Warnings: I do not own the rights to the television series "The Originals", "Vampire Diaries", or "Legacies" and do not own any of the characters within the TVD universe, I am making no profit from this and have no intention for this fanfiction series except for readers to enjoy.
15+ Mild to Strong Violence, Strong Language, Witchcraft, sexual scenes, and sexual references.
F/F, F/M, M/M, Other.
"So, do tell Kayne, why are we back in Mystic Falls and what the hell has this town got to do with whatever the hell created you and your sordid siblings?" Klaus Mikaelson complained as he, and Kayne Black walked through the woods of Mystic Falls, side by side.
"This place is a supernatural hot spot for many reasons, so it will come as no surprise to you that underneath this town is a gateway to something far worse than hell." Kayne explained to the original hybrid. "A gateway to my creators…and now I am restored that gateway has been weakened which is why I needed you or your brother to help me strengthen said gateway."
"I wonder if you made us choose between ourselves because you never could choose between myself and Elijah." Klaus replied to the witch, as they continued walking through the woods. "I guess this is the prize we get for being your favorites, fixing bloody gates."
"I made you and your brother choose between each other because you are my least favorites…Marcel is father to Bella's baby, so he gets a pass, Kol is Rose's best friend because I guess two crazies make a right, and as for Rebekah well she's everyone's favorite that is just the facts." Kayne answered the original hybrid, as they both stopped walking. "In order to strengthen the only thing keeping this world from something even worse than myself is by making a great sacrifice…the sacrifice being you Niklaus."
"You mean to tell me you have taken me here to kill me and you think I will just follow blindly like a fool?" Klaus shouted at him, shocked to learn Kayne could consider killing him with such ease.
"Before we left dear Elijah in the castle, I had one of my witches force that chalice down his throat, of course I've slowed down the venom for now but do not get me wrong Klaus if you do not die today your brother will." Kayne threatened Klaus, with such a lack of emotion that shocked the man he once claimed to love to his core.
With both their brothers kidnapped by Kayne Black, it was up to Freya, Kol, and Rebekah to find a way to break them free from Kayne's crutches, while Marcel remained in New Orleans keeping an eye on his sisters, one of which was carrying Marcel's unborn child, which only complicated Marcel's mission to keep hush about where the Mikaelsons were.
Neither Rebekah nor Kol were strangers to the wild woods which seemed everchanging, but this was a brand-new adventure for Freya who could feel the magic practically in the air of these woods, the power almost euphoric to the eldest Mikaelson sibling as they continued their search for the Black castle.
"The power within these woods is unlike anything I have ever felt before!" Freya claimed to her siblings, stunned by the magical woods. "No wonder the world's original witches found themselves so drawn to this place."
"It was not just their family drawn to this place Freya; we were too! After all it led us straight to them as if the magic of these very woods were purposely leading us to them, wanting us to meet them…like fate." Rebekah revealed to her sister. "Clearly a twisted fate considering how it all has come to an end with us both."
"What I do not understand is why he released you but not them." Freya wondered, as the three siblings continued to walk through the woods.
"This is what happens when our siblings start sharing lovers, you would think they would have learned after Tatia or even after Katherine Pierce but no they just keep messing everything up for us." Kol complained. "Now we have to save their sorry asses before Kayne either kills them or they kill Kayne and start a war with my best friend and Rebekah's ex who is now the baby mother to her other ex."
"Marcel is family by Klaus' affections only if it comes down to it then we will put the rest of the Black family and Marcel down if we need to, to be honest the idea of going up against those witches has crossed my mind many times since I found out about them." Freya replied to her brother, making her loyalties clear to both her siblings.
"It will not come down to that Kayne is merely stuck between two Mikaelsons like many before him, we can fix this will a little tough love there is no need to start a war." Rebekah disagreed with her sister, before reluctantly going on to say. "But if it comes down to it…always and forever wins every time."
"Always and forever." Kol repeated, before the three Mikaelson siblings suddenly found themselves in the grounds in front of the Black Castle, as if the castle itself had found them.
Klaus Mikaelson and Kayne Black had found themselves deep within the underground tunnels of Mystic Falls, continuing to walk side by side until they reached the very cave in which Esther Mikaelson's coffin was once placed, stopping before the entrance due to the boundary spell that had been cast many, many, years ago.
"You have got to be bloody kidding me this gateway which you speak of is this bloody place!" Klaus moaned at Kayne before going on to say. "You cannot exactly sacrifice me if I cannot walk into the place to where you mean to kill me."
"Niklaus Mikaelson," Kayne said before raising his hand releasing a blast of magic which destroyed the boundary spell immediately. "You always did underestimate me right until the very end."
"In my defense when we first met, I thought you as nothing more than an ordinary witch," Klaus replied as the two walked into the cave, "If I had any idea how much of a nuisance you were going to be, I would have killed you there and then."
"I would be offended if I were not about to take you on life." Kayne responded as he and Klaus stopped at a brick wall, clear of the drawings about Klaus and his family's history. "I take no happiness in doing this Niklaus however, it was between you and Elijah and you two made your decision."
"How do you possibly know whatever you do now which stop this gateway from opening?" Klaus questioned him. "How do you know any of this will conclude to anything other than my family killing yours in retaliation?"
"I am strong Niklaus I am stronger than any other witch, vampire or creature within this existence, but I am nothing in comparison to what lays within the realm of demons…if I do not use your death to channel the right amount of magic to permanently close this gateway then everything, we each love is doomed!" Kayne declared, before he suddenly began coughing and choking, falling to his knees in agony, revealing Lizzie Saltzman standing where he once stood, while having her hand plunged through the fabric and flesh of Kayne's back.
"Klaus I am siphoning him of as much magic as I can manage you need to move quickly, take whatever the hell it was that made this psycho so magical out of him already and let us end this!" Lizzie demanded from the original hybrid.
A shocked Klaus looked at Kayne who was now screaming in agonizing pain caused by Lizzie's siphoning magic, knowing what he had to do next as he plunged his hand into Kayne's chest ready to pull out his glory and end this once and for all.
Josie Saltzman-Mikaelson appeared in front of the doors of the Black Castle from out of nowhere just as Rebekah, Kol, and Freya began walking up towards the entrance, stopping in their tracks, shocked by the arrival of their niece Hope's wife, all three of them both relieved and frustrated by the additional help.
"Those woods really were something else but luckily for me whatever magic that messes with the minds of others is still magic and I'm a siphoner, so I just siphoned it." Josie revealed to the Mikaelson siblings, her new in-laws. "Long story short I know Klaus did not want Hope involved in all of this, but we've been dealing with all kinds of monsters for a long time and to be honest none of us would like to see the outcome if we just left use alone to this so-called god of magic."
"Wait, what exactly are you doing here?" Rebekah asked the Saltzman twin.
"I'm here to siphon the magic to get us into the castle then I am going to siphon the poisonous venom inside Elijah to save his life…we have a resident seer at Salvatore Boarding School which keeps us up to date with the big stuff." Josie revealed to them all. "Lizzie's in Mystic Falls draining Kayne Black as we speak so he's weak enough for Klaus to kill him and if he halts then Hope will do the deed."
"Listen up newbie niece, we wanted to avoid war with the Black witches if possible!" Kol snapped at his niece's new wife.
"Yeah, well Kol I am sorry but if we did not act now then you would have once again lost Klaus and I'd be damned if my wife loses her father because of some ancient grudge…if you have a problem with our actions take it up with Hope!" Josie snapped back at Kol, before turning around, raising both her hands, chanting in Croatian, and magically forcing the castle's front doors to blast open with a huge force of wind, sending the doors flying off their hinges and crashing into the hallway.
"Let us go safe Elijah now, then go to war tomorrow!" Freya said to her siblings, as she, Kol, and Rebekah quickly followed Josie into the castle ready to rescue Elijah from the critical condition that Kayne Black had put him in.
As Kayne Black lay there on the cold hard ground knowing he was about to die at the hands of Klaus, who was kneeled hovering over Kayne's body with his hand around the witch's neck, ready to snap it at any given moment, Klaus knowing that Kayne's moves against his family could not go unpunished, believing Kayne's death would be a sacrifice strong enough to strengthen this gateway that the witch had told him about.
"For a man, whose legacy is literally murdering and massacring you really take your time on one kill, like how the heck do you get round to murdering whole villages if you take this long on one guy?" Lizzie Saltzman complained, as she stood above Klaus and his latest victim.
"This is a very special murder Elizabeth, if you could wait above ground for me that would be most appreciated." Klaus replied to the siphoner witch, as he kept his hold on Kayne's neck, ensuring Kayne was unable to move.
"It's Lizzie, but sure I'll wait elsewhere not like I need to see any more deaths than I have to." Lizzie responded to her twin's father-in-law, before making her way back through the tunnels, Klaus waiting for her to be both out of eyesight and ear sight before going on to say his last words to the Black witch who he was currently choking.
"Your death will have to be the sacrifice this gateway needs…you are after all a very powerful witch even without that so called glory that only drove you crazier than before, I cannot have you threatening my family or making another move if I let you live but know this Kayne if there was any other way, I would let you live against my better judgement." Klaus told Kayne, as tears began forming in the original hybrid's eyes, making it clear that what Klaus was about to do next would break his heart. "If it means anything, I loved you the day I met you and even after Elijah, I loved you still..."
"My dearest Niklaus that means everything to me." Kayne replied, managing to spit out the words, while choking at Klaus' hands, as Klaus smiled at him with such softness and sadness before Klaus snapped the neck of the man he loved, ensuring his family's safety by doing so, even if it meant Kayne's death.
Following the sacrifice made underground the town of Mystic Falls within the very tunnels that spelled a beginning to many stories, only fitting to be the place to end Kayne's, a heartbroken and distraught Klaus found himself back in the woods, eyes red raw from too much crying, Klaus was well and truly broken by the sacrifice he had just met, knowing that he needed to give him little to no relief as he mourned the loss of the man he loved.
"Hope was going to be here waiting for you but being someone who has lost a man they once loved I wanted to be the one here for you Klaus." Caroline Forbes-Salvatore revealed after vamp speeding into the woods to now stand in front of the original hybrid, ready to be there for the grieving man. "Besides a parent never wants to be fully vulnerable around their children, but you know you can always be you around me."
A speechless Klaus vamp sped over to Caroline and gave her a hug, holding her tightly in his arms, knowing the only other person in this world that could even remotely relate to him in that moment was Caroline, the pain of losing someone was a pain they both knew all too well, as Klaus realized he had lost yet another love, that his lost loves Kayne Black and Camille O' Connell were now together in the afterlife, hoping beyond hope that they had both found some kind of peace.
"No…you're lying! Please tell me you are lying!" A broken, and a now showing, pregnant, Bella Black cried within the living room of Marcel's luxurious apartment in New Orleans, distraught over just being told her youngest brother Kayne had died at the hands of Klaus Mikaelson. "We just got him back, he saved us all Marcel! He saved us all and we repay him by killing him!"
"Klaus had no other choice…he would've killed Klaus and Elijah otherwise." Marcel attempted to justify the actions taken by the original family.
"They would still be dead if it were not for me and my siblings and now, he's dead so they can live…how can you possibly even try to justify what those monsters did to my little brother?" Bella shouted through tears, infuriated and distraught over her brother's demise. "I will kill him; I will kill every single last one of them!"
"Bella please listen to me; I know that hurt your feeling I know it all too well, but you are in no condition to take down anyone." Marcel pleaded with the mother of his unborn child. "I know this is a lot to ask but you must abandon your urges for vengeance for the sake of our child. All revenge will do is continue a war that will only end with the death of both families including our unborn child."
Bella wanted to fight Marcel's reasoning, she wanted to fight the entire Mikaelson family and get her revenge for her now deceased brother, but deep down she knew Marcel was right, that she had to put being a mother in front of being a sister despite how much it broke her heart, so instead she just broke down and cried in Marcel's arms, feeling completely powerless.
On the other side of New Orleans, a blissfully unaware Rose Black was in the shower of her hotel bathroom enjoying some quality her time when she heard her hotel room door being slammed with such a force that she could not ignore to which she did not.
So, after switching off the shower, drying herself off, and wrapping a fresh towel around her body, Rose walked into her hotel room shocked to find a large box wrapped in luxurious paper with a glittery ribbon tying it all together, to which she quickly pulled loose before opening the lid of the box only to be further shocked to find a blade made of bone with a letter to the side of the weapon.
Rose knew exactly what the blade was, knowing with certainty it was the key to restoring her glory, but she had no clue who would want to help someone like her get anymore powerful or how they could have possibly found it, so as her curiosity quickly grew, she decided to pick up the letter first and read it.
"My dearest Primrose, you were always my favorite sibling throughout all the centuries we have spent together no matter how much we may have fought. If this present has reached you with this letter inside instead of me being there then I have died but try not to feel too sad over my death, take some solace in the fact most people only get one life whereas you, Annabella and I have lived many lifetimes. I know none of this will make sense to you yet, but I hope the gift of giving you all of you back will explain it all, I have loved you from the beginning and I will love you to the end, both mine and yours. Yours faithfully, eternally, and lovingly, your favorite sibling, Kayne."