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.
Many millenniums ago, they were creatures that lived between worlds, the demonic realm, and the world we live in today, these creatures were quickly vanquished by brave soldiers who learned the demon's weaknesses and used it against them to contain them within their own realm.
Many years later, the demons let loose four of their own kind; four of their own children who were born into our world as Annabella, Magnus, Kayne, and Primrose, who grew more powerful each day they were alive, not knowing their mission was to one day break the gateway to the demonic realm open and free all of their kind, however, before they could learn their real reason for existing the witches they had created, particularly Sapphire and Auxentios, betrayed the chosen and all chances of the demons to freely realm our world again were gone…at least until recently.
Kayne Black tried and failed to strengthen the gateway between worlds to protect his world from his own kind, his failure costing him his life and despite Klaus Mikaelson's replacement theory the gateway was still weak, the only one who could now protect everything changing for the worse was Rose Black, who just so happened to have no intention of saving anyone or anything but instead wanting nothing more than vengeance for the death of her brother.
"We cannot place our heads in the sand and wait out Bella and Rose's retaliation to Kayne's death!" Freya stated, as she, Klaus, Rebekah, Elijah, and Kol stood within the fountain area of the Mikaelson compound. "As sick as this sounds, we need to act now, strike while they are still grieving before they have enough time to come up with their revenge."
"As much as I do love a good murder mission, I would rather not go to war with the only two remaining friends this family has," Kol argued with his oldest sibling.
"Freya is right we need to make a move on them before they make a move on us which they will most definitely do considering both sisters loved Kayne immensely." Elijah chimed in, defending his sister Freya's plans.
"If anyone harms Bella or her unborn child family or not, I will take you down!" Rebekah threatened her siblings. "I did not reunite us, beg for favors from old friends just so we could once again be the destructive forces we once were!"
"For once I think Rebekah is right, I am certain Marcel will convince Bella not to enact revenge besides she's the New Orleans regent and is building a home here for herself and her unborn child no matter her love for Kayne she would not risk all that for him." Klaus defended Rebekah and Kol, pitting him against Freya and Elijah's reasoning.
"Rose is meant to be the wickedest witch out of that family, the psychotic loose cannon and from what I have been told has only ever felt any genuine closeness to the brother that you put down Klaus." Freya continued to argue her side to the original hybrid, determined to get the family on her side. "Bella may or may not want revenge but Rose…"
"Rose will stop at nothing to take down anyone even remotely involved in killing her brother myself included despite our history." Kol reluctantly admitted. "But that does not mean we have to kill her, perhaps a witch version of the daggers Niklaus so willing used against us."
"You're suggesting daggers?" Klaus scoffed at his younger brother, amused to see someone him mention the methods he once used
"Rose broke me free; she had every right to choose her mother's side and instead she chose this family…as much as it pains me to say I am not down for betraying her." Rebekah revealed to her family, her hatred for the youngest Black sibling not being anywhere near as strong as it one was. "However, putting her down for a century or two is better than killing her…besides, she does love putting herself to sleep magically."
"Then we put her to sleep until we find a way to healthily let her work out her grieve without her attempting to put as all down." Freya willingly compromised to Kol and Rebekah's suggestion. "Rebekah…you're going to have to talk to the eldest Black sibling to make sure she not only does not want revenge but to somehow convince her to turn on her sister."
"Well considering the bitch has literally betrayed everyone she has ever been in contact with it should be rather bloody easy!" Rebekah agreed in a bitchy tone, clearly still not over Bella's betrayals.
Bella Black had many titles to her name, a former queen of a magical kingdom long forgotten, the eldest of four siblings, the leader of the Black family coven, an epic love for Rebekah Mikaelson, and a treacherous sister who knew how to turn her own siblings against each other, none of which she was proud of but the one title that she dreaded being most was that of a grieving sister.
Bella had often taken a maternal role with Primrose and Kayne, bossing them about, keeping them in line and most importantly protecting them throughout the centuries and now Kayne had passed for the second time, to her knowledge, she felt like she had failed her siblings, a feeling which had left her broken.
She wanted nothing more than to claim the lives of every Mikaelson, but she knew her chances against them were slim and now she was an expecting mother she had to put her unborn child's safety above all else, even her beloved siblings, and that is what she had no choice but to do.
"He saved me you know," Rose revealed to Bella as the two sisters stood within the woods of the bayou in New Orleans. "Not during the lifetime that you remember but within the first two decades of our life…it's funny us four were closer long before we believed we were family."
"How do you remember this?" Bella questioned her in disbelief.
"Kayne's parting gift to me was to restore my glory, I guess he must have found it all that time he went silent on us both." Rose confessed to her eldest and last living sibling. "Funny thing is I do not feel much different except I now understand why Kayne was so adamant about trying to fix things with Magnus, I wish you could realize the bonds we share are even more special than family."
"I cannot believe you have all your memories back…if only Kayne could have seen you restored, it's what he truly wanted for us all." Bella replied to her youngest sibling. "I know you are planning something, and I know it will truly be what they all deserve but I cannot help you, not with the growing baby inside of me…I cannot risk my child's life, not even to get justice for our fallen brother."
"Annabella, that precious child inside of you is a chance for you to have another shot at family without all the history that comes with the Black name and no doubt your child will be truly magnificent…I would never ask you to take part in what comes next and neither would Kayne." Rose responded, being more reasonable than Bella had ever witnessed before. "However, you need to leave New Orleans immediately because what I have planned for the Mikaelson's is a fate far worse than death…"
Klaus Mikaelson was still mourning the loss of Kayne Black, even if their history was complicated, the original hybrid could never deny the love he once felt for the man he found himself forced into killing, with Marcel having a child with Kayne's sister Bella, and Kol having a special friendship with Rose, Klaus wanted to avoid going to war with them despite bonds like those never having stopped him in the past.
Klaus had come a long way from the brother who daggered his siblings and killed their loved ones whenever they got out off line, the start of his slow redemption began when he fell for an incredible woman called Caroline Forbes, the redemption sped up when another incredible woman called Hayley Marshall became pregnant with his child, and the true changes began with his beloved daughter Hope Mikaelson was born and with the help of a third incredible woman Cami O' Connell he vowed to do better by his Tribrid daughter.
As the years went by Klaus faced many struggles which led to many spirals including the devastating death of Hope's mother Hayley and Klaus' former love Cami, but in the end, Klaus won his redemption at least in the eyes of Hope, Hayley, Caroline, Cami, and his siblings but in Rose's eyes he would forever be the monster who killed her brother and Klaus knew this, he knew that Rose's revenge was coming but he had no idea how she would seek it.
Klaus vamp sped his way into his bedroom within the compound immediately startled to find a single red rose laying on his bed with a note beside it, immediately alarming him as he knew exactly who had left him this gift.
"Magnus and Kayne had fallen down all at the hands of monsters wanting a crown. Ones neck was snapped like a broken stick by a monster who was far too lovesick. Another's heart was ripped out long before his death, the man who did it also delivered his last breath. But what this disillusioned kings and queens did not understand was it was me who would make them fall at my hand. Every rose has her thorn." Klaus read the note clearly written by Rose Black, after lifting it up, knowing she was declaring war, but not sure what she exactly she was promising.
For some reason he did not quite understand, Klaus dropped the note back on the bed as he found himself mesmerized by the rose that laid on his bed, unable to stop looking at it, as the rose called out to the original hybrid until he eventually picked it up with his right hand only to feel a piercing sensation when a thorn from the rose pricked his hand, making it bleed briefly for a moment as he suddenly started to feel sleepy, unable to fight it, he soon found himself falling onto the bed unconscious.
Elijah Mikaelson was also mourning the loss of Kayne Black, but he was a lot better at hiding his pain from his family, having hidden it for over ten centuries, willingly making himself alone with his grief over a man he spent some very memorable days within the year 1969.
Elijah had his feelings for Kayne for many decades, not just for his family's sake but his own, his dalliance with the Black witch came at a time when Elijah was not with his family, at a time when the noble original believed he could be selfish and free himself from his family only for it to end in heartbreak before he returned to his family.
He was not sure if he could have been as strong as Klaus was by delivering Kayne's death, both Elijah and Klaus had made many sacrifices for their family, some which had well and truly broken him, and although he believed he was capable of murdering Kayne Black he found little relief in never having to find out.
Elijah did not fear Rose's retaliation as much as he feared Bella Black's, a woman he had seen a lot of himself in which was exactly the reasoning behind his fear for the oldest Black sibling.
Like him, Bella would stop at nothing for her family, even to the point of driving her siblings insane, Bella Black was as co-dependent with her siblings as Elijah was with his and therefore, he feared her far more than Rose.
Elijah knew that Rose would be the first out of the sisters to put her revenge plan into action, but he honestly believed that Bella one day would make a move that nobody saw coming, this was somewhat good thinking in the sense of never underestimating Annabella Black, but he made a big mistake by underestimating Primrose.
Like Klaus Mikaelson before him, Elijah vamp sped into his compound bedroom, where just like Klaus's room there was a red rose waiting on Elijah's bed with the exact same note lying beside it.
Elijah knew instantly this was trap set up by the youngest Black sibling but that did not stop him from walking over to the rose, clearly compelled by the magic radiating off the flower, and despite wanting to get out of that room he quickly found himself picking up the rose nonetheless, only to be pricked by a thorn and like his brother just minutes before him, he fell to his bed unconscious.
Never in any of her many lifetimes did Rebekah Mikaelson ever fathom the idea of feeling sorry for Primrose Black, the two having something of a hatred for each other that until recently had lasted for centuries but following their very brief team up against the supreme witch Sapphire, Rebekah had found herself hating Rose less and less.
She understood Rose's loyalty towards her brother having remained loyal to her brother Klaus herself, far past the point of any of her other siblings, and she sympathized with the pain Rose was feeling for losing her two brothers, after all Rebekah was suffering the exact same pain not too long ago until she sought out help from Rose and her siblings Kayne and Bella.
Rebekah's union with the Black siblings brought Klaus, Elijah, and even Henrik back to life, and although Henrik's ressurection came with its complications, like him briefly trying to kill the rest of his family before dying to then come back as a child again, Rebekah was more than grateful for Annabella, Kayne, and Primrose's help.
Always and forever had cost each Mikaelson so much and yet they always stuck to the oath they made to each other nevertheless, the latest cost being Klaus and Elijah's lost love, and Rebekah's dear friend, Kayne Black, and despite knowing if it came down to it that she would take out Rose, it did not help that Rebekah not only sympathized with her, and understood her, but if she were her, she would probably be seeking vengeance just the same…
Rebekah found herself vamp speeding her way into the compound, like she had many times before, but this time around she found Rose Black waiting for her by the fountain, instantly realizing that whatever the witch had planned for her, it was all about to begin now.
"I guess apologizing for your brother Kayne's death would not be enough to stop us having to do the whole fight thing where you wave around your hands chanting some spells ultimately ending in me snapping your neck just like I did to your brother Magnus." Rebekah greeted Rose in typical Mikaelson fashion.
"I never liked Magnus so that death does not bother me in the slightest, even before he was my brother, he was a constant bore…but Kayne he was the best of us, the only one of us who deserved better especially from your bastard brother Klaus." Rose responded to the original female hybrid, her hatred for her easy to see from the look on her face.
"I wish Kayne was still breathing but he was a fool for coming for my family and expecting to live, just like you would be if you make a move on me, so, for Kol's sake please do not be a bloody fool." Rebekah warned the witch, reluctant to kill her, but knowing she would if she had to.
"A fool?" Rose scoffed. "Your brothers Elijah and Klaus have already fallen by my hand, your next and then I'm going to murder your sister."
Rebekah attempted to vamp speed her way over to attack Rose but before she even got halfway there, she felt a sharp agonizing pain, forcing her to fall to her knees and scream in pain before she began coughing up blood.
"The pain you are feeling now is every ounce of blood being removed from your body." Rose revealed to her gleefully as Rebekah continue to cough up blood. "Your body will desiccate shortly and then the pain will be gone, once you are desiccated of course I am going to make sure nobody ever finds you so you will spend eternity never knowing what fate awaits the rest of your family."
Three down, two to go, as Rose Black plotted to take down number four, the eldest Mikaelson sibling, the only one she barely knew and for a moment the lack of knowing Freya Mikaelson almost granted her a reprieve from Rose's revenge but taking down Freya had nothing to do with the Mikaelson witch and everything to do with the family she was part of.
Freya Mikaelson had gathered a group of New Orleans witches within Lafayette hoping to have them on side as she plotted her own move against the youngest Black witch, not knowing her siblings Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah had already fallen by Rose's hand and that she was next.
"The Black siblings are as much a threat to this city as they are to us," Freya told the large group of male and female witches. "They believe they created us witches and they will eventually try to claim some magical throne if we do not strike up an alliance and end them before they get a chance."
"You're asking us to betray our regent for the Mikaelsons!" One of the witches argued.
"The Mikaelson's are the real monsters of this city!" Another witch shouted before she screamed in agonizing pain as her entire body suddenly caught on flames, before the entire group of witches, barring Freya Mikaelson, found themselves on fire, as Rose appeared as if from out of nowhere.
"I strongly disagree!" Rose stated with a sinister smirk, as she walked past the witches on fire, their screams of pain serving as glee to the powerful witch.
Freya attempted to chant in a long-forgotten language, attempting to put of the flames which were engulfing the group of witches she had hoped would help her take down Rose Black, who was now walking towards her, but despite pushing her power further and further with the spell she attempted to cast she was no match for Rose.
"You are a powerful witch Freya Mikaelson, far more powerful than you are given credit for but I'm no witch I'm a god and you're so out of your league!" Rose reveled in telling the eldest Mikaelson sibling, as she now stood in front of her. "You're more innocent than your siblings could ever wish to be and because of that I will make this as quick as possible."
With a wave of her hand which seemed effortless to Rose Black, her magic forcibly snapped Freya Mikaelson's neck with her magic, the Mikaelson sister's lifeless body instantly falling to the ground as the group of witches continue to scream as they were burned alive.
TO BE CONTINUED...