A/N- I am missing the show. Seriously, this is my one of those phase when you have everything but you feel empty. Well it's not that grave but it is disturbing you know. Anyway here is the next chapter.

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~~Searching for the Star~~

"Did you talk with any of them?" Rebecca narrowed her eyes suspiciously to her elder brother. She was admiring herself in the mirror wearing her new red off-shoulder gown long enough when Elijah cleared his throat.

"If you could spare some time to our family issues then may be I can explain to you some little problems about them."

With a disgruntled look Rebecca walked down to the plush couch placed in the middle of the lofty living room, surrounded by sitting arrangements matching the luxurious decor of the place perfectly. At the glass top of the center table a tablet pc was sitting quietly with a face of a young girl illuminating on it's screen.

"Who is she?" Rebecca frowned at the girl in a similar outfit as hers.

"Katherine Pierce. One of them. I met her this evening in the bar." Elijah stated.

"And she gave you a provocative pose good enough to capture in your camera. That is great." Rebecca curled her lips.

"Don't be so difficult Rebecca. We have a lot to do. Now listen to what I am saying before making any other useless comment."

"What about the others?" Rebecca tried to be smart in front of him, although she knew Elijah was too serious for that.

"I already have talked to the others and assigned them their tasks. Now listen carefully." Elijah picked the tab and glided his finger downwards, where a short bio of the girl in the photograph is written. "Katherine Pierce, age eighteen, has an identical twin sister. Waiting for her graduation, Katherine is always seen with her group of four girls. here look at this photograph."

The next photograph was taken in their school, a group pf five girls smiling at each other's jokes. Rebecca noticed one of them looked exactly like Katherine, their similarity was almost unnatural. She placed her finger on the other girl and zoomed in.

"This is Elena Gilbert, Katherine's twin and the second of them."

A crease formed on her forehead as Rebecca heard her name, "Elena Gilbert, did you say?"

"Yes," Elijah nodded. "Their mother remarried and Elena decided to take her step father's surname."

"Even they have family issues huh?"

Elijah ignored the comment and went on. "For now I am sure Katherine and Elena are two of the guardians, but we still need to find out the others and of course the lost Princess who we know nothing about. Last night I spoke to Katherine and she let me know their only condition, that we will have to prove ourselves worth enough to receive Venus and mother Nature's blessings, the Star power. Apparently she is the head of the gurdian group and it was her own will that I found her, but we cannot just sit and wait for them to show up when they want."

"So we need a plan to follow." Rebecca said absentmindedly.

"Here is the plan. You will keep an watch on this girl." Elijah pointed out a small frame of flawless smooth skin and dark brown curls. "her name is April Young and she spends a lot of time with Elena and Katherine. I don't suppose she is one of them because its very important to them to create a perfect protection grid and from where she lives it is not possible to complete the grid."

"What grid?" Rebecca rose her eyes to meet her brother's anger.

"Do you ever pay any attention to whatever mother says?" She made a face and kept looking towards Elijah with the question hanging in the air.

"The pentacle that touches five extreme power points. If April was one of them she had to channel her power in such a place from where a perfect pentacle could be drawn, but she is Katherine's neighbor and there is no way to create a grid with Katherine unless she manages to channel her power from somewhere else, which is not possible."

"Ok so if I keep an eye on April that will help me how?"

"April is the youngest girl in this group and Katherine and her sister both of them take very special care of her. I am not certain but I have a feeling that we should start looking from her. Besides that will also help us know who else does this Katherine meet and interacts with."

"What if they never meet each other? You know mother once said creating a protection doesn't need the persons involved to meet each other physically, they are just required to match up their powers and aura."

"They share a very powerful bond. Even if they do not meet each other physically they must have some connection. We need to find out what connects them to each other."

"No, we need to prove ourselves first, as Katherine stated to you." The stern comment came from the doorway where Klaus was standing for a while focusing on his siblings and their discussions. Desperate times - he thought indignantly staring at Elijah- could turn the most noble person into someone making plans and plots to get his job done. This was sad, and humiliating to learn how dependent he had become. Klaus shot both Rebecca and Elijah a cold look and walked inside taking heavy steps, his shoulders hunched slightly forward. The rendezvous with Caroline had cost him physical as well as mental fatigue.

"Are you alright?" Rebecca asked what Elijah was willing to ask.

"I am fine," even though he was not, Klaus nodded and repeated the line he just said, with a small variation. "We need to prove ourselves, and they will find us themselves; this is the way the laws of the Stars work and I am not willing to break any rule that might cost me something precious to me. I suppose mother already explained these to you Elijah."

"She did, but we do not have so much time Klaus. Marcel is getting stronger everyday and now when he has Silas' alliance he wouldn't think much about laws and rules." Rebecca felt a chill processing Elijah's words in her mind. Marcel was one of the horrors even they were fearful to face. Not because they cannot defeat him, but because his evil shadow dragged everything and everyone into the pit of darkness where no one ever came back form.

"As pathetic as it may sound, we still have no choice." Klaus ended the discussion and waved his hand in dismissal. Rebecca suddenly felt something very alien, some fragrance, some touch in the air around her brother. She shot Klaus a dubious look.

"Nick, where were you? Or, if may I ask, who were you with?"

"It is none of your concerns sister, but if you really wish to know, I met someone."

"A human?"

"A human, very special, full of light."

"Full of light, is that what he said?" Kol smirked and turned his car to the far left alley of the road. It was 2:30 at the morning and he was having a great deal of enjoyment roaming aimlessly in the roads of Mystic Falls. He was watching the houses, listening to bits and pieces of sleepy noises and conversations of the people of the small town who were reviving themselves for the next day. It was an interesting town, yet boring at some places. But the most interesting incident was what Rebecca was telling about over his cell phone, the one he had missed. "Klaus met someone full of light. Utterly interesting." He said in his usual mischievous manner.

"She's a human and her smell was all over him. What do you think is happening?" Rebecca sounded unsure and irritated.

"A fling, nothing serious. Do you really think Klaus would get himself involved in something serious when his and his family's life at stake, and a bloodthirsty evil vampire-witch is looking for all of us?" Kol pulled over in a dark spot where his black sedan covered itself in the liquid darkness. He climbed out of his car and leaned against the cold metallic body, his gaze fixing upwards at the sky.

"You should have seen his face when he said that. No, I don't think it's just a fling. I know him too well to understand if he is feeling anything special for anyone and this is special. We need to find out whoever the girl is."

"Why are you being so... irritated? Wait this is not about Haley is this?"

Rebecca sneered, at least that is how she sounded. "Why do you think it is about that bitch? Can't I just be concerned about my brother like any other sister does?"

"Of course you can. And the fact that his past unsuccessful relationship that you loathed so much it became an unforgettable event to you has obviously nothing to do with this concern right?" Kol chuckled and he almost heard his elder sister cursing him. That is when something caught his eye. Something very unusual and extraordinary, something that could be seen very rarely, in every five centuries or so. "You got to be kidding me."

His sudden exclamation alarmed Rebecca from across the town. "What is it Kol?"

"Go to the terrace and look down at the town, you will know what is it."

Rebecca clutched her phone tightly in her palm and ran upstairs. Ten seconds later she was in the terrace looking down at the dark blue night sky owning over Mystic falls and before her was the most beautiful celestial view was glowing with power.

A star made of five illuminated straight lines meeting each other at five precise points floating in the night air. The auroral soft glow of gold and silver was too mild to catch for a human eye, but it's warmth and blaze was pretty effulgent for a night creature's eye. Rebecca Mikaelson, an original vampire who lived more than any other nocturnal creature in both her own world and the mortal one, had never ever seen such a glorious view, a view that proved the intense and luminous presence of magic and love in the place where she stood. It was a hint that they were now close to their destination, their quest was going to end up successfully very soon. She stared at the tiny particles in air reflecting the flashes of the light, the extreme power points Elijah explained her earlier this night.

Rebecca laughed out loudly, her voice broke the silence of the night.

"We are in the right place Kol. The lost princess is here, somewhere hidden in plain sight."

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Thank you all for reading. Have a happy weekend.

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