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).

6. Chapter 5

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 I originally made the re-write only for myself, but I decided to post it just in case anyone else might want to read it.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 5

Kai realised he had never truly felt despair until this moment. His time in the prison world, while tedious and horribly lonely, had given him the freedom to pursue his interests, and gain more skills and knowledge, in many different things - magical and non-magical things alike.

It had been a couple of couple of hours since Klaus had managed to subdue Kai, and left him to rot at the bottom of a river. From Kai's perspective however, it felt as if each and every passing moment was an eternity.

While his resistance to the blade helped dull the pain, it still made him feel as if his entire body was burning from the inside. While the water in Kai's lungs suffocated him over and over again.

Seemingly, the cursed blade and the water, or more specifically, the lack of oxygen, were taking turns to torment him.

And the chains were wrapped so tightly around him that Kai couldn't move a finger to try and remove the blade - like he had done during his fight with Klaus.

And despite Kai's resistance to the shackles, they suppressed his magic enough Kai couldn't just break free, especially when added with the pain the blade is causing, and the constant drowning; as these things made it hard for Kai to focus enough to gather the magic to do anything.

The pain seemed to roll into one unending agony; the constant pain, the drowning, and the inability to move, made the couple of hours he had been down there feel like a thousand eternities.

'A warrior's true strength is the ability to endure pain. Master that, and nothing could ever truly hurt you.' Mikael had told him once.

It was this moment that made Kai realised how strong Mikael truly is; a true hunter with a real tolerance to pain. Mikael has a pain tolerance most people could never even dream of matching.

In his fleeting moments of consciousness, Kai reflected on his past, and contemplated all the things he has yet to do, or see.

Kai's thoughts drifted to his family, and his friends; his grandmother, Jo, Jo's unborn children, all his other siblings, Bonnie, Damon, Caroline, Liz, Stefan, Alaric, Elena, Jeremy, Tyler, Matt, Hope, Hayley, Marcel, Josh, Gia, Hayley, Josephine, Davina.

'NO.' Kai thought angrily. 'I cannot rot here. I WILL NOT!'

Kai put up his occulmency barriers as high as he could; in order to block out as much of the pain as he could. He began to gather his suppressed magic, and when he felt the water beginning to rise, Kai held his breath - to extend the time that he is conscious.

As Kai sensed the magic he'd gathered, he realised he did not have enough to break the shackles, and Kai knew he couldn't hold his breath long enough to gather the magic to do it. So, using the magic he'd gathered, Kai pushed at the chain around him; the chain strained under the force of Kai's magic, and eventually shattered.

With that done, Kai was not able to hold his breath any longer, and lost consciousness when he suffocated.

When he regained consciousness, Kai summoned the little strength he could muster. Bit by bit, Kai positioned his fingers around the shackles. It took him a while to do so, since Kai drowned multiple times while doing it.

When he finally had his hands securely around the shackles, Kai used an ability they could not suppress - his siphoning ability.

His hand's glowed red as he started siphoning the magic from the cursed shackles as quickly as he could. He could feel as the power of the manacles weakened, he could again feel the full force of his magic. When he had once again drowned, he did so with an internal smile - the shackles were no longer an issue.

His next problem is the blade embedded in his chest. The blade is imbued with a tremendous amount of dark magic. Due to this, it took him a lot longer to siphon the power from the blade. Kai suffocated over a dozen times before he was done.

However, after what felt like many lifetimes, all of the magic in the blade was siphoned away.

When he had been fighting Klaus, Kai had started to remove the blade and the shackles at the same time; but since he is constantly drowning, he couldn't do that, as it took long enough he would've drowned every time he tried, but by siphoning all of their magic, he'd weakened them, bit by bit, until all the magic that had powered the shackles was gone.

With the torturous blade now removed, and empowered by the magic that once gave the blade and the shackles their power, Kai called forth his magic.

The tranquil surface of the river reflected the crescent moon of the New Orleans sky. The tranquil atmosphere disappeared instantly when, suddenly, a large eruption of water burst into the air; as if a bomb had exploded underwater.

Out of the explosion of water, Kai leapt onto the shore, landing on one knee.

Kai panted heavily as he took in the air. His lung cried for the oxygen that was denied his for so long.

Kai then put a hand into his chest and, with a yell, pulled out the bone blade. As soon as the blade was removed from his chest, his chest healed to pristine condition; looking like he had never even been hurt.

Kai couldn't tell how much time had past since his less than victorious fight against Klaus. He then reached out with his senses, searching for Klaus' signature.

After finding his signature, Kai then made his way towards Klaus' direction. While hoping that he wasn't too late to save Hope.

Once he found the older Original, Kai was surprised to find Klaus was already neutralised; desiccated on the ground, with a gold dagger sticking out of Klaus' chest.

Kai noticed an unfamiliar witch lying near Klaus, in the same state he is in. Kai figured out straight way the immobilized witch is Dahlia. He sensed Hope was safely secured inside the car; he could also sense Freya in it, though he sensed that she is unconscious.

Kai was surprised only a few hours appear to have passed since his fight with Klaus. The torment had felt like it had gone on for much longer.

Kai analysed the scene and came to the conclusion she had been tricked into linking herself to Klaus, right before Klaus daggered himself to neutralise her. Sensing closer, Kai felt a magical link between Klaus and Dahlia - which seemed to confirm his deductions.

While Kai hated Klaus, he couldn't help but begrudgingly respect the Original-Hybrid for his strategy.

Then he felt it - magic.

He immediately turned towards Dahlia, to ensure she wasn't waking up. While she wasn't regaining consciousness, Kai could feel her magic was already starting to become active.

He followed her magic. 'The link is slowly weakening...and she's using her magic to melt the dagger!' Kai thought with alarm.

Kai quickly ran over his options. Whether to deal with Dahlia, or bring Hope to safety first. Considering his weakened state, and that killing her while she was linked to Klaus would kill him, and his sireline with him, Kai decided to take Hope away from the danger and deal with things when he'd properly recupertated.

As Kai held Hope, who was still sleeping, he gave Klaus and Dahlia a lingering glance before teleporting away with the baby.

Before long, he would make both Klaus and Dahlia pay for their transgressions. He may now know Klaus' reasons for his actions, but his plan had caused far too much damage, and a lot of it to good people.

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In the dead of night, Jo Parker found herself waking up to the sound of her doorbell ringing.

As a pregnant woman, she doesn't like being woken up in the middle of the night.

"Who the hell is it? Do you know how late it is?" She demanded grumpily.

Once she opened the door, her mood shifted entirely, the anger was replaced by surprise. When she opened the door she found a rather unexpected sight.

Outside her apartment stood her twin brother, Kai - and he looked worse for wear.

However, it wasn't his ragged appearance that had jumped out at her, the focus of her shock came from what her brother was holding. It wasn't a what, but rather a who - he was holding a baby girl in his arms. The baby girl in his arms was fast asleep.

"Hi Sis. Sorry for waking you up." Kai greeted with a tired smile. "Can we come in?"

"Uhh, sure. I mean y-yes. Come right in." She stammered, breaking out of her post sleep daze. She ushered them into her living room, where Kai sat down, keeping Hope secure in his arms. "The poor dear, she must be so cold, wait there, I will get her a baby blanket."

Jo immediately went into her room to get a warm blanket for the baby. When she came back with it, she took Hope from her brother, and cosily tucked Hope in the blanket. With the baby in one arm, she went back into her room to grab a couple of blood bags for Kai. She and Alaric keep a few blood bags at her apartment, not only for emergency purposes, but also for their vampire friends, and Jo's twin brother - when he visits.

After sitting down with Hope in her arms, Jo turned her attention towards her brother.

"Who is she?" She asked, as she threw him the blood bags.

"Her name is Hope." He answered, as he quickly drained the blood bags. As he did, a warmer complexion started returning to his face. After he finished drinking all the blood in the bags, Kai was breathing more evenly and less haggardly; as renewed strength flowed through his veins.

Kai beamed at Jo. "Ah, that's much better, nothing like a restorative snack to help someone feel a bit better."

"What the hell happened in New Orleans?" She demanded in a low voice, worried; but not wanting to wake the baby.

"A lot." He remarked with a sigh. "Long story short, the enemy crippled us. But I managed to secure Hope before any calamities could touch her." He wasn't planning to tell her what happened to him, she would only worry; which is bad for someone in her condition.

Jo looked down at the sleeping form of Hope. Contently watching the baby's chest rise and fall with each breath.

"So besides her name, who is she?"

Kai saw no issue with revealing Hope's identity to Jo.

"She's my friend's daughter. Because of who her parents are, she is magically unique. But right now, her mother is indisposed and can't take care of her." Kai paused.

"I hate to ask you for another favour so soon after the last one you did for me, but can you and Alaric take care of Hope for the next few days? It isn't safe for her to be in New Orleans right now."

Jo could hear the concern that radiated from her brother's voice.

Jo then remembered what little rumours she has heard of what has happened in New Orleans, almost instantly, a startling realisation hit her. "Is she the hybrid baby?"

Kai smiled weakly at his sister, but shook his head no. "Tribrid actually." He corrected.

"Wow." Jo said simply, amazed. Rumours of the miracle baby have traveled far in the Wicca community.

"I thought she was dead." Jo whispered, though Kai's enhanced hearing caught it.

"I suppose news of her survival hasn't reach this far yet." Kai said, it wasn't surprising; the people of New Orleans only found out that Hope is alive not long ago, so it would take a bit longer for the news of her survival to spread.

"Are you sure I am qualified to take care of her? I am no longer a witch, would that be a problem? I wouldn't be able to protect her if her parent's enemy comes after her. What if she misses her family?" Jo rapidly listed her concerns.

He smiled. "Do not worry Jo, you will be fine. Consider this practice for when your own children are born. I have no doubt in your ability to keep her safe. I remember when we were younger, you took care of our younger siblings just fine. And Hope should not be here long enough to really miss her family." Kai told her.

"And you don't have to worry about her magic, she's wearing a bracelet which suppresses her magic. But if magic becomes an issue, you could call Bonnie, Olivia, and Lucas for help." He suggested. He'd heard that they are currently attending the college in Whitmore, and he doubts they'd refuse to help protect a baby.

"As for the threat that's after her, let me worry about that. In the morning, after I'm rested, and have recuperated my reserves, I'll return to New Orleans to deal with the threat. I will return Hope to her family when it is safe for her to return to her home. I promise, it won't be long." Kai said firmly.

"Which brings me to my next order of business, I am going to borrow your couch for the next few hours, contrary to modern literature on vampires; vampires do need to rest."

"I will take good care of her." She promised, her maternal instincts fully kicking in. A feminine spark twinkled in her eyes. "I'll take her shopping!" Jo squealed quietly.

Kai cringed slightly at that idea.

Jo stared adoringly at Hope. Her heart rose as she tried to envision what her children might look like when they're born.

"Alright. You should sleep, doctor's orders. We'll talk more after." Jo commanded.

Kai was too exhausted to complain about being ordered around; besides, she is someone he cares about, and she's only worried about him. He lay back on the couch, letting the exhaustion and fatigue from the previous day catch up to him. After closing his eyes, he quickly fell asleep.

Jo cradled Hope to her chest and brought the sleeping baby into her bedroom, where she could better tend to the baby.

"All will be well, Hope." She said softly.

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When morning came, light filtered into the bedroom through Jo's curtains.

As Jo woke, the events of the previous night reentered her mind. Remembering caused Jo to immediately jolt out of her sheets, she instantly turned to her side, and there beside her lay one of the most precious and adorable babies she's ever laid eyes on. Baby Hope was still blissfully asleep, unfazed by the misfortune which had befallen her family the night before.

After ensuring Hope was still secured on her bed and risk-free of suffocation, she made her way to her living room to check up on her brother. As she did, the aroma of freshly cooked eggs and fried bacon caught her attention.

She went into her kitchen, and Kai was there cooking, with his back to her.

"Good morning." Kai said without turning around, as he could already sense her presence.

"You made breakfast." She observed.

He passed her a plate with some bacon, eggs and a slice of toasted break. She has been good to him since they met after he defeated the Gemini coven; cooking breakfast for his sister is the least he could do for her.

Jo took a seat by the kitchen bench. With her knife and fork, she dissected the bacon, put it into her mouth, and started to chew it. She then immediately started shoveling the rest of the food down her throat.

Kai stared at her with a surprised smile. "Is it that good?"

Embarrassed, she retorted. "Shut it, I'm eating for three. Who taught you how to cook anyway? That was quite nice, well, as nice as bacon and eggs can be anyway."

"Well, being trapped in the prison world for so long, I eventually had to learn how to cook. I actually lived off canned food for about a year before I couldn't stand it anymore. I wanted a proper meal, that was when I experimented with culinary science." He liked his own cooking, but he hadn't thought that others might like it as much as Jo had.

"Well, I guess it paid off." She complimented. "When are you going back to New Orleans?"

"I am leaving now, the sooner this problem is resolved the better. The other Originals are likely already dealing with the issue right now however they can, but they may need my help."

Kai gave his sister a quick hug. "I'll see you soon." He said, then immediately teleported away.

Just like that, Jo was alone in her kitchen.

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(New Orleans)

Kai had teleported back to his hotel room. He then compelled two of the hotel staff to bring him his cabinet.

It took a while, but once the cabinet was in his suite, and the staff sent away, he quickly retrieved the objects he wanted. After all, if he's going to gear up against a powerful adversary like Dahlia, having more weapon wouldn't hurt the chances of success.

He then took some other objects out; a few talismans that store magic, he then siphoned some of their magic to boost his reserves, before putting them back inside his cabinet.

Kai then pulled out a silver-coloured metal coffin.

With that done, Kai resealed the dimensional interior of the cabinet, and then locked it.

He then opened the coffin. Inside was a desiccated vampire. Not just any vampire, the oldest Original vampire in the world - Mikael.

Kai grasped the handle of the dagger embedded in Mikael's chest.

Resolutely, he removed the dagger from the other Original's chest.

After he did, colour slowly began to return to Mikael's body; it wouldn't take long for the vampire hunter to wake up, and he would be angry.

Kai pocketed the dagger, then retrieved a pocketknife from his jacket. Daftly, he used the pocketknife to cut into his palm, drawing blood. His blood began to drip and seep into the carpeted floor of the room, though Kai did not care.

Some of Kai's blood trickled down the length of the blade. He then positioned the tip of the blade to Mikael's forehead. With precise and concentrated movements, he lowered the blade until the tip cut through the upper layer of Mikael's epidermis.

Kai began to chant to old Gaelic, as he did, the blood on the knife pooled down into a single point at the tip of the blade. When the spell was completed, some bloody runic symbols traveled across Mikael's face in multiple streams. The source being the cut he had made on Mikael's head.

As the bloody runes tattooed across his face, whatever warm complexion had returned to Mikael because of him being undaggered was undone - returning him to his grey, desiccated state.

He felt a great in surge of power coming into him from Mikael. The Sacrificial spell he'd used is different from the ones usually practiced in New Orleans. Mikael wil be useful as a magical battery pack in the upcoming battle. Unlike when Finn had done it, the spell Kai used lets him activate and deactivate the power that he gets from whatever, or whoever, he's channeling; so Kai could choose to not use it, or even choose how much power he channels from it. This part of the spell was put into it to try to stop users from being overwhelmed by channeling too much power at once. The spell also lets Kai tap into Mikael's vampire powers and abilities as well, and as Kai is already an Original, Kai can use them to augment his own vampire powers and abilities.

Ordinarily, this spell couldn't be used by siphoners or Heretics; since it is a spell for channelling magic.

Channeling magic is a natural form of using magic of an external source, siphoning is an unnatural form of absorbing and using magic from an external source; except when a Heretic siphons and uses the magic from their own internal vampirism. Due to these methods being opposites, siphoners and Heretics, cannot channel magic.

However, Kai had undergone, and won, the Merge with Jo, but he is still a siphoner; as siphoners can never stop being siphoners. Since Kai is both a normal witch and a siphoner, he has all the powers and abilities of a normal witch - like the ability to channel magic, but he also retained all of his siphoner powers and abilities; making Kai the only siphoner and Heretic who can also channel magic.

But, as the True Immortal, Kai can channel, and, or, siphon, as much magic as he wants to without being overwhelmed by too much magic; like any other witch would be if they channeled, or siphoned, too much magic.

Kai then closed the coffin and left his hotel suite; magically sealing it, and then left the hotel to locate Freya.

As Kai was searching for Freya, he sensed a great surge of magic coming from the Lafayette cemetery. Instead of going to the Mikaelson compound to find Freya, he diverted his course towards the city of the dead. He could sense Elijah, Rebekah, Davina, and a powerful unfamiliar witch within that vicinity as well.

When Kai got to the scene, it took him only a moment to take everything in.

Elijah and a blond vampire were standing inside a tomb. He could sense the blonde vampire is an Original vampire, and the body's signature is nearly identical to the signature of Rebekah's soul; so this must be Rebekah in her true body - since she is the only female Original. Kai also sensed a lot of anger coming from Davina.

The last person, the powerful unfamiliar witch, was a women with blond hair who looks to be middle-aged, she was modestly covered by brown rag.

"You've just ruined my one chance of bringing Kol back!" Davina angrily said to the Mikaelson siblings. "NO WONDER HE HATED THE LOT OF YOU!" She yelled.

"I am sorry, love, but we did not have any other options, we need Esther's blood to create a weapon to kill Dahlia. I promise we will help you bring Kol back later, but right now, we need Esther." Rebekah said pleadingly to the outraged young Regent.

Kai sensed guilt and concern coming from Rebekah. However, Davina was feeling too betrayed, disappointed, and angry, to care about Rebekah's reasoning.

"Don't blame Rebekah, it was me who swapped the ashes." Elijah intervened, diverting Davina's hatred onto himself.

Kai basically got the gist of what had happened. It would seem Esther is the key to killing Dahlia. Kai had been sceptical of the ingredients he'd been told were needed to kill Dahlia.

Kai didn't have a problem with the sacred soil and the Viking ash, but the third ingredient seemed to have a lot of unknown variables attached to it: blood of the witch who Dahlia had loved the most and broken her heart. Kai does not like unknown variables. But Kai had known nothing about Dahlia's past, so he'd had to take Freya's word on the ingredients; the soil from her homeland, and the ash belonging to her suppressors, Vikings, were representations of the place Dahlia and her power came into being, where she was born, and her immense hatred came from, the Vikings who suppressed her and used her power for themselves.

The third ingredient made sense as well: blood of the person Dahlia had love most, and who then broke her heart.

All three helped fuel the immense power Dahlia had used for her protection spell.

The problems was the third ingredient was more subjective; Dahlia took Freya for the power she'd give her, so there was not anything to really prove Freya is also the person whose blood could be used as an ingredient to create a weapon to kill her.

He hadn't mentioned this to anyone though, since Dahlia had been causing chaos and they needed to kill her as soon as possible. And there was no reason to mention something he couldn't back up, as the only things Kai knew about Dahlia were things he was told. If they used the blade made with Freya's blood and it didn't work to kill Dahlia, it would have proven Kai right, and then they could try to find out whose blood was the correct ingredient; but if it had worked on Dahlia, he would've been proven wrong, and Dahlia would be dead.

However, now that Kai is channeling Mikael, his spell gave him access not only to Mikael's magic, abilities, and powers, but also his knowledge.

Ten centuries of knowledge was a lot to sift through, but Kai had a gained a distinct suspicion, based on Mikael's memories, that Dahlia's last weakness wasn't her niece, but her sister, Esther. Kai believed Mikael himself hadn't realised this due to his belief in Freya, and his anger and hatred clouding his judgement.

Kai could feel Davina summoning her magic, she's about to use it to attack both Elijah and Rebekah. But he could also sense Rebekah is ready to make a move as well. One powerful young witch against two Originals; Kai knew that Davina wouldn't win - she's powerful, and could use the power of the Ancestors, but she's too emotional to think and fight properly right now.

Kai decided to jump in before Davina forced Rebekah's hands and a full blown fight broke out.

Right as Davina was about to attack, Kai sped in between Davina and the other two Originals.

Kai addressed the two Mikaelson Originals. "You guys go now. I'll talk to her."

Elijah nodded appreciatively; he quickly chained his mother and vamp-sped away with her. Rebekah issued Davina an apologetic glance before running after Elijah.

"HOW COULD YOU LET THEM GET AWAY WITH WHAT THEY'VE DONE?!" Davina screamed.

"I know you're beyond angry right now." Kai brought two hands forward in trying to placate her rage. "Please Davina, lis-"

"NO, I WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOUR EXCUSES!" She turned away. As though she realised something, she turned back to face him.

"Were you in on this? Are you part of their plan?" Kai could sense feelings of betrayal rolling off of Davina in waves.

Kai recoiled a little. Davina's magic was becoming extremely agitated. Between his magical and vampiric powers and abilities, Kai knew he could easily subdue her, but he didn't want to do that to a friend - unless he had to.

"I thought you were a friend." She cried, he eyes red with hot tears. "But you took their side. And I can't bring Kol back."

Davina dropped to her knees in tears; all of her feelings about the failed resurrection of Kol were too heavy to bear.

Not liking that his friend was upset, Kai moved forward to try and comfort her, but Davina stopped him by saying.

"Just go! I don't want to see you here anymore. No vampires will be allowed here. Pass that message on to your Mikaelson friends!" She shouted.

Kai lingered, his vampirism enhanced his mind and his emotions, but he's still a sociopath, so he wasn't quite sure what to say, or do, to reason with her, or help her feel better in this situation.

Kai and Davina had shared their grief, when they had mourned Josephine and Aiden together. But Davina is mourning that she had not resurrected Kol, and Kai isn't sure what to say to help her feel better - especially considering the things Kol had once done to his Mystic Falls friends, even if Kai hadn't even met them then.

He had finally thought of something to say when Davina, angry he was still lingering, brought her hands forward, and threw a mighty wave of magic at Kai.

Despite him not expecting it, due to his incredible speed, reflexes, and honed instincts, he still got out the way in time to avoid the magical attack. The magical attack sailed past Kai, and dissipated harmlessly when it ran out of energy; though there was a large indent on the ground, where the attack had carved away the ground as it had made its way towards him.

He turned back towards Davina. "I didn't know about their plan Davina, I wasn't even there when they came up with it. Regardless, I am sorry they had to take away your chance to bring Kol back. Don't give up though Davina, there is more than one way to bring back the dead." Kai said to her, sympathy clear in his voice.

Before she could respond, whether with magic or words, Kai vamp-sped out of the tomb; knowing she needed time alone. He knew staying wouldn't solve anything, it might just be adding oil to fire, so to speak.

So he went to catch up with the other Originals, to get back to the problem at hand. Getting a lock on their signatures, Kai followed them to Algiers; the district across the river.

Kai got there only moments after Rebekah and Elijah. He ended up outside St James's infirmary; a bar that is owned by Marcel, and had been spelled by Josephine to ward off magic intended to harm. His magic and his instincts told Kai it's a dangerous place for witches; if he enters, he will be put at a disadvantage.

But Kai reasoned that if he used magic defensively, it shouldn't stop his magic; Josephine had refused to enchant a place to render all witches that enter it completely unable to use magic; as it would have made her and all the witches she'd been Regent of completely unable to use magic as well. So as long as Kai, or any witch who enters, didn't use magic meant to harm, the wards shouldn't stop him, or any witch, from using magic. And if Kai does need to use more harmful magic while in there, Kai knew he could just siphon away the wards.

Rebekah came out to greet him. "How is she?" Kai knew she was referring to Davina.

Kai shook his head. "Not good, but we'll have to deal with that later."

Rebekah winced in sympathy for Davina, but then nodded in agreement.

"Is Freya inside?"

"No." Rebekah looked worried. "We just got a call from Marcel. Dahlia severed her connection to Klaus, and also melted the dagger. Before she left, she took Freya."

Kai tried to clear his thoughts. The situation was getting out of hand.

"Where's Hope? We weren't sure where she is, but seeing you here, am I correct to assume you absconded with my niece?"

"Your niece is perfectly safe." Kai said, unbothered by the suspicion he heard in her voice.

"Where is she then?" Rebekah asked impatiently.

"I told you she is safe. Have some trust will you?"

"Excuse me if I don't trust some stranger with the security of my niece. I trust my family."

Kai scoffed. "Indeed." He didn't understand that, her family had repeatedly turned against each other; he didn't understand how she could still trust them.

Kai, and his family, had done horrible things to each other, but he'd learned from his mistakes, and it seems so had his family and former coven. But it didn't seem to be the case for the Mikaelsons. Their entire family had betrayed each other many, many, times. Yet none of them learned from their mistakes; they betray each other again and again. Kai can understand eventually forgiving each other because of how much they love each other; but still trusting each other after so many betryals is something Kai doesn't think he will ever understand. They don't need to trust each other - you can love someone, but not trust them.

Kai and Rebekah walked into the main chamber of the infirmary.

Elijah was there, standing watch over Esther, who is now properly clothed.

"Elijah." Kai greeted.

"It seems you came out of whatever ordeal my brother inflicted on you intact." Kai's thoughts immediate darkened at the reminder at what Klaus put him through.

"Elijah, tell me what happened in New Orleans while I was away."

Elijah then told him everything that happened since Kai had left to secure Hope's safety.

A few moments after Elijah had finished catching him up, Klaus made his entrance.

"Oh, looks like everyone is already here." He said rather glibly. "Mother." He greeted Esther.

Klaus then saw Kai sitting by the bar. 'What will it take to keep you down?' He thought, with a hint of fear.

After managing to subdue the younger Original, the bone blade had buried itself back inside of Kai's chest, He had then reattached the cursed around Kai's wrists, wrapped a chain around him, put him in a coffin, and then dumped that coffin in a lake, where Kai would repeatedly drown while in agonising pain.

Yet, here he is. And by the looks of it, Kai got a good night of rest, since he doesn't appear to be tired - which means he must have escaped everything Klaus had done to him only hours after he'd done it.

After the fight he'd admitted, in his mind, that Kai is the most powerful Original, but Klaus had no idea how he'd managed to escape, Klaus doubts even he or Mikael would have escaped - especially that quickly.

"And here I thought I've gotten rid of your nuisance. Oh well, I'll be more thorough this time." Klaus said, ignoring all of his own thoughts. He won't allow his fear to affect him.

Klaus was holding a long knife as he sped towards Kai. But before he could reach him, Rebekah and Elijah both moved in between them.

"You two, get out of my way." Klaus ordered his siblings.

"No, we will not." Elijah said resolutely. He was tired of Klaus destroying things.

"Once again, to outmanoeuvre an enemy, you have broken our family."

Elijah then gestured to Kai. "While you were out gallivanting with Dahlia, young Malachai here protected Hope. And right now, she is safe in his custody."

Klaus turned to Kai. "You have my daughter." He sneered, taking a step towards Kai.

Rebekah intervened, pushing him back by his shoulder. "You have no one to blame but yourself Nik."

"You don't need to worry about Hope, I promise I will return her when everything is safe for her to return." Kai said seriously.

He then looked at each of them, to make sure they know he means it. Eventually, each of them nodded reluctantly; they do not trust him, but they all know Hope is not safe here right now.

"Now, as much as I enjoy your family's drama, how about we deal with Dahlia before you guys turn on each other." He finished with a fox-like grin, his relaxed personality quickly returning.

"I agree." Elijah concurred.

Reluctantly, Klaus backed off. "Now that we have dear mother over there, we have all of the necessary ingredients to make a weapon we can use to kill Dahlia."

"That sounds like a fine plan, but allow me to make a suggestion." Kai proposed, and they all listened.

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By nightfall, Dahlia had brought her niece to a warehouse. Old carriages were kept inside.

Dahlia had always favoured locations used for sacrifices. Two centuries ago, this site was used for executions - Dahlia found it fitting to be the site for her to execute her treacherous niece.

Dahlia then cast a spell on Freya, causing her to fell to her knees and struggle for air. She then dropped a bottle of salt onto the floor and used her magic to move the salt in order to form a magical circle around herself and Freya; she could leave it freely, but her niece was trapped inside.

"I actually pity you. Over the course of our long lives together, I could see you were broken. I used to think it was my fault, but in time, I learned that your ability to love died long ago." Freya said defiantly, struggling for air after Dahlia's spell.

Dahlia was amused. "Darkness isn't born, you know. It's created...by the snuffing out of the light." She said as she kneeled behind Freya.

"So, however you thought that you might mend me, know that you never could. Whenever I looked in your eyes, I saw your mother: the sister that turned my heart to stone. And with that stone, I will crush her children." She spoke in Freya's ear. Freya, as a result, looked slightly horrified.

Dahlia was interrupted by a voice calling out to her from a new arrival.

"Isn't there a saying about stones and glass houses?" Klaus, who just came in, remarked.

"In case the analogy is lost on you, I believe my brother is calling you a hypocritical bitch." Rebekah said, coming in from another direction.

Dahlia glanced at Freya. It would seem Freya's siblings would fight to save her. The thought sickened her.

"Hmm, bringing vampires to a witch fight. Someone hasn't learned their lesson." Dahlia taunted, reminding Klaus of their first battle.

"Well, I can be a bit thick sometimes." Klaus admitted, smiling.

At this point, the sound of rattling chains could be heard. At this, Dahlia turned to see Elijah making his entrance from her right side, dragging in somebody inside by the chains of their shackles.

Together, the three Mikaelson Originals enclosed on Dahlia.

"Although, on this occasion, I'd say I took your lesson to heart." Klaus said.

Dahlia was surprised to see her sister for the first time in over a thousand years. As the sisters stared at one another, both sisters felt long buried emotions.

While initially somewhat happy to see her little sister in so long, Dahlia immediately buried that emotion, then letting the hatred and resentment she'd cultivated for over one thousand years to take over.

On the outside it looked as though Dahlia was about to cry. However, it turned out to be otherwise as she started to laugh hysterically.

"My sister...in chains? Hahaha! Is she a gift to buy your freedom? Because I brought a gift as well." Dahlia then pulled out the white oak stake. This stake is the only known weapon that could be used to kill an Original vampire.

"One stake, three of us. Even if you don't hesitate, the other two will tear you in half." Klaus declared.

Dahlia smiled amusedly. "Sound thinking. But small thinking."

Dahlia held up the stake above her. Lightning flashed across the sky above them. After a moment, the stake was telekinetically thrown up into the air, exploding into small flakes, which resembled snowflakes falling down around them.

Dahlia then magically directed the flakes of white oak into Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah, magically forcing them to inhale. After they inhaled the flakes, they started to cough and gasp in pain, as their veins became visibly red and irritated. She was going to use the white oak flakes to kill them from the inside.

Dahlia smiled, sure of her victory. However, hearing a voice coming from behind her caused her to turn around.

"If that is the best you can do, then I'm sorely disappointed." Kai announced. He then thrust one of his hands forward, before yanking it back. This motion magically forced Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah, to cough out the flakes of white oak.

Besides panting, it looked as though the damage was not permanent. Klaus was the first to get back to his feet, followed by Elijah, then Rebekah.

"It seemed you have used up your one and only weapon." Kai remarked.

Dahlia looked at him curiously; like a child discovering a candy store for the first time.

"It seems we have met at last, you are the other powerful presence I have heard about. You are very good at cloaking, I could not even sense your presence." Dahlia commended.

"The vampire Klaus bled of vervain and compelled mentioned you though." Now that he isn't cloaked, she can sense he is an Original, but he had just used magic. So this is the man who has what she wants; he is immortal, but can still use magic.

Dahlia clapped her hands in delight. "So you are the secret weapon they've been hiding this entire time." She laughed, somewhat maniacally. "I will enjoy studying your corpse!"

Dahlia brought her hands up, causing the white oak flakes they'd coughed out to fly into her hands. All of the flakes were pushed together, forming a wooden spike; the resulting stake-like mass started glowing red, as if it is getting hotter.

Then suddenly, the object in her hands combusted into malicious green flames, though Dahlia didn't seem affected by the flames touching her skin. When the flames died, a black stake was in her hand; this new stake was slightly longer than the white oak one had been, and much thinner as well.

"Who said I used up my only weapon." Dahlia remarked. "This is a new and improved white oak stake. I added my dark magic to it. Though I suppose it is not fitting anymore to call it white, black oak stake is more appropriate."

"That's not all, I used my magic to enhance its affect on Originals. You will start to die the instant I stab you in the heart with it, and I don't need to leave it in you after stabbing you either."

Rebekah, Klaus, and Elijah, stared at the newly forged weapon cautiously.

"Follow with the plan." Kai told the others. After he did, they all took out blades. After what had happened between Klaus, Mikael, and Dahlia, Kai had sagely proposed they create more than one weapon; he told them if they only created a single weapon, Dahlia would just target the person wielding it, and, if she got a hold of it, then she could destroy the only weapon they had - like she did when she had faced Mikael and Klaus.

What Kai hadn't told them though, was that he could just siphon her protection spell.

While it is possible to use magic in a way resistant, or even immune, to siphoning, it is not the case for Kai; since the Gemini coven's power growing ever stronger had resulted in siphoners become more powerful as well. They became so powerful that the siphoner before Kai, and most siphoners after her, could siphon anything that's magical; in any way, shape, or form. This includes things created or powered by magic; any type of magic, Wicca or otherwise. Siphoners are witches, so just like how normal witches have to grow into their magic, a siphoner has to grow into their ability to siphon; meaning like how a normal witch's power grows as they age, so does a siphoner's ability to siphon, if a siphoner who'll grow strong enough to siphon anything usually gain this ability when reach physical maturity, though it could happen later in their life.

Though Kai didn't know about his ability to siphon magic from anything and anyone, as he grew up, Kai did notice his ability to siphon grew; there had been things Kai had tried and failed to siphon as a young child that Kai could siphon at a later time.

The last siphoner before Kai, who had left the coven, lived her life and then died, was the first siphoner who could absorb anything - this was why she could have even siphoned the magic of the cure, even if she'd been turned into a vampire and had then taken it. Most siphoners after her could also siphon anything - though not all of them, it just depends on the power of the siphoner.

The siphoners who could siphon anything magical couldn't siphon Kai though, in any way; this is because of his Absolute Magic.

Absolute Magic can only be absorbed by someone who already possesses it, and, since it isn't meant to exist, Absolute Magic is, and will always be, solely exclusive to Kai. Since it wasn't even meant to exist, Nature hadn't been able to prevent Kai from gaining it, afterwards, Nature had made sure it's completely impossible to obtain it. As Absolute Magic can only be absorbed by the wielder, the only being that can absorb Kai's magic is Kai himself.

As all his powers and abilities are linked, due to them coming from the same spell, this affect applies to any, and all, magic, powers, and abilities that Kai possesses. Also, as an affect of winning the Merge, whenever Kai siphons magic; the magic becomes permanently his, even when he siphons magic from external sources. This means that any, and all, magic Kai siphons cannot be siphoned from him, like it could be from others siphoners and Heretics that have already siphoned magic.

So Kai is the only siphoner whose magic, powers, and abilities, can't be siphoned by anyone, except himself. This also applies to any, and all, other ways of using or absorbing magic, powers, and abilities - like channeling.

Due to his true immortality and incredible healing ability, Kai doesn't have to worry about any magic he absorbs damaging him. While the siphoner before Kai, and any siphoners after him, could absorb any, and all, magic, other than Kai's, siphoners could be hurt, or even killed, by siphoning magic their body cannot handle; like if his twin sister's babies siphoned Expression magic before they can handle its power - if they ever can, since some witches can't ever handle Experssion.

Fortunately, their sensitivity to magic means siphoners can usually sense when magic is too dangerous for them to siphon. The ability to withstand the siphoned magic grows with time; so the siphoner will be able to sense when they gain the ability to withstand more dangerous kinds of magic, if they ever do; as some kinds of magic are too much for some witches to be able to handle.

So Kai can siphon any and all forms of magic, can handle any, and all, of the magic that he siphons, can siphon any amount of magic, and his own magic, powers, and abilities cannot be absorbed in any way or used by anyone other than him. All of this means Kai is the most powerful siphoner in history.

He did not tell them that he could just absorb Dahlia's protection spell though, as killing her with a weapon would be easier; since he needs to touch a source of magic to siphon the magic from it, but a weapon could kill her just by stabbing her lethally with it. Plus, if they became desperate enough, they could throw their weapons at her, and could therefore kill her without even getting close to her; as long as the thrown blade landed lethally that is.

He'd supplied them with more Viking ash and Norwegian soil to create a weapon for each of them. Altogether, four blades were created they could use to kill Dahlia.

Seeing that they were all armed as well, Dahlia, for the first time in centuries, felt truly threatened. "If you want a fight, so be it." Dahlia proclaimed.

"I guess I'll start us off." Klaus said as he appeared behind Esther, his blade raised to her throat. With a quick movement, Klaus slit Esther's throat. Blood ran down her neck, Esther once again dying at the hands of her son.

Seeing her sister die in front of her, Dahlia was taken by surprise. Elijah and Rebekah capitalised on her surprise to descend on Dahlia with their weapons. However, unfortunately for their side, Dahlia regained her focus in time to divert Rebekah and Elijah's attacks; though Elijah's blade ended up embedded in Dahlia's shoulder instead of her heart; where he'd been trying to stab her. After that, Dahlia telekinetically threw Elijah and Rebekah back.

Dahlia pulled the blade out of her shoulder, then threw it aside. Rage empowered her as she summoned more of her magic.

While all this was happening, Kai freed Freya from Dahlia's salt circle, and then put her against the side of the warehouse; to keep her out of the way of friendly fire.

Klaus ran at Dahlia, but his attack missed his mark as she vanished the moment he was about to stab her with his blade. Before Klaus could react, Dahlia was already behind him, several meters away.

Dahlia raised the stake high in a reverse grip, then brought it down in a whipping motion, a vine rapidly grew out of the end of the black oak stake. This created what was essentially a whip. The vine coiled around Klaus' neck, and, since the vine was linked to the stake, Klaus started desiccating rapidly.

Elijah and Rebekah ran to intervene, but with her other hand, Dahlia just created an explosion of green flames that caused both of of them to fall over, both of them were badly burned.

Too injured to do anything else, Rebekah desperately threw her knife at Dahlia's heart, but the witch just telekinetically redirected it towards Elijah. The knife struck Elijah in the neck, the force of it was so great that it snapped his neck; temporarily immobilising him.

Dahlia withdrew the vine, pulling the desiccated Klaus closer to her. Dahlia then brought the black stake down towards Klaus's heart.

"NO!" Rebekah screamed, her injuries not quite healed enough for her to do anything to stop Dahlia.

Before the stake could meet its mark, an explosion of fire suddenly appeared between Dahlia and Klaus. Dahlia had disappeared just in time to avoid any damage, but Klaus had caught the mystical inferno point blank. Kai, the one who'd created the explosion, wasn't bothered that he'd just barbecued Klaus. In fact, he'd enjoyed it.

Kai knew the explosion could not kill Klaus, which was better than the alternative. As some of his friends are still linked to Klaus, he won't just let Klaus die; no matter how much he loaths Klaus.

In fact, if it weren't for some of his friends lives being linked to Klaus' life; he would likely have let Dahlia kill him, for what Klaus had done to him and everyone else.

As Dahlia reappeared, Rebekah, now fully healed, ran at Dahlia.

While she was lacking a weapon she could use to kill Dahlia, Rebekah hoped to incapacitate the witch by snapping her neck.

That idea proved fruitless, as Dahlia just raised her hand; causing Rebekah to stagger back as she began to desiccate, as Dahlia used magic to stop her heart. While Rebekah began to desiccate, Dahlia conjured vines out of the ground to trap her - securing her like the bandages around a mummy.

Kai, seeing that he was now alone against Dahlia, couldn't help but remark. "So much for safety in numbers."

"And then there was one." Dahlia gloated. "Originals - the mightiest of vampires now lay before me."

"Don't count us out yet." He said, as he sheathed his knife so he could use both of his hands.

His hands started sizzling with frost, before he released a wave of frost and ice towards Dahlia. He kept going for about a minute.

When he was done, Dahlia, and the ground around her, was frozen.

It was short lived however, as the frozen Dahlia almost immediately started cracking. With the burst of her magic, the ice and frost encasing Dahlia shattered. Dahlia appeared unfazed by what he had done to her.

"Not bad, I have not seen such a powerful display of elemental magic in a very long time, but not good enough. Do not you know? I am too powerful to be trapped in some ice."

Vines then quickly grew out the ground and tunneled towards Kai. With his superior speed and agility, he ran, flipped, passed around, and jumped, to avoid the vines, while using the blade in his right hand and fire from his left hand to destroy them. But it seemed endless, as more vines kept replacing the vines he destroyed.

But eventually, a vine caught his feet; causing Kai to lose his footing. More vines descended on him. His legs and arms became ensnared by the vines. As more vines coiled around his body, and some vines were reaching towards Kai's head, Kai knew that if he didn't do anything, it would be all over.

His eyes glowed slightly as he used his magic. Electricity surged from his entire body, destroying the vines around his body. The vines turned to dust, however Dahlia had already capitalised on the moment. She was in front of him, black oak stake in hand.

Before he could do anything, she thrust the stake into his heart.

Dahlia looked down at him, whose body was starting to desiccate and burn up. "I guess I can't study your corpse, when it will all be ash. What a pity." She said, then pulled the stake out of his chest, right before he began burning up.

While she'd wanted to know how he had what she wants, she had already decided it didn't matter; though they'd be nice to have, she isn't that interested in physical power, and she already has her own way to become immortal without losing the ability to use magic. Besides, she does not want the bad aspects of being an Original; like how they can be killed by white oak, neutralised by white oak ash daggers, weakened by werewolf venom, or their hunger for blood. There are other bad aspects of being a vampires, but they wouldn't matter if she kept her magic; she could make herself a Daylight ring, or use magic to make someone invite her inside a house.

She watched him burn for a moment. When she saw him die, she turned around - to finish her work.

She has to kill the other Originals before they recuperate, and she hasn't forgotten about Freya. Then she needed to destroy those blades. And then heal the wound Elijah's blade had inflicted. She could then finally start looking for her grand-niece, Hope.

A hissing sound caught her ear, but before she could even react though, four long snakes bit her legs. The venom from the bites caused her to fall to her knees. The snakes then coiled around her, restricting her movements. They then bit her again, this time in the neck - the venom from the eight bites immobilising her.

She started to struggle, but could not find the strength to do anything more than slightly wriggle; which had no affect on the snakes. She then tried to summon her magic, but when it didn't answer, panic rose within her.

"Is that fear I sense?" Dahlia jerked her neck upwards towards the voice.

"That's impossible! I killed you!"

Kai crouched in front of the struggling witch. "Do not you know? I am too powerful to be killed by some stake." He said, paraphrasing the statement she had said to him earlier.

Dahlia stared at him in confusion, anger, and fear.

Kai decided he wanted the other Originals to know what he is; so they would know what he's capable of, to be wary of him, and not to get on his bad side - in Klaus' case, again.

So, after standing back up and looking towards the downed Originals, Kai flicked his fingers towards them.

Elijah awoke when Kai healed his snapped neck, Klaus regained the complexion in his face when Kai's magic reveresed the affects of the vine that had been connected to Dahlia's black oak stake, and Rebekah woke when Kai reversed the desiccation spell Dahlia used on her; while the vines wrapped around her were destroyed. Freya was still where Kai had left her earlier.

The Mikaelson Originals noticed each other getting up, and realised Dahlia had beaten them all. They then saw Kai and Dahlia and stared at the scene in front of them in shock.

They'd all been taken out - but Kai is stood near Dahlia, who he appears to have subdued.

Which meant Kai had taken down Dahlia, a very powerful witch, by himself. When all three of them couldn't. The Mikaelsons decided not to move, or to say anything; they wanted to see what's going to happen next.

"Allow me to explain, since you're going to die anyway." He then looked towards the Mikaelson siblings, and added. "And you can all know; for future reference." It's clear to the Mikaelsons Kai meant that he wants them to know as a warning; in case they ever consider attacking him - in Klaus' case, again.

"I was made differently to the other Originals, the spell that turned me was different to the spell that turned the other Originals; Esther added things to the spell, and strengthened and, or, modified the parts that were already there - one of her modifications was to bind the immortality to something else, instead of white oak."

"So white oak has no affect on me." Kai said, smirking at Dahlia and the Mikaelson Originals, before adding. "Which obviously means that the daggers don't have any affect on me either." After all, the daggers only work if they have been dipped in white oak ash; but the spell which had turned Alaric, and then Kai, had not been tied to white oak, so white oak doesn't have any affect on him - in any of its forms.

The Mikaelson Originals needed a moment to realise what he was talking about. There was only one spell that their mother had used to create an Original that wasn't affected by white oak - the spell that had been used to turn Alaric into a vampire; the Enhanced Original spell.

But they didn't understand how that was possible. Alaric had died shortly after being turned, so they didn't understand how Kai is the Enhanced Original.

Klaus had an idea though. When the Other Side was collapsing, he'd talked to Bonnie to find out what was happening; she'd explained what was going on, and she'd also mentioned they were going to bring a few of their friends back to life before it collapsed, and Alaric had been one of them.

Bonnie had explained Alaric had been brought back as the Enhanced Original, but that his dark personality was gone. To make sure it was true, he'd contacted a few people, and told them to keep an eye on Alaric. From them Klaus had learned it was true, he also learned that not long after he'd been brought back, Alaric fell over some kind of magical boundary that was placed around Mystic Falls; the boundary had, somehow, stripped away his vampirism.

Klaus guessed that Kai had got it from that magical boundary, somehow.

"However, I was turned by a mutated version of it." Kai continued. "Have you heard of the Immortal Silas?"

Dahlia eyes reflected her recognition. The Mikaelson siblings already knew about Silas; they had all heard of, or even met, Silas.

"I see that you have. Due to a mutation in the spell, my immortality was derived from the spell that turned Silas. I'm going to live forever."

He decided not to mention his psychic powers, or all the extra magic he'd added to the spell before it turned him - while he wants them to be wary of him, he doesn't want them to be so paranoid of his powers and abilities that they target those he cares about; something they have done to others. He thinks that the best way to do this, is if they know enough to be cautious of him, but not everything; if Kai told them everything about his powers and abilities, they might become paranoid.

This shocked and terrified all of the Mikaelsons. It terrified them to know that he has the power of the Enhanced Original, can use magic, and has the immortality of Silas; as this means Kai is a very powerful Original who could also take them down with magic, but that they can't kill, or dagger, if he turns on them.

The Mikaelson Originals also remember Alaric, as the Enhanced Original, could walk in sunlight without combusting; though they know he did heat up. They thought that since he's resistant to sunlight, or, since he's part witch, maybe even immune to it, and is unaffected by the daggers, that he is like Klaus - they're both hybrids that can walk in sunlight without combusting, and both of them can't be neutralised by the normal white oak ash daggers - though, while Kai is not affected by them at all, Klaus can be neutralised by one as long as it was not made of silver.

Though they all know that Kai is more powerful; as there's no known weapon that can kill, or permanently neutralise, Kai, and he can also use magic; which no other Original vampire can do.

They had already thought Kai is the most powerful Original, since, as an Original vampire-witch hybrid, he has both physical and magical power. But they hadn't been afraid of Kai because they'd had the white oak stake and white oak ash daggers; which they had thought they could use to kill, or permanently neutralise, him - if he turned on them. Now they know that isn't true, they fear him - since he's a very powerful and skilled being they have no way to kill, or permanently neutralise.

'He's the ultimate Original.' The Mikaelson Originals all thought, after processing all of this.

"But I saw you burn when I stabbed you with the stake!"

"You only saw what you wanted to see. It was easy to fool you with an illusion when I showed you what you wanted, and expected, to see."

Dahlia tried to struggle again, but she was still weakened by the venom, and, even if she wasn't, the snakes were coiled too strongly for her to free herself. "What are these snakes? Why do I feel so weak? I'm not weak!"

Kai continued to smile victoriously. "When you were chasing me with those annoying vines, I was not only dodging them, I was also retrieving the weapons that Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah, dropped."

Seeing the confusion in her eyes. "You still don't understand? For a millennium old witch, you sure are slow on the uptake."

Kai used his magic to recall one of snakes, the remaining snakes coiled even tighter to compensate. Kai knew three of these magical serpents were more than enough to hold Dahlia.

The recalled snake then slithered up his arm, and into his palm.

"Voila." The snaked started flexing at irregular angles.

Dahlia's eyes widened as she saw the snake shrink and change shape; until it turned into a dagger - one of the daggers made to kill her.

"Recognise it? This is Klaus' blade, one of the blades spelled to kill you. This is called transfiguration magic, you might have heard of it - it's very old magic. Changing something into something else is simple to someone who had mastered the art, like me."

He continued his explanation, as Freya walked to his side. "As they were transfigured from the blades, they hold the properties bound to them: sacred soil, Viking ash and your sister's blood. Which is why the venom works on you. The toxin is slow acting, so it's slowly killing you."

Dahlia can't believe she was outmanoeuvred in magic. She gave a defeated smile, which turned into a hysterical laugh. "End it, but indulge a dying witch will you. For so long, I tried to gain immortality without losing access to my magic. I came so close."

The Mikaelsons and Kai stared pitifully at Dahlia.

Dahlia then gazed at Kai. "How did you achieve the impossible?"

Kai's gaze flickered to Freya, and then to her siblings, he could also sense their curiosity about that.

"I guess I'll indulge you." He said to Dahlia. He then passed the blade in his hand to Freya, who took it without a question.

"And I guess I can satisfy your curiousity." He said to the Mikaelson siblings.

"It wasn't intentional." Kai said laughing, knowing how his answer would make her feel.

'It wasn't intentional? He got what I have been seeking for so long, by accident!' Dahlia thought, angry. She had been searching for a very long time for a way to gain immortality that wouldn't cause her to lose the ability to use her magic; so hearing someone gained it unintentionally greatly angered her.

Kai felt her anger, and smirked in response.

"You see, I was born with a defective witch gene." He revealed astonishing all of them. Some of them had witnessed his witch abilities first hand, and even those who haven't know he is powerful - just by his defeat of Dahlia, and the explanation of how he defeated her, showed his incredible skill; so they were surprised to hear that a witch as skilled as Kai was born with a defective witch gene, especially because none of them even knew that it is possible to have a defective witch gene.

"I was born unable to generate and hold onto magic like normal witches. But I was born with the unholy and unnatural ability to siphon magic from other sources. We are called siphoners."

This revelation shocked everyone. None of them had ever met, or even heard of, a witch like that.

"As a siphoner, I can absorb magic, and, since spells are made from magic, I retained all of my siphoner powers and abilities when I became a vampire; which lets me practice magic by siphoning from my own vampirism. Recently, I underwent a ritual that also gave me all the powers and abilities of a normal witch. This gives me the best of both; I'm still a siphoner, so I can still siphon magic, but I can also generate my own magic now as well." Kai explained, while walking around Dahlia.

He stopped walking, before adding. "I am not even the first siphoner to become a vampire-witch hybrid. There is a small group of vampire-witch hybrids; though they were turned by vampire blood, not by a spell. Though the others aren't really around anymore. We are called Heretics." Kai said, stood behind Dahlia.

All their eyes widened again. 'There are more vampire-witch hybrids.' They all thought shocked.

Kai then leaned down slightly. "But siphoners usually absorb magic from other witches." He whispered next to Dahlia's ear.

Kai then straightened back up, and raised his voice back to normal so that everyone could hear what he said to her next. "When I found out you killed my friend, I planned and thought of ways to make you suffer. Just killing you isn't enough for me. The one thing you covet is power, so I will take your power from you!"

"No, no, no - stay back!" Dahlia cried as she realised what he is going to do. "NOOO!" She may have a brilliant strategic mind, but her magic is what makes her so powerful, even the idea of losing any of her power is horrible to her.

"This is for Josephine." Kai said, he then put both his hands on her shoulders. His hands glowed red as he started absorbing her magic.

The Mikaelson siblings stood still as they marveled at the unholy and unnatural ability that is siphoning.

Thanks to all of their years of being alive, the Mikaelsons have met many witches, and they all know while normal witches could steal magic, they could never steal magic in such a direct way; a normal witch would require a powerful spell, or a conduit of some sort.

Kai took close to 10 minutes to siphon away 1000 years worth of powerful magic. He could've done it more quickly and, or, more painfully, but Kai knows for Dahlia, the feeling of her magic slowly being drained from her is worse than any pain that anyone could inflict on her.

When he stopped, Dahlia's hair had turned grey, and her skin was heavily wrinkled. Only her protection spell remained.

Kai felt powerful. Thanks to the Merge, he could now contain and keep any magic he siphons. He had added a millennium of magic to Kai's already incredible reserves, which was merged with his magical essence. As the True Immortal, he doesn't have to worry about overloading on magic.

All of her magic, was now permanently his. Which means if he were to use all the magic he'd absorbed, and most of the incredible reserves he already had, that when Kai's reserves were restored to full; he would regain all the magic from his vampire and Merged witch sides, along with the magic he'd just absorbed; this is the same for any, and all, magic he has siphoned, and will siphon, since winning the Merge.

Though Dahlia was withered, she was still alive. This kill isn't his.

"You should do the honours, Freya." He told her. Dahlia has made her life miserable, she deserves her vengeance.

Freya moved towards her aunt, the women who'd tormented her for so long. Blade poised, she slowly thrust the blade into Dahlia's heart; after everything Dahlia has done to her, Freya wanted to make it as slow and painful as she could.

"This is for Matthias." She whispered.

When it was fully sheathed into Dahlia's heart, the blade did as intended; bonded with sacred soil from Dahlia's homeland, Viking ash, and Esther's blood, the blade pierced Dahlia's protection, and killed her instantly. Dahlia's body turned into an ash sculpture, which was then blown away by the wind.

The black oak stake also withered away into dust. The flakes had been bound together by Dahlia's magic, now she's dead; the weapon turned into flakes once more.

"At last, it's over. Thank you." Freya said to Kai, she was so grateful to him - he had taken down her aunt, then allowed her to have her revenge.

Kai merely nodded in response to her thanks. Kai then said to the Mikaelsons. "I'll see you all later at your home."

"Where are you going?" Freya asked.

"I have some business to attend to." Kai answered, then before anyone could say anything, he teleported away.

---

She awoke with a gasp.

She stared around at what appeared like a hotel suite. She tried to recall how she got there, the last thing she remembered was Klaus slitting her throat. She'd died.

"You're in transition, Esther." Kai said, after walking in from another room.

"This time in your own body. I slipped some vampire blood into your drink at St. James." He explained.

Kai then threw a blood bag at her, but she didn't take it.

"Your children insisted on your death. I had my reservations about that, but conceded your demise would assist in distracting your sister. We won by the way; Dahlia is dead. But I thought that it would such a shame to just kill you." Kai told her.

"You are an ancient witch, and the witch who created the Original vampires. You are a vast encyclopedia of spells and magical knowledge. As you already know, I am a vampire-witch hybrid. But I'm also a scholar of anything that is, in any way, shape, or form, magical; and I want to add your magical knowledge to my own."

"I will not be a tool for you to use." She said indignantly. He only wants her magical knowledge, as if she's just an ancient spell book.

"You don't have much of a choice I'm afraid." He tilted his head in mock apology.

With his fingers, he made a twirling motion, the motion made the blood bag burst, but none of the blood was dropped. The blood was suspended in the air, before he made it fly straight at Esther. She tried to move, but Kai used telekinesis to keep her in place, and forced the blood to enter her body through her nose and mouth.

Esther was now officially a vampire - very little human blood was needed to complete the transition.

"No." she started to weep and cough. It was bad enough that she'd been a vampire before in someone else's body, but now she's one in her own body.

"You shouldn't reject vampirism - after all, you created it. Be happy! You have the distinction of being the first vampire in a sireline."

"Yours you mean." Esther replied, venomously.

"Oh no." He smiled. "Not mine - you were turned by your husband's vampire blood."

Esther eyes widened in shock.

Kai took that opportunity to connect his gaze with hers, and began to compel. "You are going to compile volumes of every spell you have ever created, and the theory behind them, especially Qetsiyah's Immortality spell, and your version of it. I also want detailed chapters on soul transferring spells, and on the sire link spell. And, as you were an Ancestral spirit for a while, you'll also write everything you know about that too. Also, write in detail about Moonlight rings." Kai said, these are the topics he most wanted her knowledge of the most.

"You will write everything down using the pens and journals on the table over there. Your handwriting will be neat and easy to read. You will not leave unless I tell you to. While you are here, you won't touch anything I have not told you to touch. Also, you will not harm yourself, or damage anything." Kai does not want her to destroy anything, including the journals she's going to write, or to end her life to prevent herself from completing her task. She hadn't wanted to become a vampire, so it isn't difficult to realise she might attempt to kill herself; especially to prevent someone from getting her magical knowledge.

"That will be all." Kai dismissed. Esther then went diligently begin her task.

---

As Kai was walking down Bourbon Street, he took in the scenes of the very festive city. Yet he couldn't help but feel that recent events had soured his view of the city.

Kai stood still, letting the jazzy music filter through his senses. Taking a breath, he was about to continue on his way to the Mikaelson house, but-

Kai immediately sped out of sight. He reappeared in a nearby alleyway, holding an unknown black-suited male vampire by the throat, pushing him against a wall.

"Why are you following me? And who are you?" Kai demanded.

The vampire struggled, but didn't say anything.

"I'll ask once more." Kai before he then activated his compulsion. "Why are you following me? And who are you?"

The compulsion immediately took effect. "I was ordered to follow you. My name is Dmitri Dragonov."

"Okay, Dmitri Dragonov." Kai began. "Who do you work for? And from who did you receive your order?" Kai asked.

"I work for the Strix." Dmitri was alarmed he had revealed any information. For some reason, the vervain isn't protecting him from Kai's compulsion. "My order came from the head of the Strix - Tristan de Martel."

"What have you told them about me?"

"That you're an Original. But no one knows exactly how you became one, or where you came from."

"What else?"

"That you are in possession of Mikael, an Original vampire."

"Is that all?"

"Yes."

"Why were you ordered to follow me?"

"Tristan de Martel wants people to keep an eye on the Originals. I was originally assigned to keep an eye on the other Originals. But when I told Tristan that there was a new Original vampire, he ordered me to follow just you; since you're an unknown Original who turned up out of nowhere. He hoped that by following you I would be able to find out how you became an Original."

'Good.' Kai thought. He had thought the Strix had somehow found out about what he did in London, and had him followed for it, but it seems that the Strix have other business in New Orleans.

"Are there any other people keeping an eye on the other Originals?"

"Yes."

"How many more of the Strix's people are in this city?"

"Only two more. Until I was assigned to follow you, all three of us were ordered to keep an eye on the Mikaelsons."

'Makes sense, I guess.' Kai thought. All of the other Originals live together; so, for now, there is no need to send more people. Though Kai thinks that it is likely more people will come later - for whatever their business is; he doubts the Strix just want to keep an eye on the Mikaelsons.

"Do you meet up with the others? If so, what for? How often do you meet up? And when do you meet up with them next?"

"Yes, we meet up to discuss and report our findings; we always meet up in private so no one overhears what we are saying. We meet up once a day; so if something happens to one of use, the others can pass the information onto Tristan. We meet up again in a few hours."

"Okay." Kai smiled, happy at the successful interrogation. "You will go on with your duties and you will forget about this conversation and our meeting. After I let you go, you will go get yourself a burger. When you meet up with the others later, you will kill them as soon as they let their guards down. You will then bring their heads to this Tristan de Martel, tell him Kai Parker send his regards. They will probably torture you, maybe even kill you, but no matter what they say or do, no matter how much you want to say anything, and no matter what they ask you, you will only respond with 'Judgement is coming'." Kai compelled, he then released the vampire.

"Okay." The Strix vampire answered, before speeding off; going to get a burger, as Kai had compelled him to.

For now at least, he isn't interested in dealing with the Strix. As normal vampires, the Strix's lives are tied to the lives of the Originals; so even if they could kill them, they wouldn't. Beyond that, Kai does not really care what happens to the other Originals.

With a sigh, Kai went on with his business.

Kai entered the Mikaelson home. Having been there before, Kai easily navigated his way into the dining room, where he could clearly hear Klaus and Rebekah talking.

"And while your sisters help you raise your daughter, what will the mother of your child be doing?" Rebekah asked pointedly, referring to what Klaus had Dahlia do to Hayley, the mother of his daughter.

Klaus had nothing to say to that.

"Brother, this is not what happiness looks like." At that point, Kai entered, and saw that Klaus was sat at the dining room table, while Rebekah was stood next to it.

Seeing Kai walking towards them, Klaus immediately stood up. "Where is my daughter? You said you would return her once everything was safe."

"And I will, once everything is safe."

"Well, get on with it then! The bloody witch is dead, New Orleans is once again returned to its relative level of safety."

"Not yet." Kai said. "There are still dangers and threats lurking about - in your gambit against Dahlia, you managed to anger all three supernatural Factions of this city. You cursed the wolves. You attacked the new vampire Faction. And angered the new Regent by ruining her best chance of resurrecting her boyfriend. The new hostility between the vampires and the witches is on you and your family."

"Let them quarrel." Klaus rebutted glibly. "It's not New Orleans without the supernatural Factions at each other's throats."

Kai pitched the bridge of his nose. "You don't get it, do you? You're the issue. Your presence alone is hurting the city. You make it unsafe. And you alone bring danger to your child."

"How dare you!" Klaus bellowed, his anger already rising to the surface. His previous fear of Kai temporarily erased by his anger.

Kai swiftly bridged the distance between them, and stabbed Klaus in the heart with a white oak ash dagger. Klaus immediately staggered back, and fell to the ground desiccated and, for all intents and purposes, dead.

"Bloody hell!" Rebekah cried. "What did you do?!"

Elijah vamp-sped into the room. He'd heard Rebekah's cry, and thought she was in danger. Freya followed in after him.

"How nice." Kai remarked dryly. "Everyone's here."

"What's going on here?" Elijah demanded.

"Where did you get this?" Rebekah asked as she looked the silvery dagger.

"Silver shouldn't work on Klaus." She said confused. Silver heals werewolves; so, due to his werewolf side, silver white oak ash daggers can't neutralise Klaus.

"But it's not silver, it's platinum." Kai revealed. "Which means that it won't melt as easily. Dahlia destroyed the gold dagger, but, taking inspiration from Davina, I transmuted my own dagger from silver to platinum."

"Platinum?" She murmured, but then it hit her. If Kai had used the one dagger he had on Klaus, then that means -

"You freed Mikael?" She accused incredulously.

Kai scoffed and remarked with faux indignation. "You forget, I'm not just a vampire, I'm a witch as well. I have other ways of neutralising your father without the white oak ash daggers."

Sensing that he'd placated her concern regarding Mikael, Kai continued.

"I am taking Klaus into my custody. In return, I will return Hope to you. I will not allow Klaus to remain here, raising and corrupting Hope, while her mother suffers elsewhere. So I will keep Klaus in my custody, until Hayley is returned to normal - even if it takes centuries to do so, I have all the time in the world."

Elijah did not yield to many people. His family had been at the top of the supernatural hierarchy for close to ten centuries, that made his family the closest thing to nobility the vampire race had. And Elijah had learned to wear that nobility like armour.

Elijah had asked Marcel and Hayley about Kai, after Kai saved Mikael from Klaus - since Kai had told him he's a friend of them both at the wedding. Marcel and Hayley had confirmed Kai is both an Original vampire and a witch. Elijah had not been concerned about the part of the young man being an Original; after all, this family had the white oak stake, and access to white oak ash daggers, which Elijah had believed they could use to kill, or permanently neutralise, Kai - if it became necessary.

While Kai had used magic on him to release Freya from his hold, Elijah had believed the magic attack had originated from Freya. Elijah just couldn't comprehend, and reconcile, the idea of a vampire that can wield magic. The revelation Kai could also use magic had given Elijah reason to be cautious. Yet, the threat Dahlia had posed to his family had overshadowed his concerns. Plus Hayley had vouched for the younger Original, revealing to him the role Kai had played in saving Hope from Finn.

After Kai had managed to subdue Dahlia single handedly, and the explanation of how he had done it, the Mikaelson family had to acknowledge Kai as a very powerful, very skilled, and very smart, new player.

When Kai had revealed what he is, Elijah had been terrified as, due to the mutations he had mentioned, he has the same type of immortality Silas had possessed; so there's no known weapon that can kill Kai. Elijah and his family also know that even if the spell which turned him hadn't been mutated, they still wouldn't have a way for them to kill, or even permanently neutralise, Kai.

Kai was turned by the Enhanced Original spell, and the Enhanced Original spell had not been tied to white oak; so white oak has no affect on him at all. The spell had been bound to Elena's human blood, and Elena is a vampire now; so they know it couldn't have been tied to her life, since she isn't human anymore.

Which the Mikaelsons knew meant, even without the spell being mutated, Kai still would not have been, in any way, shape, or form, bound to anything, or anyone.

They'd learned what had happened during Klaus' fight against Kai, and what Klaus done to him afterwards. Yet, even with all that Klaus had done to him, Kai had still escaped, and mere hours after it happened. This showed them that even though Kai could be neutralised, it is unlikely to be permanent.

So Elijah knows Kai is a very powerful being who they have no way to kill, or permanently neutralise. Whether Kai is an ally or an enemy is likely only separated by a thin line. And they couldn't risk having someone like Kai as their enemy.

Even now, Elijah knew by daggering Klaus, Kai now has two Originals in his custody. They would need to be careful they don't get on Kai's bad side - lest they all end up in Kai's custody.

"Don't you think that this might be a bit excessive? While I am not the biggest fan of my brother right now, I do not want to hand over a member of this family to a stranger. Rebekah and I will make sure he'll keep out of trouble. I'll keep him under control." Elijah protested. "Hope needs her father."

"That may be true, but with Klaus as her father, I find that debatable. And I don't find this excessive at all, it's nothing less than he deserves. You should count your own blessings Elijah; I have half a mind to take you along with him, and if I didn't think Hope will be safer with two Originals and a Mikaelson witch protecting her, I would. For far too long you've excused his behaviour. In some ways, Gia's death is as much your fault as it is his!" He said sneering.

Kai had heard Klaus has been doing terrible acts, even to good people, ever since he became an Original. Kai can understand that Elijah wants to believe in Klaus, but he's been been doing terrible things for over a thousand years, and even though Elijah has gotten angry and upset at some of Klaus' actions, Elijah always made, and continues to make, excuses for them, no matter how horrible the action, or how many good people that Klaus hurts or kills.

While Kai himself had once hurt and killed his siblings, he'd felt guilty and still does, and he'd learned from his actions. Klaus rarely seems to feel guilt, and even when he does, he doesn't seem to feel it for long. Plus, regardless of his actions or their consequences, Klaus never seems to learn from his past actions; he'll do something truly awful, then he might not do anything truly awful for a while, then he'll do something else truly awful. It is one of the reasons that Klaus has so many enemies.

Elijah looked away, thinking about how he was defending Klaus even after what he had compelled Gia to do, and remembering her scream as she died.

"And you don't have to worry about your brother's safety while he is in my custody. There are some good people whose lives are tied to his, I wouldn't condemn them to die as well; so I won't try to kill him, if you're worried about that."

While the last white oak stake is now gone, enough magic, or poweful enough magic, could kill an Original. Also, as vampirism was created, and is powered, by magic, a siphoner could siphon all of a vampire's magic, which would kill the vampire; as the magic within vampirism is what keeps a vampire them alive. Since siphoning all of a vampire's magic would remove what keeps them alive, the vampire would die - even an Original vampire.

Originals have a lot more magic from the moment they become vampires; so much magic that normal siphoners, or even Heretics, would overload on all the magic and die before they could siphon it all, a group of them would be needed to siphon all the magic of a single Original, even the weakest Original. This even applies if the normal siphoner, or Heretic, is powerful; as even the most powerful siphoners, regardless of them being a Heretic or just a siphoner, would be unable to handle the magic of a single Original, especially with how powerful the magic is. This is made worse through time, as, just like all other vampires, an Original's magic, and their power, grows stronger with time.

But since Kai can siphon as much magic as wants to without the risk of overloading on magic, he could kill an Original by siphoning all of their magic. He could also ensure that if the Original was resurrected, they would come back as what they were before they turned. Becoming a vampire tranforms not just the body, but also the soul. This is why when a vampire is resurrected in a way that gives them a new body, the new body is vampire body; like how Damon got a new body when his and Bonnie's spirits entered the prison world, they gained new bodies, and Damon's new body was a vampire body.

However, if a siphoner siphons a vampire's magic at a fast enough rate, they could also siphon all the magic from the vampire's soul as well, or they found another way to siphon all the magic from a soul, they could revert the vampire's soul back to the way it was before they were a vampire. This would mean if the vampire is then resurrected, they would be brought back as whatever they were before they were turned into vampires.

For example, if Kai did this to Klaus, then Klaus would be brough back as a werewolf-witch hybrid - though one who had tapped into his magic. As Kai could siphon without worrying about overloading, he could do this too.

Kai stood in front of Elijah.

"You will all need to take care of Hope. Rebekah did an amiable job of taking care of the baby for 6 months, but she'll be a lot safer with you all looking after her."

He then addressed the whole family. "Klaus destroyed the unity within this city, your family destroyed this city. I trust you will make an effort to fix your family's damage. If this is to be Hope's home, vampires, werewolves, and witches must learn to coexist."

"Can't you help Hayley with your magic?" Elijah pleaded.

Kai sighed. "I could remove the Crescent curse, but my ways of removing it would also undo the unification ceremony. I do not think Hayley would want that. There must be a better way to remove it - one that won't undo the unification ceremony. But it is up to you and your family to try and to find it."

Then he addressed Freya. "Meet me at my suite in an hour. You and I are going to retrieve Hope."

Freya nodded.

As he grabbed Klaus by arm, Rebekah and Elijah gave their brother a lingering look. Both were feeling rather forlorn, always and forever; an oath to keep until their last deaths. Both siblings felt that they've broken that promise; by just letting Kai take Klaus away. Yet, a part of their minds whispered that Klaus had it coming.

As the Mikaelson Originals turmoiled, Kai had already teleported away, with Klaus' desiccated body in tow. Within the hour, Kai had put Klaus in a coffin. He stored it alongside the one containing Mikael, side by side, in his cabinet.

When he made his way back to the hotel, Freya had just arrived in the lobby.

"Just on time." He called out to her. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yes."

"Good. Let's go."

"Where exactly are we going?" The Mikaelson witch asked as she followed him to his car.

"We're taking a car? Why not just teleport us there?" She protested. She's seen him teleport multiple times, so she knows he can do it.

"Where's the fun in that?" He laughed.

They entered the impala. "We're going on a road trip." Kai grinned.

Freya just raised an eyebrow quizzically.

"To Mystic Falls." Kai revved his engine, and drove off, to get Hope.

"Where it all began."

---

"So you lost your pseudo-immortality when Dahlia died?" Kai asked his traveling companion.

"Yes, and my magic isn't augmented any more, but I'm happier for it; now I can choose my own fate, I am free." Freya replied smiling. "And, after over a thousand years, I am finally reunited with my family."

Kai smiled back at the witch.

Kai and Freya spent their time bonding over their awe of the modern world. Especially for Freya, who had been slumbering for the last century. Kai helped her catch up on some of the major events that occurred while Freya was asleep. Events included, but weren't limited to, World War II, the Moon landing, Elvis, Facebook, and even some books, TV shows, films, and manga comics.

The distance between New Orleans and Mystic Falls was quite far, eventually they decided to make a stop at a motel for the night. They only rented one room, as it was more inconspicuous that way.

In their room, Kai elected to switch to drinking games. Freya was more than willing to experience modern drinking games. They drank until Freya fell asleep. With her pseudo-immortality and invulnerability gone, she is no longer resistant to the affects of alcohol. Since he's a vampire though, Kai couldn't get drunk - vampirism heals the affects and damage caused by foreign substances; unless specifically made to counter it.

As there was only one bed, they had to share it; so Kai kept to his side of the bed.

When morning came, Kai found a weight on his chest. After blinking the sleepiness out of his mind, he took a look and his thought was confirmed. Freya is asleep with her head resting on his chest and her body cuddled into his. During the cold night, she must have moved closer to him.

With a sigh, Kai tried to untangle himself from his companion, but found it difficult, at least without waking her up. So, Kai decided to just stay in bed until Freya woke up on her own.

An hour later, when Freya groggily woke up, she found herself in a compromising position. What was worse though, is that Kai was already awake.

Out of embarrassment, Freya immediately detached herself from the Original-Heretic. She might not see Kai in that way, but finding herself waking up that way is still embarrassing. To try and ease her awkwardness, Freya told him she was going to use the toilet.

When she came back out of the bathroom, the bed was made, and Kai was packing up.

"Hahaha. Sorry, I would have gotten out of bed sooner, but I did not want to wake you."

"I'm sorry." Freya blurted.

But Kai just shrugged off her apology. "It doesn't matter, worse things have happened."

Still a bit embarrassed, Freya decided to take a shower before going back on the road, and hoped she would feel less embarrassed by the time she was done. Freya was embarrassed because she had cuddled into someone that she only sees as a friend. While some people that are just friends, or are family, cuddle, she does not know Kai well enough to feel comfortable doing that with him.

After Freya's shower, the two witches were soon back on the road. He'd given Freya a bit of his blood to rid her of her slight hangover. The two were back to talking about random topics.

By evening, they had made it to Mystic Falls.

"That's a nice house." Freya said admiringly, when she saw the Salvatore's house from the driveway, it looked even better close up than it did from afar.

"I know. But don't tell the owners that, they'll be smug about it." He said playfully, as they got out of the car. Though it's probably true for Damon, he's a show off.

Kai and Freya then walked towards the front door. When they were stood in front of it, he knocked three times, and after a few moments, the door opened.

"Elena!" Kai beamed. When the door opened to reveal Elena.

"Kai, oh my gosh! You are here!" Elena moved forward and gave Kai a big hug. Happy to see him for the first time since he went to New Orleans.

Kai hugged her back, lifting her up for a moment, before letting her down. "Where's your boyfriend?" He asked, sensing that Damon wasn't here. Though Kai does sense someone else inside, a signature Kai didn't recognise.

"He's looking for Stefan." Elena replied.

"Why? Has Stefan gone missing?" He said, a little concerned.

Elena looked suddenly looked tired. "It's a long story." Elena then cast her gaze on Freya.

"Kai, who is your friend here?" Elena asked, smiling politely at Freya.

"Oh yes, Elena, this is Freya Mikaelson. Freya, this is Elena Gilbert." Kai introduced.

"Mikaelson? As in Klaus?" Elena asked cautiously.

"Freya is Klaus' long lost older sister. Do not worry, she's a lot nicer than the rest of her family - I think." Kai said, teasing Freya; who rolled her eyes at the 'I think'.

Elena offered her hand to Freya, deciding to give Freya the benefit of a doubt, and not let her and her friends past experiences with the other Mikaelsons affect her opinion of Freya.

Freya shook the offered hand. She didn't take offense to Elena's initial reaction, Kai had told her about some of the things her family had done to his friends; Klaus having killed Elena and Elena's aunt Jenna to break the curse that stopped him accessing his werewolf powers, Elena was brought back as a human with a spell, or when Kol nearly maimed Elena's brother to try and stop them waking Silas. Those being only two of the stories Kai had heard about, and told Freya about.

Elena brought them into the large drawing room. Inside, Kai saw someone else inside the room; the signature he'd sensed while he was outside.

The person was a middle-aged looking lady who's sitting on the couch, looking through an astronomy book. He could sense she's a vampire though, so she may be much older than she acutally looks.

"Who is that?" Kai whispered to Elena.

"That's Lily Salvatore, Stefan's and Damon's mother."

Kai was shocked, though he didn't show it. "I thought she was dead."

"So did they, it turned out she was trapped in the 1903 Prison World."

Kai raised an eyebrow. "The prison world with the Heretics in it." He said, stating what Jo had told him about the 1903 Prison World.

"You know about that?" Elena whispered back.

"Of course, I always knew there's a 1903 Prison World. It was written that the Gemini coven created it to imprison a bunch of rippers, though I only learned not long after I became a vampire that they are more than just vampire rippers." He then briefly looked at Lily.

"Is she a Heretic?" He asked.

Since the magic they mainly use comes directly from siphoning their vampirism, Heretics feel just like a normal vampire to anyone who sensed them; unless they're actively siphoning magic from their vampirism, or they had siphoned magic from another source - both of which he would sense.

When Kai sensed his own magic, before the Merge, it had felt just like the magic of a normal, though very powerful, vampire. On the surface, it still felt the same after the Merge, but after he had sensed closer, he could sense his full witch part.

Kai guessed this was because he was born as, and will always be, a siphoner. And even though he now has a full witch half, he'd still only become a Heretic due to him being a siphoner.

"No she isn't, she was with them though." Elena told.

Kai nodded.

While it seems like Lily was reading the astronomy book, she was actually listening to the conversation between her son's girlfriend and the newcomer who seemed to be friends with Elena and her sons.

She was rather surprised that this friend of her sons seems to know about Heretics and prison worlds.

Kai didn't want to be rude to his friends mother, so he stepped towards Lily and introduced himself. "Hi, I'm Kai Parker - a friend of your sons."

"Lily Salvatore." She introduced back, in a curt manner.

With introductions done, Kai followed Elena into the library.

Elena then caught Kai and Freya up on the recent events in Mystic Falls.

Liz Forbes had passed away due to the cancer. Due to her grief, Caroline had turned off her humanity. Stefan had turned his off as well; to try and get her to turn her humanity back on. Kai thought it was a stupid idea, but refrained from saying anything.

They'd originally wanted to call Kai and ask him to help. But they decided not to, as they didn't want to feel like they were using him to solve all of their problems. Jo had also explained to them that he was helping to deal with a major threat in New Orleans, and she was not sure when the threat would be dealt with, and Kai would return to take the baby back home.

Out of any other options to get Stefan to turn his humanity back on, Jo had told them Lily Salvatore was still alive - imprisoned in the 1903 Prison World. Damon had decided freeing her from the 1903 Prison World would be best; he thought seeing their mother alive may cause Stefan to turn his emotions back on, since Stefan had been to their mother.

"So Bonnie got her out?" Kai guessed.

"No." Elena said quietly. "It was your brother and sister."

Kai raised his eyebrow quizzically. Kai had not been aware Lucas and Olivia were in town; he'd thought they were still at Whitmore. And it could only be them she was talking about; his resurrected siblings were with the coven, and Jo had lost her magic and witch side to him when he had won the modified Merge.

"Luke and Liv brought me, Bonnie, and Damon to the 1903 Prison World to get Lily out." She explained, then contemplated whether she wanted to say whatever is on her mind. "Umm...they're still in town as well. Would you like to see them?"

She;s a little hesitant to ask as she, like all pf his Mystic Falls friends, knows about his dark past. Damon and Bonnie he had told in the 1994 Prison World. Like Bonnie had been, some of them had been a little wary of Kai after that, until they'd learned about the Gemini coven's treatment of him, his reasons for doing it, and that he'd brought them all back to life.

Like Damon and Bonnie, they had all agreed while it didn't change Kai's actions, he's not a monster; he'd just been desperate to do something for the person he loved more than anyone else - this is something they all understood. Like Kai, they've done things that had hurt at least one person they care about to achieve a goal; even things that had hurt each other.

Kai wasn't sure if he was ready to meet the younger siblings. But nodded, he needed to ask them some questions. "Do you where they are staying?"

"Yeah, they're both staying at the Lockwood mansion."

"Thank you. Do you mind hanging out with Freya, so she isn't just waiting around?" Elena smiled and nodded in acceptance.

He then turned to Freya. "I have some catching up to do with my younger siblings, you know how that is." Kai said to her.

With that said, he then teleported to a side street near the Lockwood mansion, this side street had been magically cloaked by Kai - to make sure no one not aware of the existence of magic notices him use magic. He's also done the same for areas near each of his friends' houses. After all, he couldn't risk exposing the supernatural world to anyone not already in the know.

Kai knew that there are some non-supernatural people in town that know about the existence of the supernatural world, but not everyone knows; so Kai could not be seen appearing out of nowhere, in case someone revealed what they saw, or, if they recorded it, showed it to the world - thus exposing the supernatural world.

After he teleported away, Elena smiled brightly at Freya. "Would you like me to show you around town?"

"Yes, if you wouldn't mind. I heard my family used to live here, I would love to have a look around, and could use a guide."

---

Kai walked the short distance from the side street to the Lockwood home, and entered it, undisturbed.

He could sense Tyler wasn't currently home. Though he did sense someone else, a witch. He wasn't sure if it is Olivia or Lucas, as he's never sensed their signatures, and though he'd sensed their magic as kids, it would feel a lot different as adults. No matter which one it was though, Kai had some questions he needed answers to, and, as he still loves them, he doesn't want to find out by using his psychic powers on his siblings.

Kai walked towards where he sensed the signature. When he stopped, he was stood in front of the glass doors of the study.

Inside the study, he saw a young woman in her early twenties, lying on her back on the couch, listening to music. She looked a lot different, but he could see young Liv's features in her present self.

Kai opened the glass doors, causing Liv to immediately sit up in surprise.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you - is Tyler home?" He asked, deciding to act like a stranger. Though it wasn't entirely inaccurate - since he hadn't been around to watch her and Lucas grow up.

"Umm, sorry, he's not home right now, can I help you?" She asked politely.

"Don't worry, I'll just wait for him." Kai replied as he sat across from her. "Are you and Tyler close friends?"

"You could say that." She said, almost giddily.

Kai realised that Tyler and Olivia are now in a relationship.

"I'm Olivia Parker, though I prefer Liv. I thought I'd already met all of Tyler's friends."

"I'm from out of town, and I like to travel. I'm Marcel Gerard." He mentally apologised for using Marcel's name. "So did you meet Tyler in college? What are you studying?"

"Yeah, I met Tyler in college. And I'm studying microbiology." She responded.

"An interesting topic." Kai said honestly. He should know, he studied it in his prison world. "Your family must be proud of you." 'I know I am.' He thought.

"I suppose they are." She said quietly.

"Do you study anything else?"

"Yeah, I study the occult - you know about the supernatural." She said, using a spooky voice.

"Like witches, vampires, and werewolves?" He smirked.

Liv involuntary let out a gasp. "Do you know about the supernatural?"

She worded it that way in case he didn't know the supernatural exists and it was just something he's interested in. If he didn't know, and reacted badly, she'd have to knock him out, before having someone erase his memories; it wasn't something she is any good at, and she couldn't let the supernatural world be exposed.

"If you mean that the supernatural exist, yes." He said nodding.

"Sorry, I didn't know that you were aware." She said apologetically. She'd assumed he was just another of Tyler's random friends, most of who do not know about the supernatural world. "Do you know that Tyler is-"

"-a werewolf? Of course." He finished for her.

"Wow." She remarked. "How did you get pulled into all this?"

"I was born into it." He said to her, and hand up his hand and made fire ignite onto his fingertips.

"You're a witch!" She exclaimed.

He nodded. "And I can sense that you are a witch too."

"What coven are you from?" Liv asked curiously.

It's most likely he's from a coven, most modern witches don't practice magic alone; so they have people to help them if something goes wrong, or to give them advise to stop things going wrong in the first place. Then again, he could be a lone witch; since he'd said he can sense she is a witch, he must be powerful - powerful witches can sense magic. She can do it too, she just hadn't bothered to; she isn't good at anyway - it requires an incredible level of control to use effortlessly, a level she does not have, so it takes her more concentration. And he just confirmed what he is, so she does not need to do it now.

"I'm not part of a coven anymore. Though I used to be a part of a coven that was from the old world. But in recent times, they've situated themselves in Portland." He answered, giving Liv a big hint.

Part of a magical education in a coven is knowing which covens live where, so you know where to go if you need to contact them, and if a witch from one coven goes to a place another coven resides, they don't offend them in some way. Most lone witches usually do it as well, to show they aren't there to cause the coven issues, or to interfere with the local witches' politics.

Liv immediately furrowed her eyebrows. There was only one witch coven in Portland; well, only one Wicca coven. The coven she was a member of - the Gemini coven.

"Who are you?" She demanded. Wondering if someone from her coven had sent him and, if so, for what reason had he been sent; though, if so, she wondered why a person who isn't part of the coven anymore had been sent.

Kai let out a small laugh.

"Answer me!" Liv commanded.

"I guess the jig is up. You've grown quite fierce, Olivia." Kai said. "Don't you recognise me?"

It took her a few moments of focusing on him, but she realised she does recognise him.

"Malachai." She breathed.

She had learned that her older brother had escaped from his prison world a while back. She had also heard that he was quite different; reformed. Not that she could remember what he'd been like that long ago, she'd only been a child back then. All she had known back then was that he was her oldest brother, but that she should avoid him, though she hadn't known why she should avoid Kai; she had done it anyway. But she didn't remember him, she only recognised Kai from photos, and not from any memories.

"Yes, though I prefer Kai. Don't worry Liv, I'm not gonna hurt you." Kai promised. "You've grown up into an intelligent young woman." He added wistfully.

"Why are you here?" Liv asked her estranged older sibling.

"I have some things to ask you or Lucas, but for now, I just want to say I'm sorry." Kai said from the heart, he doesn't feel things the same way as normal people do, but this is his little sister he is talking to; it doesn't apply as strongly to those he cares about.

After a long moment, Liv finally spoke up.

"I honestly do not really remember what you did. But I've heard horrifying tales about you growing up. The coven told all the children you were a monster. You killed our siblings, and tried to kill me and Luke as well. I should despise you."

Kai looked down, not contradicting her.

"But then, you somehow brought our siblings back to life. Then you gave the coven a way to pass on the magical position of coven head without me and Luke having to do the Merge. By doing that, you saved me; if Luke had won, I would be dead, and if I had won, I would be dead inside. I can't express just how grateful I am for that. So, Kai, I forgive you." Liv said, she had moved to sit beside him.

"I recently regained all of my other siblings, I wouldn't mind having another brother."

As Kai moved his head back up to face her, she could see tears in his eyes. He quickly wiped away the tears and smiled. "If you're willing to have me, I would love to have another sister back."

The two siblings then embraced, letting their dark history be just that - history.

After a few moments, the newly reunited brother and sister separated.

"What did you want to ask me or Luke?" Liv asked.

"I was at the Salvatore house earlier, and was surprised when I saw the supposedly dead Lily Salvatore sitting in their drawing room. Elena told me she'd been in the 1903 Prison World, and that you and Lucas helped them free her. I just wanted to ask what that is all about."

"It was Luke's idea." Liv explained. "As the Other Side was collapsing, I was doing a spell to resurrect some people, Luke was the first, but, as more time passed, the strain of the spell became too much for me. So in order to stop it from killing me, Luke used a spell to stop the resurrection spell before I brought Damon and Bonnie back. Even though they came back, Luke still felt like he owed them; so he asked me to help them get into the prison world to free Lily - as a last favour to Elena."

Kai nodded for her to go on. Breaking into a prison world isn't easy. Though powerful, Bonnie's magic alone wouldn't have been enough to break into one; so he isn't surprised it took all three of them, and even then, they only succeeded since two of them had Gemini blood - which automatically gave them a connection that made it much more easy for them to break into a prison world than it would be for someone not born into the Gemini coven.

"Me, Luke, Bonnie, Elena, and Damon, journeyed into the 1903 Prison World. We all went in case we encountered the Heretics and had to fight them." She continued.

"Did you?" He asked.

"No, we didn't even meet them; Lily had drunk all the blood bags within traveling distance, so she wasn't desiccated, but they were. We were in there a week, before we finally got her out. With three witches and two vampires, it was easy to bag and tag her."

"A week?" Kai questioned. "Why so long?" Since Damon is Lily's son, his blood would work for a locator spell; so they should've been able to find her, and get her out, much more quickly than that.

Liv groaned a little. "It was Damon and Bonnie. They went off somewhere alone. They said they were looking for the 1903 Ascendant, but we later found out Lily had it. Just so you know, she wanted us to bring all the Heretics in there back with us, but we couldn't. We are already in enough trouble with the coven for freeing Lily."

Kai nodded. 'I wonder what Damon and Bonnie were really doing.' He thought.

Bonnie and Damon didn't know where the Ascendant was, so Bonnie could've just used a spell to find it; it would have taken them much longer to find the Ascendant without a spell, and, as Lily had it, the spell would've taken them straight to Lily - they all would've found Lily at the same time, or at least close to the same time.

Kai decided to let it slide for now, he'd just ask Damon or Bonnie about it later.

At this point, Luke walked in - he had just returned from Bonnie's house.

Luke froze the moment he recognised Kai. "What are you doing here?" he said coldly.

"Just chatting with my little sister." Kai replied. "Come on Luke, I want to talk to you as well."

"Just give him a chance." Liv called out.

"No, not him." Luke replied angrily.

Kai turned towards Liv. "I suppose a smile can't win over everyone. It's been lovely talking with you Olivia. I should take my leave." He said as he turned to leave.

"Wait!"

But she called out too late. Kai had already vamp-sped out of the house.

Luke, who was still looking rather pissed, also stormed out of the room, leaving his sister dejected.

Olivia, all by herself now, sighed as she tried to think of ways to mend the rift between her twin brother and her oldest brother. She felt a little better after reconciling with Kai; it's not much of a bond yet, but she believed their restored bond could grow stronger with time.

---

Kai walked across the town square. Kai liked the atmosphere in Mystic Falls. In a way, the setting of the small town was the complete opposite of New Orleans, not as festive, but just as charming - Kai appreciated both of their atmospheres.

He entered the Mystic Grill - the go to spot for alcoholic drinks in Mystic Falls. When he entered, he saw that it was almost empty; not including Kai himself, there was only three people, the barman, Elena, and Freya. Freya and Elena were sitting together in a booth. Smiling, he walked over to them.

"How are you ladies doing?" He greeted them.

"Good. Elena has been kindly showing the best spots in town."

"Freya, may I speak with you for a few moments?" Kai requested.

Seeing her cue to leave, Elena excused herself, announcing that she will buy the next round of drinks.

Kai nodded to her in thanks. After Elena moved out of her seat, he sat down where she'd been sitting.

"Jo, another sister of mine, is bringing Hope to Mystic Falls. She should be here soon." He said to Freya.

"But?" Freya continued for him, it was obvious from his tone that there was a problem.

"But, I didn't know two of my vampire friends in town have switched off their humanity." He said. "We need to fix this before Hope arrives."

Freya shrugged. She shot down her drink. "How hard could it be?" She smirked.

"My thoughts exactly." His eyes twinkled. "Let's go." He grabbed a napkin, and took our a pen from his pocket, then wrote on it where he and Freya were going; so Elena wouldn't think they had just abandoned her.

Seeing that the barman was facing the opposite way, he then held Freya by her shoulder, and teleported them both away.

When Elena came back with drinks, both Freya and Kai were gone.

Elena blew a strand away from her eyes, annoyed at her friends for ditching her. She then noticed the napkin with writing on it, she felt better after reading it; she hadn't just been abandoned - they were going to find Stefan and Caroline, and make them turn their humanity back on.

She then eyeballed her drinks for a second, then shrugged and gulped down the drinks.

Meanwhile, Kai and Freya were lying in wait outside a theatre - where Kai had tracked his two renegade vampire friends.

"Shall we?" Kai said, motioning to the entrance.

"No, allow me." She smiled wickedly, showing that famous Mikaelson spirit.

Kai shrugged as he leaned against a tree opposite the theatre.

Freya entered the theatre alone. Kai's enhanced hearing told him when the fight began. After 30 seconds, all the noises in the theatre stopped. After a few moments of silence, two shadows flew out of the theatre's entrance and landed on the floor. With his enhanced eyesight, he saw the unconscious forms of Caroline and Stefan.

Kai immediately sped over to them. From the angles of their necks, it was clear Freya had snapped their necks.

Seconds later, Freya walked out of the theatre in a nonchalant fashion.

"Done." She said triumphantly.

He then teleported them all back to the Salvatore's house.

"What are we going to do with them now?" Freya queried.

"Klaus once compelled Stefan to turn off his humanity." Kai told her. "I'm going to do the opposite. I'll just compel them to turn it back on. And voila: problem solved."

Like the Mikaelson home, the Salvatore household contained no shortage of alcoholic beverages.

He poured Freya a glass of bourbon. "Here, a little thank-you for your help."

"You don't need to thank me, it was rather fun. Besides, you could've easily done it by yourself. I hope they don't take it too personally when they are back to their normal selves."

A while later, Stefan awoke. Before he could even get his bearing, Kai grabbed him by the neck, and pinned him against a wall. Then, after locking eyes with Stefan, activated his compulsion.

"Hello Stefan, it's time to come back. You foolishly turned off your humanity, now, turn it back on."

Like a floodgate being drawn open, his emotions rushed back at full force. Stefan let out a gasp as he felt everything.

Kai let go of his neck, and Stefan staggered as he tried to regain his footing, while dealing with the onslaught of emotions.

"Are you alright?" Kai said, as he braced Stefan.

"I will be." Stefan said, as he sat back on the couch; still feeling a bit disorientated.

Stefan turned towards Caroline, who was still unconscious on the floor. "How is she?"

"She will wake soon, then Kai will make her turn her humanity back on, just like he did to you." Freya announced. Stefan turned to face her, remembering her as the witch who had thrashed him and Caroline in the theatre.

"Hello. I'm Stefan Salvatore." He greeted.

"Freya Mikaelson." She responded.

Stefan gaped a little in surprise; he turned to Kai for confirmation.

Kai merely raised an eyebrow, and smirked in amusement at his reaction. He found it amusing how surprised his friends are when they hear her surname. It was not quite as amusing as the shock people showed at him being a Heretic though.

Though he was confused, Stefan didn't press; he was more worried about Caroline.

A few minutes later, Caroline also woke. Like Stefan, Caroline received the same compulsion treatment.

As her emotions rushed back, guilt welled up inside her, threatening to overwhelm her. She had killed a lot of innocent people.

Once again, when everything seemed too much to bear, tears streamed down her face from her eyes, but she was not going to turn her humanity off again. She was embraced by Stefan. Caroline hugged him back as she sobbed softly into his shoulder. For a little while, Caroline just needed a shoulder to cry on.

Kai wanted to leave them alone for a bit. Luckily, his phone beeped; signifying he had received a text message.

'We just got here. We're at the Lockwood Mansion. Love Jo.' The message said.

"Freya." He yelled out to her. "We must be going now. My sister has arrived with Hope."

He pulled her out by her arm, just as she was about to help herself to another drink.

---

Freya and Kai were driving up the driveway towards the Lockwood Mansion. Freya had enjoyed her time in Mystic Falls. Truthfully, she likes the large houses she's seen here much more than the houses in New Orleans.

They got out, walked to the door, and rang the doorbell.

The door was soon opened. Tyler Lockwood was at the door to greet them.

"Tyler/Kai." They greeted simultaneously. They gave each other a shoulder hug.

"Tyler, this is Freya Mikaelson."

Tyler mouth opened in shock for a few moments, amusing Kai with his reaction.

"Nice to meet you." Tyler said, when his shock faded. "Come in."

Together, they made their way to the drawing room.

Inside the room was Luke, Liv, Jo, Alaric, and Hope.

Both Liv and Jo were entertaining the baby Mikaelson on the floor.

Hope smiled and gurgled once she recognised Kai and Freya. Freya walked over to her, kneeled down, picked Hope up, then stood back up with Hope in her arms.

"Hello darling, how are you?" She said playfully to Hope, who gurgled in response.

Kai went to hug his twin sister. "Thank you so much for taking care of her." He said, gratefully.

Jo smiled kindly. "She's been an absolute angel. I'll miss her."

Liv smiled at him, while Luke pretended he didn't exist.

As Freya introduced herself to others, Kai went to greet Alaric.

"How are you doing?" Kai asked his soon to be brother-in-law. The two shook hands.

"Good. I think caring for Hope the last two days had made us very excited to start being parents ourselves." Alaric said honestly.

"How did you meet our brother?" Jo asked Freya. Liv was also interested to hear Freya's response.

"Oh, it us rather a long tale. Suffice to say, I was minding my own business, and then he came along and waltzed right into my family drama. But in the end, Kai helped us a lot." Freya said gratefully.

"Yeah, that does sound like him - what a trouble maker." Jo teased.

Kai rolled his eyes at their antics.

"Hey, I think it's time we take Hope back." He said to Freya.

Freya wanted to stay a little longer, but acquiesced; she knows Elijah would get anxious if Hope stayed away much longer.

She sighed, before speaking to the whole group. "It was nice meeting you all."

Freya then carried Hope out of the room, and out of the house.

Kai was about to follow her, but Jo held him back by his arm.

"She seems like a very nice person." Jo said with a knowing smile. "Do bring her to our wedding."

Kai blinked at her for a few moments; his emotions working differents, and he had only had two very brief relationships when he was a young teen, one with a guy one with a girl, and who both ended their relationships with him thinking there was something wrong with he after hearing about how Kai's family behaved towards him. Kai isn't asexual or aromantic, it is just extremely rare for him to find anyone who he is interested in a way that isn't purely platonical.

This meant it took him a few moments to figure out what his twin sister was implying.

"I don't know what you mean." Kai rolled his eyes, disgusted, he isn't interested in Freya, at least not in the way his twin implied; thanks to all the talking they had done on the trip here, Freya became like a sister to him.

Kai then waved goodbye and made his exit.

When he got outside, Freya and Hope were waiting by his car.

"We're not taking the car back." He told her.

"You're leaving your car here?" She asked in surprise.

"Yes, but I am not going with you back to New Orleans. I'm going to stay in Mystic Falls for a bit. I will just teleport you and Hope back to the Mikaelson compound."

"Alright." Freya merely said.

"But I need to ask you something before I send you off."

Freya looked up curiously.

Kai rolled his eyes. "My oldest sister, Jo, who you just met, is having her wedding soon. In about two weeks, in fact. She wants me to bring you to the wedding with me. Please say yes, my sister was quite insistent about it."

"Are you asking for yourself or for your sister?" She asked smiling.

Kai smiled. "Both. You're like a sister to me."

"Then yes, I would love to accompany you to the wedding. You're like a brother to me." She said with a laugh.

"Okay, I'll be back to New Orleans to pick you up then." Kai said, "See you then." He said, smiling; he was happy she only saw him like a sibling too - it might have been awkward if she felt more than that for him.

Kai then teleported both Freya and her niece back to the Mikaelson compound.

"What's with the smile?" A voice called out from the darkness.

Kai recognised that voice - it was Damon's voice.

Damon suddenly vamp-sped towards him, and threw a punch. Kai sidestepped it, and then with lightning speed, he put Damon in a chokehold.

"Snapped neck." He said to Damon, ending their impromptu spar.

Kai let go of Damon with a satisfied grin. "You've gotten worse."

"Or you've gotten a lot better." Damon countered. Kai really was something else - he grows, learns, and adapts, so quickly it is amazing.

The two vampires then shook hands and then bumped fists, then finished off their greeting with their usual shoulder hug.

"Let's go for a drink, we need a proper catch-up." Damon suggested.

Kai was all for it. Together, the two vamp-sped away, towards the Mystic Grill.

A hour or so later, Damon and Kai were sitting by the bar nursing drinks. They had almost finished telling each other what they have been doing since Kai had first left Mystic Falls after becoming a vampire.

"HAHAHA." Damon laughed hysterically. "Klaus definitely had that coming." Klaus really did deserve it, he has done many terrible things, and Damon also knows Klaus has daggered his siblings many times, it's about time Klaus got a taste of his own medicine.

"Don't be too excited." Kai told his friend. "I'm not keeping him forever."

"Now that's a shame."

Kai shrugged. "Shame or not, it doesn't matter. I have something I wanted to ask you."

"Fire away." Damon said offhandedly before gulping down his drink. He signaled the bartender with his hand to bring them two more glasses of drink.

"I heard from my little sister that you and Bonnie went on a detour when you went to retrieve your mother. I know you weren't searching for the Ascendant - so what were you really doing?" Kai asked.

Kai had thought about just reading Damon's mind, but didn't want to do that to a friend; unless he feels it is necessary.

"Nothing." Damon denied.

"Don't take me for a fool Damon. I can hear your heartbeat. I can sense your emotions. Both of which tell me you're lying." Kai said to his friend.

Damon, realising he couldn't hide it from Kai, sighed. "It's about Elena." He said, a bit sadly.

"Really?" Kai said surprised. "Are you two not going well?"

"It's not that."

"What is it then?" Kai hated beating around the bush.

"The vampire life isn't suiting her quite as well as she wants everyone to think. Seeing Alaric and your sister having babies is making her nostalgic towards the life she could have had."

"I see." Now Kai understood. There was only one thing that could give Elena the life she used to have back; something which could take away her vampirism. The real world version of it is gone now, but it had still existed when both the prison worlds were created; so there was still a copy of it in the 1903 Prison World, so when they had broke into the 1903 Prison World to free Lily, Damon and Bonnie must have gone to retrieve the copy that was in there. Two things in one trip, freeing Lily to help Stefan, and the cure for Elena.

"So when we went into the 1903 Prison World to free my mother, me and Bonnie took the opportunity to go get this." He took out a small box from his pocket. Damon opened it, revealing a finger sized capsule, in it was a liquid that radiated magic; it is a slightly darker shade of red than a siphoner's hands glow when siphoning.

"The cure for immortality." Kai marveled, it seems his deduction was correct.

"Yes." Damon said. "This is the cure for immortality that was in the 1903 Prison World." He confirmed.

"Are you serious about letting her take the cure?" Kai asked incredulously. "How will that work, are you willing to give her up so she can have kids, and are you willing to watch her grow old?"

"I am…and I'm taking it with her; so we will be able to have kids together, and grow old together."

Kai looked at his friend straight in the eyes, only to see conviction staring right back at him, and Damon's emotions showed only conviction as well.

"Wow, you're really serious."

"That I am." Damon said, then finished off his drink.

"I have a alternate proposal." Kai said. Damon raised an eyebrow.

"I'll find a better way to strip you of your vampirism." Kai continued. "And, in return, you hand the cure over to me."

---

A week later, Damon and Kai traveled to Whitmore. Damon wasn't quite convinced by his proclamation. During the week, Kai had shut himself inside one of the rooms of the Salvatore's house, though a few times he had teleported to his hotel room in New Orleans to get some of the things he needed. He had used some of the books he'd compelled Esther to compile, to research vampirism so he could do what he had said to Damon; to remove someone's vampirism, without the cure. He'd actually come up with his method a couple of days ago - but he'd wanted to spend a couple of days to check over everything; to be as sure as he could that it would work.

Kai is now absolutely certain his method will work, but Damon wants a demonstration - to prove it will work.

The two of them had compelled two students back to Caroline's dorm room. They will be part of his demonstration.

Damon fed one of them his blood, and then snapped her neck; as per Kai's instruction.

Kai was mentally going through the procedure just before the girl reawakened in transition.

With a gasp, she sat up.

"Don't worry, you're safe, I promise." He reassured the girl. But she was still very frightened.

"You're feeling hungry, no doubt." He gestured towards the male college student he had compelled.

She was confused, but the thirst was overwhelming her. Without hesitation, she bit the human and started to drink his blood, completing her transition.

Kai pulled her back before she could kill the male student. His hands glowed white as he healed the male student's wound, before compelling him to forget everything about what had happened, to leave and resume whatever he was going to do, and to think the time he'd lost was due to him going for a long walk and getting lost.

Once the male student was gone, he turned towards the girl they had turned into a vampire. "What's your name?" Kai compelled.

Immediately, she compliantly answered. "I'm Jessica. What did you do to me?"

Kai sighed. "I apologise that we involved you in this. You are a vampire now."

Kai sensed Jessica's distress flowed out in waves.

"Don't worry. I'll turn you back. And you won't remember any of it. Now stay still." He compelled.

"Now what?" Damon asked, happy to observe the procedure.

"Now, I remove her soul from her vampire body." Kai said, looking towards Damon.

"Do you know how to do that?" Damon asked sceptically.

"Yes." Kai answered simply. He then looked back at the girl.

"Yovara vimuna virael." Kai chanted the soul-extraction spell.

After a moment, Jessica's body fell to the floor, soulless.

"Where's her soul now?"

"It is inside my ring. As a magical talisman, I can use it as a vessel for a soul." Kai stated. "My ring contains contains a purer, more natural, form of magic than the kind that powers vampirsim, because of this, it will pull the vampire magic out of her soul and purify it, reverting her soul to a human one. Because her soul will be human once more, the magic cannot re-enter her soul though; so it will remain completely human."

"And now, I will siphon away all of her vampire magic."

"Then she'll be dead." Damon stated unamused.

"Yes, so to speak. Without the magic of vampirism keeping her alive, she'll revert to her previous state - a dead human with a snapped neck." Kai explained. "But I will heal her body to pristine condition; it will be an alive human body, without a soul in it. Then I'll use a soul transferring spell to safely bond her human soul back onto her human body; she will be completely human once more."

"That could work." Damon admitted hopefully.

"The cure presented too many complications; like rapid aging, like what happened to Katherine Pierce. It would not let you digest vampire blood either, which could prove fatal; if you get badly hurt and need vampire blood to heal. I think this is a safer solution. You talk it over with Elena, and when you're ready; tell me and I'll turn you both back into humans, if you both decide that's still what you want."

Damon had his reservations about the drawbacks of taking the cure, but Kai's procedure sounded like the perfect solution. "Cheers buddy."

If they got hurt and needed vampire blood to heal them, the cure would cause them to throw up the vampire blood. Kai's method would let them still use it to heal from wounds - if they ever need it to heal. And Damon would not need to worry about the rapid ageing if the cure is ever removed from him, Elena doesn't need to worry about that though; she'd only been turned a few years ago, so even if she did age, she would only age a few years.

Damon reached into his pocket to retrieve the cure. He then handed it to Kai, with a smile.

Kai happily let out a breath of relief. He was happy to take the cure out of play. It was the one thing that could end him, and Kai wanted it in the safest hands - his.

Kai smiled back. Kai then did what he said he'd do with Jessica: he siphoned all the vampire magic from her body, healed it to pristine condition, while the ring did remove the vampire magic from her soul and purified it as Kai said it would, he then re-joined her human soul to her, once again, human body. Kai then compelled Jessica the same way he compelled the boy she had fed from.

Damon was even happier after Jessica was human again - it proved Kai's way works.

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When they had returned to the Salvatore house, Kai and Damon found Elena, Bonnie, and Liv waiting in the drawing room.

Damon and Elena quickly excused themselves; they have much to discuss about their future.

Kai became concerned when he saw the worried expressions on Bonnie and Olivia's faces, which, according to his empathy, mirrors the way they are feeling.

"What's wrong?" Kai asked.

"Lily stole the 1903 Ascendant." Liv said nervously.

"She also took a few vials of blood from me." Bonnie added.

"Are you okay?" Kai said, concerned.

Bonnie brushed it off. "I'm fine, Elena already gave me some of her blood to heal me."

"This is a big problem." Liv stated. "Lily Salvatore now has everything that she needs to bring back her family of Heretic rippers. The Gemini coven are getting restless." Liv warned.

"Luke is back in Portland, he's trying to keep everyone from running scared or doing something drastic."

Kai considered the facts. "Don't worry about Lily." Kai said to Liv. "Call your father and tell the Gemini coven to leave things as they are. Lily still needs a witch to free them. Even if she succeeds and the Heretics become an issue, tell them I will handle them myself."

Liv's concerns melted away at Kai's reassurance. Although he's no longer part of the Gemini coven, his actions and magical prowess is legendary amongst the Gemini coven. Kai's resurrection of his other siblings, the skill Kai had displayed when he fought them, and what they'd learned afterwards, had changed the things that they thought about Kai, and siphoners in general.

While many within the coven do not like Kai much after he'd defeated them last year, Kai was still very much a revered figure. Liv knew that his assurance would keep the coven at bay.

The Gemini coven know Kai is a Heretic now, but most of them thought it made him even greater, since he can now do everything must faster than before, and can do things now he couldn't do before. The Heretics in the 1903 Prison World aren't just hated for being vampire-witch hybrids now, except by a few members. They're now hated because they are all rippers, and because they'd tried to destroy the coven.

The next day, Kai turned both Elena and Damon back to human. And, just in case they wanted it, Kai offered to do the same for his other vampire friends.

Surprisingly, Stefan opted to remain as a vampire. Kai had the feeling Stefan's decision had something to do with Caroline, who'd made the decision to stay a vampire before he did. Caroline seemed a lot better, she's now spending time helping Jo organise her wedding.

Kai had told them the option would always be there, should they ever change their minds.

For a few days after that, nothing really happened.

After the magical operations, Damon and Elena decided to go on a vacation at Elena's family's lakehouse for a few days. They'll return before the wedding. Kai did not bother asking how they would spend their time away. The word rabbit came to mind.

After that, the town returned to its usual quiet atmosphere. But he knew the undisturbed silence would npt last. That is just how life in Mystic Falls works; nothing will happen for a while, then something big happens. Three days before the wedding was one of those days when the usual quiet atmosphere was disturbed.

Kai was in the Salvatore's house, in the room Kai usually uses when he is in town, when Kai suddenly heard Liv call from downstairs. "Kai! Come quick!" Hearing the urgency in his sister's voice, he immediately vamp-sped down the stairs.

"Olivia, what's wrong?" Kai asked. His sister's eyes were red and she was disheveled.

"It's Tyler, he triggered his werewolf curse." His sister cried.

"Get in my car. I'll quickly grab my coat. You'll have to tell me the way."

When they made it to Tyler, he was kneeling over a body. Tyler was clearly distressed at triggering his werewolf gene again.

Kai inspected the body. It was really…dead.

"How did this happen?" Kai questioned.

"I'm not really sure." Tyler answered unsurely, still disoriented. "I was doing my morning jog in the woods, when this guy appeared and attacked me with an electric baton. I tried to fend him off, but he was relentless. I knocked him back, and he fell and hit his head. I thought he was unconscious, but when I looked for a pulse, I could npt find one. Then, before I could even think about what to do, I felt my werewolf curse being triggered. It all happened so fast. When I recovered, I called Liv."

Kai carefully looked through the belongings of the man who attacked Tyler. While looking through the dead man's wallet, he found an ID card.

'Walter Smith' was the name on his work ID. He also found a bank card, passport, and driver's licence; all with the same name.

Reading from the work ID, he learned that this Walter Smith had worked for Kingmaker Land Development.

'What would this man want with Tyler?' Kai thought. 'It might be nothing.'

But Kai had a feeling it wasn't nothing.

On a whim, he decided to see if he could read the dead man's mind. After all, even though he was dead, the mind and body were connected. So much so, that even if someone is possessed, they might be able to read the mind of the possessor and the person they are possessing. And though he's dead, the man's mind is, physically, still intact.

He lightly put his hand on the man's head, and tried to read his mind. Fortunately, it worked, and Kai was able to see that he'd been ordered try and find and capture werewolves. Unfortunately, the man was one of the lowest ranked in the company; so he hadn't know, why, and he hadn't known who the order had come from, only that it was someone higher up in the company, since, despite receiving an official company letter, the order wasn't signed.

This was especially unfortunate, since Kai didn't have enough information to investigate. And Kai couldn't just go to their HQ to find out; if this company knows about the supernatural, they would likely have ways of subduing supernatural people, and probably identifying them too. They might also have supernatural people working for them. There were too many unknown variables.

So, for now at least, Kai decided to let in go.

"Okay, this seems standard enough. Get Damon or Stefan to get rid of the body, they have the most experience at doing that."

"What about Tyler?" His younger sister asked in concern.

Kai looked down towards Tyler, who still looked distraught.

Kai motioned to Liv to walk with him to the side. "How much longer until the next full moon?"

"In three days - on the night of the wedding." Olivia answered distressingly.

"Okay." Kai said nonchalantly. "We cannot have him crawling on all fours - you'll need a date for our sister's wedding. Fortunately, I have a solution."

He then pulled out a ring box before he continued. "I know it is traditional for guys to give the ring, but I think we can make an exception this time."

Olivia opened the ring box. Inside, she saw an obsidian coloured ring. "How will this help Tyler?" To her, it seemed just like an ordinary ring.

"I could tell you - but where's the fun in that. Give it to Tyler, let him wear it, and you will find out."

"What are you two whispering about?" Tyler interrupted.

"My sister has something for you." Kai said, pushing his sister gently forward.

"Umm." Liv said, unsure. "Wear this." She said, handing Tyler the box.

Tyler stared at the ring, then back at the siblings questioningly.

Liv just shrugged, while Kai nodded towards the box, indicating him to put it on.

With a gulp, Tyler put the ring on; he had nothing to lose, and he trusts Kai. Immediately, Tyler felt strength course through his body. He felt strong and in control. He remembers how it felt when he was a Hybrid; this felt similar to that, but different. His eyes momentarily glowed amber, as he channeled his werewolf nature.

"What is this?" Tyler asked in wonder.

Olivia was curious as to what the ring is, and does, as well.

Kai smiled before explaining. "It is called a Moonlight ring, they are a new commodity in New Orleans. Daylight rings protect vampires from the sun. Moonlight rings protect werewolves from the moon. It also has the added effect of allowing you to channel the full strength of your werewolf form. As long as you wear it, you won't have to transform during the full moon either. You also have access to your bite."

"Oh my god, that's wonderful." Liv exclaimed happily and hugged her boyfriend. Now Tyler could better protect himself from supernatural beings - without having to transform during every full moon.

"I don't know what to say." Tyler said, speechless. He was at a loss of how to express his gratitude.

"Don't thank me, I did not design or make them. You were stronger as a Hybrid, that's for sure. But until I can think of a more permanent solution, this solution will have to do. I will leave you to call Damon yourself and dispose of the body."

Liv gave her brother a thankful smile and nod.

With that said. Kai returned to his vehicle and drove back to the Salvatore house.

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A/N : A few explanations about a few of the things I added/changed, in this chapter.

I will tell you all now - there will be NO romantic, or sexual, relationship for Kai in this fic. Any and all bonds Kai has in this are purely platonic.

I only kept the fact that Freya cuddled him while they were asleep to show how comfortably she is with Kai. To her, Kai's like a brother she can go to for comfort; she was only embarrassed as she hasn't known him long, and she doesn't want him to think she sees him in a romantic way, because of how they woke up.

In baringan's fic, I felt like they gave up trying to stop Kai from taking Klaus too easily. That's why I added the bit when he decided he wanted the Originals to be awake to hear him explain what he is; as this explained why Elijah and Rebekah just let him take Klaus, especially when they know the daggers can't neutralise him.

The Mikaelsons are very smart themselves, that's why I added the part where they realise that, even without the mutations, they have no way to kill, or even permanently neutralise, Kai. It's why I mentioned Kai's immortality, despite doing so earlier - to show they could figure it out themselves.

It is also another reason they didn't try to fight Kai; after all, Elijah and Rebekah realise they, along with Klaus, hadn't been able to take down Dahlia even though they each had a weapon that could kill her, but Kai did so by himself. And they don't have anything to kill or permanently neutralise Kai with if they attacked him.

Klaus, and the rest of the Mikaelsons, will always have some fear of Kai - they will just not let it affect them, but they will remember not to get on his bad side; so he won't become an enemy.

I decided that Kai should be able to read dead people's minds since memories and any thoughts they ever had are all stored in the mind.

In baringan's fic, Kai teleported outside the Lockwood mansion, and again when he teleported himself and Freya when they were in the Mystic Grill; it seemed as if it didn't matter that he risked being seen teleporting, that's why he used a cloak in this, and why I added the bit about supernatural exposure. Yes there are people in Mystic Falls who are in the know - but not everyone is. And if someone accidentally recorded Kai appearing out of nowhere, though some might not believe it, there is still the possibility it could expose the supernatural world.

Exposing the supernatural world could cause death, or maybe even wars. After all, humans often fear things more powerful than them; so if they learned of the existence of the supernatural world, humans may treat them differently, or even try to kill them, and I think some would do these things simply because of their religious beliefs, or just because they are racist.

Yes Kai has teleported to places in previous chapters without seeming to care about exposure, like when he teleported himself and a car. But though I didn't write it, Kai usually teleports to places that either have no people or security cameras around, or to places which are magically cloaked so no one notices anything magical within that area. After all, with all the magic and magical beings in this universe. I think it makes sense there would be ways of preventing magical exposure - for example, a vampire compelling people to forget what they saw.