Klaus P.O.V
I have seen a lot in my life time, but those few hours trapped in Dahlia mind where I had been shown what would become of my son had left me with many questions. Seeing Freya losing control the way she did I kind of expected it, she was taken at an age where she understood, she was ripped away from her family. To have seen her temper when things didn't go her way had left me with concerns of what might happen to my own child. Nerveless she was one powerful witch that gave Dahlia a run for her own magic, with this curse of the first born in my bloodline, but with Chance he wasn't just curse with just that. My innocent son has his mother abilities which were brought into light. Witnessing Star in her rage how she destroyed a city in her waft was concerning. When I look into her eyes all I could see was a woman with a kind heart, who would do everything in her power for the ones she loves.
That version of her I saw was kept in the dark about the truth of what happened to her parents, her life had been fabricated that was the reason for her waft. But did that justify all those innocent to feel her waft? All I knew in this moment in time is that I needed to gather up my strength, if I was going to face my fate and continue with my own plans I need to be at my top form. My actions, and choice of what I will do today will paint me out as the villain. The ones closest to me see me as that, but they will truly see how one of the worst villain to walk this earth will do to get back what is rightfully his.
From the cemetery I made my way to Bourbon Street, there was some sort of festivities are going on, because the streets are filled with people holding Hurricane cups and yelling drunkenly while jazz bands march and play their tunes. Overhead, thunder and lightning continue to rumble as I stood waiting for something to return my strength. A couple turns down the alley that I was standing the man sings along with the music as they walked, I appeared in front of them in my weaken state trying to keep myself steady.
"Whoa!" I could hardly stand on my own two feet, all I could hear is the pulsating of their blood pumping through both of their hearts.
"Good evening. I wonder if you could help me. I'm feeling a bit famished." I held myself against the wall to steady myself. This was something I hadn't done in a very long time attacking innocents, but I needed blood in order to regain control of this disaster round me.
"I'm sorry, I don't have any change." It wasn't exactly money that I was asking for, this hunger that dwelled upon me was like nothing I've ever experience before, it was nothing like when I woke from papa tuned blade. It was something truly different it felt like nothing could curb this hunger, whether it was all the anger from the betrayal around I was uncertain.
"Well, that's no problem, mate! I'll just help myself." I lunged for the couple and violently feed on them, as their blood began to quench my thirst but it didn't seem like enough. I picked up the woman whose heart was still beating and drank until her heart stopped beating. I held her dead corps in my arms as I looked up I saw Dahlia joining me in the alley.
"You must be hungry, considering what you've endured." She was right this hunger I felt right now was like I had been desiccating for centuries rather than hours.
"I've never been daggered. Never knew it was such an agonizing experience. It does help explain why my siblings loathe me." Now I understood that all too well now, but that won't stop me doing what needs to be done once I'm in full recovery, Elijah will regret daggering me that I knew for sure.
"You'll need your strength for what's to come. I suggest you replenish yourself before the storm." She smirks before gesturing to the side of her where she has used some kind of magic to lure dozen humans to allow me to feed on them. Dahlia wanted me to be on top form that was for sure, I couldn't help but grin in satisfaction as my first item on my agenda I needed to be at full capacity. Human after human lays dead on the ground in front of my feet as the torrential rain soaks them all. Dahlia, who is standing at my side, looks down at my victims with a smile. "Have you had your fill?"
"Indeed." I smirked at her, everything that I know now I'm going to allow this to all go in my favour. "I'm beginning to feel like my old self again." Thunder crashes above, and I looked up at the sky, allowing the rain to wash the blood off my face.
We left the streets of New Orleans and made out way to St Louis Cathedral, Dahlia had her mind set on me joining along with her plan, whereas I still had hope that somehow I can break away from it all without causing her to notice. I was going to use this situation to my advantage, but there was someone in particular I needed by my side when I extracted revenge on those who tried to take me down, from those who took my children. That would be Star, I know that Damon had expelled her magic curtsey of Bennett witch, but I would rather have her by my side as I extract… no we extract the plan in order to keep our child safe. What worried me now is her state of mind, with her learning that Hayley took our son for his safety, hiding in the Bayou in one thing going across country that's a deception I will make her suffer immensely.
I knew I had to keep some form of composure around Dahlia, I stood by the window looking out at the pounding rain, while Dahlia paces impatiently behind me. My phone rings, I looked and saw that it was Star calling, every part of me wanted to answer the call as she was the only person who hadn't deceived me. She would only ask to see me but I didn't want to lure into Dahlia catches so I ignored the call.
"My deadline has come and gone, and yet you bring me here." She spoke in frustration, my aunt was not one for patient as it seems. I needed to bide my time to think carefully about each step I make from this moment onwards.
"I find it fitting. This is where Freya plotted her own treachery." I thought I'll assume her with what her demonic little offspring was up to while she had been trying to find her. She glances around and see all the tickets and spells that Freya had obviously frantically been working on, my hopes were that she was to be here but no such luck.
"When I granted you the strength to overcome that dagger's curse, I assumed you would thank me by taking swift and merciless action." Believe me she will be thanked for opening my eyes to what I have to do, but with the storm she had created out there to stop Hayley and hillbilly wolves couldn't allow me to extract any type of plan.
"Am I allowed to traipse around in this monsoon you created?" I turned to her to see her rubbing her hands together and blows on them, which seems to cause me to have a momentary degree of pain, but I endured it I didn't want to show her that she had that much control over me.
"This storm is to stop your family from running with the child! So, I wonder... are you having second thoughts about standing against them? They are the family, after all, who left you here to rot." I still didn't have her full trust, I understood why this storm was happening, but taking down those who opposed me is my only drive right now.
"I assure you, there are no second thoughts." I growled at her, who was she to question my loyalties I've practically handed myself over to her agreed to follow into her plans to keep Star and Chance safe what else did this witch want from me?
"We struck a bargain for the benefit of your wife, and child, so that they would be delivered to me safely and be content by the presence of you by their side. Make no mistake- I will take them- with or without you." That was her first mistake to threaten me, and that will come with consequences as I'm not going to be fooled into an agreement without having precaution.
"Let me be clear about one thing, witch." Dahlia rolls her eyes dramatically, but she can rolled them as much as she wanted as right now she needed a reality check. "You need me. I know my siblings better than anyone. Their strengths, their weaknesses. They are a powerful and determined lot! Perhaps capable of evading you for the short year you have until your slumber begins anew!" Dahlia sighs in frustration, knowing that I am right. "You may well lose everything. But, I know how to vanquish those who stand against us, and that is exactly what I intend to do." Dahlia sighs again and curls her hand into a fist, I noticed the wind has died down. I couldn't help but smile as it was clear that she knew she needed in order to get what she truly wanted.
"The storm has served its purpose. Now, enough delays. I will take what is owed to me, and if the wolf resists, or attempts to run, I will kill her myself." There was no need for her to worry about that, I had something very fitting planned for the little wolf, and I didn't plan on doing it alone.
"I wouldn't worry about that." I turned to leave. "What I have planned for Hayley is far worse than death." I couldn't help but smirk as I walked away, now the fun all about to beginning I just hope the accomplice I have in mind to help me is willing to do whatever it takes to make her suffer.
Star P.O.V
My mind felt like it was about to blow, it felt that everything around me was falling apart with Hayley taking Chance, and now to find that Nik was no longer in his casket I felt truly alone. For the better part of a thousand years I felt like this, useless unable to do a thing and I thought all of that was over, but here I am once again allowing others to take control on my life, my family. I felt a storm of emotions stirring inside me which I felt I couldn't control, but that couldn't happen I had to remain focus I had to find the both of them.
I left the room and made my way towards Nik study I began to search through his bookshelves for something that was connected to him that I could do some kind of locator spell. I couldn't find anything, I grabbed a map of New Orleans in a fit of rage I swiped everything off the desk before laying it flat, I'll have to find Chance and deal with the wolves myself. I picked up a blade and cut into my hand allowing my blood to fall onto the map, I began to speak the words of the spell 'Phesmatos quare infantatum, Phesmatos quare filios, Ado finet terraeum, Nunc temos rogamus, Combutis et sanguinem.' As I looked down droplets of my blood began to move in various directions, a rage builds like deep water currents. I did everything right - everything – but it's like everything is against me.
I stormed out of the room and rushed down the stairs, whatever they had on Chance was something quite powerful, their only one witch they would have turned to do that, and that Davina. I had to make her take that spell off, I didn't care in what manner I had to do it, but I will not allow my son to be taken from me, even if Hayley thinks her reasons are justified. I opened the gate to the compound to see that the sky became dark and low with ominous black clouds and the wind picked up, howling, crying, warning, baying like a wolf into the night. The first crack of lightening rent the air and within seconds the rolling boom of the thunder reverberated overhead. Soon the rain fell, slow to start, splattering the sidewalks haphazardly. Then it fell as if from buckets, cascading like a waterfall from the heavens. It pounded on the roof as if it were demanding entrance. I wasn't going to let this storm stop me from doing what I needed to do, I walked out on the street but the violent unforgiving wind raced through the streets pushing me back, I could hear the clatter of loose roof tiles could be heard from above. I felt myself been thrown backwards it wasn't by the high winds, because right in front of me stood Damon who had me in his grasp against the wall of the compound.
"You aren't going anywhere." Damon growled, the look of anger that appeared in his eyes was something that terrified me as I knew I had pushed him to behave like this. With what I did to him earlier today my actions in hurting him was something unforgivable.
"Dam-Damon I'm—" The words wouldn't come out of my mouth. Too often we don't realize what we have until it's gone... I was too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' I hurt the ones closest to my heart, and I let things tear me apart.
"You're sorry that you threw me across the room? Broke my Stefan and Elena neck? What about nearly killed Bonnie? You know the people who are trying to save from the wicked witch." Once again he growled at me, I pushed him away from me I wasn't going to have Damon speak to me like this.
"I didn't ask for your help." As soon as I said those words Damon looked hurt, I was lashing out my frustrations on him when he didn't deserve it. He did all that to ensure I was safe from Dahlia and this is the way I repay him by being a total bitch. "I'm sorry, I don't know what going on with me, an-and now—" I just wanted to just explain everything to him what had happened but my mind was racing with a million things at once. Then this storm was bothering me as it wasn't something conjured by nature, this could only be the work of one person and that was Dahlia.
"Whatever spell Silas gave Bonnie it wasn't to supress your magic, it done the damn opposite. Damn you Silas!" Damon yelled in frustration. What he just said made me wonder why would my dad want to put me further endanger? I thought he would want to protect me just as Damon wanted to, which was kind of him, but there was an agenda to what my dad did to me. With the way I feel like I'm losing control I had to keep myself in check, I can't let this things that growing inside me be unleashed on the ones that are merely trying to help me.
"Hayley and the wolves have taken Chance." I spoke just above a whisper knowing Damon would hear him in his fit of rage. My heartaches as I spoke my baby boy's name, it is a cruelty of life that a heart can keep on beating even after it has been broken in two. It can feel as though it is being gripped in an ice-cold vice and ache as if it will implode in your chest, but still the boom-boom continues.
"I told you she has him safe in the Bayou." Damon spoke with confusion in his voice, as if I hadn't come to terms with the facts that he had told me. Of course with what I had done to him he was out of loop of everything that had happened.
"No, they plan on leaving for good. I might not ever see my baby again." Tears threaten to escape from my eyes as I spoke, and Damon tries to embrace me, but I backed away from him hold my hand up. "No Damon, I can't break down, I need to go and find him." My heartache continued to ache it was like a wolf eating at my chest, tearing its way to my trembling heart. It threatened to devour me, eat me whole and leave nothing but scraps behind. But I refused to be the scraps that Hayley would leave. I will fight off the wolves that have taken my child, but right now I didn't know how.
"You can't go searching for them, not in this storm, and the likeness is that they are still in the Bayou." Damon looked at me with concern as he knew that all of this was driving me into madness, I looked out the open door seeing the gale tore around the streets like an out of control locomotive. Anything not nailed down was blown along in it's wake. "Just let it settle, and the both of us can kick some werewolves' asses. Okay?" Damon was right I couldn't walk anywhere while this was going on, if I couldn't do that then neither would Hayley with two little children.
Damon brought me back upstairs, I wanted to keep away from Nik's siblings especially Rebekah who agreed with Hayley actions, I couldn't predict what I would do. So the both of us sat in the kitchen talking, I began explain everything that happened while Damon sat across from me. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. That how I felt when I spoke to Damon about my fears of everything happening around us, with both Chance and Nik disappearing I felt a loss. Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies, I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
The storm continued outside, I left Damon and made my way into my bedroom, as soon as I entered the room was filled with the aroma of Nik cologne reminding me once again he was out there somewhere. I pulled out my phone and tried to call him in hopes that he might answer, but all it did was go to voice mail, that brought more fear to me as he may think I was involved in the plot. That his out there somewhere seeking revenge to all those who opposed him, I knew Nik more than anyone for this betray he would make each and every one suffer. I walked over to the window and looked out to French Quarters as a forked lightning, brilliant and white-hot, flashed through the blackening sky. Crackling thunder rippled; the deafening noise engulfed buildings, erect and sleek with water. Rain fell in thick sheets of droplets. Little streams raced through the empty streets into the gutter.
It was like I was stuck in the middle of the eye of the storm, I turned around and sat on the bed trying to devise some kind of plan or at least figure out a way to stop this un-nature storm that's happening. Being in this room - I felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful - awful beyond all - but I didn't feel that a person could enter this room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could. I placed my head on the pillow and allow the sound of the rain to sooth my anxieties away.
Star's Dream….
Nik stood before with that oh so familiar look in his eyes as he walks me backwards, slowly and into the bedroom until I feel the bed behind me. He drops more kisses on my heated skin, everywhere except my mouth. My lips part as the soft moans escape, I'm eager for him to swallow them. I become aware of the distance between us, his body is bowed forward worshipping mine with surprisingly chaste kisses but nothing else is in contact. I glimpse my sanity for a small second and reach up to pull him closer. Lightning fast hands move to restrain me, catching both wrists and folding them away, securely above my head.
"If you touch me this will all be over way too quickly." His gravely mutter ensures my sanity's full disappearance. "Tell me what you want Star." Nothing makes me hotter than his seductive voice commanding, coaching or teasing me, just hearing it sends a powerful shiver vibrating through me.
"I want you." His grip flexes and tightens and then he smiles against my chest.
"I was hoping for some specifics, but you know how much I like it when you resist me." His voice is low, almost humming as he wipes his sandy stubble softly around my breasts – as if he knows that I can't break free and make him go where I want him to. I struggle some more, this time a little harder, putting the weight of my body behind it and decide to play him at his own game.
"I want you to lick me." I speak slowly, enunciating every syllable. "Lick my nipples and bite them – hard." He sucks in a hard breath that I reward with another attempt to free my hands. "I want your hand to trail down my breasts, my belly and find out how ready I am for you." Even to my own ears I sound husky, deprived. I caught a glimpse across the room that grabbed my attention, I turned my head to see Nik standing by the window with his distinctive smirk on his face. "Nik?" I felt confused as I looked up the Nik that was worshiping every part of my body moments ago faded before my eyes. Instantly I sat up to see a different Nik walking towards me
"I didn't know you had such dream sweetheart…" Nik spoke in a teasing manner as he came closer, I didn't understand what was going on right now. "Maybe I should invade them more often—" He spoke as he moved the hair from my face, the way he was looking at me with such adoration in his eyes, made my heart flutter and my sense lost once again being under his influence.
"My dreams? Wha-what—" He me cut off with a kiss, did was very different to what I had just experience with the other Nik who had me in his surrender a few moments ago. This felt too real, it felt like when I kissed him for the first time in 1490, when he kissed me my brain lit on fire and the warmth spread throughout my entire body. After that I was addicted, I couldn't bare not to be with him and I could barely breathe when he was around. Those kisses were my salvation and my torment. I lived for them and I would die with the memory of them on my lips. I dedicated my life to being with him from the moment of that first kiss, for I knew that if I lost Nik I would lose myself. He was the half that made me whole. He slowly pulled away looking at me with those familiar blue-green eyes.
"This was the only way I could speak to you without preying ears listening in." Nik spoke as he caressed my cheek sending a shiver down my spine.
"What going on? Everything a mess an-and I ju-just—" I was allowing all my suppressed emotions come to the surface, the realisation of Chance being taken.
"I know everything about the betrayals from those we call family. I need to know that after everything that has happened that you trust me." For Nik to go to such depth to come into my dream the way he had meant that I was the only one whom he could truly trust, who was I to doubt him as he was the only one I could trust with my body mind and soul.
"Of course I trust you. Don't you ever question that." He gave me a small smile, of course I understood that he felt that other around him didn't trust his actions or way of thinking, but I know that Nik would never do anything to endanger our son and my life.
"I need you to listen-" He cups my face in his hands, as he gazed down at me intensely. "I have a plan how to stop Dahlia, but it entails your help." If knew a way of stopping her then I wanted to be by his side doing so.
"Whatever it is I'll do it." I didn't care what he and I had to do in order to stop her wreaking havoc on our lives, as long as she was gone that's all that matters.
"I need for you to do exactly what I say…."
End Of Star's Dream….
I jolted up in the bed I could see the balcony door at the far side of the room was opened, as the calm breeze move the voile, I turned to my side to see a red rose on the pillow with a note. I picked it up and knew from the handwriting that it was Nik's, I opened it and it read 'A single dream can change our lives forever….' I put down the note and began to reflect back on the utterly crazy dream I had, it was so vivid and real. From the evidence surrounding me Nik did invaded my mind. What he asked me to do was playing on my mind, I didn't know if I was strong enough to do what he asked, but he seemed to believe that could.
I got up from the bed shaking those thoughts away, the storm was over and the sun shone bright which meant that it all going ahead as planned. I got myself washed and changed, I looked at my phone to see that it was only 9am I knew that today was going to be a very long. I made my way into the kitchen to make something to eat. While I sat down at the table I overheard Elijah discovery of Nik casket being empty, of course once they saw me accusations were getting thrown in my direction, thankfully Damon stepped in and put the both of them straight that I wasn't involved. Elijah storms off while a worried Rebekah followed, they were probably going to plot a way to bring Nik down they'll find it very hard to track him down. Damon and I both went down to the court yard I sat down on one of the couches while Damon poured us both a drink, I glanced over at Freya who still looked angry at what I had done to her while she continued to work on the spell to trap Dahlia. I looked up to see Marcel leaving I'm sure he and Elijah have strategized a way to find Nik and stop him from madness he about to commit.
"Until Niklaus is found, Marcel and I will scour the city." Elijah spoke as he and Rebekah came into the court yard, I wish them all the luck in their little hunt.
"Assuming Nik doesn't slaughter them. You know as well as I do he'll be on the warpath. Which again raises the question- how in the hell is he even awake?" Nik made a deal with the devil herself in order for that to happen, I still couldn't wrap that all around in my mind. She knew that I wouldn't agree to her terms so she attempts to enlist Nik to make the offer more tempting to take. Which made me think was Nik idea our best option?
"It was Dahlia. This was all part of her plan. No doubt, she killed Aiden, hoping that the blame would fall on Klaus, the family would divide, and she could win Klaus to her cause." Freya knew Dahlia far too well, that's exactly what she did, and of course I couldn't sit here and allow her to make accusations like this even if they were true.
"Nik would never align with Dahlia." I snapped at her, she turns to face me with a deadly glare, Freya and I were past any form of common alliances after I've seen how ruthless she could be by placing my only son's life endanger it tainted even more bad blood between us.
"Of course you continue to defend him, blinded like always Star." She spoke patronizingly towards me, I just rolled my eyes to it all, I hadn't been blinded to anything that Nik has done. I know exactly what he was doing, in order for that to work I needed to portray as the defending wife.
"He'd kill anyone who'd try to take his kids." Damon added, which he was spot on about Nik would murder anyone in his path that would take his children away from him.
"Isn't it Hayley who's trying to take his not only his daughter away but your son also?" Freya fired back, I took in a deep breath to not reply back to that. Damon phone began to ring, as he looked at the screen he looked a little concerned and left to take the call.
"Let's not forget that Dahlia is the true enemy here!" Elijah added, he didn't like to think of the idea that Nik would go after his precious Hayley that he held up high on a pedal stool.
"How good, then, that I finished my spell." Freya walks over to one of the three paintings, which is hung on an easel. "The paint of his artwork, combined with my blood, will render Dahlia vulnerable. The moment she passes between these paintings—" She gestures to the two other paintings, which are hung on the opposite walls "- she will be mortal." I watched as she pulls the small out of her pocket and hands it to Elijah. "You can kill her... using this." Elijah takes it from her with a surprising look upon his face.
"Father's knife?" The way Elijah calls Mikael father after everything that had happened in the last thousand years really annoyed me, he chased him and his siblings down for better part of thousand years. Now his garnishes Freya compassion as she gave him Mikael favourite toy.
"I thought it appropriate." The three of them smiled at one another like what happened yesterday when Freya was willing to use Chance as bait for Dahlia was nothing. If anything sitting here listening to them, has made my decision final, I couldn't trust none of them it was as simple as that. I got up from the couch and began to make my way to the gates to leave, I was given no choice right now but to trust Nik and the plan he had in mind. Around here I couldn't tell who was a friend or foe, at least with Nik I knew that both of our goals were the same.
"May I ask where you're disappearing off to?" I heard Elijah call out to me, I turned around to see them looking at me, with curiosity in their eyes.
"I'm not needed here am I?" I questioned the three of them, Rebekah stood nervously while Freya stood with her arms folded unimpressed.
"Dahlia is still a threat to you—" Elijah began to say as he slowly began to approach me, Dahlia was no threat to me, the only threat to me was the three people that stood in front of me.
"If I stay in this place any longer you're going to be a sibling short." I spoke as I glared directly over at Freya, and Rebekah. "For everyone best interest in this room its best I leave." I turned to leave once again as I did Elijah appeared in front of me, I raised my right hand flicked to side causing Elijah to forcefully move out of my way. "Try and stop me and face the consequences."
Klaus P.O.V
Once I left Dahlia back at the bell tower I made my way towards the compound, it took all my strength not to go in there and make my siblings suffer for what they did to me. There was only one person who I wanted to see that was Star, the only way I could even get into my own home was to climb up to balcony to enter our room. As I did I saw her lying on our bed, she looked so tranquil with her hair cascading over her shoulders. Star was a true beauty I knew that from the moment I first place eyes upon her. Then in the forefront of my mind the younger version of herself came, the destructive, uncontrollable version of her that nearly tore down a whole city in her waft. That part of her was hidden behind some mystical door in her mind, what worried me more than anything is if Dahlia was right if that door is remained unchecked would she really cause that amount of destruction? I removed that thought from my mind and continued with my reason why I had come here, I placed my hand on cheek as I did a smile appeared on her face.
When intervened Star's dream I was taken a little back to see that she was having a smutty dream of her and I, I stood back and watched as she used her seductive ways to get exactly what she wanted. No matter the distance my attraction to Star remains constant. She could be at the ends of the earth and still I would feel pulled toward her. There is something about Star and I that matches, each half loving the other so fully that a life alone would be meaningless. When times are dark she is the one that lifts me back into the light, when times are bright she is the one who rejoices with me. So though it is her eyes, her skin, her face that I look upon, know that the attraction runs deep to my core. I don't do superficial, I never did. When Star finally realized that I was in her dream she was filled with a lot of confusion, I could see that with the news of Hayley taking Chance had cut her to the core as it did I. I knew the only way my plan could possible work is to have her by my side.
I explained everything to her, from the bargain that Dahlia had placed before me, to what she had shown me in her mind, excluding the part of seeing Star past I wasn't sure in telling her that it may awaken something within her. I just wanted for Star to come as ally to show Dahlia that the both of us agree to her terms in order to get Chance back. I asked Star to meet me at Marcel apartment for 10 am, she assured me that she will be there, but the uncertainly in face was telling me another. I wouldn't force her to do something that she didn't feel whole-heartedly about. When I came out of her mind it was daylight, I placed a kiss on her lips before I placed a rose and a note on the pillow beside to let her know it wasn't an unusual dream.
I left with one focus in mind that was to take back everything that had been taken from us, we will be ruthless, and we will have those that will hate us for my actions. That's what happened when you wake up a beast that cannot be tamed. I jumped down on to the street below, made my way towards the other side of the river where the first traitor was going to be dealt with and used as pawn in part of my plan. I arrived at Marcel loft as I walked in he wasn't in the living room, I heard him talking to Elijah on the phone in the other room.
"If you find him, keep your distance. Call me, I'll handle it." He hangs up the phone, not noticing until it's too late that I was waiting for him in the living room and had overheard his conversation.
"Sound advice." I spoke quietly, Marcel shakes his head and chuckles bitterly at this bad luck of me turning up. "Although, I do wonder—" I stood to my feet, and Marcel holds up his hands in a non-threatening gesture.
"-Hey!—" I was interested to know how Marcel pained on handling me, did he think using the bond we once had was going to make stop what I was doing? More fool him if that's what he thought.
"-How exactly would you handle me?" I asked as I slowly began to approach him, I could see fear growing in Marcel eyes that is something that doesn't happen often which means my intimidation towards him is working perfectly.
"Now, before you get angry—" He began to plead but was soon cut off when I vamp-sped toward him and pins him against the wall in a choke-hold. "Ahh!" All the ones closest to me had plotted behind my back in order to stop me from saving my own child, anger didn't cover what I was feeling right now.
"I'm well past angry, Marcellus- I'm mad with rage." Marcel looked at me with widen eyes as he knew that they had pushed me too far this time. "But, today is your lucky day, because I'm not gonna kill you. Now, I need something from you, so instead, I'm gonna take solace in the anticipation of ripping it out of you." I place my other hand around Marcel's neck and snapped it so forcefully that Marcel rolls onto the floor. I looks down at Marcel's unconscious body, but Dahlia caught my eye as appears in the doorway and crosses her arms as she looks at me curiously.
"Breaking the neck of your prodigy is going to do what exactly?" Dahlia asked as she came further into the room, I had my reasons behind taking Marcel down I went to speak but I was interrupted.
"Nik is preparing him for me I need a vital piece of information from him." Star spoke as she entered the room, Dahlia was taken back to see her here just as I was after the uncertainly she displayed when we spoke. "Oh Dahlia why so glum?" Star teased as, I glanced at Dahlia who didn't seem impressed with Star's confident demeanour.
"The last time we spoke—" Star didn't allow Dahlia to finish speaking.
"I had a change of heart with your generous offer to Nik, it made me reconsider where my loyalties should be." Star was truly putting on quite a performance, she sounded very convincing indeed. The room was filled with several vampires ready to attack. "Seems we have company." My guard was up and I didn't mind spilling some blood right now, let out some of this anger. "Le specto tre colo ves bestia." Star held out her hand as spoke those words each of the vampires had their hearts torn out of their chest, as there were floating in mid-air as their bodies dropped to the ground a moment after the hearts followed. I stood there feeling a little un-nerved as far as I knew the Bennett witch was meant to have supressed Star from doing any of this. How the bloody hell did she rip out several heart with a flick of a hand?
"This is an interesting turn of events—" Dahlia approached Star. "—how refreshing Ophelia to see your true nature seeping to the surface." In that moment I began to regret bringing Star into this if I had known that she still had possession of this magic within her I wouldn't have brought her into all this.
I wanted to speak to Star about this turn of events but Dahlia was still lurking around, I didn't want to give away anything that I had discussed with Star in her dream state. So with force of will I continued with my plan, of course I kept getting interrupted by Marcels riff raff turning up trying to save the day, I made sure I was the one who dealt with them rather than Star. As I slaughtered one after another Star stood by the bar with this mischievous look in her eyes, any other time she would be begging me to stop that this wasn't necessary, but it seems that those we trust didn't only push me to the extreme but also her. Star had been digging around in Marcel mind as there was something in particular she was after, it didn't take her long to find it. She stood by the bar furiously scribbling away what she called her ultimate revenge, while Dahlia watched her intensely with a smile. Marcel wakes to he finds himself completely bound with ropes and hanging from the ceiling.
"Wakey, wakey." Marcel realizes that he's been hung upside down with his abdomen exposed so it was easy for me to torture him. "Star and I were getting bored, but then some of your associates popped by to keep us entertained." Star gave him a sarcastic wave while Dahlia sighs impatiently and plops down on one of bar stools, I held up a bloody knife for emphasis.
"Keep them out of it!" He growled as he tried to struggle with the ropes that bound him tightly.
"Easy, easy! You've suffered a substantial amount of blood loss! I had to excise the vervain from your system- I can't have you impervious to my compulsion, now, can I?" I turned and stabbed Marcel in the side with the knife, and Marcel groans in agony.
"AHH! Ahhh!" Marcel continues to struggle to get out of his restraints, my attention went to Gia who was unconscious on the couch, having also been bled of vervain. Which gave me an idea as I knew how Elijah and her had grown rather fondly of each other.
"You've got what you came for. Just kill them and be done with it!" Dahlia snapped which wasn't helping, as Marcel played a huge part of our plan for later I needed to be 100% sure that he was under my compulsion.
"With respect, dear Aunt Dahlia, this is all part of my plan! My family, powerful though they may be, are bound by love. Vows of friendship and—" I rolled my eyes dramatically. "- nauseating romantic entanglements. All of which I intend to use against them." I could see that Dahlia, understanding where I going with this, smiles at me "Marcellus will help turn the tide, mark my words!" I turned and walked back to Marcel. "At days end, they will be laid low, and my children will be safe- with us."
Third Person P.O.V
The night sky stood an inky canopy of darkness freckled only by the fewest of stars, where just hours ago it had been a blue winter day. Star made her way out onto the roof top of the build where Marcel resided, she stood solemnly as she looked at the city across the river knowing by the end of this night everything will change. Star never thought of herself let alone her husband would be doing Dahlia bidding by allowing her to have the one thing she had been waiting for in the last thousand years. She knew of her husband Klaus plan on how to finally defeat Dahlia, she was feeling conflicted about all this from the moment she woke up from her dream. She knew so many things could go wrong that her husband was a master manipulator when it came to those that opposed a threat to him, and she had to do everything in her power to protect him from any harm. As that was the reason why she was in this predicament with Dahlia, she used the love that Star had for her husband to her advantage to have control of the beast that was caged in Star's mind. Her only reason for her return was to protect the man that she loved from all of those that were a threat. Earlier after leaving the Mikaelson family Star allowed the darkest part of herself come to the surface, she was now fury, she was wrath, she was vengeance.
Klaus who had finished compelling Marcel and Gia for his plan looked around the room to see that his wife was no longer in the room, Klaus concerns for his wife grew more and more as he watched a different side of slow creeping to the surface. He left the room and went in search for her, it didn't take him long to find her as he felt her presence. He walked out onto the roof top to see his wife standing a few feet away, while the moonlight splashed down its watery white-silver glow onto the city, bathing them, illuminating them. He had growing concerns for her and was uncertain if he should allow her to continue being a part of this plan, he approached his wife. "Star, why didn't you tell me—" He stopped talking as Star turned to him the flash of silver in her eyes that appeared gave him great concern.
Star had been harnessing energy from the moon in order to help her with this battle that was come, she felt its power slowly charging her up. She was interrupted by her husband who looked at her with great concern, Star knew from earlier in the day by her friend Damon that Klaus knew about the plan of supressing the magic within her. "There hasn't been much time for us to talk." Star turned away looked out to the city knowing somewhere out there was there son. "It's a good things that it didn't work—" She turns to him with a smile. "—Dahlia trusts you more with bring me into the fold, and with me allowing her to see a touch of what I'm capable of." She could see that her husband was conflicted about all this, Star always knew that he didn't like her using magic, he had seen a darker side to her that had scar his mind. "Don't be discouraged Niklaus, your plan will work, it's just you won't be doing it alone." She leaned in placing a gentle kiss on his lips to assure him that in the end it will all go in their favour.
The bells of St. Louis Cathedral start to ring in the same tune as Dahlia's song, the sound of which echoes through the Quarter and into the compound. In the compound's courtyard, Freya is staring at Chance's car seat, which has the golem inside of it. Directly upstairs, Rebekah is lighting a white candle on a table, where Freya has written out the notes for the spell she will perform to create the illusion that Chance and her magic are located in the compound with them. Elijah stands nearby, nervously hitting his hand against the handle of Mikael's knife as he watches Rebekah raise her arms and begin to recite the incantation. "Sinete exa vana vintante com. Sinete exa vana vintante com." Downstairs, Freya picks up the golem and stares at it, as the spell kicks in, and the golem suddenly appears to be Chance. Freya clutches the imitation of her nephew in her arms and waits anxiously for the plan to begin. Rebekah continues the spell "...Vana vintante com."
Footsteps are heard approaching the compound which were of Dahlia, she was filled with content as everything was going in her favour, she knew convincing her nephew Klaus that he would be a part of his wife and child life. Now all she need was the child and she could finally have the power that been promised to her, between Chance's and Star's powers Dahlia would be unstoppable, with having the Original hybrid by their side they would be unbeatable. From the small actions that Star displayed earlier with the vampires, Dahlia desire to harness her powers even greater as she knew something had trigged within Star.
Elijah slinks slowly into the hallway so he can watch Dahlia enter the home, where she finds a scared Freya clutching Chance in the courtyard. Freya is purposely standing right in between all three of Klaus' paintings in an effort to lure Dahlia into the killing ground, but Dahlia stops right in the doorway into the room. "I come all this way to collect what is owed to me, and whom should I find?" Dahlia was displeased to see Freya clutching away at the infant boy, but she didn't see Freya at a threat in the slightest.
Freya had been terrified all day long with the fate that Star had place upon her, she had seen a side to her once friend that she thought was imaginable. Since Freya return she hoped to somehow savage her friendship between her and Star, but she allowed her hatred for her aunt to continue to break any form of trust between them. Freya had learnt after Star injected her with her nephew blood that she allowed her vengeance to consume her. If only she had worked alongside Star and Klaus rather than against them her family wouldn't be as torn apart as it was. As she stood with the golem in her arms allowing the illusion of her nephew, her aunt Dahlia had made her appearance as planned. She was terrified of what may happen from this moment onwards, but she knew she had to somehow lure her into the battle ground that she made. "Auntie, please listen. I betrayed my siblings so I could procure this child." Freya watched as Dahlia starts to walk into the courtyard, but once again stops just short of the killing ground.
Upstairs, Rebekah is continuing the spell to maintain the illusion of Chance's presence. "Sineste exa vana vintante com. Sineste exa vana vintante com." She had to do everything in her power to protect her nephew whom she loved more than anything in this world. She spent months taking care of him and his sister, she watched them both grown, saw their first smile, she was there for them when they cried at nights, told the both of them bedtime stories of a majestic King who would do his upmost to bring back his prince and princess. Rebekah wanted more than anything for her brother to be happy, to have his wife and children around him, allow her brother to become the man who she knew he could be. With circumstances that had occurred of late she feared that would never truly happen.
Freya continued to plead with Dahlia downstairs. "I offer him to you now, and in exchange, I only ask that you release me from my obligation to you." That is all Freya wanted, she didn't want to continue to be in the cycle of slumber with Dahlia, she didn't want her having control of her no longer. Even though she knew all this was distraction to lure her into this trap, Freya hoped that deep down her aunt could see that she had destroyed her to the point where she bargaining her own flesh and bloods life.
Dahlia tilts her head to the side and takes notice of one of Klaus' paintings on the wall behind Freya while she considers this offer. After a moment, she starts walking closer to Freya, but still doesn't cross into the killing ground. In the shadows, Elijah braces himself for a fight and grips Mikael's blade tightly in his hand. "How curious, that you should bargain with me for that which is already mine. But, by all means, make your case for why you should be freed. And then I will decide whether to release you or kill you, once and for all." Dahlia knew something wasn't quite right, she could sense some magic around her that was her reason for not getting any closer to Freya. She knew her niece all too well that she wouldn't give up in defeat like she is before her.
Upstairs in the study, Rebekah is still casting the illusion spell while Freya, the Chance decoy, and Dahlia are still talking downstairs in the courtyard. "Sineste exa vana vintante com. Sineste exa vana vintante com." Elijah is still lying in wait in the shadows outside of the courtyard, and he listens carefully while Dahlia steps closer to Freya and Chance, though she still has not made it into the killing ground.
Dahlia who watched intently while Freya clutch the baby in her arms that all Freya had ever longed for was to be with her family, and now she was defying them in order to break the hold she had upon her. Then again when Dahlia would look to Freya she would see her sister Esther, the selfish side that would only think of herself and no other. "You surprise me. Betraying the family you meant to coax to your side? How very ruthless of you."
Freya who now was becoming anxious as Dahlia hadn't step foot into the battle zone, she didn't expect it would have been this difficult to lure her in. She thought Dahlia would have snatched Chance from her instantly that wasn't the case. "I had hoped that they would welcome me as a sister." Dahlia nods in understanding. "I was wrong." Freya spoke the truth, in her mind as she tried her hardest to get back to the people that were her family, she was under the disillusion that they would welcome her back with open arms.
Dahlia felt sympathy towards Freya, as she had once been betrayed by someone who was her family, it took that lesson for Dahlia heart to truly blacken. That loving and having a family only weaken you, she could see that exactly what had become of her niece. She had the hopes that her family would safe her from this dark fate, but they were creatures of the night. They cared for only those who held the strong bond not some stranger. "Of course you were, you poor little fool! To think that Esther's wicked little progeny could ever care for you? They are known the world over for obscene acts of violence, and yet, you sought them out instead of staying where you belong. With me." Freya gulps nervously as Dahlia continues to slowly walk toward her, and tries her best to remain still to lure her into the killing ground. "I offered to protect you for all time, and you left me. And now, it is you who is alone! But then—" Dahlia realize that they're not alone. "- Who could love a deceitful little wretch?" Dahlia steps just outside of the killing ground and stops where she is, not crossing into past the front edge of the painting.
Upstairs, Rebekah is continuing to perform the spell "Sineste exa—" She stops chanting when she senses someone in the room with her, but before she can react further, she spots a panting and exhausted-looking Marcel, who is holding the cursed shackles. He's clearly compelled by Klaus, though he tries his best to resist. "Marcel?" Rebekah looked at him with confusion as she didn't understand what he was doing here.
"I'm sorry." Marcel vamp-speeds toward Rebekah and tackles her, forcing her to stop the spell.
Downstairs, the enchanted golem crumbles into dust in Freya's arms, revealing to Dahlia that it was just a trap. Dahlia's face becomes enraged, and Freya, who is terrified beyond all measure, gasps and looks at Dahlia with wide, fearful eyes. "What have you done?" Dahlia spoke apparelled as she was enraged by this deception.
Freya, at a loss for options, grabs Dahlia and pulls her into the killing field. "Elijah, NOW!" Freya bellowed. As Elijah vamp-speeds into the courtyard, with Mikael's knife in hand, but before he can reach Dahlia, Klaus tackles him and forces him to drop the blade.
Klaus who had been watch everything unfold how his siblings tried to use his plan to lure Dahlia into a trap, he was enraged when he saw Freya holding his son in her arms. Star who was by his side ensured him that was the decoy, she turned to Marcel and nodded, against his will her rushed off with the curse shackles. Star gave him a knowing look before leaving to play her part in this, Klaus nervously watched her walk away. His focus went back to what was happening below, as soon as Freya called out for Elijah, Klaus came out of his own shadows and tackled his brother. "And so the wheel of betrayal circles 'round once more." Klaus spoke furiously as he pulls Elijah up to his feet and throws him up against the wall, causing Elijah to crack the wall before he falls down on the balcony overlooking the courtyard.
Dahlia and Freya rise to their feet, and Dahlia looks at her niece contemptuously. "You treacherous little shrew!" She sneered as she uses her telekinesis to forcefully shove Freya backwards into the entrance hall.
Klaus, who has jumped up onto the balcony as well, picks up Elijah in a choke-hold and pins him against the wall before spinning him around and pushing him so that he's half hanging over the balcony. "She's controlling you." Elijah spoke only enraged Klaus further as squeezes his throat tighter. "You have to fight her." Elijah didn't believe that his brother had fallen that far to allow his child to hand over to the witch that plans to use his powers to benefit herself. No matter how many times Elijah thought that Klaus was lost in his madness, he knew that he wouldn't allow his child to be subjected to this curse placed upon the first born in there family.
Klaus who was still furious as the moments of when Elijah daggered him played out in his mind, his older brother betrayed him in such a way that will leave a scar that would never be heal. "The only thing she did is pull out the dagger you stuck in my heart!" Elijah breaks free of Klaus' grip and elbows him in the face, following it up with another right-cross to the jaw. Elijah, taking advantage of Klaus' distraction, kicks him in the stomach so hard that he slams up against a wall. Klaus lunges for Elijah, but Elijah knees him several times in the stomach, slamming him against another wall and shattering the concrete that covers the bricks in the process. Klaus loses his temper and throws Elijah backwards.
Downstairs, Dahlia has just caught back up with Freya, who is still sprawled out on the floor where Dahlia threw her, and desperately crawling backward as Dahlia approaches her. "After all I've given you, this is how you repay me? A death trap? Rendered by those elements that compose my sole weakness? And even in this, you fail." Freya looks at Dahlia fearfully, but Dahlia simply stands above her. "What do I sense? Sacred soil? Viking ash? The blood of a witch I loved?" Freya once again tries to crawl away, but stops when Dahlia crouches in front of her to look her in the eyes. "Not the witch I loved most, though." She sighs and feigns sympathy as she props her chin on her hand. "Oh, Freya. Did you think that your blood was the key to my demise?" Unknown to Dahlia Star stood in the doorway behind them listening intently to everything that had been said, a smirk appeared on her face before she walked away with a new found knowledge.
Freya's eyes fill with tears as she learns that the spell would have never worked, she truly thought that she was the witch that would end her. Freya knew her end was coming, her world felt shattered that the only thing she had ever wanted was to be by her sibling's side, to make amends with Star who she knew she had hurt deeply. "I only wanted to be free." In truth that all Freya wanted after a thousand years being held captive by a witch who only used her for her powers, who never truly loved her, it was all for power.
Dahlia who looked at the girl that she had cared for all these years only to see the hatred in her eyes as she looked up at her. This broken Dahlia heart she was near to tears, but regain her composure she wasn't going to allow her to see how deeply her betrayal had hurt her. "You pathetic girl." Dahlia rises to her feet, while Freya, still crying, starts to whimper in fear in anticipation for what Dahlia will do to her. "How shall I punish you? Oh, I know- I'll send you to bed early." Dahlia waves her hand toward Freya, who immediately is knocked unconscious and falls backward.
Klaus and Elijah are still viciously fighting each other on the courtyard's balcony, where Klaus pins Elijah against the wall in another choke-hold, though Elijah manages to stretch out his arm and choke Klaus as well. Elijah wasn't going to give up on this brother, he was going to make him see sense through this rage he was displaying before him. "She will take—" Elijah gasps as Klaus chokes him tighter. "- everything from us."
Klaus heard his brothers pleads but it just angered him further, the one person he never expected to turn on him in this way. Klaus couldn't allow his brothers words to cloud the path that he had laid out, all he wanted was for his brother to be by his side to take down Dahlia. Klaus knew he would always be the outcaste as with Freya return, with how his siblings were quick to side with her had proven this battle before him he would stand alone. "Elijah. You took everything when you broke our vow! Perhaps I'll take something from you." Klaus chokes Elijah even tighter, and then twists Elijah's arm backwards, breaking many of his bones.
Elijah cries out in agony. "AHHH!" Klaus spins Elijah around and pins his face to the balcony railing so he's forced to watch as Gia walks into the courtyard with Star by her side. Instantly Elijah notice that there was something different about Star as she watched Gia with curiosity in her eyes, as she stares up at him fearfully, clearly compelled to be there by Klaus. Elijah becomes frantic at the sight of her, he knew she had been brought to his attention for a reason.
Gia who was forced to be here against her will stood terrified in the middle of the court yard, listening to Star's every command. No matter how much she tried to fight against she couldn't, she knew that she had been compelled to listen to her every word. She looked up to see Elijah who Klaus had incapacitate, the man who she had fallen for watching her with fear in his eyes. "Elijah?" Gia spoke with fear in her voice as she knew her end was coming, there was no doubt about that.
Klaus watched from above as he restrained his brother, he could see that Star was in some kind of trances like state as she watched Gia. "Star, sweetheart would you like to do the honours?" Klaus watched as Star began to smile, as much as Klaus didn't want her to play a part in this. Star insisted as she wanted to show Elijah with all the betrayal that had been placed had brought her to this.
Star looked up at Elijah to see the distress in his eyes, she knew that if she didn't do this then everything that they were working to achieve would be at a loss. Star stretched out both of her hands towards a frighten Gia. "Phasmatos navaro pulsus sanguinox." As she began to chant the words Gia skin began to turn into a shade of red, as the spell that Star placed upon her was turning her blood into acid, burning Gia from the inside out.
"No! NO! NOOOOOOO!" Elijah bellows as he watches Gia screaming in pain turning into brighter shade of red as each second passed. After a moment, her body goes up in flames. "NO! NOO! AHHHHH!" Elijah couldn't believe what was happening before his eyes, seeing a girl he cared doe deeply in server pain, while the woman he considered like a sister stood happily smiling while looking at the flame. "AHHHH! NOO! NOOO! NOOO!" He screamed in anguish as Gia falls to her knees before keeling over and dying. Elijah watches in devastation as the flames go out, leaving only Gia's burnt corpse. While Klaus smirks, looking pleased by his wife's actions, it wasn't something that he expected but it gave an affected message to his brother. "AHHH! AHHH! AHHHH!"
Elijah eventually stops screaming, and Klaus looks at him emotionlessly. "You seem vexed, brother. Wait until you see what Star has got in store for Hayley." Klaus smirks gleefully, and Elijah, who is too enraged for words, elbows him forcefully and begins fighting him again, only this time even more viciously than before. Elijah tackles Klaus, and the two of them tumble down the stairs into the courtyard, where Klaus quickly hops to his feet. Elijah gets in a defensive position and vamps-out, hissing and baring his fangs at his brother. "Is that a hint of the fabled beast behind the red door?" Elijah continues to glare at him. "Come on, brother- let him out to play." Elijah leaps toward him and punches him forcefully in the head, but Klaus easily spins and wraps an arm around him, quickly stabbing him in the heart with Papa Tunde's blade before Elijah can react. "You should know better than to fight me in anger, for my anger is unending."
Elijah tries his best to break out of Klaus' grip, but he's quickly overwhelmed by the excruciating pain of the cursed blade and screams in agony as the blade magically embeds itself in his chest. "UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. AHHH! AHHHH! AHHHH! AHHH!"
Star walked away as soon as the two brother's began to fight, the realization of everything that had happened here had brought her to her sense. She never meant for it all to go this far, but the anger and rage that she felt about the way the ones closest to her betraying not only her but Klaus consumed her. She walked towards the gates but stops as she sees Damon entering the court yard, his both stunned and horrified to see Klaus neutralizing his brother with the blade. Star looks momentarily ashamed at the sight of her friend seeing all this, but she regaining her appearance of evilness.
Damon who had been searching all over the city for Star all day was terrified of what she may be doing, as he knew that after they spoke the night before his friend was enraged. She was unpredictable and he knew that whatever Silas had gotten Bonnie to do had changed her drastically. His last hope in finding her was going to Marcel loft, but when Damon arrived he laid witness to carnage of dozen of dead vampires, he knew that this was down to one person who was on the war path that was Klaus. The first person who came into his mind was Rebekah, she was human now and Klaus could easily hurt or worse kill her. With knowing that Damon rushed back to compound like a lunatic with the fear of something happening to the woman he was in love with. What he didn't expect when walked in was to see Klaus disabling Elijah while Star happily walked away. "Star!" Damon spoke with disbelief, seeing her looking like this brought back memories of when she was vampire and turned off her humanity.
Star gives Damon an annoyed look as she didn't want him to be involved in all of this. "You shouldn't have come here, Damon." Star threaten. Damon had always stood by her side even when those around her hadn't, with Dahlia being here she couldn't predict what would happen to him.
"I came here because you need me to knock some sense into you. Cause clearly you and Klaus are both out of your minds!" Damon spoke as he approached his dearest friend in hopes to make her see sense that it didn't need to go down in this manner. "You need me to tell you that this? This is not you. And I know you are hurt, but please listen to me." Star stood looking at Damon listening to his every word knowing he was right this wasn't the person who she was. As Damon was trying to make her see sense. "You are better than this." Damon could see that he was getting through to her, there was a look in her eyes that gave that away to him.
Dahlia, having neutralizing Freya for the time being, joins them the courtyard. She see Star and her friend who was pleading to her to stop what she was doing. Dahlia rolls her eyes at the sentimental attempt to save Star, Dahlia knew she had fallen there was no way to bring her back. "Is there a problem?"
Star wanted to scream at Damon tell him that she wasn't as lost as he thought she was, seeing him looking at her in this way tore her apart. Star was taken back with Dahlia presence. "Not at all. Just another victim." She spoke darkly as she started to approach Damon.
Damon who could see that Star was being clearly controlled by Dahlia, he had to snap her out of it somehow. "No, Star. I know you won't hurt me. I've known that you're not that far gone." Star finally stops walking when they standing are face-to-face.
Star looked at her long-time friend she caresses his cheek with her hand before speaking. "Then you're already lost." She claps her hands on either side of Damon head inflicting pain upon him that he had never felt before, she looked into his eyes as he screamed in agony. Dahlia watches impressed with Star grasp on her magic, she didn't expect for Star to have so much control which brought a little concern to her.
"AHHH! Ahhh!" Damon screamed as he tried to fight Star off him but there was no use, she was weakening him. Blood was slowly oozing out of numerous wounds in his face and arm, a small but relentless flow of crimson, but however by now he felt no pain. The pain that once burned like fire had faded away to an icy numbness. Black filled the edges of Damon vision and the only thing he could hear was Star's voice speaking to him, but he couldn't hear clearly what she was saying. Star moved her hands and watched as Damon breath came in ragged, shallow gasps as he fell to his knees falling to the ground unconscious.
Dahlia stood in the middle of the courtyard, where Damon and Elijah both lay unconscious. Nearby is Gia still-smouldering corpse. She looked to Star who had Klaus standing protectively by her side. "Quite a sinister plot they had planned. Would have failed in the end, though. Just as well you both came to your senses and sided with me." Both Star and Klaus don't speak a word as they are both absorbing what they had done.
Marcel bursts into the compound, holding a struggling Rebekah, who has been restrained with the cursed shackles, into the room with him. Rebekah looks at Klaus and sees Star standing by his side clearly feeling betrayed and furious, her attention went to the ground where she see her brother Elijah and Damon. "Have you lost your mind?"
Klaus stood there with a smile on his face as his sister looked at him with hatred. "My mind is quite clear. I just decided to purge it of treacherous barnacles."
Listening to this enraged Rebekah as she never thought that her brother and sister in-law would ever side with Dahlia, not after all their attempt to keep their son safe. "You bastard!" Marcel obviously hates that he's forced to do Klaus' bidding, but is powerless against his compulsion as he holds Rebekah back. "How could you allow this to happen Star?" Rebekah screams directly into Star direction, Star merely looks at her for a moment before walking away. Which left all of them a little surprised with her actions most of Klaus.
Klaus had witness what Star had done to Damon, even though he had hurt his own brother by placing papa tuned blade within him. Klaus had just cause in doing do as he wanted to let his brother pay for his deception, whereas Damon had been loyal to Star till the very end. Klaus watched as Star walked away before turning to his sister who was taken back by her actions. "Actually, it was rather simple- I just recalled what Elijah did to me and reciprocated ten-fold. Be careful, or I'll apply the same equation to you." Marcel continues to hold Rebekah back, and Dahlia seems amused by the strife to which she bears witness. "Marcellus, keep Rebekah here. If she tries to leave? Well..." He looks at Rebekah. "You do like life as a mortal." He turns back to Marcel. "You can punish her by taking that life away." Klaus starts to walk away, but Marcel stops him.
Marcel was furious about everything that had happened, even more so that he had no control in his actions, he couldn't fight against the compulsion. He wouldn't continue to be under Klaus control, he would never hurt Rebekah let alone kill her. "Go to hell!" Marcel yells at Klaus in fury.
Klaus turns around to face him. "If by Hell, you mean somewhere you are betrayed by those you hold most dear, then it's from Hell I've just come! I didn't much care for it." He stares Marcel in the eyes and compels him again. "Do as you're told. There's a good lad."
Dahlia had grown tiresome of these displays, she wanted the petty arguments to end so she could get what was promised to her. She steps over Elijah's body on her way to join Klaus. "The child's magic is still cloaked. I shall need your blood to track her."
Rebekah began to struggle against Marcel. "No! Nik, don't!" Dahlia holds out her hand, and Klaus smirks at Rebekah for a moment before he bites into his hand and lets his blood drip into it. Rebekah looks absolutely appalled by Klaus' behaviour as Marcel drags her upstairs and away from her brother.
Star stood in front of the compound trying to gain her composure from all that had happened, but there was no backing out of any of this for her now she had to continue. Klaus and Dahlia join her informing her that they knew the location of Chance, with hearing that it made all Star fears fade away as soon as she knew she be seeing her little boy. The three of them made their way to a junkyard where Hayley and the wolves had stopped at while they decided where they were going to head to next. Hayley and Jackson has agreed to head towards Alaska, a touching moment between them was disturbed by the sound of one of the wolves screaming in agony outside, which startles them so much that they both jump. Hayley, Jackson, and some others wolves run to see what has happened, only to find Klaus, who rips the wolves' throat out with his own fingernails.
Hayley is horrified, which only makes Klaus more satisfied. "Good evening, Crescents. It will come as no surprise to learn that things will not be ending well for you." He smiled from ear to ear knowing that all of this was going to go in his advantage that he was going to make them suffer for taking his children from him.
Jackson, looking anxious, steps in front of Hayley before calling back to her, though he doesn't take his eyes off of Klaus. "Go back inside. Get Chance, Hope and Mary out of here." Jackson whispered he didn't wanted them to get as far from here as possible, he wasn't going to allow Klaus to take them he knew between him and his pack they could take Klaus down.
Hayley who now was now even more terrified as she never expected for Klaus to turn up, as far as she knew he was daggered unable to come after them. She couldn't leave Jackson behind to deal with this, while she ran away that wasn't in her nature. "I can help you!"
Jackson couldn't allow anything to happen to Hayley he knew that Klaus will make her pay for taking his son but also his daughter. "I'll be right behind you." He states sternly to her but Jackson didn't know if he would actually come out of this alive, but he loved Hayley and those babies and would lay his life down for them. Hayley still hadn't moves by his request which angered him further. "Just get those babies, and run." Hayley looks reluctant to leave him behind, but after a moment, she vamp-speeds away. Jackson gulps nervously before addressing the other wolves, who have no surrounded Klaus. "Let's take him!"
Klaus and the wolves are in a vicious fight. Klaus grabs one of the wolves and shoves his head through a glass window, which shatters upon impact with his skull. He shoves another into the tree, but is quickly grabbed by a third, who holds onto Klaus so that Jackson can hit him with an arrow, which lodges into his chest. Klaus angrily swings around and shoves the werewolf into a nearby bus before pulling the arrow out and giving Jackson a pitying look. "You think you can defeat me with your toys?" Klaus spoke incredulously while looking directly at Jackson.
Jackson knew that this was going to be a challenge, that no weapons that they had could truly stop Klaus, but as long as kept Klaus busy it gave Hayley the chance to escape. "We're just getting warmed up."
Klaus chuckles as he knew they were no match against him, he had beaten Jackson before and he was only saved because Hayley innerved. This time Klaus was going to make certain that he would meet his maker. "So, Hayley runs, and you hold the line. How valiant. Not too bright, though. You do remember our last, somewhat-one-sided altercation?"
Jackson recalled the last time, with Klaus being a hybrid he had the upper hand. "This ain't gonna be like last time." Jackson flashes his yellow eyes at Klaus to remind him that he was also a hybrid now.
Hayley had rushed back inside the building where Mary had Chance and Hope, she explained what was going on outside and that Jackson had told her for them to leave. Mary wasn't too happy about this as she knew the hybrid Klaus was ruthless and stop at nothing to get back what he claims to be his. As they speak Hayley is suddenly distracted by the sight of Mary's lantern full of Solomon seal and snapdragon, which is currently producing red smoke. Which meant that Dahlia was nearby this brought a fear through Hayley as she wouldn't let Chance be subjected to the curse that laid upon him. Mary insisted that they should leave that this was their only chance to get as far as possible from the witch that wants to take the little boy.
Hayley, completely overwhelmed, starts to cry. "No. I'm not gonna teach those kids that it's okay to leave the ones you love to die." She hands Hope to Mary and looks at her daughter sadly not knowing if she would see her again. "Take them, and get them as far away from here as you can." Hayley bends over to look at the siblings in each of Marys arms knowing that this might be her last good bye, she couldn't walk away allow those she cared for to die while she ran. "It's okay. It's okay, baby, gonna catch up with the both you real quick, okay?" Both babies cooed contently, unaware to the destruction that was happening outside.
Mary was concerned with the way that Hayley spoke to the children in her arms. "What about you?"
"I'm gonna rip that bitch apart." Hayley meant every word, she was going to have great pleasure in doing that, after everything Dahlia had done Hayley was going to seal her fate.
Klaus is yelling at the top of his lungs as he continues to fight against Jackson and the werewolves. "AHH!" Various wolves lunge at him and attempt to tackle him, but Klaus just punches and kicks until they fall to the ground. Jackson rushes up behind him and punches him several times in the stomach and face until Klaus backhands him so hard that he flies backwards. "Ah, you have gotten stronger! I reckon you've gone from a field mouse to a lapdog." Klaus spoke amused
Jackson glares at him. "Come on, then." Jackson braces himself for a fight, but before either of them can make a move, Hayley vamp-speeds toward them and punches Klaus so hard he's spun in a circle. Klaus and Hayley start fighting each other, and when Jackson joins in to help her, they get the upper hand on him and knock him flat on his back on the ground. When they start kicking him, Klaus throws them so hard that they're both thrown several yards away.
Before they can return to fighting, Dahlia arrives and breaks them up before standing at Klaus' side. "Enough!" Dahlia patient was wearing thin.
Hayley looks at Klaus and Dahlia together before she realizes what is going on. "Why is she with you, Klaus?" Even though right before her eyes she could see that Klaus was standing by her side as if they were in alliance, she couldn't believe that he was willing to hand his son over to her along with his wife.
Dahlia stood smirking as she watched the wolf surprised to see her nephew standing by her side, with all her efforts to try and take the child away and now she was going to meet her fate. "Unlike some, he's doing what is best for his son."
Hayley is now enraged more than ever as Klaus had just turn on his family but also the woman he claimed to love, she knew how much Chance meant to Star and there was no way she would have handed him over like Klaus was going. "I'm gonna skin you alive!" Hayley attempts lunges for Dahlia, but Star appeared from behind the wolves with her arms raise high casting a spell which causes Hayley's bones start to snap, and she's forced to fall onto the ground. After a moment, Jackson is affected by the spell as well, along with all of the other werewolves. She looked up to see Star standing a few feet from her while Klaus and Dahlia stand proudly behind. "Star what are you doing to us?" Hayley was horrified by what was happening and Star was the last person she expected to be doing this.
Star who had kept a distance away while Klaus dealt with the wolves, she watched as her husband brutally beat and kill wolf after wolf. When her eyes caught sight of Hayley an anger stirred within her that she was looking at the woman who took her baby. Whatever remorse she may have had about what she was about to do faded away in the instance, she came out of the darkness and began the spell that she knew would destroy Hayley as she had done to Star. "Oh, this? This was my idea- stealing from Marcel the Crescent curse he once used on your pack. I was all too happy to make the necessary adjustments to accommodate your hybrid nature." She crouches down in front of Hayley, whose bones are snapping, and whose fangs are coming out involuntarily, just like all of her fellow wolves. "You stole my son from me!" Star could barely contain her anger as she screamed the pain became even more unbearable for Hayley and her fellow wolves. "Now, you will be trapped in wolf form, save for the full moon, leaving you very little time to even see your own daughter." Star taunted as Hayley and Jackson continue transforming painfully on the floor. "And, because of the Unification ritual linking you to your pack, now they will share your fate, Queen." Hayley and Jackson scream in pain as their bones snap painfully. Star rose to her feet and looked to her husband giving him a knowing look, Klaus stood there for a moment and didn't know whether to be proud of his wife or to be concern. With no further hesitation Klaus left to go and find his son and daughter as their safety was his man concern not that his wife.
Meanwhile, on the road, Mary and two babies are in the car, driving away from the junkyard, when Mary begins to painfully transform into her wolf form as well. She's forced to pull over before she jumps out of the car and falls to the ground, leaving the two children alone in their car seat. "Ah! Oh! Oh! Oh, God!"
Hayley tried to fight this spell that Star was placing on her, she understood Star's anger towards her, but she was failing to realize that Dahlia only want her and Chance for her own self gain. "Please. Please don't do this, Star. She's gonna steal your baby." Hayley is trying to plead with Star despite her agonizing pain
As soon as Star hears those words from Hayley she becomes enraged with anger. "It was you who tried to steal my child. And, for that, you will suffer." Hayley and Jackson are overwhelmed by their transformations and finally begin to shift into their wolf forms, growing fur and claws and the rest of their fangs.
Klaus has finally tracked Mary's truck, which has been abandoned on the road with the door open after she was forced into her wolf form. When Klaus looks inside the backseat of the truck, he finds both Chance and Hope sitting calmly and smiling. A smile crept up on his face as he looked at his son and daughter knowing that now they would both be safe from harm. "Hey. Daddy's here! It's all gonna be okay, I promise." Both Chance and Hope screech with joy as they both look at their father, this made the Original hybrid swell with joy.
Dahlia appears behind Klaus and is happy to see that he had found the child that was promised to her, she could finally get the power that is rightfully owed to her after all this time. "And there he is." Klaus freezes for a moment before turning to face Dahlia, standing protectively in front of both Chance and Hope. Dahlia realizes she may have come on too strong and tries to backpedal. "Such a beautiful children." She smiles as she glances at the siblings.
Damon awakens on the floor of the compound's courtyard, and is so dazed that it takes him a moment to realize what has happened. After a moment, he rolls over onto his side, his face and arms were stained with blood from the spell that Star had place upon him, his transported into a flashback
Flashback—Earlier In The Night, Mikaelson Compound
Star looked at her long-time friend she caresses his cheek with her hand before speaking. "Then you're already lost." She claps her hands on either side of Damon head inflicting pain upon him that he had never felt before, she looked into his eyes as he screamed in agony. Everything around them changed they were no longer in the Mikaelson compound, but version of Damon home in Mystic Falls that Star had created in his mind. The both of them stood in the parlour and Damon looked around with confusion.
"What the hell is this?" He demanded as a moment ago his best friend was frying his brain the next he was in a place that resembled his home.
"I'm sorry for hurting you Damon, believe me it's the last thing I wanted to do." Star knew she didn't have enough time, but she had to explain to Damon why she was doing this to him. That now he was her only hope in ensuring that all of this goes exactly to plan. "This is the only place I could speak to you without Dahlia knowing what I'm up to." Damon looked confused while Star spoke. "Damon I need you to do exactly as I say."
Present Day
Damon recalls everything that Star had told him, he looks around for a moment until he finds Mikael's knife laying on the floor and picks it up. He rises to his feet and stumbles toward where Elijah is laying, still incapacitated by the pain of Papa Tunde's blade.
Dahlia admired how Klaus was protective over both of his children, she sense that his daughter Hope had magical abilities also, but they were not as strong as her brothers. "I want to thank you for your hand in procuring him for me. It must not have been easy, betraying your family." Dahlia was trying to show Klaus some compassion, as she notice his willingness to hand the child to her now had changed.
Klaus looked at his son and felt overwhelmed with emotions, he was frighten of the fate that laid before him. He watched as both children cooed at one another. "I will not see my son handed over like the spoils of some war." Dahlia looks confused. "To that end, I remind you of your promise- you will protect and mentor Star and Chance, drawing from their only what power you require to keep her safe."
Damon kneels down next to where Elijah is writhing on the floor, and taking the knife and stabbing it forcefully into Elijah's chest. Damon uses it to slice Elijah's chest open as much as he can until his finally able to remove Papa Tunde's blade from his chest. After a moment, Elijah recovers enough to jerk into a seated position, Damon stares at him while trying to figure out how he was going to explain everything he knows to him.
Dahlia and Klaus are still in a standoff she knew she had to assure her nephew that no harm would come to his child, so once again she began to explain to him. "I will bond him to me first. Once I can channel Chance's power, I will be able to keep him and Star safe from all harm- always under my protection.
"I think not." Star sneers as she appears behind Dahlia, she turns to looks at her, Klaus smirked as he knew that Dahlia clearly alarmed by this reaction.
Damon was waiting for Elijah to regain focus as he seemed still distorted from the effects of the blade, he knew that couldn't waste any more time. "Elijah?" Elijah gasps in shock and pain. "Elijah, you have to listen to me. Star got in my head, she spoke to me."
Klaus who had waiting upon Star appearance before he could continue with the plan that they both agree upon, once she came he knew that they had Dahlia in a predicament. "You offered an alliance that would benefit our son, and now you wish to link to him, even though you yourself still suffer from that sleep spell? I will not lose my wife and son to that affliction." This was Klaus greatest concern as the link wouldn't break the curse upon her.
Dahlia sighs and struggles to remain patient in order to take Chance and Star with the least amount of resistance. "I will use their power to free myself, as I said!" She was growing tired of the games that Klaus and Star playing with her she knew they were only stalling the inevitable.
Star stood beside her husband while looking at Dahlia who clearly wasn't happy about them challenging her about linking herself to their son and Star. "And if you fail? Or if Chance is not strong enough?" Star looks back at Chance, who is watching them calmly. "He is, after all, but a baby." She turns back to face Dahlia with a smile upon her face, as Dahlia looks displeased with Star comment. "I will not condemn his or mine to your fate, not when there is so obvious an alternative." Star smirked as she glances at her husband.
Damon who was still trying to explain to Elijah how Star spoke to him in this virtual room. "This, all of this, it's a trick!" As hard as it was for Damon to explain all this to Elijah he knew that it sounded crazy, but Damon knew he could trust Star and all this was a ruse.
Elijah, who is still recovering from his injuries, is panting frantically, overwhelmed by all of this information. "You've lost your mind. Star's lost her mind." Elijah refused to believe anything Damon was telling him, after what he witness between his brother and Star Elijah knew that the both of them have fallen.
Damon was getting frustrated that Elijah was not believe a word he was telling him, Klaus and Star gave a performance of a life time by wreaking havoc. "They needs her to trust them both, so Klaus can do what he needs to do!"
Dahlia who stood still confused with what had just told her, Klaus glance at his wife who stood glaring at Dahlia looking like she was about to blow in any moment. Klaus knew how difficult all this has been for her, they both knew everything they have done was to lead up to this moment. "If you require power to be immortal without the need to sleep for centuries, then why not channel one who already has eternal life?" Dahlia seems conflicted by this offer, but Klaus smiles and continues on. "Bond yourself to me, the immortal hybrid. Once your sleep spell is broken, then, and only then, may you link yourself to Star and Chance."
Damon is still attempting to explain this new development to Elijah, who is still not sure what to believe after what he witness. "Star and Klaus had to make it look convincing."
Elijah is baffled by what he just heard that his brother force him to not kill Dahlia and made him watch as Star brutally sacrifice Gia, the girl he cared for suffer immense pain. What? To... to... to what possible end?" Elijah couldn't see any justification to any of these actions.
Damon takes a deep breath as he knew Elijah couldn't comprehend what he was trying to tell him, so he was literally going to put in a way that Elijah could understand. "What you guys did here tonight would have never of worked, you had one ingredient wrong, the witch she loved most. Star told me their secret. I know how we can kill Dahlia."