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Chapter Twelve: Completing the Mission
(Flashback Continued)
Danny walked into the Mikaelson estate wondering what Rebekah's answer would be. He liked to think that with the cruelty that Klaus has dealt to her the past several centuries would be enough for her to understand that she should take his side.
"I see that you have arrived Danny." Niklaus said as he walked down the steps.
There was a smile on his face but truthfully the man was a swirl of rage and malice.
"How are you Niklaus?" Danny asked knowing the answer but wanting to know why he was currently feeling this way.
"I heard you have been talking with my mother." Niklaus said. 'That vile woman was still scheming to make my life miserable. Not even death seemed to be able to stop her. It would also explain why Danny came looking for them. He was my mother's latest weapon.'
"She reached out to me." Danny said. His Jaffa were in the sky looking down at the mansion from the Ha'tak. Any sign of violence happening, and they were to fire down on the estate while he was intangible. Reduce the place to rubble and then they would capture the Mikaelson siblings.
"You cannot trust my mother." Niklaus said.
"I can understand why you would see it that way." Danny said.
"You can? Really?" Niklaus asked in a sarcastic tone. "I hear you say that, and I feel like using the decorative sword that you had given me and use it to cut your arms off. Then you can maybe understand a tiny fraction of the pain that the woman had put me through."
"She told me how she had you stabbed by your father to become vampires." Danny said.
"That's it?" Niklaus asked before letting a mean smile fill his face. 'Of course, his mother would hide her shame and portray her actions as that of a mother that only tried to protect her children. Anything other than meant that she would have to face the truth.'
"Let's have a seat and chat." Niklaus said.
"I am kind of waiting on Rebekah. We can talk about this later." Danny said.
"Rebekah will be taking a while to get dressed. We have plenty of time." Niklaus said as he walked pass the compelled servants and walked to the parlor. "Have a seat. We have a lot to talk about."
"Alright." Danny said as he took a seat on the couch and looked up at Niklaus.
"In my experience my mother could lie to someone for years and never feel bad about it. She would rather lie and manipulate than tell someone the truth." Niklaus said.
"She did not go into that much. She said it was because you could not control your bloodlust." Danny said. He wondered how therapist would react if they could interview the Mikaelson family.
"Let me tell you why I killed her." Niklaus said as he moved forward in his seat.
"After I was turned into a vampire, I found myself overpowered with the desire for blood. The moment I first felt a sip of blood I was intoxicated. As the first taste of blood hit my tongue all I knew was that I wanted more. I drained six people that had lived in our village. That was when I activated the curse." Niklaus said.
"Curse?" Danny asked.
"It turns out the man that I thought was my father wasn't. My mother had slept with the man that led the tribe of werewolves near my village." Niklaus said.
"That means..." Danny began as he thought over the implications.
"Yes. I am both Vampire and Werewolf. A hybrid." Niklaus said.
His rage was increasing on the inside even though his face was calm. "Thanks to my mother's lies. I had spent so much of my human life trying to receive the love of the man I thought was my father."
"Mikael." Danny said.
"Yes Mikael. Do you know his title?" Niklaus asked.
"The Hunter." Danny answered.
"Yes. Do you know why they call him that? In his desire to end me he has burnt towns to the ground, slaughtered thousands of werewolves, and wiped-out hundreds of vampires to one day put a stake in my heart. The reason being that my mother lied to us both and he will never forget that."
"I have never heard of a vampire able to turn into a wolf." Danny said. This caused his heart to beat even faster at the being in front of him. No doubt that he could hear it. Niklaus was a victim of Inadu's curse and blessed with vampirism by Esther Mikaelson. This was a very rare being standing in front of him. It was like standing in front of a unicorn. He could not wait to capture and study him.
"That is because my mother cast a curse on me. She made it so that I could never tap into that power. Then the man that I had called father slaughtered the tribe of Werewolves so that I could never know my true father." Niklaus said.
"So that is what started the war between the Vampires and the Werewolves?" Danny asked. There were still some parts of the story that he was missing. He wished that the original had searched the memory cube for more useful things than just editing memories to make movies. Werewolves when had to make a choice between a human and a vampire for a target they would more often than not chase right at the vampire. Not to mention how their bite was fatal to regular vampires. How did that happen when Werewolves came first? Shouldn't it be the other way around given how they were made?
"Yes." Niklaus said. "The surviving werewolves of the tribe never got over what Mikael did to them and so whenever they found a vampire under a full moon they would try and kill it. That caused the vampires to start hunting Werewolves every day and night except under a full moon and for hundreds of years the species have fought each other."
"Does it affect you or your siblings?" Danny asked. He could not imagine Niklaus letting such a weakness be known or survive even if he was related to them. He was also using his powers to slowly influence Niklaus's emotions. His anger was helping him. If he was focused, he had little doubted the Hybrid would notice what he was doing.
"No. I am immune to it and all it does to my siblings is drive them to hallucinate for hours." Niklaus said
"So, the curse of the sun and the moon?" Danny asked. There were rumors all around the world about what made it so that Vampires were burned by the sun and Werewolves shifted during the moon. The tales shifted in region about who cast the curse and the reason but whether it was on Roman parchments, Aztec drawings, or African tribal etchings they all agreed that for either Vampires to walk in the sun or Werewolves to never shift again during the full moon the curse needed to be broken. Plenty of reason for both sides to look for a method to do just that. The only reason most were not trying now was that special ingredients were needed.
"I made it up to fix what my mother did to me." Niklaus answered uncaring of those that died trying to break the curse.
"Best way to find something is to have two warring species looking for it?" Danny asked.
"Right." Elijah answered causing him to turn to the door.
"Hello Daniel." Salome said as she walked in after Elijah.
She was turned into a vampire in the year 1223. She had lived in the Byzantine empire. She was very attractive, but her short hair ruined it.
"Hello." Danny waved at them from his seat. He could feel the tension rising in the room as they blocked the door leading out of the room.
"Would you fancy a drink?" Elijah asked him.
"No thanks. I am good." Danny said wondering what was going on with Elijah. They rarely talked to each other for long. Elijah felt that he was no good for his sister but kept quiet about it as long as his sister was happy.
"Do you know what happened to Lucien and Eric? Those two were supposed to report back at nightfall but they never showed up." Niklaus asked.
"Not a clue." Danny lied. "Have they run into some sort of trouble?"
"That is yet to be discovered." Elijah said. 'I am sure that Rebekah had told him of what they had done to all of her previous suitors, but he showed no fear to any of them. It was foolish if he did not believe they would do the same to him if he thought he could deceive them.
"They were following someone of interest to Klaus." Salome said.
"Do you need help locating them?" Danny asked. He wondered when they were going to get straight to accusing him. He could lie and play uninterested for a very long time. His Jaffa were listening in the skies above to every word being said. It would just take a thought to get them ready.
"Could you cast a spell and find them for us?" Niklaus asked. 'Why is he so calm? He had to have been behind their disappearance. Unless Rebekah had been the one to deal with them? She was more than strong enough to deal with them.
"You got a map and some salt?" Danny asked.
"We can get some." Elijah said as he turned around and opened the door revealing a compelled servant waiting to be ordered or drained of blood.
Danny took a quick look in his mind but had to hide the irritation when he saw that the servant had no idea about Rebekah's whereabouts.
"So how have you been Salome?" Danny asked while they waited for the time to pass and for the servant to return.
"I am doing wonderful." Salome said.
She was wondering what meal they would have to pair with his blood when he was drained dry. She wished that he would not have to be tortured first. She found the blood of tortured meat tended to be unsatisfying when they were drained. It was like the pained and anguished soul ruined tainted the blood. She wanted this memory to be a happy and long remembered one.
"That is always wonderful to hear." Danny said. "How are you doing, Elijah?"
"I am alright though I have to admit that learning you are familiar with my mother threw me for a bit of a loop." Elijah said.
"I can understand that, but I believe we know lots of the same people." Danny said.
"Really?" Elijah asked.
"Yes. In fact, I have met members of certain organization that you started. The Strix I believe they are called. I believe the last time that you had seen them was after the fall of the Byzantine Empire." Danny said and saw Elijah's eye twitch and his arm tense.
"You have met with The Strix?" Elijah asked.
"Certain members. I believe that they are currently led by Tristan de Martel and Aya. They are close acquaintances of yours are they not?" Danny asked and he could feel that question set Elijah off. Given what he learned from Lucien he understood why Elijah was so angry. Tristan had been turned because Elijah wanted to hide from his father. A few centuries later The Strix chose Tristan to lead them over Elijah after he abandoned them. It seemed that Elijah was still pissed over that.
"Let's focus on the important matters here." Niklaus said.
"Very well." Danny said. "Where is Rebekah?"
"She is still mulling over that offer mother wants us to take." Niklaus said.
Looks like Rebekah had told them after all.
"Don't look so annoyed. Rebekah learned her lesson the last time someone promised her a cure for vampirism." Niklaus said. "I can still remember killing Alexander and the other members of The Five."
"I don't doubt it. You had to spend over four decades in a tempest of madness and hallucinations due to the curse that comes by when you kill one of their members." Danny said. "Would it not be better to take the deal than worry if you will have to deal with such a situation again?"
Before any of the vampires in the room answered the question there was a knock on the door.
"Maybe that is Rebekah." Niklaus said.
Danny could feel that he did not mean it.
Elijah calmly walked and opened the door revealing the servant and besides him as he walked in was Kol Mikaelson. He was the youngest of Rebekah's undead brothers.
"Greetings chum." Kol Mikaelson said with a smile.
Many people would consider that face full of boyish charm. Those same fools would probably be surprised when that charming face ripped out their hearts or bit into their necks with that same smile. Kol was just as bloodthirsty as Niklaus. It was a coin toss to decide who was more impulsive.
"Hello Kol." Danny said as the youngest original vampire walked towards him. 'So, it seems that Niklaus had daggered Rebekah. Great now I am going to have to read their minds to find out where she is.'
"So you're the newest guy to have taken advantage of our sweet sister." Kol said.
He was giving off large feelings of malice.
"I don't think so. I think that I am giving Rebekah what she always wanted. A human life." Danny said.
"Rebekah wants something different every day. You are just a rather recent desire of my sister. She will move on eventually." Elijah said turning from the now locked door. "I knew that there was a reason I disliked you. From the moment we met you have been plotting against us."
Elijah felt that it was his duty was to protect their family and keep it together. That was rather funny since he kept his oldest brother locked in a box and felt no need to free him.
"Enough please be civil you two. He is going to find our wayward vampires." Niklaus said. "You have your supplies."
This was a test to see if he was truly on their side or if he was just going to be another victim of theirs. They believed that there was no way he could survive in a fight with four vampires three of which were originals.
"Very well." Danny said as he floated the items from the servants' hands to the floor. He rolled out the map and used telekinesis to unscrew the jar that held the salt. He had seen the memories of enough witches and watched Qetsiyah do it in person, so he knew what they expected. "It looks like they left town. Probably scared of failing Klaus." The trail of salt led to outside of the village and trailed off as that was the extent of the map.
"Really?" Elijah asked in a suspicious tone of voice.
"Yes." Danny lied with a straight face. Truthfully, all he did was draw a long line of salt from one edge of the map to over the other side. "So, who was it that they were following?".
"Just a new friend that turned out to be scheming against the family." Kol said.
"Sounds terrible. You people should hire bodyguard so that sort of thing does not happen." Danny said.
"That sounds like good advice." Elijah said.
"Since we are waiting in this awkward room here, I may as well ask what is your answer to your mother's offer?" Danny asked the Mikaelson siblings.
"We don't want it." Niklaus said.' If Eric and Lucien are still alive, I will have to find another witch find them. No matter where he had hidden them but this man in front of them was too dangerous to live. He was working with his mother and if they did not take her offer here and now, she would probably force them to take this cure. Then the enemies they had made over the centuries would come and hunt them down for revenge. They had made many of them since they left the Martell castle. Many of those enemies they had been turned into vampires.'
"That is the wrong answer." Danny said with a sigh as he stood up.
"You are going to regret the day you met my mother." Niklaus said as he tried to rush him, but they made no contact as Danny started vibrating at the speed of air and passed right through him and watched as Niklaus crashed into the couch.
"At least you had a soft landing." Danny said with a smile. "Really?" He asked looking at Elijah who had thrown a book through him.
"You are going to have to turn solid eventually. Even if you try to run and hide, we have all of your life to hunt you down." Elijah said.
They were confident of that. It was one of the upsides to being immortal with mortal enemies. Even if they did not meet again, they knew that one day their enemy would die.
"Not to mention we have Rebekah." Kol said the grin still on his face, but his eyes had grown colder.
"I am not leaving Rebekah. She wants to be human and so she will get her wish." Danny said as he turned solid.
"You must be mad to think we would let you take our sister away from her family." Niklaus said 'He has put these stupid ideas inside of Rebekah's head and for that he would have to be punished.'
He was feeling like he regretted not killing him when they first met.
"You misunderstand. You will still all be together." Danny said as he lifted Niklaus up with telekinesis and threw him to the wall behind him and held him there. He was trying to fight but he was not strong enough.
"You will pay for that." Elijah said as he rushed in now that Danny was solid.
"That did not work for him and it's not going to work for you." Danny said as he picked up the book Elijah threw at him and flung it back into the running vampire. The speed it was going caused him to lose his balance and tumble to the floor. He kept him held there stuck on his stomach. Neither he nor the original version needed hand gestures to use telekinesis, but they made it look cooler, so they stuck with it.
"Now what are you two going to do?" Danny asked Kol and Salome. He looked cool and composed but he was bluffing. He would have liked to keep playing around but he could feel himself getting weaker by the second as he held Niklaus against the wall. It was time to summon the Jaffa.
The next moment an energy blast was fired down from the Ha'tak through the Mikaelson estate. People were probably going to think that it was a sign of a god smiting someone, but the Mikaelsons were going to learn that it was just a sign of more trouble.
"What is going on?" Niklaus asked as a transportation ring came down from the ship and twenty Jaffa stepped out as a group.
"Jaffa kree." Danny called out as they started blasting. He took a position in front of the locked door. If they wanted out, then they were going to have to break through the walls and even for them that would take time. The vampires growled in irritation and started running at the Jaffa. They clearly believed that they were in no danger. When a vampire was injured, their damaged bodies reverted to the state they were in pre-injury, and they knew they were stronger than mortal men. So even with these strange weapons they believed that they could win.
The thing about Jaffa staff weapons was that they could fire consecutively with no need for reload which was not true for the weapons of this time period. So even though a few Jaffa were dropping with broken necks there was still more than enough to bring them to the ground while they expected a reload time. It also revealed to him those older vampires were stronger than Jaffa. So, in rankings of strength, it would go from bottom to top Werewolf, then young Vampire, then Jaffa, and then older Vampire.
"Now that this is done time to find where he placed Rebekah." Danny said as he looked around at the bodies lying about and the holes in the walls, ceilings, and floor. Looking outside the holes he could see that some servants had been caught in the explosions and were bleeding out. If the original were here, he would have used the ancient healing device to heal these people, but he did not have that would have to make use of what was around him.
Good thing that there were some vampires lying before them.
"Take some blood from them and use it to heal the injured servants in the estate. If there is any sign that they are waking up strike them again." Danny said. He would also have the Ha'tak send him the coffins down in the next transportation ring landing. It was best to get this started.
"You have completed your promise." Esther said.
"All that is left is your husband." Danny said. "Have you had any luck finding him?" The Vampire hunter Mikael was the only original vampire left. Soon he would have all the sirelines and he would have control over the vampire species.
"Not yet. The search goes on." Esther said. Somehow Mikael was able to avoid their tracking spells. He must have made some ally that was cloaking him.
"Very well." Danny said. "Now I have to find out where Rebekah and Finn are." he walked over to Niklaus and started searching through his mind. When he was awake the potential Hybrid had tough psychic barriers up preventing people from accessing his mind but now that he was unconscious, they were easy to break through. It looks like they were being held in the cellar of an old man named Gaius that lived in the woods.
The next duplicate made from the original could deal with this. He had accomplished his mission.
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(Flashback End)
"So, we lost Febras, Landri, Kobu, Deri, Zilda, and Jneri." Danny said counting off the names on his fingers and picturing their faces. He would give the order that Dinai kingdom gave them great funerals as they died for their king. He turned on the screen in his room and looked at the vastness of space. It helped him think.
He had almost all of the Original Vampires and the coffins had been completed. They would need to be moved off-world so even if a witch performed a locator spell, they would be unable to retrieve them. There were White Oak trees being grown in France and some would have to be transported to Dinai as well just in case.
'So, the job for the next duplicate is to gather all the vampires of Earth to the same place.' Danny thought to himself as he went over which location to bring them to. There were plenty of places to do it whether because of their origin or whether because he thought it would be atmospheric and cool. He went around and around in his head for five minutes before deciding to let the duplicate handle it.
He still had plenty of his own work to handle.
"Iok what is the current status of Marduk's fleet?" Danny asked the Jaffa taking command on the Pel'tak.
"My King, Marduk's fleets is in Imhullu formation, and they are getting ready to strike the planet that belongs to the god Pelops." Iok said.
Imhullu was the weapon that mythology tells Marduk used in the creation myth Enuma Elish. It was the standard formation that Marduk used. In his opinion it kind of looked like a hammer.
"What of Pelop's response?" Danny asked.
"It seems like he is starting to prepare to attack." Iok stated.
"Good. Prepare a team of four to come with me to the planet." Danny said.
"It will be ready by the time you approach the docking bay." Iok promised.
"Good." Danny said ending the transmission and going to his bathroom to get ready.
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Danny took a look around them the moment they stepped out of the transportation ring. Beyond the trees there was smoke rising from what was probably a village or a city. There were death gliders above the city scanning for Jaffa and human slaves. When Marduk attacked an enemy's planet he took their residents for his own use.
"How should we progress my king?" Sutan asked. He had short hair that pointed upwards like a square was connected to his head.
"We are going to go in the opposite direction of the death gliders." Danny said. Pelops was a Goa'uld similar to Nirtti. He liked focusing on his research and experiments more so than fighting and scheming. He partook in it as any Goa'uld did but below the average. The reason that they were here was to gain access to one of his research laboratories. In the Stargate tv show Pelops had been experimenting on the accelerated aging of humans with nanites. Having such technology would be very useful with his projects.
"Very well." Sutan said.
They walked away from the fighting and screaming population and further into the forest. He would have liked to come and try to save some of the population, but it would do no good for him and his Jaffa to be found here. This mission by Kali and Amaterasu was supposed to be covert and organized.
"I believe that I see the facility my king." Mila said.
She descended from a family Nirtti had experimented on to have enhanced vision to try and match his. Instead of her eyes being the same purple that regular Jaffa and humans of Dinai had her and those of her family were blue.
"Good. I see it as well." Danny aid enhancing his eyes so that he could see the same sight as her.
"What do you wish to do my king?" Sutan asked.
"Mila you are going to stay back here and keep watch over this area. If you see any unknown Jaffa or a death glider, contact us. Bari will stay with you to provide protection." Danny said as he looked at the hidden lab that was hidden in a mountain wall.
"As you wish my king." Bari said.
"Let's go Sutan." Danny said as he started walking down the hill. He would have preferred flying, but it was best that they stuck close to the ground and hid between the trees.
"I am coming." Sutan said as he followed behind his king. He had heard the stories of his adventures, but this day was the first time he had seen him in person.
It took about an hour at their slow pace but in the end, they faced the entrance to the secret lab. Danny placed his hand on the door connecting with the security system that was keeping the door shut. It took a second for him to make the computer grant him and Sutan access to the inside.
"Wonderful work my king." Sutan praised him. Nirtti must have immense faith to bless the king with such powers.
"I made it so that no alarms will activate once we are inside but there are some Jaffa working as security for Pelops' inventions." Danny said as Sutan prepared his weapon in response.
"I am ready my king." Sutan said.
"Good. I would hate if they managed to kill one of my servants." Danny said as they walked inside and headed for the room where Pelop kept his research notes. Once he came face to face with the computer Danny used his powers to find the file that he wanted while shutting deactivating the code on the computer where an alarm was set off whenever someone searched for something without using the proper codes.
"There is a group approaching my king." Mila warned them.
"Alright stay hidden. We are coming out." Danny said as he finished the download.
"Nirtti is truly watching over us." Sutan praised.
"Make sure to honor her twice as much when you pray tonight." Danny said from behind the Jaffa.
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