" Ila Aurelia Lefebvre! Are you out of your mind?" Ila watched her best friend Maddison Avery as she gave her a unhappy look.

" No. I need an advantage and doing this gives me one." Ila had done her research in the last two months. She learned everything she could on the Originals. She even made a trip to Mystic Falls, Virginia which was the last place the Mikaelson family was seen before showing up in New Orleans. She had learned a lot from the resident vampires there. They weren't fond of The Original family. She couldn't blame them after hearing everything they had gone through since the family showed up there.

" I don't think this is a good idea. You don't even know these people. What it they stab you in the back?" Mads was worried. This sounded like it was going to be the end of her best friend.

" Mads you have been my best friend since we were thirteen. You know what I have been through. I need your help and support on this. That vampire killed my parents. He controls all magic in the Quarter. I need to end this." Ila pleaded. She couldn't do this on her own. While she wasn't after the Originals themselves there was always the chance that they would side with the vampire king Marcel. Nothing was going to stop her from destroying everything Marcel has built.

"I don't know" Maddison wanted to help her best friend. They had met when Ila was enrolled at the all girls Catholic boarding school that Maddison had been attending since forth grade. They were paired together for a science project and after that they were inseparable. Mads was the only person in this entire world that Ila could count on to be there when she need someone.

Ila knew her best friend was afraid of what could happen to them if Marcel won this war. But Ila knew that if she could get the Mikaleson's on her side then she would have a greater chance of ending Marcel Gerard's reign of terror. She would turn the French Quarter over to the Mikaelson's under the stipulation that no more witches would be killed and that they would have the right to practice magic when ever they wished to.

But before she could go to the Mikaelson's with a deal she needed leverage and now she had it. It took a while to procure what she needed but she was able to get it. Now all that was left was performing the spells that would grant her the leverage she needed.

" If you don't want to do this Mads I'm not going to make you. But I don't know if I can do this by myself." Ila gave her friend a few minutes to make a decision. While she was waiting she prepared the room for the spell that would be taking place. Laying in the center of the room surrounded by salt and candles was two piles of ash and a body. The body was a woman no taller than 5'6 with dark brown hair. There were markings along her arm from the previous spell Ila had preformed to prepare the body for its new host. When she was done she sat just outside the circle near the woman's feet.

Mads watched as Ila went to work. She knew what her best friend had been through. She knew why her friend was doing what she was doing. But Mads was afraid that this plan would lead to the death of her best friend. This whole think just have Mads a bad feeling. She only had this feeling one other time and it lead to her older brother almost dying. She didn't want to lose her best friend. But she knew that even if she walked away now Ila would still go on with the plan. It didn't matter what she had to do but she would protect her best friend. Even if it meant being apart of this crazy life threatening plan.

" Okay. What do you need?" Mads watched as her friend smiled a little before answering.

" I need to channel your magic." Ila was a powerful witch. One of the most powerful on the world but bringing back two people from the dead and taking a spirit from the Other Side and putting into a new body required a lot of magic. She could have done it herself but it would take weeks to recover. Channeling Mads power meant that instead of being bed ridden for weeks she would probably only need a few days to recover.

Mads walked over to her friend and held out her hand. While Mads didn't practice magic as much as Ila she still held a lot of power. Having her powers channeled by another witch was something she had never done. There have been times when other witches have asked but she felt it was something you did with another witch you completely trusted. The only witch she trusted that much was Ila.

Ila placed her hand in Mads and turned to look at the two pile of ashes on the floor, then at the body. Saying a little prayer hoping that this plan would work. Closing her eyes she started chanting in Latin.

The air in the room became thicker. Books fell from the shelves. Paper floated around the room. Lights flickered on and off. Mads watched her best friends face looking for any signs of strain. When the floor started to tremble she gripped her friends hand tighter. Then all at once it ended. The paper fell to the floor and the lights snapped on. But that is not what held Mads attention. It was the body standing at full height on the middle of the circle. The body that was at one time unconscious was standing up and looking at them.

Ila let out a breath and moved closer to the body. Bringing Mads with her. She started into brown eyes and let out a wide smile.

" What the hell did you do?" The brown eyed girl mumbled. She was shocked to find that it wasn't her voice that formed those words. She looked down at her hands and gasped. Those weren't hers. The skin was a different shad then hers. She reached up and pulled a handful of hair in front of her face. The dark hair was not hers either.

" I know you are confused but I will explain everything soon." Ila's answer didn't have the desired effect on the woman. The woman just stared at her.

" No. I want to know now." The woman tried to move towards the two friends but was stopped by the circle of salt that Ila had placed before the spell.

" I promise everything will be okay. I just need to finish these spells." The woman just rolled her eyes. Mads snickered beside her.

"No. You will tell me NOW!" The last bit she yelled. She was getting angrier by the second.

"Fine." Ila let go of Mads hand and walked up to the woman. She placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled. " I'm sorry Sage."

Sage's new body fell to the ground unconscious. Ila turned toward Mads and just shrugged her shoulders at the question in Mads eyes. "I need to finish the spell and she was irritating me."