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Freya gasped and Rebekah grimaced at the scene in front of them, Klaus and Kol couldn't help but stare at the scene with wide eyes.
The Mikaelsons siblings stood stunned on their spots as soon as they entered.
"Stop, what a-are you doing Elijah..." Freya mumbled with her hands covering her mouth and her eyes going wide glistening with shock and maybe guilt.
Elijah on the other hand had the witches in his hold using magic with a raised hand he scowled at them in annoyance, he was really done with his siblings always interrupting him each and every time.
This time ignoring them he slowly lifted his other hand the three witches were screaming and struggling in pain with their twisted ankles and snapped bones.
Soon Elijah began to twist his other hand little by little slowly, everyone presents in the bar again heard the same sickening crack of the bones this time the elbows and hands were forced to bend at an odd angle.
The screams and cries of the witches echoed through the entire bar as everyone including Mikaelsons stood in silence, watching but too stunned to move from their place or do anything.
Freya felt the worst a cold shiver running down her spine, she wasn't new to brutal killings or mindless slaughters far from it with growing up under Dahlia.
However, right now witnessing her little brother doing it and not Kol or Klaus she had heard stories of them she wouldn't have been this surprised and maybe could've stopped them, but Elijah her level-headed brother who valued human life more than his siblings ever did at least until the rest of them was involved.
The first brother of hers who treated her like a sister, she couldn't help but think that she was the reason that Elijah let his other side take over him completely instead of fighting it.
That day, instead of falling for Klaus's manipulative words if she just had pulled that bloody dagger out nothing like this would've happened, the worst to the worst case would have been that her brother had left New Orleans and she honestly could've lived with that.
The Mikaelson witch raised her hand ready to chant get the witches away from her brother, or else at least kill the witches so Elijah would stop however before even she could utter a word out of her mouth. Elijah growled in her direction with anger his face changing again in that sickening look she couldn't stand.
"DO NOT DARE INTERFERE!" the original hissed furious, moving his one hand towards her direction, flicking his fingers and sending her crashing as she collided with the wall behind with a thud sound. Klaus and Rebekah quickly vamped toward their elder sister for help.
Rebekah crouched down at Freya her eyes widening as she saw her sister's head bleeding from the collision. The hybrid watched as Rebekah helped Freya to stand up but wasn't able to move her feet Rebekah tried to help but it was in vain.
"I'm alright! I cannot move he has restricted my movements" she whispered looking at her two siblings, Freya wasn't sure about it before but Fiona was right Elijah wasn't trying to harm them not at least in a severe manner, just now her brother could've rendered her unconscious easily, but Elijah was holding back his strength. Rebekah fed Freya her blood to heal the wound Freya didn't know how to take any of this
Their attention was back on the three witches when they heard the knees snapped of the witches mercilessly.
Kol had just glanced in Freya's direction knowing well that their sister was somewhat fine, he had noticed Elijah just flicking his two fingers at her and his brother was holding back. All the time when Klaus and Rebekah were tending to Freya, Kol was observing Elijah's every move.
The moment Freya recovered she watched her brother kill the witches like some senile monster Rebekah was staring at the scene too, she wasn't really new to Elijah's killings even as a little girl she had heard Mikael and at times villagers talk about Elijah and his brutality when on raids with their father. And then as a vampire, she knew there were times when Elijah lost control of himself when driven by emotions.
However, until now it was rare for Rebekah to witness the level of brutality with her own eyes. In control or not her older brother had never slaughtered when she was around and she was really glad that Elijah did that. Because it was horrible and heart-wrenching to see her big brother do such things.
Kol and Klaus shared a look with each other before deciding the best way to get Elijah out of the sadistic trance was to kill the witches, remembering that's what their brother used to do when they were deep in their blood-bust.
But even before they could move to finish the witches' lives Elijah was pulling their hearts out slowly making them scream and shout and cry in utter pain, the only sound of their screams in the room, followed by a wet thud sound and soon after their limp bodies with a loud thud their lifeless eyes remained wide open, with their arms and legs crooked and broken in different angles with a huge hole in their chest.
There was pure silence in the room apart from the fearful sounds of the people who were trying to silence their own cries, no one dared to speak not even the Mikaelsons who just stood there staring at the scene. In their thousands of years of life, they had never experienced such a kind of helplessness.
Once done Elijah was down and wiggled his fingers as he felt the residue of his magic effect linger on his fingers, he smirked 'That was some good spell' he thought to himself pleased.
Elijah looked in the direction of his siblings -or well ex-siblings, "I hope you all liked it!" he stated nonchalantly, ignoring the looks of his siblings.
"Elijah if you're done with your shenanigans let Freya go now" Klaus growled at his older brother, as soon as he snapped out
The elder vampire glared at the hybrid, followed by shrugging his shoulders as he spoke "Say it nicely Klaus, I might just help your sister, or else I could walk out and you can ask help from your witch friends" the elder original chimed,
Klaus couldn't help but roll his eyes at his brother's childish antics, he wasn't bothered by Elijah's killings much he knew his brother was brutal when it comes down to it,
"At least we know now where your behavior of you comes from Kol?" the hybrid said and looked at Kol who was standing beside him the latter glared at his hybrid brother but mentally he couldn't help but agree with that.
"Honestly Nik he is much worse when in a mood" Kol pointed out thoughtfully,
Klaus shrugged at Kol, "Well, he is the older one, perhaps he had to be worse than you" the hybrid said like it was the most normal thing Kol scowled at him while Klaus took a deep breath when he saw Elijah was walking away.
"Elijah can please free our sister out of bindings," Klaus said with a fake plea,
Elijah raised his eyebrow at Klaus staring at him for a moment, "Well, I hope it teaches your sister a good lesson considering, it was just a few minutes and not whole three days" Elijah indifferently stated and Klaus and Freya couldn't help but flinch and suddenly feel guilty about it.
The older original waved his hand freeing Freya from her invisible bindings she quickly stood up and walked towards Elijah,
"Please Elijah, I am sorry for what I did. If it was possible, I would've taken back what I did. I know you are angry at my actions; we all know that so please don't do this to yourself. Let us make things right and back to how it was before" the eldest Mikaelson sister begged earnestly.
In the past, the other Elijah would've melted caved in and forgiven his sister looking at the pleading look.
Elijah vamped speed suddenly now standing in front of her and staring into her hopeful-looking eyes Niklaus was quick to come and stand beside Freya for her protection just in case as he leaned forward towards Freya's ear, "It's too late for that now, I would suggest you leave me alone" the older vampire spoke coldly,
"Elijah...pleas-" Freya began but before she could,
"You and Klaus have awakened the beast...which you shouldn't have, the being which Elijah tried to hide for centuries" he stated and chuckled taking a step back, and before Freya could say anything,
Elijah's expression suddenly changed and he began chanting a spell in Freya's and Klaus's direction, tossing the two Mikaelsons outside the door with a wave of his hand. The original couldn't help but grin at his handy work.
Klaus had caught Freya before she could injure herself but the door was closed and bolted.
Kol and Rebekah were watching Elijah, even with everything they had witnessed they were well aware that their brother won't hurt them at least not until they provoked him in some manner.
Elijah ignored his baby sibling's presence, Rebekah and Kol shared a look with each other and Kol grinned ear to ear keeping everything aside he enjoyed Elijah this away and the fact that his older brother wasn't taking any shit from Klaus was added fun as petty as it may sound, he likes when Nik learns that not everything in this world revolves around him.
Rebekah couldn't help but roll her eyes, she was still shaken a little by Elijah's behavior however deep down she was aware of it there was, of course, a valid reason for people to be afraid of her noble brother she was just witnessing it herself this time.
"I need a drink" Rebekah suddenly blurted out, going towards the counter took a glass, she poured herself a much-needed drink gulping it down. Kol soon followed her and stood beside pouring for himself too.
"What happened to you?" Kol said raising his eyebrow at Josh who was sitting on the floor, with a horrified expression.
Josh looked at Kol and then at Elijah who just raised his eyebrow at the young vampire making him swallow hard again, he was scared
"I just like the view from here thank you very much for asking," Josh blurted out without thinking with an awkward laugh, he wasn't sure about Elijah but after that painful punishment, he wasn't going to snitch him to the original's siblings.
Kol raised his one eyebrow at Josh sipping his drink, the two younger originals hadn't missed the look on Josh's face and the change of heartbeat, and they knew it was something to do with Elijah.
Suddenly, Elijah grabbed a human who in all this chaos had taken hold of a wooden stake advancing towards him. He couldn't help but let out a genuine chuckle at the poor man's poor attempt, well at least the human had the guts, but well it was a pity that he needed to die for it now.
Elijah tightened his grip on the man's wrist and the man shrieked the stake slipping out of his grip and the crunching of his bone echoed in the silent room, followed by the original tearing into the man's neck as he drained the man dry in less than a minute.
Kol wasn't able to stop smiling he was enjoying this, and watching his brother he too wanted fresh blood, it had been more than a year time since he had let himself loose.
"You two get out of the place before I make you" Elijah sternly warned looking in the direction of his baby siblings, followed by wiping his face using his sleeve. The two younger Mikaelson shared a brief look with each other, contemplating what to do further.
Elijah on the other hand vamped in the direction of nearby women, grabbing her and tearing him into her neck as she screamed and withered under his sharp fangs.
Kol was staring at his older brother, black veins visible under his eyes, the urge for hunting and drinking from the vein increasing with every second listening to the screams of the victim his brother was relishing, "That's not fair I want to have blood too..." Kol let out a loud whine, staring at Elijah who had let the limp body fall down followed by rolling his eyes at his younger brother's behavior with his back facing the other two Mikaelsons so they cannot see.
Rebekah couldn't help but let out a groan, shaking her head she was fed up with her brother's behavior. Before she could admonish Kol for his actions Elijah's voice came from the other side, "Help yourself Kol, there is no one stopping you here" the elder original stated and Kol was grinning ear to ear at that, it wasn't every day that he was permitted to drain a human and even rare with his big brother's permission, this was the moment he was really glad at that moment that Davina decided to stay back.
Before Rebekah could stop him Kol vamped towards a young woman grabbing her shoulder and looking into her eyes, he let his face change slowly watching the girl as her eyes went wide in pure fear her heart began to beat in horror, the sweet smell of adrenaline pumping into her blood.
"Come on darling, it will be fun," Kol chimed and turned her, opening his mouth, he growled a little before burying his fangs taking the rich young fresh blood Kol couldn't help but let out a moan closing his eyes as he drank until he couldn't hear the women's heartbeat followed by her body going limp in his arms.
He let the pale cold body fall down on the floor everyone present there including Josh looked at the scene with dread in their eyes. Josh looked up at the elder original he knew it wasn't a good sign that another Mikaelson had joined Elijah.
The room was silent, as Kol wiped the blood off his face,
"That was fantastic, fuck it has entirely skipped my mind how fantastic this felt," Kol said more to himself looking at Elijah with eyes blown away and blood dripping down from his lips.
His nose twitched smelling all the fear and adrenaline coming out and filling the room, his eyes sharply turning towards the person nearby he vamped towards him and drained the person dry without giving much thought to it this time.
Elijah couldn't help but smirk at his baby brother's actions.
It was the first time a part of his mind was screaming at him to stop Kol from feeding however he just ignored it.
"Look at him, he seems to be happy" the elder original whispered to himself looking in the direction of Kol.
However, before Kol could dig his fangs into the next person he was suddenly thrown out across the table.
"Stop it!" Rebekah shouted as Kol stood from between the broken stools and glasses glaring at his sister.
"You are falling back to the same path" Rebekah stated looking at Kol desperately she doesn't want that, not when Kol was happy in his life now after centuries.
Before Kol could say anything, Elijah moved his hand snapping the neck of both originals in a single swift motion without giving much thought about it.
"Dear Joshua take them both back to the abattoir" Elijah instructed turning to look at the young vampire.
"Yes... okay..." Joshua stuttered afraid, standing up he had never seen Elijah like this, this cold and unbothered it was terrifying, to be honest.
Yes, he knew that the vampire in front of him was an original, a Mikaelson, who ripped Marcel's heart out but he couldn't help but the rational part of his brain always knew that this specific original didn't do those things out of some sick pleasure like his siblings used for the better part of their life. He did it because he had to protect his family and if Josh thought about it in such a manner he couldn't hate him, he knew anyone would have done the same.
He quickly walked towards the two younger original siblings who were lying limp on the floor, picking up Rebekah and another vampire which Josh had asked for help picking up Kol.
Both stared at the older Mikaelson direction whose back was facing them. He just knew that it was pure luck that he was going out alive he knew he wouldn't say the same thing for the rest of the people present here right now.
Josh gestured towards the vampire who had Kol nodding his head as they both vamped out of the restaurant, as soon as they stepped out the door it was shut tight.
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