July 3rd 2015
New Orleans
(Klaus POV)
We were at the Sacred Pool or whatever now. I knew because my father sat down and looked at me, motioning me to come closer. I sat next to the pool. "What?"
"I expect you to be on your best behaviour. We are going to meet our Ancestors."
"Ooh. Ancestors. I'm happy to be joining your clan or pack but I would like to get this over with. I have many plans and you will be happy about them when you find out." He gave me a look and I yawned, out of boredom.
"I want you to copy me." He laid down and put his head so that his chin touched the water. I copied him and I saw him lap up water. He's drinking the water? I feel foolish. I copied him. How is a drink supposed to bring us the Ancestors? He closed his eyes and I did the same. I saw darkness. Exactly what I'm supposed to be seeing, my eyes are closed!
I opened my eyes to tell my father it didn't work but I was met with two other wolves circling me. I snarled and got into position to pounce, attack. Where the hell was I? I looked around and noticed that this place… looked… kind of like that place. The place I used to sneak off to and watch the werewolves when I was a kid.
I put my nose to the ground and sniffed around. I caught the scent of someone I remembered but I couldn't place a name. "So this is the Prince of the Akatai clan? I'm glad he's finally come to join us." the black wolf said.
"Welcome. If you don't recognize this place, you should. This is your clans' old home. This is where you lost your first brother. That was horrible and I assure you that your brother is having fun in Valhalla with Freya's son. Your first cousin once removed." the white wolf said.
"What the hell are you talking about? Who are you? How do you know any of that? Have you been stalking me?" I bared my teeth at him and he didn't even flinch.
"Calm down. We are not here to hurt you, we are here to welcome you. My name is Sirius and this-" he nudged the white wolf with his nose "-is Lupus. We are the first. I am a Healer and he is an Alpha. He is my brother."
"Am I supposed to know what that means?"
"Forgive him, he's bad with strangers. Niklaus these are the first of our kind. I believe you know who this is already?" I heard my father's voice and turned my head to see a different wolf. I did know him. He was Ishaan. I'd met him only once or twice in my life.
"What am I supposed to do?" They all exchanged looks before heading to the centre of the clearing. I followed by my Father's command. They jumped onto the rock and Lupus and Sirius turned back to me.
"You do not have to do anything. My brother and I will accept you in front of others of our kind. Then we will have a Sacred Hunt and then we will send you back. You are already an Alpha of a different pack and that is why we are here instead of at the camp that your clan resides in now." With that said, he raised his head up and howled at the moon. The moon was full and was giving off light into the clearing, enough light to see the whole clearing. When Lupus howled, Sirius joined in and I heard noise coming from behind me. I spun around and saw wolves, many wolves entering the clearing.
I felt my body tense but I made no move against any of them. Soon the clearing was full of werewolves. One of them stepped up to me and bowed his head. "I am Harold Akatai. I am the first of your Father's Betas. I am honoured to finally meet his son. You look more handsome than your father ever did." He smiled up at the others, on the rock, before bowing to me again and backing off into the crowd. Then I heard a bark and looked up to see Lupus.
"Silence, my children." Silence fell instantly. "Niklaus, my son, tell me. Are you ready to join the werewolves?" I turned back around to him and sat down.
"Yes."
"If you join the wolves you will be joining your own clan, the Akatai. The Akatai have a long past, some sad, some happy. If you join our ranks then you must abide by our rules, the rules of the packs. Are you ready for this?"
"Yes." Lupus looked at Sirius. Sirius stood up and looked down at me.
"If you join our ranks then you must be ready to defend your own clan from harm, defend the wolves of our kind when in need despite what clan they come from, and defend the young ones when they are in danger or help them find their way home. To understand your brothers and sisters despite what clans they might come from. After all, we are all related, no matter where we were born or who we were born to. Do you accept this?"
"Yes." Ishaan dropped to the ground and Father joined him. They walked to me and placed their chins on both my shoulders.
"I, Ishaan Akatai, welcome you into my clan, the clan of Akatai!"
"I, Tyler Akatai, welcome you into my clan, the clan of the Akatai!" Then my father whispered into my ear. "I, Niklaus Akatai, am proud to be welcomed into the clan of the Akatai. Repeat that."
"I, Klaus Akatai, am proud to be welcomed into the Akatai clan." All the wolves howled. Then Ishaan and Father sat down next to two other wolves as Sirius and Lupus jumped down to join us. They copied Father and Ishaan.
"I, Lupus, welcome you to the ranks of the wolves. I welcome home my son Klaus Akatai." He licked me as Sirius spoke in unison.
"I, Sirius, welcome you to the ranks of the wolves. I welcome home my son Niklaus Akatai." He licked me and Sirius and Lupus both howled and everyone joined in and I joined in when my Father motioned me to do so.
"It is time for the Great Hunt. Let us rejoice the coming home of one of our own, Klaus Akatai!" Lupus declared and ran off. Sirius nudged me after him and I chased him. Sirius followed after me and he nudged me until I was where he wanted me to be.
(Kai POV)
I woke up to Jeremy shaking me awake. "What is it?"
"Tyler wants me to wake you. He says we're going some where."
"Does Damon know?"
"No but it doesn't matter as long as we don't leave the city."
"Really?" I got up and went to the wardrobe.
"Yeah. It doesn't matter to you if it's really okay though does it?"
"No. I could care less. I'm just as old as Joe, that's why we're called twins if you haven't noticed. The difference is that Joe kept ageing when I stopped. Granted it was because my sister betrayed me with our coven." Now I can't do magic. I'm practically even more of a 'human'. I hate it. This is Damon's fault.
Today I was going to apologize to Bonnie and Damon was taking me to Ric and Joe to apologize as well. I just hope that she forgives me. I don't know what to do if she doesn't. I'm worried but Klaus has talked me through what to do when I do apologize. He has assured me many times that she will forgive me, I didn't do much wrong.
When I was dressed and in a car Tyler had brought over, he said it was his car. He was in the driver's seat and Jeremy was sitting in the front seat next to him. Tyler pulled up into the drive way. A new drive way.
"This is my old home. I still own it but that's not useful because anyone can come in. That includes vampires. Even vampires I don't even know."
"Is it because you're a hybrid?" I asked.
"Yeah it is but it's okay because I've moved all my important stuff to New Orleans."
"Your daddy's place?" He didn't answer, just park the car and get out. We followed suit and went in as he guided us around the house.
"This place is like living in a museum. Though, it's very big to live in."
"Especially when living alone? Try living in a world where you're the only person there."
"No thanks. I don't want to be that lonely."
(Stefan POV)
"Stefan, where the hell did they go?"
"I don't know. I've been talking to mum all day." I said looking up from her. I'd been talking to her and trying to get an answer from her about who Julian was. Damon had told me about what had happened earlier.
"It's true Damon, your brother has been talking to me. Would you like to hear about your father?"
"Nope, not interested. Elena is with Bonnie, talking about some thing I apparently can't listen to. I'll go see if Kol knows where they went. He said they might be down here." I got up and followed him.
"I'll help you." I followed Damon back upstairs and into the room Kol had chosen to sleep in. "Kol, do you know where else they could have gone?"
"It's almost time for breakfast and if their not here, they don't get breakfast."
"You mean they'll have to make their own food?"
"If they even know how to cook."
"They went to Tyler's. Surely there's not a problem with that?"
"They didn't tell me they were going there, that's what's wrong!" It was against Jeremy's rules to do that. "I have more things to do than to chase after them. Stefan you stay and see if they come back." I nodded and sat down with our mum again.
(Kai POV)
"What the hell are you doing? Why aren't you at home?"
"We already had breakfast. We had macaroni and cheese! I cooked it." I replied. He grabbed my shirt and forced me out of my chair. He grabbed Jeremy the same way and turned to Tyler.
"We're going back, now. I have better things to do than to watch you guys! Kai, when we get back I'll drop off Tyler and Jeremy and you and I are going to Alaric's apartment so you can apologize for being an ass to your sister."
"If she apologizes first."
"Or I could beat your ass first and then take you." He shook me and then dragged us all to the car. He shoved me into the car and smacked Jeremy as he was getting in. "You know this was against the rules little Gilbert!" Jeremy yelped and qucikly sat down. We were getting into Damon's car this time.
"Sorry Damon."
"Shut up, Jeremy." He closed the door before getting in the driver's seat. He drove us home when Tyler got in and he did as he said he would. He dropped off Jeremy and Tyler before driving off again. "When you apologize, it better be sincere."
"What type of apologies aren't sincere Damon?"
"Stop being a smart ass."
"Seems someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
"What did I just say? Stop it now or I'll pull over and pull you across my lap right now." I finally shut up. So he kept driving and when we reached the place he opened the door and pulled me out by my ear. I just let him guide me up the stairs and to the apartment. "If I open this door, do you promise to be on your best behaviour?"
"Yeah." He knocked instead of just opening it. When the door opened we were greeted with Ric's face. "Hello boyfriend." Damon gave me one of his looks before looking at Alaric.
"What is it Damon? Why'd you bring him?"
"He wants to apologize for the crossbow incident."
"He wants to or you want him to?"
"I want him to apologize. You know he should Ric. Don't bother denying it. Now let us in."
"It doesn't work that way Damon."
"Hey, it can work however Damon wants it to. Where's Joe? You know, your wife Josette? Let me ask you, did you ever ask her how she got the name laugh in? Well she calls it Laughlin. She was born Josette Parker, like me, Malachai Parker. She must not have married you first." I smiled. "Just saying."
"Well just shut up Kai. No one is interested in that. Can we come in or not?"
"If he makes one move against her-"
"Don't worry. I can't do magic and she's my sister. Who kills their only twin?" Damon smacked me and I shut up. I knew I would be getting somewhere with this.
"Don't worry, if he does I'll take him outside for a minute." Alaric nodded and opened the door. Damon shoved me in and he followed after.
"Sit Kai. Don't touch anything." He sat next to me on Ric's couch.
"Joe! Come in here please, and try to not freak out when you come in." Joe walked in and horror was on her face when she saw me. I smirked and waved at her using my index finger, middle finger, and ring finger.
"Hey Joe, miss me?"
"Ric, I promise I had no idea he was going to take your crossbow, I bought you a new one." She looked at Ric, apologetically and refused to look at me from that point.
"You know, there's a reason I came to see you. It's because I need to prove I've changed." To Bonnie. "I'm sincerely sorry that I took that crossbow from you when I knew I shouldn't have. Despite the fact that I thought it would be hilarious, that wasn't a good reason to start with anyway, I should have remembered that you actually use that thing to hunt down vampires. I kind of thought that since you were already amazing that you wouldn't need it anymore. I'm sorry for taking it and hope that you can forgive me." They all stared at me. I only smiled and leaned back. Klaus said that would pass as an apology for the crossbow.
"I forgive you Kai." Joe said. I sighed in relief.
"Thank you Joe. It means a lot coming from you. You have no idea how grateful I am."
"Are you being sarcastic Kai?" Damon demanded.
"No, I'm not. I promise."
"The hell did Klaus do to you?"
"He helped me."
"Can we go now?" Damon asked Ric.
"Can I have my crossbow back Damon?" Ric asked, a little irritated.
"I would be glad to give you back what belongs to you." I said and stood as I took out the crossbow. I carried it to Ric and put it in his hands. He smiled and left to put it up. "By the way, you should probably move your stores and I agree that I will never… trick Joe into telling me where it is. Again."
"Thank you Kai." Joe said. Damon grabbed my arm and waved bye to them.
"Bye sis. Bye sis' husband." I waved bye and then Damon had closed the door. "That went well." I smiled at Damon.
"Surprisingly well. Seriously, what the hell did Klaus do to you?" Damon asked as he led me back to his car. He shoved me in the back seat before getting in the driver's seat. He drove off and back towards the house. I would go see if I could even find Bonnie today. God, I hope she forgives me. I don't know what I would do if she didn't.