Chapter 30: Consequences

Mystic Falls Cemetery

[Esther's POV]

Someone messed with my summoning circle. I am currently in an ancient summoning circle. I was teleported here. My magic is not working correctly. I cannot leave the circle, nor can I dispel it. This is powerful magic. I'm not sure what kind of magic is holding me here.

Mikael yells from the 'Other Side', "Esther, the full moon is almost at its zenith you must do the spell to bring me across now."

My spells to bring Mikael across from the 'Other Side' aren't working. I try to summon a snake familiar to aid in breaking the salt line of the perimeter of the circle to allow me to form a new casting circle. This spell also fails. For me to be teleported and imprisoned within this summoning circle takes a great deal of power and knowledge. I didn't perform any spell magic that would lock me into a casting circle, someone else did. I hear someone enter the gates near the graveyard.

"Esther what kind of magic are you doing now? I cannot locate Freya. You cannot hide her from me." Dahlia is standing just outside the summoning circle.

"I don't know what you are talking about. Freya escaped you? How is that possible? Dahlia, how are you messing with my magic? I have to rid the Earth of my Vampire creations. You need to free me and return my magic!"

"Esther, if I find out you had anything to do with breaking our agreement. I will enslave you instead." I feel the power in her promise. Dahlia has become even more powerful as a witch, more powerful than I am.

"What agreement did you have with Dahlia concerning Freya? Freya is supposed to be dead!" Mikael yells from the other side. "Esther what have you done?"

Dahlia laughs, "Finn never told you I came for Freya when she was five autumns old?"

"I provided an antidote to the birth control spell I put on you, but the price was I had claim on the firstborn witch of every generation. When Esther changed your remaining offspring into Vampires she sabotaged our deal. It looks like our deal make come to fruition again Esther. Elijah's mate is carrying a child." Dahlia smiles wickedly, looking at her sister.

Mikael threatens Dahlia. "When I cross over to your side I will kill you where you stand."

Dahlia laughs at him. "You are nothing more than a vampire hunter. You have no magic to bind me, nor can you break the magic bond that Esther agreed to so she could bear children."

[Freya's POV]

I am so looking forward to this confrontation. I will be free from Esther and Dahlia once and for all. The family agreed that I should be the spokesperson for our group. Elijah is too pissed to speak to our parents. Nik wants to just kill them and be done with it. Kol is taking perverse enjoyment out of this confrontation. I have to admit some of his suggestions are highly creative. Rebekah wants to be free to start on her own family. Finn is still pissed about the lies he believed for years. Henrik wants to be free to enjoy his place in the family after being separated from us for so long.

Nik really did a number on Esther's magic circle. "Hello Mother, Father and Aunt Dahlia," I can't resist a satisfied smirk.

My whole of Leylock family is standing behind me. They aren't in the line of sight for Esther, Mikael or Dahlia to see at the moment. I requested to be the spokeswoman for this group. Mother and Dahlia both narrow their eyes at me and Mikael looks at me in disbelief. He yells at mother, "What kind of witchcraft is this Esther? You are raising the dead?"

"I'm not dead and I didn't die from the plague as mother led you to believe. Instead she indentured my magic to her sister in perpetuity. I am no longer enslaved. I have a different magic now, one that you cannot use or siphon from me. No one in our family will ever be enslaved again to you Dahlia. It is time for all three of you to pay the price for the atrocities that you created when you both forsook the path of balance magic. Mikael, we brought Henrik back from the 'Other Side' and in exchange all of you will be linked to that dimension. If anyone tries to bring you back to this one it will cause an instability that will destroy it and all three of you along with it."

Dahlia challenges, "You don't have that much power to bind us to the 'Other Side'.

I grin at my aunt as my family gathers around me. "You are under the mistaken impression that I would attempt such a feat on my own. My family has seen and experienced what the three of you have wrought for a thousand years. It is time for you to pay for your transgressions."

Both of my parents shout at the same time, "Henrik!"

He waves at them. "I am alive and back with family now. I no longer consider you to be my parents. You have tormented my family for too long. There will be balance within the supernatural community. You will no longer be allowed to do magic in this dimension. I just wanted to say good bye. I will enjoy the future with my brothers and sisters along with the families they are forming." He turns his back on Esther, Dahlia and Mikael and walks back to Charlie and hugs him. "Charlie is my father figure from now on." Charlie pats him on the back.

Kol walks up behind me and puts his arms around my waist. "Good bye Esther. After today my family will no longer be subject to your, Dahlia's and Mikael's tyrannical whims."

Mikael yells back at him, "You are abomination and need to be destroyed."

"Well you and Esther made us this way. Now you will pay for your transgressions by being permanently tied to the dimension Qetsiyah created and no longer allowed access to this dimension, since the two are no longer linked together. Good bye." He walks back behind the others so they can say their goodbyes if they so choose.

Esther responds back, "What do you mean the dimensions are no longer connected? What happens to the others dwelling in the 'Other Side'?"

I look into my mother's eyes for probably the last time and state: "All the souls trapped on the 'Other Side' that wanted to find peace have done so, the others that have unfinished business are still around. The 'Other Side' no longer holds souls in that false purgatory. Ancestral magic based on that link has been broken, so witches and other supernaturals are no longer enslaved there. Qetsiyah will face a reckoning from the higher powers for creating the 'Other Side'.

I reach out to my family and we join hands concentrating on permanently linking and banishing Mikael, Dahlia and Esther to the 'Other Side'. Leylock energy swirls around us and the trio disappears from sight.

Salvatore Boarding House

[Damon's POV]

I am holding Bella in my arms. I lean over and whisper, "Please tell me that I didn't feel the magic from the two you are carrying. They have Leylock powers already? They are not even here yet?"

Bella draws me into a passionate kiss. I narrow my eyes at her distraction technique. She laughs. "They are supernatural after all, what else did you expect?"

I growl and pull her back into another lip lock. "I have a feeling we won't be doing much spontaneous kissing once they get here, let's make the most of the time we have." I pull her into my arms and vamp speed back to our rooms for the rest of the day. I have plans for her. Her laughter is a sirens song for me.