Like World War III

Elena and Kol stood in the field the next morning surveying the damages from the previous nights battle. Dead bodies were strewn carelessly around. The bittersweet stench of blood and gore dominated all of their senses. Elena sighed in frustration. "You know I am getting seriously tired of having to clean up bodies wherever I go." She huffed irritably. "It is a given, darling. Death comes with the territory of being a vampire, or in your case a hybrid. I'd say it gets better, but in all honesty it never does. I have killed hundreds, hiding their bodies in shallow graves or tearing them up enough to make it look like an animal attack, dumping them anywhere away from prying eyes. You'll get over it." Kol shrugged while grabbing two bodies and started hauling them away. Elena was stunned into silence for a moment. Taking in what the younger Mikaelson had said. "When? When will I get over it? In a month? A year? A decade? When Kol? Because I don't want to go on living like this. This-" Elena trailed off while motioning toward a pile of bodies. "Isn't me! This is you and Klaus, Rebekah, heck even Elijah and Damon! Stefan even, but this isn't me." Kol had saw others go through this stage as well. "Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Elena." He hummed while giving her a pointed look over his shoulder. "I am not in denial Kol! I am the selfless, compassionate, empathetic human! Not a psychotic, self-preserving, sadistic monster!" "Your not human Elena." Kol said darkly, body stiff. "Your a hybrid. As soon as you were turned you became a different person. Before this happened you were the pathetically weak Petrova doppelgänger who relied on others to keep her alive. Now though, you don't need anyone, you can take care of yourself, and if you ask me I have never seen you more alive then you are now. Before any of the happened to you you were shut down, letting everyone walk all over you Now you stand up for yourself. It's magnificent to watch." Kol had dropped the bodies and came to stand in front of her. Elena stared up at him, testing to see if he had meant what he said she saw nothing but raw emotion in his eyes. Pure honesty. "I have only saw you murder one innocent since you were turned. And even that was too many months ago to count. The only blood on your hands is from those who were either going to wrong you or the people you care about. I am extremely proud of you, and very envious. Even now I do not contain as much self restraint as you do, and you have only been a hybrid for what eight months?" Kol held onto her forearms firmly, willing her to see his reasoning. She nodded, removing her arms from his grasp and hugging him lightly. He was shocked for a moment before returning the gesture. "Elena Gilbert... Is dead." Elena said lowly, monotonously, as if reciting a mantra of sorts, a few times over. "I'm Elena Mikaelson." She finished the bone chilling chant. Kol was still shocked to hear her proclamation from the previous night. He could only imagine what Klaus would think when he heard of it, he had been slowly trying to win over this girl since he found out they were fated. Sure he hadn't exactly told Kol this, but he knew; he had never in his life witnessed Klaus vie so hard for the attention of a single girl. It was slightly ludicrous at the time to him, because Klaus had been the one to tell all of his siblings that love was a vampires greatest weakness, but as he got to know and understand the complicated technicalities that was Elena Gilbert he understood his brothers infatuation.

The duo finished cleaning the clearing out, collecting the moonlight rings from the werewolves that had possessed them previously. They would take them to New Orleans and hand them over to Klaus who would be rid of the retched things before they could cause anymore damage. They looked over the field, seeing if they had overlooked anything that could lead to the finding of supernatural beings, which, for obvious reasons would be very bad. Since Elena's mental breakdown they had only conversed lightly about body abandonment and such. It wasn't an awkwardness that suffocated the premises, but a quiet understanding that she needed time to herself for a while.

As they got back to the hotel They saw that everyone had packed up whatever had been unpacked in the night they spent in the hotel and left. They had to be in New Orleans as soon as possible. Especially with the ever looming threat of Marcel.

Elena slung her bag across her shoulder before briskly walking out of the hotel room toward the elevator, the others following closely behind her. Elena had to get out as fast as she could, they had a long drive ahead of them, and not enough time. Not to mention everyone was running off of only a few hours of sleep.

xXx

Elena's Fastback slowed as they reached the driveway of the Mikaelson mansion; Caroline's Fiesta not far behind. Elena saw Elijah outside the front doors looking like he didn't know what to do with himself. The only one missing... Was Klaus. In a flash of motion Elena was in front of the elder Mikaelson who looked relieved that the group had finally returned. "Where is he?!" Elena demanded her eyes a murky gold color as she fought to restrain her wolf. "He went to delay Marcel's attack until you arrived. We must go." Elijah said curtly while sliding into the backseat next to Rebekah. Elena was in the drivers seat seconds later pulling out behind Caroline.

Elijah directed her to an abandoned warehouse type building. Elena sensed a strong vampire presence inside and had a really bad feeling. She parked the car farther away from the warehouse to keep their presence unknown until they wanted to make it known themselves. "I'm going to go in, you all wait outside. This may be a war, but I want to give them the chance to surrender before we are forced to take lethal action." Elena stared them all down, willing them to second guess her orders. "You, my darling make an excellent alpha female." Kol smirked while the others just nodded in agreement. Elena turned her gaze, remembering that her very human brother was among them. "Jeremy, you will stay in the car. We don't need to have to look after you in a building filled with vampires." Jeremy looked like he wanted to say something, but seeing the slight glare in his sister's eyes. He simply nodded before turning back to Caroline's car. "Great, lets move out!" Elena rushed toward the warehouse with a burst of speed.

As she reached an open area she stopped in the shadows. Just ahead of her there was a ring of vampires and in the center Elena saw Klaus. He wore his ever arrogant smirk as he addressed the crowd. Elena remained silent, hidden anonymously in the shadows. She watched as Klaus took a coin out of his pocket raising it into the air for all to see. Elena smiled knowing exactly what he was doing. He continued speaking calmly, clearly, explaining the rules. Klaus looked directly at Marcel who seemed amused by the whole ordeal unfolding before them. "Anyone wants that coin, pledge allegiance to Klaus. Take it now." He glanced between Klaus, the coin, and the surrounding vampires. "Go ahead. The choice is yours." If she had been clueless Elena would have thought Marcel was being generous, but the gleam in Marcel's eyes made Elena sure she was wrong. He had other plans, maybe he was trying to root out the ones who would turn on him of given the chance, but she wasn't positive. Elena watched a few vampires stumble forward, but stopped before they even made a true step forward. "Go ahead." Marcel repeated more forcefully. One vampire zipped forward to grab the coin, but before he got within three feet he was laying dead and heartless. A few more vampires tried and each failed. Klaus held his arms out, willing someone else to try and best him. Marcel nodded, and within that second chains were wrapped around Klaus' arms. Vampires poured forward all trying to punch and kick at the downed hybrid king, they cut at him, doing anything to cause pain. Elena was frozen on the spot for a moment. When she zoned back in Klaus' chains were taught and vampires were taking turns beating him. One slashed threw his skin multiple times, whereas others would punch him a few times with vampire strength. One of them, one of Marcel's closer vampire groupies made one long gash which caused Klaus' blood to pour in a maroon color tone.

Elena stepped out of the shadows her hybrid contenance appearing, blood rushing through her veins causing veins to appear under her now golden eyes. Canine's lengthened, deadly sharp, she could feel the venom, itching to be let out. At the same time the vampire's noticed the new arrival to the party Klaus started grolwing lowly, it was like a deep vibrating sound coming from deep in his chest. Elena found that her chest was radiating the very same sound as his. They met each others eyes, something inside Elena made her spring into attack at the same time Klaus used the chains around his wrists to strangle and decapitate vampires that restarted their attack. A large group of vampires surrounded Elena, with a smug look on their faces as they hissed at her. One, a very brave one, darted forward, but before he could cause any damage Elena had him in a headlock, closing her canine's around his neck leaving a very nasty bite that was already making the skin fester, becoming red and oozing really gross stuff. The vampire wailed in agony. All at once it seemed vampires charged forward, one aiming to rip out her heart, instead she ripped out the hybrid bitten vampire's heart. Elena dropped the now dead body and started her own assault. Ripping out hearts, decapitating, breaking necks in every which way. Biting any piece of vampire flesh she can find, secreting the deadly werewolf toxin with each nip.

"Marcel! Come and finish this!" Klaus bellowed while killing yet another vampire. Elena watched Marcel's reaction while continuing with the onslaught. Marcel jolted forward in an attempt to protect his friends. But Rebekah pulled him back. "Pick up the coin." Rebekah looked straight into his eyes. Why would she care? "What?!" Elena turned her attention to the vampire that had started this all, who was staring at Klaus' younger sister as if she had grown a second head. "They won't stop until everyone is dead, and they will kill you too." Rebekah said slightly more strained. Marcel just stared at her in bewilderment. "End this," The blond looked at the coin which was now unprotected. "Pick up the coin." Her voice was now just aboce a whisper. Elena and Klaus relentlessly murdered more vampires while some just layed on the ground passed out from a broken neck.

"Enough!" Marcel declared causing everyone to stop, though Klaus still had his hand around a vampire's throat and Elena had her hand in someone's chest sqeezing their heart, they grunted in pain. After a second they both let their captives go while looking as Marcel walked over to the exposed coin. His fingers grazed the cool metal of the coin before he took it in his hand. He looked up as the hybrid king loomed over him. "Well, well, well. Marcel, self proclaimed king of New Orleans. Bowing before me." Klaus, like everyone else was drenched in blood and he appeared even more crazy as his eyes returned to their off blue color. He looked almost solemn in his tone of voice, but Elena knew better. "There," Marcel took in a breath. Tossing the coin to Klaus' feet. "I hereby pledge my allegiance to you." He looked the hybrid straight in the eye as he spoke his oath. "You have the keys to my kingdom." Elena felt like scoffing at this remark. "It's yours." Elena could sense the resistance in his voice, but he didn't break eye contact. Klaus looked to be judging him, seeing if the vampire bowed down before him had any ill intentions. When he didn't a cheshire cat- like grin was placed across his face. Elena walked up beside him with a similar grin.

On her way out of the building vampire was about to launch himself at Klaus. Elena narrowed her eyes at the auburn haired vampire who smiled coyly towards her before launching at Klaus who had his back turned to his attacker. Elena growled before shifting and tackling the vampire to the ground digging lethal fangs into his neck and applying exceptional strength breaking his neck, she put more pressure on his neck until his head rolled across the ground. "God, this was like World War III or something..." Kol said while looking at the blood and gore that was splashed carelessly around the old, abandoned warehouse.

AN: Well, spoken Kol... Well I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, and I do plan on updating soon. My life is still in turmoil and I have almost no time to write, but whenever I have a free moment I am writing, so rest assured I will definitely be finishing my story, and I plan on doing much more writing very soon.

Catch'ya on the flip side Laterzzz ~LoveLiving