Mystic Falls, Virginia 2044. Prologue Part 1.
Inside of a warehouse on a humid, hot Virginia night stood twenty year old Autumn Bennett-Salvatore the daughter of Damon Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett-Salvatore ready for her face off against her arch enemy in a face off which had been brewing for months now.
Her arch enemy was Rohan Parker who was the son of Kai and Skyler Parker. He was a year and a half older than Autumn and was a siphoner like his father. And although his mother was a sorceress with natural powers and abilities of her own, Rohan Parker had inherited the inability to have his own natural magic from his father and had to siphon magic from witches and other supernatural beings to sustain any sort of powers or magic within himself. Even with the inability of being able to have his own magic, Rohan was a powerful siphoner and used this to his advantage to drain witches and warlocks until they were dead. Something he had done to kill countless witches and warlocks over the years. And something he felt no remorse for doing as his dad had taught him that he was entitled to having the powers of other witches, as Kai had told him how the magic of warlocks and witches belonged to them. And how the two of them had the right to take what was theirs off as many witches and warlocks as they wanted to.
Rohan Parker may have inherited his father's siphoning abilities along with his father's sociopathic personalities and behaviors. But, physically he took after his mother Skyler with his red hair, freckles, pale skin and light brown eyes. Light brown eyes which were filled with a half sociopathic, half crazed expression as he eyed Autumn Bennett-Salvatore who he had obsessed over to a stalker like extent ever since his parents had told him what her parents had done to his father nearly thirty years ago. And that was why on this night, he was seeking revenge on behalf of his father for what he learned what Damon Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett-Salvatore had done to him. His parents told him that he had to make them pay for what they had done to his father, and the biggest way that he could do that was to kill the one thing in which they cherished most in the world which was their daughter.
However, Autumn Bennett-Salvatore wasn't afraid despite the fact that a half crazed, sociopathic siphoner was across from her wanting to kill her. She had been getting ready for this very moment, ever since it was revealed months ago that Rohan was the son of Kai Parker and how Kai and Skyler Parker had raised their son to hate her parents and in return hate her because she was the daughter of her parents.
Autumn, who stood at 5 foot 3 and had a petite frame much like her mother, had grown into a mesmerizing, stunningly beautiful young woman who was blessed by the genes of her parents. She had smooth, brown skin just a shade lighter than Bonnie's and her hair the black color of Dad's which swept over her shoulders and half way down her back in it's naturally curly form. With her natural hair being somewhere between 4A/4B. Yet the most stunning part of her were her eyes.
Her eye color in which she had gotten from both Damon and Bonnie. Was a unique bluish-green shade somewhere in between the icy blue eyes of her dad and the emerald green eyes of her mom.
Autumn was aware of the history of the Parker family and the Gemini Coven, especially in particular to Kai Parker, once he emerged to reign down hell upon every living being that did cater to his will and demands. And once he let it be known that he, along with his wife Skyler and son Rohan, had come to cause chaos, destruction, and violence upon the earth and all of it's innocent inhabitants in their quests to have the ultimate power and be the ultimate rulers of the earth.
But, not before they wanted to get their vengeance on the Salvatore-Bennett family for events that happened between Damon/Bonnie, and Kai all of those decades ago.
She knew of how dangerous Rohan Parker could be because of his strong siphoning abilities and because he shared the unhinged, psychopathic mentality of his parents. Yet Autumn was fully confident in her abilities to both defend herself from and kill Rohan. Because as strong as Rohan was, she was hundreds if not thousands of times stronger than he was.
Because of the special circumstances in which she was born under. At the time of her conception her dad had been a vampire and still was a vampire to this day. Vampire males weren't supposed to be able to create children in any way. And yet her dad had been able to. Which had caught the attention of many in the Supernatural world. Those who knew about Bonnie Bennett, becoming pregnant by Damon Salvatore were fanatised and in awe. Not only due to the rule of vampires not being able to procreated. Yet also because Autumn had been one of the very few, if not the only Supernatural being who was born to a witch and a vampire. Considered a sort of miracle child because she was half witch and half vampire.
And due to this rarity in her supernatural DNA, she was considered to be currently the most potentially powerful supernatural person on the planet, who would only grow stronger and more powerful as the years went on. She had become immortal on her eighteenth birthday, as in the seventeen years before that, had her aging and growing like a normal human being would. Yet once she turned eighteen, the vampire side of her had stopped her aging process which would mean that physically she would never look a day older than eighteen. And was now an immortal half witch/half vampire.
Autumn's power had a great deal to do with the fact that her mother was a Bennett witch, which was one of the most forceful, potent bloodlines to have ever existed when it came to witch linages. And as well because of her dad being an incredibly strong vampire himself, as he was over one hundred years old in vampire years when she was born. And the rule of the vampire world was that vampires grew stronger and more impregnable as they aged. Which meant that she had all of her dad's vampire strength and abilities in her DNA.
Ever since she was a toddler, her parents had taught her how to embrace who she was and to be proud of what she was. They had also taught her how to control and harness all of her strengths and abilities as both a vampire and a witch. Teaching her all that they knew about both of their supernatural worlds. As she learned all there was to learn about the supernatural world and in particular about witches and vampires and had still yet more to learn.
Which was why she was again so confident in her ability to take on Rohan Parker and win. Not only because of what she had learned from her parents, but because she was so forceful and strong in her natural supernatural abilities. Because her unique DNA gave her an advantage over vampires who were hundreds or even thousands of years older than she was. As well as witches and warlocks who had studied and practiced their magic for years longer than she was even born on the earth.
Within her she had the strength of a thousand year old vampire and the magic capabilities and capacity of more than two thousand witches put together. And was considered to be more indestructible and harder to kill than the average vampire. Many thought of her to be unstoppable if she were to ever reach her full potential. That didn't mean that Rohan Parker wouldn't try to take her life on this very night.
Over the year, he had siphoned the magic from over sixty witches just to try and gain what he needed in order to take her down. His father had given him the belief that he would be able to do so. And in turn set the final pieces to the revolution in which the Parkers and the whole Gemini Coven had been preparing for, for years.
Autumn had lived a mostly calm and peaceful teenaged life compared to her mother. And had not faced a lot of trouble or dangers, thanks to Bonnie working hard to make sure that her daughter never went through all of the hardships and difficulties in which she went through in her teenage years.
However, Damon and Bonnie had always prepared their child to be able to defend herself in every way possible, just in case there ever came a day where someone wanted to threaten or take her life. And that night was here. As she stood across the warehouse from Rohan Parker, bracing herself for him to make his first attack.
Finally after some time Rohan spoke. "Finally, I have been waiting for this moment all of my life."
"Seriously, waiting all of your life, you're not going to give some pathetic grand villainous speech are you." Autumn returned in a nonchalant tone.
"I'm going to make my father proud, complete the mission he set out for me to do."
"Well, your father is going to be highly disappointed by the end of tonight if he's counting on you to beat me."
"I will beat you, as will my parents beat yours and tonight start off the revolution the Parkers and the Gemini Coven have been waiting years for."
"No, you won't."
Rohan glowered at her. "We will, you'll see."
Autumn gestured in a mannerism which was a mixture of both of her parents. "There isn't going to me any 'revolution' or whatever the hell you and your demented coven dreamed of. My Dad and Mom will defeat your's, much like how I'm going to defeat you tonight."
"You sound so sure of yourself."
Smirking Autumn stated. "Oh yeah, I'm fully sure of myself and my family's ability to beat yours."
Her demeanor angered him. "Do you know who I am?"
Not responding, Autumn merely cocked a brow at him.
"I'm a Parker, born into the best coven the world has ever seen, the Gemini Coven."
"Are you done?" Autumn questioned in a bored tone.
The redheaded Parker having the temperment of his mother balled his fists at his sides.
"Because you may be from the gemini coven, yet you're nothing compared to me." Autumn told him in a confident tone.
"What did you say?"
"You heard me, I'm a Bennett-Salavtore. I'm born of the Bennett witch lineage, to the badass Bonnie Bennett and Damon Salvatore. So, whatever you think that you have for me I'm more than ready for."
Rohan countered. "I'm warning you that I've siphoned the magical powers from over sixty witches and warlocks for this very moment tonight."
Autumn just shrugged off his attempt to intimidate her. "Too bad for you since it will be nowhere near enough."
"As I said, I've been waiting all my life for this moment ever since my father told me what your parents did to him. After he was called an abomination by his father for being a siphoner like me. His whole family betrayed him, locking him in a 1994 prison world that repeated the same day over and over again. One where he was trapped there by himself for nearly twenty years."
Listening to Rohan ramble on Autumn said nothing, she was aware of the 1994 prison world due to all of the details her Dad and Mom had just revealed to her about it recently.
"Then after eighteen years of being there by himself, one day he suddenly senses a magical force enter into the world, he realized then that he was no longer alone. He traces the magical force to 1994 Mystic Falls and discovers such force is coming from your mother and discovers she had someone else with her."
"Who would be my Dad." Autumn deadpanned not sure exactly why Rohan Parker had veered off into telling Kai Parker's version of events of what happened in the 1994 prison world when her Mom and Dad had gotten trapped there with him. She was positive whatever version that was, was obviously biased and skewed from where it had come from.
"He observes them for a while without them knowing of his presence before he reveals himself to them. He helps your mother to get her powers back and befriends them, peacefully offers them an alliance to get all three of them out of the 1994 prison world together. He does everything to give them assistance to get them out of there and what they do, they turn their back on him threatening to leave him in the prison world alone, making it so that the two of them would just escape together."
Yep, Autumn thought with a roll of her bluish-green eyes, Rohan had been told a twisted, untruthful version of what happened in the prison world.
Rohan rambled on still. "He found a way to get out of the prison world alone though, after he did he focused on being good, and wanted to build a life in the real world. And despite disagreements with your parents, he tried making amends. Especially with your mother, my father offered her kindness and his friendship. She cruelly rejects him, treating him no better than he was treated by his family.
Then one night your father kills mine in cold blooded murder, for no good reason at all. He didn't stay dead for long though and when he came back to life, he realized he couldn't be good, since he tried to be with your mother and got rejected by her. So, now he's the opposite of what he tried to be, for the greater good he knew how he had to be ruthless and vicious. And made me just as ruthless and as vicious as he is. Now I'm going to make him proud, once I take your life much like how your parents once took his."
"A complete load of bullshit."
"Excuse me."
The vampire-witch hybrid scoffed. "Whatever Kai Parker sob story you were told, that's a complete load of bullshit. He tries to make it seem like he was some innocent, peaceful victim at the hands of my parents, when that is far from the truth of what actually happened."
For most of her life Autumn didn't even know that the Gemini Coven nor the Parker family had existed. And she never knew that there was a sociopathic murder named Kai Parker who had been a brief but hellious part of her parents past.
Bonnie, her mom had been very open with her telling her about her past. Bonnie had especially told her daughter about the loving relationship she had with Grams, who was Autumn's great grandmother and how she had passed on what she had learned from Grams onto her own child.
Her great grandmother had not only taught her Mom all they knew about magic and all she knew about being a witch, she also taught her mother about life itself and had given Bonnie tons of life advice before she unfortunately passed away. Autumn was sad to learn of how her great grandmother had passed away and wished she could have met her. Yet she was at least grateful for her Mom to have Grams in her life for as long as she did. And was inspired to continue in her Mom's footsteps of carrying on the legacy of Sheila Bennett.
Besides Sheila Bennett, she had also learned about other parts of her Mom's past. Bonnie had shared with her some of the adventures she had with the Mystic Falls gang in her high school and teenage years. As she had just discovered how she was a witch and was trying to adjust her life to such earth shattering news. It wasn't easy as around the same time, her Mom had also discovered how vampires and werewolves among other Supernatural beings also existed.
And with that came trouble, as her Mom had to battle with some supernatural bad guys and villains. And had to learn how to control her powers and magic all at the same time. Her Mom had shared with her how she had to face rough patches at times during her highschool and teenage years. And how those rough patches often had led to pain or heartache. Yet she had found a way to pull through it all. It was something Autumn had admired her Mom for having the strength to do.
Yet, Autumn knew a great deal about her Mom's past, along with her Dad's who had also told her some parts of his life as a vampire. Kai Parker was a part of their past in which they had chosen to keep her in the dark about. Which was why Autumn had no idea who he was when he, along with his coven and family showed their faces around Mystic Falls, Virginia just months ago.
When she wondered why they had kept that part of her Mom's past from her, her Mom had remarked how it was because of Kai Parker being such a dark, painful, and ugly part of her past, so he preferred not to expose Autumn to such a ugliness. After her Mom explained Autumn understood that it had to do with a Mom wanting to shield a child from the emotional and mental trauma she had gone through. But, also because Bonnie had told Autumn how she had just put the difficult past relating to Kai Parker behind her and that she just preferred not dwelling on it since she had long ago moved on after Kai Parker was beheaded by Damon.
Yet, when Kai Parker had unexpectedly shown back up in the lives of her parents, with his ill will and intentions, Autumn had questions about who he was and why he was doing what he was doing. And her Mom, deciding to be truthful with her, confessed to who Kai Parker was and the hell he had caused in her life starting in the 1994 prison world.
She found out from the detailed word of her Mom how Kai had verbally and physically threatened her life more than once. How he had brutally assaulted her, first by shooting her with an arrow, then by stabbing her with a knife. How he had forced her to cooperate with him by painfully siphoning her magic, in turn using it to threaten Autumn's Dad. Kai had put her in the trunk of the car and drove her across the country.
Then he had left her Mom in the prison world alone while he escaped, leaving her trapped there for months. Until her Dad had given her Mom a map to find her way back to the real present day world. Her Mom had expressed to her how she eventually found her way back to the real world. Where she struggled through the trauma and PTSD which Kai had caused her.
And yet still even after the torment Kai had put her Mom through in 1994, Autumn listened as she was told much to her dismay how he still wasn't finished with wanting to inflict pain and torment upon her Mom.
After her Mom had refused to forgive him and after she locked him away in a 1903 prison world in hopes of having some peace away from him, he had escaped, brutally attacked her again and had used her blood to link her life with her childhood best friend known as Elena Gilbert who was in a magical coma at the time. Where he had given her Dad an ultimatum to pick between allowing her Mom to die in order for Elena Gilbert to have to wake from a coma.
Her Dad had chosen her Mom of course where he had then rightfully and thankfully ended the life of Kai Parker. Except for the fact that they had no idea someone was wanting in the wings to eventually bring him back to life.
When her Mom was done with revealing to her all in which Kai had put her through, Autumn grew furious and enraged towards him. Even though her Mom had put that part of her past behind her, Autumn could tell how it bothered her and how horrible it had been for her Mom to go through such a traumatizing experience.
When she found out, her response was to immediately be tempted to go and seek out Kai Parker to tear him apart limb by limb herself. However, just as she put some serious contemplation into doing so, the guy who had just recently become her boyfriend of sorts talked her out of it. Telling her know that the last thing her Mom would wish for her to do is to go after Kai Parker by herself. And Autumn agreed with her guy, although reluctantly.
Suddenly, Rohan's voice broke into her thought process.
"Are you calling my father a liar?"
"I already told me how all of what he claims happened is complete bullshit."
"No, he wouldn't lie to me like that."
Autumn expressed with fury and anger towards the son of the man who put her mother through hell. "Oh, but he did. You see your 'father' wasn't as innocent or as peaceful as he tried to make himself out to me. He viciously and brutally assaulted and attacked my Mom. And tormented and tortured her in multiple ways. He was a complete monster who traumatized her, which is why she wanted nothing to do with him and which is why my Dad decided to kill yours for totally justifiable reasons."
Rohan's face reddened. "You lie, you liar."
Autumn retorted with increased fury. "I know my Mom and know she wouldn't lie about something like this. She's much more trustworthy than the psychopath who procreated you. On top of it, he got locked in the prison world because he was a ruthless, remorseless murder, did he leave out that part to you about how he murdered his family?"
Rohan had nothing to say to that and for a moment a silence just hung in the air.
With a defensive stance to her posture, Autumn stood waiting for him to either make his first move to attack or what he had to say.
"Even if what you are saying happened is the truth, it doesn't matter. Whatever my father does he always does for a reason. So if he really did attack your mother then she must have done something to provoke him or make it do it."
"Watch your fucking mouth when speaking about my Mom."
Rohan quivered his lips. "And even if he did kill his family, I'm sure he had a reason to do that as will. After all they did call him an abomination and treat him awfully. So your claims make no difference and I'll still be a loyal son to my father."
Autumn shook her head. It didn't surprise her how Rohan had still brushed off what he was just told about the sociopathic behavior his father had displayed towards her Mom. 'The apple doesn't fall far from the tree' applied perfectly to Kai Parker and his son. He raised his son to be a remorseless sociopath, which was something that Rohan eagerly embraced following his father's footsteps in.
She sterny put in. "Back on the subject of how my Dad killed Kai Parker, he deserved death and more for what he put my Mom through. I support my Dad fully for what he did and in fact I would kill your 'father' myself for his violent cruelness towards her."
Hearing her add such a remark at the end made Rohan's face redden in rage even more.
"However, I trust my parents, They're in the forest right now preparing to take on your parents, if they haven't beaten them already that is. My Mom is going to handle Kai Parker and some of him , what a truly badass witch she had grown to be. Which leaves me to handle you. I'll end you and will do my part to make your family pay for messing with mine."
"Don't be so sure of yourself, as I have mentioned before how I drained the magic from over sixty of the most powerful witches and warlocks."
"And I'll repeat what I told you earlier, it would be enough, even if you siphoned the magic from a thousand witches, you still aren't much for me." Autumn let out an impatient sigh. "Now enough of your rambling, I'm getting bored let's get this over with shall we."
"Oh we shall." A certain gleam entered into Rohan's eyes. "But, before we I almost forgot to mention how I brought some back up."
"What?"
"I didn't come alone, there's some back up assisting me to ensure my advantage over you and that you won't walk out of this warehouse alive."
The witch-vampire hybrid at the young Parker siphoner.
With a look of arrogance Rohan made the signal. Them from the upper balcony of the warehouse appeared for people, all men who were warlocks and obviously from the Gemini Coven and on the side of the Parker family. They all looked down to the lower part of the building, preparing for Rohan's signal to go after Autumn.
Taking her time, Autumn allowed her eyes to scan over each of the four warlocks, who all seemed eager to try and team up against her. While she now appeared to be outnumbered and while many people would be fearful of or back down from a fight in which they were outnumbered, Autumn wasn't fazed at all.
Returning her attention to Rohan she spoke in a mocking tone. "What's the matter Parker, too chickenshit to take me on alone because you know that I'll kick your ass."
"I have full faith in my abilities to beat up all by myself. But, I'll also do whatever it takes to appease my father and still make my mission successful." Rohan callously shrugged. "My side is on the quest for the revolution and I'll stop at nothing to make sure we win."
"You believe you have outsmarted me, to burst your bubble though you haven't, I anticipated you how you might pull something like this."
A confused Rohan wondered exactly what she meant.
Autumn explained with a smirk. "I'm not stupid, I planned this confrontation with you tonight knowing I had to construct myself for any and all moves that you would pull. Including you being too chickenshit to take me on by yourself and bringing in your idea of backup believing that it would give you some advantage over me. So I happened to arrange an insurance plan of my own."
"Insurance plan, meaning?"
"Meaning I didn't come alone either."
Just as Rohan was about to speak, there was a gust of a sudden draft entering into the warehouse. The types of gust which could only be caused by a vampire using vampire speed. Which was exactly what was happening.
Much to Autumn's amusement and Rohan's bewildered shock, they watched as a blur moved around on the balcony. Which caught the four men who had come to back up Rohan off guard, as the blur was too fast for them to be able to react to it. There were sounds of neck bones being crushed and blood being splattered everywhere, as the vampire behind the blur made quick work of three of the warlocks by crushing the bone in their necks.
The fourth gemini coven warlock met a different fate of death, as he had his throat ripped out by the fangs of this vampire, who viciously tore into the warlock's throat and drank down all of his blood, until the gargling warlock went limp.
With all four warlocks now dead at his feet, the vampire stood to his full height with the blood of the man he just killed covering his lips and dripping down his chin.
He was pale skinned, blonde, with a slim but fit figure and stood at a tall 6'4. He had reached an impressive age for a vampire, who was now over one thousand years old. Which contributed to his great strength and which was why he was able to take out the gemini coven warlocks with relative ease.
This vampire was well known as..
"Eric Northman." Rohan barked out glaring up at the man who had just slaughtered men of his coven like it was nothing.
From the balcony, the one thousand year old Viking King vampire ignored Rohan and instead drifted his eyes downward over to where Autumn was.
"Eric." Autumn greeted as she glanced up at him.
"Autumn!" Eric returned her greeting.
Then the two exchanged an affectionate smile. Eric Northman, lived much of his life in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Until a couple of years ago when he moved to Virginia for reasons related to his vampire business and other vampire matters.
Him becoming a Virginia resident is how Autumn eventually met him. The two of them had made in the fall of 2042 when she was eighteen years old. Somehow, someway they had started a commodity of sorts. And from there had grown closer and closer, until a bond developed. That bond had blossomed into something more and now Eric Northman had been basically her boyfriend for about two months now.
So when she had thought about 'the guy who had recently turned her boyfriend' of sorts', the one who had talked her out of seeking out Kai Parker to kill herself, she was referring to Eric Northman.
And while she was taking her newfound romance with the Viking vampire slowly, Autumn couldn't help herself but to indulge in the giddy, cloud 9, exciting feelings in which she felt around him and for him. Eric Northman had turned out to be her first real love and she looked forward to each day knowing she was now in a relationship with him.
From Eric Northman's perspective, he was one who hadn't believed in or took faith in the concept of love. He had spent much of his vampire life telling anyone who suggested the concept of love to him, that he himself just wasn't a man who loved or who fell in love with any woman. And he was closed off in the sense of how he just wasn't someone who had cared for or who had gotten close to a lot of people.
He was one thousand years old and yet could cut on one hand how many people he had truly cared about in his life. And women for him had mostly either been used for sex or for him to be able to feed from when he was famished for a human to provide him with a snack.
However, when he had met Autumn-Bennett Salvatore right off of the bat he could tell that something was different about her, which set her apart from all other women he had ever met in his life before her. And it wasn't her being a vampire-witch hybrid in which he found to be different. Although he was fanastied by her unique Supernatural DNA and the powers that resided within her.
What he had found different with Autumn was her as a person. Something about her personality and how she carried herself appealed to him. And he found himself being drawn and captivated by her. Plus, she was physically beautiful beyond words in a way which would entice many men, whether those men were human or Supernatural.
He had met her around October of 2042 and almost immediately clicked with her. Over that time they kept finding ways to be around each other and before he realized it, he had fallen for Autumn-Bennett Salvatore. And had to admit how even for a man who rejected the concept of love, admitting he loved her felt good. And he was willing to do anything in the world to show how much he loved her.
Which was why he agreed to join the side of her family and everyone else who was fighting on their side against the Parkers and Gemini Coven. The Parkers made their intent clear in how they wanted to end the lives of Autumn and her parents Damon and Bonnie.
The Parkers wanted Autumn dead and there was no way on earth he would allow them to make an attempt on her life, without doing everything he could to intervene to defend and protect her from anyone who dared try to cause her harm. Even though he knew she was more than able to defend herself, he still would use every last bit of his strength to shield and guard her. And to assist her whenever she needed assisting.
And being more than willing to guard her, he had accompanied her to the warehouse, since she had figured how Rohan Parker would try to bring her back up as an attempt to catch her off guard and give himself a better chance at defeating her. Because even if Rohan denied it, Eric knew that some part of the young siphoner must have doubted his abilities to take on the vampire-witch hybrid one on one, otherwise Rohan wouldn't have even considered bringing other warlocks with him to face off with Autumn in the warehouse.
Agreeing with Autumn on her anticipation of what Rohan would try to pull, Eric went with Autumn to the warehouse and without Rohan Parker's knowledge had waited in the shadows outside, watching to see if Autumn would be correct in her assessment. Once he saw a group of the gemini warlocks enter into the warehouse, he quickly, but quietly entered into the warehouse soon after them in order to prevent them from outnumbering her and to prevent Rohan from carrying out his plan. Eric would make certain that Rohan had to face Autumn one on one.
Leaping down from the balcony to the lower floor, Eric joined Autumn by her side.
"You were right." Eric said to her. "He is too chickenshit to take you on by himself."
This made Rohan balls his hands in fists by his sides once again.
"Yeah, he is." Autumn said back to Eric. "His plan failed though because of you, perfect timing by the way."
Eric gestured in a mannerism which was typical Eric Northman. "Why, Thank you, Autumn, I'm glad to help in all ways possible."
Stammering like a spoiled child who was used to getting their way but was told 'No' for the first time, Rohan directed at Eric. "You used murdered my men, no fair."
"This notion of fairness you wish to mention to me, after you just attempted to have a bunch of men team up against one woman." Eric dismissed him with a tsk. "Now that is unfair not to mention how a bunch of men ganging up with the intentions of violently assaulting one woman would be viewed as cowardly and unchiverious all throughout the history of this world."
It was then when Rohan realized how there were others missing from the group of men who were supposed to be aiding him in this face off against Autumn. He had gotten together about ten men in total to back him up tonight and yet there had only been four who had arrived at the warehouse, which Eric Northman had just disposed of when he killed them.
They were supposed to travel in two different vehicles with the four who were now dead arriving first, followed by the other six who were supposed to follow, just in case Autumn somehow managed to defend off the first group of four.
Now Rohan held out hope of the other six showing up at any minute to help him get rid of Northman, so it was possible for his plan to win the face off with Autumn Bennett-Salvatore would be back on track. His eyes looked towards the entrance of the warehouse, but there was no one there. So he looked around the warehouse for any signs of the other Gemini Warlocks to show themselves.
"Expecting someone?" Asked Eric.
Rohan snapped his head in the direction of the blond haired vampire. "How do you figure I'm expecting someone."
"Because you obviously are." Autumn put in. "You know kind of like you had to bring in more back up, just to give yourself an extra chance to not to lose to me tonight."
Choosing to ignore her remark this time, Rohan instead kept his focus on Eric, as he now suspected Eric might have something to do with the rest of his backup not showing up.
"Did you murder the others too?" Rohan threw the accusation at Eric.
"Well, no I didn't." Was Eric's answer. "Still if you're expecting them to show up they aren't going to."
Rohan squinted. "Where are they then."
Eric gestured. "Oh they met my maker so to speak."
Although Eric's response appeared to have bewildered Rohan once more, Autumn knew who exactly Eric was referring to when he referred to 'maker.'."
"My Maker though it's rather unethical for you and your Gemini cult to be attempting what you're attempting to do. And when I told him about your plans to ambush Autumn here, he wanted to do his part to put a stop to it. Because what I care about, he cares about."
Eric went on with a mischievous expression upon his face. "The rest of your men, they aren't going to show up, because Godric my maker has already incapiticated them. And since there's no one else coming to this particular warehouse to aid you, I suggest you man up and meet your fate."
Upon hearing how his scheme had failed thanks to Eric Northman and his maker Godric, Rohan Parker grew even more incensed than he already was.
"It makes no difference." Rohan raised a trembling finger towards Eric. "I'm going to dispatch your half breed, cunt right in front of you and then I'm going to finish you off."
The Viking vampire took high offense to the words which had just come out of Rohan Parker's mouth. Not the part where Rohan had said how he was going to finish him off, but the part where he had threatened Autumn life and had called her a 'half-breed, cunt.'"
It infuriated him beyond words to hear a woman in which he cared and had deep feelings for being threatened and insulted. And by impulse to this infuriation, Eric snarled, baring his fangs which was still stained with the blood of the man he had ripped the throat out of. He lunged forward, preparing to tear apart Rohan.
But, before he could get too far, Autumn next to him put a hand on his arm to halt his forward process.
This caused Eric to glance sideways at her.
"I've got this." Was all she told her Vikings vampire boyfriend.
And in understanding her and what she had to do, Eric took a step back, far enough to stay out of their way, but still remained close enough where he could keep an eye on her and what was about to go down.
"Now enough chit chat." Autumn directed at Rohan coolly. "Let's finally get this over with."
"I'm going to kill you, bitch." Threatened Rohan.
"Bring it on, fucker." Autumn challenged.
Rohan cupped the palm of his hand so that it was facing upward towards the ceiling and mumbling something under his breath. A white ball of light appeared in the palm of his hand and grew until it was a little larger than the size of an average baseball.
Autumn recognized immediately what the ball of light was meant to do, it was meant to subdue and paralyze whichever person it would come into contact with. So, Rohan's game plan was to try and paralyze her to make sure she couldn't move or do any counter spells to whatever attacks he was planning.
Tossing the ball of light towards her like a pitcher trying to strike out a batter at base, Rohan looked on and eagerly waited for his ball of light to contact her and instantly paralyze her.
Unfazed, Autumn caught the ball of light in her hand with relative ease and dissipated the ball of light until it disappeared in thin air. "Come on, you have to do better than that."
Rohan then started to release a full barrage of different spells and dark magical curses at Autumn. And while most of his dark magical curses would have been enough to take down or finish most average witches, Autumn of course was far from an average witch.
She had twenty years of learning and being taught by her parents just in case times like the one she was facing tonight ever came up. Plus she had also spent the last few months with Eric training for the very moment she would have to face Rohan and anyone else she would have to fight in this conflict against the Parker Clan.
On top of her parents and Eric, she had also examined all of the tactics and strategies Rohan Parker had used in his magical attacks and spells. She had all of this combining to aid her to be more than ready for whatever Rohan Parker would throw at her.
And unfortunately for Rohan all she had done to get ready for him was serving her well. As he was aiming just about everything that he had in his magical aresonial at him and she was either dodging or blocking it all without even breaking a sweat.
A amazed Eric watched as he realized that Autumn was just toying with the Parker boy.
Rohan was realizing this as he was growing increasingly frustrated with each of his attacks she had managed to block or avoid.
Yawning Autumn swatted away one of his spells like someone who swat away buzzing flies that was annoying them. She was quickly becoming bored with what Rohan had to offer in his magical weaponry.
Sweat now dripped down Rohan's brow as he was exerting himself by throwing all of his might into taking Autumn down, by casting every curse and spell at her in which he could think of at the moment.
Yet Autumn continued to deflect all he had to throw at her with no efforts and problems at all.
After tiring himself out more than he was causing her harm, Rohan had to take a break from the barrage of attacks he was aiming at her by catching his breath.
"Is that all you've got." Autumn tsked.
"I'll show you." The veins were now bulging out of Rohan's forehead with the frustration he was feeling in which this show down wasn't going his way. He pointed one magical trick in which his sorcerer mother had taught him at her, this particular trick was meant to make the victim of it immediately drop into some magical version of a coma.
However, much like all of his other attempts at subduing her through his magic, this one had failed as well, as it bounced off of her with no effect. Rohan Parker cursed under his breath realizing that he perhaps should have siphoned the powers and magic from many more witches and warlocks before taking on Autumn Bennett-Salvatore. As it dawned on him she was indeed too strong for him to take down.
"All of the trash talking you were lambasting me with and this pathetic attempt is all you can do." Autumn mocked in a way which would remind a lot of people of her Dad Damon Salvatore. "All of that build up for this, how disappointing."
Refusing to give up or let his father Kai Parker down and refusing to stand there and allow himself to be made fun of by the witch-vampire hybrid, Rohan gathered himself and with the shout of someone having a temper tantrum. He charged at her.
With a soft murmur Autumn said a few short symbols in Latin which and as a result from what she had said, a bolt of electricity hit Rohan from above. Although the electricity was brief, it was enough to knock him off of his feet and give him a painful shock, such as one would receive if they got hit by a taser at full force.
Still having his eyes on what was happening before him, Eric was once again in awe at the dominant magic he saw come off of this woman. She was such a commanding force for a person who was so short and petite.
Growing more and more enraged still, Rohan scrambled back to his feet, rushed at her again letting his intent to kill her be known.
Beyond ready to end this face off with the Parker siphoner, Autumn simply raised her right hand with her palm outstretched.
Which made Rohan stop abruptly as he had run into whatever invisible force field Autumn had casted a few feet before her. Then he realized much to his horror he couldn't move at all due to whichever magical force Autumn had casted over him.
Autumn then proceeded to left up her left hand and with the pointer finger turned her left hand in a downward motion.
Having no control over his body, under the control of her magic, Rohan had no choice but to fall to his knees before her.
"How would you like it if you died in the same way your psychopath father once did?" She asked in a chilling tone.
Rohan was about to open his mouth to say something.
Interrupting what he was about to say, Autumn swiped her hand in midair, and without ever so much as touching him, observed her work as Rohan's head was chopped clean off of his shoulders, killing him instantly. His body fell to the ground with a thud and just like that it was over.
Autumn wanted to spit on his body but settled on flicking him off instead. "Good riddance motherfucker."
Eric clapped like an audience who had just witnessed a well performed play on Broadway.
Glancing over at him she gave him a half smile.
"I have to say, I've been a vampire for one thousand years. I don't think I've either witnessed someone decapitated purely using magic before until now that is."
"Well, I received my lessons and was raised by the best witch this world has ever known!" Autumn exclaimed speaking proudly of her Mom.
Eric approached her. "Whatever the case, I'm very impressed with you."
Autumn told him warmly. "Thanks for having my back."
"You know that I'll do everything to preserve and safeguard your life and well being." Eric nodded with a wink.
"I know." She said gracefully.
At 6 foot 4 to her 5 foot 3, he had towered over her with a big height difference and yet still despite the height difference they made for a rather intriguing attractive pair.
He stared down at her with a mixture of fondness, softness and a man who was hopelessly in love.
As usual Autumn found herself blushing as she often did whenever Eric Northman had looked at her in such a way. Even though it wasn't the first time he had done so, she still received butterflies in her stomach whenever he would look at her in a certain manner or speak to her with a certain tone of voice.
She returned his gaze with one of her own, which was filled with warmth, tenderness and a woman who was completely smitten with a man.
Reaching out, Eric offered her his hand and she took it intertwining their fingers together, as they stepped up to the now headless corpse of Rohan Parker, looking down on it.
"Is it done?" Eric pondered.
Autumn knew exactly what he meant and so responded. "Not until we know whether or not my parents and the others in our alliance were victorious in The Epic Conflict, we should get word on that soon enough."
So she waited at the warehouse with Eric, with her mind now on the epic conflict her parents were currently fighting in.
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Author's Note: This prologue ended up being a lot longer than I expected it to be. So to make it easier for reading, I'm breaking it into 2 parts. Part 1 was to introduce Bamon's daughter Autumn to the story as well as Eric Northman.
Part 2 will introduce and feature a lot more Damon and Bonnie and will be posted within a day or two after part 1. Thanks for reading!