Hi guys, I'm sorry for little bit late for uploading this chapter as I really messed up with dates of the events and stuffs. This was one hell of a ride. And for those who haven't watched the show fully, spoilers are ahead. Read it at your own risk.
P/S: All the info in here are taken from Wikia. Sorry if I'm wrong but that's how I see the story. Enjoy the story.
CHAPTER-5
The next day Meredith had nothing else to do except for visiting her dad at the hospital. So after school she goes to the hospital to see her dad. And luckily she was able to avoid Elena and Bonnie for the rest of the day. Both her friends were worried sick for her she knew. But for now, she didn't feel like talking with anyone considering the situation. She knew things which her friends can't even imagine to think of. She was confused and scared at the same time. She wasn't the type of girl to be scared of anything. But the things happening to her lately, she doesn't really know what to do anymore.
While she was walking by the hospital corridor to her father's room she bumps into Stefan.
"Stefan? What are you doing here?"
"I—uh- came to see Tanner."
"I almost forgot about him with all the commotion with my Dad and all. How is he?"
"He's still unconscious. It seems whatever you did to him that night it surely did save him but it wasn't enough to heal him from the blood loss."
"I don't even know what happened or whatever voodoo shit I did back then. I don't even know who I am now anymore. It feels so strange not knowing about my own self."
"Hey don't look so down. You are the strongest girl that I have met so far. I know you can get through this. You'll find everything out soon eventually. And I am rooting for you."
"I don't know what to do Stef. Elena and Bonnie have been the closest friends of mine. I can share every bit of my life events and secrets to them without any worry. But this…? Whatever is happening to me or whoever I am, I can't make myself to say anything to them."
"I know what you are going through right now. Even I have been there during the first stages of my vampire life. I was scared, reckless and confused even. I didn't know what to do then. But I got through it thanks to my best friend Lexi. She helped me throughout over the centuries. If it weren't for her, then I was as good as dead. In that sense, right now, all you need is a someone to lean on. If you need someone to share your thoughts, your feelings, I can be that someone. If you are troubled or having problem, I'll help you through and through."
"Thanks Stef. I really need a friend like you right now."
"That's what friends do right?"
"Yeah… right… and um… I'm really sorry for misjudging you before."
"Don't be sorry. You had your reasons. If I were you, even I would have done the same. Not everyone trusts a vampire right away."
"Still, I'm sorry if I have been rough."
"Don't worry about that. So, uh… how's your Dad?"
"He's still in coma. But, hey, since you came all the way here, wanna come and see my Dad?"
"Yeah, sure."
Meredith leads Stefan to her father's room and Stefan follows behind her. After getting inside, Stefan sees Meredith's father and gets shocked.
"Whoa, the lion really beat the crap out of him."
"Yeah it did. But he survived. He's my Dad after all. But do you know what the funniest thing is?"
"What?"
"When I heard that an animal attack was behind this, all I could think was how Damon could be so ruthless trying to kill people maligning them like an animal to make the theory of animal attacks believable. I was so angry. But it turns out that it truly was an animal behind my Dad's condition. And you won't believe how relieved I felt. Anyways, since we are talking about the devil himself, where is he? What is he up to now?"
"You don't have to worry about him anymore. I took care of him."
"What do you mean?" Meredith asks confused.
"Well… he had to be put down eventually."
Then Stefan started explaining everything to Meredith about vervains, desiccation, Elena finding out about Caroline being abused by Damon, Damon getting locked up.
"Whoa, I missed lots of things last night. But what you did, had to be done."
"Yeah."
Right then a nurse comes in to the room carrying a big box with her.
"You must be Miss Sulez."
"Yes I am."
"There were some things found in your father's possession. We forgot to deliver it to you yesterday so we decided to give them back to you today."
"Oh yeah, thanks."
After handing over the box which contained Mr. Sulez's items the nurse leaves the room.
"Hey Stefan could you help me out here? It's too heavy."
"Yeah sure."
Stefan then takes the box from Meredith and puts it on a table nearby. Then Meredith looks inside the boxes and starts taking out one item after another from the box.
"No wonder it was so heavy. There are lots of things in here."
She didn't find anything really interesting in the box. She only found some documents and her father's hunting weapons. But as she delved deeper, she was shocked.
"What the…"
"What happened?"
As Stefan asks Meredith worried, Meredith turns around holding a stake in her hand.
"If I'm not wrong, isn't a stake supposed to kill a vampire?"
"Yeah. Is there only one of it?"
"No. There are a couple of them here."
Then Stefan comes forward to look inside the box. All he could see was that there were about 15-20 stakes in there. But not only that but also some water bottles with vervain written on them.
"So he knew?" Meredith asks Stefan not looking away from the contents of the box.
"I think so."
"That means he also knows about me."
"Look inside more, you might find something which might help you."
Meredith then digs deeper, taking out items one after another. Then she comes across an ancient looking journal.
"Stefan, look."
Stefan then notices the journal and takes it. He observes the journal. The journal was engraved with ancient markings and languages which he didn't know of. It was really old but still intact considering its age. Stefan tries to open it but with no luck.
"It's not opening." As he says it, he hands over the journal to Meredith. Meredith tries to open the journal and the journal opens without any restriction. Both Meredith and Stefan were surprised at this.
"I suppose it only opens with the touch of your kind...?" Stefan says to Meredith with uncertainty.
"My kind huh?"
"Don't take it the other way. I didn't mean it like that."
"Hey don't fret. I guess I just have to admit that I truly am something and this journal right here might be able to give me some answers."
Meredith then flips over the pages and finds it filled up with ancient language she couldn't read or make out.
"Well, I can't understand a thing. It's in a language which I don't know of or even heard about."
"I don't see anything." Stefan says scanning the pages carefully.
"You are kidding me."
"No! I swear it's blank."
"But it's not!"
Both Stefan and Meredith argue about it for five minutes. After that Meredith stops and comes to a realization.
"Wait. You couldn't open the book and now you can't even see what's written in here even. But I was able to open the book and I can see the writings in here. I think this book is the answer that I am looking for. It only answers to me. That must mean something. Right?"
"I might not be able to see but you can write down whatever is written in there and show it to me."
"Yeah. Right. I need a pen and a paper."
Meredith then goes out of the room and retrieves a pen and a paper from the nurse's station. Then she writes down a sentence carefully and gives the paper to Stefan to read. Stefan takes the paper and tries to read it.
"I'm not really familiar with the language but if I'm not wrong, then it is most probably ancient Greek language."
"Can you help me decipher it?"
"I'll try my level best."
"I guess I have got some work to do then." Meredith says with a playful smirk on her face.
For the next three days, Meredith did nothing but copy the contents from the journal to a notepad. She was not even near completing even halfway through the book. She was able to note down only five pages since the writings was difficult to copy and it definitely was beyond her understanding. Even Stefan has been helping her out as much as he could even though he was busy "Dealing" with his brother.
"Man, this is so exhausting. I wonder if Stefan was able to decipher any of those pages."
With a yawn she gets up from her seat to take a shower and change into different clothes. She has been wearing the same old navy blue shirt and shorts for the past three days. She couldn't find the time to do anything else besides writing to give it to Stefan for him to decipher. Stefan didn't have any luck about them but still Meredith wanted to make sure again. So, after taking a shower, she leaves her house to go over to the Salvatore Boarding House.
After about a couple minutes of drive, she reaches the Boarding House. She knocks on the door. But getting no reply she decides to leave but was greeted by Stefan standing right behind her.
"Oh. Hey. So you were out?"
"Yeah. I went to school to meet Elena. I have been avoiding her for too long. So I decided…" Stefan suddenly trails off and becomes alert. Meredith was standing there awkwardly seeing Stefan standing still with a guard.
"Stefan?" Meredith waves her hands in front of Stefan as he stood there still. And suddenly he vanishes in front of her with vampire speed surprising Meredith. She turned around to find the door to the house wide open. Thinking something was wrong she decides to get inside only to find Stefan holding his nephew Zach and carrying him towards the living room. Zach was coughing badly. Seeing the situation, Meredith quickly rushes to the kitchen to get a glass of water for Zach. Meredith brings the glass of water as quickly as she could and she hands it over to Zach which he takes.
"Thanks." Zach says coughing up little. Meredith then turns towards Stefan and asks, "What happened?"
"Damon caught hold of Zach when his guard was down." Stefan says rubbing his temples worried about the incident.
"Wait. What do you mean by Damon caught hold of him? I thought you had said that Damon was confined and on vervain and was without on any blood diet."
"Damon is far stronger than I thought he really was. It's gonna take time for him to get weak and then desiccate."
"It seems to me that he's not really ready to go out so easily."
"Yeah. Forget it. You needed something?"
"Oh yeah, I was wondering if you were able to decipher those pages I gave you?"
"I'm really sorry Meredith I have been busy lately to mention it to you but, yeah. I have been able to decipher those pages. And what you are going to find out is… um… I don't know how to say it but you have to find that out for yourself."
Stefan then goes upstairs to his bedroom to retrieve the deciphered papers in his vampiric speed and comes back within a matter of seconds with the papers in his hands. He then hands over the papers to Meredith.
As soon as Meredith received the papers she didn't know how to feel. She had the combination of every possible mixture of emotions which she was feeling right then. She was happy that she was able to find out the answers to the million dollars worth question. On the other hand, she was scared for finding out about herself thinking that it might not be something really pleasant.
After receiving the papers she says bids farewell to Stefan and leaves the boarding house. All the way to the drive home she didn't even dare to look at whatever secret the papers held on to. When she reached her house, she goes upstairs to her bedroom and places the papers on her desk. With a couple of deep breaths, she decides to look into the paper.
"During 2200 B.C there was a very strong psychic named Arcadius. He the world's first psychic to be born. He used his powers to help the villagers where he resided. He was loved and respected by all. But when he used his powers to look into a man's mind and was able to point out the impure thoughts towards a young woman of the village, the man becomes furious and turns the entire villagers against him. Arcadius was then tied to a stake and was set ablaze. Seeing that the villagers were turned into monsters under the manipulation of one bad man, he released a psychic blast so powerful that it created a realm, a psychic imprint of his death, where he would forever punish those souls. From then on, whenever a soul who has committed a bad deed would die, they would be sucked into this realm where Arcadius would feed off of their souls for the rest of eternity. But eventually that changed when he became so vile and crude with his power that he even started dragging the soul of the innocents along with the bad ones. This awakened the guardian of the realm, Metrodora to take actions against him. Metrodora was a very powerful entity like any other. She tried to reason with Arcadius at first. But he was adamant in punishing the good ones along with the bad ones. So, seeing no other option, Metrodora had no other choice but to go on a war with Arcadius. The war went on for over a century with neither side giving up.
Later on, during the 1st century of B.C., a young and powerful witch named Silas desired immortality, the ability to live forever without ever aging or dying. In order to make the impossible possible, he asked for his fiancée, Qetsiyah's help. His fiancée was able to produce the elixir of Immortality. The elixir was supposed to be consumed by both of them on the day of their wedding ceremony. But on the day of their wedding, Silas goes missing and only then Qetsiyah realizes that the elixir has already been consumed when all the plants around alter becomes withered and the air becomes dry. She also discovers that Silas never actually intended to use the elixir to spend his entire lifetime with her. He wanted it mainly for his one and only true love Amara, the hand maiden of Qetsiyah. Qetsiyah immediately becomes enraged with anger and wanted revenge. Only Qetsiyah knew the true formula for making the elixir with the help of Metrodora. Qetsiyah took help from her to make the elixir. Again with her help, she was able to produce the cure from the drop of her blood. Metrodora's blood was the key ingredient in making the elixir and it gave human the power to become immortal but it also made the immortals vulnerable to it. After killing Amara and desiccating Silas in the tomb with the cure to die, she created the other side, where the supernatural creatures after dying would get stuck there for eternity not going to the afterlife, again with the help of Metrodora.
Metrodora only helped Qetsiyah so that the innocent souls punished by Arcadius could be stopped for being sucked into hell though they were destined to go to heaven. If they couldn't be helped in going to heaven after their death, she made sure that everyone including the humans could enter the other side only for a momentary time period for them to find the way to heaven."
**RING** **RINGG**
Suddenly Meredith's phone starts to ring distracting her from reading. Annoyed she picks up the phone only to find Caroline calling her. She didn't want to talk with her but she had no other choice but to pick up as Caroline might complain to her mother later on and Liz might come over and see what Meredith's been up to. She couldn't really risk anyone other than Stefan knowing what she was about to find out. So, grudgingly she picks up the phone and talks in a monotone voice.
"Yeah. What is it?"
"Where have you been? I have called you like a thousand times!" Caroline yells from the other side of the phone.
"If you are going to yell at me right now, then bye bye."
"Okay wait, you know today is the day for Sexy Suds Car Wash. I need your help right here. We are short of people over here."
"I can't Caroline I'm busy."
"Oh come on you know the men and boys are gonna dig it if you appear with your bikini. Last year was a total hit."
"Caroline I'm not really up for it right now. I have got tons of work to do." It was not the entire truth but not a lie either. Meredith had to get away from this for now.
"Okay. Whatever suits you. But if you feel like it then you are welcome to join any time you want. And yeah, Elena was looking for you."
"Tell her that she can come over to my place if she wants."
"Okay then see ya." With that Caroline hangs up the phone.
Meredith then puts down the phone and starts reading from where she left off.
"Everything that happened, every event that occurred, is connected to Metrodora. Who was she actually? There was no doubt that she was the most powerful entity created by the one and only God. She had immense power at her disposal. She was not only created to protect the earth, but she was the guardian of the entire realm. So, in order to bring out the peace and order from the chaos of Arcadius's evil plots, she created three groups of Guardians. The Principle Guardian, Celestial Guardians and Earthly Guardians. Metrodora was a Principle Guardian.
The Principle Guardians are the most powerful and oldest of all the Guardians. Their blood is very powerful. Mixed with human blood, a Principle Guardian's blood is extremely fatal to the immortals if drunk by them without the will of the guardian.
The Celestial Guardians, also known as the Guardian Angels of Order, are the protectors of Order of heaven and are among the oldest of beings in the universe and live in the highest part of heaven. They guard the heaven from any chaos caused by Arcadius.
The Earthly Guardians are guardians that reside and act on Earth assigned to protect it from demons, vampires, werewolves and immortals. They have Nature based powers that allow them to do a variety of supernatural things such as telekinesis, telepathy, physical enhancement and flight. Earthly Guardians are the only ones that seem to possess Wings Powers other than the Principle Guardians and they are the second strongest guardian after the principal guardian. They are very rare and are born with the mix breeding of human and a principal/earthly guardian. One guardian is born after one dies. This has been the nature of earthly guardians over the centuries."
"So, I'm a guardian?" Meredith says to herself while falling unconscious.
So yeah. I guess the cat is out of the bag. I hope you enjoyed the story. See you guys until the next week. Till then review the story and please point out some flaws if you see one. Thanks for reading.
