I was currently walking through an underground tunnel with Ric. Apparently, Mason's ghost led Damon down there saying that it would lead to a weapon that would kill Klaus. It was glad that we had at least taken some time to deal with things because yesterday had been intense. Of course, we had a lot of intense days and it was probably on the lower scale of intensity compared to some of the other days I had had recently.
"Careful where you shine that thing." Ric instructed. "Bats hate the light."
"What?" I asked before I suddenly saw Damon and jumped.
"Fuck. You have to warn us." Cassie declared as she grabbed her chest. No one really knew that I kissed her except Elena. I hadn't even told Anna, even though the two of us had never been together.
"I thought you said vampires couldn't come down here." I said to Ric. It was why I hadn't brought Anna with us.
"I'm still the one who found it and I want to know what's inside." Damon replied. "Well technically Ghost of Christmas Past Mason Lockwood found it, but he's no longer with us."
"So, Mason is Tyler's dead uncle then?" Cassie asked.
"Yeah, and Damon killed him." I explained.
We walked further and I noticed a small cave.
"Well, this is as far as I go." Damon remarked.
Ric, Cassie and I stepped forward and we noticed a wall with a bunch of pictures on it.
"What is this?" I asked. I mean obviously they were cave writings, but they seemed to be more recent than typical cave writings. I wasn't entirely sure how I knew that.
"It's a series of pictographs." Ric explained.
"It seems that even the ancient Lockwoods were anti-vampire." Damon stated.
"What do you mean?" I questioned.
"Well here we have a man, a moon cycle, and a wolf." Ric explained.
"Or as I like to call it, the Lockwood Diaries." Damon quipped. The Lockwoods weren't the only werewolves.
"But I thought that the Lockwoods came here with the rest of the Founding Families." I remarked. It did look like the town wasn't founded by witches like Elijah had said it was. I wondered if he knew about it.
"Well maybe the Lockwoods did, but these vampires have been around a lot longer than that." Ric replied. "There's more. This words over here are written in Runic, an old Viking script. This reads Niklaus. We have Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik."
"How do we know that this isn't just another trick like the sun and moon curse?" I asked. I mean that was possible and I wouldn't put it past Klaus to do something like that. I also couldn't help but wonder if Anna knew how to read Runic.
"That's what I thought until we got to the last name." Damon explained as I looked it over. Did Damon know how to read Runic?
"Mikael." Ric translated. I gasped.
"Mikael as in the vampire hunter?" I asked.
"Or as I like to call him Papa Original." Damon said. That meant that he was Anna's grandfather. I knew that I would need to talk to her as I got back to her.
We decided that it would be easier if we just took pictures and brought them back to Ric's apartment. I was currently sparring with Damon while Anna and Ric looked the pictures over. I was sparring with Anna because most vampires were closer to his size than mine and Anna's. Cassie was not sparring because she had her magic for fighting. I was wearing a red plaid blouse and denim miniskirt. I knew it was a bit of a country girl look but I wanted to wear it. I was probably just becoming naturally girlier from being around Anna.
"These images have a story to them." Ric reiterated as I kicked Damon. "We need to decipher them to find out what that story is."
"You're sloppy." Damon remarked as he grabbed my leg and threw me on the mat. "Mason said that it would lead us to a weapon."
"Mikael has a weapon." I pointed out as punched his chest.
"It probably means that the wall will lead us to Mikael, who we've found and lost." Damon replied as he put me in a headlock. "You're dead."
"Waking Mikael was a mistake." Anna remarked. "He's worse than my father. There's a reason why he fears him so much. You can't trust him."
"The images might at least say what the weapon is." Ric opined as I walked over.
"Let's do that then." I suggested. I was starting to wonder if we even needed to kill Klaus. It was probably me being empathetic towards Anna.
"Let me ask the million-dollar question." Damon replied as both mine and Anna's phones went off. "How are we gonna do that?"
I looked over my phone and saw that Anna had gotten the same message. I looked at it in confusion. Cassie also got the message. I was pretty sure that she couldn't do that. Though I supposed it would give us a chance to try to convince her to help us out.
"Well, if it's about the Originals, we'll have to get it from the source." I explained.
Anna and I went to the school where Rebekah had called an impromptu cheerleading practice. We never practiced on Sundays. She cartwheeled over right in front of us. I also needed to make sure that she knew her place. If there was one place that I had authority over her, it was on the cheerleading squad, even though I was only backup captain.
"Good, you're here." She stated.
"You don't have the authority to call cheerleading practices." I remarked. "Only Caroline and I have that right."
"Well, I did, so what are you going to do about it. So go and get changed" She challenged. She brought up a good point. I decided to get down to business. At least she couldn't compel any of us. Maybe have been able to compel Anna but I was pretty sure that there was an agreement with Klaus not to do so.
"I want to talk." I announced.
"About what? Stefan? Don't worry. I'm off him until he starts treating me better." She explained. Cassie and I both blushed. I hoped that Anna didn't pick up on it. I was pretty sure that Rebekah didn't notice it.
"I'm curious to know why you and Klaus have spent a thousand years running from your father." I declared as I showed her the picture.
"I…I need to get back to the girls and so do you." She stammered. "I suppose you can exercise in that if you must."
She started to walk back to the field.
"Maybe I'll just ask Mikael when we wake him." I responded. That got her turn around. Anna looked like she really didn't want to do that.
"You're lying." Rebekah replied. "You don't know where he is. No one does."
"I do. I put him there." Anna explained. We just didn't know where he was currently. I couldn't help but wonder what Anna's relationship with her grandfather was like, but it didn't sound good.
"If you wake Mikael, we're all doomed." Rebekah stated. She seemed to agree with Anna. After a few minutes of the why game, she said "Now we need to go."
"Look you may be able to compel everyone else, but you're not taking over the cheerleading squad and practices will only happen during scheduled times." I remarked as I grabbed Anna and Cassie's hand.
So it seemed my early attempts of trying to befriend Rebekah weren't going so well. I would have to work on that. I couldn't help because she really seemed like she was a bitch.
After that, I went back to Ric's apartment. I wasn't sure why we couldn't do it at home. Also, why was he still paying for the lease to that place? I mean Rebekah or Klaus couldn't go in there either.
"She'll tell me." I told Damon over the phone. He was going to check on Stefan because that was still an issue we needed to deal with. "She's afraid of Mikael. It'll just take a little power struggle."
"Let's just hope that she doesn't power struggle you into a wheelchair." Damon quipped. I was pretty sure that I would be able to heal from that.
"I have it under control, Damon." I responded. "So how does Stefan look?"
"Pasty and pouty." Damon answered.
"Well he'll have to get over that…can vampires tan?" I asked.
"Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that Stefan has no desire for that." He answered before he hung up.
I then noticed Ric staring at me. Cassie looked like she was looking for some ingredients for a new spell.
"So, Mary I think we need to talk about how you and Cassie both blushed when Rebekah mentioned Stefan." Anna declared.
"Because the two of us made out yesterday." I declared. I couldn't help it. I didn't want to lie to her. Plus, she would know if I was lying because werewolves had this strange ability to tell id someone was lying.
"She'll come around." I promised.
"I just think that a thousand-year-old vampire would know how to wait." He declared before I got a text. I showed it to Anna first and then to him.
"She's a thousand-year-old teenage vampire." Anna pointed out. "Between the two of us and Cassie we got it covered."
We went to the boarding house to hear that Rebekah was listening to some Christina Aguilera knockoff. I knew that she could afford the real thing. She could probably afford to have Christina Aguilera come over.
"Hey, what's up?" Rebekah asked with a smile and a bottle of champagne. She seemed to be in an oddly good mood. I would think that she was upset with me.
"You invited us over." I reminded her as she put the glasses down. Did she not know that I preferred bourbon? I supposed I could have just grabbed some.
"Alright girls, have at it." She instructed. What? Suddenly, the cheerleading squad from practice dressed in very expensive-looking dresses of different colors, walked out. "Now twirl."
"Did you seriously compel your own runway show?" Anna asked in disbelief. It looked like I would need some of that champagne after all.
"I need a homecoming dress." Rebekah replied. That seemed to make a lot of sense. "Now pick one."
"We didn't come here to help you shop." Anna replied. "We came to talk about Mikael."
Rebekah then stood in front of Alexandra's neck and prepared to sink her teeth in. The girl looked like she couldn't even speak.
"I said pick one." She ordered.
"Leave them alone!" Cassie yelled. I knew that I needed to speak because I didn't want things to turn violent.
"That one." I replied. "The one you've chosen."
"Now was that so hard?" Rebekah asked. "Go away, get changed, and remember nothing. I want to be clear. You three will learn what I want you to learn and know what I want you to know."
We then walked upstairs to Stefan's room, and I felt like I needed another glass of…really anything with alcohol in it. Just not the champagne she was offering us.
"How fun is this?" Rebekah asked
"Why are we in Stefan's room?" Cassie questioned. You know it was actually her first time at the boarding house because I didn't want her to be around Stefan.
"Snooping." Rebekah answered before going through his dresser. "Hmm, boxer briefs, that's a change from the 20s."
"I know what kind of underwear Stefan wears." I stated with a blush. "Are you gonna tell me the story?"
"What do you wanna know?" She asked with a sigh.
"Well Elijah said that your father was a landowner in Europe. How did you end up here?" I inquired.
"My parents had just started a family when the plague struck." Rebekah answered. "They lost my sister Freya to it. They wanted to escape and protect their current and future children."
"How did you end up here? This part of the world hadn't been discovered yet." I asked. Well, I supposed someone must have. Pearl was here.
"Not by anyone in your history books." Rebekah stated. "My mother knew the witch Ayanna who spoke a beautiful land where everyone was healthy. They had gifts of speed and strength. We lived amongst them."
"So, the werewolves were here?" Anna asked. "Was my mother?"
"Her family was, and they were just our neighbors." Rebekah said as she flipped through Stefan's diary. Anna's mother looked she was about 40 and Anna was around 15, so she must have been 25 when she had. "My family lived in peace with them for over 30 years over which my mother had several more children, including me."
"It sounds so…normal." I commented. I couldn't wonder what Mystic Falls would be like as a village.
"It was." She agreed. "Once a month, our family retreated to the caves. The wolves would howl through the night. One night Nik and my youngest brother Henrik snuck out to watch the men turn into beasts. That was forbidden. Henrik paid the price, and that was the beginning of the end of peace with our neighbors."
"I'm sorry." I apologized. At that point, my phone rang. I assumed that she meant that he was killed.
"You'd better get that." She said, wiping tears from her eyes. "That'd be Damon checking up on you."
I answered the phone and heard loud noises in the background. I assumed that she was just guessing.
"Where are you?" I asked.
"No idea but I'm pretty sure I'm overdressed." Damon quipped. I then heard a familiar voice.
"Is that Stefan?" I questioned. "Did you let him out?"
"I went off-book." Damon explained. "Don't worry. I know what I'm doing."
Before I could say anything, he hung up. In retrospect, leaving Damon in charge of Stefan was probably a bad idea.
"So, I'm done talking to him. I want to resume." I remarked.
"You know I don't get you too as a couple." Rebekah commented. That pissed me off a little bit. "You seem like the type who prefers girls."
"I like Stefan too…" I stammered. I probably did prefer girls, but that didn't mean I that I didn't enjoy sleeping with Stefan.
"That's because you know one side of him." Anna stated.
"I know the only side that matters: the vampire one." Rebekah argued. I sighed because she seemed more set on the fact that we had both slept with him than the important part. "The necklace was never Stefan's to give you."
"I know it belonged to your mother." I declared.
"Yes, my mother, the one who put the hybrid curse on my brother and the one who turned us into vampires. She was the witch of the Original family: the Original witch." Rebekah explained. "She wanted to us be protected from the wolves."
"Why didn't you just leave?" Cassie asked. That probably would have been the simpler solution.
"Because my father had too much pride. He wanted us to be stronger, faster and to never die." Rebekah answered.
"Am I a witch?" Anna asked.
"You would be if you had been taught, but you cannot be a vampire and a witch." Rebekah explained. Well, most people thought that you couldn't be a werewolf and a vampire, but she was definitely that. "My mother did this for us and did not turn."
"Well how did you turn?" I questioned. How had she been able to turn her children into vampires and could such a spell be done once again?
"She called upon the sun for life and the ancient white oak tree, one of nature's eternal objects for immortality." Rebekah told me. "That night my father offered us wine laced with blood and then he drove his sword through our hearts."
"He killed you?" I asked in shock. I supposed you had to die to become a vampire, but it sounded so graphic.
"And he wasn't delicate about it either." Rebekah replied. "We had to drink more blood to complete the transformation. It was euphoric. The feeling of power was indescribable, but Ayanna was right about the consequences. For every strength there would be a weakness. The sun became our enemy. It kept us indoors for weeks and though we solved that problem, there were still others. The very neighbors that had opened their homes to us could now keep us out. The flowers at the base of the white oak tree burned and could prevent compulsion and the spell decreed that the tree that gave us life could also take it away, so we burned it to the ground. But the darkness consequence was something that my parents never anticipated: the hunger. Blood had made us reborn and it was blood that we craved above all. We could not control it, and with that, the predatory species was born."
"So why did Mikael start hunting Klaus?" I inquired as I had a glass of bourbon. I also gave some to Cassie. Graphic explanations of violence made me thirsty and being a werewolf made me crave alcohol even more than usual.
"When Nik made his first human kill, it triggered his werewolf gene." She answered. "And with that, my mother's greatest shame was revealed. She tried to make it right by putting the hybrid curse on him, but it didn't work because Mikael's greatest weakness was his pride. He killed my mother's lover, unknowingly starting a war between species and then killed her. He tore her from her chest while Nik watched."
"He killed your mother?" I replied in shock.
"He said that she had broken his heart, so he would break hers." Rebekah declared. Tearing it out wasn't really breaking it, well except for breaking it from her body I supposed. "Nik and Elijah stayed behind to help me bury her but Kol and Finn left. We vowed to stay beside each other always and forever."
"So what happened between Klaus and my mother?" Anna asked.
"The two of them courted each other and they were even once betrothed. However, she really didn't take well to his changes. She hadn't been able to tell her that she was pregnant before he left." Rebekah explained.
"Your pact doesn't look like it's holding up too well." I commented. I wasn't sure why I was even egging her on. I was pretty sure that no good would come from it. "Elijah's in a box and you're alone here."
"We're vampires. Our personalities are heightened. I'm stubborn, Elijah moral, and Nik…Nik has no tolerance for those who disappoint him. We've all made that mistake at least once." She responded. "The only people that he's ever loved unconditionally are his children."
"Children?" Anna asked. "I have siblings?"
"He adopted a child when we lived in New Orleans, but we're pretty sure that Mikael killed him." Rebekah explained. Maybe Anna was onto something with him. The only problem was that it seemed like it was too late to stop. I also didn't think that Damon would stop either.
"I don't understand why you'd stick by him." I admitted.
"I'm immortal. Should I spend my time alone?" She asked. There had to be someone else that she could spend time with. Family was important but it wasn't the only thing that was important. "The story's over. You three can leave. That is why you shouldn't wake Mikael, even though you will anyway."
"It's no secret that I want Klaus dead." I told her. I might have been trying to convince myself that. I was pretty sure that Damon wanted it more.
"Do what you will, but if you come after my brother, I will tear you apart and I get my temper from my father." She warned me.
I later went back into the cave with Ric and Cassie.
"We filled in as much as we could." Ric explained. "We got vampire, werewolf, and witch."
"That's the white oak tree that was used for the spell." I stated as I saw a white tree.
"What we don't know is this. There's a witch with a bleeding heart. Upside down usually means death and then there's this mystery symbol." Ric stated. I looked them over and everything clicked.
"Oh no, Rebekah doesn't know the whole story." I remarked. I also knew that I needed to tell Anna about it. I wasn't sure if she would be surprised by it or not. I also couldn't help but wonder how much of a shock it was for her to find out that she had had a brother that she knew nothing about.
I went back to the boarding house with some pictures. She needed to know. She needed to know the truth about her brother. I would tell it to Anna later after I got home.
"I told you to leave." She declared. I had left. She didn't say that I couldn't come back.
"How do you know Mikael killed your mother?" I asked.
"Nik was there. He told me." She answered.
"He lied." I explained as I took out the pictures. "This is the symbol for your mother and these mean werewolf and vampire. Together gives us hybrid, leading to the story of her death."
"No." She whispered.
"The hybrid killed the witch." I added.
"No, he couldn't have." She denied as tears started to form in her eyes.
"Rebekah, Klaus killed your mother and lied so you wouldn't leave him." I stated. "I know this is hard to hear and I'm not saying it to hurt you, but you need to know."
"This can't be true. It's just a stupid drawing on a stupid wall!" She screamed.
"Why are you upset if you don't believe it?" I asked. She threw the pictures into the fire. She then broke down and began to cry. She looked like she needed a hug, but I don't think she wanted one from me. I figured that it would probably be best for me to go home.
I went home and saw that Anna was already in bed.
"Damon called and said that he and Stefan managed to get Mikael on our side." She told me. "We'll probably still regret waking him."
"I think I managed to get Rebekah on our side too." I stated. "I just hope this is over soon."
"Wait Mary. I need to show you something. There was a reason that I asked Rebekah if I was a witch." She remarked. She looked over at a glass that was on the nightstand and put her hand out. I then watched as it started to move slightly. I couldn't believe it. "Because I think I am."
So Anna's tribrid nature is finally revealed. How will this thing develop? Also are the two of them going to go Homecoming together? Please don't forget to review.