UNDER THE WANING MOON
"Welcome to new Orleans," I smile
Elena gets outof the car eyes wide.
"new Orleans?" she gasps. I snicker a little
"where else is there an immortal hybrid?" I quirk my eyebrows towards her.
"Klaus." Elena whispers darkly. I click my tounge approvingly.
"she speaks"I'm surprised to hear Elena laugh a little at my remark.
"and laughing too" smirking devilishly,I turn around to face the city.
" Now, if you were an immortal, all powerful, hybrid where would you be?" I ask
" knowing Klaus," Elena laughs humorously, "the term "heads will roll", applies to almost everything he does." We start to walk down bourbon street.
"well," I begin " unfortunately we don't have a guillotine in the big easy" I joke sarcastically. Of course, the whole; 'where is Klaus, and how do we find him?' thing is pointless to me, because I know perfectly well where to find him.
"There are quite a few witch inhabitants in new Orleans right?" Elena asks suddenly, turning towards me.
"Yes," I answer cautiously, "Voodoo mostly," Elena cocks her head
"Voodoo?" she asks. "Aren't they like psychics or something?" I scoff.
"that's the nice way of putting it," I say provocatively, pushing her curiosity further.
"what do you...?"
" Voodoo Priests, Voodoo Witches, Psychics- whatever you want to call them, are, in fact, true decendents of magical lines" I inform her. "But," I snarl " they- shall we say, failed to inherit the majical abilities of their predecessors." I look at the coolection of bars and pubs on bourbon street. " They are, technically, magical duds" I say frankly.
"So they have no majical powers whatsoever?" she asks.
" Some have very limited ability, but most have none"
" Then how do they, you know, read the future?" she asks.
"They may not have any magical abilities, but they have most likely grown up in a magic-using family. So, an 'awareness or connection with nature' is still there" I hiss.
I stop at the corner of Bourbon and Orleans street. "lets go in here" I say, pointing to a bar. We walk into the bar together.
I take a seat at the bar, Elena tells me shes going to the bathroom.
"i'll have my usual," I say with a wink towards the bartender, who smiles and runs to get it.
"Hello love, have you gotten taller?" a very familiar british accent whispers into my ears.
"Klaus," I smile, embracing my oldest living friend.
" Have you brought the doppelgangar?" he asks. I laugh.
"She went to use the bathroom"
" Ah"
"You have a job for her?"
"Why else would I have you bring her down?"
"To have a drink of course!" I snarked, smiling. "High-quality booze like this is hard to come by." I take a sip of the drink the bartender had just set down, the alcolhaul giving me the warm burning feeling that I so loved. I set the glass down playing with the glass rim.
" She wants moon water," I snarl.
"Easy enough, as long as she does as I ask,"
I smirk;
" That, Nik, is something you don't have to worry about," I hiss, " the girl's desparate, she loves this boy, the only thing holding her together is the hope that I can bring him back." My voice morphes into a serious, grave tone.
"And can you?" Klaus asks, leaning foreward on his forearms.
"duh"
"But will you?" he asks, completely serious.
I take a moment to think, surprised that I had already decided what my answer was. I don't know when I made up my mind, but I had, somwhere along the line of coming to Mystic Falls and coming here, I'd decided:
"Yeah, I think I will" I lean forward on my forearms near Klaus. " They aren't bad people, stupid at times, but they are good. And that girl in there"I nod my head towards the bathrooms " I can tell shes strong, stronger than she knows, and exceptionally good. And any person that good deserves a chance at being happy" I say challengingly.
"But," I hiss. "if any of them take one step out of line, I WILL end them!" Klaus laughs.
"How very kind of you"
I growl "I'm giving them a gift. I'm being leineant, lets hope they don't abuse it." I gulp the rest of my drink, slamming the empty glass down when I finish.
"Now," Klaus smiles too sweetly, " Our lovely doppelganger is on her way over," he turns to me smirking. " Let's have a chat with her, shall we?"
Elena sits down next to me, slightly nervous, but defiant.
" Hello miss gilbert, Sophie has mentioned your need of moonwater. Which, I will gladly provide, given you do as I ask." Klaus offers.
" And what is it that you ask?" Elena glares at him.
"Nothing much sweetheart, I need you to kill 12 witches"
" What! Elena gasps shocked "T-Twelve witches?" she looks at Klaus with a face that says 'You've got to be kidding me', I hold back my snicker.
"Yes," Klaus says, "You want your moonwater, those are the terms." Elena twirls her daylight ring around her finger and closes her eyes realizing that this is her only choice.
"Why me?" she asks, "I'm sure you have plenty of minions who would do it for you, so- WHY ME?!" Elena's voice rasies to a dangerous level, I smirk drily.
"Because," Klaus says, unaffected by her outburst. "These witches can only be killed by a doppelganger." Elena takes a deep breath,
"If I do this, you will give me the moonwater?" Elena asks.
"Yes," Klaus says.
"Well," Elena sighs, "Then I have twelve witches to kill"
Klaus led us to the markets in the center of the French Quarter and down an alley.
I knew where we were headed, this was the old alley that led to the ancient slaughter house, where animals would be slaughtered for the butchers.
"You've been very tasteful in your location," I whisper to Klaus.
"The wiches chose this actually, although I quite like it," he whispers back. I snicker quietly.
"Alright sweetheart," Klaus says to Elena, "You may kill them now."
Elena just looks at them sadly.
"These are bad witches Elena, they want to bring a witch that will curse all of humanity forever back to life. You are saving lives. You're saving children, who's parents won't be dead because of that witch, less orphans, less misery. Think of Damon, we get the moonwater, and we will bring him back, I know I can" I stress egging her on. Elena nods confidently and steps out into the slaughter house.
The moon is full and bright, tinted red for tonight. " the blood moon," I whisper "very fitting"
Klaus smirks.
Elena bides her time, sneaking up behind the circle of witches.
She finds one in the back corner And care fully closes her hand over her mouth so she cant scream, with her other hand she pulls out her heart.
One dead
She uses the bloody heart in her hand as artillery and throws it straight through another witch's chest taking out her heart too.
Two dead
The room erupts in chaos, Elena bashes the heads of two more witches, using her elbows and the floor.
Three, Four dead
One tries to cast at spell, her hand outstretched, but Elena cuts her off by grabbing it and throwing the witch into the wall then uses her foot to snap her neck.
Five dead
She snaps the heads of three more and pulls out the hearts of another two.
Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten dead
Elena is a fairly good fighter, of course im comparing her to myself, who has been fighting since age two, but she's good enough to hold her own.
She kicks the next-to-last witch and knocks her to the floor, ending up straddeling her, Elena's bony, long fingers squeezing the witch's neck. The witch laughs weakly, but I can pick out her desperation.
" K...Klaus" the witch gasps for breath ' nnnn...needs your bbb...lood for her protection but hell never get it...becau..." the witches head pops off.
Eleven dead
Elena turns to the last witch, but she's already to late, the witch has begun chanting. Elena clutches her head in pain, crying out.
The final witch advances and I lunge into action.
I grab the witch's shoulder and pull her up over me so she ends up hitting the wall upside down, face to the floor.
I hook my calf under her knees, and kick her up so her head hits the wall.
She dazedly tries to punch me, but I grab her arm and twist it over her shoulder, hearing it crack as her collarbone breaks, she cries out in pain and tries to struggle.
I grab her other arm ant twist it so that it too breaks, and she screms again.
I easily twist my grip around, flipping her over me onto the stone floor. She groans, blood running down her face, but she still tries to kick me.
I move my legs in opposite directions, breaking her leg too. She screams to high heavens.
I flip her weak body up to a sitting position, purposely gripping her by her sholders to do so.
Then, I knee her in between her shoulder blades, hard.
She begins to choke, making hollow, sucking sounds. She gasps in pain again and again, searching for the air she desperately needs, but cant find.
Until, finally, she coughs.
Then she coughs again.
Except this time, she coughs up her heart.
It fell right onto her lap.
Twelve dead
Her eyes widened in horror, as she relized that it was her heart and that she's dead.
I've always loved this part. The part where the predator's prey realizes that they're dinner. There's a certain beauty in it. That's why its my favorite maneuver.
Klaus smiles at me, shaking his head. Soundlessly saying; " that's why you're the only one to ever beat me", reminding me of how we first met, making me smile.
Then, he turns to Elena ,who stares ,more-than-a-little fearfully at me.
Klaus grabs her by the collar saying,
" That's enough staring, sweetheart. We've got places to be, more things for you to do" That shakes Elena out of her daze.
"What! But I killed the witches the deal is finished, so give me what I need" the tone of her voice can only be described as thoroughly pissed.
"The deal was you killed twelve witches" Klaus snarks. "You killed eleven so the deal, is now, void"
"what! NO!" Elena yells angrily. Klaus never lets her finish;
" But, since I'm feeling generous today, I figured I'd give you a pass, on one condition" Elena glares at him venomously
"And. what. is. that." her tone is clipped and fuming, she speaks through gritted teeth.
"You give me two pints of your blood' he says. Elena looks outraged.
"TWO PINTS OF MY..."
"Yes, 2 pints of your blood, for one vial of moonwater and, your boyfriends life"
Elena growls
"FINE. Two pints. And not one bit over." She glares at him.
Klaus and I sit in the waiting room as elena gets her blood drawn.
Klaus hands me a package.
"There you go," he says . "1 viail of moonwater"
"Thanks Nik," I smile. Klaus sighs, sadly.
"You know you're always welcome here, right?" he says.
"I know." I whisper. "But I have to go. You know that."
" I do," he says "But I'd be lying if I said I didn't, and wouldn't, miss you"
"Hey," I look at him condescendingly "Just because I'm going back to Mystic Falls, doesn't mean I'm completely cutting you off." I say. He smiles melancholically, I continue;
"All im saying is, don't be a stranger, okay? Give me a call or something!" I scoff "Its not like I'm dropping off the face of the earth!" He snickers a little I sigh faux-annoyed;
"And tell Bex to do the same! Talk about dropping off the face of the earth! It be nice to hear from my favorite original/ best friend some time!" Klaus whacks my cheek affectionately at the 'favorite Original' comment. I continue;
"All I'm saying, is that we've got to stick together You, Bex, and I! It's what we do, and its all we have, and without it, well, I have a feeling its the only thing keeping us sane." I smile slightly.
"Always and forever, right?" Klaus says. He places a light kiss to my forehead, I smile.
"always and forever".
well! that's done! Sorry for the no update in a million(teenage) years! And its a long one too! I guess its okay! so REVIEW! Guesses about Sophie! Questions! Comments! Tell me how much you hate me! (Yeaaaah...JK)
For clarification:
when Sophie says Bex, she is, in fact referring to Rebekah
In the line:
K...Klaus" the witch gasps for breath ' nnnn...needs your bbb...lood for her protection but hell never get it...becau..." the witches head pops off.
the the "HER" who needs protection is Hope, for those of you who know who that is. And, yes, sophie does know about her.
I'll shoot for updating within ONLY HALF a million(teenage) years next time!
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