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Chapter 25

It wasn't fair. Not to Finn and not of me but he couldn't remember what he saw, he just couldn't. He confessed to Elijah and Kol and joined the team of pro-life. To live, to love, to be a part of his family again. Apparently I was vampire Prozac. At least there was that to be happy about. It was on this note that real life kicked in and I found myself tied to a chair in the school.

"You will help me destroy them," Alaric Saltzman raved, the psycho vampire hunter facet of his personality shining through at this particular moment. An idea sprung into my mind with all the force of a hurricane. "You will bring the destruction of the original vampires," he said, "When they chase you they die. Love truly is a weakness." Asshole.

"Vampires," I exclaimed with false alarm, "You need to untie me now."

"And why would I do that?" he sneered coldly, "You're bait."

"Because you said there are freaking vampires coming here," I said struggling against the ropes, "Untie me and give me one of those." He mulled over it for a few seconds unsure.

"You live with them, why would you be against them so badly?" he question's a knife at my throat. The idea of the next sentence coming out of my mouth made me feel ill but I said it anyway.

"That was before I knew they were murderous bloodsucking freaks," I protested. He seemed to realise that the only way he was going to get all of them was with my help so he let me out and handed me some of what I assumed was vervain.

SLAM! The metre long wooden ruler broke against his temple and snapped in half. Blood trickled down the side of his head and he didn't get up. A wide smile spread across my face as the half of the ruler made a clunk as I tossed it onto the desk.

"And that's how it's done," I murmured, spinning about to face the group of people standing behind me. They looked at me in surprise, rather Elena and her boys looked at me in surprise. There was no other word than pride to describe the look on Elijah's face.

"Mina, are you okay?" Elena asked before leaning to stare around me at the unconscious figure on the floor. "What did you do?" she demanded.

"Cognitive recalibration," I answered swiftly. That was met with a resounding, huh?

"She hit him really hard in the head," Kol explained leaning forward in a whisper. I stifled a giggle, before the teacher let out a groan and sat up.

"What happened?" he asked rubbing his head, bring his fingers away when they became sticky with blood. I felt bad for the poor guy, it wasn't like it was him, him trying to destroy my shiny new… insert group collective adjective here…. Yeah I'd think about that one later.

"You kidnapped me, tied me to a chair and raved about how I was going to help you rid the world of vampires," I said idly, "Just promise me that you'll stop skipping you're meds, and I won't press charges." The look on the people surrounding me had on their faces was hysterical.

"It… it's real," Elena said, seeing a chance to drag me away from the 'enemy' "Vampires, witches, werewolves… the supernatural exists."

"How long have you been having those delusions Elena?" I asked her, "Because you know they got medication for that." With that I turned to leave with the others but her voice rang out and stopped me.

"I'm not delusional, it's true. I swear," she cried. I broke of her impassioned plea.

"You know I'd be thinking really carefully about what you convince me of," I said in an emotionless voice, "Because supposing that all the bullshit he said about the supernatural being real is true, then it means that the only person to hurt me to the point of almost death, or at all really, is the only one that's human."

She had no come back to that and we left while she stood there with her mouth open, like a fish out of water. Of course the second that there vampire hearing was a non-issue we all burst into laughter. Rebekah and I clung to each other trying to remain upright.

"Terrifically done," Kol praised with a sharks smile, "Brother, you must tell me where I can find myself on of these for myself." He indicated to me with a smirk. Everyone was too busy celebrating Elena being taken down a peg to notice the stone look on Esther's face.

"Your mother is pissed that nothing happened," I said quietly to Elijah when we were in bed that night. He sighed and buried his face in my hair.

"I hadn't noticed," he mumbled, sounding heartbreakingly resigned.

"I did," I replied simply, letting him know that he didn't have to catch everything. I get whatever he missed. He didn't reply but I knew he was appreciative. We were so tired that we both fell straight asleep.

The earth hung in the air again and I knew that I was screwed if I couldn't convince him that I had no idea what was happening. He stared up in wonder, but the scene had started and when he turned to me I couldn't answer.

"What made you so sure that were worth it?" I asked Serena… not Serena, Princess Serenity but they were always the same person. "You're our princess, aren't we supposed to protect you?" I continued. She stepped delicately out of the shadows. Her slivery white dress was dotted with the earthy browns and dark crimson's of blood.

"I am you princess," she acknowledged finally, coming to stand beside me, "And that makes you girls mine to protect, you will always be worth it."

"Really because I just thought that you wanted to get rid of that dress because it's hideous," I teased. She scoffed and splashed water from the fountain at me. I sloshed some back and she let out a high-pitched shriek. The sky darkened and I knew what was coming next. Death, only death.

Lighting struck the tree and suddenly I had control over my own body again. There was a blur as the world around me tilted. Fire sprang from the tree to the gardens. The sound of blades being drawn filled my ears with their soft metallic shrieks.

"You truly were not kidding about this happening every night where you?" Elijah asked horrified.

"Do I really even have to answer that," I said as the manic laughter came closer. I felt warm and sticky, my heart almost bursting in my chest. It was pitch black except where the lightning rained down around us. Fire burnt white hot but it didn't illuminate the space around us as it should of.

The cackling stoped and I felt a breath of wind float past my ear. Almost as if someone were breathing and it wasn't Elijah. I swung round, letting go of Elijah's hand as grabbed it by the throat. Pressing it to the ground and throwing myself on top of it to keep it there. A feral screech echo in my ears but I ignored it. The lightning stopped, the fires burnt out, the sky lightened revealing blood seeping into the ground and bodies disappearing. Everything went as it should be.

"I wonder who she is?" Elijah asked fascinatedly as a woman, because it was a woman, struggled beneath me. She had short black hair that was spiked up at the back and fell over her hawkish shaped eyes that were a rusted almond colour. Bronze skin covered by skimpy dirt and blood covered clothing, white tattoo's swirled over her forearms like cuffs.

"Oh, that's something that both of us would like to know," I said darkly as she stared up at us, pride and defiance bright in her abnormal eyes.

"I am Discord," she hissed, baby fangs more like an animals than a vampires snapped upwards, "Have you been liking your dreams? We play so well. Again and again. Again and again." She sung the last to sentences.

"No," I said finally, "You're not Discord. No golden apples, nor do you look like her. You're not a deity or a god child. Nothing I have to worry about certainly. Discord is Eris and you're no Eris."

"When I was done making you all broke like," she whispered with fury making her eyed glow, "I was going to play with your little friends to. Rip all those pretty lives inside out, till they wake up screaming in all that blood." With that she threw me going to run, but Elijah caught her arm in a tight grip.

"Please stay," he said with a polite smile. She shrieked and swung her clawed fingers at him. He dodged and I could see that she was going to get free. In my hand I found the sliver crystal sword that had been mine it this time. I didn't think. There was the sound of rushing wind and she fell to the floor in multiple pieces.

"Where did you get that?" Elijah queried.

"It's my dream," I answered simply, "Time to wake up."

So, there's some humour, some drama, some conflict what did you think? Sorry it took so long to update, I was sick. Still am actually, there were doctors and blood tests, ewe needles. Hope it was worth the wait. Review and tell me.