I decided to rewrite this story cause there were a lot of things I was unhappy about. It was also really rushed on my side and I didn't properly plan out things making it really annoying coming up with what to do next. This version has a much clearer plot and layout.
1001 A.D.
Niklaus had no idea what was happening to him. Last he remembered was his father driving a sword through his and his sibling's hearts.
'How am I alive' He thought to himself slowly trying to sit up
Looking around he sees his little sister slowly sitting up. "Bekah" He says worriedly hoping she was alright
"Blood, what happened?" Rebekah says as she looks around. Niklaus doesn't wait any longer and rushes to her side "It'll be all right. We will be all right." He says trying to comfort his confused sister not that he is doing any better.
Suddenly the door is pushed open and Niklaus sees his father with a girl in his hand. "What are you doing?" Niklaus questioned still quite a bit afraid of his father
"We must finish what we started" He said pushing the girl to the ground. "You must drink if you want to live." Mikael said as he pulled out a knife and started cutting the girl's arm. 'Why is this girl so calm with this?' Niklaus silently wondered.
He was pulled out of his thoughts as the most intoxicating scent he'd ever known clouded all his thoughts and took all his focus
Given the way Rebekah was staring at the girl's hand, Niklaus assumed that she felt this all consuming hunger as well.
"Drink" Mikael demanded of Rebekah putting the girl's wrist closer to her mouth. "No, no, no, no" Niklaus says as he goes to stop Rebekah not necessarily knowing why. It didn't do much as Mikael easily pushed him away and shoved the girl's wrist in Rebekah's face. "Drink!" Mikael says again and finally Rebekah's reluctance ends as she greedily starts drinking the girl's blood.
Rebekah finally pulled back from the girl. The blood still stained her lips, that did not stop her euphoric expression at the taste of the blood.
Finally Mikael turned to Niklaus. "Drink boy" He said grabbing his head and forcing him to the girl's still torn open wrist. Niklaus couldn't stop himself as teeth sprung out and latched onto the girl's wrist.
It was the single most delicious thing he had ever tasted. He did not stop until Mikael pulled him away with no care whatsoever. "Enough boy"
All he wanted was more.
What has happened to them?
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Rebekah Mikaelson had her entire life mapped out. She always dreamed of being wed, to go off and start a family of her own. She wanted love above all else.
She cared for her family (except for Mikael) but it was never quite enough for her. She sees the way her mother looked at her and she wanted that for herself. She wanted children. She wanted a husband she could grow old with. A picture perfect life like those her mother told her tales of.
Here she was greedily ending the life of someone while so mourns the life she would never have.
'Wait!' Rebekah thought excitedly as she tossed the dead body aside. 'All I need is to be able to control the hunger! Once that happens surely I could still live my dreams, even if it would only be for a short period of time. I could still bare a child, I would just be cursed to outlive them.' She tries to think positively, but just the thought of losing a child or her love would devastate her, especially with how much of everything she is feeling after becoming this beast.
Suddenly, it hits her. "Father drove a sword through my heart" she whispers barely audible. How could something dead produce life? She would be stuck at her age forever. She would never be able to grow old. With her being dead she would not be able to bare a child either.
She was ruined
Everything she wanted all her life, gone because her mother followed her father once again.
'I will be forever alone.' She thinks solemnly as a single tear rolls down her cheek.
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It was the night of the full moon
His family was out hunting as they called it
Blood was still all he craved and nothing could stop him from getting it
Every time he consumed it he felt unstoppable
He no longer felt like the weak boy that would cower to his father
He felt invincible
Miraculously he has still never killed anyone. His mother would always try to stop him, to stop him from feeling the guilt of ending a human life.
He was always the kindest and compassionate. It's the reason Mikael hated him so. Everyone else, even Rebekah had no qualms with taking a human life. It was something engrained in them since they were young. Kill or be killed. There is no mercy in their world. Even then he could never bring himself to do so.
Right now he was away from everyone as he tore through someone's throat. He was hoping to learn enough control to stop himself from permanently ending someone's life.
Sadly things did not go his way
The man he was feeding suddenly had no heartbeat.
'No, no, no' He thought inwardly. He thought he could control it, he just killed an innocent person...
He didn't have long to feel guilt as suddenly he was engulfed in pain
"AHHH!" He screams dropping to the ground. He could feel his bones snapping and rearranging themselves.
His screams are enough to draw Elijah in
"Elijah!" He shouts his eyes filled with tears "Father! What's happening to me?!"
As Elijah was approaching, Mikael appears and pulls him away.
"Get back boy!" Mikael shouts clouded with rage "He is a beast!"
What?
Niklaus's mind blanked
The pain was overwhelming but his thoughts were racing
'A beast? That is how father refers to the wolves. How can I be one of the monsters that murdered Henrik?' That was the last thought on his mind before he fully transformed into a beast
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He was being tied down by Mikael
His 'parents' were going to bind his wolf side
Why would they take a part of him?
He pulls himself, trying to escape
"Elijah!" He shouts "Help me brother!" He looks towards Elijah with a hopeful look. Hecould always count on Elijah to save him.
Elijah looks pained but just stares until Mikael shouts. "Elijah! Hold him down now!" Surely Elijah would not do something so heinous. "Brother, brother, help me please! Don't let them do this to me." Niklaus pleads
Elijah is still frozen until Mikael shouts again. "Do it now boy! Now!" That was all that was needed for Elijah to grab ahold of Niklaus and pull him down
He will never forget this
He has never felt so betrayed
One last time, he hopes for his big brother to help him. "Help me" He whispers looking defeated. Elijah turned away as Esther began to chant and then...
Darkness
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Elijah Mikaelson thought himself as the eldest sibling
After all Finn was always too busy worshipping his mother's feet to care about much else
He was always the one his siblings would go to for advice
He felt like their protector
Which is why he has never felt so devastated
It was the morning after he helped his wretched father tie up his brother. He saw the way Mikael always treated Niklaus but he was always too scared to step in. He wouldn't doubt that his father would give him the same treatment if he ever interfered
He felt like a failure. He remembers the day his sweet sister was going to put down their father in his sleep, but him in all his foolishness stopped him. Now these are the consequences. According to their mother they will live forever. Bound to blood for all time, Niklaus bound not just to blood but to his other side he was deprived of due to Mikael's pride and Esther's guilt.
He should've struck Mikael down himself
He pushes all those thoughts away as he fills himself with the blood of a poor passerby. Seeing the man's life has come to an end he dropped him, still ravenously hungry. His guilt and shame being redirected only to hunger
He can not and he will not fail Niklaus again
He will make it up to him
Even if it takes him all of eternity to do so
He was broken out of his daze by the someone's heartbeat approaching him. He looks around to rest his eyes on the terrified ones of the Tatia.
Tatia breaks his gaze and begins to run away scared seeing the love of her life feasting and murdering a poor man.
She doesn't get far as Elijah grabs her from behind and forces her to look at him. She timidly looks at his eyes feeling nothing but fear of the man she loves.
"Tatia, my love" Elijah begins to speak. "I would never hurt you, you know that." She in fact did not know that. She musters up the courage to speak. "What have you become?" Elijah looks heartbroken as he speaks again "I am who I've always been. The one who loves you." Elijah means those words with all his heart. Since he woke up his love and adoration for Tatia has reached levels he never knew were possible. He felt as if the only people he would ever need would be her and his family. Elijah lets her go as she begins to walk away
"Your mother asked for my blood" Tatia begins, "She said nothing of the dark magic that would turn you into a monster."
Monster?
Is that what she thought when she looked at him?
Can't she see that he loves her?
"Look at me. I am not a monst-" He begins but he's cut off by the most alluring scent he's ever smelled. He looks to see Tatia's hand covered in blood.
No
He can't control it
How did she get hurt?
"Tatia" He struggles as those monstrous veins show on his face "I said I would not hurt you, and I do not want" He forces himself to his knees trying to control himself.
The veins still there, his eyes blood red as he stares at her. "Run! Run!" He yells at her. She does not wait as she turns and backs away and begins to run.
Her speed isn't a match for his as Elijah catches up to her effortlessly grabs her by the neck and drink all she has to offer.
He finally pulls himself away seeing the love of his life unresponsive
NoNoNoNoNo
This can't be happening
His mother!
His mother made them like this, surely she can save her.
What would be the point in anything if she is truly dead.
How could he ever bring himself to care for one if all he wants to do is rip into their throat.
He picks Tatia's dead body up and speeds his way to his mother.
She can save her.
He knows she can.
"Mother!" Elijah screams entering their home. Tatia still in his arms. Esther hearing the panic in her son's voice rushed to see what was happening. There she saw Tatia in Elijah's arms. Her throat torn open. "What happened?!" Esther questions frantically trying to see if there was anything to salvage.
"I could not stop myself." Elijah responded quietly, his eyes still glued to Tatia. Esther examines the body and she was horrified. There was nothing for her to do. She is already gone. "Elijah." She begins to speak." Tatia is gone, there is nothing to me to do." Elijah's eyes widened as he backed away "No, no, this can't be happening" He shook his head desperately. Esther's heart broke for her son. "I can help you Elijah, make you forget." She spoke.
Suddenly Elijah's eyes darted to her as his features turned into a snarl.
"YOU?! You wish to help me?! You were the one who cursed us to this!" Elijah shouts "FOR WHAT? OUR FATHER?" Esther gains tears in her eyes as she spoke "I just wanted to help you a-" She's interrupted by Elijah "Help?" He gets approaches her as he spoke his final words to his mother. "You are just as bad as Mikael." Then he speeds away leaving behind a devastated Esther
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Finn Mikaelson was no stranger to violence
Being the eldest in a family of Vikings it is all but expected
He never truly connected with his siblings. While he did care for them in his own way, he never felt the need to connect with them. Losing Freya made him cold and pull himself away from his family. He spent almost his time with his mother following her every command.
He himself didn't know why he did so. Was it fear of her? For what she did to Freya? Fear of what she might do to her siblings? Adoration for the woman who raised him? He truly did not know.
He was lost
His mother raised him, taught him everything he knew about magic. How witches maintain the balance. It was amazing to him, the purity of being a witch. When he did magic he felt as he was one with nature itself just pure good. He loved it, it took his mind off all the atrocities he has committed in Mikael's name. Razing villages, killing men, women, and children just to please his father. Just to survive.
Magic was his hope, it made him feel pure, kind even. It took his mind off all the evil he has committed.
Even though his mother never knew, he was training himself. To be a person to take on Dahlia to save his beloved Freya.
Maybe Mikael seeing Freya would bring back the old him? The one Finn used to love before her death turned him into the empty husk he calls Mikael?
These thoughts turned to naught once his beloved mother turned him into this abomination.
What now?
His magic along with his hope was truly gone now. How would he ever save Freya stuck as this monster. How could his mother do this to him? To them? All her talk of the purity of nature and how she upholds the balance to curse them? To this?
He is stuck. Forced to wander the ground for all eternity as a monster.
After all, magic made him pure. It shielded him
What does it make him now that he is without it?
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Kol Mikaelson was a bit of a troublemaker.
Growing up he was the most mischievous of them all
He loved to play pranks on his siblings
(Except for Finn, he was too much of a bore to give any reaction)
But, if there was one thing Kol loved more than playing pranks it would be his magic
Not to brag but he was a bonafide genius you know!
His mother praised him endlessly for his abilities and how she believed he was going to surpass her one day. Kol may not show it but he loved the feeling of knowing his mother was proud of him. He looked up to her the most.
The rest of his siblings were too daft to learn magic at his level. Those were his mother's words, well not exactly. But the point is still there.
He was a prodigy, magic made him stand out from the rest of his siblings. Even though he loved them it made him happy knowing how much better he was than all of them. Again his mother's words, well her thoughts probably.
Yet all that genius and here he is surrounded by dozens of bodies as he is drenched in blood. He doesn't care for the dead. All he cared for was the emptiness.
Kol was in tears
The thing that made him happiest in life was gone
His magic was gone
All that was left was... nothing
He couldn't feel anything. Of course he tried, he looked deep down inside himself like his mother taught him trying to see if he has even a little left.
Nothing
It was truly gone
How could he possibly live like this? To feel nothing at all times. Everything is numb yet he feels everything so strongly.
It would be better to just end it all now. He doesn't know how long he could last feeling like this
But wait... his mother made him immortal
They burned down the only supposed thing that could kill them
HIS MOTHER DID THIS TO HIM
SHE CURSED HIM TO THIS NOTHINGNESS
Kol could hear Niklaus screaming in anguish
Apparently he was a bastard
Who would have thought
Kol had no idea his mother had it in her to be such a whore, but apparently there was plenty he did not know of Esther
Kol could hear Niklaus begging for help. It seems Esther is binding his mutt side. He could help of course, but deep down he feels a perverted sense of joy knowing he won't be the only one who loses a part of himself
Of course Finn did too but he doesn't count
So Kol does nothing. He lies down looking at the sky surrounded by the blood and bodies of his victims
Wondering if it will ever get better
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He did it
He killed her
Niklaus finally killed his mother
Frankly this is something he had been wanting to do for quite a long time. He certainly did not feel remorse looking at his mother's anguished expression as she drops to the ground heartless.
He throws the heart on top of her as he begins to walk away
He screams for his sibling's names as they finally begin to show up one by one
"What Nik? I was in the middle of someone" Kol whines as he tries to wipe off some blood he had on his face
"I must speak with everyone" Niklaus says as they finally all converged
"Speak Niklaus, I do not feel like waiting forever" Elijah says oddly cold. No one has seen him for a few days after all. Finn is right beside him as silent as usual but he seems oddly curious?
"Well Nik? We don't have all day!" Rebekah complains
"I killed her" Niklaus finally musters the courage to say
"Who in the Gods is her Nik, I'm sure I've killed plenty of hers by now" Kol says dramatically as he rolls his eyes
"Mother. I killed our mother" He whispers
Silence
No one spoke for a few moments until Rebekah's broken voice begins. "Why? I know mother has done quite a few wrongs but she surely did not deserve death." Even after saying it Rebekah doesn't feel all too bad about her mother's death. After all she is the cause of everything. But she was still their mother right?
Niklaus doe not take too kindly to this as his somewhat remorseful face turns into a snarl "She cursed me Rebekah! She chanted as she willingly locked a part of me away! For what?! For Mikael to forgive her lecherous ways?!"
Rebekah tenses as she lowers her head and says nothing more.
"Good" Elijah says coldly. Everyone's eyes widen as they did not expect him of all people to be praising Niklaus. Elijah ignores their looks as he starts again. "She cursed us to become these monsters, we should at least live up to those expectations." He explains as he desperately tries to clean off a drop of blood he has on his hand
"I agree with Elijah" Kol starts, "If you didn't kill her I would have Niklaus. After all you are not the only one she stole from." He practically spits as he clenches his jaw. "My magic, everything that made me is all gone. We never asked for this. It was all for her selfish reasons she did this to use. It seems all she got was what was coming towards her."
"Now that it appears we are all in agreement considering Bekah isn't completely fighting us on this. What do you think mother's boy?" Kol says as everyone turns to look at Finn. Yet, he looks unfazed, as if he hasn't just lost everything. He did worship Esther after all.
"I agree" Finn says calmly as everyone once again is shocked. 'What a twist!' Kol thinks to himself. "She turned us into these creatures without once acknowledging us. It was all in a twisted way to keep us with her forever and keep Mikael happy" Finn says still never even flickering with emotion
"She should have expected this the moment she fed us that wine" He says. "So believe me or not, I am with all of you."
Niklaus's jaw would practically be on the floor if this wasn't such a serious moment. So he tries to ward of the shock before he begins again. "We must be united, we were cursed to this immortal existence, we are all we have left after all Niklaus says resolutely as he looks among his siblings. They all seem to be in agreement even if they look thoroughly depressed. Rebekah then starts to speak once again "We must stay together as one, Always and Forever"
Everyone nods their heads
"Always and Forever"
Suddenly Rebekah seemed to remember something as she became scared. "We must run, father will be after you once he learned what you've done Niklaus" She says frantically.
Mikael.
That name always scared Niklaus.
But now?
He had his family.
They were stronger together.
He could not live his eternity in fear of the man he once called father.
So as he clenched his fists he looked up and finally spoke
"Why?"
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So thats the new prologue. As I was rereading my own stuff I realized I barely spoke about anyone other than Klaus and this was always supposed to be a Mikaelson book so that had to change. I did change some things up with their backstory to make it align with what I will eventually write about them. This rewrite is going to be more slow pace than the last one. Was jumping centuries like crazy at that one. Tell me what you think about this one, what I should change, what I should do better. I will update more frequently since I had a lot of life stuff going on added with the fact that I had no idea what I was doing in the last version made me never wanna write. There will be some changes story wise from the last version. Theres also gonna be a lot of things not mentioned in the show and cannon will be completely different. Also im working on the next chapter rn. Will probably release either later today or tmrw. Anyways cya.