Spirits
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Bonnie's P.O.V
Another attempt! Grams, Lucy and I were holding hands, murmuring prayers to summon long lost souls, to connect to the two spirits we need most.
Connecting Emily was the easy part but convincing her to help us in our plan was a task altogether. We still managed to extract one name from her riddles, "Annaya". She was a witness of the legendary magic that was performed to create Originals.
Grams tried to summon her spirit but so far nothing. The failed attempts draws us a conclusion that her spirit must have found peace or it must be lost, but I couldn't keep up, not yet.
Weeks of continuous effort, one after one all leading to failure. I groaned in frustration when another hour passed without any result.
"Let's try tomorrow child. It won't help us if you are tired." Grams told me as she blew candles away with her magic. I was about to argue but Lucy held my hands.
"Aunt Sheila is right. Let's try tomorrow when we are fully energized."
Feeling outnumbered I nodded my head in defeat as we gathered our things and left. They dropped me off at boarding house where I made my way to parlour.
Everyone was sitting there expect Katherine who was probably sulking upstairs in her room.
I went straight towards my boyfriend and grabbed his glass of whiskey and swallowed the liquid in a gulp.
" Yuck!" I flinched at its strong, bitter taste while everyone was watching me with amused eyes. "Slow down luv, this stuff is hard even for me." Enzo played with my hair while turning my face to see me better. ''Why so glum?"
I chuckled and made myself comfortable in his arms. "Annaya." They all nod in understanding.
"Still no luck?" Elena asked. "No we can't contact her it seems like she is not there."
Caroline looked at me with smile. "Don't give up Bonnie. Maybe you will find her there tomorrow." Before I can say anything we heard Damon scoff.
"You guys are wasting your time, any day we'll hear from Isobel, time is running out meanwhile you guys were wasting time in that old burnt building searching for thousand year old spirit who might have desiccated with the eroding walls!"
I knew he was right and as frustrated as rest of us but I couldn't suppress my anger. "Listen you!" but I was cut off when we heard Stefan's voice.
"You are absolutely right, I can't believe I didn't think of it before."
We all watched dumbfounded as he makes call to someone. "Hey it's me Stefan. I want to ask you about caves underneath Lockwood property." He listenend quietly on another line before shaking his head.
"It doesn't matter how I knew about these caves Mason, what important is that I need you to take Bonnie and her family there."
After few seconds he told him to meet us there before turning his attention to me. "Call your Grams Bonnie it's time to meet the Spirit of Annaya Bennett."
I called her and told her and Lucy to meet us at Lockwood property.
Enzo drove me to the place Mason told us about. "You are going to stay there? " I asked him hesitantly.
He smiled and kissed my hand."You bet sweetheart, I won't let you go in some kind of trap, it's better I am there as a backup."
His words were enough to assure me, when we reached there we found Lucy ,Mason and my Grams waiting for us.
"Great you are here let's go." Mason told us as he was about to lead us inside but Enzo stopped us. "Its better if us boys go first."
He gave a brief nod and we followed them inside. "Be careful luv, in Stefan's past life Damon mentioned these caves to Stefan and one trap that got him but he never elaborate what kind of trap it was so we need to be careful."
Grams waved her hands and small rocks float in air before moving ahead us few seconds later a loud noise echoed through the caves. "You were right there is a trap." We start walking and soon found long stakes crisscrossing itself blocking our path.
"Neat!" Lucy praised Grams before flicking her hand bursting stakes into flames before turning them into ashes.
"It's cool being witches." Mason told us approvingly.
We walked more and found an opening. One by one we walked inside but Enzo got stopped by barrier. "Umm seems like this place don't want vampire."
Grams touches barriers and nodded her head. "Its alright, you stay here, I think we are safe here."
Enzo stared at me worriedly but I smiled to assure him after few seconds he smile back and lean against wall. We started looking around and the wall was filled with thousands old drawings that told stories of originals.
"Do you think our ancestors knew about this? " I asked my Grams who was tracing the drawings.
"Yes, these drawings are legend drawn of time when humans and supernatural beings lived together. This place held everything in detail and I can sense a magical aura around here."
Lucy and I stared at each other in silence as we get candles and salt out of our bags. Once circle was complete Mason left to sit with Enzo.
We sat on floor and start concentrating on calling Annaya Bennett's Spirit. After few minutes candle flicker brighter and we felt another presence among us.
Then suddenly Grams hold on us tightens as her head rolled back. Lucy and I started chanting spell louder while Grams seemed to be possess and then finally a gust of wind blew flicking all candles flames off.
"What's going on! Go inside Mason." I heard Enzo screaming frantically while Mason seems stuck too. "I can't enter Enzo, the barrier is stopping me too."
I can feel them struggle and couldn't see a thing as cave grew darker and darker.
Finally my vision cleared and I tried to make sense of my surroundings. "Grams ?Lucy? I called for them while squeezing their hand. "I am okay Bonnie."
Lucy told me while squeezing my hand back. "So am I." I heard Grams voice and I sigh in relief.
"We are fine Enzo! " I called out for him but I couldn't see him or Mason.
"Where did Enzo and Mason disappear?" I screamed in panic.
"Better question will be where did we get transported to." I stared at Lucy who was on her feet and surveying cave.
"Where are those drawings? " I asked as I watched empty cave.
"Lets go out ,I think I know where we are." Grams told us and we followed her outside.
When we came outside we saw dawn is about to break but what surprised us more is that the woods look quite different.
We were walking and found clearing where many tepee home and small wooden houses were situated, in middle there laid the remnants of huge bonfire, ashes and scrap of wood can be seen that are now slowly burning.
We saw a woman standing there watching the last fire die out
"Glad you found this place." We heard her as we approach near where she was standing.
She turned around and we saw her have similar feature that resembles just like us, even if she is dressed differentlythen us. "So you are my descendant? I am Annaya, What can I do for you?"
She came straight to point so Grams asked her plainly.
"We want to reverse the curse that was placed on Nicklaus."
Annaya didn't look shocked or surprised but smiled at us. "You already know ingredients to break the curse."
But my Grams shook her head "there's got to be another way that doesn't require any sacrifice."
She stared at us quietly for a while and then motioned us to follow her.
"You know it was me who told Esther about this place?" she told us as we walked behind her. 'Sometimes I wonder if it was my fault that all of this happened ."
She sighed and turned around. "It was fate my children. It was going to happen if not here then someplace else. Nature is complex, it gave birth to unnatural within it and no one could have foreseen it not even me."
With that she mentioned towards small tepee from where we can clearly hear moaning sound.
From corner we saw another women who was collecting herbs. She too heard these sound and started walking closer.
A gasp escaped from my lips. "Is that you?" I asked as I saw younger Annaya walking closer but she passed us as if we are not even standing here. " This is my vision my child something I saw with my own eyes." She told me kindly.
We walked closer and from small gap we saw what she is seeing. "That day I saw Esther bedding with a man who turned into wolf?" she explained the scene that we were watching.
After that vision change in to another and we saw her confronting young Esther. "Have you gone out of your mind!" She yelled at her. "I love him Annaya." She begged her but she looked at her angrily. "If your husband found out!" at this young Esther burst in to tears and young Annaya anger fades away as she pulled her friend in embrace.
The vision changed again and we were back in caves. "Few weeks after that she told me she is expecting. I performed ritual and found that baby belongs to her and wolf man. Esther was terrified so she begged me to keep her secret and cut all ties with her lover."
She stared at us with sadness. "So you see she tainted something natural and told her husband that he is going to become father again. After Nicklaus was born she used magic to bind his wolf side, making him weak human but that only made him unworthy in her husband's eyes. He was cruel to that boy and from him Nicklaus got desire to be powerful."
She shake her head as her eyes tear up. "I thought her everything about witchcraft, our spells, our enchantment and our history. That is my another fault because she remembered one particular spell in our history and one day she tried to use that on her family."
She waved her hand again and vision changed. We saw older Esther in woods preparing for spell when Annaya came towards her in anger. " You stole my spell how could you! I told you I don't want any part in it." She screamed at her but before she can reach her a circle of fire surround Annaya trapping her inside.
Esther stared at her and told her in determined voice. "I told you before I will do anything to save my family and I mean anything Annaya."
After spell was completed she held the goblet and was about to leave when Annaya called her desperately. "Don't do this Esther it's against nature's law, talk to Nicklaus'sfather maybe he can." But she couldn't continue because in that moment Esther turned around and use magic to take her voice. She was gasping but no sound came from her mouth.
"I told you never to talk about this again and now you will never speak. I will complete this spell Annaya and my family will be most powerful being in this nature." Her voice held malice as she left her friend in that fire circle.
We were back in caves shaken from last vision. "She took my voice but I wish she took my advice. She get her wish her spell was completed, her family became immortal but they were disrupting the balance so nature fought back and as for Esther the very secret she tried to protect to save her family, well it came out because of it. When Nicklaus kills for first time. "
I went closer to sit with her. "We know this story." She nodded her head in understanding. "What you don't know is that to tame Klaus animal side she only needed drop of doppelganger but by that time doppelganger died so she used all her blood for safety measures because spell needs living doppelganger blood."
That surprise us most. "You mean there is no need for doppelganger to die?" Grams asked her again.
"Yes all you have to do is use doppelganger's fresh blood on full moon on ground where he was born. The doppelganger has to be present at the very scene. Then you need blood from his kin one can be of his siblings but other must came from his pack bloodline. Use incantation backwards and make Nicklaus drink that blood. It will lift that spell placed on him."
We were quite but then thought struck me. "What if he want to use doppelganger blood?" She smiled and shake her head.
"You didn't hear me child. He was supposed to be part of pack and its pack nature to run by loyalty. That loyalty goes both way. By making him drink his kin blood you will be binding his broken bond with his pack hence his loyalty to his pack too, after that he won't crave loyalty again and some part of nature is restored when he will get his family, pack and future all together. Trust me this will change him for better."
At word future we all stared at her in surprise but she smiled at us. "Why are you all surprised I am spirit after all."
With that darkness consumed us and next time I opened my eyes I saw Enzo's face.
"Enzo?" I looked around and saw us in woods. Damon was helping Grams up while Mason was helping Lucy. Stefan was handing water to Grams.
"Thank God luv, you gave us quite fright back there."
I stared at him confusion. "What happened, how we got here?" He stared at me worriedly. "After candles flick off and When Mason couldn't enter either I opened my flashlights and saw you three passed out. So I went out to call Damon by the time I came back Mason was able to get inside and one by one we bring all three of you outside while you stayed unconscious."
I shared look with Grams and Lucy as we realized what happen.
"I guess Annaya render us unconscious to show us that." Grams came to conclusion.
"Show you what?" Enzo asks her incredulously.
"How to reverse Klaus spell without sacrificing anyone. We know what to do now."
I held his face tenderly , assuring him with my eyes before turning to face Stefan.
"Call everyone and Isobel it's time to bring Nicklaus Michelson to Mystic falls."
Author's note.
So here is another chapter. Hope you enjoy reading it. Please send me your reviews.