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NotRob: Esther finally showed up in the last chapter, but she'll actually be making her intentions known in this one!
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Guest: had to leave you guessing sometimes.
katitat: I thought that TVD really glossed over the Heretics, like they brought these powerful creatures in and never expanded on it. I mean look at Kai, he was able to absorb the Traveller spell, which was probably about the same amount of magic as when Bonnie channelled the witches house, he got out of a prison world after he'd been brutally attacked by Bonnie. He cloaked the Heretics, cursed Elena, managed to stab Jo with not a single member of the coven noticing and then he rendered them all unable to stop him before he killed them all. Any one of these feats should have killed him based on the information we have on the witches of TVD, and none of that was ever addressed, so I'm going to use it to my advantage and expand on them myself. But I'm really glad you're enjoing this.
Raven R. Mahmood: Thank you! I know it's not a completely original idea, but I wanted to put my own spin on it. And I can't give you chapters too fast, I need to leave you all hungry for more sometimes!
Sheriff Forbes rushed into Caroline's room when she heard her daughter scream, her eyes locked onto Maya's prone form and she ran to the girl, "Caroline! What happened?"
"I don't know!" Caroline cried, "Mum she's not breathing!"
Liz looked down at the girl, and started CPR, "Caroline call for an ambulance right now!"
Caroline stumbled to her feet and grabbed her phone, she dialled 911 and prayed that Maya would be okay, she couldn't stop crying, by the time the ambulance got there, Maya hadn't started breathing again. Liz bundled Caroline into her cruiser and they followed the ambulance to the hospital.
When they got to the hospital, Caroline was a hysterical mess, she had no idea what had happened, all Maya had done was take the moonstone, but Caroline hadn't been hurt by the stone, so why had Maya?
Meanwhile the doctors were trying everything they could to help Maya, but her heart had stopped twice in her time there, each time longer than the last. They managed to get her back each time, but they had no idea what was wrong with her, in fact, they had put the girl on a ventilator, just to keep her breathing.
Whilst all this was happening around her unconscious, dying form, Maya was in her own world of trouble.
The Other Side
Maya wandered the plain of the other side, she'd died! She thought to herself indignantly, she couldn't believe it, not even a murderous vampire in town and she'd been killed by a rock for god sakes! This was humiliating, she couldn't believe it, what the hell had happened? How had the Original Bitch…sorry Witch, managed to spell the moonstone like that? That hadn't happened in the TVD timeline, she was sure of it, Esther must have had help to reach out past the Other Side, to the living plain. But the question was, who had helped her? And was she going to be attacked by Esther and whoever her minions were? Maya went for her necklace to try and siphon some magic to arm herself, but faltered when she realised that she couldn't feel anything coming from her necklace. Of course, the magic belonged to the living plain, and it wasn't hers to begin with, so she didn't have anything to connect with to draw from. "Shit," she muttered, this was not good.
"My wife tells me that you are just as much of a beast as the boy." She heard an eerily familiar voice spit from behind her.
Eyes widening for a moment, Maya fought off the instinctual whimper of fear that the sound of that voice evoked. Klaus had been terrified of Mikael, and for good reason, and she was willing to bet that Esther had told Mikael all about the fact that she was the reason he was currently occupying the Other Side, instead of hunting his children, like he had for the past 1000 years. Steeling herself, she turned around, eyes narrowed at the original vampire hunter "Mikael," she scowled, "I'm not surprised to see you here."
Mikael gave her, what could only be described, as a sinister look, "It will be my greatest pleasure to end your pathetic life once and for all." If he couldn't kill the abomination that had masqueraded as his son, then he could very well end the witch that was the reason for his own death. He whooshed forward and wrapped a hand around her throat, starting to squeeze the life out of her. Maya's hands instinctively came up to grip his wrist, in a desperate attempt to stop him from killing her, again, and much to her surprise, she was able to siphon from him. Thanks to her ability, she managed to loosen Mikael's hold on her, just slightly, "You know I love a good choking as much as the next girl, but you're just not my type. Motus!" Mikael flew back and hit a tree, not waiting for the Original to get up she ran into the forest, keeping what little magic she'd managed to siphon from Mikael to herself.
As Maya ran deeper into the forest, she heard a cracking come from her side, and just managed to dodge a huge log flying in her direction, "Motherfucker! I thought we were all supposed to be alone on the Other Side!" Maya said to herself as she jumped back, avoiding a boulder that had been hurled towards her.
"There's no use running girl !" Mikael called out, with the same sneer that he used on Klaus, "You will not survive me!"
Maya froze, as what he'd been saying finally registered in her brain, "What?" she asked, whirling around to face the Destroyer head on, "What did you just say to me?"
Mikael stalked forward, he pulled out a knife, that he must have had on him when he died, "I will end you."
"PHASMATOS PROHIBERE!" Maya yelled and this time it was Mikael frozen in his tracks, "You said that I won't survive you, you said that you were going to end my pathetic life once and for all. And you know what that tells me?" She smirked at him victoriously, "I'm not dead! You wouldn't be trying so hard to kill me otherwise, but you know what?" she walked up to him, confident that her spell would hold and laid her hands on him, siphoning more magic from him, "You are dead, and I'M THE REASON! I'M THE ONE THAT GAVE NIKLAUS EVERYTHING HE NEEDED TO END YOUR PATHETIC EXISTENCE, AND I WILL GIVE HIM EVERYTHING HE NEEDS TO BREAK HIS CURSE AND MAKE MORE 'ABOMINATIONS' JUST. LIKE. HIM!" She yelled. "And you'll be cursed to watch, but since you're so interested in the things that your precious wife has to say, why don't you ask her what really happened to Freya, because she didn't die of the plague. Every moment of her life she suffered, wishing for her father to save her, but he never did." She said viciously. Those were the last words that Mikael heard from her, before she snapped his neck. As Maya began to walk away, she felt herself fade from the Other Side, and found herself in nothing but darkness.
The Living Plain
Jenna was sat at Maya's bedside, her tears hadn't stopped flowing, Maya hadn't woken up, she hadn't responded to anything the doctors had done, they'd said something about her being in a coma, but no one knew why. Her sister Miranda came in to sit with her, Miranda had gotten a call from Liz, Jenna was a hysterical mess, her daughter's heart had stopped beating, multiple times, and Jenna needed her big sister. Even though their daughters didn't get along, Miranda loved her niece, and she loved her baby sister, so she would be there for Jenna and Maya, for as long as they needed her. Miranda pulled Jenna to her, wrapping her arms around her, just like she'd done when Jenna had come to her crying after finding out she was pregnant, "It's going to be okay Jenna, the doctors are going to figure out what's wrong, Maya will wake up, and she'll want to know all about the birthday plans you have for her."
Jenna sobbed into her sister's shoulder, "They don't know what's wrong with her, they don't know why she won't wake up!"
"I promise, Maya is going to wake up." Miranda said strongly, looking over at her niece, gasping in fright at the sight, "Oh my god," she whispered, Jenna looked up at her sister's words and focused on what she was looking at. Maya's neck, which had been clear, had dark finger shaped bruises appear on it.
"What the hell?" Jenna asked.
The Darkness
The darkness was kind of comforting, she'd said it before, Caroline was the sun, and she was the night, they made up two halves of the same coin, so being in the dark didn't scare her, at least not more than being on the Other Side. But she needed to figure out where she was, and how to get out of there, but just as she was focusing on that, she felt herself being pulled from wherever she was, and landing right back on the Other Side.
The Other Side
"Not again," she whined, "Is this just going to keep happening?!" she asked no one in particular, if it was, it was going to be a real inconvenience.
"So you are the witch that has been betraying the spirits by helping my son."
Maya rolled her eyes, what was with this family and their need to show up while her back was turned? She spun around to meet the Original Witch face to face. "And you're the bitch that kept her son week for his entire mortal life, cursed him to live half a life when you turned him into a vampire, and drove him to near insanity because of it." Maya scowled, she hated Nik's parents, all three of them were terrible…she paused at that, she could remember everything! What did that mean?! "And not that I need to explain myself, but I'm not betraying anyone, as far as the spirits are concerned, I'm just as much of an abomination as your son."
Esther's eyes narrowed at the girl before her, and that's what she was, a girl, a child, who was going to die tonight, so that she could cross back over and finally end all of her children. "I will not let you help my son break his curse. He's an affront to nature, all my children are."
Maya scoffed, "Oh please, I'm so sick of you witches, believing that you know Nature's will, humans are life and vampires death, there must be balance in everything. Are you truly so arrogant as to believe that you could do anything that She doesn't allow?"
Esther frowned, "You are nothing but a child, you know nothing of the world, of nature, I have spent 1000 years on the Other Side, being punished for the monsters I created, I will not let you stop me from righting my greatest mistake!"
"You want to get back the land of the living, you're going to have to go through me." Maya stated, realising exactly what Esther wanted, she couldn't take over her body while they were on different plains, so now she was trying to take over now that her spirit was untethered from her flesh.
"I think you'll find that that's the plan," Esther replied, moving closer to Maya, "You have no power here, I made sure of that."
"Well, that makes you very stupid," Maya laughed, "Just because I can't access the magic in my necklace, doesn't mean I have no power here. We're on the Other Side Esther, this plain is made up entirely of magic, it's practically in the air."
Esther's eyes widened as she realised what Maya was saying, "Blø!" the Original Witch said, her hand flying out to cast her spell.
"Ugh!" Maya groaned and bent over, vomiting blood as she felt the full effect of Esther's spell, her hand came into contact with the ground and she pulled on the ancient magic that held the other side together. Gaining some strength back, Maya straightened up, blood was dripping from her nose, her eyes, and ears, "I may be young, but I am not WEAK! Dead or alive, I will never let you use me to hurt your son."
"You don't have a choice," Esther replied, "Bryte bein!"
Maya cried out as she felt the bones in her right arm and left leg snap, causing her to fall to one knee, struggling to lift up her left hand she grunted, she would not let this bitch kill her, "Phasmatos navaro pulsus sanguinox!" Esther screamed and then fell into unconsciousness, at least temporarily, as her blood turned to acid. Maya's other leg gave out under her weight, and she groaned as she hit the floor and felt her rib crack under the pressure.
Rolling onto her back she gasped, she had to get out of the area, Esther was unconscious, but only for now, the woman was already dead, which meant that she couldn't be killed again on the Other Side. But Maya could still die permanently, and as confident as she was, she knew that Esther was a powerful witch, more powerful than her, especially as she'd had 1000 years to navigate the Other Side. Stretching out her good hand she felt the dirt under her fingertips, buried them in the ground, and started to siphon the magic there. "Fix the leg," she whispered to herself, concentrating, "Fix the leg, just fix the leg, come on, you can do this, just fix the leg." She whimpered as she felt the bone in her leg realign itself and began to knit together.
"Well hello little one," another female voice spoke, as the woman came into view, Maya laid eyes on her and gasped in astonishment, "You've been busy haven't you?" the woman asked, crouching down as Maya blacked out.
The Living Plain
Grayson had come in when Miranda called him, after the bruises mysteriously appeared on Maya's neck, he took over her treatment when he realised that whatever was happening to his niece was something supernatural. Jenna was unusually hostile, not in front of Miranda of course, and she was not being overtly hostile, but it was noticeable. She watched him like a hawk as he checked on his niece, she wouldn't let him be alone with her, like she thought that he would do something to her.
He heard the alarms go off in Maya's room and he rushed in, her heart had stopped again but this time blood began to pour from her eyes, and ears, and her bones broke seemingly without any trauma, "What the hell?" he said to himself as he tried to get her heart going again.
"NO!" Jenna screamed as a nurse pulled her out of the room so she didn't get in the way while Grayson and the rest off his teams tried to get her back.
The Other Side
Maya woke with a start, she was still on the Other Side, "No, no, no," she whispered to herself, she pushed up off the floor using her good arm, she stood shakily on her recently repaired leg, suppressing a gasp of pain.
"Nice to see you're finally awake," the woman said, sitting at table in front of the fire, in a cosy little home on the edge of the forest.
Maya looked around the room first, this place was different from everywhere else, it couldn't be explained, but it felt off, it was then she looked at the woman before her, "I can't still be here, I'm not dead, I can't be."
"Not yet no, and you've still got a little while, time works differently on the Other Side," the woman replied.
"Why did you bring me here?"
"Before you go back, we need to have a little talk, and you need to do something for me."
The Living Plain
Jenna sagged in relief as Grayson confirmed that Maya's heart was beating again, she still couldn't breathe on her own, but she was alive and that was what mattered. Now all her baby had to do was wake up, without being injured any further. And that was another serious problem, so far only Grayson and Miranda had seen the odd things that were happening to her body, Miranda had only seen the bruises on Maya's neck which could be explained away, but Grayson had seen her bleeding from her eyes, witnessed her leg and arm twist at unnatural angles and heard the snap of her bones. She'd seen the look in his eyes, he was interested in what was happening to her, and not in the way a normal doctor would be interested, the glint in his eyes was what she'd imagined he looked like when he'd tortured Enzo.
Darkness
Maya re-appeared in the darkness, not the Other Side, and not the Living Plain either, the good news was she couldn't feel any pain here, her arm and rib were still broken, she could feel that, but not the pain that she'd felt when she was on the Other Side. The bad news however, was that she couldn't feel any magic either, whatever she had siphoned, was gone, or she couldn't access it. "Where the hell am I?" she murmured.
A bit of a shorter chapter for you all, (sorry), I just wanted to spread this out a little, build some anticipation.
Maya's at the hospital, but can't breathe on her own, and Grayson now suspects something magical going on with his niece. What will happen now? How will Jenna handle Grayson's suspicions? You'll just have to wait and see!
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