Sorry I'm late with the update and the chapter turned out pretty short. But the research about creatures and legends that I used to extend to the real TVT background story took a while. I hope you like it, even if it sounds a bit crazy but the "Blood Moon" legend was actually invented by somebody else than me. At least part of it. :)

It was hard for Bonnie to connect with the spirits of her ancestors. Elena was bleeding constantly and seemed to be in pain and that took a lot of her concentration. But her friend needed help and some answers, right now, so she had to be strong.

Elena waited as patiently as her condition would it allow her to. She was lying on her back with her head resting on Bonnie's cross-legged lap. The witches shaking, cold hands felt nice on her face and she sensed some sort of electric prickle.

Suddenly Bonnie's mouth opened and she spoke to her in a chorus of voices that were in perfect harmony.

"You, who seek knowledge. Listen closely to the legend that had been forgotten for more than a thousand years.

Once there were two brothers who gambled with the spirits of hell and were transformed into a tree that bears sculls instead of fruits. A virgin maiden named Blood Moon conceived twins after one of the sculls had spat in her hand.

The two sisters that were born to Blood Moon didn't looked alike, like someone would expect. One had dark hair and brown eyes and was called Sun and the other one had light hair and blue eyes and was called Moon.

When times had become bad, Moon's blood was shed to endow a ruling family of a small village with supernatural powers in order to protect themselves from an evil lord that wanted to kill them.

The family and its village eventually won the fight against the lord, but with the power also a burden was put on their shoulders. Moon's sacrifice bound them and all their descendents inseparably to the circle of the moon and they were known as werewolves since then.

For some years they lived in peace, but one night on a full moon a boy from a neighbour village was killed because he, despite the rules, had gone to watch them turning.

The family of the boy then wanted the same kind of power in order to revenge their child and keep the rest of their family save. They killed Sun, Blood Moons other daughter and drank her blood to become as strong and powerful as the wolves. But like the others, they were not only blessed. The base motive of revenge had made their curse much worse. They were dead and yet they had to live to see everybody they care for dying. They had to feed from the living. Their greed would bring them great suffer. Direct sunlight would burn them to ashes. And they would spread the curse to other unfortunate souls like a disease and live with the sin of it.

And so the fight for dominance between the two families began and hadn't stopped for thousand years. It's said that only the blood of the Chimaera will bring back the balance.

Before Sun had been killed, she had given birth to a daughter. A very powerful witch, who knew that at one point it would become too dangerous for the humans to deal with these god like creatures, had taken one rib from each of the twin sisters corpses and replaced them into Sun's daughter.

A spell guaranteed that the sleeping form of the Chimaera that Sun's daughter had become due to the ribs of her mother and aunt, would never die or turn into something else, before she had created a new life that would forward her mixed genes of Moon and Sun.

All 300 years a Doppelganger of the first Chimaera would appear and one of them is going to be able to change everything.

The prophecy says that only a natural death can cause a turning and awakening of the Chimaera, and only if she is the last one of her kind without any descendents. To ensure her turning, she has to suffer till she feeds from the beloved death himself.

The future is unknown to us. Therefore we can't tell you more."

Bonnie sank back unconsciously and worn out by the extreme energies that had flown through her body.

Elena thought about what she knew about the mythological and medical background of the word Chimaera. She tried to find out, if she was supposed now, to turn into a mix of different animals or if her body was a mix of different persons.

But thinking soon became impossible. The pain she was in, increased and left her screaming with more blood coming from her eyes on the bed.