"And that's every room in this house." I said, plopping down on the couch in the living room as the siblings followed my moves, "Okay. What would you guys like to do?"
"Well," Elijah started, "This isn't so much what I would like to do, but more so what I would like to know about you."
"I got a lot to say about my life." I got more comfortable on the couch, "Ask away."
"All right. Since you know so much about us and our story," He stated while adjusting his suit jacket, "I think it may be time we know yours."
"Okay, well," I started, "I didn't tell her everything, but Rebekah knows some of the story."
Bekah perked up on the couch with a smile, "Can you tell us the entire story?"
I hesitated, and Klaus spoke up, "I'm curious."
Can I trust them? Do I trust them?
Eventually I found the answer, grabbing Rebekah and Kol's hands, while they got the hint and grabbed Elijah and Klaus' hands, as the oldest Mikaelson's linked their hands together, "It all started with a young, mortal human woman named Cordelia and a Blackthorn Warlock who went by the name Cosmo Blackthorn..."
The handsome Blackthorn, Oscar, was walking through the trails behind the manor. He was wondering why his mother sent him to pick a specific colored flower. Why she wanted a pink orchid, he didn't know. But, he did it anyway, running off into the garden to find what she had wanted. When he got there, he noticed a glowing light.
As he stared at it, the only thing he could think was why there was a weird colored light emitting from the flowers in the garden. He was so curious that he reached out and touched the flower, only to receive an immediate electrical shock of some sort. He recoiled and cut the flower off its stem and ran back to his mother.
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It was a few days later that Oscar had discovered that he had powers nobody else seemed to possess. He knew one thing: he couldn't tell anyone. He was so sure of this statement: until he met her: Cordelia Ashlyn Smith.
Cordelia was a lonely, single maiden who was looking for a lover, to carry a family. She was ready to step up and have a family with someone. She was hoping it was Oscar himself, and it turns out: it was exactly who she had genuinely hoped for. He was looking for exactly what he had found in her. A forever.
He grew to trust her and eventually told her of his miraculous powers he somehow developed. She was sparked with an idea: one that would give them both what they wanted. Him: pass on the powers to others. Her: having a family and marrying. So, that is exactly what happened: Cosmo and Cordelia married and had a child, who had a child of their own. Engaging the passing down of the gene through generations of awaiting Witches and Warlocks.
"Your bloodline is the very first Witch bloodline of the world?" Kol perked up.
"Yes." I said, concentrating on showing them the story.
Esther Mikaelson was highly worried about the safety of her children after the death of her youngest son by a pack of Werewolves. She brought up the idea to her husband, Mikael, and he agreed to help her with her plan. She contacted the Blackthorn Witch, Flora, that she had recently befriended. Flora and Esther planned and eventually they figured out how to protect her children: by turning them into Vampires.
Flora found a way to let Esther take some Blackthorn Magic, against her Coven's wishes, to have enough power to make the plan work. Flora taught Esther how to channel, Esther channeled Flora, with her knowledge, and three other Blackthorn's, against their knowledge at the time. When they did find out, they were extremely angry and took her magic away for a week. They couldn't think of any other punishment other than stripping her magic away for a short amount of time.
They did it to show who really was more powerful. The Blackthorn Coven will reign Hell on anyone who crosses them. At the time, the Blackthorn's weren't as advanced in their revenge so what they did do wasn't so bad.
One of her sons was a Werewolf, prompting the question on whether or not he was Mikael's son or not. He wasn't, and Mikael hated him for it. He was verbally and physically abusive of his step-son, and he hated him. All Niklaus wanted was for his father to love him, but Mikael's mindset was 'he's not my son', therefore he didn't think he had to love him.
Eventually, Esther got her magic back and noticed that her sons and daughter began feeding on human blood and were ravaging the town with no remorse, no regret. They only craved for blood and would stop at nothing to get it. Esther came up with a plan: she turned Mikael into a Vampire Hunter. The Vampire To End All Vampires, which she also channeled Flora Blackthorn for.
"It was Blackthorn magic that made us Vampires?" Klaus asked.
"Mostly. You can't blame me." I defended, "I wasn't even alive!"
"Our mother befriended your ancestor?" Elijah inquired.
"Your mother befriended Flora, and Flora decided to help her when she ran to her in a state of distress." I explained, "Flora was one of very few Blackthorn's who trusted easily. That was her mistake. Esther later killed her, leaving no evidence of their friendship." I told them, getting back to the story.
In the years following that had already passed, it was just normal Witch Magic being used. The Blackthorn Coven came out with it's first set of twins. This event started the tradition of Twin Merging to retrieve a true Coven Leader. A tradition that carried on for the next three hundred plus years. It finally stopped, the Merging was no more. The reason for that was because twins stopped developing, and nobody was having twins, they were only having one child at a time. The twin pregnancies miraculously stopped.
Until one day: November 21, 1994.
A set of Twins came along, after nearly two hundred years: Kayne and Kyria Blackthorn.
Their parents were shocked to say the least. They didn't think it was possible for twins, as neither of them were a twin, though apparently it was. As the twins started growing, their mother, Kareena Jane Williams-Blackthorn, came to a realization. The twins were powerful, and they were only growing tremendously in their magical gift.
The twins were thirteen years old in 2007 when it happened:
"Mother!" Kyria shouted out, "Where the heck are you, mother?"
"Hey, sis!" A young boy, identical to Kyria approaches her, "What are you doing? Let's go play in the yard."
"Shhh, Kayne." She scolds, "Do you hear that?" At his twins words, Kayne immediately focused his ears to any sound. He identified the cause of her worried stance almost instantly.
"Phessmatos tuax. Reverenda caramada ex silema." They could hear the chant of a spell being whispered, in their mother's voice, "Reveratas salamas un paraben."
"What do we do?" Kyria whispers, in alarm for the Coven and their selves, "Kayne, do we stop them, what-" she cuts herself off as realization dawned on her, "That's black magic."
"I know." Kayne says, "Have our parents really been practicing this entire time and we're only finding out now?"
"Seems like it." Kyria whispers back, "But, why would they? I mean, they know we're not supposed to use it, and they do it anyway? It doesn't make any sense."
"Are they turning away from the balance of nature?" Kayne asks, "If they are, they could become very dangerous."
"Phessmatos un silento!" Their mother shouted, "Ravenas un cavara unama quesabe vas vorna!"
Kayne and Kyria both looked at each other, alarmed. Kayne grabbed Kyria's hand and they ran down the hallway. They caught her in the act, and they knew exactly what it was their mother was doing: what she was planning...
"What was she planning?" Kol asked.
"Kol!" Rebekah scolded, "She's getting to that."
Kareena was struck with the idea of bringing back Twin Merging to retrieve a Coven Leader.
"They need to merge." The Blackthorn mother, Kareena says, "it needs to happen. We need a Coven leader."
"We can't force them, Kareena." The Blackthorn father, Alexander Keegan says, "They're our kids."
"Yes we can!" She practically yells, "We are their parents, we can make them do whatever we want them to do!"
"Honey-"
"Don't 'honey' me." She yells, "They will do what we say, whether they like it or not!"
"Is this really how you want to treat your children?" Alexander asked, "By force? And what are you gonna do if they don't want to do it?"
"If they don't want their brother to die, they'll do it." She assured, "They will."
"Your mother sounds like a horrible person!"
"She is." I replied, my eyes still closed, "And in order to get what she wanted, she was willing to hurt her own child..."
"Kayden!" Kyria shouts, she was sixteen by now, trying to find her brother, "Kayden! Where are you?"
She heard whimpering coming from the closet, "Kyra?"
She rushes over to the closet door, magically getting it to open, "Oh, my spirits." She says, shocked, "Who did this?"
Her fifteen year old little brother doesn't answer and Kyria grows very concerned, "Brother, you have to answer me. I can't help you if you don't talk to me. Who did this to you?"
He still doesn't answer, and she sighs realization drawing her features, "Was it mom and dad?"
He slowly nodded his head, "What are we going to do?"
"Don't worry your little head." She whispers, "I'll take care of it."
..
"Are you trying to tell me that our mother was willing to sacrifice our little brother, just so we would Merge?" Kayne asked his twin, "They really are that selfish...?"
"Yeah, they are." She replies, "And they're going to keep doing it, unless we do something about it." She sighs, "I don't even care about myself, or what happens to me. We have to protect Kayden."
"We cannot let them do this!" Another Blackthorn sibling, Leo exclaimed, "Just because you're twins and it was a tradition 200 years ago, doesn't mean we have to bring that back! Or that we should!"
Jonathan Blackthorn, another of Kyria's brothers, the oldest, waltzed into the room, "What's going on in here?"
"Um," the younger ones tried to make a reasonable excuse, though they couldn't come up with anything.
"Guys!" Kyria whispers, "Shouldn't we just tell him? He's family, he deserves to know."
"Tell me what, little sis?" The eldest asked.
"Mom and dad want to bring back a three hundred year old, long time gone tradition: Merging." Kayne explains, "They want to try and force Kyra and I to merge."
"WHAT?" The oldest Blackthorn sibling almost shouted, "No! No way, we can't let them do that! No."
"There is not much we can do about it now." The only female Blackthorn sibling explains, "What's done is done. I wish there was something we could do to stop them, but they don't know we're onto them yet." She sighs, "It's an advantage. There is still time to get out of this."
"What did you do?" Klaus asked.
"I left."
Kyria Blackthorn walked into the Mystic Grill and ran into a raven-haired man. She could already sense that he was a Vampire, as Witches have the ability to sense the supernatural.
"Damon Salvatore." he stuck his hand out.
"Kyra Blackthorn."
"I have people I want you to meet." he grabbed her hand and practically dragged her down the street.
"This is The Salvatore Boarding House." Suddenly her stopped in front of a door, and opened it, "Stefan! Elena!"
"What Damon?"
"This is Kyra." Damon told them, "I met her at the Grill."
"You met me five minutes ago and I'm already meeting your friends?" the Witch asked, "You're weird."
Suddenly a piece of wood was hurled at him. Kyra put her hand up and caught it mid-air with her powers, before smirking, "I forgot to mention: I'm a Witch."
..
"Ric!"
"What's up?" He asks as he turns around to look at her, only to find out she was standing right behind him.
"Kyra!" he scolds, "You have got to stop doing that."
She ignored his comment, "Come here for a second." she walked away and he followed her, "Do you just so happen to keep those nifty little vampire weapons in the car?"
"Yeah," he says, "I have them everywhere. Here, my loft, Damon's car, your car." he explained, "why do you ask?"
"Uh, this place is crawling with tomb vampires and I feel that we may need a stake or two."
"Yeah, course." He says, turning in the direction of his car, "I need your keys."
She tossed him her car keys, "Good, go."
She suddenly heard laughing, and turned her head in the direction of her newly found friends, "Can you imagine?" Elena laughs.
..
"Alright." She turned to Damon and Stefan. "You get her out of here, I'll go find Jeremy. With so many tomb vampires crawling around, we don't want to risk Elena being by herself around here."
"No, Kyra, you go with Stefan and Elena to find Jeremy." Damon says, "I'll take care of our John Gilbert situation."
Before she could say anything to stop him, he was gone. "Uh, fine. Let's go."
They were walking across the street, where there was barely anybody in sight, when Kyra started to hear a fairly high pitched ring that wouldn't stop. "Do you guys hear that?"
"Hear what?" Elena asks, "I don't hear anything. Stefan!"
She looked over at Elena, seeing that Stefan was nowhere to be found.
Meanwhile, for Kyra, the ear ringing pain in her head head only intensified. "Kyra, what's happening?" Elena asks.
"I don't know."
"Come on, Kyra." Alaric says, while helping her to her feet, "Up you go."
"I don't know what happened." Elena told Alaric, "She just dropped."
"Yeah." Alaric says, "she's not the only one. She has Stefan's blood in her system." They started carefully helping Kyra down the stairs, "That must be why she's hearing something we're not hearing. The cops are going around, grabbing anyone who's gone down." He says, adjusting the bad of weapons on his shoulder, "Injecting them with vervain."
"What?" Elena whisper-yelled, coming to realize, "They're rounding up the vampires."
Alaric nods and walks back up the stairs to see if anyone else has gone down.
"Are you okay?" Elena asked looking at Kyra for answers as to what happened.
She nods, "It just stopped. I don't know, but I'm fine."
"I saw at least five vampires go down on the street. They're taking them to your family's old building." Alaric rushed, coming back to Kyra's side.
"It's the Gilbert device." Kyra says, "It has to be. It's the only thing that could cause something like this."
"But how did he get it to work?" Elena asked, "Bonnie un-spelled it."
"Maybe she didn't." Alaric says.
"Yes, she did." Elena says, "we saw her do it."
"No, Alaric is right, Elena." Kyra says, "I mean, think about it. You asked Bonnie to deactivate a device that could protect people against vampires. The only reason it would've affected me is because I have Vampire Blood in me that hasn't left my system yet."
Kyra suddenly looks around, almost as if in realization, "Where is Damon and Stefan?"
"I have no idea." Alaric says, "I haven't seen either of them since all this started."
"Can you get my brother? Take him back home?" Elena sighed, seeing Alaric nod.
"You good, Kyra?" Elena asked, seeing her slightly nod her head. "Alright. Let's go."
They go back up the cement stairs and where Founders Day was mostly being held, "wait, I can hear them."
"You can? Where?" Elena asked, "How?"
"I contacted the spirits. They're helping me." she explained, "The buildings on fire." she panics, "the building is on fire."
Elena's eyes widened and they start walking towards it and they see John Gilbert. "Where are they?"
"With the rest of them." John says, plainly. "It's over for them. Both of them."
"You're crazy." Elena glared.
"Why? Because I'm doing what should've been done 145 years ago? This is the right thing, Elena."
"Go ahead, Kyra." He says, looking proud of himself, "I know you're a Witch, but you won't make it out of there alive."
"You know the building better than I do. Is there another way in?"
"Utility door." Elena told her, rushed. "There's one around the side."
"Got it." She says, running off in that direction.
..
"You know, I came into this town wanting to destroy it." Damon says, "Now, I find myself wanting to...protect it. How does that happen?"
Kyra just stared at him, "Maybe it happens when you fall for a certain doe eyed brunette? And by that I mean Elena."
"I'm not a hero, Kyra." he sighed, "I don't do good. It's not in me."
"It doesn't matter what you've done," she told him, "everything can be redeemed if you try hard enough."
"No. That's reserved for my brother and you." He sighs, "Maybe Bonnie. Even though she has every reason to hate me, she still helped you save me."
"Why do you sound so surprised by that?" She asked, curiously.
"She did it for you." He walks closer, "which mean that somewhere along the way, you decided that I was worth saving. And, I wanted to thank you for that." he sighed, "So, thank you."
She looked at him, strangely, "You're welcome." she said, unsure. "I think."
"What was that?" Elijah asked.
"How I met Damon, Stefan and Elena." I said, "And my first week in Mystic Falls."