As they walks up the mountain Izzy groans in annoyance, Stefan carrying Ray and Klaus trying to play friends with him. The brunette picks up her pace and shouts; pulling her heel out of the mud "you owe me new shoes!"

He chuckles lightly as they walk on "you have more shoes then blood cells, you don't need anymore."

She rolls her eyes, bumping into him as she passes "whatever… Klaus, looks like we crashed the party"

He smiles to her and then around to the pack of werewolves, Stefan drops Ray to the ground and Izzy just stands there examining her nails as Klaus smiles after discovering they know about him, his story told, he's very pleased about the obvious fear in their eyes and Izzy groans "Klaus, I'm getting bored."

He rolls his eyes to the girl and then tries to sell the pack on the prospect of becoming a hybrid, like some sort of marketer, just as Ray wakes up, Klaus asks for a human volunteer, a smile coming to Izzy's face "you know we already know you're here right?"

She walks up to a tall man and smiles "you smell just yummy by the way…"

She grabs the man and easily throws him to Klaus while Stefan holds back the girlfriend, the man being shoved in front of the transitioning man "come on Ray, if you don't you'll die and then we'll just kill him."

His horrified gaze going from the girl then to his bleeding friend, Klaus having kindly opened a vain on the human's arm "I'm sorry." He says before sinking his teeth in

Klaus smiles happily when he grabs the human's girlfriend, forcing her to drink his blood and killing her "so, who's next?"

Izzy grins while pushing the next 'volunteer' into his arms and admires the yellow shine of his eyes mixed with his razor sharp fangs and can't help but mutter with an adoring smile "beautiful…"

Stefan just stands indifferent to the slaughter, his gaze falling on Ismene is slight curiosity, he saw her reaction and pain when Klaus daggered Elijah, the fear and horror when he bit Katherine, but all that anger, betrayal and hurt seemed to vanish as he pinned her to the kitchen island, his harsh hands seeming soothing as he made her choose and she did in complete sincerity, tears down her cheeks, she chose him, she said it was always him, Stefan was just wondering why, why she held this monster in such high regard, why she looked at the beast before her, knowing full well what he was, and smile with a school girl's shine.

After turning the pack they wait patiently for them to rise, healing the needed human and then talking to Stefan who questions "So is this your master plan? Build an army of hybrid slaves?"

Klaus shakes his head and corrects him "No, not slaves. Soldiers… comrades"

Izzy moves to stand at her leader's side, her old friends brow frowning in confusion "For what war, might I ask?"

"You never hear of the old saying 'the best defense is a good offence'?" the brunette smiles over to the young man

Stefan crosses his arms as the girl leans back against the hybrids chest "What makes you so sure that they'll be loyal?"

"Well, it's not difficult to be loyal when you're on the winning team. That's something you'll learn once you shake that horribly depressive chip off your shoulder. Look at Izzy for example, she knows what's good for her…" he smiles, his hand gripping the girls hips gently, pulling her closer to him with a hard tug when saying her name

Stefan gives a bitter chuckle "That's why you're, uh... you're keeping me around, to witness my attitude adjustment?"

Klaus's fingers dig into the vampire's skin lightly as she giggles to Stefan's question "You'll know why I'm keeping you around when I've decided that I want you to know."

Stefan notices Izzy's caramel orbs fall, her smile dies and her hand grabs one of the callous ones on her hip "Klaus!"

The two men follow her gaze to Ray, blood trickling down his cheeks, Izzy steps aside as the two men examine him, something was very wrong with all of this. Klaus doesn't seem too happy as the others start to wake, the human going to feed them like compelled, but when Ray escapes and he sends Stefan after him Izzy sees the hybrids frustration growing "Klaus, look we'll figure it out…"

He only gives her are hard glare, Stefan returning with a wolf bite, Klaus is already upset, so she knows he won't leave without finding Ray. The younger vampire goes and Klaus quickly feeds his troops then gets rid of the human, but as he does Izzy can see the pack, each looking like zombies with bloodstain tears "oh my god"

Klaus turns and sees what's happening and bites "bloody hell"

Suddenly two of them attack the vampire, she quickly and easily kills them thanks to her years in strength, but as the girl, Paige, and some of the others attack the blonde hybrid she quickly vamps out, killing them along with Klaus, but as she passes a seemingly dead hybrid it bites her leg, ripping into the flesh viciously and dragging her to the ground. She tries to pull free but some of the others hold her down, rabidly ripping into her creamy skin "Niklaus!"

The Alpha turns at the sound of his name and is horrified by the sight of his vampire's distress. He marches over, pushing away those in his path who had chosen to die silently. He rips the creatures feasting on Ismene's shoulder and waist away, pulling out their hearts and then removes the third; his head flying through the air, body slumped to the ground.

His blue orbs look down to the girl, her skin pale and coated with crimson, her eyes half closed as the wounds try in vain to heal against the toxic bites to takes a knee beside her, lifting her head close to his chest "Nicky… I hate werewolves."

He gives a quick laugh at her quip and then offers her his arm "I know petal, I know…"

She doesn't drink like he expected, the effects of the poison hastened from so many and lengthy bites, she looks up at him with a weak smile, pulling his arm to her and cuddling it "it's like Prague all over again… I liked Prague, it was pretty…"

He shakes his head, pulling his arm from her grip and opening the vain, forcing it into her mouth then resting his chin against her soft locks "it was very pretty, now drink up you silly cow…"

When she lets go of his arm, gasping for air, she quickly moves out of his arms with a blush on her cheek, checking her wounds. Her caramel orbs look over her shoulder as he stands "thanks"

However he doesn't reply just picks up one of the camps discarded beers and takes a long sip, his gaze hard and cold as he stares into nothingness. Izzy stands with s bite of her lip, not sure what to say, for over five hundred years she'd been at his side, trying to help him break the curse and here they were, but somewhere along the way something went wrong, she just couldn't believe that after everything this was the result.

As Stefan walks back in the silence is broken, Klaus telling him how basically their all dead, Izzy and Stefan both jump as he throws his bottle and screams in anguish "I did everything I was told! I should be able to turn them. I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the doppelganger."

Stefan seems uncomfortable by his outburst, however the brunette just gazes in empathy, she's known this man a long time, she's used to his mood swings and she is torn between going over and holding him and fear of his rage

Klaus seems to calm himself and eyes the infected vampire "You look like hell."

"Last I checked I'm dying... And you don't want to heal me. I had to take him out. I didn't have a choice. I failed you. I'm sorry. Do what you have to do." He says almost sounding earnest

Klaus looks around at the bodies and shakes his head in thought "It should have worked."

He takes another bottle of beer, bites his wrist and pours the cure inside then hands it to Stefan "Bottoms up. We're leaving."

Klaus looks to the two and sighs "It appears you're the only comrades I have left." He turns his back on them and starts to make his way down the mountain, leaving Stefan to his antidote and to catch up

She rushes in front of the hybrid, forcing him to stop and asks "what do we do?"

He eyes her slightly, his solemn expression not faulting "we find out what the bloody hells going on!"

He goes to walk past her but she grips his hand, their eyes meet and she swears "hey, no matter how this plays out, army or not, I'm not going anywhere until you rip my heart out."

A sad little smile graces his face, his hand rising to cup her cheek "thank you Ismene, you truly are a great friend."

She watches him go and sighs "yeah…friend."