Chapter 26 - Repercussions
Swan residence ~ 7pm
The house started to shake and the Source flamed in. Bella gasped.
"Oh my god"
She whispered. Due to his vampire senses the source heard her
"Not quite"
He mocked.
"Join me"
"no"
"Then prepare to die"
"Why would I do that when I'm winning?"
She winked at him and disappeared just as the fireball coursed through her letting the Source take the last of her acquired powers.
"witches!"
Mikael spat and flamed out of the living room. Bella's eyes opened as she appeared back holding one of the crystals in her hand.
Swan residence in Forks ~ 7pm
Renée was hiding in Charlie's arms, her hot tears mixing with his and drying on the lapels of his coat. The two had been huddled on the floor for over two hours crying over their daughter's life.
"Wouldn't we feel it if she was truly gone?"
Charlie asked licking his parched lips. Renée shook her head and with it the fog that had taken residency in it with the news.
"Yes! yes we would"
The two enchanted a look as Charlie began hitting the locked magic door with his shoulder willing it to open.
Salvatore House ~ 7 pm
The never-ending marathon of wii was grading on Damon's nerves. the excited squeals of .supernatual being of mystic falls sitting in his living room drinking his scotch weren't helping much either.
He had been quiet and withdrawn last night after watching the woman he had been obsessed with for a century die but the shock had dissolved into peace and he was celebrating now.
Or he would if he could find Bella today. She had left the house while everyone slept and Stefan's advice was to let her breath alone for a day. So he did but there was a pain in his chest that stopped him from cranking the music and dancing on the railing as he normally would.
"Fire?"
Rebekah's voice stilled all movement in the boarding house. All eyes were trained to the house that shared a backyard, Bella's house, and the thick black smoke inside it.
Not even the word 'hunter' would have propelled the undead crowd to the street so fast with one destination in mind.
Bella
Swan residence ~ 7pm
The Source flames in the living room and walked slowly to her. She stood calmly feeling light with the loss of all her powers save for her original one.
"Any last words?"
"Say 'hi' to the original source for me"
Bella echoed the words from her vision and let the crystal drop on the floor. The cage was now in place with five electricity bolts surrounding the original vampire that angry with the world had turned into a demon.
With an evil smile Mikael opened his right palm and one of the crystals flew to the open palm and the trap disappeared.
"Now the moment I've been waiting for"
He threw a fireball but before it could hit Bella she smiled
'Datum ad a necral
daya intay layok."
She chanted. The house shook violently as the powerful nexus broke through the basement and traveled through the floor and the floorboards and entered Bella's body through the pores in her body.
"What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"
She asked rhetorically icy blue swirls replacing the white and brown of her eyes. Mikael gulped slightly recognizing the only thing stronger than the Hollow.
Between Bella's palms a sizable ball of nexus energy expanded and she threw it at the source knowing the Hollow couldn't and wouldn't absolve it.
Right then the front door, the kitchen door and the magic door were kicked in. all newcomers were bathed in the black and icy blue Hollow and Nexus particles danced in the air. Everyone screeched at the deadly combination save for Bella and Mikael in the middle of the room locked in a gaze war.
Renee recognized the two energies and grabbed the book from the ground.
"I need an evil being"
she called out. 'Evil' being the middle name for him, Klaus blurred next to the woman.
"Present"
"Read this with me"
She instructed him after summoning the enchanted box from the Book's pages.
'Iam is Addo,
Hic Is Addo
Malum Quod Bonus,
Vox In Consesses,
Super Dico Nos'
The two chanted together and the Hollow was forced to leave its vampire host behind and got locked in the box. Powerless Mikael dropped on the floor his eyes watching his children stand against them.
Bella extended her left palm and a trail of Nexus traveled through the air and wrapped itself around Phil's unique, white oak, baseball bat by the front door and the Gilbert Resurrection ring on Jeremy's finger bring both items to Bella.
"This is for Phil"
The witch announced in a cold tone using the combined items and magic to drive the makeshift stake through Mikael's chest. The vampire screamed as he was engulfed in flames until there was nothing left but ashes.
Rebekah, Klaus and Elijah felt a sense of peace that was cut short as Renée castled another spell this time aiming at her daughter.
"She is light. She is one too strong to fight.
Return to dark where shadows dwell.
You must protect this abode well."
"What do you think you're doing?"
Bella's icy eyes locked on Renée. The older woman faltered unable to hurt her daughter. Rebekah bit her lip and blurred to Renée taking her hand and the two chanted together.
"Go away and leave this child
And take with you this endless night."
The icy blue particles were forced to leave Bella and got themselves locked in the underground once again protecting the house. Bella collapsed in Damon's arms that dove to catch her.
"You're a witch?"
Renée asked Rebekah who shook her head
"Not anymore. My magic died when our mother turned us"
"Thank you"
With tears flowing down her cheeks Renée hugged the original vampire tightly. A large white orb appeared in the room and transformed to a woman. She assessed the broken windows, cracked walls, unconscious witch, the Box and the stench of dead Mikael
"Could be worse"
