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Chapter 9: Month four, part 3-Ashes to Ashes

Dawn was fast approaching and the witches were taking a short tour of the cemetery when the lead witch smiled lightly.

"You all have someone to go after-Papa Tunde wants Klaus dead just like Genevieve wants Rebekah dead and Bastianna wants Marcel dead. I want Kol and Elijah to be in their precious caskets while I take everything that they love so dearly away from them." Each one looked curiously at her. "I want them to feel what I felt when Kol slaughtered my family eight hundred years ago."

"When should we start destroying them?" The elderly witch asked. She would love to kill Marcel at that moment but she had a better plan.

"Let's start now." The three witches grinned and off they went, ready to terrorize the streets of New Orleans in ways that it's never been before.

Without her magic, Davina just simply existed. She ate, she exercised, she was…bored being normal. She had magic but after the sacrifice, it never returned to her and it bothered her in ways that it shouldn't but it did.

Kol was there, helping her adjust to life without magic as before he turned, was a witch himself like Finn. He knew that she was just going through the motions and pretty soon, she was going to lash out at everyone.

Today, he had her in the courtyard of the compound, doing some yoga exercises and breathing techniques.

To help Kol out, Elena was there and doing some different yoga moves that would work for pregnant women. She was sitting cross-legged on the mat, her eyes closed and breathing evenly while stretching out her arms.

Rebekah was beside her, also doing the same exercises as Davina.

"Take a deep breath in…exhale…and repeat…" Kol instructed. He had been surprised and happy that his sister and Elena were doing this as well as helping him help Davina adjust. "Now I need you to clear your mind of anything negative."

"Does that actually work?" Rebekah asked, curious.

"It does so don't knock it!" Kol said happily, enjoying the fact that his little sister actually had to listen to him for once in her life.

"I wasn't! I was simply curious!" Rebekah huffed at him.

"Knock it off! Some of us are trying to find our happy place!" Elena growled at them. "My god! How is it that 'Lijah and Klaus haven't gone insane with you two arguing?"

A laugh from above them made them look up to see Elijah just staring at them.

"I have yet to figure out the answer to that question Lovely." He said, his eyes raking over her form before settling on her bump.

"Once you're done ogling her, we have a situation." Klaus growled as he entered the courtyard, a dark skinned man right behind him. "Marcellus here just told me that we're missing about forty nightwalkers!"

The fear was painted on the faces of each vampire while Elena and Davina looked curious.

"Maybe they've gone to reconnect with loved ones?" Davina said.

"D-these nightwalkers have been vampires for over a hundred years. Their family and family lines have probably all washed up." The man said to her before staring at Elena. "Marcel Gerard. Klaus Mikaelson's adopted son and protégé."

"Elena Marshall. Elijah's girlfriend and Klaus' incubator." Elena said, uncaringly. "He calls me nothing else but that and my name."

Marcel just gaped at her while the others were holding in their laughter except for Kol who was howling in glee.

"We got ourselves one messed up family tree." He managed to get out. "Though it's nothing like those ones from Once upon a Time!"

Elijah shook his head at his brother and as he jumped down from the balcony, he flashed to stand protectively in front of Elena.

"Is Joshua one of the missing ones?" The noble one asked.

"No-he's been hiding out with Cami during the days as he doesn't have a Daylight Ring." Marcel breathed.

Davina exhaled, glad that her friend was okay and Kol got a little jealous until Davina put him out of his misery.

"Josh is my best friend-he's like a brother and besides, you're more his type than I am."

Rousseau's was pretty empty when the bartender entered. She was young-late teens to early twenties-with dark red hair and cold blue eyes. Cami had called her in as the blonde was going to be late as her car died en route to the bar.

She was minding her business when the doors were pushed open with such force that they broke and the girl ran to see a tall man wearing a white suit from 1919 she believed with a white boa constrictor wrapped around him.

She screamed and suddenly, the snake lunged.

About two hours later, Cami entered with Marcel and Aurora only to scream as the redheaded bartender lay dead on the ground and a message in her hands.

I'm coming to collect Mikaelson. A son for a son.

Marcel gulped and knew who it was that sent it.

Papa Tunde.

The witch pointed a bone knife at Tunde's heart and stabbed him, allowing his power to flow through her.

"I'm coming for you Kol and this time, Elijah won't be able to save you." The witch said as she watched the man die but not before telling him her name. "Calypsa."

"There's only a few people who I can think of who would do something like this." Klaus said as they were all seated at the table, once Marcel and Aurora told the Originals what had been going on. "If Papa Tunde is back then so are three others."

"Have you all pissed off anyone within your thousand years on Earth?" Elena asked, worried about her family.

"Elena love-all of us have at one point pissed many people off." Klaus said, fanning her worry even more with his words.

"There's someone powerful enough to do this but she's been dead and we just consecrated her." Rebekah added. "Is there someone else that we haven't thought of?"

Kol nodded before looking at Elijah who looked grim.

"Calypsa. That Greek witch who took a fancy to me." Kol admitted. "I turned her down and she killed Mara-the vampire I turned to save."

"Kol went out on a binge and slaughtered her whole family-sparing only her." Elijah continued. "I tried to clean up the mess and play peacemaker but she swore that she'd get back at Kol and at myself."

Elena had an idea-a crazy one, but it was the only one that she could come up with on such short notice.

"I was hoping that you wouldn't mind going with me on an errand." Elena said as she looked at Aurora and at Davina. "It'll be quick, promise."

"So your errand is here in the Bayou?" Aurora asked as she watched Elena trek down to see humans. "As well as talk to the wolves?"

"Yes." She told her and once they noticed her, they were going to attack when Hayley stepped in front of them. "Sister…I need your help."

"What do you want done?" Hayley asked.

"Some resurrected witches want revenge on the Mikaelsons and as they're my pack…well, I want your help in killing them."

"Why should I help you?" Hayley asked coldly. Elena smirked.

"I did give up the crown but I never said that you should get it. Help me, I'll help you get it."

Bastianna sat in the church, ready to curse the priest when her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she slumped forward. A man got up from the pew, blood coating his hand and a dark smile on his face.

One down, two to go.

"You went into the Bayou?" Klaus and Elijah were shocked and a bit furious with Elena.

"You can be angry with me but I had to make a deal to protect all of you!" She said sharply. "You're my family-all of you-and I don't want all of you to die!"

Klaus wanted to retort but it died on his tongue. She did what she felt like she needed to do…to protect them.

He would have done the same and a long time ago, he did.

Calypsa smirked as she made her way into the compound where her eyes were wide as five wolves bared their teeth at her and a young woman came up behind them, followed by another who was pregnant.

"You're trespassing on my private property." The pregnant woman said icily. "I suggest that you leave or else my friends here will feast on your blood and flesh."

"What if I can reverse this…transformation?" Calypsa tried to make the deal. "I turn them back to human, so that only once a month they wolf out and you let me live."

"I don't make bullshit deals with witches." The pregnant one was snappy. "That and a witch who owes me is already doing the cure for them. Leave now or you'll regret it."

Calypsa's eyes were cold.

"You have no idea of who you're messing with." The familiar laugh fluttered behind her and she was face to face with Kol.

"Dear sweet Calypsa…I'm afraid that you're in the dust." He said coldly. "It's been eight hundred years and I've repented witch. I've repented but you've been on this crusade to kill me and my family. It ends now."

He thrust his hand into her chest cavity and pulled out her heart.

"I want to thank you for today." Elena called to the wolves, once she decided to follow through with what she told Hayley. "Though I can no longer call myself a Crescent, I know that you'll be in good hands as I want Hayley to take my place as Queen."

Hayley walked up to her and as she bowed her head, a crown of peonies was placed there. She smiled at her and walked down to where Elijah was. Placing her hand in his, she smiled.

"Let's hope that we can start a new chapter after those events." She whispered to him with a kiss.

He smiled and held her closer to him.

"Let's hope."