The Tales Of The Mighty Siphoner

by bugatti95

Kai Parker was banished and locked away in the 1994 Prison World for over two decades. What if he used that time more productively? What if he learned magic during this time? The Knowledge of the entire world at his fingertips. And knowledge is power. Antihero sort of Kai! Original Vampire Kai! Crossover with Originals later on. (My Version).

5. Chapter 4

The Tales Of The Mighty Siphoner

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries or Originals, or anything else set in that universe, they belong to the rightful owners. I do not own anything from any other fiction I use or reference either, they all belong to their rightful owners.

A/N: The original fic was written by baringan on this site. Link on Profile.

Someone once posted a comment asking what is the point of making an story almost identical to the original story with only minor tweaks.

I think the original story is one of the best stories I have read on this site, a total re-write could ruin it; there are just some small things I want to change. I originally made the re-write only for myself, but I decided to post it just in case anyone else might want to read it.

Some things weren't explained in baringan's version, so I will be adding my own explanations; readers and the original writer, baringan, might not like what I add, the changes I make, and, or, my reasons or explanations - and that is your opinion; I like the changes I make, the things I add, and my reasons and explanations.

Because there are multiple things I want to add, there will be a LOT of extra text.

In the original story, the original fic's writer, baringan, sometimes says Kai is 'truly immortal'.

Immortals, what Silas and Amara used to be, were also described as being 'truly immortal', but to me, they weren't; because their immortality could be removed. It could only happen in a few ways, but it could still happen. The Kai in baringan's fic could also have his immortality removed. With enough power, that version of him could also be killed.

For my story, I will use my idea of true immortality - immortality that makes it so the person who has it can never ever die; no matter what.

Part of this means it is completely impossible to remove my kind of true immortality - and I mean completely impossible; there aren't, and there never will be, any exceptions and, or, workarounds that could be used to remove my kind of true immortality from the person who has it, or even to weaken their connection to it, or to kill the person who has it.

I have done this because, to me, being able to remove someone's immortality means that there is a way for them to die. So, based on my version of true immortality, Silas and Amara, and the version of Kai in baringan's fic, were never truly immortal.

I will put this top A/N in each chapter, so if someone in the story mentions something can kill Kai, readers will know it is just what they think; it is not actually true.

This kind of immortality, which Kai will have, only means he can't ever die - it does not mean that Kai can't lose a fight, or that he can't be taken out in some other way. After all, there are many ways of taking someone down without killing them.

While I like stories where my favourite character, or characters, have more abilities, skills, and power and powers, than they have in canon, I generally dislike ones where they get them without any explanations; especially ones that it shouldn't be possible for them to have. I believe any and all powers a character gains should have an explanation for how the character gains them. I do have an idea that I may use to give my version of Kai powers and abilities that he would not be able to get normally - but at least that will have an explanation; not just him randomly having them.

I also generally dislike ones where they make them totally unbeatable. My Kai will have many powers, abilities, and skills, and will be very powerful, but he won't be totally unbeatable - just very hard to beat.

In my version of this fic, Kai will not be paired with anyone. All of Kai's relationships in this fic will be platonic - he will not be in any romantic or sexual relationships.

If you see the word hybrid written as 'Hybrid' in the middle of a sentence; then I mean werewolf-vampire hybrid. So don't be surprised or confused when I switch between them, or when I use them both. Sometimes I will use 'werewolf-vampire hybrid' and sometimes I will use 'Hybrid'.

I know that Heretics are the ones who were put in the 1903 Prison World, but since hybrid can refer to any kind of hybrid; I will be using the terms Heretic and vampire-witch interchangeably.

Sometimes I'll use vampire-witch hybrid, sometimes I'll use Heretic. So don't be surprised or confused when I switch between them, or when I use them both.

Also, in this story, 'magical communities', 'magical worlds', 'supernatural communities', and 'supernatural worlds', are all interchangeable.

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Chapter 4

(Location: London)

Kai is sipping at his tea, sitting on a chair, in a café on a busy London Street. Across from him sat Mikael - the Original vampire hunter. It has been less than four days since they had left New Orleans to find the ingredients they needed to kill Dahlia.

According to Mikael, the items that they'll need to sever Dahlia's protection are Norwegian soil, Viking Ash, and Freya's blood. These elements each represent a source of Dahlia's power; together they would bring her end.

The Norwegian soil being a representational element of the origin of Dahlia's power; her birthland. The Viking soil is a representational element of the source of her hatred; her hatred of Vikings being the thing that motivated her to become so magically powerful nothing could end her life - not even the passage of time. Freya's blood is a representational element of the only person Dahlia had ever loved - the girl she took from Esther and then raised.

Apparently, Dahlia's protection spell called on her power, hatred, and love. To sever the protection Dahlia has requires a representational element of all three things; using a spell with all of these representational elements would sever Dahlia's protection, and make her able to die the same ways as ordinary witches.

One thing Kai that had learned about the older Original is that he is not much of a talker. Regardless, both Kai and Mikael had gotten used to each other's presence; neither of them could kill the other, since they are both Originals. As a result, they have at least developed a mutual respect for one another.

A few days before, Kai and Mikael had finished their assignment in Norway; they hsd acquired the Norwegian soil they needed. Ever the minimalist, Mikael had just grabbed the nearest chunk of dirt. Kai had protested, convincing Mikael they should get a larger quantity - so they'd have back up supplies if they need them. They had then gone to a Norwegian shop, bought a large bag, then filled it with soil.

So they now had two of the ingredients they needed - they only needed one more.

Their hunt for the Viking's ash had proven to be greater challenge. Mikael had wanted to raid a museum. Kai had asked Mikael why he didn't have any Viking relics; since he had been a Viking warrior.

"Sentimentality is for the weak." Mikael had admonished Kai at the time. Kai had just rolled his eyes at the other Original's response.

In his time with Mikael, he had gotten used to the older man spouting of tough Viking philosophies. When Kai had continued to question him, Mikael revealed that he had lost a large number of his prized belongings to a vampire society called the Strix. He hadn't had the time, or any real need, to reclaim the items since; he'd been pursuing his children.

Currently, at the café, Mikael and Kai were planning their raid on the Strix building that contained Mikael's objects.

As a Viking warrior, Mikael appreciated a good preemptive raid. Kai wanted to see what this Strix was all about, an ancient society of vampires wasn't something that you hear about everyday.

As the objects had been stolen, magic still recognised Mikael as their true owner, so he had been able to use Mikael's blood for a locator spell, the spell had revealed his stolen artifacts were in London. After they'd arrived in London, he had cast the spell again to find exactly where Mikael's artifacts are located, which had directed them to the building they're going to raid.

During their spare time, Mikael and Kai had taken to sparring. During their spars, Kai had learned a lot about fighting from the older Original. Mikael had given Kai a lot of tips on hunting and fighting vampires; enough that, according to Mikael, he knows enough to now be considered a true hunter.

As a hunter, Kai knows how to: identify vampires without using any of his powers or abilities, identify places with vampire activity, track vampires using non-magical ways, analyse his targets, plan how to deal with them, if it is necessary, and, if necessary, plan an attack, and also when it was best to retreat.

Thanks to his upbringing in the coven, he had already possessed this knowledge on other supernatural species, his grandmother had taught him; telling him how part of being a Gemini witch, is knowing how to identify supernatural issues, reporting the issue to the coven, waiting for them to decide if they need to deal with it, and if so, how to deal with whatever the issue is. He had needed to know these things, since one of the things the Gemini coven does is try and stop the supernatural world from being exposed to the mundane world: the non-supernatural world. Siphoner or not, he'd still been a Gemini witch; so he'd still needed to know.

When his grandmother had taught him about supernatural beings she had not wanted to limit him; so she had taught him about some supernatural beings even most witches believe to be just myths, including some of those outside of the Wicca world; the magical community he was born into.

Kai had learned more about supernatural beings in the prison world, including those in other magical world, like the Wiccan one. Most people in the Wicca world don't know about the other magical communities, this is because the Wicca world is stronger and more versatile than most of the others, if not all of them. They don't have any need to go to the other magical communities, since the witches in the Wicca world can do pretty much anything witches in the other magical communities can do and more; due to this, those who do know about the other supernatural communities don't even mention them.

He hadn't possessed the same knowledge about vampires before, as his grandmother died just before she was going to start teaching him about them. She'd decided to teach him about vampires last as, because of the power of the Gemini coven, vampires tend to avoid them - which was why Kai hadn't met any vampires before he had met Damon.

Though he had already had more than enough knowledge to become a supernatural hunter, most wouldn't consider him to be a true hunter; as he hadn't possessed a hunter's knowledge about the most common magical species in the Wicca world - vampires.

Kai had only wanted to become a hunter after he'd learned how most people view vampires, but he hadn't known how to start becoming a true hunter.

He'd been hated before just for being a siphoner, he didn't like the idea of being hated forever just for being a vampire.

By becoming a hunter, Kai hoped to show others that not all vampires are bad. Unlike some hunters though, Kai would only hunt those with malicious intentions.

Kai does not personally care about random people's opinion of him, it was about the principle of it; he won't just allow himself to be hated for what he is - not again.

Kai had proven the Gemini coven wrong about siphoners, now he'll prove the rest of the world is wrong about vampires; by becoming a hunter, he will be a vampire that helps solve problems, not just causes them.

Though being a hunter was more of a hobby he will do on the side; when traveling in the future he'll keep an look out for places with supernatural beings, and if he finds people with malicious intentions, then he will decide if he wants to deal with them. Sometimes he might not be willing to help; he is still Kai Parker - someone who will only help when he wants to help.

Ever the diligent and brilliant student; Kai had quickly soaked up this knowledge and wisdom, to Mikael's silent pleasure.

While he often found Kai's goofy demeanour to be annoying, the young man's intelligence, skill, and tenacity, made Mikael consider him a worthy successor.

Like many warriors before him, Mikael had very warrior-like goals. Primarily, it is to die in battle; like a lot of Viking warriors. Another goal of his is to pass on his skills to a new generation of warriors. When he had died at the hands of Klaus a few years prior, he had regretted never grooming a true disciple. Over the centuries, Mikael had taken on several apprentices, but they had all been human, and have all perished with time.

In their short time abroad, Mikael had taught Kai to fight more offensively. Mikael had explained that when you're fighting hoards of fast and strong opponents, even a strong defence would only hold for so long. He needed to know how to fight defensively and offensively.

As Kai developed a more offensive fighting style, Mikael found his spars with Kai becoming shorter as the younger Original began to dominate their spars. Kai's martial arts instincts, when combined with his greater strength and speed, gave him a lot more fighting potential than Mikael. And Mikael was keen to develop that potential.

Kai's more modern style of mix martial art is also more advantageous than Mikael's more archaic form of military combat. Mikael is a very proud person, he was set in his ways - in all of a thousand years, he never bothered to adapt to new combat styles.

This training gave Kai even more ways of fighting. He has three ways of fighting without vampire powers, and are based purely on skill; a defensive way, an offensive way, and a way that combines defensive and offensive fighting. His other three ways of fighting simply add his vampire powers to these, but they are still about using and improving his skills.

This means Kai has six ways of fighting; three based purely on skill, and three that combined skill with his powers.

While Kai did want to fight using his powers, he didn't want to become reliant on them. This is why he had developed styles purely based on skill; to help him develop his fighting skills without using his vampire powers. His other three styles were to help him develop his skills with his vampire powers.

What unnerved Mikael the most about Kai wasn't that he's an Original; it's that he can use magic, despite being a vampire.

Mikael had once told the witch, Davina, that magic could only fight half of her battles. This is also true for hand-to-hand combat. He knows Kai being a vampire-witch hybrid means Kai can use both might and magic to win his battles.

So Kai has a lot of physical and magical power. Mikael knows how powerful magic can be; magic has been used to take him down more than once. Thanks to sparring with Kai many times, Mikael knows Kai is physically superior to him - that's what unnerves him about Kai; how he is able to take him down in two different ways, with magical and physical power. He will never admit that though - Mikael is a Viking warrior who is far too proud to admit that there is someone unnerves him.

"We'll attack their building at night. I want to see the results of your training." Mikael said.

Kai grinned. "Two Original vampires, against a legion of ancient vampires - it has all the makings of a good day."

Mikael merely frowned at Kai's confidence; while it's good to be confident, Kai is sometimes too confident - which isn't a good thing.

Mikael decided to ignore it, for now. As he was eager to retrieve his stolen belongings, murderously eager.

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(Later that night.)

Kai pulled his hand out of the man's chest. As he dropped the dead vampire's heart, two more vampires tried to flank him. He quickly decapitated one with his fist, then killed the other one with a small wooden stake he kept on his person.

The last vampire tried to flee, but with a pull of his fist, Kai telekinetically pulled the vampire back, then grabbed him and started feeding off his blood. Feeding off vampires was something he'd picked up from Mikael during their travels. Mikael had told Kai he doesn't like to drink from humans, he drinks the blood of vampires, and only drinks blood humans when he thinks it is necessary.

He had decided to give it a try, out of curiousity. The first time he had tried drinking vampire blood was when they'd ran into a few vampires while they getting the Norwegian soil they needed for the spell. Kai did not think there's much difference in taste; vampire blood tasted a little bit stronger, colder, and a little more bitter, but that was it. After that, Kai had decided to start feeding off vampires as well.

Unlike Mikael though, who usually feeds off vampires exclusively, he had decided he'd feed without caring what someone is. After all, blood is blood, no matter what the person he drinks from is.

After a couple of minutes of drinking the vampire's blood, Kai pulled back and ripped out his heart. The last of the Strix vampires in the building was dead. They had slaughtered all of them. Kai had put up a boundary when he and Mikael had entered the building, making sure none of the Strix vampires would escape, and no one the outside could hear what was going on inside.

"Damn it, this is my favourite jacket." Kai exclaimed. The stain of blood ruined his sleeves and jacket.

"Oh well, I'll just fix it." He said to himself, before vanishing the blood on his jacket and his face by mentally casting a spell.

With that done, Kai made his way to the lower levels. He could sense that Mikael was already down there.

When he went down the stairs, he saw a massive metal structure ahead. As he got closer, Kai noticed that it was a circular vault door, hidden at the very back of the building's subbasement. Engraved on its metal surface, there was an owl - the symbol of the Strix.

"You took your time." Mikael berated, annoyed.

Kai noticed the man's face was covered in blood; like Kai had with the last vampire, Mikael had obviously been feeding on his enemies.

"Well I had to make sure there were no survivors. Plus, I did most of the heavy lifting anyway." He argued; he had magically disabled their security cameras, trapped them inside, and then killed most of them on his own.

He and Mikael had started killing them, but then when Kai had told him the direction to find his artifacts, Mikael had made his way down here, only killing people who got in his way - leaving Kai to kill all the others by himself.

Kai wasn't really bothered though; it was a chance to gain practice fighting multiple enemies at once, and practice using magic during fights - both things he needs to get more practise with.

"Whatever. The vault is sealed with magic. Can you open it?" Mikael, asked gruffly.

Kai scoffed, rolling his eyes. "Please. Cake-walk."

Kai placed his hands on the vault doors. He could feel a spell keeping the doors sealed shut. Kai smiled as he siphoned away the magic. He then span the circular lock on the door, he listened as the inner mechanisms of the vault door turned and moved, until he heard a resounding click; indicating that the vault is now unlocked.

Kai then opened the massive vault door. Mikael entered, Kai following right after him.

The vault was almost twice the size of a very large ballroom. Aisles of shelves filled out most of the room, with some glass cases near the back. This was undoubtedly where the Strix kept some of their most precious things.

Kai took out a compass and threw it to Mikael. The older Original easily grabbed the compass from the air.

The compass was an interesting magical object Kai had procured during his time in the prison world. The compass could be used to find anything in the world; he had spelled it to point towards Mikael's stolen relics - which is how he'd known which way to go to find Mikael's things.

"That is a magical compass that will direct you to your things. I am going to take a look around." Kai said to Mikael.

A short while later, he'd stuffed his bags with a large variety of dark objects, a few grimoires, and many other kinds of magical objects. Kai and Mikael had regrouped, the other Original was carrying a large wooden trunk with old Nordic designs carved into the wood.

The two Originals carried their finds out to their vehicles. Kai went back in again, to see if there is anything else of interest to him; he come back out with some more bags full of magical items, and a few bags with non-magical items that Kai found interesting.

As soon as the items were secured, Kai went back inside the Strix building again, he then gave it one more inspection. After finding nothing else that interests him, he left the building and returned to his car; as he did, a trail of fire followed his feet, the fire quickly spread all throughout the building; consuming everything in its way.

He had left traces of magic all over the building, on every floor, in every room, all the way down to the subbasement, for the mystical flames to follow.

These mystical flames are unique; as they won't go out until nothing remains of their target, burn more quickly than normal flames, can burn anything, and cannot be extinguished before they have destroyed their target - except by the caster.

Following the traces he'd left, the flames were quickly consuming everything left in the building.

Nothing is going to survive, certainly not any evidence that could be traced back to him. Kai didn't want anyone learning it was him, and targeting the people he cares about to seek revenge.

As Kai drove away from the scene, the two Originals could hear the sounds of fire trucks could be heard in the far distance. But they will be too late, the Strix building would collapse, and the flames would go out - all before the fire trucks arrived on the scene.

The next morning, Tristan de Martel, the leader of the Strix received a phone call informing him of the loss of one of his most important buildings. The building had held many important items, and now all those important items were gone.

Tristan is resolute in making the guilty party pay with their blood. He had one suspect in mind - Lucien Castle. Though he could not prove it, since the cameras had been disabled before the fire had started.

Tristan had recently decimated quite of number of Lucien's operation. This attack on his London building was no doubt retaliation.

The war between the sirelines was about to brew hotter.

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(Location: Private Airfield in Louisiana.)

Kai had wanted to teleport them back; but Mikael, even though he wants Dahlia dead as soon as possible, refused to let him teleport them back - he has trust issues.

Instead, Kai and Mikael had decided to go back to America in style - they had boarded a private jet, courtesy of a compelled billionaire.

As Kai unpacked and loaded their cargo onto his rented SUV, he heard his phone vibrate - it was a text from Damon.

'NEED YOU HERE ASAP. COME BACK TO WHITMORE.' The message read.

Kai looked at the message worryingly. He knew he needed to go; Damon wouldn't ask for help unless he really needed it.

He quickly dialed Mikael's number, who had already taken off in his own SUV.

"Mikael, you head to New Orleans first. I'm taking a detour. I'll see you in a day or two." He said, he hung up before Mikael could argue. A moment later, Kai's phone pinged with a message; the date and time Mikael will call him.

Kai had been to Whitmore before. Kai concentrated on the location - in an instant, Kai teleported himself and his SUV to Whitemore. Fortunately, he had mastered teleportation spells so thoroughly that he can teleport objects with him, while only needing to use a little extra magic. He had SUV appeared in a back alley that is secluded enough no one would see a car appear from nowhere, and that had no security cameras.

Kai dialed Damon. The call was answered quickly.

"Hey, what's going on? I'm at Whitmore. Where is everyone?"

"I am at the hospital. Come quickly, Liz needs help. She has cancer and Caroline tried to cure it with vampire blood, but it made it worse." Damon replied urgently.

"Be there soon." Kai answered with haste, he stepped on the accelerator as he drove towards the hospital.

"Kai?" Caroline said astonishingly. "What are you doing here?"

"I heard about Liz from Damon and Elena. I am so sorry." He said apologetically. "I've been so caught up with things in New Orleans, I wasn't here for you guys."

He gave Caroline a comforting hug. He then pushed her away to face her. "Damon called me here to help Liz."

Caroline looked confused, initially, but then realization dawned on her. Caroline had fed her mother vampire blood, hoping to cure her cancer; but instead her vampire blood accelerated the cancer. He is here to remove the magic from her vampire blood. Renewed hope surged through her.

Kai stood next to the bed Liz was lying in. He placed one hand on Liz's sternum and the other hand on her forehead. Kai started siphoning the magic from the vampire blood and, at the same time, fed a little magic into her; since magic had affected Liz's body, it would crash if he just removed the magic.

"It's done." He said to Caroline, with a smile.

She smiled tearfully back. "Is there anything else you can do to help her?" Caroline asked hopefully.

Right after she learned vampire blood could not help, she'd talked to all the witches she knows, but none of them knew how to cure her mom with magic; which is her mom's last chance - because there is no non-magical cure for cancer.

She knows that he's skilled with magic - Bonnie and Damon had told her how skilled and knowledgeable he is with magic. Maybe he knew how to cure her, though she doubts it.

"I'm sorry." Kai said downcast. "This kind of sickness is beyond my abilities." Her face fell, while she had doubted he could do it, he had been her last chance of saving her mom.

He places his hand on her shoulder. "I can sense her life-force, she doesn't have a lot of time left. I will leave you two alone." While Kai could cure minor ailments and diseases, he hadn't gotten around to learning how to cure major diseases like cancer, even if he started right now, it would be too late - Liz would be long gone by the time Kai could find a way to cure cancer with magic.

Caroline cast him a sad but thankful look, before returning to her mother's side, who seemed to be regaining consciousness.

Kai sighed as he left the room. There are times when he feels powerless. Kai hadn't felt like this the death of his grandmother. In some ways, Liz's illness had made him realise that, in some ways, he is still just as powerless as he was back then.

Kai wiped at his eyes to stop the tear that was threatening to flow. Kai left the hospital to find somewhere quiet to think.

After his thinking time, Kai came to an absolute decision: so he could help the people he cares about, he'll never stop his pursuit of strength, knowledge, and power.

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A woman and a man were in their apartment enjoying a nice takeout meal. Both were happily in love with each other, and both were glad that despite their messed up lives, everything seemed to have fallen into place after they met each other.

Amidst the cuddling and talking, the ringing of the doorbell interrupted the couple.

"I'll get it." Alaric begrudgingly said. The mood was ruined.

Jo giggled at Alaric's discomfort. She went into her room to get a hair tie, she then came back out to join her fiancé and their unexpected guest.

"Who is it?" She called out to Alaric.

"It's your brother, Kai."

And there he was, Kai, her twin, stood in the middle of her living room, inspecting the apartment before turning to face her. Kai smiled at her, the only blood family who he still has a connection to.

"Kai, what are you doing here? " Jo asked. "Not that I don't want you here." His twin quickly added.

He smiled at her. "I was just with Caroline and Liz." The couple nodded, they figured he had been called back to help Liz.

"I just thought that while I'm here, I should visit my little twin sister." Though he was joking, it was technically true - since he'd been born a few minutes before Jo.

Jo rolled her eyes at him, he had called her that since they were kids. "But the older looking sibling goes to me." She argued, smirking.

"And since I am a vampire, I will always look the same." Kai relented.

"How are you Jo? Is Alaric treating you well?" Kai asked, giving the former vampire hunter a look.

Jo smiled at Kai's attempt at being a protective brother. So, she decided to play along, she liked seeing this protective side of Kai.

"Oh, I don't know, he's been quite cold to me lately." She said, with faked sadness in her voice.

Kai's eyes hardened on Alaric, believing her words and not bothering to use his powers and abilities to check how she was feeling.

Alaric had never been quite so frightened of his fiancé's twin brother, but right then, he was absolutely terrified of Kai.

Kai flared his magic, two of the light bulb flashed brightly before exploding. Before he could teach Alaric a lesson however, his sister busted out laughing.

"I was only kidding. This man" She wrapped her armed lovingly around Alaric."has been a perfect gentlemen to me."

"That was quite mean of you." Alaric whined playfully. Kai agreed; he'd been close to telekinetically throwing Alaric around until he learned to treat Jo better.

"A pregnant women needs her healthy dose of entertainment." She said, smiling at her brother, and her soon to be husband.

Kai ended up staying for dinner with the couple. After an hour or so, Alaric excused himself, saying that he had papers that he needed to grade by tomorrow.

Kai then looked at his sister worryingly. "Your energy level seems unusually low, are you sure you're alright Jo?"

"To be honest, I am not sure, I feel more tired than usual. But that is normal during pregnancies. But my magic feels like it's being depleted much more quickly."

It confused her, as she had not used her magic much since he'd restored it. She mainly used it when she could still work safely; using it to help patients, or using it when she had a tiring day and was too tired to do something the non-magical way.

Kai narrowed his eyes in thought. He had a suspicion. 'Could it be?'

Kai leaned toward Jo, wanting to investigate his idea. He hovered his hand above Jo's belly. She wondered what he's doing, but seeing the serious look on her Kai's face, Jo decided not to comment on it yet, letting Kai do whatever it is he's doing.

He then released a small amount of magic into his sister. He then felt for the flow of his magic within her; tracking its path. After a moment, he noticed an anomaly.

It wasn't much, but Kai could feel it. The small amount of magic he'd just pumped into Jo had been siphoned in two separate directions. His eyes widened, realising what it meant.

"What's wrong? Kai, tell me. What's wrong? Why do you look so shocked?" She said, her brother's reaction worrying her.

"I know why you are more magically drained than you usually are," Kai wasn't sure how to tell her. "your children are both siphoners; they are slowly absorbing your magic."

"Are you sure?" Jo asked, her face paling.

She didn't really care that they are siphoners, but even though the Gemini coven appears to have learned not to hate siphoners, thanks to Kai, she is concerned that learning her children are both siphoners may cause the Gemini coven to go back to their previous treatment of them.

She'd learned from Kai that their treatment of siphoners had been that way ever since the first siphoner - it was easier for them to say they'd realised their mistakes than it was to change their treatment - especially with all the years they'd been doing it.

Learning how the treatment affected her twin was horrible, she hates even the thought of her children receiving the same treatment.

Kai nodded. "You have to abort." He said reluctantly, he didn't really want her to have an abortion; but he didn't want to lose her either.

"No!" Jo responded angrily. "How could you say that?"

"If this continues, you will die. It will kill you!" Kai said, raising his voice slightly in frustration; he didn't want his sister to die.

Jo ran a hand through her hair - trying to think. She understood that he didn't want to lose her, especially after they had repaired their relationship.

"This is your niece and nephew, or nieces, or nephews, you're talking about." Jo said resolutely. "Mother carried and gave birth to you, and she didn't die."

"Mother was not a witch," Kai reminded his sister desperately. "it will be fatal for you. When a witch runs out of magic, they die."

"What if I'm not a witch?" Jo said, his words giving her an idea.

"There are ways to remove a witch's magic, without killing them. I did it once, I can certainly do it again. To be honest, I have not used it much, it still feels foreign to me now." She admitted. "I can put my magic in an object again."

Kai considered her idea, his hope renewed - Jo wouldn't need to have an abortion, and he wouldn't lose his sister. "That may just work."

An idea sprang to his mind. He immediately started processing and evaluating the idea, his enhanced mind immediately coming up with ways to make it work. "I have an idea, an idea that could benefit both of us, but only if you are certain you are happy without your magic."

"What do you mean?" She asked.

'What I am thinking of is a lot more drastic than storing your magic away." Kai grinned wildly at her. "It would permanently remove your magic, and witch nature."

Jo widen her eyes. "Is such a thing possible?" Permanently removing her magic would have several benefits.

Her and her children's lack of magic would make it so that they would seem just like ordinary humans.

This would make it so they'd likely be underestimated; magical beings tend to underestimate humans, and it would also help them blend in with humans; who, unless they're being used for something, tend to be ignored by magical beings.

Plus, if she removed it for the rest of the pregnancy, and got her magic back afterwards, then if she and Alaric one day decide they want more kids, she would have to remove her magic again in case she had another siphoner; which, though unlikely for her to have a third siphoner, is still possible.

Also, since she was born as a witch, she will still have the immunity to a vampire's compulsion. Just like siphoners; they may be born without magic, but since they're still witches, siphoners are still immune to vampire compulsion.

"Well, yes. As you know, with the exception of siphoners, becoming a vampire will remove a witch's powers and nature."

Seeing her glare at him, he continued quickly; he wants her to listen to him after all.

"That's not what I was thinking of though. I need more magical power. I've been trying to devise ways of gaining more magical power, but none of my options are viable, until now, when an idea just occurred to me."

Kai continued. "To help us both accomplish our objectives," Jo listened eagerly, "we'll have to do the Merge."

"No, are you crazy? One of us would die. I would die!" Jo exclaimed, hurt.

She can't believe that he'd suggest something that would kill her and her babies, he is a very powerful witch and vampire; he would definitely win, which would cause her and her babies to die when she lost.

Kai shook his head. "Usually yes, but I will modify the spell. Over the years, I studied the Gemini's Merge ceremony in depth. I know how it works better than anyone alive. I know I can modify it so that you will not die."

He stopped for a moment to let her consider.

"Will you trust me?" He gazed at her. With their history, this would require a lot of trust on Jo's part.

Jo looked at the clear honesty in his eyes. She does trust him, but due to their history with the Merge, it isn't that easy. She may now understand his reasons for the things that he did, but the memories of the last time Kai had wanted to undergo the Merge were still in her mind. Plus, it is not just her life she would be trusting Kai with; it is also the lives of her unborn children.

She breathed in, and then out, deeply; gathering all of her trust in him. "Yes." She relented, smiling. For now, Kai is only asking her to trust his knowledge, skill, and ability to do as he said; modify the Merge so she'll lose her magic without killing her. She knows Kai is incredible skilled with magic, if he truly believes he can modify the Merge so she, and by extension, her babies, won't die, then she can believe that he will succeed.

He smiled back. "Okay, we'll do it first thing tomorrow. I'm going to have to workout what to change, how to change it, and find any ingredients that I might need."

"I have more questions." Jo protested. She may trust him, but she needs to know exactly how his idea will work before agreeing to go through with it.

"I'll answer them tomorrow." Kai persuaded.

Kai left shortly after. Thanks to his enhanced mind, he already knows what he's going to do and how he's going to do it. He just needs to go over everything to make absolutely sure that nothing bad will happen to Jo or her babies, and then double check and triple check everything, and then, once he sure that it is completely safe, make sure everything is ready.

---

The next morning, Kai drove back to pick up his sister. He brought her to an abandoned industrial district, then led her into a warehouse.

After she entered, Jo noticed a magical circle drawn in blood and salt, a stone altar in the centre. Runes were drawn throughout; around the magical circle, around the altar, and all over the walls of the building.

She marveled at the intricacy of his rune work, she didn't even understand most of it.

Thanks to her magical upbringing, she could recognise some of the runes - but most of them were not even known by the Gemini coven; so she had no idea what it is that they do.

Jo turned to Kai to ask him questions she'd thought of after he'd left the night before, while explaining everything to Alaric.

"I heard from father that you unlinked yourself from the Gemini coven, and now you are a vampire, would either of those things have an affect on the Merge? Can you even participate in the Merge?"

"It's true I unlinked myself from the coven, so I can't be part of the true Merge. But we are twins, so we can always do the Merge. Though since I am not linked to the Gemini coven, it won't affect the coven's leadership if we do the Merge."

Jo nodded, understanding. It makes sense, since magic links family members; though only when they are biologically related. The Merge uses this link to enhance the magic of the participants, and then adds the loser's amplified magic to the winner's amplified magic.

While unconscious during the Merge, the participants use their magical abilities and powers and their willpower to decide who wins. This means that a siphoner has an advantage if they Merge against a normal witch - the normal witch is using their magic against someone who absorbs magic.

Though if the normal witch is powerful enough, and has enough magic and willpower, they could overwhelm the siphoner and win.

"As for me being a vampire, that's irrelevant. Because I'm a siphoner, my witch aspect was left intact. And I'm a living vampire, not an undead one. I'm your twin and I'm still a living witch. So I can still do the Merge, as it only needs us to be witches with Gemini blood who are twins." Kai explained.

From the spell theory behind the Merge, he had learned that all that's required is for the two participants to be born Gemini twins, and to, obviously, be alive.

According to what Kai had learned, he could do it with Lucas or Olivia as well; due to the fact that they are, physically, the same age as him. If he'd done it with either of them though, then the one he'd Merged with, who wouldn't die due to his modifications, would become sick, he'd then have had to absorb Jo's magic as well; or the sickness would kill the twin he had Merged with. It wouldn't have made Kai sick though, as it would only have affected witches connected to the Gemini coven; and he is not connected to the Gemini coven.

If he had Merged with Lucas or Olivia while still connected to the coven, and before becoming a vampire, then they would have both become sick, and then the coven would have a leader who was dying from the sickness - endangering the entire coven, so the winner would have still had to take their own twin's magic; to stop them from dying and taking the entire coven with them.

The sickness is an affect of the Merge being doing improperly; he, Lucas, and Olivia, are physically the same age, but Lucas and Olivia are still not his twin, and to do the Merge properly, the participants have to be twins.

This means no other Heretic could Merge, because, despite being witches, they'd died to become vampires; meaning that they are technically dead witches, and dead witches can't Merge. Kai didn't die to become a vampire though, meaning that he is not a dead witch - so he can still do the Merge.

"What is the point of all this?" Jo asked confused.

Kai had said it would help him and her. This would help her survive the rest of her pregnancy, and help her survive any future pregnancies; if she and Alaric decide to have more kids in the future.

Kai had said it would help him because he needed more magical power, but he hadn't told her why he needed it.

"You're already very powerful, why do you need more magical power? No one in the coven can match your power." She said, confused.

She doesn't understand this. As an Original vampire, Kai already has access to a lot of magic - why does he need more?

Kai shook his head. "During my imprisonment I gained perspective. I have realised that modern witches pale in comparison to ancient witches. My magic might seem special to you, but I believe it's fairly ordinary by comparison."

Before Jo could say anything, Kai continued. "A powerful witch is coming to New Orleans very soon. I've heard that she has a lot of very powerful magic."

"Is she after you?" She asked. He smiled as he sensed the concern she felt for him.

"No, she isn't." He explained reassuringly.

"But she is going after the baby of one of my friends. And she will kill anyone who gets in her way." Kai said.

Jo's stomach flipped uncomortably at that. Being pregnant herself, Jo sympathised with Kai's friend. Someone targeting your baby is a frightening thing.

"Her magic is very powerful. I'll need to match it to beat her, but, since I am a siphoner, I can't hold onto magic for long enough. Any magic that I siphon will dissipate from my body. I can put excess siphoned magic into my ring; but there's a limit to how much I can store in it. In order to beat this witch, I'll need more magic, but I'll need to be able to store it in my body without it dissipating. I need a normal witch's ability to hold onto the magic they generate without it dissipating."

Kai continues. "If we Merge, I would gain all your witch abilities; like your ability to generate and retain the magic you generate. The Merge will also amplify the magic I receive from you and the magic I already have; this increase in the amount of magic the winner of the Merge has, and the amplification of the magic's power is what makes the Gemini coven so powerful. The Merge amplifies the power of the participants, then takes the power of the loser, and adds it to the power of the winner; the more powerful the participants, the more powerful the leader."

Ordinarily, this also adds the loser's feelings to the winner's too, this is because the magic was originally someone else's. Magic is connected to the soul; which is what allows living witches to get power from witch spirits, and how witches could do magic after death. When the Merge is performed, it takes all the magic from the loser's soul and gives it to the winner. This has the side affect of copying some of the loser's emotions, and giving them to the winner of the Merge.

However, due to Kai's changes, this will not be the case this time; the Merge only adds personality traits and feelings after the person who lost dies - but the changes that he made will make it so that Jo won't die; so Kai will not be absorbing any of Jo's feelings.

"Okay, I see how the Merge will benefit us both. But, how are you going to keep me alive?" She questioned.

She knows how this will benefit her, and Kai had explained how it will help him, but Jo wants to know how Kai will stop the Merge from killing her; as it normally does when someone loses the Merge.

"As I said, I am not linked to the coven, this Merge will not affect the leadership of the coven; so the ritual becomes unbalanced. Giving me the unique opportunity to modify the spell with additions of my own." Kai stated, pointing at the runes on the ground.

"That being said, someone still has to die." He added.

Jo gulped, but trusted her brother to explain.

"Like I said, I have modified the Merge. Ordinarily, the Merge's winner would live and gain the magic of the loser, and the loser would die; losing their magic to the winner. But I modified it so the victor will gain the magic and die, while the losing twin will lose their magic, and live. I'm redirecting the negative part of the Merge onto myself, the ritual will then try to kill me, but I am immortal, so it will not be able to kill me. It might be able to desiccate me though. If that does happen," He gestured to blood bag he left on a table away from the runes, "feed me the blood and I should wake up."

Jo was amazed at her brother's genius. Kai truly is a prodigy. The Gemini coven really would've been better off with Kai as the coven's leader.

"Are you sure this will work?" She said, this is something that has never been done before - she does not want her twin to die if Kai is wrong.

He shook his head smiling. "Don't worry Jo, I've triple checked everything; it's safe. Besides, we're witches, it's an occupational hazard." He said jokingly, with a wink.

"Okay. Let's do it." Jo said resolutely.

"Okay? You'll agree to it? Just like that?" Kai voiced, surprised. He had expected her to need time, perhaps another day, to think it over.

"Yes. I trust you." His sister reaffirmed.

Kai grinned happily, this was an incredible show of trust from his sister.

"But we're going to need a celestial event." Jo added.

Kai showed her his Solistian ring. "No we don't. My ring harvests sunlight and then converts it into magic. I can use it as a source of magic; at full power, it can serve as a functional celestial event."

Jo nodded. "Wow, nice ring." She said, admiring it. It looked like an ordinary ring, but it was actually a useful source of powerful magic.

"Let's begin." Kai declared, taking his sister's hands.

She nodded. The twins closed their eyes and began to chant.

"Sanguinem desimilus! Sanguinem generis fiantus!" They both chanted repeatedly.

After the seventh chant, Kai's ring's flashed with power as it resonated with the runic circle. The magic immediately acted - Kai and Jo collapsed as the Merge began.

In the following minutes, both twins stayed immobile, deathlike in appearance.

Suddenly Jo's chest heaved as she suddenly gasped in air. At first, Jo panicked, before realising what had happened - Kai's plan had worked.

'It worked.' She thought, feeling a sense of glee - she's no longer at risk of dying from her babies siphoning all her magic now, and maybe in the future.

She couldn't feel her magic, not in the slightest. It was a very different experience from when she'd hidden her magic.

She was now void of her witch abilities and powers, except the immunity to vampire compulsion, making her the first witch in the history of the Gemini coven to lose the Merge, and come out alive.

Then she remembered her brother. He was still out cold. She walked over to her fallen twin. Kai's skin had turned grey and dark. She realised that Kai had desiccated.

Jo hurriedly grabbed the blood bag from the table; she opened it with the experience of a doctor, not spilling a drop. She brought the bag up to his lips, then pumped the blood into Kai's mouth and down his throat.

Jo waited, for a few minutes nothing happened. Her heart beated faster as she dreaded for her twin's life.

Kai suddenly took in air. Colour returned to his face as the blood restarted his system.

He immediately noticed the difference. When Kai had become a vampire, he could feel tremendous power at his fingertips. But now, he felt at one with the magic, he felt connected to it - a feeling which he swore emanated from his very soul. He now has magic of his own; his own witch magic, not siphoned witch or vampire magic, but he now has witch magic of his own to draw from - he doesn't have to siphon magic in order to use it.

The ritual itself had bolstered the magic he got from Jo. The magic that once belonged to his twin was even more powerful now it was merged to his soul through the Merge; augmented by the magic of the Merge, and, though Jo didn't know it, augmented further by a few of the runes she hadn't recognised.

Right now, his magic level was just over twice that of a Regent, and that's without him siphoning from other sources. The best part is, he's still a siphoner; so Kai can still absorb magic, which he can use to either restore his magic, or, when he is at full power, increase the amount of magic he has, and the power of his magic.

"Jo?" Kai called out, still slightly disoriented.

"How do you feel?" She said, relieved.

He opened his eyes one more. "I feel whole."

---

After Kai woke, he cleaned up the warehouse and then drove himself and Jo back to Jo's apartment.

"How much stronger do you think you've become?" She asked him, throwing him a blood bag. Kai put the bag onto the coffee table and walked towards the window.

"Let me show you." He said, before removing his Daylight ring and dropping it on the windowsill.

Jo had expected her brother's skin to go slightly red as it heated up under the sunlight. She knew he wouldn't combust; Alaric had told her, due to the spell used, Kai had a very high resistance to daylight, vervain, and werewolf venom, and that he's even slightly resistant to magic.

But to her surprise, Kai remained the same.

"What? Why can you walk in the sun without a Daylight ring now, when you couldn't before? You became a hybrid before - with a high resistance to sunlight. But you weren't immune to it though; your resistance to daylight caused you to heat up instead of combusting."

Kai sat back onto the couch, slipping the Daylight ring back on. He then opened the blood bag and drank half of it, before starting to explain.

"Being a hybrid is about balance. As an Original, my vampire nature was more dominant than my witch nature. When we Merged, I gained your magic and your witch nature, it provided balance. I'm now a full hybrid; meaning I possess all the powers, abilities, and benefits, of being the Enhanced Original vampire, a siphoner, and a normal witch; all rolled into one. It only affected me before because, as an Original, I was more vampire than witch; since I was a siphoner-witch, my witch side was not complete. This meant my vampire and witch sides were not balanced, which is why daylight still affected me; though my witch side made me even more resistant to daylight than Alaric was when he was the Enhanced Original vampire."

He paused to finish off the blood bag before continuing. "Thanks to the Merge we performed, I am a full vampire and a full witch; but I was born a siphoner and I will always be a siphoner - so I kept all my siphoner powers and abilities. But now that my vampire and witch sides are balanced, daylight does not affect me at all."

He now has Jo's Merge enhanced magic, along with her witch abilities, but her magic and his own magic, which was vampire magic, had both been amplified, and then Merged together. Since the magic Kai that had used when they performed the Merge was his vampire magic, the Merge amplifying the participants magic meant it had also enhanced all his powers and abilities.

Esther's spell had given Kai a high resistance to all of a vampire's weaknesses, except magic; which he had a much lesser resistance to. When Kai had empowered the spell even further, these resistances were enhanced so that he became almost immune to a vampire's weaknesses, except magic; though his resistance to magic went up, making Kai more resistant to magic than before - but not even close to immune to it. The resistance to magic included any and all forms of magic, including magic from other magical worlds and magical objects.

Kai is now a full hybrid; so he has all the powers and abilities of the Enhanced Original vampire, and a normal witch, though all greatly amplified, and his siphoner powers, and abilities.

Now Kai has a full witch side, he's unaffected by daylight. The Merge amplifying his vampire magic turned his almost immunities, into total immunities - he is now immune to vervain, werewolf venom and, even without his witch side, daylight. Kai's resistance to magic increased as well; to the point, an average witch's magic could not even hurt him.

His mental and physical vampires powers and abilities had also been enhanced.

However, as a witch's magic has a greater connection to the mind, Kai's mental powers and abilities had grown more than his physical ones.

Kai could now enter any mind, even those that should be impenetrable, without being detected. Kai's mind is now impenetrable; it could only be entered if Kai pulled someone into his mind, or if he let someone enter his mind - even then he'd remain in total control of his mind.

He could do things no else could do, even the Immortals, because the spell that turned him already had the psychic powers of an Immortal; due to being exposed to the magic of the boundary. Then it had been empowered when Kai had fed the magic directly into the spell, then it had been empowered even more by the magic he had siphoned from the boundary that was in his body when he'd become the Enhanced Original, and now it had been further empowered by the Merge.

Also, since it was one of his vampire powers, all his powers and abilities, including his enhanced mind, will now grow at an even faster rate.

This is because the Merge enhanced his powers and abilities in two different ways; since the Enhanced Original vampire spell bound to his soul, when it was used during the Merge, it was amplified; this empowered his vampire powers and abilities. After he won the Merge, the amplified magic Kai got from his sister became bound to his soul; as the Enhanced Original spell is also bound to his soul, the magic Kai got from his twin sister being added to his vampire magic empowered it again - making his vampire powers and abilities even more powerful.

One affect of this, is that it enhanced Kai's healing ability; so much so that the magic in his blood can heal things now that it couldn't heal before, including most ailments - except the worst ones, like cancer. However, since his healing ability will continue to grow, the magic in his blood will eventually be able to cure nearly anything; including things like cancer.

As they were both linked to his soul, his True Immortality also affected his magic. This affect gave him access to something not many had heard of, but everyone that had believed was just a myth.

Kai could use something called 'Absolute Magic'.

Absolute Magic, like True Immortality, is totally unaffected by anything or anyone, other than Kai, the one and only person who can use it, and it can affect anyone or anything. Even if it is used in a weak spell, nothing, regardless of power, or the amount of power, would affect it at all; well, unless Kai allowed it - and even then, Kai will only ever have a limited amount of ability to affect it.

As Absolute Magic is completely unique to Kai, it can't even be absorbed, in anyway, including siphoning, by anyone - except by Kai, since he is the only wielder it will ever have. As it is a part of his immortality, which is linked to his vampire side; any, and all, magic Kai uses is completely immune to any, and all, forms of absorption as well - unless Kai allows it; though even if he did, all the affects of Absolute Magic will be removed from it.

Like True Immortality, Absolute Magic is not supposed to exist; so Nature had never countered it - after Kai gained this ability, Nature had made it so that on one else would ever gain it again, just like his true immortality.

Since it was not meant to exist, Absolute Magic ignores almost everything, like rules and laws, and the powers and abilities of others; magical or otherwise. So, it can do nearly anything.

However, due to the fact that no one else has, or would ever again have, the ability to use Absolute Magic, Kai will not know about this for a very long time; no one in the universe had even heard of it, let alone recorded it, or knew how to harness and use Absolute Magic.

Kai being a siphoner lead to the creation of true immortality.

Siphoners are considered unnatural not only because of their lack of magic, but also because of the fact they add a taint to any magic siphoned into their body. The signature of each taint is unique to each siphoner, but it, generally, lets the magic defy what it should be able to do. Because of how completely unnatural siphoners are, Nature itself ignores them: it acts as if they don't exist, until they die; then it moves them onto a plane of existence appropriate for that siphoner. This was the reason he'd gained true immortality and Absolute Magic; Nature believed they'd never exist, and because it ignore siphoners and their taint; it ignores anything the taint can do, Nature ignores it until it has to prevent something from ever happening again.

When he had touched the Enhanced Original spell with a hand layered in magic, the siphoned magic on his palms, which he'd siphoned into his body, had reacted to the spell; since it had been siphoned magic that had been in his body, the magic had also contained the unnatural taint of siphoning. This unnatural taint reacting to the spell allowed it to defy what should be possible. By this point, the spell had already been able to grant the immortality of an Immortal, immortality not bound to anything or anyone, then Kai had empowered it with a massive amount of magic.

The immortality within the spell, which wasn't bound to anything or anyone, the massive amount of magic, and the taint of siphoning all were merged together; the result was that the immortality was amplified and mutated into true immortality, the most ultimate and most unnatural form of immortality. Nature had felt this and made sure that it would not, and could not, ever happen again.

Kai's true immortality and siphoner taint merging had also created a form similar to Absolute Magic, but more limited.

However, when Kai won the modified Merge, this magic was empowered and mutated further; thus creating Absolute Magic.

This meant Kai's siphoner taint, true immortality, and the Merge, had actually created his Absolute Magic.

As the True Immortal, Kai could not be killed, or have his immortality removed or weakened in any way. This was why Absolute Magic couldn't be undone, regardless of how much power is used, or how strong something is. However, since it is something only Kai could use, only Kai could undo the spells that he casts with Absolute Magic, by using it to undo them. This is also why Kai can absorb Absolute Magic, and is the only person who can absorb; no exceptions.

Absolute Magic can do pretty much anything; two things it cannot do are creating another True Immortal, since Nature had made sure no more True Immortals could ever be created, even by Absolute Magic, and it can't affect Kai's immortality.

Even if he tried to let it to happen, the most Absolute Magic would be able to do is to make it stronger; which would decrease the amount of time it takes his body to heal, or regenerate. Essentially, increasing his immortality increases his healing and durability.

Winning the Merge also gave Kai an ability that has only ever been possessed by two others.

Like Klaus and Hope, Kai now has the ability to turn werewolves into werewolf-vampire hybrids.

However, like only Hope before him, Kai can turn a werewolf into a werewolf-vampire hybrid without using human doppelgänger blood to complete the transition; this is because Kai is a full hybrid.

Due to their hybrid nature, the blood of a Heretic is stronger than a normal vampire. But it's not strong enough to turn werewolves into werewolf-vampire hybrids, even the blood of a witch-Original vampire hybrid is not strong enough.

The Merge amplifying his vampire magic, enriched his vampire side; his enriched vampire side gave his blood the power to turn werewolves into Hybrids.

This, combined with his Merged witch side, had amplified his blood even further - which is what gave it the power to turn werewolves into Hybrids without needing to drink human doppelgänger blood to complete the transition.

But since the other Heretics aren't Originals, and since they can't do the Merge, as they are dead witches, they can't create werewolf-vampire hybrids. Making Kai the only Heretic able to turn a werewolf into a Hybrid. Even if they could do the Merge, they still wouldn't be able to turn werewolves into Hybrids. The fact that Kai is the Enhanced Original made his blood more powerful than normal Originals, this, combined with the magic he had added to it, and the amplified power he got by winning the Merge, made his blood powerful enough to create Hybrids without having to use human dopplegänger blood to complete the transition.

Even if one of the other Heretics was able to do and win the Merge, it wouldn't give them the ability to turn werewolves int Hybrids. The only potential way is if they did it using some of the runes Jo hadn't recognised, some of them amplified the power of the partipants even more than the Merge already does. Even then there is no guarantee they would be able to turn werewolves into Hybrids; even if it did, they would need the blood of a human dopplegänger, and there are not any human dopplegängers left in the world - the only ones left are vampires, and completing the transition requires drinking human blood.

"Why did you put the ring back on then? Jo asked curiously.

"To keep up appearances. The less enemies know about me, the better." He said. "Plus, it was the first thing I was ever given by a true friend." He liked to have a physical reminder that there people who genuinely care about him.

Jo nodded in understanding. "When are you leaving?" She said, changing the subject.

"Right after this, I'll have to return to New Orleans." He said, they needed to stop Dahlia as soon as possible.

"So soon?" She sighed, a little dissapointed, she;d hoped he could stay in town a bit longer. "My wedding is in one month. I expect you to be there, and don't you dare be late."

Kai smiled. "I seem to get invited to weddings a lot these days." Kai had already been to one wedding, and now he's been invited to another one.

Jo raised her eyebrow quizzically.

Kai just shook his head in amusement. "Don't worry, it's a long story."

---

Shortly after that, Kai had said goodbye to his friends, including a final goodbye to Sheriff Forbes; Kai knew it would be the last time he would see her alive.

Kai then teleported back to New Orleans. He reappeared back in his hotel room, shortly before noon.

Kai had some time before Mikael is supposed to call him, so he started looking over some of the artifacts he stole from the Strix - some great additions to his already great collection of magical things.

He had stored all his prized possessions in his magical cabinet. Kai had used a spell to make the cabinet to be bigger on the inside than the outside. He had originally linked it to a medium sized vault, but since returning from the prison world he'd made several changes to it - he'd linked it to a bunch of vaults; the inside is now the size of a small warehouse. Kai will link to even more vaults to increase its size whenever he needs to.

He kept the cabinet hidden with a spell, only those specifically searching for the vault would find it. However, it's sealed with his magic, his blood and a password; all three are required to unlock the dimensional inside of the cabinet. Without all of them, it is just an ordinary cabinet with a few clothes in it. The cabinet is kept inside a storage locker.

Kai always carries a few of his magical items on him though, only the most useful ones; like the compass. Another item Kai carries with him is a small golden Roman dagger. The dagger is enchanted so any wounds inflicted by it were slow to heal, including any wounds inflicted to anyone with supernatural healing abilities. He may be able to weaken Dahlia with it, though it's doubtful - it's quite powerful, but a strong enough witch can quickly heal any wounds it causes.

As he was inspecting a dark wooden stake he stole from the Strix, Kai's phone started ringing. He picked it up; it was Mikael.

"Where are you?" Mikael asked.

"I'm back in New Orleans."

"Meet me at the Lafayette Cemetery in 20 minutes. Don't be late." Mikael said, he then immediately hung up the phone.

Kai sighed. His vampire hunting teacher is a dick. But at least he used a slightly less rough tone with him; probably due to Kai telling him he may not do something if he's ordered to do it. He might when fighting an enemy, but otherwise he will likely ignore an order, on the principle of being ordered; which he hates. Only people he feels close to can do it, and even then only in certain circumstances; like if he gets hurt and someone he feels close to tells him to rest. Though he's more likely to do what he is told to do if someone who cares about is the one who is telling him to do something - though it's only slightly more likely.

In true rebellion, he arrived at the Lafayette cemetery in exactly 21 minutes. He quickly found Mikael.

"Come with me." Mikael requested, impatiently.

He would have demanded it, but he'd learned that Kai hates being ordered around. He wants Dahlia dead, not a fight with Kai.

While searching for the ingredients, he'd tried several times to order Kai around; they had ended up fighting. When Kai won, he'd told Mikael not to order him around, and told him why he generally ignores orders, and that's why he shouldn't order him around - because he'll probably just ignore him.

So Mikael learned not to try ordering Kai around - there's no point in wasting time if Kai will end up ignoring his orders, or fighting him for trying to order him around.

Kai nodded in acceptance of the request.

Kai and Mikael then walked further into the city of the dead. He then saw that they were meeting up with two other people - Klaus and Davina.

"You have my word. Once this task is completed, I will give you Kol's remains." Klaus said to Davina, reassuringly. "Regardless of what you think of me, I'm a man of my word." Klaus smiled deviously.

"Actually, he is a liar, a beast, and a degenerate," Mikael interjected. "however, in this exceptional instance, he might be of some use."

Klaus sighed. "Oh good, you are back." He remarked sarcastically.

"Dahlia's minion remains within St. Anne's Church."

"Clearly, it is a trap." Klaus stated.

"Of course it's a trap!" Mikael concurred exasperatedly. "And how good is it that we bring surprises of our own?"

At their somewhat playful banter, Davina was confused, as she knows Mikael and Klaus despise one another. Kai simply thought that they have more in common than either of them willing to admit.

"Wait, so the two of you are friends now?" Davina asked incredulously.

"Absolutely not! We have merely allied out of necessity for the purpose we both enjoy the most - glorious murder." Klaus clarified.

Mikael scowled at Davina, before addressing Klaus. His mood evidently shifted a complete 180. "Why is she here, Niklaus?"

"We need a witch to bind the agents to a weapon. We can't inform Freya. And Davina here is a powerful witch." Klaus rebutted. "You being alive is proof of that."

Mikael growled under his breath. "I already have a witch who can bind the agents together." Mikael said, pointing towards Kai.

"And who is this?" Klaus asked pointedly, sizing up Kai, measuring him shrewdly.

"This is my new apprentice." Mikael revealed.

"Kai?" Davina noticed him for the first time.

"Hey Davina. Long time no see." Kai said, nodding to acknowledge the fiery witch.

"Why are you with him?" She half-demanded, pointing at Mikael. "And you're not a witch, you're a vampire." She stated.

Klaus realised he'd seen Kai before, he'd seen him at Hayley's wedding.

Mikael scoffed. "The things you don't know could fill a book, little witch." He said, ignoring the fact that he'd thought being a witch-vampire hybrid was impossible before he'd met Kai.

Davina glared at Mikael, not happy to be patronised.

Kai smiled in amusement, amused by Davina's annoyance. He'd always enjoyed people's annoyance; well, as long as it's harmless.

Mikael then passed Kai the ingredients they'd collected.

"Soil from Dahlia's homeland; where she and, by extension, her power, was first born. Viking ash, Vikings being her oppressors and the source of her hatred. And finally, blood of her adopted child, my beloved daughter Freya, the closest thing to love that Dahlia has ever known." Mikael revealed to Klaus and Davina, disdain evident in his voice.

"All the sources of her power bound together create a weakness." Davina realised.

"What do you want me to bind them to?" Kai asked. Davina was still confused about why a vampire was being asked to cast a spell. Klaus started to glare at Kai, also not understanding what is going on.

If he is vampire like Davina claims, then he can't use magic.

He'd been alive for over a thousand years; he's seen and experienced a lot. And he knows you can't be both a witch and a vampire. He'd met vampires who had been witches before being turned, even turned a few himself; none of them had retained their witch side, none of them could still use magic after they became vampires.

So why are Mikael and this other vampire acting as if he can do what they want, as if he can use magic.

Mikael passed Kai a dagger.

Kai placed the dagger on the ground and drew a salt circle around the blade. He then positioned the ingredients equidistantly around the dagger.

He put his left hand in his trouser pocket, before clicking the fingers of his right hand.

The magic reacted, causing the salt circle and ingredients to ignite into flames, before being absorbed into the knife.

"Done." Kai confirmed, passing the dagger to Mikael.

Davina and Klaus were reeling from what they just saw. They both wondered how a witch has everyone convinced he's a vampire. They were also surprised at how easily he'd done that - so casually; no words, no sign that he was concentrating, he'd lazily just clicked his fingers.

Kai smirked at Davina and Klaus' expressions; at the same time, he revealed his vampire veins and eyes to show he is also a vampire.

'A witch-vampire hybrid.' Davina and Klaus realised at the same time. 'That's shouldn't be possible.' They both thought.

Both Klaus and Davina stood still in shock, mouths slightly open, and eyes wide.

They couldn't understand; Davina had been raised believing that it was impossible to be a witch-vampire hybrid - it was something all witches are taught growing up.

Klaus was even more shocked; this is the first time he'd ever seen a seen a vampire using magic - in his over thousand years of life. This goes against everything he has every seen about witches who have become vampires.

After getting over his shock, Klaus opened his mouth to start asking questions; like how a witch-vamppire hybrid was even possible.

Before he could though, Mikael addressed him, "Come on, we have a witch to kill." Klaus jerked his head towards Mikael, then with a nod, he hesitantly relented.

"Do you need me to come?" Kai asked his teacher.

"No." Mikael hid the dagger from sight. "Dahlia is mine to kill, and mine alone." Kai shrugged, acquiescing.

Mikael and Klaus nodded to one another, before vamp-speeding away; leaving Kai alone with Davina.

The young witch then looked angrily at Kai. "Well? You have some explaining to do."

"I don't believe I'm obliged to explain anything." Kai said, amused.

"If you won't tell me, I'll tell Marcel about your unique gifts. Something tells me you won't want him to know about this, do you?" She countered.

"Blackmail?" He laughed. "Davina Claire, you're more than an innocent little face. You don't need to tell Marcel, he already knows." He finished smugly.

That surprised Davina; she wasn't aware that Marcel was keeping secrets from her, this made her threat null and void. But she's a stubborn women. Annoyed that her plan was foiled, she glared at him, and crossed her arms. She started impatiently tapping her arm with her fingers. She scrunched her brows together, wondering how to get him talking.

Kai thought that she looked hilarious, like a child wondering how to get their way. He considered letting her suffer a little while longer, but decided against it. He didn't see any reason not to; Marcel had mentioned Davina was like a daughter to him, so she would probably find out eventually anyway, and he had a bit of time to kill.

"Okay, even though I don't have to, I'll answer your questions."

Her face lit up, a smile gracing her features.

"Can we talk somewhere private?" He asked. He doesn't feel like just standing in one place while he answers her questions.

"Yeah, I know a place." She said, before walking away.

He followed her through the labyrinth that was the Lafayette cemetery. When they stopped, Kai saw that they're standing in front of a tomb.

'Typical.' Kai thought, rolling his eyes.

"We can talk here. It's sort of my secret clubhouse." She said.

Once Kai entered the tomb, he was pleasantly surprised by the layout of the interior.

Kai had expected the skulls and candles, but there was much more. It looked like a chemistry lab; Kai saw Bunsen burners and beakers adorning the benches. Potions kept in jars, and all sorts of mystical apparatus packed against the shelves of the wall.

This was a place for magical experimentation, though it was a bit dark and gloomy for his taste.

Kai inspected and touched some of the antique objects lying about. "Nice place." Kai said, genuinely impressed.

"What do you want to know about first?" He said facing away from her, take a closer look at a voodoo doll he found on the bench.

"I don't know where to begin." She admitted. "But how about you start with who and what you are."

Kai put the doll down, as he turned towards her. "You already know who I am, I didn't lie. I'm Malachai Parker, former member of the Gemini coven. Though, I much prefer to be called Kai." He explained happily.

"Okay." She sounded satisfied so far. "So, what are you? Witches and vampires have been fighting in this city for a long time. I grew up being told that a person can never be both a witch and a vampire. Yet you are both, I want to know how."

"Isn't it obvious?" Kai said rhetorically. "I'm a hybrid; I'm half vampire, half witch. My former coven called us abominations. We are called Heretics."

"We? There are more witch-vampire hybrids?" Davina asked, bewildered. She had thought that he's the only one, but hearing that there are more shocked her.

"Yes." He said shrugging. "Though they aren't around anymore. But in some ways, I'm different to the other Heretics. As to the how, I was born with a genetic mutation, it let me retain my witch nature after turning into a vampire." Kai told her some of the truth.

Davina nodded, letting it sink in. She then thought of another question. "You said you are different to the other Heretics. What do you mean?"

Kai grinned at her. "Yes, I did say that. I mean that their vampire side comes from vampire blood. Mine, however, comes from a spell."

"You're an Original." Davina realised, breathless, her eyes widened at the revelation.

Kai nodded, amused. "Yep. I can do everything the other Originals can, but better. The spell that turned me was modified from theirs - it was specifically designed to create a vampire superior to the other Originals in every way."

"For what reason."

"To create a vampire who could overpower the other Originals and kill them with the last white oak stake, of course." He winked at her.

He didn't call it 'the indestructible white oak stake' because he hates calling it that. It's a white oak stake with a protection spell on it, it's not indestructible; you just need to overpower the spell or find a way around the protection spell; like what's going on with Dahlia, she has a protection spell on her and they're trying to bypass it so they can kill her.

Seeing her face warped into wariness, Kai decided to explain. "Don't worry Davina, killing the Originals was the goal Esther had when she made the spell. But I have no such intentions. Like you, I have friends, whose lives are linked to the lives of the other Originals."

Davina let out a breath of relief - glad that they were at least on the same page.

Deciding to change the subject, she asked Kai why he had shown up with Mikael. He explained how he got roped into going on a hunt for the ingredients with Mikael across Europe.

"Did he tell you Viking proverbs every so often?" She asked him teasingly.

Kai jerked his head towards her. "Oh my god, he does! He does that a lot!"

They both laughed. Both have spent more time with Mikael than most people normally do.

"So, how was your week?" He asked Davina.

Davina then went on to tell him how Eva Sinclair kidnapped her.

"Really?" He asked laughing. "Kidnapped?"

She punched him lightly on the arm for teasing her. "Hey, I was nearly sacrificed." She protested.

"You sure get yourself into these sacrifices a lot, don't you, Harvest girl." Kai stated with a smirk. He stared at her until they both burst out laughing.

"Huh, I never thought of it that way, I guess it is sort of my gig."

Kai spent the rest of the afternoon talking with Davina. They discussed various uses kinds of magic, like different uses for various dark objects. They went into deeper discussions about dark magic. He told her that dark magic is all about perspective.

"Magic can help a vessel cross water, or sink it under the water." He had sagely told her.

"Calling some magic evil does not mean that it is; magic is about intent and use. Everything has a light side and a dark side, including magic. Just because something is dark, doesn't mean it's evil. Just like how because something is light, doesn't mean it's good."

Davina was having fun too. Being a loner within her coven, she studied magic mostly by herself. All of the other Harvest girls were dead. Kol was dead.

It was nice having someone else to discuss magic with. She seemed like a cool enough person - she's loyal and is always fighting for her friends. It was an admirable quality. Kai realises they have a lot in common: estranged parents, magical prodigies, and both are the black sheep of their covens. When it started getting dark, Kai decided to leave. He should probably check on Mikael and Freya anyway.

He wondered how Klaus and Mikael fared against Dahlia. Kai thought that it wouldn't be easy to beat her with brute force. But he'd let them try anyway; to test their enemy's strength. If she's as strong as Freya claims, then they wouldn't be able to kill her.

Kai was sure Dahlia wouldn't be able to kill them without white oak. She may desiccate them, or snap their necks, sure. But killing them would take a lot of magic. It would not be strategically viable; since Elijah and Freya would still be around, and since she would be much weaker, they could use the dagger on her.

He locked onto Mikael and Klaus' signature. They are at the Abattoir: the Mikaelson compound, along with Elijah and an unfamiliar signature. He then cast a cloaking spell on himself, and teleported into their home. What he saw was a rather drastic scene.

Elijah was holding Freya by her arms. A dark skinned women, being addressed as Rebekah, and who he could sense is stuck in a witch's body. The cause of all the tension he had sensed when he had arrived, on the other side of the courtyard, was Klaus who had the white oak stake against Mikael's chest, who he had pinned against a wall.

"There were moments where all you had to do was be my father! And even then, you despised me, didn't you?" Klaus said to Mikael, tears forming in the former's eyes.

Kai could sense a lot of inner toil emanating from both Klaus and Mikael.

"I want to know why." Klaus asked Mikael.

Mikael stared at his son. Seeing the vulnerability and pain in his eyes. "I don't know." He replied softly. "I just…did."

Kai was surprised to sense guilt emanating from Mikael.

Klaus, overwhelmed by Mikael's admission, stopped his tears. "Are those your final words?"

Before Klaus could hear Mikael's response, a hand grabbed onto the scruff of his jacket and threw him away from Mikael. Before he had acted, Kai had released the cloaking spell. Now visible, he looked towards Freya and, without a word or gesture, zapped Elijah into releasing Freya with his magic. As soon as he had, Kai, once again without any words or gestures, telekinetically pushed Elijah several steps backwards towards Klaus.

Freya ran and hugged her father. Rebekah joined her brother's side. Both sides stood facing each other: Three on three. Freya could easily take on Rebekah. Mikael could deal with Elijah. As for Klaus, who's still holding the white oak stake, it has no affect on Kai. His side holds the advantage, if they were to clash; Kai would bet his side would win.

Kai shook those thoughts out of his mind. Nothing good would come from a fight between them now. Kai opted for another option. Klaus was about to charge at them, Elijah in tow.

"Wait." Kai called out. He reached inside his inner jacket pocket. The three other Mikaelson siblings remained guarded, not sure what to expect.

Kai threw two pouches onto the ground beside Klaus' feet. "Those are Norwegian soil and Viking ash. Two of three of the ingredients needed to create a weapon to kill Dahlia. The third is Freya's blood. When you wish to cooperate, come find us. A fight between five immortals and a mortal, will end badly for the mortal." Kai gestured towards Rebekah.

Elijah grabbed Klaus' shoulder, signaling for him to stand down.

Kai then held onto both Freya and Mikael. In an instant, Kai teleported all three of them back to his hotel room.

"We ran away, like cowards." Mikael raged.

"Your son was holding the white oak stake. I prefer to call it a tactical retreat." Kai countered.

"He is not my son!" Mikael denied.

"Say what you wish, Mikael, I sensed your emotions." He stared back at the older vampire.

"He tried to kill me tonight. How do we know that he won't betray us again? I say we just deal with the witch ourselves. I won't work with that bastard again, he'll only stab us in the back." Mikael roared. Defeat was souring his mood.

'So much for progress.' Kai thought, sighing.

With super speed, he appeared in front of Mikael and quickly stabbed him in the chest, Mikael fell to the floor, desiccating. A silver dagger stuck out of his chest, a dagger laced with white oak ash.

When he had told his friends he was going to New Orleans, Stefan had given Kai the dagger, and Alaric had given him a large bag of white oak ash; enough ash to lace the dagger many, many, times.

"What did you do?" Freya cried.

"What needed to be done. An alliance with your siblings would fail if Klaus and Mikael won't work together. If we're divided, Dahlia will win."

"This is at least a solution that does not mean killing him." Kai reasoned. "Don't worry, I will undagger him when things are less crazy." Hw promised her with a smile.

Freya looked at her father sadly, but agreed with his logic. At the very least, her father is not dead. Kai had saved her father tonight from certain death, the least she could do was trust him.

"He's going to be pissed when I un-dagger him, isn't he?" He asked rhetorically.

"You stay here and reformulate a strategy to beat Dahlia. There are more ingredients on the table over there." He instructed.

"Where are you going?" She asked him, seeing him grab Mikael.

"Your father's body isn't safe here. I'm going to keep him somewhere more protected." With that said, he teleported away - leaving Freya alone.

Determination renewed, she went to work to make another weapon.

---

The next day, Elijah came to see them; requesting an alliance.

"Where's Mikael?" Elijah asked, noticing their father's absence.

Freya shared a glance with Kai before answering her brother. "Kai daggered him."

Elijah looked shocked at the new development. He turned towards Kai, puzzled. "You saved him, but then daggered him - why?"

"He was a wild card Elijah. I did what was necessary."

Elijah nodded. "Niklaus is the same. He's paranoid, of you, his enemies, and even his family." Elijah said softly. "He has already taken the ingredients you gave us, not telling anyone where he is hiding them."

"He is your problem, not ours." Kai said. Freya reluctantly agreed. "For our alliance to prevail, you need to tame your wild younger brother. You need us more than we need you. Freya is a powerful witch. I am an Original. To defeat Dahlia, you'll need our help."

Elijah did not doubt Kai's claim. With a powerful maniacal witch on the loose, a new Original was the least of his worries. Elijah turned to Freya for assistance.

Freya gave him a sad look. "I agree with him. Elijah, I have given you all reasons to trust me, yet yesterday you held me back and nearly let father to be killed. If you can't work with us because of Klaus, then fine. But we won't work with you if we are forced to satisfy Klaus' whims."

Elijah let out a defeated breath. "I'll contact you with an answer by the end of the day." He said, before then vamp-speeding out.

Freya sighed. She stared at Kai, who seemed to be deep in thought. "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm considering other avenues of fighting Dahlia. We are putting all of our eggs in one basket - I'm thinking of pursuing other weapons that may work on her."

---

Kai walked toward the front of Josephine LaRue's house. It has been a while since he'd talked with his older friend. For some reason, he couldn't sense her presence; so he had decided to make a house call - to check if she is out of town.

After he knocked, Gregory answered.

"Hi Greg, is your mistress home?"

"Pardon me sir, but I'm sorry to tell you this, Madam LaRue had passed away."

Kai felt his blood run cold. "Passed away? How?"

"We've been told it was the new powerful witch that just came to town. The one who is after the Mikaelsons. She killed Madam LaRue, then used her body to send a message to them." Gregory told him tearfully.

Kai's face contorted with sadness, sorrow, regret, and finally rage.

With a cry of rage, Kai threw a powerful hex at the large tree in the front yard - it was instantly obliterated, splinters of wood hailed down, landing all over the front yard.

Tears streamed down Kai's face. He took a few moments to calm himself. When he was a bit more composed, he turned to Gregory.

"I'm sorry for your loss…and the tree." He said, calmer, but with tears still in his eyes.

Gregory merely smiled sadly. "It's quite alright Sir."

Kai wiped away the tears in his eyes. He took a minute to grieve, before wiping away his sadness. He'd originally wanted to kill Dahlia to protect Hope. But now, it's personal. Dahlia killed his friend, and she will pay for it.

His phoned started ringing. He picked up seeing that it was Davina. "Hey, what's up?"

"Come quickly, it's about Aiden."

---

He'd found out Aiden was dead. Klaus had even admitted to doing it. The werewolves were, understandably, angry.

"Why do good people keep dying in this city?" Davina asked weakly.

"I don't know."

"What can I do?" He asked Davina. "I can't kill Klaus without killing my friends."

"I know, I have friends whose lives are tied to him as well. I do not want you to do anything. Josh has left to god knows where. I just did not want to be alone."

"Okay." He said.

When he was younger he had been diagnosed as a sociopath. Though, unlike a lot of sociopaths, Kai does have some emotions; though his emotions don't work in the same way as normal people's emotions do.

For example, his grief has already slightly lessened; though barely, and a lot of his grief has turned to anger.

Before he had been turned into a vampire, he rarely felt sadness if it wasn't relevant to him; if he heard someone was dead, Kai would not feel much unless it affected him - like if it was his friends or family.

Now he is a vampire, he can feel sad for those not connected to him; though only to a limited degree - understanding their feelings, to a certain degree, and feeling compassion or sympathy for their sadness and pain - but unless connected to him, it isn't personal sadness he'll feel - this also applies to all other emotions. He can feel some, limited, emotions for people who remind him of, or are like, someone he cares about though.

This was why he hadn't cared that Finn had been torturing Marcel, or when Finn had put a curse on Kol - he didn't care as it hadn't meant anything to him, they had meant nothing to him; so he had no reason to care what was done, or happened, to them. Even though they're now friends, Kai felt no guilt for not caring about the fact Marcel was being tortured when he found him shortly after he had arrived in New Orleans.

Kai still felt guilty for what he did to his siblings, but only because of how much he cared about them; if not, he would have gotten over his guilt years ago.

Kai also possesses a far greater control of his emotions than most people; due to him being a sociopath, and due to him being a skilled empath.

When using empathy, the user could be overwhelmed if someone is feeling very strong emotions, a lot of emotions, or if sensing emotions of multiple people at the same time; especially if several people are feeling strong emotions.

To stop this, the user needs to be have great control of their own emotions; lest they be overwhelmed by emotions, and to help them keep their emotions seperate from the emotions they are sensing from others.

So it's thanks to his sociopathy and empathy that he's not as grief stricken now as he was after he had heard about Josephine's death.

However, his sociopathy didn't erase his grief; only dulled it. Especially, as he'd only heard about Josephine's death a few minutes ago.

The two then shared in their grief, his over Josephine and hers over Aiden. Davina rested her head on his shoulders, tired and exhausted from their emotional ordeal.

"Klaus is going to pay." Davina promised.

"That is a dangerous line of thought." Kai warned.

"I gave Marcel an object I made to neutralise Klaus." She said, still resting on him. "A gold white oak ash dagger."

Kai widened his eyes in surprised. "A gold dagger? Of course, silver doesn't work on Klaus, since he's part werewolf; so you transmuted the element to suit your purpose, that was a good idea." It was a simple, yet smart, idea.

She smiled at his praise. "I cannot take all the credit. I had help." She was then reminded of Kol; her dead boyfriend - who she's trying to bring back to life. She immediately jerked away from Kai. Confusion and guilt crept through her mind.

Kai sensed her emotions, though didn't understand why she was suddenly feeling them; but he did realise she wanted to be left alone. "I'm going now."

When she looked up, he was already gone.

---

He learned from Freya that Elijah had daggered Klaus with the gold white oak ash dagger that Davina had made.

Seeing him pack some clothes and some other items into his travel bag, Freya voiced her concern. "Where are you going?"

"Hayley is leaving with Hope. She said she needed my help, and I intend to get Hope to safety first. I'll come back as soon as the baby is safe."

Freya shook her head. "We need Hope to stay here, Dahlia will come for her, that's when we'll kill her once and for all."

Kai narrowed his eyes at her suggestion. "Are you suggesting we use a baby as bait?"

"No, absolutely not, it's far too dangerous for a baby." He said incredulously, with a hint of anger in his voice.

"Dahlia is after Hope. Without the baby, we won't be able to lure Dahlia where we need her to be." Freya continued to protest.

"Hope's magic has been neutrilised; so Dahlia can't sense it. It will take her a while to find Hope. All we need is a magical proxy for Hope - that is your task."

He could sense her reluctance to risk Dahlia realising the deception, and not falling for it.

So, before she could protest further, Kai continued. "Besides, even if we were to use Hope as bait; we'd risk the chance of Dahlia getting to her, and getting what she wants." He said.

Freya sighed and relented. He is right, if they did use Hope as bait, and Dahlia got past them; then she would have what she needed to get what she wants.

Kai gave her a smile and a salute before teleporting to the Bayou.

"Kai!" Hayley shouted, when she noticed Kai walking towards her.

"Thanks for coming." Jackson shook Kai's hand appreciatively.

"Anything for the little angel. Speaking of, where is she?"

"Right now, she's in her crib." Jackson told, and pointed to the cabin.

"I'm going to see her." Kai said, before vamp-speeding into the cabin. He saw the baby sitting in her crib, chewing on her wooden horse.

"Hello there little one." He cooed, picking her up. Hope gurgled at him happily.

"Watch this." Kai held his hand out, his palm facing upwards, which collected moisture from the air and changed it into smalls balls of floating water. Kai then caused the balls of water to spiral around his hands, then made them jump and spiral all around them.

Hope clapped happily at the beautiful dancing water. He smiled back at her, then changed the water back into gas.

Hope tapped his shoulder smiling, as if asking him to do it again.

A voice outside the cabin interrupted them. "Wow, she must really like you - she doesn't like strangers holding her." Hayley remarked surprised.

"I'm not a stranger, am I, Hope?" He cooed at the baby.

Noticing her mother, Hope reached out for Hayley. Kai passed the Hope to Hayley.

"Are you ready to move?"

"Yes, we need to hurry. Elijah just called; Dahlia freed Klaus, and Klaus didn't kill Aidan, Dahlia did - now he'll feel vindicated. He'll be out for blood. We have to go."

Kai has to give Dahlia credit - she's a master strategist. So far, she's been beating them simply by sewing discord. She'd killed Josephine LaRue, not only to send a message to the Mikaelsons, but also to the witches as well. With the witches scrambling to select a new Regent, they won't have time to oppose her. She had killed Aiden to divide them and their allies, and now she has Klaus on her side.

Kai is confident he could beat Klaus, but he was not sure he could beat both Klaus and Dahlia at the same time.

The sky roared with thunder. Sparks of lightning brightened the darkening sky. As rain fell down, Kai narrowed his eyes, suspicious, he reached out and sensed the storm was being caused by magic. The storm was going to slow them down considerably.

"What are you doing with those herbs?" Hayley asked Mary, Jackson's grandmother.

The old werewolf was tying herbs together into a bundle, and burning them.

Before Mary could give Hayley a response, Kai answered. "She's checking for signs of magic. And she's right, this storm was caused by magic."

Mary nodded. The burnt herbal mixture released black smoke - confirming what Kai said.

"Let's go." Jackson ordered his people, immediately everyone began to move out.

---

It was already night, but they had to stop for a break. Evolved werewolves or not, they had limits. Luckily for Hayley and the pack, the storm had ceased. They could not travel by road as the rain flooded most of the main road. When they had come up to a river they needed to cross, Kai had put his hands together, and then pulled them apart; which had caused the river to part, creating a pathway across.

Jackson thought that it was biblical and rather fitting, as they were a group of people on the run from a powerful tyrant.

Off in the distance she heard one of her pack mates scream, before silence set in.

'We're under attack.' Hayley thought, getting herself ready for a fight.

But Kai blurred ahead of her. "No. That's Klaus - I will handle him, you take your family and go. I'll catch up when I can."

Hayley didn't want to leave her friend, but her concern for her daughter ultimately won out. She gave him a quick hug before running off to find Hope and Jackson.

Kai remained where he was, knowing Klaus will appear at any moment.

He was right, Klaus appeared a few moments later. "Mikael's apprentice." He sneered.

"You shouldn't get in my way." Klaus stated threateningly.

"Well, I like to ruin people's plans - I'm making it my thing." Kai readied himself, but despite the situation, he let a satisfied smile graced his face. "Besides, I have been wanting to put you in your place Klaus."

The two Originals circled one another. It was time to find out who is stronger, the Original-Hybrid or the Enhanced Original 2.0.

As Klaus snarled lowly at him, Kai added. "Original against Original, hybrid against hybrid, werewolf against witch. Shall we dance?"

Kai threw the first punch, which landed on the side of Klaus' face; forcing the older hybrid back slightly. Klaus immediately swung back, but Kai caught his fist, before delivering an uppercut to Klaus' jaw and then immediately knocked him backwards with a kick to the chest; the hit knocking Klaus down next to a tree.

Klaus stood back up, and channeled his werewolf nature. As his eyes glowed yellow, Klaus felt the power boost which his werewolf nature gave him. Now imbued with more power, Klaus launched towards Kai with a left hook. When his attack got parried, Klaus threw a punch with his right hand, only to find his attempt stopped when Kai caught Klaus' fist in his left hand.

Klaus, with both his hands in Kai's grip, started to try and push Kai back. Kai met his strength with his own, both trying to push the other side back. To Klaus' surprise and horror, he found himself being pushed back; slowly but surely. He pushed his strength more and more until he reach his maximum strength, but Kai just matched him every time Klaus increased his strength, even when he reached his maximum.

Surprised that his full strength had been matched, Klaus looked up and, while still trying to overpower Kai, noticed that his opponent did not appear to be strained by trying to push him back, Kai was putting some effort into it; but he was not putting his full strength into pushing him back.

Which could only mean one thing; it meant that he, Klaus Mikaelson, the Original-Hybrid, even when using his full strength, was being pushed back by Kai - when Kai is not even using his full strength.

This realisation unnerved him, but Klaus wouldn't allow that to affect the fight. Besides, in a fight, strength isn't everything.

Klaus then head-butted Kai; surprised by the attack Kai let go, who then capitalised on his advantage by delivering a barrage of punches.

After a few hits landed, Kai sidestepped one of them; causing Klaus to become slightly unbalanced. Kai then kicked Klaus in back of his leg, knocking him down onto one knee. Then using leverage and his opponent's arm, Kai broke Klaus' shoulder.

Klaus held in a scream and desperately tried to push himself back up, but Kai jumped into the air and kicked the side of Klaus' face; causing him to fall to the ground.

Kai stepped back away from Klaus, who was getting back up.

Klaus popped his shoulder back into place.

"You are very resilient." Kai remarked with a smirk, wiping blood from his lips.

"It seems you are a bigger nuisance than I originally gave you credit for." Klaus said, hiding how unnerved he was. This was worse than fighting Mikael, Kai is a good fighter, but he is also much stronger than Klaus is, and he is probably stronger than Mikael as well - this only includes the strength Kai has shown so far, which is not even Kai's maximum strength.

"I aim only to please." Kai taunted back. "Shall we continue our dance."

Klaus readied himself into a combat stance, but found himself thrown into the side of an abandoned trailer home. Before he could even get up, Klaus was thrown into the side of another mobile home.

Kai had grown bored of fighting hand to hand - he enjoys fighting with magic more.

After he felt the telekinetic grip loosen, Klaus attempted to make a preemptive break at Kai, but was stopped by pain emanating from all of his joints, sending him to his knees. He could only scream as his bones snapped under Kai's telekinesis.

Electricity traveled from Kai's hand and descended into Klaus. The current flowed into Klaus' body, causing the Original-Hybrid to scream loudly in pain. Kai increased the voltage before stopping the electrical attack, giving Klaus a small reprieve to heal.

Kai tutted. "Magic is might, Klaus. In the last few weeks, I have become a lot stronger. I was once nervous about facing you, not because I fear you; but because you have a lot more experience, and that gives you an advantage. But, thanks to my battles with your father; that is no longer true." As Kai walked closer to the kneeling Original, he wondered how to subdue the Original-Hybrid.

"I've held back against you Klaus, and I'm not trying to kill you, not because your life matters to me; I know that there are a lot of vampires whose lives are bound to yours - some of them are good people. If it weren't for that, I would not care if you died."

Kai was about to snap Klaus' neck, rendering him unconscious for a while, when he was interrupted by a chorus of wolves howling in the distance.

'Something must be wrong. There shouldn't be a wolf howling - we're days from a full moon, unless the wolves have decided to transform. They're in trouble; Dahlia's here!' Kai realised with alarm.

Suddenly Klaus reached forward, before Kai could admonish himself for letting his guard down, Klaus had already strapped black shackles on him.

Instantly, Kai felt his magic suppressed significantly.

Klaus stood back up, grinning menacingly.

Kai narrowed his eyes, annoyed. Davina had told him about these - cursed shackles that stop a witch from casting spells, and suppresses their magic.

Fortunately for him, he'd added a lot of magic to the Immortality spell; which had been amplified even further by the magic he'd already absorbed from the boundary, and then amplified again by the Merge - which had also amplified the magic he got from Jo, as well as the magic he already had.

All this not only greatly amplified his powers and abilities, but also resulted in Kai having a lot of powerful magic to use. He's also resistant to magic, so the cuffs can't affect Kai as much as other witches.

The shackles stop spells from working, but only suppress magic. The increases made him powerful enough to break free; though, because of the suppression, it won't be instantly - it will not take him long though.

Klaus lost the grin when he noticed Kai slowly breaking free of the shackles. Freya had done the same thing, but it had taken a while - since she had needed to gather enough power to break them. Yet, Kai is starting to free himself seconds after they had been put on him; it is happening slowly, but it does not seem like it would take very long until Kai broke free of them.

Seeing all this, Klaus took out a bone dagger.

After he had bled Marcel of the vervain, he'd compelled him to get some information from him - they had heard about Kai; Marcel told them that he's both a witch and an Original vampire.

This had caused Dahlia to get a look of certainty, as this proved her right; it is possible for a witch to become immortal while retaining their ability to use magic. She'd also got a slightly jealous and angry look - because someone else already has what she wants and has been trying to achieve for over a thousand years.

Klaus had known that Kai is a witch-vampire hybrid, but not that he's an Original. He'd wanted to know how, but Marcel did not know how Kai became an Original; Kai had not told him. Klaus had wanted to ask more questions, but Dahlia had interrupted him; telling him not to get distracted, and that they were wasting time.

Klaus had told her they needed a way to neutrilise Kai. She had given him a blade just like Papa Tunde's blade. This, too, is a bone blade that causes pain so immense even an Original was incapacitated by it. Though this blade was made from the remains of a werewolf, instead of a witch. It was made by a small, but powerful, coven who had hated vampires, not because of anything they had done; but because of them being undead beings.

As they had been the first and the progenitors of the vampire race, they hated Originals the most. The coven knew that they weren't powerful enough to actually kill the Originals - so they made the blade in case they came across an Original, though it had not been powerful enough for the task. Dahlia had wanted the blade, and killed the coven when they refused to hand it over, she'd incapacitated them, and used the blade to add their magic to it; since they'd been quite powerful, the blade is now more than powerful enough to take down an Original. Also like Papa Tunde's blade, this blade also burrows itself into the chest of whoever is stabbed with it.

With this bone blade in hand, Klaus sped towards Kai and plunged it into his chest.

Kai immediately stumbled back from the pain. Distracted by the pain, he stopped trying to remove the shackles.

Trying to ignore the pain, Kai grabbed it and started pulling. Because he is the Enhanced Original, and because of the increases in his vampire power; his durability is far greater than the other Original vampires. And his resistance to magic lessens the affect of the blade; though not by a lot.

As Kai slowly began to pull the blade out, the pain began to lessen. When the pain was a bit more tolerable, he split his attention between the blade and the shackles; trying to remove both of them at the same time.

Klaus stood watching. He noticed that not only was Kai resisting the blade and trying to remove it, but he was also trying to remove the shackles at the same time.

When he saw that Kai was slowly succeeding, Klaus felt a shudder of fear go down his spine. 'Just how powerful is this guy?' Klaus thought.

The blade Kai is resisting works exactly like Papa Tunde's blade - he knows the pain that blade inflicts; yet Kai is resisting the blade, and also trying to remove both it, and the shackles at the same time. That shows Kai a lot of mental and magical power; to be able to resist the pain the blade inflicts on its victim, while also removing the blade and the shackles at the same time.

He sped over to one of the mobile homes, and ripped off a piece of metal. Klaus sped over to Kai, and, using his full strength, hit Kai in the head with it as hard as he could; snapping Kai's neck.

As Kai fell to the ground, the blade, which was mostly removed, started to burrow itself back into his chest.

After that, Klaus sighs in relief, then he steps towards Kai's prone body and reattaches the shackles; which had started to come off.

Klaus was glad he came prepared. He picked Kai up, and sped over to where he'd left a coffin. He placed Kai on the floor, opened the coffin, and took out a chain that was inside it.

He then wrapped the chain tightly around Kai. Klaus then picked Kai up, and put him in the coffin.

Looking down at him, Klaus feels another shiver of fear, before shutting the lid. He then took the coffin to a nearby river, and dumps it in; the weight causing it to fall to the bottom of the river.

With that dealt with, Klaus turns away to get back to the situation at hand.

Klaus paused for a moment.

He then looks towards the lake, before thinking. 'I won, but after what just happened, it's clear to me.' Klaus may be a stubborn, proud, and angry man, but he's not an idiot.

'You are the most powerful Original in history.' Klaus thought reluctantly.

Klaus hates to admit that there's someone more powerful than him, even in his head - but he isn't stupid; when he fights someone, he needs to know how to analyse his opponent and compare them to himself; it was how Klaus exploits his opponent's flaws, and comes up with ways to beat them.

Klaus doubts he will ever admit that out loud though - he's far too proud to do that.

Kai physical power is greater than his, his fighting skill surpassed even Mikael's, and, to top it off, he's a witch - and a powerful one at that.

'My experience and my preparation are the only reasons I won.' Klaus thought.

If it weren't for those things, he would've lost. Experience is the only advantage he'd had over Kai, and even with that it seemed that he was going to lose. He knows that he would've lost if he hadn't come prepared, and Kai hadn't gotten distracted.

If he'd been more experienced, Klaus hadn't come prepared, and Kai hadn't been distracted - Kai would've won.

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Hayley wasn't faring well. She was the last of the pack left, and she was using the last of her willpower to prevent herself from turning into a wolf.

While she and Jackson were fleeing, they had run into Dahlia. Before they could even attack Dahlia, she had cast a curse on them, she could feel the effects kicking in; making her transform. Everyone else was already in their wolf form, their minds blanketed by the pain. She is the only one still left in human form, but she only has a small thread of control left - and that was already fading.

"It seems I missed quite a show." Came a voice from the shadows.

The dark figured was revealed to be Klaus.

As Hayley writhed in pain, she looked contemptuously at Klaus for his betrayal.

Klaus knelt down next to Hayley. "I stole this spell from Marcel. Dahlia here then modified it to accommodate your hybrid nature. A fitting punishment I think, since you tried to take my daughter away from me." He said venomously.

Hayley screamed in pain, as the cursed forced her bones to snap and reform.

"Where…is…Kai?" She grunted out.

"You mean your troublesome bodyguard." Klaus said, hiding a shiver thinking of Kai evoked, before he mentally shook it off; he had important matters to deal with.

He then smirked at her. "Let's say his fate is worse than yours."

Hayley dreaded what that could mean. She might not have known him long, or even all that well, but after what he had done for Hope; Kai had become a close friend.

"What…did…you…do…to…him?" She barked out in pain, her spine began to arc.

"Oh nothing too serious. I put those useful magic suppression shackles on him. Before I then plunged a magical torture blade into his chest. Right now, he is probably writhing in pain...at the bottom of a lake, suffocating repeatedly, with a chain wrapped around him, making him unable to move; very likely regretting the fact that he ever met you. And do npt get me started with what I did to Elijah." Klaus finished, with a satisfied smirk.

Earlier that day, he had compelled Gia to remove her daylight ring and let herself burn in the daylight; making sure that Elijah had witnessed it, before daggering him.

Hayley screamed in anguish, the last of her resolve gone. The Crescent Curse took its toll. She started shifting faster.

Klaus and Dahlia then proceeded towards the SUV with Hope inside.

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Dahlia marveled at Hope hungrily. She was internally salivating to get a hold of the baby's magic.

"I want to thank you for your hand in procuring her for me. It couldn't have been easy, betraying your family." Dahlia told Klaus.

"I will not see my daughter handed over like the spoils of some war." Klaus explained, confusing Dahlia. "To that end, I remind you of your promise - that you will protect and mentor Hope, drawing from her only what power you require to keep her safe."

"I will bond her to me first. Once I can channel Hope's power, I will be able to keep her safe from all harm - always under my protection." Dahlia stepped towards Hope, but Klaus moved in front of her, blocking her path to the tribrid baby.

"I think not." He sneered.

Klaus then explained to Dahlia his concerns of Dahlia linking herself to Hope; Klaus told her such a connection could cause his daughter to inherit Dahlia's need to slumber for a century at a time. To assuage Klaus' concern, Dahlia, at Klaus' own suggestion, linked herself to him first.

After linking herself to Klaus, Dahlia felt euphoric. At last, she had achieved immortality. When she links herself to Hope as well, she will be the most powerful being on Earth.

"With your immortality, your daughter and I will not need to sleep for a century." She remarked to her nephew.

"Well…perhaps one more nap." Klaus interrupted, causing Dahlia to turn to him in confusion.

Before she could react, Klaus plunged the gold white oak ash dagger into his heart; he and Dahlia immediately began to desiccate, as she is linked to him. Before he sank into darkness, Klaus' last thought was that he hoped he'd bought his family enough time.

When morning came, Freya woke and saw the desiccated forms of Klaus and Dahlia. She understood what had happened, but one question plagued her mind: where was the baby, where was Hope?

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A/N: There are multiple things I want to go over, so they will be quite a lot written here. They are not in any particular order though.

This is all going to be explanations.

I call them Wicca as I like that name the most.

As you can tell I am making my version of Kai much more powerful than in baringan's fic.

I like making Kai more and more powerful, but there will always be a reason. I will explain why he has a skill, ability, power, or power increase; I'll try to make them good reasons, but I know some may hate, or disagree with, my reasons, if so, that is your opinion.

Some of my ideas, like the idea of Absolute Magic, came from reviewers in my previous version.

I was asked to make Kai more unique. I wasn't going to at first, but then thought of something I liked - which was Absolute Magic.

I imagine this as the very first universe in all of existence. Though I mention other magical communities, they are basically a stronger version than canon. Since communities can act like a different world entirely, I sometimes switch between saying magical communities and magic worlds.

Kai's Absolute Magic and true immortality were supposed to never be wielded by anyone, so when they finally were, it caused Nature to make sure no one else would ever get either one of them again.

This version of Kai is the reason why characters in shows, films, comics, and other things, can die no matter how powerful they were, they are, or they become in the future.

Absolute Magic can do almost anything, but it cannot create another True Immortal, or another Absolute Magic user. And, obviously, it's unable to kill Kai - since he is the True Immortal.

Kai has Absolute Magic for a number of reasons; a main one, is that if I ever do a fic where my version of Kai goes to somewhere people are more powerful, he'd still be a powerful ally, or threat; if I felt like it. I may not do a fic like that but it is there if I do, I may use it later in this fic though; no guarantees either way.

I have explained his powers thus far, but I am going over the reasons again as to keep track of them so far. And why his powers don't have the same limits as the Originals or the Immortals.

He has the power of an Enhanced Original, with the Immortal's abilities, but when it turned him the spell had a lot more power added to it - affecting almost all aspects of it.

Since siphoners are unnatural beings, I think that it makes sense if any magic he siphoned was added to, and amplified by, the Immortality spell when he was turned, especially as it had been siphoned from the boundary that the spell had been enriched by.

As a siphoner, Kai is cut off from nature, so he couldn't lose his link to nature like regular witches do when turned - so since magic that had been siphoned from the boundary was still in his body when he was turned; it was also amplified by, and added to, the spell.

Then when he and Jo Merged, their magic was amplified and her was then added to his; but his magic was vampire magic - which is why I decided that the Merge would amplify the magic of the Immortality spell and, in turn, his powers and abilities.

Mikael was less rough when speaking to Kai because he wants Dahlia dead, not to waste time fighting Kai.

I mentioned Klaus seemed afraid of Kai, which I think is typical of Klaus. But I understand if you might think he's a little different than to canon. So I'm going to explain that.

I did this because Klaus was originally afraid of both Esther and Mikael when they appeared in TVD. Because they could kill him, like they nearly did.

He realised Kai was matching his full strength without even using his own full strength, and then saw Kai's magical power when he started to break free from the cursed shackles almost immediately after he put them on him.

Simply put, he meets Kai, and then realises that Kai is basically a combination of Mikael and Esther - but even stronger.

So I think that it makes sense Klaus would, at first, be a little afraid of Kai. Though he won't let it affect him - this is still Klaus after all. Klaus is smart, so he will always have at least a little fear of Kai - smart people now to at least be wary of those more powerful than them.

This is why Klaus is, reluctantly, willing to admit to Kai's power - at least in his head. Since this is still Klaus, I doubt he'd ever admit it out loud.

There is now a story reason for Kai gaining Absolute Magic.

I also added Kai, after deciding to try feeding on a vampire, doesn't care what species off any more. Which I think makes sense, to Kai, what species he feeds from is irrelevant - blood is blood.