Tales Of The Mighty Siphoner

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Diaries or Originals. They belong to CW, Julie Plec. I don't own anything else used or referenced either, they belong to the real owners.

A/N: A reviewer asked what is the point of making an story almost identical to the original story with only minor tweeks.

I think the original story is one of the best stories I have read on , a total re-write could ruin it, there are just some small things I want to change.

Some things were not explained in the original version so I will be adding my own explanations; the readers and the original writer baringan may not like what I add, change or my reasons, and that is your opinion; I like what I add and my reasons.

Because there are multiple things I want to add they will be a LOT of extra text.

In the original story the writer sometimes says Kai is 'truly immortal'.

Silas and Amara were both 'truly immortal' but they weren't as their immortality could be removed.

For my story I will use what I think the real meaning of truly immortal is - someone who can never ever die not matter what.

As a side affect it means that it's completely impossible to remove his immortality. Even time travel or reality altering cannot remove true immortality.

To me, being able to remove someone's immortality means there is a way to kill them. So they were never truly immortal

I will put this top A/N in each chapter, so if someone in the story mentions something that can kill Kai, it is just what the character thinks; not a fact.

The original version was written by baringan on this site. Link on Profile.

If you see the word hybrid written as 'Hybrid' in the middle of a sentence; then I mean werewolf-vampire hybrid.

So, don't be surprised when I switch between them, or when I use them both.

Sometimes I will use werewolf-vampire hybrid and sometimes I will use Hybrid.

I know that Heretics are the ones who were put in the 1903 Prison World, but since hybrid can refer to any kind of hybrid; I will be using the terms Heretic and vampire-witch interchangeably.

Sometimes I'll call him a vampire-witch hybrid, sometimes I'll call him a Heretic. So, don't be surprised when I switch between them, or when I use them both.

Chapter 4

(Location: London)

Kai was sipping at his tea, sitting on a chair, in a café on a busy London Street. Across from him sat Mikael, the vampire hunter. It has been less than four days since they had left New Orleans to find the ingredients they needed to kill Dahlia.

According to Mikael, the items they need are Norwegian soil, Viking Ash, and Freya's blood. These elements, apparently, each represent a source of Dahlia's power; together they would bring her end.

One thing Kai had learned about the older Original was that he isn't much of a talker. Regardless, both Kai and Mikael had gotten used to each other's presence, as they're both Originals; neither of them could kill the other anyway. As a result, they have at least developed a mutual respect for one another.

A few days before, Kai and Mikael had finished their assignment in Norway - they had acquired the Norwegian soil they needed. Mikael, ever the minimalist, grabbed the nearest chunk of dirt. Kai had protested, convincing Mikael that they should procure a larger quantity, explaining that they could keep the rest as back up supplies. Then they had gone to a Norwegian Mall and bought a large bag of soil.

So they now had two of the ingredients they needed - they only needed one more.

Their hunt for the Viking's ash had proven to be greater challenge. Mikael had wanted to raid a museum. Kai had asked Mikael why he didn't have any Viking relics; since he had been a Viking warrior.

"Sentimentality is for the weak." Mikael had admonished Kai at the time. Kai had just rolled his eyes at the other Original's response.

In his time with Mikael he had gotten used to the older man's spouting of tough Viking philosophy. When Kai had continued to question him, Mikael divulged he had lost a large number of his prized belongings to a vampire society called the Strix. He hadn't had the time, or need, to reclaim the items since; as he'd been pursuing his children.

Currently, at the café, Mikael and Kai were planning their raid on the Strix building that contained Mikael's objects.

As a Viking, Mikael appreciated a good preemptive raid. Kai wanted to see what the Strix was all about, an ancient society of vampires wasn't something you see everyday.

As the objects had been stolen; magic still recognised Mikael as their true owner, so Kai had been able to use Mikael's blood for a locator spell; the spell had revealed his stolen artifacts were in London. After they'd arrived in London, he had cast the spell again to find exactly where Mikael's artifacts are located; which had directed them to the building they're going to raid.

During their spare time, Mikael and Kai had taken to sparring. During their spars, Kai had learned a lot about fighting from the older man. Mikael had given Kai a lot of tips on hunting and fighting vampires; enough that, according to Mikael, he knows enough to now be considered a hunter.

As a hunter, he knows how to: identify vampires without using any of his powers, or abilities, identify places with vampire activity, track vampires with non-magical ways, analyse his targets, plan how to deal with them, and, if necessary, plan an attack, and also when to retreat.

Thanks to his upbringing in the coven, he'd already possessed this knowledge on other supernatural species - his grandmother had taught him; telling him how part of being a Gemini witch, is knowing how to identify supernatural issues, reporting the issue to the coven, then waiting for them to decide if they need to deal with it, and if so, how to deal with whatever the issue is.

When his grandmother had taught him about supernatural beings she had not wanted to limit him; so she had taught him about some supernatural beings that even witches believe to be myths, including some of those outside of the Wicca world; the magical community Kai was born into.

Kai had learned more about supernatural beings in the Prison World, including those in other magical communities, like the Wiccan one. Most of the people in the Wicca world don't know about the other magical communities, this is because the Wicca world is stronger than most of the others, if not all of them; they have no need to go to the other magical communities, and due to this, those who do know of them don't even mention them.

He hadn't possessed the same knowledge about vampires before, as his grandmother died just before she was going to start teaching him about them. She'd decided to teach him about vampires last as, due to the power of the Gemini coven, vampires tend to avoid them - which was why he hadn't met any vampires before he had met Damon.

Though he'd already had more than enough knowledge to become a hunter, he hadn't been considered a true hunter; as he hadn't possessed a hunter's knowledge about the most common magical species in the Wicca world - vampires.

He had only wanted to become a hunter after he'd learned how most people viewed vampires, but he hadn't known how to start becoming a true hunter.

By becoming a hunter, Kai hoped to show other people that not all vampires are bad. Unlike some hunters though, Kai would only hunt those with malicious intentions.

He'd been hated before just for being a siphoner, he didn't want to be hated forever just for being a vampire.

While Kai doesn't personally care about random people's opinion of him, it was the principle of it; he won't just allow himself to be hated for what he is, again.

Kai had proven his coven wrong about siphoners, now he will prove the rest of the world is wrong about vampires; by becoming a hunter, he'll be a vampire that helps solve problems, not just causes them.

Though being a hunter was more of a hobby he would do on the side; when traveling in the future he'll keep an look out for places with supernatural beings, and when he finds people with malicious intentions; he'll then decide if he wants to deal with them; sometimes he might not be willing to - he's still the same person; someone who will only help if he wants to.

Ever the diligent and brilliant student; Kai had quickly soaked up this knowledge and wisdom, to Mikael's silent pleasure.

While he found Kai's demeanour to be annoying at times, the young man's intelligence, skill, and tenacity, made Mikael consider him a worthy successor.

Like many warriors before him, Mikael had very warrior-like goals. Primarily, it is to die in battle. Another is to pass on his skills to another generation of warriors. When he'd died at the hands of Klaus a few years prior, he'd regretted never grooming a true disciple. Over the centuries, Mikael had taken on several apprentices, but they had all been human, and have all perished with time.

In their short time abroad, Mikael had conditioned Kai to fight more offensively. He explained that when fighting hoards of fast opponents, even a strong defence would only hold for so long. He needed to know how to fight defensively and offensively.

As Kai's developed a more offensive fighting style, Mikael found his battles with Kai becoming shorter as the younger Original began to dominate their spars. Kai's martial arts instinct, when combined with his superior strength and speed, gave him a lot more fighting potential than Mikael. And Mikael was keen to develop that potential.

Kai's more modern style of mix martial art was also more advantageous than Mikael's archaic form of military combat. Mikael was a very proud person, he was stuck in his ways - in all of a thousand years, he never bothered to adapt to new combat styles.

This training gave Kai more fighting styles. He know has four more styles; no vampire powers, just pure skill in an offensive style, and a style that combines his skill with his powers, in an offensive style. And two styles that combined both of them. A style that combined his offensive and defensive styles, and is purely skill based. And one style that combined his offensive and defensive styles with his skills, with his powers.

This gave him six ways of fighting; three based purely on skill, and three that combined skill with his powers.

While he did want to use fighting styles that allowed him to used his powers, he didn't want to become reliant on them. This is why he had developed styles purely based on skill; to help him develop his fighting skills without his powers. His other three styles were to help him develop his skills with his powers.

What unnerved Mikael the most about Kai wasn't that he's an Original; it's that he can still use magic despite being a vampire.

Mikael had once told the witch, Davina, that magic could only fight half of her battles. This was also true for hand-to-hand combat. Mikael knows that Kai being a vampire-witch hybrid means Kai can use both might and magic to win his battles.

So, Kai is physically and magically powerful. Mikael knows how powerful magic can be - it has taken him down more than once. Thanks to his battles with Kai, he knows Kai is physically superior to him - that's what unnerves him about Kai; how he's able to take him down in two different ways - with his magical and physical power.

"We'll attack their building at night. I want to see the results of your training." Mikael said.

Kai grinned. "Two Original vampires, against a legion of ancient vampires - it has all the makings of a good day."

Mikael merely frowned at Kai's confidence; while it was good to be confident, Kai was often overconfident - which is not a good thing.

He decided to ignore it, for now. As he was eager to retrieve his stolen belongings, murderously eager.

(Later that night.)

Kai pulled his hand out of the man's chest cavity. While he dropped the dead vampire's heart to the ground, two more vampires tried to flank him. He quickly decapitated one with his fist and killed the other one with a small wooden stake he kept on his person.

The last vampire tried to flee, but with a pull of his fist, he used telekinesis to pull the vampire back. One heart extraction later, the last of the Strix vampires in the building was dead. They'd slaughtered all of them. He had erected a boundary when he and Mikael had entered the building, ensuring that no Strix vampires would escape.

"Damn it, this was my favourite jacket." Kai exclaimed. The stain of blood ruined his sleeves and jacket.

"Oh well, I'll just fix it." He said to himself, before vanishing the blood by mentally casting a spell.

With that done, Kai made his way to the lower levels. He could sense that Mikael was already down there.

When he arrived, he saw a massive metal structure ahead; as he got closer he noticed it was a circular vault door, hidden at the very subbasement of the building. Imprinted on its metal surface was an owl - the symbol of the Strix.

"You took your time." Mikael berated, annoyed.

Kai noticed the man's face was covered in blood; he had obviously been feeding on his enemies.

"Well I had to make sure there were no survivors. Plus, I did most of the heavy lifting anyway." He argued; he'd trapped them inside, and then he killed most of them on his own.

Mikael had started killing them, but then when Kai had told him the direction to find his artifacts; Mikael had made his way down here, only killing people who got in his way - leaving Kai to kill all the others by himself.

Kai wasn't really bothered though; as it was a chance to gain practice fighting multiple enemies at once, and practice using magic during fights - both things that he needs to practise.

"Whatever. The vault is sealed with magic. Can you open it?" Mikael, asked gruffly.

Kai scoffed, rolling his eyes. "Please. Cake-walk."

Kai placed his hands on the vault doors. He could feel a spell keeping the doors sealed shut. Kai smiled as he siphoned away the magic. Kai then span the circular lock on the door, he listened as the inner mechanisms of the vault door turned and moved, until he heard a resounding click - indicating that the vault was now unlocked.

Kai then opened the massive vault door. Mikael entered, Kai following right after him.

The vault was almost twice the size of a ballroom. Aisles of shelves filled out most of the room, with some glass cases near the back. This was undoubtedly where the Strix kept some of their most precious trophies.

Kai took out a compass and threw it to Mikael. The older Original easily grabbed the compass from the air.

The compass was an interesting magical object he had procured during his time in the Prison world. The compass could be used to find anything in the world; he'd spelled it to point towards Mikael's stolen relics - which is how he'd known which way to go to find Mikael's objects.

"You go find your things. I'll take a look around." Kai said to Mikael.

A short while later, Kai had stuffed his bags with a large variety of dark objects, a few grimoires, and other magical objects. He and Mikael had regrouped, the other Original was carrying a large wooden trunk with old Nordic designs carved into the wood.

The two Original vampires carried their finds out to their vehicles. Kai went back in again, to see if there was anything else of interest; coming back out with some more bags full of magical items.

As soon as their items were secured, Kai then went back inside the Strix building; he then gave it one more inspection. After finding nothing else that interests him, he left the building and returned to his car; as he did, a trail of fire followed his feet, the fire quickly spread all throughout the building - consuming everything in its path.

He had left traces of magic all over the building, on every floor, in every room, all the way down to the subbasement for the mystical flames to follow.

These mystical flames are unique; as they won't go out until nothing remains of their target, burn quickly, and cannot be extinguished - except by the caster.

Following the traces he'd left, the flames were quickly consuming everything left in the building.

Nothing was going to survive, certainly not any evidence that could be traced back to him. He didn't want anyone learning it was him, and targeting those he cares about to seek revenge.

As Kai drove away from the scene, the sounds of fire trucks could be heard in the distance. Within the hour, the Strix building would collapse.

The next morning, Tristan de Martel, the leader of the Strix received a phone call that informed him of the loss of one of his most important buildings. The building had held many important items, now they were all lost.

Tristan is resolute in making the guilty party pay with their blood. He had one suspect in mind - Lucien Castle.

Tristan had recently decimated quite of number of Lucien's operation. This attack on his London building was no doubt retaliation.

The war between the sire-lines was about to brew hotter.

(Location: Private Airfield in Louisiana.)

Kai had wanted to teleport them back; but Mikael, even though he wants Dahlia dead as soon as possible, refused to let Kai teleport them back - he has trust issues.

Instead, Kai and Mikael had decided to go back to America in style - they had boarded a private jet, courtesy of a compelled billionaire.

As Kai unpacked and loaded their cargo onto his rented SUV, he heard his phone vibrate - it was a text from Damon.

'NEED YOU HERE ASAP. COME BACK TO WHITMORE.' The message read.

Kai looked at the message worryingly. He knew where he needed to go; Damon wouldn't ask for help unless he really needed it.

He quickly dialed Mikael's number, who had already taken off in his own SUV.

"Mikael, you head to New Orleans first. I'm taking a detour. I'll see you in a day or two." He said, hanging up before Mikael could complain. A moment later his phone pinged with a message - the date and time Mikael will call him.

Kai had been to Whitmore before. Kai concentrated on the location - in an instant, he warped himself and his SUV to the location. Fortunately, he used teleportation spells so often that he can teleport objects with him, while only needing to use a little extra magic.

Kai dialed Damon. The call was answered quickly.

"Hey, what's going on? I'm at Whitmore. Where is everyone?"

"I'm at the hospital. Come quickly, Liz needs help." Damon replied urgently.

"Be there soon." Kai answered with haste, he stepped on the accelerator as he drove towards the hospital.

"Kai?" Caroline said astonishingly. "What are you doing here?"

"I heard about Liz from Damon and Elena. I'm so sorry." He said apologetically. "I've been so caught up in my own business, I wasn't here for you guys."

He gave Caroline a comforting hug. He then pushed her away to face her. "Damon called me here to help Liz."

Caroline looked confused, initially, but then realization dawned on her. She had fed her mother vampire blood, hoping to cure the cancer; but instead her blood accelerated the cancer. He is here to remove the magic from her vampire blood. Renewed hope surged through her.

Kai stood next to the bed Liz was lying in. He placed one hand on Liz's sternum and the other hand on her forehead. Kai started siphoning the vampire blood's magic, at the same time, feeding magic into her; since magic had affected it, Liz's body would crash if he just removed the magic.

"It's done." He said to Caroline, with a smile.

She smiled tearfully back. "Is there anything else you can do to help her?" Caroline asked hopefully.

Right after she learned that vampire blood couldn't help, she'd talked to all the witches she knows, but none of them knew how to cure her mom with magic; which is her last chance - as there's no non-magical cure for cancer.

She knows Kai is skilled with magic - Bonnie and Damon had told her how skilled, and knowledgeable, he is with magic. Maybe he knew how to cure her, though she doubts it.

"I'm sorry." Kai said downcast. "This kind of sickness is beyond my abilities." Her face fell, while she'd doubted he could do it, Kai had been her last chance to save her mom.

He places his hand on her shoulder. "I can sense her life-force, she doesn't have a lot of time left. I'll leave you two alone." While it might be possible to cure her with magic, it would be too late - Liz would be long gone by the time he learned how.

Caroline cast him a sad but thankful look, before returning to her mother's side, who seemed to be regaining consciousness.

Kai sighed as he left the room. There are times when he feels powerless. He hadn't felt like this the death of his grandmother. In some ways, Liz's illness had made him realise that in some ways, he is still just as powerless as he was back then.

Kai wiped at his eyes to stop the tear that was threatening to flow. Kai left the hospital to find somewhere quiet to think.

After his thinking time, Kai came to an absolute decision - to help the people that he cares about; he will never stop his pursuit of strength, knowledge, and power.

A woman and a man were in their apartment enjoying a nice takeout meal. Both were happily in love, and both glad that despite their messed up lives, everything seemed to have fallen into place after they met each other.

Amidst the cuddling and talking, the ring of the doorbell interrupted the couple.

"I'll get it." Alaric begrudgingly said. The mood was ruined

Jo giggled at Alaric's discomfort. Jo went into her room to get a hair tie, she then came back out to join her fiancé and their unexpected guest.

"Who is it?" She called out to Alaric.

"It's your brother, Kai."

And there he was, Kai, her twin, stood in the middle of her living room, inspecting the apartment before turning to face her. He then smiled at her, the only blood family who he still had a connection to.

"Kai, what are you doing here? " Jo asked. "Not that I don't want you here." His twin quickly added.

He smiled at her. "I was just with Caroline and Liz." The couple nodded, they figured he had been called back to help Liz.

"I just thought that while I'm here, I should visit my little twin sister." Though he was joking, it was technically true, as he was born a few minutes before Jo.

Jo rolled her eyes at him, he had called her that since they were kids. "But the older looking sibling goes to me." She argued smirking.

"And since I'm a vampire, I'll always look the same." Kai relented.

"How are you Jo? Is Alaric treating you well?" Kai asked, giving the former vampire hunter a look.

Jo smiled at Kai's attempt at being a protective brother. So she decided to play along, she liked seeing this protective side of Kai.

"Oh I don't know, he's been quite cold to me lately." She said, with faked sadness in her voice.

Kai's eyes hardened on Alaric, believing her words and not bothering to sense her emotions.

Alaric had never been quite so frightened of his fiancé's twin brother, but right then, he was absolutely terrified of Kai.

Kai flared his magic, two of the light bulb flashed brightly before exploding. Before he could teach Alaric a lesson however, his sister busted out laughing.

"I was only kidding. This man," She wrapped her armed lovingly around Alaric."has been a perfect gentlemen to me."

"That was quite mean of you." Alaric whined playfully. Kai agreed; he had been close to telekinetically hanging Alaric upside down until he learned to treat Jo better.

"A pregnant women needs her healthy dose of entertainment." She said, smiling at her brother and her soon to be husband.

Kai ended up staying for dinner with the couple. After an hour or so, Alaric excused himself, saying that he had papers that he needed to grade by tomorrow.

Kai then looked at his sister worryingly. "Your energy level seems unusually low, are you sure you're alright Jo?"

"To be honest, I'm not sure, I feel more tired than usual. But that's normal during pregnancies. But my magic feels like it's being depleted much more quickly."

It confused her, as she hadn't used her magic much since he'd restored it. She'd mainly used it when she could still work safely; using it to help patients, or when she was too tired to do something the non-magical way.

Kai narrowed his eyes in thought. He had a suspicion. 'Could it be?'

Kai leaned toward Jo, wanting to investigate his idea. He hovered his hand above Jo's belly. She wondered what he's doing, but seeing the serious look on her brother's face, Jo decided not to comment on it yet, letting him do whatever it is he's doing.

He then released a small amount of magic into his sister. He then felt for the flow of his magic within her; tracking its path. After a moment, he noticed an anomaly.

It wasn't much, but he could feel it. The small amount of magic he'd just pumped into Jo had been siphoned in two directions. Kai eyes widened, realising what it meant.

"What's wrong? Kai, tell me. What's wrong? Why do you look so shocked?" She said, her brother's reaction worrying her.

"I know why you're more magically drained than you usually are," Kai wasn't sure how to tell her. "your children are both siphoners; they're slowly absorbing your magic."

"Are you sure?" Jo asked, her face paling.

She didn't really care that they're siphoners, but even though the Gemini coven appears to have learned not to hate siphoners, thanks to Kai. She is concerned that learning her children are both siphoners may cause the coven to go back to their previous treatment of siphoners.

She'd learned from Kai, that their treatment of siphoners had been that way ever since the first siphoner - it was easier for them to say they'd realised their mistakes than it is to change their treatment, especially with all the years they had been doing it.

Learning how the treatment affected her twin was horrible, she hates even the thought of her children receiving the same treatment.

Kai nodded. "You have to abort." He said reluctantly, he didn't really want her to have an abortion - but he didn't want to lose her either.

"No!" Jo responded angrily. "How could you say that?"

"If this continues, you will die. It will kill you!" Kai said, raising his voice slightly in frustration - he didn't want his sister to die.

Jo ran a hand through her hair - trying to think. She understood that he didn't want to lose her - especially after they had repaired their relationship.

"This is your niece and nephew, or nieces, or nephews, you're talking about." Jo said resolutely. "Mother carried and gave birth to you, and she didn't die."

"Mother was not a witch," Kai reminded his sister desperately. "it will be fatal for you. When a witch runs out of magic, they die."

"What if I'm not a witch?" Jo said, his words giving her an idea.

"I've given up my magic once, I can certainly do it again. To be honest, I haven't used it much, it still feels foreign to me now." She admitted. "I can just put my magic in an object again."

Kai considered her idea, his hope renewed - Jo wouldn't need to have an abortion, and he wouldn't lose his sister. "That might just work."

An idea sprang to his mind. He immediately started processing and evaluating the idea, his enhanced mind immediately coming up with ways to make it work. "I have an idea, an idea that could benefit both of us, but only if you are happy without your magic."

"What do you mean?" She asked.

'What I'm thinking of is a lot more drastic than simply storing your magic away." He grinned wildly at her. "It would permanently remove your magic, and witch nature."

Jo widen her eyes. "Is such a thing possible?" Permanently removing her magic would have several benefits.

Her, and her children's, lack of magic would make it so that they would seem just like ordinary humans.

This would make it so they would likely be underestimated; magical beings tended to underestimate ordinary humans, and it would also help them to blend in with ordinary humans - who, unless they're being used for something, tend to be ignored by magical beings.

However, since she was born as a witch, she will still have the immunity to a vampire's compulsion. Just like how a siphoner's lack of magic doesn't mean they're not witches.

"Well, yes. As you know, with the exception of siphoners, becoming a vampire will remove a witch's powers and nature."

Seeing her glare at him, he continued quickly; he wants her to listen to him after all.

"That's not what I was thinking of though. I need more magical power. I've been trying to devise ways of gaining more magical power, but none of my options are viable, until now, when an idea just occurred to me."

Kai continued. "To help us both accomplish our objectives" Jo listened eagerly, "we'll have to do the Merge."

"No, are you crazy? One of us would die. I would die!" Jo exclaimed, hurt.

She can't believe that he'd suggest something that would kill her and her babies, he is a very powerful witch and vampire; he would definitely win; which would cause her and her babies to die when she lost.

Kai shook his head. "Usually yes, but I'll modify the spell. Over the years, I studied the Gemini's Merge ceremony in depth. I know how it works better than anyone alive."

He stopped for a moment to let her consider.

"Will you trust me?" He gazed at her. With their history; this would require a lot of trust on Jo's part.

Jo looked at the clear honesty in his eyes. She does trust him, but due to their history with the Merge, it isn't that easy. She now understands his reasons for the things that he did, but the memories of the last time Kai had wanted to undergo the Merge were still in her mind.

She breathed in, and then out, deeply; gathering all her trust in Kai. "Yes." She relented, smiling. For now, Kai is only asking her to trust his knowledge, skill, and ability to do as he said - modify the Merge ritual to remove her magic without killing her.

He smiled back. "Okay, we'll do it first thing tomorrow. I'm going to have to workout what to change, how to change it, and find any ingredients that I'll need."

"I have more questions." Jo protested. She may trust him, but she needs to know exactly how his idea will work before agreeing to go through with it.

"I'll answer them tomorrow." Kai persuaded.

He left shortly after. Thanks to his enhanced mind, he already knows what he's going to do and how he's going to do it. He just needed to get everything ready.

The next morning, Kai drove back to pick up his sister. He brought her to an abandoned industrial district, then led her into a warehouse.

After she entered, Jo noticed a magical circle drawn in blood and salt, a stone altar in the centre. Runes were drawn throughout; around the magical circle, around the altar, and all over the walls of the building.

She marveled at the intricacy of his rune work, she didn't even understand most of it.

Thanks to her magical upbringing, she could recognise some of the runes - but most of them weren't even known by the Gemini coven; so she had no idea what they did.

Jo turned to Kai to ask him questions she'd thought of after he'd left the night before, while explaining everything to Alaric.

"I heard from father that you unlinked yourself from the coven, and now you're a vampire, would either of those things have an affect on the Merge? Can you even participate in the Merge?

"It's true, I unlinked myself from the coven; so I couldn't be part of the true Merge. But you're still part of the coven, so you're still linked. And I'm your twin, so we can always Merge. But since I'm not linked to the coven, it won't affect the coven's leadership if we do the Merge."

Jo nodded comprehensively. It makes sense, since magic links family members; though only when they are biologically related. The Merge uses this link to enhance the magic of the participants, and then adds the loser's amplified magic to the winner's magic.

While unconscious during the Merge, the participants use their magical abilities and powers to decide who wins. This means siphoners have an advantage if they Merge against a normal witch - the normal witch is using their magic against someone who absorbs magic.

Though if the normal witch is powerful enough, and has enough magic, they could overwhelm the siphoner and win.

"As for me being a vampire, that is irrelevant. Because I'm a siphoner, my witch aspect was left intact. So, I'm your twin, and I'm still a witch. So I can still do the Merge, as it only needs us to be witches who are twins." He explained.

That was mostly true. According to what he'd learned, he could do it with any of his siblings; due to the fact that they are, physically, the same age. Whoever he did the Merge with, who would be alive thanks to his modifications, would become sick; he'd have to then absorb his twin's magic as well; or the sickness would kill the twin he had Merged with. It wouldn't have made him sick though; as it would only affect witches connected to the coven - and Kai isn't connected to the coven.

According to the spell theory behind the Merge, all that was required is for the two siblings to be the same age, be blood related and to, obviously, be alive.

This means no other Heretic could Merge, because, despite being witches, they'd died to become vampires; meaning that they are technically dead witches, and dead witches can't Merge. Kai didn't die to become a vampire though, meaning that he is not a dead witch - so he can still do the Merge.

"What is the point of all this?" Jo asked confused.

Kai had said it would help him and her. This would help her survive the rest of her pregnancy, and help her survive any future pregnancies; if she and Alaric decided to have more kids in the future.

Kai had said it would help him because he needed more magical power, but he hadn't told her why he needed it.

"You're already very powerful, why do you need more magical power? No one in the coven can match your power." She said, confused.

She doesn't understand this. As an Original, Kai already has access to a lot of magic - why does he need more?

Kai shook his head. "One thing I gained from my imprisonment, is perspective. I've realised that modern witches pale in comparison to ancient witches. My magic may seem special to you, but I believe it's fairly ordinary by comparison."

Before Jo could inquire further, Kai continued. "A powerful witch is coming to New Orleans very soon. I've heard that she has a lot of powerful magic."

"Is she after you?" She asked. He smiled as he sensed the concern she felt for him.

"No she isn't." He explained reassuringly.

"But she is going after someone I care about. Her magic is very powerful. I'll need to match it to beat her, but, since I am a siphoner, I can't hold onto magic for long enough. Any magic that I siphon will dissipate from my body. I can put excess siphoned magic into my ring; but there's a limit to how much I can store in it. In order to beat this witch, I'll need more magic, but I need to be able to store it in my body, without it dissipating, I need to be like an ordinary witch; since ordinary witches can generate and hold magic, without it dissipating."

Kai continues. "If we Merge, I would gain all of your witch abilities; like your ability to retain the magic you generate. Since we're twins, the Merge will amplify your magic - that's what makes the Gemini coven so powerful; the Merge amplifies the power of the participants, takes the power of the loser, and then adds that to the power of the winner; so the more powerful the participants, the more powerful the leader."

Ordinarily, this also adds some of the loser's feelings to the winner's as well; this is because the magic had originally been someone else's. Magic was connected to the soul, which was how some witches could do magic after death.

However, due to Kai's changes, this won't be the case this time; the Merge only adds personality traits and feelings after the person who lost dies - but his changes make it so Jo will live; so he won't be absorbing any of her feelings.

"Okay, I see how the Merge will benefit us both. But, how are you going to keep me alive?" She questioned.

She knows how this will benefit her, and Kai had explained how it will help him, but she wants to know how Kai will stop the Merge from killing her - as it would usually do to whoever loses the Merge.

"As I said, I'm not linked to the coven, this Merge will not affect the leadership of the coven, so the ritual becomes unbalanced. Giving me the unique opportunity to modify the spell with additions of my own." Kai stated, pointing at the runes on the ground.

"That being said, someone still has to die." He added.

Jo gulped, but trusted her brother to explain.

"Like I said, I've modified the spell. Ordinarily, the Merge's winner would live and gain the magic of the loser, and the loser would die; losing their magic to the winner. But I modified the spell; the victor will gain the magic and die, while the losing twin will lose their magic, and live. I'm redirecting the negative part of the Merge onto myself, the ritual will then try to kill me, but I'm immortal, so it won't be able to. It might be able to desiccate me though. If that happens," Kai gestured to the blood bag he left on a table outside the circle, "feed me the blood and I should wake up."

Jo was amazed at her brother's genius. He truly is a prodigy. Perhaps the coven would've been better off with him as the coven head after all.

"Are you sure this will work?" She said, this is something that has never been done before - she doesn't want her twin to die if he's wrong.

Kai shook his head smiling. "Don't worry Jo, I've triple checked everything - it's safe. Besides, we're witches, it's an occupational hazard." He said jokingly, with a wink.

"Okay. Let's do it." Jo said resolutely.

"Okay? You'll agree to it? Just like that?" Kai voiced, surprised. He had expected her to need time to think it over.

"Yes. I trust you." His sister reaffirmed.

Kai grinned happily, this was an incredible show of trust from his sister.

"But we're going to need a celestial event." Jo added.

Kai showed her his Solistian ring. "No we don't. My ring harvests sunlight and then converts it into magic. I can use it as a source of magic, at full power, it serves as a functional celestial event."

Jo nodded. "Wow, nice ring." She said, admiring it. It looked like an ordinary ring, but it was actually a useful source of magic.

"Let's begin." Kai declared, taking his sister's hands.

She nodded. The twins closed their eyes and began to chant.

"Sanguinem desimilus! Sanguinem generis fiantus!" They both chanted repeatedly.

After the seventh chant, Kai's ring's flashed with power as it resonated with the runic circle. The magic immediately acted - Kai and Jo collapsed as the Merge began.

In the following minutes, both twins stayed immobile, deathlike in appearance.

Suddenly Jo's chest heaved as she gasped in air. At first she panicked before realising what had happened - Kai's plan had worked.

'It worked.' She thought, feeling a sense of glee - she's no longer at risk of dying from her babies siphoning all her magic now, and maybe in the future.

She couldn't feel her magic, not in the slightest. It was a very different experience from when she'd hidden her magic.

She was now void of her witch abilities and powers, making her the first witch in the history of the Gemini coven to lose the Merge, and come out alive.

Then she remembered her brother. Kai was still out cold. She walked over to her fallen brother. His skin had turned grey and dark. She realised that Kai had desiccated.

Jo hurriedly grabbed the blood bag from the table; she opened it with the experience of a doctor, not spilling a drop. She brought the bag up to his lips, then pumped the blood into his mouth and down his throat.

Jo waited, for a few minutes nothing happened. Her heart beated faster as she dreaded for her brother's life.

Kai suddenly took in air. Colour returned to his face as the blood restarted his system.

He immediately noticed the difference. When he had become a vampire, he could feel tremendous power at his fingertips. But now, he felt at one with the magic, he felt connected to it - a feeling which he swore emanated from his very soul. He now possesses magic of his own - witch magic, not siphoned witch or vampire magic; but he now has witch magic of his own to draw from; he doesn't have to siphon magic in order to use it.

The ritual itself had bolstered the magic he got from Jo. The magic that once belonged to his twin became even more powerful now that it was merged to his soul; augmented by the magic of the Merge, and, though Jo didn't know it, augmented further by a few of the runes she hadn't recognised.

Right now, his magic level was just over twice that of a Regent, and that's without him siphoning from other sources. The best part is, he's still a siphoner; so he can still absorb magic; which he can use to either restore his magic, or, when he is at full power; increase the amount of magic he has, and the power of his magic.

"Jo?" He called out, still slightly disoriented.

"How do you feel?" She said, relieved.

He opened his eyes one more. "I feel whole."

After Kai woke, he cleaned up and then drove himself and Jo back to Jo's apartment.

"How much stronger do you think you've become?" She asked him, throwing him a blood bag. Kai put the bag onto the coffee table and walked towards the window.

"Let me show you." He said, before removing his Daylight ring and dropping it on the windowsill.

Jo had expected her brother's skin to go slightly red as it heated up under the sunlight. She knew he wouldn't combust; Alaric had told her, due to the spell used, Kai had a very high resistance to daylight, vervain, and werewolf venom, and he is even slightly resistant to magic.

But to her surprise, Kai remained the same.

"What? Why can you walk in the sun without a Daylight ring now, when you couldn't before? You became a hybrid before, with a high resistance to sunlight. But you were not immune to it though; your resistance to daylight caused you to heat up instead of combusting."

Kai sat back onto the couch, slipping the Daylight ring back on.

"Being a hybrid is about balance. As an Original vampire, my vampire nature was more dominant than my witch nature. When we Merged, I gained your magic and your witch nature, it provided balance; I am now a full hybrid - I have all the powers and abilities of a vampire, a normal witch, and a siphoner. As a witch, daylight doesn't affect me."

He now had Jo's Merge enhanced magic, and witch abilities, but as the magic had been Merged with his own magic - which was vampire magic, it had enhanced all his powers and abilities.

Esther's spell had given Kai a high resistance to all a vampire's weaknesses, except magic; which he had a much lesser resistance to. When Kai had empowered the spell even further; these resistances were enhanced so he had been almost immune to a vampire's weaknesses, except magic; though his resistance to magic went up, making him more resistant to magic - but not even close to immune to it.

Kai is now a full hybrid; so he possesses all the full powers and abilities of the Enhanced Original vampire, and a normal witch, along his own siphoner powers and abilities.

Now he has a full witch side, Kai is unaffected by sunlight. The Merge amplifying his vampire magic turned his almost immunities, into total immunities - he's immune to vervain, werewolf venom and, even without his witch side, daylight. His resistance to magic increased as well; to the point, an average witch's magic couldn't even hurt him, the resistance even extends to magical objects now.

His mental and physical vampires powers and abilities had also been enhanced.

However, as a witch's magic has a greater connection to the mind; his mental powers and abilities had grown much more than his physical ones.

Kai could now enter any mind, even those that should be impenetrable, without being detected. His mind is now impenetrable; it could only be entered if he pulled someone into his mind, or if he let someone enter his mind, even then Kai would remain in total control of his mind.

He could do things no else could do, even the Immortals, because the spell that turned him already had the psychic powers of an Immortal; due to being exposed to the magic of the boundary. Then it had been empowered, when he had fed the magic directly into the spell, then it had been empowered even more by the magic he had siphoned from the boundary; which was in his body, and now it had been further empowered by the Merge.

Also his powers and abilities, including his enhanced mind, will now grow at an even faster rate.

All of this was because the Merge not only enhanced his magic, but was attached to his soul - which was what the Enhanced Original spell had bonded itself to; the Merge had attached the magic to his soul as well - as his immortality, powers, and abilities are also bound to his soul, it caused everything already bound to his soul to be enhanced; which is why it had affected all his powers and abilities.

As his immortality is also bound to his soul, his immortality was enhanced - amplifying his durability, and the speed he heals at - the more his vampire side grows, the quicker he will heal - not including things that speed up his healing; like healing spells or blood.

Also, as a side affect of Kai's healing ability being enhanced, his blood can heal things now that it couldn't before, including most ailments; except the worst ones, like cancer.

As they were both linked to his soul, his True Immortality also affected his magic. This affect created something not many had heard of, but that all believed was just a myth.

Kai can use something called Absolute Magic.

Absolute Magic; like True Immortality; is totally unaffected by anything or anyone, other than Kai, the one and only person who can use it, and it can affect anyone or anything. Even if it was used in a weak spell; even omnipotence, or infinite power, wouldn't affect it at all; well, unless Kai allowed it.

As Absolute Magic is completely unique, it couldn't even be absorbed, in anyway; including siphoning - except by Kai, since he is its wielder. As it was a part of his immortality, which is linked to his vampire side; any, and all, magic Kai uses is completely immune to any, and all, forms of absorption as well.

Like True Immortality, Absolute Magic was not supposed to exist; so Nature had never countered it - after Kai gained this ability, Nature had made it so that on one else would ever gain it again, just like Kai's true immortality.

Since it wasn't meant to exist, Absolute Magic ignores almost everything, like rules and laws; magical or otherwise. So, it can do nearly anything.

However, due to the fact that no one else has, or would ever again have, the ability to use Absolute Magic; Kai wouldn't know about this for a very long time; no one in this universe had even heard of it, let alone recorded it, or taught how to harness and use it.

Also the Merge gave Kai an ability that has only ever been possessed by two others.

Like Klaus, and Hope - Kai has the ability to turn werewolves into werewolf-vampire hybrids.

However like only Hope before him; Kai can turn a werewolf into a werewolf-vampire hybrid without using human doppelgänger blood to complete the transition; this is because Kai is a full hybrid.

Due to their hybrid nature, the blood of a Heretic is stronger than a normal vampire. But it's not strong enough to turn werewolves into werewolf-vampire hybrids, even the blood of a witch-Original vampire hybrid is not strong enough.

The Merge amplifying his vampire magic, enriched his vampire side; his enriched vampire side gave his blood the power to turn werewolves into Hybrids.

This, combined with his Merged witch side, had amplified his blood even further - which is what gave it the power to turn werewolves into Hybrids, without needing to drink human doppelgänger blood to complete the transition.

But since the other Heretics aren't Originals, and since they can't do the Merge, as they are dead witches, they can't create werewolf-vampire hybrids. Making Kai the only Heretic able to turn a werewolf into a werewolf-vampire hybrid.

"Why did you put the ring back on then? Jo asked curiously.

"To keep up appearances. The less enemies know about me, the better." He said.

Jo nodded in understanding. "When are you leaving?" She said, changing the subject.

"Right after this, I'll have to return to New Orleans." He said, they needed to stop Dahlia as soon as possible.

"So soon?" She sighed, a little dissapointed, she had hoped he could stay in town a bit longer. "My wedding will be in one month. I expect you to be there and don't be late."

Kai smiled. "I seem to get invited to weddings a lot these days." He'd already been to one wedding, now he's been invited to another one.

Jo raised her eyebrow quizzically.

Kai just shook his head amusingly. "Don't worry, it's a long story."

Shortly after that, Kai had said goodbye to his friends, including a farewell to Sheriff Forbes; he knew it would be the last time he would see her alive.

Kai then teleported back to New Orleans. He reappeared back in his hotel room, shortly before lunch.

He had some time before Mikael was supposed to call him, so he started looking over some of the artifacts he stole from the Strix - some great additions to his already great collection of magical objects.

Kai had stored all his prized possessions in his magical cabinet. Kai had used a spell to make the cabinet to be bigger on the inside than the outside. He had originally linked it to a medium sized vault; but since returning from the prison world he had made several changes to it; he'd linked it to a bunch of vaults - the inside was now the size of a small warehouse.

He kept the cabinet hidden with a spell, only those specifically searching for the vault would find it. However, it's sealed with his magic, his blood and a password; all three are required to unlock the dimensional inside of the cabinet. Without all of them, it's just an ordinary normal cabinet with a few clothes in it. The cabinet is kept inside a storage locker.

Kai always carries a few of his magical items on him though, only the most useful ones; like the compass. Another item he carries on him is a small golden Roman dagger. The dagger was enchanted so any wounds inflicted by it were slow to heal - including those with supernatural healing abilities. He might be able to weaken Dahlia with it, though it's doubtful - it's quite powerful, but a strong witch can quickly heal any wounds it causes.

As he was inspecting a dark wooden stake he stole from the Strix, Kai's phone started ringing. He picked it up; it was Mikael.

"Where are you?" Mikael asked.

"I'm back in New Orleans."

"Meet me at the Lafayette cemetery in 20 minutes. Don't be late." Mikael said, he then immediately hung up the phone.

Kai sighed. His vampire hunting teacher was a dick. But at least he used a slightly less rough tone with him; probably due to Kai telling him that he likely won't do something if he is ordered to do it. He might when fighting an enemy, but otherwise he will likely ignore an order, on the principle of being ordered; which he hates.

In true rebellion, Kai arrived at the Lafayette cemetery in exactly 21 minutes. He quickly found Mikael.

"Come with me." Mikael requested, impatiently.

He would have demanded it, but he'd learned that Kai hates being ordered around. He wants Dahlia dead, not a fight with Kai.

While searching for the ingredients, he'd tried several times to order Kai around; they had ended up fighting. When Kai won; he'd told Mikael not to order him around, and told him why not to do it again.

So Mikael learned not to try ordering Kai around - there's no point in wasting time if Kai will end up ignoring his orders, or fighting him for trying to order him around.

Kai nodded in acceptance of the request.

He and Mikael then walked further into the city of the dead. Kai then saw that they were meeting up with two other people - Klaus and Davina.

"You have my word. Once this task is completed, I'll give you Kol's remains." Klaus said to Davina, reassuringly. "Regardless of what you think of me, I'm a man of my word." Klaus smiled deviously.

"Actually, he's a liar, a beast and a degenerate," Mikael interjected, "however in this exceptional instance, he may be of some use."

Klaus sighed. "Oh good, you're back." he remarked sarcastically.

"Dahlia's minion remains within St. Anne's Church."

"Clearly, it's a trap." Klaus stated.

"Of course it's a trap!" Mikael concur exasperatedly. "And how good is it that we bring surprises of our own?"

At their somewhat playful banter, Davina was confused; as she knows that Mikael and Klaus despise one another. Kai simply thought they have more in common than they're willing to admit.

"Wait, so you two are friends now?" Davina asked incredulously.

"Absolutely not! We have merely aligned out of necessity for the purpose we both enjoy the most - glorious murder." Klaus clarified.

Mikael scowled at Davina, before addressing his son. His mood evidently shifted a complete 180. "Why is she here, Niklaus?"

"We need a witch to bind the agents to a weapon. We can't inform Freya. And Davina here is a powerful witch." Klaus rebutted. "You being alive is proof of that."

Mikael growled under his breath. "I already have a witch." Mikael pointed towards Kai.

"And who is this?" Klaus asked pointedly, sizing up Kai, measuring him shrewdly.

"This is my new apprentice." Mikael revealed.

"Kai?" Davina noticed him for the first time.

"Hey Davina. Long time no see." Kai said, nodding to acknowledge the fiery witch.

"Why are you with him?" She half-demanded, pointing at Mikael. "And you're not a witch, you're a vampire." She stated, she'd been told about the skill he'd displayed when he'd fought Marcel's vampires.

Klaus realised he'd seen Kai before, he'd seen him at Hayley's wedding.

Mikael scoffed. "The things you don't know could fill a book, little witch." He said, ignoring the fact that he'd thought being a witch-vampire hybrid was impossible before he met Kai.

Davina glared at Mikael, not happy to be patronised.

Kai smiled in amusement, amused by her annoyance. He had always enjoyed people's annoyance; well, as long as it's harmless.

Mikael then passed him the ingredients they had collected.

"Soil from Dahlia's homeland; where she and, by extension, her power was first born. Viking ash - her oppressors and the source of her immense hatred. And finally, blood of her adopted child, my beloved daughter Freya, the closest thing to love Dahlia has ever known." Mikael revealed to Klaus and Davina, disdain evident in his voice.

"All the sources of her power bound together create a weakness." Davina realised.

"What do you want me to bind them to?" Kai asked. Davina was still confused about why a vampire was being asked to cast a spell. Klaus started to glare at Kai, also not understanding what is going on.

He had been alive for over a thousand years; he has seen and experienced a lot. And he knows you can't be both a witch and a vampire. He had turned, and met, vampires who had been witches before being turned; none of them had retained their witch side; none of them could still use magic after being turned.

So why are Mikael and this other vampire acting as if he can do what they want, as if he can use magic.

Mikael passed Kai a dagger.

Kai placed the dagger on the ground and drew a salt circle around the blade. He then positioned the ingredients equidistantly around the dagger.

He put his left hand in his trouser pocket, before clicking the fingers of his right hand.

The magic reacted; causing the salt circle and ingredients to ignite into flames, before beings absorbed into the knife.

"Done." Kai confirmed, passing the dagger to Mikael.

Davina and Klaus were reeling from what they just saw. They both wondered how a witch has everyone convinced he's a vampire. They were also surprised at how easily he had cast that spell - he had done it so casually; no words, just clicking his fingers.

Kai smirked at Davina and Klaus' expressions, at the same time he revealed his vampire veins and eyes to show that he is also a vampire.

'A witch-vampire hybrid.' Davina and Klaus realised at the same time. 'That's shouldn't be possible.' They both thought.

Both Klaus and Davina stood still in shock, mouths slightly open, and eyes wide.

They couldn't understand; Davina had been raised believing that it was impossible to be a witch-vampire hybrid - it was something all witches are taught growing up.

Klaus was even more shocked; this was the first time he'd ever seen a seen a vampire using magic - in his over thousand years of life.

After getting over his shock, Klaus opened his mouth to start asking questions; like how this was possible.

Before he could though, Mikael addressed him, "Come on, we have a witch to kill." Klaus jerked his head towards Mikael, then with a nod, hesitantly relented.

"Do you need me to come?" Kai asked his teacher.

"No." Mikael hid the dagger from sight. "Dahlia is mine to kill, and mine alone." Kai shrugged, acquiescing.

Mikael and Klaus nodded to one another, before vamp-speeding away - leaving Kai alone with Davina.

The young witch then looked angrily at Kai. "Well? You have some explaining to do."

"I don't believe I'm obliged to explain anything." He said amused.

"If you won't tell me, I'll tell Marcel about your unique gifts. Something tells me you won't want others to know about this, do you?" She countered.

"Blackmail?" He laughed. "Davina Claire, you're more than an innocent little face. You can tell Marcel whatever you want - he already knows." Kai finished smugly.

That surprised Davina; she wasn't aware that Marcel was keeping secrets from her, this made her threat null and void. But she is a stubborn women. Annoyed at her plan being foiled, she glared at him, and crossed her arms. She started impatiently tapping her arm with her fingers. She scrunched her brows together, wondering how to get him talking.

Kai thought that she looked hilarious. He considered letting her suffer a little while longer, but decided against it.

"Okay, even though I don't have to, I'll answer your questions."

Her face lit up, a smile gracing her features.

"Can we talk somewhere private?" He asked.

"Yes, let's go." She said.

He followed her through the labyrinth that was the Lafayette cemetery. When they stopped, he saw that they're standing in front of a tomb.

'Typical.' Kai rolled his eyes.

"We can talk here. It's sort of my secret clubhouse." She said.

Once Kai entered the tomb, he was pleasantly surprised by the layout of the interior.

He had expected the skulls and candles, but there was also much more. It looked like a chemistry lab - he saw Bunsen burners and beakers adorning the benches. Potions kept in jars, and all sorts of mystical apparatus packed against the shelves of the wall.

This was a place for magical experimentation, though it was a bit dark and gloomy for his taste.

Kai inspected and touched some of the antique objects lying about. "Nice place." Kai said, genuinely impressed.

"What do you wish to ask about?" He said facing away from her, take a closer look at a voodoo doll he found on the bench.

"I don't know where to begin." She admitted. "But how about you start with who and what you are."

Kai put the doll down, as he turned towards her. "You already know who I am, I didn't lie. I'm Malachai Parker, former member of the Gemini coven. Though, I much prefer to be called Kai." He explained happily.

"Okay." She sounded satisfied so far. "So, what are you? Witches and vampires have been fighting in this city for a long time. I grew up being told that a person can never be both a witch and a vampire. Yet you are both, I want to know how."

"Isn't it obvious?" He said rhetorically. "I'm a hybrid, I'm half vampire, half witch. My former coven called us abominations. We are called Heretics."

"We? There are more witch-vampire hybrids?" Davina asked, bewildered. She had thought that he's the only one, but hearing that there are more shocked her.

"Yes." He said shrugging. "Though they're not around anymore. But in some ways, I'm different to the other Heretics. As to the how, I was born with a genetic mutation, it let me retain my witch nature after turning into a vampire." Kai told her some of the truth.

Davina nodded, letting it sink in. She then thought of another question. "You said you are different to the other Heretics. What do you mean?"

Kai grinned at her. "Yes, I did say that. I mean that their vampire side comes from vampire blood. Mine, however, comes from a spell."

"You're an Original." Davina realised, breathless, her eyes widened at the revelation.

He nodded amused. "Yep. I can do everything the Originals can, but better. The spell that turned me was modified from theirs; it was designed to be superior in every way."

"For what reason."

"To kill the other Originals, of course." He winked at her.

Seeing her face warped into wariness. "Don't worry Davina, killing the Originals was the goal that Esther had when she made the spell. But I have no such intentions. Like you, I have friends, whose lives are linked to the lives of the other Originals."

Davina let out a breath of relief - glad that they were at least on the same page.

Deciding to change the subject, she asked him why he had showed up with Mikael. Kai explained how he got roped into going on a hunt for the ingredients with Mikael across Europe.

"Did he tell you Viking proverbs every so often?" She asked him teasingly.

Kai jerked his head towards her. "Oh my god, he does! He does that a lot!"

They both laughed. Both have spent more time with Mikael than most people normally do.

"So, how was your week?" He asked Davina.

Davina then went on to tell him how Eva Sinclair kidnapped her.

"Really?" He asked laughing. "Kidnapped?"

She punched him lightly on the arm for teasing her. "Hey, I was nearly sacrificed." She protested.

"You sure get yourself into these sacrifices a lot, don't you, Harvest girl." He stated with a smirk. He stared at her until they both burst out laughing.

"Huh, I never thought of it that way, I guess it's sort of my gig."

Kai then spent the rest of the afternoon talking with Davina. They discussed various uses for different dark objects. They went into deeper discussions about dark magic. He told her that dark magic is all about perspective.

"Magic can help a vessel cross water, or sink it under it." He had sagely told her.

"Calling some magic evil doesn't mean it is; it's about intent. Everything has a light and a dark side, including magic. Just because something is dark, doesn't mean it's evil."

Davina too was having fun. Being a loner within her coven, she studied magic mostly by herself. All of the other Harvest girls were dead. Kol was dead.

It was nice having someone else to discuss magic with. She seemed like a cool enough person - she's loyal and is always fighting for her friends. It was an admirable quality. Kai realises they have a lot in common: estranged parents, magical prodigies, and both are the black sheep of their covens. When it started getting dark, Kai decided to leave. He needs to check in on Mikael and Freya anyway.

He wondered how Klaus and Mikael fared against Dahlia. Kai thought that it wouldn't be easy to beat her with brute force. But he'd let them try anyway; to test their enemy's strength. If she's as strong as Freya claims, then they wouldn't be able to kill her.

He was quite sure that Dahlia wouldn't be able to kill them without white oak. She may desiccate them, or snap their necks, sure. But killing them would take a lot of magic. It wouldn't be strategically viable - since Elijah and Freya would still be around, and since she would be much weaker; could use the dagger on her.

Kai locked onto Mikael and Klaus' signature. They were at the Abattoir: the Mikaelson compound, along with Elijah and an unfamiliar signature. He then cast a cloaking spell on himself, and teleported into their home. What he saw was a rather drastic scene.

Elijah was holding Freya back by her arms. A dark skinned women, who is being called Rebekah, and who he could sense is in a witch's body. The cause of all the tension he had sensed when he had arrived, on the other side of the courtyard, was Klaus who had the white oak stake against Mikael's chest, who he had pinned against the wall.

"There were moments where all you had to do was be my father! And even then, you despised me, didn't you?" Klaus said to Mikael, tears forming in the former's eyes.

Kai could sense a lot of inner toil emanating from both Klaus and Mikael.

"I want to know why." Klaus asked Mikael.

Mikael stared at his son. Seeing the vulnerability and pain in his eyes. "I don't know." He replied softly. "I just…did."

Kai was surprised to sense guilt emanating from Mikael.

Klaus, overwhelmed by Mikael's admission, stopped his tears. "Are those your final words?"

Before Klaus could wait for Mikael's response, a hand grabbed onto the scruff of his jacket and threw him away from Mikael. Before he'd acted, Kai had undone the cloaking spell. Now visible, he looked towards Freya and, without a word or gesture, zapped Elijah into releasing Freya with his magic. As soon as he had, Kai, once again without any words or gestures, telekinetically pushed him several steps back towards Klaus.

Freya ran and hugged her father. Rebekah joined her brother's side. Both sides stood facing each other: Three on three. Freya could easily take on Rebekah. Mikael could deal with Elijah. As for Klaus, who's still holding the white oak stake, it has no affect on Kai. His side holds the advantage, if they were to clash; Kai would bet his side would win.

Kai shook out those thoughts. Nothing good would come from a fight between them now. Kai opted for another option. Klaus was about to charge at them, Elijah in tow.

"Wait." Kai called out. He reached inside his inner jacket pocket. The three other Mikaelson siblings remained guarded, not sure what to expect.

Kai threw two pouches onto the ground beside Klaus' feet. "Those are Norwegian soil and Viking ash. That is two out of three of the ingredients needed. The third is Freya's blood. When you wish to cooperate, come find us. A fight between five immortals and a mortal, will end badly for the mortal." He gestured towards Rebekah.

Elijah grabbed Klaus' shoulder, signaling for him to stand down.

Kai then held onto both Freya and Mikael. In an instant, he teleported all three of them back to his hotel room.

"We ran away, like cowards." Mikael raged.

"Your son was holding the white oak stake. I prefer to call it a tactical retreat." Kai countered.

"He is not my son!" Mikael denied.

"Say what you wish, Mikael, I sensed your emotions." He stared back at the older vampire.

"He tried to kill me tonight. How do we know that he won't betray us again? I say we just deal with the witch ourselves. I won't work with that bastard again, he'll only stab us in the back." Mikael roared. Defeat was souring his mood.

'So much for progress.' Kai thought, sighing.

"Sorry." With super speed, Kai appeared in front of Mikael and quickly stabbed him in the chest, Mikael fell to the floor, desiccating. A silver dagger stuck out of his chest, a dagger laced with white oak ash.

When he had told his friends that he was going to New Orleans, and why, Stefan had given him the dagger, and Alaric had given him a large bag of white oak ash; so there is enough for him to lace the dagger many times.

"What did you do?" Freya cried.

"What needed to be done. An alliance with your siblings would fail if Klaus and Mikael won't work together. If we're divided, Dahlia will win."

"This is at least a solution." He reasoned. "Don't worry, we'll undagger him when things are less crazy." He promised her with a smile.

Freya looked at her father sadly, but agreed with his logic. At the very least, her father isn't dead. Kai had saved her father tonight from certain death, the very least she could do was trust him.

"He's going to be pissed when I un-dagger him, isn't he?" He asked rhetorically.

"You stay here and reformulate a strategy to beat Dahlia. There are more ingredients on the table over there." He instructed.

"Where are you going?" She asked him, seeing him grab Mikael.

"Your father's body isn't safe here. I'm going to keep him somewhere more protected." With that said, he teleported away - leaving Freya alone.

Determination renewed, she went to work to make another weapon.

The next day, Elijah came to see them; requesting an alliance.

"Where's Mikael?" he asked, noticing his father's absence.

Freya shared a glance with Kai before answering her brother. "Kai daggered him."

Elijah looked shocked at the new development. He turned towards Kai, puzzled. "You saved him, but then daggered him - why?"

"He was a wild card Elijah. It was necessary."

Elijah nodded. "Niklaus is the same. He's paranoid, of you, his enemies, and even his family." Elijah said softly. "He's already taken the ingredients you gave us, not telling anyone where he is hiding them."

"He is your problem, not ours." Kai said. Freya reluctantly agreed. "For our alliance to prevail, you need to tame your wild younger brother. You need us more than we need you. Freya here is a powerful witch. I'm an Original. To defeat Dahlia, you'll need us."

Elijah did not doubt Kai's claim. With a powerful maniacal witch on the loose, a new Original was the least of his worries. Elijah turned to Freya for assistance.

Freya gave him a sad look. "I agree with him. Elijah, I've given you all reasons to trust me, yet yesterday you held me back and nearly allowed father to be killed. If you can't work with us because of Klaus, then fine. But we won't work with you if we're forced to satisfy all of Klaus' whims."

Elijah let out a defeated breath. "I'll contact you with an answer by the end of the day." He said, before then vamp-speeding out.

Freya sighed. She stared at Kai, who seemed to be deep in thought. "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm considering other avenues of fighting Dahlia. We are putting all of our eggs in one basket - I'm thinking of pursuing other weapons that may work on her."

Kai walked toward the front of Josephine LaRue's house. It has been a while since he'd talked with his older friend. For some reason, he couldn't sense her presence; so he had decided to make a house call - to check if she's out of town.

After he knocked, Gregory answered.

"Hi Greg, is your mistress home?"

"Pardon me sir, but I'm sorry to tell you this, Madam LaRue had passed away."

Kai felt his blood ran cold. "Passed away? How?"

"We've been told it was the new powerful witch that just came to town. She killed her, then used her body to send a message to the Mikaelsons." Gregory told Kai tearfully.

Kai's face contorted with sadness, sorrow, regret, and finally rage.

With a cry of rage, Kai threw a powerful hex at the large tree in the front yard; it was instantly obliterated, splinters of wood hailed down; landing all over the front yard.

Tears streamed down Kai's face. He took a few moments to calm himself. When he was a bit more composed, he turned to Gregory.

"I'm sorry for your loss…and the tree." He said, calmer, but with tears still in his eyes.

Gregory merely smiled sadly. "It's quite alright Sir."

Kai wiped away the tears in his eyes. He took a minute to grieve, before wiping away his sadness. He had originally wanted to kill Dahlia to protect Hope. But now, it was personal. She killed his friend; she will pay for this.

His phoned started ringing. He picked up seeing that it was Davina. "Hey, what's up?"

"Come quickly, it's about Aiden."

He'd found out Aiden was dead. Klaus had even admitted to doing it. The werewolves were, understandably, angry.

"Why do good people keep dying in this city?" Davina asked weakly.

"I don't know."

"What can I do?" He asked Davina. "I can't kill Klaus without killing my friends."

"I know, I have friends whose lives are tied to him as well. I don't want you to do anything. Josh has left to god knows where. I just didn't want to be alone."

"Okay." He said.

When he was younger he had been diagnosed as a sociopath. Though, unlike most, he does have some emotions - though his emotions don't work in the same way as normal people's emotions do.

For example, his grief has already slightly lessened; though barely, and a lot of his grief has turned to anger.

Before he had turned into a vampire, he rarely felt sadness if it wasn't relevant to him; if he heard someone was dead, he wouldn't feel much unless it affected him - like if it was his friends or family.

Now that he's a vampire, he can feel sad for those not connected to him; though only to a limited degree - understanding their feelings and feeling compassion or sympathy for their sadness and pain - but unless connected to him, it isn't personal sadness he'll feel; it's an unconnected sadness or pain - this also applies to all other emotions.

This was why he hadn't cared that Finn had been torturing Marcel, or when Finn had put a curse on Kol - he didn't care as it hadn't meant anything to him, they had meant nothing to him; so he had no reason to care what was done, or happened, to them.

He still felt guilty for what he did to his siblings, but only because of how much he cared about them; if not, he would have gotten over his guilt years ago.

He also possesses a far greater control of his emotions than most people; both due to him being a sociopath, and him being a skilled empath.

When using empathy, the user could be overwhelmed if someone is feeling very strong emotions, a lot of emotions, or if sensing emotions of multiple people at the same time.

To stop this, the user needs to be have great control of their own emotions.

So, it's thanks to his sociopathy and empathy that he's not as grief stricken now as he was after he'd heard about Josephine's death.

However, his sociopathy didn't erase his grief; only dulled it. Especially, as he had only heard about Josephine's death a few minutes ago.

The two then shared in their grief, his over Josephine and hers over Aiden. Davina rested her head on his shoulders, tired and exhausted from their emotional ordeal.

"Klaus is going to pay." Davina promised.

"That is a dangerous line of thought." He warned.

"I gave Marcel an object I made to neutralise Klaus." She said, still resting on him. "A gold white oak ash dagger."

Kai widened his eyes in surprised. "A gold dagger? Of course, silver doesn't work on Klaus; so you transmuted the element to suit your purpose; that was a good idea." It was a simple, yet smart, idea.

She smiled at his praise. "I can't take all the credit. I had help." She was then reminded of Kol; her dead boyfriend - who she was trying to bring back to life. Immediately, she jerked away from Kai. Confusion and guilt crept through her.

Kai sensed her emotions, though didn't understand why she was suddenly feeling them; but he did realise she wanted to be left alone. "I'm going now."

When she looked up, he was already gone.

He learned from Freya that Elijah had daggered Klaus with the golden white oak ash dagger that Davina had made.

Seeing him pack some clothes and some other items into his travel bag, Freya voiced her concern. "Where are you going?"

"Hayley is leaving with Hope. She said she needed my help, and I intend to get Hope to safety first. I'll come back as soon as the baby is safe."

Freya shook her head. "We need Hope to stay here, Dahlia will come for her, that's when we'll kill her once and for all."

Kai narrowed his eyes at her suggestion. "Are you suggesting we use a baby as bait?"

"No, absolutely not, it's far too dangerous for a baby." He said incredulously, with a hint of anger in his voice.

"Dahlia is after Hope. Without the baby, we won't be able to lure Dahlia where we need her to be." Freya continued to protest.

"Hope's magic has been neutrilised; so Dahlia can't sense it. It will take her a while to find Hope. All we need is a magical proxy for Hope - that will be your task."

He could sense her reluctance to risk Dahlia realising the deception, and not falling for it. So, before she could protest he continued.

"Besides, even if we used Hope as bait; we'd risk the chance of Dahlia getting to her; which is what Dahlia wants." He said.

Freya sighed and relented. He was right, if they did use Hope as bait, and she got past them; then Dahlia would have what she needed to get the immortality she craved.

He gave her a smile and a salute before teleporting to the Bayou.

"Kai!" Hayley shouted, as she noticed him walking towards her.

"Thanks for coming man." Jackson shook Kai's hand appreciatively.

"Anything for the little angel. Speaking of, where is she?"

"Right now, she's in her crib." Jackson told, and pointed to the cabin.

"I'm going to see her." Kai said, before vamp-speeding into the cabin. He saw the baby sitting in her crib, chewing on her wooden horse.

"Hello there little one." He cooed, picking her up. Hope gurgled at him happily.

"Watch this." Kai held his hand out, his palm facing upwards, which collected moisture from the air and changed it into smalls balls of floating water. He then caused the balls of water to spiral around his hands, then made them jump and spiral all around them.

Hope clapped happily at the beautiful dancing water. He smiled back at her, then changed the water back into gas.

Hope tapped his shoulder smiling, as if asking him to do it again.

A voice outside the cabin interrupted them. "Wow, she must really like you - she doesn't like strangers holding her." Hayley remarked surprised.

"I'm not a stranger, am I, Hope?" He cooed at the baby.

Noticing her mother, Hope reached out for Hayley. Kai passed the Hope to Hayley.

"Are you ready to move?"

"Yes, we need to hurry. Elijah just called, Dahlia freed Klaus, and Klaus didn't kill Aidan; now he'll feel vindicated. He'll be out for blood. We have to go."

Kai has to give Dahlia credit - she is a master strategist. So far, she's been beating them simply by sewing discord. She'd killed Josephine LaRue, not only to send a message to the Mikaelsons, but also to the witches as well. With the witches scrambling to select a new Regent, they won't have time to oppose her. She had killed Aiden to divide them and their allies, and now she had Klaus on her side.

Kai was confident he could keep Klaus at bay, but he wasn't sure he could beat both Klaus and Dahlia at the same time.

The sky roared with thunder. Sparks of lightning brightened the darkening sky. As rain fell down, Kai narrowed his eyes, suspicious, he reached out and sensed that the storm was being caused by magic. The storm was going to slow them down considerably.

"What are you doing with those herbs?" Hayley asked Mary, Jackson's grandmother.

The old werewolf was tying herbs together into a bundle, and burning them.

Before Mary could give Hayley a response, Kai answered, "She's checking for signs of magic. And she's right, this storm was caused by magic."

Mary nodded. The burnt herbal mixture released black smoke - confirming what Kai said.

"Let's go." Jackson ordered his people, immediately everyone began to move out.

It was already night, but they had to stop for a break. Evolved werewolves or not, they had limits. Luckily for Hayley, and the pack, the storm had ceased. They couldn't travel by road as the rain flooded most of the main road. When they'd come up to a river they needed to cross, Kai had put his hands together, and then pulled them apart; which had caused the river to part, creating a pathway across.

Jackson thought it was biblical and rather fitting, as they were a group of people on the run from a powerful tyrant.

Off in the distance she heard one of her pack mates scream, before silence set in.

'We're under attack.' Hayley thought, getting herself ready for a fight.

But Kai blurred ahead of her. "No. It's Klaus - I'll handle him, you take your family and go. I'll catch up when I can."

Hayley didn't want to leave her friend, but her concern for her daughter ultimately won out. She gave him a quick hug before running off to find Hope and Jackson.

Kai remained where he was, knowing Klaus will appear at any moment.

He was right, Klaus appeared a few moments later. "Mikael's apprentice." He sneered.

"You shouldn't get in my way." Klaus stated threateningly.

"Well, I like to ruin people's plans - I'm making it my thing." Kai readied himself, but despite the situation, he let a satisfied smile graced his face. "Besides, I've been dying to put you in your place Klaus."

The two Originals circled one another. It was time to find out who is stronger, the Original-Hybrid or the Enhanced Original 2.0.

As Klaus snarled lowly at him, Kai added, "Original against Original, hybrid against hybrid, werewolf against witch. Shall we dance?"

Kai threw the first punch, which landed on the side of Klaus' face; forcing the older hybrid back slightly. Klaus immediately swung back, but Kai caught his fist, before delivering an uppercut to Klaus' jaw and then immediately knocked him backwards with a kick to the chest; the hit knocking Klaus down next to a tree.

Klaus stood back up, and channeled his werewolf nature. As his eyes glowed yellow, Klaus felt the power boost which his werewolf nature had blessed him with. Now imbued with more power, Klaus launched towards Kai with a left hook. When his attack got parried, Klaus threw a punch with his right hand, only to find his attempt stopped as Kai caught his fist in his left hand.

Klaus, with both his hands in Kai's grip, started to try and push Kai back. Kai met his strength with his own, both trying to push the other side back. To Klaus' surprise and horror, he found himself being pushed back; slowly but surely. He pushed his strength more and more until he reach his maximum strength, but Kai just matched him every time he increased his strength, even when he reached his maximum.

Surprised that his full strength had been matched, Klaus looked up and, while still trying to overpower Kai, noticed that his opponent didn't appear to be strained by trying to push him back, he was putting effort into it; but he wasn't putting his full strength into pushing him back.

Which could only mean one thing - that he, even when using his full strength, was being pushed back by Kai when he isn't even using his full strength.

This realisation unnerved him, but he wouldn't allow that to affect the fight.

Klaus then head-butted Kai; surprised by the attack Kai let go of Klaus, who then capitalised on his advantage by delivering a barrage of punches.

After a few hits landed, Kai sidestepped one of them; causing Klaus to become slightly unbalanced. Kai then kicked Klaus in back of his leg, knocking him onto one knee. Then using leverage and his opponent's arm, Kai broke Klaus' shoulder.

Klaus held in a scream and desperately tried to push himself back up, but Kai jumped into the air and kicked the side of Klaus' face; causing him to fall to the ground.

Kai stepped back away from Klaus, who was getting back up.

Klaus popped his shoulder back into place.

"You are very resilient." Kai remarked with a smirk, wiping blood from his lips.

"It seems you are a bigger nuisance than I originally give you credit for." He said, hiding how unnerved he was. This was worse than fighting Mikael, Kai's a skilled fighter - but he's also much stronger than he and Mikael are.

"I aim only to please." Kai taunted back. "Shall we continue our dance."

Klaus readied himself into a combat stance, but found himself thrown into the side of an abandoned trailer home. Before he could even get up, he was thrown into the side of another mobile home.

Kai had grown bored of fighting hand to hand - he enjoys fighting with magic more.

After he felt the telekinetic grip loosen, Klaus attempted to make a preemptive break at Kai, but then felt pain emanating from all of his joints, sending him to his knees. He could only scream as his bones snapped under Kai's telekinesis.

Electricity traveled from Kai's hand and descended into Klaus. The current flowed into Klaus' body, causing the Original-Hybrid to howl loudly in pain. Kai increased the voltage before stopping the electrical attack, giving Klaus a small reprieve to heal.

Kai tutted. "Magic is might, Klaus. In the last few weeks, I have become a lot stronger. I was once nervous about facing you, not because I fear you; but because you have a lot more experience, and that gives you an advantage. But, thanks to my battles with your father; no longer." As he walked closer to the kneeling Original, Kai wondered how he should subdue the Original.

"I've held back against you Klaus, and I'm not trying to kill you; not because your life matters to me; I know that there are a lot of vampires whose lives are bound to yours; some of them are good people. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't care if you died."

A chorus cry of a wolf howling in the distance broke Kai out of his thought.

'Something must be wrong. There shouldn't be a wolf howling - we're days from a full moon, unless the wolves have decided to transform. They're in trouble; Dahlia's here!' Kai realised with alarm.

Suddenly Klaus reached forward, before Kai could admonish himself for letting his guard down, Klaus had already strapped black shackles on him.

Instantly, Kai felt his magic suppressed significantly.

Klaus stood back up, grinning menacingly.

Kai narrowed his eyes, annoyed. Davina had told him about these - cursed shackles that stop a witch from casting spells, and suppresses their magic.

Fortunately for him, he'd added a lot of magic to the Immortality spell; which had been amplified even further by the magic he'd already absorbed from the boundary, and then amplified again by the Merge - which had also amplified the magic he got from Jo.

All of this not only greatly amplified his powers and abilities; but also resulted in him having a lot of powerful magic to use. He is also resistant to magic, so the cuffs can't affect Kai as much as other witches.

The shackles stop spells from working, but only suppress magic. The increases made him powerful enough to break free - though, because of the suppression, not instantly; it won't take very long though.

Klaus lost the grin when he noticed Kai slowly breaking free of the shackles. Freya had done the same thing, but it had taken a while - since she had needed to gather enough power to break them. Yet, Kai was starting to free himself seconds after they'd been put on him; it was happening slowly, but it didn't seem like it would take very long.

Seeing all this, Klaus took out a bone dagger.

After he had bled Marcel of the vervain, he'd compelled him to get some information from him - they had heard about Kai; Marcel told them that he's both a witch and an Original vampire.

This had caused Dahlia to get a look of certainty, as this proved her right; it is possible for a witch to become immortal while retaining their ability to use magic.

Klaus had known that he's a witch-vampire hybrid, but not that he's an Original. He had wanted to know how; but Marcel didn't know how Kai became an Original. He had wanted to ask more questions, but Dahlia had interrupted; telling him not to get distracted, and that they were wasting time.

Klaus had told her they needed a way to neutrilise him. She had given him a blade just like Papa Tunde's blade. This, too, was a bone blade that, when stabbed with, caused pain so immense even an Original was incapacitated by it. This blade was created from the remains of a werewolf, instead of a witch. It was made by a small, but powerful, coven who had hated vampires, not because of anything they had done; but because of them being undead beings.

As they had been the first and the progenitors of the vampire race, they hated Originals the most. The coven knew they were not powerful enough to actually kill the Originals - so they made the blade in case they came across an Original. Dahlia had wanted the blade, and killed the coven when they refused, using the blade to add their magic to it.

With the blade in hand he sped towards Kai and plunged it into his chest.

Kai immediately stumbled back from the pain, distracted by the pain; he stopped trying to remove the shackles.

Trying to ignore the pain, he grabbed it and started pulling. Because he is an Enhanced Original, and because of the increases in his vampire power; his durability is far greater than the other Originals. And his resistance to magic lessens the affects of the blade.

As Kai slowly began to pull the blade out, the pain began to lessen. When the pain was a bit more tolerable, he split his attention between the blade and the shackles; trying to remove them both.

Klaus stood watching. He noticed that not only was Kai resisting the blade and trying to remove it, but he was also trying to remove the shackles at the same time.

When he saw that Kai was slowly succeeding he felt a shudder of fear go down his spine. 'Just how powerful is this guy?' Klaus thought.

The blade he was resisting worked exactly like Papa Tunde's blade - he knows the pain that blade inflicts; yet Kai is resisting the blade, and also trying to remove both it, and the shackles at the same time. That shows a lot of mental power; to resist the pain, and a lot of physical and magical power; to be removing the blade and the shackles at the same time.

He sped over to one of the mobile homes, and rips off a piece of metal. With his full power, he sped over to Kai, and hits him in the head with it as hard as he can; snapping Kai's neck.

As Kai fell to the ground, the blade, which was mostly removed, started to burrow itself back into his chest.

After that Klaus sighs in relief, then he steps towards Kai's prone body and reattaches the shackles - which had started to come off.

Klaus was glad he came prepared. He picked Kai up, and sped over to where he'd left a coffin. He placed Kai on the floor, opened the coffin, and took out a chain that was inside it.

He then wrapped the chain tightly around Kai. He then picked him up, and put him in the coffin.

Looking down at him, Klaus feels another shiver of fear, before shutting the lid. He then takes the coffin to a nearby river, and dumps it in; the weight causing the coffin to fall to the bottom.

With that dealt with, Klaus turns away to get back to the situation at hand.

Klaus paused for a moment.

He then looks towards the lake, before thinking. 'I won, but after what just happened it's clear to me.' He may be a stubborn, proud and angry man, but he is not an idiot.

'You are the most powerful Original in history.' He thought reluctantly.

He hates to admit that there is someone more powerful than him, even in his head - but he is not stupid; when he fights someone, he needs to know how to analyse his opponent and compare them to himself; it's how he exploits his opponent's flaws, and comes up with plans to beat them.

Klaus doubts he will ever admit that out loud though - he's far too proud to do that.

Kai physical power is greater than his, his fighting skill surpassed even Mikael's, and to top it off; he's a witch - and a powerful one at that.

'My experience and my preparation are the only reasons I won.' Klaus thought.

If it weren't for those things, he would have lost. Experience was the only advantage he'd had over Kai, and even with that it seemed that he was going to lose. He knows that he would have lost if he hadn't come prepared.

If he'd been more experienced and Klaus hadn't come prepared; Kai would have won.

Hayley wasn't faring well. She was the last of the pack left, and she was using the last of her willpower to prevent herself from turning into a wolf.

While she and Jackson were fleeing, they had run into Dahlia. Before they could even attack Dahlia, she had cast a curse on them; she could feel the effects kicking in; making her transform. Everyone else was already in their wolf form; their minds blanketed by the pain. She is the only one still left in human form; but she only has a small thread of control left - and that was already fading.

"It seems I missed quite a show." Came a voice from the shadows.

The dark figured was revealed to be Klaus.

As Hayley writhed in pain, she looked contemptuously at Klaus for his betrayal.

Klaus knelt down next to her. "I stole this spell from Marcel. Dahlia here then modified it to accommodate your hybrid nature. A fitting punishment, since you tried to take my daughter away from me." He said venomously.

Hayley screamed in pain, as the cursed forced her bones to snap and reform.

"Where…is…Kai?" She grunted out.

"You mean your troublesome bodyguard." He said, hiding a shiver that thinking of him evoked, before Klaus mentally shook it off - he had important matters to deal with.

He then smirked at her. "Let's say his fate is worse than yours."

Hayley dreaded what that could mean. She may not have known him long, or even all that well, but after what he had done for Hope; Kai had become a dear friend.

"What…did…you…do…to…him?" She barked out in pain, her spine began to arc.

"Oh nothing too serious. I put those useful magic suppression shackles on him. Before I then plunged a magical torture blade into his chest. Right now, he is probably writhing in pain...at the bottom of a lake, suffocating repeatedly, with a chain wrapped around him, making him unable to move; while regretting the fact that he ever met you. And don't get me started with what I did to Elijah." Klaus finished, with a satisfied smirk.

Earlier that day, he had compelled Gia to remove her daylight ring and let herself burn in the daylight; making sure that Elijah had witnessed it, before daggering him.

Hayley screamed in anguish, the last of her resolve gone. The Crescent curse took its toll. She started shifting faster.

Klaus and Dahlia then proceeded towards the SUV with Hope inside.

Dahlia marveled at Hope hungrily. She was internally salivating to get a hold of the baby's magic.

"I want to thank you for your hand in procuring her for me. It couldn't have been easy, betraying your family." Dahlia told Klaus.

"I will not see my daughter handed over like the spoils of some war." Klaus explained, confusing Dahlia. "To that end, I remind you of your promise - that you'll protect and mentor Hope, drawing from her only what power you require to keep her safe."

"I will bond her to me first. Once I can channel Hope's power, I will be able to keep her safe from all harm - always under my protection." Dahlia stepped towards Hope, but Klaus moved in front of her, blocking her path to the baby.

"I think not." He sneered.

Klaus then explained to Dahlia his concerns of Dahlia linking herself to Hope; he told her such a connection could cause his daughter to inherit Dahlia's need to slumber for 100 years at a time. To assuage Klaus, Dahlia, at Klaus' own suggestion, linked herself to him first.

After linking herself to Klaus, Dahlia felt euphoric. She'd achieved immortality at last. When she links herself to Hope as well, she will be the most powerful being on Earth.

"With your immortality, your daughter and I will not need to sleep for a century." She remarked to her nephew.

"Well…perhaps one more nap." Klaus interrupted, causing Dahlia to turn to him in confusion.

Before she could react, Klaus plunged the gold white oak ash dagger into his heart; he and Dahlia immediately began to desiccate, as she is linked to him. Before he sank into darkness, Klaus' last thought was that he hoped he'd bought his family enough time.

When morning came, Freya woke and saw the desiccated forms of Klaus and Dahlia. She understood what had happened, but one question plagued her mind: where was the baby, where was Hope?

A/N: There are multiple things I want to go over, so they will be quite a lot written here. They are not in any particular order though.

This is all going to be explanations.

I call them Wicca as I like that name the most.

As you can tell I am making my version of Kai much more powerful than in baringan's fic.

I like making Kai more and more powerful, but there will always be a reason. I will explain why he has a skill, ability, power, or power increase; I'll try to make them good reasons, but I know some may hate, or disagree with, my reasons, if so, that is your opinion.

Some of my ideas, like the idea of Absolute Magic, came from reviewers in my previous version.

I was asked to make Kai more unique. I wasn't going to at first, but then thought of something I liked - which was Absolute Magic.

I imagine this as the very first universe in all of existence. Though I mention other magical communities, they are basically a stronger version than canon. Since communities can act like a different world entirely, I sometimes switch between what I say.

Kai's Absolute Magic and True Immortality, caused Nature to make sure no one else would ever get either of them again.

This version of Kai is the reason why characters in shows, films, comics, and other things, can die no matter how powerful they were, are, or become.

Absolute Magic can do almost anything, but it cannot create another True Immortal, or another Absolute Magic user. And, obviously, it's unable to kill Kai - since he is the True Immortal.

Kai has Absolute Magic for a number of reasons; a main one, is that if I ever do a fic where my version of Kai goes to somewhere people are more powerful, he'd still be a powerful ally, or threat; if I felt like it. I may not do a fic like that but it is there if I do, I may use it later in this fic though; no guarantees either way.

I have explained his powers thus far, but I am going over the reasons again as to keep track of them so far. And why his powers don't have the same limits as the Originals or the Immortals.

He has the power of an Enhanced Original, but when it turned him the spell had a lot more power added to it - to all aspects of it.

Since siphoners are unnatural beings, I think that it makes sense if any magic he siphoned was added to the Immortality spell when he was turned, especially as it had been siphoned from the boundary that the spell had been enriched by.

As a siphoner Kai is cut off from nature, so he couldn't lose his link to nature like regular witches do when turned - so since magic that had been siphoned from the boundary was still in his body when he was turned; it was also amplified by, and added to, the spell.

Then when he and Jo Merged, her magic was amplified and added to his; but his magic was vampire magic - which is why I decided that the Merge would amplify the magic of the Immortality spell and, in turn, his powers and abilities.

Mikael was less rough when speaking to Kai because he wants Dahlia dead, not to waste time fighting Kai.

I mentioned Klaus seemed afraid of Kai, which I think is typical of Klaus. But, I understand if you may think he is a little different than to canon. So I'm going to explain that.

I did this because Klaus was originally afraid of both Esther and Mikael when they appeared in TVD.

He realised that Kai was matching his full strength without even using his own full strength, and then saw Kai's magical power when he started to break free from the cursed shackles almost immediately after he put them on Kai.

Simply put, he meets Kai, and then realises that Kai is basically a combination of Mikael and Esther - but even stronger.

So I think it makes sense that he would, at first, be a little afraid of Kai. Though that will quickly fade - this is still Klaus after all.

This is why Klaus is, reluctantly, willing to admit to Kai's power - at least in his head. Since this still Klaus, I doubt he'd ever admit it out loud.