Elena curled under the covers and fell to sleep as I went downstairs.
I stood in front of that front door, hesitating on whether to open it and release my worst nightmare and confront the monster that had consumed my brotherly-best friend or was I to run from all this and go into hiding, forever lingering in the darkness of the past and be lost in silence. I tried to think positively, but every idea was shot down by a negative companion.
"Enough contemplating…" I said to myself as I opened the door as I faced my infinite doom.
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