Black Star I think that you are right, that she is getting rather tired of changing masters so fast, let's hope that changes soon! And I am glad that you didn't see it coming, that was my secret hope that I can surprise my readers and keep them interested.
DTaylor I hope that I was able to get this chapter out fast enough for you :D, also she is a vampire werewolf hybrid, with a little something else, but I can't give that away just yet.
Who Controls The Monster?
Finn walked over to the crouched hybrid and knelt in front of her. She snarled, but was unable to attack him.
"When my mother first told me of the ring, and of you, I couldn't believe it. "He looked her over like she was a prize broodmare. "But seeing you, all that savagery and all of that power all right here in the palm of my hand." He said bringing his hand up to look at the ring that was now his.
The ring that should have been on his hand, but was not there.
"What?" He asked incredulously. "What is the meaning of this?" He asked the now smirking woman.
She did not say anything but instead turned her smirk into a farel grin.
She did not ask her new master why they were heading to a secluded spot although she was highly curious, but she figured that Klaus was not so open to questions as Elijah was so her best option was to wait and see what happens.
Sure enough when they reached a spot where Klaus clearly had planned they drew to a stop. He did not talk at first, preferring to stare off into the distance, and she had no desire to hurry him along. Finally he turned to her and said. "Tomorrow you will be going with me when I take Came to a safe place that not Finn nor anyone else knows of save for a select few."
She wondered what his purpose was for telling her, as master he had only to command and she would obey.
"I have something that is most precious to me at that house, and I need to know that you will not in any way harm it."
She raised her eyebrow, surely he was not as stupid as that? He knew how the ring worked, why was he telling her this?
"You are my master, what you command I have to obey. My personal feelings or inclinations do not matter in any way." She thought that she had explained this all before adequetly, but it seemed that he was needing something a little more than that.
He seemed to be struggling with a decision, and it was enough for him to doubt his control over her. She wondered if it was for the remark that she had given to him about his own mother's lack of complete control over her.
What was so precious to him that he would need to bring her out to the middle of nowhere to settle something? Elijah was strong enough to handle himself, even with Esther's mental tortures, he was certainly not so helpless as to worry Klaus about her attacking him. Klaus' allies were all in the city or in the nearby bayou, and they certainly weren't helpless. What could be so precious to Klaus that he would hide it away….a stray thought hit her. She didn't even know why it had entered into her mind, but the moment it was there it was impossible to get rid of it. It was preposterous, yet the more she thought about it the more she was sure of it.
"Your baby, the one that the witches had killed, she is still alive, isn't she?"
Like their encounter on the road he gave her that same fierce expression on his face, although this was even more dangerous than that one, if that was even possible.
"Yes." He finally said. "My daughter, how well do I remember your comment on my mother's less than total control over you, so I need to know from you if my daughter will be safe from the monster.""
She thought for a moment, wondering just what she would tell him to assure him. "I hold no special animosity towards children, nor to I harbor any goodwill for them. I have no desire to hurt your child, or any other child for that matter. The only time that a child will come to harm by my hand is if my master were to order me to. This I can promise you, that as long as you are my master I will not even seek to harm your child in any way. Directly or indirectly."
"But therin lies the problem doesn't it?" He said, drawing closer to her. "Should I experience temporary death than you will move on to my enemy, and most likely that same enemy will seek to harm my daughter."
"Yes, and if that was to happen there would be nothing I could do to counteract such an order, or even try to stop them from trying to harm your child should I desire to do so."
He appeared deep in thought for a moment, then he smiled. "Well it appears to be a good thing that I have a witch or two on hand." He made a phone call then hung up. "Before we proceed any further I want to warn you, I know you swore that you would not harm my child, and my control of this ring prevents you from harming her, yet as you have said my mother never had complete control over you and I have no confidence in your given word, so know this if you so much as lay a finger on my child you will know pain and agony the likes you have never known before for the rest of your existence. I promise you that."
She found herself unable to meet his gaze for long and unwillingly her eyes lowered to the ground to signify her submission to him.
"Yes master." Was all she could think to say.
That seemed to satisfy him for his mood suddenly changed to almost jovial. He smiled and said."Well that settles that then, I guess that means that we can go meet with the witches now. Follow me!" He ordered before speeding off into the night.
Curious, and not really having a choice in the matter she followed him.
Turns out that following him meant meeting with two faces that were very familiar, though if She was honest she would say she definitely prefered only one of those faces.
"Thought you were my mother's loyal guard dog." Kol said, raising his eyebrow at the familiar figure that followed Klaus into their meeting spot.
"Thought you were your mother's sycophant son." She said in return, remembering their conversation before. "Looks like you took some of my advice." She said, nodding to Davina."
"What advice was that?" Davina asked, pursing her lips and staring at Kol.
"Yeah, well." Kol said before hunching his shoulders a bit and giving a little cough of embarrassment.
"I don't think that we are here to discuss advice between acquaintances." She said, taking pity on him and directing attention away from him.
"Yes, my thoughts exactly." Klaus said before turning to Kol and Davina and holding up his hand. "It seems that this particular ring while nice is not quite what I need. I need you to do a spell where if I were to temporarily die that it would not move on to another."
That caught the witches attention instantly.
"Why would it go on to another person? Isn't it just an ordinary ring?" Davina asked.
"See that is where the problem lies, it is not just an ordinary ring, or else I wouldn't be wearing it now would I?"
The Cursed One could see his point there, as he did not seem the type to care for wearing rings. She supposed it was easier to wash the blood of that way, at least that was her main reason for not wearing any anyways.
"So, can you two do it or shall I find myself another witch somewhere?"
Davina shot him a look as if asking him just where he would find another witch of her strength.
Klaus sat surprisingly patiently as Kol and Davina examined the ring, turning it and his hand this way and that, muttering a few spells here and there, asked him some questions, and consulting their books they had brought.
Finally Kol raised his head from examining it and said. "Well there is good news and bad news, which do you want first?"
"I suppose the bad news first, best get it over with." Klaus said, looking at the two expectantly.
"Alright." Kol said, nodding in agreement. "Well the bad news is whoever picked this ring had horrible taste in fashion."
She tried to hide her smile behind her hand, though She knew that it didn't fool Kol. He shot her a smirk then continued, completely ignoring Klaus' expression of impatience.
"The good news is that I think that Davina and I can work something out with this. We just have to manipulate the magic properties within the ring so that it will recognize the vampiric resurrection nature of its owner so as not shift to the next owner. Since it's an adjustment to the original concept and not a complete rewrite of it I think that it can be done. Of course we are going to need some ingredients. One of those being your blood" Here he indicated to Klaus. "Since all the vampires are connected to us Originals, I figure the blood of an Original should do the trick. Scanning the ring with magic we see that it was originally intended for human use, not vampire, so with your blood added to it should provide it with the new framework to work with."
Klaus nodded." Well seeing as this is the only way to do it you may take my blood. Kol, you may also run along and get the other ingredients, but I want your word that you will not tell a soul about this."
Kol stared at his older brother, and seeing the seriousness on his brother's face said. "You have my word, brother."
Klaus gave a nod then waited till he was gone before turning to Davina. "I know that we have our differences, but the same thing applies to you. You do not speak of this to anyone of what we do here."
Davina thought for a moment, wondering just what that ring was.
"Well I am dying of curiousity to know about that ring, but since our focus is on Finn right now I guess I am going to have to agree to it. Just know that I am not doing it for you, but Kol seems eager to do it, and I get something even better out of it."
"Oh and what's that pray tell?" Klaus asked.
"You get to owe me a favor." She said, grinning triumphantly at him. "And don't think that I won't collect on it!"
He sighed but found himself unable to do anything else but agree to it.
They waited for a bit longer before Kol finally came back, carrying who knows what back with him. Kol and Davina went off by themselves and muttered between themselves about the best way to do the spell. The Cursed One lost interest fast as she did not have much understanding of their witchy speak so she tried to find something else to occupy her attention. Sadly there wasn't much in this abandoned structure, Klaus seemed to be in the same predicament.
Eventually the witches stopped muttering to themselves and got their ingredients together. They drew a pentagram on the ground, surrounded by a thin line drawn in a circle, with what looked like flames on the outside of that circle . They told Klaus and The Cursed One to stand in the center, of course Klaus had to tell them that she was connected to the ring in some way, before they told her to also enter the circle. The ingredients all gathered, including Klaus' blood, they started chanting, voices speaking in unison and gaining in intensity.
She noticed that a wind was now blowing strongly in the room when it was not there before, and she felt a strange pressure building up. The wind grew in intensity and she raised her hand to protect her eyes from the blowing dirt.
She felt a sudden shift in the magic that was binding her to the ring. She couldn't tell just what it was, and after being so long she barely felt the magic of the ring at all. But now something was different about it. The witches' voices were almost shouting now, their voices still speaking in unison.
The wind died down as fast as it had sprung up, and the two witches were silent. The spell was done, and She just realized that she was now forever enslaved to her master. Death would no longer release her to a new master, unless if someone happened to find a permament way to kill Klaus, which was highly doubtful.
She stared at her master, unsure of just what to do in a situation like this.
Finn yelled out and his body stiffened as searing hot pain flared out from his back, he turned his head around and saw that a knife protruded from his back. He pulled it out using magic but then realized that meant that Elijah was now recovered. He turned at his advancing brother and flung him back into the barn, but with his focus on his brother he forgot about keeping the spell on The Cursed One.
Taking full advantage of his distracted state She stood up instantly and grabbed him by his torso, sinking her claws into him, and flinging him several feet away. She was there right when he landed and picked him up by his throat, careful to keep her claws retracted enough not to kill him. He was her prey now, and the predater wanted to play. "Still thing you have what it takes to control me, witch?" She asked bringing her face in close to his. "You think you know the meaning of pain and fear. Let me show you just what pain is." She said She ran a claw slowly up from his stomach up to his throat, not making it too deep, but still so exquisitly painful. He cried out in agony and She smiled, fully enjoying his pain.
She threw him again and watched, giving him time to recover for a bit as he rolled onto his stomach. Suddenly he curled in on himself and gave another shout of pain. She tilted her head curiously, She had not caused this pain herself. Something else was at work here. She growled, no-one else better interfere. He was hers! She scanned the area, looking for anyone that might interfere. She noted the approaching vehicle but dismissed it, it was too far off to matter for the moment.
She stalked closer to her prey, he stared back at her in fear, no longer trying to cast a spell. She smiled, that interference must have stopped his magic somehow, oh this will be fun! Not giving him time to move She sped over to him and came to a stop right beside him. She knelt down and pinned him to the ground using her clawed hand to keep his shoulder to the ground. Remembering his wound from Elijah She took another clawed finger and dug into it, trying to cause maximum pain. He was unable to keep his cry of pain in and she smiled.
She rolled him over onto his back and grabbed him by the throat again. His eyes almost bulged with panic as he struggled to breathe, She allowed him enough air, but he still had to struggle to bring air in. Rising up to stand, still clutching his throat, She flung him away from her and he fell heavily. She sped to pick him up with her claws security embedded into his flesh. His cry of pain was not as loud as before, causing her to frown, his body seemed to be weakening too fast from its injuries. Well that was just no fun!
Disapointed with her prey and claws still embedded in him she carried him, none to gently, and deposited him at her master's feet. She thought that the man had after all attacked her master first, maybe her master wanted his own fun with the man.
Elijah had been watching her, not quite knowing what to think as she 'played' with his brother. This was definately not the same woman who had faught Klaus and Hayley before. Keira had been graceful, percise, and deadly. The woman before him was no less deadly, but it seemed that this side of Keira was more animalistic. He suddenly realized that what he was seeing was the monster that was inside the woman. He concluded that the monster had been out this whole time since his capture, but only now was he understanding just what he had been seeing all along.
When she dropped Finn at his feet he didn't know what to do for the moment. He could hear Camille and Hope returning, and he did not want his neice to see her uncle die right in front of her, even though she was most likely to young to remember. He glanced at Keira for a moment before kneeling down at his brother's side and snapping his neck. Keira seemed disapointed at him as she lightly prodded at Finn's body with her foot, as if making certain he was dead.
He ordered Keira to take the body into the barn to hide it from Camille and Hope's sight, then to clean herself up. He walked over to Camille to assure her that everything was fine, although they would have to move as Finn was most likely in another body right now and he knew the location of the house.
They gathered what they needed and headed out, Elijah still uncertain of what to think of this new development over this woman who was once again enslaved to him. He also had a question for Klaus, just how did he manage to make sure the ring would not move on to anyone else when he temporarily died?
The Cursed One noticed that Elijah seemed hesitant to allow her into the backseat of the vehicle with Hope, she wondered if that was because of the display she had given him. That he had finally seen that it was not Keira who was out but her, and She found herself hoping that he wasn't disappointed. For now he gave her no clue on what he thought of her, other than his reluctance of her next to Hope. And he didn't seem all that willing to say just why he didn't want her back there in front of Camille, so She decided that she would just sit quietly and not give him a further reason to be dissatisfied with her.
All in all she felt pretty satisfied with herself, she was able to defend her master successfully, the threat of Finn was now gone, she was able to spill some blood quite satisfactorily, and Hope was safe for the moment. She leaned against the window, trying to find a comfortable position. Yes, all in all it was a glorious day!
I don't know a thing about magic, but the pentagram I took it off of is something from another tv show I highly enjoy watching. Gold star if you could tell me the name of the show and what the symbol is. (hint: it's on the CW channel) I will try to remember to leave a note on the final chapter for just what it is.
I know that she was surprised to see Klaus' child alive when she first saw her, but I had to keep my readers in the dark of this development.
I don't know why but Finn and Davina were hard to write, which is disappointing because I love Yusuf Gatewood's performance
Anyways I hope you enjoy the latest chapter in our story!
Please Review and let me know, did you see this coming?