"The Vampires' Tomb"
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Climbing down to where the tomb door was located, Stiles shivered as she heard the slow and nearly non-existent heart beats of the vampires that were behind the large stone.
Even though they were evil killers, she couldn't help but feel sympathy for the agony they all have felt over the many years they spent locked up and starving as their bodies slowly shut down and mummified.
Walking around the area of the tomb, Sheila starts lighting the torches while Bonnie stands close by her and the cousins are standing with the vampire brothers who all watch.
"Air. Earth. Fire." Sheila listed the elements around them to draw power from.
"Water." Bonnie said holding up a bottle of water and handing it over to the elder witch.
Sheila then started sprinkling the water on the ground.
"That's it? Just water from the tap?" Elena asked.
"As opposed to what?" Sheila mused.
"I just figured maybe it would have to be blessed or mystical or something." Elena shrugged.
Stiles couldn't help but chuckle in amusement which made Sheila grin and Elena gave her a look.
"Sorry, it's just; I forget you're still new to all of this stuff." Stiles said.
Damon then pulled out a blood bag from his jacket which made Stefan stare down at it, wondering where his brother had gotten it and why he had it.
"What's that?" Stefan asked him.
"It's for Katherine. Gotta have something to get her going. Unless your girl's offering a vein to tap." Damon smirked over at Elena.
The doppelganger gave him a non-amused look while Stefan sighed in annoyance and Stiles elbowed him in the side.
"Admit it...you can't wait to get rid of me." Damon whispered to his brother who chuckled.
"I can't wait to get rid of you." Stefan agreed.
Damon hummed at that before turning his attention onto Stiles, looking the girl over as she watched the witches.
The girl wasn't sure how she felt about being around witchcraft since she had some terrible experiences with magic.
She had died during a sacrifice and her mind had been taken over by a demon.
Stiles didn't think anything like that would happen again, but she was still worried that something terrible was going to happen that night.
"We're ready." Bonnie announced.
The two witches then stood together and started chanting the spell while everyone watched them, curious over how things would play out.
"What are they saying?" Damon asked.
"Sounds Latin." Stefan commented.
"I don't think it's Latin." Elena shook her head.
"Yes, it is. I recognize this from Lydia's old books. It's Archaic Latin. It's an older version of the language." Stiles explained.
A few seconds later, the torches flared to life and Elena jumped into Stefan's sight to get away from the growing flames.
"What's happening?" Elena asked.
Hearing a loud creaking noise, everyone turned to watch as the tomb door swung open and they stared at it while Bonnie's eyes grew wide in surprise.
"It worked!" Bonnie exclaimed as she and Sheila stopped chanting.
"Of course it worked." Sheila commented.
"We have some fires to build." Damon said as he looked at Stefan.
Turning to look at Elena, Stefan placed his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm gonna go get the gasoline, I'll be right back." He told her.
Elena nods and watches as Stefan left to gather up the supplies needed while Damon glanced over the women standing around him.
"You ready?" Damon asked Elena.
Everyone snapped their heads his way in shock.
"What?" Elena questioned in confusion.
Sending a glare over at the witches, Damon gave them a look of distrust.
He had been tricked and used by a Bennett witch before, he didn't plan on having it happening to him a second time.
"You think I'm gonna go in there by myself so you can seal me in?" Damon glared as he grabbed Elena's arm.
"Don't take her in. I'll bring the walls down." Sheila threatened him.
"You'll bring the walls down if I don't. You think I trust you?" Damon demanded.
"As much as I trust you." Sheila retorted.
"Enough. Both of you. Look, he needs leverage. He needs to know that you're not going to shut the door when he gets inside. I get t. I'll go." Elena agreed.
"I'm going with you. There are a bunch of starving vampires in there. The second they catch your scent, they're gonna try and attack you, even if they are weak." Stiles said.
Holding out her hand for her cousin, Elena linked her fingers with Stiles' and they walked into the tomb with Damon while bonnie stared after them in worry, hoping the girls would be safe.
"May?" Damon grabbed one of the torches to light their path.
As they ventured further into the tomb, they heard the voices of the vampires around them and they saw the bodies lying around them on the ground.
"What is that?" Elena whispered as she clung to Stiles' arm.
"They can sense you. Now, where is she?" Damon mused as he looked around for Katherine.
He then walked off, letting go of Elena and left the two girls behind as he rushed off through the tomb, trying to find his long lost love.
"Damon!" Elena cried out when he left them.
"Come on, stay close to me." Stiles told her.
The two cousins then walked through the tomb together, trying to find Damon as they carefully made their way over the bodies that were laid out on the ground all around them.
"Damon? Damon!" Elena whispered loudly knowing he could hear her.
The two girls could still hear the whispering voices of the vampires all around them and ti started to make them feel paranoid.
Elena then trips over one of the bodies and falls on top of it.
"Elena!" Stiles gasped grabbing onto the doppelganger's shoulders and pulling her onto her feet.
Turning her flashlight on, Elena shined it onto the face of the vampire she tripped over and began to panic at the sight of the mummified face that stared back at her.
Backing away slowly in her panic at the sight of the vampires, Elena then fell down on a male one and gasped when his eyes snapped open and stared right at her.
"Elena, you need to calm down." Stiles told her.
Just then, Stiles cried out in pain when she felt something being impaled through her back.
Startled by the noise, Elena shone her flashlight on Stiles and was horrified to see that Anna had drove a broken shovel into the kitsune's back and she dropped to the ground, moaning in pain.
Anna stared down at the girl, watching as she grew out a pain of orange fox ears and a tail, her eyes glowing red as she tried to reach behind her and pull out the wooden shovel, but she couldn't reach it properly.
"I haven't seen a kitsune like this before. I heard that bitten kitsune are the ones who can grow out the fox tail and ears." Anna commented.
Her attention then turned onto the frightened Elena who had tears streaming down her face at the sight of her cousin who had blood seeping onto the ground.
None of the vampires were rushing to attack the fox since her blood may smell appealing to them, but they knew it would make them sick if they drank it.
Kitsune blood was toxic to vampires.
"You must have a taste for it. You scream and shriek and even bother to escape, but then you just come right back to it." Anna taunted Elena.
Stumbling backwards to get away from the angered vampire, Elena's light shone on the form of a mummified vampire who looked to be an Asian woman.
Anna's attention fell onto the woman and she rushed to her side making Elena jump away and run over to Stiles.
"Mother! Mother." Anna whimpered as she looked the woman over tenderly.
"Stiles, are you okay?" Elena asked as she kneeled down beside her.
"There's a broken shovel in my back. I think I can actually feel the splinters." Stiles whined in pain.
Sensing the misery of the vampires all around her, Stiles knew that she could siphon it from them and heal herself in seconds.
"Take it out. Laney, take it out now so I can heal." Stiles hissed.
She could barely move with the damned thing in her back.
Nodding, Elena gripped the handle and pulled it out of Stiles' back, gasping at the sight of all the blood that coated it.
Reaching a hand out to the nearest vampire, Stiles watched as black veins appeared on her skin and moaned at the feeling of pain turned into pleasure.
"Your boyfriend did this, you know." Anna glared over at Elena, unaware of what Stiles was doing.
"His father did." Elena corrected.
Anna stands and faces Elena who looked nervous of what was to come.
"And Jonathan Gilbert. I made a choice a long time ago that it would be Gilbert blood that brought her back to life. I had Jeremy all ready to go, but..." Anna trailed off.
"Elena, run!" Stiles yelled.
The girl took off, but Anna was faster and appeared in front of her, grabbed Elena's wrist and bit into it with her fangs, making her scream.
With that done, Anna then shoves Elena's bleeding wrist into Pearl's mouth to feed her and the vampires started to drink.
The tomb then started to quake making Anna look around in confusion while Stiles stood, looking stronger than she originally had.
Eyes glowing red, Stiles rushed at Anna and tossed her off of Elena and pulled her cousin's wrist out of Pearl's mouth.
"I think you had enough." Stiles told the woman.
Scooping her cousin up into her arms, Stiles allowed her kitsune aura to cover her body, lighting up the tomb all around them.
She looked over at the stunned Anna who was staring up at her in awe.
"I'm sorry for what my ancestor did to your mother, but you can't blame us for his actions. He was raised to hate vampires blindly. We learned better." Stiles told her.
Stefan then rushed into the tomb and found them, watching as Stiles carried Elena out of the room of vampires.
"Anna. Annabelle." Pearl whispered.
Gasping, Anna rushed to her mother's side and started crying as she held the woman.
"Are you guys okay?" Stefan asked as he looked them over.
"We'll be fine. We just have to get out of here now." Stiles said as she handed Elena over to Stefan.
"What are you doing?" Stefan asked as he held Elena close to his chest.
"I'm going to find Damon. I don't want to be in here any longer. If he needs help with Katherine, then I will find her and carry her out myself so we can just leave this damn place." Stiles said.
"Wait, Stiles..." Stefan protested.
Not listening to the eternal teenager, Stiles took off in search of Damon, trying to track his scent through the room of vampires.
Being careful so she didn't step on the vampires laying all around her, Stiles made her way deeper into the tomb and was finally able to smell Damon and also heard his breathing spike.
Entering the lit room Damon was standing in, Stiles looked at the black haired male as he panted in frustration, looking close to having a break down.
"Damon?" She called out.
"She's not here." He said.
"What?" Stiles asked in surprise.
"She's not here!" Damon screamed.
He threw the blood bag he had at the wall, splattering blood against it.
Damon then stared at Stiles in anguish and she felt her heart go out to him.
"That's not possible. I thought you saw her being carried into the tomb. How could she not be here?" Stiles asked as she glanced around at the bodies.
During her search for Damon, she hadn't seen one vampire that looked like Katherine and wondered if she had somehow escaped when no one was looking.
"It doesn't make sense. They locked her inside. How could she not be here?" Damon muttered.
Stepping forward, Stiles pulled Damon into her arms and he melted into her embrace, seeking comfort.
"I don't know what's going on here, but what I do know if we have to leave. We need to go. You can't find your answers locked in here. Come on." Stiles told him.
Nodding, Damon allowed Stiles to lead him out of the tomb.
They heard the chanting of the witches and walked out into the fresh night air making Stefan and Elena sag in relief.
As soon as the fox and vampire left the tomb, the door closed behind them and the torches died down.
"Where's Katherine?" Stefan asked.
"She wasn't there." Stiles shook her head and felt Damon tighten his grip on her hand.
"What? We went through all of this for nothing?" Elena exclaimed in disbelief.
Damon then walked off, making his way somewhere to sulk and try to figure what had happened to Katherine.
He decided to go after Anna, having a feeling she knew something about this.
"Where's Jeremy?" Stiles asked remembering what Anna had said before.
"He's okay. He's only knocked out." Stefan told her.
Rushing off to find Jeremy lying on the ground, Elena and Stiles gathered around him while the fox's appearance returned to normal.
When Jeremy woke up, they took him back home and watched over him, bring him aspirin and water to take.
"How's your head?" Elena asked.
"Uh, it's all right. I just... I wish I knew how I passed out. I didn't drink that much I swear." Jeremy said.
"And you don't remember anything?" Elena questioned.
"The whole thing's pretty cloudy. I just... I know how this looks. I'm-I'm sorry." Jeremy said looking vulnerable.
"It wasn't your fault, Jer." Stiles crooned as she ran her fingers through his hair.
"No, Jeremy, don't be sorry. You didn't do anything, okay?" Elena told him.
"Yeah, okay." Jeremy nodded.
"Someone probably spiked your drink. I had that happen to me before. I started seeing weird hallucinations before someone dunked my head in the pool to snap me out of it." Stiles glared at the memory.
She had no idea wolfsbane could have that kind of effect on humans if they ingested it.
What a terrible night that was.
"I've got to head over to Bonnie's for a little bit, but is there anything that you need?" Elena asked him.
"I can make you some grilled cheese and bacon toast." Stiles offered.
"Yeah, that sounds great." Jeremy grinned, not one to reject his cousin's cooking.
Elena then took off for Bonnie's house and Stiles went downstairs to start cooking for Jeremy, both girls unaware of the fact that he started researching information on vampires when he was left alone.
Many things happened that night.
Damon went after Anna and Pearl disclosed information about Katherine.
A guard who had been obsessed with Katherine helped her escape if she promised to turn him into a vampire.
Anna had seen Katherine in the 1980's and revealed the European vampire knew where Damon was, but didn't bother to find him, breaking his heart even further.
Sheila also had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital, but died before the ambulance got her there which devastated Bonnie who tried to find a spell to save her, but failed.
To be continued...